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San Francisco Bay Restoration Grants is sponsored by U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 9. This program provides competitive grants for projects that advance measurable restoration outcomes for San Francisco Bay and its connected watersheds, focusing on improving water quality and strengthening ecosystem function.
It supports on-the-ground projects, especially in areas degraded by pollution and land-use pressures, and emphasizes themes like cleaning contaminated shorelines, restoring wetlands, and implementing urban stormwater treatment systems.
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Scope/Approach (20 pts): Describe a technically/scientifically sound approach for addressing water quality improvement and/or wetlands restoration; activities based on existing watershed plans, TMDLs, stormwater/green infrastructure plans; environmental and regional significance, contribution to knowledge, and relative risk and reward.
Environmental Results – Outputs and Outcomes (25 pts): Define well-defined outputs throughout the project timeframe; describe specific, quantified environmental and/or public health results linking to EPA's 5 Pillars; provide an effective plan for tracking and measuring progress.
Budget Detail (13 pts): Provide a detailed budget table with cost per major activity over the timeline; demonstrate cost-effectiveness and reasonableness of overall project costs.
Programmatic Capability and Past Performance (12 pts): Describe past performance completing assistance agreements; history of meeting reporting requirements; organizational experience and plan for achieving project objectives; staff expertise and resources.
Timely Expenditure of Grant Funds (5 pts): Describe approach, procedures, and controls for ensuring grant funds will be expended in a timely and efficient manner.
Partnerships and Cooperative Federalism (25 pts): Demonstrate quality and extent of partnerships contributing to environmental results; specify roles of proposed partners; provide letters of support substantiating partner roles.
Scoring criteria used to review proposals for this grant.
Based on current listing details, eligibility includes: Eligible applicants fall under the category of "Others," and detailed eligibility rules are provided in Section 2 of the Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO). Applicants should confirm final requirements in the official notice before submission.
Current published award information indicates Up to $5,000,000 Always verify allowable costs, matching requirements, and funding caps directly in the sponsor documentation.
The current target date is March 3, 2026. Build your timeline backwards from this date to cover registrations, approvals, attachments, and final submission checks.
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EPA is seeking insightful, expert, and cost-effective applications from eligible applicants to provide the Chesapeake Bay Program’s non-federal partners with technical analysis and programmatic evaluation support related to water quality modeling and monitoring and spatial systems to manage, analyze, and map environmental data. The project assists the partners in meeting their restoration and protection goals and in increasing the transfer of scientific understanding to the Chesapeake Bay Program modeling, monitoring, and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) activities. The recipient will support modeling, monitoring, and GIS programs needed to explain and communicate the health of and changes in the Chesapeake Bay ecosystem. Funding Opportunity Number: EPA-R3-CBP-23-18. Assistance Listing: 66.466. Funding Instrument: CA. Category: ENV. Award Amount: Up to $5.3M per award.
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