Survey Bat Community Composition at Hopewell Culture NHP Post White Nose Syndrome | Apply Online

Opportunity Summary:

The funding opportunity titled "Survey Bat Community Composition at Hopewell Culture NHP Post White Nose Syndrome" is a National Park Service (NPS) discretionary grant notice connected to natural resource management at Hopewell Culture National Historical Park. Its purpose is to support activities that document and evaluate the park's bat community after the impacts of White-nose Syndrome, a disease that has caused major declines in several bat species in the eastern United States. The project focus, as implied by the title and the description, is on surveying which bat species are present at the park and understanding how the composition of that community may have changed in the period following the spread of the disease.

This notice is unusual because it is explicitly not a request for applications. Instead, it is a public notice that NPS intended to make an award without full and open competition on an emergency basis. The reason given is timing: the park reportedly received late notice of funding, and at the same time had to comply with U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service restrictions that limit mist-netting for sensitive species such as the Indiana bat and the northern long-eared bat to a defined seasonal window. The notice highlights that the relevant field season for mist-netting and similar survey work runs from June 1 through October 31, 2014, meaning the agency needed to move quickly to conduct surveys within that limited period.

Administratively, the opportunity is identified by Funding Opportunity Number P14AS00114 and was posted on May 29, 2014, with an original (and unchanged) closing date of June 6, 2014, and an archive date of June 20, 2014. The funding instrument listed is a cooperative agreement, which typically indicates that NPS anticipated substantial involvement in the project beyond simply providing funds, such as coordination, oversight, or collaborative technical participation. The assistance listing is under CFDA 15.954, "National Park Service Conservation, Protection, Outreach, and Education." The notice states that the expected number of awards was one, reinforcing that the agency was planning a single, targeted partnership rather than a broad competition.

Eligibility was limited to public and state-controlled institutions of higher education, suggesting NPS intended to work with a university or similar public academic entity with the expertise and capacity to conduct bat surveys, handle protected species considerations, and manage the associated data collection and reporting. The announcement indicates there was no cost sharing or matching requirement. The financial fields in the source data show an estimated total funding of 0 and award ceiling and floor of 0, which generally signals that dollar amounts were either not finalized at the time of posting, not entered into the public listing, or handled through a separate internal process.

For applicants or members of the public trying to access the full announcement details, the notice points to Grants.gov and provides a named point of contact: Brian Straka, Financial Assistance Officer, including phone number (865-436-1217) and email (brianstraka@nps.gov). Overall, the core takeaway is that this was a time-sensitive, non-competitive NPS cooperative agreement intended to ensure bat community surveys at Hopewell Culture NHP could be carried out promptly within federally constrained mist-netting dates, with a particular conservation context tied to post-White-nose Syndrome monitoring and the protection of at-risk bat species.

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