Grant Soil & Water Conservation District

Grant Soil & Water Conservation District, doing business as Grant Weed Control District, is a U.S. state government entity headquartered in John Day, Oregon, that acts as a prime recipient of federal grants for natural resource conservation, invasive species management, and wildfire preparedness work across the Pacific Northwest. The organization operates exclusively as a grant recipient (99% of recent awards are prime grants) and does not hold federal contracts or contract vehicles.

Grant SWCD's customer base concentrates heavily within the Department of the Interior. The top five customer agencies account for 60% of awards by count and 64% by combined potential value, led by the Bureau of Reclamation (55 awards, $2 million combined potential value) and the Bureau of Land Management Oregon-Washington region (17 awards, $225 thousand combined potential value), with the Department of Agriculture Forest Service and National Resources Conservation Service providing additional pipeline. The two rankings align closely, indicating consistent award magnitude across the customer set.

Recent grant work spans four federal agencies and three distinct capability areas. The organization received a $9.9 million Project Grant from the Forest Service Region 6-Pacific Northwest Region in August 2023 for the Evacuation Corridor and Fuels Management Project under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act Community Wildfire Defense Grants program (CFDA 10.720), running through March 2028. It holds a Cooperative Agreement with the National Resources Conservation Service awarded August 2025 to support Oregon NRCS's Natural Resources Inventory Local Data Survey Instrument (Cropland National Resource Inventory), completing August 2030. A second Cooperative Agreement with the Forest Service Oregon-Washington Region, awarded October 2024, funds noxious weed and invasive plant control on Bureau of Land Management lands along the John Day Wild and Scenic River corridors through September 2029. Grant SWCD also received a third Forest Service Cooperative Agreement in August 2023 for Firewise Communities maintenance and fire prevention programming through August 2028. Additionally, the organization holds Cooperative Agreements with the Bureau of Reclamation (awarded June 2023 and August 2021) for salmon and steelhead habitat restoration coordination, including landowner engagement, design work, permit applications, and construction observation.

Activity has been sparse in recent years—only two awards in 2024 and two in 2025—after a higher baseline of five awards in 2023. The organization operates under two standing Indefinite Delivery Contracts: INR08PC10688 (57 task orders, $1.3 million combined potential value) and 03CA101530 (38 task orders, $895 thousand combined potential value), both anchoring landscape and engineering services delivery. Only two awards face completion within the next twenty-four months, limiting near-term recompete exposure. Work is classified predominantly under NAICS 541330 (Engineering Services) and PSC codes for Architect and Engineering services, with secondary emphasis on natural resources conservation and environmental systems protection.