Responses to Questions Received in Response to Announcement of Availability of Discretionary Cooperative Agreements for Research Under the Crash Injury Research and Engineering Network (CIREN)

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Federal Register, Volume 69, No. 235, Pages 71101-71118, announced the availability of discretionary Cooperative Agreement opportunities to provide funding to Level One Trauma Centers in support of the Crash Injury Research and Engineering Network (CIREN) from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). The NHTSA indicated that responses to all questions received by December 20, 2004, would be published in the Federal Register and on the CIREN Web site: http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/departments/nrd-50/ciren/CIREN.html. Those questions and answers are listed below: Question: Has the total funding amount of $3 million been confirmed for FY 2005? Answer: Yes. Question: The announcement does not mention cost-sharing or matching funds. Can it be assumed that neither will be required for this grant? Answer: This is a cooperative research agreement and it is assumed that there will be some "in kind" contributions by the Level One Trauma Center. Question: If cost sharing is not required, would it help an application, though, if matching funds were provided? Answer: Yes. Question: Do you advise applicants to contact you with project ideas before submitting applications? Or on