The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is soliciting applications from eligible applicants for technical assistance and support necessary to coordinate preparedness activities of the environmental laboratory sector. These activities will further develop and expand the capability and capacity of environmental laboratories to respond to water contamination events. The successful applicant will serve as the environmental laboratory sector liaison and will provide leadership and support to the environmental laboratory sector. This includes highlighting laboratory capability and capacity issues, prioritizing these issues, and formulating strategies for solutions. The successful applicant will also organize and sponsor conferences and task force/work group meetings, disseminate and share information with environmental laboratories, provide technical assistance through training opportunities, and develop a communication plan that promotes the leveraging of resources in the environmental laboratory sector. Funding Opportunity Number: EPA-OW-OGWDW-10-02. Assistance Listing: 66.424. Funding Instrument: CA. Category: ENV. Award Amount: $1.2M – $2.4M per award.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) anticipates awarding one cooperative agreement to an eligible entity to manage an Urban Watershed Capacity Building Grant under the Targeted Watershed Grants (TWG) Program. Specifically, EPA is soliciting proposals from eligible applicants that address the following two project components: (1) manage a competitive urban watershed subaward program; and (2) provide urban watershed technical services to subawardees. For the subaward program, the applicant will: i) prepare and advertise a competitive Request for Proposals (RFP), establish review criteria for evaluating and selecting subaward proposals, and make subawards to support urban watershed capacity building projects for activities that lead to environmental, public health, and related socioeconomic benefits to the surrounding communities and their residents; ii) oversee and monitor subawardees for successful completion of the urban watershed capacity building projects; and iii) qualitatively and quantitatively measure and report on the environmental results of the urban watershed capacity building projects accomplished through the subawards. The urban watershed subaward program proposed by the applicant must be on a national scale by allowing for subaward proposals for capacity building projects within urban areas from across the 50 United States, Tribal Lands, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Territories. For the urban watershed technical services, the applicant will provide outreach and technical support to subawardees to broaden participation in urban watershed capacity building projects. The statutory authority for this announcement is the 2007 Appropriations, H.J. Res. 20 (P.L. 110-5)) for Targeted Watershed Grants. Funding Opportunity Number: EPA-OW-OWOW-10-03. Assistance Listing: 66.439. Funding Instrument: CA. Category: ENV. Award Amount: Up to $600K per award.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is soliciting proposals from eligible applicants to build or refine State/Tribal/local government wetland programs as described in Section I, FUNDING OPPORTUNITY DESCRIPTION, of this announcement. States, Tribes, local government agencies, interstate agencies, and intertribal consortia are eligible to apply under this announcement, as further described herein. Universities that are agencies of a state gover ment are eligible, but must include documentation demonstrating that they are chartered as part of a state government in the proposal submission. Non-profit organizations are not eligible to compete under this RFP. Funding Opportunity Number: EPA-REG6-WPDG-2012. Assistance Listing: 66.461. Funding Instrument: CA,G. Category: ENV. Award Amount: $25K – $250K per award.

The Chesapeake Bay Program Implementation Grants are awarded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to support the restoration and protection of the Chesapeake Bay watershed. These grants fund jurisdiction-level implementation activities aligned with the Chesapeake Bay Program partnership, which brings together federal and state agencies to coordinate bay restoration efforts. Funding is allocated to eligible jurisdictions within the Chesapeake Bay watershed to carry out water quality monitoring, data collection, toxics assessment, and other restoration activities. Grantees must follow detailed workplan, budget, and data submission requirements as outlined in EPA's grant guidance. The program includes provisions for multi-year budgets, progress reporting, and compliance with the Chesapeake Bay Accountability and Recovery Act (CBARA) state reporting requirements.

Chesapeake Bay Green Streets, Green Jobs, Green Towns (G3) Grant Program is sponsored by U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Supports local, grassroots-level greening efforts by towns and communities in urbanized watersheds that want to reduce stormwater runoff through creation of 'green streets,' increase urban green spaces, and reduce the amount of impervious surfaces within the Chesapeake Bay Water…