DISASTER RECOVERY – Emergency Watershed Protection Program
USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service
Funding Amount
None specified
Deadline
Rolling / Open
Grant Type
state
Overview
DISASTER RECOVERY – Emergency Watershed Protection Program
Offers technical and financial assistance to help local communities relieve imminent threats to life and property caused by natural disasters that impair a watershed. Planning, design, and construction oversight are part of this program. Eligible activities include: removing debris from stream channels, road culverts and bridges;reshaping and protecting eroded streambanks;correcting damaged or destroyed drainage facilities;establishing vegetative cover on critically eroding lands;repairing levees and structures; repairing certain conservation practices; andpurchasing EWP Buyouts.Commonly eligible projects include head-cutting gullies, severely eroded stream banks and drainage ditches, wildfire damage, debris in channels, sediment deposits in creeks and drainage ditches, channel stabilization at culverts and bridges, and landslides causing a watershed impairment.
Details
- Funding Entity: USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service
- Funding Type: Grant
- Funding Range: None specified
- Match Required: 25% of construction costs; NRCS may provide up to 100% of costs for purchase of floodplain easement and restoration project.
How to Apply
Deadline: Project sponsors must submit a formal Request for Assistance within 60 days of the disaster occurrence or 60 days from the date when access to the sites becomes available.
Apply Via: A Request for Assistance letter directed to VT’s NRCS office
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