National Park Service: Notice of Intent Single Source Award of Trail Crews

The National Park Service is offering a grant for trail crews focusing on youth development and trail maintenance. This grant aims to provide job skills training, wilderness values learning, and trail maintenance work for the CCC youth involved. The project includes trail reconstruction, maintenance, and restoration in Kings Canyon National Park, with specific tasks like ADA requirements, reroutes, and erosion-damaged trails restoration. Closing date for this grant is April 12, 2012.

Opportunity ID: 162893

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General Information

Document Type::	Grants Notice
Funding Opportunity Number::	NPS-NOIP12PAT13393
Funding Opportunity Title::	Notice of Intent Single Source Award of Trail Crews
Opportunity Category::	Discretionary
Opportunity Category Explanation::
Funding Instrument Type::
Category of Funding Activity::	Natural Resources
Category Explanation::
Expected Number of Awards::	1
Assistance Listings Number(s)::	15.931 — Conservation Activities by Youth Service Organizations
Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement::	No
Version::	Synopsis 1
Posted Date::	Apr 09, 2012
Last Updated Date::
Original Closing Date for Applications::	Apr 12, 2012
Current Closing Date for Applications::	Apr 12, 2012
Archive Date::	Apr 13, 2012
Estimated Total Program Funding::	$ 70,000
Award Ceiling::	$70,000
Award Floor::	$70,000

Eligibility

Eligible Applicants::	State governments
Additional Information on Eligibility::

Additional Information

Agency Name::	National Park Service
Description::	This Funding Announcement is not a request for applications. This announcement is to provide public notice of the National Park Services intention to fund the following project activities without full and open competition. There are two general goals of this agreement: (1) youth development and education and (2) trail maintenance and resource protection work. (1) Youth Development: The CCC youth involved in the project will benefit from specific job skills training, exposure to federal lands stewardship work, community and personal development curriculum, and learning of wilderness-derived values. (2) Trail maintenance and resource protection: the CCC Backcountry/ Americorps program will provide work on trail maintenance, trail reconstruction, and trail-associated wildlands restoration according to the 2012 trail maintenance plan for Kings Canyon National Park. Specifically, the crew will assist reconstruction of Zumwalt Meadow and Muir Rock trails to meet ADA requirements, construct reroutes and restore abandoned trail segments at erosion-damaged meadows in Palisade Creek Canyon, assist in annual trail opening and maintenance in Cedar Grove and Middle Fork trail districts, reconstruct erosion-damaged trails in Palisade Creek canyon, and assist in other portions of the 2012 Kings Canyon trail maintenance work plan as needed.
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Version History

Version	Modification Description	Updated Date
Synopsis 1

Package Status

Package No: 1