PKG00250224-instructions.pdf

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Application Instructions

Funding Opportunity Announcement Number: F19AS00190

Project Title: Assessing abundance and migratory connectivity of boreal birds Agency/Program Name: USFWS – Migratory Bird Management Full Announcement URL www.grants.gov Authorities: Migratory Bird Treaty Act, 16 U.S.C. §703 et seq.

The full announcement is available on grants.gov for your review.

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the individual listed below under Agency Contacts.

Failure to provide complete information, as outlined in the announcement and application instructions may cause delays, postponement, or rejection of the application.

Application Checklist

☐ Evidence of non-profit status: If a non-profit organization, a copy of their Section 501(c)(3) or

(4) status determination letter received from the Internal Revenue Service.

☐ SF 424, Application for Federal Assistance: A complete, signed and dated SF 424, SF 424- Mandatory, or SF 424- Individual form

☐ SF 424 Budget form: A complete SF 424A or SF 424C Budget Information form ☐ SF 424 Assurances form: Signed and dated SF 424B or SF 424D Assurances form ☐ Project narrative ☐ Timetable ☐ Description of key personnel qualifications, if applicable ☐ Single Audit Reporting statement: If a U.S. state, local government, federally recognized Indian tribal government, or non-profit organization, statements regarding applicability of and compliance with 2 CFR 200, Subpart F, Audit Requirement

☐ Budget justification ☐ Federally funded equipment list: If Federally-funded equipment will be used for the project, a list of that equipment ☐ NICRA: When applicable, a copy of the organizations current Negotiated Indirect Cost Rate

Agreement ☐ Conflict of Interest Disclosures: When applicable, written notification of any actual or potential conflicts of interest that may arise during the life of this award.

☐ SF-LLL form: If applicable, completed SF-LLL Disclosure of Lobbying Activities form ☐ Overlap/Duplication statement

Failure to provide complete information may cause delays, postponement, or rejection of the application.

Submission Instructions Download the Application Package linked to this Funding Opportunity on Grants.gov to begin the application process. Downloading and saving the Application Package to your computer makes the required government-wide standard forms fillable and printable. Completed applications may be submitted by mail, by email, electronically through Grants.gov, or as otherwise described in the Grants.gov funding opportunity. Please select ONE of the submission options:

To submit an application by e-mail:

Format all of your documents to print on Letter size (8 ½” x 11”) paper. Format all pages to display and print page numbers. Scanned documents should be scanned in Letter format, as black and white images only. Where possible, save scanned documents in .pdf format. E-mail your application to the Service program point of contact identified in the Grants.gov funding opportunity.

The required SF 424 Application for Federal Assistance and Assurances forms and any other required standard forms MUST be signed by your organization’s authorized official. The Signature and Date fields on the standard forms downloaded from Grants.gov are pre-populated with the text “Completed by Grants.gov upon submission” or “Completed on submission to Grants.gov”. Remove this text (manually or digitally) before signing the forms.

To submit an application through Grants.gov:

Go to the Grants.gov Apply for Grants page (http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/applicants/apply-for-grants.html) for an overview of the process to apply through Grants.gov. You/your organization must complete the Grants.gov registration process before submitting an application through Grants.gov. Registration can take between three to five business days, or as long as two weeks if all steps are not completed in a timely manner.

Important note on Grants.gov application attachment file names: Please do not assign application attachments file names longer than 20 characters, including spaces. Assigning file names longer than 20 characters will create issues in the automatic interface between Grants.gov and the Service’s financial assistance management system.

Submission deadline:

All proposals must be received by the US Fish & Wildlife Service by 5:00 PM, AKDST: April 26, 2019.

(Alaska Standard Time (AKST) = GMT-9 (PERIOD: November 7, 2016 up to March 11, 2017) (Alaska Daylight Savings Time (AKDST) = GMT-8 (PERIOD: March 12 to November 5, 2017)

Agency Contact:

Jim A. Johnson Wildlife Biologist http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/applicants/apply-for-grants.html

Landbird Section US FWS Alaska Region 1011 East Tudor Road, MS 201 Anchorge, AK 99503

(907) 786-3423 Jim_A_Johnson@fws.gov mailto:Jim_A_Johnson@fws.gov