RESTORE Act Direct Component - Non-Federal Share of Another Federally Funded Activity - Non-Construction or Real Property Activities | GR RDC 16 018

Opportunity Information: Apply for GR RDC 16 018

This funding opportunity is part of the U.S. Department of the Treasury's RESTORE Act Program, created after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill to direct long-term recovery dollars to the Gulf Coast. Under the Resources and Ecosystems Sustainability, Tourist Opportunities, and Revived Economies of the Gulf Coast States Act of 2012 (the RESTORE Act, Subtitle F of P.L. 112-141), the Gulf Coast Restoration Trust Fund was established in the U.S. Treasury. By law, 80 percent of certain civil penalties paid after July 6, 2012 under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, when connected to the Deepwater Horizon incident, are deposited into this Trust Fund and invested. The RESTORE Act then divides how that money is distributed into five separate funding components, and Treasury issues different notices depending on which component and which type of activity an applicant is pursuing.

This particular notice applies only to the "Direct Component" and is narrowly focused on one purpose: using RESTORE Act Direct Component funds as the non-federal cost share (match) for another federally funded grant, but only when the underlying federal grant is for non-construction or other activities that do not involve real property. In other words, the funding here is not meant to stand alone as the primary grant for a project; it is meant to help an eligible Gulf Coast government meet the matching requirement of a separate federal award, as long as that other federal award is not for construction or real estate acquisition. Treasury notes that separate funding opportunity announcements exist for other combinations (for example, construction projects, real property acquisition, or match for federally funded construction), and applicants need to use the correct notice depending on what they are actually proposing.

The RESTORE Act defines a broad menu of eligible activity types that can be supported with Trust Fund dollars, and those categories also shape what types of federal grants this match funding can be paired with. Eligible activities include: restoring and protecting Gulf Coast natural resources and ecosystems (such as fisheries, marine and wildlife habitats, beaches, and coastal wetlands); mitigating damage to fish, wildlife, and natural resources; implementing federally approved marine, coastal, or comprehensive conservation management plans (including fisheries monitoring); workforce development and job creation; improvements to state parks in coastal areas affected by the spill; infrastructure projects that benefit the economy or ecological resources (including port infrastructure); coastal flood protection and related infrastructure; planning assistance; administrative costs; promotion of Gulf Coast tourism (including recreational fishing); and promotion of consumption of seafood harvested from the Gulf Coast. As a geographic rule, activities must be carried out in the Gulf Coast region, with limited exceptions called out in the notice for planning assistance and seafood consumption promotion.

The opportunity is discretionary and uses a grant instrument. It is tied to CFDA number 21.015 and is categorized under employment/labor/training, environment, natural resources, and other. Eligible applicants are governmental entities at the state and county level. The funding opportunity number is GR RDC 16 018. The notice lists an award ceiling of $65,460,782. The original closing date was December 2, 2016, and the notice was created on September 8, 2016.

• The U.S. Dept. of Treasury RESTORE Act Program in the employment, labor and training, environment, natural resources, other sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "RESTORE Act Direct Component - Non-Federal Share of Another Federally Funded Activity - Non-Construction or Real Property Activities" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 21.015.
• This funding opportunity was created on 2016-09-08.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2016-12-02. (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 $65,460,782.00 in funding.
• Eligible applicants include: State governments, County governments.

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