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Nov 02

FY27 Guidelines for Brownfield Revolving Loan Fund Grants

Environmental Protection Agency

This notice announces the availability of funds and solicits applications from eligible entities to capitalize a revolving loan fund (RLF) to provide loans and subgrants to carry out cleanup activities at brownfield sites. Eligible entities include government organizations, Federally recognized Tribes, and 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations. Please see Section 2.A. for the complete list of eligible entities. Applications must meet all threshold eligibility criteria in Section 2.B. and the 20% cost share requirement in Section 2.C. to be considered eligible to receive an RLF Grant. RLF programs provide loans and subgrants to eligible entities to carry out cleanup activities at brownfield sites contaminated with hazardous substances1 and/or petroleum.2 EPA will determine site eligibility after the award of the grant throughout the project period, prior to expending grant funds at any site. Sites where hazardous substances and petroleum contamination are distinguishable must meet eligibility requirements for both contaminants. See Section 3.A.1. for RLF Grant features and Section 3.A.2. on the requirement to use 50% or more of the total award amount (EPA funds plus the applicant’s cost share) to provide loans and associated eligible programmatic costs. The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA) requires applicants to provide a 20% cost share of the federal funds for RLF Grants. For example, a $1,000,000 RLF Grant awarded by EPA will require the recipient to provide a $200,000 cost share. The cost share, which may be in the form of a contribution of money, labor, material, or services, must be for eligible and allowable costs under the grant, as described in the grant regulations at 2 CFR § 200.306. See Section 2.C. for details. Only eligible entities that do not have, or are not a part of (i.e., a non-lead coalition member), an open cooperative agreement for a Brownfields RLF at the time of application may apply for funding under this solicitation. An “open” cooperative agreement is one in which the Period of performance, as defined in 2 CFR § 200.1, has not yet ended. The period of performance is specified in EPA’s initial or amended “Notice of Award.” Grant recipients with an open Brownfields RLF cooperative agreement may request additional funding to capitalize their RLF program through EPA’s annual, non-competitive, supplemental funding process. Additional information on the timing, requirements, and procedures for supplemental funding requests will be available on EPA’s Brownfields RLF Website.

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Nov 02

FY27 Guidelines for Brownfield Cleanup Grants

Environmental Protection Agency

This notice announces the availability of funds and solicits applications from eligible entities to carry out cleanup activities at brownfield sites owned by the applicant. Eligible entities include government organizations, Federally recognized Tribes, and nonprofit organizations. Please see Section 2.A. for the complete list of eligible entities. Applications must meet all threshold eligibility criteria in Section 2.B. and the 20% cost share requirement in Section 2.C. to be considered eligible to receive a Cleanup Grant. Refer to the FY27 Brownfields Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) for additional information. An applicant may only submit ONE Cleanup Grant application in the FY27 competition cycle. Applicants may request up to $500,000 to clean up one brownfield site or to allocate up to $500,000 among multiple sites. An applicant may request funding to address hazardous substances and/or petroleum contamination at one or more brownfield sites. The applicant must be the sole owner of the site(s) that is the subject of its Cleanup Grant application and must own the site(s) by January 21, 2027, to be eligible to receive a Cleanup Grant. An applicant cannot propose an alternate site if a site identified in the application is determined by EPA to be ineligible for funding. EPA strongly recommends contacting the Regional Brownfields Contact listed in Section 1.E. to ensure the proposed site(s) is eligible for funding prior to submitting your application. The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA) requires applicants to provide a 20% cost share of the federal funds for Cleanup Grants. For example, a $500,000 Cleanup Grant awarded by EPA will require the recipient to provide a $100,000 cost share. The cost share, which may be in the form of a contribution of money, labor, material, or services, must be for eligible and allowable costs under the grant, as described in the grant regulations at 2 CFR § 200.306. See Section 2.C. for details.

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Cooperative Agreement for affiliated Partner with the Californian Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit

Geological Survey

This Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) is for a U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) National and Regional Climate Adaptation Science Center (NRCASC) competitive research award to a CESU partner. Projects supported under this cooperative agreement should advance Administration priorities, including, but not limited to, American energy dominance, critical mineral development, water security, infrastructure resilience, and natural hazard preparedness. Research and activities may incorporate scientific expertise in areas such as hydrology, geology, geospatial science, biosecurity, and near-earth space science, including extreme events such as drought, flooding, wildland fire, coastal erosion, severe storms, and geologic hazards, to develop actionable science, data, and tools that support informed decision-making by resource managers and stakeholders. Invasive species pose a significant threat to biodiversity across the United States, undermining many ecosystem functions that communities depend on. Effectively addressing this threat requires understanding how invasive species establish, spread, and function with ecosystems across multiple scales – from local habitats to regional and national landscapes. A cross-scale perspective enables managers to detect and interpret local changes in a broader context, apply strategies that have proven to be successful across more locations, and coordinate management activities for maximum effectiveness. To address invasive species questions at the national scale, this project will integrate local and regional data, expertise, and management needs to generate actionable information on the distribution and impacts of invasive species and potential management effectiveness. This project will leverage the synthesis expertise of the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) and more than 20 invasives species experts through the CASC's CAP post-doctoral research to conduct national level syntheses and amplify regional research for greater impact across the U.S. The resulting datasets, analyses, and summaries will support decisions such as risk assessment, prioritization, and adaptation planning. Because the work is national in scope and built on open, transferable approaches, it will be broadly applicable to resource management across regions. In addition, NCEAS will convene a series of workshops to integrate fisheries management databases, improving their long-term operability and interoperability, and identifying high-value analytical and informatics applications to support fisheries conservation and management. This project advances multiple priorities related to invasive species impacts on the economy, public safety, and ecosystem services. This project advances multiple priorities related to invasive species impacts on the economy, public safety, and ecosystem services. Insights can help safeguard timber resources, fisheries, and hunting opportunities, supporting EO 14225 Immediate Expansion of American Timber Production (March 1, 2025); EO 14276 Restoring American Seafood Competitiveness (April 17, 2025); and SO 3447 Expanding Hunting and Fishing Access, Removing Unnecessary Barriers, and Ensuring Consistency Across the Department of the Interior Lands and Waters (January 7, 2026). By increasing national preparedness for hazards that are worsened by invasive species, the project also supports EO 14239 Achieving Efficiency Through State and Local Preparedness (March 19, 2025). Lastly, it supports EO 14313 Establishing the President's Make America Beautiful Again Commission (July 3, 2025); EO 14303 Restoring Gold Standard Science (May 23, 2025), and SO 3441 Implementing the Requirements of EO 14303 (August 29, 2025) by strengthening science informed conservation of natural resources, the capacity of agencies and communities to safeguard vulnerable ecosystems from degradation, and American leadership in adaptation science.

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Cooperative Agreement for affiliated Partner with the Chesapeake Watershed Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit

Geological Survey

This Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) is for a U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) National and Regional Climate Adaptation Science Center (NRCASC) competitive research financial assistance award to a CESU partner. Projects supported under this cooperative agreement should advance Administration priorities, including, but not limited to, American energy dominance, critical mineral development, water security, infrastructure resilience, and natural hazard preparedness. Research and activities may incorporate scientific expertise in areas such as hydrology, geology, geospatial science, biosecurity, and near-earth space science, including extreme events such as drought, flooding, wildland fire, coastal erosion, severe storms, and geologic hazards, to develop actionable science, data, and tools that support informed decision-making by resource managers and stakeholders. Recreational fisheries contribute important nutritional and economic benefits to people, yet their role in supporting food security is often overlooked. As demand grows for sustainable, accessible food sources, there is a need for updated, regionally relevant information to support informed decision-making by federal and state fisheries managers. Leveraging emerging finer-scale inland recreational fisheries datasets, this project will update estimates of harvest, consumption, and economic value; refine species-specific vulnerability assessments; and integrate results to strengthen adaptive management techniques, prioritize monitoring efforts, sustain nutritional benefits, and enhance the resilience of U.S. fisheries. This project supports: EO 14276 -Restoring American Seafood Competitiveness (April 17, 2025) by providing research that strengthens fisheries management and science EO 14313 Establishing the President's Make America Beautiful Again Commission (July 3, 2025) by advancing responsible stewardship of natural resources and collaborating with states to recover and sustainably manage fish. SO 3447 -Expanding Hunting and Fishing Access, Removing Unnecessary Barriers, and Ensuring Consistency Across the Department of the Interior Lands and Waters (January 7, 2026) by improving our understanding of how fish consumption contributes to stocking pressures in inland fisheries, providing managers with critical information that ensures fisheries remain available for all recreational purposes. EO 14303 -Restoring Gold Standard Science (May 23, 2025) by providing transparent, rigorous, and impactful research to inform policy and regulatory decisions. Together, these efforts provide managers with critical information to sustain accessible, well-managed recreational fisheries.

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Cooperative Agreement for affiliated Partner with the Great Plains Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit

Geological Survey

This Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) is for a U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) National and Regional Climate Adaptation Science Center (NRCASC) competitive research award to a CESU partner. Projects supported under this cooperative agreement should advance Administration priorities, including, but not limited to, American energy dominance, critical mineral development, water security, infrastructure resilience, and natural hazard preparedness. Research and activities may incorporate scientific expertise in areas such as hydrology, geology, geospatial science, biosecurity, and near-earth space science, including extreme events such as drought, flooding, wildland fire, coastal erosion, severe storms, and geologic hazards, to develop actionable science, data, and tools that support informed decision-making by resource managers and stakeholders. Invasive plants harm ecosystems and economies by reducing native biodiversity and altering native communities. However, scientists still do not fully understand why invasive species cause severe impacts in some places but not others. This project examines how drought, temperature, rainfall, wildfire, and land management practices (such as hay harvesting) influence the spread and ecological impacts of two invasive species in Oklahoma –the invasive grass King Ranch bluestem and eastern red cedar. The research will leverage existing long-term field experiments, regional plant distribution data, and environmental scenarios to predict where these invasive species may become most problematic under future conditions. King Ranch bluestem and dense stands of eastern red cedar have been linked to the rapid spread of wildfires. This work supports the goals of EO 14239 - Achieving Efficiency Through State and Local Preparedness (March 19, 2025); EO 14308 -Empowering Commonsense Wildfire Prevention and Response (June 12, 2025) by improving invasive species hazard mitigation for state and local practitioners, as the work addresses the elevated fire risk posed by these invasive species. This work also supports EO 14313 -Establishing the President's Make America Beautiful Again Commission (July 3, 2025 ) by advancing science-informed conservation of natural resources and strengthening the capacity of agencies and communities to safeguard vulnerable ecosystems from biological degradation, in addition to EO 14303 -Restoring Gold Standard Science (May 23, 2025) and SO 3441-Implementing the Requirements of Executive Order 14303, Restoring Gold Standard Science (August 29, 2025 ) by contributing to American leadership in adaptation science.

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Cooperative Agreement for affiliated Partner with the Great Rivers Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit

Geological Survey

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) invites proposals from Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU) Great Rivers network partners for novel research focusing on the development and application of Bayesian statistical methods. This funding opportunity seeks to advance methodologies for analyzing passive bat acoustic monitoring data, specifically for estimating species occurrence and relative abundance at un-surveyed locations and assessing their associations with meaningful environmental predictors. Proposed methods should consider accounting for spatial correlation and integrating of multiple observer information to address the misclassification process inherent in acoustic data. Passive acoustic monitoring represents a cost-effective and technologically advanced approach for collecting extensive biological observations. The primary scientific challenge lies in translating these massive datasets into dynamic and interactive maps of species occurrence and relative abundance. Enhancing the ability to generate these maps directly supports land management and state agency conservation and restoration efforts, aligning with the Department of the Interior's (DOI) strategic goals to restore lands and waters, protect species, and provide reliable scientific information through collaborative partnerships (SO 3356: Shooting, and Wildlife Conservation Opportunities and Coordination with States, Tribes, and Territories (September 15, 2017)). These efforts will directly support EO 14303 "restoring gold standard science" because fundamental to science is using statistical models that account for all sources of uncertainty when drawing conclusions from data. This research will contribute significantly to monitoring the distributions and activity rates of the 47 bat species across North America. Given the estimated $3.7 to $53 billion/year in savings bats provide as agricultural pest eaters [Boyles et al. 2011], accurate monitoring is crucial. While current count detection models developed by the USGS account for species classification errors and estimate species occurrence and relative activity [Wright et al., 2020], they currently do not explicitly model spatial dependence among observations. Incorporating spatial processes in these models is known to improve predictive accuracy for species distributions [Wright et al., 2021] and will enable a more complete understanding of underlying ecological patterns such as animal movement and dispersal [Levin, 1992]. It is expected that the developed methods will lead to more robust and accurate predictions of bat species distributions, directly informing critical conservation and resource management decisions.

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Grid Supply Chain Alternatives to Lead Energy Dominance (SCALED)

National Energy Technology Laboratory

Grid Supply Chain Alternatives to Lead Energy Dominance (SCALED) This initiative will deploy a multi-faceted approach to bolster domestic capabilities to withstand supply chain shocks, ensure a reliable energy infrastructure, and position the U.S. as a global leader in foundational grid technologies.

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Cooperative Agreement for affiliated Partner with the Great Lakes-Northern Forest Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit

Geological Survey

This Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) is for a U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) National and Regional Climate Adaptation Science Center (NRCASC) competitive research financial assistance award to a CESU partner. Projects supported under this cooperative agreement should advance Administration priorities, including, but not limited to, American energy dominance, critical mineral development, water security, infrastructure resilience, and natural hazard preparedness. Research and activities may incorporate scientific expertise in areas such as hydrology, geology, geospatial science, biosecurity, and near-earth space science, including extreme events such as drought, flooding, wildland fire, coastal erosion, severe storms, and geologic hazards, to develop actionable science, data, and tools that support informed decision-making by resource managers and stakeholders. Prairies are vital to the Midwest's cultural heritage and rural economies. They provide habitat for diverse wildlife, including birds, pollinators, and the iconic American bison; support hunting, fishing, and birdwatching; and sustain clean water and soils that enhance the productivity of surrounding farmland. But land-use change, wildfire, drought, and invasive species have damaged prairies across the region. Invasive plants are particularly hard to manage, as they thrive after disturbances and outcompete native plants, making conventional management strategies less effective. To learn which management actions are most effective under different weather conditions, this project will leverage an unprecedented database from the Prairie Reconstruction Initiative (PRI), a multi-agency partnership managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Since 2012, PRI has been developing a comprehensive and ever-growing database of monitoring and management information from 160 locations across several Midwest states. The database includes planting details, dates, locations, and post-restoration monitoring inventories of established plant species, including the most prevalent invasives. Importantly, it also includes records of past management actions (e.g., herbicide, prescribed fire) and when they occurred. By using the database to identify effective strategies, findings from this project will help managers adaptively manage midwestern prairies in the face of plant invasions and weather disturbances. This work supports: EO 14313 - Establishing the President's Make America Beautiful Again Commission (July 3, 2025); SO 3447 -Expanding Hunting and Fishing Access, Removing Unnecessary Barriers, and Ensuring Consistency Across the Department of the Interior Lands and Waters (January 7, 2026) by advancing science-based natural resource conservation and strengthening the capacity of agencies and communities to safeguard vulnerable ecosystems from biological degradation, including the preservation of recreational opportunities. EO 14239 -Achieving Efficiency Through State and Local Preparedness (March 19, 2025) by helping state and local practitioners mitigate invasive species-associated hazards, such as the increased risk of wildfire caused by invasive grasses. EO 14303 -Restoring Gold Standard Science (May 23, 2025) and SO 3441 -Implementing the Requirements of EO 14303, Restoring Gold Standard Science (August 29, 2025 ) by strengthening American leadership in adaptation science and providing DOI with an opportunity to conduct new research on an untapped database.

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Cooperative Agreement for affiliated Partner with the Colorado Plateau Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit

Geological Survey

This Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) is for a U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) National and Regional Climate Adaptation Science Center (NRCASC) competitive financial assistance research award to a CESU partner. Projects supported under this cooperative agreement should advance Administration priorities, including, but not limited to, American energy dominance, critical mineral development, water security, infrastructure resilience, and natural hazard preparedness. Research and activities may incorporate scientific expertise in areas such as hydrology, geology, geospatial science, biosecurity, and near-earth space science, including extreme events such as drought, flooding, wildland fire, coastal erosion, severe storms, and geologic hazards, to develop actionable science, data, and tools that support informed decision-making by resource managers and stakeholders. Emory oak acorns are an important cultural resource for Tribes in the Southwest, and oak woodlands provide key habitat and forage for wildlife, including game species. Charcoal canker, an invasive fungal pathogen, worsens the harmful impacts of prolonged drought and altered fire regimes on Emory oak, resulting in lower acorn yields and higher oak mortality. This project will use data from 100 long-term Emory oak monitoring sites across Arizona to assess the prevalence of charcoal canker, how it relates to oak mortality, and the conditions that affect infection and tree death. Spatial modeling will produce maps that predict where drought and pathogen interactions could threaten the survival of Emory oak under future conditions. Managers can use these maps to identify areas of higher or lower resilience within existing Emory oak woodlands, helping prioritize conservation efforts and wildfire management to safeguard areas where Emory oak has a higher chance of persisting despite intensifying stressors. This project will provide science-based evidence for managing emerging pathogens, supporting EO 14313 - Establishing the President's Make America Beautiful Again Commission (July 3, 2025); improve habitat for game species in line with SO 3447 - Expanding Hunting and Fishing Access, Removing Unnecessary Barriers, and Ensuring Consistency Across the Department of the Interior Lands and Waters (January 7, 2026); offer insights for safeguarding timber resources in support of EO 14225 - Immediate Expansion of American Timber Production (March 1, 2025); and provide scientific evidence to inform wildfire preparedness, in accordance with EO 14239 -Achieving Efficiency Through State and Local Preparedness (March 19, 2025). Finally, this work demonstrates the Department of the Interior's ongoing commitment to trust responsibilities.