[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 71 (Friday, April 11, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Pages 19821-19822]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-7708]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

[Docket No. 080307398-8516-02]


NOAA Bay Watershed Education and Training (B-WET) Program; 
Correction

AGENCY: Office of Education (OED), Office of the Under Secretary 
(USEC), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 
Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of funding availability; correction.

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SUMMARY: This notice corrects an error contained in the notice 
published in the Federal Register on March 17th, 2008. That notice 
announced the Bay Watershed Education and Training (B-WET) Program 
competition and contained incorrect dates.

DATES: Proposals must be received by 5 p.m. EST on April 18th, 2008.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For the Pacific Northwest, please 
contact Seaberry Nachbar, NOAA National Marine Sanctuary, 299 Foam 
Street, Monterey, CA 93940, or by phone at 831-647-4201, or via 
internet at [email protected]; For the northern Gulf of Mexico, 
Stephanie Bennett, Pacific Services Center, 737 Bishop Street, Suite 
1550, Honolulu, HI 96817, or by phone at 808-522-7481, or via internet 
at [email protected]; For New England, Shannon Sprague, NOAA 
Chesapeake Bay Office, 410 Severn Avenue, Suite 107A, Annapolis, MD 
21403, or by phone at 410-267-5664, or via internet at 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Correction

    The announcement for the NOAA Bay Watershed Education and Training 
(B-WET) Program competition on March

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17, 2008 (73 FR 14222), listed the application deadline as April 16, 
2008. The correct application deadline is 5 p.m. EST, April 18, 2008.

Intergovernmental Review

    Applications under this program are not subject to Executive Order 
12372, Intergovernmental Review of Federal Programs.

Limitation of Liability

    In no event will NOAA or the Department of Commerce be responsible 
for proposal preparation costs if these programs fail to receive 
funding or are cancelled because of other agency priorities. 
Publication of this announcement does not oblige NOAA to award any 
specific project or to obligate any available funds.

National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)

    NOAA must analyze the potential environmental impacts, as required 
by the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), for applicant projects 
or proposals which are seeking NOAA Federal funding opportunities. 
Detailed information on NOAA compliance with NEPA can be found at the 
following NOAA NEPA Web site: http://www.nepa.noaa.gov/, including our 
NOAA Administrative Order 216-6 for NEPA, http://www.nepa.noaa.gov/NAO216_6_TOC.pdf, and the Council on Environmental Quality 
implementation regulations, http://ceq.eh.doe.gov/nepa/regs/ceq/toc_ceq.htm. Consequently, as part of an applicant's package, and under 
their description of their program activities, applicants are required 
to provide detailed information on the activities to be conducted, 
locations, sites, species and habitat to be affected, possible 
construction activities, and any environmental concerns that may exist 
(e.g., the use and disposal of hazardous or toxic chemicals, 
introduction of non-indigenous species, impacts to endangered and 
threatened species, aquaculture projects, and impacts to coral reef 
systems). In addition to providing specific information that will serve 
as the basis for any required impact analyses, applicants may also be 
requested to assist NOAA in drafting of an environmental assessment, if 
NOAA determines an assessment is required. Applicants will also be 
required to cooperate with NOAA in identifying feasible measures to 
reduce or avoid any identified adverse environmental impacts of their 
proposal. The failure to do so shall be grounds for not selecting an 
application. In some cases if additional information is required after 
an application is selected, funds can be withheld by the Grants Officer 
under a special award condition requiring the recipient to submit 
additional environmental compliance information sufficient to enable 
NOAA to make an assessment on any impacts that a project may have on 
the environment.

Department of Commerce 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 February 11, 2008 (73 FR 7696), 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, and 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, 
nor shall a 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 for the Regulatory Flexibility Act (5 U.S.C. 601 et seq.) 
are inapplicable. Therefore, a regulatory flexibility analysis has not 
been prepared.

Helen Hurcombe,
Director, Acquisition and Grants Office.
 [FR Doc. E8-7708 Filed 4-10-08; 8:45 am]
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