Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.: Vocational and adult education— English Literacy and Civics Education demonstration grants program; technical assistance workshops,

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Part IV

Department of Education

English Literacy and Civics Education Demonstration Grants Program; Technical Assistance Workshops for Grant Applications, Fiscal Year 1999 Funds; English Literacy and Civics Education Demonstration Grants Program, Field Readers; Notices

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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

[CFDA No. 84.191]

English Literacy and Civics Education Demonstration Grants Program; Notice of Technical Assistance Workshops for Grant Applications for Fiscal Year 1999 Funds

SUMMARY: The Secretary announces technical assistance workshops, including satellite telecast and a webcast, to assist applicants in preparing grant applications for FY 1999 funds under the English Literacy and civics Education (EL/Civics education) Demonstration Grants Program. for further information on the competition of the EL/ Civics education program, please refer to the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Vocational and Adult Education, El/Civics Education website at: http://www.ed.gov/offices/OVAE/ELCIVICS.

DATES, TIMES, AND LOCATIONS: The dates, times, and locations of the technical assistance workshops are as follows:

1. December 6, 1999, 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., Illinois State Board of Education, James R. Thompson Center, 100 West Randolph, Room 2-025, Chicago, Illinois.

2. December 7, 1999, 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., St. Philip's College, 1801 Martin Luther King Drive, Watson Fine Arts Theater, San Antonio, Texas.

3. December 10, 1999, 8:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m., and 1:30 p.m. to 3:00 p.m., San Diego County Office of Education, 6401 Linda Vista Road, Room 306 (8:30 a.m. session) and Annex C (1:30 p.m. session), San Diego, California.

4. December 10, 1999, 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., U.S. Department of Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, SW, Barnard Auditorium, Washington, DC.

   FOR FURTHER INFORMATION AND REGISTRATION FOR THE ONSITE WORKSHOPS, CONTACT: Rose Tilghman, EL/Civics Education Demonstration Grants Program, Division of Adult Education and Literacy, Office of Vocational and Adult Education, U.S. Department of Education, Washington, DC 20202-7240. Inquiries and registrations also may be sent by e-mail to rose__tilghman@ed.gov or by Fax to (202) 205-8973. Individuals who use a telecommunication device for the deaf (TDD) may call the Federal Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 1-800-877-8339.

5. December 15, 1999, 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. (Washington, DC time), Satellite Telecast and Webcast. Coordinates for the telecast are C- Band: GE-1, Transponder C-1, Downlink Frequency 3720 MHz, Horizontal, Orbit 103 degrees West. Ku Band: SBS-5, Transponder K-10, Downlink Frequency 12166 MHz, Horizontal, Orbit 123 degrees West. You may access the webcast at: http://www.iti-corp.com/doed/live.htm.

   FOR FURTHER INFORMATION AND REGISTRATION FOR A SATELLITE DOWNLINK FOR THE TELECAST WORKSHOP, CONTACT: 1-800-USA-LEARN or http:// stm.xpandcorp.com (to register on-line).

   Individuals with disabilities may obtain this document in an alternate format (e.g., Braille, large print, audiotape, or computer diskette) on request to the contact person listed above.

   SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The workshops are free to the public. However, you must pay your own travel and hotel accommodations.

   Assistance to Individuals With Disabilities at the Technical Assistance Workshops

   The technical assistance workshop sites are accessible to individuals with disabilities. If you will need an auxiliary aid or service to participate in the workshop (e.g., interpreting service, assistive listening device, or materials in an alternative format), notify the contact person listed in this notice as soon as possible before the scheduled workshop date. Although we will attempt to meet a request, we may not be able to make available the requested auxiliary aid or service because of insufficient time to arrange it.

   Electronic Access to This Document

   You may view this document, as well as all other Department of Education documents published in the Federal Register, in text or Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) on the Internet at either of the sites:

   http://ocfo.ed.gov/fedreg.html http://www.ed.gov/news/htm

   To use the PDF you must have the Adobe Acrobat Reader Program with Search, which is available free at either of the previous sites. If you have questions about using the PDF, call the U.S. Government Printing Office at (202) 512-1530 or, toll free, at 1-888-293-6498.

   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.

   Program Authority: 20 U.S.C. 9253.

   Dated: December 6, 1999. Patricia W. McNeil, Assistant Secretary, Vocational and Adult Education.

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