Opportunity Information: Apply for L23AS00212
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) New Mexico Invasive and Noxious Plant Management opportunity (Funding Opportunity Number L23AS00212) is a discretionary federal funding program offered by the U.S. Department of the Interior through BLM. It is structured as a cooperative agreement, which generally means recipients should expect a more hands-on partnership with the agency than a standard grant, including coordination with BLM staff and alignment with BLM land-management priorities. The program sits in the natural resources funding category under CFDA 15.230 and is focused on work that supports the management of invasive and noxious plant species in New Mexico, particularly in ways that protect public lands, habitat values, and land health objectives that BLM manages or influences.
Eligibility is limited to public and nonprofit or educational institutions rather than private commercial entities. Eligible applicants include state, county, and local governments (including cities/townships and special districts), independent school districts, public and state-controlled institutions of higher education, private institutions of higher education, federally recognized Native American tribal governments, other tribal organizations, public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities, and nonprofits both with and without 501(c)(3) status (as long as they are not institutions of higher education when applying under the nonprofit categories). Individuals and for-profit organizations are explicitly ineligible to apply under this notice of funding opportunity (NOFO), so proposals must come from one of the eligible public-sector, tribal, nonprofit, or educational entities listed.
A key restriction in this NOFO is that it does not support projects where the applicant plans to hire interns or crews under the Public Lands Corps Act of 1993. The notice explains that the Public Lands Corps Act (16 USC, Chapter 37, Subchapter II) is the specific legal authority that allows BLM to "hire" interns under that framework, and this particular invasive plant management NOFO is not the vehicle for that type of internship or crew-based youth engagement. As a result, youth-oriented conservation corps activities must be pursued through the separate BLM youth-focused funding channel, identified in the notice as NOFO 15.243, BLM Youth Conservation Opportunities on Public Lands. In practical terms, applicants should avoid building proposals around Public Lands Corps internships or crew hiring under this opportunity and instead keep the project design centered on invasive and noxious plant management outcomes consistent with BLM New Mexico priorities.
From a funding standpoint, the award ceiling is listed as $1,000,000, indicating that individual awards could be substantial, though the actual award size would depend on project scope, available funds, and BLM program decisions. The original closing date for submissions was April 3, 2023, and the opportunity was created on February 2, 2023. While the listing does not specify the number of expected awards in the provided text, the ceiling and cooperative agreement format suggest BLM anticipated funding a set of projects that can demonstrate strong on-the-ground impact and effective coordination with BLM.
Overall, this opportunity is best suited for governmental entities, tribes, nonprofits, and educational institutions that can plan and deliver invasive and noxious plant management work in partnership with BLM in New Mexico, without relying on Public Lands Corps internship or crew hiring under this specific NOFO, and with project budgets that could range up to the stated $1 million cap depending on the proposed scale and BLM priorities.Apply for L23AS00212
- The Bureau of Land Management in the natural resources sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Bureau of Land Management New Mexico Invasive and Noxious Plant Management" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 15.230.
- This funding opportunity was created on 2023-02-02.
- Applicants must submit their applications by 2023-04-03. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $1,000,000.00 in funding.
- Eligible applicants include: State governments, County governments, City or township governments, Special district governments, Independent school districts, Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities, Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments), Nonprofits having a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Nonprofits that do not have a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Private institutions of higher education.
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