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Great American Outdoors Act Deferred Maintenance Program (10.712)

Also known as GAOA

Great American Outdoors Act Deferred Maintenance Program (Assistance Listing 10.712) is run by the Forest Service, part of the Department of Agriculture. It awarded $1.2 million in 2 grants from fiscal 2021 to 2025, about $603,312 per award on average. No funding opportunity is open on Grants.gov right now.

There were 2 awards in five years, from $100,000 to $1.1 million.

Key findings

What the program funds

The Great American Outdoors Act (GAOA) establishes a new fund for five years to address the maintenance backlog of the US Forest Service and other federal land management agencies.

From the federal Assistance Listing. Read the full listing on SAM.gov.

Open opportunities

No opportunity under this program is open or forecast on Grants.gov right now. Programs often post once a year, so the funding history below shows what to expect.

Rules from the program listing

What the money can and cannot pay for

Deferred maintenance projects approved by Congress. Projects must reduce or eliminate deferred maintenance of an asset. Assets are defined in the bill as: “any real property, including any physical structure or grouping of structures, landscape, trail, or other tangible property, that A. has a specific service or function; B. is tracked and managed as a distinct, identifiable entity by the applicable covered agency.;

Matching requirements

This program has no statutory formula. As identified in the agreement.MOE requirements are not applicable to this assistance listing.

Deadlines

Deadlines do not apply

Examples of funded projects

Fiscal Year2025: Toilet decommission and replacement has been accomplished for major vault toilet buildings across the Pike-San Isabel National Forest and Cimmaron and Conanche National Grasslands.

Quoted from the program's federal Assistance Listing. The notice of funding opportunity is the official source for each competition's rules.

Funding history and past recipients

From fiscal 2021 to 2025, Great American Outdoors Act Deferred Maintenance Program (10.712) awarded $1.2 million across 2 grant awards, an average of $603,312 per award.

Largest recipients, fiscal 2021 to 2025
RecipientStateAwardsAmount
Nebraska Game & Parks CommissionNebraska1$1.1 million
Department of Parks & Recreation IdahoIdaho1$100,000

Top states: Nebraska ($1.1 million), Idaho ($100,000).

Who usually wins

Almost all of the money went to state and local governments.

Recipient typeAwardsAmountShare
State and local governments2$1.2 million100%

By state

1 state has a page for this program: those that received at least $1 million or 10 awards. It is Nebraska.

Grants by recipient's state, fiscal 2021 to 2025
StateAwardsAmount
Nebraska1$1.1 million
Idaho1$100,000

Award amounts are federal obligations reported to USAspending.gov for fiscal 2021 to 2025; see how our data works.