Opportunity Information: Apply for L23AS00179
The FY23 IIJA Bureau of Land Management Headquarters (HQ) Wildlife Program (Funding Opportunity Number L23AS00179) is a discretionary federal funding opportunity from the Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, focused on natural resources work under the BLM’s wildlife program. Awards are issued as cooperative agreements, which generally means BLM expects to have substantial involvement during the life of the project (for example, collaborating on planning, coordination, technical input, or oversight) rather than providing a simple pass-through grant with minimal federal participation. The opportunity is tied to CFDA/Assistance Listing 15.247 and is designed to support projects that advance wildlife-related priorities on public lands managed by BLM, consistent with the broader goals of improving and sustaining natural resources.
Eligibility is limited to public and nonprofit-oriented entities and certain educational and tribal organizations. Applicants may include state, county, and local governments (including cities/townships), special district governments, independent school districts, public and state-controlled institutions of higher education, private institutions of higher education, federally recognized Tribal governments, Tribal organizations that are not federally recognized as governments, public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities, and nonprofit organizations both with and without 501(c)(3) status (as long as they are not institutions of higher education for the nonprofit categories listed). Individuals and for-profit organizations are explicitly ineligible to apply under this Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO), so proposals must come from an eligible governmental, tribal, nonprofit, or educational entity.
A key restriction in the NOFO is that it does not support participants who want to hire interns or crews under the Public Lands Corps Act of 1993. The announcement emphasizes that the Public Lands Corps Act (16 USC, Chapter 37, Subchapter II) is the legislative authority that allows BLM to "hire" interns under that specific framework, and this NOFO is not the mechanism for that. As a result, Youth Conservation Corps or similar youth/crew-based efforts cannot be proposed under this wildlife program announcement if they rely on that intern/crew authority. Instead, youth-focused projects that fit under the Public Lands Corps approach must be developed and submitted under a different funding opportunity, specifically NOFO 15.243, titled BLM Youth Conservation Opportunities on Public Lands. In practical terms, applicants should avoid building budgets and work plans around PLC-style internships or crew hiring under this wildlife NOFO and should route those concepts to the separate youth conservation funding channel.
In terms of funding parameters, the posted award ceiling is $1,500,000 per award. The source data lists an expected awards field but does not provide a number, so the total number of projects anticipated for funding is not clear from the excerpt provided. The opportunity was created on February 2, 2023, and the original closing date for applications was April 3, 2023. Overall, this NOFO is best read as a BLM HQ wildlife cooperative agreement opportunity for eligible public, tribal, nonprofit, and academic partners to carry out wildlife and natural resource-related projects on BLM lands, with clear boundaries around who can apply and an explicit direction not to use this funding route for Public Lands Corps intern or crew hiring.Apply for L23AS00179
- The Bureau of Land Management in the natural resources sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "FY23 IIJA Bureau of Land Management Headquarters (HQ) Wildlife Program" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 15.247.
- This funding opportunity was created on 2023-02-02.
- Applicants must submit their applications by 2023-04-03. (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 $1,500,000.00 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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