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Opportunity Summary:

The National Public Lands Day Coordination opportunity is a National Park Service (NPS) notice of intent to make a single-source (non-competitive) cooperative agreement award, not an open solicitation for applications. In other words, the announcement is meant to publicly document that NPS plans to fund specific project activities without competition, rather than invite proposals from the general public. The funding opportunity number is NPS WCP WASO P12AC31002, and it was posted on July 19, 2012, with a listed closing date of July 30, 2012 that is described as an administrative deadline tied to the intent-to-award notification process. The estimated total funding and maximum award amount are both $45,000, with no cost share or matching requirement.

The project itself supports National Public Lands Day (NPLD), a long-running national volunteer event that began in 1994 and involves a wide partnership of federal, state, and local public land and environmental agencies. The National Environmental Education Foundation (NEEF) runs NPLD as the national program manager, coordinating with participating agencies that include the National Park Service, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, USDA Forest Service, Bureau of Reclamation, Department of Defense, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, among others. NPLD activities are practical, on-the-ground stewardship and improvement projects carried out by volunteers, such as building and repairing trails and bridges, restoring facilities, improving wildlife habitat, planting trees, removing invasive species, collecting seeds, and completing other conservation or maintenance tasks. The announcement highlights that NPS has been involved since the beginning of the program and notes that, in 2008, 150 NPS parks and sites participated in NPLD events, illustrating the program’s reach within the park system.

The agreement is anticipated to run for five years, with an expected period of performance from August 2012 through August 2017. The award instrument is a cooperative agreement, which generally indicates an arrangement where the federal agency expects to have substantial involvement in the project’s execution rather than simply issuing a grant with minimal ongoing participation. The cited statutory authority is 16 USC Sec 1 g. The funding activity category is listed as community development, and the CFDA number referenced is 15.944 (Natural Resource Stewardship). The opportunity indicates an expectation of one award.

NEEF’s role, as described, is to act as the national coordinator for National Public Lands Day by providing guidance, support, and technical advice to participating national parks in coordination with NPS. The intent is to ensure that volunteer events are designed and managed in ways that effectively promote volunteer engagement on public lands while producing tangible stewardship outcomes. From NPS’s perspective, the main value is twofold: parks receive the direct benefit of volunteer labor that advances maintenance and resource stewardship goals, and NPS can participate in a large, high-profile, multi-agency national event without having to assign extensive internal staff time to manage the nationwide coordination effort, since that organizing function is handled by NEEF.

Eligibility is narrowly framed because the announcement is explicitly a notice of intent to single-source the award. It identifies eligible applicants as nonprofit organizations with IRS 501(c)(3) status (excluding institutions of higher education), which aligns with NEEF’s nonprofit structure and its long-standing national management role for the event. For further information, the listed NPS contact is Jaime Mijares, Contract Specialist, at 303-969-2755 or jaimemijares@nps.gov.

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