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USDA-NRCS-OR-ACEP-22-NOFO0001183: Ecological Broadcast Burning “Restoring Wetland Easements”

Closed Closed May 24, 2022 Opportunity USDA-NRCS-OR-ACEP-22-NOFO0001183 ☆ Save

This grant is closed. A newer notice from the same program is open now: Easement Restoration and Stewardship (USDA-NHQ-ACEP-26-NOFO0001456). Status: Closes November 19, 2026 (12 days left). It is in our archive of Natural Resources Conservation Service notices from 2022.

• Award ceiling$600,000
• Award floor$250,000
• Total funding$600,000
• Expected awards2
• Cost sharingNot required
• Funding typeCooperative Agreement

Key dates

Who can apply

This opportunity was open to nonprofits, colleges and universities, state and local governments, tribes and small businesses.

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Is this a realistic fit?

• Past Agricultural Conservation Easement Program awards averaged $690,887; this notice allows up to $600,000 per award.
• Most of the program's money (80% over five years) went to nonprofits.
• No cost sharing or match is required.

What the grant funds

Federal Awarding Agency Name: U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) – Farm Production and Conservation (FPAC)-Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) Notice of Funding Opportunity Title: Ecological Broadcast Burning Notice of Funding Opportunity Number: USDA-NRCS-OR-ACEP-22-NOFO0001183 Assistance Listing: This program is listed in the Assistance Listings on Sam.gov under the Agricultural Conservation Easement Program, 16 USC 3865, et seq., CFDA No. 10.931. SAM is a web-based, government-wide application that collects, validates, stores, and disseminates business information about the federal government's trading partners in support of the contract awards, grants, and electronic payment processes. Notice of Funding Opportunity Summary This Notice of Funding Opportunity (NFO) is being released prior to appropriation and/or apportionment of funds for fiscal year 2022. Enactment of additional continuing resolutions or an appropriations act may affect the availability or level of funding for this program. NRCS-Oregon (OR) is posting an announcement for interested parties to apply for the opportunity to assist our agency with conducting important ecological broadcast burning (Prescribed fire) on multiple Agricultural Conservation Easement Program (ACEP) Wetland Reserve Easement Properties (WRE) and Wetland Reserve Program (WRP) Properties. NRCS recognizes the importance of applying fire in appropriate locations to properly manage the land for multiple beneficial outcomes. These priority lands have been adapted by fire over the centuries and due to various reasons, this management tool has been absent. By removing fire from the management equation, we are finding these important wetland habitats are degrading and may be changing from their historic and full functioning condition. NRCS-OR is making a funding opportunity available for applicants to submit proposals with an award ceiling of $600,000 and a minimum project award of $250,000. NRCS will be awarding a fixed amount cooperative agreement for up to a five-year period. If, in coordination with NRCS, additional resources are needed at a rate that exceeds this schedule, NRCS may add funds to this agreement to support continued partnership over the performance period. Our primary goal is to apply prescribed fire to prioritized wetland areas throughout the Willamette Valley and Oregon High Desert Basins. The project list ranges in size from 25 acre to 2,000-acre burns.

Category: Agriculture, Natural Resources.

Applying now

This notice no longer takes applications. Apply under the newer notice, USDA-NHQ-ACEP-26-NOFO0001456, which is open now.

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