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Training Personnel for the Education of Individuals With 
Disabilities--Parent Training and Information Centers; Notice Inviting 
Applications for New Awards for Fiscal Year (FY) 1995

    PURPOSE OF PROGRAM: The purpose of this program is to support 
training and information centers for
parents of children with disabilities and persons who work with 
parents. The purpose of the Centers is to enable parents to work more 
effectively with professionals in meeting the needs of infants, 
toddlers, children, and youth with disabilities.
    The Training Personnel for the Education of Individuals with 
Disabilities program supports the National Education Goals by improving 
services for infants, toddlers, children, and youth with disabilities 
and by so doing helping them to reach the high levels of achievement 
called for in the National Education Goals.
    ELIGIBLE APPLICANTS: Only parent organizations are eligible to 
receive grants under this program.
    DEADLINE FOR TRANSMITTAL OF APPLICATION: January 10, 1995.
    DEADLINE FOR INTERGOVERNMENTAL REVIEW: February 10, 1995.
    APPLICATIONS AVAILABLE: November 15, 1994.
    AVAILABLE FUNDS: $2,700,000.
    RANGE OF AWARDS: $100,000 to $300,000.
    ESTIMATED AVERAGE SIZE OF AWARDS: $150,000.
    ESTIMATED NUMBER OF AWARDS: 18.

    Note: The Department is not bound by any of the estimates in 
this notice.

    PROJECT PERIOD: Up to 60 months.
    APPLICABLE REGULATIONS: (a) The Education Department General 
Administrative Regulations (EDGAR) in 74, 75, 77, 79, 81, 82, and 85; 
(b) The regulations for this program in 34 CFR Part 316; and (c) The 
priority in the notice of final priority for empowerment zones, as 
published elsewhere in this issue of the Federal Register.
    PRIORITIES: Under 34 CFR 75.105(c)(3) and section 631(e)(1) of the 
Individuals with Disabilities Education Act the Secretary gives an 
absolute preference to applications that meet the following priority. 
The Secretary funds under this competition only applications that meet 
this absolute priority under the Parent Training and Information 
Centers program.
    Absolute Priority: Parent Training and Information Centers (34 CFR 
316.10(a)).
    Competitive Priorities: Within this priority, the Secretary, under 
34 CFR 75.105(c)(2)(i), gives preference to applications that meet one 
or more of the following competitive priorities:
    (a) Providing parent training and information in one or more 
Empowerment Zones or Enterprise Communities. Applicants to this 
competition may receive an additional 5 points if they address the 
competitive priority relating to Empowerment Zones or Enterprise 
Communities published in the final priority elsewhere in this issue of 
the Federal Register.
    (b) To assist the Secretary in ensuring that awards are distributed 
geographically on a State or regional basis, throughout all the States, 
the Secretary awards 15 additional points to an application that 
provides parent training and information in a State that would be 
unserved by an existing Parent Training and Information center in FY 
1995. These points are in addition to any points the application earns 
under the selection criteria for the program and competitive preference 
(a).
    Invitational Priorities:
     Under 34 CFR 75.105(c)(1), the Secretary is particularly 
interested in applications that meet the following invitational 
priority. However, an application that meets this invitational priority 
does not receive competitive or absolute preference over other 
applications:
    Applications that expand outreach to minority parents, who have 
been underserved in the past.
    FOR APPLICATIONS OR INFORMATION CONTACT: Norm Howe, U.S. Department 
of Education, 60 Independence Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20202-
2651. Telephone: (202) 205-9068. Individuals who use a 
telecommunications device for the deaf (TDD) may call the TDD number at 
(202) 205-9999.
    Information about the Department's funding opportunities, including 
copies of application notices for discretionary grant competitions, can 
be viewed on the Department's electronic bulletin board (ED Board), 
telephone (202) 260-9950; on the Internet Gopher Server at 
GOPHER.ED.GOV (under Announcements, Bulletins, and Press Releases). 
However, the official application notice of a discretionary grant 
competition is the notice published in the Federal Register.

    Authority: 20 U.S.C. 1431.

    Dated: November 1, 1994.
Howard R. Moses,
Acting Assistant Secretary for Special Education and Rehabilitative 
Services.
[FR Doc. 94-27452 Filed 11-4-94; 8:45 am]
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