OpportunityTitle: DOI Project #24, #63, &amp; #67; Decision Support for Hurricane Sandy Restoration and Future Conservation to Increase Resiliency of Tidal Wetland Habitats
CategoryExplanation: PL 113-02; Disaster Relief Appropriations Act of 2013; Hurricane Sandy
Description: This is an announcement for issuing a single source financial assistance award to Ferguson Lynch to work collaboratively with the LCC and Hurricane Sandy partners to develop a Knowledge Management System to serve the communication, science delivery and shared partner work space needs of the North Atlantic LCC and Northeast Region related to Hurricane Sandy coastal and stream resiliency information and tools as part of The Department of the Interior (DOI) Projects #24, Decision Support for Hurricane Sandy Restoration and Future Conservation to Increase Resiliency of Tidal Wetland Habitats and Species in the Face of Storms and Sea Level Rise and #67, Decision Support for Hurricane Sandy Restoration and Future Conservation to Increase Resiliency of Beach Habitats and Beach-Dependent Species in the Face of Storms and Sea Level Rise and #63, Collaboratively Increasing Resiliency and Improving Standards for Culverts and Road Stream Crossings to Future Floods While Restoring Aquatic Connectivity. These projects include goals related to communications, collaboration, and information management including website development to make decision support tools, maps and monitoring results easily available to decision makers at scales and formats needed. The intent of the award is to support these information management and communications goals through Ferguson Lynch. This announcement is for notification purposes only. This project was previously vetted and approved for funding by the Department of the Interior. The appropriation for this project is the Hurricane Sandy Disaster Relief Supplemental Appropriation Act of 2013, Public Law 113-2. Criteria for funding was based on the project&#191;s ability to yield the greatest return on investment by taking advantage of existing science and regional planning tools for resiliency and by working with states, cities, communities, and partners who contribute to the goals of restoring and rebuilding national wildlife refuges and other federal public assets; and to increase resiliency and the capacity of coastal habitat and infrastructure and to withstand future storms and to minimize the damage incurred. This project is authorized by the Disaster Relief Appropriations Act of 2013, Public Law 113-2.
GrantorContactEmailDescription: arnold_zinan@fws.gov
GrantorContactText: Arnold Zinan, 413 253 8528&lt;br/&gt;arnold_zinan@fws.gov&lt;br/&gt;