Subtask2_6_FloodRiskResiliencyFundingSourceInventory

Subtask 2.6: Flood Risk Reduction
Project Funding Analysis
North Carolina Flood Resiliency Blueprint
Prepared for the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality by ESP Associates
and AECOM
October 2023
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Table of Contents
Definitions ..................................................................................................................... vii
Common Acronyms ........................................................................................................viii
1 Introduction ............................................................................................................... 1
2 Background ................................................................................................................ 2
3 Funding Profile Outline ............................................................................................... 3
4 Funding Identification ................................................................................................. 4
4.1 Existing Tools..................................................................................................................................... 4
4.2 Existing Vehicles ................................................................................................................................ 4
4.2.1 U.S. Departments and Agencies ...................................................................................... 4
4.3 Legislation ......................................................................................................................................... 5
4.4 Tribal Resources ................................................................................................................................ 5
4.5 Web-Based Research ........................................................................................................................ 5
5 Federal Funding Vehicles ............................................................................................ 9
5.1 American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) ................................................................................................... 9
5.2 Federal Appropriation Act ................................................................................................................ 9
5.3 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA/BIL) ...................................................................... 10
5.3.1 Transportation: ............................................................................................................... 10
5.3.2 Energy, Buildings, & Development: .............................................................................. 10
5.3.3 Natural Resources, Ecosystems, & Agriculture:........................................................... 10
5.3.4 Water Infrastructure: ...................................................................................................... 10
5.3.5 Coastal Protection: ......................................................................................................... 11
5.3.6 Coastal Protection: ......................................................................................................... 11
5.4 Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) .......................................................................................................... 11
5.5 U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) ........................................................................................ 11
5.6 U.S. Forest Service (USFS) .............................................................................................................. 15
5.7 U.S. Department of Commerce (USDOC) ..................................................................................... 19
5.8 U.S. Economic Development Administration (USEDA), of USDOC ............................................ 20
5.9 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), of USDOC ................................... 22
5.10 U.S. Department of Defense (USDOD) .......................................................................................... 25
5.11 U.S. Department of Energy (USDOE) ............................................................................................. 26
5.12 Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management, of USDOE ..................................................... 27
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5.13 U.S. Department of Homeland Security (USDHS) ....................................................................... 29
5.14 U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) ................................................... 32
5.15 U.S. Department of the Interior (USDOI) ...................................................................................... 34
5.15.1 NPS Apportionment for State and Tribal Historic Preservation Offices
(SHPOs) ............................................................................................................................ 36
5.15.2 United States Fish and Wildlife Services (USFWS) ...................................................... 40
5.16 Branch of Tribal Climate Resilience (TCR), BIA, USDOI ............................................................... 41
5.17 Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ...................................................................................... 46
5.18 Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement, USDOI .............................................. 51
5.19 U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) .............................................................................. 52
5.19.1 Highway Infrastructure Programs (HIP), under USDOT ............................................. 54
5.19.2 The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) .................................................................... 56
5.19.3 Federal Highway Administration (FWHA)..................................................................... 57
5.20 National Science Foundation (NSF) .............................................................................................. 61
5.21 Independent Federal agencies: ..................................................................................................... 62
5.22 Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) .................................................................................... 62
5.23 Southeast Crescent Regional Commission (SCRC) ..................................................................... 64
6 State Funding Vehicles .............................................................................................. 65
6.1 N.C. Division of Mitigation Services (NCDMS) .............................................................................. 65
6.2 N.C. Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (NCDA&CS) ....................................... 66
6.3 North Carolina Natural Resources Conservation Service (NCNRCS) ......................................... 67
6.3.1 Wetlands Reserve Easements-North Carolina ............................................................. 67
6.3.2 Environmental Quality Incentives Program- North Carolina (EQIP) ......................... 67
6.3.3 Emergency Watershed Protection (EWP) Program- North Carolina ......................... 68
6.4 N.C. Division of Soil and Water Conservation (NCDSWC) ........................................................... 68
6.4.1 The Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (CREP) ....................................... 69
6.4.2 Community Conservation Assistance Program (CCAP) .............................................. 69
6.5 N.C. Division of Coastal Management (NCDCM) .......................................................................... 70
6.6 North Carolina Division of Water Resources (NCDWR)................................................................ 71
6.7 American Rescue Plan Act, U.S. Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds (SLFRF)
........................................................................................................................................................... 74
6.8 North Carolina Division of Water Infrastructure (NCDWI), NCDEQ ARPA .................................. 74
6.9 N.C. Department of Commerce (NCDOC) ..................................................................................... 76
6.9.1 One North Carolina Fund (OneNC) ............................................................................... 79
6.10 N.C. Department of Public Safety (NCDPS) .................................................................................. 80
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6.10.1 N.C. Office of Recovery & Resiliency (NCORR) ............................................................. 80
6.10.2 N.C. Emergency Management (NCEM) ......................................................................... 81
6.10.3 Emergency Operations Center (EOC) Grant Program ................................................. 84
6.10.4 Recovery Grants .............................................................................................................. 84
6.11 Attorney General ............................................................................................................................. 87
6.12 North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources (NCDNCR) ............................. 87
6.12.1 Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) ................................................................ 87
6.12.2 North Carolina Land and Water Fund (NCLWF) ........................................................... 88
6.13 N.C. Division of Parks and Recreation (NCDPR) ........................................................................... 90
6.13.1 N.C. Division of Parks and Recreation .......................................................................... 90
6.13.2 Parks and Recreation Trust Fund.................................................................................. 90
6.13.3 State Trails: Recreational Trails Program .................................................................... 91
6.13.4 Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) ................................................................ 91
6.13.5 Accessibility for Parks Grant program .......................................................................... 92
6.13.6 Outdoor Recreation Legacy Partnership Program ..................................................... 92
6.13.7 Complete the Trails Fund .............................................................................................. 92
6.14 N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission (NCWRC) ............................................................................ 92
6.15 N.C. Forest Service (NCFS) ............................................................................................................. 92
6.16 North Carolina State Energy Office (NCSEO) ............................................................................... 93
6.17 Mining Program, NCDEQ ................................................................................................................ 93
6.18 Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) Funds ........................................................................ 94
6.19 State and Tribal Assistance Grants (STAG) ................................................................................... 94
6.20 N.C. Commission of Indian Affairs, NCDOA .................................................................................. 95
7 Tribal Funding Vehicles ............................................................................................. 97
7.1 USET Sovereignty Protection Fund ............................................................................................... 97
7.2 Climate Adaptation Science Center (CASC) ................................................................................. 97
7.3 National Association of Tribal Historic Preservation (NATHPO) ................................................ 97
7.4 U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit & Tribal Resilience Resource Guide ......................................... 98
8 Non-Governmental and Non-Traditional Vehicles: ..................................................... 99
8.1 Foundations..................................................................................................................................... 99
8.1.1 The Golden LEAF Foundation ........................................................................................ 99
8.1.2 N.C. Foundation for Soil & Water Conservation ........................................................ 101
8.1.3 National Fish and Wildlife Foundation ....................................................................... 102
8.1.4 Foundation for the Carolinas ...................................................................................... 103
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8.1.5 Triangle Community Foundation ............................................................................... 103
8.1.6 The Bank of America Charitable Foundation ............................................................ 103
8.1.7 The Winston-Salem Foundation ................................................................................. 104
8.1.8 The Duke Energy Foundation ...................................................................................... 104
8.1.9 Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation, Inc............................................................................. 105
8.1.10 The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina, Inc. ................................. 105
8.2 Universities .................................................................................................................................... 106
8.2.1 N.C. State University and N.C. Sea Grant ................................................................... 106
8.2.2 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ........................................................ 107
Other Potential Partnerships Organizations .............................................................................. 108
8.3 Other Finance Mechanism Programs .......................................................................................... 108
8.3.1 Loans .............................................................................................................................. 108
8.3.2 North Carolina Revolving Loan Fund Grantees ......................................................... 108
8.3.3 Loans through green banks ......................................................................................... 109
8.4 Additional Financial Mechanisms ............................................................................................... 109
8.4.1 Special Assessments .................................................................................................... 109
8.4.2 Transfer of Development Rights (TDR) ....................................................................... 110
8.4.3 Taxes and Fees .............................................................................................................. 111
8.4.4 Funding through the Capital Markets......................................................................... 111
8.4.5 Bonds ............................................................................................................................. 111
8.4.6 Resilience Bonds ........................................................................................................... 111
8.4.7 Environmental Impact Bonds (EIB) ............................................................................ 111
9 Technical Assistance ................................................................................................ 113
9.1 Wild Law Institute ......................................................................................................................... 113
9.2 Southeastern Trade Adjustment Assistance Center (SETAAC) ................................................ 113
9.3 Local Emergency Planning Committees (LEPC) ........................................................................ 113
9.4 The National Park Service Rivers, Trails, and Conservation Assistance Program ................. 114
9.5 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) Coastal Program ......................................................... 114
9.6 Environmental Justice Grants ..................................................................................................... 114
9.7 USDA, Watershed and Flood Prevention Program .................................................................... 114
9.8 USDA, Rural Development Water and Environmental Programs ............................................ 115
9.9 National Community Rating SYSTEM Explorer .......................................................................... 115
9.10 NC Regional Councils of Government ......................................................................................... 116
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9.11 ReBUILD N.C., Regions Innovating for Strong Economies and Environment (RISE) Program
......................................................................................................................................................... 116
9.12 N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission (NCWRC), Partners for Green Growth, Green Growth
Toolbox .......................................................................................................................................... 117
9.13 USACE, Floodplain Management Services (FPMS) Interagency Nonstructural Flood Risk
Management Projects Program ................................................................................................... 117
9.14 NCDPS, NCEM Community Technical Assistance Program (CTP) - Letter of Map Change
(LOMC) ............................................................................................................................................ 117
9.15 NC Restoration Explorer ............................................................................................................... 118
9.16 The Nature Conservancy (TNC) N.C. Resiliency and Connection Network Map .................... 118
10 Creative Strategies................................................................................................... 119
10.1 Basic Strategies could include the following measures for a single fund source each (at
minimum): ..................................................................................................................................... 119
10.1.1 Case Study for the Strategy of leveraging resources across multiple vehicles
with multiple benefits: ................................................................................................. 119
10.1.2 Case Study for Strategy for Leveraging Existing Funding Resources where
previously unauthorized: ............................................................................................. 120
10.1.3 Strategy of Hazard Mitigation Assistance Grant Programs Lifecycle
Management ................................................................................................................. 120
11 Appendix ................................................................................................................. 122

Figures
Figure 5-1: USDA Available Funding (in millions) .......................................................................................... 12
Figure 5-2: USDOC Available Funding (in millions) ....................................................................................... 20
Figure 5-3: USDOE Available Funding ............................................................................................................. 27
Figure 5-4: Available FEMA Funding ................................................................................................................ 30
Figure 5-5: Available HUD Funding ................................................................................................................. 33
Figure 5-6: Available Funding USDOI Blueprint Overlap .............................................................................. 36
Figure 5-7: Available Funding through USDOT Overlapping Blueprint ....................................................... 53
Figure 6-1: Potential NCDWR Available Funding ........................................................................................... 71

Tables
Table 2-1: Recent North Carolina Federally Declared Disaster (Over Last 5 years) ..................................... 2
Table 3-1: Funding Source Profile ..................................................................................................................... 3
Table 4-1: Keyword Search Results for Grants.gov ......................................................................................... 6
Table 4-2: Funding Entities with Opportunities that Support Blueprint Resilience .................................... 6
Table 5-1: Funds available in the SLFRF ........................................................................................................... 9
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Table 5-2: 2022 IRA (2022) Funding Overlap of the Blueprint ...................................................................... 11
Table 5-3: 2023 House Committee Appropriations Funding for USDA with Overlap of the
Blueprint........................................................................................................................................ 12
Table 5-4: 2023 House Committee Appropriations Funding for USDOC with Overlap of the
Blueprint........................................................................................................................................ 20
Table 5-5: Funding for USACE under USDOD with an overlap of the Blueprint for FY 2021 to FY
2023................................................................................................................................................ 26
Table 5-6: North Carolina State Funding under USDOE with Overlap of the Blueprint ............................ 27
Table 5-7: 2023 House Committee Appropriations Funding for FEMA of USDHS with Overlap of
the Blueprint ................................................................................................................................. 30
Table 5-8: 2023 House Committee Appropriations Funding for HUD with Overlap of the Blueprint ...... 33
Table 5-9: 2023 House Committee Appropriations Funding for USDOI with Overlap of the
Blueprint........................................................................................................................................ 35
Table 5-10: 2023 House Committee Appropriations Funding for USFWS within the USDO I with
Overlap of the Blueprint .............................................................................................................. 40
Table 5-11: 2023 House Committee Appropriations Funding for TCR within the USDOI with
Overlap of the Blueprint .............................................................................................................. 42
Table 5-12: 2023 House Committee Appropriations Funding for the EPA with Overlap of the
Blueprint........................................................................................................................................ 47
Table 5-13: HIP Apportionments for N.C. by USDOT ..................................................................................... 55
Table 5-14: 2023 House Committee Appropriations Funding for the USDOT with Overlap of the
Blueprint........................................................................................................................................ 55
Table 5-15: Capital Investment Grants Program under FTA of USDOT Overlap of the Blueprint ............ 56
Table 5-16: FY 2020 CARES Act - Apportionments for N.C. by FTA of USDOT ............................................. 57
Table 5-17: North Carolina’s Portion of the BFP Funding through FHWA of USDOT Overlap of the
Blueprint........................................................................................................................................ 59
Table 5-18: North Carolina’s Portion of Highway Infrastructure (BRR) Funding through FHWA of
USDOT Overlap of the Blueprint ................................................................................................. 59
Table 5-19: PROTECT Formula Program Funding of BIL through FHWA of USDOT Overlap of the
Blueprint........................................................................................................................................ 59
Table 5-20: BIP Funding through FHWA of USDOT Overlap of the Blueprint ............................................. 60
Table 5-21: National Amts. of (TTP) Bridge Funding through FHWA of USDOT Overlap of the
Blueprint........................................................................................................................................ 61
Table 5-22: Federal Vehicles Summary .......................................................................................................... 64
Table 6-1: State Vehicles Summary ................................................................................................................ 96
Table 7-1: Additional Tribal Vehicles Summary ............................................................................................ 98
Table 8-1: Non-Traditional & Non-Governmental Vehicles Summary ...................................................... 108
Table 30. Flood Risk Resiliency Funding Source Inventory ........................................................................ 122

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Definitions
A comprehensive list of definitions applicable to multiple Flood Resiliency Blueprint documents is
provided in a separate document.

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Common Acronyms
ARC Appalachian Regional
Commission
ARISE Appalachian Regional Initiative
for Stronger Economies
ARPA American Rescue Plan Act
BIA Bureau of Indian Affairs
BIL Bipartisan Infrastructure Law,
also IIJA
BIP Bridge Investment Program
BMP Best Management Practice
BRIC Building Resilient
Infrastructure and
Communities
BRR Bridge Replacement,
Rehabilitation
BUILD Better Utilizing Investments to
Leverage Development
CARES Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and
Economic Security Act
CASC Climate Adaptation Science
Center
CCAP Community Conservation
Assistance Program
CDBG-DR Community Development
Block Grant – Disaster
Recovery
CELCP Coastal and Estuarine Land
Conservation Program
CIG Capital Investment Grants
CREP Conservation Reserve
Enhancement Program
CRS Community Rating System
CTP Community Technical
Assistance
CWSRF Clean Water State Revolving
Fund
EEG Environmental Enhancement
Grant Program
EIB Environmental Impact Bond
EJ Environmental Justice
EOC Emergency Operations Center
EPA Environmental Protection
Agency
EQIP Environmental Quality
Incentives Program
ESG Environmental, Social, and
Governance
EWP Emergency Watershed
Protection
FEMA Federal Emergency
Management Agency
FHP Forest Health Protection
FHWA Federal Highway
Administration
FPMS Floodplain Management
Services
FTA Federal Transit Administration
FY Fiscal Year
GIS Geographic Information
Systems
HIP Highway Infrastructure
Programs
HPF Historic Preservation Fund
HUD U.S. Department of Housing
and Urban Development
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IIJA Infrastructure Investment and
Jobs Act, also BIL
IRA Inflation Reduction Act
JDIG Job Development Investment
Grant
LEPCs Local Emergency Planning
Committees
LOMC Letter of Map Change
LOMR Letter of Map Revision
LWCF Land and Water Conservation
Fund
NAGPRA Native American Graves
Protection and Repatriation
Act
NATHPO National Association of Tribal
Historic Preservation
NCARCOG North Carolina Association of
Regional Council of
Governments
NCDA&CS North Carolina Department of
Agriculture and Consumer
Services
NCDCM North Carolina Division of
Coastal Management
NCDEQ North Carolina Department of
Environmental Quality
NCDMS North Carolina Division of
Mitigation Services
NCDNCR North Carolina Department of
Natural and Cultural Resources
NCDOC North Carolina Department of
Commerce
NCDOJ North Carolina Department of
Justice

NCDOT North Carolina Department of
Transportation
NCDPR North Carolina Division of
Parks and Recreation
NCDPS North Carolina Department of
Public Safety
NCDSWC North Carolina Division of Soil
and Water Conservation
NCDWI North Carolina Division of
Water Infrastructure
NCDWR North Carolina Division of
Water Resources
NCEM North Carolina Emergency
Management
NCFS North Carolina Forest Service
NCNRCS North Carolina Natural
Resources Conservation
Service
NCLWF North Carolina Land and Water
Fund
NCORR North Carolina Office of
Recovery and Resiliency
NCSEO North Carolina State Energy
Office
NCWRC North Carolina Wildlife
Resources Commission
NFIP National Flood Insurance
Program
NIST National Institute for
Standards and Technology
NOAA National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration
NOFO Notices of Funding
Opportunity
NPS National Park Service
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NRCS Natural Resources
Conservation Service
NSF National Science Foundation
OAR Office of Oceanic and
Atmospheric Research
OTT Office of Tribal Transportation
PARTF Parks and Recreation Trust
Fund
POWER Partnerships for Opportunity
and Workforce and Economic
Revitalization Initiative
PRICE Preservation and
Reinvestment Initiative for
Community Enhancement
PROTECT Promoting Resilience
Operations for Transformative,
Efficient, and Cost-Saving
Transportation
RAISE Rebuilding American
Infrastructure with
Sustainability and Equity
RD Rural Development
RISE Regions Innovating for Strong
Economies and Environment
RTP Recreational Trails Program
SCRC Southeast Crescent Regional
Commission
SETAAC Southeastern Trade
Adjustment Assistance Center
SHPOs State Historic Preservation
Offices
SLFRF State and Local Fiscal Recovery
Funds
SLO State-Appointed Liaison Officer
SRF State Revolving Fund
STAG State and Tribal Assistance
Grants Program
STLPG State, Tribal, Local, Plans &
Grants Division
STP Surface Transportation
Program
SWIFIA State Infrastructure Financing
Authority
TCR Branch of Tribal Climate
Resilience
TDR Transfer of Development
Rights
THPOs Tribal Historic Preservation
Offices
TIFIA Transportation Infrastructure
Finance and Innovation Act
TIGER Transportation Investment
Generating Economic Recovery
TTP Tribal Transportation Bridge
Program
U&CF Urban and Community
Forestry Program
USACE U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
USDA U.S. Department of Agriculture
USDHS U.S. Department of Homeland
Security
USDOC U.S. Department of Commerce
USDOD U.S. Department of Defense
USDOE U.S. Department of Energy
USDOI U.S. Department of Interior
USDOT U.S. Department of
Transportation
USEDA U.S. Economic Development
Administration
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USET United South and Eastern
Tribes, Inc.
USFS U.S. Forest Service
USFWS U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
USGS U.S. Geographical Survey
USSEP U.S. State Energy Program
WIFIA Water Infrastructure Finance
and Innovation Act
WRDA Water Resources Development
Act
WRRDA Water Resources Reform and
Development Act

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1 Introduction
The purpose of this document is to list federal, state, local, and private funding sources for flood risk
resiliency projects to be used for planning and implementation. This includes the amount, frequency
of availability, and limiting factors that may determine which solutions are applicable to grant
options.

This document is written to address the above purpose, where sources are identified and evaluated
for current funding programs and financing opportunities available for potential flood risk reduction
projects or supporting services. Each funding source referenced in this document includes a funding
profile outline and narrative that identifies the following:
• Outline of the funding source
• Funding amounts
• Frequency of availability
• Funding purposes (allowable solutions to which the funds can be applied from the identified
efforts)
In addition, this analysis outlines technical assistance and financing strategies that can be considered
for use in North Carolina and provides guidance for leveraging other sources of funding information
and non-traditional funding options to ensure all opportunities are identified for consideration. No
new modeling or analyses were completed for this task and resources used for this review are
described in the report. For the purposes of this report, the funding sources are broken down into the
following funding vehicles:
• Federal
• State
• Tribal
• Non-Governmental or Non-Traditional (which includes both local and private funding sources)

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2 Background
Residential and commercial development along riverine and coastal waterways has increased
significantly, resulting in more risk to people and property within both urban and rural areas. North
Carolina faces many of the same problems as Virginia, South Carolina, and Georgia due to the
conditions associated with the state’s positioning along the coast of the Atlantic Ocean. More now
than ever before, funding sources are available to support risk reduction and resilience
actions/projects. These include, but are not limited to:
• Federal and State Appropriations
• Federal Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (Bipartisan Infrastructure Law) (IIJA)
• American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA)
• Inflation Reduction Act (IRA)
• Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (WIFIA)
• Water Resources Development Act – U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE)
• Public Private Partnerships
• Non-Profit Trusts

While there are many opportunities, the efficient identification, capture, management, and
compliance of these opportunities are challenging to complete. This analysis was filtered on those
opportunities that (1) focused on flood risk and resilience, climate resilient communities and
infrastructure, and watershed management; and are (2) open to non-federal entities such as states,
tribal nations, counties, municipalities, educational institutions, non-profits, and utilities.

North Carolina has experienced both historic and catastrophic storm events over the last 5 years with
a range of damage and failures. Table 2-1 provides a list of those federally declared disasters that have
been reviewed for possible leveraging of funding associated with disaster damages and cross-project
goals that overlay with flood risk reduction and resilience.
Table 2-1: Recent North Carolina Federally Declared Disa ster (Over Last 5 years)
Disaster Name Incident Period
Hurricane Ian Sep 28, 2022 - Oct 4, 2022
Tropical Storm Fred August 16 -18, 2021
Tropical Storm Eta November 12 - 15, 2021
Hurricane Isaias July 30 - August 4, 2020
Tornados, Severe Storms, Flooding February 16 - 19, 2020
COVID-19 January 20, 2020 - ongoing
Hurricane Dorian September 1 - 9, 2019
Tropical Storm Michael October 10 - 12, 2018
Hurricane Florence September 7 - 29, 2018
Tornados and Severe Storms April 15, 2018

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3 Funding Profile Outline
For each of the funding provisions and opportunities identified, a profile has been constructed with
the following data as outlined below in Table 3-1:

Table 3-1: Funding Source Profile
Variable Definition
Funding Vehicle Federal
State
Tribal
Non-Governmental
Non-Traditional
Administering Office Managing department and program
Profile Name Title of grant or program
Website Program links, active link to further information
Funding Purposes Eligible uses and or allowable resilience solutions of funding
Legal Mechanism E.g., grant, loan, cooperative agreement
Funding Maximum Allocated Amount Maximum funding allocation total
Funding Frequency How often is funding available, e.g., supplemental, yearly,
etc.
Notices of Funding Opportunities
(NOFOs)
Past, current, and anticipated dates

This level of information will encourage the matching of present and anticipated funding with
stakeholder projects. The data is also outlined in Appendix A, which includes the spreadsheet of all
funding sources referenced in this document according to the above Funding Profile in Table 3-1.

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4 Funding Identification
The information associated with funding profiles was acquired through research and searches of
funding tools such as Grants.gov and the American Flood Coalition-Flood Funding Finder as well as
each vehicle and web-based research using keywords. The data was organized using the funding
profile previously outlined.
4.1 Existing Tools
The following tools were identified for use in sourcing funding applications:
• AECOM Fund Navigator
• Grants.gov - https://www.grants.gov/
• SAM.gov - https://sam.gov/content/home
• FedConnect - https://www.fedconnect.net/FedConnect/Default.htm
• NC.gov - https://www.nc.gov/
• Floodcoalition.org - https://floodcoalition.org/resources/floodfundingfinder/
• Indianaffairs.gov
• Cascprojects.org
• USGS.gov
• USETIN.C.org
• NCARCOG.com
• ncsu.edu (Southeast Climate Adaptation Science Center (CASC) Host University)
• Historic Preservation Fund (HPF) Online
• GrantSolutions
• AIP-Budget Tracker - https://www.aip.org/fyi/federal-science-budget-tracker
• FSRS.gov (the reporting system for sub-grants larger than $30,000)
• ASAP.gov
• National Park Service (NPS): detailed guidance on Tribal Historic Preservation Office (THPO)
apportionment grants and a listing of competitive opportunities
• NPS State, Tribal, Local, Plans & Grants Division (STLPG)
• The Grantsmanship Center
• How to apply for an HPF grant: NPS YouTube channel
• National Trust Funding Programs
4.2 Existing Vehicles
The following Federal, State, Tribal, Non-Governmental, and Non-Traditional vehicles were identified
and are discussed under future sections, according to funding vehicle type:
4.2.1 U.S. Departments and Agencies
• U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)
o Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS)
o U.S. Forest Service (USFS)
o Rural Business-Cooperative
o Rural Development (RD)
• U.S. Department of Commerce (USDOC)
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o U.S. Economic Development Administration (USEDA)
o National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
• U.S. Department of Defense (USDOD)
o U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE)
• U.S. Department of Energy (USDOE)
• U.S. Department of Homeland Security (USDHS)
o Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
• U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
• U.S. Department of Interior (USDOI)
o United States Geographical Survey (USGS)
o National Park Service (NPS)
o Branch of Tribal Climate Resilience (TCR)
o Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA)
• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
• U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT)
• National Science Foundation (NSF)
• Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC)
• Southeast Crescent Regional Commission (SCRC)
• Corresponding State Agencies
4.3 Legislation
• Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL)
• Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (WIFIA)
• Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (TIFIA)
• Water Resources Development Act (2022)
• Consolidated Appropriation Acts (2022 and 2023)
• American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA)
• Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (IRA)
4.4 Tribal Resources
• U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit & Tribal Resilience Resource Guide
• United South and Eastern Tribes, Inc. (USET) Sovereignty Protection Fund
• Climate Adaptation Science Center Tribal Climate and Resilience Network Liaisons
• National Association of Tribal Historic Preservation Officers (NATHPO)
4.5 Web-Based Research
To identify funding provisions and opportunities, a keyword search was conducted using the Fund
Navigator and the web to research available financial assistance opportunities. Funding sites were
researched using award types associated with flood risk resiliency projects and three status types
(forecasted, posted, and closed).
Keywords were selected from the project list and used to search separately. The search results were
reviewed and those for which North Carolina was ineligible either as an applicant or project lo cation
were removed. Because each keyword was searched separately, the results overlap, and items were
then reviewed to exclude results that were already captured. No limits were placed on the funding
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instrument, eligibility, category, or agency for the initial number of items. The final search results of
the keyword search for Grants.gov by items and relevance are shown in Table 4-1.
Table 4-1: Keyword Search Results for Grants.gov
Keyword Number of Items Relevant Items
Riverine 6 1
Flood 408 55
Resilience 933 229
Restoration 818 392
Mitigation 1,282 226
Watershed 504 291
Streams 438 100
Riparian 173 117
Habitat 768 437
Water Quality 3,790 759
Biodiversity 416 165
Wetlands 363 113
Uplands 91 64
Climate 1,266 365
Hazard 511 92
Action Plan 4,529 868
Basin 261 69
Disaster 946 252

To capture the full breadth of funding and financing opportunities, generalized internet searches were
conducted to find other funding programs specific to flood risk resiliency projects that may not be
captured on government websites. There are 44 grant-making agencies between federal and state
outlined in the appropriations with a total of 225 opportunities available through those agencies of
those agencies that have potential overlap with the Blueprint funding development as shown in Table
4-2.

Table 4-2: Funding Entities with Opportunities that Support Blueprint Resilience
Page
#
Vehicle Managing Agency No of
Opportunities
Total
Estimated
Funding for
22-26’
14 Federal NRCS, USDA 6 $1.7 B
17 Federal Rural Business-Cooperative Service, USDA 2 $4.0 B
18 Federal USFS, USDA 7 $1.8 B
18 Federal USDA-Rural Development (USDA-RD) 2 $3.2 B
23 Federal USEDA, USDOC 7 $800 M
23 Federal Habitat Conservation Office of NOAA, USDOC 2 $65 M
24 Federal National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA), USDOC
6 $8.25 B
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27 Federal Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research
(OAR), NOAA, USDOC
2 $224 M
27 Federal USACE, USDOD 2 $7.5 B
29 Federal Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management,
USDOE
1 $7.0 M
31 Federal State Energy Program, USDOE 1 $5.0 M
30 Federal FEMA, USDHS 13 $4.0 B
35 Federal HUD 3 $3.3 B
37 Federal USGS, USDOI 1 $41 M
38 Federal NPS, USDOI 4 $219 M
41 Federal U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS), USDOI 3 $209 M
43 Federal TCR, USDOI 12 $678 M
43 Federal BIA, USDOI 1 $153 M
40 Federal State, Tribal, Local, Plans & Grants Division
(STLPG), NPS, USDOI
10 $62 M
48 Federal EPA, USDOI 20 $50 B
52 Federal Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and
Enforcement, USDOI
4 $6.0 M
53 Federal USDOT 3 $63 B
56 Federal Federal Transit Administration (FTA), USDOT 3 $23 B
58 Federal Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), USDOT 2 $803 M
62 Federal Office of Tribal Transportation (OTT), FHWA,
USDOT
1 $6.4 B
62 Federal NSF with National Institute for Standards and
Technology (NIST), (USDOC)
1 $75 M
63 Federal ARC 3 $235 M
64 Federal ARC, HUD, Community Development Financial
Institutions Fund , USDA-RD
1 $74 M
64 State N.C. Division of Mitigation Services (NCDMS),
NCDEQ
8 $3.5 M
66 State N.C. Department of Agriculture and Consumer
Services (NCDA&CS)
1 $0.5 M
67 State N.C. Natural Resources Conservation Service
(NCNRCS)
3 $300 M
69 State N.C. Division of Soil and Water Conservation
(NCDSWC)
3 $10 M
70 State N.C. Division of Coastal Management (NCDCM),
NCDEQ
2 $959 M
70 State N.C. Division of Water Resources (NCDWR),
NCDEQ
12 $463 M
75 State N.C. Division of Water Infrastructure (NCDWI),
NCDEQ
10 $5.43 B
76 State N.C. Department of Commerce (NCDOC) 8 $6.0 B
79 State N.C. Department of Public Safety (NCDPS) 10 $100 M
80 State N.C. Office of Recovery & Resiliency (NCORR) 1 $0.5 B
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79 State N.C. Emergency Management (NCEM), NCDPS 15 $1.8 M
86 State N.C. Attorney General, N.C. Department of
Justice (NCDOJ)
1 $3.0 B
86 State N.C. Department of Natural and Cultural
Resources (NCDNCR)
8 $500 M
88 State N.C. Division of Parks and Recreation, (NCDPR),
NCDNCR
2 $19 M
91 State N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission (NCWRC) 2 $85 M
92 State N.C. Forest Service (NCFS) 1 $ 6.0 M
93 State N.C. State and Tribal Assistance Grants (STAG),
NCDEQ & EPA
25 $56.3 B
Totals 44 Federal and State Agencies 225 $190.5 B

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5 Federal Funding Vehicles
There are 26 federal grant-making agencies outlined in the appropriations, with 12 of those agencies
having potential overlap with the Blueprint funding development. Supplemental and annual
opportunities include:
5.1 American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA)
American Rescue Plan Act of 2021-2022 (H.R. 1319) is a $1.9 trillion package, intended to combat the
COVID-19 pandemic, including public health and economic impacts. Under “Subtitle M—Coronavirus
State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds” (Sec. 9901), the Federal Funding Vehicle section provides
funding to states, territories, and tribal governments to mitigate the fiscal effects stemming from the
COVID-19 public health emergency. “A state, territory, or tribal government shall use the funds to
cover costs incurred by December 31, 2024, to respond to the COVID-19 emergency or its negative
economic impacts, including assistance to households, small businesses, and nonprofits or aid to
impacted industries such as tourism, travel, and hospitality; provide premium p ay to essential
workers or provide grants to employers of essential workers during the COVID-19 emergency; provide
government services to the extent of the reduction in revenue of such state, territory, or tribal
government due to the COVID-19 emergency; or make necessary investments in water, sewer, or
broadband infrastructure.”

Under this item funds can be requested directly to the Treasury (if not done so already) for the
available State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds (SLFRF) here: https://home.treasury.gov/policy-
issues/coronavirus/assistance-for-state-local-and-tribal-governments/state-and-local-fiscal-recovery-
fund/request-funding. The ARPA funds delivered $350 billion to state, local, and Tribal governments
across the country and Table 5-1 outlines the funds as follows:

Table 5-1: Funds available in the SLFRF
Allocation Type Amount
States & District of Columbia $195.30
Counties $65.10
Metropolitan Cities $45.60
Tribal Governments $20.00
Non-entitlement Units of Local Government $19.50
North Carolina $5,439,309,692.20

The total SLFRF allocation for North Carolina is $5,439,309,692.20, of which individual allocations will
be discussed under the State Vehicles for funding for areas of investment in water, sewer, and
stormwater infrastructure. These allocations have become an important funding opportunity,
established as a grant or forgivable zero interest loan allowing smaller communities to improve
access to clean drinking water as well as to support vital wastewater and stormwater infrastructure.
5.2 Federal Appropriation Act
FY 2023 House Committee Appropriations provided a total of $1.7 trillion in discretionary resources
through the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023, where the appropriation bills’ regular 12
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appropriations provide $800 billion in non-defense funding. The provisions include essential
investments to ensure equitable participation in programs and funding to historically underserved
communities. In addition, the Disaster Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2023 includes $27
billion in emergency funding to help families, small businesses, and entire communities respond to
and recover from the devastation that recent natural disasters and extreme weather events have left
behind. There is also $1 billion for increased investments in scientific and environmental research and
$10 billion for other nondefense programs.
5.3 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA/BIL)
Resilience money is allocated for specific investments in transportation, waste management, flood,
wildfire, drought, coastal communities, ecosystem restoration, heat, building infrastructure, and
more. However, all of the funding that IIJA provides must be used to build resilient infrastructure that
can withstand the increasing and now often compounded natural hazards occurring across the
country. The funding allocations are outlined in the appropriate programs, however, the highlights of
the resilience funding feature of IIJA include the programs listed below.
5.3.1 Transportation:
• Over $16 billion dedicated to transportation resiliency through programs such as the new
Promoting Resilient Operations for Transformative, Efficient, and Cost -saving Transportation
(PROTECT) grant program and the Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability and
Equity (RAISE) Program (formerly known as Better Utilizing Investments to Leverage Development
(BUILD) and Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER)).
• $500 million dedicated to cool pavements, porous pavements, and tree cover expansion through
the new USDOT Healthy Streets Program.
• Existing USDOT formula and emergency relief funding programs are also better integrating
resilience into program purposes and eligibility as a result of IIJA.
5.3.2 Energy, Buildings, & Development:
• Several new USDOE grant programs designed to improve the resilience and reliability of the
electric grid and “to enable sustained cost-effective implementation of updated building energy
codes.”
• Funding to improve recycling programs, to help businesses adopt pollution pre vention practices,
and for the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program.
5.3.3 Natural Resources, Ecosystems, & Agriculture:
• Over $3B for programs related to specific important regional ecosystems (e.g., watershed regions)
and related programs (e.g., the Coastal Zone Management Program).
• Over $8B provided for wildfire management activities across multiple federal agencies (USFS,
USDOI, USDA, and others) including fuels reduction projects, state and private grants for fuel
reduction efforts and fire assistance, restoration efforts, and more.
5.3.4 Water Infrastructure:
• Amendments to Section 1459A of the Safe Drinking Water Act (Assistance for Small and
Disadvantaged Communities, 42 U.S.C. 300j–19a), which includes requiring the EPA to create a
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competitive grant pilot program for underserved communities for projects that assist water public
systems.
• Historic levels of funding for water infrastructure including for State Revolving Fund programs and
a new clean water infrastructure resilience and sustainability grant program administered by EPA.
5.3.5 Coastal Protection:
• Over $12 billion for flood mitigation resiliency efforts across multiple federal agencies including
USACE, NOAA, and FEMA.
5.3.6 Coastal Protection:
• $1 billion ($200 million each year for fiscal years 2022-2024) for the existing FEMA Building Resilient
Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) Program.
• $500 million for hazard mitigation revolving loan funds authorized by the Safeguarding Tomorrow
through Ongoing Risk Mitigation Act.
5.4 Inflation Reduction Act (IRA)
The IRA (2022) is a climate and health care package that invests $369 billion in energy, climate, and
justice over ten years to make historic investments that put farmers, forestland owners, and resilient
rural communities at the forefront of climate solutions with Table 5-2 showing the IRA appropriated
areas that apply to Blueprint. The IRA places agricultural producers and forest landowners in a central
role for implementing climate solutions by investing in climate-smart agriculture, forest restoration,
and land conservation. It also makes significant investments in the development of rural
communities. The IRA creates grant programs that target resiliency as it overlaps with Blueprint ,
which are outlined under the associated funding agency later in this section.

Table 5-2: 2022 IRA (2022) Funding Overlap of the Blueprint
Appropriated Areas Amount
Resilience Funding
Conservation and Restoration for Coastal Habitats $2.6 billion
Climate-Smart Agriculture Practices $20 billion
Healthy, fire-resilient forests, forest conservation, and urban tree planting $60 billion
Communities and Environmental Justice Building Priorities $5 billion
FHWA
H.R.5267-Neighborhood Access and Equity Grants $3 billion
Mega Grants: National Infrastructure Project Assistance Program $10 billion
EPA
Environmental and Climate Justice Block Grants $3 billion
5.5 U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)
USDA provides leadership and assistance for areas of interest associated with food, agriculture,
natural resources, rural development, nutrition, and related issues based on sound public policy, the
best available science, and efficient management. The USDA looks to expand economic opportunity
through innovation, helping rural America to thrive; promoting agriculture production sustainability;
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and preserving and conserving our Nation’s natural resources through restored forests, improved
watersheds, and healthy private working lands. The primary administering offices of the USDA for the
purposes of flood resilience funding potential sources include but are not limited to: Natural
Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), Rural Business-Cooperative Service, and the USFS. The 2023
House Committee Appropriations for the USDA are outlined in Table 5-3. : shows the USDA’s funding
program availability per agency in millions.

Figure 5-1: USDA Available Funding (in millions)

Table 5-3: 2023 House Committee Appropriations Funding for USDA with Overlap of the
Blueprint
Appropriated Areas Amount
Rural Business-Cooperative Service
Rural Development and Infrastructure Programs $4 billion
Rural Areas Waste/Water Program Loans (Critical Infrastructure) $1.47 billion
Clean, Reliable Drinking Water & Sanitary Waste Disposal Systems (Critical Infrastructure) $500 million
Rural Water and Waste Program (Disaster Relief) $265 million
Rural Community Facilities Program (Disaster Relief) $50 million
NRCS
Healthy Forests Reserve Program $7 million
Emergency Watershed Protection (EWP) Program $925 million
Emergency Funds (Disaster Supplemental) $650 million
Conservation Program Funding for Infrastructure (Watershed, Flood Prevention, and
Watershed Rehab)
$77 million
USFS
Forest Service Non-Fire $510 million
Wildland Fire Management $375 million
Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) $900 million

Funding resources of NRCS include, but are not limited to, the following:
$1,659
$6,285
$1,785
NRCS
Rural Development
US Forest Service
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Administering Office: NRCS, USDA
Program Title: Regional Conservation Partnership Program (RCPP)
Title, NOFOs: RCPP Classic & RCPP Grants
2022 RCPP, Preserving Upriver Farms to Reduce Flooding in N.C.-Phase II,
funded for $7,090,909.02 for implementing Phase II of a project, reduction of
soil erosion and runoff in the Piedmont and Sandhills river basins of North
Carolina. Permanent protection of over 4,000 acres of working farms and
forests in the Neuse River Basin. Addition of conservation easements in the
eight county project area.
2021 RCPP, Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians Stream Habitat Improvement,
funded $3,500,000 for the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians Stream Habitat
Improvement project to stabilize severely eroding and unstable streams in the
Ravens Fork Watershed (a historically underserved population in the Great
Smoky Mountains of North Carolina). Project goals include reduced stream
sediment, improved aquatic habitat, improved plant diversity, and the
planting of riparian buffers to offset carbon emissions.
Website: https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/programs-initiatives/rcpp-regional-conservation-
partnership-program
Funding Purpose: Development of new conservation structures, solutions, and approaches that
would not otherwise be available for solving natural resource challenges for
land management and improvement, restoration practices, public works, and
watersheds.
Legal Mechanism: Contracts and Easements; Grants
Maximum Allocation: $197 million (2022 for 41 projects); Varies by project value
Funding Frequency: Annual

Administering Office: NRCS, USDA
Program Title: Watershed Rehabilitation Program
Title, NOFOs: October
Website: https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/programs-initiatives/watershed-
rehabilitation
Funding Purpose: Rehabilitate aging dams that are reaching the end of their design life and/or
no longer meet federal or state safety criteria or performance standards.
Legal Mechanism: Contracts and Easements; Grants
Maximum Allocation: $501 million Funds (2022); Installation 75% or 90% for limited resource areas;
Engr/Tech 100%
Funding Frequency: Annual

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Program Title: Emergency Watershed Protection (EWP) Program
Title, NOFOs: NRCS Grant
2021 EWP, Cross Creek Stabilization, funded for $1,197,062.36 for St. Johns
Church designed to provide debris removal and 225 linear feet of streambank
stabilization for Cross Creek Bank.
Website: https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/programs-initiatives/ewp-emergency-watershed-
protection
Funding Purpose: Designed to help people and conserve natural resources by relieving imminent
hazards to life and property caused by floods, fires, drought, windstorms, and
other natural occurrences.
Legal Mechanism: Contracts and Easements; Grants
Maximum Allocation: $925 million; Installation 75% or 90% for limited resource areas; Engr/Tech
100%
Funding Frequency: Rolling, annually

Administering Office: NRCS, USDA
Program Title: Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Program
Title, NOFOs: Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention, October
Website: https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/programs-initiatives/watershed-and-flood-
prevention-operations-wfpo-program
Funding Purpose: Protect and restore watersheds. Flood Prevention, Watershed Protection,
Public Recreation, Public Fish and Wildlife, Agricultural Water Management,
Municipal, and Industrial Water Supply, and Water Quality Management where
watershed projects are less than or equal to 250,000 Acres.
Legal Mechanism: Contracts and Easements; Grants
Maximum Allocation: $218 million in funds (2022); Installation 75% or 90% for limited resource
areas; Engr/Tech 100%
Funding Frequency: Annual

Administering Office: NRCS, USDA
Program Title: Forest Service, Healthy Forests Reserve Program
Title, NOFOs: Forest Health Protection (FHP), November
Website: https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/programs-initiatives/hfrp-healthy-forests-reserve-
program#contact
Funding Purpose: Restore, enhance, and protect forestland resources to promote the recovery of
endangered or threatened species, improve plant and animal biodiversity, and
enhance carbon sequestration.
Legal Mechanism: Grant, Cost Share Agreements, and Easements
Maximum Allocation: $7 million; 50%-Amount of the grant varies by project value
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Funding Frequency: Annual (ten or 30-year renewals)

Administering Office: NRCS, USDA
Program Title: Conservation Innovation Grants
Title, NOFOs: National and State Competitions, On-Farm Trials
Website: https://cig.sc.egov.usda.gov/
Funding Purpose Supports the development of new tools, approaches, practices, and
technologies to further natural resource conservation through creative
problem-solving and innovation, which address water quality, air quality, soil
health, and wildlife habitat challenges, and improve agricultural operations.
Legal Mechanism: Grants
Maximum Allocation: Varies by level; $5 million per project, $25 million annually available
Funding Frequency: Annual

Administering Office: USDA-Rural Development (RD)-Cooperative Service
Program Title: Rural Development Loan and Grant Assistance
Title, NOFOs: Rural Economic Development Loan & Grant Program in North Carolina,
September 30, December 31, March 31, and June 30
Website: Rural Economic Development Loan & Grant Program in North Carolina | Rural
Development (usda.gov)
Funding Purpose: USDA-RD forges partnerships with rural communities, funding projects that
bring housing, community facilities, business guarantees, utilities, and other
services to rural America. Funding for rural projects through local utility
organizations.
Legal Mechanism: Grants and Loans (Zero Interest)
Maximum Allocation: $4 billion; Grant $300,000; Loan $2 million
Funding Frequency: Quarterly

5.6 U.S. Forest Service (USFS)
National Forests in North Carolina are part of the Southern Region or Region 8 of the USFS, under
USDA. North Carolina is one of 13 states that the Southern Region of the Forest Service collection of
lands encompasses, in addition to Puerto Rico. Known as Region 8 within the Forest Service, the
Southern Region consists of 14 National Forest units and two special units with North Carolina
containing the Pisgah, Nantahala, Uwharrie, and Croatan National Forests (the only coastal national
forest in the eastern U.S.). Funding resources of the USFS include but are not limited to the following
listed below.

Funding resources of the USFS include but are not limited to the following:
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Administering Office: USFS, USDA
Program Title: The Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF)
Title, NOFOs: Forest Legacy Program
Website: https://lwcfcoalition.org/forest-legacy-program
N.C. Forest Legacy: https://www.ncforestservice.gov/fsandfl/what_is_forest_legacy.htm
Funding Purpose: Protect forested properties through conservation easements or direct
acquisition.
Legal Mechanism: Grants to States (with Partners)
Maximum Allocation: $900 million; Varies by project; Recent $7,000,000 project value funded
Funding Frequency: Annual

Administering Office: USFS, USDA
Program Title: LWCF
Title, NOFOs: Cooperative Endangered Species Conservation Fund – Section 6;
Habitat Conservation Plan Land Acquisition program;
Recovery Land Acquisition grants
Website: https://lwcfcoalition.org/section-6
Funding Purpose: Protection for species and habitat conservation on non-federal lands; support
of approved species recovery plans.
Legal Mechanism: Grants to a combination of the States and either landowners or other
stakeholders.
Maximum Allocation: $900 million; $10,000-$39,276,000
Funding Frequency: Annual

Administering Office: USFS, USDA
Program Title: Fire Management
Title, NOFOs: Community Wildfire Defense Grant, South; November
Website: https://www.fs.usda.gov/sites/default/files/2022-08/Instruction-SGSF-CWDG-
NOFO.pdf
Purpose: To assist at-risk local communities and Native American tribes with planning
for and mitigating the risk created by wildfire.
Legal Mechanism: Grant
Maximum Allocation: $375 million; $250K for plan update; $10 million plan/project implementation
Funding Frequency: Annual

Administering Office: USFS, USDA
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Program Title: Special Technology Development Program, Region 8 (Southeast Region)
Title, NOFOs: FHP, November
Website: https://www.fs.usda.gov/foresthealth/docs/FHP_Grants/STDP-Proposal-
Instructions-Guidelines-2023.pdf
Funding Purpose: Projects submitted to this Program contribute to fulfilling the USFS- FHP
mission: To protect, restore and improve the health of rural, wildland, and
urban forests.
Legal Mechanism: Grant
Maximum Allocation: $510 million; Grant $300,000; Loan $2 million
Funding Frequency: Annual

Administering Office: USFS, USDA
Program Title: Forest Health Monitoring Program, Evaluation Monitoring
Title, NOFOs: FHP, November
Website: https://www.fs.usda.gov/foresthealth/docs/FHP_Grants/STDP-Proposal-
Instructions-Guidelines-2023.pdf
Funding Purpose: Projects submitted to this Program contribute to fulfilling the USFS-FHP
mission: To protect, restore and improve the health of rural, wildland, and
urban forests by determining the extent, severity, and causes of undesirable
changes in forest health.
Legal Mechanism: Grant
Maximum Allocation: $510 million; Grant $300,000; Loan $2 million
Funding Frequency: Annual

Administering Office: USFS, USDA
Program Title: Forest Service Pesticide Impact Assessment Program
Title, NOFOs: FHP, November
Website: https://www.fs.usda.gov/foresthealth/protecting-forest/integrated-pest-
management/pesticide-management/pesticide-impact-assessment.shtml
Funding Purpose: Projects submitted to this Program contribute to fulfilling the USFS-FHP
mission: To protect, restore and improve the health of rural, wildland, and
urban forests.
Legal Mechanism: Grant
Maximum Allocation: $510 million; Grant $300,000; Loan $2 million
Funding Frequency: Annual

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Program Title: Biological Control of Invasive Forest Pests
Title, NOFOs: FHP, November
Website: https://www.fs.usda.gov/foresthealth/applied-sciences/biological-
control/index.shtml
Funding Purpose: Projects submitted to this Program contribute to fulfilling the USFS-FHP
mission: To protect, restore and improve the health of rural, wildland, and
urban forests. Must address forest insects, forest pathogens and diseases, and
or invasive plants.
Legal Mechanism: Grants
Maximum Allocation: $510 million; Grant $300,000; Loan $2 million
Funding Frequency: Annual

Funding resources for USDA-Rural Development (USDA-RD) include but are not limited to the
following:

Administering Office: USDA-RD
Program Title: Water and Environmental Programs
Title, NOFOs: Water & Waste Disposal Loan & Grant;
Water & Waste Disposal Predevelopment Planning Grants;
Water and Waste Facility Loans and Grants to Alleviate Health Risks on Tribal
Lands;
Water & Waste Disposal Technical Assistance & Training Grants;
Revolving Funds for Financing Water and Wastewater Projects;
Emergency Community Water Assistance Grants;
Rural Decentralized Water Systems Grants;
Solid Waste Management Grants;
Technical Assistance and Training for Innovative Regional Wastewater; and
Treatment Solutions Grant Pilot Program
Website: https://www.rd.usda.gov/programs-services/water-environmental-programs
Funding Purpose: Acquisition, construction, or improvement of drinking water sourcing,
treatment, storage, and distribution; sewer collection, transmission,
treatment, and disposal; solid waste collection, disposal, and closure; and
stormwater collection, transmission, and disposal.
Legal Mechanism: Grants and Loans w/ 40-year payback
Maximum Allocation: Varies by project.
Funding Frequency: Quarterly on an annual basis

Administering Office: USDA-RD
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Program Title: Community Facilities Programs
Title, NOFOs: Community Facilities Direct Loan & Grant Program
Rural Community Development Initiative Grants
Economic Impact Initiative Grants
Website: https://www.rd.usda.gov/programs-services/community-facilities
Funding Purpose: Purchase, construct, and/or improve essential community facilities.
Legal Mechanism: Grants and Loans
Maximum Allocation: Program maximum 75%; Percent coverage based on community size and
project
Funding Frequency: Quarterly on an annual basis

5.7 U.S. Department of Commerce (USDOC)
The USDOC promotes innovation through job creation, economic growth, sustainable development,
and improved standards of living. The department ’s range of responsibilities with funding measures
may include economic development, technology, environmental stewardship, and statistical research
and analysis. Cutting-edge science and technology in the department foster innovation, with a focus
on research and development.

The USDOC Programs and Agencies that potentially aid with flood resiliency projects include the
following programs and funding by millions of dollars as shown Figure 5-2 for Economic Development
Administration (USEDA) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

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Figure 5-2: USDOC Available Funding (in millions)

The 2023 House Committee Appropriations Funding for USDOC with the overlap of the Blueprint is
broken down in Table 5-45-4, however those funds are not exclusive to the agencies’ available
funding sources and do not cap program allocations.

Table 5-4: 2023 House Committee Appropriations Funding for USDOC with Overlap of
the Blueprint
Appropriated Areas Amount
Economic Development Administration (USEDA) 127
Public Works Program $121 million
Infrastructure & Long-term Economic Recovery Efforts (2021-2022 Natural disasters) $500 million
RECOMPETE Grants (Development Needs – Distressed Communities) $159 million
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
Climate Research $224.2 million
National Marine Fisheries Service $6.35 billion
Fish Passage Program $400 million
National Marine Fisheries Service Operations $1.09 billion
Natural Disaster – Structures Repair/Replacement, Debris Removal, Affected Waters
Mapping/Charting
$29 million
5.8 U.S. Economic Development Administration (USEDA), of USDOC
The US EDA is designed to establish a foundation for sustainable job growth and the building of
durable regional economies throughout the United States. This foundation builds upon two key
$7,780 $2,659
$159
NOAA EDA American Rescue Act & Cares Act Program RECOMPETE Act
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economic drivers – innovation and regional collaboration. Regional collaboration is essential for
economic recovery and those that work together to leverage resources and use their strengths to
overcome weaknesses will fare better than those that do not. USEDA encourages its partners around
the country to develop initiatives that advance the latest ideas and creative approaches to address
rapidly evolving economic conditions that provide a stronger funding base for resiliency and the
Blueprint overlap. Funding resources of USDOC include but are not limited to the following under the
USEDA:

Administering Office: Economic Development Administration (USEDA), USDOC
Program Title: American Rescue Plan Act & Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security
(CARES) Act Programs
Title, NOFOs: Public Works Program ($121 million);
Build Back Better Regional Challenge (21 Awards at $25 to $65 million, 60
phase one finalist awards, Totaling $1 billion);
Good Jobs Challenge (32 Training Partnerships, Totaling $500 million);
Economic Adjustment Assistance Program (256 Projects, Totaling $500
million);
Indigenous Communities Program (51 Grantees totaling $100 million,
Additional
76 Grants Totaling $338 million, Program Total of $448 million)
Statewide Planning, Research & Networks (59 States/Territories at $1 million
each, 14 Research Networks Totaling $31 million).
Website: https://www.eda.gov/funding/programs/american-rescue-plan
Funding Purpose: Economic development, supports development in economically distressed
areas and empowers communities to develop and implement their economic
development and revitalization strategies.
Legal Mechanism: Construction Grants, Non-Construction Grants, Revolving Loans
Maximum Allocation: Varying; supplemental funding by Grant/Act type
Funding Frequency: Varying, rolling

Administering Office: Economic Development Administration (USEDA), USDOC
Program Title: RECOMPETE Act/ More People Everywhere to Excel Act
Title, NOFOs: RECOMPETE
Website: Not available to date
Funding Purpose: Economic development to empower persistently distressed communities and
develop and implement a comprehensive strategy to address t he economic
challenges specific to the area.
Legal Mechanism: Ten year Grant
Maximum Allocation: $159 million; Formula based, minimum 50% to maximum 100% project cost
Funding Frequency: Rolling, monthly
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5.9 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), of
USDOC
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is the National Coastal Zone Management
Program under the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972, the program provides the basis for
protecting, restoring, and responsibly developing our nat ion’s diverse coastal communities and
resources. The goal is to “preserve, protect, develop, and where possible, to restore or enhance the
resources of the nation’s coastal zone.”

The National Coastal Zone Management Program comprehensively addresses the nation’s coastal
issues through a voluntary partnership between the federal government and coastal and Great Lakes
states and territories. Currently, 34 coastal states participate, leveraging both federal and state
expertise and resources, the program strengthens the capabilities of each to address coastal issues.
The Coastal Zone Management Act outlines three national programs, the National Coastal Zone
Management Program, the National Estuarine Research Reserve System, and the Coastal and
Estuarine Land Conservation Program (CELCP). The National Coastal Zone Management Program
aims to balance competing land and water issues through state and territorial coastal management
programs, the reserves serve as field laboratories that provide a greater understand ing of estuaries
and how humans impact them, and CELCP provides matching funds to state and local governments to
purchase threatened coastal and estuarine lands or obtain conservation easements. Funding
resources of USDOC include but are not limited to the following under NOAA:

Administering Office: Habitat Conservation Office of NOAA, USDOC:
Program Title: Fish Passage Program
Title, NOFOs: FY 2022 Restoring Fish Passage through Barrier Removal
FY 2022 Restoring Tribal Priority Fish Passage through Barrier Removal
Website: https://www.noaa.gov/infrastructure-law/infrastructure-law-fisheries-
protected-resources/fish-passage
Funding Purpose: Restoring Fish Passage, Barrier Removal, Fish Passage, eliminate or lessen
public safety hazards, improve climate resilience, and provide opportunities
for recreation, like fishing and boating; recover threatened and endangered
migratory fish and support the sustainability of commercial and recreational
fisheries.
Legal Mechanism: Grant
Program Allocation: $400 million over five years
Maximum Allocation: $65 million; $1 million-$15 million
Tribal Allocation: $12 million; $300,000-$5 million
Funding Frequency: Supplemental, yearly

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Administering Office: NOAA, USDOC:
Program Title: National Coastal Zone Enhancement/ Management Program
Title, NOFOs: Coastal Zone Management Projects of Special Merit Competition – FY 2023;
Program Total Funding $1,500,000; $50,000--$250,000/Project
Website: https://coast.noaa.gov/czm/enhancement/
Funding Purpose: Used to protect and restore ecologically significant habitats, including
conserving lands that play a critical role in helping communities become more
resilient to natural hazards. Habitat restoration; habitat restoration planning,
engineering, and design; ecosystem conservation; infrastructure for coastal
zone management programs to support a work plan focused on the
Infrastructure Law.
Legal Mechanism: Grant
Maximum Allocation: $207 million over five years, approximately $40 million per year; $200,000 up
to $6 million per project
Funding Frequency: Supplemental, yearly

Administering Office: NOAA, USDOC:
Program Title: National Estuarine Research Reserve System
Title, NOFOs: National Estuarine Research Reserve System Land Acquisition & Construction
Program for Fiscal Year 2023; Program Total Funding $4,500,000; $20,000-
$1,500,000/Project
Website: https://coast.noaa.gov/nerrs/
Funding Purpose: Protect and restore ecologically significant habitats, including conserving
lands that play a critical role in helping communities become more resilient to
natural hazards. Habitat restoration; habitat restoration planning,
engineering, and design; ecosystem conservation; program capacity to
support work plans focused on the Infrastructure Law.
Funding Mechanism: Grants
Maximum Allocation: $77 million over five years; $15 million per year; $200,000 up to $4 million per
project, depending on project type
Funding Frequency: Supplemental, annual

Administering Office: NOAA, USDOC:
Program Title: National Coastal Resilience Fund National
Title, NOFOs: 2022 Emergency Coastal Resilience Fund; $136 million to fund 88 projects in
2022
Website: https://coast.noaa.gov/resilience-grant/
Funding Purpose: Habitat restoration-related activities, including community capacity building
and planning; site assessment and preliminary design; final design and
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permitting restoration implementation. Funds to be used to restore, increase,
and strengthen natural infrastructure to protect communities while also
enhancing habitats for fish and wildlife.
Funding Mechanism: Grants
Maximum Allocation: $492 million over five years. Approximately $98 million per year. Additional
private and public funds will be leveraged as well. The request for proposals
issued by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation provides an expected
average range of awards by project category, not considered limits or “hard
caps.”
Funding Frequency: Supplemental, annual

Administering Office: NOAA, USDOC:
Program Title: Regional Ocean Partnerships
Title, NOFOs: 2023 Regional Ocean Partnership Awards
2023 Regional Association Awards
Website: https://coast.noaa.gov/funding/infrastructure-projects.html
Funding Purpose: Implementing priority actions identified by regional ocean partnerships
(including capacity for member participation and engagement); federal and
non-federal data sharing and integration activities in each of the regions
designed to coordinate interstate and intertribal management of ocean and
coastal resources and implement priority actions identified by established
regional ocean partnerships, including data sharing and integration.
Funding Mechanism: Grants
Maximum Allocation: $56 million over five years. Approximately $11 million per year, including $1
million per year to be awarded competitively to federally recognized tribes
Funding Frequency: Supplemental, annual
Tribal Program: 2023 Tribal Awards
Title, NOFOs: IIJA (2023), Tribal Engagement in Regional Ocean Partnership Priorities
Eligible Uses: To encourage or enhance tribal engagement in existing regional ocean
partnerships around the country to be a separate funding competition where
U.S. federally recognized Native American tribes that have current or ancestral
interests in a region with an established regional ocean partnership and wish
to pursue coastal and ocean activities that align with the regional priorities.
Funding Mechanism: Grants
Maximum Allocation: Yearly program $1,000,000, awards $50,000-$200,000; awarded competitively.
Funding Frequency: Supplemental, annual

Administering Office: Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR), NOAA, USDOC:
Program Title: Climate Program Grants
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Title, NOFOs: Climate Program Office FY 2023
Website: https://cpo.noaa.gov/Funding-Opportunities
Funding Purpose: Supports competitive research through four major program areas: Earth
System Science and Modeling; Climate and Societal Interactions;
Communication, Education and Engagement the National Integrated Drought
Information System. High-priority climate risk areas of Coastal Inundation,
Marine Ecosystems, Water Resources, and Extreme Heat.
Funding Mechanism: Grants
Maximum Allocation: $224 million; Varies, awarded competitively
Funding Frequency: Supplemental, annual

5.10 U.S. Department of Defense (USDOD)
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) falls under and plays a critical role within the USDOD. H.R.3080-
Water Resources Reform and Development Act of 2014 is the primary legislation by which Congress
authorized the Corps of Engineers’ key civil works missions, including navigation, flood risk
management, and environmental restoration developing and maintaining the nation’s waterways and
harbors, reducing damages from storm events, and restoring the environment.

The S.1811 – Water Resources Development Act of 2020 removes from annual discretionary spending
limits funds appropriated from the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund for harbor operations and
maintenance purposes, up to a specified amount which allowed additional funds from to be
appropriated for authorization of new projects for purposes including navigation, flood risk
management, and ecosystem restoration purposes without these amounts counting against annual
discretionary spending limits. The bill also expanded the eligible uses of Harbor Maintenance Trust
Fund funds to include maintenance dredging at certain emerging harbors and modified cost -sharing
requirements for the construction of inland waterway navigation projects. It also established various
pilot programs to address issues including flood risk management and hurricane and storm damage
risk reduction in rural or economically disadvantaged communities and established programs for
controlling certain invasive species.

Both Acts allow USACE to leverage the national Disaster Response Registry from part of the General
Services Administration’s System for Award Management, and provide civil, environmental, and
emergency support to the development of the U.S. economy as well as the standard development
activities provided to the of the country. The U SACE owns, operates, and maintains more than 600
dams, 12,000 miles of commercial inland navigation channels, 926 coastal lakes, and inland harbors,
24 percent of the U.S. hydropower capacity, and 3 percent of the total U.S. electric capacity. In
addition, the USACE dredges more than 200 million cubic yards of construction and maintenance
dredge material annually and restores, creates, enhances, or preserves tens of thousands of acres of
wetlands annually under the USACE Regulatory Program.

No additional Funds were added during the FY 2023 Consolidated Appropriations Act, the past
appropriated funding for the Corps Water Infrastructure Financing Program is noted in Table 5-5. The
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Money Allocated under FY 2023 Consolidated Appropriations Act for USACE was appropriated for
USACE Operations and Program Administration.

Table 5-5: Funding for USACE under USDOD with an overlap of the Blueprint for FY 2021
to FY 2023
Appropriated Areas Appropriated Law Signing
Date
Credit Subsidy Amount
(Lending Capacity Estimate)
Army Corps of Engineers
FY 2021 Consolidated Appropriations Act December 27, 2020 $0.95 billion
Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) November 15, 2021 $6 billion
FY 2022 Consolidated Appropriations Act March 15, 2022 $0.5 billion
FY 2023 Consolidated Appropriations Act December 29, 2022 $0
Total Appropriated Capacity $7.5 billion

Funding resources of USACE include but are not limited to the following:
Administering Office: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), USDOD:
Program Title: Corps Water Infrastructure Financing Program
Title, NOFOs: Corps Water Infrastructure Financing Program, rolling
Website: https://www.usace.army.mil/Missions/Civil-
Works/Infrastructure/revolutionize/CWIFP/
Funding Purpose: Local investment in infrastructure projects that enhance community resilience
to flooding, promote economic prosperity, and improve environmental
quality.
Funding Mechanism: Loans
Maximum Allocation: Program $7.5 million; 49% of project cost; Available where projects exceed $20
million
Funding Frequency: Supplemental

5.11 U.S. Department of Energy (USDOE)
The US DOE addresses the Nation’s energy, environmental, and nuclear challenges through
transformative science and technology solutions. The National Environmental Policy Act is housed
under the USDOE. USDOE conducts Environmental Assessments under this act per policy and
compliance. Those assessments can be leveraged during funding applications. There are resources
available under the State Energy Program Competitive Award Generated Resources that can be
utilized to advance energy efficiency or renewable energy goals based on modeling and
implementation strategies. Table 5-6 lists the available funding to North Carolina under USDOE and
Figure 5-3 shows it.

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Figure 5-3 shows the available USDOE Funding to be the following:
Figure 5-3: USDOE Available Funding

Table 5-6: North Carolina State Funding under USDOE with Overlap of the Blueprint
Appropriated Areas Amount
U.S. State Energy Program Grants (USSEP) $1.318 million
Weatherization Assistance Program $5.642 million
Weatherization and Intergovernmental Programs $6.960 million

The Weatherization Assistance Programs are designed to help low-income citizens save energy and
reduce expenses through the installation of energy conservation materials and the implementation of
energy efficiency measures in their homes and not a source of funding that overlaps with Blueprint .

5.12 Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management, of USDOE
North Carolina produces oil, natural gas, solar power, hydropower, and nuclear power. North Carolina
is still among the nation’s top five producers of electricity from nuclear power. Emergency evacuation
routes, wastewater from energy production, and flood resiliency planning will include energy outlines
and the need to fund those projects, be it new or revisions to their infrastructure and resilience
measures under the Blueprint overlap in funding.

From the 2022 IRA appropriations were made for $11.7 billion for Loan Programs Office to support
issuing new loans and $5 billion for a new loan program for Energy Infrastructure Reinvestment
Program. The available Loans are derived from the Title 17 Innovative Clean Energy Loan Guarantee
Program under:
• Innovative Clean Energy (Section 1703)
• Energy Infrastructure Reinvestment Program (Section 1706)
• Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing Direct Loan Program
• Tribal Energy Loan Guarantee Program
$6,960,000
$5,642,000
$1,318,000
Weatherization & Intergovernmental Programs Weatherization Assistance Program (EERE)
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In addition to the 2022 IRA appropriations, there are Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL)
appropriations that funded the development of 32 new deployment p rograms and expanded 12
existing Research, Development, Demonstration, and Deployment programs that may overlap
Blueprint where energy resilience is part of a flood resilience project. Those programs are
supplemental and would be treated as a trigger to search the Energy funding under the USDOE
opportunity announcements per year.

Given North Carolina’s Mesozoic Basin exposure in the Piedmont and subterranean formations under
the Atlantic Coastal Plain in addition to the Outer Continental Shelf (N.C. Coastal waters 50 miles to
the edge of the continental shelf), the documented presence of natural gas and oil have the potential
for commercial quantity production. There is exploration history for both Lee and Bertie County
through coal and oil along the Dan River Basin and the Sanford sub-basin of the Deep River Basin.
Noting that some of the exploration leases have expired such as the Manteo Exploration Unit there is
potential funding that would overlap flood resilience where operations have occurred or given future
political climates could occur, this funding is available through the Department of Energy under the
Office of Resource Sustainability. Funding resources of USDOE include but are not limited to the
following under the Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management:

Administering Office: Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management, USDOE
Program Title: Office of Resource Sustainability
Title, NOFOs: DE-FOA-0002796
Website: https://www.energy.gov/fecm/funding-notice-water-research-and-
development-oil-and-gas-produced-water-and-coal-combustion
Funding Purpose: By Area of Interest:
(Area 1) Characterizing, Managing, and Treating Oil/Natural Gas Produced
Water for Beneficial Use and the Potential Recovery of Rare Earth
Elements, Critical Minerals, and Elements of Interest.
(Area 2) Field Operation of Oil and Natural Gas Produced Water Consortium.
(Area 3) Characterization and Treatment of Coal Combustion Residuals
Wastewater Associated with Coal Power Generation for Groundwater
Impact and Rare Earth Elements, Critical Minerals, and Elements of
Interest.
Legal Mechanism: Grants and Loans
Maximum Allocation: $18,050,000 Program maximum; varies per area of interest.
(Area 1) five awards/ area maximum $7.5 million; 80% not to exceed $1.5
million/ project
(Area 2) two awards/ area maximum $6.55 million; 80% not to exceed $3.275
million/ project
(Area 3) two awards/ area maximum $4.0 million; 80% not to exceed $2.0
million/ project
Funding Frequency: Supplemental

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The U.S. State Energy Program (USSEP), of USDOE, provides leadership to maximize the benefits of
energy efficiency and renewable energy in each state through communications and outreach
activities and technology deployment, and by providing access to new partnerships and resources.
Additionally, USSEP helps states improve the security of their energy infrastructure by assisting them
with the development of state energy plans. USSEP provides financial and technical assistance to
states through formula and competitive grants. States use their formula grants to develop state
strategies and goals to address their energy priorities. Additionally, North Carolina State Energy Office
(NCSEO) is the state extension of the USDOE State Energy Program and additional discussion is in
Section 2.6.5 State Vehicle funding appropriations. Funding resources of USDOE include but are not
limited to the following under the State Energy Program:

Administering Office: USSEP, USDOE
Program Title: USSEP Competitive Financial Assistance Program
Title, NOFOs: USSEP 2017 Competitive Awards
Website: https://www.energy.gov/scep/state-energy-program-competitive-financial-
assistance-program
Funding Purpose: Energy efficiency and/or renew-able energy
Legal Mechanism: Grants and Loans
Maximum Allocation: $5 million
Funding Frequency: Supplemental

5.13 U.S. Department of Homeland Security (USDHS)
The USDHS ensures a homeland that is safe, secure, and resilient against terrorism and other hazards.
For the purposes of the Blueprint, FEMA, Transit Security Grant Program, and Science and Technology
Directorate will be viable funding options as outlined in Figure 5-4 for hazard mitigation funding.

FEMA under USDHS, coordinates the federal government ’s role in preparing for, preventing,
mitigating the effects of, responding to, and recovering from all domestic disasters, whether natural
or man-made, including acts of terror. FEMA offers both non-disaster grants and disaster assistance.
Additional FEMA resources are out of the local offices of FEMA Region 4 and N.C. Division of Emergency
Management (NCEM). The following are FEMA National Program and funding efforts that overlap
Resilience for the Blueprint purposes include Hazard Mitigation Assistance grant programs, such as
BRIC, Hazard Mitigation Grant Program, Pre-Disaster Mitigation Program, and Flood Mitigation
Assistance Program on behalf of FEMA. Figure 5-4 shows the available FEMA Funding to be the
following:
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Figure 5-4: Available FEMA Funding

As shown in Table 5-7, funding resources of FEMA include but are not limited to the following:

Table 5-7: 2023 House Committee Appropriations Funding for FEMA of USDHS with
Overlap of the Blueprint
Appropriated Areas Amount
FEMA
Disaster Response and Recovery Efforts $20 billion
Federal Assistance $3.9 billion

Administering Office: FEMA and USDHS
Program Title: Pre-Disaster Mitigation Program
Title, NOFOs: FY 2022 Pre-Disaster Mitigation Congressional Community Projects
Website: https://www.fema.gov/grants/mitigation/pre-disaster
Funding Purpose: To plan for and implement sustainable cost-effective measures designed to
reduce the risk to individuals and property from future natural hazards, while
also reducing reliance on federal funding for future disasters.
Legal Mechanism: Grants
Maximum Allocation: $153,922,408 Program; 75% Federal, 25% non-federal;
Small, impoverished communities (3000<people, income<80%), up to 90%
federal, 10% non-federal
Funding Frequency: Annual

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Administering Office: FEMA and USDHS
Program Title: Resilience Grants Program
Title, NOFOs: National Dam Safety Program; High Hazard Potential Dams Rehabilitation
Grant;
FY 2022 program maximum $20 million;
FY 2021 program maximum $11.6 million;
FY 2020-2019 program maximum $10 million
Website: https://www.fema.gov/emergency-managers/risk-management/dam-safety
Funding Purpose: Rehabilitation of eligible high-hazard potential dams
Legal Mechanism: Grants
Maximum Allocation: 2022 program maximum $20 million; Projects vary
Funding Frequency: Annual

Administering Office: FEMA and USDHS
Program Title: Hazard Mitigation Grant Program
Title, NOFOs: North Carolina Covid-19 Pandemic, DR-4487-N.C.; $63,758,987
Flood Mitigation Assistance and the BRIC Grant Program
Website: https://www.fema.gov/grants/mitigation/hazard-mitigation
Funding Purpose: Develop hazard mitigation plans. Rebuild that reduces or mitigates, future
disaster losses of communities.
Legal Mechanism: Grants
Maximum Allocation: Region 4-N.C.
Funding Frequency: Supplemental, available after a presidentially declared disaster.

Administering Office: FEMA and USDHS
Program Title: BRIC
Title, NOFOs: FY 2022 BRIC, September-January
Website: https://www.fema.gov/grants/mitigation/building-resilient-infrastructure-
communities
Funding Purpose: Assist with undertaking hazard mitigation projects and reduction of risks faced
by disasters and natural hazards.
Legal Mechanism: Grants,
Maximum Allocation: 2022-$2.295 billion; $2 million project cap ($1 million planning -max); Tribal
$50 million.
Funding Frequency: Annual

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Administering Office: FEMA and USDHS
Program Title: Hazard Mitigation Assistance Program
Title, NOFOs: Flood Mitigation Assistance Grant, September-January
Website: https://www.fema.gov/grants/mitigation/floods
Funding Purpose: Reduce or eliminate the risk of repetitive flood damage to buildings insured
under the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). The focus is on mitigating
Severe Repetitive Loss and Repetitive Loss properties that have incurred
multiple flood losses and NFIP claim payments. In addition, funded projects
will reduce flood risk in communities disproportionately impacted by flooding.
Legal Mechanism: Grant
Maximum Allocation: $50 million project max
Funding Frequency: Annual

Administering Office: FEMA, USDHS
Program Title: Transit Security Grant Program
Title, NOFOs: FY 2021 program maximum $93 million
FY 2020-2016 program maximum $88 million
Website: https://www.fema.gov/grants/preparedness/transit-security
Funding Purpose: Mass transit and passenger rail systems, intercity bus companies, freight
railroad carriers, ferries, the trucking industry, and all forms of passenger rail
to increase transportation infrastructure resilience.
Legal Mechanism: Grant
Maximum Allocation: Program $88 million max; $250,000
Funding Frequency: Annual

5.14 U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
The mission of HUD is to create funding opportunities for building sustainable communities including
long-term housing, infrastructure, and economic recovery needs of communities impacted by natural
disasters. Figure 5-5 shows the available funding under HUD.

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Figure 5-5: Available HUD Funding

As shown in Table 5-8, the funding resources of HUD include but are not limited to the following:

Table 5-8: 2023 House Committee Appropriations Funding for HUD with Overlap of the
Blueprint
Appropriated Areas Amount
Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) program
CDBG-DR program $3 billion
Preservation and Reinvestment Initiative for Community Enhancement (PRICE) – New HUD Program in
2023
PRICE Program General Fund $225 million
PRICE Program (redevelopment of manufactured housing communities) $25 million
PRICE Program Tribal $2.5 million

Funding resources of HUD include but are not limited to the following:

Administering Office: HUD
Program Title: CDBG-DR (+ CDBG-Mitigation) program
Title, NOFOs: CDBG-DR Funding
Website: https://www.hudexchange.info/programs/cdbg-dr/
Funding Purpose: For the long-term housing, infrastructure, and economic recovery needs for
areas impacted by a natural disaster.
Legal Mechanism: Grant
Maximum Allocation: Program $3 billion; Varies
Funding Frequency: Annual

$3,000,000,000
$252,500,000
$40,000,000
$73,500,000
CDBG Disaster Recovery Funding
Community Enhancement (PRICE) program
Choice Neighborhood Implementation Grant
Program
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Administering Office: HUD
Program Title: Community Enhancement (PRICE) program
Title, NOFOs: N/A
Website: N/A
Funding Purpose: Support the resiliency and preservation of manufactured housing and
manufactured housing communities in areas prone to natural disasters.
Legal Mechanism: Grant
Maximum Allocation: Program $225 million; Tribal $2.5 million
Funding Frequency: N/A

Administering Office: HUD
Program Title: Choice Neighborhood Implementation Grant Program
Title, NOFOs: Choice Neighborhoods
Website:
https://www.hud.gov/program_offices/public_indian_housing/programs/ph/
cn
Funding Purpose: Transform neighborhoods by revitalizing severely distressed public and/or
assisted housing and catalyzing critical improvements in the neighborhood,
including vacant property, housing, businesses, services, and schools.
Legal Mechanism: Grant
Maximum Allocation: $40 million Program; $500,000
Funding Frequency: Annual

5.15 U.S. Department of the Interior (USDOI)
The USDOI manages and sustains America’s lands, water, wildlife, and energy resources while
balancing the nation’s responsibilities to tribal nations and advocating for America’s island
communities. The USDOI provides funding and support resources for those resources through the
Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), National Park Service (NPS), U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), the
EPA, and the USGS.

BIA provides services directly or through contracts, grants, or compacts to 567 federally recognized
tribes, one of which is located throughout at least 32 counties in North Carolina with a service
population of over 100,000. Additionally, the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act
(NAGPRA) Grants program provides assistance to museums, Native American tribes, and Native
Hawaiian organizations for the purposes of assisting in consultation, documentation, and repatriation
of Native American “cultural items,” including human remains, funerary objects, sacred objects, and
objects of cultural patrimony. Although it is not directly outlined with reliance funds for hazard
mitigation there are conditions where flood-prone areas that contain funeral or cultural significance
would provide them the opportunity to leverage this resource in combination with flood haz ard
resiliency, for that purpose it is included here for potential funding as part of the Blueprint overlap.
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In addition to Indian Affairs, the USDOI includes the NPS which provides preservation assistance
through a number of programs that support the preservation of America’s historic places and diverse
history through the State, Tribal, and Local Plans and Grants Division of the NPS. The division
administers grant programs to state, territorial, tribal, and local governments, educational
institutions, and non-profits in addition to providing preservation planning, technical assistance, and
policy guidance. This work supports historic properties and place-based identity, key components to
the social and economic vitality of our communities during resilience funding overlap for Blueprint.
Table 5-9 lists appropriations for USDOI with Blueprint. Figure 5-6 provides a visual representation of
the available funding.

Table 5-9: 2023 House Committee Appropriations Funding for USDOI with Overlap of the
Blueprint
Appropriated Areas Amount
NPS
State and Tribal Historic Preservation Offices $62.15 million
Historic Preservation Fund $205 million
Underrepresented Community civil rights $30 million
Grants to Historically Black Colleges and Universities $11 million
National Recreation and Preservation $93 million
National and Scenic Historic Trails $11 million
Disaster Funding for expenses related to wildfires, hurricanes, and other natural
disasters, prior/up to 2023
$4.6 billion
Wildfire preparedness and suppression activities $1.6 billion
USGS
Funding Natural Disasters $41.04 million

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Figure 5-6: Available Funding USDOI Blueprint Overlap

For the USGS grants funded from Natural Disaster appropriations, grants are managed through the
Office of Acquisition and Grants of the USDOI Office of Grants Management. Funding resources of
USGS include but are not limited to the following:
Administering Office: USGS, USDOI
Program Title: USGS Funding
Title, NOFOs: Research and Data Collection, Developing Methodologies for Coastal Impacts
Associated with Climate Variability
Website: https://www.usgs.gov/office-of-acquisition-and-grants/financial-assistance
Funding Purpose: Natural disaster, subsequent data collection, and projects.
Legal Mechanism: Grant and Cooperative Agreement
Maximum Allocation: $10,000-$325,000
Funding Frequency: Supplemental

5.15.1 NPS Apportionment for State and Tribal Historic Preservation Offices
(SHPOs)
For funding for the NPS, Congress appropriates money from the Historic Preservation Fund to be
divided among SHPOs and Tribal Historic Preservation Offices (THPOs) which is made according to an
apportionment formula.

$50,218,542,000
$219,286,023
$209,433,829
$831,200,000
$41,040,000
NPS FWS BIA USGS
EPA
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For SHPOs, funding is divided between the 50 states, 5 territories, 3 Freely Associated States of
Micronesia, and the District of Columbia. Most SHPOs are required by statute to match their awarded
funding with a matching share in a ratio of 60% federal to 40% non-federal match. Revisions reflect an
increase in the base award for all states and the use of the current census data for Tiers 2 and 3. The
apportionment formula is composed of the following components:
• Tier 1 Base Award of equal division; all SHPOs received a base amount of $400,000.00, with a
percentage set aside for the Freely Associated States;
• Tier 2 Census Award was based on 2020 U.S. Census data factors for acreage, population, and
number of residential structures over 50 years old;
• Tier 3 Statute Award (54 USC 302902I(4)) allocated appropriations above $65 million by applying
Tier 2 U.S. Census calculations and, by statute, requiring each state to award 50% of that
calculated amount to its Certified Local Government partners.
For the FY 2023 Consolidated Appropriations Act (P.L. 117-328), Congress provided a total of $62.15
million for SHPOs and the bill states that the appropriation “shall be allocated consistent with the
newly updated apportionment formula.” This means that the changes to the apportionment formula
that were released by NPS in July 2022 will be implemented beginning with the FY 2023 grants,
consistent with Congress’ direction to develop the planning amounts for the FY 2023 budget
availability.

The Apportionment Certificate for FY 2023 has been sent to National Park Service Director for approval
and the amounts linked below are considered preliminary until the Director has signed the certificate
and the Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) is updated on Grants.gov with the new award
amounts. Grants awarded under the FY 2023 apportionment will have a start date of October 1, 2022
(regardless of when the grant is awarded) and an end date of September 30, 2025. SHPOs may use FY
2023 Historic Preservation Fund (HPF) funds to cover expenses incurred at any time during this period.
SHPOs may also choose to continue on a two-year cycle and complete the grant early. North
Carolina’s FY 2023 Apportionment for planning numbers is a total award of $1,286,023, with an
$857,349 match.

From the total appropriation, NPS allots a small amount, typically about 10%, of the appropriation, to
fund project grants under the Tribal Heritage Grant Program. The remaining funds are divided among
the eligible THPOs to support each tribe’s HPO program. For appropriation of the THPOs,
approximately 80% of the total appropriation is divided equally among all THPOs and the remaining
20% is apportioned based on the area of Tribal lands as defined in the National Historic Prese rvation
Act. NPS then prepares an apportionment certificate for signature by the Secretary of the Interior.
Funding resources of NPS include but are not limited to the following:

Administering Office: NPS, USDOI
Program Title: Maritime Heritage Grants, Preservation Grants, HPF
Title, NOFOs: National Maritime Heritage Grant Program
Website: https://www.nps.gov/subjects/maritimeheritage/maritime-heritage-
grants.htm
Funding Purpose: Pre-preservation and preservation projects or rehabilitation of historic
properties, inventories, and surveys.
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Legal Mechanism: Grant
Maximum Allocation: Program maximum $2 million, $50,000-$750,000
Funding Frequency: Annual, May

Administering Office: NPS, USDOI
Program Title: National Trails System
Title, NOFOs: Connect Trails to Parks
Website: https://www.nps.gov/subjects/nationaltrailssystem/connect-trails-to-parks-
cttp.htm
Funding Purpose: Promotion, planning, research, evaluation, program design, and sustainable
infrastructure of national trails.
Legal Mechanism: Grant
Maximum Allocation: Program maximum $11 million; $3,000 and $100,000
Funding Frequency: Annual

Administering Office: State, Tribal, Local, Plans & Grants Division (STLPG), NPS, USDOI
Program Title: Emergency Supplemental Historic Preservation Fund, Disaster Recovery
Grants, HPF, Competitive Grant Programs
Title, NOFOs: Florence, Yutu, Michael Disaster Grants, $47.8 million Funding
Website: https://www.nps.gov/subjects/historicpreservationfund/disaster-
recovery.htm
Funding Purpose: Rebuild communities in the aftermath of natural disasters, substantial funding
goes towards construction projects designed to stabilize or repair historic
properties.
Legal Mechanism: Grant
Maximum Allocation: HPF 2023 allocated funds of $205 million; Varies
Funding Frequency: Supplemental

Administering Office: STLPG, NPS, USDOI
Program Title: SHPO Formula Grants, HPF grants
Title, NOFOs: Grants for Cultural Resources, Consultation, and Repatriation
NAGPRA Grants
Website: https://www.nps.gov/subjects/historicpreservationfund/shpo-grants.htm
Funding Purpose: Identification, evaluation, and protection of historic properties by such means
as survey, planning, technical assistance, development, Federal tax incentives
for historic properties, expansion of the National Register of Historic Places,
Integrated Resource Management Applications, Preservation plans of Historic
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Districts, Stabilization Assessments, Historical resource Surveys, Conditions
Assessments, Projects, or studies for Landmarks at Risk.
Legal Mechanism: Grant
Maximum Allocation: N.C. max funds available for 2022 are $1,286,023; Tribal varies
Funding Frequency: Annual

Administering Office: STLPG, NPS, USDOI
Program Title: THPO Formula Grants, HPF grants
Title, NOFOs: Tribal Heritage Grants
Website: https://www.nps.gov/subjects/historicpreservationfund/thpo-grants.htm
Funding Purpose: Identification, evaluation, and protection of historic properties by such means
as survey, planning, technical assistance, development, Federal tax incentives
for historic properties, expansion of the National Register of Historic Places,
Integrated Resource Management Applications, Preservation plans of Historic
Districts, Stabilization Assessments, Historical resource Surveys, Conditions
Assessments, Projects, or studies for Landmarks at Risk.
Legal Mechanism: Grant
Maximum Allocation: Formula-based allocation, $15,000-$75,000
Funding Frequency: Annual

Administering Office: STLPG, NPS, USDOI
Program Title: Competitive Grant Programs, HPF
Title, NOFOs: Tribal Heritage Grants
Underrepresented Communities Grants
Historically Black Colleges & Universities Grant Program
African American Civil Rights (AACR) Grants
Save America’s Treasures Grants
History of Equal Right Grants
Paul Bruhn Historic Revitalization
Semi quincentennial Grants
Website: https://www.nps.gov/subjects/historicpreservationfund/project-grants.htm
Funding Purpose: Pre-preservation and preservation projects or rehabilitation of historic
properties, inventories, and surveys.
Legal Mechanism: Grant
Maximum Allocation: Maximum based on allocation for each program; $125,000 - $750,000 projects,
$15,000-$75,000 planning
Funding Frequency: Annual, Summer/Fall dates

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5.15.2 United States Fish and Wildlife Services (USFWS)
Additional support through the USDOI includes the USFWS that administers a variety of financial
assistance programs that award grants and cooperative agreements to commercial organizations,
foreign entities, Indian tribal governments, individuals, institutions of higher education, non-profit
organizations, and state and local governments. Table 5-10 provides a list of the USFWS funding
available.

Table 5-10: 2023 House Committee Appropriations Funding for USFWS within the USDOI
with Overlap of the Blueprint
Appropriated Areas Amount
USFWS
Threatened and Endangered species $34 million
Funding Natural Disasters $47 million
National Fish Passage Program $200 million

Funding resources of the USFWS include but are not limited to the following:
Administering Office: USFWS, USDOI
Program Title: Cooperative Endangered Species Conservation Fund
Title, NOFOs: FY 2022 Traditional Conservation Grants Program (Service Legacy Region 4)
Website: https://www.fws.gov/service/traditional-conservation-grants
Funding Purpose: Conservation projects for species listed as endangered or threatened under
the Endangered Species Act, as well as candidate species and at -risk species.
Legal Mechanism: Grant
Maximum Allocation: $3,433,829 Program max; $1,000-$3,433,829
Funding Frequency: Annual

Administering Office: USFWS, USDOI
Program Title: Fish and Aquatic Conservation Program - National Fish Passage Program
Title, NOFOs: FY 2023 National Fish Passage Program under BIL
Website: https://fws.gov/service/us-fish-and-wildlife-service-seeks-project-
applications-38-million-fish-passage-funding
Funding Purpose: Benefits to Priority Species and Habitats, the permanence of Fish Passage
Benefits, and/or regional and watershed context, with community resilience to
climate change impacts. Activities that restore fish passage also support the
modernization of the country’s infrastructure such as road culverts, bridges,
and water diversions contributing to enhanced community resilience to the
impacts of climate change and other public safety hazards. Project types
include, but are not limited to, dam removals, culvert replacements,
floodplain restoration, and the installation of fishways.
Legal Mechanism: Grant, cooperative agreement
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Program Allocation: $200 million over five years
Maximum Allocation: $38 million; $100,000-$2,000,000
Funding Frequency: Annual

Administering Office: USFWS, USDOI
Program Title: Tribal Wildlife Grants
Title, NOFOs: FY 2022 Tribal Wildlife Grant Program
Website: https://www.fws.gov/service/tribal-wildlife-grants
Funding Purpose: Planning for conservation of fish and wildlife, and their habitats, conservation
management actions for fish and wildlife, and their habitats, field and
laboratory research related to fish and wildlife resources, natural history
studies, fish passages, habitat mapping or evaluation, field surveys, and
population monitoring, restoration of habitat, management of invasive
species, and public education relevant to the proposed p roject.
Legal Mechanism: Grant
Maximum Allocation: $6,000,000 Program; $10,000-$200,000
Funding Frequency: Annual, June

5.16 Branch of Tribal Climate Resilience (TCR), BIA, USDOI
The BIA Eastern Region and the TCR under the USDOI provides financial support for federally
recognized tribal nations and authorized tribal organizations through a competitive funding
opportunity to build tribal resilience capacity. Resilience capacity’s overlap with Blueprint includes
the development of adaptation plans, vulnerability assessments, and data analysis efforts (including
supplementary monitoring) to address climate changes that impact tribal treaty and trust resources,
economies, infrastructure, and human health and welfare. In addition to the $45.4 million in awards
for Climate resilience, the Biden-Harris Administration made a $135 million funding commitment
through grants for this program to support the relocation of tribal communities affected by climate
change. The BIL provides a total of $466 million to the BIA over five years, including $216 million for
climate resilience programs. Of that funding, $130 million is provided for community relocation, $86
million is provided for tribal climate resilience and adaptation projects, and $43.2 million will be
available to spend annually for five years. Additional funds of $21.7 million from BIL funding and $24.5
million from the fiscal year 2022 annual appropriations are also included in those appropriations.
North Carolina is the Eastern BIA Region located within the Southeast Tribal Liaison Region. The
Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians is a federally recognized tribe and is the only tribe to use this
program in North Carolina to date. The award was for $65,000 for Tribal Resilience. Table 5-11
provides a listing of the TCR funding available.

The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians is the only North Carolina tribe officially recognized by the
federal government. To access their site, use the following link: https://ebci.com/. The federal Lumbee
Act of 1956 recognized that tribe in name only.

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Table 5-11: 2023 House Committee Appropriations Funding for TCR within the USDOI
with Overlap of the Blueprint
Appropriated Areas Amount
BIA
Funding Natural Disasters $47 million
Bureau of Indian Affairs Construction $153 million
Climate resilience $216 million
Climate Resilience, Tribal climate resilience and adaptation projects are $86 million
Climate Resilience, Community Relocation is $130 million
Additional Allocation for Climate Resilience $21.7 million
Additional Allocation for Climate Resilience $24.5 million
Funding resources of BIA included in Table 15 include but are not limited to the following:
Administering Office: BIA, USDOI
Program Title: BIA Construction
Title, NOFOs: Construction Facilities Improvement and Repair Funding
Website: https://www.bia.gov/as-ia/ofpsm/dfmc
Funding Purpose: For construction activities across BIA
Legal Mechanism: Grant
Maximum Allocation: $153 million program; Varies by project
Funding Frequency: Annual

Funding resources of TCR include but are not limited to the following:

Administering Office: TCR, USDOI
Program Title: Category 1: Training and Workshops
Title, NOFOs: FY 2022 Awarded ten total; Amount funded: $1,327,057
Website: https://www.bia.gov/service/tcr-annual-awards-program
Funding Purpose: Support the design and hosting of regional or national tribal climate
training(s) or workshop(s) that will assist tribal leaders, program coordinators,
planners, and managers in developing the skills necessary to address climate
change impacts by developing tribal adaptation plans, or management
options, through in-person and webinar training and workshops.
Legal Mechanism: Grant
Maximum Allocation: $150,000/award
Funding Frequency: Annual

Administering Office: TCR, USDOI
Program Title: Category 2: Adaptation Planning
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Title, NOFOs: FY 2022 awarded 27 total; Amount funded: $6,117,588
Website: https://www.bia.gov/service/tcr-annual-awards-program
Funding Purpose: Development of adaptation plans, vulnerability assessments, and
development of data analysis efforts (including supplementary monitoring) to
address climate changes that impact tribal treaty and trust resources,
economies, infrastructure, and human health and welfare.
Legal Mechanism: Grant
Maximum Allocation: $250,000/award
Funding Frequency: Annual

Administering Office: TCR, USDOI
Program Title: Category 3: Travel Support for Climate Adaptation Planning
Title, NOFOs: FY 2022 awarded 12 total; Amount funded: $163,342
Website: https://www.bia.gov/service/tcr-annual-awards-program
Funding Purpose: Provide access to training and technical workshops that help maintain or
build adaptation knowledge and skills for climate resilience. Awards support
for tribal leaders and staff to attend training(s) or workshop(s) or to
participate in cooperative resilience and adaptation efforts.
Legal Mechanism: Grant
Maximum Allocation: $15,000/award
Funding Frequency: Annual

Administering Office: TCR, USDOI
Program Title: Category 4: Ocean and Coastal Management
Title, NOFOs: FY 2022 awarded 11 total; Amount funded: $1,730,839
Website: https://www.bia.gov/service/tcr-annual-awards-program
Funding Purpose: Ocean and coastal management planning, marine spatial planning, coastal
adaptation/resilience analysis, and cooperative marine resource plans. The
funding builds tribal capacity and can be used to assist with a tribe’s efforts to
restore and provide the resilience of coastal resources, perform inventories or
vulnerability assessments, identify monitoring protocols, and critical indicator
species, or implement a unique pilot study or project that would advance
tribal resilience, adaptation, or ocean and coastal management knowledge.
Legal Mechanism: Grant
Maximum Allocation: $250,000/award
Funding Frequency: Annual

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Administering Office: TCR, USDOI
Program Title: Category 5: Travel Support for Ocean and Coastal Management
Title, NOFOs: FY 2022 awarded four total; Amount funded: $57,336
Website: https://www.bia.gov/service/tcr-annual-awards-program
Funding Purpose: Travel for tribal leadership or staff participation in, coordination, or training
for the interagency ocean and coastal spatial planning, including the Great
Lakes. They provide support for tribal representatives to attend organizational
meetings, working sessions, or official meetings of: Regional Ocean
Partnerships, technical workshops or training courses, or targeted pilot
studies or projects.
Legal Mechanism: Grant
Maximum Allocation: $15,000/award
Funding Frequency: Annual

Administering Office: TCR, USDOI
Program Title: Category 6: Capacity Building
Title, NOFOs: FY 2022 awarded four total; Amount funded: $257,842
Website: https://www.bia.gov/service/tcr-annual-awards-program
Funding Purpose: Limited technical and staffing capacity to conduct risk-scoping activities that
can lead to more detailed future adaptation planning proposals. The effort
highlights risks and options that may support ways to begin to plan and build
greater capacity for resilience, particularly by identifying tribal vulnerabilities
and adaptation planning needs. Tribes in this category have not previously
received larger awards in award years 2014 through 2020.
Legal Mechanism: Grant
Maximum Allocation: $65,000/award
Funding Frequency: Annual

Administering Office: TCR, USDOI
Program Title: Category 7: Relocation, Managed Retreat, and Protect-in-Place Planning
Title, NOFOs: FY 2022 awarded 12 total; Amount funded: $3,041,368
Website: https://www.bia.gov/service/tcr-annual-awards-program
Funding Purpose: Relocation, managed retreat, and protect-in-place planning support to tribes
facing questions and decisions regarding the managed retreat, expansion,
protect-in-place, and relocation options due to climate threats from
intensifying coastal or riverine erosion, flooding and permafrost degradation
impacts, sea level rise, and similar impacts.
Legal Mechanism: Grant
Maximum Allocation: $300,000/award
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Funding Frequency: Annual

Administering Office: TCR, USDOI
Program Title: Category 8: Internships
Title, NOFOs: FY 2022 awarded 5 total; Amount funded: $249,686
Website: https://www.bia.gov/service/tcr-annual-awards-program
Funding Purpose: Support college students, or recent graduates (within one year of the start of
the internship), with employment opportunities working within tribal
programs or tribal organizations. Internships support the integration of tribal
climate adaptation planning or ocean and coastal management into programs
for the benefit of tribes.
Legal Mechanism: Grant
Maximum Allocation: $50,000/award
Funding Frequency: Annual

Administering Office: TCR, USDOI
Program Title: Category 9: Youth Engagement
Title, NOFOs: FY 2022 awarded six total; Amount funded: $225,975
Website: https://www.bia.gov/service/tcr-annual-awards-program
Funding Purpose: Support the integration of climate resilience or ocean and coastal
management challenges into new or existing youth programs for engagement
in science, technology, and engineering or traditional ecological knowledge
education as they relate to and address climate resilience or ocean and
coastal management challenges.
Legal Mechanism: Grant
Maximum Allocation: $50,000/award
Funding Frequency: Annual

Administering Office: TCR, USDOI
Program Title: Category 10: Implementation of Climate Adaptation Strategies
Title, NOFOs: FY 2022 awarded 17 total; Amount funded: $18,147,653
Website: https://www.bia.gov/service/tcr-annual-awards-program
Funding Purpose: Implementation of climate adaptation strategies
Legal Mechanism: Grant
Maximum Allocation: $2,000,000/award
Funding Frequency: Annual

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Administering Office: TCR, USDOI
Program Title: Category 11: Implementation for Relocation, Managed Retreat, and Protect-in-
Place Actions
Title, NOFOs: FY 2022 awarded 6 total; Amount funded: $12,706,418
Website: https://www.bia.gov/service/tcr-annual-awards-program
Funding Purpose: Support the implementation of community relocation, managed retreat, or
protect-in-place actions
Legal Mechanism: Grant
Maximum Allocation: $3,000,000/award
Funding Frequency: Annual

Administering Office: TCR, USDOI
Program Title: Category 12: Relocation, Managed Retreat, and Protect-in-Place Planning
Coordinator
Title, NOFOs: FY 2022 awarded ten total; Amount funded: $1,357,744
Website: https://www.bia.gov/service/tcr-annual-awards-program
Funding Purpose: Support the relocation, managed retreat, or protect-in-place (RMP)
Coordinator
Legal Mechanism: Grant
Maximum Allocation: Award $150,000/year for up to three years.
Funding Frequency: Annual

5.17 Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
The EPA was established under the USDOI to ensure environmental protection as such the loan and
grant programs of interest under the EPA include Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act
(WIFIA), State Infrastructure Financing Authority (SWIFIA), climate change, brownfield, ecological
services, water research, sustainability, and environmental justice.

Appropriated money for the EPA grant programs is outlined in Table 5-12 for FY 2023. In addition to
the 2023 House Appropriations, the 2022 IRA provided funding for the Environmental Climate and
Justice Block Grants of $3 billion over the next five years. The programs outlined below will potentially
receive modifications to their grant program in a number of grants and adjustments to the maximum
amount per grant for the next six months to a year due to the new appropriations. Environmental and
Climate Justice Block Grants are for disadvantaged communities and community capacity -building
centers.

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Table 5-12: 2023 House Committee Appropriations Funding for the EPA with Overlap of
the Blueprint
Appropriated Areas Amount
EPA
Ecological Services- Ecosystems Research Grants $296 million
Brownfields cleanups $100 million
Environmental Climate and Justice Block Grants $108 million

In 2014, the WIFIA was established and in 2018 Congress authorized America’s Water Infrastructure
Act, providing two supplemental loan programs to be administered under the EPA to provide funding
for water and wastewater infrastructure projects.

The Environmental Justice Small Grants Program provides financial assistance to eligible
organizations to build collaborative partnerships, identify local environmental and/or public health
issues, envision solutions, and empower the community through education, training, and outreach.
The Brownfield Program will overlap with the Blueprint program concerning water quality where
remediation is needed in watersheds to clean up potential water quality concer ns in addition to the
potential for flooding.

The Ecological Services Grants overlap with Blueprint where research is based on addressing the
protection of natural water resources, including bodies of water as well as their supporting
watersheds, the development of new strategies for managing watersheds and wastewater while
reducing water-related energy demands, and establishing innovative solutions to address the
problem of nutrient pollution in the water and land. Funding resources of the EPA include but are not
limited to the following:

Administering Office: EPA, USDOI
Program Title: WIFIA Program
Title, NOFOs: FY 2022 Credit Assistance Under WIFIA Program
Website: https://www.epa.gov/wifia/what-wifia
Funding Purpose: Development planning, preliminary engineering, design, environmental
review, revenue forecasting, and other pre-construction activities;
Construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation, and replacement activities;
Acquisition of real property or an interest in real property, environmental
mitigation, construction contingencies, and acquisition of equipment; or
Capitalized interest necessary to meet market requirements, reasonably
required reserve funds, capital issuance expenses and other carrying costs
during construction; for Clean Water State Revolving Fund (CWSRF) eligible
projects; Drinking Water SRF (State Revolving Fund) eligible projects; Brackish
or seawater desalination, aquifer recharge, alternative water supply, and
water recycling projects; Drought prevention, reduction, or mitigation
projects; Acquisition of property integral to mitigate the environmental impact
by a project.
Legal Mechanism: Loan
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Maximum Allocation: $50 billion program; 49 % of project maximum of $20 million (large
community) or $5 million (small community) project
Funding Frequency: Supplemental, 5- to 35-year repayment

Administering Office: EPA, USDOI
Program Title: SWIFIA Program
Title, NOFOs: FY 2022 Credit Assistance Under SWIFIA Program
Website: https://www.epa.gov/wifia/what-swifia
Funding Purpose: Development planning, preliminary engineering, design, environmental
review, revenue forecasting, and other pre-construction activities;
Construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation, and replacement activities;
Acquisition of real property or an interest in real property, environmental
mitigation, construction contingencies, and acquisition of equipment; or
Capitalized interest necessary to meet market requirements, reasonably
required reserve funds, capital issuance expenses and other carrying costs
during construction; for CWSRF eligible projects; Drinking Water SRF eligible
projects; Brackish or seawater desalination, aquifer recharge, alternative
water supply, and water recycling projects; Drought prevention, reduction, or
mitigation projects; Acquisition of property integral to mitigate the
environmental impact by a project.
Legal Mechanism: Loans for State infrastructure financing authorities
Maximum Allocation: $50 billion program; 49% of project maximum of $20 million project
Funding Frequency: Supplemental, five to 35-year repayment

Administering Office: EPA, USDOI
Program Title: Climate Change Research Grants
Title, NOFOs: Extreme Event Impacts on Air Quality and Water Quality with a Changing
Global Climate, 2017
Website: https://www.epa.gov/research-grants/climate-change-research-grants
Funding Purpose: Climate change affects air, water, the environment, and human health
investigating the impact of climate change on air pollution gases and
particles, water quality, and ecosystems. Using modeling tools to better
understand the impacts of extreme events on air and water quality as well as
provide better modeling tools to predict air, water, and ecosystem
characteristics under a changing climate.
Legal Mechanism: Grant
Maximum Allocation: Program maximum $10,000,000; Varies by project
Funding Frequency: Supplemental

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Administering Office: EPA, USDOI
Program Title: Water Research Grants
Title, NOFOs: Water Quality Benefits, 2022
Website: https://www.epa.gov/research-grants/water-research-grants
Funding Purpose: Resilience of coastal ecosystem–s - current and future stressors and effective
management strategies
Legal Mechanism: Grant
Maximum Allocation: Program maximum $742,000; Varies by project
Funding Frequency: Supplemental

Administering Office: EPA, USDOI
Program Title: Sustainability Research Grants
Title, NOFOs: Sustainable Chesapeake: A Community-Based Approach to Stormwater
Management Using Green Infrastructure, 2017
Website: https://www.epa.gov/research-grants/sustainability-research-grants
Funding Purpose: Research and development of a variety of methods, tools, guidance, and
programs that further the application of sustainability within decision-making.
Legal Mechanism: Grant
Maximum Allocation: Program maximum $700,000; Varies by project
Funding Frequency: Supplemental

Administering Office: EPA, USDOI
Program Title: Ecosystems Research Grants
Title, NOFOs: Environmental Impact and Mitigation of Oil Spills, 2012
Website: https://www.epa.gov/research-grants/ecosystems-research-grants
Funding Purpose: Ecosystems research addressing how air pollution may affect ecosystems;
protection of natural water resources, including bodies of water as well as
their supporting watersheds; development of new strategies for managing
watersheds and wastewater while reducing water-related energy demands
establishing innovative solutions to address the problem of nutrient pollution
in the air, water, and land.
Legal Mechanism: Grant
Maximum Allocation: Program maximum $500,000, Varies by project
Funding Frequency: Supplemental

Administering Office: EPA, USDOI
Program Title: Brownfields Cleanup Grants
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Title, NOFOs: Assessment Grants
Revolving Loan Fund Grants
Cleanup Grants
Multipurpose Grants
Jot Training Grants
Example: FY 2023 Multipurpose, Assessment, Revolving Loan Fund, and
Cleanup Grant Application Resources.
Website: https://www.epa.gov/brownfields/brownfields-cleanup-grants
Funding Purpose: Prevent, inventory, assess, clean up, and reuse brownfield sites.
Legal Mechanism: Grant
Maximum Allocation: $100 million program maximum 2023; Project range $500,000-$10 million.
Funding Frequency: Supplemental

Administering Office: EPA, USDOI
Program Title: Environmental Justice (EJ) Grants
Title, NOFOs: Environmental Justice Collaborative Problem-Solving Cooperative Agreement
Program;
Environmental Justice Government-to-Government Program;
Environmental Justice Small Grants Program.
Website: https://www.epa.gov/environmentaljustice/environmental-justice-grants-
funding-and-technical-assistance
Funding Purpose: Monitor and prevent pollution. Invest in low- and zero-emission technology.
Bolster infrastructure and workforce development efforts that reduce
greenhouse gas emissions. Mitigate climate and health risks from urban heat
islands, extreme heat, and wildfire events. Support climate resilience and
adaptation. Engage disadvantaged communities in state and federal advisory
groups, rulemaking, and other public processes.
Legal Mechanism: Grant, cooperative agreements
Maximum Allocation: Varies by Grant
$30 million; Environmental Justice Collaborative Problem-Solving
Cooperative Agreement Program
$70 million; Environmental Justice Government-to-Government Program
EJ Small Grants Program
Funding Frequency: Annual

Administering Office: EPA, USDOI
Program Title: Urban Waters Small Grants program
Title, NOFOs: Ellerbe Creek Watershed Association
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Website: https://www.epa.gov/urbanwaterspartners/urban-waters-small-grants
Funding Purpose: Activities that improve water quality in a way that also advances community
priorities.
Legal Mechanism: Grant
Maximum Allocation: $6.6 million program maximum; $60,000 maximum per application
Funding Frequency: Bi-Annual

Administering Office: EPA, USDOI
Program Title: Environmental Education Local Grants
Title, NOFOs: Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance number 66.951
Website: https://www.epa.gov/education/grants
Funding Purpose: Projects that design, demonstrate, and/or disseminate environmental
education practices, including teacher training, educational advancement, or
career development.
Legal Mechanism: Grant
Maximum Allocation: $50,000 to $100,000 maximum per application
Funding Frequency: Annual

5.18 Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement, USDOI
The Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement under the Surface Mining Control and
Reclamation Act is responsible for mine operations and the reclamation of abandoned mines. By
using the Abandoned Mine Reclamation Fund watersheds can leverage additional resources in erosion
control and restoration measures through the Abandoned Mine Reclamation Fund and Appalachian
Regional Reforestation Initiative. North Carolina’s oversite is through the Unified Interior Region 2
Office and the state office of NCDEQ Mining Program for Abandoned Mine Lands (Title IV), Regulatory
(Title V).

However, only one area in North Carolina is known to contain coal beds of potential commercial
importance which is the Deep River coal field which lies along the Deep River in Chatham, Moore, and
Lee counties; however, assessing “coal-reliant communities” in the state is not as straightforward as it
might be for other states because North Carolina does not have an active coal mining industry, and
therefore is not included under Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement. The
Abandoned Mine Lands Fund currently does not apply to North Carolina for regulatory or funding
purposes. However, it is recommended that in instances where watersheds have experienced impacts
due to the coal industry via an abandoned coal mine, the applicant, in North Carolina experiencing the
impact, should petition to apply where coal impacts were discovered the Appalachian Regional
Commission (ARC) would assist with obtaining Abandoned Mine Lands funding as part of a cross-
regional opportunity; however, this should not be considered primary funding and should be a
potential Blueprint overlap for watershed and flood resilience activities. Past petitions to other
funding sources have shown that some exceptions can be made to availability where evidence is
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available for a case that the funding and circumstances fit the program, but original limitations were
arbitrary in nature in how they were drawn because they had to be drawn out somehow. Funding for
mines, prospects, and sinkholes as outlined under NCDEQ’s, Energy, Mineral, and Land Resources
section for Geologic Hazards which is further discussed in Section 2.6.5 State Vehicle funding.

Even though the funding through Abandoned Mine Reclamation Fund is not currently av ailable the
ability for extension is noted and therefore the funding opportunity is outlined and included as a
potential overlap of Blueprint.

Administering Office: Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement, USDOI
Program Title: Abandoned Mine Reclamation Fund
Title, NOFOs: No Previous Grant Distributions to N.C.
Website: https://www.osmre.gov/resources/grants-resources
Funding Purpose: Mine restoration activities
Legal Mechanism: Grant and Loans
Maximum Allocation: Currently unavailable; Varies by project
Funding Frequency: Annual

For the average N.C. watershed restoration plan, mine reclamation and restoration projects are part
of the safety cross features. N.C. Mineral Resources vary with complex geology that is reflected in the
diversity and leading the nation in the mineral industry with the production of feldspar, lithium
minerals, scrap mica, olivine, pyrophyllite, and clay used for brick manufacture. The state ranks
second in phosphate rock production and additional production is from crushed stone, sand and
gravel, dimension stone, kaolin, peat, and gemstones, with recently discovered heavy mineral
deposits to be produced in the near future. On average, North Carolina’s annual mineral production is
over $500 million dollars. According to USGS and NCDEQ, North Carolina has 2,375 identified mine
over the spread over the State’s watersheds.
5.19 U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT)
With resiliency being the key concern of the Blueprint, bridges, and structures become a key set of
components for resiliency and the nation’s roadway network that provide safe connectivity and
crossing of features such as waterways, railways, roadways, and other obstacles. The USDOT contains
the Federal Highway Administration’s (FHWA) Office of Bridges and Structures which supports funding
and oversight of over 610,000 highway bridges, more than 500 tunnels, and numerous other structures
across the entire USA. The inflation Reduction Act (IRA) provided $10 billion to the National
Infrastructure Project Assistance program (Mega Program) which is now combined into a multimodal
project opportunity.

New USDOT Grant programs created under the Resilience in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs
Act (IIJA):
• Promoting Resilient Operations for Transformative, Efficient, and Cost -saving Transportation
(PROTECT)
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• Healthy Streets Program
• Reconnecting Communities Pilot Program
• Invasive Plant Elimination Program
• National Culvert Removal, Replacement, and Restoration Grant Program
• Transportation Resilience and Adaptation Centers of Excellence
• Data Integration Pilot Program

Figure 5-7 provides a visual depiction of the funding available from USDOT.

Figure 5-7: Available Funding through USDOT Overlapping Blueprint

National Infrastructure Investments grants fall under USDOT’s Rebuilding American Infrastructure
with Sustainability and Equity (RAISE) Discretionary Grant program, Better Utilizing Investments to
Leverage Development (BUILD), and Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery
(TIGER) Discretionary Grants programs that invest in road, rail, transit, and port projects that promise
to achieve national objectives. Since 2009, Congress has dedicated more than $12.1 billion for 14
rounds of funding for projects that have a significant impact on the U.S., a region, or a metropolitan
area. The 2023 RAISE Grant Program will have $1.5 billion available which exceeds the 2023 House
Committee Appropriations Funding of $800 million. Funding resources of USDOT include but are not
limited to the following:

$10,000,000,000
$1,500,000,000
$3,400,000,000
$62,900,000
$3,040,000,000
$60,000,000
$196,000,000
$4,600,000,000
$62,900,000,000
MPDG
RAISE
HIP
TIFIA
PROTECT
BIP
AOP
CIG
HTF
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Administering Office: USDOT
Program Title: FY 2022 Multimodal Project Discretionary Grant Opportunity
Title, NOFOs: Mega Grants: National Infrastructure Project Assistance program (49 U.S.C.
6701)
INFRA Grants: Nationally Significant Multimodal Freight and Highway Projects
program (23 U.S.C. 117)
Rural Surface Transportation Grant: (23 U.S.C. 173)
Website: https://www.transportation.gov/grants/mega-grant-program
Funding Purpose: Highway or bridge projects, railway-highway grade separation or elimination
projects, or Federal Transit Authority (FTA) Title 49 where there are resilience
and/or climate benefits.
Legal Mechanism: Grant
Allocations: $10 billion program from BIL
Funding Frequency: Annual

Administering Office: USDOT
Program Title: RAISE Discretionary Grant Program
Title, NOFOs: RASIE/ BUILD/ TIGER I & II
Website: https://www.transportation.gov/RAISEgrants
Funding Purpose: Community transportation projects.
Legal Mechanism: Grant
Maximum Allocation: $1.5 billion
Funding Frequency: Annual

5.19.1 Highway Infrastructure Programs (HIP), under USDOT
Made up of three Apportionments: FY 2017-2018, FFY 2018-2019, and FFY 2019-20 with a total of $6.875
billion appropriated for distribution to the States by formula, in the same ratio as the FY 2018 and FY
2019 formula obligation limitations, respectively. Suballocated within the State by:
• By population (Local Agency portion, 53% in 2018 and 54% in 2019)
• Urbanized areas > 200,000 population
• Areas > 5,000 to 200,000 population
• Areas with 5,000 population or less
• Any Area (State portion, 47% in 2018 and 46% in 2019)
Appropriation is broken down in Table 5-13 and North Carolina allocations in HIP will be further
discussed under State Vehicle funding appropriations.

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Table 5-13: HIP Apportionments for N.C. by USDOT
Area of Apportion Amount
Any Area: $24,667,226
Urbanized Areas (over 200,000 in Population): $12,759,677
Asheville $818,686
Charlotte $3,443,624
Concord $626,836
Durham $1,014,000
Fayetteville $905,133
Greensboro $909,590
Hickory $619,000
Raleigh $2,581,341
Wilmington $641,643
Winston-Salem $1,140,668
Areas (5,000 to 199,999 in Population): $5,212,192
Areas (under 5,000 in Population): $9,844,365

The Surface Transportation Program (STP) is one of the main sources of flexible funding available for
transit or highway purposes. The STP funds are from the USDOT Highway Trust Fund and may be used
(as capital funding) for public transportation capital improvements, fringe and corridor parking
facilities, bicycle, and pedestrian facilities, and intercity or intracity bus terminals and bus facilities. As
funding for planning, these funds can be used for surface transportation planning activities, wetland
mitigation, transit research and development, and environmental analysis. Other eligible projects
under STP include transit safety improvements and most transportation control measures.

The Highway Trust Fund was reauthorized under the BIL for a five-year budget for surface
transportation programs and is provided with a $62.9 billion budget. The trust fund has separate
accounts for highways and mass transit, which generally are for capital projects that take several
years to complete, outlays reflect projects authorized by Congress in previous years. Most spending
from the Highway Trust Fund for highway and mass transit programs is through federal grants to state
and local governments. The federal government accounts for about one-quarter of all public spending
on roads and highways, with the remaining three-quarters financed by state and local governments.
North Carolina allocations by formula (a calculation of available funds) will be further discussed in
Section 2.6.5 State Vehicle funding appropriations along with potential shortfall impacts.

Table 5-14: 2023 House Committee Appropriations Funding for the USDOT with Overlap
of the Blueprint
Appropriated Areas Amount
USDOT
Highway Trust Fund - States by formula $62.9 billion
Federal Highway Administration to reimburse states and territories-natural disasters
funds - States by formula
$803 million
National Infrastructure Investments (RAISE/TIGER/BUILD) $800 million
HIPs- States by formula $3.4 billion
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5.19.2 The Federal Transit Administration (FTA)
Under USDOT, provides financial and technical assistance to local public transit systems, including
buses, subways, light rail, commuter rail, trolleys, and ferries. FTA also oversees safety me asures and
helps develop next-generation technology research. FTA provides financing for the construction,
operation, and maintenance of public transportation systems involving different types of funding
sources, including federal and non-federal grants, cooperative agreements, loans, and revenue
sources. Different types of financing arrangements such as leases and public-private partnerships
have been used to fund the procurement of materials and activities. The Capital Investment Grants
(CIG) and CARES Act are the two primary funding overlaps with Blueprint. Table 5-15 shows the BIA
allocations for the next five years for USDOT.

The BIL authorizes $3 billion per year in annual appropriations for the Capital Investment Grants (CIG)
Program, including funding that may be awarded under the Expedited Project Delivery Pilot Program.
In addition, the law directly provides $1.6 billion per year in advance appropriations as a supplement
to annual appropriations. The BIL continues the discretionary Fixed Guideway CIG program, which
funds fixed guideway investments including new and expanded rapid rail, commuter rail, light rail,
streetcars, bus rapid transit, and ferries, as well as corridor-based bus rapid transit investments that
emulate the features of rail. There are three categories of eligible projects under the CIG program:
New Starts, Small Starts, and Core Capacity.

Table 5-15: Capital Investment Grants Program under FTA of USDOT Overlap of the
Blueprint
Amount by Year
Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026
BIL- Advanced
Appropriations
$1.60 billion $1.6 billion $1.6 billion $1.6 billion $1.6 billion
BIL -Subject to
Appropriation
$3billion $3billion $3billion $3billion $3billion

Funding resources of FTA include but are not limited to the following:
Administering Office: FTA, USDOT
Program Title: Capital Investment Grant (CIG) Program
Title, NOFOs: Capital Investment Gran–s - 5309
Website: https://www.transit.dot.gov/CIG
Funding Purpose: Design and construction of the public transportation portion of the total
project not including elements designed to achieve a state of good repair.
Legal Mechanism: Competitive or formula-based grants
Maximum Allocation: $4.6 billion per year; Varies by project
Funding Frequency: Annual

The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act as of 2020 provides $25 billion in
allocations by FTA in formula funds including $22.7 billion going to large areas and $2.2 billion (where
$20 million allocated to Appalachian Development) goes to small urban areas. Indian Reservations
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receive $30 million. Table 5-16 shows North Carolinas breakdown of the CARES Act funds to be further
discussed under State Vehicle funding appropriations.

Table 5-16: FY 2020 CARES Act - Apportionments for N.C. by FTA of USDOT
Apportionments Amount
Amounts Apportioned to Urbanized Areas (1,000,000 or more in Population):
Charlotte $60,524,710
Amounts Apportioned to Urbanized Areas (200,000 to 1 million in Population):
Asheville $8,605,369
Durham $23,160,264
Fayetteville $9,857,732
Hickory $4,944,146
Raleigh $36,424,633
Amounts Apportioned to Urbanized Areas (50,000 to 199,999 in Population):
Burlington $6,282,434
Gastonia $6,500,047
Goldsboro $2,325,649
Greenville $5,308,433
High Point $7,595,341
Jacksonville $4,232,938
New Bern $1,860,043
Rural Area Apportionments:
N.C. Total: $93,491,001
Appalachian Development Public Transportation Assistance Program
N.C. Total: $1,450,000

Under FHWA’s Federal-Aid Highway Program, annual funding distributions of approximately $7 billion
are awarded to assist transportation agencies and communities in planning, designing, building,
repairing, rehabilitating, and inspecting items such as bridges and other structures. Blueprint’s flood
resiliency overlays the state’s inventory of highway bridges, tunnels, culverts, walls, and other
ancillary structures due to the numerous crossings of surface waters and low-lying areas prone to
torrential rain and floodwater inundation across the state. The National Bridge Inventory shows North
Carolina currently contains 18,877 bridges with 1,325 (7%) classified as structurally deficient with 34
of the structurally deficient bridges on the Interstate Highway System. In addition to the bridges, there
are over 4,800 culverts and pipes that are 20 feet or longer. Of those N.C. Bridges, 200 are historic and
are maintained by the NC-FHWA and N.C. State Historic Preservation Office. Blueprint strategies
would consider the USDOT’s FHWA and the new funding for resilience to develop a funding strategy
where transportation in, on, or within flood-prone areas occurs. Under FHWA the following funds
appropriated could be leveraged in addition to flood resiliency funds.
5.19.3 Federal Highway Administration (FWHA)
Under USDOT, funding includes the Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (TIFIA),
Bridge Formula Program, the Bridge Investment Program, Highway Infrastructure Program – Bridge
Replacement, Rehabilitation Program (BRR), and formula programs through the Highway Trust Fund.
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The TIFIA program provides Federal credit assistance in the form of direct loans, loan guarantees, and
standby lines of credit to finance surface transportation projects of national and regional significance
where each dollar of Federal funds can provide up to $10 in TIFIA credit assistance and leverage $30 of
transportation infrastructure investment for large scale surface transportation projects such as
highway, transit, railroad, intermodal freight, and port access. The Triangle Expressway Project
located in Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina is a recent project using this program with N.C. Turnpike
Authority is the borrower. As the largest transportation infrastructure project in North Carolina
history, the direct loan through TIFIA Credit Assistance was $386.7 million in addition to funding
sources of revenue bonds, federal funds, state-backed bonds, and state funds for a total of $1,134.8
million in funding leveraged for the 18.8-mile Triangle Expressway completed by December 2012.
Funding resources of FHWA include but are not limited to the following:

Administering Office: FHWA, USDOT
Program Title: Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (TIFIA) Program
Title, NOFOs: FY 2009 Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Turnpike Authority; $386.7 million
Website:
https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/ipd/finance/tools_programs/federal_credit_assist
ance/tifia/
Funding Purpose: Surface transportation projects - highway, transit, railroad, intermodal freight,
and port access.
Legal Mechanism: Direct Loans, Loan Guarantees, and Standby Lines
Allocations: $62.9 million; Varies by project
Funding Frequency: Supplemental

In addition, the Neighborhood Access and Equity Grants support neighborhood equity, safety, and
affordable transportation access with four competitive grants to reconnect communities divided by
existing infrastructure barriers, mitigate negative impacts of transportation facilities or construction
projects on disadvantaged or underserved communities, and support equitable transportation
planning and community engagement activities. The Neighborhood Access and Equity Grants were
established as discretionary grants for removing, replacing, or retrofitting highways and freeways to
improve connectivity in communities and for planning and capacity building to increase community
involvement in transportation planning and related activities. The bill prioritized grants that fund
projects in economically disadvantaged communities within state, tribal, territorial, and local
governments, and metropolitan planning organizations. In addition, the planning and c apacity-
building grants may be awarded to nonprofits or institutions of higher education that partner with
governments or metropolitan planning organizations. Funding is outlined as follows, in Tables 5-17
through 5-19 for the FHWA funding under the Bridge Formula Program (BFP), BRR, Bridge Investment
Program (BIP), and Tribal Transportation Program (TTP) from the BIL as outlined from the FHWA
website data:

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Table 5-17: North Carolina’s Portion of the BFP Funding through FHWA of USDOT
Overlap of the Blueprint
Appropriated Areas
Bridge Formula Program Bridge (Main) Off-System Bridges Total:
2022 Allocated Amount $83,888,881 $14,803,920 $98,692,801
2023 Allocated Amount $83,888,881 $14,803,920 $98,692,801

Table 5-18: North Carolina’s Portion of Highway Infrastructure (BRR) Funding through
FHWA of USDOT Overlap of the Blueprint
Appropriated Areas
BRR Funding
Program
Bridge Replacement and
Rehabilitation
Appalachian Development
Highway System
Total:
2022 Amount $34,207,848 $10,923,419 $45,131,267.00

Table 5-19: PROTECT Formula Program Funding of BIL through FHWA of USDOT Overlap
of the Blueprint
Amount
Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026
Total Currently Allocated $1.40 billion $1.43 billion $1.46 billion $1.49 billion $1.52 billion

Administering Office: FHWA, USDOT
Program Title: PROTECT Formula Program
Title, NOFOs: N.C. five-year PROTECT Formula Program
Website: https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/bipartisan-infrastructure-
law/protect_fact_sheet.cfm#:~:text=The%20BIL%20establishes%20the%20Pr
omoting,events%2C%20and%20other%20natural%20disasters
N.C. Emergency Relief: Emergency Response - North Carolina Division | Federal Highway
Administration (dot.gov)
ER Program Link: https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/federal-aidessentials/catmod.cfm?id=96
Funding Purpose: Funding for vulnerability assessments to “current and future weather events
and natural disasters and changing conditions” and to protect ‘‘surface
transportation assets by making the assets more resilient to current and
future weather events and natural disasters. Planning activities, resilience
improvements, community resilience, and evacuation route activities, at -risk
infrastructure activities to strengthen, stabilize, harden, elevate, relocate, or
otherwise enhance the resilience of highway and non-rail infrastructure,
including bridges, roads, pedestrian walkways, and bicycle lanes, and
associated infrastructure, such as culverts and tide gates to protect highways
that are subject to, or face increased long-term future risks of, a weather
event, a natural disaster, or changing conditions, including coastal flooding,
coastal erosion, wave action, storm surge, or sea level rise, to improve
transportation and public safety and to reduce costs by avoiding larger future
maintenance or rebuilding costs.
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Legal Mechanism: Formula Funding and Grants
Maximum Allocations: N.C. program allocation 2022 is $194,421,690; the project maximum is 80% of
the project cost. Total: $8.7B (formula grants: $7.3B, competitive grants:
$1.4B), $250M for fiscal year 2023, $300M for fiscal year 2024, $300M for fiscal
year 2025, and $300M for fiscal year 2026.
Funding Frequency: Annual

Table 5-20: BIP Funding through FHWA of USDOT Overlap of the Blueprint
Appropriated Areas Amount
Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026
Total Currently Allocated $2.44 billion $2.487
billion
$2.497
billion
$2.522
billion
$2.547
billion
Subject to Future
Appropriation
$600 million $640 million $650 million $675 million $700 million

Administering Office: FHWA, USDOT
Program Title: BIP
Title, NOFOs: Large Bridge Projects, total eligible project costs >$100 million
Bridge Projects, total eligible project costs ≤ $100 million
Planning Grants (for planning, feasibility analysis, and revenue forecasting of a
project that would subsequently be eligible to apply for BIP funding
Website: https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/bipartisan-infrastructure-law/bip_factsheet.cfm
Funding Purpose: Improve bridge condition, safety, efficiency, and reliability of the movement of
people/ freight.
Legal Mechanism: Grant
Bridge Allocations: Enough to fully fund the project (combined with other resources listed in the
application)
$50 million Large Bridge Projects or
$2.5 million Bridge Projects
No minimum for planning grants
Culvert Allocations: 5% of BIP funding per year for culvert replacement or rehabilitation of bridge-
sized culverts.
Tribal Allocations: $40 million for Tribal transportation facility bridges
$20 million for planning, feasibility analysis, and revenue forecasting.
Funding Frequency: Annual

Administering Office: FHWA, USDOT
Program Title: The National Culvert Removal, Replacement, and Restoration Grant Program
(Culvert Aquatic Organism Passage Program)
Title, NOFOs: National Culvert Removal, Replacement & Restoration Grants
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Website: https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/engineering/hydraulics/culverthyd/aquatic/culvertaop.cfm
Funding Purpose: Replacement, removal, and repair of culverts or weirs that meaningfully
improve or restore fish passage for anadromous fish. Anadromous fish species
are born in freshwater such as streams and rivers, spend most of their lives in
the marine environment, and migrate back to freshwater to spawn.
Legal Mechanism: Grant
Maximum Allocation: $196 million; $10,000 to $20 million/award
Funding Frequency: Annual

Table 5-21: National Amts. of (TTP) Bridge Funding through FHWA of USDOT Overlap of
the Blueprint
Amount Allocated
Appropriated Funding Tribal
Transportation
Facility Bridges (TTP)
Bridge Formula
Program (BFP)
Bridge
Investment
Program (BIP)
Highway Trust
Fund (HTF)
Allocated over the next
5 years
$24.75 million $825 million $1,000 million $90 million
TTP Total Allocation
(over the next 5 years)
$1,939.75 million

Administering Office: Office of Tribal Transportation (OTT), (FHWA), USDOT
Program Title: TTP Bridge Program, FHWA Tribes
Title, NOFOs: 2022 Tribal Transportation Facility Bridges
Website: https://highways.dot.gov/federal-lands/programs-tribal/bridge
Funding Purpose: Improve the condition of BIA/Tribally owned bridges and non-BIA/Tribally
owned bridges. Repair or replace unsafe or inaccessible roads, bridges, and
ferries which are aging and or unsafe to be used.
Legal Mechanism: Grant
Maximum Allocations: Tribal Transportation Allocation Methodology formula; $165 million/ year
Funding Frequency: Annual
5.20 National Science Foundation (NSF)
The NSF is the only federal agency whose mission includes support for all fields of fundamental
science and engineering, the agency also supports "high-risk, high pay-off" ideas, novel
collaborations, and numerous projects that may seem like science fiction today, but which the public
will take for granted tomorrow. There is potential for future funding based on stream testing
technology through the Disaster Resilience Research Grants. Funding resources of NSF & National
Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) include but are not limited to the following:

Administering Office: NSF & NIST, (USDOC)
Program Title: Disaster Resilience Research Grants
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Title, NOFOs: Varies
Website: https://beta.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/disaster-resilience-research-
grants-drrg
Funding Purpose: Research to advance fundamental understanding of disaster resilience in
support of improved, science-based planning, policy, decisions, design, codes,
and standards.
Legal Mechanism: Grant
Maximum Allocation: $75 million program; eight to 12 awards, $200,000-$400,000
Funding Frequency: Annual
5.21 Independent Federal agencies:
In addition to the federal grant-making agencies, there are several independent federal agencies,
executive branch offices, and commissions that make grants available to the public. Although these
grants are generally smaller in size and number than those from the federal executive departments,
the following federal government entities provide potentially beneficial funding opportunities for
resilience projects in North Carolina:
5.22 Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC)
The ARC is a regional economic development agency that represents a partnership of federal, state,
and local governments. Each year ARC provides funding for several hundred investments in the
Appalachian Region, in areas such as business development, education and job training,
telecommunications, infrastructure, community development, housing, and transportation. 2023
House Committee Appropriations Funding provides $200 million for the 2023 apportionment. Three
grant programs: Area Development Program, Appalachian Regional Initiative for Stronger Economies
(ARISE), and Partnerships for Opportunity and Workforce and Economic Revitalization Initiative
(POWER) are the overlapping funding opportunities for Blueprint. All questions can be directed to
North Carolina’s Program Manager, Olivia Collier. The Federal Co-Chair of the ARC requested $235
million to fund ARC activities for 2022, where the total amount of funds that were made available to 68
congressionally directed projects was $153,922,408 with the remaining to still be allocated for
additional activities of ARC. Funding resources of ARC include but are not limited to the following:

Administering Office: ARC
Program Title: Area Development Program
Title, NOFOs: Non-Construction Grants/Construction Grants
Website: https://www.arc.gov/area-development-program/
Funding Purpose: Support Critical Infrastructure, Natural and Cultural Assets, and Community
Development
Legal Mechanism: Grant
Maximum Allocation: Varies by Project and County:
Distressed Counties 80%;
At-Risk Counties 70%;
Transitional Counties 50%
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Competitive Counties 30%.
Funding Frequency: Annual

Administering Office: ARC
Program Title: ARISE
Title, NOFOs: ARISE 2023 Grants
Website: https://www.arc.gov/arise/
Funding Purpose: Large-scale, regional economic transformation through multi-state
collaborative projects.
Legal Mechanism: Grant, multi-state funding, and collaboration.
Maximum Allocation: $73.5 million; Varies by project and county:
Distressed Counties 80%;
At-Risk Counties 70%;
Transitional Counties 50%
Competitive Counties 30%.
Funding Frequency: Quarterly

Administering Office: ARC
Program Title: POWER
Title, NOFOs: POWER Grants
Website: https://www.arc.gov/power/
Funding Purpose: Help communities and regions that have been affected by job losses in coal
mining, coal power plant operations, and coal-related supply chain industries
due to the changing economics of America’s energy production; workforce
revitalization.
Legal Mechanism: Grant
Maximum Allocation: Varies by project and county
Funding Frequency: Annual

Administering Office: ARC, HUD, Community Development Financial Institutions Fund, USDA-RD.
Program Title: Appalachia Economic Development Initiative
Title, NOFOs: Appalachia Economic Development Initiative
Website:
https://www.hud.gov/program_offices/administration/grants/fundsavail/nofa14/aedi
Funding Purpose: Support development to benefit the residents of the Appalachia Region.
Legal Mechanism: Grant
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Maximum Allocation: $73.5 million program; $1,000,000 project maximum
Funding Frequency: Annual
5.23 Southeast Crescent Regional Commission (SCRC)
The SCRC is an economic development partnership agency of the federal government and seven state
governments. SCRC’s mission is to build sustainable communities and strengthen economic growth
across the 408 counties of the seven-state region. SCRC invests in projects that support basic
infrastructure, business development, natural resources, and workforce/labor development. 2023
House Committee Appropriations Funding provides $20 million to the Southeast Crescent Regional
Commission to target the economic development needs of distressed portions of Alabama, Florida,
Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia. In 2023, SCRC will make available
approximately $14.5 million, a combined amount aggregated from FY 2023 appropriations. Table 26
estimates the minimum total funds available from federal funding vehicles based on no other
resources.

Table 5-22: Federal Vehicles Summary
Total Potential Federal Vehicles Over 120
Total Potential Federal Funding Available Over $575.4 billion
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6 State Funding Vehicles
In addition to the federal grant-making agencies, there is potential overlap with the Blueprint funding
development in regard to the North Carolina State-equivalent agencies through subsequent programs
and funding appropriations; both supplemental and annual opportunities, that include provisions to
be leveraged. The funding for the State-equivalent agencies is underlined under the Federal Vehicles
including formula-based allocations. Both the Federal and State vehicles sections do not address cost
share as that will be discussed later in Section 2.9 under Funding Limitations. The following are State
Vehicle funding available that overlap Blueprint:
6.1 N.C. Division of Mitigation Services (NCDMS)
NCDMS, under NCDEQ was established in 2003, by North Carolina Department of Transportation
(NCDOT), NCDEQ, and USACE. NCDMS created an innovative mitigation program to address a backlog
of required environmental restoration projects by awarding competitive contract s to private
businesses which allowed the private sector to deliver compensatory mitigation and ecological
restoration projects that restored and/or created 2.7 million feet of streams and 29,000 acres of
wetlands. The program currently offers four In-Lieu Fee mitigation programs designed to assist
private and public developers in meeting state and federal compensatory mitigation and nutrient
offset requirements.

In 2020, N.C. General Assembly created Natural Infrastructure Flood Mitigation Program to
incorporate flood storage capacity enhancement projects into the Division's activities. The 2021
Appropriations Act further supported this mission by setting aside $3.5 million to create pilot projects
addressing chronic flooding in the Stoney Creek watershed . NCDMS also received funding through the
N.C. Office of Recovery and Resilience (NCORR) from the Community Development Block Grant (either
CDBG-DR or CDBG-Mitigation) to be used for Natural Infrastructure Flood Mitigation Program
development.

Administering Office: NCDMS, NCDEQ
Program Title: Natural Infrastructure Flood Mitigation Program
Title, NOFOs: Stoney Creek pilot project
Website: https://deq.nc.gov/about/divisions/mitigation-services/natural-
infrastructure-program
Funding Purpose: Target flooding which impacts businesses, roadways, and access to
emergency services; develop scaling solutions to enhance community flood
resilience; strategies like building wetlands and restoring streams which help
store water and reduce flooding; mitigate flooding using natural
infrastructure, constructed systems which mimic natural processes;
expanding natural infrastructure flood mitigation projects to additional
watersheds.
Legal Mechanism: Grant
Maximum Allocation: The pilot project received $3.5 million in appropriations and an NCORR CDBG
Funding Frequency: Supplemental, by the project (additional information coming soon)
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Administering Office: NCDMS, NCDEQ
Program Title: In-Lieu Fee mitigation
Title, NOFOs: NCDMS's ILF mitigation programs are:
NCDOT Stream/Wetland Program
Statewide Stream/Wetland Program
Riparian Buffer Program
Nutrient Offset Program
Natural Infrastructure Program
Website: https://deq.nc.gov/about/divisions/mitigation-services/about-dms/dms-
programs
Funding Purpose: Restore streams, wetlands, and riparian buffer areas using a watershed
approach; concentrate mitigation resources.
Legal Mechanism: In-Lieu Fee
Maximum Allocation: NCDMS rate per credit varies per program based on service area, mitigation
type, and standard/premium rates.
Funding Frequency: Supplemental, by the project

6.2 N.C. Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services
(NCDA&CS)
NCDA&CS’s House Bill 607 developed the Agricultural Development and Farmland Preservation Trust
Fund and the NCDA&CS to promote and improve agriculture, agribusiness, and forests; protect
consumers and businesses conserve farmland and natural resources. Under the NCDA&CS, the
Agricultural Development and Farmland Preservation Trust Fund was developed to assist with the
agriculture needs of North Carolina which included resiliency needs and preparations. Funding
resources of NCDA&CS include but are not limited to the following:

Administering Office: NCDA&CS
Program Title: Agricultural Development and Farmland Preservation Trust Fund
Title, NOFOs: Cycle 16
Website: https://ncadfp.org/cycle16.htm
Funding Purpose: To secure agricultural conservation easements on agricultural, horticultural,
and forestlands for the active production of food, fiber, and other agricultural
products; purchase of the easement and other allowable costs.
Legal Mechanism: Grant and easements
Maximum Allocation: $500,000 maximum grants; 50% or less of the estimated value of conservation
easement; Voluntary Agricultural District/ Enhanced Voluntary Agricultural
District $7,500; County Farmland Protection Plans /cost of Community
Services Studies $15,000.
Funding Frequency: Annual
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6.3 North Carolina Natural Resources Conservation Service
(NCNRCS)
NCNRCS, under USDA, helps landowners protect and enhance natural resources. Past projects include
riparian buffer zones, oyster restoration efforts, urban agriculture projects, and many others. State
Programs and Initiatives for natural resources conservation programs in North Carolina include areas
of soil erosion, water supplies, water quality, wildlife habitat, and damages caused by floods and
other natural disasters. Funding resources of NCNRCS and integrated programs that overlap with the
Blueprint purposes for resilience include but are not limited to the following programs:
• NCNRCS Programs
• N.C. Division of Soil and Water Conservation Programs
• N.C. Division of Coastal Management Programs
• N.C. Division of Water Quality Programs
6.3.1 Wetlands Reserve Easements-North Carolina
Under NCNRCS, provides technical and financial assistance to restore, protect, and enhance wetlands
through the purchase of a Wetland Reserve Easement. For acreage owned by a Native American tribe,
there is an additional enrollment option of a 30-year contract. For all Wetland Reserve Easements,
NCNRCS pays all costs associated with recording the easement in the local land records office,
including recording fees, charges for abstracts, survey and appraisal fees, and title insurance.

Administering Office: NCNRCS
Program Title: Wetlands Reserve Easements-North Carolina
Title, NOFOs: Open Program - No NOFOs
Website: https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/programs-initiatives/wre-wetland-reserve-
easements/north-carolina/wetlands-reserve-easements-north
Funding Purpose: Restore, protect, and enhance wetlands through the purchase of a Wetland
Reserve Easement.
Legal Mechanism: Grant, easements and technical assistance
Maximum Allocation: Project dependent
Funding Frequency: Annual
6.3.2 Environmental Quality Incentives Program- North Carolina (EQIP)
NCNRCS’s conservation program integrates conservation into working lands. The EQIP provides finical
and technical resources for conservation practices for agricultural producers and owners of non-
industrial private forestland with cropland, rangeland, pastureland, non-industrial private forestland,
and other farm or ranch lands in socially disadvantaged areas. High priority is given to assistance
where agricultural improvements will help meet water quality objectives. EQIP offers contracts that
provide incentive payments and cost-sharing for conservation practices, such as manure
management systems, pest management, erosion control, and other practices to improve and
maintain the health of natural resources.

Administering Office: NCNRCS
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Program Title: EQIP
Title, NOFOs: Open Program - No NOFOs
Website: https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/programs-initiatives/eqip-environmental-quality-
incentives/north-carolina/environment-quality
Funding Purpose: Agriculture or forestry control of highly erodible land and wetlands
Legal Mechanism: Grant up to 50% of materials; Technical assistance
Maximum Allocation: Project dependent
Funding Frequency: Annual
6.3.3 Emergency Watershed Protection (EWP) Program- North Carolina
Under NCNRCS developed from Section 382 of the Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act
of 1996, Public Law 104-127, an emergency recovery program designed to conserve natural resources
by relieving imminent hazards to life and property caused by floods, fires, wind-storms, and other
natural occurrences of the construction cost of emergency measures. A national emergency does not
need to be declared for an area to be eligible for assistance. There are three EWP Coordinators in
North Carolina, which are broken out by geologic regions: Area 1-Mountain, Area 2-Pedimont, and
Area 3- Coastal.

Administering Office: NCNRCS
Program Title: EWP
Title, NOFOs: Open Program- No NOFOs
Website: https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/conservation-basics/conservation-by-state/north-
carolina
Funding Purpose: Purchase EWP easements on any floodplain lands that have been impaired
within the last 12 months or that have a history of repeated flooding (i.e.,
flooded at least two times during the past ten years). Installation of recovery
measures. Activities can include debris removal from stream channels, road
culverts, and bridges, reshaping and protecting eroded banks, correcting
damaged drainage facilities, establishing cover on critically eroding lands,
repairing levees and structures, and repairing conservation practices. Projects
that seek to conserve natural values including fish and wildlife habitat, water
quality, flood water retention, groundwater recharge, and safeguard lives and
property from floods, drought, and the products of erosion.
Legal Mechanism: Grant, easements and technical assistance.
Maximum Allocation: Installation 75% or 90% for Limited Resource Areas; Engr/Tech 100%
Funding Frequency: Annual
6.4 N.C. Division of Soil and Water Conservation (NCDSWC)
NCDSWC administers the financial incentives provided through the North Carolina Agriculture Cost
Share Program to fund solutions to nonpoint source pollution, a significant source of stressors that
lead to stream degradation. The approach taken in North Carolina for addressing agriculture’s
contribution to the nonpoint source water pollution problem is to primarily encourage voluntary
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participation by the agricultural community approach is supported by financial incentives, technical
and educational assistance, research, and regulatory programs.

Administering Office: NCDSWC
Program Title: North Carolina Agriculture Cost Share Program
Title, NOFOs: N/A
Website: https://www.ncagr.gov/SWC/costshareprograms/ACSP/
Funding Purpose: Establishment of Best Management Practices (BMPs) for agricultural
operations that improve on-farm management.
Legal Mechanism: Grant, easements and technical assistance
Maximum Allocation: Installation 75% or 90% for Limited Resource Areas; Engr/Tech 100%
Funding Frequency: Annual
6.4.1 The Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (CREP)
Under NCDSWC is a joint effort between the USDA and NCDSWC was originally established in 1999 and
expanded in 2008 to include the Lumber River Basin. This program encourages agricultural
landowners to convert sensitive and marginal pastureland to conservation easements. These lands
are rented from the owner at a rate based on the soil rental rate as calculated by the Farm Service
Agency. CREP is a part of the Conservation Reserve Program, the country's largest private -land
conservation program. Administered by the Farm Service Agency, CREP leverages federal and non -
federal funds to target specific State, regional, or nationally significant conservation concerns
whereas water quality becomes a bigger environmental issue, this program improves and protects
water quality while restoring and enhancing riparian habitat corridors next to streams, drainage
ditches, estuaries, wetlands, and other watercourses. The approved BMPs allowed by the CREP
include grassed filter strips, forested riparian buffers, hardwood tree establishment, and wetlands
restoration.

Administering Office: NCDSWC
Program Title: CREP
Title, NOFOs: N/A
Website: https://www.fsa.usda.gov/programs-and-services/conservation-
programs/conservation-reserve-enhancement/index
Funding Purpose: Removing environmentally sensitive land from production and establishing
permanent resource-conserving plant species.
Legal Mechanism: Grant, easements and technical assistance
Maximum Allocation: $50,000/year payments
Funding Frequency: Annual
6.4.2 Community Conservation Assistance Program (CCAP)
Under NSDSWC, is designed to improve water quality through the installation of various BMPs on
urban, suburban, and rural lands, not directly involved in agricultural production. CCAP provides
educational, technical, and financial assistance to landowners through the local soil and water
conservation districts. This program is open to homeowners, businesses, schools, parks, churches,
and community groups. The landowner may be reimbursed up to 75 percent of the pre -established
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average cost of the BMP where the following BMPS are approved: Impervious Surface Conversion,
Bioretention Areas, Backyard Wetlands, Stream Restoration, Permeable Pavement, Backyard Rain
Gardens, Diversion, Cisterns, Grassed Swales, Stormwater Wetlands, Riparian Buffers, Pet Waste
Receptacles, Critical Area Planting, Abandoned Well Closure, Streambank and Shoreline Protection.

Administering Office: NCDSWC
Program Title: CCAP
Title, NOFOs: N/A
Website: https://www.ncagr.gov/SWC/costshareprograms/CCAP/index.html
Funding Purpose: Water quality and installation of various BMPs
Legal Mechanism: Grant, easements and technical Assistance
Maximum Allocation: $15,000 per project
Funding Frequency: Annual
6.5 N.C. Division of Coastal Management (NCDCM)
NCDCM, under NCDEQ works to protect, conserve, and manage North Carolina's coastal resources
through planning, permitting, education, and research. NCDCM conducts the state's Coastal Area
Management Act, the Dredge and Fill Law and the federal Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972 in the
20 coastal counties, using the rules and policies of the N.C. Coastal Resources Commission (acting as
the staff).

N.C. Clean Marina Program, under NCDCM, is a nationwide program and partnership between N.C.
Boating Industry Services, N.C. Marine Trade Association, the Division of Coastal Management, the
Albemarle-Pamlico National Estuary Program, N.C. Sea Grant, the U.S. Power Squadron, and U.S.
Coast Guard Auxiliary to clean up waterways. The program encourages states to adopt Clean Marina
principles and is designed to show that marina operators can help safeguard the environment by
using management and operations techniques that go beyond regulatory requirements.

Administering Office: NCDCM
Program Title: Coastal and Estuarine Land Conservation Program (CELCP)
Title, NOFOs: N/A
Website: http://dcm2.enr.state.nc.us/Marinas/clean.htm
Funding Purpose: Marina and waterway cleanup
Legal Mechanism: Recognition program
Maximum Allocation: N/A
Funding Frequency: Annual

Marina Pumpout Program, under NCDCM, established as a result of the federal Clean Vessel Act of
1992, provides financial assistance to marinas and other boat-docking facilities for the installation
and renovation of pump-out and dump stations in North Carolina. Using funding from the U.S. Fish &
Wildlife Service, NCDCM to private and commercial marinas, gas/service docks, fish houses/seafood
dealers, and other boat docking facilities in the 20 coastal counties.
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Administering Office: NCDCM
Program Title: CELCP
Title, NOFOs: N/A
Website: https://deq.nc.gov/about/divisions/coastal-management/coastal-
management-recognition-programs/nc-pumpout-program
Funding Purpose: Installation and renovation of pump-out and dump stations for public, private,
and commercial marinas, gas/service docks, fish houses/seafood dealers, and
other boat docking facilities.
Legal Mechanism: Grant
Maximum Allocation: Program $958,529.00 maximum; $20,000 project maximum
Funding Frequency: Annual
6.6 North Carolina Division of Water Resources (NCDWR)
North Carolina Division of Water Resources (NCDWR) is responsible for the environmental protection
and quality of the State’s surface water and groundwater, and for ensuring safe drinking water for its
residents. This authority is granted in accordance with laws, policies, and rules established by the
EPA, N.C. General Assembly, the Environmental Management Commission, and the Commission for
Public Health. Figure 8 shows the potential NCDWR funding.

Figure 6-1: Potential NCDWR Available Funding
$30 Million
$1 Million
$0.50 Million
$2 Million
$3 Million
NCDWR Construction Grants
& Loans
NCDWR Nonpoint Source
Program (319)
NCDWR Smaller grants
Community Development
Block Grant –Infrastructure
State Wastewater and
Drinking Water Reserve
Programs
Local Assistance for
Stormwater Infrastructure
Investments Program (LASII)
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The Construction Grants & Loans Section is a non-regulatory section, under NCDEQ, which
administers several funding programs for publicly owned wastewater treatment facilities. The section
administers three major funding programs that assist local governments:
• The federally funded CWSRF Program
• N.C. Clean Water Revolving Loan and Grant Program
• The State and Tribal Assistance Grants (STAG) program (to be discussed towards the end of this
section).

These programs can provide both low-interest loans and grant funds for wastewater treatment
projects.

Administering Office: NCDEQ Construction Grants and Loans Section
Program Title: CWSRF Program, CWSRF
CWSRF Program replaced the earlier Construction Grants program.
Title, NOFOs: N/A
Website: https://deq.nc.gov/about/divisions/water-infrastructure/i-need-
funding/clean-water-state-revolving-
fund#:~:text=The%20Clean%20Water%20Fund%20has,the%20earlier%20Con
struction%20Grants%20program
Funding Purpose: Wastewater treatment, Wastewater collection, reclaimed water, Stormwater
BMPs, Stream restoration, Energy efficiency at treatment works or collection
systems; Green Projects, and for rehabilitation projects.
Legal Mechanism: Loans and grant
Maximum Allocation: $30 million per project
Funding Frequency: Annual

Administering Office: NCDEQ Construction Grants and Loans Section
Program Title: Drinking Water State Revolving Fund
Title, NOFOs: N/A
Website: https://deq.nc.gov/about/divisions/water-infrastructure/i-need-
funding/drinking-water-state-revolving-fund
Funding Purpose: Water systems; improving drinking water treatment, fixing leaky or old pipes
(water distribution), improving source of water supply, replacing, or
constructing finished water storage tanks, and other infrastructure projects
needed to protect public health.
Legal Mechanism: Loans, refinancing, purchasing, guaranteeing local debt, purchasing bond
insurance, grants, principal forgiveness, negative interest rate loans.
Maximum Allocation: Dependent on the project and four distinct set-asides.
Funding Frequency: Annual

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NCDEQ’s Nonpoint Source Program (319), under the U.S. EPA, provides funds to state and tribal
agencies, which are then allocated via a competitive grant process to organizations to address current
or potential NPS concerns. Grants are divided into two categories: Base and Incremental. Base
Projects are research-oriented, demonstrative, or educational and are targeted at identifying and
preventing potential NPS-impacted areas in the state, where waters may be at risk of becoming
impaired. Incremental projects seek to restore streams or other portions of watersheds that are
already impaired enabling successful recovery of the quality of their local waterbodies, to restore
them to fully support their intended uses.

Administering Office: NCDEQ
Program Title: NCDEQ Nonpoint Source Program (319)
Title, NOFOs: N/A
Website: https://deq.nc.gov/about/divisions/water-resources/water-
planning/nonpoint-source-planning/319-grant-program
Funding Purpose: Base and Incremental Projects; Funds may be used to demonstrate innovative
best management practices (BMPs), support education and outreach
programs, establish Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) for a watershed, or
restore impaired streams or other water resources. Watershed restoration
projects such as stormwater and agricultural best management practices and
restoration of impaired streams; restore waterbodies currently impaired by
nonpoint source pollution in areas with approved watershed restoration
plans.
Legal Mechanism: Grants
Maximum Allocation: $1 million program
Funding Frequency: Annual

NCDEQ’s Water Quality Management Planning Grant 205(j) is a federally funded program
administered under NCDEQ, that provides limited competitive funding for water quality management
planning efforts. These projects can involve identifying the nature, extent, and cause of water quality
problems or doing planning work to address those problems.

Administering Office: NCDEQ
Program Title: NCDEQ Water Quality Management Planning Grant 205(j)
Title, NOFOs: N/A
Website: https://deq.nc.gov/about/divisions/water-resources/water-
planning/nonpoint-source-planning/205j-wq-management-planning-
grant#Overview-2811
Funding Purpose: Water quality planning projects; identifying the nature, extent, and cause of
carrying out planning work to address those problems. Projects can include
but are not limited to the development of EPA 9-Element Watershed
Restoration Plans for a 12-digit or smaller USGS HUC, mapping stormwater
infrastructure, conducting engineering designs for stormwater best
management practices, and watershed assessments of pollutant sources.
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Legal Mechanism: Grants
Maximum Allocation: $150,000 average program amount; Project funding varies by project.
Funding Frequency: Annual
6.7 American Rescue Plan Act, U.S. Coronavirus State and Local
Fiscal Recovery Funds (SLFRF)
American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funding, U.S. Congress enacted the ARPA that included a North
Carolina allocation of $8,850,048,947 spilt up under SLFRF:
• $5,439,309,692 Appropriation of State Fiscal Recovery Funds
• $668,167,686 Appropriation to the 26 largest municipalities, direct from Treasury
• $2,037,187,362 Appropriation to all 100 counties combined
• $705,384,207 Appropriation to the state's 525 Non-Entitlement Units (NEUs), which are towns and
cities of 50,000 residents or fewer
January 6, 2022, the U.S. Treasury issued its Final Rule, which outlines detailed eligibility and
compliance guidance on allowable expenditures under the ARPA fiscal recovery program. ARPA
recipients may obligate funds until December 31, 2024 and may expend funds until December 31,
2026. Expenditures fall into the following four categories:
• Responding to the public health emergency or its negative economic impacts
• Expanding public sector capacity and providing premium pay to workers performing essential
work during the COVID-19 public health emergency
• Investing in water, sewer, and broadband infrastructure
• Providing general government services to the extent of revenue loss due to the pandemic
6.8 North Carolina Division of Water Infrastructure (NCDWI), NCDEQ
ARPA
Funding Programs in addition to the allocated amounts above for North Carolina include:

Administering Office: NCDWI, NCDEQ
Program Title: Community Development Block Grant – Infrastructure
Title, NOFOs: Community Development Block Grant – Infrastructure
Website: https://deq.nc.gov/about/divisions/water-infrastructure/i-need-
funding/community-development-block-grant-infrastructure
Funding Purpose: Address water and wastewater infrastructure needs in HUD-qualified low-to-
moderate income communities.
Legal Mechanism: Grant
Maximum Allocation: $2 million/ project
Funding Frequency: Supplemental

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Administering Office: NCDWI, NCDEQ
Program Title: State Wastewater and Drinking Water Reserve Programs
Title, NOFOs: State Wastewater and Drinking Water Reserve Grant fall/spring
Website: https://deq.nc.gov/about/divisions/water-infrastructure/i-need-
funding/state-wastewater-and-drinking-water-reserve-programs
Funding Purpose: Technical assistance for the construction of critical needs for wastewater
collection systems, wastewater treatment works, and public water system
projects through planning, design, and construction of critical water
infrastructure.
Legal Mechanism: Grant
Maximum Allocation: $3 million/ project
Funding Frequency: Supplemental

Administering Office: NCDWI, NCDEQ
Program Title: Merger/Regionalization Feasibility Grant Program
Title, NOFOs: Fall/Spring
Website: https://deq.nc.gov/about/divisions/water-infrastructure/i-need-
funding/mergerregionalization-feasibility-grants
Funding Purpose: Studies to evaluate the potential consolidation of two or more systems into
one system and the potential physical interconnection with another system
for regional wastewater treatment or regional water supply.
Legal Mechanism: Grant
Maximum Allocation: $50,000 from the Wastewater Reserve or the Drinking Water Reserve.
Funding Frequency: Supplemental

Administering Office: NCDWI, NCDEQ
Program Title: NCDWI
Title, NOFOs: Asset and Inventory Assessment Grants fall/spring
Website: https://deq.nc.gov/about/divisions/water-infrastructure/i-need-
funding/asset-and-inventory-assessment-grants
Funding Purpose: Asset inventory, condition assessment of critical assets, and other
components of critical assets.
Legal Mechanism: Grant
Maximum Allocation: $150,000 from the Wastewater Reserve or the Drinking Water Reserve.
Funding Frequency: Supplemental

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Administering Office: NCDWI, NCDEQ
Program Title: NCDWI
Title, NOFOs: Local Assistance for Stormwater Infrastructure Investments Program (LASII)
fall/spring
Website: https://deq.nc.gov/media/30999/download?attachment
Funding Purpose: Stormwater Construction, Planning, Development, and Implementation of
New Stormwater Utility to improve or create infrastructure for controlling
stormwater quality and quantity.
Legal Mechanism: Grant
Maximum Allocation: $82 million program; Construction $5,000,000 and planning $500,000.
Funding Frequency: Supplemental
6.9 N.C. Department of Commerce (NCDOC)
NCDOC upgrades public infrastructure to support economic growth. This figure is a year-end total for
2022. $28.4 million was awarded to communities in 2021. From economic development projects in
North Carolina, compared to $1.9 billion at this time last year. In 2022, investments of $19.3 billion
were announced. Public Infrastructure Funds are offered to help communities build the necessary
infrastructure to attract more businesses to their area, which include the following:
Administering Office: NCDOC
Program Title: Infrastructure | State Rural Grants
Title, NOFOs: Infrastructure | State Rural Grants
Website: https://www.commerce.nc.gov/grants-incentives/public-infrastructure-
funds/infrastructure-state-rural-grants
Funding Purpose: Upgrades or repair of public drinking water or wastewater treatment plants;
Upgrades, extensions, or repair of public water or sewer lines; Extensions of a
publicly owned natural gas line (with an executed Pipeline Construction,
Operating, and Resale Agreement; Installation or extension of public
broadband infrastructure; Construction of publicly owned access roads not
funded or owned by the N.C. Department of Transportation; Construction of
public rail spur improvements.
Legal Mechanism: Grant
Maximum Allocation: 100% project cost for the top 25 most distressed N.C. Counties; 75% of project
cost for the next 55 Counties.
Funding Frequency: Bi-Monthly

Administering Office: NCDOC
Program Title: Infrastructure | Federal CDBG Economic Development
Title, NOFOs: Infrastructure | Federal CDBG Economic Development
Website: https://www.commerce.nc.gov/grants-incentives/public-infrastructure-
funds/infrastructure-federal-cdbg-economic-development
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Funding Purpose: Enhancing local community housing and environments, expanding economic
opportunities. Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds are
available to local municipal or county governments for projects to enhance
the vitality of communities by providing decent housing and suitable living
environments and expanding economic opportunities. These grants primarily
serve persons of low- and moderate- incomes. State CDBG funds are provided
by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to the state
of North Carolina. Some urban counties and cities in North Carolina receive
CDBG funding directly from HUD. CDBG Funds are used to spur economic
development for job creation and retention. The economic development
component of the CDBG Program is administered by the Rural Economic
Development Division within the North Carolina Department of Commerce.
CDBG Infrastructure funds are administered by the North Carolina Department
of Environmental Quality to assist with addressing environmental issues due
to aging sewer systems, contaminated drinking water, and improve the quality
of life for many citizens across the state because of improved systems. The
North Carolina Division of Water Infrastructure provides financial assistance
for projects that improve water quality.
Legal Mechanism: Grant
Maximum Allocation: 100% project cost for the top 25 most distressed N.C. Counties; 75% of project
cost for the next 55 Counties.
Funding Frequency: Bi-Monthly

Administering Office: NCDOC
Program Title: Utility Account
Title, NOFOs: Utility Account
Website: https://www.commerce.nc.gov/grants-incentives/public-infrastructure-
funds/utility-account
Funding Purpose: The Utility Account helps local governments build the public infrastructure
that can attract businesses, specifically industrial-grade utility services. To
apply, counties must be ranked as one of the 80 most distressed under G.S.
143B-437.08 Funds may be used for construction or improvements to water,
sewer, gas, telecommunications, high-speed broadband, transportation
infrastructure, or electrical utility lines and equipment for existing or proposed
industrial buildings. To be eligible for funding, the infrastructure is required to
be on the building site or if not located on the site, directly related to the
operation of the specific industrial activity. Funds may be used for
construction or improvements to water, sewer, gas, telecommunications,
transportation infrastructure, or electrical utility lines. To be eligible for
funding, the infrastructure is required to be on the building site or if not
located on the site, directly related to the operation of the specific industrial
activity. The site must be publicly owned and there must be a reasonable
expectation that jobs will be created as a result of the project being funded.
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Legal Mechanism: Grant
Maximum Allocation: 100% project cost for the top 25 most distressed N.C. Counties; 75% of project
cost for the next 55 Counties.
Funding Frequency: Bi-Monthly

Additional funds are offered to help communities attract more businesses to their area through other
economic areas in need, which include the following:

Administering Office: NCDOC
Program Title: Demolition | State Rural Grants
Title, NOFOs: Demolition | State Rural Grants
Website: https://www.commerce.nc.gov/grants-incentives/building-or-site-
funds/demolition/demolition-state-rural-grants
Funding Purpose: Support the demolition of a vacant building to encourage site rehabilitation
and site availability for economic development purposes.
Legal Mechanism: Grant
Maximum Allocation: 100% project cost for the top 25 most distressed N.C. Counties; 75% of project
cost for the next 55 Counties.
Funding Frequency: Bi-Monthly

Administering Office: NCDOC
Program Title: Rail Industrial Access Program
Title, NOFOs: Rail Industrial Access Grants
Website: https://www.commerce.nc.gov/grants-incentives/public-infrastructure-
funds/rail-industrial-access-program
Funding Purpose: Engineering and design, site preparation including grading and drainage, track
construction, switches, grade crossings, and signals for construction or
refurbish railroad spur tracks; modernize railroad tracks; improve rail access.
Legal Mechanism: Grant
Maximum Allocation: Maximum of 50% of total project costs; $200,000 limit per project.
Funding Frequency: Annual

The Job Development Investment Grant (JDIG) is a performance-based, discretionary incentive
program that provides cash grants directly to new and expanding companies to help offset the cost of
locating or expanding a facility in the state.

Administering Office: NCDOC
Program Title: JDIG
Title, NOFOs: High-Yield Project
JDIG Transitional Project
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JDIG Transformative Project
Website: https://www.commerce.nc.gov/grants-incentives/competitive-incentives/job-
development-investment-grant-jdig
Funding Purpose: Any project that creates the minimum number of eligible positions.
Legal Mechanism: Grant
Maximum Allocation: $35,000,000 program; $5,000,000 per project
Funding Frequency: Annual
6.9.1 One North Carolina Fund (OneNC)
Under NCDOC, is a discretionary cash-grant program that allows the Governor to respond quickly to
competitive job-creation projects. The North Carolina Department of Commerce administers OneNC
on behalf of the Governor. Awards are based on the number of jobs created, level of investment,
location of the project, economic impact of the project, and the importance of the project to the state
and region.

Administering Office: NCDOC
Program Title: One North Carolina Fund
Title, NOFOs: County Development Tier Designation (Tier 1-3)
Website: https://edpnc.com/incentives/one-north-carolina-fund/
Funding Purpose: Job creation projects, funding based on the number of jobs created, level of
investment, location of the project, economic impact of the project, and the
importance of the project to the state and region.
Legal Mechanism: Grant
Maximum Allocation: Tier dependent-75% for an eligible business located in a development Tier 1 or
2 counties, and 50% for an eligible business located in a Tier 3 county.
Funding Frequency: Rolling

Disaster Funding under NCDOC includes the following:

Administering Office: NCDOC
Program Title: Disaster Recovery Grants
Title, NOFOs: Recovery-State/Rural Grants
Recovery-Federal/CDBG-DR
Website: https://www.commerce.nc.gov/grants-incentives/disaster-
recovery#Recovery-FederalCDBG-DR-289
Funding Purpose: Help North Carolina communities rebuild after natural disasters and public
health emergencies.
Legal Mechanism: Grant
Maximum Allocation: Program dependent
Funding Frequency: Annual
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6.10 N.C. Department of Public Safety (NCDPS)
The NCDPS’s primary goal is to safeguard and preserve the lives and property of the people of North
Carolina through preparation, prevention, and protection. The two primary office s that overlap with
Blueprint are the N.C. Office of Recovery & Resiliency (NCORR) or Rebuild NC and N.C. Emergency
Management (NCEM).

Administering Office: NCDPS
Program Title: Transportation Resilience Fund
Title, NOFOs: Transportation Infrastructure Resiliency Fund Grants 2022
Website: https://www.ncdps.gov/transportationinfrastructureresiliencyfundgrants2022
Funding Purpose: Ensures communities have access to critical supply and evacuation routes.
The fund will go toward: projects that update and prepare transportation
infrastructure for storms, mudslides, and flooding by considering future risks.
Risk assessments for critical transportation routes, building on existing and
future reports. Community-informed flood risk and vulnerability assessments
that identify resilience gaps and projects for vital transportation routes after
floods.
Legal Mechanism: 100% State-funded grants, no Disaster Declaration required
Maximum Allocation: $50 million fund; 10% of entire fund for individual projects and 20% for
significant regional projects.
Funding Frequency: Annual

Administering Office: NCDPS
Program Title: Disaster Relief and Mitigation Special Fund
Title, NOFOs: Flood Mitigation Grants 2022
Website:
https://www.ncdps.gov/floodmitigationgrants2022#:~:text=Emergency%20Ma
nagement%20Disaster%20Relief%20and%20Mitigation%20Fund&text=Eligibl
e%20applicants%20are%20state%20agencies,available%20between%20five
%20and%2030.
Funding Purpose: To help communities pay for flood-reduction projects and support pre-
development activities to help underserved communities develop shovel -
ready projects.
Legal Mechanism: 100% State-funded grants, no Disaster Declaration required.
Maximum Allocation: $15 million Fund; Varies by project
Funding Frequency: Annual
6.10.1 N.C. Office of Recovery & Resiliency (NCORR)
Under NCDPS, the office works with communities, local governments and other stakeholders to help
the state build back smarter and stronger from natural disasters. Through multiple programs, NCORR
works to increase community resiliency so North Carolinians can better withstand future storms. The
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division supports homeowner recovery, community development, affordable housing, infrastructure
and strategic buyout, among other initiatives. NCORR is funded primarily by the state’s HUD
Community Development Block Grant funding for long-term disaster recovery and mitigation.

Administering Office: NCORR, Rebuild NC
Program Title: Resilient Communities Program
Title, NOFOs: Disaster Recovery Grants
Recovery-Federal/CDBG-DR
Website: https://www.rebuild.nc.gov/resiliency
Funding Purpose: Help N.C. communities rebuild after natural disasters and public health
emergencies using temporary cash assistance to local and tribal Governments.
Legal Mechanism: Revolving Loans; Grants
Maximum Allocation: Program dependent
Funding Frequency: Annual

Administering Office: NCORR, Rebuild NC
Program Title: Regions Innovating for Strong Economies and Environment (RISE) Regional
Resilience Portfolio Program
Title, NOFOs: RISE Regional Resilience Portfolio Program
Website: https://www.rebuild.nc.gov/resiliency
Funding Purpose: Help N.C. communities rebuild after natural disasters and public health
emergencies using temporary cash assistance to local and tribal Governments.
Legal Mechanism: Revolving Loans; Grants
Maximum Allocation: $600,000 program funds; Varying project amounts
Funding Frequency: Annual
6.10.2 N.C. Emergency Management (NCEM)
Under NCDPS works to enhance the state's resiliency by actively collaborating, communicating, and
coordinating to prevent, mitigate, respond, and recover from disasters. NCEM also administers state
and federal grants, manages the multi-agency response to disasters, oversees all hazards and threat
risk management, coordinates regional hazard mitigation plans, facilitates training courses, and
exercises, and manages assets such as the regional hazmat response and search-and--rescue teams.
In addition, the agency develops and maintains flood maps for each county in North Carolina and
maintains the official survey database for the state. NCEM also manages the state's Homeland
Security program. The main funding under NCEM is Preparedness grants, Emergency Operatio ns
Center (EOC) Grants, and supplemental Recovery Grants.
Preparedness Grants Program, as they overlap Blueprint is designed to help develop and sustain
capabilities at the state and local, tribal levels, in the transit systems, ports, and along borders to
prevent, protect against, respond to, recover from, and mitigate high-consequence disasters and
emergencies.

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Administering Office: NCEM, NCDPS
Program Title: NCEM Grants
Title, NOFOs: Homeland Security Grant Program - State Homeland Security Program
Homeland Security Grant Program - Urban Area Security Initiative
Website: https://www.ncdps.gov/our-organization/emergency-
management/emergency-management-grants/homeland-security-grant-
program-hsgp
Funding Purpose: Prevent, protect, respond, and recover from all hazards, both man-made and
natural:
Enhancing the protection of soft targets/crowded places – 3% minimum
spend; Enhancing information and intelligence sharing and cooperation with
federal agencies, including USDHS – 3% minimum spend; Combating
Domestic Violent Extremism – 3% minimum spend; Enhancing community
preparedness and resilience – 3% minimum spend; Enhancing election
security – no minimum spend requirement Enhancing cybersecurity (including
election security) – no minimum spend requirement.
Legal Mechanism: Federal Grant - no Disaster Declaration required
Maximum Allocation: Final award amounts will be based on USDHS/FEMA’s evaluation of the
effectiveness of proposed investments and projects.
Funding Frequency: Annual, supplemental

Administering Office: NCEM, NCDPS
Program Title: NCEM Grants
Title, NOFOs: Emergency Management Performance Grant;
Emergency Management Performance Grant ARPA
Emergency Management Performance Grant - State
Website: https://www.ncdps.gov/our-organization/emergency-
management/emergency-management-grants/emergency-management-
performance-grant-empg
Funding Purpose: Prevent, protect, respond, and recover from all hazards, both man-made and
natural:
Support emergency management activities while simultaneously addressing
issues of national concern as identified in the National Priorities of the
National Preparedness Guidelines.
Legal Mechanism: Federal Grant- no disaster declaration required
Maximum Allocation: Program funding is dependent on federal availability of funds by year; 50
percent federal and 50 percent state cost-share.
Funding Frequency: Annual, supplemental

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Administering Office: NCEM, NCDPS
Program Title: NCEM Grants
Title, NOFOs: Hazardous Materials Emergency Preparedness
Website: https://www.ncdps.gov/our-organization/emergency-
management/emergency-management-grants/hazardous-materials-
emergency
Funding Purpose: Prevent, protect, respond, and recover for all hazards, both man-made and
natural: hazardous materials emergency planning and training.
Legal Mechanism: Federal Grant - no Disaster Declaration required
Maximum Allocation: Varies by emergency responder and Local Emergency Planning Committees
(LEPCs) needs.
Funding Frequency: Supplemental

Administering Office: NCEM, NCDPS
Program Title: NCEM Grants
Title, NOFOs: N.C. Tier II Competitive and Noncompetitive
Website: https://www.ncdps.gov/our-organization/emergency-
management/emergency-management-grants/nc-tier-ii-competitive-and
Funding Purpose: Prevent, protect, respond, and recover from all hazards, both man-made and
natural: expansion of hazardous materials emergency preparedness programs
through response planning, training, and related exercises to include fixed
facility planning.
Legal Mechanism: 100% State-funded grants.
Maximum Allocation: Varies by Local Emergency Planning Committees (LEPCs) needs.
Funding Frequency: Supplemental

Administering Office: NCEM, NCDPS
Program Title: NCEM Grants
Title, NOFOs: Nonprofit Security Grant Program - State
Nonprofit Security Grant Program - Urban Area
Website: https://www.ncdps.gov/our-organization/emergency-
management/emergency-management-grants/non-profit-security-grant-
program
Funding Purpose: Prevent, protect, respond, and recover from all hazards, both man-made and
natural: emergency preparedness coordination and collaboration activities
between public and private community representatives as well as state, local,
and tribal government agencies.
Legal Mechanism: Federal grant - no Disaster Declaration required
Maximum Allocation: $450,000 per project entity
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Funding Frequency: Annual, supplemental
6.10.3 Emergency Operations Center (EOC) Grant Pr ogram
Under NCDPS was not funded since 2011-2012 and returned in 2022. Projects can be submitted by a
local jurisdiction to a member of the State Congressional Delegation with a letter of support from the
State Administrative Agent (SAA), which is North Carolina Emergency Management. Only projects that
meet the requirements detailed in the most recent Notice of Funding Opportunity for the Emergency
Operations Center Grant Program, including the cost-share requirement and environmental and
historic preservation requirements, as applicable, will be considered for funding. EOC is intended to
improve emergency management and preparedness capabilities by supporting flexible, sustainable,
secure, strategically located, and fully interoperable EOCs with a focus on addressing identified
deficiencies and needs. Fully capable emergency operations facilities at the state and local levels are
an essential element of a comprehensive national emergency management system and are necessary
to ensure continuity of operations and continuity of government in major disasters or emergencies
caused by any hazard.

Administering Office: NCEM, NCDPS
Program Title: NCEM Grants
Title, NOFOs: EOC Grants-Coming Again Soon
Website: https://www.fema.gov/grants/preparedness/emergency-operations-
center/fy-22-nofo
Funding Purpose: Prevent, protect, respond, and recover from all hazards, both man-made and
natural.
Legal Mechanism: Grant
Maximum Allocation: FY 2022 program $49,026,403
Funding Frequency: Supplemental
6.10.4 Recovery Grants
Under NCDPS is based on disasters that require funding to fuel the recovery programs that help North
Carolina communities rebuild in a smart, comprehensive way. In the span of about two years, North
Carolina was hit by two 500-year storms, Hurricane Matthew in 2016 and Hurricane Florence in 2018.
In 2020, the state began dealing with the COVID-19 public health emergency. Recovery funding helps
communities with the impacts of those disasters. Funding available under recovery grants that
overlap with Blueprint include the following:

Administering Office: NCDPS
Program Title: FEMA Public Assistance
Title, NOFOs: Events Receiving Public Assistance Example: Hurricane Ian, EM8586-N.C.,
10/01/2022
Website: https://www.ncdps.gov/public-assistance
Funding Purpose: Federally declared disasters, to fix or replace damaged public properties such
as roads, bridges, buildings, and parks that have been damaged or destroyed;
emergency protective measures, debris removal, emergency communications,
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and emergency public transportation. The categories for grant funding are as
follows: Cat A - Debris Removal; Cat B - Emergency Protective Measures; Cat C -
Roads and Bridges; Cat D - Water Control Facilities; Cat E - Public Buildings &
Equipment; Cat F - Public Utilities; Cat G - Parks, Recreational Facilities, and
Other Items; Cat Z - State Management Costs.
Legal Mechanism: Federal grants - Disaster Declaration required
Maximum Allocation: FEMA pays 75 % of eligible costs; the state and/or local government pays 25%.
Funding Frequency: Supplemental, after federally declared disasters

Administering Office: NCDPS
Program Title: Tropical Storm Fred Recovery Fund
Title, NOFOs: Hazard Mitigation Grant Program DR-4617-NC (Tropical Storm Fred)
Website: https://www.ncdps.gov/our-organization/emergency-management/hazard-
mitigation#TropicalStormFredDR-4617-2081
Funding Purpose: Acquisition, Elevation, or Mitigation Reconstruction for community recovery
for areas where water dumped a foot of rain in some places, swelling rivers,
triggering mudslides, and leveling buildings across the state.
Legal Mechanism: Federal grant - Disaster Declaration required
Maximum Allocation: Acquisition $323,000; Elevation $205,000; Mitigation reconstruction $150,000
Funding Frequency: Supplemental

Administering Office: NCDPS
Program Title: Hazard Mitigation Grant Program
Title, NOFOs: Region 4 Allocations
Website: https://www.fema.gov/grants/mitigation/hazard-mitigation
Funding Purpose: Planning, enforcement, flood reduction projects, retrofitting, construction;
Hazard mitigation measures are any sustainable action is taken to reduce or
eliminate the long-term risk to people and property from future disasters;
cost-effective post-disaster projects.
Legal Mechanism: Federal grant - Disaster Declaration required
Maximum Allocation: Disaster dependent by FY
Funding Frequency: Supplemental

Administering Office: NCDPS
Program Title: Flood Mitigation Assistance Grant
Title, NOFOs: Three distinct types of proposals; Competitive funding program amounts:
Capability and Capacity Building Activities; $60 million;
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Localized Flood Risk Reduction Projects; $340 million;
Individual Flood Mitigation Projects; $400 million
Website: https://www.fema.gov/grants/mitigation/floods
Funding Purpose: Reduce or eliminate the risk of repetitive flood damage to buildings insured by
the National Flood Insurance Program; used for projects such as Project
Scoping; Technical Assistance; Community Flood Mitigation Projects;
Individual Structure/Property-Level Flood Mitigation Projects Management
Costs.
Legal Mechanism: 100% State-funded grants or Federal grants - no Disaster Declaration required.
Maximum Allocation: $800 million program available; project limits are per proposal type & project.
Funding Frequency: Annual

Administering Office: NCDPS
Program Title: BRIC - formerly Pre-Disaster Mitigation
Title, NOFOs: Capabilities & Capacity Building (C&CB) Proposals
Website: https://www.ncdps.gov/our-organization/emergency-management/hazard-
mitigation/non-disaster-grants#C&CB
Funding Purpose: Projects that demonstrate innovative approaches to partnerships, such as
shared funding mechanisms, and/or project design.
Legal Mechanism: Federal grant - no Disaster Declaration required.
Maximum Allocation: FY 2023 $3 billion program; $2 million for State
Funding Frequency: Annual

Administering Office: NCDPS
Program Title: BRIC - formerly Pre-Disaster Mitigation
Title, NOFOs: Shovel-ready infrastructure projects Under BRIC
Website: https://www.ncdps.gov/our-organization/emergency-management/hazard-
mitigation/non-disaster-grants#BRIC
Funding Purpose: Project and or planning; Activities must result in a resource, strategy, or
tangible mitigation product that will reduce or eliminate risk and damage
from future natural hazards, increase resiliency, and promote a culture of
preparedness.
Legal Mechanism: Federal grants - no Disaster Declaration required
Maximum Allocation: $2 million project maximum
Funding Frequency: Annual
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6.11 Attorney General
The Attorney General, under the North Carolina Department of Justice (NCDOJ), awards grants
annually to projects that will help improve and protect North Carolina’s natural resources through the
Environmental Enhancement Grant (EEG) program. The EEG Program began in 2000 when the
Attorney General and Smithfield Foods entered into a 25-year agreement and has in part funded the
award of more than $38 million to nearly 200 projects that have resulted in the closure of 240
abandoned hog waste lagoons, restored or permanently provide conservat ion of more than 31,000
acres of land, wetland restoration, stormwater remediation, and stream stabilization.

Administering Office: Attorney General, NCDOJ
Program Title: Environmental Enhancement Grant (EEG) program
Title, NOFOs: FY 2022 Environmental Enhancement Grant Program Request for Proposals
Website: https://ncdoj.gov/protecting-the-environment/eeg/
Funding Purpose: Improve and protect natural resources, closure abandoned hog waste
lagoons, the restoration or permanent conservation of land, wetland
restoration, stormwater remediation, stream stabilization, environmental
education, and research initiatives.
Legal Mechanism: Grant
Maximum Allocation: Program maximum $500,000; Varies by project
Funding Frequency: Annual, March
6.12 North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources
(NCDNCR)
6.12.1 Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF)
The NCDNCR program, works in partnership with federal, state, and local efforts to protect land in
national parks, national wildlife refuges, national forests, national trails, and other public lands; to
preserve working forests and ranchlands; to support state and local parks and playgrounds; to
preserve battlefields and other historic and cultural sites to provide the tools that communities need
to meet their diverse conservation and recreation needs. Current funding under the LWCF includes the
following:
Administering Office: LWCF, NCDNCR
Program Title: LWCF
Title, NOFOs: FY 2023 LWCF Round 1 &2
Website: https://www.ncparks.gov/about-us/grants/land-and-water-conservation-fund
Funding Purpose: Conservation and recreation purposes.
Legal Mechanism: Grant
Maximum Allocation: Project maximum of $500,000; 50/50 matching
Funding Frequency: Annual
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6.12.2 North Carolina Land and Water Fund (NCLWF)
Under the Division of Land and Water Stewardship, under NCDNCR, formerly known as the Clean
Water Management Trust Fund, is a program of the Division of Land and Water Stewardship within the
NCDNCR. The grants help ensure clean drinking water, prot ect natural habitats, and preserve our
unique natural and cultural resources. NCLWF awarded $70.3 million in 2022 in Funding resources
that included the following programs:

Administering Office: NCLWF, NCDNCR
Program Title: Flood Risk Reduction Grant Program
Title, NOFOs: FY 2023 Flood Risk Reduction Grant, July
Website: https://nclwf.nc.gov/grants/apply-grant/flood-risk-reduction-grant-program
Funding Purpose: Reduce flood risks through the design, implementation, and preservation of
nature-based infrastructure. An additional consideration, other ecosystem
services or public benefits, demonstrate readiness to begin implementation
and benefit economically distressed communities.
Legal Mechanism: Grant
Maximum Allocation: $250,000 maximum; $25 million fund
Funding Frequency: Annual

Administering Office: NCLWF, NCDNCR
Program Title: Innovative Stormwater Grant Program
Title, NOFOs: FY 2022 NCLWF Innovative Stormwater Award
Website: https://nclwf.nc.gov/home/innovative-stormwater-projects
Funding Purpose: Innovative stormwater projects as projects that: 1) bring something new or
different to practices in stormwater-quality management, 2) build on
experience and current practices, and 3) advance practices in stormwater-
quality management regionally or statewide. Innovative stormwater projects
will focus on developing and applying new information. These projects will
emphasize developing representative and defensible monitoring data and
cost data, evaluating system effectiveness and performance in field
applications, evaluating economic and social benefits, and disseminating
findings and results.
Legal Mechanism: Grant
Maximum Allocation: State allocations & project dependent
Funding Frequency: Annual

Administering Office: NCLWF, NCDNCR
Program Title: Mini-Grants Program
Title, NOFOs: FY 2022 NCLWF Mini-Grants Award
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Website: https://nclwf.nc.gov/media/241/download
Funding Purpose: i) Surveys and Legal Descriptions, Phase I Environmental Site Assessment -
optional at the discretion of the applicant, Baseline Documentation Report,
Title Insurance or Title Opinion, Legal Fees, Closing Costs, Recording Fees,
Contract Administration Costs; ii) Property Management iii) Stewardship
Endowment funds.
Legal Mechanism: Grant
Maximum Allocation: $500,000 maximum; Project budget item dependent; i) 100%; ii) $2,500 iii)
50%.
Funding Frequency: Annual

Administering Office: NCLWF, NCDNCR
Program Title: Restoration Program
Title, NOFOs: FY 2023 NCLWF Restoration Grant
Website: https://nclwf.nc.gov/media/94/open
Funding Purpose: Restoration of the natural hydrology, stream channel, floodplain, and/or
riparian habitat to provide ecological uplift and the long-term stability of
natural resources, including Stream Restoration, enhancement, or
stabilization; Dam Removal and enhancement; Wetland Restoration, creation,
or enhancement; Other projects that would promote the quality of receiving
surface waters. Consult your field representative.
Legal Mechanism: Grant
Maximum Allocation: Maximum 50% of project
Funding Frequency: Annual

Administering Office: NCLWF, NCDNCR
Program Title: Planning Program
Title, NOFOs: FY 2023 NCLWF Planning Grant
Website: https://fs24.formsite.com/N.C.LWF/mxdfma9tgz/form_login.html
Funding Purpose: Reductions in surface water pollution with the intent to conserve areas of high
resource value or to restore degraded lands to re-establish their ability to
protect water quality; watershed or river corridor plans to identify and
prioritize restoration opportunities; include watershed plans to identify and
prioritize land parcels for conservation, and monitoring plans to identify and
locate threats to the State’s cultural, environmental, and natural resources.
Legal Mechanism: Grant
Maximum Allocation: Capped at $75,000
Funding Frequency: Annual

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Administering Office: NCLWF, NCDNCR
Program Title: Acquisition Program
Title, NOFOs: FY 2023 NCLWF Acquisition Grant
Website: https://nclwf.nc.gov/media/102/open
Funding Purpose: Enhance or restore degraded surface water, including drinking water supplies,
and contribute toward a network of riparian buffers and greenways for
environmental, educational, and recreational benefits; provide buffers around
military bases to protect the military mission; acquire land that represents the
ecological diversity of North Carolina acquire land that contributes to the
development of a balanced State program of historic properties. Acquisition
Program funds from NCLWF may be used for the purchase of property in fee
simple or perpetual conservation agreements. Land acquisition projects may
include land that: Is within the first 300 feet from the top of the stream bank,
or the width of the 100-year floodplain, whichever is greater /or Contains
natural areas, element occurrences, or species of concern as defined by N.C.
Natural Heritage Program or adjacent buffer land that is critical to the viability
of those areas /or Buffer's natural habitat around military installations or
military training areas, or is identified for state matching funds toward federal
funding initiatives that protect natural habitat around military installations or
training areas /or is the site where historic or cultural events occurred or the
viewshed of such properties.
Legal Mechanism: Grant
Maximum Allocation: Varys by project and project score (can be 100% of the project)
Funding Frequency: Annual
6.13 N.C. Division of Parks and Recreation (NCDPR)
6.13.1 N.C. Division of Parks and Recreation
NCDPR, under NCDNCR, manages over 250,000 acres of land across North Carolina through parks,
recreation areas, and natural areas, with a mission dedicated to conservation, recreation, and
education.
6.13.2 Parks and Recreation Trust Fund
NCDPR was authorized by the General Assembly (G.S. 113-44.15) to establish a matching grant
program for qualified local governmental units for local parks, public beach access, and
improvements in state parks for recreation purposes. The Parks and Recreation Trust Fund (PARTF) is
funded by an annual appropriation as well as revenue from personalized license plates.

Administering Office: NCDPR, NCDNCR
Program Title: PARTF
Title, NOFOs: N.C. PARTF Grant
Website: https://www.ncparks.gov/about-us/grants/parks-and-recreation-trust-
fund/partf-recipients
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Funding Purpose: Planning projects for outdoor and indoor recreation facilities; support
facilities such as roads, parking areas, accessible routes, walkways, and
utilities acquisition of park property. Development projects outdoor and
indoor recreation facilities: support facilities such as roads, parking areas,
accessible routes, walkways, and utilities. Improvement of natural resource
features needed for public recreation use; construction services such as bid
advertisements, design engineering/ architectural services, contractor
services directly related to and required for completing the project, permitting
and environmental reviews, site preparation and demolition, materials such
as lumber, hardware, paint, sand, gravel, landscape materials, rental of
equipment in completing the project, signs, and equipment that are physically
attached, and/or permanent improvements such as soccer, football and
basketball goals, backstops, playground equipment, tennis posts and nets,
etc.
Legal Mechanism: Grant
Maximum Allocation: $17 million program; Maximum $500,000 per application
Funding Frequency: Annual
6.13.3 State Trails: Recreational Trails Program
Under NCDPR is a $1.5 million grant program funded by Congress with money from the federal gas
taxes paid on fuel used by off-highway vehicles. This program intends to meet the trail and trail-
related recreational needs identified by the Statewide Comprehensive Outdoor Recreation Plan. Grant
funding is for trail planning, construction, maintenance, signs, and related facilities.

Administering Office: NCDPR, NCDNCR
Program Title: State Trails: Recreational Trails Program (RTP)
Title, NOFOs: Trail Grants
Website: https://trails.nc.gov/trail-grants
Funding Purpose: Construction of a new trail, maintenance, and repair of existing trails, land
acquisitions, purchase of trail tools and planning, legal, environmental, and
permitting costs (up to 10 percent of grant amount).
Legal Mechanism: Grant
Maximum Allocation: $1.5 million program; project amount varies
Funding Frequency: Annual
6.13.4 Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF)
Under the NCDNCR, has a state-appointed liaison officer (SLO), who reviews the LWCF allocation in
consultation with and with advice from the LWCF staff. The SLO determines the minimum and
maximum amount of grant awards for state agencies and local government projects. During each
funding cycle, the LWCF staff will review the evaluations of each application submitted, consider the
ranking of the projects, and recommend a list of projects to the SLO for funding. The SLO recommends
the list of projects to the National Park Service for final review and funding. Refer to the LWCF under
NCDNCR above for more information about this fund.
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6.13.5 Accessibility for Parks Grant program
Administered through NCDPR and PARTF provides $10 million for parks and recreation grants to
benefit children and/or veterans with disabilities in North Carolina with a maximum of $500,000 with
each application.
6.13.6 Outdoor Recreation Legacy Partnership Program
Funded through the LWCF, the Outdoor Recreation Legacy Partnership Program is a nationally
competitive program targeting grant assistance to help economically disadvantaged urban
communities with no, or almost no, access to publicly available, close-by, outdoor recreation. Funds
can be used for the acquisition and/or development of, or to substantially renovate obsolete, public
parks and other outdoor recreation spaces. Projects are selected for funding by the Director of the
NPS. Refer to the LWCF under NCDNCR above for more information about this fund.
6.13.7 Complete the Trails Fund
Used to support the development of trails that will connect communities to the state trails. There are
12 state trails authorized by N.C. General Assembly: eight land-based trails and four paddle trails. The
planned mileage for the system is over 2,900 miles. Over 30 state parks, state natural areas, and state
recreation areas host or are adjacent to state trail segments. This fund supports the RTP Trail Project
Grants as outlined above. This fund includes $29.25 million of funding for the development of state
trails in North Carolina. Additional grants from this fund include the RTP Safety and Education Grants.
6.14 N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission (NCWRC)
The NCWRC was created by the N.C. General Assembly in 1947 to conserve and sustain the state’s fish
and wildlife resources through research, scientific management, wise use, and public input. The
NCWRC is the regulatory agency responsible for the enforcement of North Carolina’s fishing, hunting,
trapping, and boating laws.

Administering Office: NCWRC
Program Title: Partners for Green Growth
Title, NOFOs: Green Growth Toolbox
Website: https://www.ncwildlife.org/Conserving/Programs/Green-Growth-
Toolbox/Technical-Assistance
Funding Purpose: Land use planning projects that address the conservation of priority wildlife
habitats.
Legal Mechanism: Grant
Maximum Allocation: Reimburse cost-share funds of up to $20,000; Typically awards $10,000
Funding Frequency: Supplemental
6.15 N.C. Forest Service (NCFS)
NCFS uses N.C. Urban and Community Forestry (U&CF) Program to assist communities with reaching a
level of sustainable U&CF management that matches their goals and capacity, where: urban forestry is
defined as the planting, maintenance, care, and protection of tree populations in urban settings to
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enhance the urban environment Community forestry is defined as a branch of forestry whereby the
local community plays a significant role in forest management and land use decision making by
themselves in the facilitating support of the government as well as change agents.

Administering Office: NCFS
Program Title: U&CF Program
Title, NOFOs: Urban and Community Forestry Financial Assistance Grant
Website: https://www.ncforestservice.gov/Urban/urban_grant_program.htm
Funding Purpose: Urban Forestry Tree Inventories and Canopy Cover Assessments, Urban
Forestry Ordinances and Policies, Urban and Community Forestry Plan
Development, Community Forestry Activities, Urban and Community Forestry
Professional Staff Development, Special Projects – creative or broad impact
project ideas outside the above categories will be considered and are
encouraged to apply.
Legal Mechanism: Grant
Maximum Allocation: Per project by rank up to program amount by agency or block.
Funding Frequency: Supplemental
6.16 North Carolina State Energy Office (NCSEO)
Under NCDEQ, NCSEO is the state extension of the USDOE State Energy Program funding
appropriations where Energy Resilience Programs can overlap Blueprint. Potential for these projects
to align with the Clean Energy Plan Recommendation E, Strengthen the resilience and flexibility of the
grid. Under the NCSEO’s programs, the following project examples would overlap with Blueprint:
• Mapping Energy Resilience the following Hurricanes and the widespread flooding and power
outages that follow are incredibly costly and disruptive to North Carolina’s residents and
businesses;
• Planning for an Affordable, Sustainable, and Resilient Grid (last 10 years of data available)
o Baseline scenario development – what exists
o Improved scenario development – based on a grid improvement plan
o Advanced scenario development – investigate storm impacts on the grid when updated
• Carolina Alternative Fuel Infrastructure for Storm Resilience Plan analyzes storm-caused
disruptions to alternative fuel infrastructure that affects petroleum and alternative fuels. Project
partners and stakeholders will develop a post -disaster emergency response plan/roadmap that
will reduce the impact of infrastructure disruption, transportation, utility restoration, and recovery
operations.

NCSEO can leverage the funding previously outlined under the USDOE and USSEP under the federal
funding vehicles for projects such as those noted under the NCSEO.
6.17 Mining Program, NCDEQ
For the average watershed restoration plan, mine reclamation and restoration projects are part of the
safety cross features. N.C. Mineral Resources vary with complex geology that is reflected in the
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diversity and leading the nation in the mineral industry with the production of feldspar, lithium
minerals, scrap mica, olivine, pyrophyllite, and clay used for brick manufacture. The state ranks
second in phosphate rock production and additional production is from crushed stone, sand and
gravel, dimension stone, kaolin, peat, and gemstones, with recently discovered heavy mineral
deposits to be produced in the near future. On average, North Carolina's annual mineral production is
over 500 million dollars. According to USGS and NCDEQ, North Carolina has 2,375 identified mines
over the State’s watersheds. Although there are no direct grant programs for mining in North Carolina
it is recommended to reach out to the Mining Program through NCDEQ for potential assistance should
the project require mitigation due to previous or existing mining efforts, this is likely to be adjusted in
the near future due to the Piedmont Lithium Carolinas mining materials from North Carolina.
6.18 Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) Funds
The Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) is a federal-state partnership providing social and
economic support for a 13-state region stretching along the Appalachian Mountains from southern
New York to northern Mississippi. Established by the United States Congress in 1965, in North
Carolina, ARC supports economic development activities in Alexander, Alleghany, Ashe, Avery,
Buncombe, Burke, Caldwell, Catawba, Cherokee, Clay, Cleveland, Davie, Forsyth, Graham, Haywood,
Henderson, Jackson, Macon, Madison, McDowell, Mitchell, Polk, Rutherford, Stokes, Surry, Swain,
Transylvania, Watauga, Wilkes, Yadkin, and Yancey counties. The programs and money allocated are
outlined in the federal vehicle section and more information is available here:
https://www.commerce.nc.gov/grants-incentives/appalachian-regional-commission-funds.
6.19 State and Tribal Assistance Grants (STAG)
The STAG program is a federal special appropriations program that contains 20 categories of grants
with seven of those categories overlapping with Blueprint funding; however, 23 individual grants fall
under those categories that are listed below as funding titles under the STAG program as foll ows:

Administering Office: NCDEQ & EPA
Program Title: STAG program
Title, NOFOs: Brownfield Projects;
Infrastructure Assistance: CWSRF;
Infrastructure Assistance: Drinking Water SRF;
Safe Water for Small & Disadvantaged Communities;
Drinking Water Infrastructure Resilience and Sustainability;
Sewer Overflow and Stormwater Reuse Grants;
Water Infrastructure Workforce Investment;
Technical Assistance and Grants for Emergencies (SDWA);
Technical Assistance and Grants for Emergencies, Small Systems;
Source Water Petition Program;
Voluntary Connection to Public Water Systems;
Underserved Communities Grant to Meet SDWA Requirements;
Small System Water Loss Identification and Prevention;
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Midsize and Large Drinking Water System Infrastructure Resilience and
Sustainability;
Indian Reservation Drinking Water Program;
Advanced Drinking Water Technologies;
Clean Water Infrastructure Resiliency and Sustainability Program;
Small and Medium Publicly Owned Treatment Works Circuit Rider Program;
Grants for Low- and Moderate-Income Household Decentralized Wastewater
Systems;
Stormwater Infrastructure Technology;
Stormwater Control Infrastructure Project Grants;
Alternative Water Sources Pilot Program;
Enhanced Aquifer Use and Recharge.
Website: https://www.epa.gov/system/files/documents/2022-05/fy23-cj-11-stag.pdf
Funding Purpose: Grant and project dependent; Generally, water-based projects or planning for
source, storage, treatment, or transmission & distribution systems; Resiliency
or sustainability.
Legal Mechanism: Loans and Grant
Maximum Allocation: $56,319,893,250 program balance; project dependent but the maximum is $20
million
Funding Frequency: Annual
6.20 N.C. Commission of Indian Affairs, NCDOA
N.C. Commission of Indian Affairs advocates for the needs of American Indian residents in North
Carolina. It administers programs and services to American Indian communities across the state,
including education and resources to aid in social and economic development. The Commission also
works to address disparities and promote unity among American Indian and non-Indian communities.

North Carolina’s American Indian communities will receive a total of $10 million in state funds for FY
2023 to support programs and services to help with pandemic recovery. The FY 2023 state budget
allocated money to each of the state-recognized tribes and tribal organizations. The nonrecurring
funds will be disbursed from the Pandemic Recovery Office within the Office of State Budget and
Management. The N.C. Department of Administration’s Commission of Indian Affairs also received
general appropriation funds to support further research into the impact of the pandemic on tribes
across North Carolina.
• As a federally recognized tribe, the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians receives federal money
directly as part of the American Rescue Plan Act. (See USDOI Indian Affairs for additional
information on Funding).
• The seven state-recognized American Indian Tribes will receive $715,285 each and an additional
$4,000,000 disbursed on a per capita basis among the seven state tribes:
o Coharie
o Haliwa-Saponi
o Lumbee
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o Meherrin
o Occaneechi Band of the Saponi Nation
o Sappony
o Waccamaw-Siouan
• American Indian Urban Organizations: $250,000 each
o Cumberland County Association for Indian People
o Guilford Native American Association
o Metrolina Native American Association
o Triangle Native American Society
Table 6-1 estimates the additional funds available from state funding vehicles based on no other
resources than those listed in the state vehicle section.

Table 6-1: State Vehicles Summary
Total Potential State Grant Opportunities Over 80
Total Potential State Funding Available (STAG and ARPA amounts
included)
Over $ 89.3 billion
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7 Tribal Funding Vehicles
The North Carolina Tribal Communities are served by the Department of the Interior Bureau of Indian
Affairs (BIA) Eastern Region, United South and Eastern Tribes, Inc. (USET), and are active in Southeast
Climate Adaptation Science Center (CASC) network. They have identified risks outlined under the
following categories: increasing risk of heat, flooding, and vector-borne disease brought by changing
climate. Funding from those sources is outlined under the associated funding vehicle above. The
resources in this tribal funding vehicle following are for additional tribal funding or technical options
not accounted for under Federal or state vehicles.

As stated before, North Carolina is home to one federally recognized tribe, eight state-recognized
tribes, and four urban Indian organizations spread over at least 28 counties of North Carolina.
7.1 USET Sovereignty Protection Fund
The USET Sovereignty Protection Fund, established in 2014, is a non-profit, inter-Tribal organization
advocating on behalf of 33 federally recognized Tribal Nations from the Northeastern Woodlands to
the Everglades and across the Gulf of Mexico. USET Sovereignty Protection Fund outlines resources
and funding to which recognized tribes have access with the appropriate deadlines, amounts, and
training for funding opportunities, in addition to the appropriate funding agencies/organizations for
each. The resources available can be accessed here https://www.usetinc.org/funding/.
7.2 Climate Adaptation Science Center (CASC)
The Southeast CASC Tribal Climate and Resilience Network is part of a network of nine Climate
Adaptation Science Centers managed by the USGS National Climate Adaptation Science Center. Their
mission is to deliver science to help fish, wildlife, water, land, and people adapt to a changing climate.
7.3 National Association of Tribal Historic Preservation (NATHPO)
NATHPO provides a site for additional coverage of grant opportunities and from the tribal
communities, local municipal communities, partners, and other Tribal & cultural resource
organizations and firms. They can be found here: https://www.nathpo.org/grant-opportunities/. The
following are opportunities for funding found through the NATHPO site.

Administering Office: NATHPO/The Wilderness Society
Program Title: Protecting Native Places Fund
Title, NOFOs: Protecting Native Places, 2022
Website: https://www.nathpo.org/assets/pdf/Protecting+Native+Places+Fund/
Funding Purpose: Support efforts on-the-ground restoration and stewardship, or efforts to
change local land management plans or policies.
Legal Mechanism: Grant
Maximum Allocation: $80,000 awarded in $5,000 grants
Funding Frequency: Annual, February-March

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Administering Office: Bush Foundation
Program Title: Community Innovation for Organizations
Title, NOFOs: Community Innovation Grants
Website: https://www.bushfoundation.org/community-innovation-grants
Funding Purpose: Transformative impacts
Legal Mechanism: Grants and program-related investments low-interest loans.
Maximum Allocation: No caps
Funding Frequency: Annual

Administering Office: National Fund for Sacred Places
Program Title: National Fund for Sacred Places
Title, NOFOs: National Fund for Sacred Places
Website: https://savingplaces.org/national-fund-for-sacred-
places?utm_medium=email&utm_source=update&utm_campaign=grants
Funding Purpose: Protect and preserve their historic houses of worship; native or cultural
worship included.
Legal Mechanism: Grants
Maximum Allocation: $20 million
Funding Frequency: Annual
7.4 U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit & Tribal Resilience Resource
Guide
U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit & Tribal Resilience Resource Guide was developed to provide federal
government-wide resources for tribal resilience in a standard framework across all federal agencies
and programs that provide tribal and/or resilience support. The system uses agency fact sheets that
integrate online information provided by federal agencies or programs for categories including
services, funding, training, and products. Agency resources also include Examples and Tools section
links, demonstrating how each agency partners with tribes on case studies and tools in the U.S.
Climate Resilience Toolkit and other federal systems.

The tool is located here: https://toolkit.climate.gov/tool/tribal-resilience-resource-guide. Table 7-1
estimates the additional funds available from tribal funding vehicles based on no other resources than
those listed in the tribal vehicle section.

Table 7-1: Additional Tribal Vehicles Summary
Total Potential Additional Tribal Opportunities Over 8
Total Potential Additional Tribal Funding Available (STAG not included here) Over $35 million
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8 Non-Governmental and Non-Traditional Vehicles:
Non-government and non-traditional funding options such as private and public partnerships such as
foundations, universities, and economic development districts then other finance mechanism
programs generate funds for projects using loans, resilience or environmental impact bonds, special
assessments, fees, taxes, and other financial instruments are key assets for Blueprint funding which
could be utilized to pay for the construction of green infrastructure, to manage stormwater runoff,
and improve water quality.

Private and public partnership funding can be used to fund Blueprint efforts throughout the state
where foundations and universities develop strategic partnerships and funding opportunities for the
communities they represent. Funding available through those mechanisms includes but is not limited
to the following programs:
8.1 Foundations
Foundation funding is generally prescreened, issue Request for Proposals, or otherwise indicate
interest in receiving grant proposals, and often accept unsolicited grant proposals. Likewise, if the
organization conducting the project does not meet the foundation criteria, it can apply for a grant
under the fiscal sponsorship of an eligible organization. The following foundations are potential
funding and partnership sources for Blueprint activities:
8.1.1 The Golden LEAF Foundation
The Golden LEAF Foundation is a nonprofit organization established in 1999 for the distribution of
funding North Carolina received from the 1998 National Master Cigarette Manufacturers Settlement
Agreement. Golden LEAF funding is used to increase economic opportunity in North Carolina’s rural
and tobacco-dependent communities through grantmaking, collaboration, innovation, and
stewardship as an independent and perpetual foundation. Funding Programs under Golden LEAF
Foundation include but are not limited to the following programs:
Administering Office: Golden LEAF Foundation
Program Title: The Open Grants Program
Title, NOFOs: Job Creation and Economic Investment;
Workforce Preparedness;
Agriculture.
Website: https://www.goldenleaf.org/opengrants/
Funding Purpose: Develop and implement a new workforce training program to meet demand
from local employers; Implement a career pathway at a high school for a high-
demand field; Extend water, sewer, or road infrastructure to a site to enable
industrial development that will create full-time jobs; Support the
development of new crops, expand markets for agriculture products, or
provide training for farmers.
Legal Mechanism: Competitive grant
Maximum Allocation: $200,001-$500,000 with Consultation; Average Max. $200,000
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Funding Frequency: Annual

Administering Office: Golden LEAF Foundation
Program Title: Economic Catalyst Program
Title, NOFOs: Economic Catalyst Program
Website: https://www.goldenleaf.org/catalyst/
Funding Purpose: Funds for public infrastructure, job training, upfit for buildings owned by
governmental or nonprofit entities, or equipment acquisition where the
building or equipment will be leased or sold at the fair-market value to a
company creating jobs.
Legal Mechanism: Competitive grant
Maximum Allocation: Application dependent
Funding Frequency: Annual

Administering Office: Golden LEAF Foundation
Program Title: SITE Program
Title, NOFOs: SITE Program – Identification;
SITE Program – Due Diligence;
SITE Program – Development
Website: https://www.goldenleaf.org/site/
Funding Purpose: SITE Program – Identification support to identify potential industrial sites in
communities that do not currently have quality industrial sites to market.
SITE Program – Due Diligence funding to complete eligible due diligence
activities such as environmental assessments, archaeological analyses, and
mapping.
SITE Program – Development funding for public infrastructure and, for
publicly owned sites, clearing, and grading, to benefit sites that have
completed the due diligence necessary to demonstrate that the site is suitable
for development.
Legal Mechanism: Competitive grant
Maximum Allocation: $15 million program
Funding Frequency: Annual Fall/Spring awards

Administering Office: Golden LEAF Foundation
Program Title: Golden LEAF Community-Based Grants Initiative;
Title, NOFOs: Counties from the Piedmont-Triad Prosperity Zone;
Counties from the Southeast Prosperity Zone.
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Website: https://www.goldenleaf.org/community-based-grants-initiative/
Funding Purpose: Economic Growth in counties in the Southeast Prosperity Zone are Brunswick,
Carteret, Craven, Duplin, Greene, Jones, Lenoir, New Hanover, Onslow,
Pamlico, Pender, and Wayne.
Legal Mechanism: Competitive grant
Maximum Allocation: $11 million; $1.5 million spread over 3 projects per County
Funding Frequency: Annual

Administering Office: Golden LEAF Foundation
Program Title: Flood Mitigation Program
Title, NOFOs: Flood Mitigation Program
Website: https://www.goldenleaf.org/mitigation/
Funding Purpose: Public infrastructure projects for flood mitigation (causes of Flooding);
Construction of new or improvement of existing publicly owned stormwater
infrastructure, including natural drainage infrastructure and flood control
equipment. Repair of existing stormwater infrastructure damaged or
destroyed by flooding, which must include improvements to mitigate against
future flooding. Engineering expenses related to planning and development of
flood mitigation solutions.
Legal Mechanism: Grant
Maximum Allocation: $250,000 max per project
Funding Frequency: Annual
8.1.2 N.C. Foundation for Soil & Water Conservation
Promotes the protection and improvement of North Carolina soil and water resources for the
enhancement of economic growth and stewardship of the natural environment with emphasis on
improving the environment, educating the citizens, and building conservation capacity
funding programs under N.C. Foundation for Soil and Water Conservation includes but is not limited
to the following programs:

Administering Office: N.C. Foundation for Soil & Water Conservation
Program Title: Active Programs
Title, NOFOs: Agriculture Resilience: Flood Mitigation through Conservation;
Agriculture Resilience: Carbon Farm Planning;
Eastern N.C. Sentinel Landscapes: Managing Your Land and Legacy ;
Innovative Livestock Waste Management
Website: https://ncsoilwater.org/programs/
Funding Purpose: Identifying natural infrastructure practices for watersheds, natural
infrastructure scenarios, and improvement analyses –floodplain expansion,
and stream and wetland restoration; managing storm events through natural
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infrastructure; co-benefits of water quality enhancement to flood reduction
and mitigation, design demonstration for watersheds.
Legal Mechanism: Grant
Maximum Allocation: Project dependent (past projects started at $50,000)
Funding Frequency: Annual
8.1.3 National Fish and Wildlife Foundation
Dedicated to sustaining, restoring, and enhancing the nation’s fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats for
current and future generations through partnerships through U.S. corporations and federal agencies,
nonprofits, and individuals who drive conservation efforts across the United States. The foundation
continuously develops funds and partnerships that have a high potential for Blueprint overlap,
current programs can be found here: https://www.nfwf.org/programs. Funding Programs under the
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation include but are not limited to the following programs:
Administering Office: National Fish and Wildlife Foundation
Program Title: National Coastal Resilience Fund
Title, NOFOs: National Coastal Resilience Fund
Website: https://www.nfwf.org/media-center/videos/partnerships-conservation-video-
series/national-coastal-resilience-fund
Funding Purpose: Projects that plan for, design, build, and monitor the restoration or expansion
of natural features such as coastal marshes and wetlands, dune and beach
systems, oyster and coral reefs, forests, coastal rivers, and barrier islands that
minimize the impacts of storms and other naturally occurring events on
nearby communities.
Legal Mechanism: Grant
Maximum Allocation: $90 million over three years
Funding Frequency: Annual

Administering Office: National Fish and Wildlife Foundation
Program Title: Five Star and Urban Waters Restoration Program
Title, NOFOs: Five Star and Urban Waters Restoration Grant Program
Website: https://www.nfwf.org/programs/five-star-and-urban-waters-restoration-
grant-program
Funding Purpose: Address water quality issues in priority watersheds, such as erosion due to
unstable streambanks, pollution from stormwater runoff, and degraded
shorelines caused by development; On-the-ground wetland, riparian, in-
stream, and/or coastal habitat restoration.
Legal Mechanism: Grant
Maximum Allocation: $81 million program
Funding Frequency: Annual

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8.1.4 Foundation for the Carolinas
Manages competitive grant programs that invest in communities throughout the region. Programs
through Foundation for the Carolinas vary in grant size, the application process, and funding
priorities. The grant programs can be accessed here: https://www.fftc.org/grants. Current grant
programs include but are not limited to the following:
• Cabarrus County Community Foundation
• Charlotte Mecklenburg Community Foundation
• Cherokee County Community Foundation
• Cleveland County Community Foundation
• Foundation for a Healthy Carolina
• Foundation for Black Philanthropy
• Iredell County Community Foundation
• Lancaster County Community Foundation
• Lexington Area Community Foundation
• Lincoln County Community Foundation
• Margaret C. Woodson Foundation
• Community Foundation of Richmond County (quarterly)
• Salisbury-Rowan Community Foundation
• Stanly County Community Foundation
• The Cole Foundation (quarterly)
• The Longleaf Fund
• Union County Community Foundation
• York County Community Foundation
8.1.5 Triangle Community Foundation
The Triangle Community Foundation is made up of over 800 philanthropic funds which are used in a
variety of ways to provide support for nonprofit organizations. Grants from the Foundation are made
in two ways: from our discretionary grant programs and through donor-advised grants. Triangle
Community Foundation has a program potential of $20,469,359. The current list of grant opportunities
can be found here: https://trianglecf.org/nonprofits/grants/. Example Grants available through the
Foundation include but are not limited to the following:
• Our Impact: Environmental Conservation (Land Transaction) with a grant of $20,000
• Our Impact: Environmental Resilience with a grant of $20,000
• Triangle Capacity-Building Network Grant with a grant of $25,000
8.1.6 The Bank of America Charitable Foundation
This foundation issues Requests for Proposals for the revitalization of communities where individuals
can thrive and succeed and can live and work with safe, decent housing, transportation to jobs, strong
business corridors, and thriving arts and culture districts. The funding opportunities available under
the Bank of America Foundation include but are not limited to the following:

Administering Office: Bank of America Charitable Foundation
Program Title: Neighborhood Revitalization
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Title, NOFOs: Economic Mobility focused on needs of the community (Community
Development and Small Business Resiliency)
Website: https://about.bankofamerica.com/en/making-an-impact/charitable-
foundation-funding
Funding Purpose: Revitalization, preservation, and stabilization initiatives; Transit-oriented
development efforts; Resiliency of communities supporting short- and long-
term plans to prepare, withstand and recover from extreme weather events
and the long-term impacts of climate change; Environmental efforts through
the preservation, creation or restoration of open space, parks, and community
gardens; Supporting organizations/initiatives that bring energy efficiency.
Legal Mechanism: Grant
Maximum Allocation: $163,926,706 program
Funding Frequency: Supplemental, 5/29-2023 – 6/23/2023
8.1.7 The Winston-Salem Foundation
This foundation invests in organizations that are strengthening Forsyth County through the
Community Grants program, Focus Area Investments, and other grant programs under the
foundation. The Foundation makes three types of Community Grants to a wide variety of charitable
organizations serving greater Forsyth County, North Carolina, in areas including community
development, the arts, health, education, human services, and beyond.

Administering Office: The Winston-Salem Foundation
Program Title: Nonprofits & Community Groups- Community Grants program
Title, NOFOs: Capital Improvement Grants
Website: https://www.commerce.nc.gov/grants-incentives
Funding Purpose: Time-limited projects to acquire, upgrade, and maintain physical assets such
as property, buildings, technology, or equipment.
Legal Mechanism: Grant
Maximum Allocation: $38,467,988 program; $50,000
Funding Frequency: Annual
8.1.8 The Duke Energy Foundation
Focused on economies; climate resiliency; justice, equity, and inclusion. The foundation provides over
$30 million in charitable grants each year for impact and improvements to communities in North
Carolina. Additionally, the employees and retirees have volunteered more than 70,000 hours with
nonprofit organizations in 2022, contributing $2 million in an estimated value of their volunteer time.

Administering Office: The Duke Energy Foundation
Program Title: Powering North Carolina
Title, NOFOs: Climate Resiliency
Website: https://www.duke-energy.com/community/duke-energy-foundation/north-
carolina
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Funding Purpose: Environmental projects supporting land conservation; Clean water
biodiversity of plant and animal species; Environmental resiliency projects
that prepare communities for and mitigate against the effects of climate
change; Natural disaster preparedness and response.
Legal Mechanism: Grant
Maximum Allocation: $33,625,027 program; $20,000
Funding Frequency: Annual
8.1.9 Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation, Inc.
Provides investments in North Carolina and responds to the state’s changes. Additional information
on the foundation grants can be found here: https://www.zsr.org/grants-programs/grants. The
foundation with a past budget of $18,672,003 funds projects in a yearly grant cycle based on the
following focus areas that overlap with Blueprint:
• Community Economic Development
• Environment
• Public Education
• Social Justice and Equity.
8.1.10 The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina, Inc.

Administering Office: The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina, Inc.
Program Title: Foundation Grants;
Title, NOFOs: Asheville Merchants Fund;
Biltmore Lake Charitable Fund;
Black Mountain-Swannanoa Valley Endowment Fund;
Cashiers Community Fund;
The Fund for Haywood County;
Highlands Community Fund;
The Fund for Mitchell County;
Pigeon River Fund;
Ramble Charitable Fund;
Transylvania Endowment;
The Yancey Fund
Website: https://cfwnc.org/grantseekers/grants-directory
Funding Purpose: Community improvements; Water quality; Resiliency
Legal Mechanism: Grant
Maximum Allocation: $14,270,254; Awards range from $2,500 to $180,000 project/fund dependent.
Funding Frequency: Annual
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8.2 Universities
University funding is generally associated with education and research; however, programs involving
standardization and innovation are part of the Blueprint overlap. The following Universities are
potential funding or partnership sources for Blueprint activities:
8.2.1 N.C. State University and N.C. Sea Grant
8.2.1.1 North Carolina Sea Grant is managed by N.C. State University.
It is intended to provide collaboration and funding for North Carolina to plan, recover, respond, and
adapt to coastal hazards during climate challenges. It contains various research programs, many of
which are special projects initiated by partners, scientists, educators, students, and commercial
businesses to explore the coast and find ways to enhance its natural habitat, protect its resources,
and improve the quality of life. Funding resources of N.C. State include but are not limited to the
following programs:

Administering Office: N.C. State University
Program Title: N.C. Sea Grant
Title, NOFOs: Core Funding, 2024–2026 Biennial Competitive Core Research Funding
Website: https://ncseagrant.ncsu.edu/funding-opps/grants/core-funding/
Funding Purpose: Applied research initiatives: Healthy Coastal Ecosystems, Resilient
Communities and Economies, Sustainable Fisheries and Aquaculture, and
Environmental Literacy and Workforce Development.
Legal Mechanism: Grant
Maximum Allocation: 50% of Research
Funding Frequency: Bi-Annual

Administering Office: N.C. State University
Program Title: N.C. Sea Grant
Title, NOFOs: Mini-Grants
Website: https://ncseagrant.ncsu.edu/funding-opps/grants/minigrants/
Funding Purpose: Test new ideas, augment ongoing research efforts, stimulate innovation, and
respond to short-range, critical needs.
Legal Mechanism: Grant
Maximum Allocation: $10,000
Funding Frequency: Annual

Administering Office: N.C. State University
Program Title: N.C. Sea Grant
Title, NOFOs: Other:
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Community Collaborative Research Grants;
National Sea Grant Marine Debris Challenge Competition;
North Carolina Sea Grant Research Opportunity for Resource Management
Needs;
National Sea Grant Highly Migratory Species Research Initiative — 2019, NOAA-
OAR-SG-2019-2006046;
NOAA/National Sea Grant Aquaculture Initiative;
NOAA/National Sea Grant Aquaculture Research Funding Opportunities;
Mid-Atlantic Sea Grant Regional Research;
North Carolina Sea Grant/Water Resources Research Institute Joint Funding
Translating Coastal Research into Application.
Website: https://ncseagrant.ncsu.edu/funding-opps/grants/other-opps/
Funding Purpose: Work with scientists, educators, students, and commercial businesses to
explore our coast and find ways to enhance its natural habitat, protect its
resources, and improve the quality of life.
Legal Mechanism: Grant
Maximum Allocation: Program-dependent, changes
Funding Frequency: Supplemental
8.2.2 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
8.2.2.1 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s
N.C. Policy Collaboratory has worked on a project “Flood Resiliency Study,” developed as a
comprehensive study on flood resiliency in North Carolina. N.C. General Assembly provided the
Collaboratory with funding of $2 million in September of 2019, which was part of Senate Bill 429: the
“Disaster Recovery Act.” The project involved both University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and N.C.
State University. The final Flood Resiliency Study was submitted to the N.C. General Assembly on June
1, 2021. The report included a comprehensive study of flood resiliency in eastern North Carolina, and a
detailed set of recommendations along with an implementation plan. The areas of study within the
report include floodplain buyouts, financial risk, natural systems, infrastructure, and public health
impacts. Universities provide key partnerships in program development, research, and analysis.
8.2.2.2 North Carolina Economic Development Districts
Potential partnerships or funding sources for Blueprint where available to assist their communities
through the Economic Development Administration (USEDA). The USEDA provides funding as
previously outlined under the Federal Funding Vehicle Section above. The following are the North
Carolina Districts:
• Albemarle Commission
• Centralina Council of Governments
• Eastern Carolina Council
• Isothermal Economic Development Districts
• High Country Council of Governments
• Kerr-Tar Regional Council of Governments
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• Land of Sky Regional Council
• Mid-East Commission
• Piedmont Triad Regional Development Corporation
• Southeastern Economic Development Commission
• Southwestern Commission
• Triangle J Council of Governments Economic Development Districts
• Upper Coastal Plain Council of Governments
• Western Piedmont Council of Governments
Other Potential Partnerships Organizations
Other potential partnership organizations with Blueprint overlap include but are not limited to:
• Conservation Trust for N.C.
• North Carolina Friends of State Parks
• Friends of the Mountains-to-Sea Trail
• Blue Ridge National Heritage Area
• Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation
• Southern Blue Ridge Fire Learning Network
• The Nature Conservancy (TNC)
• WildSouth
• Southern Appalachian Forest Coalition
• Trout Unlimited
• Southern Blue Ridge Fire Learning Network
• Land-of-Sky Regional Council
• Western North Carolina Alliance
Table 8-1 estimates the potential funds available outside of federal, state, and tribal funding vehicles
based on resources outlined in the non-governmental and non-traditional section.

Table 8-1: Non-Traditional & Non-Governmental Vehicles Summary
Total Potential Non-Traditional & Non-Governmental Vehicles Over 60
Total Potential Non-Traditional & Non-Governmental Funding Over $500 million
8.3 Other Finance Mechanism Programs
8.3.1 Loans
Some grant programs offer loans that are outliners to the state and federal loan programs that
overlap with Blueprint, the following are such programs:
8.3.2 North Carolina Revolving Loan Fund Grantees
Potential partnership or funding sources for Blueprint where available to assist their communities due
to being recipients of the Economic Adjustment Assistance grants provided by the USEDA to capitalize
or recapitalize lending programs that service businesses that cannot otherwise obtain traditional
bank financing (and in limited situations to governmental entities for public infrastructure). These
loans provide access to capital as gap financing to enable small businesses to grow and generate new
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employment opportunities with competitive wages and benefits. Financing also helps retain jobs that
might otherwise be lost, create wealth, and support minority and women-owned businesses. The
following are the North Carolina Grantees for the program:
• Kerr-Tar Regional Council of Governments
• Mid-East Commission
• Mountain BizCapital, Inc.
• Piedmont Triad Regional Development Corporation
• Southwestern N.C. Planning & Economic Development Commission
• UDI Community Development Corporation
8.3.3 Loans through green banks
Like conventional banks provide loans that must be repaid, but they often offer long-term, low-
interest loans that aren't available on the private market. Some use other tools to lower risk fo r
private lenders or to finance projects in partnership with utilities. States created or helped to fund
specialized banks that lend money to homeowners and businesses for energy -saving and climate
projects. For example, the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund of $27 billion, is largely to pour money
into green banks and similar financial institutions. More than 20 green banks currently operate
throughout the country. Some are within state agencies, while others work at the city or county level.
Nonprofit green banks sometimes receive state funding and policy backing, while others have no ties
to their state government.

The Coalition for Green Capital estimates that its members have provided about $2 billion to finance
clean energy projects while attracting anot her $7 billion in private capital. North Carolina’s primary
green bank is the North Carolina Clean Energy Fund which is a not -for-profit financial institution that
utilizes its capital to catalyze investments in clean energy, energy efficiency, and green p rojects in the
state. The current mission of the North Carolina Clean Energy Fund is to accelerate investment in
clean and efficient energy solutions and increase climate resilience in North Carolina, particularly to
the benefit of underserved populations. They partner with public and private investors, foundations,
and other non-profit organizations to deploy sustainable financing solutions that will create
environmental, economic, and social benefits. More information on the $100 million green bank can
be found here: https://www.nccleanenergyfund.com/ .
8.4 Additional Financial Mechanisms
8.4.1 Special Assessments
Levies that local county or city governments may periodically charge homeowners under certain
circumstances. The money may be used to pay for repairs, installations, or other community -related
construction or maintenance expenses that cannot be covered by the ex isting operating budget or
cash reserves. In some cases, the amount may need to be paid all at once, or governments may decide
to charge extra dues each month until the assessment is paid in full.

A municipality may impose a special assessment or levies on residents in a certain area (work benefits
people who have purchased homes in specific areas) to fund urgently needed repairs, maintenance or
to upgrade the area with infrastructure – such as installing emergency resilience measures, water and
sewer lines or repairing roads. Special assessments are typically imposed in an emergency when
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something in the community breaks or a large, unexpected expense occurs. Governing documents are
developed for each community, where details on such assessments can be provided to the
community and whether the community is allowed to vote on the assessment, and if there are certain
specific conditions under which an assessment is allowed to be charged.
8.4.2 Transfer of Development Rights (TDR)
TDR programs are a growth management technique and a zoning technique used to ensure that the
municipality's open space planning goals are met without causing a financial burden on landowners
or the greater community to permanently protect land with conservation value (such as farmland,
community open space, or other natural or cultural resources) by redirecting development that would
otherwise occur on this land (the sending area) to an area planned to accommodate growth and
development (the receiving area). The program seeks to preserve a landowner's asset value by
moving the right to build a house from a location where development is prohibited (e.g., for
environmental reasons) to a location where development is encouraged.

TDR programs financially compensate landowners for choosing not to develop some or all of their
land. TDR conserves land by tapping into the vast amounts of private capital flowing into
development projects. TDR is a flexible tool—it can be made to fit many different land—preservation
and growth-management scenarios. These landowners are given an option under municipal zoning to
legally sever the development rights from their land and sell these rights to another landowner or a
real estate developer for use at a different location. The land from which the development rights have
been severed is permanently protected through a conservation easement or a restrictive covenant.
The development value of the land where the transferred development rights are applied is enhanced
by allowing for new or special uses; greater density or intensity; or other regulatory flexibility that
zoning without the TDR option would not have permitted. The technique operates so that owners in
the sending area can be compensated for their redirected development rights.
TDR Basic Implementation Steps: If possible, use a professional planning consultant who has TDR
program design experience.
• Establish the TDR option and administrative provisions within the municipal zoning ordinance
(TDR use must be voluntary).
• Establish the sending area: an area of high conservation value such as farmland or community
open space. The sending area is usually a defined geographic area but can also be based on
specific locational criteria.
• Determine TDRs allocation numbers: Each landowner within the sending area is based on a simple
mathematical formula such as one TDR for every five acres. Most municipalities also establish a
threshold for minimum parcel size eligible for the TDR program.
• Establish the procedure for severing TDRs: Usually, this procedure is written as part of the zoning
ordinance provisions and requires a deed of transferable development rights. The ordinance can
include a sample deed document approved to form by the municipality’s solicitor .
• Establish the procedure for permanent protection of the land: Normally this procedure requires
the use of a restrictive covenant, or preferably a conservation easement held by a third party.
There is funding for conservation easement both federally and in N.C. Funding vehicles above.
• Establish the receiving area: This should be an area (or areas) planned to accommodate growth,
preferably where public utilities like water and sewer exist or are planned. Ideally, both sending
and receiving areas will have been previously determined during a comprehensive plan update
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process by the municipality or region considering the use of TDR. Potential receiving areas can be
residential, commercial, industrial, or institutional in character, or any combination thereof.
• Establish the plan-submittal requirements: for developments in the TDR receiving area.
8.4.3 Taxes and Fees
Taxes and fees are another way for local communities to gather funds. Taxes are imposed for revenue
purposes, while fees cover the cost of providing a service. Taxes, fees, and penalties are all imposed by
the government, all raise revenue, and all impose economic costs.
8.4.4 Funding through the Capital Markets
Capital markets allow Water and Sewer Authorities like D.C. Water to raise long-term funds by
providing a market for securities, both through debt and equity. Capital markets offer a full range of
products that allow businesses and banks not just to raise capital but also to hedge (or protect)
against risks. Those who seek capital in this market are businesses, governments, and individuals.
Capital markets are composed of primary and secondary markets. The most common capital markets
are the stock market and the bond market. They seek to improve transactional efficiencies by bringing
suppliers together with those seeking capital and providing a place where they can exchange
securities. Capital markets are composed of the suppliers and users of funds. Suppliers include
households (through the savings accounts they hold with banks) as well as institutions like pension
and retirement funds, life insurance companies, charitable foundations, and non-financial companies
that generate excess cash. The users of the funds distributed on capital markets include home and
motor vehicle purchasers, non-financial companies, and governments financing infrastructure
investment and operating expenses.
8.4.5 Bonds
Bonds are a type of loan. The “borrower” borrows money from the “bondholder” and must repay the
loan sum and interest on an agreed-upon schedule. Bonds are used by companies, municipalities,
states, and sovereign governments to finance projects and operations.
8.4.6 Resilience Bonds
Resilience bonds are a sub-set of green bonds seek to raise capital specifically for climate-resilient
investment. Incentives to invest in resilience to reduce the human and financial cost of catastrophes
when they strike. Resilience bonds are designed to fund risk reduction projects via a resilience rebate
that turns avoided losses into a revenue stream. These investments improve the ability of assets and
systems to persist, adapt, and/or transform in a timely, efficient, and fair manner that reduces climate
risk, avoids maladaptation, and unlocks broader development benefits. To date, the bonds have been
mostly focused on mitigation rather than adaptation-related investments, partly due to a lack of
common definitions and taxonomies for adaptation.
8.4.7 Environmental Impact Bonds (EIB)
EIBs are a type of municipal bond label that signals to investors that the issuer has market leading ESG
transparency and accountability in their bond. The EIB commits to the prediction, evaluation, and
disclosure of environmental outcomes of funded projects. Benefits to issuers, citizens, and ratepayers
from EIBs include:
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• Expansion of a bond’s potential investor base to include leading ESG funds and ESG-influenced
accounts
• Demonstration of commitment to innovation and transparency to peers and the community
• Funding of nature-based solutions, which drive additional environmental, health, and workforce
development benefits
Benefits to investors and asset managers from EIBs include:
• Streamline impact reporting
• Provide clear and consistent standards for outcome measurement and reporting
• Commit to post-issuance impact reporting, not just pre-issuance proceeds reporting
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9 Technical Assistance
North Carolina currently has access to several national technical resources from programs and tools
that can be used by communities to leverage resources for supporting flood resilience development
across North Carolina.

A few available key technical resources available to North Carolina communities are highlighted
below:
9.1 Wild Law Institute
Wild Law Institute is dedicated to pioneering laws and practices that ensure that people take
responsibility for enhancing the health and vitality of Earth. The resource is located here:
https://www.lawhelpnc.org/organization/wildlaw?ref=xsHH6.
9.2 Southeastern Trade Adjustment Assistance Center (SETAAC)
The SETAAC helps import-impacted U.S. manufacturers develop and implement projects through
federal matching funds, provided by the Trade Adjustment Assistance for Firms Program, to regain
global competitiveness, strengthen operations, and increase profitability. SETAAC collaborates with
firms headquartered in the Southeast region (including Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky,
Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee).

SETAAC, operated by the Georgia Tech Enterprise Innovation Institute, assists potential clients in
determining if they are eligible for the federal matching funds sponsored by the USEDA. This cost-
sharing federal assistance program provides up to $75,000 in matching funds for third -party
consultants to help guide a client’s economic recovery. Eligible manufacturing firms contribute a
matching share to create and implement their respective recovery plan. The resource is located here:
https://setaac.org/about-setaac/.
9.3 Local Emergency Planning Committees (LEPC)
While each facility is primarily responsible for accident prevention, local government agencies,
emergency responders, LEPCs also play important roles in keeping communities healthy and safe.
Local emergency responders work together to prepare communities for potential hazmat accidents
by:
• Coordinating emergency response activities of regulated facilities with the community's plan
• Sharing chemical risk information with the public
• Updating community emergency preparedness activities
To keep residents - and those who protect them - safe, the state allows qualified representatives from
emergency response agencies to have quick access to chemical inventory information for their
respective jurisdictions through E-Plan. Contacts for LEPCs can be found here:
https://www.ncdps.gov/our-organization/emergency-management/hazardous-materials/local-
emergency-planning-committees.
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9.4 The National Park Service Rivers, Trails, and Conservation
Assistance Program
The National Park Service Rivers, Trails, and Conservation Assistance program provides free help
through the National Park Service Staff to communities with on-location project planning and
technical assistance expertise to small municipalities, community outreach, and fundraising support
that can be used to support community-led natural resource conservation and outdoor recreation
projects, including nature-based flood control measures, such as riverbank restoration. Technical
assistance is available with design and planning. Applications are due March of each year for the
program through the nps.gov site and the Southeastern Region Program contact is
[e-mail].
9.5 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) Coastal Program
The USFWS Coastal Program assists small municipalities concerned with habitat conservation
benefits as related to flood mitigation. The Coastal Program provides technical and financial
assistance through cooperative agreements with coastal communities, conservation partners, and
landowners to restore and protect fish and wildlife habitats on public and private lands. Technical and
financial assistance is provided for habitat conservation planning; design and project implementation
activities to deliver habitat conservation in coastal watersheds on both public and private lands
technical and financial assistance for third-party land acquisitions to protect habitats. Technical
assistance is available with design, planning, and implementation.

The program is technical assistance designed to support the Department of the Interior’s financial
assistance priorities for some Coastal Program projects. Eastern North Carolina Ecological Services
are available here https://www.fws.gov/office/eastern-north-carolina. Applications and requests for
technical assistance are generally due in September of each year.
9.6 Environmental Justice Grants
Funding, technical assistance, training, and related support to communities with environmental
justice concerns and their partners. The services provided will include training and assistance on
writing grant proposals, navigating federal systems such as Grants.gov and SAM.gov, effectively
managing grant funds, community engagement, meeting facilitation, and translation and
interpretation services for limited English-speaking participants. Additional information is located
here: https://www.epa.gov/environmentaljustice/environmental-justice-thriving-communities-
technical-assistance-centers.
9.7 USDA, Watershed and Flood Prevention Program
The USDA Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Program helps small municipalities and
communities receive technical assistance for watershed protection, flood prevention, and water
management efforts that protect and restore watersheds of up to 250,000 acres through federal-state-
local cooperative efforts to mitigate erosion, floodwater, and sediment damage, as well as to further
watershed conservation. When a watershed plan calls for flood damage protection, USDA pay s all
engineering and construction costs for the community.

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Technical assistance is available for erosion and sediment control; watershed protection; flood
prevention; water quality improvements; water management; fish and wildlife habitat enhancement;
hydropower sources efforts related to rural, municipal, and industrial water supplies. Technical
assistance is available with design, planning, and implementation.

Contact information for the program is selected from https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/programs-
initiatives/watershed-and-flood-prevention-operations-wfpo-program based on the North Carolina
County. Once you have the contact information selected it can be dropped into the USDA-prepared
letter developed to request NRCS Watershed Program planning assistance located in word format at
the bottom of the same page link.
9.8 USDA, Rural Development Water and Environ mental Programs
Small municipalities and rural communities with populations of 10,000 or fewer can leverage the
USDA Water and Environmental Programs, the federal government’s only set of 10+ programs
exclusively focused on the water and waste infrastructure needs. These programs provide planning,
technical assistance, and project implementation to support water and waste disposal projects and
can be used to address flooding concerns through storm drainage or other similar projects. Special
consideration may be given to activities serving an area with fewer than 5,500 or fewer than 2,500
people or lower-income populations. Technical Assistance is available with data, scoping, design,
planning, and implementation. This assistance requires applying through US DA-RD’s application
portal located here Water & Environmental Programs | Rural Development (usda.gov).
9.9 National Community Rating SYSTEM Explorer
The voluntary National Flood Insurance Program’s Community Rating System (CRS) is administered
by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). It encourages communities to earn a discount
on NFIP rates for actions that contribute to flood risk reduction. Technical assistance is available with
data and planning. The CRS program maintains the CRS Explorer, a coastal resilience decision support
tool, that can be used to prioritize nature-based solutions like open space preservation to reduce a
community’s flood risk. The CRS Explorer is a web-based mapping application that uses the most
current local and regional data sets to identify open space areas that are eligible for credit in FEMA’s
CRS Program. CRS Explorer provides three primary functions:
• Determines areas that currently qualify for Open Space Preservation (OSP) credit and calculates
the points they provide
• Provides exportable maps and information to support the CRS application process
• Assists with identifying future open space in the floodplain
The CRS Explorer tool is aligned with The Nature Conservatory’s (TNC) mission to promote nature -
based solutions and the NFIP’s reduction of flood risk. The FEMA CRS program mapping team, the
regional Insurance Services Office, community planners, FEMA, NOAA, Sea Grant, NOAA’s National
Centers for Coastal Ocean Science, N.C. State University-Center for Marine Sciences and Technology,
and others will be using the CRS Explorer on a regular basis for data and coordination efforts in
communities across the country. North Carolina access to the home page is located at Community
Rating System Explorer | Community Rating System Explorer (tnc.org).

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A few key North Carolina State technical resources available to North Carolina communities are
highlighted below:
9.10 NC Regional Councils of Government
Federal funding is a complex and expensive process for most North Carolina communities and has
become a barrier. In November of 2021, $6 million in technical assistance funding went to the North
Carolina Regional Councils of Government to help communities of all sizes compete for and access the
funds they needed. There are 16 regional councils covering North Carolina with an Inter-Regional
Cooperative Agreement established. Technical assistance is available with data, scoping, design,
planning, and implementation.

The agreement also endorses regional councils, and their affiliated or subsidiary organizations, to
carry out activities in regions outside of their boundaries with consent when those services are to the
benefit of the region and the state, and they provide traditional services of community and economic
development, grant writing and management, planning and Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
mapping services, state and federal program management, and workforce development.

The agreement opens the potential funding opportunities for municipalities in watersheds where
upstream projects can affect downstream resilience and obtaining consent from a downstream
community can widen the funding opportunities for the upstream community. N.C. Regional Council
of Governments regional representatives can be determined through the N.C. map located here
https://www.ncarcog.com/regional-councils/ and can be contacted through
https://www.ncarcog.com/contact/ once the region has been identified.
9.11 ReBUILD N.C., Regions Innovating for Strong Economies and
Environment (RISE) Program
RISE is a partnership between NCORR and N.C. Rural Center which aims to support regional resilience
in North Carolina by
• Providing coaching and technical assistance to regional partners to support community
vulnerability assessments, identify priority actions to reduce risk and e nhance resilience in their
region, and develop paths to implementation
• Developing the North Carolina Resilient Communities Guide, as a statewide resource that provides
tools, guidance, and opportunities for building community resiliency
• Hosting regional leadership training workshops that emphasize resilience as a tool for community
economic development
The program link is located here: https://www.rebuild.nc.gov/resiliency/resilient-communities/rise.
The State of North Carolina provides a flood mapping website that contains database -driven digitally
accessible flood hazard data, models, maps, risk assessments, and reports that contain or provid e
geospatial base map data, imagery, Light Detection and Ranging data, along with hydraulic and
hydrologic models that are available for download and use. The North Carolina Floodplain Mapping
Program is available at flood.nc.gov. Technical assistance is available with data.
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9.12 N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission (NCWRC), Partners for
Green Growth, Green Growth Toolbox
NCWRC staff and partners offer follow-up technical assistance to communities who have participated
in Green Growth workshops. Potential technical assistance includes:
• Integrating the Conservation Data for Green Growth with your County or City online GIS map
• Writing a local habitat conservation plan
• Review and recommendations for:
o Land use plans
o Incentives and ordinances
o Developments and review standards
o Habitat management plans for parks and open spaces
o Attending board and committee meetings to provide information
To request technical assistance, contact [e-mail] or go to their website at
https://www.ncwildlife.org/Conserving/Programs/Green-Growth-Toolbox/Technical-Assistance
9.13 USACE, Floodplain Management Services (FPMS) Interagency
Nonstructural Flood Risk Management Projects Program
Interagency Nonstructural Flood Risk Management through the USACE FPMS Program promotes
participation by USACE staff in small efforts undertaken in collaboration with other partners, both
public and private, to achieve flood risk management benefits. USACE involvement may include
providing technical engineering or planning services to local, county, state, tribal, or other partners
where projects must leverage resources invested by multiple partners (monetary or in-kind) and
should seek to reduce flood risk through nonstructural means, with a focus on reducing human
exposure or vulnerability to a flood hazard. Some ex amples of USACE technical approaches are
floodplain mapping, evacuation planning, relocation, buyout/acquisition strategies, floodproofing or
elevation of buildings, risk communication, public engagement, and local land management
activities.

Technical assistance is available with data, scoping, design, and planning. Projects using this
technical assistance are called for by FY proposals due in March of each year to the USACE Division
Office which can be determined by using the
https://usace.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=7344e62432694199af7790aa47a3
2fdd. The districts for North Carolina are Nashville, Wilmington, and Norfolk dependent on the
applicant's location per the boundary map.
9.14 NCDPS, NCEM Community Technical Assistance Program (CTP)
- Letter of Map Change (LOMC)
The CTP Program is a cooperative agreement (not a grant) that exists to strengthen and enhance the
effectiveness of the NFIP. The CTP program supports the establishment or update of flood -risk zone
data in areas being updated via Risk MAP projects and makes estimates with respect to rates of
probable flood-caused loss for the various flood-risk zones for these projects. The CTP / LOMC award
is designated for allowable activity category 3 - "Letter of Map Revision (LOMR) / LOMC Review
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Activities". This allows recipients of this award to partner with FEMA to review and assist in processing
LOMRs / LOMCs and Conditional Letters of Map Revision / Change. Additional Information can be
found here: https://www.fema.gov/flood-maps/cooperating-technical-partners.
9.15 NC Restoration Explorer
NC Restoration Explorer is a coastal resilience mapping tool by Nature Conservancy (TNC) allowing
decision-support to communities for access to the best available science and local data on coastal
hazards to visualize their risks and examine where nature can increase resilience and reduce risk
through conservation and restoration activities. North Carolina access to the home page is located at
https://maps.coastalresilience.org/northcarolina/. Technical assistance is available with data and
planning. Currently, the tool’s primary information for North Carolina is based on:
• Provides a visual analysis and map for coastal restoration planning information on coastal
management, flood risk, habitat, social and economic information, and restoration
• Flood and Sea Level Rise, this portion of the tool is limited to the coastal regions of North Carolina
and provides mapping outlines for:
o Shallow Coastal Flooding with reference to the FEMA Zones
o Sea Level Rise referencing the potential sea level rise for future climate years
o Hurricane Storm Surge references surge severity, previous surge, tracks, and swaths of
hurricanes-like Matthew
o Coastal Flooding (NCEM) referencing Flood Extents from Mean Higher High Water, 10yr, 100yr,
and Fran
• Living Shoreline Explorer, this portion of the tool is limited to Onslow and Carteret Counties with a
breakdown of information for living shoreline suitability types and Factors with additional layers
showing existing projects, natural marsh, channels, and wave energy information
A few key non-governmental technical resources available to North Carolina communities are
highlighted below:
9.16 The Nature Conservancy (TNC) N.C. Resiliency and Connection
Network Map
The TNC developed and maintains the Resiliency and Connection Network Map through ArcGIS which
was developed to comprehensively map resilient lands and significant climate corridors across
Eastern North America. The map was released in October 2016, for mapping climate -driven
movements of species. The map incorporated areas that are TNC N.C. chapter conservation priorities
and N.C. Natural Heritage Areas as well as critical habitats for threatened and endangered Species.
Technical assistance is available with data and planning. The map can be adapted for state resiliency
projects for tracking and priority projects, such as the current use for the N.C. solar footprints (as of
August 2019). The link is located at ArcGIS - North Carolina Solar Siting for Climate Resilience. HUC 8
MAP is a GIS map of all HUC 8 basins in the U.S. located at this link:
https://nrcs.maps.arcgis.com/apps/instant/basic/index.html?appid=c5841399969a4f649fd0f806e5bc4
748
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10 Creative Strategies
Based on information from the existing plans and previous events along the East Coast, an outline of
administrative and technical capacities at all levels of government that provide resources to
implement resilience measures effectively and outline financial and non-financial resources that are
critical for North Carolina. Existing resilience plans were analyzed for those similarities or plan
strengths for use in the N.C. prioritization of solutions through measures such as leadership and
legislation, statewide planning, smart standards, funding, and financing. Strategies vary by location of
communities across the state, the following strategies and case studies of strategies can be used by
communities to scale and leverage resources based on their capacity and needs across the state.
10.1 Basic Strategies could include the following measures for a
single fund source each (at minimum):
• Land use planning and flood risk education steering development and infrastructure investments
away from flood-prone areas to protect both residents and their properties;
• Providing information on community-based flood conditions, forecasts, visualizations, inundation
maps, flood-related information, visualization, and applications
• Reduction of risk based on the reduction or removal of waterway hazards to its residents using
natural infrastructure, living shorelines, and or protected wetlands and floodplains
• Development of the protection, resilience, and mitigation plans in addition to watershed
assessments to provide a process to inform conservation and management actions within the state
• Tool development outlining Master Plans and Capital Improvement Plans for all North Carolina
Watersheds
• Resilient Islands along the North Carolina Outer Banks with parallels to seek out funding to overlap
water quality, ecological integrity, and flood resilience
10.1.1 Case Study for the Strategy of leveraging resources across multiple
vehicles with multiple benefits:
In 2011, Grandfather Mountain needed improvements and environmental resiliency measures, the
following is an outline of using multiple funding vehicles and developing partnerships to develop and
fund a project:

Project: The Grandfather Restoration Project-Collaborative Forest Landscape
Restoration Resilience
Time Frame: Ten years
Funding included: Forest Service $3,649,824
Partnership Match $76,000
In-kind Match $570,000

Partners included: Pisgah National Forest - Grandfather Ranger District
Southern Blue Ridge Fire Learning Network
NCWRC
TNC
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WildLaw
Wild South
The Southern Appalachian Forest Coalition
Trout Unlimited
The Southern Forest Network
Land-of-Sky Regional Council
Western North Carolina Alliance
USFS

Resilience Benefits: Reduce wildfire risk (costs and severity);
Control non-native invasive plants at Linville Gorge;
Restore riparian vegetation at Wilson Creek Wild Scenic River;
Improved wildlife habitat;
Maintenance of Eastern and Carolina hemlock genetically and ecologically ;
Increase recreational opportunities;
Created 12.6 full-time equivalent jobs

Additional information on the project can be found here:
https://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/nfsnc/home/?cid=stelprdb5356937
10.1.2 Case Study for Strategy for Leveraging Existing Funding Resources
where previously unauthorized:
In 2021, Tabor City was given permission under the General Assembly of North Carolina to participate
in the railroad revitalization programs section 8. (a) to participate in State and federal railroad
revitalization programs necessary to insure continued or improved rail service to the city as are
authorized in Article 2D of Chapter 136 of the General Statutes. Tabor City was authorized to enter into
contracts with the North Carolina Department of Transportation to provide nonfederal matching
funds for railroad revitalization programs. Such funds would be comprised of State funds distributed
under the provisions of G.S. 136-44.38 and city funds. Tabor City was also authorized to levy local
property tax for railroad revitalization programs subject to G.S. 160A-209(d). Information found here:
https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2021/Bills/House/PDF/H911v0.pdf.

Mining and railway are two major areas where flooding effects are harder to find funding for or obtain
corporation from those in holding and this is a strategy for North Carolina communities to consider
the use for previously unauthorized funding and requests of modifications to funding, especially in the
coal mine areas of the state and the funding available to Appalachian Communities where North
Carolina is still an outlier.
10.1.3 Strategy of Hazard Mitigation Assistance Grant Programs Lifecycle
Management
Strategies can be scaled to meet the needs of less resourced communities that need assistance with
the capacity to understand and navigate the comprehensive nature of FEMA funding programs so that
they would benefit from the various programs as Charlotte-Mecklenburg Storm Water Services
Department has because of the capacity of the community. For over twenty -five years, Charlotte-
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Mecklenburg Storm Water Services has been a national leader in identifying, funding, and
implementing flood hazard mitigation projects by utilizing FEMA funding sources such as
• Building resilient infrastructure and communities
• Hazard Mitigation Grant Program
• Flood Mitigation Assistance Program on behalf of FEMA.
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Storm Water Services continues to advance its flood mitigation program
through innovative programs such as its Risk Assessment and Risk Reduction Program. In addition,
the department’s stormwater utility fees are used to support its flood mitigation efforts. The ability to
reflect this in a scale way to meet the needs of smaller communities that do not have that capacity is
necessary for using the tools available through FEMA and other sources. More information about their
award-winning program can be found here: https://charlottenc.gov/StormWater/Pages/default.aspx.
More information about FEMA Hazard Mitigation Assistance Grants can be found by contacting North
Carolina Emergency Management Hazard Mitigation Section here: https://www.ncdps.gov/our-
organization/emergency-management/hazard-mitigation
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Table 2. Flood Risk Resiliency Funding Source Inventory
FUNDING
VEHICLES
AGENCY ADMINISTRATIVE
OFFICES
PROGRAM
TITLE
TITLE, NOFOS WEBSITE FUNDING PURPOSE LEGAL
MECHANISM
MAXIMUM
ALLOCATION
FUNDING
FREQUENCY
Federal Appalac
hian
Regional
Commis
sion
(ARC)
Appalachian
Regional
Commission
(ARC)
Area
Developme
nt Program
Non-
Construction
Grants/Constru
ction Grants
https://www.arc.gov
/area-development-
program/
Support of Critical
Infrastructure, Natural and
Cultural Assets, and Community
Development
Grant Varies by
Project and
County
Distressed
Counties 80%
At-Risk
Counties 70%
Transitional
Counties 50%
Competitive
Counties 30%
Annually
Federal Appalac
hian
Regional
Commis
sion
(ARC)
Appalachian
Regional
Commission
(ARC)
Appalachia
n Regional
Initiative
for
Stronger
Economies
(ARISE)
ARISE 2023
Grants
https://www.arc.gov
/arise/
Large-scale, regional economic
transformation through multi-
state collaborative projects.
Grant, Multi-
State
Funding,
Collaboration
$73.5 Million;
Varies by
Project and
County
Distressed
Counties 80%
At-Risk
Counties 70%
Transitional
Counties 50%
Competitive
Counties 30%
Quarterly
Federal Appalac
hian
Regional
Commis
sion
(ARC)
Appalachian
Regional
Commission
(ARC)
Partnershi
ps for
Opportunit
y and
Workforce
and
Economic
Revitalizati
on
Initiative
(POWER)
POWER Grants https://www.arc.gov
/power/
Help communities and regions
that have been affected by job
losses in coal mining, coal power
plant operations, and coal-
related supply chain industries
due to the changing economics
of America’s energy production;
workforce revitalization.
Grant Varies by
Project and
County
Annually
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VEHICLES
AGENCY ADMINISTRATIVE
OFFICES
PROGRAM
TITLE
TITLE, NOFOS WEBSITE FUNDING PURPOSE LEGAL
MECHANISM
MAXIMUM
ALLOCATION
FUNDING
FREQUENCY
Federal Appalac
hian
Regional
Commis
sion
(ARC)
Appalachian
Regional
Commission, U.S.
Department of
Housing and
Urban
Development
(HUD), the
Department of
the Treasury's
Community
Development
Financial
Institutions Fund
(CDFI Fund), and
the Department
of Agriculture -
Rural
Development
(USDA-RD).
Appalachia
Economic
Developme
nt Initiative
APPALACHIA
ECONOMIC
DEVELOPMENT
INITIATIVE
(AEDI)
https://www.hud.go
v/program_offices/a
dministration/grants
/fundsavail/nofa14/a
edi
Support of development to
benefit the residents of the
Appalachia Region.
Grant $73.5 million
program;
$1,000,000
Annually
Federal U.S.
Departm
ent of
the
Interior
(DOI)
Branch of Tribal
Climate
Resilience (TCR),
DOI
Category 1:
Trainings
and
Workshops
FY 2022
Awarded 10
Total; Amount
Funded:
$1,327,057
https://www.bia.gov
/service/tcr-annual-
awards-program
Support the design and hosting
of regional or national tribal
climate training(s) or
workshop(s) that will assist tribal
leaders, program coordinators,
planners, and managers in
developing the skills necessary
to address climate change
impacts by developing tribal
adaptation plans, or
management options, through
in-person and webinar trainings
and workshops.
Grant $150,000/awa
rd
Annually
Federal U.S.
Departm
ent of
the
Interior
(DOI)
Branch of Tribal
Climate
Resilience (TCR),
DOI
Category 2:
Adaptation
Planning
FY 2022
Awarded 27
Total; Amount
Funded:
$6,117,588
https://www.bia.gov
/service/tcr-annual-
awards-program
Development of adaptation
plans, vulnerability assessments,
and development of data
analysis efforts (including
supplementary monitoring) to
address climate changes that
impact tribal treaty and trust
resources, economies,
infrastructure, and human
health and welfare.
Grant $250,000/awa
rd
Annually
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VEHICLES
AGENCY ADMINISTRATIVE
OFFICES
PROGRAM
TITLE
TITLE, NOFOS WEBSITE FUNDING PURPOSE LEGAL
MECHANISM
MAXIMUM
ALLOCATION
FUNDING
FREQUENCY
Federal U.S.
Departm
ent of
the
Interior
(DOI)
Branch of Tribal
Climate
Resilience (TCR),
DOI
Category 3:
Travel
Support for
Climate
Adaptation
Planning
FY 2022
Awarded 12
Total; Amount
Funded:
$163,342
https://www.bia.gov
/service/tcr-annual-
awards-program
Provide access to training and
technical workshops that help
maintain or build adaptation
knowledge and skills for climate
resilience. Awards support for
tribal leaders and staff to attend
training(s) or workshop(s) or to
participate in cooperative
resilience and adaptation efforts.
Grant $15,000/awar
d
Annually
Federal U.S.
Departm
ent of
the
Interior
(DOI)
Branch of Tribal
Climate
Resilience (TCR),
DOI
Category 4:
Ocean and
Coastal
Manageme
nt
FY 2022
Awarded 11
Total; Amount
Funded:
$1,730,839
https://www.bia.gov
/service/tcr-annual-
awards-program
Ocean and coastal management
planning, marine spatial
planning, coastal
adaptation/resilience analysis,
and cooperative marine resource
plans. Funding builds tribal
capacity and can be used to
assist with a tribe’s efforts to
restore and provide resilience of
coastal resources, perform
inventories or vulnerability
assessments, identify monitoring
protocols and critical indicator
species, or implement a unique
pilot study or project that would
advance tribal resilience,
adaptation, or ocean and coastal
management knowledge.
Grant $250,000/awa
rd
Annually
Federal U.S.
Departm
ent of
the
Interior
(DOI)
Branch of Tribal
Climate
Resilience (TCR),
DOI
Category 5:
Travel
Support for
Ocean and
Coastal
Manageme
nt
FY 2022
Awarded 4
Total; Amount
Funded:
$57,336
https://www.bia.gov
/service/tcr-annual-
awards-program
Travel for tribal leadership or
staff participation in,
coordination, or training for
interagency ocean and coastal
spatial planning, including the
Great Lakes. They provide
support for tribal representatives
to attend organizational
meetings, working sessions, or
official meetings of: Regional
Ocean Partnerships (ROP),
technical workshops or
trainings, or targeted pilot
studies or projects
Grant $15,000/awar
d
Annually
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VEHICLES
AGENCY ADMINISTRATIVE
OFFICES
PROGRAM
TITLE
TITLE, NOFOS WEBSITE FUNDING PURPOSE LEGAL
MECHANISM
MAXIMUM
ALLOCATION
FUNDING
FREQUENCY
Federal U.S.
Departm
ent of
the
Interior
(DOI)
Branch of Tribal
Climate
Resilience (TCR),
DOI
Category 6:
Capacity
Building
FY 2022
Awarded 4
Total; Amount
Funded:
$257,842
https://www.bia.gov
/service/tcr-annual-
awards-program
Limited technical and staffing
capacity to carry out risk scoping
activities that can lead to more
detailed future adaptation
planning proposals. The effort
highlights risks and options that
may support ways to begin to
plan and build greater capacity
for resilience, particularly by
identifying tribal vulnerabilities
and adaptation planning needs.
Tribes in this category have not
previously received larger
awards in award years 2014
through 2020.
Grant $65,000/
award
Annually
Federal U.S.
Departm
ent of
the
Interior
(DOI)
Branch of Tribal
Climate
Resilience (TCR),
DOI
Category 7:
Relocation,
Managed
Retreat
and
Protect-in-
Place
Planning
FY 2022
Awarded 12
Total; Amount
Funded:
$3,041,368
https://www.bia.gov
/service/tcr-annual-
awards-program
Relocation, Managed Retreat
and Protect-in-Place Planning
support to tribes facing
questions and decisions
regarding managed retreat,
expansion, protect-in-place, and
relocation options due to
climate threats from intensifying
coastal or riverine erosion,
flooding and permafrost
degradation impacts, sea level
rise, and similar impacts.
Grant $300,000/Awa
rd
Annually
Federal U.S.
Departm
ent of
the
Interior
(DOI)
Branch of Tribal
Climate
Resilience (TCR),
DOI
Category 8:
Internships
FY 2022
Awarded 5
Total; Amount
Funded:
$249,686
https://www.bia.gov
/service/tcr-annual-
awards-program
Support college students, or
recent graduates (within one
year of at the start of the
internship), employment
opportunities working within
tribal programs or tribal
organizations. Internships
support integration of tribal
climate adaptation planning or
ocean and coastal management
into programs for the benefit of
Tribes.
Grant $50,000/awar
d
Annually
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VEHICLES
AGENCY ADMINISTRATIVE
OFFICES
PROGRAM
TITLE
TITLE, NOFOS WEBSITE FUNDING PURPOSE LEGAL
MECHANISM
MAXIMUM
ALLOCATION
FUNDING
FREQUENCY
Federal U.S.
Departm
ent of
the
Interior
(DOI)
Branch of Tribal
Climate
Resilience (TCR),
DOI
Category 9:
Youth
Engageme
nt
FY 2022
Awarded 6
Total; Amount
Funded:
$225,975
https://www.bia.gov
/service/tcr-annual-
awards-program
Support the integration of
climate resilience or ocean and
coastal management challenges
into new or existing youth
programs for engagement in
science, technology, and
engineering or in traditional
ecological knowledge education
as they relate to and address
climate resilience or ocean and
coastal management challenges.
Grant $50,000/awar
d
Annually
Federal U.S.
Departm
ent of
the
Interior
(DOI)
Branch of Tribal
Climate
Resilience (TCR),
DOI
Category
10:
Implement
ation of
Climate
Adaptation
Strategies
FY 2022
Awarded 17
Total; Amount
Funded:
$18,147,653
https://www.bia.gov
/service/tcr-annual-
awards-program
Implementation of Climate
Adaptation Strategies
Grant $2,000,000/a
ward
Annually
Federal U.S.
Departm
ent of
the
Interior
(DOI)
Branch of Tribal
Climate
Resilience (TCR),
DOI
Category
11:
Implement
ation for
Relocation,
Managed
Retreat,
and
Protect-in-
Place
Actions
FY 2022
Awarded 6
Total; Amount
Funded:
$12,706,418
https://www.bia.gov
/service/tcr-annual-
awards-program
Support the Implementation of
Community Relocation,
Managed Retreat, or Protect-in-
Place Actions)
Grant $3,000,000/a
ward
Annually
Federal U.S.
Departm
ent of
the
Interior
(DOI)
Branch of Tribal
Climate
Resilience (TCR),
DOI
Category
12:
Relocation,
Managed
Retreat,
and
Protect-in-
Place
Planning
Coordinato
r
FY 2022
Awarded 10
Total; Amount
Funded:
$1,357,744
https://www.bia.gov
/service/tcr-annual-
awards-program
Support the Relocation,
Managed Retreat, or Protect-
inPlace (RMP) Coordinator
(maximum request:)
Grant Award
$150,000/
year for up to
three years
Annually
Federal U.S.
Departm
ent of
Bureau of Indian
Affairs, DOI
Bureau of
Indian
Affairs
Construction
Facilities
Improvement
https://www.bia.gov
/as-ia/ofpsm/dfmc
For construction activities across
Indian Affairs
Grant $153 million
Program;
Annually
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VEHICLES
AGENCY ADMINISTRATIVE
OFFICES
PROGRAM
TITLE
TITLE, NOFOS WEBSITE FUNDING PURPOSE LEGAL
MECHANISM
MAXIMUM
ALLOCATION
FUNDING
FREQUENCY
the
Interior
(DOI)
Constructi
on
and Repair
(FI&R) Funding
Varies by
Project
Federal U.S.
Departm
ent of
Commer
ce (DOC)
Economic
Development
Administration
(EDA), USDOC
American
Rescue
Plan Act &
Cares Act
Programs
Public Works
Program:
$121 Million
Build Back
Better Regional
Challenge:
21 Awards at
$25 to $65
Million
60 phase 1
finalists
Awards
Totaling $1
Billion
Good Jobs
Challenge:
32 Training
Partnerships
Totaling $500
Million
Economic
Adjustment
Assistance
Program:
256 Projects
Totaling $500
Million
Indigenous
Communities
Program:
51 Grantees
totaling $100
Million
Additional 76
Grants Totaling
$338 Million
Program Total
of $448 Million
Statewide
Planning,
https://www.eda.go
v/funding/programs
/american-rescue-
plan
Economic development,
supports development in
economically distressed areas,
empower communities to
develop and implement their
own economic development and
revitalization strategies.
Construction
Grants, Non-
Construction
Grants,
Revolving
Loans
Varying;
supplemental
funding by
Grant/Act
Type
Varying,
Rolling
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VEHICLES
AGENCY ADMINISTRATIVE
OFFICES
PROGRAM
TITLE
TITLE, NOFOS WEBSITE FUNDING PURPOSE LEGAL
MECHANISM
MAXIMUM
ALLOCATION
FUNDING
FREQUENCY
Research &
Networks:
59
States/Territori
es at $1 Million
each
14 Research
Networks
Totaling $31
Million
Federal U.S.
Departm
ent of
Commer
ce (DOC)
Economic
Development
Administration
(EDA), USDOC
RECOMPET
E Act/ More
People
Everywher
e To Excel
Act
RECOMPETE Economic development to
empower persistently distressed
communities, develop and
implement a comprehensive
strategy to address the
economic challenges specific to
the area.
10-Year Grant $159 Million;
Formula
Based,
Minimum
50% to
Maximum
100% Project
Cost
Monthly-
Rolling
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VEHICLES
AGENCY ADMINISTRATIVE
OFFICES
PROGRAM
TITLE
TITLE, NOFOS WEBSITE FUNDING PURPOSE LEGAL
MECHANISM
MAXIMUM
ALLOCATION
FUNDING
FREQUENCY
Federal U.S.
Departm
ent of
the
Interior
(DOI)
Environmental
Protection Agency
(EPA), DOI
Water
Infrastruct
ure
Finance
and
Innovation
Act (WIFIA)
Program
FY 2022 Credit
Assistance
Under WIFIA
Program
https://www.epa.go
v/wifia/what-wifia
Development planning,
preliminary engineering, design,
environmental review, revenue
forecasting, and other pre-
construction activities;
Construction, reconstruction,
rehabilitation, and replacement
activities; Acquisition of real
property or an interest in real
property, environmental
mitigation, construction
contingencies, and acquisition of
equipment; or Capitalized
interest necessary to meet
market requirements,
reasonably required reserve
funds, capital issuance expenses
and other carrying costs during
construction; for: Clean Water
SRF eligible projects; Drinking
Water SRF eligible projects;
Brackish or seawater
desalination, aquifer recharge,
alternative water supply, and
water recycling projects;
Drought prevention, reduction,
or mitigation projects;
Acquisition of property integral
to mitigate the environmental
impact by a project.
Loan 49% of
project
Maximum of
$20 million
(large
community)
or $5 million
(small
community)
project
Supplement
al, 5- to 35-
year
repayment
Federal U.S.
Departm
ent of
the
Interior
(DOI)
Environmental
Protection Agency
(EPA), DOI
State
infrastruct
ure
financing
authority
WIFIA
(SWIFIA)
Program
FY 2022 Credit
Assistance
Under SWIFIA
Program
https://www.epa.go
v/wifia/what-swifia
Development planning,
preliminary engineering, design,
environmental review, revenue
forecasting, and other pre-
construction activities;
Construction, reconstruction,
rehabilitation, and replacement
activities; Acquisition of real
property or an interest in real
property, environmental
mitigation, construction
contingencies, and acquisition of
equipment; or Capitalized
Loans for
State
infrastructure
financing
authorities
49% of
project
Maximum of
$20 million
project
Supplement
al, 5- to 35-
year
repayment
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VEHICLES
AGENCY ADMINISTRATIVE
OFFICES
PROGRAM
TITLE
TITLE, NOFOS WEBSITE FUNDING PURPOSE LEGAL
MECHANISM
MAXIMUM
ALLOCATION
FUNDING
FREQUENCY
interest necessary to meet
market requirements,
reasonably required reserve
funds, capital issuance expenses
and other carrying costs during
construction; for: Clean Water
SRF eligible projects; Drinking
Water SRF eligible projects;
Brackish or seawater
desalination, aquifer recharge,
alternative water supply, and
water recycling projects;
Drought prevention, reduction,
or mitigation projects;
Acquisition of property integral
to mitigate the environmental
impact by a project.
Federal U.S.
Departm
ent of
the
Interior
(DOI)
Environmental
Protection Agency
(EPA), DOI
Climate
Change
Research
Grants
Extreme Event
Impacts on Air
Quality and
Water Quality
with a
Changing
Global Climate,
2017
https://www.epa.go
v/research-
grants/climate-
change-research-
grants
Climate change affects air,
water, the environment and
human health investigating the
impact of climate change on air
pollution gases and particles,
water quality and ecosystems.
Using modeling tools to better
understand the impacts of
extreme events on air and water
quality as well as provide better
modeling tools to predict air,
water and ecosystem
characteristics under a changing
climate.
Grant $10,000,000;
varies
Supplement
al
Federal U.S.
Departm
ent of
the
Interior
(DOI)
Environmental
Protection Agency
(EPA), DOI
Water
Research
Grants
Water Quality
Benefits, 2022
https://www.epa.go
v/research-
grants/water-
research-grants
Resilience of Coastal Ecosystems
- Current and Future Stressors
and Effective Management
Strategies.
Grant $742,000;
varies
Supplement
al
Federal U.S.
Departm
ent of
the
Interior
(DOI)
Environmental
Protection Agency
(EPA), DOI
Sustainabil
ity
Research
Grants
Sustainable
Chesapeake: A
Community-
Based
Approach to
Stormwater
https://www.epa.go
v/research-
grants/sustainability
-research-grants
Research and development a
variety of methods, tools,
guidance and programs that
further the application of
sustainability within decision-
making.
Grant $700,000;
varies
Supplement
al
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VEHICLES
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OFFICES
PROGRAM
TITLE
TITLE, NOFOS WEBSITE FUNDING PURPOSE LEGAL
MECHANISM
MAXIMUM
ALLOCATION
FUNDING
FREQUENCY
Management
Using Green
Infrastructure,
2017
Federal U.S.
Departm
ent of
the
Interior
(DOI)
Environmental
Protection Agency
(EPA), DOI
Ecosystem
s Research
Grants
Environmental
Impact and
Mitigation of
Oil Spills, 2012
https://www.epa.go
v/research-
grants/ecosystems-
research-grants
Ecosystems research addressing
how air pollution may effect
ecosystems; protection of
natural water resources,
including bodies of water as well
as their supporting watersheds;
development of new strategies
for managing watersheds and
wastewater while reducing
water-related energy demands;
and establishing innovative
solutions to address the problem
of nutrient pollution in the air,
water and land.
Grant $500,000;
varies
Supplement
al
Federal U.S.
Departm
ent of
the
Interior
(DOI)
Environmental
Protection Agency
(EPA), DOI
Brownfield
s Cleanup
Grants
Assessment
Grants
Revolving Fund
(RLF) Grants
Cleanup Grants
Multipurpose
Grants,
Jot Training
Grants
Example: FY
2023
Multipurpose,
Assessment,
RLF, and
Cleanup
(MARC) Grant
Application
Resources
https://www.epa.go
v/brownfields/brow
nfields-cleanup-
grants
Prevent, inventory, assess, clean
up, and reuse brownfield sites.
Grant $100 Million
Program
Maximum
2023;
$500,000-$10
million, varies
Supplement
al
Federal U.S.
Departm
ent of
the
Interior
(DOI)
Environmental
Protection Agency
(EPA), DOI
Environme
ntal Justice
(EJ) Grants
Environmental
Justice
Collaborative
Problem-
Solving
(EJCPS)
Cooperative
https://www.epa.go
v/environmentaljusti
ce/environmental-
justice-grants-
funding-and-
technical-assistance
Monitor and prevent pollution.
Invest in low- and zero-emission
technology. Bolster
infrastructure and workforce
development efforts that reduce
greenhouse gas emissions.
Mitigate climate and health risks
Grant,
Cooperative
Agreements
Varies by
Grant
$30 million;
EJCPS
Cooperative
Agreement
Program.
Annually
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VEHICLES
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OFFICES
PROGRAM
TITLE
TITLE, NOFOS WEBSITE FUNDING PURPOSE LEGAL
MECHANISM
MAXIMUM
ALLOCATION
FUNDING
FREQUENCY
Agreement
Program
Environmental
Justice
Government-
to-Government
(EJG2G)
Program
Environmental
Justice Small
Grants
Program
from urban heat islands, extreme
heat and wildfire events.
Support climate resilience and
adaptation. Engage
disadvantaged communities in
state and federal advisory
groups, rulemaking and other
public processes.
$70 million;
EJG2G
Program.
EJ Small
Grants
Program
Federal U.S.
Departm
ent of
the
Interior
(DOI)
Environmental
Protection Agency
(EPA), DOI
Urban
Waters
Small
Grants
program
Ellerbe Creek
Watershed
Association
Land of Sky
Regional
Council
https://www.epa.go
v/urbanwaterspartn
ers/urban-waters-
small-grants
Activities that improve water
quality in a way that also
advances community priorities.
Grant $60,000 Bi-Annually
Federal U.S.
Departm
ent of
Homela
nd
Security
(DHS)
Federal
Emergency
Management
Agency (FEMA),
DHS
Pre-
Disaster
Mitigation
Program
(PDM)
FY 2022 Pre-
Disaster
Mitigation
Congressional
Community
Projects
https://www.fema.g
ov/grants/mitigation
/pre-disaster
To plan for and implement
sustainable cost-effective
measures designed to reduce the
risk to individuals and property
from future natural hazards,
while also reducing reliance on
federal funding from future
disasters.
Grants 75% Federal,
25% Non-
Federal
Small,
impoverished
communities
(3000<people,
income<80%)
, up to 90%
federal, 10%
Non-Federal
Annually
Federal U.S.
Departm
ent of
Homela
nd
Security
(DHS)
Federal
Emergency
Management
Agency (FEMA),
DHS
Resilience
Grants
Program
National Dam
Safety Program
(NDSP); High
Hazard
Potential Dams
(HHPD)
Rehabilitation
Grant
FY 2022
Program
Maximum $20
Million
FY 2021
Program
https://www.fema.g
ov/emergency-
managers/risk-
management/dam-
safety
Rehabilitation of eligible high
hazard potential dams.
Grants 2022 Program
Maximum $20
Million;
Projects Vary
Annually
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ALLOCATION
FUNDING
FREQUENCY
Maximum
$11.6 million
FY 2020-2019
Program
Maximum $10
million
Federal U.S.
Departm
ent of
Homela
nd
Security
(DHS)
Federal
Emergency
Management
Agency (FEMA),
DHS
Hazard
Mitigation
Assistance
Program
North Carolina
Covid-19
Pandemic, DR -
4487-NC;
$63,758,987
Flood
Mitigation
Assistance and
the Building
Resilient
Infrastructure
and
Communities
Grant Program
https://www.fema.g
ov/grants/mitigation
/hazard-mitigation
Develop hazard mitigation plans.
Rebuild that reduces, or
mitigates, future disaster losses
of communities.
Grants Region 4-NC Supplement
al, Available
after a
presidentiall
y declared
disaster
Federal U.S.
Departm
ent of
Homela
nd
Security
(DHS)
Federal
Emergency
Management
Agency (FEMA),
DHS
Building
Resilient
infrastruct
ure and
Communiti
es (BRIC)
FY 2022 BRIC,
September-
January
https://www.fema.g
ov/grants/mitigation
/building-resilient-
infrastructure-
communities
Assist with undertaking hazard
mitigation projects, reduction of
risks faced from disasters and
natural hazards.
Grants 2022-$2.295
Billion; $2
Million Proj.
Cap ( $1
Million
Planning -
Max); Tribal
$50 million
Annually
Federal U.S.
Departm
ent of
Homela
nd
Security
(DHS)
Federal
Emergency
Management
Agency (FEMA),
DHS
Hazard
Mitigation
Assistance
Program
Flood
Mitigation
Assistance
(FMA) Grant,
September-
January
https://www.fema.g
ov/grants/mitigation
/floods
Reduce or eliminate the risk of
repetitive flood damage to
buildings insured under the
National Flood Insurance
Program (NFIP). The focus is on
mitigating Severe Repetitive
Loss and Repetitive Loss
properties that have incurred
multiple flood losses and NFIP
claim payments. In addition,
funded projects will reduce flood
risk in communities
disproportionately impacted by
flooding.
Grant $50 Million
Project Max
Annually
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FUNDING
FREQUENCY
Federal U.S.
Departm
ent of
Homela
nd
Security
(DHS)
Federal
Emergency
Management
Agency (FEMA),
DHS
Transit
Security
Grant
Program
FY 2021
Program
Maximum $93
Million
FY 2020-2016
Program
Maximum $88
million
https://www.fema.g
ov/grants/preparedn
ess/transit-security
Mass transit and passenger rail
systems, intercity bus
companies, freight railroad
carriers, ferries, and the trucking
industry, and all forms of
passenger rail) to increase
transportation infrastructure
resilience.
Grant Program $88
Million Max;
$250,000
Annually
Federal U.S.
Departm
ent of
Transpo
rtation
(USDOT)
Federal Highway
Administration
(FHA), USDOT
Bridge
Investment
Program
(BIP)
Large Bridge
Projects, total
eligible project
costs >$100
million;
Bridge
Projects, total
eligible project
costs ≤ $100
million; and
Planning
Grants (for
planning,
feasibility
analysis, and
revenue
forecasting of a
project that
would
subsequently
be eligible to
apply for BIP
funding
https://www.fhwa.d
ot.gov/bipartisan-
infrastructure-
law/bip_factsheet.cf
m
Improve bridge condition, safety,
efficiency, and reliability of the
movement of people/ freight
Grants Bridge
Allocations:
Enough to
fully fund the
project
(combined
with other
resources
listed in the
application);
and
$50 million
Large Bridge
Projects or
$2.5 million
Bridge
Projects
No minimum
for planning
grants.
Culvert
Allocations:
5% of BIP
funding per
year for
culvert
replacement
or
rehabilitation
of bridge-
sized culverts.
Tribal
Allocations:
$40 million
for Tribal
Annually
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MECHANISM
MAXIMUM
ALLOCATION
FUNDING
FREQUENCY
transportatio
n facility
bridges; and
$20 million
for Planning,
Feasibility
Analysis, and
Revenue
Forecasting.
Federal U.S.
Departm
ent of
Transpo
rtation
(USDOT)
Federal Highway
Administration
(FHA), USDOT
The
National
Culvert
Removal,
Replaceme
nt, and
Restoratio
n Grant
Program
(Culvert
Aquatic
Organism
Passage
(AOP)
Program)
National
Culvert
Removal,
Replacement &
Restoration
Grants
https://www.fhwa.d
ot.gov/engineering/
hydraulics/culverthy
d/aquatic/culvertao
p.cfm
Replacement, removal, and
repair of culverts or weirs that
meaningfully improve or restore
fish passage for anadromous
fish. Anadromous fish species
are born in freshwater such as
streams and rivers, spend most
of their lives in the marine
environment, and migrate back
to freshwater to spawn.
Grant $196 million;
$10,000 to
$20
million/Award
Annually
Federal U.S.
Departm
ent of
Transpo
rtation
(USDOT)
Federal Transit
Administration
(FTA), USDOT
Capital
Investment
Grant (CIG)
Program
Capital
Investment
Grants - 5309
https://www.transit.
dot.gov/CIG
Design and construction of the
public transportation portion of
the total project not including
elements designed to achieve a
state of good repair.
Competitive
or formula
based grants
$4.6 billion
per year;
Varies by
Project
Yearly
Federal U.S.
Departm
ent of
Transpo
Federal Transit
Administration
(FTA), USDOT
Transporta
tion
Infrastruct
ure
FY 2009
Raleigh-
Durham, North
Carolina
https://www.fhwa.d
ot.gov/ipd/finance/t
ools_programs/fede
Surface transportation projects -
highway, transit, railroad,
intermodal freight, and port
access
Direct Loans,
Loan
Guarantees,
Standby Lines
$62.9 million;
Varies by
Project
Supplement
al
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PROGRAM
TITLE
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MECHANISM
MAXIMUM
ALLOCATION
FUNDING
FREQUENCY
rtation
(USDOT)
Finance
and
Innovation
Act (TIFIA)
Program
Turnpike
Authority
(NCTA); $386.7
million
ral_credit_assistanc
e/tifia/
Federal U.S.
Departm
ent of
Transpo
rtation
(USDOT)
Federal Transit
Administration
(FTA), USDOT
Promoting
Resilience
Operations
for
Transform
ative,
Efficient,
AND Cost-
Saving
Transporta
tion
(PROTECT)
Formula
Program
NC 5-year
PROTECT
Formula
Program
https://www.fhwa.d
ot.gov/bipartisan-
infrastructure-
law/protect_fact_sh
eet.cfm#:~:text=The
%20BIL%20establish
es%20the%20Promo
ting,events%2C%20
and%20other%20na
tural%20disasters
NC Emergency
Relief: Emergency
Response - North
Carolina Division |
Federal Highway
Administration
(dot.gov)
ER Program Link:
https://www.fhwa.d
ot.gov/federal-
aidessentials/catmo
d.cfm?id=96
Planning activities, resilience
improvements, community
resilience, and evacuation route
activities at-risk infrastructure
activities to strengthen, stabilize,
harden, elevate, relocate or
otherwise enhance the resilience
of highway and non-rail
infrastructure, including:
bridges, roads, pedestrian
walkways, and bicycle lanes, and
associated infrastructure, such
as culverts and tide gates to
protect highways that are
subject to, or face increased
long-term future risks of, a
weather event, a natural
disaster, or changing conditions,
including coastal flooding,
coastal erosion, wave action,
storm surge, or sea level rise, in
order to improve transportation
and public safety and to reduce
costs by avoiding larger future
maintenance or rebuilding costs.
Formula
Funding,
Grants
North
Carolina
Program
Allocation
2022 is
$194,421,690;
Project
maximum
80% of the
project cost
Annually
Federal U.S.
Departm
ent of
Commer
ce (DOC)
Habitat
Conservation
Office of National
Oceanic and
Atmospheric
Administration
(NOAA), USDOC
Fish
Passage
Program
FY 2022
Restoring Fish
Passage
through Barrier
Removal
FY 2022
Restoring
Tribal Priority
Fish Passage
through Barrier
Removal
https://www.noaa.g
ov/infrastructure-
law/infrastructure-
law-fisheries-
protected-
resources/fish-
passage
Restoring Fish Passage, Barrier
Removal, Fish Passage, eliminate
or lessen public safety hazards,
improve climate resilience, and
provide opportunities for
recreation, like fishing and
boating; recover threatened and
endangered migratory fish and
support the sustainability of
commercial and recreational
fisheries
Grant Program
Allocation:
$400 million
over 5 years
Maximum
Allocation:
$65 million;
$1 million-$15
million
Tribal
Allocation:
$12 million;
Supplement
al, Yearly
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OFFICES
PROGRAM
TITLE
TITLE, NOFOS WEBSITE FUNDING PURPOSE LEGAL
MECHANISM
MAXIMUM
ALLOCATION
FUNDING
FREQUENCY
$300,000-$5
million
Federal U.S.
Departm
ent of
Commer
ce (DOC)
National Oceanic
and Atmospheric
Administration
(NOAA), USDOC
National
Coastal
Zone
Enhancem
ent/
Manageme
nt Program
CZM Projects of
Special Merit
Competition -
FY2023;
Program Total
Funding
$1,500,000;
$50,000--
$250,000/Proje
ct
https://coast.noaa.g
ov/czm/enhanceme
nt/
Used to protect and restore
ecologically significant habitats,
including conserving lands that
play a critical role in helping
communities become more
resilient to natural hazards.
Habitat restoration; habitat
restoration planning,
engineering, and design;
ecosystem conservation;
infrastructure for coastal zone
management programs to
support a work plan focused on
the Infrastructure Law.
Grant $207 million
over five
years,
approximatel
y $40 million
per year;
$200,000 up
to $6 million
per project.
Supplement
al, Yearly
Federal U.S.
Departm
ent of
Commer
ce (DOC)
National Oceanic
and Atmospheric
Administration
(NOAA), USDOC
National
Estuarine
Research
Reserve
System
National
Estuarine
Research
Reserve
System
(NERRS) Land
Acquisition &
Construction
Program for
Fiscal Year
2023; Program
Total Funding
$4,500,000;
$20,000--
$1,500,000/Pro
ject
https://coast.noaa.g
ov/nerrs/
Protect and restore ecologically
significant habitats, including
conserving lands that play a
critical role in helping
communities become more
resilient to natural hazards.
Habitat restoration; habitat
restoration planning,
engineering, and design;
ecosystem conservation;
program capacity to support
work plans focused on the
Infrastructure Law.
Grants $77 million
over five
years; $15
million per
year;$200,000
up to $4
million per
project,
depending on
project type.
Supplement
al, Annual
Federal U.S.
Departm
ent of
Commer
ce (DOC)
National Oceanic
and Atmospheric
Administration
(NOAA), USDOC
National
Coastal
Resilience
Fund
National
2022
Emergency
Coastal
Resilience
Fund; $136
Million to fund
88 projects in
2022
https://coast.noaa.g
ov/resilience-grant/
Habitat restoration-related
activities, including community
capacity building and planning;
site assessment and preliminary
design; final design and
permitting; and restoration
implementation. funds to be
used to restore, increase, and
Grants $492 million
over five
years.
Approximatel
y $98 million
per year.
Additional
private and
Supplement
al, Annual
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FUNDING
FREQUENCY
strengthen natural infrastructure
to protect communities while
also enhancing habitats for fish
and wildlife
public funds
will be
leveraged as
well. The
request for
proposals
issued by the
National Fish
and Wildlife
Foundation
provides an
expected
average range
of awards by
project
category, not
considered
limits or
“hard caps.”
Federal U.S.
Departm
ent of
Commer
ce (DOC)
National Oceanic
and Atmospheric
Administration
(NOAA), USDOC
Regional
Ocean
Partnershi
ps
Implementing
priority actions
identified by
regional ocean
partnerships
(including
capacity for
member
participation
and
engagement);
federal and
non-federal
data sharing
and integration
activities in
each of the
regions. are
designed to
coordinate
interstate and
intertribal
management
of ocean and
https://coast.noaa.g
ov/funding/infrastru
cture-projects.html
Title, NOFOs: 2023
Infrastructure Investment and
Jobs Act (IIJA), Tribal
Engagement in Regional Ocean
Partnership Priorities
Eligible Uses: To encourage or
enhance tribal engagement in
existing regional ocean
partnerships around the country
to be a separate funding
competition where U.S.
federally-recognized Indian
tribes that have current or
ancestral interests in a region
with an established regional
ocean partnership and wish to
pursue coastal and ocean
activities that align with the
regional priorities.
Grants $56 million
over five
years.
Approximatel
y $11 million
per year
(includes $1
million per
year to be
awarded
competitively
to federally-
recognized
tribes)
Supplement
al, Annual
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MECHANISM
MAXIMUM
ALLOCATION
FUNDING
FREQUENCY
coastal
resources and
implement
priority actions
identified by
established
regional ocean
partnerships,
including data
sharing and
integration.
Federal U.S.
Departm
ent of
the
Interior
(DOI)
National Park
Service (NPS), DOI
Maritime
Heritage
Grants,
Preservatio
n Grants,
Historic
Preservatio
n Fund
(HPF)
National
Maritime
Heritage Grant
Program
https://www.nps.go
v/subjects/maritime
heritage/maritime-
heritage-grants.htm
Pre-preservation and
Preservation Projects or
rehabilitation of historic
properties, inventories, surveys.
Grant Program
Maximum $2
million,
$50,000-
$750,000
Annually,
May
Federal U.S.
Departm
ent of
the
Interior
(DOI)
National Park
Service (NPS), DOI
National
Trails
System
Connect Trails
to Parks (CTTP)
https://www.nps.go
v/subjects/nationalt
railssystem/connect
-trails-to-parks-
cttp.htm
Promotion, planning, research,
evaluation, program design, and
sustainable infrastructure of
national trails.
Grant Program
Maximum $11
million;
$3,000 and
$100,000
Annually
Federal U.S.
Departm
ent of
Commer
ce (DOC)
National Science
Foundation (NSF)
& National
Institute for
Standards and
Technology
(NIST), (DOC)
Disaster
Resilience
Research
Grants
(DRRG)
Varies https://beta.nsf.gov/
funding/opportuniti
es/disaster-
resilience-research-
grants-drrg
Research to advance
fundamental understanding of
disaster resilience in support of
improved, science-based
planning, policy, decisions,
design, codes, and standards.
Grant $75 million
program; 8-12
awards,
$200,000-
$400,000
Annually
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FUNDING
FREQUENCY
Federal U.S.
Departm
ent of
Agricult
ure
(USDA)
Natural Resources
Conservation
Service (NRCS),
USDA
Regional
Conservati
on
Partnershi
p Program
(RCPP-
EQIP)
RCPP Classic &
RCPP Grants
2022 RCPP,
Preserving
Upriver Farms
to Reduce
Flooding in NC -
Phase II,
funded for:
$7,090,909.02
for
implementing
phase II of a
project,
reduction of
soil erosion
and runoff in
the Piedmont
and Sandhills
river basins of
North Carolina.
Permanent
protection of
over 4,000
acres of
working farms
and forests in
the Neuse River
Basin. Addition
of conservation
easements in
the 8-county
project area.
2021 RCPP,
EBCI Stream
Habitat
Improvement,
funded for:
$3,500,000 for
the Eastern
Band of
Cherokee
Indians (EBCI)
https://www.nrcs.us
da.gov/programs-
initiatives/rcpp-
regional-
conservation-
partnership-
program
Development of new
conservation structures,
solutions, and approaches that
would not otherwise be available
for solving natural resource
challenges for Land
management and improvement,
restoration practices, public
works and watersheds.
Contracts and
Easements;
Grants
$197 Million
(2022 for 41
projects);
Varies by
project value
Annually
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FUNDING
FREQUENCY
Stream Habitat
Improvement
project to
stabilize
severely
eroding and
unstable
streams in the
Ravens Fork
Watershed
(historically
underserved
population in
the Great
Smoky
Mountains of
North
Carolina).
Project goals
include
reduced
stream
sediment,
improved
aquatic
habitat,
improved plant
diversity, and
the planting of
riparian buffers
to offset
carbon
emissions.
Federal U.S.
Departm
ent of
Agricult
ure
(USDA)
Natural Resources
Conservation
Service (NRCS),
USDA
Watershed
Rehabilitat
ion
Program
(REHAB)
October https://www.nrcs.us
da.gov/programs-
initiatives/watershe
d-rehabilitation
(REHAB) rehabilitate aging dams
that are reaching the end of their
design life and/or no longer
meet federal or state safety
criteria or performance
standards.
Contracts and
Easements;
Grants
$501 Million
Funds (2022);
Installation
75% or 90%
for Limited
Resource
Areas;
Engr/Tech
100%
Annually
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MECHANISM
MAXIMUM
ALLOCATION
FUNDING
FREQUENCY
Federal U.S.
Departm
ent of
Agricult
ure
(USDA)
Natural Resources
Conservation
Service (NRCS),
USDA
Emergency
Watershed
Protection
Program
(EWP)
Natural
Resources
Conservation
Service (NRCS)
Grant
2021 EWP,
Cross Creek
Stabilization,
funded for:
$1,197,062.36
for St. Johns
Church
designed to
provide debris
removal and
225 linear
streambank
stabilization of
Cross Creek
Bank.
https://www.nrcs.us
da.gov/programs-
initiatives/ewp-
emergency-
watershed-
protection
Designed to help people and
conserve natural resources by
relieving imminent hazards to
life and property caused by
floods, fires, drought,
windstorms, and other natural
occurrences.
Contracts and
Easements;
Grants
$925 Million;
Installation
75% or 90%
for Limited
Resource
Areas;
Engr/Tech
100%
Rolling,
Annually
Federal U.S.
Departm
ent of
Agricult
ure
(USDA)
Natural Resources
Conservation
Service (NRCS),
USDA
Watershed
Protection
and Flood
Prevention
(WFPO)
Program
October https://www.nrcs.us
da.gov/programs-
initiatives/watershe
d-and-flood-
prevention-
operations-wfpo-
program
Protect and restore watersheds.
Flood Prevention, Watershed
Protection, Public Recreation,
Public Fish and Wildlife,
Agricultural Water Management,
Municipal and Industrial Water
Supply, and Water Quality
Management where watershed
projects are less than equal to
250,000 Acres.
Contracts and
Easements;
Grants
$218 Million
Funds (2022);
Installation
75% or 90%
for Limited
Resource
Areas;
Engr/Tech
100%
Annually
Federal U.S.
Departm
ent of
Agricult
ure
(USDA)
Natural Resources
Conservation
Service (NRCS),
USDA
Healthy
Forests
Reserve
Program
(HFRP)
Forest Health
Protection,
November
https://www.nrcs.us
da.gov/programs-
initiatives/hfrp-
healthy-forests-
reserve-
program#contact
Restore, enhance, and protect
forestland resources to promote
the recovery of endangered or
threatened species, improve
plant and animal biodiversity
and enhance carbon
sequestration.
Grant, Cost
Share
Agreements,
Easements.
$7 Million;
50%-Amount
of grant varies
by project
value.
Annual; (10
or 30 year
renewals)
Federal U.S.
Departm
ent of
Agricult
ure
(USDA)
Natural Resources
Conservation
Service (NRCS),
USDA
Conservati
on
Innovation
Grants
(CIG)
CIG National
Competition,
CIG State
Competition,
CIG On-Farm
Trials
https://cig.sc.egov.u
sda.gov/
Supports the development of
new tools, approaches,
practices, and technologies to
further natural resource
conservation through creative
problem solving and innovation,
Grants Varies by
Level; $5
million per
project, $25
Million
Annually
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TITLE, NOFOS WEBSITE FUNDING PURPOSE LEGAL
MECHANISM
MAXIMUM
ALLOCATION
FUNDING
FREQUENCY
that address water quality, air
quality, soil health and wildlife
habitat challenges, and
improving agricultural
operations.
Annually
Available
Federal U.S.
Departm
ent of
Energy
(DOE)
Office of Fossil
Energy and
Carbon
Management,
DOE
Office of
Resource
Sustainabil
ity
DE-FOA-
0002796
https://www.energy.
gov/fecm/funding-
notice-water-
research-and-
development-oil-
and-gas-produced-
water-and-coal-
combustion
By Area of Interest:
Area 1) Characterizing,
Managing, and Treating
Oil/Natural Gas Produced Water
for Beneficial Use and the
Potential Recovery of Rare Earth
Elements, Critical Minerals, and
Elements of Interest.
Area 2) Field Operation of Oil and
Natural Gas Produced Water
Consortium.
Area 3) Characterization and
Treatment of Coal Combustion
Residuals Wastewater
Associated with Coal Power
Generation for Groundwater
Impact and Rare Earth Elements,
Critical Minerals, and Elements
of Interest.
Grants, Loans $18,050,000
Program
Maximum;
Varies per
Area of
Interest
Area 1) 5
awards/ Area
Maximum
$7.5 Million;
80% not to
Exceed $1.5
Million/
Project
Area 2) 2
awards/ Area
Maximum
$6.55 Million;
80% not to
Exceed $3.275
Million/
Project
Area 3) 2
awards/ Area
Maximum
$4.0 Million;
80% not to
Exceed $2.0
Million/
Project
Supplement
al
Federal U.S.
Departm
ent of
Commer
ce (DOC)
Office of Oceanic
and Atmospheric
Research (OAR),
NOAA, USDOC
Climate
Program
Grants
Climate
Program Office
FY2023
https://cpo.noaa.go
v/Funding-
Opportunities
Supports competitive research
through four major program
areas: Earth System Science and
Modeling (ESSM); Climate and
Societal Interactions (CSI);
Communication, Education and
Engagement (CEE); and the
National Integrated Drought
Grants $224 Million;
Varies,
Awarded
competitively
.
Supplement
al, Annual
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OFFICES
PROGRAM
TITLE
TITLE, NOFOS WEBSITE FUNDING PURPOSE LEGAL
MECHANISM
MAXIMUM
ALLOCATION
FUNDING
FREQUENCY
Information System (NIDIS).
High-priority climate risk areas
of: Coastal Inundation, Marine
Ecosystems, Water Resources,
and Extreme Heat.
Federal U.S.
Departm
ent of
the
Interior
(DOI)
Office of Surface
Mining
Reclamation and
Enforcement, DOI
FY22
Multimodal
Project
Discretiona
ry Grant
Opportunit
y (MPDG).
Mega Grants:
National
Infrastructure
Project
Assistance
program (49
U.S.C. 6701)
INFRA Grants:
Nationally
Significant
Multimodal
Freight and
Highway
Projects
program (23
U.S.C. 117)
Rural Surface
Transportation
Grant: (23
U.S.C. 173)
https://www.transp
ortation.gov/grants/
mega-grant-
program
Highway or bridge projects,
railway-highway grade
separation or elimination
projects, or FTA Title 49 where
there are resilience and or
climate benefits.
Grant $10 Billion
Program from
BIL
Annually
Federal U.S.
Departm
ent of
Transpo
rtation
(USDOT)
Office of Tribal
Transportation
(OTT), Federal
Highway
Administration
(FHA), USDOT
Tribal
Transporta
tion (TTP)
Bridge
Program,
FHWA
Tribes
2022 Tribal
Transportation
Facility Bridges
https://highways.dot
.gov/federal-
lands/programs-
tribal/bridge
Improve the condition of
BIA/Tribally owned bridges and
non-BIA/Tribally owned bridges.
Repair or replacing unsafe or
inaccessible roads, bridges and
ferries which are aging and or
unsafe to used.
Grant Tribal
Transportatio
n Allocation
Methodology
(TTAM)
formula; $165
million/ year
Annually
Federal U.S.
Departm
ent of
Agricult
ure
(USDA)
Rural Business -
Cooperative
Service, USDA
Rural
Developme
nt Loan
and Grant
Assistance
Rural
Economic
Development
Loan & Grant
Program in
North Carolina,
September 30;
December 31;
March 31; and
June 30
https://www.rd.usda
.gov/programs -
services/business-
programs/rural-
economic-
development-loan-
grant-program/nc
USDA Rural Development forges
partnerships with rural
communities, funding projects
that bring housing, community
facilities, business guarantees,
utilities and other services to
rural America. Funding for rural
projects through local utility
organizations.
Grants, Loans
(Zero
Interest)
$4 Billion;
Grant
$300,000;
Loan $2
Million
Quarterly
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OFFICES
PROGRAM
TITLE
TITLE, NOFOS WEBSITE FUNDING PURPOSE LEGAL
MECHANISM
MAXIMUM
ALLOCATION
FUNDING
FREQUENCY
Federal U.S.
Departm
ent of
Agricult
ure
(USDA)
Rural
Development,
USDA
Water and
Environme
ntal
Programs
(WEP)
Water & Waste
Disposal Loan
& Grant
Water & Waste
Disposal
Predevelopme
nt Planning
Grants
Water and
Waste Facility
Loans and
Grants to
Alleviate
Health Risks on
Tribal Lands
Water & Waste
Disposal
Technical
Assistance &
Training Grants
Revolving
Funds for
Financing
Water and
Wastewater
Projects
Emergency
Community
Water
Assistance
Grants
Rural
Decentralized
Water Systems
Grants
Solid Waste
Management
Grants
Technical
Assistance and
Training for
Innovative
Regional
https://www.rd.usda
.gov/programs -
services/water-
environmental-
programs
Acquisition, construction or
improvement of: Drinking water
sourcing, treatment, storage and
distribution; Sewer collection,
transmission, treatment and
disposal; Solid waste collection,
disposal and closure; and Storm
water collection, transmission
and disposal.
Grants, Loans
w/ 40-year
payback
Varies by
project.
Quarterly on
annual basis
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PROGRAM
TITLE
TITLE, NOFOS WEBSITE FUNDING PURPOSE LEGAL
MECHANISM
MAXIMUM
ALLOCATION
FUNDING
FREQUENCY
Wastewater
Treatment
Solutions Grant
Pilot Program
Federal U.S.
Departm
ent of
Agricult
ure
(USDA)
Rural
Development,
USDA
Communit
y Facilities
Programs
Community
Facilities Direct
Loan & Grant
Program
Rural
Community
Development
Initiative
Grants
Economic
Impact
Initiative
Grants
https://www.rd.usda
.gov/programs -
services/community
-facilities
Purchase, construct, and / or
improve essential community
facilities.
Grants, Loans Program
Maximum
75%; %
Coverage
Based on
Community
Size & Project
Quarterly on
annual basis
Federal U.S.
Departm
ent of
Energy
(DOE)
State Energy
Program, DOE
State
Energy
Program
Competitiv
e Financial
Assistance
Program
STATE ENERGY
PROGRAM 2017
COMPETITIVE
AWARDS
https://www.energy.
gov/scep/state-
energy-program-
competitive-
financial-assistance-
program
energy efficiency and/or renew-
able energy
Grants, Loans $5 million Supplement
al
Federal U.S.
Departm
ent of
the
Interior
(DOI)
State, Tribal,
Local, Plans &
Grants Division
(STLPG), NPS, DOI
ESHPF,
Disaster
Recovery
Grants,
Historic
Preservatio
n Fund
(HPF),
Competitiv
Florence, Yutu,
Michael
Disaster
Grants, $47.8
Million Funding
https://www.nps.go
v/subjects/historicpr
eservationfund/disa
ster-recovery.htm
Rebuild communities in the
aftermath of natural disasters,
substantial funding goes
towards construction projects
designed to stabilize or repair
historic properties.
Grant HPF 2023
Allocated
Funds $205
million; Varies
Supplement
al
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OFFICES
PROGRAM
TITLE
TITLE, NOFOS WEBSITE FUNDING PURPOSE LEGAL
MECHANISM
MAXIMUM
ALLOCATION
FUNDING
FREQUENCY
e Grant
Programs
Federal U.S.
Departm
ent of
the
Interior
(DOI)
State, Tribal,
Local, Plans &
Grants Division
(STLPG), NPS, DOI
State
Historic
Preservatio
n Office
(SHPO)
Formula
Grants,
Historic
Preservatio
n Fund
(HPF)
grants
Grants for
Cultural
Resources,
Consultation,
and
Repatriation
NAGPRA Grants
https://www.nps.go
v/subjects/historicpr
eservationfund/shpo
-grants.htm
Identification, evaluation, and
protection of historic properties
by such means as: survey,
planning, technical assistance,
development, Federal tax
incentives for historic properties,
expansion of the National
Register of Historic Places,
Integrated Resource
Management Applications,
Preservation plans of Historic
Districts, Stabilization
Assessments, Historical resource
Surveys, Conditions
Assessments, Projects or studies
for Landmarks at Risk.
Grant NC MAX funds
available for
2022
$1,286,023;
Tribal Varies
Annually
Federal U.S.
Departm
ent of
the
Interior
(DOI)
State, Tribal,
Local, Plans &
Grants Division
(STLPG), NPS, DOI
Tribal
Historic
Preservatio
n Offices
(THPO)
Formula
Grants,
Historic
Preservatio
n Fund
(HPF)
grants
Tribal Heritage
Grants (THG)
https://www.nps.go
v/subjects/historicpr
eservationfund/thpo
-grants.htm
Identification, evaluation, and
protection of historic properties
by such means as: survey,
planning, technical assistance,
development, Federal tax
incentives for historic properties,
expansion of the National
Register of Historic Places,
Integrated Resource
Management Applications,
Preservation plans of Historic
Districts, Stabilization
Assessments, Historical resource
Surveys, Conditions
Assessments, Projects or studies
for Landmarks at Risk.
Grant Formula
Based
Allocation,
$15,000-
$75,000.
Annually
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TITLE
TITLE, NOFOS WEBSITE FUNDING PURPOSE LEGAL
MECHANISM
MAXIMUM
ALLOCATION
FUNDING
FREQUENCY
Federal U.S.
Departm
ent of
the
Interior
(DOI)
State, Tribal,
Local, Plans &
Grants Division
(STLPG), NPS, DOI
Competitiv
e Grant
Programs,
Historic
Preservatio
n Fund
(HPF)
Tribal Heritage
Grants
Underrepresen
ted
Communities
Grants
Historically
Black Colleges
& Universities
Grant Program
African
American Civil
Rights (AACR)
Grants
Save America's
Treasures
Grants
History of
Equal Right
Grants
Paul Bruhn
Historic
Revitalization
Semiquincente
nnial Grants
https://www.nps.go
v/subjects/historicpr
eservationfund/proj
ect-grants.htm
Pre-preservation and
Preservation Projects or
rehabilitation of historic
properties, inventories, surveys.
Grant Maximum
based on
Allocation for
each
program;
$125,000 -
$750,000
Projects,
$15,000-
$75,000
Planning
Annually,
Summer/Fal
l Dates
Federal U.S.
Departm
ent of
Defense
(DOD)
U.S. Army Corps
of Engineers
(USACE), DOD
Corps
Water
Infrastruct
ure
Financing
Program
(CWIFP)
Corps Water
Infrastructure
Financing
Program
(CWIFP),
Rolling
https://www.usace.a
rmy.mil/Missions/Civ
il-
Works/Infrastructure
/revolutionize/CWIF
P/
Local investment in
infrastructure projects that
enhance community resilience
to flooding, promote economic
prosperity, and improve
environmental quality.
Loans Program $7.5
Million; 49%
of Project
Cost;
Available
where
Projects
exceed $20
Million.
Supplement
al
Federal U.S.
Departm
ent of
Housing
and
Urban
Develop
ment
(HUD)
U.S. Department
of Housing and
Urban
Development
(HUD)
Communit
y
Developme
nt Block
Grant
Disaster
Recovery
(CDBG-DR)
program
CDBG Disaster
Recovery
Funding
https://www.hudexc
hange.info/program
s/cdbg-dr/
For the long-term housing,
infrastructure, and economic
recovery needs for areas
impacted by a natural disaster.
Grant Program $3
Billion; Varies
Annually
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OFFICES
PROGRAM
TITLE
TITLE, NOFOS WEBSITE FUNDING PURPOSE LEGAL
MECHANISM
MAXIMUM
ALLOCATION
FUNDING
FREQUENCY
Federal U.S.
Departm
ent of
Housing
and
Urban
Develop
ment
(HUD)
U.S. Department
of Housing and
Urban
Development
(HUD)
NEW -
Communit
y
Enhancem
ent (PRICE)
program
N/A Not Available-yet- Support the resiliency and
preservation of manufactured
housing and manufactured
housing communities in areas
prone to natural disasters.
Grant Program $225
Million; Tribal
$2.5 Million
Unknown
Federal U.S.
Departm
ent of
Housing
and
Urban
Develop
ment
(HUD)
U.S. Department
of Housing and
Urban
Development
(HUD)
Choice
Neighborh
ood
Implement
ation Grant
Program
Choice
Neighborhoods
https://www.hud.go
v/program_offices/p
ublic_indian_housin
g/programs/ph/cn
Transform neighborhoods by
revitalizing severely distressed
public and/or assisted housing
and catalyzing critical
improvements in the
neighborhood, including vacant
property, housing, businesses,
services and schools.
Grant $500,000 Annually
Federal U.S.
Departm
ent of
Transpo
rtation
(USDOT)
U.S. Department
of Transportation
(USDOT)
Rebuilding
American
Infrastruct
ure with
Sustainabil
ity and
Equity
(RAISE)
Discretiona
ry Grant
Program
RASIE/ BUILD/
TIGER I & II
https://www.transp
ortation.gov/RAISEg
rants
Community transportation
projects.
Grant $1.5 billion Annually
Federal U.S.
Departm
ent of
the
Interior
(DOI)
United States
Geological Survey
(USGS), DOI
USGS
Funding
Research and
Data
Collection,
Developing
Methodologies
for Coastal
Impacts
Associated
with Climate
Variability
https://www.usgs.go
v/office-of-
acquisition-and-
grants/financial-
assistance
Natural Disaster, subsequent
data collection and projects.
Grant,
Cooperative
Agreement
$10,000-
$325,000
Supplement
al
Federal U.S.
Departm
ent of
the
US Fish & Wildlife
Service, DOI
Cooperativ
e
Endangere
d Species
FY 2022
Traditional
Conservation
Grants
https://www.fws.gov
/service/traditional-
conservation-grants
Conservation projects for species
listed as endangered or
threatened under the
Endangered Species Act, as well
Grant $3,433,829
Program Max;
$1,000-
$3,433,829
Annually
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OFFICES
PROGRAM
TITLE
TITLE, NOFOS WEBSITE FUNDING PURPOSE LEGAL
MECHANISM
MAXIMUM
ALLOCATION
FUNDING
FREQUENCY
Interior
(DOI)
Conservati
on Fund
(CESCF)
Program
(Service Legacy
Region 4)
as candidate species and at-risk
species.
Federal U.S.
Departm
ent of
the
Interior
(DOI)
US Fish & Wildlife
Service, DOI
Fish and
Aquatic
Conservati
on
Program
(FAC)-
National
Fish
Passage
Program
FY 2023
National Fish
Passage
Program
Bipartisan
Infrastructure
Law
https://fws.gov/servi
ce/us-fish-and-
wildlife-service-
seeks-project-
applications-38-
million-fish-passage-
funding
Benefits to Priority Species and
Habitats, permanence of Fish
Passage Benefits, and or regional
and Watershed Context, with
community resilience to climate
change impacts. Activities that
restore fish passage also support
the modernization of the
country’s infrastructure such as
road culverts, bridges, and water
diversions contributing to
enhanced community resilience
to the impacts from climate
change and other public safety
hazards. Project types including,
but not limited to, dam
removals, culvert replacements,
floodplain restoration, and the
installation of fishways.
Grant,
Cooperative
Agreement
Program
Allocation:
$200 million
Over 5 years
Maximum
Allocation:
$38 million;
$100,000-
$2,000,000
Annually
Federal U.S.
Departm
ent of
the
Interior
(DOI)
US Fish & Wildlife
Service, DOI
Tribal
Wildlife
Grants
FY 2022 Tribal
Wildlife Grant
(TWG) Program
https://www.fws.gov
/service/tribal-
wildlife-grants
Planning for conservation of fish
and wildlife, and their habitats,
conservation management
actions for fish and wildlife, and
their habitats, field and
laboratory research related to
fish and wildlife resources,
natural history studies, fish
passages, habitat mapping or
evaluation, field surveys and
population monitoring,
restoration of habitat,
management of invasive species,
and public education relevant to
the proposed project.
Grant $6,000,000
Program;
$10,000-
$200,000
Annually,
June
Federal U.S.
Departm
ent of
Agricult
ure
(USDA)
US Forest Service,
USDA
The Land
and Water
Conservati
on Fund
(LWCF)
Forest Legacy
Program (FLP)
https://lwcfcoalition
.org/forest-legacy-
program
NC Forest Legacy:
https://www.ncfores
tservice.gov/fsandfl/
Protect forested properties
through conservation easements
or direct acquisition.
Grants to
States (with
Partners)
$900 Million;
Varies by
project;
recent
$7,000,000
Annually
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TITLE
TITLE, NOFOS WEBSITE FUNDING PURPOSE LEGAL
MECHANISM
MAXIMUM
ALLOCATION
FUNDING
FREQUENCY
what_is_forest_lega
cy.htm
project value
funded
Federal U.S.
Departm
ent of
Agricult
ure
(USDA)
US Forest Service,
USDA
The Land
and Water
Conservati
on Fund
(LWCF)
Cooperative
Endangered
Species
Conservation
Fund – Section
6
HCP Land
Acquisition
program
RLA grants
https://lwcfcoalition
.org/section-6
Protection for species and
habitat conservation on non-
federal lands; support of
approved species recovery
plans.
Grants to a
combination
of the States
and either
landowners
or other
stakeholders
$900 Million;
$10,000-
$39,276,000
Annually
Federal U.S.
Departm
ent of
Agricult
ure
(USDA)
US Forest Service,
USDA
Fire
Manageme
nt
Community
Wildfire
Defense Grant,
South;
November
https://www.fs.usda
.gov/sites/default/fil
es/2022-
08/Instruction-SGSF-
CWDG-NOFO.pdf
To assist at-risk local
communities and Indian Tribes
with planning for and mitigating
against the risk created by
wildfire.
Grant $375 million;
$250K for
plan update;
$10Million
Plan/Project
Implementati
on
Annually
Federal U.S.
Departm
ent of
Agricult
ure
(USDA)
US Forest Service,
USDA
Special
Technolog
y
Developme
nt
Program,
Region 8
(Southeast
Region)
Forest Health
Protection,
November
https://www.fs.usda
.gov/foresthealth/do
cs/FHP_Grants/STD
P-Proposal-
Instructions-
Guidelines-2023.pdf
Projects submitted to this
Program contribute to fulfilling
the Forest Service (FS) Forest
Health Protection (FHP) mission:
To protect, restore and improve
the health of rural, wildland, and
urban forests.
Grant $510 million;
Grant
$300,000;
Loan $2
Million
Annually
Federal U.S.
Departm
ent of
Agricult
ure
(USDA)
US Forest Service,
USDA
Forest
Health
Monitoring
Program,
Evaluation
Monitoring
Forest Health
Protection,
November
https://www.fs.usda
.gov/foresthealth/do
cs/FHP_Grants/STD
P-Proposal-
Instructions-
Guidelines-2023.pdf
Projects submitted to this
Program contribute to fulfilling
the Forest Service (FS) Forest
Health Protection (FHP) mission:
To protect, restore and improve
the health of rural, wildland, and
urban forests by determining the
extent, severity, and causes of
undesirable changes in forest
health.
Grant $510 million;
Grant
$300,000;
Loan $2
Million
Annually
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TITLE
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MECHANISM
MAXIMUM
ALLOCATION
FUNDING
FREQUENCY
Federal U.S.
Departm
ent of
Agricult
ure
(USDA)
US Forest Service,
USDA
Forest
Service
Pesticide
Impact
Assessmen
t Program
(FS-PIAP)
Forest Health
Protection,
November
https://www.fs.usda
.gov/foresthealth/pr
otecting-
forest/integrated-
pest-
management/pestici
de-
management/pestici
de-impact-
assessment.shtml
Projects submitted to this
Program contribute to fulfilling
the Forest Service (FS) Forest
Health Protection (FHP) mission:
To protect, restore and improve
the health of rural, wildland, and
urban forests.
Grant $510 million;
Grant
$300,000;
Loan $2
Million
Annually
Federal U.S.
Departm
ent of
Agricult
ure
(USDA)
US Forest Service,
USDA
Biological
Control of
Invasive
Forest
Pests
(BCIFP)
Forest Health
Protection,
November
https://www.fs.usda
.gov/foresthealth/ap
plied-
sciences/biological-
control/index.shtml
Projects submitted to this
Program contribute to fulfilling
the Forest Service (FS) Forest
Health Protection (FHP) mission:
To protect, restore and improve
the health of rural, wildland, and
urban forests. Must address
forest insects, forest pathogens
and diseases, and or invasive
plants.
Grant $510 million;
Grant
$300,000;
Loan $2
Million
Annually
Non-
Governme
ntal & Non-
Traditional
Foundat
ions
Bank of America
Charitable
Foundation
Neighborh
ood
Revitalizati
on
Economic
Mobility
focused on
needs of
community
(Community
Development
and Small
Business
Resiliency)
https://about.banko
famerica.com/en/m
aking-an-
impact/charitable-
foundation-funding
Revitalization, preservation, and
stabilization initiatives; Transit-
oriented development efforts;
Resiliency of communities
supporting short- and long-term
plans to prepare, withstand and
recover from extreme weather
events and the long-term
impacts of climate change;
Environmental efforts through
the preservation, creation or
restoration of open space, parks,
and community gardens;
Supporting
organizations/initiatives that
bring energy efficiency.
Grant $163,926,706
program
Supplement
al, 5/29-2023
– 6/23/2023
Non-
Governme
ntal & Non-
Traditional
Foundat
ions
Golden LEAF
Foundation
The Open
Grants
Program
Job Creation
and Economic
Investment;
Workforce
Preparedness;
Agriculture.
https://www.goldenl
eaf.org/opengrants/
Develop and implement a new
workforce training program to
meet demand from local
employers; Implement a career
pathway at a high school for a
high demand field; Extend water,
sewer, or road infrastructure to a
Competitive
Grant
$200,001-
$500,000 with
Consultation;
Average Max.
$200,000
Annually
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FREQUENCY
site to enable industrial
development that will create
full-time jobs; Support the
development of new crops,
expand markets for agriculture
products, or provide training for
farmers.
Non-
Governme
ntal & Non-
Traditional
Foundat
ions
Golden LEAF
Foundation
Economic
Catalyst
Program
Economic
Catalyst
Program
https://www.goldenl
eaf.org/catalyst/
Funds for public infrastructure,
job training, upfit for buildings
owned by governmental or
nonprofit entities, or equipment
acquisition where the building or
equipment will be leased or sold
at fair-market value to a
company creating jobs.
Competitive
Grant
Application
Dependent
Annually
Non-
Governme
ntal & Non-
Traditional
Foundat
ions
Golden LEAF
Foundation
SITE
Program
SITE Program –
Identification;
SITE Program –
Due Diligence;
SITE Program –
Development.
https://www.goldenl
eaf.org/site/
SITE Program – Identification
support to identify potential
industrial sites in communities
that do not currently have
quality industrial sites to market.

SITE Program – Due Diligence
funding to complete eligible due
diligence activities such as
environmental assessments,
archaeological analyses, and
mapping.

SITE Program – Development
funding for public infrastructure
and, for publicly owned sites,
clearing and grading, to benefit
sites that have completed the
due diligence necessary to
demonstrate that the site is
suitable for development.
Competitive
Grant
$15 million
program
Annually-
Fall/Spring
awards
Non-
Governme
ntal & Non-
Traditional
Foundat
ions
Golden LEAF
Foundation
Golden
LEAF
Communit
y-Based
Grants
Initiative
(CBGI)
Counties from
the Piedmont-
Triad
Prosperity
Zone;
Counties from
the Southeast
https://www.goldenl
eaf.org/community-
based-grants-
initiative/
Economic Growth in counties in
the Southeast Prosperity Zone
are Brunswick, Carteret, Craven,
Duplin, Greene, Jones, Lenoir,
New Hanover, Onslow, Pamlico,
Pender, and Wayne.
Competitive
Grant
$11 Million;
$1.5 Million
over 3
projects per
County
Annually
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MECHANISM
MAXIMUM
ALLOCATION
FUNDING
FREQUENCY
Prosperity
Zone
Non-
Governme
ntal & Non-
Traditional
Foundat
ions
Golden LEAF
Foundation
Flood
Mitigation
Program
Flood
Mitigation
Program
https://www.goldenl
eaf.org/mitigation/
Public infrastructure projects for
flood mitigation (causes of
Flooding); Construction of new
or improvement of existing
publicly owned stormwater
infrastructure, including natural
drainage infrastructure and
flood control equipment. Repair
of existing stormwater
infrastructure damaged or
destroyed by flooding, which
must include improvements to
mitigate against future flooding.
Engineering expenses related to
planning and development of
flood mitigation solutions.
Grant $250,000 max
per project
Annually
Non-
Governme
ntal & Non-
Traditional
Foundat
ions
National Fish and
Wildlife
Foundation
Five Star
and Urban
Waters
Restoratio
n Program
Five Star and
Urban Waters
Restoration
Grant Program
https://www.nfwf.or
g/programs/five-
star-and-urban-
waters-restoration-
grant-program
Address water quality issues in
priority watersheds, such as
erosion due to unstable
streambanks, pollution from
stormwater runoff, and
degraded shorelines caused by
development; On-the-ground
wetland, riparian, in-stream
and/or coastal habitat
restoration.
Grant $81 million
program
Annually
Non-
Governme
ntal & Non-
Traditional
Foundat
ions
NC Foundation
for Soil & Water
Conservation
ACTIVE
PROGRAMS
Agriculture
Resilience:
Flood
Mitigation
through
Conservation;
Agriculture
Resilience:
Carbon Farm
Planning ;
ENC Sentinel
Landscapes:
Managing Your
Land and
https://ncsoilwater.
org/programs/
Identifying natural infrastructure
practices for watersheds, natural
infrastructure scenarios and
improvement analyses –
floodplain expansion, and
stream and wetland restoration;
managing storm events through
natural infrastructure; co-
benefits of water quality
enhancement to flood reduction
and mitigation, design
demonstration for watersheds
Grant Project
dependent
(past projects
started at
$50,000)
Annually
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ALLOCATION
FUNDING
FREQUENCY
Legacy;
Innovative
Livestock
Waste
Management
Non-
Governme
ntal & Non-
Traditional
Universi
ties
NC State
University
NC Sea
Grant
Core Funding,
2024–2026
Biennial
Competitive
Core Research
Funding
https://ncseagrant.n
csu.edu/funding -
opps/grants/core-
funding/
Applied research initiatives;
Healthy Coastal Ecosystems,
Resilient Communities and
Economies, Sustainable
Fisheries and Aquaculture, and
Environmental Literacy and
Workforce Development.
Grant 50% of
Research
Bi-Annually
Non-
Governme
ntal & Non-
Traditional
Universi
ties
NC State
University
NC Sea
Grant
Mini-grants https://ncseagrant.n
csu.edu/funding -
opps/grants/minigra
nts/
test new ideas, augment ongoing
research efforts, stimulate
innovation and respond to short-
range, critical needs
Grant $10,000 Annually
Non-
Governme
ntal & Non-
Traditional
Universi
ties
NC State
University
NC Sea
Grant
Other;
Community
Collaborative
Research
Grants;
National Sea
Grant Marine
Debris
Challenge
Competition;
North Carolina
Sea Grant
Research;
Opportunity for
Resource
Management
Needs;
National Sea
Grant Highly
Migratory
Species
Research
Initiative —
2019, NOAA-
OAR-SG-2019-
2006046 ;
https://ncseagrant.n
csu.edu/funding -
opps/grants/other-
opps/
Work with scientists, educators,
students and commercial
businesses to explore our coast
and find ways to enhance its
natural habitat, to protect its
resources and to improve the
quality of life.
Grant Program
dependent,
changes
Supplement
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FUNDING
FREQUENCY
NOAA/National
Sea Grant
Aquaculture
Initiative;
NOAA/National
Sea Grant
Aquaculture
Research
Funding
Opportunities;
Mid-Atlantic
Sea Grant
Regional
Research;
North Carolina
Sea
Grant/Water
Resources
Research
Institute Joint
Funding;
Translating
Coastal
Research into
Application
Non-
Governme
ntal & Non-
Traditional
Foundat
ions
The Community
Foundation of
Western North
Carolina, Inc.
Foundatio
n Grants
Asheville
Merchants
Fund;
Biltmore Lake
Charitable
Fund;
Black
Mountain-
Swannanoa
Valley
Endowment
Fund;
Cashiers
Community
Fund;
The Fund for
Haywood
County;
https://cfwnc.org/gr
antseekers/grants -
directory
Community improvements,
water quality; resiliency
Grant $14,270,254;
awards range
from $2,500
to $180,000
project/fund
dependant
Annually
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TITLE
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MECHANISM
MAXIMUM
ALLOCATION
FUNDING
FREQUENCY
Highlands
Community
Fund;
The Fund for
Mitchell
County;
Pigeon River
Fund;
Ramble
Charitable
Fund;
Transylvania
Endowment;
The Yancey
Fund
Non-
Governme
ntal & Non-
Traditional
Foundat
ions
The Duke Energy
Foundation
Powering
North
Carolina
Climate
Resiliency
https://www.duke-
energy.com/commu
nity/duke-energy-
foundation/north-
carolina
Environmental projects
supporting land conservation;
clean water; and biodiversity of
plant and animal species;
Environmental resiliency
projects that prepare
communities for and mitigate
against the effects of climate
change; Natural disaster
preparedness and response.
Grant $33,625,027
program;
$20,000
Annually
Non-
Governme
ntal & Non-
Traditional
Foundat
ions
The Winston-
Salem
Foundation
Nonprofits
&
Communit
y Groups-
Communit
y Grants
program
Capital
Improvement
Grants
Time-limited
projects to acquire,
upgrade, and
maintain physical
assets such as
property, buildings,
technology, or
equipment.
Grant $38,467,988
program;
$50,000
Annually
State North
Carolina
Departm
ent of
Justic
(NCDOJ)
Attorney General,
NCDOJ
Environme
ntal
Enhancem
ent Grant
(EEG)
program
FY 2022
Environmental
Enhancement
Grant Program
RFP
https://ncdoj.gov/pr
otecting-the-
environment/eeg/
Improve and protect natural
resources, closure of abandoned
hog waste lagoons, the
restoration or permanent
conservation of land, wetland
restoration, stormwater
remediation, stream
stabilization, environmental
Grant $500,000,
Varies
Annually,
March
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education and research
initiatives.
State North
Carolina
Division
of Water
Quality
(NCDEQ)
Division of
Mitigation
Services (DMS),
NCDEQ
Natural
Infrastruct
ure
Program
Stoney Creek
pilot project
https://deq.nc.gov/a
bout/divisions/mitig
ation-
services/natural-
infrastructure-
program
Target flooding which impacts
businesses, roadways and access
to emergency services; develop
scaling solutions to enhance
community flood resilience;
strategies like building wetlands
and restoring streams which
help store water and reduce
flooding; mitigate flooding using
natural infrastructure,
constructed systems which
mimic natural processes;
expanding natural infrastructure
flood mitigation projects to
additional watersheds.
Grant Pilot project
received $3.5
million in
appropriation
s & a NCORR
CDBG
Supplement
al, By
project-
Additional
Information
Coming
Soon
State North
Carolina
Division
of Water
Quality
(NCDEQ)
Division of
Mitigation
Services (DMS),
NCDEQ
In-Lieu Fee
mitigation
DMS's ILF
mitigation
programs are:
NCDOT
Stream/Wetlan
d Program
Statewide
Stream/Wetlan
d Program
Riparian Buffer
Program
Nutrient Offset
Program
Natural
Infrastructure
Program
https://deq.nc.gov/a
bout/divisions/mitig
ation-
services/about-
dms/dms-programs
Restore streams, wetlands and
riparian buffer areas using a
watershed approach;
concentrate mitigation
resources.
In-Lieu Fee DMS Rate per
credit varies
per Program
based on
service area,
mitigation
type,
standard/pre
mium RAs.
Supplement
al, By
project
State North
Carolina
Departm
ent of
Public
Safety
(NCDPS)
Emergency
Management
(NCEM), NCDPS
Transporta
tion
Resilience
Fund
Transportation
Infrastructure
Resiliency
Fund Grants
2022
https://www.ncdps.
gov/transportationin
frastructureresilienc
yfundgrants2022
Ensures communities have
access to critical supply and
evacuation routes. The fund will
go toward: Projects that update
and prepare transportation
infrastructure for storms,
mudslides, and flooding by
100% State-
Funded
Grants, No
Disaster
Declaration
Required
$max; $15
Million Fund
Annually
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MECHANISM
MAXIMUM
ALLOCATION
FUNDING
FREQUENCY
considering future risk. Risk
assessments for critical
transportation routes, building
on existing and future reports.
Community-informed flood risk
and vulnerability assessments
that identify resilience gaps and
projects for vital transportation
routes after floods.
State North
Carolina
Departm
ent of
Public
Safety
(NCDPS)
Emergency
Management
(NCEM), NCDPS
Disaster
Relief and
Mitigation
Special
Fund
Flood
Mitigation
Grants 2022
https://www.ncdps.
gov/floodmitigation
grants2022#:~:text=
Emergency%20Mana
gement%20Disaster
%20Relief%20and%
20Mitigation%20Fun
d&text=Eligible%20a
pplicants%20are%2
0state%20agencies,
available%20betwee
n%20five%20and%2
030
To help communities pay for
flood-reduction projects and
support pre-development
activities to help underserved
communities develop shovel-
ready projects.
100% State-
Funded
Grants, No
Disaster
Declaration
Required
$15 Million
Fund
Annually
State North
Carolina
Departm
ent of
Natural
and
Cultural
Resourc
es
(NCDNC
R)
Land and Water
Conservation
Fund (LWCF),
NCDNCR
LWCF FY 23 LWFC
Round 1 &2
https://www.ncpark
s.gov/about-
us/grants/land-and-
water-conservation-
fund
Conservation and recreation
purposes.
Grant Project
maximum of
$500,000;
50/50
matching
Annually
State North
Carolina
Departm
ent of
Natural
and
Cultural
Resourc
es
N.C. Wildlife
Resources
Commission
(NCWRC),
NCDNCR
Partners
for Green
Growth
Green Growth
Toolbox
https://www.ncwildl
ife.org/Conserving/P
rograms/Green-
Growth-
Toolbox/Technical-
Assistance
Land use planning projects that
address conservation of priority
wildlife habitats.
Grant Reimburse
cost-share
funds of up to
$20,000;
typically
awards
$10,000
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MECHANISM
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ALLOCATION
FUNDING
FREQUENCY
(NCDNC
R)
State North
Carolina
Departm
ent of
Public
Safety
(NCDPS)
NC Department of
Safety (NCDPS)
FEMA
Public
Assistance
Events
Receiving
Public
Assistance
Example:
Hurricane Ian,
EM8586-NC,
10/01/2022
https://www.ncdps.
gov/public-
assistance
Federally declared disasters, fix
or replace damaged public
properties such as roads,
bridges, buildings and parks that
have been damaged or
destroyed; emergency protective
measures, debris removal,
emergency communications and
emergency public
transportation. The categories
for grant funding are as follows:
Cat A - Debris Removal; Cat B -
Emergency Protective Measures;
Cat C - Roads and Bridges; Cat D -
Water Control Facilities; Cat E -
Public Buildings & Equipment;
Cat F - Public Utilities; Cat G -
Parks, Recreational Facilities,
and Other Items; Cat Z - State
Management Costs.
Grant EMA pays 75
percent of
eligible costs;
the state
and/or local
government
pays what is
left.
Supplement
al, after
federally
declared
disasters.
State North
Carolina
Departm
ent of
Public
Safety
(NCDPS)
NC Department of
Safety (NCDPS)
Tropical
Storm Fred
Recovery
Fund
HMG DR-4617-
NC (Tropical
Storm Fred)
https://www.ncdps.
gov/our-
organization/emerg
ency-
management/hazar
d-
mitigation#Tropical
StormFredDR-4617-
2081
Acquisition, Elevation, or
Mitigation Reconstruction for
community recovery for areas
where water dumped a foot of
rain in some places, swelling
rivers, triggering mudslides, and
leveling buildings across the
state.
Grant Acquisition
$323,000;
Elevation
$205,000;
Mitigation
Reconstructio
n $150,000$
Supplement
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Carolina
Departm
ent of
Public
Safety
(NCDPS)
NC Department of
Safety (NCDPS)
Hazard
Mitigation
Grant
Program
(HMGP)
Region 4
Allocations
https://www.fema.g
ov/grants/mitigation
/hazard-mitigation
Planning, enforcement, flood
reduction projects, retrofitting,
construction; Hazard mitigation
measures are any sustainable
action taken to reduce or
eliminate the long-term risk to
people and property from future
disasters; cost-effective post-
disaster projects.
Grant Disaster
dependent by
FY
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State North
Carolina
Departm
ent of
Public
Safety
(NCDPS)
NC Department of
Safety (NCDPS)
Flood
Mitigation
Assistance
(FMA)
Grant
Three different
types of
proposals;
Competitive
funding
program
amounts:
Capability and
Capacity
Building
Activities; $60
million
Localized
Flood Risk
Reduction
Projects; $340
million
Individual
Flood
Mitigation
Projects; $400
million
https://www.fema.g
ov/grants/mitigation
/floods
Reduce or eliminate the risk of
repetitive flood damage to
buildings insured by the National
Flood Insurance Program; used
for projects such as Project
Scoping; Technical Assistance;
Community Flood Mitigation
Projects; Individual
Structure/Property-Level Flood
Mitigation Projects; and
Management Costs.
Grant $800 million
program
available;
project limits
are per
proposal type
& project
Annually
State North
Carolina
Departm
ent of
Public
Safety
(NCDPS)
NC Department of
Safety (NCDPS)
Building
Resilient
Infrastruct
ure in
Communiti
es (BRIC)-
formerly
Pre-
Disaster
Mitigation
Capabilities &
Capacity
Building
(C&CB)
Proposals
https://www.ncdps.
gov/our-
organization/emerg
ency-
management/hazar
d-mitigation/non-
disaster-
grants#C&CB
Projects that demonstrate
innovative approaches to
partnerships, such as shared
funding mechanisms, and/or
project design.
Grant FY 23’ $3
Billion
program; $2
million for
State
Annually
State North
Carolina
Departm
ent of
Public
Safety
(NCDPS)
NC Department of
Safety (NCDPS)
Building
Resilient
Infrastruct
ure in
Communiti
es (BRIC)-
formerly
Pre-
Disaster
Shovel-ready
Infrastructure
Projects Under
BRIC
https://www.ncdps.
gov/our-
organization/emerg
ency-
management/hazar
d-mitigation/non-
disaster-
grants#BRIC
Project and or planning;
Activities must result in a
resource, strategy, or tangible
mitigation product that will
reduce or eliminate risk and
damage from future natural
hazards, increase resiliency, and
promote a culture of
preparedness.
Grant $2 million Annually
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FUNDING
FREQUENCY
State North
Carolina
Departm
ent of
Natural
and
Cultural
Resourc
es
(NCDNC
R)
NC Division of
Parks and
Recreation,
NCDNCR
State
Trails:
Recreation
al Trails
Program
(RTP)
Trail Grants https://trails.nc.gov/
trail-grants
Construction of a new trail,
maintenance and repair of
existing trails, land acquisitions,
purchase of trail tools and
planning, legal, environmental
and permitting costs (up to 10
percent of grant amount).
Grant $1.5 million
program;
project
amount
varies
Annually
State North
Carolina
Departm
ent of
Natural
and
Cultural
Resourc
es
(NCDNC
R)
NC Division of
Parks and
Recreation,
NCDNCR
Parks and
Recreation
Trust Fund
NC PARTF
Grant
https://www.ncpark
s.gov/about-
us/grants/parks -
and-recreation-
trust-fund/partf-
recipients
Planning projects for outdoor
and indoor recreation facilities;
support facilities such as roads,
parking areas, accessible routes,
walkways, utilities; and
Acquisition of park property.
Development Projects Outdoor
and indoor recreation facilities:
Support facilities such as roads,
parking areas, accessible routes,
walkways, utilities Improvement
of natural resource features
needed for public recreation use;
construction services such as bid
advertisements, design
engineering/ architectural
services, Contractor services
directly related to and required
for completing the project,
Permitting and environmental
reviews, Site preparation and
demolition, Materials such as
lumber, hardware, paint, sand,
gravel, landscape materials,
Rental of equipment in
completing the project, Signs
and equipment that are
physically attached, and/or
permanent improvements such
as soccer, football and
basketball goals, backstops,
Grant $17 million
program;
Maximum
$500,000 per
application
Annually
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playground equipment, tennis
posts and nets, etc.
State North
Carolina
Departm
ent of
Public
Safety
(NCDPS)
NC Emergency
Management
(NCEM), NCDPS
NC
Emergency
Manageme
nt Grants
Homeland
Security Grant
Program
(HSGP) - State
Homeland
Security
Program
(SHSP)
Homeland
Security Grant
Program
(HSGP) - Urban
Area Security
Initiative (UASI)
https://www.ncdps.
gov/our-
organization/emerg
ency-
management/emerg
ency-management-
grants/homeland-
security-grant-
program-hsgp
Prevent, protect, respond and
recover for all hazards, both
man-made and natural:
Enhancing the protection of soft
targets/crowded places – 3%
minimum spend; Enhancing
information and intelligence
sharing and cooperation with
federal agencies, including DHS
– 3% minimum spend;
Combating Domestic Violent
Extremism – 3% minimum
spend; Enhancing community
preparedness and resilience –
3% minimum spend; Enhancing
election security – no minimum
spend requirement; Enhancing
cybersecurity (including election
security) – no minimum spend
requirement.
Federal Grant
- No Disaster
Declaration
Required
Final award
amounts will
be based on
DHS/FEMA’s
evaluation of
the
effectiveness
of proposed
investments
and projects.
Annually;
Supplement
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Carolina
Departm
ent of
Public
Safety
(NCDPS)
NC Emergency
Management
(NCEM), NCDPS
NC
Emergency
Manageme
nt Grants
Emergency
Management
Performance
Grant (EMPG)
Emergency
Management
Performance
Grant (EMPG) -
American
https://www.ncdps.
gov/our-
organization/emerg
ency-
management/emerg
ency-management-
grants/emergency-
management-
Prevent, protect, respond and
recover for all hazards, both
man-made and natural:
Support emergency
management activities while
simultaneously addressing
issues of national concern as
identified in the National
Federal
Grant- No
Disaster
Declaration
Required
Program
funding is
dependent on
federal
availability of
funds by year;
50 percent
federal and 50
Annually;
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OFFICES
PROGRAM
TITLE
TITLE, NOFOS WEBSITE FUNDING PURPOSE LEGAL
MECHANISM
MAXIMUM
ALLOCATION
FUNDING
FREQUENCY
Rescue Plan
Act (ARPA)
Emergency
Management
Performance
Grant - State
(EMPG-S)
performance-grant-
empg
Priorities of the National
Preparedness Guidelines.
percent state
cost-share.
State North
Carolina
Departm
ent of
Public
Safety
(NCDPS)
NC Emergency
Management,
NCDPS
NC
Emergency
Manageme
nt Grants
Hazardous
Materials
Emergency
Preparedness
(HMEP)
https://www.ncdps.
gov/our-
organization/emerg
ency-
management/emerg
ency-management-
grants/hazardous -
materials-
emergency
Prevent, protect, respond and
recover for all hazards, both
man-made and natural:
hazardous materials emergency
planning and training.
Federal
Grant- No
Disaster
Declaration
Required
Varies by
emergency
responder
and Local
Emergency
Planning
Committees
(LEPCs)
needs.
Supplement
al
State North
Carolina
Departm
ent of
Public
Safety
(NCDPS)
NC Emergency
Management,
NCDPS
NC
Emergency
Manageme
nt Grants
NC Tier II
Competitive
and
Noncompetitiv
e
Nonprofit
Security Grant
Program -
State (NSGP -S)
Nonprofit
Security Grant
Program -
Urban Area
(NSGP-UA)
Community
Technical
Assistance
Program (CTP)
- Letter of Map
Change (LOMC)
Community
Assistance
Program (CAP)
- State Support
Services
Element (SSE)
Emergency
https://www.ncdps.
gov/our-
organization/emerg
ency-
management/grants
Prevent, protect, respond and
recover for all hazards, both
man-made and natural.
Legal Mechanism:
100% State-
Funded
Grants
Varies by
emergency
responder
and Local
Emergency
Planning
Committees
(LEPCs)
needs.
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VEHICLES
AGENCY ADMINISTRATIVE
OFFICES
PROGRAM
TITLE
TITLE, NOFOS WEBSITE FUNDING PURPOSE LEGAL
MECHANISM
MAXIMUM
ALLOCATION
FUNDING
FREQUENCY
Operations
Center (EOC)
Grants- Coming
again soon
State North
Carolina
Departm
ent of
Public
Safety
(NCDPS)
NC Emergency
Management,
NCDPS
NC
Emergency
Manageme
nt Grants
Nonprofit
Security Grant
Program -
State (NSGP -S)
Nonprofit
Security Grant
Program -
Urban Area
(NSGP-UA)
https://www.ncdps.
gov/our-
organization/emerg
ency-
management/emerg
ency-management-
grants/non-profit-
security-grant-
program
Prevent, protect, respond and
recover for all hazards, both
man-made and natural:
emergency preparedness
coordination and collaboration
activities between public and
private community
representatives as well as state,
local, and tribal government
agencies.
Federal
Grant- No
Disaster
Declaration
Required
$450,000 per
project
entities
Annual,
Supplement
al
State North
Carolina
Departm
ent of
Public
Safety
(NCDPS)
NC Emergency
Management,
NCDPS
NC
Emergency
Manageme
nt Grants
Emergency
Operations
Center (EOC)
Grants- Coming
Again Soon
https://www.fema.g
ov/grants/preparedn
ess/emergency-
operations-
center/fy-22-nofo
Prevent, protect, respond and
recover for all hazards, both
man-made and natural- Coming
Soon-
Grant FY 22
program
$49,026,403
Supplement
al
State North
Carolina
Departm
ent of
Natural
and
Cultural
Resourc
es
(NCDNC
R)
NC Forest Service
(NCFS), NCDNCR
NC Urban
and
Communit
y Forestry
(U&CF)
Program
Urban and
Community
Forestry
Financial
Assistance
Grant

https://www.ncfores
tservice.gov/Urban/
urban_grant_progra
m.htm
Urban Forestry Tree Inventories
and Canopy Cover Assessments,
Urban Forestry Ordinances and
Policies, Urban and Community
Forestry Plan Development,
Community Forestry Activities,
Urban and Community Forestry
Professional Staff Development,
Special Projects – creative or
broad impact project ideas
outside the above categories will
be considered and are
encouraged to apply.
Grant Per project by
rank up to
program
amount by
agency or
block
Supplement
al
State Natural
Resourc
es
Conserv
NC NRCS Wetlands
Reserve
Easements
-North
Open Program-
No NOFOs
https://www.nrcs.us
da.gov/programs-
initiatives/wre-
wetland-reserve-
Restore, protect, and enhance
wetlands through the purchase
of a Wetland Reserve Easement
Grant,
Easements,
Technical
assistance
Project
Dependent
Annually
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OFFICES
PROGRAM
TITLE
TITLE, NOFOS WEBSITE FUNDING PURPOSE LEGAL
MECHANISM
MAXIMUM
ALLOCATION
FUNDING
FREQUENCY
ation
Service
in North
Carolina
(NCNRC
S)
Carolina
(WRE)
easements/north-
carolina/wetlands-
reserve-easements-
north
State Natural
Resourc
es
Conserv
ation
Service
in North
Carolina
(NCNRC
S)
NC NRCS Environme
nt Quality
Incentives
Program-
North
Carolina
(EQIP)
Open Program-
No NOFOs
https://www.nrcs.us
da.gov/programs-
initiatives/eqip-
environmental-
quality-
incentives/north-
carolina/environme
nt-quality
Agriculture or forestry control of
highly erodible land and
wetlands.
Grant up to
50% of
materials;
Technical
Assistance
Project
Dependent
Annually
State Natural
Resourc
es
Conserv
ation
Service
in North
Carolina
(NCNRC
S)
NC NRCS Emergency
Watershed
Protection
Program-
North
Carolina
(EWP)
Open Program-
No NOFOs
https://www.nrcs.us
da.gov/conservation
-
basics/conservation-
by-state/north-
carolina
Purchase EWPP easements on
any floodplain lands that have
been impaired within the last 12
months or that have a history of
repeated flooding (i.e., flooded
at least two times during the
past 10 years). Installation of
recovery measures. Activities can
include: debris from stream
channels, road culverts, and
bridges, reshape and protect
eroded banks, correct damaged
drainage facilities, establish
cover on critically eroding lands,
repair levees and structures and
repair conservation practices.
Projects that seek to conserve
natural values including fish and
wildlife habitat, water quality,
flood water retention, ground
water recharge, and safeguard
lives and property from floods,
drought, and the products of
erosion.
Grant,
Easements,
Technical
assistanc
Installation
75% or 90%
for Limited
Resource
Areas;
Engr/Tech
100%
Annually
State North
Carolina
Departm
NC Office of
Recovery &
Resiliency
RISE
Regional
Resilience
RISE Regional
Resilience
https://www.rebuild
.nc.gov/resiliency
Help NC communities rebuild
after natural disasters and public
health emergencies using
Revolving
Loans; grants
$600,000
program
funds; varying
Annually
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VEHICLES
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OFFICES
PROGRAM
TITLE
TITLE, NOFOS WEBSITE FUNDING PURPOSE LEGAL
MECHANISM
MAXIMUM
ALLOCATION
FUNDING
FREQUENCY
ent of
Public
Safety
(NCDPS)
(NCORR),
ReBUILDNC
Portfolio
Program
Portfolio
Program
temporary cash assistance to
local and tribal Governments.
project
amounts
State North
Carolina
Division
of Water
Quality
(NCDEQ)
NCDEQ NC DEQ
Nonpoint
Source
Program
(319)
N/A https://deq.nc.gov/a
bout/divisions/water
-resources/water-
planning/nonpoint-
source-
planning/319-grant-
program
Base and Incremental Projects;
Funds may be used to
demonstrate innovative best
management practices (BMPs),
support education and outreach
programs, establish Total
Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) for
a watershed, or to restore
impaired streams or other water
resources. Watershed
restoration projects such as
stormwater and agricultural best
management practices and
restoration of impaired streams;
restore waterbodies currently
impaired by nonpoint source
pollution in areas with approved
watershed restoration plans.
Grants $1 million
program
Annually
State North
Carolina
Division
of Water
Quality
(NCDEQ)
NCDEQ NCDEQ
Water
Quality
Manageme
nt Planning
Grant
205(j)
N/A https://deq.nc.gov/a
bout/divisions/water
-resources/water-
planning/nonpoint-
source-
planning/205j-wq-
management-
planning-
grant#Overview -
2811
Water quality planning projects;
identifying the nature, extent
and cause or doing planning
work to address those problems.
Projects can include but are not
limited: development of EPA 9-
Element Watershed Restoration
Plans for a 12-digit or smaller
USGS HUC, mapping stormwater
infrastructure, conducting
engineering designs for
stormwater best management
practices, and watershed
assessments of pollutant
sources.
Grants $150,000
average
program
amount;
Project
funding varies
by project
Annually
State North
Carolina
Division
of Water
Quality
(NCDEQ)
NCDEQ Communit
y
Developme
nt Block
Grant –
Community
Development
Block Grant –
Infrastructure
https://deq.nc.gov/a
bout/divisions/water
-infrastructure/i-
need-
funding/community-
Address water and wastewater
infrastructure needs in HUD
qualified low -to-moderate
income communities.
Grants $3 million/
project
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VEHICLES
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OFFICES
PROGRAM
TITLE
TITLE, NOFOS WEBSITE FUNDING PURPOSE LEGAL
MECHANISM
MAXIMUM
ALLOCATION
FUNDING
FREQUENCY
Infrastruct
ure
development-block-
grant-infrastructure
State North
Carolina
Division
of Water
Quality
(NCDEQ)
NCDEQ State
Wastewate
r and
Drinking
Water
Reserve
Programs
State
Wastewater
and Drinking
Water Reserve
Grant
fall/spring
https://deq.nc.gov/a
bout/divisions/water
-infrastructure/i-
need-funding/state-
wastewater-and-
drinking-water-
reserve-programs
Technical assistance and for
construction of critical needs for
wastewater collection systems,
wastewater treatment works,
and public water system projects
through planning, design and
construction of critical water
infrastructure.
Grant and
Loans
$3 million/
project
Supplement
al
State North
Carolina
Division
of Water
Quality
(NCDEQ)
NCDEQ Merger/Reg
ionalizatio
n
Feasibility
Grant
Program
Merger/Region
alization
Feasibility
Grant Program
fall/spring
https://deq.nc.gov/a
bout/divisions/water
-infrastructure/i-
need-
funding/mergerregio
nalization-
feasibility-grants
Studies to evaluate the potential
consolidation of two or more
systems into one system and the
potential physical
interconnection with another
system for regional wastewater
treatment or regional water
supply.
Grant $50,000 from
the
Wastewater
Reserve or the
Drinking
Water Reserve
Supplement
al
State North
Carolina
Division
of Water
Quality
(NCDEQ)
NCDEQ Asset
Inventory
and
Assessmen
t Grant
Program
Asset and
Inventory
Assessment
Grants
fall/spring
https://deq.nc.gov/a
bout/divisions/water
-infrastructure/i-
need-funding/asset-
and-inventory-
assessment-grants
Asset Inventory, Condition
Assessment of critical assets,
Other components of critical
assets.
Grant $150,000 from
the
Wastewater
Reserve or the
Drinking
Water Reserve
Supplement
al
State North
Carolina
Division
of Water
Quality
(NCDEQ)
NCDEQ Local
Assistance
for
Stormwate
r
Infrastruct
ure
Investment
s Program
(LASII)
LASII
fall/spring
https://deq.nc.gov/
media/30999/downl
oad?attachment
Stormwater Construction,
Planning, Development and
Implementation of New
Stormwater Utility to improve or
create infrastructure for
controlling stormwater quality
and quantity.
Grant $82 million
program;
Construction
$5,000,000,
and Planning
$500,000;
awarded
through ARPA
and has
almost all
been
obligated.
Future
funding
amounts to
be
determined
by leg.
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al
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TITLE
TITLE, NOFOS WEBSITE FUNDING PURPOSE LEGAL
MECHANISM
MAXIMUM
ALLOCATION
FUNDING
FREQUENCY
State State
and
Tribal
Assistan
ce
Grants
(STAG)
program
NCDEQ & EPA State and
Tribal
Assistance
Grants
(STAG)
program
Brownfield
Projects;
Infrastructure
Assistance:
Clean Water
SRF;
Infrastructure
Assistance:
Drinking Water
SRF;
Safe Water for
Small &
Disadvantaged
Communities;
Drinking Water
Infrastructure
Resilience and
Sustainability;
Sewer
Overflow and
Stormwater
Reuse Grants;
Water
Infrastructure
Workforce
Investment;
Technical
Assistance and
Grants for
Emergencies
(SDWA);
Technical
Assistance and
Grants for
Emergencies,
Small Systems;
Source Water
Petition
Program;
Voluntary
Connection to
Public Water
Systems;
https://www.epa.go
v/system/files/docu
ments/2022-05/fy23-
cj-11-stag.pdf
Grant and project dependent;
Generally water based projects
or planning for source, storage,
treatment, or transmission &
distribution systems; resiliency
or sustainability.
Loans and
Grant
$56,319,893,2
50 program
balance;
project
dependent
but maximum
is $20 million.
Annually
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OFFICES
PROGRAM
TITLE
TITLE, NOFOS WEBSITE FUNDING PURPOSE LEGAL
MECHANISM
MAXIMUM
ALLOCATION
FUNDING
FREQUENCY
Underserved
Communities
Grant to Meet
SDWA
Requirements;
Small System
Water Loss
Identification
and
Prevention;
Midsize and
Large Drinking
Water System
Infrastructure
Resilience and
Sustainability;
Indian
Reservation
Drinking Water
Program;
Advanced
Drinking Water
Technologies;
Clean Water
Infrastructure
Resiliency and
Sustainability
Program;
Small and
Medium
Publicly Owned
Treatment
Works Circuit
Rider Program;
Grants for Low
and Moderate
Income
Household
Decentralized
Wastewater
Systems;
Stormwater
Infrastructure
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TITLE
TITLE, NOFOS WEBSITE FUNDING PURPOSE LEGAL
MECHANISM
MAXIMUM
ALLOCATION
FUNDING
FREQUENCY
Technology;
Stormwater
Control
Infrastructure
Project Grants;
Alternative
Water Sources
Pilot Program;
Enhanced
Aquifer Use
and Recharge;
State North
Carolina
Division
of Water
Quality
(NCDEQ)
NCDEQ
Construction
Grants and Loans
Section
Clean
Water SRF
Program
(State
Revolving
Fund);
CWSRF
Program
replaced
N/A https://deq.nc.gov/a
bout/divisions/water
-infrastructure/i-
need-funding/clean-
water-state-
revolving-
fund#:~:text=The%2
0Clean%20Water%2
0Fund%20has,the%
Wastewater treatment,
Wastewater collection,
Reclaimed water, Stormwater
BMPs, Stream restoration,
Energy efficiency at treatment
works or collection systems;
Green Projects and for
rehabilitation projects.
Loans and
Grant
$30 million
per Project
Annually
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OFFICES
PROGRAM
TITLE
TITLE, NOFOS WEBSITE FUNDING PURPOSE LEGAL
MECHANISM
MAXIMUM
ALLOCATION
FUNDING
FREQUENCY
the earlier
Constructi
on Grants
program
20earlier%20Constr
uction%20Grants%2
0program
State North
Carolina
Division
of Water
Quality
(NCDEQ)
NCDRQ
Construction
Grants and Loans
Section
Drinking
Water
State
Revolving
Fund
N/A https://deq.nc.gov/a
bout/divisions/water
-infrastructure/i-
need-
funding/drinking-
water-state-
revolving-fund
Water systems; improving
drinking water treatment, fixing
leaky or old pipes (water
distribution), improving source
of water supply, replacing or
constructing finished water
storage tanks, and other
infrastructure projects needed to
protect public health.
Loans,
refinancing,
purchasing,
guaranteeing
local debt,
purchasing
bond
insurance,
grants,
principal
forgiveness,
negative
interest rate
loans
Dependent on
project and
four distinct
set-asides.
Annually
State North
Carolina
Departm
ent of
Agricult
ure and
Consum
er
Services
(NCDA&
CS)
North Carolina
Department of
Agriculture and
Consumer
Services
(NCDA&CS)
Agricultura
l
Developme
nt and
Farmland
Preservatio
n Trust
Fund
Cycle 16 https://ncadfp.org/c
ycle16.htm
To secure agricultural
conservation easements on
agricultural, horticultural, and
forestlands for the active
production of food, fiber, and
other agricultural products;
purchase of the easement and
other allowable costs.
Grant,
Easements
$500,000
Maximum
Grants; 50%
or less of the
estimated
value of
conservation
easement
Voluntary
Agricultural
District/
Enhanced
Voluntary
Agricultural
District $7,500
County
Farmland
Protection
Plans / Cost of
Community
Services
Studies
$15,000
Annually
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OFFICES
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TITLE
TITLE, NOFOS WEBSITE FUNDING PURPOSE LEGAL
MECHANISM
MAXIMUM
ALLOCATION
FUNDING
FREQUENCY
State U.S.
Departm
ent of
Commer
ce (DOC)
North Carolina
Department of
Commerce
(NCDOC)
Infrastruct
ure | State
Rural
Grants
Infrastructure |
State Rural
Grants
https://www.comme
rce.nc.gov/grants-
incentives/public-
infrastructure-
funds/infrastructure
-state-rural-grants
Upgrades or repair of public
drinking water or wastewater
treatment plants; Upgrades,
extensions, or repair of public
water or sewer lines; Extensions
of publicly owned natural gas
line (with an executed Pipeline
Construction, Operating and
Resale Agreement; Installation or
extension of public broadband
infrastructure; Construction of
publicly owned access roads not
funded or owned by the NC
Department of Transportation;
Construction of public rail spur
improvements.
Grant 100% project
cost for top
25 most
distressed NC
Counties;
75% project
cost for next
55 Counties
Bi-Monthly
State U.S.
Departm
ent of
Commer
ce (DOC)
North Carolina
Department of
Commerce
(NCDOC)
Infrastruct
ure |
Federal
CDBG
Economic
Developme
nt
Infrastructure |
Federal CDBG
Economic
Development
https://www.comme
rce.nc.gov/grants-
incentives/public-
infrastructure-
funds/infrastructure
-federal-cdbg-
economic-
development
Enhancing local community
housing and environments,
expanding economic
opportunities. Community
Development Block Grant
(CDBG) funds are available to
local municipal or county
governments for projects to
enhance the vitality of
communities by providing
decent housing and suitable
living environments and
expanding economic
opportunities. These grants
primarily serve persons of low-
and moderate- incomes. State
CDBG funds are provided by the
U.S. Department of Housing and
Urban Development (HUD) to the
state of North Carolina. Some
urban counties and cities in
North Carolina receive CDBG
funding directly from HUD. CDBG
Funds are used to spur economic
development for job creation
and retention. The economic
development component of the
Grant 100% project
cost for top
25 most
distressed NC
Counties;
75% project
cost for next
55 Counties
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OFFICES
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MECHANISM
MAXIMUM
ALLOCATION
FUNDING
FREQUENCY
CDBG Program is administered
by the Rural Economic
Development Division within the
North Carolina Department of
Commerce. CDBG Infrastructure
funds are administered by the
North Carolina Department of
Environmental Quality to assist
with addressing environmental
issues due to aging sewer
systems, contaminated drinking
water, and improve the quality
of life for many citizens across
the state because of improved
systems. The North Carolina
Division of Water Infrastructure
provides financial assistance for
projects that improve water
quality.
State U.S.
Departm
ent of
Commer
ce (DOC)
North Carolina
Department of
Commerce
(NCDOC)
Utility
Account
Utility Account https://www.comme
rce.nc.gov/grants-
incentives/public-
infrastructure-
funds/utility-
account
The Utility Account helps local
governments build the public
infrastructure that can attract
businesses, specifically
industrial-grade utility services.
To apply, counties must be
ranked as one of the 80 most
distressed under G.S. 143B-
437.08 Funds may be used for
construction or improvements to
water, sewer, gas,
telecommunications, high-speed
broadband, transportation
infrastructure or electrical utility
lines and for equipment for
existing or proposed industrial
buildings. To be eligible for
funding, the infrastructure is
required to be on the building
site or if not located on the site,
directly related to the operation
of the specific industrial activity.
Funds may be used for
construction or improvements to
Grant 100% project
cost for top
25 most
distressed NC
Counties;
75% project
cost for next
55 Counties
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AGENCY ADMINISTRATIVE
OFFICES
PROGRAM
TITLE
TITLE, NOFOS WEBSITE FUNDING PURPOSE LEGAL
MECHANISM
MAXIMUM
ALLOCATION
FUNDING
FREQUENCY
water, sewer, gas,
telecommunications,
transportation infrastructure or
electrical utility lines. To be
eligible for funding, the
infrastructure is required to be
on the building site or if not
located on the site, directly
related to the operation of the
specific industrial activity. The
site must be publicly owned and
there must be a reasonable
expectation that jobs will be
created as a result of the project
being funded.
State U.S.
Departm
ent of
Commer
ce (DOC)
North Carolina
Department of
Commerce
(NCDOC)
Demolition
| State
Rural
Grants
Demolition |
State Rural
Grants
https://www.comme
rce.nc.gov/grants-
incentives/building-
or-site-
funds/demolition/de
molition-state-rural-
grants
Support the demolition of a
vacant building to encourage
site rehabilitation and site
availability for economic
development purposes.
Grant 100% project
cost for top
25 most
distressed NC
Counties;
75% project
cost for next
55 Counties
Bi-Monthly
State U.S.
Departm
ent of
Commer
ce (DOC)
North Carolina
Department of
Commerce
(NCDOC)
Rail
Industrial
Access
Program
Rail Industrial
Access Grants
https://www.comme
rce.nc.gov/grants-
incentives/public-
infrastructure-
funds/rail-industrial-
access-program
Engineering and design, site
preparation including grading
and drainage, track
construction, switches, grade
crossings and signals for
construction or refurbish
railroad spur tracks; modernize
railroad tracks; improve rail
access.
Grant Maximum of
50% of total
project costs;
$200,000 limit
per project
Annually
State U.S.
Departm
ent of
Commer
ce (DOC)
North Carolina
Department of
Commerce
(NCDOC)
Job
Developme
nt
Investment
Grant
(JDIG)
High-Yield
Project (HYP)
JDIG
Transitional
Project
JDIG
Transformative
Project
https://www.comme
rce.nc.gov/grants-
incentives/competiti
ve-incentives/job-
development-
investment-grant-
jdig
Any project that creates the
minimum number of eligible
positions.
Grant $35,000,000
program;
$5,000,000
Annually
State U.S.
Departm
ent of
North Carolina
Department of
One North
Carolina
Fund
County
Development
Tier
https://edpnc.com/i
ncentives/one-
north-carolina-fund/
Job creation projects, funding
based on the number of jobs
created, level of investment,
Grant Tier
Dependent-
75% for an
Rolling
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TITLE
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MECHANISM
MAXIMUM
ALLOCATION
FUNDING
FREQUENCY
Commer
ce (DOC)
Commerce
(NCDOC)
Designation
(Tier 1-3)
location of the project, economic
impact of the project and the
importance of the project to the
state and region.
eligible
business
located in a
development
tier 1 or 2
county, and
50% for an
eligible
business
located in a
Tier 3 county.
State U.S.
Departm
ent of
Commer
ce (DOC)
North Carolina
Department of
Commerce
(NCDOC)
Disaster
Recovery
Grants
Recovery-
State/Rural
Grants
Recovery-
Federal/CDBG-
DR
https://www.comme
rce.nc.gov/grants-
incentives/disaster-
recovery#Recovery-
FederalCDBG-DR -
289
Help North Carolina
communities rebuild after
natural disasters and public
health emergencies.
Grant Program
Dependent
Annually
State North
Carolina
Departm
ent of
Natural
and
Cultural
Resourc
es
(NCDNC
R)
North Carolina
Land and Water
Fund (NCLWF),
NCDNCR
Flood Risk
Reduction
Grant
Program
FY 23 Flood
Risk Reduction
Grant, July
https://nclwf.nc.gov/
grants/apply-
grant/flood-risk-
reduction-grant-
program
Reduce flood risks through the
design, implementation, and
preservation of nature-based
infrastructure. Additional
consideration, other ecosystem
services or public benefits,
demonstrate readiness to begin
implementation, and benefit
economically distressed
communities
Grant $250,000
maximum;
$25 Million
fund
Annually
State North
Carolina
Departm
ent of
Natural
and
Cultural
Resourc
es
(NCDNC
R)
North Carolina
Land and Water
Fund (NCLWF),
NCDNCR
FY 22
NCLWF
Innovative
Stormwate
r Award
FY 22 NCLWF
Innovative
Stormwater
Award
https://nclwf.nc.gov/
home/innovative-
stormwater-projects
Innovative stormwater projects
as projects that: 1) bring
something new or different to
practices in stormwater-quality
management, 2) build on
experience and current
practices, and 3) advance
practices in stormwater-quality
management regionally or
statewide. Innovative
stormwater projects will focus
on developing and applying new
information. These projects will
emphasize developing
representative and defensible
Grant State
allocations &
project
dependent
Annually
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monitoring data and cost data,
evaluating system effectiveness
and performance in field
applications, evaluating
economic and social benefits,
and disseminating findings and
results.
State North
Carolina
Departm
ent of
Natural
and
Cultural
Resourc
es
(NCDNC
R)
North Carolina
Land and Water
Fund (NCLWF),
NCDNCR
Minigrants
Program
FY 22 NCLWF
Minigrants
Award
https://nclwf.nc.gov/
media/241/downloa
d
Part 1) Surveys and Legal
Descriptions, Phase I
Environmental Site Assessment -
optional at the discretion of the
applicant, Baseline
Documentation Report, Title
Insurance or Title Opinion, Legal
Fees, Closing Costs, and
Recording Fees, Contract
Administration Costs;
Part 2) Property Management;
Part 3) Stewardship Endowment
funds.
Grant $500,000
maximum;
Project
Budget Item
dependent;
Part 1) 100% ;
Part 2) $2,500;
Part 3)50%
Annually
State North
Carolina
Departm
ent of
Natural
and
Cultural
Resourc
es
(NCDNC
R)
North Carolina
Land and Water
Fund (NCLWF),
NCDNCR
Restoratio
n Program
FY 23 NCLWF
Restoration
Grant
https://nclwf.nc.gov/
media/94/open
Restoration of the natural
hydrology, stream channel,
floodplain and/or riparian
habitat to provide ecological
uplift and the long-term stability
of natural resources, including:
Stream Restoration,
enhancement, or stabilization;
Dam Removal and
enhancement; Wetland
Restoration, creation, or
enhancement; Other projects
that would promote the quality
of receiving surface waters.
Consult your field
representative.
Grant Maximum
50% of
Project
Annually
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FUNDING
FREQUENCY
State North
Carolina
Departm
ent of
Natural
and
Cultural
Resourc
es
(NCDNC
R)
North Carolina
Land and Water
Fund (NCLWF),
NCDNCR
Planning
Program
FY 23 NCLWF
Planning Grant
https://fs24.formsite
.com/NCLWF/mxdfm
a9tgz/form_login.ht
ml
Reductions in surface water
pollution with intent to conserve
areas of high resource value or to
restore degraded lands to re-
establish their ability to protect
water quality; watershed or river
corridor plans to identify and
prioritize restoration
opportunities; include
watershed plans to identify and
prioritize land parcels for
conservation, and monitoring
plans to identify and locate
threats to the State’s cultural,
environmental, and natural
resources.
Grant Capped at
$75,000
Annually
State North
Carolina
Departm
ent of
Natural
and
Cultural
Resourc
es
(NCDNC
R)
North Carolina
Land and Water
Fund (NCLWF),
NCDNCR
Acquisition
Program
FY 23 NCLWF
Acquisition
Grant
https://nclwf.nc.gov/
media/102/open
Enhance or restore degraded
surface water, including drinking
water supplies, and contribute
toward a network of riparian
buffers and greenways for
environmental, educational, and
recreational benefits; provide
buffers around military bases to
protect the military mission;
acquire land that represents the
ecological diversity of North
Carolina; and acquire land that
contributes to the development
of a balanced State program of
historic properties. Acquisition
Program funds from the NCLWF
may be used for the purchase of
property in fee simple or
perpetual conservation
agreements. Land acquisition
projects may include land that: Is
within the first 300 feet from the
top of the stream bank, or the
width of the 100-year floodplain,
whichever is greater; and/or
Contains natural areas, element
occurrences, or species of
Grant Varys by
Project and
Project Score
(can be 100%
of project)
Annually
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concern as defined by the NC
Natural Heritage Program or
adjacent buffer land that is
critical to the viability of those
areas; and/or Buffers natural
habitat around military
installations or military training
areas, or is identified for state
matching funds toward federal
funding initiatives that protect
natural habitat around military
installations or training areas;
and/or is the site where historic
or cultural events occurred or
the viewshed of such properties.
State North
Carolina
Departm
ent of
Agricult
ure and
Consum
er
Services
(NCDA&
CS)
The Division of
Soil and Water
Conservation
(DSWC)
North
Carolina
Agriculture
Cost Share
Program
(NC ACSP
N/A https://www.ncagr.g
ov/SWC/costsharepr
ograms/ACSP/
Establishment of Best
Management Practices (BMPs)
for agricultural operations that
improve on-farm management.
Grant,
Easements,
Technical
assistance
Installation
75% or 90%
for Limited
Resource
Areas;
Engr/Tech
100%
Annually
State North
Carolina
Departm
ent of
Agricult
ure and
Consum
er
Services
(NCDA&
CS)
The Division of
Soil and Water
Conservation
(DSWC)
Conservati
on Reserve
Enhancem
ent
Program
(CREP)
N/A https://www.fsa.usd
a.gov/programs-
and-
services/conservatio
n-
programs/conservati
on-reserve-
enhancement/index
Removing environmentally
sensitive land from production
and establishing permanent
resource conserving plant
species.
Grant,
Easements,
Technical
assistance
$50,000/year
payments
Annually
State North
Carolina
Departm
ent of
The Division of
Soil and Water
Conservation
(DSWC)
Communit
y
Conservati
on
N/A https://www.ncagr.g
ov/SWC/costsharepr
ograms/CCAP/index.
html
Water quality and installation of
various best management
practices (BMPs).
Grant,
Easements,
Technical
assistance
$15,000 per
project
Annually
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TITLE
TITLE, NOFOS WEBSITE FUNDING PURPOSE LEGAL
MECHANISM
MAXIMUM
ALLOCATION
FUNDING
FREQUENCY
Agricult
ure and
Consum
er
Services
(NCDA&
CS)
Assistance
Program
(CCAP)
State North
Carolina
Division
of Water
Quality
(NCDEQ)
The North
Carolina Division
of Coastal
Management
(NCDCM)
Coastal
and
Estuarine
Land
Conservati
on
Program
(CELCP)
N/A http://dcm2.enr.stat
e.nc.us/Marinas/clea
n.htm
Marina and waterway cleanup Recognition
Program
N/A Annually
State North
Carolina
Division
of Water
Quality
(NCDEQ)
The North
Carolina Division
of Coastal
Management
(NCDCM)
Coastal
and
Estuarine
Land
Conservati
on
Program
(CELCP)
N/A https://deq.nc.gov/a
bout/divisions/coast
al-
management/coasta
l-management-
recognition-
programs/nc-
pumpout-program
Installation and renovation of
pumpout and dump stations for
public, private and commercial
marinas, gas/service docks, fish
houses/seafood dealers and
other boat docking facilities.
Grant Program
$958,529.00
maximum;
$20,000
Annually
Tribal National
Associat
ion of
Tribal
Historic
Preserva
tion
Officers
Bush Foundation Communit
y
Innovation
for
Organizati
ons
Community
Innovation
Grants
https://www.bushfo
undation.org/comm
unity-innovation-
grants
Transformative impacts grants and
program-
related
investments
(PRIs) low-
interest loans
no caps Annually
Tribal National
Associat
ion of
Tribal
Historic
Preserva
tion
Officers
(NATHP
O)
NATHPO/The
Wilderness
Society
Protecting
Native
Places
Fund
Protecting
Native Places,
2022
https://www.nathpo
.org/assets/pdf/Prot
ecting+Native+Place
s+Fund/
Support efforts on-the-ground
restoration and stewardship, or
efforts to change local land
management plans or policies.
Grant $80,000
awarded in
$5,000 grants
Annually,
February-
March
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MECHANISM
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ALLOCATION
FUNDING
FREQUENCY
Tribal National
Associat
ion of
Tribal
Historic
Preserva
tion
Officers
National Fund for
Sacred Places
National
Fund for
Sacred
Places
National Fund
for Sacred
Places
https://savingplaces.
org/national-fund-
for-sacred-
places?utm_mediu
m=email&utm_sour
ce=update&utm_ca
mpaign=grants
Protect and preserve their
historic houses of worship;
native or cultural worship
included.
Grants $20 million Annually