U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Notice of Funding Opportunity Announcement (NOFO), Minority Serving Institutions Grants Program (MSIG), Scholarships, and Fellowships, Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 | 31310022K0007

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This funding opportunity is a discretionary grant program offered by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) under a Notice of Funding Opportunity Announcement (NOFO) for Fiscal Year (FY) 2023. It is presented as part of the NRCs Minority Serving Institutions Grants Program (MSIGP) and is also tied to scholarships and fellowships, with the overall emphasis falling within the Education funding activity category. The opportunity is cataloged under CFDA (now commonly referred to as Assistance Listings) number 77.007, which is associated with NRC education and workforce-related financial assistance efforts. In practical terms, the NOFO is meant to support education and talent-development activities that align with the NRC mission space, which broadly includes nuclear safety, security, and regulatory oversight, and it is structured to build or strengthen pipelines of students and professionals prepared to work in nuclear-related fields.

The official opportunity title is "U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Notice of Funding Opportunity Announcement (NOFO), Minority Serving Institutions Grants Program (MSIG), Scholarships, and Fellowships, Fiscal Year (FY) 2023," and the funding opportunity number is 31310022K0007. The instrument type is a grant, meaning the NRC provides financial assistance to carry out an approved public-purpose project rather than procuring goods or services for the governments direct use. The opportunity was created on September 13, 2022, and the original application closing date was December 9, 2022. That window indicates the announcement was geared toward FY 2023 planning and awards, with applicants expected to develop proposals and submit within roughly a three-month timeframe from posting to deadline.

Eligibility is summarized in the listing as "Others," with an explicit note that interested parties needed to consult the NOFOs additional eligibility details for clarification. While that shorthand label does not spell out every eligible entity in the abbreviated record provided, the program title clearly signals an emphasis on Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs). In typical federal usage, MSIs can include institutions such as Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs), Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs), and other federally recognized MSI categories, but the exact categories and definitions that applied would have been stated in the full NOFO text. The inclusion of "Scholarships and Fellowships" in the title suggests the NOFO may have supported student-facing financial support mechanisms, fellowships, and/or institution-led programs that administer scholarships, provide experiential learning, strengthen academic programs, improve research or instructional capacity, or develop curricula and training relevant to nuclear regulation and related STEM disciplines.

The maximum award amount (award ceiling) shown in the record is $400,000, which signals the NRC was willing to consider relatively substantial single-project budgets for qualifying proposals. The record also lists "ExpectedAwards: 0," which should be interpreted cautiously: in some federal listings this can appear as zero when the awarding agency has not published an expected count in the summarized dataset, when it was to be determined, or when the number was not carried over correctly into the extracted fields. It does not necessarily mean that no awards would be made, only that the count was not specified in the summary line provided here.

Overall, the opportunity can be understood as an NRC education-focused grant announcement designed to expand participation and capacity at Minority Serving Institutions and to support scholarships and fellowships that develop the future nuclear workforce. The key administrative identifiers are: agency NRC, assistance listing 77.007, opportunity number 31310022K0007, grant instrument type, created September 13, 2022, and closed December 9, 2022, with an award ceiling of $400,000.

• The Nuclear Regulatory Commission in the education sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Notice of Funding Opportunity Announcement (NOFO), Minority Serving Institutions Grants Program (MSIG), Scholarships, and Fellowships, Fiscal Year (FY) 2023" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 77.007.
• This funding opportunity was created on Sep 13, 2022.
• Applicants must submit their applications by Dec 09, 2022. (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 $400,000.00 in funding.
• Eligible applicants include: Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).

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