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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 Category Name of Program New or Existing Programsort ascending Type Latest Actions / Upcoming Milestones Tribes Eligible? Workforce Funding Eligible Use? Cybersecurity An Eligible Use?
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

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 Preplanning Fire Response Workshops And Workforce Training Yes Direct Federal Spending Yes

Description: The Forest Service will conduct pre-planning fire response workshops that develop Potential Operational Delineations and select potential control locations and workforce training for staff, non-Federal firefighters, and Native village fire crews.

Eligible Recipients: Forest Service Funding

Federal Cost Share: No non-Federal cost share required

DOI Resilience Direct Federal Spending For Resilient Recreation Sites Yes Direct Federal Spending First Round of Funding Allocated / Selections Announced in May 2022

Description: Funding to improve resilience of recreation sites on Federal lands, including Indian forest or range lands.

Eligible Recipients: Federal

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

EPA Water Underground Injection Control Grants: Class VI wells Yes Yes

Description: Funds agencies that oversee underground injection activities to prevent contamination of underground sources of drinking water from fluid injection practices. 7% set aside for Tribes.

Eligible Recipients: States and Tribes

Federal Cost Share: No non-federal cost share required

USDOT-FHWA Roads, bridges and major projects Tribal High Priority Projects Program Reinstatement Competitive Yes

Description: Provides funding to supplement the Tribal Transportation Program or for Tribes that have an emergency or disaster occur on a Tribal transportation facility

Eligible Recipients: Sovereign federally-recognized Tribal governments

Federal Cost Share: No non-federal cost share requirement

USDOT-FHWA Roads, bridges and major projects Appalachian Development Highway System Reinstatement Formula January 25, 2022, FY2022 funding allocated

Description: Distributes funds for the Appalachian Development Highway System

Eligible Recipients: Appalachian States

Federal Cost Share: No non-federal cost share requirement

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 Federal Wildland Firefighter Salaries And Expenses No Direct Federal Spending

Description: To address the increasing complexity and severity of fire years the Forest Service will create a more permanent workforce by converting no fewer than 1,000 seasonal wildland firefighters to wildland fire managers that are full-time, permanent and year-round while also holding responsibilities for reducing hazardous fuels on Federal land.

Eligible Recipients: Forest Service Funding

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 Water Central Utah Project No Direct Federal Spending January 2022, Initial Spend Plan released

Description: Funding will be used to continue construction of the Utah Lake System Pipeline.

Eligible Recipients: Central Utah Water Conservancy District, Utah Reclamation Mitigation and Conservation Commission

Federal Cost Share:

EPA Water Geographic Programs - Lake Champlain No Grant

Description: Coordinates and funds efforts that benefit the Lake Champlain Basin’s water quality, fisheries, wetlands, wildlife, recreation, and cultural resources, in partnership with government agencies. private organizations, local communities, and individuals.

Eligible Recipients: Broad Eligibilities

Federal Cost Share: Yes. Waivers are available.

EPA Water Geographic Programs - San Francisco Bay Water Quality Improvement Fund No Grant September 20, 2022 - Request for Applications closes

Description: To improve water quality and restore aquatic habitat (i.e. wetlands) in the San Francisco Bay and its watersheds.

Eligible Recipients: Broad Eligibilities

Federal Cost Share: Yes. Waivers are available.

EPA Water Geographic Programs - South Florida Geographic Initiatives Program No Grant

Description: Provides competitive grants to address the immediate and emerging ecological pressures and threats to nearshore waters, bays, estuaries, beaches, and coral reefs central to South Florida’s economic well-being.

Eligible Recipients: Broad Eligibilities

Federal Cost Share: Yes. Waivers are available.

EPA Water Geographic Programs - Southeast New England Coastal Watershed Restoration Program No Grant

Description: To protect and restore water quality, ecological health, and diverse habitats by sharing knowledge and resources, promoting innovative approaches, and leveraging economic and environmental investments to meet the needs of current and future generations.

Eligible Recipients: Broad Eligibilities

Federal Cost Share: Yes. Waivers are available.

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

EPA Water Geographic Programs - Northwest Forest No Grants and Interagency Agreements

Description: Addresses water quality impairments from non-point sources related to pacific northwest forest practices and works to improve the quality and quantity of surface water so that beneficial uses and drinking water/source water protection goals are met.

Eligible Recipients: Limited Eligibilities – Federal

Federal Cost Share: Yes. Waivers are available.

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:

USACE Resilience Inland Flood Risk Management Projects No Direct Federal

Description: Funds the construction of projects that help to reduce the risk of damage in a flood, including $750 million for multi-purpose projects or programs that include flood risk management benefits as a purpose.

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

Federal Cost Share: In general, unless otherwise specified in law, projects are cost shared 65 percent Federal, 35 percent non-Federal.

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 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 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.

DHHS Water Indian Health Service Sanitation Facilities Construction Program No Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act Agreements, Direct Federal Spending Yes

Description: Provides technical and financial assistance to American Tribes and Alaska Native villages for the cooperative development and construction of safe drinking water supply, sewage, and solid waste disposal facilities, and related support facilities.

Eligible Recipients: Federally recognized Tribal governments.

Federal Cost Share:

DOI Water Indian Water Rights Settlement Completion Fund No Discretionary Yes

Description: To satisfy Federal obligations under Indian water rights settlement enacted as of November 15, 2021.

Eligible Recipients: Tribal Governments (Federally recognized)

Federal Cost Share:

EPA Water Clean Water State Revolving Fund Tribal set-aside No Formula March 8, 2022 - Memorandum released Yes

Description: Funding to promote salfe, healthy and clean drinking water.

Eligible Recipients: Tribes (Federally recognized), former Indian reservations in Oklahoma and ANVs

Federal Cost Share: No non-federal cost share required

EPA Water Geographic Programs - Gulf of Mexico No Grant

Description: Founded to facilitate collaborative actions to protect, maintain, and restore the health and productivity of the Gulf of Mexico in ways consistent with the economic well-being of the Region.

Eligible Recipients: Broad Eligibilities

Federal Cost Share: Yes. Waivers are available.

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 Ecosystem - Fish Passage No Combination Yes

Description: For the removal of barriers and for technical assistance under the National Fish Passage Program.

Eligible Recipients: Open, including Tribes

Federal Cost Share:

USDA Resilience Reforestation Trust Fund (Replant Act) No Direct Federal Spending Report to Congress in November 2022

Description: The funds are used to reduce the backlog in reforestation and timber stand improvement work.

Eligible Recipients: Forest Service Funding

Federal Cost Share: No non-Federal cost share required

EPA Water National Estuary Program Grants No Grant July 2022 - FY2022 - FY2026 Guidance released

Description: To protect and restore the water quality and resources of estuaries and associated watersheds designated by the EPA Administrator as estuaries of national significance.

Eligible Recipients: 28 Federally Recognized Local National Estuary Programs

Federal Cost Share: Yes. Waivers are available.

USACE Resilience Aquatic Ecosystem Restoration Projects No Direct Federal Yes

Description: Funds the construction of authorized water resources projects to increase aquatic ecosystem restoration, including $1 billion for multi-purpose projects or programs that include aquatic ecosystem restoration as a purpose.

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

Federal Cost Share: In general, unless otherwise specified in law, projects are cost shared 65 percent Federal, 35 percent non-Federal.

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

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.

DOI Resilience Wildfire Management - Fuels Management No Direct Federal spending, possibly Interagency Agreement(s), Cooperative Agreement(s), and Contract(s) Yes

Description: To protect vulnerable communities from wildfire while preparing our communities and natural landscapes for a changing climate, through hazardous fuels management strategies.

Eligible Recipients: Federal Agencies, State agencies, Tribal Governments, And Businesses

Federal Cost Share: No non-Federal cost share required

EPA Water Drinking Water State Revolving Fund Tribal set-aide No Formula May 27, 2022 - Memorandum released Yes

Description: Funding to promote salfe, healthy and clean drinking water.

Eligible Recipients: Tribes (Federally recognized), former Indian reservations in Oklahoma and ANVs

Federal Cost Share: No non-federal cost share required

EPA Water Geographic Programs - Great Lakes Restoration Initiative No Grant

Description: To restore and maintain the chemical, physical, and biological integrity of the Great Lakes Basin Ecosystem.

Eligible Recipients: Broad Eligibilities

Federal Cost Share: Yes. Waivers are available.

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

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

DOI Resilience Ecosystem - Delaware River Basin Conservation Act No Grant First Round of Funding Allocated / Selections Announced in September 2022

Description: The Delaware River Basin program provides competitive matching grants for habitat conservation to State and local governments, nonprofit organizations, institutions of higher education, and other eligible entities in the Delaware River Basin.

Eligible Recipients: Open

Federal Cost Share: Yes