State Wildlife Grants Competitive Grant Program

The summary for the State Wildlife Grants Competitive Grant Program 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.
State Wildlife Grants Competitive Grant Program: Since 2001, the Service has awarded State Wildlife Grants (SWG) for "the development and implementation of programs for the benefit of wildlife and their habitat, including species that are not hunted or fished " To participate in the SWG program, as directed by Congress, each State, Commonwealth, territory, and the District of Columbia (hereafter referred to as a State) developed a Comprehensive Wildlife Conservation Plan (later referred to as a State Wildlife Action Plan or SWAP) for review and approval by the Service. All the State SWAPs were submitted to the Service and approved by early 2006. Each SWAP identifies species of greatest conservation need (SGCN) that occur in a State, and the habitats needed to conserve them. In addition, the SWAPs provide detailed information on issues affecting SGCN and their habitats, and conservation actions and strategies to address these issues. Congress annually appropriates funds for the SWG program to support implementation and updating of the SWAPs. The majority of these funds are non-competitively apportioned by the Service to State fish and wildlife agencies through a formula based on population and geographic area. Congress established the SWG Competitive Grant Program (SWG-C) in 2008 through Public Law 110-161. This nationally-competitive program, the focus of this announcement, also provides a resource to implement or enhance the SWAPs, with a special focus on promoting and advancing cooperative partnerships that result in large-scale landscape conservation. SWG Competitive Grant Program applications must address: (a) eligible issues identified in Service-approved SWAPs; (b) emerging issues (such as climate change effects on SGCN) that are adequately documented in the grant application and that propose to improve the status of SGCN and their habitats; and/or, (c) improvements to SWAPs that meet one or more of the themes described in Section IV.F. of this announcement. In FY2013, eligibility for SWG-C is restricted to a minimum of two States which choose to work together to jointly manage and administer a project, with exceptions for those States which do not share common boundaries with other States (Alaska, Hawaii, and the other insular jurisdictions). States applying to the SWAP Enhancement Fund (see Section IV.G.) may also apply as single States. In administration of SWG-C, the Service adopts policies described in the Service's policy handbook for the non-competitive apportioned State Wildlife Grants (for more information see http://www.fws.gov/policy/517fw10.pdf), except where there may be conflicts with information contained in this announcement. Priority will be given to proposals that identify measurable, on-the-ground performance results and outcomes. Additional consideration will be given to proposed projects that seek to contribute to the goals and objectives of regional, science based multi-partner conservation strategies, Landscape Conservation Cooperatives (LCC), Joint Ventures, Fish Habitat Partnerships or other similar landscape-scale conservation efforts. Funds will be awarded to the highest-scoring applications using the scoring criteria contained in this announcement, at the discretion of the Service Director.
Federal Grant Title: State Wildlife Grants Competitive Grant Program
Federal Agency Name: Fish and Wildlife Service
Grant Categories: Environment Natural Resources
Type of Opportunity: Discretionary
Funding Opportunity Number: DOI-FWS-WSFR-SWGCOMP13
Type of Funding: Grant
CFDA Numbers: 15.634
CFDA Descriptions: State Wildlife Grants
Current Application Deadline: Mar 27, 2013
Original Application Deadline: Mar 27, 2013
Posted Date: Nov 27, 2012
Creation Date: Nov 27, 2012
Archive Date: Apr 26, 2013
Total Program Funding: $5,000,000
Maximum Federal Grant Award: $500,000
Minimum Federal Grant Award: $25,000
Expected Number of Awards: 15
Cost Sharing or Matching: Yes
Applicants Eligible for this Grant
State governments
Grant Announcement Contact
PAUL VAN RYZIN Grants Specialist Phone 703-358-1849

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service - Wildlife and Sport Fish Restoration Program [[email protected]]
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