Great Lakes Restoration Initiative Resources
The following are web links for the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI) that may be useful to Great Lakes stakeholders who are interested in the Initiative or involved in developing funding proposals. These links will be updated continuously. If you have suggestions for additional links, or find links that do not work, please contact Erika Jensen at the Great Lakes Commission at 734-971-9135.

• Great Lakes Restoration Initiative Website
• U.S. EPA GLRI Webpage

Current Funding Offerings

• U.S. EPA GLRI 2011 Request for Applications (Announcement Number: EPA-R5-GL2011-1)
  (Deadline: April 11, 2011 by 12:00PM Central)
• U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service GLRI Joint Venture Habitat Restoration and Protection Grants
  (Deadline: April 1, 2011)
• Great Lakes Basin Program for Soil Erosion and Sediment Control 2011 Request for Proposals
  (Deadline: April 15, 2011 by 6:00PM Eastern)

Great Lakes Restoration Initiative Documents
Check the GLRI and EPA websites noted above for the most up-to-date versions of these documents.

• GLRI Action Plan
• GLRI Accountability System (GLAS)
• Summary of U.S. EPA GLRI Grant Finalists by State (2010)
• Summary of U.S. EPA GLRI Grant Finalists by Program Area (2010)
• Funding Distributed by U.S. EPA to Other Federal Agencies (2010)

State of Michigan Documents

• Michigan Great Lakes Protection and Restoration Initiative Webpage
• MI-Great Lakes Plan (PDF)
• 2010 State of the Great Lakes Report (PDF)
• Michigan's Strategic Framework for the 2010 Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (PDF)
• Strategy for Delisting Michigan's Great Lakes Areas of Concern (PDF)  
• Guidance for Delisting Michigan's Great Lakes Areas of Concern (PDF)

Agency Websites

• U.S. EPA, Great Lakes National Program Office
• U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Detroit District
• NOAA-Great Lakes Environmental Research Lab
• USGS-Great Lakes Science Center
• Michigan Areas of Concern Program
• Michigan Office of the Great Lakes

Websites with Helpful Information

• Resources to help develop GLRI Proposals (prepared by the River Network)
• Great Lakes Regional Collaboration Homepage
• Great Lakes Regional Collaboration Strategy to Restore and Protect the Great Lakes

Websites for Related Information and Organizations

• Great Lakes Information Network
• Great Lakes Commission
• Great Lakes Fishery Commission
• Alliance for the Great Lakes
• Healing Our Waters-Great Lakes Coalition
• Southeast Michigan Council of Governments
• Council of Great Lakes Governors
• Council of Great Lakes Industries
• Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Cities Initiative
• Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission
• Chippewa Ottawa Resource Authority
• International Joint Commission
• National Wildlife Federation, Great Lakes Regional Center
• Michigan Environmental Council
• NOAA’s Great Lakes Habitat Restoration Program

Previous Funding Offerings

Offerings from FY2011:

• Sustain our Great Lakes Stewardship Grants Program
  (Deadline: February 14, 2011)
• Sustain our Great Lakes Community Grants Program
  (Deadline: February 14, 2011)
• NOAA Great Lakes Habitat Restoration Program Project Grants for U.S. AOCs
  (Deadline: February 17, 2011 at 11:59PM EST)

Offerings from FY2010:

• Public Health Support for Brownfield/Land Reuse and Legacy Sites in the Areas of Concern
  (Application deadline July 6, 2010)
• U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service’s Endangered Species Great Lakes Restoration Initiative Grants Program
  (Application deadline March 22, 2010)
• GLRI Joint Venture Habitat Restoration and Protection
  (Application deadline March 19, 2010)
• Great Lakes Commission, Great Lakes Basin Program for Soil Erosion and Sediment Control, Small-Scale Grant Program
  (Application Deadline March 16, 2010 at 6:00 pm Eastern)
• NOAA Estuary Habitat Restoration Project Funding
  (Application deadline March 16, 2010)
• Great Lakes Commission, Great Lakes Basin Program for Soil Erosion and Sediment Control, Watershed Scale Grant Program
  (Application Deadline March 2, 2010 at 6:00 pm Eastern)
• NOAA Great Lakes Habitat Restoration Program Project Grants
  (Application deadline February 16, 2010 at 11:59 PM EST)
• U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Great Lakes Basin Fish Habitat Partnership
  (Application Deadline February 12, 2010)
• U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Great Lakes Fish and Wildlife Restoration Act
  (Application Deadline January 22, 2010, 11:00 pm Eastern)
• U.S. EPA-GLRI Request for Proposals
  (Application Deadline January 29, 2010 at 12:00 Noon Central)