FOA-Regional
Conservation Partnership Program (RCPP)
Alternative Funding Arrangement (AFA) (USDA-NRCS-NHQ-RCPPAFA-21-NOFO0001096);
May 28,
2021
Agency
US
Department of Agriculture - Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS)
Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC)
Description
The
Regional Conservation Partnership Program (RCPP) promotes coordination of NRCS
conservation activities with partners that offer value-added contributions that
expand our collective ability to address on-farm, watershed, and regional
natural resource concerns. NRCS seeks to coinvest
with RCPP partners to implement projects that demonstrate innovative solutions
to conservation challenges and provide measurable improvements and outcomes tied
to the resource concerns they seek to address. Through RCPP, partners
propose projects—using guidance contained in this notice—that generate
conservation benefits by addressing specific natural resource objectives in a
state/multistate area or address one or more primary resource concerns within a
critical conservation area (CCA). NRCS and partners design, implement and
evaluate RCPP projects on agricultural and non-industrial private forest land.
NRCS coinvests in RCPP projects selected through a
competitive application process that evaluates applications based on four
criteria: impact, partner contributions, innovation, and partnerships and
management.
The
RCPP AFA component is intended to support project structures and approaches that
cannot be carried out as effectively through RCPP Classic. RCPP AFA applicants
must describe the innovative nature of the conservation approach they are
proposing to justify potential funding through an RCPP AFA rather than RCPP
Classic. Additionally, applicants should consider the additional administrative
and technical assistance responsibilities that accompany receipt of an RCPP AFA
award.
Although
RCPP AFA provides flexibilities to partners, these projects share the
overarching focus of RCPP — engaging with producers and landowners to implement
conservation practices, systems and approaches on or for the benefit of
agricultural and nonindustrial private forest lands.
Announcement
Number:
USDA-NRCS-NHQ-RCPPAFA-21-NOFO0001096
Closing
Date:
May
28, 2021
Link
to Full Announcement
https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=332146
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