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EPA-OW-OWOW-25-01: Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 Funding Opportunity for Indian Tribes and Intertribal Consortia for Nonpoint Source Management Grants Under Clean Water Act Section 319

Closed Closed December 11, 2024 Opportunity EPA-OW-OWOW-25-01 ☆ 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 2024.

• 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)

Please see Section III of the funding opportunity announcement 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 Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) is issued pursuant to Clean Water Act (CWA) Section 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 Section 319(b)(1) “for controlling pollution added from nonpoint sources to the navigable waters” and “improving the quality of such waters.”2 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 Section 319(a). After allocating CWA Section 319 Tribal funds for Tribal base grant work plans, the EPA allocates the remaining CWA Section 319 Tribal funds to eligible entities according to the competitive procedures in this NOFO. The funding available through this NOFO will support Tribal projects primarily focused on implementing on-the-ground best management practices (BMPs) that will help protect or restore waters from sources of NPS pollution. All applications must include an on-the-ground project to implement NPS BMPs. As described in the NOFO, applicants may also use up to 25 percent of requested federal funds to support other eligible project activities, including the development of a nine-element watershed-based plan (i.e., up to $31,250 of a $125,000 federal grant request). Tribal staff time supporting the implementation of NPS BMPs is not included in this 25 percent cap.

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.