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Tribal Wetland Program Development Grant - Fiscal Year 2024 Tribal Wetland Program Development Grants

Deadline: October 1, 2024, by 11:59 PM ET

Under this Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) WPDGs provide Tribes and Intertribal Consortia an opportunity to develop and/or refine comprehensive Tribal wetland programs. This funding opportunity is meant to:

• Develop the capacity of Tribes to increase the quantity and quality of wetlands in the U.S. by conserving and restoring wetland acreage and improving wetland condition.
• Use one or more of the "Core Elements” from the Tribal, State, Territory Wetlands Program Core Element Framework to achieve this goal.

The EPA anticipates approximately $3,800,000 in federal funding to be available for assistance agreements under this announcement depending on funding availability and other applicable considerations. It is anticipated that the assistance agreements awarded under this announcement will have one-to-four-year project periods generally starting after January 2024. The project period for assistance agreements under this announcement may be no more than five years.

Following EPA policy, EPA is soliciting applications and not proposals. Please check Section IV of the announcement for all forms that will now be required at time of application submission. A full application can be found at EPA-OW-OWOW-24-04 and Tribal Wetland Program Development Grant Notice of Funding Opportunity | US EPA.

If you have any questions, please contact Myra Price at price.myra@epa.gov or WPDG-RFA@epa.gov.

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