Opportunity Information: Apply for NOAA NMFS HCPO 2018 2005487
The NOAA Great Lakes Habitat Restoration Project Grants (FY 2018) are a competitive, discretionary funding opportunity under the U.S. Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI) intended to put federal dollars and NOAA technical support behind habitat restoration work across the U.S. Great Lakes region. The core purpose is to restore Great Lakes coastal habitats in ways that align with NOAA's habitat restoration mission while directly advancing GLRI goals to protect and restore habitats that sustain healthy populations of native fish species. Projects must be located within the eight Great Lakes states: New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Minnesota.
This program is built around tangible ecological outcomes. NOAA makes clear that proposals will be judged mainly on the strength of their on-the-ground restoration components and the likelihood that those actions will produce measurable, long-term benefits for the target species and the broader ecosystem. In other words, the program is not just looking for good ideas or general conservation intent; it is looking for projects that can clearly connect restoration actions to concrete ecological improvements over time. NOAA also highlights broader public and community benefits that restored coastal habitats can provide, including stronger fisheries, better water quality, more recreation opportunities, and greater resilience to climate-related impacts along Great Lakes shorelines.
Funding can support either planning work, on-the-ground restoration, or multi-phase efforts that move from design into implementation. For this competition, "planning" is defined fairly specifically as feasibility work plus engineering and design. Awards are made as cooperative agreements (not simple grants), which typically means NOAA expects a higher level of federal involvement or collaboration during project execution. The program is administered through the NOAA Restoration Center.
Award periods can be one year or multi-year, up to three years total. NOAA also notes that selected projects may receive additional incremental funding releases through FY 2020 without having to recompete, depending on performance and the availability of funds. However, the entire funding stream is contingent on the amount EPA makes available to NOAA for this purpose, meaning actual award totals and continuation funding depend on federal appropriations and interagency allocations.
Applicants must request at least $50,000 and no more than $10,000,000 in federal funding over a three-year period. While those are the absolute limits, NOAA provides practical target ranges to help applicants size projects appropriately. For near-term habitat restoration implementation projects, NOAA suggests requests between $250,000 and $3,000,000 for work that can be completed in about 12 to 18 months, with typical awards expected to land around $500,000 to $1,000,000. For planning-only proposals (feasibility, engineering, and design), suggested requests range from $50,000 to $500,000 for a similar 12 to 18 month timeframe, with typical awards closer to $75,000 to $250,000. For larger, multi-year, multi-phase proposals that may include engineering, design, and implementation, NOAA suggests requests between $500,000 and $10,000,000 with project durations of roughly 18 to 48 months, and typical awards expected around $750,000 to $3,000,000.
In terms of overall program scale, NOAA anticipated about $10,000,000 could be available over three years to support and maintain selected awards, again dependent on appropriations. For the first year of this solicitation, NOAA estimated roughly $3,000,000 might be available to start approximately two to five projects that best match the program objectives and priorities laid out in the announcement.
Key administrative details from the notice include the funding opportunity number (NOAA NMFS HCPO 2018 2005487), the federal assistance listing/CFDA number (11.463), and the funding instrument type (cooperative agreement). The opportunity was issued by the U.S. Department of Commerce through NOAA, with an original posting date of January 10, 2018 and an original closing date of March 12, 2018. Eligibility is listed as "Others" with clarification provided in the full announcement, so applicants typically need to consult the notice text to confirm whether their organization type qualifies.Apply for NOAA NMFS HCPO 2018 2005487
- The Department of Commerce in the environment, natural resources, science and technology and other research and development sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "NOAA Great Lakes Habitat Restoration Project Grants under the U.S. Great Lakes Restoration Initiative" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 11.463.
- This funding opportunity was created on Jan 10, 2018.
- Applicants must submit their applications by Mar 12, 2018. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $10,000,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 2 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).
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