FY 2025 Region 4 Wetlands Program

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is offering grants to assist state, Tribal, territory, local government agencies, and interstate or intertribal entities in developing or refining state, Tribal, territory, or local programs that protect, manage, and restore wetlands. The goals of the EPA's wetland program include increasing the quantity and quality of wetlands in the U.S. by conserving and restoring wetland acreage and improving wetland condition. Key activities include developing or refining a Wetland Program Plan, carrying out grant-eligible actions from an EPA-approved Wetland Program Plan, and promoting the coordination and acceleration of research, investigations, experiments, training, demonstrations, surveys, and studies relating to the causes, effects, extent, prevention, reduction, and elimination of water pollution. • Eligible applicants include state, Tribal, and territorial government agencies, local governments, interstate agencies, intertribal consortia, and colleges and universities that are agencies of a state. • The EPA anticipates awarding up to 10 grants, with a total funding amount of $3,946,000. • The project period is expected to be 1 to 4 years, with a maximum award amount of $600,000 per grant. • Applicants must demonstrate a minimum cost share of 25 percent of the total project cost. • The EPA will evaluate applications based on criteria such as project need and environmental benefit, project tasks, milestone schedule, budget, transfer of results, environmental results, programmatic capability, technical experience, qualifications, partnerships, and past performance.