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Opportunity Summary:

The Alaska National Park Service Subsistence Advisory Council Funding notice (Funding Opportunity Number P16AS00031) is a public announcement from the Department of the Interior, National Park Service (NPS) stating its intent to fund a specific project without competition. It is explicitly not a request for applications. Instead, it serves as transparency that NPS plans to make a single-source cooperative agreement award to the Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADFG), Division of Subsistence, under authority provided by the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA), cited as 16 USC 3119. The opportunity is listed under CFDA 15.946 (Cultural Resources Management) and categorizes the work as Information and Statistics. The only eligible applicant category shown is state governments, and the announcement anticipates a single award.

The funded project is titled the "Yukon-Charley River National Preserve Subsistence Harvest Survey" and is designed to produce current, community-level information on subsistence harvesting and related household economics for residents of Central, Circle, Eagle, and Eagle Village, Alaska. The purpose is practical: the survey results and resulting technical report are intended to inform resource management and regulatory decisions for Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve, the State of Alaska, and the Federal Subsistence Board. In other words, the project is meant to provide defensible, up-to-date data on how people in these communities use fish and wildlife resources for subsistence, how harvests are shared within and between households, and what local economic conditions may shape those patterns.

Funding details in the notice indicate an anticipated FY2016 award amount of $108,612, with no cost share required. The anticipated agreement length is three years, with an expected period of performance running from 2016 through 2019, using a cooperative agreement instrument tied to NPS Subsistence Advisory Council funding. While the overall project is described as multi-year, the specific task agreement described in the announcement primarily supports Phase I work, with the possibility of later modification to add funding for additional communities and report writing if Phase I is completed successfully and funds remain available. The notice also lists an award ceiling of $350,000 in the general opportunity data, but the concrete anticipated amount for the initial award described in the abstract is $108,612.

The work plan is organized into phased objectives. Phase I focuses on data collection in Central and Circle, targeting all households that agree to participate (estimated at about 93 households across those two communities), followed by coding and review of the collected survey data. Phase II extends the same household survey approach to Eagle and Eagle Village, again covering all willing households and performing the same coding and quality review steps. Phase III centers on writing and finalizing a technical report: producing a draft, giving participating communities an opportunity to review and comment on it, and then issuing a finalized version. A key condition throughout is community approval and participation, meaning the effort is intended to proceed in collaboration with residents and local leadership rather than being imposed from the outside.

Methodologically, the project combines structured survey research with mapping and qualitative interviewing. After ADFG and NPS collaborate on developing the questionnaire, ADFG plans to administer in-person household surveys using teams typically made up of an ADFG researcher and a local research assistant. The surveys document what resources are harvested, how those harvests are produced and distributed through sharing networks, and what relevant economic activities households engage in. Participants are also asked to map harvest locations and/or search areas for resources, adding a spatial component that can help managers understand where subsistence use is occurring. To provide context beyond the standardized questions, ADFG staff also conduct ethnographic interviews with a sample of households, which can help interpret patterns in the survey results and better explain the social and economic realities behind the numbers.

Data handling and deliverables are described in concrete terms. ADFG will code survey responses, prepare the dataset for analysis, and provide NPS with integrated SPSS data files. ADFG will also conduct preliminary statistical analyses, including comparisons over time (such as shifts in demographics, income, and harvest levels) and cross-sectional analyses examining how factors like household composition, employment, income, and ethnicity relate to harvesting and sharing patterns. The data will be entered into the ADFG Community Subsistence Information System, maintaining continuity with Alaska’s broader statewide subsistence data infrastructure. The culminating written product is a technical report presenting preliminary analysis along with the social, economic, and regional context for findings in the study communities.

The announcement spells out roles for both the recipient (ADFG) and the NPS, reflecting the cooperative agreement structure and the expectation of substantial federal involvement. On the recipient side, ADFG will hold introductory meetings in the study communities and with associated tribal councils, recruit and contract local research assistants, train them in survey methods, and prepare survey instruments and maps. ADFG and local assistants then carry out the household surveys and ethnographic work, and ADFG staff and other researchers code forms, enter data into SPSS, and generate descriptive statistics and preliminary analysis. On the NPS side, responsibilities include collaborating on survey development, securing Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approval for the survey (a key requirement for federal information collection from the public), and participating in survey interviews alongside ADFG. NPS regional ethnographers are expected to review the survey instrument, take part in data analysis, and review and comment on the draft final report. NPS also commits to working with tribal council staff to ensure communities have a meaningful chance to review and comment on the draft report before it is finalized.

A major element of the notice is the justification for awarding the project without open competition. Under Department of the Interior policy (505 DM 2), a single-source award requires written justification based on specific criteria. NPS cites the "Unique Qualifications" criterion to explain why competition is not practicable. The notice argues that ADFG, and specifically its Division of Subsistence, has approximately 30 years of experience conducting subsistence harvest surveys in rural Alaska, along with established systems for processing, analyzing, and publishing results, and maintaining a statewide database of survey outcomes. It also emphasizes existing relationships with local stakeholders and Alaska tribal governments, as well as the principal investigator’s extensive experience (over a decade of harvest survey work and collaboration on more than 25 related publications), including prior work in comparable regions and co-authorship of technical reports on subsistence harvests and traditional ecological knowledge. Practical cost and logistics also support the choice: ADFG offices in Fairbanks reduce travel time and expenses for fieldwork in the region. Finally, the notice ties the approach back to ANILCA’s framework, noting that NPS and the State of Alaska have joint responsibilities to manage lands and subsistence uses, and that having a trusted researcher and agency presence in the communities is important for collecting accurate, reliable subsistence information.

Administrative details included in the opportunity listing reinforce that this was a notice rather than a competitive grant. The posting date is January 27, 2016, with a closing date of February 8, 2016, and the expected number of awards is one. A point of contact is provided (Erica Cordeiro at EricaCordeiro@nps.gov) for questions about the planned, non-competitive funding action. Overall, the announcement describes a targeted, data-driven subsistence harvest survey effort intended to support informed decision-making in and around Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve, carried out through a close partnership between NPS and ADFG with direct community involvement and review built into the project design.

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