Grants / Department of Commerce / DOC NOAA - ERA Production

NOAA-OAR-SG-2025-30385: FY2025 Sea Grant Contaminants of Emerging Concern

Closed Closed May 23, 2025 Opportunity NOAA-OAR-SG-2025-30385 ☆ Save

This grant is closed. Who won this program's grants before is below, and similar open grants are at the end of the page. It is in our archive of DOC NOAA - ERA Production notices from 2025.

• Award ceiling$1.4 million
• Award floor$400,000
• Total funding$1.4 million
• Expected awards1
• Cost sharingRequired
• Funding typeCooperative Agreement

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 College Programs, Sea Grant Institutional Programs and Sea Grant Coherent Area Programs. For the remainder of this document, these entities are collectively referred to as “Sea Grant Programs." Federal agencies and their personnel are not permitted to receive federal funding under this competition; however, federal scientists and other employees can serve as uncompensated partners or co-Principal Investigators on applications. Federal labs and offices can also make available specialized expertise, facilities, or equipment to applicants but cannot be compensated under this competition for their use. To be eligible to apply or receive an award, applicant organizations must complete and maintain three registrations; SAM.gov, Grants.gov, and eRA Commons. For each, the complete registration process can take 4 to 6 weeks, so applicants must begin this activity as soon as possible and well before the proposal due date. For more information on how to meet these registration and application submission requirements without errors, we advise all to carefully review relevant Applicant and Grantee Training modules: https://www.commerce.gov/ocio/programs/gems/applicant-and-grantee-training. Additionally, we advise that all carefully read ‘Additional Application Package Forms’ within the ‘Full Proposal Required Elements’ section below.

Is this a realistic fit?

• Past Sea Grant Support awards averaged $703,725; this notice allows up to $1.4 million per award.
• Most of the program's money (79% over five years) went to colleges and universities.
• The notice requires cost sharing or matching funds, so you must contribute part of the project cost.

What the grant funds

The National Sea Grant College Program was enacted by the U.S. Congress in 1966 (amended in 2020, Public Law 116-221) to support leveraged federal and state partnerships that harness the intellectual capacity of the nation’s universities and research institutions to solve problems and generate opportunities in coastal communities. NOAA’s National Sea Grant Office (NSGO) anticipates between $400,000 and $1,400,000 will be available for one (1) award to support future competed research that addresses Contaminants of Emerging Concern (CECs) across a shared geography, biogeography or watershed. Each application should be scalable up to $1,400,000 in federal funds per project and may be for up to three years. Applications require the standard 50% non-federal match for Sea Grant projects. This will be a stand-alone (i.e., non-omnibus) award. It is the NSGO’s intent (pending appropriations) that, based on satisfactory award performance, and continued relevance to program objectives, the selected Sea Grant program will be eligible to receive additional funding to address priority gaps and emerging challenges related to Contaminants of Emerging Concern if additional future funding becomes available. Applicants are encouraged to develop a future competition to fund projects that research and monitor CECs, including PFAS, that may cause ecological or human health impacts in coastal and estuarine waters. If the region has received funding from past Sea Grant CEC competitions, applicants are encouraged to demonstrate how this proposal will build off of those prior collaborative efforts and previously selected CEC projects. Applicants should propose future competed research competitions to select projects that meet the scope below. Proposed work should: Focus on species of ecological importance, particularly those with strong socio-economic and/or human health dimensions (e.g., subsistence, recreational, or commercial shellfish and/or finfish); Focus on the prevalence, transportation, and biogeochemical transformations of CECs across a watershed or ecosystem, especially those with pathways that involve drinking water and/or wastewater; Consider the in situ multi-stressor and/or interactive effects of CECs that organisms likely experience in their natural environments; and/or Perform short-term monitoring assessments to help steer more focused, long-term monitoring initiatives.

Category: Natural Resources, Science and Technology and other Research and Development.

Applying now

This notice no longer takes applications. Agencies often post the same opportunity again under a new number, so check the program's notices on Grants.gov and the similar open grants below.

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