NSDI Competitive Cooperative 

 Agreements Program -- 1995 Awards

The National Spatial Data Infrastructure

(NSDI) Competitive Cooperative

Agreements Program was established by

the Federal Geographic Data Committee

(FGDC) to help form partnerships with the

non-Federal sector that will assist in the

evolution of the NSDI. This program

provides funding for cooperative

agreements to State and local government

agencies, institutions of higher education,

and private organizations. The goal is to

encourage resource-sharing projects

through the use of technology, networking,

and more efficient interagency

coordination.

For further information about the

program, contact the FGDC Secretariat,

c/o U.S. Geological Survey, 590 National

Center, Reston, Virginia 22092; telephone

703-648-5514; facsimile 703-648-5755; or

Internet gdc@usgs.gov.

The 1995 Program

In July 1995, the FGDC completed issuing

awards for the second year of the program.

The twenty-two cooperative agreements

totaled $625,000. These awards support

the development and implementation of

the National Geospatial Data

Clearinghouse (NGDC) for finding and

accessing geospatial data, the development

and promulgation of FGDC-endorsed

standards in data collection,

documentation, transfer, search and query,

and the development of software tools or

techniques to aid in the evaluation of

geospatial metadata or data through the

Clearinghouse.

A brief summary of each funded project

follows. The summary includes the list of

participating agencies and the name and

contact information for the project

director.

New England Geographic Data

Geospatial Metadata Network Development

Project for New York City

The Office of Geographic Information The objective of the first phase of this

and Analysis at the University of project is to establish a Geographic Data

Massachusetts at Amherst in Network (GDN) which enables the input

conjunction with the major GIS of and retrieval of information concerning

programs of the six New England States the City's Geographic Data and acts as an

proposes to create a New England organizing force to develop and maintain

Geospatial Metadata Directory, to standards for the collection and

establish a NGDC node, and to work formatting of data. The GDN will be

with State, county, regional, municipal, accessible through the Internet and will

and non-profit agencies to assist them in tap into a data repository at the Spatial

documenting their geospatial metadata Analysis and Remote Sensing Laboratory

according to the Content Standards for (SPARS) at Hunter College. Initially, two

Digital Geospatial Metadata and to NYC Dept's will participate in this pilot

utilize the Internet as a means of effort.

finding and accessing geospatial data in

the U.S. In order to accomplish these

three goals, this project will complete

four specific tasks: (1) refinement of

software tools to assist in creating

FGDC metadata files; (2) use of these

software tools in establishing FGDCcompliant metadata files for 60 New

England geospatial data sets; (3)

establishing a WWW/WAIS geospatial

data node at the University of

Massachusetts; and, (4) training of an

extended group of public agency and

private non-profit staff in the use of the

metadata software tools and the NGDC. 

Collaborating Organizations:

University of Massachusetts; MassGIS;

Vermont Center for GIS, Inc. (VGIS);

Maine Office of GIS; Rhode Island

Geographic Information System

(RIGIS); Connecticut Office of Policy

and Management; GRANIT - New

Hampshire Office of State Planning.

Principal Contact: Richard Taupier,

University of Massachusetts, Office of

Geographic Information and Analysis,

Blaisdell House, Amherst,

Massachusetts 01003; telephone 413-

545-2842; facsimile 413-545-2304;

Internet Taupier@tei.umass.edu

Collaborating Organizations:

Hunter College - CUNY, Spatial Analysis

& Remote Sensing Lab.; Research

Foundation of CUNY; NYC Department

of Environmental Protection; NYC

Department of Transportation

Principal Contact: Sean C. Ahearn,

Hunter College - CUNY, Department of

Geography, 695 Park Avenue, New York,

New York 10021; telephone 212-772-

5327; facsimile 212-772-5268; Internet

sca@everest.hunter.cuny.edu

Upper Potomac

Geospatial Data

Depository

This project brings together nine regional

planning districts representing fifty-three

counties and cities in MD, PA, VA, and

WV, to develop a regional geospatial data

depository. The regional councils and the

cities and counties will provide their

geospatial data bases to the depository.

The project will place the regional

depository on-line through an Internet

node. All geospatial data will have

individual metadata files documented in

accordance with the Content Standards for

Digital Geospatial Metadata.
Collaborating Organizations: TriCounty Council for Western MD; Eastern

Panhandle Regional Planning

Development Council; Region VII Training Sessions and Principal Contact: Christopher Friel,

Planning and Development Council; Fifth FL Dept of Environmental Protection,

Planning District Commission; Central Division of Marine Resources, FL

Shenandoah Planning and District Marine Research Institute, 100 Eighth

Commission; Frostburg State University; Avenue SE, St. Petersburg, Florida

Region 8 Planning and Development 33701-5095; telephone 813-896-8626;

Council; Region Four Planning and facsimile 813-823-0166; Internet

Development Council; Lord Fairfax chris@orca.fmri.usf.edu

Planning District Commission; Southern

Alleghenies Planning and Development

Commission 

Principal Contact: Mike Wagner, TriCounty Council for Western Maryland,

111 South George Street, Cumberland,

Maryland 21502; telephone 301-777-2158;

facsimile 301-777-2495

A Community Resource of

Spatial Data in Maryland Barren River Area Development District

In partnership with local, State, Mammoth Cave National Park

and Federal agencies, the Department of

Geography, at the University of Maryland -

College Park, will design, implement, and

evaluate a prototype resource of digital

spatial data for northern Prince George's

County, MD. The project seeks to develop

understanding of the needs of patrons of

local libraries for geographic data required

to solve local problems or answer specific

queries in domains such as the location of

community events, provision of public

services, real property assessments and

building developments, and the impact of

public infrastructure investments. During

the period of effort, software tools for

browsing and querying data bases of maps

and images will be designed and tested in

four libraries, especially the branch library

in Greenbelt, MD. The project will also have

a training program about geospatial data for

librarians.

Collaborating Organizations: The

University of Maryland; Prince George's

County Memorial Library System; MDNational Capital Park and Planning

Commission; Prince George's County

Department of Environmental Resources;

Maryland State Department of Education;

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Principal Contact: Derek Thompson, 

Department of Geography, University of

Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742;

telephone 301-405-4063; facsimile 301-

314-9299; Internet Council; FL Dept of Environmental

dtll@umail.umd.edu Protection - Bureau of Information

Creation of a Geospatial Center in

Kentucky

The participants will take part in the

creation and management of a node on

the NGDC, to provide education and

training in FGDC endorsed standards to

professionals, private citizens, and

university students, and to collect,

process, and make available information

and data on the Internet for the ten National Geospatial Data

county BRADD area (south central

Kentucky). This project will further

enhance current efforts to create a

compatible data base of the BRADD

area and provide an efficient means to

store, access, and disseminate data.

Collaborating Organizations:

(BRADD); Western KY University;

Principal Contact: Jack Eversole, coastal zone. This project will expand

Barren River Area Development the thematic and geospatial range of the

District, 177 Graham Avenue, P.O. Box existing LCGISN program to include

90005, Bowling Green, Kentucky FGDC compliant metadata

42102-9005; telephone 502-781-2381; documentation for statewide

facsimile 502-842-0768 environmental and energy-related

Development of the

Florida Spatial Digital

Library System

The focus of this project is to advance

the needs of the Florida Marine

Research Institute and its partners with

respect to the creation, maintenance and

accessibility of its spatial metadata by:

assisting in the design, development and

evaluation of the Florida Spatial Digital

Library System (FSDLS); populating

the FSDLS with Coastal and Marine

Resource Assessment metadata;

exploring ways in which libraries can 

be involved in cataloging metadata;

producing new thematic content

standards for key marine spatial data

sets; and, developing a metadata guide

for non-GIS data collectors. The FSDLS

will serve as a node on the NGDC.

Collaborating Organizations: FL

Dept of Environmental Protection, FL

Marine Research Institute; Growth

Mgmt Data Coordinating Council;

Tampa Bay Regional Coordinating

Systems; US EPA

Development of a

Clearinghouse Node for

Louisiana

This project will result in the creation

and implementation of a NGDC node

for Louisiana. The project will build

upon the resources of the Louisiana

Coastal Geographic Information

Systems Network (LCGISN), which was

developed to improve the coordination

and identification of spatial data

resources pertinent to the Louisiana

information of particular importance to

state and Federal agencies. 

Collaborating Organizations:

Louisiana State University, Center for

Coastal, Energy, and Environmental

Protection; Louisiana GIS Task Force;

US Minerals Management Service

Principal Contact: Lynda D. Wayne,

Louisiana State University, Coastal

Studies Institute, 331 Howe-Russell

Geoscience Building, Baton Rouge,

Louisiana 70803; telephone 504-388-

3479; facsimile 504-388-2520; 

Internet lwayne@swamp.csi.lsu.edu
NGDC Node for the Nebraska NSDI

Dallas/Fort Worth Clearinghouse and

Region: A Model for Geospatial Metadata

Metropolitan Areas Initiative

The primary deliverable will be a This project is designed to accomplish

functioning NGDC node with procedures four primary objectives: (1) to establish

in place to catalog data for the Dallas/Fort and manage a NSDI clearinghouse

Worth areas according to FGDC Internet network node; (2) to upgrade the

standards. Funding will enable the Center current metadata on an existing on-line

to make its existing holdings consistent spatial data catalog to meet the current

with the Metadata standard, to expand FGDC Content Standards for Digital

holdings of local data consistent with this Geospatial Metadata; (3) to conduct

standard, and to promote the concept of outreach to Nebraska-based agencies and

the NSDI in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. organizations to increase their awareness,

Collaborating Organizations:

University of Texas at Dallas, Bruton

Center for Development Studies; North

Texas GIS Consortium Data Infrastructure in

Principal Contact: Ronald Briggs,

University of Texas at Dallas, Bruton The collaborators along with 70 other

Center for Development Studies, P.O. organizations are currently participating

Box 830688, Richardson, Texas 75083- in the Champaign County Network

0688; telephone 214-883-2655; (CCNet) effort to establish an

facsimile 214-883-2966; Internet infrastructure providing access to

briggs@utdallas.edu community-relevant data from local,

Development of an

Interactive GIS Network

for the State of Oklahoma

The objective of this project is to provide

the State of Oklahoma with a centralized

source for searching, evaluating and

accessing Oklahoma geospatial data sets.

The two principle efforts will involve

creating an inventory and recording and

cataloging metadata in accordance with

the Content Standards for Digital

Geospatial Metadata for Oklahoma

geospatial data sets, and, establishing and

maintaining a node on the NGDC.

Collaborating Organizations:

Oklahoma State University, The

Environmental Institute; Oklahoma GIS

Council; Oklahoma State Geographer

Principal Contact: Beth McTernan,

Environmental Institute, Oklahoma State

University, 003 Life Sciences East,

Stillwater, Oklahoma 74078; telephone

405-744-9996; facsimile 405-744-7673;

Internet emct@okway.okstate.edu

understanding and utilization of the NSDI

clearinghouse network and its associated

Metadata Standard; (4) to provide

training to State and local agencies and on the National Spatial

other interested parties on the use of

FGDC Content Standards for Digital

Geospatial Metadata.

Collaborating Organizations:

Nebraska Library Commission; NE GIS

Steering Committee; State agencies -

Dept of Roads, Nebraska Game and Parks

Commission, Conservation and Survey

Division of the University of Nebraska,

Dept of Environmental Quality, Dept of

Administrative Services; Local

government agencies and associations -

Nebraska Association of County Officials,

Scotts Bluff County Surveyor, City of

Omaha Public Works; Federal agencies -

U.S. FWS, USDA NRCS

Principal Contact: Larry Zink;

Nebraska GIS Steering Commission;

P.O. Box 94664; Lincoln, Nebraska

68509; telephone 402-471-3206;

facsimile 402-471-3339; Internet

lzink@doc.state.ne.us

Adams County, Illinois,

GIS 2002 Project

The Adams County GIS 2002 project

is a 10-year, multiparticipant project

designed to develop an accurate and

continually updated geographic

information system of planimetric,

topographic and cadastral base data

for Adams County, IL. The

cooperative project focuses on the

development of a comprehensive, onesquare-mile "mini-GIS" pilot area to

test the utility of all applicable FGDCendorsed standards and the concepts

embodied in the Geospatial Data

Framework. 

Collaborating Organizations: Adams

County,IL, Highway Dept; Dept of

Energy & Natural Resources; USDA

NRCS, IL Office; City of Quincy, IL;

Central IL Public Service; Ameritech;

Continental Cablevision; Adams

Electrical Co-op; Adams Telephone Coop

Principal Contact: Richard Klusmeyer,

Adams County Highway Department,

5200 East Broadway, Quincy, Illinois

62301; telephone 217-223-0614; 

facsimile 217-223-9418

Creating a Local Node

Champaign Co., IL.

regional, State and national data

resources. This project calls for

implementing and evaluating means of

creating a local clearinghouse as a node

of the National clearinghouse. This

testbed, and resulting training materials,

will be available to other communities

nation-wide that wish to evaluate the

methods, procedures and infrastructure

established as part of this project.

Collaborating Organizations:

Champaign County Chamber of

Commerce; University of IL at Urbana;

Champaign -National Center for

Supercomputing Applications

Principal Contact: Richard Kubetz,

Champaign County Chamber of

Commerce, 100 Trade Centre Drive, 

Suite 402, Champaign, Illinois 61820;

telephone 217-359-1791; 

facsimile 217-359-1809; Internet

kubetz@ncsa.uiuc.edu
 Establishing a National Collaborating Organizations: Idaho Oregon Digital 

 Geospatial Data Map Library

 Clearinghouse Node Clearinghouse

 in Utah

The State of Utah, Automated Geographic

Reference Center and collaborators will

develop metadata and interfaces which

make the data available through the

NGDC. The project involves establishing

multiple nodes for access to the

Clearinghouse through the Internet,

documenting data using the FGDC

Content Standards for Digital Geospatial

Metadata, developing easy to use tools to

access metadata, and conducting training

for agencies considering adopting or trying

to implement the Metadata Standard.

Collaborating Organizations:

Utah Automated Geographic Reference

Center; County Governments -- Carbon

County, Emery County, Grand County,

Salt Lake County, San Juan County, Utah

County, Washington County; State of UT-- Coalition Project

DNR Division of Parks and Recreation,

Division of Water Rights, Division of This project will enable the Montana

Wildlife Resources, UT Trust Lands; Local Government GIS Coalition to

Federal agencies -- USDA Ashley National facilitate local government participation

Forest, Dixie National Forest, Fishlake in the NSDI and NGDC. The coalition,

National Forest, Manti-LaSal National led by the GIAC, will encourage

Forest, USDoI BLM Grand Junction communication and data sharing among

District Office, Moab District Office, NBS local government and private

Colorado Plateau Research Station, NPS organizations, work with local

Canyonlands/Arches National Park, governments to develop a metadata plan

Capital Reef National Park in compliance with the FGDC Metadata

Principal Contact: Dennis Goreham,

Utah Automated Geographic Reference

Center, Division of Information

Technology Services, 5130 State Office

Building, Salt Lake City, Utah 84114;

telephone 801-538-3163; 

facsimile 801-538-3622; Internet

grdbg@itshpl.it.as.ex.state.ut.us Collaborating Organizations:

Idaho Geospatial 

 Data Network

This project builds upon the interest and

activity of the geospatial data community in

Idaho. The project involves developing an

implementation strategy for a data

clearinghouse, implementing multiple nodes

at key data developer sites, refining the

existing Idaho metadata standard to

compliance with the Content Standards for

Digital Geospatial Metadata, populating key

nodes with metadata, and educating and

training users on use of the network nodes.

Department of Water Resources; Idaho

Geographic Information Advisory

Committee; State agencies - Dept of

Lands, Idaho Nuclear Engineering

Laboratory, Dept of Fish and Game,

Transportation Department, Department

of Parks and Recreation, Idaho Tax

Commission, Department of Health and

Welfare; Federal agencies -- U.S. Forest

Service; U.S. Bureau of Land

Management, U.S. Geological Survey

Principal Contact: 

Hal N. Anderson, Idaho Department of

Water Resources, 1301 North Orchard

Street, P.O. Box 83720, Boise, Idaho

83720-7888; telephone 208-327-7995;

facsimile 208-327-7866; Internet 

handerso@idwr.state.id.us

 Montana Local will contain hypertext links to other

 Government GIS 

Standard, build a local government data

repository in compliance with the

FGDC Metadata Standard, establish a

WWW node for local governments on

the NGDC, and implement a Montana Principal Contact:Theresa Valentine,

Local Government GIS Users list server State Service Center for GIS, Oregon

on the Internet. Department of Administrative Services,

Montana State University, Geographic

Information and Analysis Center

(GIAC); Montana Department of

Revenue, Cascade County

Principal Contact: Jackie Magnant,

Montana State University, Geographic

Information and Analysis Center, Room

329 Traphagen Hall, Bozeman,

Montana 59717-0348; telephone 406-

994-6921;

facsimile 406-994-6923

This project is a cooperative venture

with all jurisdictions of government in

Oregon, with Federal agencies, State

agencies, counties, cities, and tribal

governments involved with contributing

data to the Library for distribution.

Under this proposal, the State Service

Center will lead the effort to develop

and implement a node on the NGDC

providing direct network access to

existing and newly created data sets.

The geographic data will be stored in

the Oregon Digital Map Library and

available at no charge. The Library will

contain exportable copies of the data

sets and appropriate documentation.

Data bases will meet FGDC Metadata

Standard. Also, the Library homepage

data collection centers in the State. Staff

at the Service Center will also develop a

training plan to provide users with the

tools needed to use the homepage,

successfully transfer data to their

location, import the data, and have

sufficient documentation to be able to

use the data appropriately.

Collaborating Organizations: State

Service Center for GIS; Oregon

Geographic Information Council;

Interorganization Resource Information

Coordinating Committee (IRICC);

Oregon GIS Coordinators (County and

Local Government group)

155 Cottage Street, Salem, Oregon

97310; telephone 503-378-4163;

facsimile 503-986-3242; Internet

theresa.j.valentine@state.or.us
Tahoe-Northern Sierra

Nevada Internet Project

The collaborators will create a system of

freely accessible government information

using personal computers, online

geospatial data catalogs and the Internet.

To ensure usage and growth of the system,

the collaborators will provide informative

printed materials, workshops, and followup activities designed to develop Internet

connections and cataloging skills among Principal Contact: Jeff Holm,

agencies in the Northern Sierra Nevada Department of Information Services

and Tahoe region which produce Geographic, Information Council, 1110

geospatial data. Specifically, the Jefferson Street, Olympia, Washington

collaborators will create Clearinghouse 98504; telephone 360-902-3447;

nodes via the California Environmental facsimile 360-586-5885; 

Resources Evaluation System (CERES); Internet jeffh@dis.wa.gov

develop a workshop program that trains

local area government technicians in using

the Internet, the Metadata Standard, and

other related NSDI activities; and conduct

workshops in ten counties for both

California and Nevada participating

government agencies. 

Collaborating Agencies:

Sierra Planning Organization; Tahoe

Center for a Sustainable Future

Principal Contact: Lynn Purvis,

Northern Sierra Nevada GIS; P.O. Box

4078; Truckee, California 96160-4078;

telephone 916-587-5810;

Internet lpurvis@sierra.net

Establish Washington the Internet. This project develops and

State's Geospatial

Metadata and

Clearinghouse to

Support the NSDI

The aim of the project is to coordinate the

State's geospatial data and ensure

compatibility with regional and National

geospatial data and accessible through a

state-wide clearinghouse. The project

focuses on the gathering and electronic

delivery of Washington State geospatial

metadata as a pilot implementation of the

Content Standards for Digital Geospatial

Metadata. Efforts will be directed towards

implementing the Content Standards for

Digital Geospatial Metadata, and

developing a state-wide data clearinghouse

for geospatial metadata.

Collaborating Organizations:

Washington State Geographic

Information Council; Department of

Natural Resource; Department of

Information Services; Central

Washington University; Snohomish

County

Tools to Facilitate

Networked Access to

Digital Orthophotos

Project efforts are directed towards

development of the NGDC, by (a)

creating a Clearinghouse node (at

MassGIS) with Internet access (through

WAIS and the WWW) to FGDCcompliant metadata on Digital

Orthophoto Quads (DOQs) for the state of

Massachusetts; (b) building a graphical

user interface via the WWW to this

collection of metadata, (c) building

prototype tools for efficient, manageable

WWW access to the DOQs themselves,

and (d) publishing a tutorial explaining

how to create similar nodes elsewhere on

tests client/server strategies for browsing

geospatial data repositories in ways that

allow portions of stored data sets to be

extracted, combined, and re-sampled to

meet the user's location and resolution

requirements. Massachusetts is currently

acquiring half-meter resolution digital

orthophotos for the State and has

cooperative agreements with USGS to

develop a version that meets DOQQ

specifications.

Collaborating Organizations:

Massachusetts Institute of Technology;

MA Executive Office of Environmental

Affairs; EOEA Data Center

Principal Contact: Joseph Ferreira,

Jr., Massachusetts Institute of

Technology, School of Architecture and

Planning, Computer Resource Labs,

Room 9-514, 105 Massachusetts

Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts

02139; telephone 617-253-7410;

facsimile 617-253-3625; Internet

jf@mit.edu
An Educational and

Research Program in

Support of Content

Standards for Digital

Geospatial Metadata

The National States Geographic Information

Council's Educational and Research

Program in Support of Content Standards

for Digital Geospatial Metadata Project

includes implementation of the FGDC's

Metadata Standard on a variety of Federal,

state, local and tribal data at (production

environment) test sites located at nine state

sites across the nation. This implementation

effort is designed to test the standard for use,

relevance, effectiveness, and issue

identification. The second phase of the

project will be the development of a

Metadata Standard Primer that will include

an overview of the standard, results of the

implementation study and soft copy

metadata templates. The final phase of the

project will be a nationwide satellite

downlink education program and video tape

production on the Metadata Standard.

Collaborating Organizations: National

States Geographic Information Council;

FL Growth Management Data Network

Coordinating Council and FL Dept of

Environmental Protection; ID Dept of

Water Resources; IL Department of

Energy and Natural Resources; MN Land

Management Information Center (LMIC);

NJ Office of Information Resources

Management and the NJ State Mapping

Advisory Committee; UT Automated

Geographic Reference Center; VT Center

for Geographic Information, Inc.; WI

Department of Natural Resources, WI

State Cartographer, the WI Land

Information Board, University of WIMadison, and WY Board of Control

Principal Contact: Bruce Westcott,

National States Geographic Information

Council, 45 Lyme Road, Suite 304,

Hanover, New Hampshire 03755-1223;

telephone 603-643-1600; facsimile 

603-643-1444; Internet nsgic@aol.com

 NSDI eXplorer Metadata Management System that will

The result of this project is a new The project deliverables will comprise a

software product, the NSDI eXplorer. well-tested specification that can be

NSDI eXplorer will provide synoptic transferred to any GIS site, including; an

views of the contents of the entire NSDI operational specification of the metadata

clearinghouse. It will enable visualizing standards contents (e.g. exactly how long

and interactive exploration of metadata is a lineage record); a logical data base

contained in an NSDI clearinghouse design that can be implemented in any

node. It will complement existing and relational data base management system;

anticipated capabilities of WWW tools specifications for a suite of tools to

such as Mosaic, Netscape, WAIS and automate the use and management of the

spatial WAIS. system, with a catalog of existing tools;

Collaborating Organizations:

Geographic Designs, Inc.; Southern

California Edison; University of CA,

Santa Barbara; City of Santa Barbara,

California; State of California, Teale

Data Center; J.W. Jones Ecological Collaborating Organizations: Lower

Research Center, Newton, Georgia; City

of Mobile, Alabama; Franz Inc.; Psomas

and Associates

Principal Contact: David Lanter,

Geographic Designs Inc., 3738 Meru 

Lane, Santa Barbara, California 93105;

telephone and fax 805-569-3084;

Internet lanter@geodesigns.com

 GIS Metadata 

Management System

The Lower Colorado River Authority and

its partners will jointly develop a GIS

manage the massive amounts of metadata

that results from documenting data sets.

an implementation handbook to aid in the

use of the specification; and, a working

implementation of the metadata

management system using ARC/Info and

Sybase under UNIX.

Colorado River Authority; Texas

Department of Parks and Wildlife;

G.I.S. Planning Council c/o Texas

Department of Information Resources;

Texas A&M University

Principal Contact: Lee Smith, G.I.S.

Department, Lower Colorado River

Authority, P.O. Box 220, Mail Stop

S215, Austin, Texas 78767-0220;

telephone 512-473-3240; facsimile 

512-473-3309
The 1996 Program

An explanation of the 1996 NSDI

Competitive Cooperative Agreements

program and application materials will

be available this fall. The open period

for proposals will be 90 days. As with

the previous programs, proposals must

involve two or more organizations with

participants providing matching funds

or resources. Formal announcement of

the program will be published in the

Commerce Business Daily and the

Federal Register, and also will be

available through the FGDC homepage

at <URL:http://fgdc.er.usgs.gov.