GLIN==> EPA FY2011 Great Lakes Restoration Initiative Request for Applications

By the end of January, 2011, EPA expects to release a competitive
announcement (Request For Applications,  or “RFA)”) requesting the
submission of grant applications for approximately $40 million in Great
Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI) funding.  The amount of funding for
the RFA is contingent on the availability of appropriations. Full
applications will be due approximately 45 days after release of the
announcement.  Please note that at this time EPA does not expect to
issue any other GLRI funding announcements in Fiscal Year 2011.

Elements of the RFA are expected to have numerous benefits, including:
•	Increase in on-the-ground/in-the-water action
•	Prioritize restoration of Beneficial Uses and Areas of Concern
•	Reduce duplication of effort by applicants
•	Allow projects to begin this field season
•	Simplify the funding request and the submission process

Funding under the RFA will support work under four of the five Focus
Areas of the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative Action Plan.
Applications for GLRI funding for Habitat and Wildlife Protection and
Restoration in FY 2011, which is the focus area not in the RFA, must be
made through other federal agencies and opportunities, such as Sustain
Our Great Lakes - www.sustainourgreatlakes.org
www.sustainourgreatlakes.org, for which the deadline for submissions is
February 14, 2011.

Additional information is available at
http://epa.gov/greatlakes/fund/2011rfa01/.  We encourage all applicants
to register with us at http://www.epa.gov/greatlakes/maillist
http://www.epa.gov/greatlakes/maillist to be informed about our funding
process.