Pacific Coastal Salmon Recovery Fund (Annual Appropriations and IIJA Funds)
Closed Posted
- Opportunity number
- NOAA-NMFS-WCRO-2026-33121
- 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
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About this opportunity
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is seeking applications for the Pacific Coastal Salmon Recovery Fund (PCSRF), which supports projects that restore and conserve Pacific salmon and steelhead populations and their habitats across Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Nevada, California, Alaska, and federally recognized tribes of the Columbia River and Pacific Coast regions. Eligible applicants include the six named states and federally recognized tribes, tribal commissions, and consortia, with states required to submit through a single designated entity and provide 33% cost-sharing, while tribal entities are exempt from cost-sharing requirements. Projects must address limiting factors for threatened or endangered populations, support tribal treaty and subsistence fishing rights, or conserve at-risk populations through habitat improvement, monitoring, restoration planning, or capacity-building activities. Applications are evaluated on four criteria: applicant qualifications (20 points), project costs (20 points), importance and relevance to program priorities (30 points), and technical/scientific merit (30 points). The application deadline is June 29, 2026, at 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time, with projects required to follow "Gold Standard Science" principles emphasizing reproducibility, transparency, and peer review.
Up to $99 million in federal funding is available through this competitive grant program, with individual applications limited to a maximum of $25 million in federal funds. Funding periods extend up to five years, with an anticipated earliest award start date of September 1, 2026. Recipients must allocate at least 10% of funding to monitoring activities and maintain administrative expenses at or below 3% of federal funds received. Award decisions are typically made within 180 calendar days of receiving complete and acceptable applications, and continuation grants for multi-year projects may be available on an annual basis subject to satisfactory performance and fiscal year funding availability.
Synopsis
NOAA announces the availability of Federal funding, authorized pursuant to the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, Pub. L. 117-58 (November 15, 2021) and the Commerce, Justice, Science; Energy and Water Development; and Interior and Environment Appropriations Act, 2026, Pub. L. 119-74 (January 23, 2026), 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. This announcement supports the Executive Order 14276 Restoring America's Seafood Competitiveness by focusing on core fisheries management, addressing threats to our nation's waters, and using science to strengthen healthy and harvestable populations of Pacific salmon. Additionally, projects shall follow the "Gold Standard Science" principles - emphasizing reproducibility, transparency, clear communication of error and uncertainty, collaboration, skepticism of findings and assumptions, structures for falsifiability of hypotheses, unbiased peer review, and freedom from conflict of interest in alignment with Executive Order 14303 Restoring Gold Standard Science. 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
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| Foa_Content_of_NOAA-NMFS-WCRO-2026-33121.pdf |
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