Assistance program
National Wild and Scenic Rivers System
$25.6 Million committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- National Park Service, Interior, Department of the
- Assistance
- Cooperative Agreements
- CFDA number
- 15.962
- What it does
- The objectives of this program are to assist, advise, and cooperate with States or their political subdivisions, landowners, private organizations, other federal agencies or authorized wild and scenic river management councils or committees to plan, protect, and manage river resources associated with those rivers designated into the National Wild and Scenic River system for which the Department of the Interior is authorized to act as the federal administrator.
- Who benefits
- States or their political subdivisions, landowners, private non-profit organizations, other federal agencies or duly authorized by a river’s enabling legislation wild and scenic river management councils or committees.
- Who applies
- States or their political subdivisions, landowners, private non-profit organizations, or duly authorized by a river’s enabling legislation wild and scenic river management councils or committees.
- Authorized by
- 16 U.S.C 1281(e) and Section 1282(b)(1) - The National Wild and Scenic Rivers Act.
- Program site
- https://www.nps.gov/wsr ↗
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.
Top recipients
By dollars committed.
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
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- Some recipients aren't itemized
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- Awards, counted once
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- The colored bars
Every bar on this page splits by how the money moves:
Direct payments