Landscape Characterization and Monitoring in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed

Closed Posted

Opportunity number
EPA-R3-CBP-24-01
Agency
Applications due
Award size
Up to $6,500,000

Opportunity facts

Funding instrument
Cooperative Agreement
Category
  • Environment
Eligible applicants
  • Other

Opportunity details come from Grants.gov. Updated .

About this opportunity

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Region 3, Chesapeake Bay Program Office is seeking insightful, expert, and cost-effective applications from eligible applicants to provide the Chesapeake Bay Program's non-federal partners with updated land use/land cover data, enhanced river corridor data, and landscape metrics and communication products. The purpose is to facilitate the application of this data to CBP outcomes and the CBP's Phase 7 suite of modeling tools. The Notice of Funding Opportunity has an application deadline of July 19, 2024, with a planned award start date of October 1, 2024. Eligible applicants include state, tribal, and local governments, non-governmental organizations, interstate agencies, and academic institutions.

The anticipated funding amount is unspecified, with one cooperative agreement award anticipated. The place of performance is the Chesapeake Bay Watershed, which spans multiple states in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States.

Synopsis

Authorized by Clean Water Act (CWA) Section 117, 33 USC Section 1267, the Chesapeake Bay Program (CBP) is a unique regional, state, federal, and local partnership that has been directing and conducting the restoration and protection of the Chesapeake Bay. CBP is responsible for supporting the Chesapeake Bay Executive Council (Executive Council) through a number of actions, including the coordination of federal, state, and local efforts to restore and protect living resources and water quality of the Chesapeake Bay and its watershed. The Notice of Funding Opportunity is seeking insightful, expert, and cost-effective applications from eligible applicants to provide the CBP's non-federal partners with updated land use/land cover data, enhanced river corridor data, and landscape metrics and communication products associated with these data to facilitate their application to CBP's outcomes and the CBP's Phase 7 suite of modeling tools. For more information, please see the funding opportunity.

Files

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EPA-R3-CBP-24-01.pdf PDF

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