[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 175 (Tuesday, September 14, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 51129-51130]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-19706]


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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION


Reopening the Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 Competition for Certain 
Eligible Applicants; Education Research and Special Education Research 
Grant Programs

AGENCY: Institute of Education Sciences, Department of Education.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: On June 10, 2021, we published in the Federal Register a 
notice inviting applications (NIA) for the FY 2022 Education Research 
and Special Education Research Grant Programs, Assistance Listing 
Numbers (ALNs) 84.305A, 84.305B, 84.305D, 84.305R, 84.305S, and 
84.324X. The NIA established a deadline date of September 9, 2021, for 
the transmittal of applications for the Education Research, Research 
Training Programs in the Education Sciences, Research Grants Focused on 
Systematic Replication, and Research to Accelerate Pandemic Recovery in 
Special Education competitions, ALNs 84.305A, 84.305B, 84.305R, and 
84.324X-2 (the ``affected competitions''). This notice reopens the 
affected competitions to allow more time for the preparation and 
submission of applications by eligible applicants that are affected by 
recent severe weather and located in a federally declared major 
disaster area designated for Individual Assistance or Public Assistance 
under Presidential major disaster declarations DR-4609-TN, DR-4610-CA, 
DR-4611-LA, DR-4614-NJ, and DR-4615-NY (``affected applicants'').

DATES: Deadline for Transmittal of Applications for Affected 
Applicants: September 30, 2021.

ADDRESSES: For the addresses for obtaining and submitting an 
application, please refer to our Common Instructions for Applicants to 
Department of Education Discretionary Grant Programs, published in the 
Federal Register on February 13, 2019

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(84 FR 3768) and available at www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2019-02-13/pdf/2019-02206.pdf.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For the contact person associated with 
a particular research competition, please refer to the chart in the 
NIA, available at www.govinfo.gov/app/details/FR-2021-06-10/2021-12173, 
as well as in the relevant Request for Application (available at 
https://ies.ed.gov/funding/) and application package.
    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: On June 10, 2021, we published in the 
Federal Register (86 FR 30921) the NIA for the Education Research and 
Special Education Research Programs. We are reopening the affected 
competitions until September 30, 2021, to allow affected applicants 
more time to prepare and submit their applications.

Eligibility

    The reopening applies to eligible applicants under the affected 
competitions--ALNs 84.305A, 84.305B, 84.305R, and 84.324X-2--that are 
affected applicants. Eligibility requirements for applicants for the 
affected competitions are specified in the NIA. The federally declared 
major disaster areas under these declarations are the jurisdictions 
identified by the Federal Emergency Management Agency under 
declarations DR-4609-TN, DR-4610-CA, DR-4611-LA, DR-4614-NJ, and DR-
4615-NY in which assistance to individuals or public assistance has 
been authorized. To determine if you are an affected applicant, see the 
Emergency Declarations available at: www.fema.gov/disaster/4609, 
www.fema.gov/disaster/4610, www.fema.gov/disaster/4611, www.fema.gov/disaster/4614, and www.fema.gov/disaster/4615.
    To qualify as an affected applicant, the applicant must either have 
a mailing address that is located in a jurisdiction that is part of one 
of the applicable federally declared disaster areas or provide a 
certification in its application that it or its planned subawardees and 
contractors identified in the application are located in one of these 
areas. Affected applicants must also provide appropriate supporting 
documentation, if requested.
    We are not reopening the application period for all applicants. 
Therefore, we will reject any application submitted as part of this 
reopened application submission period from applicants that are not 
affected applicants.

    Note: All information in the NIA for this competition remains 
the same, except for the deadline date for the transmittal of 
applications for affected applicants.

    Program Authority: 20 U.S.C. 9501 et seq. and the American Rescue 
Plan Act of 2021 (Pub. L. 117-2) Sec. 2010.
    Accessible Format: On request to the program contact person listed 
under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT, individuals with disabilities 
can obtain this document, the Request for Application, and a copy of 
the application package in an accessible format. The Department will 
provide the requestor with an accessible format that may include Rich 
Text Format (RTF) or text format (txt), a thumb drive, an MP3 file, 
braille, large print, audiotape, or compact disc, or other accessible 
format.
    Electronic Access to This Document: The official version of this 
document is the document published in the Federal Register. You may 
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by the Department.

Mark Schneider,
Director, Institute of Education Sciences.
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