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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
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Administration
[Docket No.: 060313063–6063–01; I.D.
032206B]
Financial Assistance To Administer
NOAA’s Faculty and Student Intern
Research Program and Notice of
Availability of Funds and Solicitation
for Proposals for These Funds
National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Department of Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of criteria to administer
the NOAA Faculty and Student Intern
Research; notice of availability of funds;
solicitation for funding proposals.
AGENCY:
The purpose of this document
is to advise the public that NOAA’s
Office of Civil Rights is soliciting
proposals from non-profit organizations
to design and provide administrative
services for NOAA-sponsored
internship program aimed at providing
training, educational, and research
opportunities to faculty, as well as
graduate and undergraduate students
pursuing degrees related to NOAA’s
mission. NOAA is seeking applicants
with the capacity to design and
implement a program that will improve
NOAA’s outreach and recruitment
efforts of underrepresented individuals
in the scientific mission-related
occupational fields, i.e., fishery biology,
environmental law, meteorology,
cartography, oceanography, hydrology,
computer science, ecology,
environmental economics, and
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engineering. When implemented, the
program will provide both student and
faculty member participants with
stipends, housing assistance, and
limited travel expenses. Applicants to
design and implement the program must
demonstrate a focused and effective
outreach and recruitment strategy
targeting minority serving institutions
and others. It is expected that
approximately $250,000 to $300,000
annually will be available for the
project.
DATES: Proposals are due to NOAA by
5 p.m., EST, 15 days after date of
publication of this document in the
Federal Register.
ADDRESSES: It is strongly encouraged
that applications submitted in response
to this announcement are submitted
through the Grants.gov Web site.
Electronic access to the Full Funding
Opportunity Announcement for this
program is available via the Grants.gov
Web site: https://www.grants.gov.
Applicants must comply with all
requirements contained in the Full
Funding Opportunity Announcement.
Paper applications (a signed original
and two copies) may also be submitted
to the following address: NOAA Civil
Rights Office/OFA51,1305 East West
Highway, Room 12222, Silver Spring,
MD 20910. No facsimile or electronic
mail applications will be accepted.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Victoria G. Dancy, (301) 713–0500, ext.
136.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: NOAA is
committed to recruiting and retaining
individuals from underrepresented
communities as part of its workforce.
With such a limited pool of potential
minority employees trained in NOAArelated sciences, it is important that
NOAA seek new ways to make students
aware of the mission of the agency and
to support activities that increase
opportunities to attract highly qualified
faculty members and college students
pursuing degrees or who have obtained
degrees in NOAA-related sciences.
Since approximately 40 percent of
minority students receive their
undergraduate degrees at Minority
Serving Institutions (MSIs), targeted
recruitment efforts at MSIs are an
effective way to increase the number of
students from underrepresented
communities trained and graduated in
NOAA related sciences. For the
purposes of this announcement, MSIs
are defined as Historically Black
Colleges and Universities, Hispanic
Serving Institutions, Tribal Colleges and
Universities, Alaska Native and Native
Hawaiian Serving Institutions as
defined by the Department of Education
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2004 list https://www.ed.gov/about/
offices/list/ocr/minorityinst2004.pdf.
The NOAA Faculty and Student
Intern Research Program will be a
competitive program designed to
provide opportunities to participate in
hands-on research, education, and
training activities in NOAA-related
sciences. The program must be designed
to improve NOAA’s outreach and
recruitment efforts toward
underrepresented individuals in the
scientific mission-related occupational
fields, i.e., fishery biology,
environmental law, meteorology,
cartography, oceanography, hydrology,
computer science, ecology,
environmental economics, and
engineering. The program will aim to
introduce or reintroduce these NOAArelated sciences to the universities and
colleges and integrate them into
campus-based instruction and research
programs. Program activities include
summer and academic year internships
at NOAA facilities. Faculty stipends
will be based on faculty members’
regular university salaries. NOAA
scientists will be assigned as mentors to
participants during the internship
period. Participants in the program,
both students and faculty members,
must be U.S. citizens. Faculty
participants must be full-time faculty
employed at a U.S. college or university
and must hold a degree in the life or
physical sciences or engineering.
Faculty participants must have research
interests in areas related to NOAA’s
mission. Undergraduate and graduate
participants in the program must be
enrolled in a U.S. college or university
and be pursuing a degree in a science
or engineering discipline related to
NOAA’s mission.
Electronic Access
Applicants can access, download and
submit electronic grant applications,
including the Full Funding Opportunity
Announcement, for NOAA programs at
the Grants.gov Web site: https://
www.grants.gov or by contacting the
program official identified above. The
closing date will be the same as for
paper submissions noted in this
announcement. NOAA strongly
recommends that Applicants do not
wait until the application deadline date
to begin the application process through
Grants.gov. If Internet access is
unavailable, hard copies of proposals
will also be accepted—a signed original
and two copies at time of submission.
This includes color or high-resolution
graphics, unusually sized materials, or
otherwise unusual materials submitted
as part of the proposal. For color
graphics, submit either color originals or
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color copies. Facsimile transmissions
and electronic mail submission of
proposals will not be accepted.
Funding Availability
The Office of Civil Rights anticipates
that funding will be available at
$250,000 to $300,000 a year for a 3-year
period. The proposal is limited to a total
of $900,000 for a maximum of 3 years
and one proposal will be funded. Up to
25 percent of $300,000 is allowed for
administrative overhead and at least 75
percent of $300,000 is allocated for
student support. It is anticipated that
the funding instrument will be a
cooperative agreement since NOAA will
be substantially involved in identifying
NOAA facilities to place students each
year during the three-year period of
internships, and with collaboration,
participation, or intervention in project
performance.
Authority: 15 U.S.C. 1540.
Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance:
11.481.
Eligibility: Proposals will only be
accepted from not-for-profit
organizations.
Cost Sharing Requirements: None.
Intergovernmental Review:
Applications under this program are not
subject to Executive Order 12372,
‘‘Intergovernmental Review of Federal
Programs.’’
Evaluation Criteria and Selection
Procedures
NOAA published its agency-wide
solicitation entitled ‘‘Omnibus Notice
Announcing the Availability of Grant
Funds for Fiscal Year 2006’’ for projects
for Fiscal Year 2006 in the Federal
Register on June 30, 2005 (70 FR 37766).
The evaluation criteria and selection
procedures for projects contained in that
omnibus notice are applicable to this
solicitation. Copies of this notice are
available on the Internet at https://
www.ofa.noaa.gov%7Eamd/
SOLINDEX.HTML. Further details on
evaluation and selection criteria can be
found in the full funding opportunity
announcement.
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Pre-Award Activities
If applicants incur any costs prior to
an award being made, they do so solely
at their own risk of not being
reimbursed by the Government.
Notwithstanding any verbal assurance
that may have been received, there is no
obligation to the applicant on the part
of Department of Commerce to cover
pre-award costs.
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Limitation of Liability
In no event will NOAA or the
Department of Commerce accept
responsibility for proposal preparation
costs if these programs fail to receive
funding or are cancelled because of
other agency priorities. Publication of
this announcement does not oblige
NOAA to award any specific project or
to obligate any available funds.
Recipients and sub-recipients are
subject to all Federal laws and agency
policies, regulations and procedures
applicable to Federal financial
assistance awards.
National Environmental Policy Act
(NEPA)
NOAA must analyze the potential
environmental impacts, as required by
the National Environmental Policy Act
(NEPA), for applicant projects or
proposals which are seeking NOAA
Federal funding opportunities. Detailed
information on NOAA compliance with
NEPA can be found at the following
NOAA NEPA Web site: (https://
www.nepa.noaa.gov/), including our
NOAA Administrative Order 216–6 for
NEAP, (https://www.nepa.noaa.gov/
NAO216_6_TOC.pdf), and the Council
on Environmental Quality
implementation regulations, (https://
ceq.eh.doe.gov/nepa/regs/ceq/
toc_ceq.htm). Consequently, as part of
an applicant’s package, and under their
description of their program activities,
applicants are required to provide
detailed information on the activities to
be conducted, locations, sites, species
and habitat to be affected, possible
construction activities, and any
environmental concerns that may exist
(e.g., the use and disposal of hazardous
or toxic chemicals introduction of nonindigenous species, impacts to
endangered and threatened species,
aquaculture projects, and impacts to
coral reef systems). In addition to
providing specific information that will
serve as the basis for any required
impact analyses, applicants may also be
requested to assist NOAA in drafting of
an environmental assessment, if NOAA
determines an assessment is required.
Applicants will also be required to
cooperate with NOAA in identifying
feasible measures to reduce or avoid any
identified adverse environmental
impacts of their proposal. The failure to
do so shall be grounds for the denial of
an application. In some cases if
additional information is required after
application is selected, funds can be
withheld by the Grants Officer under a
special award condition requiring the
recipient to submit additional
environmental compliance information
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sufficient to enable NOAA to make an
assessment on any impacts that a project
may have on the environment.
Pre-Award Notification Requirements
for Grants and Cooperative Agreements
The Department of Commerce PreAward Notification Requirements for
Grants and Cooperative Agreements
contained in the Federal Register Notice
of December 30, 2004 (69 FR 78389) are
applicable to this solicitation.
Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA)
This notification involves collectionof-information requirements subjects to
the Paperwork Reduction Act. The use
of Standard Forms 424, 424A, 424B, and
SF–LLL and CD–346 has been approved
by the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) under control numbers
0348–0043, 0348–0044, 0348–0040 and
0348–0046 and 0605–0001, respectively.
Notwithstanding any other provision of
law, no person is required to respond to,
nor shall any person be subject to a
penalty for failure to comply with, a
collection of information subject to the
requirements of the PRA unless that
collection of information displays a
currently valid OMB control number.
Executive Order 12866
It has been determined that this notice
is not significant for purposes of
Executive Order 12866.
Executive Order 13132 (Federalism)
It has been determined that this notice
does not contain policies with
Federalism implications as that term is
defined in Executive Order 13132.
Executive Order Administrative
Procedure Act/Regulatory Flexibility
Act
Prior notice and an opportunity for
public comment re not required by the
Administrative Procedure Act or any
other law for rules concerning public
property, loans, grants, benefits, and
contracts (5 U.S.C. 553(a)(2)). Because
notice and opportunity for comments
are not required pursuant to 5 U.S.C.
553 or any other law, the analytical
requirements of the Regulatory
Flexibility Act (5 U.S.C. 601 et seq.) are
inapplicable. Therefore, a regulatory
flexibility analysis has not been
prepared.
Dated: March 27, 2006.
Alfred A. Corea,
Director, Civil Rights Office, National Marine
Fisheries Service.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
[Docket No.: 060313063-6063-01; I.D. 032206B]
Financial Assistance To Administer NOAA's Faculty and Student
Intern Research Program and Notice of Availability of Funds and
Solicitation for Proposals for These Funds
AGENCY: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Department of Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of criteria to administer the NOAA Faculty and Student
Intern Research; notice of availability of funds; solicitation for
funding proposals.
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SUMMARY: The purpose of this document is to advise the public that
NOAA's Office of Civil Rights is soliciting proposals from non-profit
organizations to design and provide administrative services for NOAA-
sponsored internship program aimed at providing training, educational,
and research opportunities to faculty, as well as graduate and
undergraduate students pursuing degrees related to NOAA's mission. NOAA
is seeking applicants with the capacity to design and implement a
program that will improve NOAA's outreach and recruitment efforts of
underrepresented individuals in the scientific mission-related
occupational fields, i.e., fishery biology, environmental law,
meteorology, cartography, oceanography, hydrology, computer science,
ecology, environmental economics, and engineering. When implemented,
the program will provide both student and faculty member participants
with stipends, housing assistance, and limited travel expenses.
Applicants to design and implement the program must demonstrate a
focused and effective outreach and recruitment strategy targeting
minority serving institutions and others. It is expected that
approximately $250,000 to $300,000 annually will be available for the
project.
DATES: Proposals are due to NOAA by 5 p.m., EST, 15 days after date of
publication of this document in the Federal Register.
ADDRESSES: It is strongly encouraged that applications submitted in
response to this announcement are submitted through the Grants.gov Web
site. Electronic access to the Full Funding Opportunity Announcement
for this program is available via the Grants.gov Web site: https://
www.grants.gov. Applicants must comply with all requirements contained
in the Full Funding Opportunity Announcement. Paper applications (a
signed original and two copies) may also be submitted to the following
address: NOAA Civil Rights Office/OFA51,1305 East West Highway, Room
12222, Silver Spring, MD 20910. No facsimile or electronic mail
applications will be accepted.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Victoria G. Dancy, (301) 713-0500,
ext. 136.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: NOAA is committed to recruiting and
retaining individuals from underrepresented communities as part of its
workforce. With such a limited pool of potential minority employees
trained in NOAA-related sciences, it is important that NOAA seek new
ways to make students aware of the mission of the agency and to support
activities that increase opportunities to attract highly qualified
faculty members and college students pursuing degrees or who have
obtained degrees in NOAA-related sciences.
Since approximately 40 percent of minority students receive their
undergraduate degrees at Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs), targeted
recruitment efforts at MSIs are an effective way to increase the number
of students from underrepresented communities trained and graduated in
NOAA related sciences. For the purposes of this announcement, MSIs are
defined as Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Hispanic
Serving Institutions, Tribal Colleges and Universities, Alaska Native
and Native Hawaiian Serving Institutions as defined by the Department
of Education 2004 list https://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/
minorityinst2004.pdf.
The NOAA Faculty and Student Intern Research Program will be a
competitive program designed to provide opportunities to participate in
hands-on research, education, and training activities in NOAA-related
sciences. The program must be designed to improve NOAA's outreach and
recruitment efforts toward underrepresented individuals in the
scientific mission-related occupational fields, i.e., fishery biology,
environmental law, meteorology, cartography, oceanography, hydrology,
computer science, ecology, environmental economics, and engineering.
The program will aim to introduce or reintroduce these NOAA-related
sciences to the universities and colleges and integrate them into
campus-based instruction and research programs. Program activities
include summer and academic year internships at NOAA facilities.
Faculty stipends will be based on faculty members' regular university
salaries. NOAA scientists will be assigned as mentors to participants
during the internship period. Participants in the program, both
students and faculty members, must be U.S. citizens. Faculty
participants must be full-time faculty employed at a U.S. college or
university and must hold a degree in the life or physical sciences or
engineering. Faculty participants must have research interests in areas
related to NOAA's mission. Undergraduate and graduate participants in
the program must be enrolled in a U.S. college or university and be
pursuing a degree in a science or engineering discipline related to
NOAA's mission.
Electronic Access
Applicants can access, download and submit electronic grant
applications, including the Full Funding Opportunity Announcement, for
NOAA programs at the Grants.gov Web site: https://www.grants.gov or by
contacting the program official identified above. The closing date will
be the same as for paper submissions noted in this announcement. NOAA
strongly recommends that Applicants do not wait until the application
deadline date to begin the application process through Grants.gov. If
Internet access is unavailable, hard copies of proposals will also be
accepted--a signed original and two copies at time of submission. This
includes color or high-resolution graphics, unusually sized materials,
or otherwise unusual materials submitted as part of the proposal. For
color graphics, submit either color originals or
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color copies. Facsimile transmissions and electronic mail submission of
proposals will not be accepted.
Funding Availability
The Office of Civil Rights anticipates that funding will be
available at $250,000 to $300,000 a year for a 3-year period. The
proposal is limited to a total of $900,000 for a maximum of 3 years and
one proposal will be funded. Up to 25 percent of $300,000 is allowed
for administrative overhead and at least 75 percent of $300,000 is
allocated for student support. It is anticipated that the funding
instrument will be a cooperative agreement since NOAA will be
substantially involved in identifying NOAA facilities to place students
each year during the three-year period of internships, and with
collaboration, participation, or intervention in project performance.
Authority: 15 U.S.C. 1540.
Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance: 11.481.
Eligibility: Proposals will only be accepted from not-for-profit
organizations.
Cost Sharing Requirements: None.
Intergovernmental Review: Applications under this program are not
subject to Executive Order 12372, ``Intergovernmental Review of Federal
Programs.''
Evaluation Criteria and Selection Procedures
NOAA published its agency-wide solicitation entitled ``Omnibus
Notice Announcing the Availability of Grant Funds for Fiscal Year
2006'' for projects for Fiscal Year 2006 in the Federal Register on
June 30, 2005 (70 FR 37766). The evaluation criteria and selection
procedures for projects contained in that omnibus notice are applicable
to this solicitation. Copies of this notice are available on the
Internet at https://www.ofa.noaa.gov%7Eamd/SOLINDEX.HTML. Further
details on evaluation and selection criteria can be found in the full
funding opportunity announcement.
Pre-Award Activities
If applicants incur any costs prior to an award being made, they do
so solely at their own risk of not being reimbursed by the Government.
Notwithstanding any verbal assurance that may have been received, there
is no obligation to the applicant on the part of Department of Commerce
to cover pre-award costs.
Limitation of Liability
In no event will NOAA or the Department of Commerce accept
responsibility for proposal preparation costs if these programs fail to
receive funding or are cancelled because of other agency priorities.
Publication of this announcement does not oblige NOAA to award any
specific project or to obligate any available funds. Recipients and
sub-recipients are subject to all Federal laws and agency policies,
regulations and procedures applicable to Federal financial assistance
awards.
National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)
NOAA must analyze the potential environmental impacts, as required
by the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), for applicant projects
or proposals which are seeking NOAA Federal funding opportunities.
Detailed information on NOAA compliance with NEPA can be found at the
following NOAA NEPA Web site: (https://www.nepa.noaa.gov/), including
our NOAA Administrative Order 216-6 for NEAP, (https://
www.nepa.noaa.gov/NAO216_6_TOC.pdf), and the Council on Environmental
Quality implementation regulations, (https://ceq.eh.doe.gov/nepa/regs/
ceq/toc_ceq.htm). Consequently, as part of an applicant's package, and
under their description of their program activities, applicants are
required to provide detailed information on the activities to be
conducted, locations, sites, species and habitat to be affected,
possible construction activities, and any environmental concerns that
may exist (e.g., the use and disposal of hazardous or toxic chemicals
introduction of non-indigenous species, impacts to endangered and
threatened species, aquaculture projects, and impacts to coral reef
systems). In addition to providing specific information that will serve
as the basis for any required impact analyses, applicants may also be
requested to assist NOAA in drafting of an environmental assessment, if
NOAA determines an assessment is required. Applicants will also be
required to cooperate with NOAA in identifying feasible measures to
reduce or avoid any identified adverse environmental impacts of their
proposal. The failure to do so shall be grounds for the denial of an
application. In some cases if additional information is required after
application is selected, funds can be withheld by the Grants Officer
under a special award condition requiring the recipient to submit
additional environmental compliance information sufficient to enable
NOAA to make an assessment on any impacts that a project may have on
the environment.
Pre-Award Notification Requirements for Grants and Cooperative
Agreements
The Department of Commerce Pre-Award Notification Requirements for
Grants and Cooperative Agreements contained in the Federal Register
Notice of December 30, 2004 (69 FR 78389) are applicable to this
solicitation.
Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA)
This notification involves collection-of-information requirements
subjects to the Paperwork Reduction Act. The use of Standard Forms 424,
424A, 424B, and SF-LLL and CD-346 has been approved by the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) under control numbers 0348-0043, 0348-0044,
0348-0040 and 0348-0046 and 0605-0001, respectively. Notwithstanding
any other provision of law, no person is required to respond to, nor
shall any person be subject to a penalty for failure to comply with, a
collection of information subject to the requirements of the PRA unless
that collection of information displays a currently valid OMB control
number.
Executive Order 12866
It has been determined that this notice is not significant for
purposes of Executive Order 12866.
Executive Order 13132 (Federalism)
It has been determined that this notice does not contain policies
with Federalism implications as that term is defined in Executive Order
13132.
Executive Order Administrative Procedure Act/Regulatory Flexibility Act
Prior notice and an opportunity for public comment re not required
by the Administrative Procedure Act or any other law for rules
concerning public property, loans, grants, benefits, and contracts (5
U.S.C. 553(a)(2)). Because notice and opportunity for comments are not
required pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 553 or any other law, the analytical
requirements of the Regulatory Flexibility Act (5 U.S.C. 601 et seq.)
are inapplicable. Therefore, a regulatory flexibility analysis has not
been prepared.
Dated: March 27, 2006.
Alfred A. Corea,
Director, Civil Rights Office, National Marine Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 06-3084 Filed 3-29-06; 8:45 am]
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