Opportunity Information: Apply for USDA NRCS LA 18 002
The USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) in Louisiana is offering a cooperative agreement funding opportunity to bring in outside conservation partners who can help deliver hands-on technical assistance and strengthen NRCS capacity across the state. The central goal is to improve how conservation programs are implemented in Louisiana by partnering with organizations that already work with farmers, ranchers, forest landowners, and other private land managers. The opportunity is specifically about implementation support and on-the-ground technical services, not research, and it targets work that helps producers successfully plan, install, operate, and maintain conservation practices on agricultural, forestry, and related working lands.
For FY 2018, NRCS anticipated up to $5,000,000 total available statewide (depending on funds at the time of award). Awards were expected to be competitive, with projects lasting from one to five years. The listed award ceiling is $1,000,000 per award, and the agency anticipated making around 15 awards. Applications were open to a broad range of eligible entities, including nonprofits (both 501(c)(3) and non-501(c)(3)), state and local governments, tribal governments and tribal organizations, public and private institutions of higher education, for-profit organizations (including small businesses), and even individuals, as long as the applicant is based in Louisiana or has substantial operations in the state and can provide conservation programs or services there.
NRCS defines "technical assistance" in a practical, service-delivery sense. It includes direct technical services to producers such as conservation planning, technical consultation, and support with the design and installation of conservation practices. It also includes the behind-the-scenes technical infrastructure needed to deliver those services effectively, such as developing and maintaining technical standards, conducting resource inventories, providing staff and partner training, improving data and technology tools, and supporting monitoring and conservation effects analyses. The funding is meant to expand capacity and increase the pace and quality of conservation delivery, rather than to generate new research.
Projects were requested in several priority focus areas. A major emphasis is helping landowners complete more advanced, land-use-specific conservation plans, including items like Forestry Management Plans, Highly Erodible Land Conservation plans, and Comprehensive Nutrient Management Plans. Another priority is developing practical technical materials that help different audiences understand conservation practice options and program opportunities, such as packaging or translating Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP) enhancements into clearer "bundles" by land type or cropping system. NRCS also sought partners who can directly help address critical conservation needs through planning and implementation support, including assistance with NEPA and cultural resource compliance, engineering plans, economic assessments, and navigating Farm Bill applications and contracts (including contract management support and engineering design/checkout where appropriate).
A separate but related objective is relieving administrative and program management burdens in NRCS field offices so conservation planning staff can spend more time on planning and field work. The opportunity also places strong emphasis on wetland and easement-related technical assistance, particularly for private landowners in the Wetland Reserve Program (WRP) and the Agricultural Conservation Easement Program - Wetland Reserve Easements (ACEP-WRE). This includes adding capacity to the NRCS Easement Program Planning and Implementation (EPPI) Team for outreach and education, processing and ranking applications, developing wetland restoration plans, providing follow-up assistance, handling boundary survey certifications, and completing easement monitoring.
Beyond planning and easements, NRCS identified two additional technical assistance themes that require coordinated outreach and technology transfer. One is Grazing Land Conservation, where the agency is looking for multi-faceted support that combines outreach, education, and innovative approaches to getting usable tools and practices into producers hands. The other is feral swine management, with an emphasis on minimizing the resource impacts of feral hogs through outreach, education, and emerging techniques that can be applied in Louisiana landscapes. Finally, NRCS explicitly calls for outreach to targeted and historically underserved groups, including veterans, minority producers, women, and limited-resource producers and landowners, indicating that proposals that meaningfully engage these audiences and reduce barriers to participation align with the program priorities.
Administrative details in the source information describe this as a discretionary opportunity using a cooperative agreement instrument, under CFDA numbers 10.069, 10.902, 10.912, 10.924, and 10.931. The opportunity number is USDA NRCS LA 18 002, it was created March 15, 2018, and the original application closing date was May 18, 2018. Overall, the grant is best understood as capacity-building and service delivery funding meant to help NRCS and its partners get more conservation planning, practice implementation support, and targeted outreach done across Louisiana, with measurable improvements in conservation program delivery rather than research outputs.Apply for USDA NRCS LA 18 002
- The Department of Agriculture, Washington State Office in the agriculture sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Technical Assistance for Implementing Key Conservation Objectives in Louisiana" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 10.069, 10.902, 10.912, 10.924, 10.931.
- This funding opportunity was created on Mar 15, 2018.
- Applicants must submit their applications by May 18, 2018. (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 $1,000,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 15 candidate(s).
- 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), 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, Individuals, For profit organizations other than small businesses, Small businesses.
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