Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.: Direct grant and fellowship programs; preparation and submission by applicants adversely affected by Hurricance Floyd,

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Federal Register: October 1, 1999 (Volume 64, Number 190)NoticesPage 53567-53569From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]

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Part V

Department of Education

Direct Grant Programs; Notice

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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

Direct Grant Programs

AGENCY: Department of Education.

ACTION: Notice reopening application deadline dates for certain direct grant and fellowship programs.

SUMMARY: The Secretary reopens the deadline dates for the submission of applications by certain applicants (see ELIGIBILITY) under certain direct grant programs. All of the affected competitions are among those under which the Secretary is making new awards for fiscal year (FY) 2000. The Secretary takes this action to allow more time for the preparation and submission of applications by potential applicants adversely affected by severe weather conditions resulting from Hurricane Floyd. The reopenings are intended to help these potential applicants compete fairly with other applicants under these programs.

Note: Twelve of the affected programs or competitions are under the Rehabilitation Services Administration, Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services. You can find information related to each of these under Group I. Three of the programs or competitions are under the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research, Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services. You can find information related to each of these under Group II.

ELIGIBILITY: The extension of deadline dates in this notice applies to you if you are a potential applicant in an area that the President declared a disaster area as a result of Hurricane Floyd. These areas include the following:

State

County and/or city

Connecticut............................... Fairfield, Hartford.

Delaware.................................. New Castle.

Florida................................... Brevard, Broward, Dade, Duval, Flagler, Indian River, Martin, Nassau, Palm Beach, St. Johns, St. Lucie, Volusia.

Georgia................................... Bryan, Camden, Chatham, Glynn, Liberty, Mcintosh.

Maryland.................................. Anne Arundel, Calvert, Caroline, Cecil, Charles, Harford, Kent, Queen Anne's, Somerset, St. Mary's, Talbot.

New Jersey................................ Atlantic, Bergen, Burlington, Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Essex, Gloucester, Hudson, Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth, Morris, Ocean, Passaic, Salem, Somerset, Sussex, Union, Warren.

New York.................................. Essex, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Westchester.

North Carolina............................ Alamance, Anson, Beaufort, Bertie, Bladen, Brunswick, Camden, Carteret, Caswell, Chatham, Chowan, Columbus, Craven, Cumberland, Currituck, Dare, Davidson, Duplin, Durham, Edgecombe, Forsyth, Franklin, Gates, Granville, Greene, Guilford, Halifax, Harnett, Hertford, Hoke, Hyde, Johnston, Jones, Lee, Lenoir, Martin, Montgomery, Moore, Nash, New Hanover, Northampton, Onslow, Orange, Pamlico, Pasquotank, Pender, Perquimans, Person, Pitt, Randolph, Richmond, Robeson, Rockingham, Rowan, Sampson, Scotland, Stanly, Stokes, Tyrrell, Union, Vance, Wake, Warren, Washington, Wayne, Wilson.

Pennsylvania.............................. Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Lancaster, Montgomery, Philadelphia, York.

South Carolina............................ Allendale, Bamberg, Barnwell, Beaufort, Berkeley, Calhoun, Charleston, Chesterfield, Clarendon, Colleton, Darlington, Dillon, Dorchester, Florence, Georgetown, Hampton, Horry, Jasper, Kershaw, Lee, Lexington, Marion, Marlboro, Orangeburg, Richland, Sumter, Williamsburg.

Virginia.................................. Accomack, Brunswick, Caroline, Chesapeake (city), Chesterfield, Colonial Heights (City), Dinwiddie, Emporia (city), Essex, Franklin (city) Gloucester, Greenville, Halifax, Hampton (city), Isle of Wight, James City, King and Queen, King William, Lancaster, Matthews, Mecklenberg, Middlesex, New Kent, Newport News (city), Norfolk (city), Northampton, Northumberland, Petersburg (city), Poquoson (city), Portsmouth (city), Prince George, Richmond, Richmond (city), Suffolk (city), Surry, Sussex, Southampton, Virginia Beach (city), Westmoreland, Williamsburg, York.

DATES: The new deadline date for transmitting applications under each competition is listed with that competition.

If the program in which you are interested is subject to Executive Order 12372 (that is, all competitions in Group I), the deadline date for the transmittal of State process recommendations by State Single Points of Contact (SSPOCs) and comments by other interested parties remains as originally posted: November 16, 1999.

ADDRESSES: The address and telephone number for obtaining applications for, or information about, an individual program are in the application notice for that program. We have listed the date and Federal Register citation of the application notice for each program.

If you use a telecommunications device for the deaf (TDD), you may call the TDD number, if any, listed in the individual application notice. If we have not listed a TDD number, you may call the Federal Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 1-800-877-8339.

If you want to transmit a recommendation or comment under Executive Order 12372, you can find the addresses of individual SSPOCs in the appendix to the notice inviting applications for new awards for FY 1999 under the Community Technology Centers Program. This notice was published in the Federal Register on April 28, 1999 (64 FR 22960- 22963). You can also find the list of SSPOCs in the appendix to the Forecast of Funding Opportunities under the Department of Education Discretionary Grant Programs for Fiscal Year (FY) 2000. This is available on the internet only at ed.gov/funding.html.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The following is specific information about each of the programs or competitions covered by this notice:

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Group I.--Rehabilitation Services Administration, Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services

Publication

Original

Revised date and deadline date deadline date CFDA No. and name

Federal

for

for Register cite applications applications

84.129B Rehabilitation Long-Term Training-Vocational

7/27/999/17/9910/15/99 Rehabilitation Counseling................................... (64 FR 40585) Rehabilitation Long-Term Training............................

7/27/999/17/9910/15/99

84.129C Rehabilitation Administration

(64 FR 40581)

84.129D-1 Physical Therapy

84.129D-2 Occupational Therapy

84.129E Rehabilitation Technology

84.129F Vocational Evaluation and Work Adjustment

84.129H Rehabilitation of Individuals Who Are Mentally Ill

84.129J Rehabilitation Psychology

84.129N Speech Pathology and Audiology

84.129P Specialized Personnel for Rehabilitation of Individuals Who Are Blind or Have Vision Impairments

84.129Q Rehabilitation of Individuals Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing

84.129R Job Development and Job Placement Services to Individuals with Disabilities

84.129W Rehabilitation Long Term Training-Comprehensive

7/27/999/17/9910/15/99 System of Personnel Development

(64 FR 40584)

Group II.--National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation, Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services

Publication date and Federal Original deadline Revised deadline date CFDA No. and name

Register cite

date for applications for applications

84.133F Research Fellowships

7/15/999/30/9910/15/99 (64 FR 38248) 84.133G Field-Initiated Projects 7/15/999/30/9910/15/99 (64 FR 38248) 84.133P Advanced Rehabilitation 7/15/999/30/9910/15/99 Research Training Projects

(64 FR 38248)

If you are an individual with a disability, you may obtain a copy of this notice in an alternate format (e.g. Braille, large print, audiotape, or computer diskette) on request to the contact person listed in the individual application notices.

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Note: The official version of this document is the document published in the Federal Register. Free Internet access to the official edition of the Federal Register and the Code of Federal Regulations is available on GPO Access at: http:// www.access.gpo.gov/nara/index.html.

Dated: September 29, 1999. Thomas P. Skelly, Acting Chief Financial Officer.

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