Merced River Ranch Floodplain Restoration, San Joaquin Basin, California Phase I

The summary for the Merced River Ranch Floodplain Restoration, San Joaquin Basin, California Phase I grant is detailed below. This summary states who is eligible for the grant, how much grant money will be awarded, current and past deadlines, Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) numbers, and a sampling of similar government grants. Verify the accuracy of the data FederalGrants.com provides by visiting the webpage noted in the Link to Full Announcement section or by contacting the appropriate person listed as the Grant Announcement Contact. If any section is incomplete, please visit the website for the Fish and Wildlife Service, which is the U.S. government agency offering this grant.

Merced River Ranch Floodplain Restoration, San Joaquin Basin, California Phase I: The Merced River Ranch (MRR), a 318-acre site owned by the California Department of Fish and Game (CDFG), occupies approximately 1 river mile of the Merced Rivers 7-mile dredger tailings reach (DTR), in Merced County, CA. The DTR has been severely impacted by historic gold dredger mining, which covered the floodplain in dredger tailings that are largely barren of vegetation. This project is intended to restore and create salmon spawning and rearing habitat, conserve, and revegetate riparian habitat, enhance public access, and provide interpretive opportunities. This Phase I funding (beginning in Fiscal Year 2008) is to update and complete the existing restoration and monitoring plans (75% completed), prepare current environmental documents for circulation and filing, and finalize all necessary environmental permit application and file for implementation. The plans focus on improving salmon spawning habitat through gravel augmentation and restoring approximately 60 acres of floodplain along 3,600 linear feet of river channel along both sides of the river. The applicant will partner with CDFG to finalize the channel (i.e., gravel augmentation) and floodplain restoration design and monitoring plans and environmental documents with input from local stakeholders and resource agencies. It is anticipated that the implementation/construction and biological monitoring phases of this project will be incrementally implemented in later phases as funding becomes available.

Federal Grant Title:	Merced River Ranch Floodplain Restoration, San Joaquin Basin, California Phase I
Federal Agency Name:	Fish and Wildlife Service
Grant Categories:	Natural Resources
Type of Opportunity:	Discretionary
Funding Opportunity Number:	AFRP0804
Type of Funding:	Grant
CFDA Numbers:	15.648
CFDA Descriptions:	Central Valley Project Improvement (CVPI) Anadromous Fish Restoration Program (AFRP)
Current Application Deadline:	No deadline provided
Original Application Deadline:	May 30, 2008
Posted Date:	May 06, 2008
Creation Date:	May 06, 2008
Archive Date:	Jun 29, 2008
Total Program Funding:	$140,000
Maximum Federal Grant Award:	$140,000
Minimum Federal Grant Award:	$140,000
Expected Number of Awards:	1
Cost Sharing or Matching:	No

Applicants Eligible for this Grant: Unrestricted (i.e., open to any type of entity above), subject to any clarification in text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility"
Additional Information on Eligibility: Eligible applicants are limited to those institutions, organizations or individuals with a background in fluvial geomorphology, engineering, floodplain restoration, riparian revegetation, and fishery biology. Eligible applicants should possess experience and qualifications in the restoration of degraded river riparian habitats and floodplains and work experience in the streams and rivers of California. Applications from federal agencies or employees of federal agencies cannot be considered.
Grant Announcement Contact: Dwight (Ike) Luginbill
Grants/Agreements Assistant
Phone 209-946-6400 x340 [email protected] U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
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