[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 152 (Tuesday, August 8, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Pages 45045-45046]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-12285]


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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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