[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 31 (Wednesday, February 18, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Pages 7591-7592]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-3407]


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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION


Office of Innovation and Improvement; Overview Information: 
Charter School Programs; Notice reopening fiscal year (FY) 2009 
competition for Charter School Programs

Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) Number: 84.282A.

SUMMARY: On December 15, 2008, we published in the Federal Register (73 
FR 76014) a notice inviting applications for new awards for FY 2009 for 
the Charter School Programs (CSP). The original notice for the FY 2009 
CSP competition established a January 29, 2009, deadline date for 
eligible applicants to apply for funding under this program. For this 
competition, applicants are required to submit their applications 
electronically through the Governmentwide Grants.gov site 
(www.Grants.gov). Grants.gov experienced a substantial increase in 
application submissions that resulted in system slowness on the 
deadline date. For this reason we are reopening and establishing new 
deadline dates for the FY 2009 competition for CSP. Applicants must 
refer to the notice inviting applications for new awards that was 
published in the Federal Register on December 15, 2009 (73 FR 76014) 
for all other requirements concerning this reopened competition. The 
new deadline dates are:
    Deadline for Transmittal of Applications: February 25, 2009.
    Applications for grants under this competition must be submitted 
electronically using the Grants.gov Apply site (Grants.gov). For 
information (including dates and times) about how to submit your 
application electronically, please refer to section IV. 6. Other 
Submission Requirements in the December 15, 2008, notice (73 FR 76016).

    Note: For all applicants submitting a new application in 
accordance with this notice, please note that you must use the 
current application package posted on Grants.gov. That is, 
Grants.gov will reject any submission from the earlier application 
package, which was available on Grants.gov through the original 
application deadline of January 29, 2009.

    Deadline for Intergovernmental Review: April 27, 2009.

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Leslie Hankerson or Jeanne Siegel, 
U.S. Department of Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, SW., room 4W249, 
Washington, DC 20202-5970. Telephone: (202) 205-8524 or (202) 205-5482, 
or by e-mail: [email protected] or [email protected].
    If you use a telecommunications device for the deaf (TDD), call the 
Federal Relay Service (FRS), toll free, at 1-800-877-8339.
    Individuals with disabilities can obtain a copy of the application 
package in an accessible format (e.g., braille, large print, audiotape, 
or computer diskette) by contacting either program contact person 
listed in this section.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Any eligible applicant may apply for funding 
under this program by the deadline date established in this notice. 
Eligible applicants that submitted their applications for the CSP FY 
2009 competition to the Department before the competition's original 
deadline date of January 29, 2009, 4:30:00 p.m., Washington, DC time, 
are not required to resubmit their applications or re-apply in order to 
be considered for FY 2009 awards under this program. We encourage 
eligible applicants to submit their applications as soon as possible to 
avoid any problems with submitting electronic applications on the 
deadline date. The deadline for submission of applications will not be 
extended any further.
    Electronic Access to This Document: You can view this document, as 
well as all other documents of this Department published in the Federal 
Register, in text or Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) on the 
Internet at the following site: www.ed.gov/news/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: www.gpoaccess.gov/nara/index.html.

    Delegation of Authority: The Secretary of Education has delegated 
authority to Margo Anderson, Associate Assistant Deputy Secretary for 
Innovation and Improvement to perform the functions of the Assistant 
Deputy Secretary for Innovation and Improvement.

    Dated: February 12, 2009.
Margo Anderson,
Associate Assistant Deputy Secretary for Innovation and Improvement.
 [FR Doc. E9-3407 Filed 2-17-09; 8:45 am]
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