The Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation is seeking applications for the Outdoor Recreation Legacy
Partnership Program to provide new or significantly improve recreation
opportunities for economically disadvantaged communities in densely populated
urban areas that are under-served in terms of parks and other outdoor
recreation resources.
Purposes
The purpose of this Notice of Funding
Opportunity (NOFO) is to advise local units of government, and
federally-recognized Indian Tribes of the availability of funds for grants from
the Land and Water Conservation Fund’s (LWCF) Outdoor Recreation Legacy
Partnership (ORLP) Program. The purpose of the LWCF ORLP Program is to provide
grants to acquire and/or develop public lands for outdoor recreation purposes
consistent with the purposes of the LWCF, but with the further specific goals
of funding projects that:
- are located within or serve an
Urbanized Area (population of 50,000 or more) as designated by the Census
Bureau from the 2010 Census (note that American Samoa, Guam, the Northern
Mariana Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands do not have any such areas),
and
- are located in or are directly
accessible to neighborhoods or communities that are underserved in terms
of parks and recreation resources and where there are significant
populations of people who are economically disadvantaged.
Priorities
The competition will prioritize the selection of
projects that will directly connect people to outdoor places, and that:
- serve communities that are
underserved in terms of number of parks and other outdoor recreation areas
and have significant numbers of individuals who are economically
disadvantaged;
- create short-term and/or
permanent jobs;
- help stimulate local economic
development;
- engage and empower members of
the affected community in the development of the project;
- create or expand public-private
partnerships;
- benefit from a high degree of
coordination among the public, multiple levels of government, and the
private sector, to improve recreation opportunities for all; and
- advance goals of, or meet,
priority recreation needs identified in the state’s SCORP and other local,
regional, state plans and/or initiatives.
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Funding: $
150,000,000
- Maximum Award: $ 5,000,000
- Minimum Award: $ 300,000
- Expected Number of Awards: 75
Eligibility Criteria
- State governments
- Each state has a lead agency
designated by the State’s Governor or by state legislation for the
purposes of implementing LWCF in that state, and only the lead agency can
be an applicants for an LWCF grant. Therefore, only the state lead
agencies are eligible to submit applications for ORLP grants. The lead
agency may submit on behalf of themselves or another eligible
subrecipient. For the purposes of this competition, “states” includes only
the 50 U.S. States plus the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico (American
Samoa, Guam, Northern Marianas, and the U.S. Virgin Islands, although
eligible for LWCF grants generally, do not have any Census-designated
Urbanized Areas).
- Applications submitted directly
by entities other than the State lead agency, will be eliminated without
consideration. Individuals, nonprofit organizations, and other private
entities are not eligible as applicants or sub-recipients.
- Eligible sub-recipients (aka
project sponsors) include state agencies, local units of government (state
political subdivisions such as cities, counties, and special purpose
districts such as park districts), and federally-recognized Indian Tribes.
Post Date - 14-Jun-2021