Chronic Wasting Disease Cervid Management and Response Activities 2026
Grant Opportunity Analysis
USDA APHIS Veterinary Services and Wildlife Services are offering cooperative agreement funding to help control and prevent chronic wasting disease in farmed and wild cervids. The opportunity supports surveillance, testing, management, response activities, and related research or technique development, with a separate tribal-nations-only wild cervid track and a farmed cervid track that can include indemnification and removal of affected or exposed herds under 9 CFR Part 55.2. Applicants are expected to submit work plans that address program priorities, performance methods, outcomes, budget justification, and required application materials, with limits of up to $250,000 in APHIS funds per project and a 12-month project period. Applications must be submitted through ezFedGrants, not Grants.gov, by June 15, 2026 at 5:00 PM EDT, and applicants must have an active SAM registration and valid UEI.
Eligible Applicants
This competitive opportunity is open to the following entities: State departments of agriculture; State animal health agencies; State departments of wildlife or natural resources; Federally recognized Native American Tribal governments and Native American Tribal organizations or universities representing Federally recognized Native American Tribal governments; and research institutions and universities. State agencies and Tribes, or in the case of Native American Tribal organizations, the Native American Tribal governments they are representing, must have regulatory oversight or direct responsibility for farmed cervids to be eligible for the farmed cervid opportunity, or regulatory oversight or direct responsibility for wild cervids to be eligible for the wild cervid opportunities. Federally recognized Native American Tribal governments are listed on the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Interior; Indian Entities Recognized by and Eligible To Receive Services From the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs website. Universities include the 1994 Tribal colleges and universities, the 1890 land-grant institutions, land-grant colleges and universities, and other accredited universities. Research institute is an establishment founded for conducting research that has published peer reviewed articles in the field and that currently employs one or more investigators who will work on the project with relevant experience in applied research on the transmissible spongiform encephalopathies.