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Sea Grant Project support has the purpose of 

 aiding individual projects in marine resource 

 development. In general, such projects will be 

 single, well-defined, research, study, education, 

 advisory, or training activities expected to pro- 

 duce information, techniques, methods, or sys- 

 tems applicable to marine resource exploitation. 

 Many more institutions will receive Project sup- 

 port than Institutional support. Thus, a wide 

 variety of institutions will have an opportunity 

 to participate according to their interests and 

 competence. Institutions will not necessarily be 

 limited to a single Project grant. 



While Sea Grant Institutional support and Sea 

 Grant Project support have common objectives, 

 criteria and scope of activities differ somewhat. 

 Consequently, suggestions for preparing propos- 

 als for each program are treated separately in 



this brochure, and are followed by a section de- 

 voted to considerations and National Science 

 Foundation regulations common to both types of 

 support. No rigid format is prescribed for pro- 

 posals, and it is expected that each proposing 

 institution will use the suggestions according to 

 the nature of the proposal. 



Sea Grant College. The Act defines a "sea 

 grant college" as an "institution of higher educa- 

 tion supported pursuant to the purposes of this 

 title which has major programs devoted to in- 

 creasing our Nation's utilization of the world's 

 marine resources." The Foundation will, from 

 time to time, designate as Sea Grant Colleges 

 institutions of higher education which have 

 demonstrated sustained excellent performance 

 along a broad front and have received some sup- 

 port under the Act. 



