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PA Bulletin, Doc. No. 21-612

NOTICES

DEPARTMENT OF
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

Watershed Planning and Restoration Grants through the Section 319 Nonpoint Source Management Program; Request for Applications

[51 Pa.B. 2228]
[Saturday, April 17, 2021]

 As part of the Department of Environmental Protection's (Department) section 319 Nonpoint Source Management Grants Program, applications will soon be accepted for watershed planning and restoration grants. Funded in part by the United States Environmental Protection Agency under section 319(h) of the Federal Clean Water Act (33 U.S.C.A. § 1329(h)), the Department administers a grant program to fund watershed projects that are part of approved watershed implementation plans (WIP). The grants are designed to improve and protect waters in this Commonwealth from nonpoint source pollution associated with agricultural activities, abandoned mine drainage (AMD), stormwater runoff, energy resource extraction, and streambank and shoreline degradation.

 Eligible applicants include incorporated watershed associations, counties or municipalities, county conservation districts, council of governments or other authorized organizations including nonprofit organizations, educational institutions and municipal authorities.

 The Department is focusing these grants on projects that reduce nonpoint source pollution in targeted watersheds with WIPs, especially projects that reduce nitrogen, phosphorous and sediment pollution from agricultural and stormwater runoff, along with AMD-related pollution from iron, aluminum and acidity. The Department is particularly interested in projects that implement effective Best Management Practices (BMP) that reduce or eliminate stream impairments within WIP areas, leading to local water quality improvements.

 Examples of eligible projects include design and construction of BMPs, including riparian forest buffers, streambank fencing, agricultural erosion and sediment control, and nutrient and manure management practices; animal waste storage systems, animal concentration area/animal heavy use area protection and barnyard runoff controls; design and construction of stormwater control measures; AMD treatment systems; and other projects that will reduce nonpoint source pollution in watersheds where streams are impaired.

 Applications and all supporting documentation must be submitted online through the Commonwealth's Electronic Single Application web site, eGrants, at www.esa.dced.state.pa.us. The application period opens at 8 a.m. on Thursday, April 22, 2021, and will remain open through Friday, June 25, 2021. Applications received after 5 p.m. on June 25, 2021, will not be considered.

 Interested applicants with questions may e-mail RA-EP319grantFunding@pa.gov. For more information regarding the Section 319 Nonpoint Source Management Grants Program, visit the Department's web site at www.dep.pa.gov (search ''Nonpoint Source'').

PATRICK McDONNELL, 
Secretary

[Pa.B. Doc. No. 21-612. Filed for public inspection April 16, 2021, 9:00 a.m.]


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