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Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 Funding Opportunity for Indian Tribes and Intertribal Consortia for Nonpoint Source Management Grants Under Clean Water Act Section 319

Environmental Protection Agency · Opportunity EPA-OW-OWOW-26-01

Deadline November 9, 2026 61 days left
Award range Up to $175k
Total program funding $3.5M

≈ 20 awards expected

PostedAugust 17, 2026

Who can apply

See Section 2 of Notice of Funding Opportunity

About this opportunity

The purpose of this Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) is to support eligible Tribes and intertribal consortia to implement approved Nonpoint Source (NPS) management programs developed pursuant to CWA Section 319(b)(1). The Clean Water Act (CWA) Section 319(h) authorizes the EPA to award grants to eligible Tribes and intertribal consortia to implement approved NPS management programs. This NOFO will fund implementation of best management practices (BMPs) and measures that have been outlined in Tribal NPS Management Program Plans to address NPS pollution sources that have been identified in a Tribe’s Assessment Report.Eligible applicants to this Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) are federally recognized Tribes and intertribal consortia that meet the eligibility requirements described in Section 2.A.

Award history — Nonpoint Source Implementation Grants (Assistance Listing 66.460)

This program made 43 new awards in FY2025.

New awards by fiscal year ’21: 54 · ’22: 52 · ’23: 46 · ’24: 46 · ’25: 43
Award size (min / median / max) $30k / $2M / $9.2M

Across the 241 most recent awards. Total obligations, not per-year.

Repeat winners 51 of 73 recipients won more than once

New awards recorded on USAspending.gov under the federal program that funds this opportunity. FY2025 figures may still be incomplete. Environmental Protection Agency does not publish how many applications it receives, so a true success rate cannot be computed for this program — no one can honestly sell you that number.

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