Opportunity Information: Apply for L25AS00192
The FY25 IIJA/IRA Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Wyoming Good Neighbor Authority (GNA) funding opportunity (Opportunity Number L25AS00192) is a discretionary, natural-resources grant offered as a cooperative agreement. It is designed to help BLM in Wyoming partner across boundaries to complete on-the-ground restoration and resilience work that is hard to do when land ownership and management are split among federal, state, local, tribal, and private interests. The program’s strategic goals focus on restoring landscape connectivity and function, conserving and restoring lands in ways that help address climate change, improving water resources, and repairing or mitigating legacy disturbances (older impacts on the land such as degraded sites, erosion problems, or past development effects that still need restoration).
A key theme in this opportunity is cross-boundary coordination. Many of the project examples are framed around situations where effective restoration requires multiple landowners or jurisdictions to act together rather than in isolated patches. The Good Neighbor Authority tool is highlighted as a practical mechanism for aligning BLM work with a cooperating entity’s efforts so that treatments can be implemented consistently across a broader landscape, improving ecological outcomes and reducing inefficiencies. The emphasis is not just on planning, but on getting work completed on the ground through coordinated implementation.
The notice describes a wide range of eligible project types that fit Wyoming BLM priorities. Noxious weed and invasive species treatments are a major category, including herbicide applications, mechanical removal, and biological controls, especially when those treatments are already being conducted nearby and BLM-managed acres can be included to make the overall effort more effective. Fuels management is another core area, with examples such as thinning, piling, mastication, mowing, and the use of chemical or biological applications, as well as prescribed fire. These activities are framed around protecting at-risk communities, improving wildfire resilience, and supporting safe and effective wildfire response. Closely related community assistance projects are also contemplated, particularly when there is mutual benefit across ownership boundaries and when partners can leverage funds to accelerate treatments like thinning near communities or juniper removal to improve broader landscape resilience.
Forest management activities are included, especially those that increase forest resilience to wildfire, insects, disease, and drought through density management and related treatments. On rangelands, the opportunity calls out plant restoration needs after wildfire, drought, or invasive species impacts. The examples here extend beyond simply reseeding; they include development of plant materials, seed collection, site preparation, and seeding or planting with seed or seedlings. The notice underscores that native plant restoration often makes the most sense at a cross-boundary scale, and GNA can be used when a cooperating entity is already doing that work and BLM can align its acres with the same restoration push.
Wildlife movement, migration, and habitat connectivity are explicitly prioritized, with an emphasis on cooperative habitat restoration and rangeland structural improvements that reduce barriers and support unimpeded wildlife movement. The opportunity gives concrete examples such as fence removal or fence upgrades to reduce animal fatalities and movement constraints; invasive species control and revegetation along migration corridors and stopover areas; and improving water availability in key movement areas. Water-related examples include development and protection of natural springs, removal of invasive riparian vegetation to increase water availability, building guzzlers or other artificial water sources, and wet meadow restoration. This ties directly back to the program goals around both connectivity and water resources.
The notice also discusses NEPA support in a careful way. It clarifies that BLM’s decision-making authority under NEPA cannot be delegated to a cooperating entity, but a partner can assist in conducting NEPA work when that support is part of the overall project needed to implement authorized restoration services. In practice, this signals that proposals can include partner capacity to help with analysis, documentation, surveys, or related preparatory components, while BLM retains the formal decision role.
Riparian restoration is another highlighted category, particularly following floods, large washouts, or other changes that alter riparian form and function in ways that affect wildlife and livestock. The program notes that riparian work is often most effective when implemented across an entire stream reach in coordination with partners and other federal agencies. Example actions include headcut and erosion control structures, repair or removal of check dams, addressing leaking ditches, recontouring channels or banks, and revegetation to stabilize streambanks and restore function.
Targeted grazing is included as an eligible tool when used as carefully controlled grazing to achieve specific vegetation management outcomes, such as weed control, wildfire fuels reduction, and other restoration objectives. The notice points out that implementing targeted grazing commonly requires supporting infrastructure and monitoring, including fence installation, range improvements or enclosures, maintenance of those improvements, and livestock and range monitoring. Importantly, there is a major eligibility limitation tied to this program: the overall opportunity is limited to state, county, and tribal governments, and all other applicant types are ineligible. That limitation matters in practice because it narrows who can directly apply and receive an award, even if other entities might play roles as subcontractors or partners under an eligible applicant’s lead.
There are also clear constraints around youth hiring and internship programs. This NOFO does not support applicants hiring interns or crews under the Public Lands Corps Act of 1993, and it states that the Public Lands Corps Act is the only legislative authority that allows BLM to "hire" interns under that framework. As a result, Youth Conservation Corps entities are directed instead to the separate funding opportunity under NOFO 15.243, BLM Youth Conservation Opportunities on Public Lands, if they want to pursue projects structured around that authority. This is essentially a boundary-setting statement: this GNA opportunity is for restoration implementation through eligible governmental applicants, not for building youth crews through PLC authorities.
For applicants connected to Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Units (CESUs), the notice includes an indirect cost policy that can affect budgeting. CESUs are described as partnerships intended to promote and provide research, studies, monitoring, technical assistance, and educational services. If an award is made to a CESU partner under a formally negotiated Master CESU agreement consistent with CESU purposes, the indirect cost rate is capped at no more than 17.5 percent of the indirect cost base recognized in the partner’s federally approved NICRA. Applicants are asked to state whether their proposal furthers CESU purposes and, if so, which CESU Network should be considered as the host. This portion signals that CESU-based proposals are welcome, but budgeting needs to reflect the specific CESU indirect-cost limitation when applicable.
From a logistics standpoint, the opportunity is administered by the Bureau of Land Management, with CFDA (Assistance Listing) number 15.015, and it anticipates awards under a cooperative agreement structure, meaning BLM is likely to have substantial involvement during project execution compared with a standard grant. The original application closing date is February 17, 2025. The posted award ceiling is $5,350,000. The eligible applicant categories listed are state governments, county governments, federally recognized tribal governments, and tribal organizations other than federally recognized tribal governments, aligning with the program statement that eligibility is limited to state, county, and tribal governments. Overall, the opportunity is best read as a Wyoming-focused cross-boundary restoration and resilience vehicle under GNA, aimed at practical, implementable projects that tie directly to connectivity, climate-resilient restoration, water improvements, and repairing past land impacts.Apply for L25AS00192
- The Bureau of Land Management in the natural resources sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "FY25 IIJA/IRA Bureau of Land Management Wyoming Good Neighbor Authority" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 15.015.
- This funding opportunity was created on 2024-12-16.
- Applicants must submit their applications by 2025-02-17. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $5,350,000.00 in funding.
- Eligible applicants include: State governments, County governments, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments).
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
1) What is this funding opportunity?
This is the FY25 IIJA/IRA Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Wyoming Good Neighbor Authority (GNA) funding opportunity (Opportunity Number L25AS00192). It is a discretionary, natural-resources grant offered as a cooperative agreement to support cross-boundary, on-the-ground restoration and resilience work in Wyoming.
2) Who is administering the program?
The opportunity is administered by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM).
3) What is the Assistance Listing (CFDA) number?
The Assistance Listing (CFDA) number is 15.015.
4) What type of award is expected?
BLM anticipates making awards as cooperative agreements. This structure typically means BLM expects substantial involvement during project execution compared with a standard grant.
5) What is the main purpose of this opportunity?
The purpose is to help BLM in Wyoming partner across boundaries to complete restoration and resilience work that is difficult to accomplish when land ownership and management are split among federal, state, local, tribal, and private interests.
6) What are the strategic goals of the program?
The notice highlights strategic goals including restoring landscape connectivity and function; conserving and restoring lands in ways that help address climate change; improving water resources; and repairing or mitigating legacy disturbances (older impacts such as degraded sites, erosion problems, or past development effects that still need restoration).
7) Why is cross-boundary coordination emphasized so strongly?
Many restoration outcomes depend on multiple landowners or jurisdictions acting together rather than treating isolated patches. The Good Neighbor Authority is presented as a practical mechanism to align BLM work with a cooperating entity so treatments can be implemented consistently across a broader landscape, improving ecological outcomes and reducing inefficiencies.
8) Is this opportunity focused on planning or on implementation?
The emphasis is on getting work completed on the ground through coordinated implementation, not just on planning.
9) What types of projects are eligible?
The notice describes a wide range of eligible project types aligned with Wyoming BLM priorities, including invasive species treatments, fuels management, forest and rangeland restoration, wildlife connectivity and habitat improvements, water-related projects, riparian restoration, NEPA support (with limits), and targeted grazing (with associated infrastructure and monitoring).
10) Are noxious weed and invasive species projects eligible?
Yes. The opportunity specifically calls out noxious weed and invasive species treatments, including herbicide applications, mechanical removal, and biological controls, especially when treatments are already occurring nearby and adding BLM-managed acres would improve overall effectiveness.
11) Are fuels management and wildfire resilience projects eligible?
Yes. Examples include thinning, piling, mastication, mowing, chemical or biological applications, and prescribed fire. These activities are framed around protecting at-risk communities, improving wildfire resilience, and supporting safe and effective wildfire response.
12) Does the opportunity support projects that benefit nearby communities?
Yes. The notice contemplates community assistance projects when there is mutual benefit across ownership boundaries and when partners can leverage funds to accelerate treatments (for example, thinning near communities or juniper removal) to improve broader landscape resilience.
13) Are forest management projects eligible?
Yes. Forest management activities are included, especially those that increase forest resilience to wildfire, insects, disease, and drought through density management and related treatments.
14) Are rangeland restoration and native plant work eligible?
Yes. The opportunity highlights rangeland plant restoration after wildfire, drought, or invasive species impacts. Examples extend beyond reseeding and include development of plant materials, seed collection, site preparation, and seeding or planting with seed or seedlings.
15) Does the notice prioritize cross-boundary native plant restoration?
Yes. The notice underscores that native plant restoration often makes the most sense at a cross-boundary scale, and GNA can be used when a cooperating entity is already doing that work and BLM can align its acres with the same restoration effort.
16) Are wildlife movement and habitat connectivity projects eligible?
Yes. Wildlife movement, migration, and habitat connectivity are explicitly prioritized, including cooperative habitat restoration and rangeland structural improvements that reduce barriers and support unimpeded wildlife movement.
17) What are examples of wildlife connectivity actions mentioned in the notice?
Examples include fence removal or fence upgrades to reduce animal fatalities and movement constraints; invasive species control and revegetation along migration corridors and stopover areas; and improving water availability in key movement areas.
18) Are water-related projects eligible?
Yes. Water-related examples include development and protection of natural springs, removal of invasive riparian vegetation to increase water availability, building guzzlers or other artificial water sources, and wet meadow restoration.
19) Is riparian restoration eligible under this opportunity?
Yes. Riparian restoration is highlighted, particularly following floods, large washouts, or other changes that alter riparian form and function in ways that affect wildlife and livestock.
20) What riparian restoration actions are listed as examples?
Examples include headcut and erosion control structures, repair or removal of check dams, addressing leaking ditches, recontouring channels or banks, and revegetation to stabilize streambanks and restore function.
21) Can proposals include NEPA-related work?
Yes, with limitations. The notice clarifies that BLM decision-making authority under NEPA cannot be delegated to a cooperating entity, but partners can assist in conducting NEPA work when that support is part of the overall project needed to implement authorized restoration services.
22) What does it mean that BLM cannot delegate NEPA decision-making?
It means the partner may support analysis, documentation, surveys, or related preparatory components, but BLM retains the formal decision role under NEPA.
23) Is targeted grazing an eligible tool?
Yes. Targeted grazing is included as an eligible tool when used as carefully controlled grazing to achieve vegetation management outcomes such as weed control, wildfire fuels reduction, and other restoration objectives.
24) What kinds of supporting work are tied to targeted grazing in this notice?
The notice indicates targeted grazing commonly requires supporting infrastructure and monitoring, including fence installation, range improvements or enclosures, maintenance of those improvements, and livestock and range monitoring.
25) Who is eligible to apply?
The overall opportunity is limited to governmental applicants: state governments, county governments, and tribal governments. The eligible applicant categories listed include state governments, county governments, federally recognized tribal governments, and tribal organizations other than federally recognized tribal governments, consistent with the notice emphasis that eligibility is limited to state, county, and tribal governments.
26) Are non-governmental organizations or private entities eligible applicants?
No. The notice states that all other applicant types are ineligible.
27) Can ineligible entities participate in some way?
The notice notes that the eligibility limitation narrows who can directly apply and receive an award, even if other entities might play roles as subcontractors or partners under an eligible applicant's lead.
28) Does this opportunity fund youth hiring, internships, or youth crews under the Public Lands Corps Act?
No. The notice states this NOFO does not support applicants hiring interns or crews under the Public Lands Corps Act of 1993, and it notes that the Public Lands Corps Act is the only legislative authority that allows BLM to "hire" interns under that framework.
29) Where should Youth Conservation Corps entities look if they want PLC-style projects?
The notice directs Youth Conservation Corps entities to a separate funding opportunity: NOFO 15.243, BLM Youth Conservation Opportunities on Public Lands.
30) What is the application deadline?
The original application closing date is February 17, 2025.
31) What is the maximum award amount (ceiling)?
The posted award ceiling is $5,350,000.
32) How does the CESU indirect cost policy affect budgeting?
If an award is made to a CESU partner under a formally negotiated Master CESU agreement consistent with CESU purposes, the indirect cost rate is capped at no more than 17.5 percent of the indirect cost base recognized in the partner's federally approved NICRA.
33) What should CESU-connected applicants include in their proposal?
Applicants are asked to state whether their proposal furthers CESU purposes and, if so, which CESU Network should be considered as the host.
34) What are CESUs in the context of this notice?
CESUs are described as partnerships intended to promote and provide research, studies, monitoring, technical assistance, and educational services.
35) What does "legacy disturbances" mean in this opportunity?
The notice describes legacy disturbances as older impacts on the land, such as degraded sites, erosion problems, or past development effects that still need restoration.
36) Is this opportunity specific to Wyoming?
Yes. The opportunity is framed as a Wyoming-focused restoration and resilience vehicle intended to help BLM in Wyoming partner across boundaries for implementable on-the-ground work.
37) How does GNA help with cross-boundary projects?
The notice highlights GNA as a tool that helps align BLM work with a cooperating entity's efforts so treatments can be carried out consistently across a broader landscape, rather than being fragmented by boundaries.
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