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Description: The stimulus package provides additional funding to the Office of the Job Corps for the construction, rehabilitation, and acquisition of Job Corps Centers. Job Corps Centers are essentially at-risk youth residential facilities.
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  Description: This program provides additional funding for grants to states to carry out the Vocational Rehabilitation Services program. Part of this funding flow by formula to state vocational rehabilitation agencies, and part of this funding will be provided to independent living programs.
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State Contact: Jim Harris, III
Email: jim.harris.3@rehab.alabama.gov

List of Formula Grants
    - Independent Living (CFDA#: 84.398)- Provides grant funds to expand and support existing Independent Living Services within the state. There is a 10% match requirement in order to  draw these additional federal funds.
        State Contact: Jim Harris, III
        Email: jim.harris.3@rehab.alabama.gov
       
    - Independent Living Centers (CFDA#: 84.4)- Provides funding to consumer-directed, non-profit organizations to provide four core services: peer support, information and referral, independent living skills training and person and systems advocacy. Some centers provide additional services.
        State Contact: Jim Harris, III
        Email: jim.harris.3@rehab.alabama.gov

    - Independent Living Centers - Service for Older Blind Individuals (CFDA#: 84.399) - Provides funding to serve older people who have become blind, to enable them to live independently with this new disability, preventing out-of-home placements.
        State Contact: Jim Harris, III
        Email: jim.harris.3@rehab.alabama.gov
  Description: The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act provides that the Secretary of Education has discretion to award innovation grants to local education agencies or partnerships between non-profit organizations and local educational agencies or schools, so that grantees can expand their work, partner with private sector and philanthropic community organizations, and document best practices.
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Eligible Entities: School Districts, Higher Ed,
Federal Website: Department of Education

Description: The program supports competitive grants to develop and implement performance-based teacher and principal compensation systems in high-need schools. These systems consider gains in student academic achievement, classroom evaluations conducted multiple times during each school year, and other factors, and provide educators with incentives to take on additional responsibilities and leadership roles.
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Description: This Federal program provides direct loans, guaranteed loans, and facilities grants to non-profits, Indian Tribes, and public and quasi public agencies for the application or establishment of soil conservation practices, shifts in land use, the conservation, development, us and control of water, and the installation or improvement of drainage or waste disposal facilities. Construct, enlarge, extend, or otherwise improve community facilities providing essential services to rural residents. USDA provides Community Facilities Direct Loans and Grants to cities, counties, political and quasi-political subdivisions of States; Indian tribes on Federal and State reservations and other federally recognized Indian tribes; and existing private corporations and not-for-profits including faith based and neighborhood organizations performing community facility functions.
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  Description: This program provides grants and loans for the conservation, development, and use of water for aquaculture purposes.
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  Description: This stimulus program provides direct loans, guaranteed loans, and grants for water or waste disposal, rural water or wastewater technical assistance, emergency community water assistance, and solid waste management. These loans and grants will be provided by the United Stated Department of Agriculture directly to public, private or cooperative organizations, Indian Tribes or Individuals.
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Description: This program makes funding available to colleges and universities through competitive grants for the acquisition of research equipment. The program is designed to make research instruments more accessible to higher education, non-profit organizations and research museums to expand scientific knowledge. Proposals can be for a single instrument or for numerous instruments but all must be too costly for the entity to acquire on their own. Grants can also be for upgrades to existing facilities or new construction.
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Federal Website: National Science Foundation

Description: This program provides funding to the Department of Energy's Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy program for an existing Alternative Fueled Vehicles Pilot Grant program for state and local governments, nonprofits, and metropolitan transportation authorities. Provides funding through the U.S. Department of Energy Clean Cities program to encourage the use of plug-in electric drive vehicles or other emerging electric vehicle technologies. Grants may be used for the acquisition of alternative-fuel vehicles, fuel-cell vehicles, or hybrid vehicles including buses for public transportation and ground transportation at airports.
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Funding Mechanism: U.S. Department of Energy may make competitive grants for up to 30 geographically dispersed pilot projects. Funding announcement DE-PS26-09NT01236-04 is available at: http://www.grants.gov.

Eligible Entities: Businesses, Individuals, Local Government, State Government

Federal Agency: Department of Energy
Federal Website: http://www1.eere.energy.gov/cleancities/
Federal Amount: $300,000,000.00

Description: This program provides funding for research and development, disaster assistance, and climate change programs. NASA will be providing grant opportunities for equipment and systems development in several areas including aeronautics, space exploration, physical science, and cross-agency support.
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Description: This program provides grants to states, local governments and transit authorities to provide electric transportation in cities that reduce emissions. Eligible projects include shipside electrification of vehicles, truck stop electrification, airport ground support equipment and cargo handling equipment. The Department of Energy (DOE) National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), on behalf of the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy's (EERE) Office of Vehicle Technologies (OVT) Program, is seeking applications for grants to establish development, demonstration, evaluation, and education projects to accelerate the market introduction and penetration of advanced electric drive vehicles.
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Funding Mechanism: Competitive grants through the U.S. Department of Energy. Funding announcements DE-PS26-09NT01236-04 is available on http://www.grants.gov
Eligible Entities: Businesses, Individuals, Local Government, Non-Profit Organizations, Other, State Government

State Website: Alabama Department of Economic and Community Affairs

Federal Agency: Department of Energy
Federal Website: http://www.eere.energy.gov/

Description: This program provides funding to be distributed as grants to state and private organizations for hazardous fuel reduction, forest health, and ecosystem improvement projects on state and private forests. The goal of WFM projects under the ARRA is to protect communities from large, unnaturally severe fires and contribute to the restoration of fire-adapted ecosystems, thereby helping to foster fire-adapted communities well into the future. The WFM program is designed to recognize the importance of integrating fire as a critical natural process in land and resource management plans and activities, managing wildfire across landownership boundaries, and applying the best available science.
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Description: The stimulus package provides grants to local governments, universities, non-profits and businesses for carbon capture and sequestration demonstration projects. Four funding opportunities for improving techniques to clean or capture and store the emissions from coal-fired plants and other industrial sources.
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Applicants must apply with the Department of Energy directly.
Federal Website: Department of Energy

  Description: The stimulus package provides grants to local governments and nonprofits for the acceleration of nuclear waste clean up.
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Description: Consistent with the Recovery Act bill and conference report, $220 million for NIST’s Scientific and Technical Research Services (STRS) account will fund Advanced Scientific Equipment, Measurement Science and Engineering Grants, Postdoctoral Research Fellowships, Measurement Science and Engineering Fellowship Program, Research Contracts, and Information Technology Infrastructure Contracts. NIST will also receive $20 million from HHS and $10 million from DoE for standards development work. more information
Description: This program will provide funding for The Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP), which is a program that helps supplement the diets of low-income needy persons, including elderly people, by providing them with emergency food and nutrition assistance. These funds will be allocated based on a pre-existing formula.
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Description: This program provides funding for education, health, nutrition, and social/emotional development services for low-income children. This program will be funded through a pre-existing formula.
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Eligible Entities: Local Government, Non-Profit Organizations, Schools or School Districts
State Agency: Department of Children's Affairs
State Contact: Linda Hampton
Email Address: Linda.Hampton@dca.alabama.gov

Federal Agency: Dept. of Health and Human Services

Description: This program provides funding for education, health, nutrition, and social/emotional development services for low-income children. Grants for family-centered services for low-income families with very young children designed to promote the development of the children, and to enable their parents to fulfill their roles as parents and to move toward self-sufficiency. Up to 10 percent goes for training and technical assistance and up to 3 percent for monitoring the operation of these programs. more information

Eligible Entities: Local Government, Non-Profit Organizations, Schools or School Districts
State Agency: Department of Children's Affairs
State Contact: Linda Hampton
Email Address: Linda.Hampton@dca.alabama.gov

Federal Agency: Dept. of Health and Human Services

Description: This program provides funding to the National Endowment for the Arts to distribute in grants for arts project which preserve jobs in the arts sector otherwise threatened by declines in philanthropic support during the economic downturn. The NEA will distribute 40% of these funds to state and regional arts agencies to fund arts projects, and the National Council on the Arts will distribute the remaining 60% to deserving arts projects; state and regional arts agencies will potentially be eligible to receive these funds as well.
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State Agency: Alabama State Council on the Arts
State Contact: Barbara Edwards
Email: Barbara.Edwards@arts.alabama.gov
Phone: 334-242-4076

Federal Website: National Endowments for the Arts

Description: Through the Centers for Independent Living (CIL) program, the ARRA provides additional support to centers for independent living to improve and expand independent living services to individuals with significant disabilities, especially in unserved and underserved geographic areas, to maximize their leadership, empowerment, independence, and productivity, and to promote the integration and full inclusion of individuals with disabilities into the mainstream of American society.
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State Agency: Alabama Dept. of Rehab
State Contact: Jim Harris III
Email: jim.harris.3@rehab.alabama.gov

Description: Funds made available by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA or Recovery Act) will support health center efforts to expand their capacity to provide primary and preventive health services to medically underserved populations nationwide as well as create employment opportunities in underserved communities over the next 2 years. The Recovery Act provides $1.5 billion in grants to address significant and pressing capital improvement needs in health centers, including major construction and renovation.
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Description: This program increases the amount available for grants to states, local governments, and non-profit organizations that provide work training to Americans over the age of 55. These funds are only available to existing 2008 grantees. The purpose of SCSEP is to foster individual economic self-sufficiency and offer job opportunities in community service for unemployed low-income persons age 55 and older. SCSEP awards formula grants to states and territories, and competitive grants to non-profit national organizations to provide part-time, minimum wage employment, job training and related services, and placement in unsubsidized employment.
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Federal Websites: Department of Labor

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State Agency: Dept. of Senior Services
State Contact: Marvin Jones
Email: Marvin.Jones@adss.alabama.gov

Description: The Recovery Act provides a total of $10.4 billion, all available for two years—through September 2010. We expect to spend as much as possible in FY 2009. Funding includes: $8.2 billion in support of scientific research priorities where progress can be expected in two years, $1 biliion to support Extramural Construction, Repairs and Alterations, $300 million Shared Instrumentation and other capital equipment, $500 million for NIH buildings and facilities, $400 million for Comparative Effectiveness Research
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Description: This program provides funding for the Community Service Block Grant Program so that States can increase their income eligibility ceiling to 200% above the Federal poverty level.

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State Website: Alabama Department of Economic Community Affairs (ADECA)
State Contact: Crystal Davis, Community Services Block Grant Program Director
Email: Crystal.Davis@adeca.alabama.gov
Phone: 334-353-5463
Fax: 334-353-4311

Federal Website: Department of Health and Human Services
  Description: These programs provide grants to state and local governments to provide nutrition programs for seniors. This funding will be distributed to states through an existing formula, and states then may allocate these funds through a competitive grant process.
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Federal Websites: Administration on Aging; Health & Human Services

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Description: The stimulus package provides funding to states and local governments for short and medium-term rental assistance, relocation and stabilization services for homelessness prevention. The Recovery Act includes a $1.5 billion appropriation for the Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Program (HPRP). The purpose of the HPRP is to provide homelessness prevention assistance for households who would otherwise become homeless and rapid re-housing assistance for persons who are homeless.
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State Website: Alabama Department of Economic and Community Affairs
State Contact: Shonda Gray
Email: Shonda.Gray@adeca.alabama.gov
Phone: 334-353-0288
Fax: 334-353-3527


Description: This program provides funding for competitive grants to local governments and non-profits for lead-based paint removal. Priority will be given to applicants who applied in FY 2008, but were not awarded grants because of funding limitations. Each applicant must submit a detailed plan that demonstrates its capacity to carry out the proposed use of funds.
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  Description: The goal of the Medicare and Medicaid Health IT provisions in the Recovery Act is to promote and provide incentives for the adoption of certified electronic health records (EHRs). To achieve this goal, the Recovery Act authorized bonus payments for eligible professionals (EPs) and hospitals participating in Medicare and Medicaid as an incentive to become meaningful users of certified EHRs.
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State Agency: Department of Public Health
State Contact: Michele Jones
Email: michele.jones@adph.state.al.us
Phone: 334-206-5226

Description: Purpose. This NIH Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA), supported by funds provided to the NIH under the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Recovery Act or ARRA), Public Law 111-5, invites new applications from single domestic institutions, or consortia of institutions, to participate in creating a network of human immunology profiling research groups. Applications are sought that propose to study human immune responses (1) following infection, (2) prior to and following vaccination against an infectious disease, or (3) prior to and following treatment with an immune adjuvant that targets a known innate immune receptor(s). The purpose of this FOA is to capitalize on recent advances in immune profiling to measure the diversity of human immune responses under a variety of conditions, using bioinformatic, multiplex, and/or systems biology approaches to study samples from well-characterized human cohorts and to measure aspects of the human transcriptome and/or proteome. Mechanism of Support. This FOA will utilize the U01 and U19 cooperative agreement grant mechanisms. Funds Available and Anticipated Number of Awards. The NIAID intends to commit approximately $20 million in total costs (direct plus indirect costs) in fiscal year 2010, which includes support for an Infrastructure and Opportunities Fund of up to $2 million total costs in year one and up to $5 million total costs in years two through five. The Infrastructure and Opportunities Fund will support consortium infrastructure, collaborative projects, pilot projects, and new research opportunities that arise post-award. Recovery Act funds will be used to support this FOA in fiscal year 2010 only; the NIAID will provide funds for four future years (FY 2011-2014). The NIAID anticipates that 6-10 awards will be made for fiscal year 2010, pending the number and quality of applications and the availability of funds.
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Federal Agency: National Institute of Health

Description: The stimulus package provides funding for the installation of open-access broadband infrastructure in rural areas throughout the country
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Federal Amount: $2,500,000,000.00

Description: The stimulus package provides funding to develop and maintain wireless and broadband infrastructure to service underserved and underserved areas.
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State Contact: Kathy Johnson
Email: Kathy.Johnson@governor.alabama.gov
Phone: 334-353-8760
 
List of Competitive Grants
    - Infrastructure Grants - Funding to improve service in underserved and underserved areas.
        (Federal Amount: $3,900,000,000)
        CFDA#: 11.557
        APPLICATIONS WILL BE ACCEPTED BETWEEN JULY 14 - AUGUST 14, 2009
        State Contact: Kathy Johnson
        Email: Kathy.Johnson@governor.alabama.gov
        Phone: 334-353-8760

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    - Sustainable Adoption Grants - Funding for innovative programs to encourage sustainable adoption of broadband service.
        (Federal Amount: $250,000,000)
        CFDA#: 11.557
        APPLICATIONS WILL BE ACCEPTED BETWEEN JULY 14 - AUGUST 14, 2009
        State Contact: Kathy Johnson
        Email: Kathy.Johnson@governor.alabama.gov
        Phone: 334-353-8760

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    - State Broadband Data and Development Grants - Funding for developing and maintaining a statewide broadband inventory and map
        (Federal Amount: $350,000,000)
        CFDA#: 11.558
        APPLICATIONS WILL BE ACCEPTED BETWEEN JULY 14 - AUGUST 14, 2009
        State Contact: Kathy Johnson
        Email: Kathy.Johnson@governor.alabama.gov
        Phone: 334-353-8760

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Water and Environmental Programs (WEP) provides loans, grants and loan guarantees for drinking water, sanitary sewer, solid waste and drainage facilities in rural areas and cities of 10,000 or less. Recipients include public bodies, recognized Indian tribes, and non-profits, including Faith-Based and Neighborhood organizations. WEP also makes grants to nonprofit organizations to provide technical assistance and training to rural communities with water, wastewater, and solid waste problems.
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The RBEG program provides grants that facilitate the development of small and emerging rural businesses, to help fund distance learning networks, and help fund employment-related training programs. The RBEG grants may be made to public bodies, private nonprofit corporations, and Indian Tribes on Federal and State reservations and other Federally-recognized Indian Tribal groups in rural areas. RBEG grants must finance or develop small and emerging private business enterprises.
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Construct, enlarge, extend, or otherwise improve community facilities providing essential services to rural residents. USDA provides Community Facilities Direct Loans and Grants to cities, counties, political and quasi-political subdivisions of States; Indian tribes on Federal and State reservations and other federally recognized Indian tribes; and existing private corporations and not-for-profits including faith based and neighborhood organizations performing community facility functions.
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Description: The Rural Development Broadband Program supports the expansion of broadband service in rural areas through financing and grants to projects that provide access to high speed service to facilitate economic development in locations without sufficient access to such service.
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Description: This program will provide competitive grants, available to state and local governments as well as non-profits, to purchase abandoned and foreclosed property for use as affordable housing. Provides funding to help communities purchase and rehabilitate foreclosed, vacant properties in order to create more affordable housing and reduce neighborhood blight.
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Federal Website: Housing of Urban Development (HUD)
 
Description: This provision creates a program to leverage private investment for economic development projects with priority on economically distressed areas. These funds will be provided from the Economic Development Administration directly to regional economic development commissions. Funding to promote comprehensive, entrepreneurial and innovation-based economic development efforts to enhance the competitiveness of regions, resulting in increased private investment and higher-skill, higher-wage jobs in regions experiencing substantial and persistent economic distress. Funding to promote comprehensive, entrepreneurial and innovation-based economic development efforts to enhance the competitiveness of regions, resulting in increased private investment and higher-skill, higher-wage jobs in regions experiencing substantial and persistent economic distress.
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Federal Website: Department of Commerce

Description: This program provides additional funds to state housing credit agencies to provide gap financing grants in coordination with the Low Income Housing Tax Credit to catalyze stalled housing development. State agencies must grant the funds competitively to recipients of low income housing tax credits pursuant to their qualified allocation plans and must give priority to projects that are expected to be completed within 3 years.
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State Agency: Alabama Finance Authority (334-244-9200)

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Description: The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act provides funding for grants available to states, local governments, land clearance authorities, and regional authorities for "brownfields" (contaminated land) revitalization projects.
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State Website: Alabama Department of Environmental Management
State Contact: Larry Bryant
Email: jlb@adem.state.al.us
Phone: 334-271-7771

Federal Website: http://www.epa.gov/brownfields/eparecovery/index.htm

Description: The stimulus package provides an additional $100 million in formula based grants to state and local governments and nonprofits to provide food and shelter to homeless individuals. These funds will be distributed by the Emergency Food and Shelter Program National Board.
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Funding Mechanism: Funds are distributed by formula based on unemployment and poverty rates.
Eligible Entities: Other
Federal Agency: US Department of Agriculture
Federal Web Site: http://www.fema.gov/news/newsrelease.fema?id=32131
Federal Amount: $1,000,000,000.00
State Amount: $1,117,000.00

Description: The stimulus package provides funding for the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS), an organization that provides grants to national, state, and local governments as well as non-profits, for performing volunteer programs. Funds will be used to put approximately 13,000 additional AmeriCorps members to work through national service and establish funding to award an education following their service.
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Description: This program provides funds for public housing agencies insofar as they are "owners" of properties receiving project based assistance under the Supportive Housing for the Elderly Program. $2 billion of these funds will be allotted for Project Based Rental Assistance for payments to owners for 12-month periods. Owners must commit to make housing affordable for at least 15 years, and for additional periods as determined by the HUD Secretary. Provides funding for grants and loans to assist owners of properties receiving project-based assistance under s. 202 of the Housing Act of 1959, s. 811 of the Cranston-Gonzalez national Affordable Housing Act, or s. 8 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 for energy efficiency retrofits and green investments
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Funding Mechanism: HUD administers through competitive grants or loans to eligible property owners. Funding announcement HUD-RA-01 is now available on http://www.grants.gov.

Eligible Entities:  Businesses, Individuals (Individuals must apply through the US Department of Housing and Urban Development. Please see link below.)

Federal Agency: Dept. of Housing and Urban Development
Federal Web Site: http://www.hud.gov/offices/hsg/omhar/

Descriptions: USGS will support the replacement of outdated equipment used to monitor and report on earthquake activity in the U/S. and will improve the data centers and processing capabilities that generate earthquake information products and manage seismic data. These upgrades will further the development of the Advanced National Seismic System. Systems to be upgraded will include existing urban, regional and national seismic networks. Support for objectives to be completed by the resulting assistance awards will utilize funds provided under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009. The USGS will follow a two-track approach for submission of proposals for Program Announcement 09HQPA0021 under ARRA. Proposals shall be submitted electronically to a U.S. Geological Survey e-mail address and one hard copy of the entire proposal must be submitted to the U.S. Geological Survey, Office of Acquisition and Grants; details for both required tracks for submittal will be provided in the Program (Full) Announcement. Both the electronic copy and the paper copy must be received by the date and time set forth for receipt of proposals in the program announcement. Failure to submit either part by the date and time specified will eliminate the application from consideration. (For example, if the electronic copy is received by the established date and time but the paper copy is not, the application will not be considered - vice versa.) In addition, the electronic copy must be submitted to the only e-mail address identified in the Program (Full) Announcement. Electronic submittal to or through any other location or means will not be acceptable. The closing date set forth in this synopsis is an estimated date. The actual closing date and time will be specified in the Program Announcement. ARRA-SE0005A
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Federal Agency: US Geological Survey

Description: Promote entrepreneurial and innovation-based economic development efforts—including investments in technology parks, industrial parks, and business incubators—to enhance the competitiveness of regions, resulting in increased private investment and higher-skill, higher-wage jobs in regions that have experienced sudden and severe economic dislocation and job loss due to corporate restructuring. Promote accountability and transparency and minimize fraud, waste, and abuse whenever possible.
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Description: This FOA seeks to develop new technologies to dramatically improve energy efficiency in ICT with an emphasis on new technologies that can be commercialized within the next 3 to 5 years, and to demonstrate through field testing highly energy efficient, emerging technologies that are ready for or are in the initial stage of commercial introduction. Approximately $50 million will be awarded to projects under this announcement, and all funds are expected to be expended within a 2-year period from the date of award.
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