FY2001 - 2002 Request for Preproposals
II. BACKGROUND INFORMATION
GLNPO has provided funding for some 525 projects totaling $54 million
between 1993 and 2000. These projects are summarized at the "Project
Summaries" links to http://www.epa.gov/glnpo/fund/.
Development of this Request for Preproposals began with the Fall Great
Lakes Planning Meeting of mid-level environmental managers from Great
Lakes State, Tribal, and Federal programs. This group has met annually to
discuss Great Lakes priorities and the criteria for projects to be funded
by GLNPO in the upcoming year. General funding priorities and targets for
this Great Lakes Request for Preproposals were derived from USEPA's
Congressionally approved budget. Development of that budget began in 1999.
The September, 2000 Great Lakes Planning Meeting verified the
importance of strategically focusing on toxics reduction and biodiversity.
Participants also confirmed the importance of GLNPO addressing Invasive
Species and Strategic or Emerging Issues. Congressionally directed funding
in the USEPA budget makes that possible. In order to further work begun
through the State of the Lakes Ecosystem Conferences to develop indicators
necessary and sufficient to easily understood and objectively represent
the condition of the Great Lakes ecosystem components, GLNPO has added a
new funding category this year - Indicator Development. Information about
each of these funding areas is contained in Part VI of this Request for
Preproposals.
FY 2000 Recap. In FY 2000, GLNPO notified potential applicants that it
was seeking Preproposals for a total of $3.04 million in the priority
areas of: Contaminated Sediments; Habitat Protection and Restoration;
Pollution Prevention; Assessment/Indicators; Invasive Species; and
Emerging Issues. In response, 152 applicants submitted 264 Preproposals,
requesting $31 million in assistance.
The "success rate" for Preproposals submitted in FY2000 was
14%. This rate was significantly lower than the success rate of 23% in
FY1999, likely as a result of the decreased funding available through the
Preproposal process. $400,000 of the GLNPO funds not allocated through
GLNPO’s general request for Preproposals in FY2000 was allocated in a
separate competitive request for Preproposals. We do note that the success
rate would be somewhat higher if it included Preproposals submitted to
GLNPO and forwarded to other USEPA offices. Successful applicants were
asked to submit full proposals for 38 projects totaling $2.9 million.
GLNPO offered assistance for each of these projects for which the
applicant requested funding.
|
