RESTORE Act Direct Component - Non-Construction Activities | GR RDC 19 001

Opportunity Information: Apply for GR RDC 19 001

The RESTORE Act Direct Component - Non-Construction Activities grant opportunity (Funding Opportunity Number: GR RDC 19 001; CFDA/Assistance Listing: 21.015) is a discretionary grant program administered by the U.S. Department of the Treasury under the RESTORE Act Program. It is funded through the Gulf Coast Restoration Trust Fund, which was created by the Resources and Ecosystems Sustainability, Tourist Opportunities, and Revived Economies of the Gulf Coast States Act of 2012 (RESTORE Act), Subtitle F of P.L. 112-141. The Trust Fund is financed by 80 percent of certain civil penalties paid after July 6, 2012 under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act in connection with the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and those funds are deposited into the Trust Fund and invested before being distributed through five RESTORE Act components. This particular notice applies only to the Direct Component and is specifically limited to non-construction activities.

The opportunity is designed to support activities that help restore and strengthen the Gulf Coast region after the Deepwater Horizon disaster, spanning environmental recovery as well as economic and community revitalization. While the RESTORE Act authorizes multiple categories of eligible activities, this notice emphasizes that applications must be for eligible non-construction work. It also explicitly includes planning assistance to help recipients prepare the Multiyear Implementation Plan (often referred to as the Multiyear Plan), a required planning document under the RESTORE Act that outlines how Direct Component funds will be used over time. Projects may be proposed either with or without a non-federal cost share, and the notice also allows for non-construction efforts that may relate to another federally funded project, including situations where a project has a non-federal share for that other federal award.

Eligible applicants are governmental entities, specifically state governments and county governments. The funding activity areas are broad and include environment and natural resources as well as employment, labor, and training, reflecting the RESTORE Act focus on pairing ecological restoration with economic resilience. The program expects a small number of awards (listed as 2 expected awards in the source data), with a very large potential maximum award size (an award ceiling listed as $97,756,846), indicating that awards may be substantial and likely tied to large-scale state or county initiatives rather than small local projects.

The eligible activity categories available under the RESTORE Act and referenced in the notice include: (1) restoration and protection of natural resources, ecosystems, fisheries, marine and wildlife habitats, beaches, and coastal wetlands; (2) mitigation of damage to fish, wildlife, and natural resources; (3) implementation of a federally approved marine, coastal, or comprehensive conservation management plan, including fisheries monitoring; (4) workforce development and job creation; (5) improvements to or on state parks located in coastal areas affected by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill; (6) infrastructure projects that benefit the economy or ecological resources, including port infrastructure; (7) coastal flood protection and related infrastructure; (8) planning assistance; (9) administrative costs; (10) promotion of tourism in the Gulf Coast region, including recreational fishing; and (11) promotion of consumption of seafood harvested from the Gulf Coast region. A key geographic rule applies: activities numbered 1 through 7 must be carried out in the Gulf Coast region, reinforcing that the core restoration, mitigation, conservation, workforce, park, infrastructure, and flood protection work is intended to directly benefit the impacted Gulf region.

This notice is not meant for construction or real property acquisition. If a proposed project includes construction activities and/or acquiring real property, applicants are directed to use a separate Treasury funding opportunity announcement focused on construction and real property acquisition under the Direct Component. The original closing date listed for this opportunity was January 31, 2021, and the opportunity record shows a creation date of November 16, 2018, which helps place the announcement in time for anyone reviewing it for historical context, compliance requirements, or precedent for future RESTORE Act Direct Component funding rounds.

• 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-Construction 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 2018-11-16.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2021-01-31. (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 $97,756,846.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 2 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: State governments, County governments.

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