Opportunity Information: Apply for NPSNOIELMO1701131
The National Park Service (NPS), within the U.S. Department of the Interior, issued a public notice for a grant-related action titled "Restoration and Preservation Maintenance of El Morro's Historic Headland Trail" (Funding Opportunity Number NPSNOIELMO1701131). The activity is categorized under Natural Resources and is associated with CFDA 15.931, which generally covers National Park Service programs. The announcement was created on July 18, 2017, with an original closing date of July 28, 2017, and it anticipates a single award.
This notice is unusual in the sense that it is explicitly not a request for applications. In practical terms, that means the NPS was not opening a competitive process for new applicants to submit proposals. Instead, the agency was announcing its intention to make a task agreement award under an existing "master cooperative agreement" that had already been competed previously, or that was supported by a single-source justification. Master cooperative agreements are umbrella arrangements that set terms, conditions, and general expectations in advance, and then specific task agreements (or task orders) are issued later to authorize particular pieces of work. The purpose of this kind of notice is largely transparency: it alerts the public that federal funding will be used for this project and that the agency is proceeding through a pre-established partnership mechanism rather than a new open competition.
The funding instrument type is a Cooperative Agreement, which typically indicates substantial involvement by the federal agency during the project compared to a standard grant. Cooperative agreements are often used when the agency expects to collaborate closely with the partner on technical decisions, project coordination, resource protection requirements, compliance steps, or on-the-ground implementation. Given the project title, the work likely focuses on hands-on restoration and preservation maintenance related to the Historic Headland Trail at El Morro, which generally implies trail stabilization, erosion control, protection of adjacent cultural or natural resources, repair or replacement of trail features, and preservation-oriented maintenance practices consistent with historic landscape considerations.
The eligible applicant type listed is nonprofits with 501(c)(3) status (excluding institutions of higher education). Even though eligibility is stated, it does not mean that new nonprofits could apply through this notice, because the announcement is not soliciting applications. The eligibility field reflects the type of partner that could hold or participate in the underlying master cooperative agreement, or the category of entity the NPS is working with for the intended task agreement. The notice also lists an award ceiling of 0, which commonly appears in announcements that are informational only, where a precise funding cap is not being advertised because there is no open competition, or because the actual task agreement amount is defined within the existing master agreement or project-specific internal documents.
In summary, this opportunity is best understood as an informational announcement that the NPS intended to proceed with a single, specific cooperative agreement task under a pre-existing partnership framework to support restoration and preservation maintenance work on El Morro's Historic Headland Trail. It was not a call for proposals, not an invitation to submit applications, and not a competitive funding round, but rather a formal public notice of the agency's planned award action.Apply for NPSNOIELMO1701131
- The Department of the Interior, National Park Service in the natural resources sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Restoration and Preservation Maintenance of El Morro's Historic Headland Trail" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 15.931.
- This funding opportunity was created on Jul 18, 2017.
- Applicants must submit their applications by Jul 28, 2017. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 1 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education.
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