Opportunity Information: Apply for NPS 17 NERO 0173
The National Park Service (NPS), within the U.S. Department of the Interior, posted a public notice titled "Assessing the benthic community in a partially restored lagoon to improve management decision-making" (Funding Opportunity Number: NPS 17 NERO 0173). The project sits in the environmental category and is framed around assessing the benthic community, meaning the organisms and ecological conditions associated with the bottom of a lagoon (such as invertebrates, seagrass or macroalgae where applicable, sediment characteristics, and related habitat features). The practical intent, as reflected in the title, is to generate information that helps park managers make better decisions about how to manage a lagoon that has undergone partial restoration. In restoration settings, benthic communities are often used as indicators of ecosystem health and recovery because they respond to changes in water quality, hydrology, sedimentation, and habitat structure, and because they support broader food webs.
This notice is explicitly not an open call for proposals and not a request for applications. Instead, it functions as a transparency and public-awareness announcement that NPS intends to make an award in the form of a task agreement under an existing master cooperative agreement that has already been competed or otherwise justified as a single-source arrangement. In other words, rather than inviting new applicants to compete for the work, NPS is signaling that it plans to fund this specific task through a pre-established cooperative mechanism with a partner already positioned under that master agreement.
The funding instrument listed is a Cooperative Agreement, which generally indicates that NPS expects substantial involvement in the project beyond simply providing funds, such as collaboration on study design, data needs, coordination with park operations, review of deliverables, or integration of results into management actions. The opportunity is categorized as discretionary, with an anticipated total award ceiling of $96,195 and an expectation of one award. The CFDA number associated with the notice is 15.945, which corresponds to National Park Service-related assistance listings used for federal assistance tracking.
Eligibility is noted as "Others," with a reference to additional eligibility information elsewhere; however, given that this is not an open solicitation, the eligibility label is less about inviting applicants and more about how the partner category is classified for the planned award under the existing cooperative agreement framework. The notice was created on August 25, 2017, with an original closing date of September 4, 2017, which in this context typically serves as the public notice period rather than an application deadline for competing proposals.
Overall, the announcement communicates a targeted, management-driven environmental assessment effort focused on lagoon benthic conditions, funded through a single planned cooperative award, and posted primarily to meet public notice requirements rather than to recruit new submissions.Apply for NPS 17 NERO 0173
- The Department of the Interior, National Park Service in the environment sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Assessing the benthic community in a partially restored lagoon to improve management decision-making" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 15.945.
- This funding opportunity was created on Aug 25, 2017.
- Applicants must submit their applications by Sep 04, 2017. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $96,195.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 1 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).
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