Monitoring Estuarine Condition in Coastal Parks | NPS 18 NERO 0197

Opportunity Information: Apply for NPS 18 NERO 0197

The National Park Service (NPS) funding opportunity titled "Monitoring Estuarine Condition in Coastal Parks" (Funding Opportunity Number: NPS 18 NERO 0197) is a discretionary financial assistance action that the agency publicly announced on September 5, 2018. The planned award is expected to be made through a cooperative agreement, which typically means NPS anticipates having substantial involvement in the work alongside the recipient rather than simply issuing funds and stepping back. The activity area is categorized under Science and Technology and other Research and Development, indicating the work is intended to support monitoring, data collection, and analysis related to estuarine conditions in coastal park environments.

A key point is that the notice explicitly states it is not a request for applications. In other words, this is not an open competition where organizations submit proposals by a deadline in order to be considered. Instead, it functions as a public notice of NPS's intent to provide financial assistance for the described project activities, which often happens when an agency plans to make an award to a specific partner or under a justified non-competitive process and must publish the intent for transparency. The listing includes an original closing date of September 14, 2018, but given the repeated statement that it is not soliciting applications, that date should be understood as an administrative posting date associated with the notice rather than a true application deadline for the public.

The opportunity is associated with CFDA (Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance) number 15.945, which corresponds to National Park Service programs. The eligible applicant field is listed broadly as "Others," but because the announcement is not seeking applications, eligibility is more of a formal classification than a practical invitation to apply. The award ceiling is stated as $63,224, which suggests the intended cooperative agreement is relatively small and focused, consistent with a targeted monitoring effort such as field sampling, laboratory analysis, instrument deployment, data management, and reporting on estuarine health indicators within coastal national park units.

Overall, this announcement is best read as a transparency notice: NPS is signaling its intention to fund a specific estuarine monitoring project in coastal parks via a cooperative agreement, with an anticipated maximum funding amount of $63,224, under a research and development activity category, and it is not opening the project to competitive applications.

• The National Park Service in the science and technology and other research and development sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Monitoring Estuarine Condition in Coastal Parks" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 15.945.
• This funding opportunity was created on 2018-09-05.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2018-09-14. (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 $63,224.00 in funding.
• Eligible applicants include: Others.

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