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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Gonzalez Jr., Roberto - OPPE, Calexico, CA <roberto.gonzalez@usda.gov>
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<b>Sent:</b> Monday, May 4, 2020 1:32 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Ogden, Kimberly L - (ogden) <ogden@arizona.edu>; Burgess, Shane C - (shaneburgess) <sburgess@cals.arizona.edu>; Hunt, James E - (jeh) <JHunt@ag.arizona.edu>; Pawar, Sangita C - (sangita) <sangita@arizona.edu>; Mester, John Clark - (jmester) <jmester@arizona.edu>;
Patten, Kim J - (kjpatten) <kjpatten@arizona.edu>; Coffey, Courtney - (ccoffey) <ccoffey@arizona.edu>; Silvertooth, Jeffrey C - (silverto) <Silver@ag.arizona.edu><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [EXT]2020 USDA-NIFA Equipment Grant Program w/Closing Date: June 23, 2020 ($500, 000 maximum funding request and up to three years in duration)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="center" style="text-align:center"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:red">External Email</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The Equipment Grant Program (EGP) serves to increase access to shared special purpose equipment/instruments for scientific research for use in the food and agricultural sciences programs in our institutions of higher education, including
State Cooperative Extension Systems. The program seeks to improve the quality and expand the scope of fundamental and applied research at eligible institutions, by providing organizations with opportunities to acquire equipment/instruments that supports the
research, research training, and extension goals of the organization. The program emphasizes shared-use instrumentation that will enhance the capabilities of researchers and extension agents both within and outside the proposing organization.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Eligibility is limited to:</b> college or university or State Cooperative Institution, including – Hispanic-serving institutions; 1862 land-grant institutions; State Agricultural Experiment Stations; "Cooperative extension services"
meaning the organizations established at the land-grant colleges and universities.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Cost Sharing or Matching:</b> No Match Required - The EGP has NO matching requirement.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">An eligible institution may not submit more than three applications to this program as a lead institution. As a result, eligible organizations may not receive more than three awards.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Apply for Grant: </b><a href="https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=326675">https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=326675</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Closing Date:</b> June 23, 2020<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Range of Awards:</b> $500,000 maximum funding request and up to three years in duration.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">EGP is designed to strengthen the research, education, and/or extension capacity of institutions by funding the purchase of one major piece of equipment that may be too costly and/or not appropriate for support through other USDA-NIFA grant
programs. An instrument acquired with support from the EGP program is expected to be fully operational by the end of the award period.
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<p class="MsoNormal">The program does not fund research projects, including research that uses the equipment acquired with support from the program. The program does not support the operation and maintenance of facilities.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Proposals to the EGP are for the acquisition of only a single, well-integrated piece of equipment/instrument. Well-integrated research instrument means that the ensemble of equipment that defines the instrument enables a specific fundamental
or applied research experiment in the food and agricultural sciences, including data science and data systems, programs to be undertaken; separating or removing an element or component of such an integrated instrument would preclude any experiments from occurring
or succeeding. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Major research equipment can be expensive to operate and maintain over the useful lifetime. Proposals should demonstrate institutions’ commitment to undertake the responsibility of maintaining and operating the instrument for the benefit
of a community of users engaged in research, training, and/or extension. EGP proposals are intended to help fund items of equipment that will upgrade infrastructure. This may include the upgrade of an existing instrument.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The EGP does not support the acquisition a suite of equipment to outfit research laboratories/facilities or to conduct independent experiments simultaneously. Similarly, the EGP does not fund common, general purpose ancillary equipment
that would normally be found in a laboratory and/or is relatively easily procured by the organization or through other USDA-NIFA funding programs. Examples include office equipment and furnishings, modular offices, telephone networks, information technology
equipment and systems, air conditioning equipment, reproduction and printing equipment, and motor vehicles.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">EGP grants are not intended to replace requests for equipment in individual project applications. Rather, they are intended to help fund items of equipment that will upgrade infrastructure. Requests for computer equipment are allowed only
if the equipment is part of a well-integrated instrument.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>The following describes the types of projects or grants that are eligible for funding:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Project Types:</b> These projects are for the acquisition of research equipment and not for the support of a line of research, including research that uses equipment acquired with support from the program. Other project types submitted
to this program will not be considered for review. EGP Research projects support the purchase of equipment that will be used for fundamental or applied research.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:5.5pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph"><b>Fundamental research</b> is research that increases knowledge or understanding of the fundamental aspects of phenomena and has the potential for board application and has positive influence on the food and agriculture sciences.
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<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:.75in"><span style="font-size:5.5pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b>Applied research</b> is research that includes expansion of the finding of fundamental research to uncover practical ways in which new food and agriculture science knowledge can be advanced to benefit individuals
and society.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Grant Types:</b> The EGP program will only support Standard Grants with a maximum funding request of $500,000 and up to three years in duration. Proposals to the EGP, must be for acquisition of a single, well-integrated piece of equipment/instrument.
Well-integrated means that the ensemble of equipment that defines the instrument enables a specific fundamental or applied research experiment in the food and agricultural sciences, including data science and data systems, programs to be undertaken; separating
or removing an element or component of such an integrated instrument would preclude that research from occurring or succeeding.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">EGP grants are not intended to replace requests for equipment in individual project applications of other USDA-NIFA programs. Rather, they are intended to help fund items of equipment that will upgrade infrastructure. Requests for computer
equipment are allowed only if the equipment is to be used to enhance an activity integral to the proposed project.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Special Purpose Equipment which is used only for research, medical, scientific, or other technical activities, such as: microscopes, x-ray machines, surgical instruments, and spectrometers.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Shared-use Equipment is a piece of equipment used by more than one research group, extension unit or multidisciplinary team to conduct fundamental or applied research<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>EGP does not:</b> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3">fund research projects or personnel salaries or wages, including research or personnel that use equipment acquired with support from the program.<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3">fund education projects, including education projects that use acquired equipment. However, descriptions of planned uses of acquired equipment in training of students and other practical
applications for consumers may be included, if desired, to illustrate the potential impacts of such equipment acquisition.
<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3">fund common, general purpose ancillary equipment that would normally be found in a laboratory and/or is relatively easily procured by other funding sources (for the purposes of this
program, General Purpose Equipment is defined in 2 CFR 200.48). <o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3">support the operation, insurance, or maintenance of facilities, equipment, or research laboratories, or renovation of facilities that house the acquired equipment.
<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3">support the acquisition of a suite of instruments to outfit research laboratories/facilities or to conduct independent experiments simultaneously<o:p></o:p></li></ol>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs): </b><a href="https://nifa.usda.gov/sites/default/files/resource/Equipment-grants-program-FAQs20200420.pdf">https://nifa.usda.gov/sites/default/files/resource/Equipment-grants-program-FAQs20200420.pdf</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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