FY24 Bureau of Land Management Wild Horse and Burro Resource Management- Research | L24AS00091

Opportunity Information: Apply for L24AS00091

The FY24 Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Wild Horse and Burro Resource Management - Research opportunity (Funding Opportunity Number L24AS00091; CFDA 15.229) is a discretionary federal funding announcement that supports research and related technical work tied to BLMs wild horse and burro resource management mission. Awards are expected to be made as cooperative agreements, which typically means BLM anticipates having substantial involvement in the project during performance (for example, coordination on study design, access to sites or data, review of deliverables, or alignment with program priorities). The funding activity falls under natural resources, and the maximum award amount listed is $500,000.

Eligibility is limited to public and nonprofit entities and certain education and tribal organizations. Specifically eligible applicants include state, county, and city/township governments; special district governments; independent school districts; public and state-controlled institutions of higher education; private institutions of higher education; federally recognized Native American tribal governments; Native American tribal organizations other than federally recognized tribal governments; public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities; and nonprofits both with and without 501(c)(3) status (other than institutions of higher education). Individuals and for-profit organizations are explicitly ineligible under this notice of funding opportunity, so proposals cannot be submitted by private persons or commercial companies as the applicant organization.

A key restriction in the announcement is that this NOFO is not meant to support entities that want 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 only authority that allows BLM to hire interns under that framework, and that youth/internship style projects should instead be routed through a different BLM funding pathway. If an organization is a Youth Conservation Corps or is proposing a youth-crew model, the announcement indicates those projects belong under NOFO 15.243, titled BLM Youth Conservation Opportunities on Public Lands, rather than this research-focused opportunity.

The announcement also highlights how Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Units (CESUs) fit into this program. CESUs are partnership networks designed to promote and carry out research, studies, assessments, monitoring, technical assistance, and educational services, and they are often used as an administrative and collaboration framework for applied science projects involving federal land management agencies. If an award under this NOFO is made to a CESU partner under an existing, formally negotiated Master CESU agreement and the work is consistent with CESU purposes, the indirect cost limitation applies: indirect costs are capped at no more than 17.5 percent of the indirect cost base recognized in the partners federally approved Negotiated Indirect Cost Rate Agreement (NICRA). Applicants are instructed to state whether their proposal furthers CESU purposes and, if it does, to identify which CESU Network should be considered as the host.

Administrative timing details included in the source information show the opportunity was created on November 1, 2023, with an original closing date of February 1, 2024. The agency is the U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management.

• The Bureau of Land Management in the natural resources sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "FY24 Bureau of Land Management Wild Horse and Burro Resource Management- Research" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 15.229.
• This funding opportunity was created on 2023-11-01.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2024-02-01. (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 $500,000.00 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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