[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: 15CFR917.42]



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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 E_General Considerations Pertaining to Sea Grant Funding

 

Sec. 917.42  Categories of support available for the conducting of Sea 

Grant activities.



    (a) Three categories of support are available for the conducting of 

Sea Grant activities: Projects; coherent area programs; and 

institutional programs. In general, funding for institutional programs 

and coherent area programs are made with expectation of renewal, as long 

as the funding recipient maintains a high level of quality and relevance 

in its activities. Project funding is made generally for a single item 

of research, education and training, or advisory service, but may be 

renewed under certain conditions; each renewal is negotiated 

individually.

    (b) Project support is for a clearly defined activity to be 

conducted over a definite period of time to achieve a specified goal. 

The project may be in research, education, training, or advisory 

services. Support for a project is made to an individual investigator or 

project director through his organization.

    (c) Intermediate between the institutional programs and individual 

projects are coherent area programs. These have two main purposes:

    (1) To bring into the National Sea Grant Program institutions of 

higher education that have a strong core of capability in some aspects 

of marine affairs, but which do not qualify or do not wish to qualify 

for institutional program support at this time. The purpose of support 

in such cases is to enable the institution to apply its existing 

competence to its regional problems and opportunities while developing 

the broader base of capability and the internal organization that will 

lead to institutional support. This program category requires a definite 

commitment on the part of the institution to develop an institutional 

program and to present a multiproject, multidisciplinary program 

involving the existing competence of an institution in



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a unified or coherent attack on well-defined local or regional problems. 

Such a coherent area program should include research, education and 

training, and advisory services, to the extent of the institution's 

capability.

    (2) To bring into the National Sea Grant Program (on a more or less 

continuing basis) qualified entities that have rare or unique capability 

in a specialized field of marine affairs. Such entities need not be 

institutions of higher education.

    (d) Institutional grants are made to institutions of higher 

education or to a combination of institutions that have an existing 

broad base of competence in marine affairs. To qualify, an institution 

must make a positive, long-range commitment to objectives of the 

National Sea Grant Program as evidence by committing the institution's 

own resources in the form of matching funds, creation of the 

organization necessary for management of the Sea Grant Program, quality 

education programs in marine areas, establishment of interdisciplinary 

research teams, and development of advisory service mechanisms for 

strong interaction with marine communities in its region. A Sea Grant 

institutional program is expected to provide intellectual leadership in 

assisting its region to solve problems and to realize opportunities of 

its marine environment. To the extent possible, an institutional program 

should involve all appropriate elements of the institution, whether 

colleges or departments, and devise cooperative or mutally supporting 

programs with other institutions of higher education, and with Federal 

and state agencies, local agencies, and industry. An institutional 

program should have substantial strength in the three basic Sea Grant 

activities: research, education and training, and advisory services. Sea 

Grant institutional programs that meet the qualifications for Sea Grant 

College or Sea Grant Regional Consortium status set forth at 15 CFR part 

918 will be so designated by the Secretary.