Grants / Department of the Interior / Bureau of Reclamation

R24AS00051: Native American Affairs: Emergency Drought for Tribes

Closed Closed April 11, 2024 Opportunity R24AS00051 ☆ Save

This grant is closed. A newer notice from the same program is open now: Native American Affairs: Fiscal Year 2025 Colorado River Basin Tribal Drought Resiliency Program (R26AS00021). Status: Closes November 20, 2026 (13 days left). It is in our archive of Bureau of Reclamation notices from 2023.

• Award ceiling$500,000
• Total funding$12.5 million
• Cost sharingNot required
• Funding typeCooperative Agreement, Grant

Key dates

Who can apply

This opportunity was open to tribes.

• Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)

Eligible ApplicantsTo be considered for this program, applicants will meet all the following eligibility requirements:The Tribe must be a federally recognized Indian Tribe or tribal organization, as defined in 25 U.S.C. Section 5304,The Tribe must be located in one or more of the 17 western states identified in the Reclamation Act of June 17, 1902[1], as amended and supplemented, andThe proposed project must provide near-term drought relief actions to mitigate drought impacts for Indian Tribes that are impacted by the operation of a Reclamation water project[1] Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming

More grants for tribes.

Is this a realistic fit?

• Past Indian Tribal Water Resources Development, Management, and Protection awards averaged $1.0 million; this notice allows up to $500,000 per award.
• Most of the program's money (100% over five years) went to tribes.
• No cost sharing or match is required.

What the grant funds

Background and AuthorizationWith the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act (Act) of 2022, Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) is authorized to provide emergency drought relief for federally recognized Indian Tribes in the 17 western states for near-term drought relief actions to mitigate drought impacts for Indian Tribes that are impacted by the operation of a Reclamation water project. Reclamation’s Native American Affairs and International Affairs Office (NAIAO) will implement the Emergency Drought Relief for Tribes Program authorized under the Act. For more information on this program please visit https://www.usbr.gov/inflation-reduction-act. This Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) is issued under the authority of the Inflation Reduction Act,SEC. 80004. EMERGENCY DROUGHT RELIEF FOR TRIBES.(a) EMERGENCY DROUGHT RELIEF FOR TRIBES—In addition to amounts otherwise available, there is appropriated to the Commissioner of the Bureau of Reclamation for fiscal year 2022, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, $12,500,000, to remain available until September 30, 2026, for near-term drought relief actions to mitigate drought impacts for Indian Tribes that are impacted by the operation of a Bureau of Reclamation water project, including through direct financial assistance to address drinking water shortages and to mitigate the loss of Tribal trust resources.(b) COST-SHARING AND MATCHING REQUIREMENTS—None of the funds provided by this section shall be subject to cost-sharing or matching requirements. ObjectivesThis NOFO’s objectives are to provide assistance to eligible Tribes that are impacted by the operation of Reclamation water projects with near-term drought relief projects; to assist eligible Tribes to develop, manage and protect their water and related resources to mitigate the adverse impacts of drought meeting one or more of the following:Mitigate drought impacts,Increase drought resiliency,Reduce reliance on declining water sources,Increase the efficiency of water deliveries,Mitigate the loss of water and related Tribal trust resources, orAddress drinking water shortages. These objectives are consistent with the purposes of the Act and Reclamation-wide objectives.

Category: Natural Resources.

Applying now

This notice no longer takes applications. Apply under the newer notice, R26AS00021, which is open now.

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