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Estuary Habitat Restoration Program PL 106-457

Deadline: August 8, 2005

Link: http://era.noaa.gov/htmls/era/era_projfund.html

The Estuary Habitat Restoration Program seeks projects that achieve cost-effective restoration of ecosystems while promoting increased partnerships among agencies and between public and private sectors. Projects will be evaluated for their support of the Estuary Habitat Restoration Strategy, which aims to ensure a comprehensive approach to restoration activities and to foster the coordination of federal and non-federal efforts. Projects funded under this program will contribute to the Estuary Habitat Restoration Strategy goal of restoring 1,000,000 acres of estuary habitat.

Eligible habitat restoration activities include re-establishment of chemical, physical, hydrologic, and biological features and components associated with an estuary. Restoration may include, but is not limited to:

improvement of estuarine wetland tidal exchange or reestablishment of historic hydrology;
dam or berm removal;
improvement or reestablishment of fish passage;
appropriate reef/substrate/habitat creation;
planting of native estuarine wetland and submerged aquatic vegetation;
reintroduction of native species;
control of invasive species; and
establishment of riparian buffer zones in the estuary.