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Washington State Department of Ecology

SAVING PUGET SOUND

Federal Grants

RELATED ECOLOGY PROGRAMS

Watershed Protection and Restoration Grant
(assisted by Department of Commerce)

Ecology and Commerce are managing funds received from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to coordinate a six-year strategy to protect and restore watersheds that drain to Puget Sound. This strategy is based on working in partnership with local and tribal governments and other regional entities to implement practical solutions that advance the priorities of the Puget Sound Action Agenda toward achieving the ecosystem recovery targets set by Puget Sound Partnership (PSP). Commerce and Ecology will implement programs across four activity areas:

Watershed characterization
Land use and working lands
Strategies to manage stormwater
Strategies for protecting and restoring watersheds

Our primary goal is to protect and restore ecosystem processes, structures, and functions within a watershed context. To achieve this goal, Ecology and Commerce will be funding direct awards and projects solicited through a competitive process.

Available Grants

NEW! 1/12/2012 New Funding Opportunity:
RFP for Low Impact Development (LID) Guidance

Ecology is soliciting proposals to develop maintenance standards and guidance for low impact development (LID) stormwater practices and will provide training workshops for local government maintenance staff and others. Local governments adopting LID into development codes need maintenance procedures and training workshops to ensure that LID techniques designed to reduce stormwater impacts will continue to function over time.
Proposals are due February 13, 2012.

For more information about this RFP (RFP 1219 NEP), see Ecology's Contracts page

Awarded Grants

See complete list of awards offered from 2011 Watershed Grant RFP

Direct Awards Issued for Watershed Grant:

Develop Project List for Stormwater Retrofits - $125,000
direct award to Puget Sound Regional Council
(Awarded early June, 2011)
This award will fund phase 1 of a program to develop a prioritized stormwater retrofit project list for the four most urban counties in the Puget Sound area. The project will focus on prioritizing retrofit projects related to transportation systems in Snohomish, King, Pierce, and Kitsap counties. Phase 1 will produce a work program for this effort, a background report that explores the major issues related to transportation stormwater impacts, and a scope of work for the entire program. This program could serve as a template for other Puget Sound local governments who are working on prioritizing stormwater retrofit projects.