National Park Service An Assessment of informal trails and visitor created sites | Apply Online

Opportunity Summary:

The funding opportunity titled "National Park Service An Assessment of informal trails and visitor created sites" (Funding Opportunity Number NPS NOIP14AC00822) is a National Park Service discretionary grant action that will be issued as a cooperative agreement under the Rocky Mountain Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU). The purpose, as reflected in the title and brief description, is to support work assessing informal trails and visitor-created sites, which typically refers to user-made paths, social trails, and other unplanned visitor impacts that can affect natural resources, visitor safety, and park management operations.

This notice is not a broad, open competition. It is explicitly a Notice of Intent for a noncompetitive, single-source award, made in accordance with Department of the Interior policy cited as 505 Departmental Manual 2.12C. In practical terms, that means the agency has already identified the intended recipient and is documenting its intent to award without soliciting proposals from the general public. The eligibility section confirms this by stating that the announcement is not a request for applications and that the award is intended as a single-source award to Utah State University. The "Eligible Applicants" field is therefore effectively narrowed to that designated entity, even though the general category is listed as "Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification)."

From a program classification standpoint, the opportunity is associated with CFDA number 15.945, described as Cooperative Research and Training Programs - Resources of the National Park System. The activity category is Natural Resources, which aligns with the subject matter of informal trails and visitor-created sites, as these issues often intersect with resource protection, habitat fragmentation, soil erosion, vegetation trampling, and the need for monitoring and restoration planning. The funding instrument type is a Cooperative Agreement, which generally indicates that the National Park Service expects to have substantial involvement in the work, such as collaboration on study design, data needs, field coordination, or interpretation and application of results to park management decisions.

Financially, the opportunity lists an estimated total funding amount of $25,912, with an expected number of awards equal to one. Both the award ceiling and award floor are shown as $0, which commonly occurs in postings where the agency provides the total anticipated amount but does not define a competitive range because the action is not an open solicitation. There is no cost sharing or matching requirement indicated, meaning the recipient is not required to provide non-federal matching funds as a condition of the award.

The timeline for the notice is very short and consistent with a noncompetitive intent notice rather than an application-based competition. The posting date and creation date are both June 4, 2014, with an original and current closing date of June 9, 2014, and an archive date of July 9, 2014. Because this is not a request for applications, these dates function more as a public notice window than an application period. Anyone reviewing the listing should understand that it does not provide an opportunity to submit a competing proposal; instead, it serves as documentation that the National Park Service intends to proceed with a single identified partner under the CESU framework.

For those needing assistance accessing the complete announcement, the listing provides a point of contact: Kelly Adams, Grants Management Specialist, at 303-969-2303. The description also notes that additional information is contained in an attached announcement, implying that details such as the specific park unit involved, the precise scope of the assessment methods, deliverables, reporting expectations, and period of performance would be outlined in that attachment rather than in the abbreviated synopsis.

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