Opportunity Information: Apply for EPA R3 CBP 22 02
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), through its Chesapeake Bay Program (CBP) Office, released a Fiscal Year 2022 Request for Applications (RFA) titled "Chesapeake Bay Program Goal Implementation Teams Support, Scientific Community Support, and Summer Student Program Management" (Funding Opportunity Number: EPA R3 CBP 22 02). This is a discretionary funding opportunity that will be awarded as a cooperative agreement, meaning recipients should expect active federal involvement and coordination during the project. The overall purpose is practical and partnership-focused: EPA wants cost-effective proposals that strengthen the day-to-day administrative and technical capacity of the CBP's non-federal partners so they can more effectively support CBP committees, Goal Implementation Teams (GITs), and workgroups working toward Chesapeake Bay restoration and the commitments in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement.
The RFA is structured around three distinct activities, and EPA expects to fund up to three recipients total, with an anticipated one award per activity (though one organization can compete for more than one). Each activity centers on building and maintaining the human infrastructure that keeps a large, consensus-driven partnership functioning: staffing support, coordination, science translation, and talent development. Applicants that have the capability to cover all three areas are allowed to apply for all three, but the RFA requires a separate application for each activity, and each application must be focused on only one activity rather than bundling multiple activity plans into a single proposal.
The first activity emphasizes professional development. EPA is looking for an organization that can create and implement a program to build the capacity of environmental professionals, especially people early in their careers, to operate effectively in a consensus-building, committee-based governance structure like the Chesapeake Bay Program partnership. In practical terms, this points to structured training, mentoring, and skill-building that prepares newer professionals to contribute to multi-organization planning and decision processes, where progress depends on facilitation, collaboration, shared accountability, and navigating the technical and political realities of watershed restoration work.
The second activity focuses on scientific community support and the application of science to decision-making. EPA is seeking experience in enhancing multi-partner, consensus-based environmental decision-making across the Chesapeake Bay watershed by synthesizing and applying scientific understanding of the Bay and its surrounding watershed ecosystems. This is essentially about strengthening the bridge between science and policy/practice: organizing scientific input, translating research into usable products for partners, improving shared understanding across agencies and stakeholders, and helping ensure restoration strategies are informed by the best available science in a form that collaborative workgroups can actually use.
The third activity is summer student program management. Under this component, EPA wants a summer program that supports students who are interested in leadership roles in environmental protection and restoration careers. The description also highlights alignment with EPA environmental justice principles, specifically encouraging consideration of students from underrepresented populations. This suggests the summer program is not just general internship placement, but a deliberately designed experience that develops leadership capacity, introduces students to the real-world collaborative structure of CBP work, and broadens access to career pathways in environmental fields for communities that have historically been left out of those opportunities.
From a funding standpoint, the opportunity lists an award ceiling of $1,145,000 and an expected total of three awards. The CFDA number associated with this opportunity is 66.466, and the activity category is Environment. The RFA was created on April 15, 2022, with an original closing date of May 31, 2022. Eligibility is listed broadly as "Others," with the expectation that applicants review the additional eligibility details in the full announcement, which typically clarifies what types of organizations may apply (for example, nonprofits, universities, interstate entities, or other qualified organizations that can provide the staffing and program management support described).
Overall, this grant opportunity is geared toward keeping the Chesapeake Bay restoration partnership effective by investing in three connected needs: trained people who can operate in complex consensus settings, strong mechanisms to integrate scientific knowledge into multi-partner decisions, and a well-managed summer pipeline program that develops the next generation of environmental leaders with explicit attention to inclusion and environmental justice considerations.Apply for EPA R3 CBP 22 02
- The Environmental Protection Agency in the environment sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Chesapeake Bay Program Office Fiscal Year 2022 Request for Applications for: Chesapeake Bay Program Goal Implementation Teams Support, Scientific Community Support, and Summer Student Program Management" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 66.466.
- This funding opportunity was created on Apr 15, 2022.
- Applicants must submit their applications by May 31, 2022. (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 $1,145,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 3 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).
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