Nonpoint Source Grant for Pollution Control Projects: Watershed-based Plan Development
General information
This grant provides funding to develop watershed-based management plans. A watershed-based plan provides assessment and management information and describes actions needed to restore nonpoint source (NPS) impaired water bodies or to protect water bodies threatened by NPS pollution.
Funding levels from EPA vary each year, therefore the number and amount of awards that we can make each year also vary.
Funding details
Funding application timeline
Grant eligibility
Eligible recipients under this RFA are regional public comprehensive planning organizations or interstate organizations such as: regional planning agencies, councils of governments, conservation districts, counties, cities and towns, and other sub-state public planning agencies and interstate agencies. Such organizations must be chartered with suitable powers as a unit of local government, an independent sub-state agency, or an interstate organization under an interstate agreement of which Maine is a party.
Watershed-based plans must be for one of the following types of watersheds, as defined by the NPS Priority Watershed List (https://www.maine.gov/dep/land/watershed/nps_priority_list/index.html): Impaired Lake Threatened River/Stream Impaired River/Stream Threatened Marine Impaired Marine