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Great Lakes Restoration Initiative
EPA-R5-GL2010-1

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Great Lakes Restoration Initiative Request for Proposals

Announcement Number: EPA-R5-GL2010-1

Thank you for your submissions! We are no longer accepting submissions. /January 29, 12:01 PM CST/

Additional requests for proposals will be offered in 2010. Read the Interagency Funding Guide.  Please follow our GreatLakesNews mail list and follow glrestore on twitter

This Request For Proposals (RFP) [PDF 583Kb, 79 pages] solicits proposals from eligible entities for grants and cooperative agreements to be awarded pursuant to a portion of the $475 million Great Lakes Restoration Initiative included in Public Law 111-88, the Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2010 which is in furtherance of President Obama’s Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (the “Initiative”) announced in February 2009. 

The President and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), in conjunction with 15 other federal agencies, have made restoring the Great Lakes a national priority. The Initiative builds on the prior efforts of agency, business, public interest, and other leaders which resulted in the Great Lakes Regional Collaboration Strategy (GLRC Strategy) and the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative Action Plan now being developed.  This RFP represents EPA’s major competitive grant funding opportunity under the Initiative and is one of several funding opportunities described in the Initiative’s Interagency Funding Guide.  A portion of the funding will be through the U.S. Fish and wildlife Service. This RFP, in conjunction with other funding opportunities under the Initiative, will be used to competitively provide funding to address the most significant Great Lakes ecosystem problems and efforts in five major focus areas:

Due Date for Submissions:  Proposals must be received by EPA by noon Central standard time on January 29, 2010.  /Submission period is now Closed/
 
Submission Information: Applicants should submit proposals online.Exit disclaimer
 
We encourage applicants to register with us < http://www.epa.gov/grtlakes/maillist/index.html > to keep informed about our funding process. Public webinars provided clarifying information.

Download the Request For Proposals (RFP) [PDF 344 Kb, 79 pages, rev. 1-13-2010]

Posted Date: November 23, 2009.  Revised January 13, 2010

 

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