Watershed Assessments for the National Water Quality Initiative (USDA)

• Date: 18 February 2021
• Published date: 18 February 2021
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1002/fgc.31578

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Grants alert (cont.)

address water utility employment needs and coordinate

candidate development, particularly in areas of high

unemployment or for water utilities with a high proportion

of retirement-eligible employees.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# EPA-OW-OWM-20-01

Healthy, Resilient, and Sustainable

Communities Grant Program (EPA)

Scope: The Environmental Protection Agency seeks

applications for the FY21 Region 10 Healthy, Resilient,

and Sustainable Communities Grant Program to improve

community health, resilience, and/or sustainability

through pollution prevention and/or sustainable

materials management implementation.

Deadline: April 30, 2021.

Funds: Approximately $120,000 total for two to four

awards ranging from $30,000 to $60,000.

Eligibility: Colleges and universities; nonprot

organizations; and state, local, special district, and

Native American tribal governments, among others.

Areas: EPA said project examples include but are not

limited to those that: provide technical assistance to

businesses and their facilities to help them develop and

adopt source reduction practices; conduct trainings

or conferences/roundtables for businesses and P2

technical assistance providers to share pollution

prevention best practices or to demonstrate a pollution

prevention technology; and develop and promote

site-specic pollution prevention assessments to

help businesses and communities prioritize which

environmental problems to address, and in which order.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# EPA-R10-HRSC-2021

Watershed Assessments for the National Water

Quality Initiative (USDA)

Scope: The Agriculture Department’s Natural

Resources Conservation Service seeks applications

for the Watershed Assessments for the National Water

Quality Initiative (NQWI) announcement for an 18-month

cooperative agreement with an entity with expertise in

watershed assessment plans.

Deadline: March 31, 2021.

Funds: $200,000 total for up to four awards ranging

from $40,000 to$75,000.

Eligibility: Unrestricted.

Areas: USDA said funding provides technical

assistance to assist NRCS with completing three

watershed assessment plans on HUC12 delineations in

the Caribbean (HUC14 for St. Thomas).

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# USDA-NRCS-PR-EQIP-21-

NOFO0001058

Adaptive Sports Programs for Disabled Veterans

and Disabled Members of the Armed Forces (VA)

Scope: The Department of Veterans Affairs seeks

applications for the FY21 Grants for Adaptive Sports

Programs for Disabled Veterans and Disabled Members

of the Armed Forces (Adaptive Sports Grant Program)

to plan, develop, manage, and implement programs

to provide adaptive sports activities for veterans and

members of the armed forces with disabilities.

Deadline: March 31, 2021.

Funds: $16 million total for awards of up to $750,000.

Eligibility: Unrestricted.

Areas: The VA said adaptive sports activities include:

(1) instruction, participation, and competition in

adaptive sports; (2) training and technical assistance to

program administrators, coaches, recreation therapists,

instructors, VA employees, and other appropriate

individuals; (3) coordination, Paralympic classication

of athletes, athlete assessment, sport-specic training

techniques, program development (including programs

at the local level), sports equipment, supplies,

program evaluation, and other activities related to the

implementation and operation of the program.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# VA-SPORTS-21

Advancing translational research on Alzheimer’s

Disease and AD-Related Dementias (NIA)

Scope: The National Institute on Aging seeks (T32)

Institutional National Research Service Award

applications for the Institutional Training Programs to

Advance Translational Research on Alzheimer’s Disease

(AD) and AD-Related Dementias announcement to

enable the development of a diverse, translational

research workforce capable of participating and/

or leading cross-disciplinary team science programs

focused on advancing therapy development for

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and AD-related dementias

(ADRD).

Deadline: Letters of Intent are due 30 days before

application due date. Proposals are due May 25, 2021;

Sept. 27, 2021; May 25, 2022.

Funds: $2.5 million FY22 for three to ve awards. The

maximum project period is ve years.

Eligibility: Colleges and universities; nonprot

organizations; and Native American tribal governments

and organizations, among others.

Areas: NIA said applications appropriate to this

solicitation will have the active participation of training

faculty with expertise in the following disciplines/

research areas: the biology of aging, AD/ADRD, and

neurodegeneration; various aspects of data science,

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