NOAA announces the availability of Federal funding, authorized pursuant to 16 U.S.C.
3645(d)(2) and Public Law 112-55 (Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2012), for necessary expenses associated with the restoration of Pacific salmon populations.
The Pacific Coastal
Salmon Recovery Fund (PCSRF) program makes such funding available to the States of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Nevada, California, and Alaska, and federally recognized tribes of the Columbia River and Pacific Coast (including Alaska) for projects necessary for conservation of salmon and steelhead populations that are listed as threatened or endangered, or identified by a State as at-risk to be so-listed, for maintaining populations necessary for exercise of tribal treaty fishing rights or native subsistence fishing, or for conservation of Pacific coastal salmon and steelhead habitat.
This announcement outlines the priorities and guidelines that will be used to distribute funding to eligible entities.