Clean Water Act Section 319 Watershed Implementation

This RFA seeks applications for comprehensive on-the-ground projects to improve surface water quality and reduce nonpoint source pollution in New Mexico. Projects will include project development, management, design, permitting, implementation, monitoring, reporting, and other tasks required for successful project implementation and completion. Multiple projects will be selected, and successful applicants will be invited to develop a work plan from the application. The detailed scope of work will be project-specific and will be described in a work plan attachment to the executed agreement. All work plans developed by the successful applicants must be approved by EPA and NMED. Once the agreement is executed, NMED will deliver a Notice to Proceed, a copy of the fully executed agreement, and a purchase order indicating that work can begin on the project. Projects are expected to be three years in duration and not expected to exceed four years in total. This procurement is intended to solicit projects that are ready for on-the-ground implementation immediately upon agreement execution, anticipated to begin around May 2027 and to solicit projects anticipated to start around October 2027. NMED SWQB has funding available from an existing CWA Section 319 grant to immediately fund projects and will also be selecting projects from this procurement to submit to EPA for approval to fund using next year’s CWA Section 319 grant funding, anticipated October 1, 2027.