Habitat Restoration Center - Funding Available
Request for Proposals
Communities affected by the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill - Your help is needed.
Habitat affected by the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill. Click here or on the image to view a larger version.
The NOAA Restoration Center is looking for community partners - local governments, harbor masters, state agencies, tribal governments and community groups - to collaboratively develop project ideas to address water quality and marine habitat issues in areas affected by the Exxon Valdez oil spill. NOAA would like to identify projects that community representatives select and prioritize, and address how they will improve local water quality and marine habitat.
Participation in this initial planning phase is not mandatory for eligibility to apply for funding, but if groups, tribes or communities are involved early in the planning stage, they can ensure that the type of improvement projects they would like to implement will be included in the formal request for proposals (RFP). Project types can include design, construction or implementation. If design is funded it does not obligate later funding for implementation. (See project examples).
Project Schedule
- Solicit Letters of Intent
- Identify community partners
- Identify priority community projects at public scoping meetings
- Release RFP - tentatively Oct. 2012
- Work with applicants on proposal submissions
- Rank proposals
- Fund proposals
- Work with applicants on permit and monitoring plans
- Project implementation
- Monitoring
How to Become a Community Partner
Please email one of the contacts (below) to learn more, to ask questions, give comments, or to be be notified about upcoming public meetings. Or, submit a brief Letter of Intent before August 1, 2012. An online submission of a Letter of Intent is preferable.
- To submit a Letter of Intent online, please fill in the PDF (below), save, and send as an attachment to: restorationevos@noaa.gov.
Request for Proposals (RFP)
A formal RFP is tentatively set to be released in October 2012. $300,000 in funding will be available for each year 2013-2015. Total funding available over the three years is $900,000.
Eligible applicants can apply to obtain $15,000 to $250,000 in individual project requests. Applicants may submit numerous proposals from the same person or organization. The funding duration for each project is tentatively set for two years, although in some cases monitoring such as hydrocarbon monitoring, use of new facilities, improved water quality assessments and many others, may extend beyond a two-year time frame. Work funded by this program cannot be required by law or used as mitigation and must fall within the area of Alaska affected by the spill (see map). However, improvements above and beyond what is required for compliance to regulated/mandated projects can be funded.
NOAA Restoration Center staff will be available to assist in planning, proposal development, permitting, monitoring plan development, and project execution.
Contact Information
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Erika Ammann |
Laurel Jennings |
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Rachel Lord |
