Complete Historic Resource Study Titled “Seward Lot Histories: Windows through Time, 1903-1990s | Apply Online

Opportunity Summary:

The grant opportunity titled "Complete Historic Resource Study Titled 'Seward Lot Histories: Windows through Time, 1903-1990s'" is a National Park Service (NPS) funding notice intended mainly as a public announcement rather than an open call for proposals. In other words, it is not inviting applications. Instead, NPS is signaling its intent to make a single, non-competitive cooperative agreement award to a specific organization: the Resurrection Bay Historical Society (RBHS). The total anticipated award amount is $34,550, with no cost share required, and the work is structured under a cooperative agreement model, meaning NPS expects to remain actively involved in guiding and reviewing the project as it moves forward.

At the core of the project is the completion of a long-delayed historic resource study that will ultimately become a ready-to-print book: "Seward Lot Histories: Windows through Time." The publication is designed to tell the story of Seward, Alaska by focusing on individual lots and the people and activities associated with them across decades, beginning around the town's early development in 1903 and extending into the modern era (the scope is described in places as reaching the 1990s and elsewhere as being updated through roughly 2015 or even the 2010s). The final deliverable is meant to be a professionally designed, full-color book laid out in Adobe InDesign, approximately 100 to 200 double-sided pages, suitable for printing. The content will be built through historical research and writing, with a strong visual component that includes selecting about 100 of the most compelling historic photographs of Seward and producing detailed annotations that connect images, property ownership, and community history.

The announcement emphasizes why RBHS is the intended recipient. RBHS is a local nonprofit (501(c)(3)) created specifically to collect, preserve, and provide public access to materials documenting the Seward area. Its archives contain unique, one-of-a-kind photographs and records that are directly relevant to the lot-history approach of the book. Examples mentioned include marriage certificates, dock passes, steamship menus, advertisements, and school programs, along with photographs documenting residents, businesses, and transportation. Because RBHS owns and controls these locally held materials and because the publication will rely on them heavily for both research and illustration, NPS cites RBHS as uniquely qualified, forming the basis of the single-source (non-competitive) justification under Department of the Interior policy.

The public-purpose angle is also clearly stated. NPS frames the work as a way to increase public knowledge of how individual residents contributed to the growth of Seward as an early 20th-century Alaska frontier community. The finished book is intended to support preservation and interpretation goals shared by NPS and RBHS, and it is specifically expected to be made available to community-serving institutions such as schools, libraries, museums, and tribes. That distribution plan reinforces that this is not just an internal report, but a community-facing educational and historical resource.

The responsibilities are split between NPS and RBHS in a fairly structured way. NPS commits to supporting planning and execution, providing RBHS with the existing draft NPS report that has been stalled for years, reviewing updated drafts within one month of receiving them, and assigning the Kenai Fjords Cultural Resource Program Manager as the project coordinator for the duration of the agreement. RBHS, on the other hand, agrees to execute the project collaboratively with NPS, supply access to its historic photographs and archives (with proper credits), assign qualified staff to update and expand the draft into the revised "1903-2015" version, and provide routine project management communications through monthly updates. RBHS must also provide at least two drafts for review, with a key draft deadline identified as no later than January 15, 2017, and a final print-ready version due by March 31, 2017.

Administratively, the award is issued under statutory authority 54 USC 101702(a), which allows the transfer of NPS appropriated funds to eligible entities to carry out public purposes. The assistance listing is identified as CFDA 15.946, and the instrument type is a cooperative agreement, reflecting the anticipated ongoing role of NPS staff in coordination and oversight rather than a hands-off grant. The notice also lists an expected single award, and it includes a named point of contact (James Cato). Timing details in the announcement include an anticipated agreement length of 13 months and dates that appear to be tied to the period of performance, though the text contains some inconsistent date references (including a very short window in one place) alongside the later draft and final deliverable deadlines in 2017, suggesting the project was being managed within a broader administrative timeline.

One confusing element in the text is the inclusion of material describing the Student Conservation Association (SCA) and conservation interns working on unrelated field projects such as dog yard improvements, kennel education and outreach, and historic cabin preservation. That section appears to be pulled from a broader cooperative agreement framework or a separate task agreement template and does not match the Seward lot histories publication work. The main thrust of the Seward opportunity remains the completion of the historic resource study and the creation of a print-ready book, with RBHS selected without competition because it holds the essential source materials that make the project feasible and locally authentic.

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