[Federal Register: August 8, 2006 (Volume 71, Number 152)]
[Notices]
[Page 45045-45046]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
[Docket No. 030602141-6143-38; I.D. 051906D]
RIN 0648-ZB55
Availability of Grant Funds for Fiscal Year 2007; Correction
AGENCY: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Department of Commerce (DOC).
ACTION: Notice; availability of grant funds; correction.
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SUMMARY: The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration publishes
this notice to correct errors contained in a previously published
notice of availability of funds (June 12, 2006) for the NMFS-Sea Grant
Fellowship Program in Marine Resource Economics, the NMFS-Sea Grant
Fellowship Program in Population Dynamics, and the Ballast Water
Technology Demonstration Grants Program (Research, Development, Testing
and Evaluation Facility). This notice corrects errors concerning the
amount of funds available for fellowships, the amount of cost sharing
required for those fellowships, and the deadlines for application for
those fellowships and grants competitions.
DATES: Final proposals for the Ballast Water Technology Demonstration
Program (Research, Development, Testing and Evaluation Facility) must
be received by 5 p.m. EST on Tuesday, December 19, 2006.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In the notice of funding availability
published in the Federal Register on June 12, 2006 (71 FR 33898) NOAA
announced the availability of funding for several grant or cooperative
agreement programs. That notice, however, contained several inadvertent
errors in the entries for the NMFS-Sea Grant Fellowship Program in
Marine Resource Economics, the NMFS-Sea Grant Fellowship Program in
Population Dynamics, and the Ballast Water Technology Demonstration
Grants Program (Research, Development, Testing and Evaluation
Facility). This notice announces the correct information for those
programs.
NMFS-Sea Grant Joint Graduate Fellowship Program in Marine Resource
Economics and NMFS-Sea Grant Fellowship Program in Population Dynamics
In the June 12, 2006 notice, the entries for the NMFS-Sea Grant
Joint Graduate Fellowship Program in Marine Resource Economics, 71 FR
33927, June 12, 2006, and the NMFS-Sea Grant Joint Graduate Fellowship
Program in Population Dynamics, 71 FR 33927, June 12, 2006, listed
incorrectly the cooperative agreement award amount as $40,000 per year,
and the cost share requirement as $6,667 per year. These amounts were
inaccurately listed due to a typographical error. For both of these
fellowships, the correct cooperative agreement award amount is $38,500
per year, and the correct cost share requirement is $6,417 per year.
Both of these fellowship announcements also suggested that local
Sea Grant programs consider setting an internal deadline one week prior
to the application deadline. This statement was in error. The Sea Grant
programs do not have a specific time interval and none was intended.
The correct suggestion to the local Sea Grant programs is that they
consider setting an internal deadline prior to the application deadline
for these fellowships.
Ballast Water Technology Demonstration Grants Program (Research,
Development, Testing and Evaluation Facility)
The June 12, 2006 notice of funding availability also contained an
error in the entry for the Ballast Water Technology Demonstration
Grants Program (Research, Development, Testing and Evaluation
Facility). The June 12, 2006 notice incorrectly listed the full
proposal deadline as December 19, 2007 (71 FR 33920, June 12, 2006).
The correct full proposal deadline is December 19, 2006.
All other requirements and provisions listed in the June 12, 2006
notice for these programs remain unchanged.
Classification
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, 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.
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Dated: July 26, 2006.
Mark E. Brown,
Chief Financial Officer, Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research,
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
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