ATTACHMENT_C_-_Project_Abstract_Summary_Requirement..docx

This is a requirements document for Project Abstract Summaries mandated by the Office of Management and Budget for all Department of the Interior financial assistance awards. Applicants must submit a one-page Project Abstract Summary (approximately 4,000 characters maximum, 12-point Times New Roman font) alongside their proposal via Grants.gov. The abstract must include plain language descriptions of the project title, award purpose (avoiding acronyms and agency-specific terminology), activities to be performed, deliverables and expected outcomes, intended beneficiaries, and any subrecipient activities known at the time of award. Upon issuance of the cooperative agreement, the Project Abstract Summary will be made publicly available on USAspending.gov in compliance with OMB Memoranda M-21-20 and M-22-02 requirements for complete and accurate financial assistance award descriptions.

The associated funding opportunity is a Cooperative Agreement for affiliated partners with the Colorado Plateau Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit, administered by the U.S. Geological Survey National and Regional Climate Adaptation Science Center under CFDA 15.808. Eligible applicants must be participating partners of the Colorado Plateau CESU. This competitive financial assistance award supports research addressing Administration priorities including water security, infrastructure resilience, and natural hazard preparedness. The specific project example focuses on Emory oak conservation in Arizona, assessing charcoal canker prevalence and its interaction with drought using 100 long-term monitoring sites and spatial modeling to predict oak survival under future climate conditions and inform wildfire management prioritization.