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Hey Cee15 - I received a similar email this morning directly from a review officer at EPA (not the grants.gov website). Hope this helps & I hope the rest of you hear back soon as well!

Agreed - thanks for running the numbers for previous years coffee_grad! I thought I read somewhere (maybe in the 2013 forum) that epa ended up awarding more grants than the originally anticipated amount in the last cycle? This may be wishful recall

Thank you for sharing!

I just received this response from the email I sent yesterday! "Your application submitted in response to the 2015 Fellowship Program has been received and assigned the above ID number. Please keep this notification for verification of submission. Review and evaluation will take approximately 6 months. You will be notified when a decision has been made on your application. Most questions regarding your application can be answered by viewing the announcement at http://epa.gov/ncer/rfa/2015/2015_star_gradfellow.html. For questions not covered in the announcement, please submit your question to 2015FellowshipsRFA@epa.gov and someone will get back with you. Anticipated award timeline: We understand how important this funding is for you as you engage in your pursuit of a graduate degree. Unfortunately, due to delays receiving the Congressional Fiscal Year 2015 budget and internal process delays, the Fellowship award process and timeline was impacted. At this time, we anticipated 2015 Fellows to be selected and notified of their award recommendation by September and receive grant funding by late October." Only a month off not too bad as long as there are no more delays..

New to the forum! Coyote_Wrangler thanks especially for this update - very helpful. I applied under public health (D1) & was also depending very much on hearing back by August. It's nice knowing that there doesn't seem to be nearly as many applicants as in 2013. This may or may not be relevant this cycle, but the last cycle they sent out rejections ~6-8 weeks prior to the acceptance letters. Keeping my fingers crossed for all of us to get funded! *Edit: After reading your messages about the email notification (which I had not received) - I sent an email ~30min ago to 2015FellowshipsRFA@epa.gov and it seems to have gone through. No mailer demon email in my inbox nor my spam. Maybe they fixed it?