[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 42 (Friday, March 3, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Pages 10963-10964]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-3083]


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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

[CFDA No. 84.184L]


Safe Schools/Healthy Students

AGENCY: Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools, Department of Education.

ACTION: Notice of intent to fund down the grant slate for the Safe 
Schools/Healthy Students program.

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SUMMARY: The Secretary intends to use the grant slate developed for the 
Safe Schools/Healthy Students program in Fiscal Year (FY) 2005 to make 
new grant awards in FY 2006. The Secretary takes this action because a 
significant number of high-quality applications remain on last year's 
grant slate and limited funding is available for new grant awards in FY 
2006.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Karen Dorsey, U.S. Department of 
Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, SW., room 3E336, Washington, DC 20202-
6450. Telephone: (202) 708-4647 or via Internet: [email protected].
    If you use a telecommunications device for the deaf (TDD), you may 
call the Federal Relay Service (FRS) at 1-800-877-8339.
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alternative format (e.g., Braille, large print, audiotape, or computer 
diskette) on request to the contact person listed under FOR FURTHER 
INFORMATION CONTACT.

Background

    On March 10, 2005, we published a notice in the Federal Register 
(70 FR 11948) inviting applications for new awards under the Safe 
Schools/Healthy Students program. This notice indicated that the final 
priority, selection criteria, requirements, and definitions published 
in a notice in the Federal Register on May 28, 2004 (69 FR 30756) would 
apply to the FY 2005 grant competition.
    We received a significant number of applications for grants under 
the Safe Schools/Healthy Students program in FY 2005 and made 40 new 
grants. Because such a large number of high-quality applications were 
received, many applications that were awarded high scores by peer 
reviewers did not receive funding last year.
    Limited funding is available for new awards under this program in 
FY 2006. In order to conserve funding that would have been required for 
a peer review of new applications submitted under the program, we 
intend to select grantees in FY 2006 from the existing slate of 
applicants. This slate was developed during the FY 2005 competition 
using the final priority, selection criteria, requirements, and 
definitions referenced in the March 10, 2005 notice. No changes to the 
final priority, selection criteria, requirements, and definitions will 
be required by this action.

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    Program Authority: Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities 
Act (20 U.S.C. 7131); Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 290aa); 
and Juvenile Justice and Delinquency

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Prevention Act (42 U.S.C. 5614(b)(4)(e) and 5781 et seq.).

    Dated: February 28, 2006.
Deborah A. Price,
Assistant Deputy Secretary for Safe and Drug-Free Schools.
[FR Doc. E6-3083 Filed 3-2-06; 8:45 am]
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