Guidance for the National Park Service in conducting vulnerability assessments in the Northeast Region; Colonial National Historical Park pilot assessment | Apply Online

Opportunity Summary:

This opportunity is a National Park Service (NPS) funding notice for a single, non-competitive cooperative agreement focused on climate or resource vulnerability assessment work in the NPS Northeast Region, using Colonial National Historical Park as a pilot site. The formal title is "Guidance for the National Park Service in conducting vulnerability assessments in the Northeast Region; Colonial National Historical Park pilot assessment," and it is identified by Funding Opportunity Number NPS 16 NERO 0098. Although it appears in the format of a typical grant posting, the key point is that it is explicitly not a request for applications. Instead, it serves as a public notice that NPS intends to fund specific project activities without competition, meaning there is no open call where multiple applicants can submit proposals and be reviewed against one another.

The award is categorized as a discretionary funding action under the Department of the Interior, National Park Service, and it will be issued as a cooperative agreement rather than a traditional grant. A cooperative agreement generally indicates that NPS expects to have substantial involvement in the project, such as collaborating on the scope of work, providing technical direction, participating in planning and review, and coordinating how the work aligns with agency needs. The funding activity category is Natural Resources, and the CFDA program number listed is 15.945, which historically corresponds to NPS assistance programs related to natural resource stewardship and related technical support.

In terms of scale and structure, the notice indicates an award ceiling of $50,000 and an expectation of one award. That combination strongly suggests a targeted, pilot-focused effort rather than a large, multi-site research program. The emphasis on "guidance" and "vulnerability assessments" indicates the project is likely meant to help NPS refine or standardize how it evaluates vulnerabilities in park resources and operations within the Northeast Region, while simultaneously testing or demonstrating the approach at Colonial National Historical Park. In practice, vulnerability assessments in park settings often involve identifying key natural and cultural resources, determining exposure and sensitivity to stressors (commonly including climate change impacts such as sea level rise, storm surge, flooding, erosion, temperature and precipitation shifts, and ecological change), evaluating adaptive capacity, and then translating findings into prioritized adaptation or management recommendations. Because Colonial National Historical Park includes coastal and historically significant landscapes, it can be a useful pilot location for testing methods that may later be applied across other parks in the region.

Eligibility is listed broadly as "Others," with the note that additional eligibility clarification exists in a referenced text field (not provided in the source excerpt). However, since the announcement states that NPS intends to fund activities without competition, eligibility language is less about inviting applications and more about meeting administrative requirements for public transparency. Typically, non-competitive notices like this are used when the agency has already identified a partner organization with specific expertise or an existing relationship that justifies a direct award under applicable federal assistance rules.

Key dates in the notice show a creation date of July 12, 2016, and an original closing date of July 21, 2016. In a standard competitive program, that closing date would function as an application deadline. Here, it functions more as the end of the public notice period or the point by which the agency expects to complete the administrative step of posting the intent, since the announcement is not soliciting proposals.

Overall, the announcement is best understood as an administrative and transparency posting: NPS is signaling that it will invest up to $50,000 through one cooperative agreement to support the development and/or delivery of vulnerability assessment guidance for the Northeast Region, demonstrated through a pilot assessment at Colonial National Historical Park, with NPS actively involved in shaping and using the results.

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