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Estuary Habitat Restoration Program -- Project Funding
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Credit: NOAA's Fisheries Restoration Center
Solicitation for Estuary Habitat Restoration Program Projects
The Estuary Habitat Restoration Program currently seeks projects that achieve cost-effective restoration of ecosystems while promoting increased partnerships among agencies and between public and private sectors.
- Proposals are due by August 20, 2007
Projects will be evaluated for their support of the Estuary Habitat Restoration Strategy, which aims to ensure a comprehensive approach to restoration activities and to foster the coordination of federal and non-federal efforts. Projects funded under this program will contribute to the Estuary Habitat Restoration Strategy goal of restoring 1,000,000 acres of estuary habitat.
Eligible habitat restoration activities include re-establishment of chemical, physical, hydrologic, and biological features and components associated with an estuary. Restoration may include, but is not limited to:
- improvement of estuarine wetland tidal exchange or reestablishment of historic hydrology;
- dam or berm removal;
- improvement or reestablishment of fish passage;
- appropriate reef/substrate/habitat creation;
- planting of native estuarine wetland and submerged aquatic vegetation;
- reintroduction of native species;
- control of invasive species; and
- establishment of riparian buffer zones in the estuary.
For additional information on eligible activities and application procedures, see the Solicitation for Estuary Habitat (pdf)
NOTE: Proposals selected for Estuary Habitat Restoration Program funding will be implemented in accordance with a cost-share agreement with the Corps. This is not a grants program.
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