Opportunity Information: Apply for L21AS00495
The Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is offering a discretionary funding opportunity focused on threatened and endangered species work in the BLM Eastern States area. The opportunity is titled "Department of the Interior - Bureau of Land Management Eastern States Threatened and Endangered Species" and is listed under Funding Opportunity Number L21AS00495. Funding is provided through a cooperative agreement, which generally means the BLM expects to have substantial involvement in the project during the period of performance (for example, coordination on work planning, methods, deliverables, and reporting), rather than simply issuing a grant with minimal agency interaction. The program falls under the Natural Resources funding activity category and is associated with CFDA (now commonly referenced as an Assistance Listing) 15.246.
Eligible applicants are limited to public-sector and nonprofit or educational entities. Specifically, eligible applicants include state, county, and city or township governments; special district governments; independent school districts; public and state-controlled institutions of higher education; private institutions of higher education; federally recognized Native American tribal governments; Native American tribal organizations that are not federally recognized tribal governments; public housing authorities and Indian housing authorities; and nonprofit organizations both with and without 501(c)(3) status (as long as they are not institutions of higher education in the nonprofit category listing). Individuals and for-profit organizations are explicitly ineligible. This restriction is important because it means consulting firms, private companies, and sole proprietors cannot apply directly, even if they have relevant expertise; they would need to be engaged through an eligible applicant if the project structure and procurement rules allow.
The opportunity includes a clear limitation on the type of workforce support it will fund. The notice states that this NOFO does not support entities hiring interns or crews under this program. The reason given is that the Public Lands Corps Act of 1993 (16 USC, Chapter 37, Subchapter II - Public Lands Corps) is described as the only legislative authority that allows BLM to "hire" interns. As a result, youth-focused or intern/crew-based projects are not intended to be proposed under this threatened and endangered species NOFO. Instead, eligible Youth Conservation Corps or similar youth-serving conservation organizations are directed to pursue youth/internship projects under a different funding announcement: NOFO 15.243, titled "BLM Youth Conservation Opportunities on Public Lands." In practice, that means an application under L21AS00495 should be designed around project work products and partner-delivered conservation or species-related actions that do not rely on using this award as a mechanism to place interns or field crews in a way that resembles hiring.
The posting indicates an award ceiling of $61,500, meaning the maximum federal amount anticipated per award is up to that level. The notice does not specify the number of expected awards in the provided source data (it is left blank), so applicants would need to plan for the possibility of a limited number of awards and a competitive selection process. The original application closing date listed is June 27, 2021, and the opportunity record was created on May 27, 2021. Because those dates are in the past, an organization interested in this program area should treat this as a historical posting unless the BLM has reissued it or posted a current-year version; the best practical step would be to look for an active, updated notice or contact the BLM program office for current funding availability and timelines.
Overall, this opportunity is best suited for eligible governmental, tribal, nonprofit, and academic partners proposing threatened and endangered species-related conservation, monitoring, planning, habitat improvement, or similar natural resource work aligned with BLM priorities in the Eastern States, structured as a cooperative partnership with BLM involvement. Applications should avoid framing the project around staffing models that depend on interns or conservation crews being supported through this specific NOFO, and youth corps-style proposals should be redirected to the separate BLM youth conservation funding announcement referenced in the description.Apply for L21AS00495
- The Bureau of Land Management in the natural resources sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Department of the Interior - Bureau of Land Management Eastern States Threatened and Endangered Species" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 15.246.
- This funding opportunity was created on 2021-05-27.
- Applicants must submit their applications by 2021-06-27. (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 $61,500.00 in funding.
- Eligible applicants include: State governments, County governments, City or township governments, Special district governments, Independent school districts, Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities, Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments), Nonprofits having a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Nonprofits that do not have a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Private institutions of higher education.
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