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WASHINGTON STATE AGENCY GRANTS
Department of Fish and Wildlife
The Landowner Incentive Program (LIP) is a competitive grant program designed to provide financial assistance to private landowners for the protection, enhancement or restoration of habitat to benefit species at risk on privately owned lands. At risk species depend on specific ecosystems for survival. These ecosystems include riparian areas, wetlands, oak woodlands, prairies and grasslands, shrub steppe and nearshore environments. http://wdfw.wa.gov/lands/lip/index.htm.
Department of Ecology
The Department of Ecology provides a number of financial assistance programs to support environmental management; see below for more information on each of these programs.
Air Quality
The Air Quality Program is offering a new grant program designed to provide Washington cities and counties with funding to retrofit their heavy-duty diesel vehicles.
Coastal Zone Management Grants
This includes guidance documents, application forms, sample agreements, and other useful information about the CZM Project Assistance Grant Program for local government jurisdictions within the 15 counties with saltwater shorelines. Grants are used for shoreline master program planning.
Environmental Education Grants
A wide range of environmental education grant opportunities are available through the Department of Ecology and other organizations.
Flood Control
This includes everything you need to apply for a Flood Control Assistance Account Program (FCAAP) grant. Grants are used for flood hazard management planning and building flood prevention projects (e.g., repairing levees).
Shoreline Management
Ecology offers two-year Shoreline Master Program grants to local governments to fund shoreline master program updates throughout Washington State. Local governments are required to update their Shoreline Master Program according to the schedule outlined in the Shoreline Management Act.
Spill Response
Oil spill response equipment grants are available to public entities and tribes in Washington to fund the acquisition of oil spill response equipment trailers.
Waste Management
Financial assistance is available for waste management through the following programs: Community Litter Cleanup Program, Coordinated Prevention Grants, Public Participation Grants, and Remedial Action Grants and Loans.
Water Quality
Water quality grants and loans are available for a broad range of projects, including:
- Stormwater management implementation grants
- Local government stormwater grants
- Reclaimed water grants
- Centennial Clean Water/319 grants
- On-site septic financial assistance program
- Aquatic weeds financial assistance program
- Freshwater algae grant control program
- Small town environmental program
Water Resources
Agriculture water supply grants are available for developing comprehensive water conservation plans and projects implementing water conservation plans.
Columbia River Basin Water Management Grants are available for a variety of conservation and storage projects.
Watershed Management
Watershed planning grants are available for organization, assessment, and plan development as well as development of in-stream flow recommendations, multiple purpose water storage assessment, and water quality planning.
Parks Department
No Child Left Inside Grants — Washington State Parks is now funding educational and recreational programs that provide a large number of under-served students with quality opportunities to directly experience the natural world. Applications will be available in early 2008 at www.parks.wa.gov/NoChildLeftInside.
Recreation and Conservation Office
The Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) provides funding to assist in preserving, developing, and assuring accessibility to outdoor recreation resources including but not limited to parks, trails, wildlife lands, and other lands and facilities desirable for individual active participation. http://www.rco.wa.gov/rcfb/grants/lwcf.htm.
Aquatic Lands Enhancement Account (ALEA) Grants Program provides grant-in-aid support for the purchase, improvement, or protection of aquatic lands for public purposes, and for providing and improving access to such lands. It is guided by concepts originally developed by DNR, including re-establishment of naturally self-sustaining ecological functions related to aquatic lands, providing or restoring public access to the water, and increasing public awareness of aquatic lands as a finite natural resource and irreplaceable public heritage. http://www.rco.wa.gov/rcfb/grants/alea.htm.
Farmland Preservation Program (FPP) provides grants to preserve economically viable farmlands in Washington State and enhance ecological functions on those lands. http://www.rco.wa.gov/rcfb/grants/farmland.htm.
The Salmon Recovery Funding Board (SRFB) administers two grant programs for protection and restoration of salmon habitat: SFFB grants and Family Forest Fish Passage Program grants. http://www.rco.wa.gov/srfb/grants/salmon_recovery.htm http://www.rco.wa.gov/srfb/grants/fffp_program.htm
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