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CONTENTS:

        1.  New Members elected to the UFA ExComm for 2004-06
        2.  ICC Proposal Announcement
	3.  DOE Financial Assistance Policy Change


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	1.  New Members elected to the UFA ExComm for 2004-06
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The results of the election of new members to the UFA Executive Committee
are in. Congratulations to the following new members.

Ned Birdsall            UC Berkeley
Bob Granetz             MIT
Stewart Prager          U Wisconsin
Andrew Ware             U Montana

Thanks to outgoing members Cary Forest, Kenneth Gentle, Earl Marmar,
Harold Weitzner, for their fine service to the UFA for the last three
years.  Thanks also to Sec/Treasurer Steve Knowlton for running the
election.

Other current members of the ExComm:

R. Paul Drake 	Univ of Mich 		2005
David Ruzic 	University of Illinois 	2005
Earl Scime 	West Virginia University 	2005
George Tynan 	UCSD 			2005
Paul Bellan 	Caltech 		2006
Michael Brown 	Swarthmore 		2006
William Heidbrink 	UCI 		2006
Scott Parker 	U Colorado 		2006
Adil Hassam (Pres) 	U Md 		thru2004
Gerald Navratil (VP) 	Columbia U 	Pres2005
Stephen Knowlton (Sec/Treas) Auburn U 	thru2004



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	2.  ICC Proposal Announcement
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The Office of Fusion Energy Sciences (OFES) U.S. Department of Energy
(DOE), has announced its interest in receiving grant applications for
research in innovative approaches to fusion energy sciences.  The deadline
is June 10, 2004.

For details see:
http://www.sc.doe.gov/grants/FAPN04-18.html


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	3.  DOE Financial Assistance Policy Change
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DOE has announced a change in policy regarding the use of the federal
register.  see info below.

DOE Financial Assistance Policy Change
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As published in the Federal Register on Friday, February 20, 2004, DOE is
amending its Assistance Regulations to make changes in the solicitation
requirements and the way the public is notified of funding opportunities
that result in the award of grants and cooperative agreements.
Previously, the Department's Assistance Regulations required that
solicitations or notices of solicitations be published in the Federal
Register.  Since March 2003, DOE has also been posting synopses of
solicitations on the Grants.gov Find module at http://grants.gov/.  This
is the government-wide Internet site for Federal agencies' announcements
of financial assistance funding opportunities.  Effective as of March 22,
2004, DOE will no longer publish separate notices in the Federal Register
because the information is provided at the Grants.gov Find Internet site.

As a result of the government-wide streamlining initiative, government
agencies are now required to posts synopses of their discretionary grant
and cooperative agreement funding opportunity announcements on the
Grants.gov Find module at http://grants.gov/.  Therefore, DOE will no
longer publish notices in the Federal Resister and instead will rely
exclusively on notices posted on the Grants.gov Internet site to inform
the public of DOE financial assistance funding opportunities.  For more
information see the Federal Register / Vol. 69, No. 34 / February 20,
2004.

The Office of Science will continue to publish these announcements as
they occur on the DOE IIPS website (http://e-center.doe.gov/), as well as
the Office of Science Grants and Contracts website
(http://www.sc.doe.gov/grants/grants.html).

If you have any questions concerning the above, please feel free to
communicate with your SC-64 representative.

Martin R. Rubinstein

Procurement Analyst

Grants and Contracts Division, SC-64

Office of Science





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