USDA Forest Service Inflation Reduction Act Forest Landowner Support: Landowner Cost Share Payment Programs for Climate Mitigation and/or Forest Resilience Practices
Closed Posted
- Opportunity number
- USDA-FS-2024-IRA-FLS-03
- Agency
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Forest Service
Department of Agriculture
- Applications due
- Award size
- Up to $5,000,000
Opportunity facts
- Assistance listings
- Funding instrument
- Cooperative Agreement, Grant
- Categories
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- Other
- Environment
- Natural Resources
- Eligible applicants
- Not on record
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About this opportunity
The USDA Forest Service is seeking applicants for the Inflation Reduction Act Forest Landowner Support program, which will provide cost share payments to non-federal, non-industrial forest landowners for climate mitigation and/or forest resilience practices. Eligible applicants include state forestry agencies, nonprofits, institutions of higher learning, and local government units endorsed by a State Forester. The program aims to engage underserved landowners, with a focus on increasing their participation in emerging environmental markets. Proposals will be evaluated based on criteria such as the proposed cost share program design, landowner engagement strategy, and expected impacts on climate mitigation and/or forest resilience. The application deadline is September 30, 2024.
The USDA Forest Service anticipates awarding up to $140 million total, with individual proposals limited to $5 million for single-state programs or $15 million for multi-state programs. Applicants must provide a minimum 20% non-federal match, which can be reduced if at least 40% of landowners or acres served are from underserved populations. Funding is provided through the Inflation Reduction Act Landscape Scale Restoration program (CFDA 10.731).
Synopsis
This funding opportunity is the third in an anticipated series of Forest Landowner Support programming. Forest Landowner Support efforts are funded by Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) provisions (Public Law No: 117-169. Subtitle D, Sec. 23002(a), Competitive Grants for Non-Federal Forest Landowners). These programs fall under the authorities of the USDA Forest Service's existing Landscape Scale Restoration Program, as authorized under Section 13A of the Cooperative Forestry Assistance Act of 1978 (16 U.S.C. 2109a). This funding opportunity solicits proposals for IRA provision Subtitle D, Sec. 23002 (a)(1), which provides the USDA Forest Service with funding to support state-endorsed programs to issue cost share payments to landowners for climate mitigation and/or forest resilience practices.
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