98-3315. Investigator-Initiated Grants: Requests for Applications

[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 27 (Tuesday, February 10, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 6755-6756]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-3315]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

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Investigator-Initiated Grants: Requests for Applications

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of request for applications.

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SUMMARY: This document provides information on the availability of the 
fiscal year 1998 investigator-initiated grants program announcements, 
in which the areas of research interest, eligibility and submission 
requirements, evaluation criteria, and implementation schedule are set 
forth. Grants will be competitively awarded following peer review.

DATES: Receipt dates vary depending on the specific research area 
within the solicitation and are listed below.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 
National Center for Environmental Research and Quality Assurance 
(8703R), 401 M Street, SW, Washington DC 20460, telephone (800) 490-
9194. Each of the complete announcements can be accessed on the 
Internet from the EPA home page: http://www.epa.gov/ncerqa.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In its Requests for Applications (RFA) the 
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) invites research grant 
applications in the following areas of special interest to its mission: 
(1) Environmental Statistics (joint with the National Science 
Foundation), and (2) Research and Monitoring Program on Ecological 
Effects of Environmental Stressors using Coastal Intensive Sites. EPA 
also announces a request for applications for a new program called 
Environmental Monitoring for Public Access and Community Tracking 
(EMPACT). Applications must be received as follows: March 16, 1998, for 
topic (1); April 1, 1998, for topic (2); and May 15, 1998 for EMPACT.
    The RFAs provide relevant background information, summarize EPA's 
interest in the topic areas, and describe the application and review 
process.
    Contact person for the Environmental Statistics RFA is Chris Saint 
([e-mail]), telephone [phone]; for Research and 
Monitoring Program on Ecological Effects of Environmental Stressors 
using Coastal Intensive Sites is Barbara Levinson 
([e-mail]), telephone [phone]; and for 
EMPACT is Barbara Karn ([e-mail]), telephone 202-
564-6824.


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    Dated: February 2, 1998.
Henry L. Longest, II,
Acting Assistant Administrator for Research and Development.
[FR Doc. 98-3315 Filed 2-9-98; 8:45 am]
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