Application Deadline for FY 2012; Small, Rural School Achievement Program
Deadline: Applications - 5/31/12, 4:30 pm ET
Award Size: Not provided.
Summary: Small, rural LEAs must submit applications by the deadline in order to be eligible for formula grants to help the LEA address the unique needs of rural school districts.
Publication Date: 4/23/12

Application for New Awards; Advanced Placement (AP) Test Fee Program--Reopening the AP Test Fee Fiscal Year 2012 Competition
Deadline: 5/4/12, 4:30 pm ET
Available Funds: $24,712,200
Summary: The Department has reopened this competition; additional $4,750,000 in FY 2012 funds have become available. Based on the anticipated number of applicants and other information available to the Department, we expect the new total amount of funds available for awards, $24,712,200, to be sufficient to pay the full cost of each advanced placement exam, with no limitation on the number of exams per low-income student. Please review the original NOFA for additional information on this competition.
Publication Date: 4/24/12

Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board, Nevada
Type of Meeting: Face-to-Face
Date: 5/16/12, 5:00 pm
Location: The Atomic Testing Museum, 755 East Flamingo Road, Las Vegas.
Summary: The tentative agenda includes: 1. Groundwater Update; 2. Student Liaison Project Update; and 3. Industrial Sites--Long-term Monitoring at Closed Sites.
Publication Date: 4/25/12

Fuel Cell Powered Airport Ground Support Equipment Deployment
Deadline: 6/11/12, 5:00 pm ET
Award Size: Up to $2.5M
Summary: DOE’s Fuel Cell Technologies Program seeks applications for projects to demonstrate and deploy fuel cell hybrid ground support equipment (GSE) vehicles at airport and/or air freight distribution center sites.
Publication Date: 4/25/12

National Clean Diesel Funding Assistance Program FY 2012 RFP
Deadline: 6/4/12, 4:00 pm local time
Award Size: $1.4M - $2.7M
Summary: EPA is soliciting proposals nationwide for projects that achieve significant reductions in diesel emissions in terms of tons of pollution produced by diesel engines and diesel emissions exposure, particularly from fleets operating in areas designated by the Administrator as poor air quality areas.
Publication Date: 4/23/12

FY2012 State Environmental Enforcement Training Grant Program Solicitation Notice
Deadline: 6/8/12, 5:00 pm ET
Award Size: $300,000 per yr.
Summary: The purpose of the grant is to expand environmental enforcement training opportunities on a nationwide basis covering all statutory environmental media programs. EPA is requesting applications that propose traditional classroom, and distance learning training such as webinars, virtual classrooms, and web-based courses using computer-based technologies to increase knowledge, skills, and abilities of environmental enforcement personnel.
Publication Date: 4/26/12

Federal Plan Requirements for Hospital/Medical/Infectious Waste Incinerators Constructed on or Before December 1, 2008 and Standards of Performance for New Stationary Sources; Proposed Rule
Type of Rule: Proposed Rule & Comments
Deadline: 6/7/12
Summary: Today's action proposes amendments to the hospital/medical/infectious waste incinerators federal plan to implement the amended emission guidelines adopted on October 6, 2009, for those states that do not have an approved revised/new state plan implementing the emission guidelines, as amended, in place by October 6, 2011.
Publication Date: 4/23/12

Environmental Impacts Statements; Notice of Availability
Type of Notice: Availability
Date: Review Period Ends - 5/29/12
Summary: EPA received a Final EIS for the Phoenix Copper Leach Project, Construction and Operation of a New Copper Beneficiation Facility, Lander County, NV.
Publication Date: 4/27/12

Comprehensive Support Services for Families Affected by Substance Abuse and/or HIV/AIDS
Deadline: 6/22/12
Award Size:
Summary: These grants will be awarded to eligible applicants for activities and services that are designed to increase well-being, improve permanency, and enhance the safety of infants and young children who have been exposed to a dangerous drug or have been exposed to HIV/AIDs and/or at risk of being placed in out-of-home care as a result of the parent(s)' substance abuse or HIV status.
Publication Date: 4/23/12

Services to Older Refugees
Deadline: 3/5/12
Award Size: $100,000 - $400,000
Summary: Funding is available to support projects that ensure the provision of social and supportive services to older refugees, defined as refugees and other ORR-eligible populations who are age 60 and above.
Publication Date: 4/26/12

TANF Assistance and Electronic Benefit Transfer Transactions; Request for Public Comment
Type of Notice: Comments
Deadline: 6/11/12
Summary: The Office of Family Assistance (OFA) is interested in learning about how States deliver Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) assistance to beneficiaries, whether States have implemented policies and practices to prevent inappropriate use of electronic benefits in liquor stores, gambling casinos, and the like. Comments will be used for the development of regulations to implement Section 4004 of the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012.
Publication Date: 4/25/12

Empowering Older Adults and Adults with Disabilities through Chronic Disease Self-Management Education Programs
Deadline: 6/11/12
Award Size: $200,000 - $575,000 per yr.
Summary: The overall purpose of this funding opportunity is to help ensure that evidence-based self-management education programs are embedded into the nations health and long-term services and supports systems.
Publication Date: 2/26/12

PPHF 2012 - ELC Building and Strengthening Epidemiology, Laboratory and Health Information Systems Capacity in State and Local Health Departments Financed in part by 2012 Prevention and Public Health Funds
Deadline: 6/11/12
Award Size: $28,667 - $470,000
Summary: The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement is to: •Amend CDC-CI10-101202PPHF12 to extend the budget and project period •Create a 24 month year 02 for CDC-CI10-101203PPHF12 •Align funding periods of the common activities to lessen the administrative burden on grantees •Incorporate the activities of the Epidemiology and Laboratory Capacity for Infectious Diseases.
Publication Date: 4/23/12

PHF 12 State Public Health Approaches for Ensuring Quitline Capacity Financed solely by 2012 Prevention and Public Health Funds
Deadline: 5/24/12, 5:00 pm ET
Award Size: Nevada is eligible to receive $227,661.
Summary: As part of the overall effort to reduce the burden of chronic diseases and chronic disease risk factors, the CDC, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (NCCDPHP), Office on Smoking and Health (OSH) announces the opportunity to apply for funds to ensure and support state quitline capacity, in order to respond to upcoming federal initiatives such as the National Tobacco Education Campaign.
Publication Date: 4/24/12

Enhancing HIV Mobilization among Organizations Serving Gay, Bisexual and other Men Who Have Sex with Men
Deadline: 6/15/12
Award Size: Up to $220,000 per yr.
Summary: The purpose of the cooperative agreement is to provide an opportunity for organizations to build upon their existing infrastructure, influence, and activities to prioritize and enhance HIV prevention among gay, bisexual, and other MSM they serve.
Publication Date: 4/26/12

Medicare and Medicaid Programs: Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment; Ambulatory Surgical Center Payment; Hospital Value-Based Purchasing Program; Physician Self-Referral; and Patient Notification Requirements in Provider Agreements; Corrections
Type of Notice: Final Rule - Corrections
Effective: 4/24/12
Summary: With this notice, CMS is making technical corrections to a final rule published November 30, 2011 and again on January 4, 2012 with corrections.
Publication Date: 4/24/12

Medicare and Medicaid Programs; Changes in Provider and Supplier Enrollment, Ordering and Referring, and Documentation Requirements; and Changes in Provider Agreements
Type of Rule: Final Rule
Effective : 6/26/12
Summary: This final rule finalizes several provisions of the Affordable Care Act implemented in the May 5, 2010 interim final rule with comment period.
Publication Date: 4/27/12

Maternal and Child Health Doctoral Training Program
Deadline: 6/15/12, 8:00 pm ET
Award Size: $27,250
Summary: Grants to institutions of higher learning will support doctoral students who elect a relevant MCH applied epidemiologic analysis as the basis for their research and dissertation, utilizing program information and data from a state, county, or city department of health.
Publication Date: 4/23/12

HIV Early Intervention Services (EIS) Program New Geographic Service Areas
Deadline: 5/25/12, 8:00 pm ET
Award Size: Up to $500,000 per year
Summary: The purpose of this funding opportunity is identify and fund new Part C Programs in order to provide HIV medical and psychosocial services to (1) newly diagnosed/identified PLWHA who are not in care; (2) previously diagnosed PLWHA but never been in care, (3) PLWHA who have dropped out of care and; (4) existing PLWHA clients.
Publication Date: 4/25/12

Solicitation of Written Comments on Draft: National Action Plan To Prevent Healthcare-Associated Infections: Roadmap to Elimination
Type of Notice: Comments
Deadline: 6/25/12, 5:00 pm ET
Summary: The Office of Healthcare Quality is soliciting public comment on the revised draft National Action Plan to Prevent Healthcare-Associated Infections: Roadmap to Elimination.
Publication Date: 4/25/12

FY12 Announcement of the Availability of Funds and Request for Applications for a Cooperative Agreement for a Project Titled Disease Prevention and Health Promotion Scholarship Program
Award Size: $400,000 - $700,000
Deadline: 6/11/12, 5:00 pm ET
Summary: The purpose of this cooperative agreement is to enhance core competencies in disease prevention and health promotion for medical, dental, nursing, allied health, and/or public health students; other students in fields related to public health; resident physicians; and practicing physicians and public health professionals.
Publication Date: 4/24/12

State Community Development Block Grant Program: Administrative Rule Changes
Type of Rule: Final Rule
Effective: 5/23/12
Summary: This final rule streamlines and updates the regulations to reflect statutory changes, clarifies the program income requirements, provides other clarifications to the State CDBG program regulations, and makes a conforming change to the regulations applicable to the CDBG Entitlement program.
Publication Date: 2/23/12

BLM NV Southern NV District Office Southern Nevada Public Land Management Act Hazardous Fuels Reduction Project under Round 12
Deadline: 4/30/12, 4:30 pm PT
Award Size:
Summary: BLM is interested in partnering with recipients to implement hazardous fuels reduction treatments within the Lake Tahoe Basin.
Publication Date: 4/24/12

BLM NV Winnemucca District Office Black Rock National Conservation Area (NCA) Archaeological Inventory Project
Deadline: 5/8/12, 4:30 pm PT
Award Size: Up to $17,091.94 for the 1st year
Summary: The principal purpose of this project is to partner with a recipient to conduct cultural resource (archaeological) inventories in the Black Rock Desert High Rock Canyon Emigrant Trails NCA and associated Wilderness Areas. The recipient will identify and record archaeological sites and provide information on the history and prehistory
Publication Date: 4/24/12

BLM-NV-District Office-SNPLMA- SNPLMA Multiple Species Habitat Conservation Plan Projects under Round 12
Deadline: 4/30/12
Award Size: $42,000 - $92,000
Summary: The Southern Nevada Public Land Management Act allows BLM to sell land within a specific boundary around Las Vegas and to use the revenue from these sales for various projects in Nevada.
Publication Date: 4/27/12

BLM NV Southern Nevada District Office Hectors Helpers Youth Engaging the Community through Social Media
Deadline: 5/9/12, 4:30 pm ET
Award Size: Up to $50,000
Summary: eeks a partner for the purpose of providing educational opportunities and engage youth to develop civic minded skills, design marketing strategies that address community environmental problems, communicate educational matter to the public, and increase community awareness of the litter and desert dumping problems.
Publication Date: 4/25/12

Filing of Plats of Survey; Nevada
Type of Notice: General Notice
Summary: The purpose of this notice is to inform the public and interested State and local government officials of the filing of seven Plats of Survey in Nevada.
Publication Date: 4/23/12

CESU for Research and Data Collection of Moapa Dace
Deadline: 5/3/12
Size of Award: $21,229
Summary: Continue second phase of research, data collection and reporting for special project work related to the recovery of Moapa Dace.
Publication Date: 4/26/12

Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; 5-Year Reviews of Species in California and Nevada
Type of Notice: Request for Information or Comments
Deadline: 6/26/12
Summary: The Service announces 5-year reviews that were completed for 28 species in California and Nevada between March 17, 2011, and February 29, 2012. In Nevada, they are reviewing the status of the Independence Valley speckled dace and have reviewed teh Ash Meadows sunray.
Publication Date: 4/27/12

Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit, Great Basin CESU
Deadline: 5/4/12
Size of Award: Up to $275,000
Summary: The general purpose is to participate in a cooperative research and data collection effort. The recipients will work with multi-disciplinary colleagues to investigate the strengths and weaknesses of the existing data framework on documenting protected areas in the US.
Publication Date: 4/27/12

BJA FY 12 Adult Drug Court Planning, Training, Technical Assistance, and Resource Center Initiatives
Deadline: 6/14/12
Award Size: Category 1 - Up to $1.25M; Category 2 - Up to $1.2M
Summary: The purpose of the Adult Drug Court Discretionary Grant Program is to provide financial and technical assistance to states, state courts, local courts, units of local government, and Indian tribal governments to develop and implement drug courts that effectively integrate evidenced-based substance abuse treatment, mandatory drug testing, sanctions and incentives, and transitional services in a judicially supervised court setting with jurisdiction over substance-abusing offenders.
Publication Date: 4/27/12

National Pretrial Reporting Program
Deadline: 6/8/12
Award Size: $350,000
Summary: BJS seeks applications to design and test strategies to field the National Pretrial Reporting Program (NPRP). NPRP will replace the State Court Processing Statistics (SCPS) program as BJS’s primary data collection series focused on the pretrial release process in state courts.
Publication Date: 4/25/12

SMART FY 12 Promoting Evidence Integration in Sex Offender Management: Circles of Support and Accountability Training and Technical Assistance Project
Deadline: 6/12/12
Award Size: Up to $500,000
Summary: The recipient of this award will provide targeted training and technical assistance to project sites awarded grants under the SMART FY 2012 Promoting Evidence Integration in Sex Offender Management: COSA for Project Sites as well as respond to ad hoc requests for training and technical assistance on the COSA model.
Publication Date: 4/27/12

SMART FY 12 Promoting Evidence Integration in Sex Offender Management: Circles of Support and Accountability for Project Sites
Deadline: 6/12/12
Award Size: Up to $200,000
Summary: The SMART Office seeks applications from jurisdictions interested in implementing COSA in an effort to advance this model of reintegrating sex offenders to communities and encourage community engagement in the reentry process.
Publication Date: 4/27/12

Notice on Reallotment of Workforce Investment Act (WIA) Title I Formula Allotted Funds for Dislocated Worker Activities for Program Year (PY) 2011
Type of Notice: General Notice
Effective: 4/27/12
Summary: This notice publishes the dislocated worker PY 2011 funds for recapture by State and the amount to be reallotted to eligible States. For Nevada, the PY 2011 reallotment was $3,014 and the revised total is $14,313,172.
Publication Date: 2/27/12

Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship Program-CIF21 Track
Deadline: 3/5/12
Award Size: $3.3M
Summary: The purpose of this IGERT solicitation is to support new models in graduate education in which students are engaged in an environment that supports innovation to learn through hands-on experience how their own research may contribute in new ways to benefit society and to learn the processes needed for successful implementation of such contributions.
Publication Date: 4/23/12

Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate
Deadline: AGEP - Trans. - 9/28/12; AGEP-KAT & AGEP-BPR - 10/30/12, 5:00 pm local time, all dates
Available Awards: $6M for 12 awards
Summary: GEP projects must focus on African Americans, Hispanic Americans, American Indians, Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders (URMs) U.S. citizens in STEM graduate education, and/or postdoctoral training, and their preparation for academic STEM careers at all types of institutions of higher education. AGEP intends to support the following types of projects: AGEP-Transformation; AGEP-Knowledge Adoption and Translation (AGEP-KAT); and AGEP-Broadening Participation Research in STEM Education (AGEP-BPR).
Publication Date: 4/23/12

Failure-Resistant Systems (FRS)
Deadline: 7/26/12, 5:00 pm local time
Award Size: $300,000 - $400,000
Summary: NSF and the Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) have agreed to embark on a new collaborative research program to address compelling research challenges in failure resistant systems that are of paramount importance to industry, academia, and society at large.
Publication Date: 4/24/12

Hazardous Materials; Miscellaneous Amendments (RRR)
Type of Rule: Proposed Rule & Comments
Deadline: 6/25/12
Summary: PHMSA proposes to make miscellaneous amendments to the Hazardous Materials Regulations to update and clarify certain regulatory requirements.
Publication Date: 4/26/12

Notice of Funds Availability: Inviting Applications for the Emerging Markets Program
Deadline: 5/21/12, 5:00 pm ET
Award Size: Up to $500,000
Summary: The EMP assists U.S. entities in developing, maintaining, or expanding exports of U.S. agricultural commodities and products by funding activities that improve emerging markets' food and rural business systems, including reducing potential trade barriers in such markets.
Publication Date: 4/23/12

Notice of Funds Availability: Inviting Applications for the Market Access Program
Deadline: 5/21/12, 5:00 pm ET
Award Size: Funding information was not available at this time.
Summary: The MAP is designed to create, expand, and maintain foreign markets for U.S. agricultural commodities and products through cost-share assistance.
Publication Date: 4/23/12

Notice of Funds Availability; Inviting Applications for the Quality Samples Program
Deadline: 5/21/12, 5:00 pm ET
Award Size: Up to $75,000
Summary: QSP is designed to encourage the development and expansion of export markets for U.S. agricultural commodities by assisting U.S. entities in providing commodity samples to potential foreign importers to promote a better understanding and appreciation for the high quality of U.S. agricultural commodities. Funds will be provided as reimbursements.
Publication Date: 4/23/12

Notice of Funds Availability: Inviting Applications for the Technical Assistance for Specialty Crops Program
Deadline: 5/21/12, 5:00 pm ET
Award Size: Up to $500,000
Summary: The TASC program is designed to assist U.S. organizations by providing funding for projects that address sanitary, phytosanitary, or related technical barriers that prohibit or threaten the export of U.S. specialty crops.
Publication Date: 4/23/12

Certification of Compliance With Meal Requirements for the National School Lunch Program Under the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010
Type of Rule: Interim Final Rule with Comments
Effective: 7/1/12
Deadline: 7/26/12
Summary: This interim rule amends National School Lunch Program regulations to conform to requirements contained in the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 regarding performance-based cash assistance for school food authorities certified compliant with meal pattern and nutrition standards.
Publication Date: 4/27/12