ATTACHMENT_C_-_Project_Abstract_Summary_Requirement..docx

This document is a Project Abstract Summary (PAS) requirement specification issued by the Department of the Interior in compliance with Office of Management and Budget memoranda M-21-20 and M-22-02. All applicants must submit a PAS with their proposal via Grants.gov for financial assistance awards to ensure complete and accurate award descriptions on USAspending.gov. The PAS must be organized into five required sections: project title, award purpose (in plain language without acronyms or agency-specific terminology), activities to be performed, deliverables and expected outcomes, and intended beneficiaries and subrecipient activities if known at the time of award. The document must not exceed one page or approximately 4,000 characters, use 12-point Times New Roman font, and will be publicly available on USAspending.gov upon award issuance.

This requirement applies to the Cooperative Agreement for affiliated partners with the Great Basin Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit, funded under USGS Research and Data Collection (CFDA 15.808). The funding opportunity supports research in aquatic species barcoding and environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding to monitor and assess aquatic ecosystems. The USGS Water Resources Mission Area is conducting a pilot project in the Rocky Mountains to evaluate metagenomics for monitoring aquatic species and developing artificial intelligence and machine-learning models to predict community composition. Eligible recipients must be participating partners of the Great Basin Ecosystem Studies Unit. Applicants should submit all required documentation through Grants.gov, and preapplication coordination is required per program guidelines.