Fuels reduction and fire management on the Valles Caldera National Preserve | NPSNOIVALL1701547

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The National Park Service (NPS), within the Department of the Interior, published a public notice titled "Fuels reduction and fire management on the Valles Caldera National Preserve" (Funding Opportunity Number NPSNOIVALL1701547). Although it appears in the format of a grant opportunity, the notice explicitly states that it is not a request for applications. In practical terms, that means the NPS was not seeking new proposals from the public under this posting. Instead, the purpose was to inform the public that the agency intended to make an award as a task agreement under an existing master cooperative agreement that had already been competed, or that had been justified as single-source.

The activity focus is fuels reduction and fire management work on the Valles Caldera National Preserve. This type of work generally relates to managing vegetation and other burnable materials to reduce wildfire risk, support ecological goals, and improve safety and operational readiness for fire events. Because the notice is about issuing a task agreement under a pre-established cooperative framework, it signals that the main partnership arrangement and eligibility determination were already addressed through that earlier master agreement process, rather than through this announcement.

The funding instrument identified is a Cooperative Agreement, which typically indicates substantial involvement by the federal agency in carrying out the project compared to a standard grant. The program is categorized under Natural Resources, with CFDA number 15.944, aligning it with NPS natural resource stewardship and related management activities. The listing identifies eligible applicants as state governments, suggesting the intended recipient would be a state-level entity (or an entity participating through a state government arrangement) consistent with the underlying master cooperative agreement.

Administratively, the notice was created on August 29, 2017, with an original closing date of September 8, 2017. In a notice of intent context like this, the "closing date" is better understood as the end of the public notice period rather than a deadline to submit applications, since applications were not being solicited. The posting indicates an expectation of one award, and it lists an award ceiling of 0, which commonly reflects that a specific funding maximum was not being provided in the public notice or would be defined within the associated task agreement rather than the announcement itself.

Overall, the document serves as a transparency step: it communicates that the NPS planned to proceed with a single task-level award for fuels reduction and fire management at Valles Caldera, using an already-established cooperative agreement vehicle, rather than opening a new competitive grant round.

• The Department of the Interior, National Park Service in the natural resources sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Fuels reduction and fire management on the Valles Caldera National Preserve" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 15.944.
• This funding opportunity was created on Aug 29, 2017.
• Applicants must submit their applications by Sep 08, 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: State governments.

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