LWCF Administrative Grant Award - FY24
Closed Posted
- Opportunity number
- P-P-LWCF-24-003
- Agency
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National Park Service
Department of the Interior
- Applications due
- Award size
- $200,000 to $1,960,000
Opportunity facts
- Assistance listings
- Funding instrument
- Grant
- Category
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- Natural Resources
- Eligible applicants
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- State Governments
Opportunity details come from Grants.gov. Updated .
About this opportunity
This grant opportunity from the Department of the Interior National Park Service seeks state government applicants for administrative grants under the Outdoor Recreation Acquisition, Development and Planning program. Applicants must use grants to improve participation in programs, address deficiencies, and enhance monitoring of assisted areas. Evaluation will consider budgets recommending awards between $200,000 and 7% of state apportionment, justified by goals around participation, deficiencies, and monitoring. Applications are due by July 12, 2024.
Award amounts may exceed $200,000 with justification. Funds should support four to five year administrative plans to consolidate reporting and prevent overlapping periods. Budget narratives must correspond to SF424a object classes and include equipment cost reimbursement requests. Amendments, not new awards, are recommended for 2023 grantees.
Synopsis
PLEASE ENSURE YOU ARE FAMILIAR WITH ALL THE INFORMATION IN THE ABOVE NOTICE OF FUNDING OPPORTUNITY BEFORE APPLYING.
With few notable exceptions in allowable periods of performance, 2024 administrative grant applications and awards will be the same as 2023 (see information for the applicant below).
Applicants no longer need to limit personnel expenditures to one year and the overall grant to three. We recognize the strategic value in awarding a 4-5 year administrative grant that can be successively amended in cost and scope. This prevents overlapping periods of performance and simplifies reporting. If you have already been awarded an administrative grant in 2023, work with your NPS program officer to advance a cost increase amendment, not a new 2024 administrative grant award.
Award amounts are still recommended to be greater than $200,000 and less than 7% of the state's apportionment. Applications with proposed awards outside of this range should justify the request in the budget narrative according to the program goals of: 1) improving participation in ORLP and formula grant programs, 2) addressing deficient formula grant implementation areas, 3) improving monitoring of LWCF assisted parks and sub-recipients.
Recommendations to applicants include: 1) work with your NPS program officer to review the application prior to submission, 2) pay special attention to Budget Object Classifications definitions within the SF424a instructions and use these BOC's in the budget narrative to make sure there is tight correspondence, 3) include a signed, written request for reimbursement of any equipment costs included in budget, and 4) allow time for revisions to the SF424a.
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