Identification of Priority Habitats for Restoration and Protection in the Tanana Valley | F17AS00219

Opportunity Information: Apply for F17AS00219

The Department of the Interior, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced a discretionary grant opportunity titled "Identification of Priority Habitats for Restoration and Protection in the Tanana Valley" (Funding Opportunity Number F17AS00219). Posted on May 17, 2017, with an original application deadline of May 31, 2017, the program was designed to support a single anticipated award with a maximum federal funding level (award ceiling) of $175,000. The effort falls under broad public-interest categories including environment, natural resources, and related aquatic-resource management priorities, and it is cataloged under CFDA 15.664.

The central purpose of the grant is to produce detailed HUC 8 watershed plans using the watershed-based approach described in the 2008 Final Rule. The geographic focus is the larger HUC 6 Tanana River Watershed in Alaska, with work beginning in the Chena River Watershed and then extending to other Tanana Valley watersheds. The sequencing of which watersheds to plan next is not random; it is explicitly driven by three practical considerations: the watershed's importance to Chinook salmon, the percentage of permitted impacts occurring there, and the presence of emerging or anticipated threats to aquatic resources. In other words, the grant is intended to prioritize planning where it will matter most for salmon and where development pressure and risk to aquatic habitats are most significant.

A key deliverable of each watershed plan is the identification of specific, high-value locations where compensatory mitigation could be strategically implemented. These are places where mitigation projects could be developed to restore, establish, enhance, or preserve aquatic habitats and functions, with a particular emphasis on Chinook salmon while also benefiting other aquatic resources. The underlying idea is to move mitigation from ad hoc, site-by-site decisions toward a more coordinated, watershed-scale strategy, so that restoration and protection actions are targeted to areas that can most effectively maintain or improve overall watershed health and aquatic resource quantity and quality.

Eligibility was listed as "Others" with additional clarification referenced in the full opportunity text. Overall, the grant can be understood as planning-focused funding intended to generate actionable, map- and data-driven watershed plans that guide future restoration, protection, and compensatory mitigation investments across the Tanana River system, starting with the Chena River and expanding outward based on biological importance, impact levels, and threat forecasts.

• The Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service in the environment, food and nutrition, health, natural resources sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Identification of Priority Habitats for Restoration and Protection in the Tanana Valley" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 15.664.
• This funding opportunity was created on May 17, 2017.
• Applicants must submit their applications by May 31, 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 $175,000.00 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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