2011 Western Pacific Demonstration Projects

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	Federal Grant Title:	2011 Western Pacific Demonstration Projects
	CFDA Number:	11.452
	CFDA Description:	Unallied Industry Projects
	Federal Agency Name:	Department of Commerce
	Category of Funding Activity:	Environment Natural Resources Science and Technology
	Category Explanation:	Information not provided
	Opportunity Category:	Discretionary
	Funding Opportunity Number:	NOAA-NMFS-PIRO-2011-2002764
	Document Type:	Modification to Previous Grants Notice
	Funding Instrument Type:	Cooperative Agreement Grant
	Posted Date:	Jan 03, 2011
	Creation Date:	Jan 14, 2011
	Original Closing Date for Applications:	Mar 04, 2011 Preliminary proposals (letters of intent) must be received at the Pacific Islands Regional Office by 5:00 p.m. Hawaii Standard Time February 2, 2011. NOAA reserves 15 days to review preliminary proposals against NOAA's mission requirements. If an applicant is invited to submit a full proposal, it must be received at the Pacific Islands Regional Office (PIRO) by 5:00 p.m. Hawaii Standard Time March 4, 2011. Proposals received after the established deadline will be rejected and returned to the sender without consideration. For proposals submitted through Grants.gov, a date and time receipt indication will be the basis of determining timeliness. The proposal must be validated by Grants.gov in order to be considered timely.
	Current Closing Date for Applications:	Mar 04, 2011 Full applications must be received at the Pacific Islands Regional Office (PIRO) by 5:00 p.m. Hawaii Standard Time March 4, 2011. Proposals received after the established deadline will be rejected and returned to the sender without consideration. For proposals submitted through Grants.gov, a date and time receipt indication will be the basis of determining timeliness. The proposal must be validated by Grants.gov in order to be considered timely.
	Archive Date:	Apr 03, 2011
	Expected Number of Awards:	Information not provided
	Estimated Total Program Funding:	$500,000
	Federal Grant Award Ceiling:	Information not provided
	Federal Grant Award Floor:	Information not provided
	Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement:	No

Applicants Eligible for this Grant: Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)
Additional Information on Eligibility: Eligible applicants are limited to communities in the Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Area, as defined at section 305(i)(2)(D) of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (the Act), 16 U.S.C. 1855(i)(2)(D); and which meet the standards for determining eligibility set forth in section 305(i)(2)(B) of the Act, 16 U.S.C. 1855(i)(2)(B). The eligibility criteria developed by the Council and approved by the Secretary were published in the Federal Register on April 16, 2002 (67 FR 18512, 18514). The published criteria supplement those set forth in section 305(i)(2)(B) of the Act and shall be applied equally in determining a party's eligibility to participate in the demonstration project. Given this, applicants must: 1. Be located within the Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Area (American Samoa, the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam or Hawaii); 2. Consist of community residents descended from aboriginal people indigenous to the Western Pacific area who conducted commercial or subsistence fishing using traditional fishing practices in the waters of the western Pacific; 3. Consist of community residents who reside in their ancestral homeland; 4. Have knowledge of customary practices relevant to fisheries of the Western Pacific; 5. Have traditional dependence on fisheries of the Western Pacific; 6. Experience economic or other barriers that have prevented full participation in the western Pacific fisheries and, in recent years, have not had harvesting, processing or marketing capability sufficient to support substantial participation in fisheries in the area; and, 7. Develop and submit a Community Development Plan to the Western Pacific Council and the National Marine Fisheries Service. For the purposes of determining eligibility to participate and receive funding assistance authorized under Section 111(b) of the Sustainable Fisheries Act, Pub. L. 104-297, as amended, and published in 16 U.S.C. 1855 note, a project proposal shall be considered a Community Development Plan.
Grant Description: The National Marine Fisheries Service (NOAA/NMFS) is soliciting applications for financial assistance for Western Pacific Demonstration Projects. Eligible applicants are encouraged to submit projects intended to foster and promote use of traditional indigenous fishing practices and/or develop or enhance Western Pacific community-based fishing opportunities benefiting the island communities in American Samoa, Guam, Hawaii, and the Northern Mariana Islands.
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Grant Announcement Contact: Steve Drescher Policy Advisor
For application download issues. [steve.j.drescher@noaa.gov]
Similar Government Grants: • 2011 Marine Education and Training Mini Grant Program; • 2011 Hawaii Seafood Program; • 2011 Alaska Region Marine Education and Training Grant Program; • 2010 Western Pacific Demonstration Projects; • 2010 Marine Education and Training Mini Grant Program; • FY08 Hawaii Seafood Program; • FY09 Hawaii Seafood Program