WaterSMART: Cooperative Watershed Management Program Grants for FY 2012

A funding opportunity announcement (FOA) is out from the Bureau of Reclamation's Cooperative Watershed Management Program to establish or expand a local watershed management group. Applications are due 4 p.m. MDT, July 9, 2012. Applicants may be eligible under two categories through this funding opportunity. One is for the establishment of a watershed group. Eligible applicants are states, Indian tribes, local and special districts (irrigation and water districts, county soil conservation districts, etc.), local governmental entities, interstate organizations and nonprofit organizations in the western United States or U.S. territory. The second funding category is for the expansion of a watershed group. Eligible applicants must be a current watershed group or a participant in an existing watershed group that is legally incorporated within the state in which it operates and meets the definition of a “watershed” group as defined in the FOA (pg. 3).