[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 116 (Friday, June 15, 2001)]
[Notices]
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Department of Education





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Office of Educational Research and Improvement; American Indian and 
Alaska Native Education Research Grant Program; Notice Inviting 
Applications for New Awards for Fiscal Year (FY) 2001

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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

[CFDA No.: 84.306N]


Office of Educational Research and Improvement; American Indian 
and Alaska Native Education Research Grant Program; Notice Inviting 
Applications for New Awards for Fiscal Year (FY) 2001

    Purpose of Program: The purpose of the American Indian and Alaska 
Native (AIAN) Education Research Grant Program is to fund research, 
evaluation, and data collection to provide information on the status of 
education for the Indian population and on the effectiveness of Indian 
Education Programs. For FY 2001 the competition for new awards focuses 
on projects designed to meet the absolute priority published elsewhere 
in this issue of the Federal Register.
    Eligible Applicants: Indian Tribes, Indian organizations, State 
education agencies, local education agencies, institutions of higher 
education, including Indian institutions of higher education, and other 
public and private agencies and institutions, or a consortium of these 
institutions that meet the requirements of 34 CFR 75.127 through 75.129 
of EDGAR.
    Applications Available: June 29, 2001 for hardcopies.
    On the date of publication of this notice application packages will 
also be available electronically on the World Wide Web at the following 
site: www.ed.gov/GrantApps/
    Deadline for Transmittal of Applications: July 30, 2001.
    Estimated Available Funds: Approximately $1.4 million.
    Estimated Range of Awards: The size of the awards will be 
commensurate with the nature and scope of the work proposed.
    Estimated Number of Awards: 5.


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

    Budget Period: 12 months.
    Project Period: 12 to 36 months.
    Page Limit: The application narrative may not exceed the equivalent 
of 20 double-spaced pages, with printing on only one side of 8\1/2\ x 
11-inch paper. Our reviewers will not read any pages of your 
application that--
     Exceed the page limit if you apply these standards; or
     Exceed the equivalent of the page limit if you apply other 
standards.


    Note: We have found that reviewers are able to conduct the 
highest quality review when applications are concise and easy to 
read. We strongly encourage applicants to use a 12-point or larger 
size font, one-inch margins at the top, bottom, and both sides, and 
pages numbered consecutively.

    Applicable Regulations: (a) The Education Department General 
Administrative Regulations (EDGAR) in 34 CFR parts 74, 75, 77, 80, 81, 
82, 85, 86 (part 86 applies to IHEs only), 97, 98, and 99. (b) The 
regulations in 34 CFR part 700.
    Priority: This competition focuses on projects designed to meet the 
absolute priority in the notice of final priority for this program, 
published elsewhere in this issue of the Federal Register.
    Under 34 CFR 75.105(c)(3) we consider only applications that meet 
this priority.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Collaboration: The Secretary encourages 
collaboration in the conduct of this research. Examples of 
collaboration include: public and private research institutions 
collaborating with Indian organizations, including schools funded by 
the Bureau of Indian Affairs; and tribal colleges collaborating with 
major research universities and local educational agencies in urban 
areas serving high concentrations of Indian children.
    For Applications Contact: Education Publications Center (ED Pubs), 
PO Box 1398, Jessup, MD 20794-1398. Telephone (toll free): 1-877-433-
7827. FAX: (301) 470-1244. If you use a telecommunications device for 
the deaf (TDD), you may call (toll free): 1-877-576-7734.
    You may also contact ED Pubs at its web site: http://www.ed.gov/pubs/edpubs.html. Or you may contact ED Pubs at its E-mail address: 
[email protected].
    If you request an application from ED Pubs, be sure to identify 
this competition as follows: CFDA Number 84.306N.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Karen Suagee, American Indian and 
Alaska Native Research Grant Program, Office of Educational Research 
and Improvement, U.S. Department of Education, 555 New Jersey Avenue, 
NW., Room 610B, Washington, DC 20208-5521. Telephone: (202) 219-2244 or 
via Internet: [email protected] or you may contact Eileen O'Brien, at 
the same program and address. Telephone: (202) 208-2978 or via 
Internet: eileen.o'[email protected].
    If you use a telecommunications device for the deaf (TDD), you may 
call the Federal Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 1-800-877-8339.
    Individuals with disabilities may obtain this document in an 
alternative format (e.g., Braille, large print, audiotape, or computer 
diskette) on request to the program contact persons listed under FOR 
FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT.
    Individuals with disabilities may obtain a copy of the application 
package in an alternative format by contacting that person. However, 
the Department is not able to reproduce in an alternative format the 
standard forms included in the application package.

Electronic Access to This Document

    You may view this document, as well as all other Department of 
Education documents published in the Federal Register, in text or Adobe 
Portable Document Format (PDF) on the Internet at the following site: 
http://www.ed.gov/legislation/FedRegister.
    To use PDF, you must have Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is available 
free at this site. If you have questions about using PDF, call the U.S. 
Government Printing Office (GPO), toll free, at 1-888-293-6498; or in 
the Washington, DC, area at (202) 512-1530.


    Note: The official version of this document is the document 
published in the Federal Register. Free Internet access to the 
official edition of the Federal Register and the Code of Federal 
Regulations is available on GPO Access at: http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/index.html.


    Program Authority: (20 U.S.C. 6031(c)(2)(B); 20 U.S.C. 7873 and 
20 U.S.C. 7881(4)).

    Dated: June 12, 2001.
Sue Betka,
Deputy Assistant Secretary, Office of Educational Research and 
Improvement.
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