[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 163 (Tuesday, August 24, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Pages 51991-51992]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-19327]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration


Coral Reef Conservation Program Fiscal Year 2003 Funding 
Guidance--Correction

AGENCY: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 
National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Ocean Service (NOS), 
Commerce.

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ACTION: Coral Reef Conservation Program fiscal year 2003 funding 
guidance--correction.

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SUMMARY: In the notice of availability of Federal assistance for coral 
reef conservation activities in the Federal Register of January 17, 
2003, Docket No. 021226332-2332-01, make the following correction:
    On pages 2518 and 2519, IV. CORAL REEF ECOSYSTEM RESEARCH A. 
Program Description, the first paragraph should read as follows:
    In FY 2003, the Program is providing funding to NOAA's Undersea 
Research Program (NURP) to cooperatively administer a NURP coral reef 
grant program for Florida; and in FY 2004, the Program is providing 
fund to NURP to cooperatively administer NURP coral reef grant programs 
for the Caribbean, Florida, the Southeastern U.S., Gulf of Mexico, 
Hawaii, and the Western Pacific. In FY 2003, the Southeastern U.S. and 
Gulf of Mexico Center will announce a joint program in partnership with 
the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Sanctuary Friends of 
the Florida Keys, which will support research in the Florida Keys 
National Marine Sanctuary. In FY 2004, the Hawaii Undersea Research 
Laboratory will administer a program to address research needs for 
Hawaii and the Western Pacific; the Caribbean Marine Research Center 
will address research needs in the U.S. Caribbean; and the Southeastern 
U.S. and the Mexico Center will address research needs for Florida, the 
Southeastern U.S. and the Gulf of Mexico. Requests for proposals will 
be available at http://www.nurp.noaa.gov/noaacoral.html or by 
contacting the appropriate regional contact persons identified in the 
contact information section below. The grant eligibility and matching 
requirements will be consistent with the NOAA Coral Reef Conservation 
Grant Program Guidelines.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Bill Millhouser, Coastal Programs 
Division, Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management, NOS/NOAA, 
1305 East-West Highway, N/ORM3, Silver Spring, Maryland 20910, (301) 
713-3155, Extension 189.

    Federal Domestic Assistance Catalog 11.419, Coastal Zone 
Management Program Administration.

    Dated: August 12, 2004.
Eldon Hout,
Director, Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management.
[FR Doc. 04-19327 Filed 8-23-04; 8:45 am]
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