[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 79 (Friday, April 23, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Page 22001]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-9229]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Economic Development Administration

[Docket No. 991215339-3300-09]


University Center (UC) Program

AGENCY: Economic Development Administration (EDA), Department of 
Commerce (DOC).

ACTION: Supplemental notice and request for proposals.

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SUMMARY: EDA's Austin regional office will hold a teleconference on May 
6 to answer questions about its FY 2004 competition for University 
Center funding, which is open to colleges and universities in Arkansas, 
Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas. EDA's Denver regional office 
will hold a teleconference on May 10 to answer questions about its FY 
2004 competition for University Center funding, which is open to 
colleges and universities in Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Montana, 
Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah and Wyoming. Notice of this 
competition was published in the Federal Register on April 15, 2004.

DATES: Austin regional office teleconference: May 6, 2004, 10 a.m.-12 
p.m. (central time). Please register for this call by sending an e-mail 
to [email protected] no later than May 4 to insure there are 
sufficient incoming lines for this call.
    Denver regional office teleconference: May 10, 2004, 9 a.m.-11 a.m. 
(mountain time). Please register for this call by sending an e-mail to 
[email protected] no later than May 6 to insure there are 
sufficient incoming lines for this call.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: The Federal Funding Opportunity 
announcement for this request for proposals is available on the http://www.grants.gov Web site, as well as EDA's Web site, http://www.eda.gov. 
For questions about these calls, please contact Tozi Tijerina in the 
Austin regional office at 512-381-8157 or Terri Yarkosky in the Denver 
regional office at 303-844-4717.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: EDA is soliciting competition proposals for 
FY 2004 University Center funding in the areas served by its Denver and 
Austin regional offices (69 FR 19973, April 15, 2004). EDA's mission is 
to help our partners across the Nation create wealth and minimize 
poverty by promoting a favorable business involvement to attract 
private capital investment and higher-skill, higher-wage jobs through 
world-class capacity-building, planning, infrastructure, research 
grants and strategic initiatives. With funding from EDA, institutions 
of higher education establish and operate University Centers, which 
provide technical assistance to public and private sector organizations 
with the goal of enhancing local economic development. EDA has 
traditionally renewed an award to a University Center on an annual 
basis as long as it maintained a satisfactory level of performance and 
Congress appropriated funds for the program. With the competition 
announced in this notice for University Centers in the regions served 
by EDA's Austin and Denver regional offices, EDA is beginning to phase 
in competition for University Center funding. EDA's Austin regional 
office will hold a teleconference on May 6 and EDA's Denver regional 
office will hold a teleconference on May 10.
    Telephone Numbers: Austin regional office call: 1-888-396-9925. The 
passcode is EDA. (Callers may need to provide the name of the host, 
Tozi Tijerina, and her telephone number, 512-381-8157.)
    Denver regional office call: 1-877-709-5339. The passcode is 10529.

David Bearden,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Economic Development.
[FR Doc. 04-9229 Filed 4-22-04; 8:45 am]
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