[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 15, Volume 3]

[Revised as of January 1, 2006]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 15CFR917.30]



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                  TITLE 15--COMMERCE AND FOREIGN TRADE

 

CHAPTER IX--NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT 

                               OF COMMERCE

 

PART 917_NATIONAL SEA GRANT PROGRAM FUNDING REGULATIONS--Table of Contents

 

             Subpart D_International Cooperation Assistance

 

Sec. 917.30  General.





    (a) 33 U.S.C. 1124a sets up a program of International Cooperation 

Assistance in marine reseach, marine education and training, and marine 

advisory services designed to enhance the research and technical 

capability of developing foreign nations with respect to ocean and 

coastal resources and to promote the international exchange of 

information and data with respect to the assessment, development, 

utilization, and conservation of such resources. Any Sea Grant College 

or Sea Grant Regional Consortium or any institution of higher education, 

laboratory, or institute (if such institution, laboratory or institute 

is located within any state) may apply for and receive International 

Cooperation Assistance funding.

    (b) International Cooperation Assistance funding proposals will be 

expected to address: (1) The nature and focus of the proposed project, 

(2) the utilization of institutional and other appropriate resources in 

the implementation of the project, (3) a clear indication of the foreign 

participant's (individual or institution) commitment to the project, (4) 

identification of accomplishments expected from a single granting 

interval, (5) implicit or explicit out-year commitment of resources, and 

(6) the impact of the proposed project on the institution receiving 

funding.

    (c) The projects supported by International Cooperation Assistance 

funding are intended to be genuinely cooperative. Innovation and 

uniqueness will be significant factors in the determination of proposals 

to be funded. In the case of a proposed international project that is 

submitted from an institution where a Sea Grant program is in existence, 

the extent to which the proposed project takes advantage of the Sea 

Grant institutional capability existing at that institution and thereby 

strengthening it, as opposed to being a mere appendage to the ongoing 

Sea Grant program, will also be an important evaluation factor. The U.S. 

Department of State will be given the opportunity to review all 

International Cooperation Assistance projects and



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none will be funded without this consultation. Because the United 

Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) also 

funds international projects of the kind that can be funded under the 

Sea Grant International Cooperation Assistance program, and, to effect 

coordination in this area between Sea Grant and UNESCO, the Division of 

Marine Sciences (UNESCO) will be informed of all International 

Cooperation Assistance projects funded.