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NOAA-OAR-SG-2024-23704: FY2024-2025 National Sea Grant BIL Marine Debris Community Action Coalitions

Closed Closed March 5, 2024 Opportunity NOAA-OAR-SG-2024-23704 ☆ Save

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• Award ceiling$300,000
• Award floor$150,000
• Expected awards20
• Cost sharingNot required
• 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)

The following entities are eligible to submit to this opportunity: Sea Grant Programs (Sea Grant Colleges, Institutions, or Coherent Area Programs). The National Sea Grant College Program champions diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) by recruiting, retaining, and preparing a diverse workforce, and proactively engaging and serving the diverse populations of coastal communities. Sea Grant is committed to building inclusive research, extension, communication, and education programs that serve people with unique backgrounds, circumstances, needs, perspectives, and ways of thinking. We encourage Sea Grant program applications to reflect diverse participation with regards to age, race, ethnicities, national origins, gender identities, sexual orientations, disabilities, cultures, religions, citizenship types, marital statuses, education levels, job classifications, veteran status types, income, and socioeconomic status.

Is this a realistic fit?

• Past Sea Grant Support awards averaged $703,725; this notice allows up to $300,000 per award.
• Most of the program's money (79% over five years) went to colleges and universities.
• No cost sharing or match is required.

What the grant funds

To strengthen efforts in prevention and mitigation of marine debris, the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) has directed NOAA’s National Sea Grant College Program to execute $50 million over five years “for marine debris prevention and removal.” There are many types, sources, and causes of marine debris, defined for the purposes of this competition as "any persistent solid material that is manufactured or processed and directly or indirectly, intentionally or unintentionally, disposed of or abandoned into the marine environment or the Great Lakes" (15 C.F.R. § 909.1). While marine debris is a global issue, it is also intensely local – the activities and attitudes of individuals, communities, and industries drive the global problem. It is important for marine debris prevention and removal to be addressed at the local scale, along with other efforts at larger scales, with the support of key players in the community. Community coalitions and local partnerships are essential to creating effective and long-lasting action on marine debris. Due to lack of resources, entire segments of our society have not yet been able to invest funding and time into addressing challenges related to the prevention and removal of marine debris. This includes Tribes and Indigenous People who face additional institutional barriers in order to mitigate local marine debris and pollutants. Executive Order 14096, “Revitalizing Our Nation's Commitment to Environmental Justice for All (https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/04/26/2023-08955/revitalizing-our-nations-commitment-to-environmental-justice-for-all), and E.O.13985 (https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2021/01/25/2021-01753/advancing-racial-equity-and-support-for-underserved-communities-through-the-federal-government), emphasize the need for Federal agencies to take actions to redress unfair disparities and remove barriers to government programs and services. E.O. 14096 places even greater urgency on the Federal Government to “. . . build upon and strengthen its commitment to deliver environmental justice to all communities across America. Our Nation needs . . . ". Executive Order 14008, “Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad”, also established the Justice40 Initiative, directing that 40% of the overall benefits from certain federal investments, such as climate, clean energy, and other areas, flow to disadvantaged communities and that such communities accrue the benefits of those investments.

Category: Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA).

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