The US Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), will make available up to $16.5 million in funds to support new NADPRP projects in federal fiscal year 2025 (FY 2025) for the FY 2025 National Animal Disease Preparedness and Response Program (NADPRP) general funding opportunity.

This funding opportunity announcement is expected in early August 2024. Please watch for the APHIS stakeholder announcement. APHIS will make an additional $500,000 available in the FY 2025 NADPRP Tribal funding opportunity that will be announced this fall. Bookmark our website https://www.aphis.usda.gov/funding/nadprp and check often for the latest information.

Eligible Entities

The following entities are eligible to apply for NADPRP funding opportunities:

• State departments of agriculture
• Offices of the chief animal health official of a State
• Land-grant universities and other entities eligible to receive funds under a capacity and infrastructure program, as defined in section 251(f)(1)(C) of the Department of Agriculture Reorganization Act of 1994 (7 U.S.C. 6971(f)(1)(C)). This includes entities eligible for the National Institute of Food and Agriculture Federal Assistance Programs.
• Colleges of veterinary medicine, including a college veterinary emergency team
• State or national producer organizations with direct or significant economic interest in livestock, poultry, or aquaculture production
• State emergency agencies
• State, national, allied, or regional veterinary organizations or specialty boards recognized by the American Veterinary Medical Association
• Indian Tribes
• Federal agencies

What types of projects will be funded?

Eligible entities should submit proposals for projects in these topic areas:

1. Develop, enhance, and exercise State and Tribal animal disease outbreak emergency response plans.
2. Support livestock and poultry biosecurity measures and programs.
3. Enhance capability and capacity for depopulation, carcass disposal, and decontamination in a disease outbreak.
4. Support animal movement decisions in a disease outbreak.
5. Enhance animal disease traceability during a disease outbreak.
6. Develop and deliver training & exercises to improve animal disease outbreak response capabilities.
7. Support outreach & education on animal disease prevention, preparedness, and response.

APHIS will also support projects that address these FY 2025 target issues:

1. Multi-state and/or multi-partner exercises aimed at improving animal disease response plans.
2. Biosecurity projects that:

Improve biosecurity when transporting animals.

Improve biosecurity by evaluating the relative importance of different pathogen routes of entry onto livestock premises and the effectiveness of measures to mitigate those risks.

Improve biosecurity practices at animal commingling locations and points of concentration such as livestock markets, slaughter plants, and with the packing industry.

Improve biosecurity among niche producers by educating them about diseases of concern and mitigation strategies for small-scale farms.

3. Training and/or outreach to support the mental health and wellbeing of animal disease outbreak emergency responders as well as their physical health and safety; may include outreach campaigns to promote the training.
4. Training and/or outreach to accredited, non-regulatory veterinarians, and/or diagnostic testing laboratories to improve suspected emerging and foreign animal disease (FAD) reporting; may include outreach campaigns to promote the training and improve disease reporting.
5. Projects to advance the development of sheep and goat vaccines.
6. Projects that will enhance aquatic animal disease preparedness and response.
7. Projects that will enhance equine disease outbreak prevention & response.

The National Aquaculture Association is interested in a partner(s) to compete for a NADPRP grant.  Please contact Paul Zajicek, Executive Director, at paul@nationalaquaculture.org.