Coastal Impact Assistance

The Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service is no longer making awards under Coastal Impact Assistance (CFDA 15.668); the Assistance Listing remains active only to allow the Service to close currently open awards and process administrative amendments. The most recent grant award under this program was disbursed on May 31, 2016—over ten years ago.

The program historically funded coastal habitat restoration, shoreline protection, land acquisition, and subsistence resource management across coastal regions. Representative awards included $26.7 million for Mississippi River reintroduction into Bayou Lafourche (2014), $4.2 million for McFaddin Beach restoration in Texas (2015), and $2.9 million for Pass Christian Harbor expansion in Mississippi (2013). Recent activity also encompassed water quality projects, waste management improvements in remote coastal communities, scientific monitoring of fisheries in Alaska, and trail hardening to protect coastal ecosystems.

From the program's inception in 2006 through 2016, the Fish and Wildlife Service issued 656 awards totaling $507.3 million in federal obligations. The portfolio consisted almost entirely of Formula Grants (642 awards, 98 percent), with a small number of Project Grants and one Cooperative Agreement. The funding concentration was extreme: the Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service administered 637 awards worth $471.5 million (93 percent of all federal dollars obligated), with the Department of the Interior and the Fish and Wildlife Service Region 9 Headquarters accounting for the remainder.

The award cadence declined sharply in the program's final years: 235 awards in 2012, 55 in 2013, 24 in 2014, 4 in 2015, and only 3 in 2016. No new grant opportunities are currently open. Applicants should not pursue this program; the funding pipeline is closed and the Assistance Listing is maintained solely for administrative closeout.