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Opportunity Summary:

The "Proposed Fish Screen Feasibility Study" is a Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) grant action being issued as a cooperative agreement, tied to CFDA 15.512 under the Central Valley Project Improvement Act (Public Law 102-575), specifically Section 3406(b)(21), which focuses on fish and wildlife measures as well as improved water management and conservation. The intent is to fund an initial, planning-focused engineering study related to a water diversion on the Feather River, with the larger environmental goal of evaluating how a fish screen could be used to reduce impacts to fish at the diversion.

This opportunity is structured as a Notice of Intent to Award rather than an open competition. Reclamation states it intends to issue the cooperative agreement to a specific entity: Garden Highway Mutual Water Company. Because of that, the notice makes it explicit several times that it is not requesting competitive proposals and that the government has discretion to decide not to compete the agreement under Departmental Manual 505 DM 2, paragraph 2.14(B)(2) and (4). In practical terms, this posting functions more like a formal public notice of a planned award than a typical grant solicitation where multiple applicants submit proposals.

Funding for the agreement is estimated at a total project value of $92,146, with Reclamation providing $46,073 in Fiscal Year 2015. The listing also indicates there is a cost-sharing or matching requirement, meaning the non-federal partner is expected to contribute the remaining share or otherwise meet the match requirement consistent with the terms of the cooperative agreement. Even though the general Grants.gov fields show items like "EstimatedTotalFunding: 0" and no stated ceiling or floor, the narrative clearly provides the intended award amount and the planned federal share.

The purpose of the project is strictly feasibility-level work: assessing whether constructing a fish screen is engineering-feasible and developing planning-level cost information. That includes estimating construction costs and projecting annual, long-term operations and maintenance needs and costs. This is described as the first phase of a broader effort, focused on gathering and organizing baseline information about the existing Feather River diversion, then developing a range of fish screen concepts and possible diversion alternatives, and evaluating those options to identify the most promising approaches.

The expected deliverables at this stage are conceptual rather than final designs. The agreement anticipates developing no more than three alternatives, and even those are to be prepared only at a conceptual level. Any schematic design work and cost estimating produced in this phase is described as preliminary and intended for planning purposes only, which signals that the results are meant to support decision-making about whether to proceed to more detailed design and implementation later, not to serve as construction-ready plans.

Key administrative details include the funding opportunity number (R14AN20001), category (Discretionary), activity area (Natural Resources), and an expectation of a single award. The posting date is May 27, 2014, with an original and current closing date of June 11, 2014, and an archive date of July 11, 2014. Questions are directed to Leanne Henderson, Grants Management Specialist at the Bureau of Reclamation, via email at lhenderson@usbr.gov.

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