[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 165 (Monday, August 27, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Page 49000]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-17019]


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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

[CFDA No.84.938H]


Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education; New 
Hurricane Education Recovery Awards

AGENCY: Office of Postsecondary Education, Department of Education.

ACTION: Notice reopening the New Hurricane Education Recovery Awards 
fiscal year (FY) 2007 competition.

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SUMMARY: On July 16, 2007, we published in the Federal Register (72 FR 
38827) a notice inviting applications for the New Hurricane Education 
Recovery Awards for FY 2007 competition. That notice established an 
August 17, 2007 deadline date for eligible applicants to apply for this 
funding. Only applicants who timely submitted a pre-application and 
received an e-mail from the Department with the applicant's calculated 
allotment for an award were eligible to submit a full application by 
the August 17, 2007 deadline.
    In order to afford as many eligible applicants who timely submitted 
pre-applications as possible an opportunity to receive funding, we are 
reopening the New Hurricane Education Recovery Awards FY 2007 
competition to eligible applicants who timely submitted a pre-
application and received an e-mail from the Department with the 
applicant's calculated allotment for an award. Accordingly, the DATES 
section is updated as follows.

DATES: Applications Available: August 27, 2007. Deadline for 
Transmittal of Applications: August 28, 2007.

    Note: Applications for grants under the Hurricane Education 
Recovery Awards must be submitted electronically using the 
Governmentwide Grants.gov Apply site at http://www.grants.gov. For 
information about how to submit your application electronically, 
please refer to Electronic Submission of Applications in the July 
16, 2007 notice (72 FR 38829-38830). We encourage eligible 
applicants to submit their applications as soon as possible to avoid 
any problems with filing electronic applications on the deadline 
date.


FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Rosemary Wolfe, Fund for the 
Improvement of Postsecondary Education, U.S. Department of Education, 
1990 K Street, NW., 6th Floor, Washington, DC 20006-8544. Telephone: 
(202) 502-7516 or via Internet: [email protected] or [email protected].
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    Program Authority: 20 U.S.C. 1138-1138d.

    Dated: August 23, 2007.
Diane Auer Jones,
Assistant Secretary for Postsecondary Education.
[FR Doc. E7-17019 Filed 8-24-07; 8:45 am]
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