Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services Overview Information; National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR)-Spinal Cord Injury Model Systems Centers (SCIMS Centers); Notice Inviting Applications for New Awards for Fiscal Year (FY) 2006, 9892-9896 [06-1795]
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the lives of individuals with spinal cord
injury (SCI).
To be eligible under this priority, an
applicant must have received a grant
under the SCIMS Centers priority.
Following completion of a competition
under the SCIMS Centers priority, the
Department will invite successful
applicants under that competition to
apply for funding as a lead center under
this SCIMS Multi-Site Research Projects
priority.
Each SCIMS multi-site research
project must—
1. Ensure utilization of SCIMS
capacity by collaborating with three or
more of the NIDRR-funded SCIMS
centers (for a minimum of four SCIMS
sites). Applicants may propose to
include other SCI research sites that are
not participating in a NIDRR-funded
program in their multi-site research
projects;
2. Contribute to improved long-term
outcomes of individuals with SCI by
conducting multi-site research on
questions of significance to SCI
rehabilitation, using clearly identified
research designs. The research must
focus on one or more specific domains
identified in NIDRR’s Final Long-Range
Plan for FY 2005–2009 (Plan), including
health and function, participation and
community living, technology, and
employment, and ensure that the
research study has appropriate research
hypotheses and methods to generate
reliable and valid findings;
3. Demonstrate the capacity to carry
out multi-site research projects,
including the ability to coordinate
research among centers; maintain data
quality; and adhere to research
protocols, confidentiality requirements,
and data safety requirements; and
4. Specify startup activities that will
be required to mount the proposed
multi-site research project, including
infrastructure requirements and
measurement tools. Applicants must
specify in their applications the amount
requested to cover these startup costs.
In addition, applicants must address
the following requirements:
• Address the needs of people with
disabilities, including individuals from
traditionally underserved populations.
• Coordinate with the NIDRR-funded
Model Systems Knowledge Translation
Center by providing scientific results
and information for dissemination to
clinical and consumer audiences.
• Ensure participation of individuals
with disabilities in all aspects of model
systems research.
Selection Criterion
In accordance with the provisions of
34 CFR 350.53 and 350.54 and in
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addition to the selection criteria
specified in those sections, the Secretary
will consider the following factor in
evaluating applications submitted under
the SCIMS Multi-Site Research Projects
priority:
The extent to which the applicant
clearly documents its capacity to
manage multi-site research projects,
including administrative capabilities,
experience with management of multisite research protocols, and
demonstrated ability to maintain
standards for quality and confidentiality
of data gathered from multiple sites.
Executive Order 12866
This notice of final priorities has been
reviewed in accordance with Executive
Order 12866. Under the terms of the
order, we have assessed the potential
costs and benefits of this regulatory
action.
The potential costs associated with
the notice of final priorities are those
resulting from statutory requirements
and those we have determined as
necessary for administering these
programs effectively and efficiently.
In assessing the potential costs and
benefits—both quantitative and
qualitative—of this notice of final
priorities, we have determined that the
benefits of the final priorities justify the
costs.
Summary of potential costs and
benefits:
The potential costs associated with
these final priorities are minimal while
the benefits are significant.
The benefits of the SCIMS and DRRP
programs have been well established
over the years in that similar projects
have been completed successfully.
These final priorities will generate new
knowledge and technologies through
research, development, dissemination,
utilization, and technical assistance
projects.
Another benefit of these final
priorities are that the establishment of
new SCIMS centers and the DRRPs
conducting SCIMS multi-site research
projects will support the President’s NFI
and will improve the lives of persons
with disabilities. These centers and
DRRPs will generate, disseminate, and
promote the use of new information that
will improve the options for individuals
with disabilities to perform regular
activities in the community.
Applicable Program Regulations: 34
CFR parts 350 and 359.
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(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance
Number 84.133N, Model Spinal Cord Injury
Centers and 84.133A, Disability
Rehabilitation Research Projects).
Program Authority: 29 U.S.C. 760, 764(a),
and 764(b)(4).
Dated: February 22, 2006.
John H. Hager,
Assistant Secretary for Special Education and
Rehabilitative Services.
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Office of Special Education and
Rehabilitative Services Overview
Information; National Institute on
Disability and Rehabilitation Research
(NIDRR)—Spinal Cord Injury Model
Systems Centers (SCIMS Centers);
Notice Inviting Applications for New
Awards for Fiscal Year (FY) 2006
Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance
(CFDA) Number: 84.133N–1.
Dates: Applications Available:
February 27, 2006.
Deadline for Transmittal of
Applications: April 21, 2006.
Date of Pre-Application Meeting:
March 20, 2006.
Eligible Applicants: States; public or
private agencies, including for-profit
agencies; public or private
organizations, including for-profit
organizations; institutions of higher
education; and Indian tribes and tribal
organizations.
Estimated Available Funds:
$6,500,000.
Estimated Range of Awards:
$439,000–$489,000.
Estimated Average Size of Awards:
$464,000.
Note: For planning purposes, NIDRR
suggests that applicants allot no more than 15
percent of their budget to the module project.
Maximum Award: We will reject any
application that proposes a budget
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exceeding $489,000 for a single budget
period of 12 months. The Assistant
Secretary for Special Education and
Rehabilitative Services may change the
maximum amount through a notice
published in the Federal Register.
Note 1: The maximum amount includes
direct and indirect costs.
Note 2: SCIMS Centers will be funded at
varying amounts up to the maximum award
based on the numbers of subjects eligible for
follow-up in the existing database. Existing
centers with significantly larger numbers of
subjects will receive higher funding within
the specified range, as determined by NIDRR
after the applicant is selected for funding.
Applicants should include in their budgets
specific estimates of their costs for follow-up
data collection. Funding will be determined
individually for each successful applicant,
up to the maximum allowed, based upon the
documented workload associated with the
follow-up data collection, the other costs of
the grant, and the overall budgetary limits of
the program.
Estimated Number of Awards: 14.
Note: The Department is not bound by any
estimates in this notice.
Project Period: Up to 60 months.
funding level of $1.8 million. In addition,
$2.66 million is available to support start-up
activities associated with mounting these
collaborative multi-site research projects.
Program Authority: 29 U.S.C. 760,
764(a), and 764(b)(4).
Applicable Regulations: (a) The
Education Department General
Administrative Regulations (EDGAR) in
34 CFR parts 74, 75, 77, 80, 81, 82, 84,
85, 86, and 97. (b) The regulations for
this program in 34 CFR part 350. (c) The
notice of final priorities for the SCIMS
program and the DRRP program,
published elsewhere in this issue of the
Federal Register.
Note: The regulations in 34 CFR part 86
apply to institutions of higher education
only.
II. Award Information
Type of Award: Discretionary grants.
Estimated Available Funds:
$6,500,000.
Estimated Range of Awards:
$439,000–$489,000.
Estimated Average Size of Awards:
$464,000.
Note: For planning purposes, NIDRR
suggests that applicants allot no more than 15
percent of their budget to the module project.
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I. Funding Opportunity Description
Purpose of Program: The purpose of
this program is to provide assistance for
demonstration projects that (a) provide
comprehensive rehabilitation services to
individuals with spinal cord injuries
and (b) conduct spinal cord research,
including clinical research and analysis
of standardized data in collection with
other related projects.
Priority: This priority is from the
notice of final priorities for the SCIMS
program and the Disability
Rehabilitation Research Projects (DRRP)
program, published elsewhere in this
issue of the Federal Register.
Absolute Priority: For FY 2006 this
priority is an absolute priority. Under 34
CFR 75.105(c)(3) we consider only
applications that meet this priority.
This priority is:
SCIMS Centers.
The general and specific requirements
for meeting this priority are in the
notice of final priority for this program
and the DRRP program, published
elsewhere in this issue of the Federal
Register.
Maximum Award: We will reject any
application that proposes a budget
exceeding $489,000 for a single budget
period of 12 months. The Assistant
Secretary for Special Education and
Rehabilitative Services may change the
maximum amount through a notice
published in the Federal Register.
Note: The Department will invite by letter
successful applicants under the SCIMS
Centers competition to apply for funding as
a lead center under the SCIMS Multi-Site
Research Projects priority established for the
DRRP program and published elsewhere in
this issue of the Federal Register. Under this
priority, we anticipate funding two
collaborative, multi-site research projects in
SCI research, with an estimated available
Note: The Department is not bound by any
estimates in this notice.
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Note 1: The maximum amount includes
direct and indirect costs.
Note 2: SCIMS Centers will be funded at
varying amounts up to the maximum award
based on the numbers of subjects eligible for
follow-up in the existing database. Existing
centers with significantly larger numbers of
subjects will receive higher funding within
the specified range, as determined by NIDRR
after the applicant is selected for funding.
Applicants should include in their budgets
specific estimates of their costs for follow-up
data collection. Funding will be determined
individually for each successful applicant,
up to the maximum allowed, based upon the
documented workload associated with the
follow-up data collection, the other costs of
the grant, and the overall budgetary limits of
the program.
Estimated Number of Awards: 14.
Project Period: Up to 60 months.
III. Eligibility Information
1. Eligible Applicants: States; public
or private agencies, including for-profit
agencies; public or private
organizations, including for-profit
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organizations; institutions of higher
education; and Indian tribes and tribal
organizations.
2. Cost Sharing or Matching: This
competition does not involve cost
sharing or matching.
IV. Application and Submission
Information
1. Address to Request Application
Package: You may obtain an application
package via Internet or from the ED
Publications Center (ED Pubs). To
obtain a copy via Internet use the
following address: https://www.ed.gov/
fund/grant/apply/grantapps/.
To obtain a copy from ED Pubs, write
or call the following: ED Pubs, P.O. Box
1398, Jessup, MD 20794–1398.
Telephone (toll free): 1–877–433–7827.
FAX: (301) 470–1244. If you use a
telecommunications device for the deaf
(TDD), you may call (toll free): 1–877–
576–7734.
You may also contact ED Pubs at its
Web site: https://www.ed.gov/pubs/
edpubs.html or you may contact ED
Pubs at its e-mail address:
edpubs@inet.ed.gov.
If you request an application from ED
Pubs, be sure to identify this
competition as follows: CFDA Number
84.133N.
Individuals with disabilities may
obtain a copy of the application package
in an alternative format (e.g., Braille,
large print, audiotape, or computer
diskette) by contacting the program
contact person listed under For Further
Information Contact in section VII of
this notice.
2. Content and Form of Application
Submission: Requirements concerning
the content of an application, together
with the forms you must submit, are in
the application package for this
competition.
Page Limit: The application narrative
(Part III of the application) is where you,
the applicant, address the selection
criteria that reviewers use to evaluate
your application. We recommend that
you limit Part III to the equivalent of no
more than 125 pages, using the
following standards:
• A ‘‘page’’ is 8.5″ × 11″, on one side
only, with 1″ margins at the top, bottom,
and both sides.
• Double space (no more than three
lines per vertical inch) all text in the
application narrative, including titles,
headings, footnotes, quotations,
references, and captions, as well as all
text in charts, tables, figures, and
graphs.
• Use a font that is either 12 point or
larger or no smaller than 10 pitch
(characters per inch).
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The suggested page limit does not
apply to Part I, the cover sheet; Part II,
the budget section, including the
narrative budget justification; Part IV,
the assurances and certifications; or the
one-page abstract, the resumes, the
bibliography, or the letters of support.
However, you must include all of the
application narrative in Part III.
The application package will provide
instructions for completing all
components to be included in the
application. Each application must
include a cover sheet (ED Standard
Form 424); budget requirements (ED
Form 524) and narrative justification,
which also includes a detailed budget
for research projects and data collection;
other required forms; an abstract,
Human Subjects narrative, Part III
narrative; resumes of staff; and other
related materials, if applicable.
3. Submission Dates and Times:
Applications Available: February 27,
2006.
Deadline for Transmittal of
Applications: April 21, 2006.
Pre-Application Meeting: Interested
parties are invited to participate in a
pre-application meeting to discuss the
funding priority and to receive
information and technical assistance
through individual consultation. The
pre-application meeting will be held on
March 20, 2006. Interested parties may
participate in this meeting either by
conference call or in person at the U.S.
Department of Education, Office of
Special Education and Rehabilitative
Services, Potomac Center Plaza, room
6075, 550 12th Street, SW., Washington,
DC between 10 a.m. and 12 noon. After
the meeting, NIDRR staff also will be
available from 1:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. on
that same day to provide information
and technical assistance through
individual consultation. For further
information or to make arrangements to
attend either in person or by conference
call, or for an individual consultation,
contact Donna Nangle, U.S. Department
of Education, Potomac Center Plaza,
room 6030, 550 12th Street, SW.,
Washington, DC 20202. Telephone (202)
245–7462 or by e-mail:
donna.nangle@ed.gov.
Assistance to Individuals With
Disabilities at the Pre-Application
Meeting
The meeting site is accessible to
individuals with disabilities, and a sign
language interpreter will be available. If
you will need an auxiliary aid or service
other than a sign language interpreter in
order to participate in the meeting (e.g.,
other interpreting service such as oral,
cued speech, or tactile interpreter;
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alternate format), notify the contact
person listed in this notice at least two
weeks before the scheduled meeting
date. Although we will attempt to meet
a request we receive after this date, we
may not be able to make available the
requested auxiliary aid or service
because of insufficient time to arrange
it.
Applications for grants under this
competition may be submitted
electronically using the Grants.gov
Apply site (Grants.gov), or in paper
format by mail or hand delivery. For
information (including dates and times)
about how to submit your application
electronically, or by mail or hand
delivery, please refer to section IV. 6
Other Submission Requirements in this
notice.
We do not consider an application
that does not comply with the deadline
requirements.
4. Intergovernmental Review: This
program is not subject to Executive
Order 12372 and the regulations in 34
CFR part 79.
5. Funding Restrictions: We reference
regulations outlining funding
restrictions in the Applicable
Regulations section of this notice.
6. Other Submission Requirements:
Applications for grants under this
competition may be submitted
electronically or in paper format by mail
or hand delivery.
a. Electronic Submission of
Applications.
We have been accepting applications
electronically through the Department’s
e-Application system since FY 2000. In
order to expand on those efforts and
comply with the President’s
Management Agenda, we are continuing
to participate as a partner in the new
government wide Grants.gov Apply site
in FY 2006. Spinal Cord Injury Model
System Centers—CFDA Number
84.133N–1 is one of the programs
included in this project. We request
your participation in Grants.gov.
If you choose to submit your
application electronically, you must use
the Grants.gov Apply site at https://
www.Grants.gov. Through this site, you
will be able to download a copy of the
application package, complete it offline,
and then upload and submit your
application. You may not e-mail an
electronic copy of a grant application to
us.
You may access the electronic grant
application for Spinal Cord Injury
Model Systems Centers, 84.133N–1 at:
https://www.grants.gov. You must search
for the downloadable application
package for this program by the CFDA
number. Do not include the CFDA
number’s alpha suffix in your search.
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Please note the following:
• Your participation in Grants.gov is
voluntary.
• When you enter the Grants.gov site,
you will find information about
submitting an application electronically
through the site, as well as the hours of
operation.
• Applications received by Grants.gov
are time and date stamped. Your
application must be fully uploaded and
submitted, and must be date/time
stamped by the Grants.gov system no
later than 4:30 p.m., Washington, DC
time, on the application deadline date.
Except as otherwise noted in this
section, we will not consider your
application if it is date/time stamped by
the Grants.gov system later than 4:30
p.m., Washington, DC time, on the
application deadline date. When we
retrieve your application from
Grants.gov, we will notify you if we are
rejecting your application because it
was date/time stamped by the
Grants.gov system after 4:30 p.m.,
Washington, DC time, on the
application deadline date.
• The amount of time it can take to
upload an application will vary
depending on a variety of factors
including the size of the application and
the speed of your Internet connection.
Therefore, we strongly recommend that
you do not wait until the application
deadline date to begin the application
process through Grants.gov.
• You should review and follow the
Education Submission Procedures for
submitting an application through
Grants.gov that are included in the
application package for this competition
to ensure that you submit your
application in a timely manner to the
Grants.gov system. You can also find the
Education Submission Procedures
pertaining to Grants.gov at https://eGrants.ed.gov/help/
GrantsgovSubmissionProcedures.pdf.
• To submit your application via
Grants.gov, you must complete all of the
steps in the Grants.gov registration
process (see https://www.Grants.gov/
GetStarted). These steps include (1)
registering your organization, (2)
registering yourself as an Authorized
Organization Representative (AOR), and
(3) getting authorized as an AOR by
your organization. Details on these steps
are outlined in the Grants.gov 3-Step
Registration Guide (see https://
www.grants.gov/assets/
GrantsgovCoBrandBrochure8X11.pdf).
You also must provide on your
application the same D–U–N–S Number
used with this registration. Please note
that the registration process may take
five or more business days to complete,
and you must have completed all
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registration steps to allow you to
successfully submit an application via
Grants.gov.
• You will not receive additional
point value because you submit your
application in electronic format, nor
will we penalize you if you submit your
application in paper format.
• You may submit all documents
electronically, including all information
typically included on the Application
for Federal Education Assistance (ED
424), Budget Information—NonConstruction Programs (ED 524), and all
necessary assurances and certifications.
If you choose to submit your application
electronically, you must attach any
narrative sections of your application as
files in a .DOC (document), .RTF (rich
text), or .PDF (Portable Document)
format. If you upload a file type other
than the three file types specified above
or submit a password protected file, we
will not review that material.
• Your electronic application must
comply with any page limit
requirements described in this notice.
• After you electronically submit
your application, you will receive an
automatic acknowledgment from
Grants.gov that contains a Grants.gov
tracking number. The Department will
retrieve your application from
Grants.gov and send you a second
confirmation by e-mail that will include
a PR/Award number (an ED-specified
identifying number unique to your
application).
• We may request that you provide us
original signatures on forms at a later
date.
Application Deadline Date Extension in
Case of System Unavailability
If you are prevented from
electronically submitting your
application on the application deadline
date because of technical problems with
the Grants.gov system, we will grant you
an extension until 4:30 p.m.,
Washington, DC time, the following
business day to enable you to transmit
your application electronically, or by
hand delivery. You also may mail your
application by following the mailing
instructions as described elsewhere in
this notice. If you submit an application
after 4:30 p.m., Washington, DC time, on
the deadline date, please contact the
person listed elsewhere in this notice
under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
CONTACT, and provide an explanation of
the technical problem you experienced
with Grants.gov, along with the
Grants.gov Support Desk Case Number
(if available). We will accept your
application if we can confirm that a
technical problem occurred with the
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affected your ability to submit your
application by 4:30 p.m., Washington,
DC time, on the application deadline
date. The Department will contact you
after a determination is made on
whether your application will be
accepted.
Note: Extensions referred to in this section
apply only to the unavailability of or
technical problems with the Grants.gov
system. We will not grant you an extension
if you failed to fully register to submit your
application to Grants.gov before the deadline
date and time or if the technical problem you
experienced is unrelated to the Grants.gov
system.
b. Submission of Paper Applications
by Mail.
If you submit your application in
paper format by mail (through the U.S.
Postal Service or a commercial carrier),
you must mail the original and two
copies of your application, on or before
the application deadline date, to the
Department at the applicable following
address:
By mail through the U.S. Postal
Service: U.S. Department of Education,
Application Control Center, Attention:
(CFDA Number 84.133N–1), 400
Maryland Avenue, SW., Washington,
DC 20202–4260 or
By mail through a commercial carrier:
U.S. Department of Education,
Application Control Center—Stop 4260,
Attention: (CFDA Number 84.133N–1),
7100 Old Landover Road, Landover, MD
20785–1506.
Regardless of which address you use,
you must show proof of mailing
consisting of one of the following:
(1) A legibly dated U.S. Postal Service
postmark,
(2) A legible mail receipt with the
date of mailing stamped by the U.S.
Postal Service,
(3) A dated shipping label, invoice, or
receipt from a commercial carrier, or
(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, or
(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.
c. Submission of Paper Applications
by Hand Delivery.
If you submit your application in
paper format by hand delivery, you (or
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a courier service) must deliver the
original and two copies of your
application by hand, on or before the
application deadline date, to the
Department at the following address:
U.S. Department of Education,
Application Control Center, Attention:
(CFDA Number 84.133N–1), 550 12th
Street, SW., Room 7041, Potomac Center
Plaza, Washington, DC 20202–4260.
The Application Control Center
accepts hand deliveries daily between 8
a.m. and 4:30 p.m., Washington, DC
time, except Saturdays, Sundays and
Federal holidays.
Note for Mail or Hand Delivery of
Paper Applications: If you mail or hand
deliver your application to the
Department:
(1) You must indicate on the envelope
and—if not provided by the
Department—in Item 4 of the
Application for Federal Education
Assistance (ED 424) the CFDA
number—and suffix letter, if any—of the
competition under which you are
submitting your application.
(2) The Application Control Center
will mail a grant application receipt
acknowledgment to you. If you do not
receive the grant application receipt
acknowledgment 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.
V. Application Review Information
Selection Criteria: The selection
criteria for this competition are from 34
CFR 75.210 of EDGAR and 34 CFR
350.54 and are listed in the application
package.
The Secretary is interested in
hypothesis-driven research and
development projects. To address this
interest it is expected that applicants
will articulate goals, objectives, and
expected outcomes for the proposed
research and development activities. It
is critical that proposals describe
expected public benefits, especially
benefits for individuals with
disabilities, and propose projects that
are optimally designed to demonstrate
outcomes that are consistent with the
proposed goals. Applicants are
encouraged to include information
describing how they will measure
outcomes, including the indicators that
will represent the end-result, the
mechanisms that will be used to
evaluate outcomes associated with
specific problems or issues, and how the
proposed activities will support new
intervention approaches and strategies,
including a discussion of measures of
effectiveness. Submission of this
information is voluntary except where
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required by the selection criteria listed
in the application package.
VI. Award Administration Information
1. Award Notices: If your application
is successful, we notify your U.S.
Representative and U.S. Senators and
send you a Grant Award Notification
(GAN). We may also notify you
informally.
If your application is not evaluated or
not selected for funding, we notify you.
2. Administrative and National Policy
Requirements: We identify
administrative and national policy
requirements in the application package
and reference these and other
requirements in the Applicable
Regulations section of this notice.
We reference the regulations outlining
the terms and conditions of an award in
the Applicable Regulations section of
this notice and include these and other
specific conditions in the GAN. The
GAN also incorporates your approved
application as part of your binding
commitments under the grant.
3. Reporting: At the end of your
project period, you must submit a final
performance report, including financial
information, as directed by the
Secretary. If you receive a multi-year
award, you must submit an annual
performance report that provides the
most current performance and financial
expenditure information as specified by
the Secretary in 34 CFR 75.118.
Note: NIDRR will provide information by
letter to grantees on how and when to submit
the report.
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4. Performance Measures: To evaluate
the overall success of its research
program, NIDRR assesses the quality of
its funded projects through review of
grantee performance and products. Each
year, NIDRR examines, through expert
peer review, a portion of its grantees to
determine:
• The percentage of newly awarded
NIDRR projects that are multi-site,
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collaborative controlled studies of
interventions and programs.
• The number of accomplishments
(e.g., new or improved tools, methods,
discoveries, standards, interventions,
programs, or devices) developed or
tested with NIDRR funding that have
been judged by expert panels to be of
high quality and to advance the field.
• The percentage of grantee research
and development that has appropriate
study design, meets rigorous standards
of scientific and/or engineering methods
and builds on and contributes to
knowledge in the field.
• The average number of publications
per award based on NIDRR-funded
research and development activities in
refereed journals.
• The percentage of new grants that
include studies funded by NIDRR that
assess the effectiveness of interventions,
programs, and devices using rigorous
and appropriate methods.
NIDRR uses information submitted by
grantees as part of their Annual
Performance Reports (APRs) for these
reviews. NIDRR also determines, using
information submitted as part of the
APR, the number of publications in
refereed journals that are based on
NIDRR-funded research and
development activities.
Department of Education program
performance reports, which include
information on NIDRR programs, are
available on the Department’s Web site:
https://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/
opepd/sas/.
Updates on the GPRA indicators,
revisions and methods appear in the
NIDRR Program Review Web site: https://
www.neweditions.net/pr/commonfiles/
pmconcepts.htm.
Grantees should consult these sites,
on a regular basis, to obtain details and
explanations on how NIDRR programs
contribute to the advancement of the
Department’s long-term and annual
performance goals.
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VII. Agency Contact
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Donna Nangle, U.S. Department of
Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, SW.,
room 6030, Potomac Center Plaza,
Washington, DC 20202. Telephone:
(202) 245–7462 or via Internet:
donna.nangle@ed.gov.
If you use a telecommunications
device for the deaf (TDD), you may call
the TDD number at (202) 245–7317 or
the Federal Relay Service (FRS) at 1–
800–877–8339.
Individuals with disabilities may
obtain this document in an alternative
format (e.g., Braille, large print,
audiotape, or computer diskette) on
request to the program contact person
listed in this section.
VIII. Other Information
Electronic Access to This Document:
You may 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: https://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–
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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: https://www.gpoaccess.gov/nara/
index.html.
Dated: February 22, 2006.
John H. Hager,
Assistant Secretary for Special Education and
Rehabilitative Services.
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services Overview
Information; National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation
Research (NIDRR)--Spinal Cord Injury Model Systems Centers (SCIMS
Centers); Notice Inviting Applications for New Awards for Fiscal Year
(FY) 2006
Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) Number: 84.133N-1.
Dates: Applications Available: February 27, 2006.
Deadline for Transmittal of Applications: April 21, 2006.
Date of Pre-Application Meeting: March 20, 2006.
Eligible Applicants: States; public or private agencies, including
for-profit agencies; public or private organizations, including for-
profit organizations; institutions of higher education; and Indian
tribes and tribal organizations.
Estimated Available Funds: $6,500,000.
Estimated Range of Awards: $439,000-$489,000.
Estimated Average Size of Awards: $464,000.
Note: For planning purposes, NIDRR suggests that applicants
allot no more than 15 percent of their budget to the module project.
Maximum Award: We will reject any application that proposes a
budget
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exceeding $489,000 for a single budget period of 12 months. The
Assistant Secretary for Special Education and Rehabilitative Services
may change the maximum amount through a notice published in the Federal
Register.
Note 1: The maximum amount includes direct and indirect costs.
Note 2: SCIMS Centers will be funded at varying amounts up to
the maximum award based on the numbers of subjects eligible for
follow-up in the existing database. Existing centers with
significantly larger numbers of subjects will receive higher funding
within the specified range, as determined by NIDRR after the
applicant is selected for funding.
Applicants should include in their budgets specific estimates of
their costs for follow-up data collection. Funding will be
determined individually for each successful applicant, up to the
maximum allowed, based upon the documented workload associated with
the follow-up data collection, the other costs of the grant, and the
overall budgetary limits of the program.
Estimated Number of Awards: 14.
Note: The Department is not bound by any estimates in this
notice.
Project Period: Up to 60 months.
Full Text of Announcement
I. Funding Opportunity Description
Purpose of Program: The purpose of this program is to provide
assistance for demonstration projects that (a) provide comprehensive
rehabilitation services to individuals with spinal cord injuries and
(b) conduct spinal cord research, including clinical research and
analysis of standardized data in collection with other related
projects.
Priority: This priority is from the notice of final priorities for
the SCIMS program and the Disability Rehabilitation Research Projects
(DRRP) program, published elsewhere in this issue of the Federal
Register.
Absolute Priority: For FY 2006 this priority is an absolute
priority. Under 34 CFR 75.105(c)(3) we consider only applications that
meet this priority.
This priority is:
SCIMS Centers.
The general and specific requirements for meeting this priority are
in the notice of final priority for this program and the DRRP program,
published elsewhere in this issue of the Federal Register.
Note: The Department will invite by letter successful applicants
under the SCIMS Centers competition to apply for funding as a lead
center under the SCIMS Multi-Site Research Projects priority
established for the DRRP program and published elsewhere in this
issue of the Federal Register. Under this priority, we anticipate
funding two collaborative, multi-site research projects in SCI
research, with an estimated available funding level of $1.8 million.
In addition, $2.66 million is available to support start-up
activities associated with mounting these collaborative multi-site
research projects.
Program Authority: 29 U.S.C. 760, 764(a), and 764(b)(4).
Applicable Regulations: (a) The Education Department General
Administrative Regulations (EDGAR) in 34 CFR parts 74, 75, 77, 80, 81,
82, 84, 85, 86, and 97. (b) The regulations for this program in 34 CFR
part 350. (c) The notice of final priorities for the SCIMS program and
the DRRP program, published elsewhere in this issue of the Federal
Register.
Note: The regulations in 34 CFR part 86 apply to institutions of
higher education only.
II. Award Information
Type of Award: Discretionary grants.
Estimated Available Funds: $6,500,000.
Estimated Range of Awards: $439,000-$489,000.
Estimated Average Size of Awards: $464,000.
Note: For planning purposes, NIDRR suggests that applicants
allot no more than 15 percent of their budget to the module project.
Maximum Award: We will reject any application that proposes a
budget exceeding $489,000 for a single budget period of 12 months. The
Assistant Secretary for Special Education and Rehabilitative Services
may change the maximum amount through a notice published in the Federal
Register.
Note 1: The maximum amount includes direct and indirect costs.
Note 2: SCIMS Centers will be funded at varying amounts up to
the maximum award based on the numbers of subjects eligible for
follow-up in the existing database. Existing centers with
significantly larger numbers of subjects will receive higher funding
within the specified range, as determined by NIDRR after the
applicant is selected for funding.
Applicants should include in their budgets specific estimates of
their costs for follow-up data collection. Funding will be
determined individually for each successful applicant, up to the
maximum allowed, based upon the documented workload associated with
the follow-up data collection, the other costs of the grant, and the
overall budgetary limits of the program.
Estimated Number of Awards: 14.
Note: The Department is not bound by any estimates in this
notice.
Project Period: Up to 60 months.
III. Eligibility Information
1. Eligible Applicants: States; public or private agencies,
including for-profit agencies; public or private organizations,
including for-profit organizations; institutions of higher education;
and Indian tribes and tribal organizations.
2. Cost Sharing or Matching: This competition does not involve cost
sharing or matching.
IV. Application and Submission Information
1. Address to Request Application Package: You may obtain an
application package via Internet or from the ED Publications Center (ED
Pubs). To obtain a copy via Internet use the following address: https://
www.ed.gov/fund/grant/apply/grantapps/.
To obtain a copy from ED Pubs, write or call the following: ED
Pubs, P.O. Box 1398, Jessup, MD 20794-1398. Telephone (toll free): 1-
877-433-7827. FAX: (301) 470-1244. If you use a telecommunications
device for the deaf (TDD), you may call (toll free): 1-877-576-7734.
You may also contact ED Pubs at its Web site: https://www.ed.gov/
pubs/edpubs.html or you may contact ED Pubs at its e-mail address:
edpubs@inet.ed.gov.
If you request an application from ED Pubs, be sure to identify
this competition as follows: CFDA Number 84.133N.
Individuals with disabilities may obtain a copy of the application
package in an alternative format (e.g., Braille, large print,
audiotape, or computer diskette) by contacting the program contact
person listed under For Further Information Contact in section VII of
this notice.
2. Content and Form of Application Submission: Requirements
concerning the content of an application, together with the forms you
must submit, are in the application package for this competition.
Page Limit: The application narrative (Part III of the application)
is where you, the applicant, address the selection criteria that
reviewers use to evaluate your application. We recommend that you limit
Part III to the equivalent of no more than 125 pages, using the
following standards:
A ``page'' is 8.5[sec] x 11[sec], on one side only, with
1[sec] margins at the top, bottom, and both sides.
Double space (no more than three lines per vertical inch)
all text in the application narrative, including titles, headings,
footnotes, quotations, references, and captions, as well as all text in
charts, tables, figures, and graphs.
Use a font that is either 12 point or larger or no smaller
than 10 pitch (characters per inch).
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The suggested page limit does not apply to Part I, the cover sheet;
Part II, the budget section, including the narrative budget
justification; Part IV, the assurances and certifications; or the one-
page abstract, the resumes, the bibliography, or the letters of
support. However, you must include all of the application narrative in
Part III.
The application package will provide instructions for completing
all components to be included in the application. Each application must
include a cover sheet (ED Standard Form 424); budget requirements (ED
Form 524) and narrative justification, which also includes a detailed
budget for research projects and data collection; other required forms;
an abstract, Human Subjects narrative, Part III narrative; resumes of
staff; and other related materials, if applicable.
3. Submission Dates and Times:
Applications Available: February 27, 2006.
Deadline for Transmittal of Applications: April 21, 2006.
Pre-Application Meeting: Interested parties are invited to
participate in a pre-application meeting to discuss the funding
priority and to receive information and technical assistance through
individual consultation. The pre-application meeting will be held on
March 20, 2006. Interested parties may participate in this meeting
either by conference call or in person at the U.S. Department of
Education, Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services,
Potomac Center Plaza, room 6075, 550 12th Street, SW., Washington, DC
between 10 a.m. and 12 noon. After the meeting, NIDRR staff also will
be available from 1:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. on that same day to provide
information and technical assistance through individual consultation.
For further information or to make arrangements to attend either in
person or by conference call, or for an individual consultation,
contact Donna Nangle, U.S. Department of Education, Potomac Center
Plaza, room 6030, 550 12th Street, SW., Washington, DC 20202. Telephone
(202) 245-7462 or by e-mail: donna.nangle@ed.gov.
Assistance to Individuals With Disabilities at the Pre-Application
Meeting
The meeting site is accessible to individuals with disabilities,
and a sign language interpreter will be available. If you will need an
auxiliary aid or service other than a sign language interpreter in
order to participate in the meeting (e.g., other interpreting service
such as oral, cued speech, or tactile interpreter; assistive listening
device; or materials in alternate format), notify the contact person
listed in this notice at least two weeks before the scheduled meeting
date. Although we will attempt to meet a request we receive after this
date, we may not be able to make available the requested auxiliary aid
or service because of insufficient time to arrange it.
Applications for grants under this competition may be submitted
electronically using the Grants.gov Apply site (Grants.gov), or in
paper format by mail or hand delivery. For information (including dates
and times) about how to submit your application electronically, or by
mail or hand delivery, please refer to section IV. 6 Other Submission
Requirements in this notice.
We do not consider an application that does not comply with the
deadline requirements.
4. Intergovernmental Review: This program is not subject to
Executive Order 12372 and the regulations in 34 CFR part 79.
5. Funding Restrictions: We reference regulations outlining funding
restrictions in the Applicable Regulations section of this notice.
6. Other Submission Requirements: Applications for grants under
this competition may be submitted electronically or in paper format by
mail or hand delivery.
a. Electronic Submission of Applications.
We have been accepting applications electronically through the
Department's e-Application system since FY 2000. In order to expand on
those efforts and comply with the President's Management Agenda, we are
continuing to participate as a partner in the new government wide
Grants.gov Apply site in FY 2006. Spinal Cord Injury Model System
Centers--CFDA Number 84.133N-1 is one of the programs included in this
project. We request your participation in Grants.gov.
If you choose to submit your application electronically, you must
use the Grants.gov Apply site at https://www.Grants.gov. Through this
site, you will be able to download a copy of the application package,
complete it offline, and then upload and submit your application. You
may not e-mail an electronic copy of a grant application to us.
You may access the electronic grant application for Spinal Cord
Injury Model Systems Centers, 84.133N-1 at: https://www.grants.gov. You
must search for the downloadable application package for this program
by the CFDA number. Do not include the CFDA number's alpha suffix in
your search.
Please note the following:
Your participation in Grants.gov is voluntary.
When you enter the Grants.gov site, you will find
information about submitting an application electronically through the
site, as well as the hours of operation.
Applications received by Grants.gov are time and date
stamped. Your application must be fully uploaded and submitted, and
must be date/time stamped by the Grants.gov system no later than 4:30
p.m., Washington, DC time, on the application deadline date. Except as
otherwise noted in this section, we will not consider your application
if it is date/time stamped by the Grants.gov system later than 4:30
p.m., Washington, DC time, on the application deadline date. When we
retrieve your application from Grants.gov, we will notify you if we are
rejecting your application because it was date/time stamped by the
Grants.gov system after 4:30 p.m., Washington, DC time, on the
application deadline date.
The amount of time it can take to upload an application
will vary depending on a variety of factors including the size of the
application and the speed of your Internet connection. Therefore, we
strongly recommend that you do not wait until the application deadline
date to begin the application process through Grants.gov.
You should review and follow the Education Submission
Procedures for submitting an application through Grants.gov that are
included in the application package for this competition to ensure that
you submit your application in a timely manner to the Grants.gov
system. You can also find the Education Submission Procedures
pertaining to Grants.gov at https://e-Grants.ed.gov/help/
GrantsgovSubmissionProcedures.pdf.
To submit your application via Grants.gov, you must
complete all of the steps in the Grants.gov registration process (see
https://www.Grants.gov/GetStarted). These steps include (1) registering
your organization, (2) registering yourself as an Authorized
Organization Representative (AOR), and (3) getting authorized as an AOR
by your organization. Details on these steps are outlined in the
Grants.gov 3-Step Registration Guide (see https://www.grants.gov/assets/
GrantsgovCoBrandBrochure8X11.pdf). You also must provide on your
application the same D-U-N-S Number used with this registration. Please
note that the registration process may take five or more business days
to complete, and you must have completed all
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registration steps to allow you to successfully submit an application
via Grants.gov.
You will not receive additional point value because you
submit your application in electronic format, nor will we penalize you
if you submit your application in paper format.
You may submit all documents electronically, including all
information typically included on the Application for Federal Education
Assistance (ED 424), Budget Information--Non-Construction Programs (ED
524), and all necessary assurances and certifications. If you choose to
submit your application electronically, you must attach any narrative
sections of your application as files in a .DOC (document), .RTF (rich
text), or .PDF (Portable Document) format. If you upload a file type
other than the three file types specified above or submit a password
protected file, we will not review that material.
Your electronic application must comply with any page
limit requirements described in this notice.
After you electronically submit your application, you will
receive an automatic acknowledgment from Grants.gov that contains a
Grants.gov tracking number. The Department will retrieve your
application from Grants.gov and send you a second confirmation by e-
mail that will include a PR/Award number (an ED-specified identifying
number unique to your application).
We may request that you provide us original signatures on
forms at a later date.
Application Deadline Date Extension in Case of System Unavailability
If you are prevented from electronically submitting your
application on the application deadline date because of technical
problems with the Grants.gov system, we will grant you an extension
until 4:30 p.m., Washington, DC time, the following business day to
enable you to transmit your application electronically, or by hand
delivery. You also may mail your application by following the mailing
instructions as described elsewhere in this notice. If you submit an
application after 4:30 p.m., Washington, DC time, on the deadline date,
please contact the person listed elsewhere in this notice under FOR
FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT, and provide an explanation of the
technical problem you experienced with Grants.gov, along with the
Grants.gov Support Desk Case Number (if available). We will accept your
application if we can confirm that a technical problem occurred with
the Grants.gov system and that that problem affected your ability to
submit your application by 4:30 p.m., Washington, DC time, on the
application deadline date. The Department will contact you after a
determination is made on whether your application will be accepted.
Note: Extensions referred to in this section apply only to the
unavailability of or technical problems with the Grants.gov system.
We will not grant you an extension if you failed to fully register
to submit your application to Grants.gov before the deadline date
and time or if the technical problem you experienced is unrelated to
the Grants.gov system.
b. Submission of Paper Applications by Mail.
If you submit your application in paper format by mail (through the
U.S. Postal Service or a commercial carrier), you must mail the
original and two copies of your application, on or before the
application deadline date, to the Department at the applicable
following address:
By mail through the U.S. Postal Service: U.S. Department of
Education, Application Control Center, Attention: (CFDA Number 84.133N-
1), 400 Maryland Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20202-4260 or
By mail through a commercial carrier: U.S. Department of Education,
Application Control Center--Stop 4260, Attention: (CFDA Number 84.133N-
1), 7100 Old Landover Road, Landover, MD 20785-1506.
Regardless of which address you use, you must show proof of mailing
consisting of one of the following:
(1) A legibly dated U.S. Postal Service postmark,
(2) A legible mail receipt with the date of mailing stamped by the
U.S. Postal Service,
(3) A dated shipping label, invoice, or receipt from a commercial
carrier, or
(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, or
(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.
c. Submission of Paper Applications by Hand Delivery.
If you submit your application in paper format by hand delivery,
you (or a courier service) must deliver the original and two copies of
your application by hand, on or before the application deadline date,
to the Department at the following address: U.S. Department of
Education, Application Control Center, Attention: (CFDA Number 84.133N-
1), 550 12th Street, SW., Room 7041, Potomac Center Plaza, Washington,
DC 20202-4260.
The Application Control Center accepts hand deliveries daily
between 8 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., Washington, DC time, except Saturdays,
Sundays and Federal holidays.
Note for Mail or Hand Delivery of Paper Applications: If you mail
or hand deliver your application to the Department:
(1) You must indicate on the envelope and--if not provided by the
Department--in Item 4 of the Application for Federal Education
Assistance (ED 424) the CFDA number--and suffix letter, if any--of the
competition under which you are submitting your application.
(2) The Application Control Center will mail a grant application
receipt acknowledgment to you. If you do not receive the grant
application receipt acknowledgment 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.
V. Application Review Information
Selection Criteria: The selection criteria for this competition are
from 34 CFR 75.210 of EDGAR and 34 CFR 350.54 and are listed in the
application package.
The Secretary is interested in hypothesis-driven research and
development projects. To address this interest it is expected that
applicants will articulate goals, objectives, and expected outcomes for
the proposed research and development activities. It is critical that
proposals describe expected public benefits, especially benefits for
individuals with disabilities, and propose projects that are optimally
designed to demonstrate outcomes that are consistent with the proposed
goals. Applicants are encouraged to include information describing how
they will measure outcomes, including the indicators that will
represent the end-result, the mechanisms that will be used to evaluate
outcomes associated with specific problems or issues, and how the
proposed activities will support new intervention approaches and
strategies, including a discussion of measures of effectiveness.
Submission of this information is voluntary except where
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required by the selection criteria listed in the application package.
VI. Award Administration Information
1. Award Notices: If your application is successful, we notify your
U.S. Representative and U.S. Senators and send you a Grant Award
Notification (GAN). We may also notify you informally.
If your application is not evaluated or not selected for funding,
we notify you.
2. Administrative and National Policy Requirements: We identify
administrative and national policy requirements in the application
package and reference these and other requirements in the Applicable
Regulations section of this notice.
We reference the regulations outlining the terms and conditions of
an award in the Applicable Regulations section of this notice and
include these and other specific conditions in the GAN. The GAN also
incorporates your approved application as part of your binding
commitments under the grant.
3. Reporting: At the end of your project period, you must submit a
final performance report, including financial information, as directed
by the Secretary. If you receive a multi-year award, you must submit an
annual performance report that provides the most current performance
and financial expenditure information as specified by the Secretary in
34 CFR 75.118.
Note: NIDRR will provide information by letter to grantees on
how and when to submit the report.
4. Performance Measures: To evaluate the overall success of its
research program, NIDRR assesses the quality of its funded projects
through review of grantee performance and products. Each year, NIDRR
examines, through expert peer review, a portion of its grantees to
determine:
The percentage of newly awarded NIDRR projects that are
multi-site, collaborative controlled studies of interventions and
programs.
The number of accomplishments (e.g., new or improved
tools, methods, discoveries, standards, interventions, programs, or
devices) developed or tested with NIDRR funding that have been judged
by expert panels to be of high quality and to advance the field.
The percentage of grantee research and development that
has appropriate study design, meets rigorous standards of scientific
and/or engineering methods and builds on and contributes to knowledge
in the field.
The average number of publications per award based on
NIDRR-funded research and development activities in refereed journals.
The percentage of new grants that include studies funded
by NIDRR that assess the effectiveness of interventions, programs, and
devices using rigorous and appropriate methods.
NIDRR uses information submitted by grantees as part of their
Annual Performance Reports (APRs) for these reviews. NIDRR also
determines, using information submitted as part of the APR, the number
of publications in refereed journals that are based on NIDRR-funded
research and development activities.
Department of Education program performance reports, which include
information on NIDRR programs, are available on the Department's Web
site: https://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/opepd/sas/.
Updates on the GPRA indicators, revisions and methods appear in the
NIDRR Program Review Web site: https://www.neweditions.net/pr/
commonfiles/pmconcepts.htm.
Grantees should consult these sites, on a regular basis, to obtain
details and explanations on how NIDRR programs contribute to the
advancement of the Department's long-term and annual performance goals.
VII. Agency Contact
For Further Information Contact: Donna Nangle, U.S. Department of
Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, SW., room 6030, Potomac Center Plaza,
Washington, DC 20202. Telephone: (202) 245-7462 or via Internet:
donna.nangle@ed.gov.
If you use a telecommunications device for the deaf (TDD), you may
call the TDD number at (202) 245-7317 or the Federal Relay Service
(FRS) at 1-800-877-8339.
Individuals with disabilities may obtain this document in an
alternative format (e.g., Braille, large print, audiotape, or computer
diskette) on request to the program contact person listed in this
section.
VIII. Other Information
Electronic Access to This Document: You may 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: https://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
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Dated: February 22, 2006.
John H. Hager,
Assistant Secretary for Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.
[FR Doc. 06-1795 Filed 2-24-06; 8:45 am]
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