Opportunity Information: Apply for L24AS00387
The IIJA/IRA Bureau of Land Management Alaska Good Neighbor Authority opportunity (Funding Opportunity Number L24AS00387) is a discretionary federal funding program offered by the U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management (BLM). It will be awarded as a cooperative agreement, which typically means BLM expects to be substantially involved during project execution rather than simply issuing a pass-through grant. The program is focused on natural resources work in Alaska under BLMs Good Neighbor Authority framework, with funding tied to the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) and/or the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). The posted award ceiling is $750,000 per award, and the application closing date is October 18, 2024.
Eligibility is narrowly limited. Only state governments, county governments, and tribal governments are eligible, including federally recognized tribal governments and other Native American tribal organizations. The notice is explicit that all other applicant types are ineligible under this program, so nonprofits, universities (unless acting under an eligible government applicant structure), private entities, and individuals should treat this as closed to them unless they are formally part of an eligible governmental applicant.
The notice also includes an important restriction related to youth and internship hiring. This NOFO does not support entities hiring interns or crews under the Public Lands Corps Act of 1993. BLM highlights that the Public Lands Corps Act is the only authority that allows BLM to "hire" interns under that specific mechanism, and projects intending to use eligible Youth Conservation Corps pathways should be developed and submitted under a separate funding opportunity instead: 15.243, BLM Youth Conservation Opportunities on Public Lands. In practical terms, applicants should not build proposals for this Alaska Good Neighbor Authority program around Public Lands Corps-style intern hiring or youth crew models, because that approach belongs under the other NOFO.
The opportunity also addresses proposals involving Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Units (CESUs). CESUs are formal partnership networks designed to support research, assessments, monitoring, technical assistance, and education services related to natural resource management. If a cooperative agreement is awarded to a CESU partner under a formally negotiated Master CESU agreement, and the project aligns with the CESU purpose, then indirect costs are capped. Specifically, indirect costs are limited to no more than 17.5 percent of the indirect cost base as recognized in the partners federally approved Negotiated Indirect Cost Rate Agreement (NICRA). Applicants are instructed to clearly state whether their proposal furthers CESU program purposes and, if it does, to identify which CESU Network should be considered the host. This matters for budgeting and compliance because the CESU indirect cost limitation can affect the total recoverable overhead compared with other federal assistance arrangements.
Overall, this funding opportunity is best understood as a BLM Alaska cooperative agreement vehicle for government-to-government or government-to-government-partner work on natural resources, with clear boundary lines: it is not open to the general public or most nongovernmental applicants, it is not the correct vehicle for Public Lands Corps intern or youth crew hiring, and it imposes specific indirect cost handling when a CESU partner and Master CESU agreement are involved.Apply for L24AS00387
- The Bureau of Land Management in the natural resources sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "IIJA/IRA Bureau of Land Management Alaska Good Neighbor Authority" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 15.015.
- This funding opportunity was created on 2024-06-11.
- Applicants must submit their applications by 2024-10-18. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $750,000.00 in funding.
- Eligible applicants include: State governments, County governments, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments).
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