<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1">
<title></title>
</head>
<body text="#000000" bgcolor="#ccffff" link="#0000ee" alink="#0000ee"
vlink="#33cc00">
The National Sea Grant College Program has just announced the following
funding opportunities:<br>
<br>
<span class="subheadsbig"><b>Ballast Water Technology Demonstration
Program--Treatment Technology Demonstration Projects</b></span><span
class="bluelheadlines"><b><font color="#cc3300"><br>
</font></b></span><span class="bodycpy">This joint NOAA-U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service-U.S. Maritime Administration Program supports projects
to develop, test, and demonstrate technologies that treat ships'
ballast water in order to reduce the threat of introduction of aquatic
invasive species to U.S. waters through the discharge of ballast water.</span>
<div align="left">
<ul type="disc">
<li class="bodycpy">Preliminary Proposals are due September 14, 2006
(directly to the National Sea Grant College Program)<br>
</li>
<li>Full proposals are due January 10, 2007. (Open to those who
submitted preliminary proposals)</li>
<li>For more information, please visit <a
href="http://www.oarhq.noaa.gov/ballast">http://www.oarhq.noaa.gov/ballast</a></li>
<li>To obtain the RFP, please visit <a href="http://www.grants.gov/">www.grants.gov</a>
</li>
<li> Federal Funding Opportunity# OAR-SG-2007-2000771</li>
<li><span class="bodycpy"> For more information, please contact <a
href="mailto:Ballast.Water@noaa.gov">Ballast.Water@noaa.gov</a></span></li>
</ul>
<center>
<p align="left"><span class="subheadsbig"><b>Ballast Water Technology
Demonstration Program--Research, Development, Testing and Evaluation
Facility</b></span><span class="bluelheadlines"><b><font color="#cc3300"><br>
</font></b></span><span class="bodycpy">This joint NOAA-U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service Program supports projects to develop, test, and
demonstrate technologies that treat ships' ballast water in order to
reduce the threat of introduction of aquatic invasive species to U.S.
waters through the discharge of ballast water.</span></p>
<ul type="disc">
<li class="bodycpy">
<div align="left">Preliminary Proposals are September 14, 2006
(directly to the National Sea Grant College Program)</div>
</li>
<li>
<div align="left">Full proposals are due December 19, 2006 (Open to
those who submitted preproposals)</div>
</li>
<li>
<div align="left">For more information, please visit <a
href="http://www.oarhq.noaa.gov/ballast">http://www.oarhq.noaa.gov/ballast</a></div>
</li>
<li>
<div align="left">To obtain the RFP, please visit <a
href="http://www.grants.gov/">www.grants.gov</a> </div>
</li>
<li>
<div align="left">Federal Funding Opportunity# OAR-SG-2007-2000772</div>
</li>
<li>
<div align="left"><span class="bodycpy"> For more information,
please contact <a href="mailto:Ballast.Water@noaa.gov">Ballast.Water@noaa.gov</a></span></div>
</li>
</ul>
</center>
</div>
<br>
Sheri DeRosa<br>
Woods Hole Sea Grant<br>
193 Oyster Pond Road, MS #2<br>
Woods Hole, MA 02543<br>
508-289-2398<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:sderosa@whoi.edu">sderosa@whoi.edu</a>
</body>
</html>