GLIN==> Great Lakes Commission Announces Watershed Scale Sediment Reduction Implementation Project Grant Request for Pre-Proposals. Up to $800, 000 per project anticipated.

The Great Lakes Commission is pleased to announce the Great Lakes Basin
Program for Soil Erosion and Sediment Control 2010 Request for Pre-proposal
(RFPP) for watershed scale implementation projects.  Applications for
pre-proposals are due no later than March 2, 2010.  Please visit our website
at www.glc.org/basin for the complete RFPP and the on-line application
process.   

Funding for this program is made available by the USDA - Natural Resources
Conservation Service as part of the agency's Great Lakes Restoration
Initiative.  Awards will be made contingent upon the availability of these
funds.

Eligible applicants must be nonfederal units of government (U.S.), academic
units or incorporated nonprofit organizations, including conservation
districts, county and municipal governments, regional planning commissions,
colleges and universities and state agencies.  Examples of nonprofit
organizations include watershed organizations, stream and lake associations,
citizen monitoring groups, environmental groups, conservation groups, and
fish and wildlife groups. Applicants are strongly encouraged to develop
broad partnerships in order to leverage other implementation resources.
Priority will be given to those applicants who partner with local, state,
federal agencies and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to provide
additional funding and technical assistance for the proposal.

Five to eight watershed implementation projects will be funded for up to
$800,000 per watershed. Project length can be up to four years in duration.
Funding will be available for both technical assistance and financial
assistance. The proposed watershed must have a state-approved plan or be a
sub-watershed of a larger watershed with an approved plan. Applicants are
encouraged to pilot non-traditional methods of implementation and cost
sharing. 

Grant funding under this program is limited to the watersheds included in
the RFPP.
The listed watersheds are those that deliver most of the damaging sediment
loads to the Great Lakes. The general size for an acceptable watershed will
range from 50,000 to 250,000 acres, but can vary outside this range with
justification.  

Applicants are urged to contact the Soil Erosion and Sedimentation Task
Force member from their states to help them in the application process. The
Task Force membership can be found at: www.glc.org/basin/taskforce.html.  

For more information please contact Gary Overmier at garyo at glc.org or
734-971-9135.



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