FWS Renews Wildlife Grant Paperwork, Nothing New Here
Published Date: 2/27/2025
Notice
Summary
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is renewing its paperwork for financial help programs without making any changes. This affects anyone applying for or managing these grants, and they’re asking for public comments by March 31, 2025. No new costs or deadlines are added, just a smooth continuation of current rules.
Analyzed Economic Effects
3 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 2 costs, 0 mixed.
Paperwork for FWS Grants Continues Unchanged
If you apply for or manage U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service grants, the current application, amendment, and reporting paperwork will continue without change. The collection covers an estimated 14,711 annual respondents, 16,024 annual responses, a total of 391,670 annual burden hours, and per-response completion times that vary from 3 hours to 203 hours.
States Must Keep Submitting License Data for Funding
If you are a State (including the territories and D.C.), you must continue to provide annual hunting and sport fishing license data and certification under 50 CFR part 80 so the Service can apportion funds. The notice reports that in Fiscal Year 2024 the Service apportioned $989,531,728 under the Wildlife Restoration Program and $381,827,198 under the Sport Fish Restoration Program.
Recipients Must Retain Records for 3 Years
If you receive a Fish and Wildlife Service award, you must retain financial records, supporting documents, and other records for 3 years after submission of the final expenditure report (or as otherwise specified under 2 CFR 200.333). This recordkeeping requirement applies to recipients and subrecipients.
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