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Opportunity Summary:

The Fisheries and Aquatic Conservation Region 5 Northeast Fishery Center opportunity (Funding Opportunity Number F15AS00381) is a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service notice stating the agency's intent to make a single-source cooperative agreement award, rather than running an open, competitive grant solicitation. In practical terms, this means the Service had already identified the intended recipient and was publishing the notice primarily for transparency and administrative recordkeeping, not to invite new proposals. The agency explicitly notes that there is no full announcement associated with this posting and that it should not be treated as a request for applications. The justification for not competing the award is tied to internal Departmental policy (cited as 505 DM 2.14, B.(2)), and the decision is described as being within the agency's discretion.

The planned project focus is to improve understanding of lake sturgeon biology, movement, and habitat use. While the notice does not provide methodological details, the scope implies research and applied fisheries conservation work that could include field monitoring, tracking movement patterns, identifying important habitats, and generating information useful for management and recovery planning. Because the instrument type is a cooperative agreement, the arrangement typically signals that the Service expects to be substantially involved in the project beyond simply providing funds, such as collaborating on study design, data standards, coordination with management priorities, or oversight of deliverables.

Administratively, the opportunity is categorized as discretionary and associated with research, environment, and science and technology activities, with Education also listed among the activity categories. The CFDA program number is 15.608 (Fish and Wildlife Management Assistance), which generally supports technical and financial assistance for fish and wildlife conservation and management needs. The notice lists an expected number of awards as one, consistent with the single-source intent, and reports an estimated total funding amount of $43,701. Both the award ceiling and award floor are shown as $0, which commonly appears in postings where the agency is not using the listing to define a competitive funding range for applicants, especially when the award is already internally scoped. There is no cost-sharing or matching requirement indicated.

Key dates reflect a short administrative window: the posting date and creation date are July 21, 2015, with an original and current closing date of July 29, 2015, and an archive date of July 30, 2015. The repeated language alongside the closing date again emphasizes that this is a notice of intent to award to a single source and not a competitive announcement. Eligibility is listed as "unrestricted" at a high level, but that is effectively overridden by the eligibility clarification stating the opportunity is not a request for applications, meaning other entities were not being invited to apply regardless of the broad category shown in the standard fields.

For anyone trying to locate additional documentation, the notice points readers to Grants.gov and provides a contact for access issues: Kerri Heywood, Grant Management Specialist, at 404-679-4066 and kerriheywood@fws.gov. Overall, the posting functions as a formal public notice that the Fish and Wildlife Service planned to fund a specific cooperative effort aimed at generating better biological and habitat-use information for lake sturgeon, using Fish and Wildlife Management Assistance authority, with roughly $43.7K in total anticipated funding and no competitive application process.

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