The John H. Prescott Marine Mammal Rescue and Response Grant Program provides grants or cooperative agreements to eligible stranding network participants or stranding network collaborators. In general, the Prescott Grant Program supports: (A) the recovery, care, or treatment of sick, injured, or entangled marine mammals; (B) responses to marine mammal stranding events that require emergency assistance; (C) the collection of data and samples from living or dead stranded marine mammals for scientific research or assessments regarding marine mammal health; (D) facility operating costs that are directly related to activities described in (A), (B), or (C); and (E) development of stranding network capacity, including training for emergency response, where facilities do not exist or are sparse.

$45 million in funding is available under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and Inflation Reduction Act for projects that will advance the coastal habitat restoration and climate resilience priorities of tribes and underserved communities.

Through this funding, NOAA will help support community-driven habitat restoration and build the capacity of tribes and underserved communities to more fully participate in restoration activities.

 

The EPA Exchange Network Grant Program is soliciting project applications to support the Environmental Information Exchange Network (EN) to:

• • Facilitate sharing of environmental data, especially through shared and reusable services.

• • Reduce burden and avoid costs for co-regulators and the regulated community.

• • Streamline data collection and exchanges to improve its timeliness for decision making.

• • Increase the quality and access to environmental data through discovery, publishing, outbound and analytical services so it is more useful to environmental managers.

• • Increase data and IT management capabilities needed to fully participate in the EN.

 

Federally recognized Native American Tribal governments and organizations are eligible to submit funding proposals to control and prevent CWD in farmed and wild cervids through the development and/or implementation of CWD surveillance, testing, management, and response activities including the indemnification of farmed cervids. There is a Tribal set-aside of $500,000. Note: there is another opportunity open to more applicants – Tribes should apply for both.

APHIS anticipates awarding around $5.5 million to control and prevent chronic wasting disease (CWD) in wild cervids. Funded projects will allow recipients to further develop and carry out CWD management and response activities in line with the following priorities:

• Improving CWD management of affected wild cervid populations
• Improving CWD management of affected areas or premises
• Conducting additional research on amplification assays and other new test methods
• Conduct research on developing and/or applying predictive genetics for wild cervids
• Developing and/or delivering educational outreach materials or programs

Up to $12 million in Great Lakes Restoration Initiative funding is available for new NOAA Great Lakes Fish Habitat Restoration Partnership Grants. Through this funding opportunity, NOAA aims to support habitat restoration projects that will lead to significant and sustainable benefits for Great Lakes native fish species.

The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) recognizes the unique importance of many protected species to tribes and values ongoing efforts by tribal nations to conserve and protect species listed under the Endangered Species Act (ESA), 16 U.S.C. 1535. NMFS is authorized to provide Federal assistance to tribes to support conservation programs for listed marine and anadromous species under its jurisdiction

The National Fish Passage Program (NFPP) is a voluntary program that provides direct technical and financial assistance to partners to remove instream barriers and restore aquatic organism passage and aquatic connectivity for the benefit of Federal trust resources. In doing so, NFPP aims to maintain or increase native fish populations to improve ecosystem resiliency and provide quality fishing experiences for the American people.