Sea Grant Program Application Requirements for Grants, for Sea Grant Fellowships, including the Dean John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowships, and for Designation as a Sea Grant College or Sea Grant I

This is a request for revision and extension of a currently approved information collection. Applications are required for the designation of a public or private institution of higher education, institute, laboratory, or State or local agency as a Sea Grant college or Sea Grant institution. Applications are also required in order to be awarded a Sea Grant Fellowship, including the Dean John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowships. Grant monies are available for funding activities that help attain the objectives of the Sea Grant Program. In addition to the SF-424 and other standard grant application requirements, up to three additional forms are required with a grant application. These are the 90-1 Sea Grant Control Form, used to identify the organizations and personnel who would be involved in the grant; the 90-2 Project Summary Form, which collects summary data on projects; and the 90-4 Sea Grant Budget Form, which provides more budget detail than the SF-424A. This request is for extension of the collection and a minor revision of the 90-2 Project Summary Form. The NOAA Form 90–2 is currently collected using an Excel spreadsheet (100% of use cases). The NSGO intends to migrate the Excel spreadsheet to an online webform that is hosted on Sea Grant’s Planning, Implementation and Evaluation Resource (PIER) database. The online webform would provide an additional and alternative method of information collection, but not eliminate the option for an Excel-based collection. During implementation (testing Q2/3-FY21; rollout Q4-FY21), the webform will likely require cosmetic modifications on the form structure, but no additional data fields will be added. Such modifications will be driven by software requirements and improvements to information management and the user interface. This revision would enable synchronization of existing PIER data, so that time of user entry and data quality control is minimized. Both the excel and web versions of the form have slightly updated data fields, however, these updates do not alter the burden. Specifically, “Administrative Priorities” has been added to better track a subset of previous “Classifications”, a “Regional” selection has been added, instead of appearing in a multi-select field (“Multiple Program”), and “Readiness Level” has been eliminated, as the NSGO is better suited to identify this information rather than an applicant. The webform holds one other noticeable difference that cannot be easily replicated on an excel spreadsheet. This is resolution of Partner/Affiliation organizations, which replicates the analog of “Organization”, “Department”, and “Division” that is available for collection in the RESEARCH & RELATED Senior/Key Person Profile Form (OMB 4040-0001). This is being applied for data quality assurance and control and also enables an improved look-up functionality with existing database records.

The latest form for Sea Grant Program Application Requirements for Grants, for Sea Grant Fellowships, including the Dean John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowships, and for Designation as a Sea Grant College or Sea Grant I expires 2026-04-30 and can be found here.

Sea Grant Program Control Form (Form 90-1)

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