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Opportunity Summary:

The Preservation and Documentation of National Park Service Museum Collections opportunity (Funding Opportunity Number P16AS00386) is a National Park Service cooperative agreement action under the U.S. Department of the Interior focused on work that supports the stewardship of National Park Service (NPS) museum collections. The activity areas tied to this opportunity fall under Information and Statistics and Natural Resources, reflecting a strong emphasis on documenting, managing, and preserving museum property and associated records that help parks account for, interpret, and protect their collections over time. The listed CFDA number is 15.945, which corresponds to NPS assistance related to cultural and resource management functions.

This posting is not a standard open grant competition. It is explicitly labeled as a Notice of Intent to Award only, meaning the agency is announcing an intended award action rather than seeking proposals from the public. No applications are being accepted because the work is being issued as a Task Agreement under an existing cooperative agreement (P11AC30805) that had already gone through a competitive selection process previously. In practical terms, this means the recipient relationship and overarching award framework were already established earlier, and this specific action is being handled as a continuation or adjustment within that pre-existing framework rather than a new, openly competed opportunity.

The specific purpose of the action described here is a modification to an existing task agreement: it extends the term of Task Agreement P15AC01663 by three additional years and increases funding so the partner can continue carrying out the tasks already defined in that task agreement and its subsequent modifications. The description does not introduce new program goals so much as it extends the schedule and resources needed to complete or continue the previously agreed-upon preservation and documentation work. The award ceiling listed is $90,000, which indicates the additional or total amount associated with this modification, depending on how the agency structured the incremental funding. The posting also lists expected awards as 0, which aligns with the fact that this is not an open solicitation; it is an internal continuation action rather than something that will generate new competitive awards.

Although the notice does not provide a detailed task list, the title and context make the intent clear: funding supports activities that preserve and document NPS museum collections, which typically include tasks such as improving collection records, enhancing cataloging and documentation systems, and supporting preservation planning or related collection management functions carried out in coordination with the NPS. Because the instrument type is a cooperative agreement, the NPS generally anticipates substantial involvement in the project, such as collaboration on work plans, technical guidance, and coordination to ensure the tasks align with NPS standards for museum collections management.

Eligible applicant categories are included in the source data (public and state-controlled institutions of higher education, private institutions of higher education, and eligible 501(c)(3) nonprofits), but in this case eligibility information is largely informational since the notice is not accepting applications. The notice was created July 23, 2016, and, rather than providing a typical application deadline, it reiterates that the action is tied to an existing competitively awarded cooperative agreement and is being issued as a task agreement modification rather than a new funding competition.

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