Assistance program
Geographic Programs - Lake Pontchartrain Basic Restoration Program (PRP)
$55.1 Million committed in FY2018–FY2025
- Agency
- Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Protection Agency
- Assistance
- Cooperative Agreements
- CFDA number
- 66.125
- What it does
- The purpose of the Clean Water Act Section 121 (33 U.S.C. 1273) Lake Pontchartrain Basin Restoration Program (PRP) is to restore the ecological health of the Basin by developing and funding restoration projects and related scientific and public education projects. EPA will invest PRP funds to maintain, protect and restore the water quality of the Basin through the implementation of the Comprehensive Conservation Management Plan (CCMP), formally known as the Comprehensive Management Plan. Under the CWA Section 121, the Base program will receive approximately $2.2 million for Fiscal Year 2025. Under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), the Program has received approximately $10.1 million per year in project funds for FYs 2022- 2026. Both Base and IIJA funding prioritize the improvement of Lake Pontchartrain’s environmental health and climate resilience in an equitable manner. Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA)-funded Assistance Listings The Lake Pontchartrain Basin Restoration Program considered and integrated relevant approaches to achieving the intended goals and objectives of IIJA and M-22-12 “Advancing Effective Stewardship of Taxpayer Resources and Outcomes in the Implementation of the Infrastructure Jobs Act.†To achieve the intended goals of benefiting disadvantaged communities and building climate change resilience, the Program developed an Equity Strategy and guidance documents (including priorities from Executive Order 14052: “Implementation of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Actâ€). EPA will invest public dollars equitably, create jobs and high labor stands, ensure goods and services are made in America and build infrastructure that is climate change resilient.
- Who benefits
- Direct beneficiaries of this program include the residents and visitors to the Lake Pontchartrain Basin Watershed.
- Who applies
- Federal, state, interstate, local governments, Tribal governments (must be federally-recognized), regional water pollution control agencies and other public or nonprofit private agencies, institutions, and organizations; and public and private institutions of higher education are eligible. Private profit-making entities, and individuals are not eligible. Eligible subaward grantees may be located outside of the Lake Pontchartrain Basin Watershed, but projects must be located inside the Basin.
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