[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 187 (Monday, September 28, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 51564]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-25814]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Minority Business Development Agency
[Docket No. 980901228-8228-01]
RIN 0640-ZA04


Solicitation of Applications for the Minority Business 
Opportunity Committee (MBOC) Program

AGENCY: Miniority Business Development Agency, Commerce.

ACTION: Notice; extension of closing date.

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SUMMARY: The Minority Business Development Agency is extending the 
closing date for responses to its announcement to solicit competitive 
applications under its Minority Business Opportunity Committee program 
which was announced in the Federal Register on September 8, 1998. All 
other information in the prior notice remains the same.

DATES: Complete applications for the MBOC program must be mailed (USPS 
postmark) or received by MBDA at the address below no later than 5 p.m. 
Eastern Daylight Time on October 16, 1998.

ADDRESSES: Applicants must submit one signed original plus two copies 
of the application, including all information required by the 
Competitive Application Package. Complete application packages must be 
submitted to: Minority Business Opportunity Committee Program Manager, 
Office of Executive Secretariat, HCHB, Room 5073, Minority Business 
Development Agency, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution 
Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20230.
    If the application is hand-delivered by the applicant or its 
representative, it must be delivered to Room 1874, which is located at 
Entrance #10, 15th Street NW, between Pennsylvania and Constitution 
Avenues. Unsigned applications will be considered non-responsive and 
will be returned to the applicant. Failure to submit other required 
information may result in points being deducted from an applicant's 
score.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
For further information and a Competitive Application Package contact 
Stephen Boykin, the MBOC Program Manager, at (202) 482-1712.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On September 8, 1998, (63 FR 47480) the 
Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA) published a notice 
soliciting competitive applications from organizations seeking to 
operate Minority Business Opportunity Committees (MBOCs). All 
information required to submit a cooperative agreement application by 
eligible applicants is contained in that announcement and in the 
Competitive Application Package. By this notice, the MBDA is extending 
the date to receive applications from October 8, 1998, to October 16, 
1998.

    Authority: Executive Order 11625 and 15 U.S.C. 1512.

    Dated: September 22, 1998.
Juanita E. Berry,
Federal Register Liaison Officer.
[FR Doc. 98-25814 Filed 9-25-98; 8:45 am]
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