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Serving: Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, and 66 Tribal Nations
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REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS - Nonpoint Source Special Projects
EPA Region 6 is soliciting proposals from Region 6 States and Tribes for special projects using Clean Water Act (CWA) §319 unexpended prior year funds. Our objective for the use of these funds is to provide extra support in watersheds where current initiatives are close to restoring the waterbody. Click here for the full Request for Proposals announcement. Proposals are due to EPA Region 6 by April 15,2011.
For additional information, contact Sylvia Ritzky at ritzky.sylvia@epa.gov.
FEATURED PROJECT
With an EPA grant, the US Fish and Wildlife Service, the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality 
and The Nature Conservancy have begun the largest floodplain restoration project in the country in the Ouachita River 
watershed. Blocked from the river by a levee for several decades as a viable floodplain, about 16,000 acres of the Mollicy Farms tract have been replanted with native trees, which will help prepare the land to accept floodwaters after a controlled levee breech. These efforts will mimic the river’s natural flood pattern, help filter harmful substances from its waters, and create a much-needed habitat for area wildlife. The benefits continue downstream, with fewer pollutants entering the Gulf of Mexico from the Mississippi River drainage basin. The project could become a model for future river restoration efforts. It will take many more such projects to restore benefits such as flood control, water filtration, sediment reduction, and increased wildlife habitat that come from natural floodplains.
To showcase your project, please contact Brad Lamb, NPS coordinator.
