WASHINGTON, July 31 -- The U.S. Department of Labor Bureau of International Labor Affairs has issued a cooperative agreement notice involving Project to Combat Child Labor and Promote Acceptable Conditions of Work in Tanzania's Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining Sector. * * * Description: The Bureau of lnternational Labor Affairs (ILAB), U.S. Department of Labor (DOL, or the Department), announces the availability of approximately $4,000,000 total costs (subject to the availability of Fed more ST

WASHINGTON, July 31 -- The U.S. Department of Labor Bureau of International Labor Affairs has issued a cooperative agreement notice involving Reducing Barriers that Impede Access to Education and Decent Work for LGBTQI+ Youth in Brazil and the Latin American and Caribbean Region. * * * Description: The Bureau of International Labor Affairs (ILAB), U.S. Department of Labor (DOL, or the Department), announces the availability of approximately $4,000,000 total costs (subject to the availability o more ST

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 -- The U.S. Department of Defense Engineer Research and Development Center has issued a cooperative agreement notice involving Developing Biotechnologies for Detection and Recovery of Rare Earth Elements. * * * Description: This project will develop novel microbes with increased capability to dissolve and capture REE from solid sources such as crushed ore and e-waste. The project will also examine approaches to increase the selectivity and affinity of biomolecules for diff more ST

WASHINGTON, July 31 -- The U.S. Department of Defense Engineer Research and Development Center has issued a cooperative agreement notice involving Investigation Into Overtopping Mitigation Strategies. * * * Description: This agreement represents an opportunity for research into mitigation strategies for embankment and floodwall overtopping breach. To accomplish this, the following is anticipated: 1. Assess factors that may lead to overtopping breach and relevant failure mechanisms for the d more ST

WASHINGTON, July 31 -- The U.S. Department of Defense Engineer Research and Development Center has issued a cooperative agreement notice involving Research and Development for European Frogbit Herbicide Control. * * * Description: The following objective summarizes the work for a maximum of three (3) unique, stand-alone projects. Over the life of the cooperative agreement (3 years), it is anticipated that 3 projects would be completed. Objective 1: Investigator will collaborate with ERDC re more ST

WASHINGTON, July 31 -- The U.S. Department of Energy Golden Field Office has issued a cooperative agreement notice involving Smart Manufacturing Technologies for Material and Process Innovation. * * * Description: To realize a clean, decarbonized economy, we must drive innovation to transform resources, materials, and manufacturing for energy applications. The U.S. ramp up of production of technologies that are needed for this energy transition will require new materials, new manufacturing pro more ST

WASHINGTON, July 31 -- The U.S. Department of Energy Golden Field Office has issued a grant notice involving Residential Wood Heater In-Situ Testing Request for Information. * * * Description: Description Wood is an important renewable source of fuel for residential heat, with 10% of American households (approximately 13 million) burning wood for heat and 2% using wood as their primary heat source. Although wood heaters provide a small percentage of energy used in residences in the United Stat more ST

WASHINGTON, July 31 -- The U.S. Department of Interior Fish and Wildlife Service has issued a cooperative agreement notice involving Fisheries Restoration and Irrigation Mitigation Act. * * * Description: The Fisheries Restoration and Irrigation Mitigation Act (FRIMA) (Public Law 106-502) of 2000 was established with the goals of decreasing fish mortality associated with the withdrawal of water for irrigation and other purposes without impairing the continued withdrawal of water for those purp more ST

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 -- The U.S. Department of Interior Bureau of Reclamation has issued a cooperative agreement notice involving Central Valley Project Conservation and Habitat Restoration Program Grants for Fiscal Years 2025 and 2026. * * * Description: The purpose of this NOFO is to solicit applications from non-federal parties to which the Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) will issue awards of grants or cooperative agreements through the CVPCP, CV more ST

WASHINGTON, July 31 -- The U.S. Department of Energy National Energy Technology Laboratory has issued a cooperative agreement notice involving Pre-Commercial Testing of Low-Carbon Emissions Gas Turbine. * * * Description: DE-FOA-0003413 is a Notice of Intent to issue DE-FOA-0003409 entitled Pre-Commercial Testing of Low-Carbon Emissions Gas Turbine. Potential projects are cost share research and development projects that support carbon management technologies. This Notice of Intent is for info more ST

WASHINGTON, July 31 -- The U.S. Department of Energy National Energy Technology Laboratory has issued a cooperative agreement notice involving Puerto Rico Energy Resilience Fund. * * * Description: This is a Notice of Intent to Issue Funding Opportunity Announcement No. DE-FOA-0003348; titled Puerto Rico Energy Resilience Fund: Resilient Communities Program. This Notice of Intent is for informational purposes only and DOE is not seeking comments on the information contained in the notice. If more ST

WASHINGTON, July 31 -- The U.S. Department of Energy National Energy Technology Laboratory has issued a cooperative agreement notice involving Undocumented Orphaned Well Research and Development. * * * Description: Notice of Intent to Issue Funding Opportunity Announcement No. DE-FOA-0003343 entitled Undocumented Orphaned Well Research and Development. This Notice of Intent to Issue is for informational purposes only; the Department of Energy is not seeking comments on the information in this  more ST

WASHINGTON, July 31 -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services National Institutes of Health has issued a cooperative agreement notice involving Device Based Treatments for Substance Use Disorders. * * * Description: The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to accelerate the development of devices to treat Substance Use Disorders (SUDs). The continuing advances in technologies offer unprecedented opportunities to develop neuromodulatory or neurophysiological devic more ST

WASHINGTON, July 31 -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services National Institutes of Health has issued a cooperative agreement notice involving Helping to End Addiction Long-term Initiative. * * * Description: As part of the NIH's Helping to End Addiction Long-term (HEAL) Initiative, the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases and other participating NIH Institutes and Centers invite applications for the HEAL KIDS Chronic Pain Collaborating Research Team more ST

WASHINGTON, July 31 -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services National Institutes of Health has issued a cooperative agreement notice involving Translating Socioenvironmental Influences on Neurocognitive Development and Addiction Risk. * * * Description: This Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) invites applications for a Data Coordination Center (DCC) for the Translating Socioenvironmental Influences on Neurocognitive Development and Addiction Risk (TranSINDA) Consortium at NIDA. Th more ST

WASHINGTON, July 31 -- The U.S. Army has issued a cooperative agreement notice involving Combat Readiness-Medical, Translational Research Award. * * * Description: The intent of the FY24 CRRP TRA is to support high-impact translational research that will accelerate innovative ideas into clinical applications, including health care products, technologies, and/or practice guidelines. Research funded under this award mechanism will be hypothesis-driven, high-impact applied research that is relev more ST

WASHINGTON, July 31 -- The U.S. Agency for International Development has issued a cooperative agreement notice involving Rebuilding Cuba's Nascent Civil Society. * * * Description: The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is seeking applications for a cooperative agreement(s) from qualified entities to implement the Rebuilding Cuba's Nascent Civil Society program. Eligibility for this award is not restricted. USAID intends to make an award to the applicant(s) who best mee more ST

WASHINGTON, July 31 -- The U.S. Agency for International Development Lebanon-Beirut has issued a cooperative agreement notice involving Strengthening the capacity of Lebanese Higher Education Institutions. * * * Description: The United States Government (USG) represented by the Agency for International Development (USAID) Mission in Lebanon, posts this Request for Information (RFI) to inform an upcoming Higher Education activity designed to prepare higher education graduates to enter the wor more ST