National Priorities: Systems-Based Strategies to Improve The Nation?s Ability to Plan And Respond to Water Scarcity and Drought Due to Climate Change

Post Date

June 23rd 2014

Application Due Date

August 5th 2014

Please see the announcement including Section IV for additional submission information.

Funding Opportunity Number

EPA-G2014-ORD-L1

CFDA Number(s)

66.511

Funding Instrument Type(s)

Cooperative Agreement
Grant

Funding Activity Categories

Environment

Number of Awards

4

Eligibility Categories

Other

Please see Section III of the announcement for eligibility information.

Funding

• Estimated Total Funding:

  $4000000

• Award Range:

  $0 - $1000000

Grant Description

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is seeking applications that take a systems view to investigate how drought (seasonal and prolonged), exacerbated, by climate change, may impact surface water and groundwater quality and availability. EPA is interested in characterizing and predicting water quality as it relates to drought and subsequent drought related events, such as changes in surface runoff and wildfire. The Agency is also seeking information on changes in water quality that are driven by other variations in the hydrologic cycle (extreme events or climate change). For example, flooding following drought and wildfires, timing and intensity of spring runoff, etc. EPA is also interested in research that investigates management options for communities to plan and adapt to these changing scenarios. The goal of this Request for Applications (RFA) is to provide information on these complex interactions and devise innovative and sustainable management strategies for communities, municipalities, water managers, natural resource managers, and other stakeholders to protect our nationуs ground and surface water resources from potential decrease in water quality and availability.

Contact Information

• Agency

  Environmental Protection Agency

• Office:

  None

• Agency Contact:

  Technical Contact: Angela Page,703-347-8046
  Eligibility Contact: Ron Josephson, phone: 703-308-0442
  Electronic Submissions: Todd Peterson, phone:703-308-7224

• Agency Mailing Address:

  Angela Page, Todd Peterson, Ron Josephson,

• Agency Email Address:

  page.angelad@epa.gov;josephson.ron@epa.gov;peterson.todd@epa.gov

• More Information:

  National Priorities: Systems-Based Strategies to Improve The Nation?s Ability to Plan And Respond to Water Scarcity and Drought Due to Climate Change