Bureau of Land Management Nevada Opens $11.4M across five Funding Opportunities
Eligible applicants: states, local governments, tribal entities, higher education institutions, nonprofits, and local entities. Applications are due March 19, 2024.
Announcement Type: Notice of Funding Opportunity (this program is currently accepting applications)
Opportunities:
Wildlife Program
Recreation and Visitor Services Program
Environmental Quality Protection Program
Rangeland Resource Management
Cultural and Paleontology Resource
Overview and Eligible Uses:
Wildlife Program: The program aims to conserve priority wildlife habitat, monitor and inventory wildlife populations, assess habitat conditions, enhance management opportunities, and improve the use of coordinated wildlife monitoring data. Outreach and education projects, including citizen science and student-based science, are undertaken to promote wildlife stewardship and increase public awareness of conservation challenges and successes on BLM-managed lands.
Recreation and Visitor Services Program: aims to Aims to boost recreation on BLM public lands, gather visitor data, ensure safety, improve trails (motorized and non-motorized), and foster community-supported tourism and conservation partnerships, including with Tribal nations.
Environmental Quality Protection Program: aims to mitigate hazards, reclaim abandoned mines for varied uses, reduce inventory of unreclaimed sites, cut liabilities, minimize environmental degradation, establish collaborations for resourceful solutions, ensure effective remediation, and manage air quality for public health and ecosystems.
Rangeland Resource Management: focuses on high-priority initiatives with a national impact. It administers grazing for 155 million acres of public land, emphasizing activities like conservation and restoration of rangelands, soils mapping, and community engagement to combat climate change and create resilient landscapes.
Cultural and Paleontology Resource: aims to build a conservation legacy by forming partnerships, enhancing recreation, consulting with Tribes, improving visitor experience, and streamlining processes. Goals include protecting heritage resources, advancing understanding of cultural and natural history, providing opportunities for communities, increasing Native American access, and managing resource collections to standards. Additionally, the programs seek repatriation opportunities for ancestors and objects in museum collections.
Amount: There is a total funding pool of $11,399,500. available for awards ranging from $25K to $1.2M
Specific allocations within this funding initiative include:
$ 1,219,500 for the Wildlife Program, distributing awards from $174,000 to $545,500 each;
$1.325,000 for the Recreation and Visitor Services Program, allocating awards from $250K to $750K;
$3.4M for the Environmental Quality Protection Program, with five awards ranging from $100K to $700K;
$5M for the Rangeland Resource Management program, offering awards from $400K to $1.2M;
$455K for the Cultural and Paleontology Resource program, presenting awards from $25K to $210K.
Award Type: Cooperative agreement
Eligible Applicants:
State, county, city, special districts or township governments
Federally and non-Federally recognized Native American tribal organizations.
Private, public, and State controlled institutions of higher education
Nonprofits with or without 501(c)(3) status with the IRS
Independent school districts
Public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities
Special district governments
Key Dates: All eight applications opened on January 19, 2024, and the deadline for submission is March 19, 2024.
Key Links:
Recreation and Visitor Services Program / Grants.gov Opportunity
Environmental Quality Protection Program/ Grants.gov Opportunity
For a full list of currently available grant programs under the Infrastructure Law and other helpful tools, take a look at our Helpful Resources page.
This tracker will continue to send updates when new funding opportunities are announced.