All awards must comply with the . While most research awards will not trigger action specific to NEPA reviews, there are some activities, including international actions that will need to comply with NEPA. For example, the following activities would likely require NEPA analysis: suborbital-class flights, especially flights not conducted by a NASA Program Office; activities involving construction/fieldwork that would involve groundbreaking or the installation of a field station; and, activities involving the use of expendable weather reconnaissance devices (dropsondes). Proposers should plan and budget accordingly if environmental impacts are anticipated. Anticipated environmental impacts should be documented in Section VIII Other Project – Information of the proposal cover page submitted to NASA. Questions concerning environmental compliance requirements may be addressed to Tina Norwood, NASA NEPA Manager, at . Flight Activities Proposals that include flight activities (not normal passenger travel) such as aircraft or helicopter flight services, including Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS)/Drones operations or the acquisition or construction of such flight vehicles, must comply with . Questions concerning flight compliance requirements may be addressed to Norman Schweizer at . 3.22 Assembly of Electronic Proposals For proposals submitted electronically, the required parts of the proposal are submitted as one or more unlocked, searchable PDF files. Proposal parts and forms will not be accepted in any other format. Required and permitted appendices may be included either in the PDF file containing the Scientific/Technical/Management plan or as separate PDF files attached to the electronic submission, but not both. Sections of proposals transferred from Grants.gov to NSPIRES may appear in a slightly different order. 3.23 NASA Requirements for Uploaded PDF Files It is essential that all PDF files submitted meet NASA requirements. This will ensure that the submitted files can be ingested by NSPIRES regardless of whether the proposal is submitted via NSPIRES or Grants.gov. PDF files that do not meet NASA requirements cannot be ingested by the NSPIRES system; such files may be declared noncompliant and not submitted to peer review for evaluation. The file size limit for proposals submitted electronically to NASA through either NSPIRES or Grants.gov is 20 MB. In order to facilitate the review of the proposal, any embedded photos and graphic files should be compressed and cropped to an appropriate size and resolution. In addition, any proposer who creates files using TeX or LaTeX is required to first create a DVI file and then convert the DVI file to Postscript and then to PDF.
All awards must comply with the . While most research awards will not trigger action specific to NEPA reviews, there are some activities, including international actions that will need to comply with NEPA. For example, the following activities would likely require NEPA analysis: suborbital-class flights, especially flights not conducted by a NASA Program Office; activities involving construction/fieldwork that would involve groundbreaking or the installation of a field station; and, activities involving the use of expendable weather reconnaissance devices (dropsondes). Proposers should plan and budget accordingly if environmental impacts are anticipated. Anticipated environmental impacts should be documented in Section VIII – Other Project Information of the proposal cover page submitted to NASA. Questions concerning environmental compliance requirements may be addressed to Tina Norwood, NASA NEPA Manager, at . Flight Activities Proposals that include flight activities (not normal passenger travel) such as aircraft or helicopter flight services, including Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS)/Drones operations or the acquisition or construction of such flight vehicles, must comply with . Questions concerning flight compliance requirements may be addressed to Norman Schweizer at . 3.22 Assembly of Electronic Proposals For proposals submitted electronically, the required parts of the proposal are submitted as one or more unlocked, searchable PDF files. Proposal parts and forms will not be accepted in any other format. Required and permitted appendices may be included either in the PDF file containing the Scientific/Technical/Management plan or as separate PDF files attached to the electronic submission, but not both. Sections of proposals transferred from Grants.gov to NSPIRES may appear in a slightly different order. 3.23 NASA Requirements for Uploaded PDF Files It is essential that all PDF files submitted meet NASA requirements. This will ensure that the submitted files can be ingested by NSPIRES regardless of whether the proposal is submitted via NSPIRES or Grants.gov. PDF files that do not meet NASA requirements cannot be ingested by the NSPIRES system; such files may be declared noncompliant and not submitted to peer review for evaluation. The file size limit for proposals submitted electronically to NASA through either NSPIRES or Grants.gov is 20 MB. In order to facilitate the review of the proposal, any embedded photos and graphic files should be compressed and cropped to an appropriate size and resolution. In addition, any proposer who creates files using TeX or LaTeX is required to first create a DVI file and then convert the DVI file to Postscript and then to PDF.
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