Survey and Inventory for Listed and At-Risk Species in Georgia | F18AS00322

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The grant opportunity titled "Survey and Inventory for Listed and At-Risk Species in Georgia" (Funding Opportunity Number F18AS00322) is a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service notice of intent to make a single-source award, meaning it is not a competitive solicitation and there is no full funding announcement attached. The Service plans to issue a cooperative agreement, with the Georgia Department of Natural Resources identified as the intended recipient. Although the eligibility field is broadly labeled as "unrestricted," the text makes clear that this particular action is designed as a one-recipient, single-source award rather than an open competition.

The purpose of the project is to support field surveys and inventory work focused on priority plant species in southwest Georgia. The surveys are intended to improve understanding of where sensitive plants occur, how populations are doing, and what habitat conditions they are associated with. The work is framed as supporting conservation needs for both federally listed species and species considered at risk, including plants that have received substantial 90-day findings by the Service. In practical terms, that points to species that have attracted formal petition review attention and may warrant heightened conservation focus. The focal species named in the notice are Lythrum curtissii, Rhexia parviflora, Coreopsis integrifolia, Lindera melissifolia, Litsea aestivalis, and Sideroxylon thornei, with the project also encompassing other listed species present in the target landscape.

A key feature of the effort is its connection to the Quail Country Candidate Conservation Agreement with Assurances (CCAA), described as recently signed. The surveys would be conducted within the CCAA priority area and are meant to complement that landscape-scale conservation framework. Work would occur on a mix of public lands and private lands that are under conservation easements, which suggests coordinated access and management goals across ownership boundaries. This type of arrangement is commonly used to align voluntary conservation actions with species and habitat objectives, and survey data are typically foundational for targeting management, documenting baseline conditions, and tracking outcomes over time.

From an administrative standpoint, the opportunity is categorized as discretionary and uses a cooperative agreement as the funding instrument, which generally indicates substantial federal involvement during the project (such as coordination on objectives, methods, reporting, or data standards) compared with a more hands-off grant. The activity areas listed include education, environment, natural resources, science and technology, and research and development, and the CFDA program number is 15.664. The notice indicates an expected single award, with an award ceiling listed as 1 (as written in the source data). The posting was created on August 24, 2018, with an original closing date of August 31, 2018, reflecting that this was essentially a time-bounded public notice of the agency's intent rather than an open call for applications.

Overall, the notice describes a targeted, partner-driven conservation science project: collect on-the-ground occurrence and status information for selected rare and at-risk plants in southwest Georgia, deliver those data in support of implementation under the Quail Country CCAA, and do so through a cooperative agreement with the Georgia Department of Natural Resources as the sole intended recipient.

• The Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service in the education, environment, natural resources, science and technology and other research and development sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Survey and Inventory for Listed and At-Risk Species in Georgia" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 15.664.
• This funding opportunity was created on Aug 24, 2018.
• Applicants must submit their applications by Aug 31, 2018 THIS IS A NOTICE OF INTENT TO AWARD TO A SINGLE SOURCE ANNOUNCEMENT ASSOCIATED WITH THIS NOTICE.. (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 $1.00 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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