Agricultural Management Assistance Program

The Agricultural Management Assistance Program (AMA) helps agricultural producers use conservation to manage risk and address natural resource issues through natural resources conservation. The Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) administers the AMA co…

Agriculture Risk Coverage (ARC) / Price Loss Coverage (PLC)

The voluntary Agriculture Risk Coverage (ARC) and Price Loss Coverage (PLC) programs provide participating farmers with protection against adverse changes in market conditions. ARC has either a county-based or individual-based option. The ARC-County (ARC-CO) program…

Alaska Coastal Marine Institute Cooperative Agreement

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) provides major economic and energy benefits on a national and local level to the taxpayers, States and the American Indian community. The BOEM oversees the exploration and development of oil, natural gas and other mi…

Basin Studies

Basin Studies are collaborative studies, cost-shared with non-Federal partners, to evaluate the impacts of climate change and help ensure sustainable water supplies by identifying strategies to address imbalances in water supply and demand. Each study includes four ke…

BOEM Renewable Energy Program Renewable Energy Program Cooperative Agreement

The Renewable Energy Program oversees the leasing of areas on the outer continental shelf for development of renewable energy facilities. The program not only supports decisions made within the Department of the Interior, but also provides coastal states and local go…

Bureau of Land Management Indian Lands Surveyor

The Bureau of Land Management Indian Lands Surveyors (BILS) provide consultation and guidance for BIA employees, Tribal Governments, and individual Indians concerning boundaries, surveys, land ownership, resource management, and other legal and technical survey ma…

Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) Environmental Studies Program (ESP)

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) provides major economic and energy benefits on a national and local level to the taxpayers, states and the American Indian community. The BOEM oversees the exploration and development of oil, natural gas and other mi…

Cadastral Survey Support

The Cadastral Survey Program assists other BLM programs and federal land management agencies by interpreting and analyzing survey plats, locating boundary markers in the field, and performing new cadastral surveys when necessary. In addition, the Cadastral Survey Pr…

Community Forest Program

The Community Forest Program (CFP) is a grant program that authorizes the Forest Service to provide financial assistance to local governments, Tribal governments, and qualified nonprofit entities to establish community forests that provide continuing and accessible…

Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability

EPA's CERCLA Section 128(a) grant program funds activities that establish or enhance state and tribal response program capacity, capitalize revolving loan funds (RLFs), and support insurance mechanisms. The goal of this funding is to provide financial support to…

Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP)

The Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP) helps agricultural producers maintain and improve their existing conservation systems and adopt additional conservation activities to address priority resources concerns. Participants earn CSP payments for conservation pe…

DOI VISTA Program

The DOI/VISTA Initiative is a collaboration between the Department of the Interior (DOI) and AmeriCorps Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA), Conservation Legacy, and many local non-profit partners - placing VISTAs in some of the poorest places in which the DOI has…

Environmental Quality Incentives Program

The Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) provides technical and financial assistance to eligible agricultural producers to address soil, water, air, and related natural resource concerns on agricultural land and non-industrial private forestland.

Environmental Regulatory Enhancement

The purpose of the Environmental Regulatory Enhancement (ERE) program is to provide funding for the costs of planning, developing, and implementing programs designed to improve the capability of tribal governing bodies to regulate environmental quality pursuant to…

Every Kid in a Park

To help engage and create the next generation of park and public land visitors, supporters and advocates, the White House, in partnership with the Federal Land Management agencies, launched the Every Kid in a Park initiative in 2015. The immediate goal is to provide an…

Healthy Forests Reserve Program

The purpose of the Healthy Forests Reserve Program (HFRP) is to assist landowners, on a voluntary basis, in restoring, enhancing and protecting forestland resources on private lands through easements, 30-year contracts and 10-year cost-share agreements.

Historic Preservation Fund Grants-in-Aid

Historic Preservation Fund Grants to Tribes support Tribal Historic Preservation Offices that have signed partnership agreements with the National Park Service to assume the duties of the State Historic Preservation Office in carrying out the goals of the national hi…

Indian Environmental General Assistance Program

To provide general assistance program (GAP) grants to Indian tribal governments and intertribal consortia to build capacity to administer environmental regulatory programs on Indian lands, and provide technical assistance from EPA to Indian tribal governments and…

Louisiana State University (LSU) Coastal Marine Institute (CMI)

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) provides major economic and energy benefits on a national and local level to the taxpayers, States and the American Indian community. The BOEM oversees the exploration and development of oil, natural gas and other mi…

Lower Colorado River Multi-Species Conservation Program

The LCR MSCP is a multi-stakeholder, federal and non-federal partnership that seeks to balance the use of Colorado river water resources with the conservation of native species and their habitats in compliance with the Endangered Species Act. 57 federal and no…

Marine Gas Hydrate Research Activities Cooperative Agreement

To characterize and monitor gas hydrate deposits and environmental conditions on OCS Block Mississippi Canyon 118 (MC-118) in the Gulf of Mexico. The funds must be used for gas hydrate research activities in the OCS of the Gulf of Mexico, specifically for a permane…

Marine Minerals Activities - Hurricane Sandy Marine Minerals Activities Cooperative Agreements

To evaluate OCS sand deposits for coastal restoration and beach nourishment needs, and to foster good working relationships regarding OCS mineral issues with coastal States due to effects from hurricanes and coastal erosion. This can be accomplished through a va…

National Urban and Community Forestry Challenge Cost-Share Grant Program

The Secretary of Agriculture has a congressionally designated advisory council that assists the U.S. Forest Service in establishing the grant categories and recommendations of final proposals for the Forest Service to consider. This is the National Urban and Co…

Native American Affairs Technical Assistance Program

Reclamation receives annual appropriations to provide technical assistance to federally recognized Indian tribes in the 17 western states for activities involving the development, management and protection of tribal water and related resources. Under this program,…

Native American Lands Environmental Mitigation Program (NALEMP)

Since 1993, DoD's NALEMP has provided funds to tribes annually to mitigate environmental impacts to Indian lands and Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA)-conveyed properties caused by past military activities, facilities, or operations.

Office of Environmental Health and Engineering, Division of Sanitation Facilities Construction

The Sanitation Facilities Construction (SFC) Program provides environmental engineering services and sanitation facilities to American Indians and Alaska Natives nationwide through the allocation of available resources to the twelve Indian Health Service (IHS) Area Of…

OSMRE AmeriCorps Program

The OSMRE/AmeriCorps Program provides an opportunity for individuals to engage in national service and explore a career in the Federal Government. OSMRE/AmeriCorps Members are college-educated individuals placed in OSMRE Headquarters, Regional, and Field Offices for a…

OSMRE Semester Internship Program

The OSMRE Semester Internship Program provides college students and recent graduates with opportunities to explore a career in public service and contribute meaningful work with a federal regulatory agency. Interns contribute to OSMRE’s mission to through research …

Public Law 93-638 Contracts and Agreements

This program allows federally recognized Indian tribes in the 17 western states to assume responsibility for executing Reclamation projects and programs authorized for the benefit of tribes. Funding provided to Reclamation to execute the project or program is tr…

Regional Conservation Partnership Program

The Regional Conservation Partnership Program (RCPP) promotes coordination between NRCS and its partners to deliver conservation assistance to producers and landowners. NRCS provides assistance to producers through partnership agreements and through program co…

Tribal CAA Project Grants

To support Federally-recognized Indian Tribes' efforts to understand, assess and characterize air quality; design methods and plans to protect and improve air quality on tribal lands through surveys, studies, research, training, investigations, and special purpose…

Tribal Climate Resilience Program

The BIA Tribal Climate Resilience Program goal is the mainstreaming of climate considerations at the project level through leadership engagement, delivery of data and tools, training and tribal capacity building. Direct funding supports tribes, tribal consortia, and…

Tribal Colleges Education Equity Program

Assist the 1994 Land-Grants in developing institution capacity for formal post-secondary education in the food, agricultural and natural resource sciences. Program serves primarily American Indian students enrolled in associate or baccalaureate degree granting 1994 in…

Tribal Colleges Research Grants Program

Promote the capacity of 1994 Land Grants to conduct research by enhancing infrastructure and faculty expertise with a focus on bringing scientific inquiry to Tribal needs. Promotes student learning in math and science through participation in research projects.

Tribal Historic Preservation Officer (THPO) Designation

The THPO Designation process is how a Tribe applies to assume the functions of a State Historic Preservation Officer on tribal lands, protecting and conserving important Tribal cultural and historic assets and sites. This process does not entail funding, but is the pr…

Trinity River Restoration Program

The Trinity River Restoration Program was established by the Record of Decision as an adaptive management program, designed to adjust management of the Trinity River - TRRP restoration actions - as scientific knowledge of the river advances. TRRP is a multi-agency pr…

WaterSMART Grants

WaterSMART Grants make funding available for eligible applicants to leverage their money and resources by cost sharing with Reclamation on projects that conserve and use water more efficiently, increase the use of renewable energy and improve energy efficiency, be…

Wood Education and Resource Center Wood Innovations Grant

The U.S. Forest Service (Forest Service) requests proposals to substantially expand and accelerate wood energy and wood products markets throughout the United States to support forest management needs on National Forest System and other forest lands. The purpose o…

Yakima River Basin Water Enhancement Project

The Yakima River Basin Water Enhancement Project legislation (Title XII of P.L. 103-434) authorizes Reclamation to evaluate and implement various measures to improve water management in the Yakima River Basin to protect, mitigate, and enhance fish and wildlife and im…