[Federal Register Volume 59, Number 199 (Monday, October 17, 1994)]
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

 

Direct Grant Programs and Fellowship Programs

AGENCY: Department of Education.

ACTION: Notice postponing publication of section two of the combined 
application notice for fiscal year 1995.

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SUMMARY: The Secretary postpones publication of section two of the 
Department's annual combined application notice (CAN) for fiscal year 
(FY) 1995. The Secretary takes this action for reasons stated elsewhere 
in this notice. The postponement is designed to make the CAN as useful 
as possible to the educational community and other parties interested 
in programs administered by the Department.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On June 10, 1994 the Secretary published in 
the Federal Register (59 FR 30190) the first section of the CAN for FY 
1995. Included in that document were individual notices inviting 
applications for new awards under 65 programs and competitions. These 
were direct grant and fellowship programs administered mainly by the 
Office of Postsecondary Education and the Office of Special Education 
and Rehabilitative Services. Since June 10 a number of other programs 
have published application notices for new awards for FY 1995.
    In the document published on June 10, the Secretary announced the 
Department's intent to publish a second section of the CAN for FY 1995 
in September, 1994. However, legislation authorizing or reauthorizing 
many of the Department's remaining programs has only recently been 
passed by the Congress. This legislation includes programs administered 
by the Office of Bilingual Education and Minority Languages Affairs and 
the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, some programs of the 
Office of Educational Research and Improvement, and some programs of 
the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education.
    These programs could not publish application notices in September 
without enacted legislation authorizing the programs and, in some 
cases, without necessary implementing regulations or notices of funding 
priorities. Thus, the Secretary believes it would be more helpful to 
the Department's customers to delay publication of the second section 
of the CAN until a time when application notices for most of these 
programs can be published or, at least, listed with an estimated date 
for publication.
    In addition to awards under programs affected by reauthorization, 
awards under some other programs and competitions are to be governed by 
new regulations or funding priorities that have not yet been issued in 
final form. Still other programs and competitions must delay 
publication of application notices for FY 1995 pending approval of 
application forms by the Office of Management and Budget under the 
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1980.
    The Secretary estimates that publication of section two of the CAN 
for FY 1995 will take place before the end of January 1995. That 
document will (1) include any individual application notices ready for 
publication at the time, (2) reference all application notices for FY 
1995 previously announced in the Federal Register, including those 
contained in section one of the CAN, which was published on June 10, 
1994, and (3) give estimated dates for programs and competitions for 
which application notices are to be published at a later date.
    In the meantime, the Department will continue to publish individual 
application notices when they are ready.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For further information about a 
program, please write to that program at the U.S. Department of 
Education, 600 Independence Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20202. 
Telephone numbers for programs and individuals may be obtained from the 
Department's Locator Service at (202) 708-5366 or, if calling from 
outside the Washington, DC, area, at (800) 572-5580.
    For Further Information about the CAN: For further information 
about the CAN only, please contact Stanley M. Cohen, Department 
Regulations Quality Officer, U.S. Department of Education, 600 
Independence Avenue, SW., room 5121, Federal Building 10B, Washington, 
DC 20202. Telephone: (202) 401-8300.
    For Users of TDD or FIRS: Individuals who use a telecommunications 
device for the deaf (TDD) may call the TDD number, if any, for a 
program or person at the Department. If a TDD number is not assigned to 
a program or person, 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.

    Dated: October 12, 1994.
Richard W. Riley,
Secretary of Education.
[FR Doc. 94-25623 Filed 10-14-94; 8:45 am]
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