63764 Federal Register / Vol. 60, No. 238 / Tuesday, December 12, 1995 / Notices

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Cooperative State Research,

Education, and Extension Service

Solicitation for Applications for Fiscal

Year 1996 National Research Initiative

Competitive Grants Program,

Amendment

The National Research Initiative

Competitive Grants Program (NRICGP)

published a solicitation for Applications

for Fiscal Year 1996 on Friday, October

13, 1995 (60 FR 53476). The NRICGP

amends this solicitation to include the

following definitions.

Project Types

II. Agricultural Research Enhancement

Awards

(c) Strengthening Awards: Institutions

in USDA EPSCoR states are eligible for

strengthening awards. For FY 1996,

USDA EPSCoR states consist of the

following:

Alaska

Arkansas

Connecticut

Delaware

Hawaii

Idaho

Maine

Mississippi

Montana

Nevada

New Hampshire

New Mexico

North Dakota

Rhode Island

South Carolina

South Dakota

Vermont

West Virginia

Wyoming

All U.S. territories and possessions,

including the District of Columbia.

Investigators at small and mid-size

institutions (total enrollment of 15,000

or less) may also be eligible for

Strengthening Awards. An institution in

this instance is an organization that

possesses a significant degree of

autonomy, as determined by reference

to the December, 1994 issue of the

Codebook for Compatible Statistical

Reporting of Federal Support to

Universities, Colleges, and Nonprofit

Institutions, prepared by Quantum

Research Corporation for the National

Science Foundation. Copies may be

obtained from Quantum Research

Corporation, 7315 Wisconsin Avenue,

Suite 631W, Bethesda, MD 20814.

Institutions which are among the top

100 universities and colleges, except

those in USDA EPSCoR states, are

ineligible for strengthening awards. The

top 100 institutions, as published in

Selected Data on Federal Support to

Universities and Colleges, Fiscal Year

1993 (National Science Foundation,

NSF 95–320), are as follows:

Baylor College of Medicine

Boston University

California Institute of Technology

Carnegie-Mellon University

Case Western Reserve University

Colorado State University

Columbia University

Cornell University

CUNY Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Duke University

Emory University

Georgia Institute of Technology

Harvard University

Indiana University

Iowa State University of Science and

Technology

John Hopkins University

Louisiana State University

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Michigan State University

New York University

North Carolina State University at

Raleigh

Northwestern University

Ohio State University

Oregon Health Sciences University

Oregon State University

Pennsylvania State University

Princeton University

Purdue University

Rockefeller University

Rutgers the State University of New

Jersey

Stanford University

State University of New York Stony

Brook

State University of New York at Buffalo

Texas A&M University

Thomas Jefferson University

Tufts University

University of Alabama Birmingham

University of Arizona

University of California Santa Barbara

University of California San Francisco

University of California Irvine

University of California San Diego

University of California Davis

University of California Los Angeles

University of California Berkeley

University of Chicago

University of Cincinnati

University of Colorado

University of Dayton

University of Florida

University of Georgia

University of Illinois Urbana

University of Illinois Chicago

University of Iowa

University of Kansas

University of Kentucky

University of Maryland Baltimore Prof

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University of Maryland College Park

University of Massachusetts Amherst

University of Massachusetts Med Schl

Worcester

University of Medicine and Dentistry of

New Jersey

University of Miami

University of Michigan

University of Minnesota

University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

University of Pennsylvania

University of Pittsburgh

University of Rochester

University of Southern California

University of Tennessee Knoxville

University of Texas Health Science

Center Houston

University of Texas MD Anderson

Cancer Center

University of Texas Health Sci. Center

San Antonio

University of Texas at Austin

University of Texas SW Medical Center

Dallas

University of Utah

University of Virginia

University of Washington

University of Wisconsin Madison

Utah State University

Vanderbilt University

Virginia Ploytech Institute and State

University

Virginia Commonwealth University

Wake Forest University

Washington University

Washington State University

Wayne State University

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute

Yeshiva University

See the FY 1996 Program Description

for complete details on programs and

eligibility.

Conflicts of Interest

For purposes of conflict of interest,

determination of academic and

administrative autonomy of an

institution will be made by reference to

the December, 1994 issue of the

Codebook for Compatible Statistical

Reporting of Federal Support to

Universities, Colleges, and Nonprofit

Institutions, prepared by Quantum

Research Corporation for the National

Science Foundation. Copies may be

obtained from Quantum Research

Corporation, 7315 Wisconsin Avenue,

Suite 631W, Bethesda, MD 20814.

Done at Washington, D.C., this 1 day of

December 1995.

Colien Hefferan,

Acting Administrator, Cooperative State

Research, Education, and Extension Service.

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