The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is soliciting applications from eligible applicants for projects that develop or refine state/tribal/local government wetland programs as a whole, or individual components of those programs. Applications for projects submitted under this announcement for Wetland Program Development Grants (WPDGs) must address the National Priority Area identified in Section I.B of the annoucement.. In addition, projects must be national in scope or for issues that concern states and tribes in two or more EPA Regions.

Eligible applicants under this announcement are non-profit, non-governmental organizations, interstate agencies, and intertribal consortia which are capable of undertaking activities that advance wetland programs. Non-profit private universities and colleges and non-profit institutions of higher education are considered non-profit organizations and are eligible under this announcement. Individual states, tribes, local governments, and for-profit organizations are not eligible to apply under this announcement. Non-profit organizations described in Section 501(c)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code that engage in lobbying activities as defined in Section 3 of the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 are not eligible to apply.

• Fiscal Year 2020 and 2021 National WPDG RFA (PDF)(25 pp, 428 K, 10/29/2020)