This
cooperative program provides support to State fishery agencies to
enhance their data collection and analysis systems to respond to
coast wide and insular area fisheries management needs. The program
supports fisheries data collection and analysis projects that provide
catch, effort, economic and biological data on federally managed
species to the Fishery Management Councils as needed for continuing
management of Pacific fisheries.
TYPES
OF ASSISTANCE:
Project Grants. Place Cursor Here for Definition
USES
AND USE RESTRICTIONS:
Funds
can be used to enhance State fishery data collection and analysis
systems to respond to Federal fisheries management needs.
ELIGIBILITY
REQUIREMENTS:
Applicant
Eligibility: State governments (including territories
of Guam and American Samoa and the Commonwealth of the Northern
Marianas) and quasi-public nonprofit institution/organizations.
Beneficiary
Eligibility: The agency of a State government
authorized under its laws to regulate commercial and recreational
fisheries.
Credentials/Documentation:
Proposal from a State or an Interstate Fishery Agency submitted
in accordance with 15 CFR part 24.
Pre-application
Coordination: This program is eligible for coverage
under E.O. 12372, "Intergovernmental Review of Federal Programs."
An applicant should consult the office or official designated as
the single point of contact in his or her State for more information
on the process the State requires to be followed in applying for
assistance, if the State has selected the program for review.
Application
Procedure: Submission of application on Standard
Form 424 to the appropriate Regional Office of the National Marine
Fisheries Service. The applicants are subject to the requirements
of the uniform rule implementing OMB Circular No. A-102 at 15
CFR Part 24. Pursuant to Section 404 of Public Law 102-567, financial
assistance awards to a State or Interstate Fishery Commission
may be provided on a sole-source basis.
Award
Procedure: Applications are evaluated by the
receiving National Marine Fisheries Service Regional Office and
processed by the NOAA Grants Office. Pursuant to Section 404 of
Public Law 102-567, financial assistance awards to a State or
Interstate Fishery Commission may be provided on a sole-source
basis.
Deadlines:
According to the NOAA Grants Office, project applications should
be submitted 75 days in advance of desired effective date.
Range
of Approval/Disapproval Time: From 60 to 120
working days.
Appeals:
No formal appeal procedure. If applications are unacceptable,
the reasons are fully stated to the applicants. If the applicants
desire to resubmit applications, projects must be revised in accordance
with recommended changes.
Renewals:
Continuation grants on an annual basis for approved multi-year
projects. Future or continued funding will be at the discretion
of NMFS based on the availability of each fiscal year funding
and satisfactory performance. Procedures for renewals are the
same as application procedures.
ASSISTANCE
CONSIDERATIONS:
Formula
and Matching Requirements: This program has
no statutory formula. Projects are funded at up to 100 percent Federal
share.
Length
and Time Phasing of Assistance: Grants are
normally made for one year. Assistance is released via the NOAA
Automated Clearing House Electronic Funds Transfer System.
POST
ASSISTANCE REQUIREMENTS:
Reports:
Reporting requirements are outlined in the Terms and Conditions
of the Financial Assistance Award. The Department of Commerce Financial
Assistance Standard Terms and Conditions generally requires that
performance and financial reports be submitted semi-annually unless
a waiver is provided by the NOAA Grants Officer.
Audits:
In accordance with the provisions of OMB Circular No. A-133 (Revised,
June 24, 1997), recipients that are States, Local Governments,
Nonprofit Organizations (to include Hospitals), and Institutions
of Higher Learning shall be subject to the audit requirements
contained in the Single Audit Act Amendments of 1996 (31 U.S.C.
7501-7507). Commercial organizations shall be subject to the audit
requirements as stipulated in the award document.
Records:
Generally, a recipient is required to retain records relating
to a particular grant for three (3) years from the date of submission
of the final financial report. In cases where litigation, claim
or an audit is initiated prior to expiration of the three-year
period, records must be retained until the action and resolution
of any issues associated with it are complete or until the end
of the three-year retention period; whichever is latest.
FINANCIAL
INFORMATION:
Account
Identification: 13-1450-0-1-306.
Obligations:
(Cooperative Agreements) FY 01 $15,360,711; FY 02 est $12,270,000;
and FY 03 est $11,624,000.
Range
and Average of Financial Assistance:
$36,000 to $7,694,000. Average: $3,774,500.
This program has established a cooperative State/Federal/Council
regional fisheries data collection and analysis system for the west
coast, Alaska, and the Western Pacific that is the basis for the
region's fisheries management effort providing timely coast wide
and insular area fisheries catch statistics and biological data
that are responsive to the Federal management process established
under the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act.
Eleven awards were made in fiscal year 2001, and it is anticipated
that twelve awards will be made in fiscal year 2002. Office of Science
and Technology: Recreational fisheries information was collected
in Hawaii to be used by the State, the NMFS Honolulu Laboratory,
and the Western Pacific Fishery Management council to develop and
evaluate fishery management plans. A statistical survey of recreational
fishery activity was conducted in coordination with the Hawaii Department
of Aquatic Resources' Marine Recreational Fisheries Survey. Also,
a directory of charter boat vessels was compiled and maintained,
and a statistical telephone survey of weekly calls to a random sample
of vessel captains was conducted to obtain efforts of charter boat
fishing effort.
REGULATIONS,
GUIDELINES, AND LITERATURE:
15 CFR part 24, Magnuson Fishery Conservation and Management Act.
INFORMATION
CONTACTS:
Regional
or Local Office: Alaska: Barbara Fosburg, Federal
Program Officer, National Marine Fisheries Service, Alaska Region,
P.O. Box 21668, Juneau, AK 99802-1668. Telephone: (907)586-7255.
Fax: (907)586-7255. Email: barbara.fosburg@noaa.gov. Northwest:
Steve Freese, NOAA/National Marine Fisheries Service, Northwest
Regional Office, 7600 Sand Point Way, NE., Seattle, WA 98115. Telephone:
(206) 526-6113; Fax: (206)526-4461. Email: Steve.Freese@noaa.gov.
Western Pacific: Alvin Katekaru, Resource Management Specialist,
NOAA/National Marine Fisheries Service, Pacific Islands Area Office,
1601 Kapiolani Boulevard, Suite 1110, Honolulu, HI 96814-4700. Telephone:
(808) 973- 2935 ext. 207. Fax: (808) 973-2941. Email: Alvin.Katekaru@noaa.gov.
Headquarters
Office: Terri Delloyd, Fisheries Statistics
and Economics Division, Office of Science and Technology, National
Marine Fisheries Service, Office of Science and Technology, 1315
East West Highway, SSMC3, Room 12427, Silver Spring, MD 20910.
Telephone: (301)713-2328. Fax: (301)713-4137. Email: Terri.Delloyd@noaa.gov.
Web
Site Address: Alaska:
http://www.fakr.noaa.gov/omi/grants/default.htm
Northwest:
http://www.psmfc.org/projects
EXAMPLES
OF FUNDED PROJECTS:
All: Program funds State projects that enhance State systems to
respond to coast wide and insular area fisheries management needs
under the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act
Project activities should focus on data collection and analysis
to provide catch, effort, economic and biological data on species
managed under a fishery management plan or other Federal law. Examples
include sampling of landings to determine species composition, special
processing of State-collected fisheries data to conform to specifications
of regional fishery data management systems, and monitoring domestic
shore side ground fish landings in Alaska, as well as tuna transshipment
activities in Guam, providing catch and effort data necessary to
monitor in-season harvest quotas by species, group, gear type and
regulatory area and to update the historic ground fish catch database.
Headquarters: The projects are NMFS/State cooperative fisheries
statistics agreements for the collection, analysis and distribution
of recreational statistical information.
CRITERIA
FOR SELECTING PROPOSALS:
Priority consideration is given to State projects that provide the
Fishery Management Councils with the timely information needed to
make the management decisions required under fishery management
plans.
