2004 National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) Cooperative Agreement Program Announcement

The summary for the 2004 National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) Cooperative Agreement Program Announcement grant is detailed below. This summary states who is eligible for the grant, how much grant money will be awarded, current and past deadlines, Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) numbers, and a sampling of similar government grants. Verify the accuracy of the data FederalGrants.com provides by visiting the webpage noted in the Link to Full Announcement section or by contacting the appropriate person listed as the Grant Announcement Contact. If any section is incomplete, please visit the website for the Branch of Acquisition Grants, which is the U.S. government agency offering this grant.

2004 National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) Cooperative Agreement Program Announcement: MODIFICATION NO. 0001 Section IV. Application and Submission Information is hereby modified to include the following information regarding the submission of all proposals. (1) Applicants are to submit proposals electonically at http://www.grants.gov/apply, no later than June 4, 2004 @ 2:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. In addition to submitting proposals electronically, all applicants are required to submit ten (10) binder-clipped copies of the complete application package. (2) By mail to: Karen L. Staubs, Grant Specialist U.S. Geological Survey Office of Acquisition and Grants, MS 205G 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive Reston, VA 20192 (3) By hand: An application that is hand delivered shall be delivered to the address listed above. The Office of Acquisition and Grants will accepted hand delivered applications in Room 6A331 during normal business hours. Business hours are 7:45 a.m. through 4:15 p.m., except Saturdays, Sundays, and Federal Holidays. Applications received after the closing date and time will not be considered unless it can be demonstrated that the completed application was mailed before the deadline and late delivery was due to the mishandling by the carrier. An application received after the closing date and time does not meet the mailing requirements above will be returned to the applicant. **END OF MODIFICATION NO. 01** The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) Cooperative Agreement Program (CAP), has a requirement by which the Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) will facilitate forming partnerships among the Federal and non-Federal sectors to assist in building the NSDI. The 2004 NSDI Cooperative Agreement Program is highlighting the following three areas of activity that qualify for funding. ? NSDI Institution Building and Coordination: establishing and advancing state or regional councils and consortia, that will address formal cross-organizational partnerships, strategic plans and collaboration, engaging the user community, and leveraging resources in support of the NSDI. ? Participation in the Geospatial One Stop/NSDI Clearinghouse: enhancements of Clearinghouse services / migration to Portal technology, metadata (implementation, training), Providing Web Mapping Services. ? Participation in the National Map: data integration, and best practices projects resulting in supporting seamless topographic mapping capability for a specified geography through The National Map. These activity areas are refined into six funding categories that are more fully described in subsequent sections of this announcement. To download the announcement, go to: http://grants.gov. Click on the ?Find Grant Opportunities? orange tab in the upper right-hand corner of the screen. Next click on ?Search Grant Synopsis? in the upper left-hand part of that screen. Scroll down to ?Search by CFDA Number? and type in 15.809. Scroll to the bottom of this same screen and click on ?Start Search.? At the next screen, click on the word ?Grant.? At the next screen, scroll to the bottom and click on the gray bar ?Apply for Grant Electronically.? At the next screen under Instructions, click on ?Download.? You can now download the Program Announcement by saving it to your computer. If you click on the other Application ?Download? button, you will find the SF-424 application forms. You must download the PureEdge Viewer first to view and enter data into these forms. You can download the viewer by going back to the Grants.gov Main Page and clicking on the ?Getting Started? tab in the upper right-hand corner. Under Item #2 you will find a link for downloading the viewer.