Assistance program
Rivers, Trails and Conservation Assistance
$4.7 Million committed in FY2018–FY2025
- Agency
- National Park Service, Interior, Department of the
- Assistance
- Cooperative Agreements;Advisory Services and Counseling
- CFDA number
- 15.921
- What it does
- BEGINNING 9/2/2025 DO NOT USE THIS ASSISTANCE LISTING - EFFORTS UNDERWAY TO ARCHIVE/RETIRE IN 2026. The Rivers, Trails and Conservation Assistance Program implements the natural resource conservation and outdoor recreation mission of the National Park Service in communities across America.
- Who benefits
- Private nonprofit organizations and Federal, State and local government agencies.
- Who applies
- Private nonprofit organizations and Federal, State and local government agencies.
- Authorized by
- 16 Conservation U.S.C. § § 1241-51 The National Trails System Act
- Program site
- http://www.nps.gov/rtca. ↗
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How to read these numbers
- Committed through this program
Money committed under this assistance listing (its CFDA program), counted in the year each action happened.
- How it's paid
Most programs pay out one way — a grant, or a direct payment to individuals; the flow bar only appears when a program genuinely mixes types.
- Some recipients aren't itemized
For entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare, the government reports one aggregate instead of naming tens of millions of people, so the recipient roster isn't part of the public record.
- Awards, counted once
An award count is the number of distinct awards with at least one action that year — each counted once, however many times it was amended.
- The colored bars
Every bar on this page splits by how the money moves:
Direct payments