Opportunity Information: Apply for NPS NOI 15 CESU 77298
The National Park Service (NPS) funding opportunity titled "Monitoring Seagrass Resources of the Gulf Islands National Seashore" (Funding Opportunity Number: NPS NOI 15 CESU 77298) is a Notice of Intent to make a single, non-competitive award rather than an open call for proposals. In practical terms, it is not an application-based grant competition. Instead, NPS is signaling its plan to issue a Task Agreement under an existing Gulf Coast Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU) Master Cooperative Agreement (P12AC51051). The agency cites Department of the Interior policy (505 Departmental Manual 2.12C) as the authority supporting this kind of non-competitive, single-source action.
The purpose of the Task Agreement is to continue an ongoing monitoring program focused on understanding the long-term condition and trends of seagrass resources within the Gulf Islands National Seashore, specifically in the Mississippi and Florida portions of the park. The emphasis on "continue work" and "long-term health" indicates the effort is part of an established monitoring framework rather than a new one-time research project. Seagrass monitoring programs typically track indicators such as seagrass extent and distribution, density or percent cover, species composition, and signs of stress or recovery over time, because seagrass meadows are sensitive to changes in water quality, turbidity, storms, boating impacts, and broader environmental shifts. This award is positioned as support for that kind of sustained, repeatable monitoring needed to detect gradual change and inform resource management decisions inside the seashore.
The award instrument is a cooperative agreement, which generally means the NPS expects substantial involvement in the project beyond simply providing funds, such as coordinating monitoring priorities, aligning methods with park resource objectives, and using the results for management and reporting. The activity category is Natural Resources, and the listed CFDA number is 15.945, which corresponds to NPS assistance programs. The opportunity is categorized as discretionary funding, with an expected number of awards listed as one. The award ceiling is shown as 0 in the source data, which often means the funding amount is either determined in the attached full announcement or set through internal budgeting and the task agreement negotiations rather than being announced as a standard maximum.
Eligibility is not broadly open despite "Eligible Applicants: Others" appearing in the data, because the notice explicitly states it is a single-source award to the Dauphin Island Sea Lab (DISL). In other words, DISL is the intended recipient, and no other applicants are being solicited or considered through this notice. The posting dates indicate the opportunity was created on 2015-09-07 with an original closing date of 2015-09-16, which in this context functions more like an administrative posting window for the notice rather than a deadline for submitting applications.
Overall, this NOI is best understood as a formal public notice that NPS plans to fund continued seagrass monitoring in Gulf Islands National Seashore through the CESU partnership mechanism, using a cooperative agreement and awarding directly to DISL, with the goal of maintaining consistent long-term data on seagrass health across the Mississippi and Florida units of the park.Apply for NPS NOI 15 CESU 77298
- The National Park Service in the natural resources sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Monitoring Seagrass Resources of the Gulf Islands National Seashore" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 15.945.
- This funding opportunity was created on 2015-09-07.
- Applicants must submit their applications by 2015-09-16. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 1 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Others.
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