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BILJA Grant Program Tracker

The BILJA Grant Program Tracker has been created to assist Tribal Nations with BIIJA programs. Program information will be updated as new information becomes available. If you need assistance, please contact us.

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Agency Categorysort descending Name of Program New or Existing Program Type Latest Actions / Upcoming Milestones Tribes Eligible? Workforce Funding Eligible Use? Cybersecurity An Eligible Use?
DOI Resilience National Geological And Geophysical Data Preservation Program No Grant, Cooperative Agreement, Direct Federal Spending First Round of Funding Allocated / Selections Announced in May 2022

Description: Provides competitive grants to State Geological Surveys and funds projects executed by U.S. Geological Survey and other Department of the Interior bureaus to preserve, modernize, and make publicly available geological and geophysical data and assets.

Eligible Recipients: State Geological Surveys, State Universities Housing State Geological Surveys, Private Contractors, U.S. Geological Survey Science Centers And Other Department of Interior Bureaus

Federal Cost Share: No non-Federal cost share required

USDA Resilience Southwest Ecological Restoration Institute No Direct Federal Spending

Description: Southwest Ecological Restoration Institute will compile and display data for fuels treatments and wildfire, to facilitate coordination and use of existing and future interagency fuel treatment data, and to carry out other related activities of a Southwest Ecological Restoration Institute.

Eligible Recipients: Forest Service Funding

Federal Cost Share: No non-Federal cost share required

USDA Resilience Volunteer Fire Assistance No Grant, Financial Assistance, Technical Assistance Only Round of Funding Allocated / Selections Announced in Q3 2022

Description: The Volunteer Fire Assistance program focuses on increasing the capacity of local fire departments to provide initial attack on wildfires by providing additional firefighter training and assistance to departments with purchasing equipment.

Eligible Recipients: Community And State. National Association Of State Foresters, State Forestry Agencies, National Volunteer Fire Council And The International Association Of Fire Chiefs

Federal Cost Share: Yes. Waivers are available.

Department of the Interior Resilience Ecosystem - Lake Tahoe No Grant July 19, 2022 - first round of funds allocated Yes

Description: To deploy strategies consistent with the Lake Tahoe Aquatic Invasive Species Management Plan to prevent the introduction or spread of aquatic invasive species in the Lake Tahoe region.

Eligible Recipients: Open

Federal Cost Share: Yes

USDA Resilience Agreement With National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration For Geostationary Operations Environmental Satellite Program Yes Direct Federal Spending

Description:

Eligible Recipients: Forest Service Funding

Federal Cost Share: No non-Federal cost share required

USDA Resilience Research And Development Via Joint Fire Science Program Partnership With Department Of Interior No Grant, facilitated through interagency agreement with the Department of Interior (Bureau of Land Management).

Description: The Joint Fire Science Program funds scientific research on wildland fires and distributes results to help policymakers, fire managers and practitioners make decisions.

Eligible Recipients: Institutions Of Higher Education

Federal Cost Share: No non-Federal cost share required

DOI Resilience Wildfire Management - Joint Fire Science Program with Department of Agriculture No Interagency agreements, cooperative agreements First Round of Funding Allocated / Selections Announced in 2022

Description: Support science and research on wildland fire management issues that mitigate wildfire risk.

Eligible Recipients: Science And Research Organizations/Entities, Public Higher-Ed Institutions, Private Higher-Ed Institutions

Federal Cost Share: No non-Federal cost share required

Department of Agriculture Resilience Wildfire Detection And Monitoring Equipment Yes Direct Federal Spending

Description: The agency will procure and place wildfire detection and real-time monitoring equipment, such as sensors, cameras, and other relevant equipment in wildfire prone areas to enhance safety and awareness of wildfire risk for the public and first responders.

Eligible Recipients: Forest Service Funding

Federal Cost Share: No non-Federal cost share required

USDA Resilience Develop And Publish Every 5 Years A Map Depicting At-Risk Communities, Including Tribal Communities No Direct Federal Spending

Description: The Forest Service will develop and publish every five years a map depicting at-risk communities, including Tribal communities.

Eligible Recipients: Forest Service Funding

Federal Cost Share: No non-Federal cost share required

USDA Resilience Hazardous Fuels Management No Direct Federal Spending

Description: The Hazardous Fuels program prioritizes treating areas with high potential for damaging wildfires within the wildland-urban interface using a scenario planning tool to identify areas where there is high and very high wildfire hazard potential adjacent to communities.

Eligible Recipients: Forest Service Funding

Federal Cost Share: No non-Federal cost share required

USDA Resilience Joint Chiefs Landscape Restoration Partnership Program No Direct Federal spending. RFP Released in May 2022

Description: Department of Agriculture’s Forest Service and Natural Resources Conservation Service are working together to improve the health of forests where public forests and grasslands connect to privately owned lands.

Eligible Recipients:

Federal Cost Share: No non-Federal cost share required

USDA Resilience Hazardous Fuels (Mechanical Thinning And Timber Harvesting; Precommercial Thinning In Young Growth) No Direct Federal Spending

Description: The Hazardous Fuels program prioritizes treating areas with high potential for damaging wildfires within the wildland-urban interface using a scenario planning tool to identify areas where there is high and very high wildfire hazard potential adjacent to communities.

Eligible Recipients: Forest Service Funding

Federal Cost Share: No non-Federal cost share required

DOC-NOAA Resilience Coastal Zone Management No Grant October 14, 2022 - Applications close for NOAA's Coastal Zone Management Habitat Protection and Restoration program

Description: The purpose of these funds is to restore and protect coastal ecosystems through direct investment by coastal States and territories in ecologically significant habitats.

Eligible Recipients: States (Includes District Of Columbia, Public Institutions Of Higher Education, And Hospitals); U.S. Territories And Possessions; U.S. Territories And Possessions (Includes Institutions Of Higher Education And Hospitals); State; Any Coastal State.

Federal Cost Share: No non-Federal cost share required

USACE Resilience Regulatory Program No Direct Federal

Description: Provides funds to administer the laws and regulations pertaining to activities affecting U.S. waters.

Eligible Recipients: Army Corps permitting activities.

Federal Cost Share: No cost share requirement. Applicants can elect to pay a fee for permitting.

DOI Resilience Ecosystem - Klamath Basin No Cooperative Agreement, Direct Federal Spending May 8, 2022 - Applications closed for year 1 funding

Description: Funding provided will be allocated for habitat restoration and water right acquisition to help restore the Klamath ecosystem, as well as for enhanced hatchery production of listed Klamath species (Lost River and shortnose suckers).

Eligible Recipients: Open

Federal Cost Share:

USDA Resilience Ecological Health Restoration Contracts No Direct Federal Spending Report to Congress in June 2022

Description: This program is responsible for issuing contracts for management of programs with authority to dispose of National Forest System timber and non-timber forest products harvested for commercial, personal, and Tribal uses.

Eligible Recipients: Forest Service Funding

Federal Cost Share: No non-Federal cost share required

USDA Resilience Removal Of Vegetation For Biochar And Innovative Wood Products No Direct Federal Spending

Description: This program, through contracting or employing crews of laborers, supports the modification and removal of flammable vegetation on Federal land and for using materials from treatments.

Eligible Recipients: Forest Service Funding

Federal Cost Share: No non-Federal cost share required

USDA Resilience Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program No Direct Federal Spending

Description: Uses collaborative, science-based approaches to enhance forest and watershed health, reduce risk from uncharacteristic wildfire, and provide benefits to rural economies.

Eligible Recipients: Forest Service Funding

Federal Cost Share: No non-Federal cost share required

DOC Resilience Research Supercomputing No Contract, Cooperative Agreement

Description: Funds will be used to provide computational resources to support and advance environmental modeling crucial for understanding critical Earth systems.

Eligible Recipients: Public Higher-Ed Institutions, Federal Partners, Businesses

Federal Cost Share: No non-Federal cost share required

USDA Resilience Post-Fire Restoration No Direct Federal Spending

Description: The Burned Area Recovery program will provide restoration activities on wildfire affected areas within three years after the date that a wildland fire is contained.

Eligible Recipients: Forest Service Funding

Federal Cost Share: No non-Federal cost share required

USDA Resilience Restore Native Vegetation On Federal/Non-Federal Land No Direct Federal Spending

Description: This program ensures the productive and sustainable use of National Forest System lands by improving the condition and health of forest and rangeland vegetation, controlling the spread of invasive species, sustaining soil productivity, reducing the risk of severe flooding and erosion in areas affected by severe fire, and maintaining water quality.

Eligible Recipients: Forest Service Funding

Federal Cost Share: Varies. Waivers are not available.

DOI Resilience Colorado River Drought Contingency Plan No Financial Assistance First Round of Funding Allocated / Selections Announced in July 2022

Description: The Colorado River Basin Drought Contingency Plan aims to reduce the risk of Lake Mead and Lake Powell reaching critically low elevations.

Eligible Recipients: Open

Federal Cost Share: TBD. Waivers are not available.

USDA Resilience Fuel Breaks No Direct Federal Spending

Description: The Hazardous Fuels program prioritizes treating areas with high potential for damaging wildfires within the wildland-urban interface using a scenario planning tool to identify areas where there is high and very high wildfire hazard potential adjacent

Eligible Recipients: Forest Service Funding

Federal Cost Share: No non-Federal cost share required

USDA Resilience Revegetation Effort to Implement National Seed Strategy No Direct Federal Spending

Description: Guides ecological restoration across major landscapes, especially those lands damaged by rangeland fires, invasive species, severe storms, and drought.

Eligible Recipients: Forest Service Funding

Federal Cost Share: No non-Federal cost share required

USDA Resilience Burned Area Recovery No Direct Federal Spending

Description: The Forest Service Burned Area Rehabilitation program addresses threats to fish, wildlife and people downstream, that some fires create.

Eligible Recipients: Forest Service Funding

Federal Cost Share: No non-Federal cost share required

DOI Resilience Direct Federal Spending (Or Other) For National Revegetation Strategy Yes Direct Federal Spending

Description: Funding to implement a national revegetation effort on private and public lands

Eligible Recipients: Federal

Federal Cost Share: No non-Federal cost share required

USDA Resilience Capital Improvement And Maintenance - Legacy Road And Trail Remediation Program No Direct Federal Spending

Description: This program protects investments by decommissioning and repairing roads and trails to mitigate detrimental impacts to sensitive ecosystems and watersheds.

Eligible Recipients: Forest Service Funding

Federal Cost Share: Varies. Waivers are not available.

USACE Resilience Inland Flood Risk Management Projects Existing Direct Federal

Description: Funds the replacement and expansion of inland waterways commercial navigation projects.

Eligible Recipients: The Army Corps will use this funding to construct eligible improvements to commercial navigation projects on the inland waterways, including locks and dams.

Federal Cost Share: Unless otherwise specified in law, projects are 100% federal funded.

USACE Resilience Coastal Storm Risk Management, Hurricane, And Storm Damage Reduction Projects Existing Direct Federal

Description: This program will fund the construction of projects that help to reduce the risk of damage in a coastal storm, targeting States that have been impacted by Federally declared disasters over the past six years.

Eligible Recipients: The Army Corps will use this funding to construct authorized federal storm damage reduction projects.

Federal Cost Share: In general, projects are cost shared 65% Federal, 35% non-Federal.

DOC - NOAA Resilience Wildfire research operations Existing Funding likely to be distributed internally at this stage, so not external NOFO at this time Yes

Description: NOAA will improve weather, smoke, and fire behavior forecasts. Working with federal, state, local, tribal, and academic partners, NOAA will advance tactical fire fighting decisions, improve risk management and resource planning, and increase understanding of the impacts of these fires on human health.

Eligible Recipients:

Federal Cost Share: No non-federal cost share required

EPA Resilience Pollution Prevention Grants Existing Competitive April 11, 2022 Applications close for FY2022 NOFO Yes

Description: Grantees deliver technical assistance to businesses – including those communities with environmental justice concerns – to identify and adopt source reduction practices and technologies that benefit businesses, communities, and local economies.

Eligible Recipients: States, Tribes, state-sponsored institutions, Tribal Institutions

Federal Cost Share: No non-federal cost share required

USACE Resilience Continuing Authorities Program (Under Flood Control Act And River And Harbor Act) Existing Direct federal

Description: Funds eligible for small Army Corps projects, including $115 million for restoring fish and wildlife passage.

Eligible Recipients: The Army Corps will use this funding to plan, design, and construct small water resources projects.

Federal Cost Share: Varies.

USACE Resilience Flood Control and Coastal Emergencies Existing Direct federal

Description: Funds Army Corps preparedness measures, certain Army Corps operations during a flood, hurricane, or other natural disaster, and the repair of certain projects following such a natural disaster.

Eligible Recipients: The Army Corps will use this funding to prepare for, respond to, and help in the recovery following a flood, hurricane, or other natural disaster

Federal Cost Share: Varies

EPA Resilience Front-End and Design Program Out Activities Under Carbon Capture Tech program 962 of Environmental Protection Agency New Competitive

Description: Expands the Department of Energy’s Carbon Capture Technology program to include a program for carbon dioxide transport infrastructure necessary to deploy Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage technologies.

Eligible Recipients: Industry partner

Federal Cost Share: TBD

DOE Resilience Energy Sector Operational Support for Cyber Resilience Program New Competitive Applications for the Smart Grid program are expected to be open in the Summer of 2022. Yes

Description: To support a program to build energy sector operational support for cyber resilience.

Eligible Recipients: Small Electric Utilities, National Labs

Federal Cost Share: TBD

USACE Resilience Water-Related Environmental Infrastructure Assistance Existing Direct Federal Yes

Description: The program funds engineering and construction of authorized environmental infrastructure projects which provides safe water supply, waste disposal, and pollution control to cities and towns to protect human health and safeguard the environment.

Eligible Recipients: In partnership with State, local, and Tribal governments, the Army Corps would use funding to construct Federally authorized environmental infrastructure projects.

Federal Cost Share: In general, projects are cost shared 50% Federal, 50% non-Federal.

DHS Resilience Countering Violent Extremism Existing Competitive

Description: This Program aims to conduct evidence-based research to meet the policy, operational, and public needs to improve effectiveness of public safety and violence prevention efforts implemented by Federal, State, territorial, Tribal, local, and non-governmental stakeholders.

Eligible Recipients: Academia, Industry, National lands, Federally Funded Research and Development Centers

Federal Cost Share:

DHS Resilience First Responder Capability Existing Competitive

Description: This program develops and transitions technologies, information, procedures, and concept of operations to aid first responders, emergency managers, and incident commanders as they respond to hazardous situations.

Eligible Recipients: Academia, Industry, National lands, Federally Funded Research and Development Centers

Federal Cost Share:

DHS Resilience State and Local Cybersecurity Grant Program New Competitive August 2022, Notice of Funding Opportunity expected shortly Yes Yes

Description: Makes available Federal funds to State, local, and Tribal governments to address cybersecurity risks and cybersecurity threats to information systems that they own or operate. The Department of Homeland Security is also separately administering the statutory Tribal set-aside funding as its own Tribal Cybersecurity Grant Program under this authority.

Eligible Recipients: States, territories, Tribal governments, and multi entity groups of two or more

Federal Cost Share: Fiscal year 2022 for individual recipients: 90 percent Federal; 10 percent Non-Federal; for multi-entity groups: 100 percent Federal fiscal year 2023 for individual recipients: 80 percent Federal; 20 percent Non-Federal; for multi-entity groups: 90 percent Federal; 10 percent Non-Federal fiscal year 2024 for individual recipients: 70 percent Federal; 30 percent Non-Federal; for multi-entity groups: 80 percent Federal; 20 percent Non-Federal fiscal year 2025 for individual recipients: 60 percent Federal; 40 percent Non-Federal; for multi-entity groups: 70 percent Federal; 30 percent Non-Federal. Waivers are available.

USDOT-FHWA Resilience Promoting Resilient Operations for Transformative, Efficient, and Cost saving Transportation (PROTECT) formula program New Formula July 29, 2022 - state allocations and guidance released No

Description: Supports planning, resilience improvements, community resilience and evacuation routes, and at-risk coastal transportation infrastructure (highways, transit and certain port projects)

Eligible Recipients: States, D.C.

Federal Cost Share: 80% federal/ 20% non-federal. Waivers are available in some circumstances