Grande Ronde Basin Habitat Improvement

Post Date

April 19th 2013

Application Due Date

May 3rd 2013

Funding Opportunity Number

R13AS10006

CFDA Number(s)

15.517

Funding Instrument Type(s)

Cooperative Agreement

Funding Activity Categories

Natural Resources

Number of Awards

1

Eligibility Categories

Other

This Funding Announcement is not a request for applications. This announcement is to provide public notice of the Bureau of Reclamationуs intention to fund the following project activities without full and open competition.

Funding

• Estimated Total Funding:

  $674157

• Award Range:

  $1 - $674157

Grant Description

The Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) currently provides technical assistance in eleven tributary subbasins in Idaho, Oregon, and Washington. Actions identified in these subbasins are designed to improve survival of fish during spawning and rearing life stages. Reclamationуs responsibility for its subbasins is to work with willing partners on non-Federal lands to implement actions to meet specific metric goals that include: (1) fish screens that meet current criteria; (2) spawning and rearing access restored by removal of fish passage barriers; (3) meeting instream flow targets; and (4) increased miles of channel complexity in the subbasins. Except under special circumstances, Reclamation is unable to fund or participate directly in habitat improvement construction activities in the subbasins. Thus, Reclamation enters into agreements with willing partners, also known as рProject Sponsorsс who identify, fund, permit, manage, and monitor projects that meet Reclamationуs habitat improvement program objectives. Union Soil and Water Conservation District (USWCD), a local government entity, works with many partners to sponsor fish habitat improvements within the Grande Ronde Basin (Basin). In 2010, Reclamation and USWCD entered into an agreement whereby USWCD, as Project Sponsor, would explore, develop, and coordinate potential fish habitat improvement projects within the Basin, and coordinate its investigations with Reclamation, landowners, and other interested parties. As a result of that agreement USWCD and Reclamation determined the need to improvement stream habitat within the Grande Ronde Basin which will benefit anadromous fisheries. Benefits include, but are not limited to: improved access to spawning and rearing habitat; reduced entrainment; increased streamflow; improved fish passage; and improved habitat quantity and quality for native endangered fish species including spring chinook salmon, steelhead trout, and bull trout. Therefore, it is Reclamationуs intent to provide funds to USWCD for the oversight and monitoring activities for the stream habitat improvement.

Contact Information

• Agency

  Department of the Interior

• Office:

  Bureau of Reclamation

• Agency Contact:

  Melinda Ritacco
  Financial Assistance Specialist
  Phone 208-378-5103

• Agency Mailing Address:

  mritacco@usbr.gov

• Agency Email Address:

  mritacco@usbr.gov

• Location:

  Bureau of Reclamation - Pacific Northwest Region

• More Information:

  www.grants.gov