[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 64 (Monday, April 6, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Pages 15469-15470]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-7701]


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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION


Higher Education Disaster Relief

AGENCY: Office of Postsecondary Education, Department of Education.

ACTION: Notice reopening the Higher Education Disaster Relief fiscal 
year (FY) 2009 competition.

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Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) Number: 84.938R.

SUMMARY: On January 16, 2009, we published in the Federal Register (74 
FR 3005) a notice inviting applications for the new awards for fiscal 
year (FY) 2009 under the Higher Education Disaster Relief Program. On 
January 26, 2009, we published in the Federal Register (74 FR 4417) a 
notice correcting the date for transmittal of pre-applications and the 
date for transmittal of applications. The January 26, 2009 notice 
established a new February 4, 2009 deadline date for eligible 
applicants to submit a pre-application for this funding. The January 
26, 2009 notice also provided that only applicants who timely submitted 
a pre-application and received an e-mail from

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the Department with the applicant's calculated allotment for an award 
were eligible to submit an application by the new March 19, 2009 
application deadline.
    To afford an opportunity to receive funding to those eligible 
applicants that submitted their pre-applications on time, we are 
reopening the Higher Education Disaster Relief FY 2009 competition only 
for 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.

    Note: The January 16, 2009 Federal Register notice is available 
at: http://www.ed.gov/legislation/FedRegister/announcements/2009-1/011609c.html. The January 26, 2009 Federal Register correction 
notice is available at: http://www.ed.gov/legislation/FedRegister/announcements/2009-1/012609d.html.

    Applicants that successfully submitted their complete applications 
on or before the deadline date of March 19, 2009 are not required to 
resubmit their applications. All other 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 must submit 
their applications by mail as provided in this notice.
    All information in the January 16, 2009 notice, as amended by the 
January 26, 2009 correction notice, remains the same, except for the 
following updates.

DATES: Deadline for Transmittal of Applications: April 8, 2009.

    Note: Applications for grants under the Higher Education 
Disaster Relief program must be mailed on or before the application 
deadline date, for next business-day delivery, to the Department at 
the following address:


U.S. Department of Education, Application Control Center, Attention: 
(CFDA Number 84.938R), 550 12th Street, SW., Washington, DC 20202-4260.

    You must show proof of mailing consisting of one of the following:
    (1) A legibly dated U.S. Postal Service postmark with evidence 
demonstrating that next business-day delivery was scheduled.
    (2) A legible mail receipt with the date of mailing stamped by the 
U.S. Postal Service with evidence demonstrating that next business-day 
delivery was scheduled.
    (3) A dated shipping label, invoice, or receipt from a commercial 
carrier.
    (4) Any other proof of mailing acceptable to the Secretary of the 
U.S. Department of Education.
    If you mail your application through the U.S. Postal Service, we do 
not accept either of the following as proof of mailing:
    (1) A private metered postmark.
    (2) A mail receipt that is not dated by the U.S. Postal Service.

If your application is postmarked after the application deadline date, 
we will not consider your application.

    Note: The U.S. Postal Service does not uniformly provide a dated 
postmark. Before relying on this method, you should check with your 
local post office.


    Note for Mail of Paper Applications:  When you mail your 
application to the Department--
    (1) You must indicate on the envelope and--if not provided by 
the Department--in Item 11 of the SF 424, the CFDA Number, including 
suffix letter, if any, of the competition under which you are 
submitting your application; and
    (2) The Application Control Center will mail to you a 
notification of receipt of your grant application. If you do not 
receive this notification within 15 business days from the 
application deadline date, you should call the U.S. Department of 
Education Application Control Center at (202) 245-6288.


FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Cassandra Courtney, Fund for the 
Improvement of Postsecondary Education, U.S. Department of Education, 
1990 K Street, NW., 6th Floor, Washington, DC 20006-8544. Telephone: 
(202) 502-7506 or by e-mail: [email protected] or [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.
    Accessible Format: Individuals with disabilities can obtain this 
document and a copy of the application package in an accessible format 
(e.g., braille, large print, audiotape, or computer diskette) on 
request to the program contact person listed under FOR FURTHER 
INFORMATION CONTACT.
    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: http://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: http://www.gpoaccess.gov/nara/index.html.


    Program Authority: 20 U.S.C. 1138-1138d.

    Delegation of Authority: The Secretary of Education has delegated 
authority to Daniel T. Madzelan, Director, Forecasting and Policy 
Analysis for the Office of Postsecondary Education to perform the 
function of the Assistant Secretary for Postsecondary Education.

    Dated: March 31, 1009.
Daniel T. Madzelan,
Director, Forecasting and Policy Analysis.
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