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A -- COOPERATIVE NATIONAL COAL RESOURCES DATA SYSTEM (NCRDS) SOL 8180 DUE 081095 POC Cindy Sather (contact) (703)648-7361, Tammy Fanning (703)648-7363 (CO) Cooperative National Coal Resources Data System throughout the United States -- This program was established to build a national coal data base of coal related stratigraphic and coal quality data and to complete up-to-date resource estimates for the major coal-bearing areas of the United States -- States will be requested to share in the cost of the research -- Applications are now being accepted ONLY from STATE GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS for Assistance Awards in the following areas: 1. Collection, interpretation, correlation, and encoding of point-source coal stratigraphic data for entry into NCRDS, as well as validation, editing, and updating of data previously submitted to NCRDS. 2. Collection, evaluation, and encoding of coal quality and petrographic data for entry into NCRDS. 3. Collection, evaluation, and digitization of coal bed crop lines, mined-out areas, and other boundary lines relative to coal resources assessment for entry into NCRDS. 4. Calculation of coal resource estimates utilizing USGS criteria and NCRDS databases and software. (0172)

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