Opportunity Information: Apply for L17AS00205
The BLM-(MT/DKs) Air Quality, Visibility, and Deposition Monitoring opportunity (Funding Opportunity Number L17AS00205) is a discretionary cooperative agreement offered by the Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, focused on environmental monitoring in eastern Montana and western North Dakota. The program is rooted in prior work by the BLM Montana/Dakotas office, which used photochemical grid modeling to estimate how anticipated future oil and gas development could affect regional air quality. Those modeling results indicated a risk of negative outcomes, including reduced visibility, increased atmospheric deposition, and higher concentrations of criteria air pollutants. The notice highlights particular concern for sensitive and highly valued areas such as Medicine Lake National Wildlife Refuge and Theodore Roosevelt National Park, where even moderate changes in air pollution can degrade scenic resources, harm ecosystems, or affect protected lands and waters.
The main purpose of the award is to support an adaptive management approach by generating real-world monitoring and sampling data that can be compared against the model predictions. Under this award, the selected recipient would carry out monitoring and sampling designed to assess trends in pollutants of concern over time and to help determine whether actual conditions match, exceed, or fall below what the models projected. In addition to tracking air pollutant concentrations and visibility-related impacts, the work is intended to evaluate effects on air quality related values, including potential impacts to biota and/or watersheds that could be influenced by atmospheric deposition (for example, nutrient or pollutant inputs that may affect soils, surface waters, or sensitive habitats). The effort is tied specifically to BLM air quality management within the Miles City Field Office area in Montana and the North Dakota Field Office area, where the agency wants better on-the-ground information to guide decisions and respond to changing development patterns.
The public benefit emphasized in the opportunity is practical and outcomes-focused: consistent measurement, tracking, and analysis of air quality and related resources helps protect public health and ecosystem health while also providing a way to evaluate whether air resource management strategies are working as intended. In other words, the monitoring is not just for recordkeeping; it is meant to produce actionable information that can inform future planning, mitigation, and management actions, especially in places where visibility and ecological integrity are valued by the public and are central to the mission of surrounding protected areas.
Administratively, the opportunity was listed under CFDA 15.236 and was open to unrestricted applicants (meaning any entity type could apply, subject to any additional eligibility language that might appear in the full announcement). The BLM anticipated making one award, with an award ceiling of $50,000. The opportunity was created on July 10, 2017, with an original application closing date of September 7, 2017.Apply for L17AS00205
- The Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management in the environment sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "BLM-(MT/DKs) Air Quality,Visibility, and Deposition Monitoring" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 15.236.
- This funding opportunity was created on Jul 10, 2017.
- Applicants must submit their applications by Sep 07, 2017. (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 $50,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 1 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Unrestricted (i.e., open to any type of entity above), subject to any clarification in text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility.
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