FY25 IIJA/IRA Bureau of Land Management Idaho (ID) Invasive and Noxious Plant Management | L25AS00075

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The FY25 IIJA/IRA Bureau of Land Management Idaho (ID) Invasive and Noxious Plant Management opportunity (Funding Opportunity Number L25AS00075) is a discretionary funding program from the Bureau of Land Management that will be awarded through cooperative agreements under CFDA 15.230. The focus is on protecting BLM-managed public lands in Idaho by supporting work that prevents new infestations, improves early detection, expands inventory and mapping, carries out on-the-ground control treatments, and monitors results over time. The underlying premise is that invasive plants and state-designated noxious weeds are a major, long-term driver of ecosystem degradation, and that proactive, sustained management is needed to keep native plant communities intact and functioning.

Projects funded under this opportunity are meant to directly address the spread and impacts of invasive and noxious plants, which are described as a leading threat to native plant communities and the benefits those communities provide. The program emphasizes that intact native vegetation supports wildlife habitat, watershed function and water quality, recreation access and quality (hunting, fishing, camping, hiking), and the economic stability of rural communities and working landscapes. It also highlights how invasive plants can reduce the health and productivity of farms and ranches, degrade parks and natural areas, and create ripple effects that harm adjacent private lands, contributing to economic losses in both rural and urban settings. The description notes that modern patterns of trade, travel, and tourism increase the speed and volume of species movement, while more frequent wildfires and other disturbances can make sites more vulnerable to invasion, raising the urgency for coordinated management.

Funding is intended for organizations capable of delivering practical invasive plant and noxious weed management outcomes on public lands, typically through partnerships where BLM remains substantially involved (which is characteristic of cooperative agreements). While the notice does not list specific treatment methods in the excerpt, the eligible activity types named in the program description include prevention, detection, inventory, control, and monitoring. In practice, this often translates into work such as surveying and mapping infestations, implementing integrated weed management approaches, prioritizing rapid response for new outbreaks, restoring treated areas to reduce reinvasion risk, and measuring treatment effectiveness to inform follow-up actions.

The applicant eligibility is broad for public and mission-driven entities. Eligible applicants include state, county, and city/township governments; special district governments; public and state-controlled institutions of higher education; private institutions of higher education; federally recognized tribal governments; other tribal organizations; and nonprofit organizations (both 501(c)(3) and non-501(c)(3)). Individuals and for-profit organizations are explicitly ineligible to apply under this NOFO, which is an important threshold consideration for prospective applicants.

There are also two key participation and cost-structure limitations called out. First, this NOFO does not support entities that want to hire interns or crews under the Public Lands Corps Act of 1993; the notice states that the Public Lands Corps authority is the only legislative authority that allows BLM to "hire" interns under that framework. As a result, Youth Conservation Corps organizations are directed to pursue youth-crew and internship style projects under a different funding opportunity (NOFO 15.243, BLM Youth Conservation Opportunities on Public Lands), rather than this invasive plant management NOFO. Second, for applicants that are part of a Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Units (CESU) network, the notice reiterates CESU’s purpose (research, studies, assessments, monitoring, technical assistance, and educational services) and specifies an indirect cost limitation: if a cooperative agreement is awarded to a CESU partner under a negotiated Master CESU agreement consistent with the CESU purpose, indirect costs are capped at no more than 17.5 percent of the indirect cost base recognized in the partner’s federally approved NICRA. CESU applicants are expected to state whether their proposal advances CESU purposes and identify which CESU Network should be considered as the host.

Key administrative details included in the source data are that the opportunity was created on 2024-11-13 and has an original closing date of 2025-02-03. The award ceiling is listed as $250,000. The excerpt does not provide a stated number of expected awards, but the ceiling indicates the maximum federal amount anticipated per award under this listing. Overall, the opportunity is aimed at practical, partner-driven invasive plant and noxious weed work in Idaho that protects public land resources, reduces cross-boundary impacts to neighboring lands, and helps sustain the ecological and economic values tied to healthy native plant communities.

• The Bureau of Land Management in the natural resources sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "FY25 IIJA/IRA Bureau of Land Management Idaho (ID) Invasive and Noxious Plant Management" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 15.230.
• This funding opportunity was created on 2024-11-13.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2025-02-03. (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 $250,000.00 in funding.
• Eligible applicants include: State governments, County governments, City or township governments, Special district governments, Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), 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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