Environmental Protection Agency
Southeast New England Program (SNEP) Innovative Restoration Grants
In short: Environmental Protection Agency expects to make 8 awards.
Key facts
- Deadline
- Due Dec 11, 2026 · 52 days left
- Award size
- Not stated: see the official notice
- Total available
- $5.3M · about 8 awards
- Match ?
- Not required · Work out your budget and match
- Who can apply
- Set by the official notice: see Who can apply below
- Where
- Check the official notice for location limits
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How this fits you
- Location limits unclear. Check who can apply
- No match required
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About this grant
This announcement requests full proposals from Indian Tribes, State & Local Governments, Institutions of Higher Education (IHEs), Interstate Agencies and Nonprofit organizations to support priorities of the Southeast New England Program (SNEP) for coastal watershed restoration. Priorities of the funding opportunity include advancing coastal and riverine restoration and connectivity across southeast New England, with a focus on developing and applying innovative, science, and technology to support these restoration efforts. The total estimated funding available is $5,312,813. Project periods typically extend up to 5 years. The program anticipates awarding up to 8 projects under this NOFO. Applications may request up to $1,000,000 for large-scale projects, including those involving innovative planning, implementation and coordinated development.
Who can apply, from the official notice
See Section 2 of Notice of Funding Opportunity for eligibility information.
Official notice: https://simpler.grants.gov/opportunity/00daa880-5ab0-44f0-89a1-c020631e70a8 · Printed from grantme.click/grants/2dc05936-d80e-4324-83d8-f4f694f9392c
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Your schedule, working back from the deadline
- Oct20
Check that your SAM.gov registration is active (or start it now)
Grants.gov: allow up to 10 business days for SAM registration, weeks or months if information isn't verified. It must be renewed every year. Grants.gov - Nov20
Ask partners for letters of support or commitment
Suggested: partners need about three weeks to write and sign letters. - Dec4
Finish a complete draft for a final review
Suggested: leave about a week for someone else to read the draft. - Dec9
Submit
Grants.gov: submit at least 24–48 hours before the deadline: uploads fail, systems slow down, errors need fixing. Grants.gov blog - Dec11
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About the federal program
Geographic Programs - Southeast New England Coastal Watershed Restoration Program, also called “Southeast New England Program (SNEP)”
Program number 66.129 (the federal Assistance Listing number) · Environmental Protection Agency · Cooperative agreement (a grant with close agency involvement)
How applications are judged
In each year's official notice: read this year's.
Match
While there is no statutory or regulatory cost sharing requirement for this program, as a matter of policy, the Agency may impose a cost sharing requirement in specific competitions. If the Agency decides to do this, the cost sharing terms will be stated in Section 2 of the NOFO.
Examples of funded projects
Fiscal year 2017: Pass through entity was funded at $3,945,172 to solicit and fund projects under this program.
Fiscal year 2018: Through a subaward program, this program awarded >$4M in 14 subawards throughout SNEP region that address municipal capacity, habitat restoration, monitoring capability, and development of data management systems.
Fiscal year 2021: EPA�s SNEP program supported eight awards that together improve municipal capacity, water quality and habitat restoration, and monitoring capability. SNEP continues to support a technical assistance network that is coordinating and managing a program to build the capacity of local communities, tribes, and organizations to increase use of available financial and technical resources to support best management practices and financing for coastal watershed restoration efforts. SNEP also continues to support a Watershed Grant program to support local implementation projects, and is also providing funds to the Buzzards Bay National Estuary Program and the Narragansett Estuary Program to implement their management plans including support of subawards within their study areas to support coastal watershed restoration efforts. New...