Opportunity Information: Apply for L22AS00179
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Montana/Dakotas Fisheries and Aquatic Resources Management opportunity (Funding Opportunity Number L22AS00179) is a discretionary funding program offered through a cooperative agreement, focused on natural resource work related to fisheries and aquatic resource management on BLM-managed lands in the Montana and Dakotas area. It is cataloged under CFDA 15.244. In practical terms, this kind of funding typically supports on-the-ground conservation and management efforts that help maintain, restore, or improve aquatic ecosystems and fish habitat, often in partnership with state, tribal, local, nonprofit, and academic entities that have relevant technical capacity.
The award structure is a cooperative agreement, which usually means BLM expects to have substantial involvement during the project rather than simply issuing a pass-through grant. That involvement can include coordinating field priorities, providing technical direction, aligning work with BLM management plans, and ensuring that deliverables meet agency standards. The posted award ceiling is $50,000, indicating projects are generally small to moderate in scale, potentially suited to targeted habitat improvements, monitoring efforts, planning work, or other discrete management actions that can be completed within a defined budget and timeline. The original closing date listed for applications was April 18, 2022, and the opportunity was created on February 15, 2022.
A key eligibility point is that individuals and for-profit organizations are explicitly ineligible to apply. Eligible applicant types include state, county, and local governments; special districts; independent school districts; public and state-controlled institutions of higher education; private institutions of higher education; federally recognized tribal governments; other tribal organizations; public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities; and nonprofits both with and without 501(c)(3) status (with the note that these nonprofit categories are listed as eligible aside from institutions of higher education, which are separately listed). This makes the program primarily oriented toward public entities, tribal partners, educational institutions, and mission-driven organizations that can carry out fisheries and aquatic resource work consistent with BLM priorities.
The notice also includes an important restriction related to youth hiring. This NOFO does not support entities hiring interns or crews under the Public Lands Corps Act of 1993. The notice emphasizes that the Public Lands Corps Act (16 USC, Chapter 37, Subchapter II) is the legislative authority that allows BLM to "hire" interns under that specific framework, and as a result, youth corps-style projects that are designed around that authority should not be proposed under this funding opportunity. Instead, eligible Youth Conservation Corps organizations are directed to apply through a different related announcement: NOFO 15.243, titled BLM Youth Conservation Opportunities on Public Lands. In other words, if the core of a proposal is staffing and implementing work through a youth corps or internship crew mechanism authorized by the Public Lands Corps Act, the applicant should use the youth-focused NOFO rather than this fisheries and aquatic resources management NOFO.
Overall, this opportunity is best understood as a targeted BLM partnership vehicle for fisheries and aquatic resources management work in the Montana/Dakotas region, with modest project funding (up to $50,000), a cooperative agreement format implying agency collaboration, broad eligibility across government, tribal, nonprofit, and academic applicants, and a clear boundary excluding individuals, for-profit entities, and Public Lands Corps Act internship/crew hiring models under this particular NOFO.Apply for L22AS00179
- The Bureau of Land Management in the natural resources sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Bureau of Land Management Montana/Dakotas Fisheries and Aquatic Resources Management" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 15.244.
- This funding opportunity was created on 2022-02-15.
- Applicants must submit their applications by 2022-04-18. (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 $50,000.00 in funding.
- Eligible applicants include: State governments, County governments, City or township governments, Special district governments, Independent school districts, Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities, Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments), Nonprofits having a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Nonprofits that do not have a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Private institutions of higher education.
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