Intergovernmental Internship Cooperative (IIC) Youth Partnership Project 2017 at Cedar Breaks National Monument (CEBR) | P17AS00820

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The Intergovernmental Internship Cooperative (IIC) Youth Partnership Project 2017 at Cedar Breaks National Monument (CEBR) was published by the U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service (NPS) as a Notice of Intent to Award rather than a traditional, competitive grant announcement. In practical terms, this notice served as a public statement that the NPS planned to fund a specific partner to carry out a defined set of project activities, and that the agency did not intend to solicit or review applications from other organizations for this particular award. The opportunity was listed under Funding Opportunity Number P17AS00820 and categorized as a discretionary award using a cooperative agreement, meaning NPS anticipated being actively involved in the project in collaboration with the recipient, not simply issuing funds and stepping back.

The planned award was structured as Cooperative Agreement P17AC01702 with Southern Utah University (SUU). SUU was identified as an eligible type of recipient because the opportunity category listed eligible applicants as public and state-controlled institutions of higher education. SUU was also noted as a partner under the Colorado Plateau Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU), a network commonly used by federal agencies to collaborate with universities and other partners on research, technical assistance, education, and internship-style workforce development efforts tied to natural and cultural resource stewardship. The use of the CESU framework helps explain why the award was intended to be made without full and open competition: it was positioned as a partner-based agreement routed through an established cooperative mechanism.

The project itself, as reflected in the title, focused on an intergovernmental internship and youth partnership effort at Cedar Breaks National Monument. While the notice does not list detailed tasks, the funding activity categories and the nature of the IIC program signal the core purpose: providing youth and early-career participants with paid, structured internship or work-based learning experiences that support both workforce development and on-the-ground mission needs at the park. The activity categories associated with the opportunity were Education, Employment, Labor and Training, and Natural Resources, indicating a blend of experiential training and practical resource or visitor-services work aligned with NPS priorities. These projects typically aim to build career pathways into public service and conservation-related fields while also increasing capacity for park operations, resource projects, or interpretive and educational programming.

Financially, the notice listed an award ceiling of $211,040 and anticipated a single award (Expected Awards: 1). That combination reinforces that this was essentially a pre-identified, single-recipient cooperative agreement rather than an open competition with multiple potential grantees. The opportunity record was created on September 15, 2017, and it explicitly stated there was no closing date because it was not a request for applications. In other words, the public-facing posting functioned mainly as transparency documentation: it informed the public that NPS intended to fund SUU to implement the IIC Youth Partnership Project at Cedar Breaks National Monument during the 2017 project period, under a cooperative agreement where NPS would remain substantively engaged in guiding or supporting the work.

• The Department of the Interior, National Park Service in the education, employment, labor and training, natural resources sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Intergovernmental Internship Cooperative (IIC) Youth Partnership Project 2017 at Cedar Breaks National Monument (CEBR)" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 15.945.
• This funding opportunity was created on Sep 15, 2017.
• Applicants must submit their applications by This is not a request for applications.. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $211,040.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 1 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: Public and State controlled institutions of higher education.

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