(FOA)-Regional
Conservation Partnership Program (RCPP) (USDA-NRCS-NHQ-RCPP-19-GEN0010372);
December 3, 2019
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 to
expand our collective ability to address on-farm, watershed, and regional
natural resource concerns. Through RCPP, NRCS seeks to co-invest with 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.
The
RCPP statute includes several USDA programs for NRCS to use as a guide for
determining eligible RCPP activities. These “covered programs” are—
•
Environmental
Quality Incentives Program (EQIP)
•
Conservation
Stewardship Program (CSP) (excluding the Grassland Conservation Initiative
authority)
•
Agricultural
Conservation Easement Program (ACEP)
•
Healthy
Forest Reserved Program (HFRP)
•
Public
Law 83-566 Watershed Program (excluding the Watershed Rehabilitation authority)
•
Conservation
Reserve Program (CRP)
Applications
must explicitly request funding for at least one of the following eligible
activity types, which correspond to eligible RCPP activities:
•
Land
management/land improvement/restoration
•
Land
rental
•
Entity-held
easements
•
United
States-held easements
•
Public
works/watersheds
A
single RCPP project application can propose any combination of these eligible
activity types as part of an RCPP project. At least 4 weeks prior to the
application deadline, and before starting an application in the RCPP portal,
eligible entities interested in applying to RCPP are advised to request a
meeting with the appropriate NRCS State RCPP coordinator (see contact
information).
Announcement
Number:
USDA-NRCS-NHQ-RCPP-19-GEN0010372
Closing
Date:
December
3, 2019
Link
to Full Announcement
https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=320133
Contact
Information
Sonya
Keith
(859) 224-7308