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Document Type:
Grants Notice
Funding Opportunity Number:
R13SS10005
Opportunity Category:
Discretionary
Posted Date:
Mar 19, 2013
Creation Date:
Mar 19, 2013
Original Closing Date for Applications:
Apr 02, 2013
Current Closing Date for Applications:
Apr 02, 2013
Archive Date:
May 02, 2013
Funding Instrument Type:
Cooperative Agreement
Category of Funding Activity:
Natural Resources
Category Explanation:
Expected Number of Awards:
1
Estimated Total Program Funding:
$9,401
Award Ceiling:
$9,401
Award Floor:
$9,401
CFDA Number(s):
15.517
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Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act
Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement:
No
Eligible Applicants
Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
Additional Information on Eligibility:
This Funding Announcement is not a request for applications. This announcement is to provide public notice of the Bureau of Reclamation’s intention to fund the following project activities without full and open competition.
Agency Name
Bureau of Reclamation - Pacific Northwest Region
Description
In 2011, Reclamation and Portland State University (PSU) entered into a cooperative agreement whereby PSU is to develop a temperature model of Lake Roosevelt, created by the Grand Coulee dam project. Development of this model affords the ability to evaluate operational and structural alternatives that can influence the regulation of water flow and temperature. It also has the potential to inform in-season watershed management decisions to reduce take, consistent with Section 14.5.2 of the 2008 Federal Columbia River Power System (FCRPS) Biological Opinion (BiOp). The benefit to constructing a temperature model of Lake Roosevelt allows for the future inclusion of other biological and water quality constituents.
Additional funds are required for further evaluation of this project. Therefore, it is Reclamations intent to provide additional funds to PSU to perform peer review of multiple temperature model runs of Lake Roosevelt and Grand Coulee Dam. Peer review of model runs helps insure quality assurance and quality control (QA-QC) of Reclamation’s modeling effo
