WASHINGTON, May 12 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced that it expects to award up to four cooperative agreements for the Local and Regional Food Aid Procurement Program. The estimated total program funding available was cited as $10 million with a ceiling of $4 million for each award in the program. The agency said the grant was associated with a) agriculture and b) education. The funding is open to private voluntary organizations, cooperatives, or intergovernmental organizations. more ST

WASHINGTON, May 11 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture' Natural Resources Conservation Service announced that it expects to award a cooperative agreement for accelerating conservation adoption in order to reduce nutrient runoff from agricultural lands and improve water quality at the Western Lake Erie Basin in Indiana. The estimated total program funding available was cited as $100,000. The agency said the grant was associated with a) agriculture, b) environment and c) natural resources. The more ST

WASHINGTON, May 11 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service announced that it expects to award a cooperative agreement for activities to accelerate conservation adoption at the Western Lake Erie Basin in Indiana. The estimated total program funding available was cited as $100,000. The agency said the grant was associated with a) agriculture, b) environment and c) natural resources. The funding is open to state, county, city, township and special district g more ST

WASHINGTON, May 8 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service announced that it expects to award a cooperative agreement for educational outreach to enhance Longleaf Pine restoration in South Carolina. The estimated total program funding available was cited as $100,000. The agency said the grant was associated with a) agriculture, b) education, c) environment and d) natural resources. The funding is open to state, county, city, township and special district g more ST

WASHINGTON, May 12 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Indian Affairs announced that it expects to award up to 50 discretionary grants for supporting Tribal resilience and ocean and coastal management and planning. The award ceiling for this funding opportunity is $150,000. The agency said the grant was associated with environment. The funding is open to Native American tribal governments. The agency description of the grant states: "The Secretary of the Interior (Secretary), t more ST

WASHINGTON, May 9 -- The U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs announced that it expects to award a cooperative agreement for the abatement of mercury emissions via mobile processing units for small-scale gold processing in Suriname. The award ceiling for this funding opportunity is $200,000. The agency said the grant was associated with environment. The funding is open to U.S. non-profit or nongovernmental organizations subject to s more ST

WASHINGTON, May 8 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service announced that it expects to award a cooperative agreement for the quantification of cover cropping benefits in South Carolina. The estimated total program funding available was cited as $200,000. The agency said the grant was associated with a) agriculture, b) education, c) environment and d) natural resources. The funding is open to state, county, city, township and special district governments;  more ST

WASHINGTON, May 8 -- The U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs announced that it expects to award a cooperative agreement for responsible recovery and handling of mercury from contaminated tailings and riverbeds in Colombia. The award ceiling for this funding opportunity is $450,000. The agency said the grant was associated with environment. The funding is open to U.S. non-profit or nongovernmental organizations subject to section 50 more ST

WASHINGTON, May 9 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced that it expects to award up to 50 discretionary grants for the protection, restoration, enhancement or establishment of wetland and associated upland habitats to benefit migratory birds. The estimated total program funding available was cited as $50 million with a ceiling of $1 million for each award in the program. The agency said the grant was associated with a) environment and b) natural resou more ST

WASHINGTON, May 8 -- The U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs announced that it expects to award a cooperative agreement for reducing mercury use and increasing transparency in Ghana's artisanal and small-scale gold mining sector. The award ceiling for this funding opportunity is $500,000. The agency said the grant was associated with environment. The funding is open to U.S. non-profit or nongovernmental organizations subject to sec more ST

WASHINGTON, May 8 -- The U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs announced that it expects to award a cooperative agreement for reducing mercury use in Indonesia's small-scale gold mining sector. The award ceiling for this funding opportunity is $500,000. The agency said the grant was associated with environment. The funding is open to U.S. non-profit or nongovernmental organizations subject to section 501 (c) (3) of the U. S. tax code more ST

WASHINGTON, May 9 -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' National Institutes of Health announced that it expects to award up to six discretionary grants for collaborative activities to expedite environmental health science research, translation, and community engagement across core centers. The estimated total program funding available was cited as $750,000 with a ceiling of $100,000 for each award in the program. The agency said the grant was associated with a) environment and b) more ST

WASHINGTON, May 11 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory announced that it expects to award up to six discretionary grants for environmental health sciences core centers to enhance interactions to address emerging issues and to advance research, translational research and community engagement. The estimated total program funding available was cited as $750,000 with a ceiling of $100,000 for each award in the program. The agency said the grant was associated wi more ST

WASHINGTON, May 12 -- The U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs announced that it expects to award a cooperative agreement for strengthening Mekong natural resources and water data management. The award ceiling for this funding opportunity is $987,654. The agency said the grant was associated with environment. The funding is open to U.S. non-profit or nongovernmental organizations subject to section 501 (c) (3) of the U. S. tax code; more ST

WASHINGTON, May 12 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's National Park Service announced that it intends to award a $24,700 cooperative agreement to the American Conservation Experience of Flagstaff, Arizona, for exotic plants management at the Cuyahoga Valley National Park in Ohio, and seed processing at the Big Flats Plant Material Center in Corning, New York. The agency description of the grant states: "The American Conservation Experience (ACE) is a member who was awarded a Master Cooper more ST

WASHINGTON, May 9 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation announced that it intends to award a $1,118,247 grant to the Cramer Fish Sciences of West Sacramento, California, for research and development of aquatic habitat sampling platform. The agency description of the grant states: "The objectives of the project are to continue prototype development; develop fish and invertebrate image acquisition and identification technology; deploy AHSP in the Sacramento-San Joaquin De more ST

WASHINGTON, May 9 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's National Park Service announced that it intends to award a $250,000 cooperative agreement to the Lac Du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin for oral history interviews with elders and tribal knowledge bearers to gather traditional ecological knowledge of the Apostle Islands area. The agency description of the grant states: "The Lac du Flambeau, Red Cliff, and Bad River Chippewa tribes will work together to gathe more ST