P16AC00586 Mod 02, CCC Era Dry Stone Wall Training | P18AS00123

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The grant opportunity titled "P16AC00586 Mod 02, CCC Era Dry Stone Wall Training" is a National Park Service (NPS) financial assistance notice issued by the U.S. Department of the Interior. It is listed as a discretionary funding action and will be carried out through a cooperative agreement, which typically means NPS expects to have substantial involvement in coordinating or overseeing the work rather than simply issuing funds and stepping back. The activity area is identified under education and natural resources, suggesting the project blends hands-on resource stewardship with training or instructional components, likely tied to historic preservation skills and public-land management needs.

A key point of this notice is that it is not a request for applications. Instead, it serves as public notice that the National Park Service intends to make an award (or, more specifically, an award modification) under an existing agreement. The posting makes clear that this is an "Award Modification under existing agreement," which usually indicates additional funding, an extension, or a change in project scope or deliverables for a partner that already holds the underlying award. Because of that, there is no standard competitive application window in the way many grant opportunities operate, and the "closing date" is effectively tied to processing the modification rather than receiving new proposals.

The funding opportunity number associated with the public notice is P18AS00123, while the title references P16AC00586 Mod 02, indicating this is the second modification ("Mod 02") to a prior award or agreement originally identified under the P16AC00586 line. The notice was created on April 9, 2018. The expected number of awards is one, reinforcing that this action is intended for a specific recipient already connected to the existing cooperative agreement.

In terms of eligibility, the notice states that eligible applicants are nonprofits with IRS 501(c)(3) status, excluding institutions of higher education. Even though eligibility is defined, the fact that this is not an open solicitation means that eligibility language functions more as a compliance and transparency statement than an invitation for new applicants to apply.

Financially, the award ceiling is listed as $34,000. Since the notice is about an award modification, the ceiling most likely represents the amount of funding associated with this particular modification action rather than the total value of the original agreement across all modifications, although the posting does not explicitly break that out. The program is tied to CFDA (now commonly referred to as Assistance Listing) number 15.944, which is associated with National Park Service assistance programs.

The project itself is described only in broad terms in the provided text: "CCC Era Dry Stone Wall Training." The reference to the "CCC Era" points to the Civilian Conservation Corps period (1930s-early 1940s), when many parks and public lands saw major construction and conservation work. "Dry stone wall" work is a traditional masonry method using carefully fitted stones without mortar, and in a park context it is commonly linked to maintaining or restoring historic walls and landscape features while passing on specialized preservation craft skills. Given the activity categories (education and natural resources) and the cooperative agreement structure, the work likely involves instruction or workshops coupled with on-the-ground preservation or maintenance outcomes aligned with NPS resource management and historic preservation objectives.

Overall, this posting functions as a transparency notice rather than a competitive grant call: the National Park Service is signaling its intent to provide up to $34,000 through a cooperative agreement modification for a single nonprofit partner to support training related to CCC-era dry stone wall techniques, with the broader purpose of building capacity in preservation skills and supporting stewardship of park resources.

• The Department of the Interior, National Park Service in the education, natural resources sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "P16AC00586 Mod 02, CCC Era Dry Stone Wall Training" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 15.944.
• This funding opportunity was created on Apr 09, 2018.
• Applicants must submit their applications by Award Modification under existing 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 $34,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 1 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education.

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