National Estuary Program Coastal Watersheds Grant Program
Deadline: 06/07/2021. The National Estuary Program (NEP) Coastal Watersheds Grant (CWG) Program is a nationally competitive grants program designed to support projects that address urgent and challenging issues threatening the well-being of coastal and estuarine areas within determined estuaries of national significance. Restore America’s Estuaries (RAE) will be administering the NEP CWG Program in cooperation with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as a pass-through entity with funding provided under Cooperative Agreement 83967501. The goals of the CWG Program are to: Address urgent and challenging issues that threaten the ecological and economic well-being of coastal areas and estuaries; Achieve on-the-ground or tangible quantifiable improvements in coastal and estuarine habitats conditions and the health of living resources; Apply new or innovative approaches, practices, methods, or techniques for preventing, treating, and removing pollution entering estuaries; Establish or improve sustainable local capacity to protect and restore coastal watersheds and their living resources; and Support and expand promising approaches for watershed resilience and adaptation.
• Clearly and explicitly demonstrate how it relates to and carries out the priority actions in one of
the 28 NEP Comprehensive Conservation and Management Plans (CCMPs), or other existing State or locally approved community-based watershed management plan, the latter of which is a completed plan available to the public that: 1) contains actions that addresses urgent and challenging issues that threaten the ecological and economic well-being of coastal and estuarine areas as identified above; 2) demonstrates State and/or local buy-in and commitment to implement actions by the appropriate parties; and 3) applies to the eligible areas as defined above;
• Demonstrate or inform on-the-ground or tangible quantifiable improvements to coastal and estuarine habitats and living resources, or in the conditions of coastal and estuarine waters in the eligible areas as defined above;
• Clearly define roles, logistics, budget and financing, administration, and management activities for all involved organizations;
• Be located in its entirely within one or more of the identified eligible geographic areas;
• Be one to two years in length; and
• Provide final results of efforts and report environmental results, which will be made publicly
available.
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