Great Lakes Program Funding

1. For the Operation of the Integrated Atmospheric Deposition Network (IADN)  (current)
2. FY2004 - 2005 Funding Guidance/Request for Proposals 
   Up to $4,180,000 for Great Lakes projects addressing Contaminated Sediments, Pollution Prevention and Toxic Reduction, Habitat (Ecological) Protection and Restoration, Invasive Species, Strategic or Emerging Issues, and Other Lakewide Management Plan or Remedial Action Plan (LaMP/RAP) Priorities. Applicants submitted 265 proposals requesting approximately $25 million.  77 projects totaling $3.8 M have been selected.
3. Great Lakes Legacy Act Request for Projects By the March 31, 2004 due date 14 projects totaling $80 million were submitted for the FY2004 appropriation of $10 million. These submittals are EPA's first priority for existing Legacy Act funding, and may be considered for any FY05 appropriation. Additional project ideas may be considered as time and resources allow. Interested applicants may contact Marc Tuchman (312-353-1369) or Scott Cieniawski (312-353-9184) to discuss that possibility.
4. In FY2003, USEPA's Great Lakes program issued awards for 106 projects, most through its 2003 - 2004 Request for Proposals/Funding Guidance. Under the Funding Guidance, GLNPO received 340 proposals and selected 92.
5. Previously Funded Projects
6. Great Lakes Project Requirements
7. Federal Grant Regulations and Policies
8. Other Funding Sources
9. Requests for Proposals

Descriptions of Previously Funded Projects

• Project Summaries (all categories)
  FY 2002 Project Summaries
  FY 2001 Project Summaries
  FY 2000 Project Summaries
  Search FY 99 Project Summaries
  FY 99 Project Summaries  
  FY 98 Project Summaries
  FY 96 - 97 Project Summaries
  FY 95 Project Summaries
  FY 93-94 Project Summaries
• Sediment Projects
  Moving Mud! Remediating Great Lakes Contaminated Sediments
  Realizing Remediation: A Summary of Contaminated Sediment Remediation Activities in the Great Lakes Basin
• Monitoring Projects
  Hanging in the Balance: A grant and contract summary of the Lake Michigan Mass Balance
• Habitat Projects
  Mining Ideas: Turning a Grant Assistance Program into a Knowledge Base
  Mining Ideas 2: A Report on 106 Great Lakes Ecological Protection and Restoration Projects
• Pollution Prevention Projects
  Pollution Solutions: Promoting Pollution Prevention in the Great Lakes Basin
• Completed Projects
  As our projects are completed, we post brief updates.

Other Funding Sources

• Roadmap to other funding sources

Great Lakes Project Requirements (and Forms)

• GLNPO Project Requirements
• Locational Data Policy
• Progress Report outline
• Required Project Quality Assurance Elements
• Quality Assurance Checklist for Great Lakes Projects
• Assistance forms

Federal Grant Regulations and Policies

• Grant Regulations & Policies
• Grants Management Circulars and Related Documents

Requests for Proposals

• For the Operation of the Integrated Atmospheric Deposition Network (IADN)  (current)
• 2002 - 2003 Request for Proposals (We are no longer requesting proposals for funding this year.) closed
  48 Proposals Selected
• Educational course on the Great Lakes (current)
• Trophic Status of Lake Erie closed
• 2001 - 2002 Request for Proposals (archive)
• Great Lakes Plankton and Benthos: Support for Monitoring and Surveillance Program
• Great Lakes International Coastal Wetlands Monitoring
• 2000 - 2001 Funding Guidance
  Invitation, request for proposals and criteria, application instructions, model submissions, registration, get submittal program
  • 2000 Great Lakes Guidance Preproposal Selection
  • Summary of preproposals we received.

We have previously issued the following requests for proposals:

• For the Operation of the Integrated Atmospheric Deposition Network (IADN) Quality Assurance Requirements for GLNPO Grantees- closed
• Educational course on the Great Lakes - closed
• Request for proposals for the determination of  hydrophobic organic contaminants in the
  water column of Lake Michigan - closed
• 1999 - 2000 Funding Guidance (closed January 1999)
  We received these submittals in 1999.  Full proposals were requested for these submitted preproposals.
• 1998 - 1999 Funding Guidance (closed January 15, 1998)
• Lake Michigan winter-spring plume (closed November 20, 1997)
• Atmospheric Loadings for Lake Michigan (Closing date: 7/15/96)
• Mercury Bioaccumulation in Fish (Closing date: 7/22/96)
• Biotic Index Based on Plankton Data - for Open Waters of the Great Lakes (closed 8/9/99)
• Trends in Great Lakes Fish Contaminants (closed 7/16/99)
• 1997 Funding Guidance
• FY 96 Funding Guidance and Request for Nominations
• FY 95 Great Lakes Program Priorities and Funding Process

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