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Attachment B

REQUIRED ELEMENTS OF THE PRELIMINARY PROPOSAL

AND THE FULL PROPOSAL

A. Project Title:

MDC Project Leader:

Principal Investigator and affiliation (if not the Project Leader):

Team members and affiliations:

Critical reviewers: (In Full Proposal Only)

File name:

B. Information Need and Justification (include modest literature review and relevance to MDC

and RSD strategic plans; address questions in Step 1)

C. Objectives (include hypotheses to test)

D. Expected Benefits (include direct effects on management or policy decisions)

E. Approach

Experimental design

Data collection techniques

Analytical procedures

Database management/archival (In Full Proposal Only)

F. Duration and Schedule

G. Budget (a reasonable estimate detailed for large equipment items, expenses, and labor)

H. Cooperators (In Full Proposal Only)

I. Potential Funding Sources (other than MDC) (In Full Proposal Only)

J. Information transfer (publications, popular articles, web, workshops, training) (In Full

Proposal Only)

K. Animal Use Protocol (If birds or mammals will be held in captivity, describe in detail the

capture methods, restraint procedures, and holding facilities) (In Full Proposal Only)

L. Other Information (such as data forms, sampling locations and schedule, database structures,

and so on; before data collection begins) (In Full Proposal Only)

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