Middle Entiat Habitat Restoration Area C and F | BOR PN 19 N027

Opportunity Information: Apply for BOR PN 19 N027

The Middle Entiat Habitat Restoration Area C and F opportunity (Funding Opportunity Number BOR PN 19 N027) is a Bureau of Reclamation cooperative agreement focused on implementing and supporting a suite of aquatic habitat restoration, permitting, construction, and long-term monitoring actions in the Upper Columbia region, with emphasis on the Entiat sub-basin. The work is tied directly to Reclamation's obligations under the Federal Columbia River Power System (FCRPS) Biological Opinion, which requires habitat improvements that benefit fish species listed under the Endangered Species Act. Rather than funding a single isolated construction effort, the award bundles multiple coordinated projects and the supporting tasks needed to move them from planning through design, regulatory compliance, implementation, and post-project evaluation.

Funding is intended to support Chelan County Natural Resources Department-led coordination and delivery across several named efforts: the Cottonwood Flats Project, the Peshastin Irrigation District Pump-Back Project, the Nason-Kahler Project, and the Middle Entiat Habitat Restoration projects in Areas C and F, along with adaptive management and monitoring of previously completed projects. A major theme across the scope is the full project lifecycle. That includes early-stage landowner and stakeholder coordination, recurring meetings (including EHSC meetings) and public outreach such as tours, followed by design team meetings and design oversight, field data collection to inform engineering and habitat designs, and preparation of regulatory materials like the Joint Aquatic Resource Permit Application (JARPA) along with permit notifications and broader environmental compliance requirements (including wetlands considerations where applicable). From there, the opportunity supports construction funding, construction management, and the administrative backbone needed to keep schedules, budgets, and reporting on track.

For Cottonwood Flats, the funded activities explicitly cover stakeholder and landowner coordination, public-facing engagement, design oversight, field investigations, JARPA preparation and environmental compliance, construction, project management/administration, and monitoring. For the Peshastin ID Pump-Back Project, the scope is more narrowly framed around project/design coordination and administration, reflecting a support role to advance or manage the pump-back effort as part of the broader restoration and water management context. For the Nason-Kahler Project, the opportunity again funds the end-to-end pathway: coordination with landowners and stakeholders, EHSC meetings and public tours, design oversight, field data collection, permitting and compliance including wetlands-related needs, construction, project management/administration, and monitoring.

A substantial portion of the grant is also oriented toward performance tracking and adaptive management. The opportunity lists specific monitoring efforts such as Upper White Pine Monitoring and Nason 2.3 Monitoring, plus other project monitoring tasks, annual reporting, and the associated project management/administration to maintain continuity over time. This signals that Reclamation is prioritizing measurable outcomes and feedback loops that can refine restoration approaches across the Methow, Wenatchee, and Entiat sub-basins, not just one-time buildouts.

The Middle Entiat Habitat Restoration components in Areas C and F are structured similarly and include the key elements of implementation in an active river corridor: permitting and environmental compliance; revegetation contracting and ongoing revegetation management; design review; landowner coordination; construction of habitat elements; construction management; and post-construction actions such as irrigation for plant establishment, preparation of as-built documentation, signage, and formal closeout steps. Area C additionally calls out training as an eligible activity, indicating capacity building or consistent implementation practices may be part of the deliverables. Taken together, these tasks reflect typical river and floodplain restoration work, where physical habitat features and riparian revegetation are paired with compliance, documentation, and post-construction care to ensure projects persist and function as intended.

Administratively, this is a mandatory opportunity using a cooperative agreement instrument under CFDA 15.517, with eligibility limited to county governments. The award ceiling is $2,325,388 with one expected award. The opportunity was created on Oct 18, 2019 with an original closing date of Nov 03, 2019. The overall intent is to fund Chelan County and its partners to implement and manage a coordinated set of habitat restoration and monitoring projects that help Reclamation meet ESA-related habitat commitments under the FCRPS Biological Opinion, while maintaining strong landowner coordination, rigorous permitting and environmental compliance, and documented outcomes through monitoring and annual reporting.

• The Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation in the natural resources sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Middle Entiat Habitat Restoration Area C and F" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 15.517.
• This funding opportunity was created on Oct 18, 2019.
• Applicants must submit their applications by Nov 03, 2019. (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 $2,325,388.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 1 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: County governments.

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