Assistance program
Coastal
$89.4 Million committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- U.s. Fish and Wildlife Service, Interior, Department of the
- Assistance
- Cooperative Agreements (Discretionary Grants)
- CFDA number
- 15.630
- What it does
- To provide technical and financial assistance to partners to implement voluntary coastal habitat protection, restoration, and improvement projects that benefit federal trust species, including species listed as threatened or endangered, migratory birds, interjurisdictional fish, and certain marine mammals. Coastal habitats include, coastal wetlands, estuaries, watersheds, and shorelines, and near shore habitats like seagrass beds and coral reefs. Our conservation investments benefit coastal-dependent species, coastal communities and their economies, and provide recreational communities.
- Who benefits
- Federal, state, interstate and intrastate agencies, tribes, local governments; public nongovernmental organizations (such as conservation organizations, watershed councils, land trusts, schools and universities); U.S. territories and possessions; private landowners, including individuals and businesses.
- Who applies
- Federal, State, interstate and intrastate agencies; local and tribal governments; public nonprofit institutes and organizations (such as conservation organizations, watershed councils, land trusts, schools and institutions of higher learning); U.S. territories and possessions; private landowners including individuals and businesses.
- Authorized by
- Coastal Habitat Conservation Act of 2023 (Public Law No. 118-138)
- Program site
- https://www.fws.gov/program/coastal ↗
Committed by fiscal year
* FY2026 is year-to-date — the fiscal year is still in progress, so its total is still filling in. The striped band and dashed line mark that provisional stretch.
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- Committed through this program
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- Awards, counted once
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- The colored bars
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Direct payments