Opportunity Information: Apply for F18AS00076
The Wetland Restoration in PPJV Priority Areas of the Iowa Wetland Management District grant opportunity (Funding Opportunity Number F18AS00076) is a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), Department of the Interior discretionary funding action intended to restore degraded wetland basins that are important to migratory birds, especially wetland-dependent species whose breeding, nesting, feeding, and staging needs rely on functioning prairie wetland systems. The work is tied to the Prairie Pothole Joint Venture (PPJV), a major regional habitat partnership that identifies priority landscapes where wetland and grassland conservation delivers outsized benefits for waterfowl and other migratory birds. In practical terms, the opportunity supports on-the-ground restoration in Waterfowl Production Areas (WPAs) within the Iowa Wetland Management District, focusing investment where state and federal protected habitats occur together as larger complexes, improving overall habitat connectivity and wildlife value.
The project scope is specifically targeted to several named wetland complexes within Iowa, with restorations planned in multiple counties. In Sac County, Iowa, the project includes wetland basin restoration within the Kowa Marsh and Black Hawk Marsh Wetland Complex. In Dickinson County, Iowa, it includes Diamond Lake, Christopherson Slough, and the Spring Run Wetland Complex. In Kossuth County, Iowa, it includes the Goose Lake Wetland Complex. By concentrating activities in these PPJV priority areas, the effort aims to strengthen wetland function across a network of sites rather than treating basins as isolated features, which is often important for migratory birds that move across the landscape and use different wetlands at different times and water conditions.
This funding is structured as a cooperative agreement, which typically indicates substantial involvement and coordination between the federal agency and the recipient during planning and implementation. The notice makes clear that this is not an open, competitive solicitation. Instead, it is a notice of intent to make a single-source award to the Iowa Department of Natural Resources (IADNR) under the Department of the Interior’s single-source justification authorities cited as 505 DM 2.14 B.1, 2, and 4. The stated rationale is IADNR’s long-standing, unique operational relationship with the USFWS Iowa Wetland Management District. For many years, IADNR has managed many of the WPAs in the district on behalf of USFWS under a Memorandum of Understanding, and the state agency routinely develops designs and restoration plans in coordination with the Service. In other words, the federal agency is relying on an established partnership and existing management framework to efficiently deliver the restoration work.
Administratively, the opportunity falls under CFDA 15.664 and is categorized within Environment and Natural Resources. The anticipated funding amount has an award ceiling of $86,600, with one expected award. The public posting was created on April 4, 2018, with an original closing date of April 11, 2018, but that date functions more as a notice period than a traditional application deadline because the announcement explicitly states there is no application process. The eligible applicant field is listed as “Others,” but the text clarifies that the award is intended solely for IADNR as the noncompetitive recipient. Overall, the opportunity is best understood as a targeted, partnership-driven investment to complete specific wetland basin restorations in high-priority PPJV complexes within Iowa’s WPA system, supporting migratory bird habitat outcomes through an existing state-federal management arrangement.Apply for F18AS00076
- The Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service in the environment, natural resources sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Wetland Restoration in PPJV Priority Areas of the Iowa Wetland Management District" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 15.664.
- This funding opportunity was created on Apr 04, 2018.
- Applicants must submit their applications by Apr 11, 2018 There is not an application process for this funding opportunity. This is a notice of intent to award a single source cooperative to the Iowa DNR under justification 505DM 2.14.B. 1, 2, and 4.. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $86,600.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 1 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).
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