Description
The San Francisco Bay Restoration Grants program aims to support projects that improve ecosystem functions and address water quality impacts from nutrients, stormwater, urban pesticide use, and habitat loss. Eligible applicants include state, local agencies, and special districts, as well as public or non-profit agencies, institutions, and organizations. The program priorities include improving water quality, cleaning up contaminated shorelines, restoring wetlands, and implementing urban stormwater treatment systems. The EPA will award up to 20 grants, with a total funding amount of approximately $33 million. The project duration is expected to be 3-5 years.
Some key project types that are eligible for funding include:
• Beneficial reuse of dredged material
• Projects to reduce nutrient inputs into SF Bay
• Restoration of subtidal habitat through sediment remediation and/or debris removal
• Installation of green stormwater infrastructure features to manage stormwater
• Removal of trash from the Bay and its watersheds
• Multi-benefit shoreline projects that restore habitat, provide flood protection and/or reduce pollutants
• Contaminated site cleanup that leads to improvement of waters of the SF Bay
• Large-scale restoration projects that protect and restore wetlands and waters
• Developing, utilizing or expanding on artificial intelligence (AI) and or machine learning for efforts related to SF Bay Program priorities.