Protect and Enhance Native Vegetation for Park Rivers and Grasslands | NPSNOICANY1800083

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Protect and Enhance Native Vegetation for Park Rivers and Grasslands (Funding Opportunity Number NPSNOICANY1800083) is a National Park Service notice of intent to award under the U.S. Department of the Interior. The opportunity falls under the Natural Resources funding activity category and is structured as a cooperative agreement. The purpose, as indicated by the title and category, is to support work that protects and improves native vegetation in areas managed by the National Park Service, specifically within park river and grassland ecosystems. Cooperative agreements typically indicate a project where the federal agency expects to be substantially involved in guiding or collaborating on the work as it is carried out, rather than simply issuing a grant with minimal agency participation.

This announcement is explicitly a NOTICE OF INTENT TO AWARD, meaning it is not an open call and not a request for applications. Instead, it serves as formal public notice that the National Park Service intends to make a non-competitive task agreement. In practice, "non-competitive" indicates the agency plans to select a specific recipient without soliciting proposals from multiple applicants, often because of an existing partnership, a uniquely qualified organization, continuity of ongoing work, or other allowable justification under applicable federal assistance rules.

Eligibility information is still provided in the listing, identifying the eligible applicant type as nonprofits with 501(c)(3) status (excluding institutions of higher education). Even though that eligibility category is stated, the key point is that the agency is not accepting applications for this particular action because it is announcing an intended award rather than opening a competitive process. The listing shows the expected number of awards as one, reinforcing that a single recipient is anticipated for the task agreement associated with this notice.

Administrative details in the source data include a creation date of November 30, 2017, and an original closing date of December 10, 2017. For notices of intent, the "closing date" generally functions as the end of the public notice period rather than a deadline to submit proposals, since submissions are not being requested. The award ceiling is listed as 0, which often appears in records where the amount is not being publicly specified in the synopsis or where the posting format requires a numeric entry even when a ceiling is not applicable or not provided.

The CFDA number associated with the opportunity is 15.931, which corresponds to National Park Service assistance programs. Overall, the posting is best understood as a transparency measure: it informs the public that the National Park Service intends to issue one non-competitive cooperative agreement task arrangement related to conserving and enhancing native vegetation in park-managed river and grassland environments, rather than inviting new applications from the broader nonprofit community.

• The Department of the Interior, National Park Service in the natural resources sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Protect and Enhance Native Vegetation for Park Rivers and Grasslands" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 15.931.
• This funding opportunity was created on Nov 30, 2017.
• Applicants must submit their applications by Dec 10, 2017. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 1 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education.

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