[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 101 (Friday, May 24, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 31535-31536]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-12495]


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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION


Assistive Technology Alternative Financing Program

AGENCY: Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, 
Department of Education.

ACTION: Notice.

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    Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) Number: 84.224D.

SUMMARY: The Secretary intends to use the slate of applicants developed 
for the Assistive Technology (AT) Alternative Financing Program (AFP) 
in fiscal year (FY) 2012 to make new grant awards in FY 2013. The 
Secretary takes this action because a significant number of high-
quality applications remain on the grant slate and limited funding is 
available for new grant awards in FY 2013.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Robert Groenendaal, U.S. Department of 
Education, 400 Maryland Avenue SW.,

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room 5025, Potomac Center Plaza (PCP), Washington, DC 20202-2800. 
Telephone: (202) 245-7393 or by email: [email protected].
    If you use a telecommunications device for the deaf (TDD) or a text 
telephone (TTY), call the Federal Relay Service (FRS), toll free, at 1-
800-877-8339.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On August 8, 2012, we published a notice in the Federal Register 
(77 FR 47375) inviting applications for new awards for FY 2012 under 
the AT AFP. The notice indicated that the absolute and competitive 
preference priorities in the notice would only apply to the FY 2012 
grant competition because authorization for this program and its 
funding was provided for a single year in the FY 2012 appropriations 
act. However, in FY 2013, this authorization and funding was retained 
in the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2013 
(Pub. L. 113-006).
    In FY 2012, we received 15 applications for AT AFP grants and made 
three grant awards with the funds available. Given the quality of the 
applications that did not receive funding and the limited funding 
available for new awards in FY 2013, we intend to select grantees in FY 
2013 from the existing slate of applicants.

    Program Authority: Consolidated and Further Continuing 
Appropriations Act, 2013 (Pub. L. 113-006).

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Services Team, U.S. Department of Education, 400 Maryland Avenue SW., 
room 5075, PCP, Washington, DC 20202-2550. Telephone: (202) 245-7363. 
If you use a TDD or a TTY, call the FRS, toll free, at 1-800-877-8339.
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    Dated: May 21, 2013.
Michael K. Yudin,
Delegated the authority to perform the functions and the duties of the 
Assistant Secretary for Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.
[FR Doc. 2013-12495 Filed 5-23-13; 8:45 am]
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