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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Certain Welded Carbon Steel Standard
Pipe from Turkey: Notice of Initiation
of Countervailing Duty New Shipper
Review
Kristen Johnson, AD/CVD Operations,
Office 3, Import Administration,
International Trade Administration,
U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th
Street and Constitution Avenue, NW.,
Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202)
482–4793
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Import Administration,
International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
EFFECTIVE DATE: May 2, 2006.
SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce
(‘‘the Department’’) has received a
request to conduct a new shipper review
of the countervailing duty (‘‘CVD’’)
order on certain welded carbon steel
standard pipe from Turkey. In
accordance with section 751(a)(2)(B) of
the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (‘‘the
Act’’), and 19 CFR 351.214, we are
initiating a CVD new shipper review for
Toscelik Profil ve Sac Endustrisi A.S.
¸
(‘‘Toscelik’’), and its affiliated export
¸
trading company, Tosyali Dis Ticaret
A.S. (‘‘Tosyali’’).
Background
On March 30, 2006, the Department
received a timely request from Toscelik,
¸
in accordance with 19 CFR 351.214(c),
for a new shipper review of the CVD
order on certain welded carbon steel
standard pipe from Turkey, which has
a March anniversary month.1
As required by 19 CFR
351.214(b)(2)(i) and (iii)(A), Toscelik
¸
certified that it did not export subject
merchandise to the United States during
the period of investigation (‘‘POI’’), and
that it has never been affiliated with any
exporter or producer that exported
subject merchandise during the POI.2
Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.214(b)(2)(iv),
the company submitted documentation
International Trade Administration
[C–489–502]
AGENCY:
establishing the date on which it first
shipped the subject merchandise to the
United States, the date of entry of that
first shipment, the volume of that and
subsequent shipments, and the date of
the first sale to an unaffiliated customer
in the United States. Toscelik also
¸
certified that, in accordance with 19
CFR 351.214(b)(2)(v), it has informed
the Government of the Republic of
Turkey that it will be required to
provide a full response to the
Department’s questionnaire.3
Initiation of Review
In accordance with section
751(a)(2)(B) of the Act and 19 CFR
351.214, and based on information on
the record, we are initiating a CVD new
shipper review for Toscelik. We intend
¸
to issue the preliminary results of this
new shipper review no later than 180
days after initiation of this review.4 We
intend to issue final results of this
review no later than 90 days after the
date on which the preliminary results
are issued.5
New Shipper Review Proceeding
Period To Be Reviewed
Toscelik ......................................................................................................................................................................
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In accordance with section
751(a)(2)(B)(iii) of the Act and 19 CFR
351.214(e), we will instruct U.S.
Customs and Border Protection to allow,
at the option of the importer, the
posting, until the completion of the
review, of a bond or security in lieu of
a cash deposit for each entry of the
subject merchandise exported by
Tosyali. We will apply the bonding
option under 19 CFR 351.107(b)(1)(i)
only to entries from Tosyali for which
the respective producer under review is
Toscelik.
¸
Interested parties that need access to
proprietary information in this new
shipper review should submit
applications for disclosure under
administrative protective orders in
accordance with 19 CFR 351.305 and
351.306.
This initiation and notice are in
accordance with section 751(a) of the
Act (19 U.S.C. 1675(a)) and 19 CFR
351.214(d).
1 See Countervailing Duty Order: Certain Welded
Carbon Steel Pipe and Tube Products from Turkey,
51 FR 7984 (March 7, 1986).
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Dated: April 26, 2006.
Stephen J. Claeys,
Deputy Assistant Secretaryfor Import
Administration.
[FR Doc. E6–6624 Filed 5–1–06; 8:45 am]
Billing Code: 3510–DS–S
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
[Docket No.: 00061680–6107–12]
NOAA Climate Program for FY 2007
Climate Program Office,
Oceanic and Atmospheric Research,
Nastional Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration, Department of
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of funding availability.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: The National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
Climate Program publishes this notice to
announce the availability of funding for
proposals that address the NOAA
Climate Program’s overall goal, which is
to better understand climate variability
and change to enhance society’s ability
2 See the March 30, 2006, submission to the
Department from Tos elik and Tosyali regarding
Request for New Shipper CVD Review.
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to plan and respond. The NOAA
Climate Program represents a
contribution to national and
international programs designed to
improve our ability to observe,
understand, predict, and respond to
changes in the global environment. The
Program builds on NOAA’s mission
requirements and long-standing
capabilities in global change research
and prediction. The Program is a key
contributing element of the U.S. Climate
Change Science Program (CCSP) that is
coordinated by the interagency
Committee on Environmental and
Natural Resources (CENR). NOAA’s
Climate Program is designed to
complement other agencies’
contributions to that national effort.
DATES:
Submission Dates and Times (for ALL
Competitions)
Letter of Intent Due Date: May 30,
2006. by 5 p.m. eastern time.
Application Due Date: July 25, 2006
by 5 p.m. eastern time.
Anticipated Award Date: May 1, 2007
ADDRESSES: Letters of Intent are
encouraged to be submitted by e-mail to
3 Id.
4 See
19 CFR 351.214(i).
5 Id.
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the identified NOAA program element’s
program manager.
NOAA encourages the submission of
applications through Grants.gov. If the
applicant does not have access to
electronic submission, please mail
applications to: CPO Grants Manager,
Diane Brown, NOAA/CPO, 1100 Wayne
Avenue, Suite 1210, Silver Spring, MD
20910–5603, Facsimile transmissions of
full proposals will not be accepted. To
apply for this NOAA federal funding
opportunity, please go to https://
www.grants.gov and use the following
funding opportunity OAR–CPO–2007–
2000636.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Please visit the CPO Web site for further
information https://
www.climate.noaa.gov. All technical
questions should be addressed to the
identified NOAA program element’s
program manager. For Administrative
questions: Please contact the CPO
Grants Manager, Diane Brown, NOAA/
CPO, 1100 Wayne Avenue, Suite 1210,
Silver Spring, MD 20910–5603, by
phone at 301–427–2357, or e-mail:
cpogrants@noaa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Applicants must comply with all
requirements contained in the Full
Funding Opportunity announcement
available on www.Grants.gov or from
CPO Grants Manager (see FOR FURTHER
INFORMATION CONTACT section above).
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Electronic Access
Applicants should read the full text of
the Full Funding Opportunity
announcement available at https://
www.grants.gov. It can also be accessed
at the CPO Web site, https://
www.climate.noaa.gov, or the central
NOAA site, https://www.grants.gov/
.ofa.noaa.gov/~amd/SOLINDEX.HTML.
Program Information
The overall goal of the NOAA Climate
Program is to better understand climate
variability and change to enhance
society’s ability to plan and respond.
The Program aims to improve scientific
understanding of the earth’s past and
present climate variability and change
to improve climate forecast skill,
increase the credibility of climate
change projections, and the use of
climate information for policy and
decision makers and resource managers.
The broad objective of NOAA’s Climate
Program is to establish a national
information service based on reliable
assessments and quantitative
predictions of changing global climate.
Once established, this service will help
NOAA provide high-quality predictions
and assessments to the public and
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private sectors, other federal and state
agencies, and the international
community. The near-term objective is
to provide reliable predictions of global
climate changes, both natural and
human-induced, and their associated
societal impacts on time scales ranging
from seasons to a century or more. The
ten competitions that are accepting
proposals are: The Atmospheric
Composition and Climate Program; the
Climate Change Data and Detection
Program; the Climate Dynamics and
Experimental Prediction Program; the
Climate Prediction Program for the
Americas; the Climate Variability and
Predictability Program; the Global
Carbon Cycle Program; the Regional
Integrated Sciences and Assessments
Program; the Sector Applications and
Research Program; the Scientific Data
Stewardship Program; and the
Transition of Research Applications to
Climate Services Program A full
description of the scope of the proposal
for each of the ten competitions is
contained in the full funding
opportunity announcement.
Funding Availability
Please be advised that actual funding
levels will depend upon the final FY
2007 budget appropriations. In FY 2006,
approximately $6M in first year funding
was available for 54 new awards; similar
funds and number of awards are
anticipated in FY 2007. Total
Anticipated Federal Funding for FY
2007 is $6M in first year funding for 40–
60 number of awards. Federal Funding
for FY 2008 may be used in part to fund
some awards submitted under this
competition. Current plans assume that
100% of the total resources provided
through this announcement will support
extramural efforts, particularly those
involving the broad academic
community. Past or current grantees
funded under this announcement are
eligible to apply for a new award that
builds on previous activities or areas of
research not covered in the previous
award. Current grantees should not
request supplementary funding for
ongoing research through this
announcement. We anticipate that the
annual cost of most funded projects will
fall between $50,000 and $200,000 per
year. The exact amount of funds that
may be awarded will be determined in
pre-award negotiations between the
applicant and NOAA representatives.
Neither NOAA nor the Department of
Commerce is responsible for proposal
preparation costs if this program is not
funded for whatever reason. Publication
of this announcement does not oblige
NOAA to award any specific project or
to obligate any available funds.
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Statutory Authority: 49 U.S.C. 44720(b), 33
U.S.C. 883d, 15 U.S.C. 2904, 15 U.S.C. 2931–
2934. Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance
(CFDA) Number: CFDA No. 11.431, Climate
and Atmospheric Research.
Eligibility
Eligible applicants are institutions of
higher education, other nonprofits,
commercial organizations, international
organizations, and State, local, and
Indian tribal governments. Federal
agencies or institutions are not eligible
to receive Federal assistance under this
notice.
Cost Sharing Requirements
Cost Sharing is only required in one
program element competition which is
the Transition of Research Applications
to Climate Services (TRACS) where the
Cost Share Percentage must be at least
5% of the total costs. The other nine
Competitions have no cost sharing
requirement.
Letters of Intent (LOI)
The purpose of the LOI process is to
provide information to potential
applicants on the relevance of their
proposed project to the Climate program
and the likelihood of it being funded in
advance of preparing a full proposal.
While it is in the best interest of the
applicants and their institutions to
submit an LOI, it is not a requirement;
applicants who do not submit an LOI
are still allowed to submit a full
proposal. Full proposals will be
encouraged only for LOIs deemed
relevant.
A panel of program managers will
review each LOI to determine whether
the LOI is responsive to the program
goals as advertised in this notice and
will provide an e-mail or letter
response.
Selection Procedures
NOAA published an omnibus notice
announcing the availability of grant
funds for projects for Fiscal Year 2006
in the Federal Register on June 30, 2005
(70 FR 37766), and its second on
December 20, 2005 (70 FR 76253). The
evaluation criteria and selection
procedures contained in those notices
are applicable to this solicitation. For a
copy of these omnibus notices, please go
to: https://www.grants.gov or https://
www.ago.noaa.gov/grants/
funding.shtml.
Limitation of Liability
Funding for the programs listed in
this notice are contingent upon the
availability of FY 2006 appropriations.
In no event will NOAA or the
Department of Commerce be responsible
for proposal preparation costs if these
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Grants and Cooperative Agreements
contained in the Federal Register notice
of December 30, 2004 (69 FR 78389) are
applicable to this solicitation.
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 that 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
NEPA, https://www.nepa.noaa.gov/
NA0216l6lTOC.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
and implementing 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 not selecting
an application. In some caes if
additional information is required after
an 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.
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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.
This document contains collection-ofinformation requirements subject to the
Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA). The
use of Standard Forms 424 and 424A,
424B, SF–LLL, and CD–346 have been
approved by OMB under the respective
control numbers 0348–0043, 0348–0044,
0348–0040, 0348–0046, and 0605–0001.
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.
The Department of Commerce PreAward Notification Requirements for
Grants and Cooperative Agreements
The Department of Commerce PreAward Notification Requirements for
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Paperwork Reduction Act
Executive Order 12866
This notice has been determined to be
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.
Intergovernmental Review
Applications under this program are
not subject to Executive Order 12372,
Intergovernmental Review of federal
programs.
Administrative Procedure Act/
Regulatory Flexibility Act
Prior notice and an opportunity for
public comments are not required by the
Administrative Procedure Act or any
other law for this rule concerning
grants, benefits, and contracts (5 U.S.C.
553(a). Because notice and opportunity
for comment 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.
Mark Brown,
Chief, Financial Officer, OAR, National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Office of the Secretary
Meeting of the Uniform Formulary
Beneficiary Advisory Panel
Department of Defense,
Assistant Secretary of Defense (Health
Affairs).
AGENCY:
ACTION:
Notice of meeting.
SUMMARY: This notice announces a
meeting of the Uniform Formulary
Beneficiary Advisory Panel. The panel
will review and comment on
recommendations made to the Director,
TRICARE Management Activity, by the
Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee
regarding the Uniform Formulary. The
meeting will be open to the public.
Seating is limited and will be provided
only to the first 220 people signing in.
All persons must sign in legibly. Notice
of this meeting is required under the
Federal Advisory Committee Act.
Thursday, June 29, 2006, from 8
a.m. to 4 p.m.
DATES:
Naval Heritage Center
Theater, 701 Pennsylvania Avenue,
NW., Washington, DC 20004.
ADDRESSES:
Mr.
Rich Martel, TRICARE Management
Activity, Pharmacy Operations
Directorate, Beneficiary Advisory Panel,
Suite 810, 5111 Leesburg Pike, Falls
Church, VA 22041, telephone 703–681–
0064 ext. 3672, fax 703–681–1242, or email at baprequests@tma.osd.mil.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
The
Uniform Formulary Beneficiary
Advisory Panel will only review and
comment on the development of the
Uniform Formulary as reflected in the
recommendations of the DOD Pharmacy
and Therapeutics (P&T) Committee
coming out of that body’s meeting in
May 2006. The P&T Committee
information and subject matter
concerning drug classes reviewed for
that meeting are available at https://
pec.ha.osd.mil. Any private citizen is
permitted to file a written statement
with the advisory panel. Statements
must be submitted electronically to
baprequests@tma.osd.mil no later than
June 22, 2006. Any private citizen is
permitted to speak at the Beneficiary
Advisory Panel meeting, time
permitting. One hour will be reserved
for public comments, and speaking
times will be assigned only to the first
twelve citizens to sign up at the
meeting, on a first-come, first-served
basis. The amount of time allocated to
a speaker will not exceed five minutes.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
[Docket No.: 00061680-6107-12]
NOAA Climate Program for FY 2007
AGENCY: Climate Program Office, Oceanic and Atmospheric Research,
Nastional Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of funding availability.
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SUMMARY: The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
Climate Program publishes this notice to announce the availability of
funding for proposals that address the NOAA Climate Program's overall
goal, which is to better understand climate variability and change to
enhance society's ability to plan and respond. The NOAA Climate Program
represents a contribution to national and international programs
designed to improve our ability to observe, understand, predict, and
respond to changes in the global environment. The Program builds on
NOAA's mission requirements and long-standing capabilities in global
change research and prediction. The Program is a key contributing
element of the U.S. Climate Change Science Program (CCSP) that is
coordinated by the interagency Committee on Environmental and Natural
Resources (CENR). NOAA's Climate Program is designed to complement
other agencies' contributions to that national effort.
DATES:
Submission Dates and Times (for ALL Competitions)
Letter of Intent Due Date: May 30, 2006. by 5 p.m. eastern time.
Application Due Date: July 25, 2006 by 5 p.m. eastern time.
Anticipated Award Date: May 1, 2007
ADDRESSES: Letters of Intent are encouraged to be submitted by e-mail
to
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the identified NOAA program element's program manager.
NOAA encourages the submission of applications through Grants.gov.
If the applicant does not have access to electronic submission, please
mail applications to: CPO Grants Manager, Diane Brown, NOAA/CPO, 1100
Wayne Avenue, Suite 1210, Silver Spring, MD 20910-5603, Facsimile
transmissions of full proposals will not be accepted. To apply for this
NOAA federal funding opportunity, please go to https://www.grants.gov
and use the following funding opportunity OAR-CPO-2007-2000636.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Please visit the CPO Web site for
further information https://www.climate.noaa.gov. All technical
questions should be addressed to the identified NOAA program element's
program manager. For Administrative questions: Please contact the CPO
Grants Manager, Diane Brown, NOAA/CPO, 1100 Wayne Avenue, Suite 1210,
Silver Spring, MD 20910-5603, by phone at 301-427-2357, or e-mail:
cpogrants@noaa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Applicants must comply with all requirements
contained in the Full Funding Opportunity announcement available on
www.Grants.gov or from CPO Grants Manager (see FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
CONTACT section above).
Electronic Access
Applicants should read the full text of the Full Funding
Opportunity announcement available at https://www.grants.gov. It can
also be accessed at the CPO Web site, https://www.climate.noaa.gov, or
the central NOAA site, https://www.grants.gov/.ofa.noaa.gov/~amd/
SOLINDEX.HTML.
Program Information
The overall goal of the NOAA Climate Program is to better
understand climate variability and change to enhance society's ability
to plan and respond. The Program aims to improve scientific
understanding of the earth's past and present climate variability and
change to improve climate forecast skill, increase the credibility of
climate change projections, and the use of climate information for
policy and decision makers and resource managers. The broad objective
of NOAA's Climate Program is to establish a national information
service based on reliable assessments and quantitative predictions of
changing global climate. Once established, this service will help NOAA
provide high-quality predictions and assessments to the public and
private sectors, other federal and state agencies, and the
international community. The near-term objective is to provide reliable
predictions of global climate changes, both natural and human-induced,
and their associated societal impacts on time scales ranging from
seasons to a century or more. The ten competitions that are accepting
proposals are: The Atmospheric Composition and Climate Program; the
Climate Change Data and Detection Program; the Climate Dynamics and
Experimental Prediction Program; the Climate Prediction Program for the
Americas; the Climate Variability and Predictability Program; the
Global Carbon Cycle Program; the Regional Integrated Sciences and
Assessments Program; the Sector Applications and Research Program; the
Scientific Data Stewardship Program; and the Transition of Research
Applications to Climate Services Program A full description of the
scope of the proposal for each of the ten competitions is contained in
the full funding opportunity announcement.
Funding Availability
Please be advised that actual funding levels will depend upon the
final FY 2007 budget appropriations. In FY 2006, approximately $6M in
first year funding was available for 54 new awards; similar funds and
number of awards are anticipated in FY 2007. Total Anticipated Federal
Funding for FY 2007 is $6M in first year funding for 40-60 number of
awards. Federal Funding for FY 2008 may be used in part to fund some
awards submitted under this competition. Current plans assume that 100%
of the total resources provided through this announcement will support
extramural efforts, particularly those involving the broad academic
community. Past or current grantees funded under this announcement are
eligible to apply for a new award that builds on previous activities or
areas of research not covered in the previous award. Current grantees
should not request supplementary funding for ongoing research through
this announcement. We anticipate that the annual cost of most funded
projects will fall between $50,000 and $200,000 per year. The exact
amount of funds that may be awarded will be determined in pre-award
negotiations between the applicant and NOAA representatives. Neither
NOAA nor the Department of Commerce is responsible for proposal
preparation costs if this program is not funded for whatever reason.
Publication of this announcement does not oblige NOAA to award any
specific project or to obligate any available funds.
Statutory Authority: 49 U.S.C. 44720(b), 33 U.S.C. 883d, 15
U.S.C. 2904, 15 U.S.C. 2931-2934. Catalog of Federal Domestic
Assistance (CFDA) Number: CFDA No. 11.431, Climate and Atmospheric
Research.
Eligibility
Eligible applicants are institutions of higher education, other
nonprofits, commercial organizations, international organizations, and
State, local, and Indian tribal governments. Federal agencies or
institutions are not eligible to receive Federal assistance under this
notice.
Cost Sharing Requirements
Cost Sharing is only required in one program element competition
which is the Transition of Research Applications to Climate Services
(TRACS) where the Cost Share Percentage must be at least 5% of the
total costs. The other nine Competitions have no cost sharing
requirement.
Letters of Intent (LOI)
The purpose of the LOI process is to provide information to
potential applicants on the relevance of their proposed project to the
Climate program and the likelihood of it being funded in advance of
preparing a full proposal. While it is in the best interest of the
applicants and their institutions to submit an LOI, it is not a
requirement; applicants who do not submit an LOI are still allowed to
submit a full proposal. Full proposals will be encouraged only for LOIs
deemed relevant.
A panel of program managers will review each LOI to determine
whether the LOI is responsive to the program goals as advertised in
this notice and will provide an e-mail or letter response.
Selection Procedures
NOAA published an omnibus notice announcing the availability of
grant funds for projects for Fiscal Year 2006 in the Federal Register
on June 30, 2005 (70 FR 37766), and its second on December 20, 2005 (70
FR 76253). The evaluation criteria and selection procedures contained
in those notices are applicable to this solicitation. For a copy of
these omnibus notices, please go to: https://www.grants.gov or https://
www.ago.noaa.gov/grants/funding.shtml.
Limitation of Liability
Funding for the programs listed in this notice are contingent upon
the availability of FY 2006 appropriations. In no event will NOAA or
the Department of Commerce be responsible for proposal preparation
costs if these
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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.
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 that 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 NEPA, https://www.nepa.noaa.gov/
NA0216_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 and implementing
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 not selecting an application. In some caes if
additional information is required after an 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.
The Department of Commerce 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
This document contains collection-of-information requirements
subject to the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA). The use of Standard Forms
424 and 424A, 424B, SF-LLL, and CD-346 have been approved by OMB under
the respective control numbers 0348-0043, 0348-0044, 0348-0040, 0348-
0046, and 0605-0001. 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
This notice has been determined to be 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.
Intergovernmental Review
Applications under this program are not subject to Executive Order
12372, Intergovernmental Review of federal programs.
Administrative Procedure Act/Regulatory Flexibility Act
Prior notice and an opportunity for public comments are not
required by the Administrative Procedure Act or any other law for this
rule concerning grants, benefits, and contracts (5 U.S.C. 553(a).
Because notice and opportunity for comment 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.
Mark Brown,
Chief, Financial Officer, OAR, National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration.
[FR Doc. 06-4104 Filed 5-1-06; 8:45am]
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