[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 212 (Tuesday, November 3, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 59436-59455]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-29344]


      

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Part III





Department of Education





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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.

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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__S[email protected]
    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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property for a debt to the United States, the debtor is not eligible to 
receive a Federal grant or loan, except direct payments to which the 
debtor is entitled as beneficiary, until the judgement is paid in full 
or otherwise satisfied.

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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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