The CENR updates this Guide annually, and will add any programs that have been omitted in future editions. Many research initiatives described in this document are supported as joint efforts by multiple agencies. The five Subcommittees of the CENR are Air Quality Research, Ecological Systems, Global Change, Natural Disaster Reduction, and Toxics and Risk. The table on the following page provides a rough cross cut of which agencies support research in each topic area to facilitate use of the Program Guide. For additional or more detailed information on the programs described below, the reader should communicate with the points of contact listed.
Many agencies also advertise solicitations via the Internet.
Links to agency on-line sources can be accessed through the White House homepage. Addresses for agency Web sites are also given throughout this document to assist the reader in locating direct information sources. Descriptions of some programs whose deadlines for FY 1999 proposals have already passed are included to alert the reader to program content and approximate time frames for annual competitions. Many of the research programs listed for FY 1999 will continue in FY 2000.