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FY 2004 ESDIM Proposal Template

1. Proposal ID: This will be given to you by your ESDIM Team representative. It is the same ID given to the LOI by the ESDIM Program Office.

   Your proposal ID will be NES_04?xx, NMFS_04?xx, NOS_04?xx, NWS_04?xx, or OAR_04?xx. This is the same ID that was assigned to your LOI during the LOI review process. The proposal ID should be in the name of the electronic file sent to the LO/PO representative, E.g. NMFS_04?xx.wpd

2. Title: Limit title length to a maximum of 120 characters.

3. Principal Investigator (PI): The PI must be a NOAA employee. (Only 1 PI per project) Last Name, First Name, Middle Initial, and (Name used) if different than first name. e.g. for Smith, Robert M. (Mike)

4. PI Address
   • Organization:
   • Routing Code:
   • Street:
   • City, State, Zip:
   • Email Address:
   • Phone: Fax:

5. Financial contact (The person who will be extracting the project funding from the NOAA financial management system - CAMS)
   • Name:
   • Routing Code:
   • Email:
   • Phone: Fax:
   • FMC#:

6. Funds requested from ESDIM for this project. (Each year as applicable, 0 [zero] in years not requesting funds). These are only the funds requested from ESDIM, not the total funding of the project. Requested amount should be in whole thousands, e.g $50,000 or $50K.
   • FY 2003:
   • FY 2004:
   • FY 2005:

7. PI Signature: This is required on the original proposal submitted to the LO/PO representative which is then forwarded to the ESDIM Program Office.

   Footer: This is required on all pages.

   • PI Name Page #/x or Page # of x (x equals total page count)
   • Proposal ID

   
   END OF PAGE 1. Only items 1 thru 7 should be on page 1.

   
   

8. Other Investigators: Same name and address information as for the PI

9. PI's Supervisor
   • Name:
   • Routing Code:
   • Email:
   • Phone:

10. ESDIM Theme: It may be one of the following: Continuity; Access; Rescue; or Innovation. Select ONLY one. More information can be found at http://www.eis.noaa.gov/esdim/themes.html

11. Project supports which of the NOAA Mission Goals? Select the Primary Mission Goal ONLY: Visit the NOAA Office of Strategic Planning web page for specific information. http://www.osp.noaa.gov/docs/NOAA_Final_Strategic_Plan_March31st.pdf

    NOAA Mission Goals

    1. Protect, restore and manage the use of coastal and ocean resources through ecosystem-based management.
    2. Understand climate variability and change to enhance society=s ability to plan and respond.
    3. Serve society=s needs for weather and water information.
    4. Support the Nation=s commerce with information for safe, efficient, and environmentally sound transportation.

12. Project History
    
    • Previous ESDIM Funding (this project):
    • Previous other funding (this project):

13. Is this project to be done in conjunction with any other project or program in your Line Office, other Line Office, other government agency, academic institution, or any other entity? If yes, describe project relationships here. Funding relationships are detailed in item # 14.

14. Funding Summary:

    FY 2004        		FY 2005       		FY 2006
    Proposed ESDIM Funding
    
    Line Office Funding
    (includes salaries covered by LO)
    
    Other Funding
         Org 1
         Add as needed
    ????????????  		?????????????  		?????????????
     
    Total Project Funding
    

15. Executive Summary: Not to exceed one?third of a page. Should your proposal become an ESDIM Project, this summary will be used as the description of your project on ESDIM web pages and in other documents and publications related to the ESDIM Program. (approximately 17?20 lines)

16. Project Objective: Be as specific as possible in explaining what it is you are planning to do. Describe it so that someone, not an expert in your field, will understand the problem and the solution.

17. Project Description:

18. Benefits of Project: Of what benefit will this project be to NOAA in general and specifically to your LO? Conversely, what are the consequences of this proposal not being funded? Who will benefit from this project? Who are the potential users of your project? That is, if you are making data more readily available, rescuing data, or creating a new process for using, viewing, or fusing data, who is the user group you are trying to reach?

19. FY 2004 Workplan
    • Milestones
    • Milestone 1/date
    • Milestone 2/date
    • Add as needed
    • Deliverables:
    • Deliverable 1/date
    • Deliverable 2/date
    • Add as needed

20. FY 2004, FY 2005, FY2006 workplan narrative(s) (as applicable):

21. Project Personnel: Name Grade(if applicable) % Use Status Personnel 1 Add as needed (Status is: Federal Government Employee (FTE) "Y"es or "N"o)

22. Project Budget: (projects are limited to three years maximum) Please show funding in WHOLE THOUSANDS of dollars ($K) only

    FY 2004       		FY 2005         	FY 2006
    ($ x 1K)       		($ x 1K)      		($ x 1K)
                                      
    Personnel Compensation (FTE)
     
         FTE 1
    (Includes all funding necessary 
    to fund an FTE including indirect labor costs)
         Add additional FTEs as needed
    
    Travel
    
    Transportation of Things
    
    Rent, Communication, Utilities
    
    Printing and Reproduction
    
    Other services (contracts)
      Total of all items < $5K
      List each item $5K and greater
    
    Supplies and Materials
    
    Equipment
      Total of all items < $5K
      List each item $5K and above
    
    Fixed Charges
    (no NOAA administrative overhead)
    ?????????  		?????????  		?????????
    TOTAL
    

    Budget Comments:

    Provide any comments that are needed to justify your budget.

    (Please note that new FTE's and NOAA general administrative overhead costs are not allowed as part of the ESDIM funding).

    Indirect costs, applicable to NOAA employees salaries, MUST be included in the total Personnel Compensation (FTE) line of the budget. This is a cost in addition to salary and benefits and varies depending on your FMC.

23. If an objective of your proposal is to rescue data and/or to place data on?line, please make a statement addressing how you plan to create a NOAA FGDC format data description for the data and make the metadata description electronically available to the NESDIS CIO Office. A metadata record is NOT required as part of the proposal submission process; it IS required AFTER the appropriate dataset(s) have been completed. More information on FGDC metadata can be found at http://www.eis.noaa.gov/fgdc/index.html.

    (See http://www.eis.noaa.gov/fgdc/ for information on FGDC format)