Closed · P15AS00008 · CFDA 15.945 · Discretionary

IDENTIFICATION OF OUTSTANDING RESOURCE AND IMPAIRED WATERS IN THE NATIONAL PARK SYSTEM

Federal grant opportunity posted by National Park Service, cataloged on Grants.gov.

$1-$179K
Award range
Closed
Status
-
Close date
1
Expected awards

The verdict

IDENTIFICATION OF OUTSTANDING RESOURCE AND IMPAIRED WATERS IN THE NATIONAL PARK SYSTEM is a closed discretionary listing from National Park Service that offered $1 -- $179,280 across 1 expected award. Future funding cycles may be published under the same CFDA number. PlainGrants indexes 8,506 other opportunities from National Park Service.

$1-$179K
award range
Closed
application status
1
expected award
15.945
CFDA program

Archived opportunity record

IDENTIFICATION OF OUTSTANDING RESOURCE AND IM… is closed. Check the agency catalog for replacement NOFOs. National Park Service still indexes 8,506 other opportunities here.

According to Grants.gov (extract vintage 2026-08-10), this record reflects the officially published listing. See methodology.

Deadline tracker

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Posted Nov 25 Closed

Est. Total Funding

$179,280

Expected Awards

1

Instrument

Cooperative Agreement

Description

The decentralized management framework created by the Clean Water Act presents challenges to organizations and citizens trying to understand, monitor, and track water quality conditions locally, regionally, and/or nationally. CSU and the NPS Water Resources Division (WRD) have previously collaborated to ameliorate this problem over America¿s treasured park lands by consolidating and centralizing data, information, and maps from 56 states and territories about water quality conditions in the National Park System to make those resources readily available to the parks, the public, and other organizations so they can become part of the water quality management process. The current project continues that collaboration. CSU faculty, staff, research associates, and students will work with the NPS WRD to identify Clean Water Act outstanding resource waters classifications and impaired waters designations by states within the National Park System and use this information to update and expand existing databases and websites. The products generated by this effort will include GIS coverages as well as a website with reports containing descriptive graphical and tabular summaries of: (1) park waterbodies that are currently listed on state 303d water-quality impaired lists; (2) parks that have designated Outstanding National or State Resource Waters created by state water quality regulations; and (3) parks that contain particular types of impairments. To the greatest extent feasible, this project will extract and reformat, on a park-specific basis, data from existing databases, including individual state water quality standards systems and several databases maintained or being developed by the Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Geological Survey (e.g. National Hydrography Dataset, STORET, 305b, and 303d). Syntheses of these data will be made to support Government Performance Results Act (GPRA), Vital Signs, State of the Parks, and ¿Scorecard¿ efforts as well as to empower the public to help steward water resources in parks.

Campus applicant desk · Natural Resources

Grants.gov prints only higher-education applicant doors for IDENTIFICATION OF OUTSTANDING RESOURCE AND IM… (Public / state-controlled institutions of higher education). This reads as a campus competition desk, not a civic or commercial open call. The extract does not mark applicant cost-sharing as required. Instrument: Cooperative Agreement. Funding-activity code maps to Natural Resources (NR). 1,235 other National Park Service listings share this eligibility-code string (15% of 8,507).

Code 06
Public / state-controlled institutions of higher education

Codes are Grants.gov eligibility category values from the extract vintage 2026-08-10. Confirm the full eligibility statement on the official listing or the Grants.gov eligibility reference.

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Agency Contact

JOHN BECHTOLD, 303-969-2492 John_Bechtold@nps.gov

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