FOA-Regional
Conservation Partnership Program (RCPP) (USDA-NRCS-NHQ-RCPPC-21-NOFO0001033);
November 4, 2020
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 co-invest 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. Priority Resource Concerns for the Mississippi River Basin States
(AR, KY, IA, IL, IN, LA, MN, MO, MS, OH, SD, TN, WI):
•
Water
quality degradation
•
Inadequate
habitat for fish, wildlife, and invertebrates
•
Excess/insufficient
water/drought
Proposals
must explicitly request funding for at least one of the following eligible
activity types, which correspond to eligible RCPP activities:
•
Land management
•
Land rental
•
Entity-held easements
•
U.S.-held easements
•
Public works/watersheds
A single
RCPP project proposal may propose any combination of these eligible activity
types be included as part of an RCPP project. Applicants are encouraged to
contact the appropriate RCPP State Coordinator(s) with questions, for Kentucky:
Sonya Keith sonya.keith@usda.gov,
(859) 224-7308.
Announcement
Number:
USDA-NRCS-NHQ-RCPPC-21-NOFO0001033
Closing
Date:
November
4, 2020
Link
to Full Announcement
https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=328578
Contact
Information
Sonya
Keith