Pacific Coastal Salmon Recovery Fund (Annual Appropriations and IIJA Funds) | NOAA NMFS WCRO 2025 29229

Opportunity Information: Apply for NOAA NMFS WCRO 2025 29229

The Pacific Coastal Salmon Recovery Fund (PCSRF) grant opportunity is a discretionary federal funding program administered by NOAA (under the Department of Commerce) to support on-the-ground efforts that restore and conserve Pacific salmon and steelhead populations and the habitat they depend on. This particular announcement covers funding made available through a mix of annual appropriations and Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) resources (often referred to as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law), along with the referenced recent appropriations and continuing resolution legislation that provide NOAA authority and budget capacity to make these awards. The overall purpose is practical and project-focused: paying for necessary expenses tied to salmon recovery, especially where populations are already listed under the Endangered Species Act as threatened or endangered, or where states have identified stocks as at-risk and likely to become listed without intervention.

Funding is specifically directed to a limited set of eligible recipients rather than being open to all applicant types. Eligible applicants include the states of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Nevada, California, and Alaska, as well as federally recognized tribes along the Columbia River and the Pacific Coast (including Alaska). The notice emphasizes that "federally recognized" has a specific legal meaning tied to the Federally Recognized Indian Tribe List Act of 1994, and it also references Executive Order 13175, which frames federal responsibilities for consultation and engagement with tribal governments. The opportunity also makes clear that the program is intended to support not only biological conservation outcomes, but also fisheries and food-security outcomes tied to tribal rights and traditions. In addition to helping recover ESA-listed fish, projects may be funded when they are needed to maintain populations necessary for the exercise of tribal treaty fishing rights or to support native subsistence fishing, including subsistence harvest in federally recognized non-treaty tribal fisheries.

Programmatically, PCSRF funds are aimed at conservation and habitat work that measurably improves salmon and steelhead status and resilience. While the notice excerpt does not list specific project types, the scope language points to actions that restore Pacific salmon populations and conserve Pacific coastal salmon and steelhead habitat, which commonly includes habitat restoration and protection activities that improve spawning and rearing conditions, remove or reduce limiting factors, and support long-term recovery planning and implementation. NOAA indicates that this announcement sets the priorities and guidelines that will be used to make awards, meaning applicants should expect project selection to be guided by how well proposals advance salmon recovery objectives, address identified risks to populations, and support treaty and subsistence fishing needs where applicable.

Key administrative details from the opportunity record include the opportunity number NOAA NMFS WCRO 2025 29229, catalog number CFDA 11.438, and a grant funding instrument. The opportunity is categorized under environment and natural resources. The posting indicates an application deadline of March 4, 2025. The listed award ceiling is $25,000,000, signaling that individual awards can be substantial depending on NOAA's final allocations and the scale of proposed work. The announcement was created on December 4, 2024, and it is presented as NOAA making federal funding available for eligible state and tribal entities to carry out salmon recovery projects within the eligible geographies and purposes described above.

• The DOC NOAA - ERA Production in the environment, natural resources sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Pacific Coastal Salmon Recovery Fund (Annual Appropriations and IIJA Funds)" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 11.438.
• This funding opportunity was created on 2024-12-04.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2025-03-04. (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 $25,000,000.00 in funding.
• Eligible applicants include: Others.

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