Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.: Direct grant and fellowship programs,

[Federal Register: November 3, 1998 (Volume 63, Number 212)]

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Part III

Department of Education

Direct Grant Programs and Fellowship Programs; Notice

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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

Direct Grant Programs and Fellowship Programs

AGENCY: Department of Education.

ACTION: Notice identifying direct grant programs and fellowship programs under which the Secretary has invited or expects to invite applications for new awards for fiscal year (FY) 1999.

SUMMARY: This notice identifies programs and competitions under which the Secretary has invited or expects to invite applications for new awards for FY 1999. The notice also announces actual or estimated deadline dates for the transmittal of applications. The notice is intended to help potential applicants in preparing to respond to expected FY 1999 grant competitions.

Note: This notice is advisory only and is not an official application notice of the Department of Education.

Organization of Notice: This notice provides charts, grouped by principal office, of virtually all the Department's direct grant and fellowship competitions for new awards the Secretary has announced or expects to announce for FY 1999. Each principal office is assigned a separate chart as follows:

Chart 1--Office of Bilingual Education and Minority Languages Affairs.

Chart 2--Office of Educational Research and Improvement.

Chart 3--Office of Elementary and Secondary Education.

Chart 4--Office of Postsecondary Education.

Chart 5--Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

Chart 6--Office of Vocational and Adult Education.

DATES: Dates of Application Notices. The actual or estimated date for publication of the application notice for a given program or competition is listed in column two of the charts. Application notices that have already been published in the Federal Register can be identified by the Federal Register page number, also shown in column two. If a program has yet to publish an application notice, an estimated date is listed.

Applications Available. The actual or estimated date for the availability of an application package for a given program or competition is listed in column three of the charts.

Deadline Dates for Transmitting Applications. The actual or estimated deadline for transmitting applications under a given program or competition is listed in column four of the charts. If a program has yet to publish an application notice, the estimated deadline date is listed. The actual deadline will appear in the Federal Register.

Deadline Dates for Transmitting Intergovernmental Reviews. Certain programs identified in this notice are subject to Executive Order 12372 and the regulations in 34 CFR part 79. The actual or estimated deadline date for the transmittal of State Process Recommendations by State Single Points of Contact (SPOCs) and comments by other interested parties is listed in column five of the charts. If a program has yet to publish an application notice, the estimated deadline date is listed. The actual deadline will appear in the application notice to be published in the Federal Register. For further information, an applicant under a program subject to the Executive order--and other parties interested in that program--are directed to the appendix to this notice.

ADDRESSES: For Applications or Further Information. The address and telephone number for obtaining applications for, or further information about, an individual program are in the actual application notice for that program.

For Users of TDD or FIRS. Individuals who use a telecommunications device for the deaf (TDD) may call the TDD number, if any, listed in the individual application notices. If a TDD number is not listed for a given program, individuals who use a TDD may call the Federal Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 1-800-877-8339 between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m., Eastern time, Monday through Friday.

Individuals with disabilities may obtain this document in an alternate format (e.g., Braille, large print, audiotape, or computer diskette) on request to Arthur Stewart, U.S. Department of Education, 600 Independence Avenue, SW., room 3652, ROB-3, Washington, DC 20202- 4248. Telephone: (202) 708-8515. Internet: Arthur__Stewart@ed.gov

For Intergovernmental Review. The address for transmitting recommendations and comments under Executive Order 12372 is in the appendix to this notice. The appendix also contains the addresses of individual SPOCs.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION

Available Funds

The Secretary is publishing this notice in order to give potential applicants adequate time to prepare applications. The amounts of funds listed as available for these programs are estimates and are based on the recently passed FY 1999 appropriation for the Department of Education. Potential applicants should note, however, that some of the competitions listed in this notice may be canceled and some new competitions not listed in this notice may be announced.

Estimated Range and Average Size of Awards

Except for programs and competitions administered by the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS), columns six and seven list estimated ranges and average size of awards. The amounts referenced in these columns are advisory and represent the Secretary's best estimates at this time. The average size of an award is the estimate for a single-year project or for the first budget period of a multi-year project. In the application package for an individual program or competition, applicants will receive information about the amount the Secretary intends to make available for each year of a multi-year project.

In the case of programs and competitions administered by the principal components of OSERS, the charts differ with regard to the amount of awards. For programs and competitions of this program office, column six of the charts lists the actual or estimated maximum amount the Secretary will award per year. Applicants will receive further information about funding amounts in the application packages for the individual programs.

In the case of programs and competitions administered by the Office of Postsecondary Education, please note that the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act (Pub.L. 105-244, enacted October 7, 1998) may significantly affect the discretionary grant program competitions and timelines in the chart. Actual deadline dates will appear in the application notices published in the Federal Register.

Note: The Department is not bound by any of the estimates in this document. The dates, fiscal information, and number of new awards listed are estimates only and, thus, subject to change. Readers are advised to read the actual individual application notices for these programs or competitions when the notices are published in the Federal Register.

Applicability of the Federal Debt Collection Procedures Act of 1990

The programs identified in the chart make discretionary awards subject to the eligibility requirements of the Federal Debt Collection Procedures Act of 1990 (Pub. L. 101-647; 28 U.S.C. 3201). The Act provides that if there is a judgement lien against a debtor's

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Electronic Access to This Document

Anyone may view this document, as well as all other Department of Education documents published in the Federal Register, in text or portable document format (pdf) via the Internet at either of the following sites:

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

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.

Anyone may also view these documents in text copy only on an electronic bulletin board of the Department. Telephone: (202) 219-1511 or, toll free, 1-800-222-4922. The documents are located under Option G--Files/Announcements, Bulletins and Press Releases.

Note: The official version of this document is the document published in the Federal Register. The Department expects to provide periodic updates to this document via the Internet in December 1998 and February 1999. The updates can be accessed at the following site:

http://ocfo.ed.gov/grntinfo.htm

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For further information regarding a competition listed in this document, please contact the person whose name appears at the top of the particular chart in which that competition is listed.

Dated: October 27, 1998. Donald Rappaport, Chief Financial and Chief Information Officer.

Appendix--Intergovernmental Review of Federal Programs

This appendix applies to each program that is subject to the requirements of Executive Order 12372 (Intergovernmental Review of Federal Programs) and the regulations in 34 CFR part 79.

The objective of the Executive order is to foster an intergovernmental partnership and to strengthen federalism by relying on State and local processes for State and local coordination and review of proposed Federal financial assistance.

Applicants must contact the appropriate State Single Point of Contact to find out about, and to comply with, the State's process under Executive Order 12372. Applicants proposing to perform activities in more than one State should immediately contact the Single Point of Contact for each of those States and follow the procedure established in each of those States under the Executive order. A listing containing the Single Point of Contact for each State is included in this appendix.

In States that have not established a process or chosen a program for review, State, areawide, regional, and local entities may submit comments directly to the Department.

Any State Process Recommendation and other comments submitted by a State Single Point of Contact and any comments from State, areawide, regional, and local entities must be mailed or hand- delivered by the date indicated in the actual application notice to the following address: The Secretary, EO 12372-CFDA# [commenter must insert number--including suffix letter, if any], U.S. Department of Education, room 6213, 600 Independence Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20202-0124.

Proof of mailing will be determined on the same basis as applications (see 34 CFR 75.102). Recommendations or comments may be hand-delivered until 4:30 p.m. (Washington, DC time) on the date indicated in the actual application notice.

Please note that the above address is not the same address as the one to which the applicant submits its completed application. Do not send applications to the above address.

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