RESTORE Act Direct Component - Construction and Real Property Acquisition Activities | GR RDC 19 002

Opportunity Information: Apply for GR RDC 19 002

The RESTORE Act Direct Component - Construction and Real Property Acquisition Activities grant opportunity is a discretionary program run by the U.S. Department of the Treasury under the RESTORE Act (Subtitle F of Public Law 112-141). It is funded through the Gulf Coast Restoration Trust Fund, which receives 80 percent of certain civil penalties paid after July 6, 2012 under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act tied to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Those funds are deposited in the Trust Fund and invested, and then distributed through five RESTORE Act components. This particular notice is limited to the Direct Component only, and it is specifically focused on construction-related projects and real property acquisition. Activities that are not construction-focused are handled under a separate, non-construction funding notice.

The purpose of the funding is to support projects that help restore and strengthen the Gulf Coast region environmentally and economically in the wake of the spill. Treasury makes Trust Fund dollars available for eligible activities spelled out in the RESTORE Act. These eligible purposes include: restoring and protecting natural resources and ecosystems (including fisheries, marine and wildlife habitats, beaches, and coastal wetlands); mitigating damage to fish, wildlife, and natural resources; implementing federally approved marine, coastal, or comprehensive conservation management plans (including fisheries monitoring); workforce development and job creation; improvements to or on state parks in coastal areas affected by the spill; infrastructure projects that benefit the economy or ecological resources (including port infrastructure); coastal flood protection and related infrastructure; planning assistance; administrative costs; promoting tourism across the Gulf Coast (including recreational fishing); and promoting consumption of Gulf-harvested seafood. A key geographic rule applies: eligible activities numbered 1 through 7 must be carried out in the Gulf Coast region.

This announcement is aimed at government applicants, with eligibility listed for state governments and county governments. It supports grants (not loans or cooperative agreements per the provided listing) and falls under funding activity categories that include Environment, Natural Resources, and Other. The program is associated with CFDA number 21.015 and uses opportunity number GR RDC 19 002. The posting date in the source information is November 16, 2018, with an original closing date of January 31, 2020, indicating it was time-limited as published. The notice lists an award ceiling of $97,756,846, and while the expected number of awards is not specified in the provided data, the ceiling suggests the program was designed to accommodate large-scale construction and acquisition efforts where appropriate.

In practical terms, the defining feature of this opportunity is its narrow scope: it is not a general RESTORE Act funding announcement, but a Direct Component notice restricted to eligible construction and real property acquisition activities. It also explicitly allows applications for projects that may be part of another federally funded project, whether or not the RESTORE-funded portion includes a non-federal cost share. Applicants whose projects are primarily planning, programmatic, or otherwise non-construction in nature are directed to use the separate non-construction RESTORE Act funding announcement rather than this one.

• The U.S. Dept. of Treasury RESTORE Act Program in the environment, natural resources, other sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "RESTORE Act Direct Component - Construction and Real Property Acquisition Activities" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 21.015.
• This funding opportunity was created on 2018-11-16.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2020-01-31. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $97,756,846.00 in funding.
• Eligible applicants include: State governments, County governments.

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