DoD Streamside Restoration Small Grants

[Center for Public Environmental Oversight <cpeo@cpeo.org>]

DoD Streamside Restoration Small Grants Program

This program will enable installation personnel to work with teachers,
students and local organizations to learn about, and have an actual hand
in, improving water quality. Funds will be available to purchase
appropriate native plants where installations implement restoration
projects in partnership with a local organization.

What are the application criteria?

 1.Funds up to $5000 are available to military installations working
in partnership with a local school and/or civic organization to purchase
locally native plant material for small streamside restoration projects.

 2.The term "streamside" can be used broadly to include restoration
plantings in natural areas along streams, rivers. lakes and adjacent
upland areas.

 3.To be eligible for funds, the installation must take on this
project in partnership with a group from the local community. Such
partners could be a school, a scout and/or youth group, or a local
environmental community organizations. In addition, the installation
must be able to show that their project has ecological significance that
to `clean water'.

 4.Funds may be used for the purchase of native plant materials,
fill, mulch, stakes, and fencing. The funds MAY NOT be used for the
purchase of hardware (shovels, trowels, rakes, and other planting
tools), or for non-native plant material, or to reimburse installation
overhead costs or labor.

 5.Funding preference will be given to those applicants who: 1)
clearly illustrate that partner organizations are engaged in the
project; 2) illustrate that they will plant a diverse mix of appropriate
native species, rather than just one or two species.

How do I apply or get more information?

Go to
http://denix.cecer.army.mil/denix/Public/News/Earthday98/Grants/grants.html