Cumberland Island National Seashore Wildfire Mitigation Youth Conservation Crew | P19AS00356

Opportunity Information: Apply for P19AS00356

The Cumberland Island National Seashore Wildfire Mitigation Youth Conservation Crew opportunity (Funding Opportunity Number P19AS00356) is a National Park Service project under the U.S. Department of the Interior that supports hands-on wildfire risk reduction work on Cumberland Island. It is offered as a discretionary cooperative agreement under CFDA 15.931, and it is framed as an education-related activity because the work is intended to be carried out by a youth crew gaining practical conservation and land-management experience while completing a real mitigation project.

The core purpose of the agreement is to lower hazardous vegetation fuel loads in specific areas of Cumberland Island where wildfire could threaten homes, park facilities, and operational response routes. The project focuses on work near approximately 40 private structures and 15 National Park Service structures located in the Settlement and High Point communities, as well as the Table Point area. The youth crew is expected to use standard fuels-reduction equipment, including chainsaws, brush cutters, and chippers, to remove or treat brush and other combustible vegetation in the immediate surroundings of these structures. In addition to the defensible-space style work around buildings, the crew will also help reduce fuel loads along roughly 5 miles of established fuel breaks. These fuel breaks are intended to improve fire suppression capability and support the park's broader fire management goals, including managing resource benefit fires and implementing prescribed burns more safely and effectively.

In terms of funding and scale, the announcement lists an award ceiling of $22,500 and anticipates a single award. The instrument type being a cooperative agreement signals that the National Park Service expects to remain actively involved in coordinating or overseeing elements of the work rather than simply issuing a hands-off grant. Eligibility is listed broadly as "Others," with the understanding that the detailed eligibility clarification would normally be found in an additional eligibility text field.

This posting is not an open call for applications. The original closing date states that no applications will be accepted because the announcement functions as a public notice of the National Park Service's intent to fund the work through an existing master cooperative agreement. The creation date for the notice is July 8, 2019, which places it in the context of a specific planned project action rather than a competitive funding round.

• The Department of the Interior, National Park Service in the education sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Cumberland Island National Seashore Wildfire Mitigation Youth Conservation Crew" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 15.931.
• This funding opportunity was created on Jul 08, 2019.
• Applicants must submit their applications by No applications will be accepted under this announcement. The purpose of this announcement is to provide public notice of the National Park Services intention to fund this project under an existing master cooperative agreement.. (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 $22,500.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 1 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).

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