[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 212 (Wednesday, November 3, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 67684-67685]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-27702]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
[Docket No.: 100630282-0522-03]
RIN 0648-ZC18
Availability of Grants Funds for Fiscal Year 2011
AGENCY: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Department of Commerce (DOC).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: NOAA publishes this notice to extend the final application
solicitation period for the Fiscal Year 2011 CRCP International Coral
Reef Conservation Cooperative Agreements. The original solicitation,
which was announced in the Federal Register on July 16, 2010, gave an
incorrect final application due date of February 21, 2011. This notice
corrects that error by extending the final application period for this
program until February 22, 2011. As the original announcement states,
final applications will be accepted ONLY from those pre-applicants who
are invited to submit a final application.
DATES: Final applications must be submitted no later than 5 p.m.,
Eastern Standard Time, Tuesday, February 22, 2011.
ADDRESSES: Final applications will be accepted only from those
applicants who are invited to submit a final application. The applicant
may submit the final application (narratives, federal forms, and
supporting documentation) in one of two ways: Applications must be
submitted through http://www.grants.gov, unless an applicant does not
have internet access. In that case, hard copies with original
signatures and scanned copies on a CD must be postmarked by 5 p.m.,
U.S. Eastern Standard Time, on February 22, 2011 and sent to: Scot
Frew, NOAA/NOS International Program Office, 1315 East West Highway,
5th Floor, N/IP, Room 5826, Silver Spring, MD 20910. Late final
applications by any method cannot be accepted under any circumstances.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For administrative or technical
issues, contact Scot Frew at 301-713-3078 x220 or by e-mail at
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: NOAA publishes this notice to extend the
final application solicitation period for the Fiscal Year 2011 CRCP
International Coral Reef Conservation Cooperative
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Agreements Program announced in the Federal Register on July 16, 2010
(75 FR 41662). The new deadline for final applications is February 22,
2011. The program extends the solicitation period due to a typo made in
the deadline date published in the original announcement.
Limitation of Liability
In no event will NOAA or the Department of Commerce be responsible
for proposal preparation costs if this program is 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. Applicants are hereby given notice that funding for the Fiscal
Year 2011 program is contingent upon the availability of Fiscal Year
2011 appropriations.
Universal Identifier
Applicants should be aware they are required to provide a Dun and
Bradstreet Data Universal Numbering System (DUNS) number during the
application process. See the October 30, 2002, Federal Register, (67 FR
66177) for additional information. Organizations can receive a DUNS
number at no cost by calling the dedicated toll-free DUNS Number
request line at 1-866-705-5711 or via the Internet at http://www.dunandbradstreet.com.
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: http://www.nepa.noaa.gov/, including our
NOAA Administrative Order 216-6 for NEPA, http://www.nepa.noaa.gov/NAO216_6_TOC.pdf, and the Council on Environmental Quality
implementation regulations, http://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 not selecting an
application. In some cases 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 contained in the Federal Register
notice of October 1, 2001 (66 FR 49917), as amended by the Federal
Register notice published on: October 30, 2002 (67 FR 66109); December
30, 2004 (69 FR 78389); and February 11, 2008 (73 FR 7696) 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, 424A, 424B, SF-LLL, and CD-346 has been approved by the Office of
Management and Budget (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.
Administrative Procedure Act/Regulatory Flexibility Act
Prior notice and an opportunity for public comment are 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 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.
Dated: October 27, 2010.
Christopher C. Cartwright,
Associate Assistant Administrator for Management and CFO/CAO, Ocean
Services and Coastal Zone Management.
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