Funding Opportunities for the Western Region
Commodity Credit Corporation Announces 2012 RFA for the Technical Assistance for Specialty Crops Program (Deadline is May 16, 2011)
From: Cheryl Wilen
Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2011 9:45 PM
To: rsmelnicoe@ucdavis.edu
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Notice of Funds Availability: Inviting Applications for the Technical Assistance for Specialty Crops Program
Announcement Type: New
Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) Number: 10.604.
SUMMARY: The Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) announces that it is inviting proposals for the 2012 Technical Assistance for Specialty Crops (TASC) program. The intended effect of this notice is to solicit applications from the private sector and from government agencies for FY 2012 and to award funds in October 2011. The TASC program is administered by personnel of the Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS).
Funding Opportunity Description
Authority: The TASC program is authorized by section 3205 of Public Law
107-171. TASC regulations appear at 7 CFR part 1487.
Purpose: The TASC program is designed to assist U.S. organizations by providing
funding for projects that address sanitary, phytosanitary, or related technical
barriers that prohibit or threaten the export of U.S. specialty crops. U.S.
specialty crops, for the purpose of the TASC program, are defined to include
all cultivated plants, or the products thereof, produced in the United States,
except wheat, feed grains, oilseeds, cotton, rice, peanuts, sugar, and tobacco.
As a general matter, TASC program projects should be designed to address the following criteria:
- Projects should identify and address a sanitary, phytosanitary, or related technical barrier that prohibits or threatens the export of U.S. specialty crops;
- Projects should demonstrably benefit the represented industry rather than a specific company or brand;
- Projects must address barriers to exports of commercially-available U.S. specialty crops for which barrier removal would predominantly benefit U.S. exports; and
- Projects should include an explanation as to what specifically could not be accomplished without Federal funding assistance and why the participating organization(s) would be unlikely to carry out the project without such assistance.
Examples of expenses that CCC may agree to reimburse under the TASC program include, but are not limited to: initial pre-clearance programs, export protocol and work plan support, seminars and workshops, study tours, field surveys, development of pest lists, pest and disease research, database development, reasonable logistical and administrative support, and travel and per diem expenses.
Announcement Details: http://www.fas.usda.gov/info/fr/2011/041511TASC.asp
Cheryl A. Wilen, Ph.D.
Area Integrated Pest Management Advisor
Los Angeles, Orange, and San Diego Counties
UC Statewide IPM Program
www.ipm.ucdavis.edu
858-694-2846 (office)
949-338-1842 (cell)
Mailing address:
Cheryl Wilen
UCCE
5555 Overland Ave. Bldg 4, Suite 4101
San Diego, CA 92123
