Columbia River Basin Restoration Funding Assistance Program: Science and Monitoring
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
EPA’s Columbia River Basin Restoration Program released a Request for Applications for entities interested in improving the understanding of toxics and their effects on water quality in the Columbia River Basin by increasing the number, type, and scientific rigor of toxics monitoring projects in three program priority areas: 1) characterization and spatiotemporal trend analysis; 2) pathway identification; and/or 3) novel methods and approaches.
Total Available Funds: $15M
Minimum Application Amount: $300,000
Maximum Application Amount: $3M
Project Length: up to 5 years
Number of Awards Anticipated: 5 – 10
The grantee will be responsible for a 25% non-federal cost share/match. Tribal applicants can cost share/match with either non-federal and/or federal funds. Tribal applicants who are selected under this competition can ask EPA to fully waive this match requirement.
Eligible applicants include state governments, Tribal governments, regional water pollution control agencies and entities, local government entities, nongovernmental entities, soil and water conservation districts, public or nonprofit institutions of higher education, as well as hospitals operated by state, Tribal, or local governments or that meet the definition of nonprofit at 2 C.F.R. § 200.1.
The EPA will host an informational webinar for prospective applicants on March 28 from 10:00-11:30 AM Pacific. EPA staff will provide an overview of the RFA and answer frequently asked questions. The webinar will be recorded and made available upon request.