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Agenda Item 19 March 16-17, 2004 Board Meeting Page 4 of9 - _, .. A: i f"-,' ~ ~) _ ~ J e Water 2025: Preventing Crises and Conflict In the West 1 WATER 2025: PREVENTING CRISES AND CONFLICT IN THE WEST Western Water Initiative Challenge Grant Program for Fiscal Year 2004 REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS More information on the Challenge Grant Program is available at www.doi.gov/water2025/grant.html Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation February 2004 OVERVIEW Federal Agency Name: Funding Opportunity Title: Announcement Type: Funding Opportunity Number: Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) Number: Dates: Eligible Applicants: Cost Share: Funding Amount: Estimated number of agreements to be awarded: Total amount of funding available for award: Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation, Denver, CO Water 2025: Preventing Crises and Conflict in the West Initial announcement 04SF81 0957 15.BDA (New program-pseudo code in lieu of CFDA number) Applications due April 8, 2004, 3:00 p.m. MST Irrigation and/or water districts located in the western United States as identified in the Reclamation Act of June 17, 1902, as amended 50% or more of project costs Up to $300,000 per agreement 1 5 - 1 00 $4,000,000 I. FUNDING OPPORTUNITY DESCRIPTION A. PROGRAM DESCRIPTION A.1 BACKGROUND Water is the lifeblood of the American West and the foundation of its economy. More than a century ago, American pioneers began harnessing the water of the West, operating vast new lands for settlement and development. Today, the American West is the fastest growing region of the country, and water is its scarcest resource. Water 2025: Preventing Crisis and Conflict in the West is intended to focus attention on the reality that explosive population growth in western urban areas, the emerging need for water for environmental and recreational uses, and the national importance of the domestic production of food and fiber from western farms and ranches are driving major conflicts between these competing uses of water. Today, in some areas of the West, existing water supplies are, or will be, inadequate to meet the water demands of people, cities, farms, and the environment even under normal water supply conditions. Water 2025, recognizes that state and local governments should have a leading role in meeting these challenges, and that the Department of the Interior (Department) should focus its attention and existing resources on areas where scarce federal dollars can provide the greatest benefits to the West and the rest of the Nation. The mission of the Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) is to manage, develop, and protect water and related resources in an environmentally and economically sound manner in the interest of the American public.