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EPA-OW-OWOW-24-01: Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 Request for Applications from Indian Tribes and Intertribal Consortia for Nonpoint Source Management Grants Under Clean Water Act Section 319

Closed Closed January 19, 2024 Opportunity EPA-OW-OWOW-24-01 ☆ Save

This grant is closed. A newer notice from the same program is open now: Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 Funding Opportunity for Indian Tribes and Intertribal Consortia for Nonpoint Source Management Grants Under Clean Water Act Section 319 (EPA-OW-OWOW-26-01). Status: Closes November 9, 2026 (2 days left). It is in our archive of Environmental Protection Agency notices from 2023.

• Award ceiling$125,000
• Total funding$3.5 million
• Expected awards28
• Cost sharingRequired
• Funding typeCooperative Agreement, Grant

Key dates

Who can apply

This opportunity was open to the applicants described in the notice.

• Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)

See Section III of the Notification of Funding Opportunity for eligibility information.

Is this a realistic fit?

• Past Nonpoint Source Implementation Grants awards averaged $2.0 million; this notice allows up to $125,000 per award.
• Most of the program's money (98% over five years) went to state and local governments.
• The notice requires cost sharing or matching funds, so you must contribute part of the project cost.

What the grant funds

This Request for Applications (RFA) is issued pursuant to Clean Water Act (CWA) §319(h), which authorizes the EPA to award grants to eligible Tribes and intertribal consortia to implement approved Nonpoint Source (NPS) management programs developed pursuant to CWA §319(b)(1) “for controlling pollution added from nonpoint sources to the navigable waters” and “improving the quality of such waters.” NPS management programs must identify “best management practices and measures which will be undertaken to reduce pollutant loadings resulting from each category, subcategory, or particular nonpoint source” identified in the Tribe’s NPS assessment report developed pursuant to CWA §319(a).

Category: Environment.

Applying now

This notice no longer takes applications. Apply under the newer notice, EPA-OW-OWOW-26-01, which is open now.

The notice on Grants.gov keeps its full text and attachments, which is useful for planning a resubmission.