Pacific Coastal Salmon Recovery Fund (Annual Appropriations and IIJA Funds)
Closed Posted
- Opportunity number
- NOAA-NMFS-WCRO-2025-29229
- Agency
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Department of Commerce
- Applications due
- Award size
- Up to $25,000,000
Opportunity facts
- Assistance listings
- Funding instrument
- Grant
- Categories
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- Environment
- Natural Resources
- Eligible applicants
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- Other
Opportunity details come from Grants.gov. Updated .
About this opportunity
The Department of Commerce, through the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), is announcing the availability of up to $99 million in federal funding for the Pacific Coastal Salmon Recovery Fund (PCSRF) program. This funding, authorized by the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and recent appropriations acts, will be awarded to the states of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Nevada, California, and Alaska, as well as federally recognized tribes of the Columbia River and Pacific Coast, for projects necessary to conserve threatened or endangered salmon and steelhead populations, maintain populations for tribal treaty fishing rights, and protect Pacific coastal salmon and steelhead habitat. Applications will be evaluated based on qualifications (20 points), project costs (20 points), relevance to program priorities (30 points), and technical merit (30 points), and are due by March 4, 2025 through Grants.gov.
Individual award requests cannot exceed $25 million, with performance periods up to 5 years beginning September 1, 2025. State applicants must provide a 33% match, while tribal applicants are exempt from matching requirements. States and tribal commissions must dedicate at least 10% of funding to monitoring activities, and states must limit administrative costs to 3% of federal funds received. The program operates under CFDA 11.438 and is administered by NOAA's National Marine Fisheries Service West Coast Regional Office.
Synopsis
NOAA announces the availability of Federal funding, authorized pursuant to the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, Pub. L. 117-58 (November 15, 2021), hereinafter the "Bipartisan Infrastructure Law" or "BIL"; Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024, Pub. L. 118- 42 (March 8, 2024); Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2025, Pub. L. 118-83 (September 26, 2024), for necessary expenses associated with the restoration of Pacific salmon populations. The Pacific Coastal Salmon Recovery Fund (PCSRF) program makes such funding available to the States of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Nevada, California, and Alaska, and federally recognized tribes of the Columbia River and Pacific Coast (including Alaska) for projects necessary for the conservation of salmon and steelhead populations listed as threatened or endangered, or identified by a State as at-risk to be so-listed; for maintaining populations necessary for exercise of tribal treaty fishing rights or native subsistence fishing; or for the conservation of Pacific coastal salmon and steelhead habitat. A federally recognized tribe is defined as an Indian or Alaska Native tribe, band, nation, pueblo, village or community that the Secretary of the Interior acknowledges to exist as an Indian tribe pursuant to the Federally Recognized Indian Tribe List Act of 1994, 25 U.S.C. §§ 5130, 5131. See Executive Order No. 13175 (2000). Native subsistence is inclusive of federally recognized non-treaty tribal salmon fisheries. This announcement outlines the priorities and guidelines that will be used to award funding to eligible entities.
Files
| File | Type | Posted |
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| Foa_Content_of_NOAA-NMFS-WCRO-2025-29229.pdf | ||
| Foa_Content_of_NOAA-NMFS-WCRO-2025-29229.pdf |
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