Opportunity Information: Apply for M22AS00426
AT-22-X15, titled "Marine Species Surveys in Support of Massachusetts Offshore Wind Development" (Funding Opportunity Number M22AS00426), is a Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) cooperative agreement intended to keep an existing long-running monitoring program going in and around offshore wind lease areas off Massachusetts and Rhode Island. The core goal is to continue a 10-year time series of aerial survey data that documents where and when large marine wildlife are present in these lease areas. While the emphasis is on aerial surveys, the opportunity also notes that additional aerial work and/or passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) could be added later if future funding becomes available. The surveys that were already in place were funded only through August 2022, so this award was framed as the mechanism needed to avoid a gap in coverage and preserve the value of a consistent, comparable dataset.
The work is meant to produce and maintain an essential baseline picture of species distribution and abundance in the offshore wind development region, with special attention to protected and high-interest species such as the North Atlantic right whale, other large whales, sea turtles, and birds. By continuing the same general survey effort over time, the dataset can support before-and-after comparisons, including comparisons of pre-construction conditions to any post-construction monitoring that may occur. That continuity matters because detecting changes in habitat use is difficult without a consistent long-term record; the time series is designed to help separate real shifts in animal presence from normal year-to-year variability.
A major reason BOEM is supporting this effort is that federal agencies have legal and planning obligations under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) to review environmental analyses for offshore development and construction plans, and to identify and mitigate potential impacts. The survey time series provides information that feeds directly into those assessments, particularly around questions like where animals concentrate seasonally, how abundant they are across different parts of the lease areas, and how those patterns may change as development proceeds. In practical terms, the results can also inform operational decision-making by wind energy developers, such as adjusting the timing of construction activities to reduce the risk of impacts to protected species during sensitive periods.
This opportunity is not a typical open call for proposals. It is described as a program announcement for a specific project with a single-source intent: BOEM indicated the project was intended to be awarded as a cooperative agreement to the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MassCEC). In other words, the announcement functions more as a formal notice of intent to fund a particular continuation project rather than a competitive solicitation. Awards are still contingent on submission of an acceptable proposal, but the structure and language make clear that it is aimed at an identified eligible applicant rather than the general public.
Even with the single-source intent, the announcement encourages cooperative research and team-based implementation. MassCEC, as the applying organization, could include subcontracts to non-profits, private institutions of higher education, private companies, or public/state-controlled institutions of higher education as part of the proposed work. The project is required to have a Principal Investigator who is a staff member of the applicant organization. Federal partners are allowed as collaborators, but any tasks and associated budgets performed by a federal partner must be laid out separately by that federal partner, while non-federal partners would be incorporated directly into the applicant's proposal with their tasks and budgets included there.
From an administrative standpoint, the opportunity is a discretionary funding action using a cooperative agreement instrument, categorized under an environment funding activity area and associated with CFDA 15.423. The eligible applicant categories listed include state governments and "others," though the narrative clarifies the single-source intent to MassCEC. The posting lists an award ceiling of $500,000 and an original closing date of 2022-09-19. Overall, the opportunity is best understood as targeted funding to preserve a valuable long-term monitoring record that supports environmental review, impact mitigation, and responsible planning for offshore wind development in southern New England waters.Apply for M22AS00426
- The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management in the environment sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "AT-22-X15: Marine Species Surveys in Support of Massachusetts Offshore Wind Development" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 15.423.
- This funding opportunity was created on 2022-08-19.
- Applicants must submit their applications by 2022-09-19. (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 $500,000.00 in funding.
- Eligible applicants include: State governments, Others.
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