Opportunity Information: Apply for G21AS00518
The WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH ACT PROGRAM NATIONAL COMPETITIVE GRANTS FY2021 Program Announcement (Funding Opportunity Number G21AS00518) is a discretionary federal grant competition administered by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) under authority delegated from the Secretary of the Interior. It operates under Section 104 of the Water Resources Research Act of 1984 (Public Law 98-242), as later amended by multiple subsequent public laws. In practical terms, this announcement is the federal mechanism for funding research-based work tied to the national network of Water Resources Research Institutes and Centers that Congress established to strengthen water science, water management knowledge, and related training and outreach capacity across the United States and its territories.
A central feature of this program is that eligibility is anchored to the formally recognized Water Resources Research Institutes/Centers established under Section 104(a) of the Act. There are 54 such Institutes/Centers: one in each of the 50 states plus the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Guam. The geographic coverage is broadened in the Pacific through shared service areas: the Guam Institute also serves the Federated States of Micronesia and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and the Hawaii Institute also serves American Samoa. The program points applicants to the official Institute list and contact information hosted by USGS (water.usgs.gov/wrri/index.php), which is essentially the definitive directory for determining which entities can serve as the submitting Institute/Center.
While the awards themselves are only made to these designated Institutes or Centers, the program is designed so that researchers are not limited to staff inside those Institutes. Any investigator at an institution of higher learning in the United States may seek an award as long as the proposal is submitted through an eligible Water Research Institute or Center. That structure matters because it means the Institute/Center acts as the official applicant and channel for submission, even when the research team is based elsewhere within the higher education community. Another practical implication is that project ideas typically need to align with the Institute/Center’s internal priorities and submission process, since the Institute/Center Director has discretion over whether to support proposals that request matching funds from the Institute/Center.
Applications must be submitted electronically through Grants.gov by the university that hosts the Institute/Center. The announcement specifies the standard federal forms that must accompany the full proposal package, including SF-424 and SF-424B along with budget forms. This makes it a conventional federal assistance application in terms of paperwork and routing: even if a principal investigator develops the technical narrative, the sponsoring university and Institute/Center are responsible for the official submission and compliance pieces.
From the funding snapshot provided in the announcement record, the program is classified under CFDA 15.805 and sits in the Natural Resources funding activity category. The published award ceiling is $250,000. The opportunity listing shows an original closing date of June 24, 2021, and a creation date of May 18, 2021. The listing characterizes eligible applicants broadly as “Others,” but the narrative clarifies the controlling rule: only the Section 104 Institutes/Centers can receive awards directly, with university investigators participating via those entities. Overall, the announcement describes a national, institute-centered competitive grant program intended to fund water resources research through a distributed network that covers every state and key U.S. territories, administered by USGS under the Water Resources Research Act framework.Apply for G21AS00518
- The Geological Survey in the natural resources sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH ACT PROGRAM NATIONAL COMPETITIVE GRANTS FY2021 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENT" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 15.805.
- This funding opportunity was created on 2021-05-18.
- Applicants must submit their applications by 2021-06-24. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $250,000.00 in funding.
- Eligible applicants include: Others.
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