FY21-22 CRCP State and Territorial Coral Reef Conservation Cooperative Agreements

The summary for the FY21-22 CRCP State and Territorial Coral Reef Conservation Cooperative Agreements 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 Department of Commerce, which is the U.S. government agency offering this grant.

FY21-22 CRCP State and Territorial Coral Reef Conservation Cooperative Agreements: 1. PROJECT LISTS must be submitted via email to the appropriate NOAA Coral Reef Management Liaison (see Section VII. of this announcement) and [email protected] by 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on Thursday, August 27, 2020. 2. PRE-APPLICATIONS are due to NOAA no later than 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on Thursday, October 8, 2020. Applicants must submit an electronic copy of their PRE-APPLICATION (application elements 1-3) via email to [email protected] with a copy to their NOAA Coral Reef Management Liaison (see Section VII. of this announcement). Federal financial assistance forms are not required to be submitted with the PRE-APPLICATIONS. 3. FINAL APPLICATIONS are due to NOAA no later than 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on Thursday, February 11, 2021 via http://www.grants.gov. FFO description: The NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, as authorized by the Coral Reef Conservation Act of 2000, provides matching awards of financial assistance to State, Territorial and Commonwealth resource management agencies appointed by their respective Governors to serve as the primary point of contact agencies for coral reef conservation activities in each of the jurisdictions of American Samoa, Florida, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The awards are administered as cooperative agreements to enable the collaboration and involvement of NOAA in the planning and implementation of the work. The objective of these Cooperative Agreements is to support coral reef management and monitoring programs and conservation projects that seek to improve the condition of coral reef ecosystem resources located in these seven U.S. States, Territories and Commonwealths. Funding for this program is subject to the availability of Congressional appropriations and is expected to range between approximately $3,500,000 and $4,500,000 in FY 2021. Funding made available from NOAA's Coral Reef Conservation Program is intended to support priority coral reef management activities as described in Section I.B. of this Federal Funding Opportunity announcement. Continued support in FY 2022 is contingent upon the availability of future funding; the recipient's ability to administer Federal funds provided by NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program; and the performance of the recipient during the initial year of the award and past awards. NOAA expects that each eligible applicant will request Federal funding at a funding level between $300,000 and $900,000 per year, depending on the existing capabilities of the applicant agency to implement the proposed work. The average annual award size is expected to be approximately $575,000 per year.