WASHINGTON, Aug. 13 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Ocean Energy Management announced that it expects to award a cooperative agreement for the assessment of sand and mineral resources in Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Rhode Island. The estimated total program funding available was cited as $200,000. The agency said the grant was associated with environment. The funding is open to state governments and public and state controlled institutions of higher education. Th more ST

WASHINGTON, Aug. 16 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Ocean Energy Management announced that it expects to award a cooperative agreement for research to serve the public interest in offshore sand resources, coastal restoration, and coastal resiliency. The estimated total program funding available was cited as $250,000. The agency said the grant was associated with a) environment and b) natural resources. The funding is open to state governments and public and state controlled  more ST

WASHINGTON, Aug. 16 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Ocean Energy Management announced that it expects to award a cooperative agreement for the assessment of sand and mineral resources at the Mid-Atlantic Outer Continental Shelf in Virginia, Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey and New York. The estimated total program funding available was cited as $250,000. The agency said the grant was associated with environment. The funding is open to state and county governments and public an more ST

WASHINGTON, Aug. 18 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced that it expects to award up to 50 discretionary grants for the protection, restoration, enhancement or establishment of wetland and associated upland habitats to benefit migratory birds. The estimated total program funding available was cited as $3 million with a ceiling of $100,000 for each award in the program. The agency said the grant was associated with environment. The funding is open to more ST

WASHINGTON, Aug. 16 -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' National Institutes of Health announced that it expects to award a cooperative agreement for a research network on telomeres as sentinels of environmental exposures, psychosocial stress and disease susceptibility. This funding opportunity uses the resource-related research projects- cooperative agreements mechanism. The award ceiling for this funding opportunity is $345,000. The agency said the grant was associated with a more ST

WASHINGTON, Aug. 13 -- The Environmental Protection Agency announced that it expects to award up to five cooperative agreements for the advancement of actionable alternatives to vertebrate animal testing for chemical safety assessment. The estimated total program funding available was cited as $4,250,000 with a ceiling of $850,000 for each award in the program. The agency said the grant was associated with environment. The agency description of the grant states: "The U.S. Environmental Protect more ST

WASHINGTON, Aug. 14 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced that it intends to award a $200,000 cooperative agreement to the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay LLC of Annapolis, Maryland, for natural resource damage assessment, restoration and implementation. The agency description of the grant states: "The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Natural Resource Damage Assessment and Restoration (NRDAR) Program's purpose is to restore natural resources and their more ST

WASHINGTON, Aug. 18 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation announced that it intends to award a $750,000 grant to the California Department of Water Resources for the study of juvenile salmon in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta and Suisun Bay region. The agency description of the grant states: "The study will be conducted at sampling locations and using methods with a focus on restored and soon-to-be-restored marsh location to gain better understanding the impact t more ST

WASHINGTON, Aug. 18 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation announced that it intends to award a $95,912 grant to the Colorado River Indian Tribe of Arizona for the removal of non-native vegetation at the Ahakhav Tribal Preserve. The agency description of the grant states: "The Ahakhav Tribal Preserve (Preserve) is located on the lower Colorado River, south of Parker, Arizona on the Colorado River Indian Reservation. There are eleven restoration sites on the Preserve incl more ST

WASHINGTON, Aug. 14 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's National Park Service announced that it intends to award a $7,000 cooperative agreement to the Friends of Hopewell Valley Open Space of New Jersey for the control of non-native invasive plants at the Morristown National Historical Park. The funding opportunity number is NPS-18-NERO-0131 (CFDA 15.944). For more information, contact Patrick Reidy, 215/597-5949. more ST

WASHINGTON, Aug. 15 -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' National Institutes of Health announced that it expects to award a discretionary grant for research on chronic, non-communicable diseases and disorders. This funding opportunity uses the international research training grants mechanism. No award amount was specified for this program. The agency said the grant was associated with a) environment and b) health. The funding is open to state, county, city, township and specia more ST

WASHINGTON, Aug. 18 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation announced that it intends to award a $41,080 grant to the Kansas Department of Fish, Wildlife, Parks and Tourism for aquatic invasive species prevention activities. The funding opportunity number is BOR-GP-18-N012 (CFDA 15.517). For more information, contact Lindsey Nafts, 406/247-7684. more ST

WASHINGTON, Aug. 18 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's National Park Service announced that it intends to award a $120,000 cooperative agreement to the Lyme Land Conservation Trust of Connecticut for assistance for the Eightmile Wild and Scenic River. The funding opportunity number is NPS-18-NERO-0141 (CFDA 15.962). For more information, contact Patrick Reidy, 215/597-5949. more ST

WASHINGTON, Aug. 18 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation announced that it intends to award a $61,620 grant to the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission for aquatic invasive species prevention activities at reservoirs. The funding opportunity number is BOR-GP-18-N013 (CFDA 15.517). For more information, contact Lindsey Nafts, 406/247-7684. more ST

WASHINGTON, Aug. 13 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's National Park Service announced that it intends to award a $37,520 cooperative agreement to the Schoodic Institute of Winter Harbor, Maine, for the testing and communication of techniques to restore native vegetation and prevent invasive species at the Acadia National Park. The funding opportunity number is NPS-18-NERO-0129 (CFDA 15.944). For more information, contact Patrick Reidy, 215/597-5949. more ST

WASHINGTON, Aug. 18 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's National Park Service announced that it intends to award a $120,000 cooperative agreement to the Southeast Region Planning and Economic Development of Taunton, Massachusetts, for Taunton Wild and Scenic River assistance. The funding opportunity number is NPS-18-NERO-0142 (CFDA 15.962). For more information, contact Patrick Reidy, 215/597-5949. more ST

WASHINGTON, Aug. 15 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's National Park Service announced that it intends to award a $105,000 cooperative agreement to the Sudbury Valley Trustees of Massachusetts for the designation of Sudbury, Assabet and Concord Wild and Scenic River. The agency description of the grant states: "The project goal is to implement PL 106-20. The Sudbury, Assabet and Concord River was designated as a National Wild and Scenic River on April 9, 1999 pursuant to enactment of PL 1 more ST

WASHINGTON, Aug. 13 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation announced that it intends to award a $2.3 million grant to the University of California Santa Cruz for the assessment of the impacts of different contact points on predation-related mortality of juvenile Chinook Salmon in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. The agency description of the grant states: "The objectives of the project are to contact point and study site selection, field-based experiments, analysis and  more ST