USDA Forest Service Inflation Reduction Act Forest Landowner Support: Landowner Payment Programs for Carbon Stewardship Practices
Closed Posted
- Opportunity number
- USDA-FS-2024-IRA-FLS-04
- 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
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- State Governments
- 501(c)(3) Nonprofits
- Non-501(c)(3) Nonprofits
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About this opportunity
The USDA Forest Service is seeking applicants for the Inflation Reduction Act Forest Landowner Support: Landowner Payment Programs for Carbon Stewardship Practices grant opportunity. This funding will provide financial compensation to private forest landowners for implementing practices that increase carbon sequestration and storage. Eligible applicants include state forestry agencies and nonprofit organizations, who can request up to $5 million per award. Proposals will be evaluated on criteria such as project design, implementation plan, quantification of carbon benefits, and ability to engage underserved landowners. The application deadline is September 30, 2024.
Up to $50 million in total funding is available through this one-time opportunity. Awardees must provide a minimum 20% non-federal cost share match, though waivers may be considered. Eligible lands are privately-owned, rural forest lands, including Tribal trust lands. Funded projects can have performance periods of up to 5 years, with the Forest Service anticipating announcing awards in late 2024 after agreements are finalized.
Synopsis
This funding opportunity is the fourth 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)(4), which provides the USDA Forest Service with funding for programs to provide financial compensation to private forest landowners for the implementation of practices that provide measurable increases in carbon sequestration and storage.
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