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Good
afternoon,
We are pleased to announce that the
Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) is offering a new round
of Citizen Monitoring Grants. The grant can fund volunteer monitoring
activities from January 1, 2007 through December 31, 2007. Funds can pay for
monitoring equipment, laboratory analysis, publications, and related
items. Funds
cannot pay for office space, salary for staff or staff benefits.
Applications are due by
September 1, 2006.
This year, DEQ is offering two different
types of Citizen Monitoring Grants.
1.
The regular Citizen Monitoring Grant has
a maximum award of $5,000. As in previous years, this grant requires
recipients to provide or possess a DEQ approved Quality Assurance Project
Plan (QAPP) and Standard Operating Procedures (SOP).
2.
The new Citizen Monitoring Mini-Grant
has a maximum award of $1,000. The mini-grant is open to groups new to
citizen monitoring or groups who have not received a DEQ Citizen Monitoring
Grant in the past three years. Mini-grant awardees do not need to submit a
QAPP or SOP. Mini-grant recipients must use at least 33% of the grant
towards actual water quality monitoring.
DEQ will only accept one grant
application from a monitoring group. Grant applications should contain the
actual grant application (regular or mini-grant), Attachment 1, and any
other necessary information. Applications should consist of one signed
original and four copies. DEQ will announce the list of grant awardees by
mid-October.
The attached file contains information
about the grant and the grant applications. The file is in Microsoft® Word
and will allow users to fill out the application using a PC. If a potential
applicant does not have access to Word, please visit the DEQ Citizen
Monitoring Grant webpage at
www.deq.virginia.gov/cmonitor/grant.html.
Near the top of the webpage is a copy of the grant package formatted in
Adobe Acrobat.
On a related note, many
groups who attended the Virginia Citizens for Water Quality summit on July
22 expressed interest in our new database to store non-DEQ water quality
data. This database will store all volunteer collected data generated
through the Citizen Monitoring Grant. We are currently in the process of
setting up training sessions for late September/early October. If you are
interested in attending, please let me know by e-mail or by telephone.
If there are any
questions in regards to the grant, please let me know. On behalf of DEQ,
we look forward to receiving your application and wish you success.
James
Beckley
Water
Quality Data Liaison
Department of Environmental Quality
(804)
698-4025 (phone)
jebeckley@deq.virginia.gov
(E-mail)
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