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National WPDGs or the 5-Star and Urban Waters Grants
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To assist state, Tribal, territory and/or local government agencies in building programs which protect, manage, and restore wetlands. The primary focus of the grants is to build state, Tribal, and territory wetland programs. A secondary focus is to build local (e.g. county or municipal) programs. For the National WPDGs: EPA has identified the following national priorities - National Priority Area 1: Core Elements Framework. National Priority Area 1 is based on the four core elements of a Comprehensive state/Tribal/territory Wetland Program: 1) Monitoring and Assessment; 2) Voluntary Wetland Restoration and Protection; 3) Regulatory Approaches Including CWA 401 Certification; and 4) Wetland-Specific Water Quality Standards. Further explanation of all of the elements can be found at the following website address: https://www.epa.gov/wetlands/wetland-program-development-grants. The Wetland Program Development Grants (WPDG) program strives to develop state/Tribal/territory/local government programs that will incorporate each of these elements. For the Five-Star Restoration Training Grants, EPA funds an intermediary organization to provide subawards to eligible subawardees to bring together citizen groups, corporations, youth conservation corps, students, landowners, and government agencies to undertake projects that achieve environmental training through voluntary, community/watershed-based wetland restoration projects.
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In FY 16, funding will continue to support projects that encourage the use of data documenting wetland condition, function, status and trends to support development and implementation of other state wetland program core elements such as wetland regulation, restoration, and development of water quality standards for wetlands; identify best practices for developing wetland restoration and protection programs while leveraging adaptation to climate change; develop a handbook for states, tribes, and local governments on the policy and practice of stream compensatory mitigation; develop and deliver in-lieu fee mitigation training for states, tribes, and local governments; increase understanding of multiple aspects of state and tribal wetland programs, including all four of the EPA core essential elements, resulting in more robust state and tribal programs; and develop and distribute programmatic support documents for identifying and sampling candidate reference wetland sites using consistent wetland condition assessment methods across the nation, piloted through programs in 10 states. EPA anticipates issuing a competition in FY16. In FY 16, funding will continue to support projects that encourage the use of data documenting wetland condition, function, status and trends to support development and implementation of other state wetland program core elements such as wetland regulation, restoration, and development of water quality standards for wetlands; identify best practices for developing wetland restoration and protection programs; develop and deliver in-lieu fee mitigation training for states, tribes, and local governments; and increase understanding of multiple aspects of state and tribal wetland programs, including all four of the EPA core essential elements, resulting in more robust state and tribal programs; and develop. EPA issued a competition in FY16 and made seven (7) awards.
In FY 17, funding supported projects that encourage the use of data documenting wetland condition, function, status and trends to support development and implementation of other state wetland program core elements such as wetland regulation, restoration, and development of water quality standards for wetlands; identify best practices for developing wetland restoration and protection programs; develop and deliver in-lieu fee mitigation training for states, tribes, and local governments; and increase understanding of multiple aspects of state and tribal wetland programs, including all four of the EPA core essential elements, resulting in more robust state and tribal programs.
In FY 18, funding continued to support projects that encourage the use of data documenting wetland condition, function, status and trends to support development and implementation of other state wetland program core elements such as wetland regulation, restoration, and development of water quality standards for wetlands; identify best practices for developing wetland restoration and protection programs; develop and deliver in-lieu fee mitigation training for states, tribes, and local governments; and increase understanding of multiple aspects of state and tribal wetland programs, including all four of the EPA core essential elements, resulting in more robust state and tribal programs.
For FY 2019, funding support ed projects include projects that: produce a series of comprehensive guides and webinars on the most challenging components of in lieu fee (ILF) program implementation; developing stronger cooperative federalism between federal and state agencies in the area of wetland regulation; improve the capacity of states, tribes, and local government agencies to partner with hazard mitigation agencies to integrate wetland restoration priorities into new state and local hazard mitigation plans; providing tools for the development of complete state assumption applications that meet program requirements; increasing the capacity of states, tribes, and local governments to ensure ecologically effective compensatory mitigation; and identifying ways to enhance, protect and restore wetlands within and surrounding urban areas to maximize economic, ecological and social benefits for urban communities.
In FY 2022 no competitions were announced for this program. Funding continues to support support activities to build state/tribal/territory/local wetland program building and improvement. Projects were funded in FY 2022 from the previous year’s RFA. Funded projects for FY 2022 include: working with tribes to build wetland program capacity; advancing state protection of non-federal waters; developing a policy framework for greater use of remote sensing for wetland regulatory programs; developing approaches to applying wetlands tools for disaster management; improving the success of compensatory mitigation under changing conditions; and promoting the integration of wetland protection and restoration with multiple types of state-level plans.
No competition was announced for this program based on available funds and Agency priorities for the National WPDG. 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 support activities to build state/Tribal/territory/local wetland program building and improvement.
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.
