Baltimore Washington Parkway Cultural Landscape Report | NOI NPSP18AS00121

Opportunity Information: Apply for NOI NPSP18AS00121

The Baltimore Washington Parkway Cultural Landscape Report grant opportunity is a National Park Service (NPS) cooperative agreement focused on documenting, analyzing, and guiding the stewardship of the Baltimore-Washington Parkway as a designed historic landscape. The project centers on understanding how the parkway was originally planned and designed, how it has changed over time through various projects and modifications, and how those changes relate back to the original design intent. The end goal is a well-supported cultural landscape evaluation that can inform practical management and treatment decisions, especially as the parkway continues to undergo safety-related roadway improvements.

Under this opportunity, the selected team works directly and collaboratively with NPS personnel rather than operating independently, which is typical of a cooperative agreement. The team is expected to research and review key source materials such as original parkway plans, historical documentation, and records of previous project activities and design alterations. Using that evidence, the team will analyze design development over time and assess how the parkway's evolution has affected its historic significance and integrity. In this context, "integrity" generally refers to how well the resource still conveys its historical character and importance despite changes, while "significance" relates to why the parkway matters historically, aesthetically, and culturally as a planned corridor and landscape.

A major deliverable implied by the description is an evaluation that connects the parkway's historic significance and integrity to its design development, and then uses those findings to shape general treatment guidelines. These guidelines are meant to help NPS manage the parkway in a way that respects and reinforces its cultural landscape values. The work also includes identifying and addressing specific treatment issues along the corridor. The team and NPS will define appropriate treatments for those issues and provide recommendations intended to be directly useful in current and upcoming safety upgrades to the roadway. In other words, the report is meant to bridge preservation goals with real-world transportation and safety needs, helping decision-makers avoid unintentionally eroding the historic landscape character while still improving safety and function.

In some cases, the project may go beyond park-wide guidance and produce site-specific management guidelines for particular sections or features of the parkway. This suggests the NPS anticipates that different segments may have different levels of historic integrity, different landscape characteristics, or different management pressures, requiring tailored recommendations rather than a single one-size-fits-all approach.

Administratively, the opportunity was issued by the U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, as a discretionary funding notice (Funding Opportunity Number: NOI NPSP18AS00121) under CFDA 15.945. The activity category is listed as Science and Technology and other Research and Development, reflecting that the work is research-driven and results in an evaluative technical report and management guidance. Eligibility is limited to public and state-controlled institutions of higher education, meaning qualified public universities and similar institutions are the intended applicants. The grant anticipated a single award, with an award ceiling of $120,000. The notice was created on April 6, 2018, with an original closing date of April 16, 2018, indicating a short application window typical of some targeted NPS cooperative agreements.

• The Department of the Interior, National Park Service in the science and technology and other research and development sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Baltimore Washington Parkway Cultural Landscape Report" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 15.945.
• This funding opportunity was created on Apr 06, 2018.
• Applicants must submit their applications by Apr 16, 2018. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $120,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 1 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: Public and State controlled institutions of higher education.

Apply for NOI NPSP18AS00121

[Watch] Creating a grant proposal using the step-by-step wizard inside the applicant portal: