Opportunity Information: Apply for L21AS00485
The Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Colorado State Office is offering a discretionary funding opportunity called the Fuels Management and Community Fire Assistance Program (Funding Opportunity Number L21AS00485). Awards under this notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) are issued as cooperative agreements, meaning recipients should expect active involvement and coordination with BLM during project planning and implementation rather than a hands-off grant relationship. The program falls under the Natural Resources funding activity area and is associated with CFDA number 15.228. The stated goal, based on the title and program framing, is to support work connected to fuels management and community fire assistance, which typically includes efforts that reduce hazardous fuels, improve wildfire preparedness, and strengthen community resilience to wildfire risk in and around public lands and nearby communities.
The applicant eligibility is limited to public and nonprofit entities and qualifying educational institutions. Eligible applicants include state, county, city/township, and special district governments; independent school districts; public and state-controlled institutions of higher education; private institutions of higher education; federally recognized Native American tribal governments; Native American tribal organizations (including those that are not federally recognized tribal governments); public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities; and nonprofits both with and without 501(c)(3) status (as long as they are not institutions of higher education). Individuals and for-profit organizations are explicitly ineligible, so proposals must come from one of the eligible public, tribal, nonprofit, housing authority, or educational categories listed in the NOFO.
A key restriction in this opportunity is that it does not support entities that are trying to hire interns or crews under this NOFO. The notice emphasizes that the Public Lands Corps Act of 1993 (16 USC, Chapter 37, Subchapter II) is the only authority that allows BLM to "hire" interns, which affects how youth or intern labor can be used on BLM-funded projects. As a result, youth-focused or intern-based projects need to be pursued through the separate BLM youth program authority, specifically NOFO 15.243, titled BLM Youth Conservation Opportunities on Public Lands. In practical terms, applicants should design proposals around fuels treatment, planning, community assistance, coordination, education, mitigation support, or similar fire-related capacity building that does not depend on BLM-funded intern or crew hiring under this particular funding notice.
The opportunity was created on April 16, 2021, and the original application closing date was June 15, 2021. The award ceiling is listed as $30,000, which indicates this is a smaller-scale funding opportunity geared toward targeted projects, discrete deliverables, or limited-scope community or fuels work rather than large multi-year treatment programs. The number of expected awards is not clearly specified in the provided source text, so applicants typically would need to consult the full NOFO to understand how many awards BLM anticipated making, the anticipated project period of performance, required cost share (if any), and specific evaluation criteria.
In summary, this BLM Colorado funding opportunity provides cooperative agreement support of up to $30,000 for eligible governmental, tribal, nonprofit, housing, and higher-education applicants to carry out fuels management and community fire assistance work. It excludes individuals and for-profit entities, and it is not intended to fund intern or crew hiring; youth conservation or intern-focused efforts must instead be routed through the separate BLM youth conservation NOFO authorized under the Public Lands Corps Act.Apply for L21AS00485
- The Bureau of Land Management in the natural resources sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Department of the Interior – Bureau of Land Management, Colorado State Office: Fuels Management and Community Fire Assistance Program" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 15.228.
- This funding opportunity was created on 2021-04-16.
- Applicants must submit their applications by 2021-06-15. (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 $30,000.00 in funding.
- Eligible applicants include: State governments, County governments, City or township governments, Special district governments, Independent school districts, Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities, Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments), Nonprofits having a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Nonprofits that do not have a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Private institutions of higher education.
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