WASHINGTON, July 12 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service announced that it expects to award up to three discretionary grants for the development of community gardens, pollinator gardens or seasonal high tunnels in Montana. The estimated total program funding available was cited as $100,000 with a ceiling of $13,500 for each award in the program. The agency said the grant was associated with a) agriculture, b) community development, c) environment, d) fo more ST

WASHINGTON, July 13 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced that it expects to award a discretionary grant for the conservation of endangered species. The estimated total program funding available was cited as $12,508,000 with a ceiling of $2 million. The agency said the grant was associated with a) environment and b) natural resources. The funding is open to state governments. The funding opportunity number is F18AS00238 (CFDA 15.615). It was posted  more ST

WASHINGTON, July 12 -- The U.S. Department of Commerce's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced that it expects to award a cooperative agreement for the establishment of a Cooperative Institute for ocean exploration. The estimated total program funding available was cited as $150 million. The agency said the grant was associated with a) environment, b) natural resources and c) science and technology and other research and development. The funding is open to non-federal publi more ST

WASHINGTON, July 13 -- The Environmental Protection Agency announced that it expects to award up to four cooperative agreements for the improvement of water quality, habitat and environmental education through the demonstration of improved crop or land management involving new technologies or methods. The estimated total program funding available was cited as $4.3 million with a ceiling of $1,150,000 for each award in the program. The agency said the grant was associated with environment. The  more ST

WASHINGTON, July 13 -- 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 mapping and analysis of illegally harvested timber and forest products in global trade. The award ceiling for this funding opportunity is $492,500. 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)( more ST

WASHINGTON, July 10 -- The U.S. Agency for International Development in Peru announced that it expects to award a cooperative agreement for the design and development of geospatial information services for the Amazon region. The award ceiling for this funding opportunity is $9 million. The agency said the grant was associated with environment. The funding is open to state, county, city, township and special district governments; independent school districts; private, public and state controlle more ST

WASHINGTON, July 10 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's National Park Service announced that it intends to award a $37,000 cooperative agreement to the Center for Coastal Studies of Provincetown, Massachusetts, for water quality analysis of estuarine and freshwater samples. The agency description of the grant states: "The Center for Coastal Studies (CCS) will CCS will continue to: 1) Assign Dr. Amy Costa (CCS) as technical expert to collaborate on all aspects of this project, including ov more ST

WASHINGTON, July 13 -- The U.S. Agency for International Development announced that it expects to award up to four cooperative agreements for landscape conservation in Western Tanzania. No award amount was specified for this program. The agency said the grant was associated with environment. The funding opportunity number is 720-621-18-RFA-00003 (CFDA 98.001). It was posted on July 11 with an application closing date of Aug. 10. more ST

WASHINGTON, July 11 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's National Park Service announced that it intends to award a $223,160 cooperative agreement to the Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural Site Foundation of Buffalo, New York, for the maintenance of a national historic site. The agency description of the grant states: "Specifically, the Foundation will continue to repair and restore a complete roofing system to properly shed water, snow and ice; ensure storm water at grade is diverted away from t more ST

WASHINGTON, July 10 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's U.S. Geological Survey announced that it intends to award a $1,029,995 cooperative agreement to the University of Hawaii at Hilo for the monitoring and assessment of volcano hazards. The agency description of the grant states: "The main objective of this project is maintenance, collection, processing and visualization of data from monitoring instruments installed in Kilauea and Mauna Loa volcanoes in collaboration with Hawaii Volcano  more ST

WASHINGTON, July 11 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced that it intends to award a $44,242 cooperative agreement to the University of Minnesota for the testing of a bioacoustic fish fence ability to stop Asian Carp passage at Barkley Lock, Kentucky. The agency description of the grant states: "Funding will allow a leading North American expert on BAFFs, and the only known person working on their use in stopping the movement of invasive carp to assis more ST

WASHINGTON, July 10 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's National Park Service announced that it intends to award a $33,845 cooperative agreement to the Virginia Tech for bat distribution studies at the Canyon de Chelly National Monument, Hubbell Trading Post National Historic Site and Navajo National Monument in Arizona. The agency description of the grant states: "The principal investigators, Dr. Corrine Diggins (Virginia Tech) and Dr, Michael J. Cherry (Virginia Tech), will work with the more ST