National Sea Grant Advisory Board
Type of Notice: Nominations & Meetings
Deadline: Nominations - Open
Date: 3/5 - 6/12
Summary: Nominations are being sought for the National Sea Grant Advisory Board, a Federal Advisory Committee that provides advice on the implementation of the National Sea Grant College Program. Also included is the agenda for the next meeting.
Publication Date: 2/23/12

Reissuance of Nationwide Permits
Type of Notice: Final Notice
Effective: 3/19/12
Summary: The Corps is reissuing 48 of the 49 existing nationwide permits (NWPs), general conditions, and definitions, with some modifications, two new NWPs, three new general conditions, and three new definitions.
Publication Date: 2/21/12

National Advisory Council
Type of Notice: Membership
Deadline: 3/9/12, 5:00 pm ET
Summary: FEMA is requesting individuals who are interested in serving on the National Advisory Council (NAC) to apply for appointment. The NAC will incorporate State, local and tribal government and private sector input in the development and revision of the national preparedness goal, the national preparedness system, the National Incident Management System, the National Response Plan, and other related plans and strategies.
Publication Date: 2/21/12

Applications for New Awards; Investing in Innovation Fund, Development Grants
Deadline: Pre-Application - 4/9/12; Full Application - TBA, by invite only
Award Size: Scale-Up Grants - Up to $25M; Validation Grants - Up to $15M; Development Grants - Up to $3M
Summary: This program supports applicants with a record of improving student achievement and attainment in order to expand the implementation of, and investment in, demonstrated innovative practices. Results should close the achievement gaps, decrease dropout rates, increase high school graduation rates, or increase college enrollment and completion rates.
Publication Date: 2/24/12

Applications for New Awards; Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad Program--Short-Term Projects and Advanced Overseas Intensive Language Training Projects
Type of Grant Notice: Correction
Deadline: 4/23/12, 4:30 pm ET
Award Size: Short-Term -$50,000 - $125,000; Long-Term - $50,000 - $375,000
Summary: Short-term projects may include seminars, curriculum development, or group research or study. Long-term projects support advanced overseas intensive language projects, which give advanced language students the opportunity to study languages overseas. The absolute priority is: Specific geographic regions of the world including one or more of the following geographic regions of the world: Africa, East Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia and the Pacific, the Western Hemisphere (Central and South America, Mexico, and the Caribbean), East Central Europe and Eurasia, and the Near East.
Publication Date: 2/23/12

Methane Opportunities for Vehicular Energy (MOVE)
Deadline: Questions - 3/21/12, 5:00 pm ET; Concept Papers - 3/26/12, 5:00 pm ET
Award Size: $250,000 - $10M
Summary: This program seeks to fund the development of transformational technologies that reduce the barriers to mass adoption of natural gas use in vehicles, particularly technologies that enable at-home refueling and low-cost, high energy density on-board storage for natural gas vehicles.
Publication Date: 2/24/12

Standards for Business Practices for Interstate Natural Gas Pipelines
Type of Rule: Proposed Rule with Comments
Deadline: 3/23/12
Summary: FERC is proposing to amend its regulations at 18 CFR 284.12 to incorporate by reference the latest version (Version 2.0) of business practice standards adopted by the Wholesale Gas Quadrant of the North American Energy Standards Board (NAESB) applicable to natural gas pipelines, and to provide guidance on the standards the Commission applies to requests for waivers or extensions of time to comply with NAESB Standards.
Publication Date: 2/22/12

Bridging Research Interactions through Collaborative Development Grants in Energy (BRIDGE)
Deadline: 5/21/12, 5:00 pm ET
Award Size: Up to $900,000
Summary: Bridging Research Interactions through Collaborative Development Grants in Energy (BRIDGE) is a new program that intends to support the SunShot Initiative by increasing the depth and breadth of expertise being applied to PV and CSP technology challenges.
Publication Date: 2/22/12

Advancements in Sustainable Algal Production (ASAP)
Deadline: 4/18/12, 5:00 pm ET
Award Size: Topic 1 - $500,000 - $3M; Topic 2 - Up to $15M
Summary: DOE s requesting applications to support outdoor phototrophic algae research and development in two areas: 1) nutrient and water use in algal production systems and 2) the development of algal technology testbed facilities.
Publication Date: 2/24/12

Training & Technical Assistance for Small Systems
Deadline: Deadline for Questions - 3/30/12; Applications - 4/9/12
Award Size: Not available.
Summary: Three National Priority Areas are supported under this NOFA: (1) training and technical assistance to small public water systems so that they can operate and maintain their systems to achieve and maintain compliance with the SDWA; (2) training and technical assistance to small public water systems to build their financial and managerial capacity to provide safe drinking water over the long-term; and (3) training and technical assistance to small publicly-owned wastewater systems, communities served by onsite/decentralized wastewater systems, and private well owners to help improve water quality.
Publication Date: 2/23/12

Training & Technical Assistance for Tribally-Owned & Operated Public Water Systems
Deadline: Deadline for Questions - 3/30/12; Applications - 4/9/12
Award Size: Up to $500,000
Summary: EPA will fund projects that train and provide technical assistance to tribally-owned and operated public water systems to help such systems achieve and maintain compliance with the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA). This announcement is limited to tribally-owned and operated public water systems where EPA Regions 6, 8 and 9 have primacy responsibilities under the SDWA.
Publication Date: 2/23/12

Environmental Workforce Development and Job Training Grants
Deadline: 4/12/12
Award Size: Up to $200,000
Summary: Grantees will deliver environmental workforce development and job training programs that recruit, train, and place local, unemployed and under-employed residents with the skills needed to secure full-time employment in the environmental field. Focus should be on solid and hazardous waste remediation, environmental health and safety, and wastewater-related training.
Publication Date: 2/23/12

Designation of Hazardous Substances; Designation, Reportable Quantities, and Notification
Type of Rule: Direct Final Rule & Proposed Rule with Comments
Deadline: 3/23/12
Effective: 4/23/12
Summary: EPA is proposing to reinstate the maximum observed constituent concentrations for several listed hazardous wastes that were inadvertently removed from the regulations by a November 8, 2000 final rule. EPA released both a direct final rule and a proposed rule on this issue. The direct final rule will become effective unless adverse comments are received.
Publication Date: 2/22/12

Proposed Confidentiality Determinations for the Petroleum and Natural Gas Systems Source Category, and Amendments to Table A-7, of the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Rule
Type of Rule: Proposed Rule with Comments, Opportunity to Request a Hearing
Deadline: Request a Hearing - 3/2/12; Comments - 3/26/2012; Comments if Hearing Requested - 4/9/122
Summary: EPA re-proposes confidentiality determinations for the data elements in subpart W, the petroleum and natural gas systems category, of the Mandatory Reporting of Greenhouse Gases Rule. They are also proposing to assign 10 recently added reporting elements as "Inputs to Emission Equations" and to defer their reporting deadline to March 31, 2015. Comments are welcomed and a public hearing may be requested.
Publication Date: 2/24/12

Arsenic Small Systems Compliance and Alternative Affordability Criteria Working Group; public meeting
Type of Notice: Webcasts
Date: 3/2/12, 1:00 - 4:00 pm ET
Summary: EPA is holding an initial meeting of the Arsenic Small Systems Working Group to provide input and recommendations on barriers to the use of point-of-use and point-of-entry treatment units, package plant, and modular units, as well as alternative affordability criteria that give extra weight to small, rural, and lower income communities.
Publication Date: 2/21/12

Draft National Plan To Address Alzheimer's Disease
Type of Notice: Comments
Deadline: 3/5/12
Summary: HHS is soliciting public input on the draft National Plan to Address Alzheimer's Disease.
Publication Date: 2/24/12

Request for Nominations of Children's Healthcare Quality Measures for Potential Inclusion in the CHIPRA 2013 Improved Core Set of Health Care Quality Measures for Medicaid/CHIP
Type of Notice: Request for Measures
Deadline: 4/9/12
Summary: AHRQ is soliciting the submission of measures of children's healthcare quality for potential inclusion in the CHIPRA 2013 Improved Core Set of Health Care Quality Measures (the "Improved Core Set") for potential voluntary use by Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program.
Publication Date: 2/24/12

Medicaid Program; Announcement of Medicaid Recovery Audit Contractors (RACs) Contingency Fee Update
Type of Notice: General Notice
Effective: 3/26/12
Summary: The CDC announces an increase to the maximum contingency fee that Federal financial participation (FFP) will be available and may be paid to Medicaid Recovery Audit Contractors (RAC) by State Medicaid programs.
Publication Date: 2/23/12

Medicare and Medicaid Programs; Quarterly Listing of Program Issuances--October Through December 2011
Type of Notice: General Notice
Summary: This quarterly notice lists CMS manual instructions, substantive and interpretive regulations, and other Federal Register notices that were published from October through December 2011, relating to the Medicare and Medicaid programs and other programs administered by CMS.
Publication Date: 2/21/12

Part C Capacity Development Program
Deadline: 3/23/12, 8:00 pm ET
Award Size: Up to $100,000
Summary: This Program assists public and nonprofit entities in their efforts to strengthen their organizational infrastructure and to increase their capacity to develop, enhance, or expand access to high quality HIV primary health care services for people living with HIV or who are at risk of infection in underserved or rural communities.
Publication Date: 2/22/12

Rural Health Research Center Cooperative Agreement
Deadline: 4/13/12, 8:00 pm ET
Award Size: Up to $660,000 per year
Summary: The Program funds projects that increase the amount of high quality, impartial, policy-relevant research to assist decision-makers at the federal, state and local levels to better understand problems faced by rural communities, and provide information that will improve access to health care and population health.
Publication Date: 2/23/12

Telehealth Network Grant Program
Deadline: 4/13/12, 8:00 pm ET
Award Size: Up to $250,000 per year
Summary: The primary objective of the TNGP is to demonstrate how telehealth programs and networks can improve access to quality health care services in rural and underserved communities in urban, rural, and frontier communities.
Publication Date: 2/24/12

Telehealth Resource Center Grant Program
Deadline: 4/20/12, 8:00 pm ET
Award Size: $325,000; NTRC - Up to $300,000per year
Summary: The purpose of the TRCGP is to support the establishment and development of Telehealth Resource Centers (TRCs) that expedite and customize the provision of telehealth technical assistance across the country, while at the same time working together to make available a wide range of expertise that might not be available in any one region. Under this NOFA 5 Regional TRCs (RTRCs) and 2 National TRCs (NTRCs) will be funded.
Publication Date: 2/24/12

Ryan White States/Territories Part B Supplemental
Award Size: Not available.
Deadline: 4/27/12, 8:00 pm ET
Summary: The Part B Supplemental Grant award is intended to supplement the services otherwise provided by the State and is determined by the applicant's ability to demonstrate the need in the State based on an objective and quantified basis.
Publication Date: 2/24/12

Notice of Public Meetings: Mojave-Southern Great Basin Resource Advisory Council, Nevada
Type of Meeting: Face-to-Face
Dates: 3/16/12; 7/19-20/12; 9/21/12
Summary: The BLM Mojave-Southern Great Basin Resource Advisory Council (RAC) will meet in Ely and Las Vegas, Nevada. Topics for discussion will include, but are not limited to: Renewable energy development and transmission, the greater sage-grouse, BLM Battle Mountain District and Southern Nevada District resource management plans, subgroup reports, and other topics that may be raised by RAC members. The final agendas will be available online.
Publication Date: 2/22/12

Notice of Intent To Prepare a Revision to the Carson City District Resource Management Plan and Associated Environmental Impact Statement, Nevada
Type of Notice: Notice of Intent with Comments
Deadline: 4/24/12
Summary: The BLM Carson City District (CCD), Carson City, Nevada, intends to prepare a Resource Management Plan (RMP) revision with an associated Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the Carson City District. The scoping period is open and comments on Areas of Critical Environmental Concern (ACEC) and information on lands that may possess wilderness characteristics are welcomed. Locations of public scoping meetings: Reno, Carson City, Yerington, Fallon, Hawthorne, and Minden.
Publication Date: 2/241/12

Availability of the Reclamation National Environmental Policy Act Handbook
Type of Notice: General Notice
Summary: Reclamation is making availability its updated National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) Handbook intended for use as guidance by Reclamation's NEPA practitioners.
Publication Date: 2/21/12

BJA FY 12 Second Chance Act Reentry Program for Adult Offenders with Co-Occurring Substance Abuse and Mental Health Disorders
Deadline: 4/24/12
Award Size: Up to $600,000
Summary: Grantees will assist individuals who are incarcerated and returning to the community with chronic substance abuse and mental health disorders, projects will coordinate substance abuse and mental health treatment with correctional planning to encourage participation in treatment.
Publication Date: 2/23/12

BJA FY 12 Second Chance Act Family-Based Adult Offender Substance Abuse Treatment Program
Deadline: 4/24/12
Award Size: Up to $300,000
Summary: The Program will implement or expand family-based treatment programs for adult individuals (18 years and over) in prison or jails, that provide comprehensive substance abuse treatment and parenting programs for incarcerated parents (including non-custodial parents) of minor children; provides treatment and other services to the participating offenders’ minor children and family members; and during reentry back into the community.
Publication Date: 2/23/12

BJA FY 12 Second Chance Act Adult Offender Reentry Program for Planning and Demonstration Projects
Deadline: 4/24/12
Award Size: Planning Grants - Up to $50,000; Implementation Grants - Up to $750,000
Summary: State and local governments and federally recognized Indian tribes may use funds for demonstration projects that promote the safe and successful reintegration into the community of individuals who have been incarcerated or detained.
Publication Date: 2/23/12

Social Science Research on Indigent Defense
Deadline: 5/23/12
Award Size: Up to $500,000
Summary: NIJ will fund projects to examine indigent criminal defense services, policies, and practices, including services provided by State-funded, county-funded, city-funded, or tribal public defender’s offices; contract indigent defense lawyers; court-appointed counsel for indigent defendants; and/or, pro bono services provided by criminal defense attorneys.
Publication Date: 2/23/12

Replication Research on Sexual Violence Case Attrition
Deadline: 4/24/12
Award Size: Up to $1.2M
Summary: NIJ is interested in funding one research grant to replicate the NIJ-funded study, "Police Decision-Making in Sexual Assault Cases: An Analysis of Crimes Reported to the Los Angeles Police Department, 2006–2008" in 6 - 8 sites.
Publication Date: 2/24/12

Workforce Data Quality Initiative
Deadline: 4/19/12, 4:00 pm ET
Award Size: Up to $1M
Summary: State Workforce Agencies (SWA) are eligible for funds to support the development and use of State workforce longitudinal administrative data systems, which, at a minimum, will include information on programs that provide training, employment services, and unemployment insurance. These systems must also be linked longitudinally at the individual level and must connect with the U.S. Department of Education’s (ED) Statewide Longitudinal Data Systems (SLDS) databases.
Publication Date: 2/21/12

Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training Grants Program
Deadline: 5/24/12, 4:00 pm ET
Award Size: $2.5M - $3M; Consortium - $5M - $15M
Summary: The TAACCCT grants program provides eligible institutions of higher education with funds to expand and improve their ability to deliver education and career training programs that can be completed in two years or less, and are suited for workers who are eligible for training under the Trade Adjustment Assistance for Workers Program of the Trade Act of 1974, as well as other adults.
Publication Date: 2/24/12

GeoPRISMS Program
Deadline: 7/2/12, 5:00 pm local time
Award Size: Not available.
Summary: GeoPRISMS will investigate the coupled geodynamics, earth surface processes, and climate interactions that build and modify continental margins over a wide range of timescales. These interactions cross the shoreline and have applications to margin evolution and dynamics, construction of stratigraphic architecture, accumulation of economic resources, and associated geologic hazards and environmental management.
Publication Date: 2/21/12

Building Community and Capacity for Data-Intensive Research in the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences and in Education and Human Resources
Deadline: 5/22/12, 5:00 pm local time2
Award Size: Not available.
Summary: NSF seek to enable research communities to develop visions, teams, and capabilities dedicated to creating new, large-scale, next-generation data resources and relevant analytic techniques to advance fundamental research for the SBE and EHR sciences.
Publication Date: 2/24/12

Memorandum of February 17, 2012--Maximizing the Effectiveness of Federal Programs and Functions Supporting Trade and Investment
Type of Notice: Presidential Documents
Summary: The President has submitted a legislative proposal to reorganize the Federal Government in order to reduce costs and consolidate agencies (Consolidation Authority) through streamlining functions currently dispersed across numerous agencies into a single new department to promote competitiveness, exports, and American business.
Publication Date: 2/23/12

Driving Innovation and Creating Jobs in Rural America Through Biobased and Sustainable Product Procurement
Type of Notice: Presidential Documents
Summary: The President published a memorandum to ensure that executive departments and agencies procure biobased products as part of the sustainable acquisition goals and milestones while promoting rural economic development, creation of jobs, and establishing new markets for farm commodities.
Publication Date: 2/24/12

Revised Guidance for Requesting One-Time Movement (OTM) Approvals
Type of Notice: Availability
Summary: FRA is making available the revised guidance for requesting OTM approvals for the transportation by rail of nonconforming or leaking bulk hazardous material packages.
Publication Date: 2/23/12

USDA-FNS-CNTN-FY2012
Deadline: Letter of Intent - 3/15/12; Applications - 4/27/12, 5:00 pm ET
Award Size: Non-Competitive Grants - Up to $50,000; Competitive - Up to $350,000
Summary: State agencies may use funds to expand and enhance their training programs that incorporate and implement the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans and USDA Foods in meals served under the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) or the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP).
Publication Date: 2/23/12

Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program
Type of Rule: Proposed Rule with Comments
Deadline: 4/24/12
Summary: This proposed rule would establish the basic requirements for the operation of the Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program (FFVP) in conformance with the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act.
Publication Date: 2/24/12

Request for Proposals: 2012 Hazardous Fuels Woody Biomass Utilization Grant Program
Type of Grant: Grants - Correction
Deadline: 4/2/12
Summary: This notice corrects incorrect dates in the NOFA published 2/6/12 in the Federal Register. The document contained incorrect dates for the deadline.
Publication Date: 2/23/12

Solicitation of Input From Stakeholders Regarding the Smith-Lever 3(d) Children, Youth, and Families at Risk Sustainable Community Projects
Type of Meeting: Webinars
Dates: 2/22/12, 2:00 - 3:30 pm ET; 3/9/12, 2:00 - 3:00 pm ET
Deadline: Comments - 3/30/12, COB
Summary: NIFA is holding webinars and accepting comments as stakeholder input to be used when developing future competitions for the Children, Youth, and Families at Risk (CYFAR) Sustainable Community Projects.
Publication Date: 2/21/12