Closed · F23AS00080 · CFDA 15.667 · Discretionary

F23AS00080 - Highlands Conservation Act Grant Program – Capacity Building Cooperative Agreement

Federal grant opportunity posted by Fish and Wildlife Service, cataloged on Grants.gov.

up to $172K
Award range
Closed
Status
February 28, 2023
Close date
-
Expected awards

The verdict

F23AS00080 - Highlands Conservation Act Grant Program – Capacity Building Cooperative Agreement is a closed discretionary listing from Fish and Wildlife Service that offered Up to $172,000. Future funding cycles may be published under the same CFDA number. PlainGrants indexes 4,242 other opportunities from Fish and Wildlife Service.

up to $172K
award range
Closed
application status
15.667
CFDA program
4,242
other opportunities from Fish and Wildlife Service

Archived opportunity record

F23AS00080 - Highlands Conservation Act Grant… is closed (last close February 28, 2023). Check the agency catalog for replacement NOFOs. Fish and Wildlife Service still indexes 4,242 other opportunities here.

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

Deadline tracker

Application window closed

Closed February 28, 2023

Posted Dec 9 Closes Feb 28

Est. Total Funding

$688,000

Instrument

Cooperative Agreement

Description

The Highlands Conservation Act (H.R. 1964, 2004; 16 U.S.C. 3901) (HCA) is designed to assist Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania in conserving land and natural resources in the Highlands Region through Federal grants to support land conservation projects in which a State entity acquires land or an interest in land from a willing seller to permanently protect resources of high conservation value. This Cooperative Agreement will provide a one-time award of administrative funding to one lead State Conservation Agency in each of the four Highland States. The expected eligible entities for this grant award are the following State Conservation Agencies: Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection New York Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation New Jersey Highlands Water Protection and Planning Council Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources Under a cooperative agreement, there is a participatory relationship between the Service and the recipient during the award, with shared performance responsibilities. The State Conservation Agency, if awarded, will enter into a Cooperative Agreement with the US Fish and Wildlife Service to fulfill the following outcomes: Build capacity of the State Conservation Agency and others to maximize grant applications for HCA Base Funding and Competitive Funding grant rounds. Build capacity to spend awarded grant funds and close HCA projects in a timely fashion.

Public-sector applicant lane · Fish and Wildlife Service

Grants.gov lists only government / tribal / housing-authority applicant doors for F23AS00080 - Highlands Conservation Act Grant… (State governments). This is a public-sector corridor, not a general nonprofit open call. The extract does not mark applicant cost-sharing as required. Instrument: Cooperative Agreement. Funding-activity code maps to Natural Resources (NR). 597 other Fish and Wildlife Service listings share this eligibility-code string (14% of 4,243).

Code 00
State governments

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

Jay Rasku jason_rasku@fws.gov

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What to do next

F23AS00080 - Highlands Conservation Act Grant… is closed; use the parent program and agency catalog for the next funding cycle.

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