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Regional/Tribal WPDGs
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To assist state, territory, tribal, and/or local government agencies in building programs which protect, manage, and restore wetlands. The primary focus of the grants is to build state, territory, and tribal wetland programs. A secondary focus is to build local (e.g., county or municipal) programs. Under the Regional Wetland Program Development Grant (WPDG) competition, EPA has identified the following four Core Elements for improving state/Tribe/territory/local governments' ability to protect and restore their wetlands: (1) Monitoring and Assessment; (2) Voluntary Restoration and Protection; (3) Regulatory Approaches Including CWA 401 Certification; and (4) Wetland-Specific Water Quality Standards. EPA will include a website in each Regional Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) where potential applicants can find a list of actions and activities under each Core Element that will develop or refine a state, Tribal, territory, or local government’s wetlands program. In addition, two National Priorities will be included for projects relating to climate change and the Justice 40 Initiative. EPA has identified two funding Tracks. Track One is for states, Tribes and territories that propose to develop a Wetlands Program Plan (WPP) as described at https://www.epa.gov/wetlands/developing-state-or-tribal-wetland-program-plan or carrying out projects from an EPA-approved WPP. WPPs can be found on-line at https://www.epa.gov/wetlands/state-and-tribal-wetland-program-plans#r1. Track Two is for states, Tribes, territories, local governments, interstate agencies, intertribal consortia, and universities that are agencies of a state that submit proposals that are consistent with the Four Core Elements as described above. Regions may add additional Region specific priorities that are compatible and consistent with the core element(s) and action(s) in the Appendix of development and refinement actions found at https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2016-03/documents/wpdg_cef_appendix.pdf. Under the National Tribal competition EPA has identified the following four Core Elements for improving a Tribe's ability to protect and restore their wetlands: (1) Monitoring and Assessment; (2) Voluntary Restoration and Protection; (3) Regulatory Approaches Including CWA 401 Certification; and (4) Wetland-Specific Water Quality Standards. EPA will include a website in the National Tribal NOFO where potential applicants can find a list of actions and activities under each Core Element that will develop or refine a Tribe's wetlands program. In addition two National Priorities will be included for projects relating to climate change and the Justice40 Initiative. EPA has identified two funding Tracks. Track One is for tribes that propose to develop a WPP as described at https://www.epa.gov/wetlands/developing-state-or-tribal-wetland-program-plan or carrying out projects from an EPA-approved WPP. WPPs can be found on-line at https://www.epa.gov/wetlands/state-and-tribal-wetland-program-plans#r1 . Track Two is for Tribes and intertribal consortia that submit proposals that are consistent with the Four Core Elements as described above.
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Five of the ten EPA Regional Offices will issue a competitive announcement based on available funds and Agency priorities. The number of applications and the number of awards made is dependent on the competitive announcement issued. The announcements include the number of anticipated awards. In FY 16, five Regional competitive announcements were issued. In FY 16, approximately 4 to 30 proposals were received by each Region under the five Regional competitive announcements. In FY 16, projects have not yet been awarded but all will support activities to build state/tribal/local wetland program building and improvement.
In FY 16 five of the ten EPA Regional Offices issued a competitive announcement based on available funds and Agency priorities. The number of applications and the number of awards made is dependent on the competitive announcement issued. The announcements include the number of anticipated awards. In FY 16, projects were funded to support activities such as: developing state or tribal Wetland Program Plans (WPPs); assessing a marsh’s sustainability; developing a functional assessment of a state’s wetlands of past and present; developing scenario models to analyze impacts of groundwater withdrawal on calcareous fens; advancing a state’s wetland monitoring and assessment; developing a framework for evaluating the environmental results of one state’s wetland mitigation banks; determining the local importance of vernal pools; and sentinel monitoring and mapping of coastal wetland condition and response to climate change.
In FY 17 eight of the ten EPA Regional Offices issued a competitive announcement based on available funds and Agency priorities. The number of applications and the number of awards made is dependent on the competitive announcement issued. The announcements include the number of anticipated awards. In FY 17, approximately 4 to 30 proposals were received by each Region under the Regional competitive announcements. 74 projects were awarded to support activities to build state/tribal/local wetland program building and improvement.
In FY 18 four of the ten EPA Regional Offices issued a competitive announcement based on available funds and Agency priorities. The number of applications and the number of awards made is dependent on the competitive announcement issued. The announcements include the number of anticipated awards. In FY 18, approximately 4 to 30 proposals were received by each Region under the Regional competitive announcements. Projects have not yet been awarded but all will support activities to build state/tribal/local wetland program building and improvement.
In FY 2019 eight of the ten EPA Regional Offices issued competitive announcements based on available funds and Agency priorities. The number of applications and the number of awards made is dependent on the competitive announcement issued. The announcements include the number of anticipated awards. Projects will support activities to build state/tribal/local wetland program building and improvement. In FY 19, approximately 8 to 30 proposals were received by each Region under the Regional competitive announcements. The eight Regions that held a competition in FY19 awarded 94 new projects to support activities to build state/tribal/local wetland program building and improvement. Two of the ten EPA Regional Offices continued to fund the projects selected from the previous year’s competition.
In FY 2022 the national Tribal program issued an announcement based on available funds and Agency priorities. The number of applications and the number of awards made was dependent on the competitive announcement issued. The announcement included the number of anticipated awards. Projects supported activities to build tribal wetland program building and refining. In FY2022 funding continued for projects under the FY2021-FY2022 Regional Request for Applications. Examples of funded projects for FY2022 included: develop a tribal wetland inventory, monitoring and assessment program.; developing a Wetland Program Plan; a Level 3 Biological Assessment of culturally significant headwater wetlands; developing user-friendly digital tools for wetland plant identification; documenting salt marsh ponds (SMPs) as potential reservoirs of harmful algal blooms (HABs); and assessing the vulnerability of a state’s wetlands to climate change.
Projects selected for funding under the ten Regional FY2023-FY2024 competitions. Examples of projects include: enhancing a Salt Marsh Restoration Assessment Monitoring Program by addressing key scientific information needs identified by resource managers including information such as marsh migration mapping and other additional information; complete the first stage of a state’s probabilistic monitoring program (baseline condition) and launch the second stage (change detection); collecting statewide field data for several stream metrics and develop regional curves with the collected data for use in determining stream impacts and mitigation under CWA Section 404; update remaining USGS quad maps using the latest available GIS technology; and developing an updated wetlands quality assurance project plan (QAPP) that includes QA/QC procedures for data entry and management.
Single Audit Applies (2 CFR Part 200 Subpart F):
For additional information on single audit requirements for this program, review the current Compliance Supplement.
OMB is working with the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) and agency offices of inspectors general to include links to relevant oversight reports. This section will be updated once this information is made available.
