Innovative Advanced Concepts Phase I (NASA)

• Published date: 18 June 2020
• Date: 18 June 2020
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1002/fgc.31146

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Grants alert (cont.)

Public Transportation on Indian Reservations

Program (DOT)

Scope: The Transportation Department’s Federal

Transit Administration seeks applications for the

Public Transportation on Indian Reservations Program

announcement to support planning, capital and, in

limited circumstances, operating assistance for tribal

public transit services.

Deadline: Aug. 24, 2020.

Funds: $5 million total for up to 30 awards.

Eligibility: Native American tribal governments.

Areas: DOT said eligible projects include public

transportation planning and capital expenses. Operating

projects are eligible in limited circumstances.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# FTA-2020-007-TR

Estimating Children’s Soil and Dust Ingestion

Rates for Exposure Science (EPA)

Scope: The Environmental Protection Agency seeks

applications for the Estimating Children’s Soil and Dust

Ingestion Rates for Exposure Science announcement for

transdisciplinary research to develop or apply innovative

approaches/methods to improve the estimates, better

characterize the variability and reduce the uncertainty

concerning chemical exposures via soil and dust

ingestion for children aged six months through six years.

Deadline: Aug. 5, 2020.

Funds: $8.1 million total for up to six awards.

Eligibility: Colleges and universities; nonprot

organizations; and state, local and Native American

tribal governments; among others.

Areas: EPA said to improve the ability to assess

chemical exposure via soil and dust ingestion, four

key pieces of information should be considered: the

chemical content of location-specic soil and dust,

quantities of soil and dust ingested, frequency of soil

and dust ingestion episodes, and prevalence of soil and

dust ingestion among a specic age group.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# EPA-G2020-STAR-D1

Region 8 Wetland Program Development Grants

(EPA)

Scope: The Environmental Protection Agency seeks

applications for the FY2020–FY2022 Region 8 Wetland

Program Development Grants announcement to develop

or rene state/tribal/local programs that protect, manage

and restore wetlands.

Deadline: Aug. 19, 2020.

Funds: Approximately $2.77 million for Track One and

approximately $1.19 million for Track Two.

Eligibility: States and tribes can submit applications

under either Track One or Track Two, while eligible local

governments, interstate agencies, intertribal consortia

and eligible universities that are agencies of a state

government can only submit applications under Track

Two .

Areas: EPA said there is a set of core elements,

actions and example/suggested activities that together

comprise a comprehensive wetland program: monitoring

and assessment, voluntary restoration and protection,

regulatory approaches including Clean Water Act

Section 401 certication and wetland-specic water

quality standards. Under Track One, applicants must

submit applications for either: (1) carrying out grant-

eligible actions from a current EPA-approved Wetland

Program Plan (WPP) or (2) developing or updating a

WPP (and, if they so choose, also carrying out actions

that develop or rene a wetland program. Under Track

Two, applicants must submit applications that will

develop or rene a state, tribe or local government’s

wetland program by either carrying out one or more

action(s): (1) under a core element(s) from the Core

Elements of an Effective State and Tribal Wetland

Program Framework or (2) that advance the grant-

eligible actions articulated in an EPA-approved WPP.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# EPA-REG8-WPDG-20-01

Innovative Advanced Concepts Phase I (NASA)

Scope: The National Aeronautics and Space

Administration seeks applications for the NASA

Innovative Advanced Concepts Phase I announcement

for studying visionary, yet credible, advanced concepts.

Deadline: Sept. 29, 2020.

Funds: Phase I awards are up to $125,000 for a typical

duration of up to nine months.

Eligibility: Unrestricted.

Areas: NASA said concepts are solicited from any eld

of study that offers a radically different approach or

disruptive innovation that may signicantly enhance or

enable new human or robotic science and exploration

missions. Proposed concepts must be framed in terms

of a mission context that clearly identies scientic

or technical advancements and associated benets

compared to current approaches.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# 80HQTR20NOA01-

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ROSES 2020: Astrophysics Explorers U.S.

Participating Investigators (NASA)

Scope: The National Aeronautics and Space

Administration seeks applications for the ROSES 2020:

Astrophysics Explorers U.S. Participating Investigators

announcement in which investigators participate as

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