Monitoring & Management of White Nose Syndrome Affected Bats | NPS 18 NERO 0073

Opportunity Information: Apply for NPS 18 NERO 0073

The National Park Service (NPS) grant opportunity titled "Monitoring & Management of White Nose Syndrome Affected Bats" (Funding Opportunity Number: NPS 18 NERO 0073) is a discretionary funding action that the agency publicly posted to announce its intent to provide financial assistance for a specific set of project activities focused on bats affected by White-nose Syndrome. It is important to read this notice as informational rather than competitive: the announcement explicitly states it is not a request for applications, meaning NPS was not soliciting proposals from the broader public through this posting. Instead, the purpose was to give public notice that NPS planned to move forward with an award connected to the described work.

The planned award was structured as a cooperative agreement, which generally indicates a project where the federal agency expects to have substantial involvement in the work. In practice, that usually means NPS staff may collaborate with the recipient on planning, field coordination, data management, technical methods, reporting expectations, or other aspects of implementation, rather than simply issuing a grant and stepping back. The funding activity category is listed as "Science and Technology and other Research and Development," which aligns with the technical and conservation-focused nature of monitoring bat populations, tracking disease impacts, and supporting management decisions in park settings.

The opportunity is associated with CFDA number 15.945, a catalog listing used to classify federal assistance programs. Eligibility is listed broadly as "Others," but because this posting was not an open call for applications, that eligibility label does not function the way it would in a competitive grant. In these types of notices, the recipient is often pre-identified through an existing partnership, a continuation effort, a justified selection, or another administrative pathway that does not involve a new competition.

In terms of timing and scale, the notice was created on July 2, 2018, with an original closing date of July 12, 2018. For non-competitive intent-to-award notices, dates like these often reflect the public posting window rather than a deadline for submitting applications. The award ceiling is listed as $48,717, which indicates the maximum federal funding amount anticipated for this project under the planned award. The posting does not specify the number of expected awards, and the "ExpectedAwards" field appears blank or incomplete, which is consistent with an intent-to-award notice where a single award is frequently implied but not always explicitly stated in the summary fields.

Programmatically, the title and description indicate a focus on monitoring and management activities related to White-nose Syndrome, a fungal disease that has caused severe declines in North American bat populations. In a National Park Service context, projects under this theme typically involve actions such as surveying bat hibernacula and summer roosts, tracking population trends, documenting disease presence and spread, evaluating survival and recovery, and informing site-level management practices intended to reduce impacts to bats and their habitats. Even though the notice does not spell out specific tasks, the framing makes clear that the funding is intended to support applied research and on-the-ground conservation work tied to White-nose Syndrome-affected bat species.

Overall, this posting should be understood as an administrative transparency notice: NPS signaled its intention to make a cooperative agreement award for a defined scientific and management purpose, with a maximum funding level of $48,717, rather than inviting outside organizations to compete by submitting new applications.

• The National Park Service in the science and technology and other research and development sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Monitoring & Management of White Nose Syndrome Affected Bats" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 15.945.
• This funding opportunity was created on 2018-07-02.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2018-07-12. (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 $48,717.00 in funding.
• Eligible applicants include: Others.

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