Native American Affairs: Fiscal Year 2025 Colorado River Basin Tribal Drought Resiliency Program

To be considered for this program, applicants will meet all the following eligibility requirements:The tribe must be one of the following federally recognized tribes, as defined in 25 U.S.C. Section 5304, designated Colorado River Basin tribes: Ak-Chin Indian Community; Chemehuevi Indian Tribe; Cocopah Indian Tribe; Colorado River Indian Tribes; Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation; Fort Mojave Indian Tribe; Fort Yuma - Quechan Tribe; Gila River Indian Community; Havasupai Tribe; Hopi Tribe; Hualapai Tribe; Jicarilla Apache Nation; Kaibab Band of Paiute Indians; Las Vegas Paiute Tribe; Moapa Band of Paiute Indians; Navajo Nation; Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah; Pascua Yaqui Tribe; Pueblo of Zuni; Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community; San Carlos Apache Tribe; San Juan Southern Paiute; Southern Ute Indian Tribe; Tohono O'odham Nation; Tonto Apache Tribe; Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah and Ouray Reservation; Ute Mountain Ute Tribe; White Mountain Apache Tribe; Yavapai-Apache Nation; and Yavapai-Prescott Indian Tribe, andThe proposed project must provide drought relief actions to mitigate adverse drought impacts in the Colorado River Basin.Any applicant with an enacted Indian Water Rights Settlement, should identify the settlement in their application and might not be eligible for an award under this NOFO due to the uniqueness of each settlement.Project activities not eligible for funding under this NOFO include, but are not limited to:Stand-alone Cultural or Feasibility studies (as defined under Reclamation law, which require express congressional authorization).Activities that lack definable products or deliverables.Specific employment positions within a tribe.Activities with a duration of more than 5 years from date of execution of a grant/cooperative agreement.Activities that generate data or analyses that have the potential to compromise any study or activities of a U.S. Department of the Interior (Department) Indian water rights negotiation or the Department of Justice in its pursuit of related Indian water rights claims.Activities related to non-Federal or non-tribal dams and associated structures.Activities providing funding for the administration of contracts or agreements under P.L. 93-638.Purchase of equipment as the sole purpose of the activity.Water purchases including the purchase or leasing of water rights or water shares.Activities in direct support of litigation of any kind.Activities that will obligate Reclamation to provide, or are not sustainable unless Reclamation does provide, on-going funding, such as an obligation to provide future funding for operation, maintenance, or replacement.Biological activities such as:fisheries work (including collection, analysis and evaluation of background data);habitat restoration unless directly related to water quality and quantity; andecosystem based activities such as biological surveys, air quality monitoring, and watershed-scale management.