Opportunity Information: Apply for NPS NOI 15 CESU 76505
The funding opportunity titled "Ecohydrology studies along the Big Bend reach of the Rio Grande within Big Bend National Park and the Rio Grande Wild and Scenic" is a National Park Service (NPS) notice describing the agency's intent to make a single, non-competitive award to support ongoing environmental monitoring and research in and around the Rio Grande corridor near Big Bend National Park. It is categorized as a discretionary opportunity and would be issued as a cooperative agreement, meaning the recipient is expected to work in close coordination with the federal partner rather than operating entirely independently.
This announcement is explicitly a Notice of Intent (NOI), not an open solicitation. In practical terms, that means the NPS is not asking the public to submit proposals and is not running a competition. Instead, the agency is documenting its plan to issue a task agreement under an existing umbrella partnership: the Gulf Coast Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU) Master Cooperative Agreement (P12AC51051). The NOI references Department of the Interior policy (505 Departmental Manual 2.12C) that governs when and how a non-competitive, single-source award can be justified and documented.
The project purpose is focused on ecohydrology, specifically continuing an assessment of both water quality and water quantity for the Rio Grande and associated springs, along with evaluating the overall environmental condition of the Rio Grande Wild and Scenic River reach. While the brief summary does not list specific methods, this type of work commonly includes repeated field measurements and sampling to track key indicators over time, such as flow conditions, basic water chemistry, sediment or turbidity patterns, and spring discharge characteristics. The emphasis on "continue assessment" suggests the work is part of an established monitoring effort where consistent, comparable data collected over multiple years is important for understanding trends, changes, and potential stressors in the river and spring systems.
The eligible applicant field is effectively irrelevant to the general public in this case because the NPS states it is a single-source award. The intended recipient is Sul Ross State University, which aligns with how CESU networks are often used to partner with universities that have regional expertise, established field capacity, and continuity with prior research in a specific landscape. The opportunity anticipates one award, and the posting includes an original closing date of 2015-09-21, which functions more like an administrative timeline for the notice rather than a deadline for applications, since applications are not being accepted.
A few administrative details further frame the announcement. The opportunity number is listed as NPS NOI 15 CESU 76505, the CFDA program number is 15.945, and the activity category is Environment. The award ceiling is shown as 0, which typically indicates that the public-facing synopsis is not specifying a maximum dollar amount in the listing itself (often because the amount is determined in the underlying task agreement or supporting documentation rather than in the synopsis). The creation date is 2015-09-14, which places it as a time-specific notice tied to that year.
Overall, the announcement is best understood as a formal public record that the National Park Service plans to fund continued ecohydrology and water-resource condition assessment work along the Big Bend reach of the Rio Grande under a CESU mechanism, with Sul Ross State University as the designated partner, and without opening the work to competitive applications.Apply for NPS NOI 15 CESU 76505
- The National Park Service in the environment sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Ecohydrology studies along the Big Bend reach of the Rio Grande within Big Bend National Park and the Rio Grande Wild and Scenic" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 15.945.
- This funding opportunity was created on 2015-09-14.
- Applicants must submit their applications by 2015-09-21. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 1 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Others.
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