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States submitted their Reading First
applications to the Department in 2002
and 2003. Currently, the Department has
approved the Reading First applications
of all applicants but one. The
Committee will evaluate this remaining
application and, at the request of the
Department, may review issues
identified in other State applications.
States submitted their third-year
progress reports to the Department on or
before November 30, 2006. The reports
include, among other things,
information on the progress State
educational agencies and local
educational agencies are making in
reducing the number of students served
under the Reading First program in
grades 1, 2, and 3 who are reading
below grade level. By statute, the
Committee will review these reports. In
addition, the Committee may advise the
Secretary on other issues that the
Secretary deems appropriate.
By statute, the Committee will
consist, at a minimum, of three
individuals selected by each of the
following: the Secretary of Education,
the National Institute for Literacy, the
National Research Council of the
National Academy of Sciences, and the
National Institute of Child Health and
Human Development.
Any non-Federal members of the
Committee will serve as Special
Government Employees (SGEs).
Committee members will serve for a
period of three years or until the date of
reauthorization of the ESEA, whichever
is earlier. The Committee will choose
one of its members to serve as the
chairperson. The Team Leader of the
Reading First program will serve as the
Designated Federal Officer (DFO) for the
Committee. As appropriate, the
Committee may form one or more
subcommittees to assist it with its
functions.
For Additional Information: Contact
Maria Worthen, U.S. Department of
Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, SW.,
Washington, DC 20202, Telephone:
(202) 205–5632.
Dated: February 23, 2007.
Margaret Spellings,
Secretary of Education.
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
[CFDA NO. 84.361A]
Office of Innovation and Improvement,
Voluntary Public School Choice
Program
Notice announcing a technical
assistance workshop.
ACTION:
SUMMARY: This notice provides
information about a technical assistance
workshop the Department will be
holding to assist eligible applicants
interested in preparing grant
applications for fiscal year (FY) 2007
new awards under the Voluntary Public
School Choice (VPSC) program. Staff
will present information about the
purpose of the VPSC program, selection
criteria, application content, submission
procedures, and reporting requirements.
The notice inviting applications for
new awards for FY 2007 for the VPSC
program was published in the Federal
Register on February 1, 2007 (72 FR
4700).
Iris
A. Lane, U.S. Department of Education,
400 Maryland Avenue, SW.,
Washington, DC 20202–5970.
Telephone: (202) 205–1999. E-mail:
vpsc@ed.gov.
If you use a telecommunications
device for the deaf (TDD), you may call
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, audio
tape, or computer diskette) on request to
the contact person listed in this section.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
technical assistance workshop will be
conducted on Tuesday, March 6, 2007,
from 9 a.m.–12 p.m. at the Holiday Inn
Capitol, 550 C Street, SW., Washington,
DC 20024. Hotel telephone: (202) 479–
4000. This site is in Washington, DC,
across the street from the U.S.
Department of Education headquarters
at 400 Maryland Avenue, SW. This site
is accessible by Metro on the Blue,
Orange, Green, and Yellow lines at the
7th Street and Maryland Avenue exit of
the L’Enfant Plaza station. Please
contact the U.S. Department of
Education contact person listed under
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT if
you have any questions about the details
of the workshop.
Individuals interested in attending
this workshop are encouraged to preregister by e-mailing their name,
organization, and contact information to
vpsc@ed.gov. There is no registration fee
for this workshop. We encourage
attendance from those who will be
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responsible for submitting program
applications or providing technical
support for submission of program
applications.
Assistance to Individuals With
Disabilities Attending the Technical
Assistance Workshop
The technical assistance workshop
site is accessible to individuals with
disabilities. If you need an auxiliary aid
or service to participate in the workshop
(e.g., interpreting service, assistive
listening device, or materials in an
alternative format), notify the contact
persons listed under FOR FURTHER
INFORMATON CONTACT.
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To use PDF, you must have Adobe
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Program Authority: 20 U.S.C. 7225–7225g.
Dated: February 23, 2007.
Morgan S. Brown,
Assistant Deputy Secretary for Innovation and
Improvement.
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Office of Postsecondary Education;
Overview Information; American Indian
Tribally Controlled Colleges and
Universities, Alaska Native-Serving
Institutions, and Native HawaiianServing Institutions programs; Notice
Inviting Applications for New Awards
for Fiscal Year (FY) 2007
Catalog of Federal Domestic
Assistance (CFDA) Numbers: 84.031T,
84.031N and 84.031W.
Dates:
Applications Available: March 1,
2007.
Deadline for Transmittal of
Applications: April 16, 2007.
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Deadline for Intergovernmental
Review: June 14, 2007.
Eligible Applicants: Institutions of
higher education (IHEs) that qualify as
eligible institutions under the American
Indian Tribally Controlled Colleges and
Universities (TCCU), the Alaska NativeServing Institutions (AN), and the
Native Hawaiian-Serving Institutions
(NH) programs may apply for grants
under this notice. These programs are
authorized by Title III, Part A of the
Higher Education Act of 1965, as
amended (HEA). To qualify as an
eligible institution under any Title III,
Part A program, an institution must,
among other requirements—
(1) Be accredited or preaccredited by
a nationally recognized accrediting
agency or association that the Secretary
has determined to be a reliable authority
as to the quality of education or training
offered;
(2) Be legally authorized by the State
in which it is located to be a junior
college or to provide an educational
program for which it awards a
bachelor’s degree;
(3) Be designated as an ‘‘eligible
institution’’ by demonstrating that it: (A)
Has an enrollment of needy students as
described in 34 CFR 607.3; and (B) has
low average educational and general
expenditures per full-time equivalent
(FTE) undergraduate student as
described in 34 CFR 607.4.
The Notice Inviting Applications for
Designation as Eligible Institutions for
FY 2007 was published in the Federal
Register on January 8, 2007, 72 FR 760.
The complete eligibility requirements
for the Title III, Part A programs are in
34 CFR 607.2 through 607.5 and can be
accessed from the following Web site:
https://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/cfr/
waisidx_05/34cfr607_05.html.
Relationship Between the Title III, Part
A Programs and the Hispanic-Serving
Institutions (HSI) Program
Note 1: A grantee under the Developing
Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI) program,
which is authorized under Title V of the
HEA, may not receive a grant under any
HEA, Title III, Part A programs. The Title III,
Part A programs include: The Strengthening
Institutions Program (SIP), the TCCU
program, and the AN and NH programs.
Further, a current HSI program grantee may
not give up its HSI grant in order to receive
a grant under any Title III, Part A program.
Note 2: An eligible HSI that does not fall
within the limitation described in Note 1,
i.e., is not a current grantee under the HSI
program, may apply for a FY 2007 grant
under all Title III, Part A programs for which
it is eligible, as well as under the HSI
program. However, a successful applicant
may receive only one grant.
Note 3: An eligible IHE that submits more
than one application may only be awarded
one individual development grant or one
cooperative arrangement development grant
in a fiscal year. Furthermore, we will not
award a second cooperative arrangement
development grant to an otherwise eligible
IHE for the same award year as the IHE’s
existing cooperative arrangement
development grant award.
Note 4: The Department will make fiveyear awards for Individual Development
Grants and five-year awards for Cooperative
Development Grants in rank order from
separate funding slates according to the
average score received from a panel of three
readers.
However, the Department will use
two funding slates each for the one-year
construction grants under the TCCU
program and the one-year renovations
grants under the AN and NH programs.
Slate number one will contain the rank
order scores of applicants that did not
receive a grant under the respective
program in FY 2006. Slate number two
will contain the rank order scores of all
Maximum
award amount
Program name and type of award
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Tribally Controlled Colleges and Universities program (84.031T)
—5-year individual development grants ...............................................................................
—1-year construction grants ................................................................................................
Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian programs (84.031N and 84.031W)
—5-year individual development grants ...............................................................................
—1-year renovation grants ...................................................................................................
Note: The Department is not bound by any
estimates in this notice. Applicants should
periodically check the Title III Part A
programs Web site for further information.
The address is: https://www.ed.gov/programs/
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Project Period: Up to 60 months for
development grants and up to 12
months for construction and renovation
grants.
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remaining applicants. Awards under the
TCCU, AN and NH programs will be
made first in rank order from slate
number one of the respective program.
If funds remain after awarding all
approved applicants from slate number
one, the remaining awards will be made
in rank order from slate number two of
the respective program. The Department
has adopted this process for the
construction and renovation grants to
comply with Section 313(b) of the HEA,
which directs the Secretary to give
priority to applicants who are not
currently receiving a grant.
Estimated Available Funds:
$23,570,000 for the TCCU program and
$11,785,000 for the AN and NH
program’s for FY 2007. A competition
will not be held in FY 2007 for the SIP.
Instead, the Department intends to use
the grant slate developed for the SIP in
FY 2006 to make new awards in FY
2007 because a significant number of
high-quality applicants remained on the
FY 2006 slate and limited funding is
expected to be available for new awards
in FY 2007.
For specific funding information, see
the chart in the Award Information
section of this notice.
Estimated Average Size of Awards:
See chart.
Maximum Award Amounts: See chart.
We will not fund any application at an
amount exceeding the maximum
amounts specified in the chart for a
single budget period of 12 months. We
may choose not to further consider or
review applications with budgets that
exceed the maximum amounts
specified, if we conclude, during our
initial review of the application, that the
proposed goals and objectives cannot be
obtained with the specified maximum
amount.
Estimated Number of Awards: See
chart.
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Estimated
number of
awards
Estimated average award
amount
$475,000
1,650,000
2
7
$450,000
1,577,000
500,000
750,000
1
4
500,000
710,000
Full Text of Announcement
I. Funding Opportunity Description
Purpose of Program: The TCCU, AN,
and NH programs provide grants to
eligible institutions of higher education
to enable them to improve their
academic quality, institutional
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management, and fiscal stability, and
increase their self-sufficiency and
strengthen their capacity to make a
substantial contribution to the higher
education resources of the Nation.
Program Authority: 20 U.S.C. 1057–
1059d.
Applicable Regulations: (a) The
Education Department General
Administrative Regulations (EDGAR) in
34 CFR parts 74, 75, 77, 79, 82, 84, 85,
86, 97, 98, and 99. (b) The regulations
for this program in 34 CFR part 607.
II. Award Information
Type of Awards: Discretionary grants.
Five-year individual development
grants; five-year cooperative
arrangement development grants; oneyear TCCU construction grants, and one-
year AN and NH renovation grants will
be awarded in FY 2007. Planning grants
will not be awarded in FY 2007.
Estimated Available Funds:
$23,570,000 for the TCCU program and
$11,785,000 for the AN and NH
programs for FY 2007.
A competition will not be held in FY
2007 for the SIP. Instead, the
Department intends to use the grant
slate developed for the SIP in FY 2006
to make new awards in FY 2007 because
a significant number of high-quality
applicants remained on the FY 2006
slate and limited funding is expected to
be available for new awards in FY 2007.
For specific funding information, see
the chart in the Award Information
section of this notice.
Maximum
award amount
Program name and type of award
Tribally Controlled Colleges and Universities Program (84.031T)
—5-year individual development grants ...............................................................................
—1-year construction grants ................................................................................................
Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian program (84.031N and 84.031W)
—5-year individual development grants ...............................................................................
—1-year renovation grants ...................................................................................................
Note: The Department is not bound by any
estimates in this notice. Applicants should
periodically check the Title III Part A
programs Web site for further information.
The address is: https://www.ed.gov/programs/
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Project Period: Up to 60 months for
development and up to 12 months for
construction and renovation grants.
III. Eligibility Information
1. Eligible Applicants: IHEs that
qualify as eligible institutions under the
TCCU, AN and the NH programs may
apply for grants under this notice. These
programs are authorized by Title III, Part
A, of the HEA. To qualify as an eligible
institution under any Title III, Part A
program, an institution must, among
other requirements—
(1) Be accredited or preaccredited by
a nationally recognized accrediting
agency or association that the Secretary
has determined to be a reliable authority
as to the quality of education or training
offered;
(2) Be legally authorized by the State
in which it is located to be a junior
college or to provide an educational
program for which it awards a
bachelor’s degree;
(3) Be designated as an ‘‘eligible
institution’’ by demonstrating that it: (A)
Has an enrollment of needy students as
described in 34 CFR 607.3; and (B) has
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(FTE) undergraduate student as
described in 34 CFR 607.4.
The Notice Inviting Applications for
Designation as Eligible Institutions for
FY 2007 was published in the Federal
Register on January 8, 2007, 72 FR 760.
The complete eligibility requirements
are in 34 CFR 607.2 through 607.5 and
can be accessed from the following Web
site: https://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/
cfr/waisidx_05/34cfr607_05.html.
Relationship Between the Title III, Part
A Programs and the Hispanic-Serving
Institutions (HSI) Program
Note 1: A grantee under the HSI program,
which is authorized under Title V of the
HEA, may not receive a grant under any
HEA, Title III, Part A program. The Title III,
Part A programs include: the SIP program,
the TCCU program, and the AN, and NH
programs. Further, a current HSI program
grantee may not give up its HSI grant in order
to receive a grant under any Title III, Part A
program.
Note 2: An eligible HSI that does not fall
within the limitation described in Note 1,
i.e., is not a current grantee under the HSI
program, may apply for a FY 2007 grant
under all Title III, Part A programs for which
it is eligible, as well as under the HSI
program. However, a successful applicant
may receive only one grant.
Note 3: An eligible IHE that submits more
than one application may only be awarded
one individual development grant or one
cooperative arrangement development grant
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Estimated Average Size of Awards:
See chart.
Maximum Award Amounts: See chart.
We will not fund any application at
an amount exceeding the maximum
amounts specified in this notice for a
single budget period of 12 months. We
may choose not to further consider or
review applications with budgets that
exceed the maximum amounts
specified, if we conclude, during our
initial review of the application, that the
proposed goals and objectives cannot be
obtained with the specified maximum
amount.
Estimated Number of Awards: See
chart.
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Estimated
number of
awards
Estimated average award
amount
$475,000
1,650,000
2
7
$450,000
1,577,000
500,000
750,000
1
4
500,000
710,000
in a fiscal year. Furthermore, we will not
award a second cooperative arrangement
development grant to an otherwise eligible
institution for the same award year as the
IHE’s existing cooperative arrangement
development grant award.
Note 4: The Department will make fiveyear awards for Individual Development
Grants and five-year awards for Cooperative
Development Grants in rank order from
separate funding slates according to the
average score received from a panel of three
readers.
However, the Department will use
two funding slates each for the one-year
construction grants under the TCCU
program and the one-year renovations
grants under the AN and NH programs.
Slate number one will contain the rank
order scores of applicants that did not
receive a grant under the respective
program in FY 2006. Slate number two
will contain the rank order scores of all
remaining applicants. Awards under the
TCCU, AN and NH programs will be
made first in rank order from slate
number one of the respective program.
If funds remain after awarding all
approved applicants from slate number
one, the remaining awards will be made
in rank order from slate number two of
the respective program. The Department
has adopted this process for the
construction and renovation grants to
comply with Section 313(b) of the HEA,
which directs the Secretary to give
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priority to applicants who are not
currently receiving a grant.
2. Cost Sharing or Matching: There are
no cost sharing or matching
requirements, unless the grantee uses a
portion of its grant for establishing or
improving an endowment fund. If a
grantee uses a portion of its grant for
endowment fund purposes, it must
match those grant funds with nonFederal funds. 20 U.S.C. 1057(d)(2) and
1059c(c)(3)(B).
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IV. Application and Submission
Information
1. Address to Request Application
Package: Darlene Collins, Team Leader,
U.S. Department of Education, 1990 K
Street, NW., 6th Floor, Washington, DC
20006–8513. Telephone: (202) 502–7576
or by e-mail: darlene.collins@ed.gov; or
Kelley Harris, Telephone: (202) 219–
7083 or by e-mail: kelley.harris@ed.gov.
If you use a telecommunications
device for the deaf (TDD), you may call
the Federal Relay Service (FRS) at 1–
800–877–8339.
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 in this section.
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 these
programs.
Page Limits: We have established
mandatory page limits for the
applications to be submitted under this
notice. You must limit your application
to the equivalent of no more than 50
pages for an individual development
grant; 70 pages for a cooperative
arrangement development grant; and 35
pages for a TCCU construction or AN
and NH renovation grant under the Title
III, Part A programs, using the following
standards:
• A ‘‘page’’ is 8.5″ x 11″, on one side
only, with 1 inch margins at the top,
bottom, and both sides. Page numbers
and an identifier may be within the 1″
margin.
• Double space (no more than three
lines per vertical inch) all text in the
application narrative, except titles,
headings, footnotes, quotations,
references, captions and all text in
charts, tables, and graphs.
• Use one of the following fonts:
Times New Roman, Courier, Courier
New or Arial. Applications submitted in
any other font (including Times Roman
and Arial Narrow) will be rejected.
• Use not less than 12-point font.
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The page limit does not apply to Part
I, the Application for Federal Assistance
Face Sheet (SF 424); the Supplemental
Information for SF 424 form required by
the Department of Education; Part II, the
Budget Information Summary Form (ED
Form 524); and Part IV, the Assurances
and Certifications. The page limit also
does not apply to a Table of Contents
and the Program Abstract. If you include
any attachments or appendices, these
items will be counted as part of the
Program Narrative (Part III of the
application) for purposes of the page
limit requirement. You must include
your complete response to the selection
criteria in the program narrative.
We will reject your application if—
• You apply these standards and
exceed the page limit; or
• You apply other standards and
exceed the equivalent of the page limit.
3. Submission Dates and Times:
Applications Available: March 1,
2007.
Deadline for Transmittal of
Applications: April 16, 2007.
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 or by mail or hand
delivery if you qualify for an exception
to the electronic submission
requirement, please refer to section IV.
6. Other Submission Requirements in
this notice.
Individuals with disabilities who
need an accommodation or auxiliary aid
in connection with the application
process should contact the person listed
under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
CONTACT in section VII of this notice.
We do not consider an application
that does not comply with the deadline
requirements.
Deadline for Intergovernmental
Review: June 14, 2007.
4. Intergovernmental Review: This
program is subject to Executive Order
12372 and the regulations in 34 CFR
part 79. Information about
Intergovernmental Review of Federal
Programs under Executive Order 12372
is in the application package for these
programs.
5. Funding Restrictions: We reference
the regulations outlining funding
restrictions in the Applicable
Regulations section of this notice.
• Applicability of Executive Order
13202.
Applicants that apply for construction
funds under the Title III, Part A
Programs must comply with Executive
Order 13202 signed by President George
W. Bush on February 17, 2001 and
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amended on April 6, 2001. This
Executive order provides that recipients
of Federal construction funds may not
‘‘require or prohibit bidders, offerors,
contractors, or subcontractors to enter
into or adhere to agreements with one
or more labor organizations, on the same
or other construction project(s)’’ or
‘‘otherwise discriminate against bidders,
offerors, contractors, or subcontractors
for becoming or refusing to become or
remain signatories or otherwise adhere
to agreements with one or more labor
organizations, on the same or other
construction project(s).’’ However, the
Executive order does not prohibit
contractors or subcontractors from
voluntarily entering into these
agreements. Projects funded under these
programs that include construction
activity will be provided a copy of this
Executive order and will be asked to
certify that they will adhere to it.
6. Other Submission Requirements:
Applications for grants under these
programs must be submitted
electronically unless you qualify for an
exception to this requirement in
accordance with the instructions in this
section.
a. Electronic Submission of
Applications. Applications for grants
under the TCCU, AN and NH programs
(CFDA Numbers 84.031T, 84.031N and
84.031W) must be submitted
electronically using 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.
We will reject your application if you
submit it in paper format unless, as
described elsewhere in this section, you
qualify for one of the exceptions to the
electronic submission requirement and
submit, no later than two weeks before
the application deadline date, a written
statement to the Department that you
qualify for one of these exceptions.
Further information regarding the
calculation of the date that is two weeks
before the application deadline date is
provided later in this section under
Exception to Electronic Submission
Requirement.
You may access the electronic grant
application for the TCCU, AN and NH
programs 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 (e.g., search for 84.031, not
84.031W).
Please note the following:
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• 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 date and time stamped. Your
application must be fully uploaded and
submitted, and must be date and 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 and 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 and 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 submission
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/
applicants/get_registered.jsp). These
steps include (1) registering your
organization, a multi-part process that
includes registration with the Central
Contractor Registry (CCR); (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/section910/
Grants.govRegistrationBrochure.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. In addition you will need to
update your CCR registration on an
annual basis. This may take three or
more business days to complete.
• You will not receive additional
point value because you submit your
application in electronic format, nor
will we penalize you if you qualify for
an exception to the electronic
submission requirement, as described
elsewhere in this section, and submit
your application in paper format.
• You must submit all documents
electronically, including all information
typically provided on the following
forms: Application for Federal
Assistance (SF 424), the Department of
Education Supplemental Information for
SF 424, Budget Information—NonConstruction Programs (ED 524), and all
necessary assurances and certifications.
Please note that two of these forms—the
SF 424 and the Department of Education
Supplemental Information form SF
424—have replaced the ED 424
(Application for Federal Education
Assistance.)
• 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 in this paragraph 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 from
Grants.gov an automatic notification of
receipt that contains a Grants.gov
tracking number. (This notification
indicates receipt by Grants.gov only, not
receipt by the Department.) The
Department will then retrieve your
application from Grants.gov and send a
second confirmation to you by e-mail.
This second notification indicates that
the Department has received your
application and has assigned your
application a PR/Award number (an EDspecified 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 Technical Issues With the
Grants.gov System: If you are
experiencing problems submitting your
application through Grants.gov, please
contact the Grants.gov Support Desk at
1–800–518–4726. You may obtain a
Grants.gov Support Desk Case Number
and must keep a record of it.
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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. 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: The extensions to which we refer 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 application deadline date and time or if
the technical problem you experienced is
unrelated to the Grants.gov system.
Exception to Electronic Submission
Requirement: You qualify for an
exception to the electronic submission
requirement, and may submit your
application in paper format, if you are
unable to submit an application through
the Grants.gov system because—
• You do not have access to the
Internet; or
• You do not have the capacity to
upload large documents to the
Grants.gov system;
and
• No later than two weeks before the
application deadline date (14 calendar
days or, if the fourteenth calendar day
before the application deadline date
falls on a Federal holiday, the next
business day following the Federal
holiday), you mail or fax a written
statement to the Department, explaining
which of the two grounds for an
exception prevent you from using the
Internet to submit your application. If
you mail your written statement to the
Department, it must be postmarked no
later than two weeks before the
application deadline date. If you fax
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your written statement to the
Department, we must receive the faxed
statement no later than two weeks
before the application deadline date.
Address and mail or fax your
statement to: Darlene Collins, U.S.
Department of Education, 1990 K Street,
NW., 6th floor, Washington, DC 20006–
8513 Telephone: (202) 502–7576 or by
e-mail: darlene.collins@ed.gov; FAX:
(202) 502–7861 or Kelley Harris,
Telephone: (202) 219–7083 or by e-mail:
kelley.harris@ed.gov.
Your paper application must be
submitted in accordance with the mail
or hand delivery instructions described
in this notice.
b. Submission of Paper Applications
by Mail.
If you qualify for an exception to the
electronic submission requirement, you
may mail (through the U.S. Postal
Service or a commercial carrier) your
application to the Department. 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 84.031T,
84.031N or 84.031W), 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
84.031T, 84.031N or 84.031W), 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.
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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 qualify for an exception to the
electronic submission requirement, you
(or a courier service) may deliver your
paper application to the Department by
hand. You 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 84.031T, 84.031N or
84.031W), 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 11 of the SF 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
1. Selection Criteria: The selection
criteria for this program are in 34 CFR
607.22(a)–(g). Applicants must address
each of the following selection criteria
(separately for each proposed activity).
The total weight of the selection criteria
is 100 points; the weight of each
criterion is noted in parentheses.
(a) Quality of The Applicant’s
Comprehensive Development Plan
(Total 25 Points).
(b) Quality of Activity Objectives
(Total 15 Points).
(c) Quality of Implementation Strategy
(Total 20 Points).
(d) Quality of Key Personnel (Total 7
Points).
(e) Quality of Project Management
Plan (Total 10 Points).
(f) Quality of Evaluation Plan (Total
15 Points).
(g) Budget (Total 8 Points).
2. Review and Selection Process: For
five-year individual development
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grants, five-year cooperative
arrangement development grants, and
one-year construction and renovation
grants, awards will be made in rank
order according to the average score
received from a panel of three readers.
Tie-breaker for Development Grants.
In tie-breaking situations for
development grants described in 34 CFR
607.23(b), the regulations for the Title III
Part A programs require that we award
one additional point to an application
from an IHE that has an endowment
fund for which the market value per
FTE student is less than the comparable
average per FTE student at a similar
type IHE. We also award one additional
point to an application from an IHE that
had expenditures for library materials
per FTE student that are less than the
comparable average per FTE student at
a similar type IHE.
For the purpose of these funding
considerations, we use 2004–2005 data.
If a tie remains after applying the tiebreaker mechanism above, priority will
be given in the case of applicants for: (a)
Individual development grants to
applicants that have the lowest
endowment values per FTE student; and
(b) cooperative arrangement
development grants to applicants in
accordance with section 394(b) of the
HEA, if the Secretary determines that
the cooperative arrangement is
geographically and economically sound
or will benefit the applicant institution.
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
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most current performance and financial
expenditure information as specified by
the Secretary in 34 CFR 75.118, 34 CFR
75.720 and in 34 CFR 606.31.
4. Performance Measures: The
Secretary has established the following
key performance measures for assessing
the effectiveness of the Title III, Part A
programs: (1) The number of full-time
degree-seeking undergraduates enrolling
at IHEs. Note that this is a long-term
measure, which will be used to
periodically gauge performance,
beginning in FY 2009; (2) The
percentage of full-time undergraduate
students who were in their first year of
postsecondary enrollment in the
previous year and are enrolled in the
current year at the same institution; (3)
The percentage of students enrolled at
4-year IHEs graduating within 6 years of
enrollment; and (4) The percentage of
students enrolled at 2-year IHEs
graduating within 3 years of enrollment.
VII. Agency Contacts
For Further Information Contact:
Darlene Collins, Team Leader, U.S.
Department of Education, 1990 K Street,
NW., 6th Floor, Washington, DC 20006–
8513. Telephone: (202) 502–7576 or by
e-mail: darlene.collins.ed.gov or Kelley
Harris, telephone: (202) 219–7083 or by
e-mail: Kelley.harris@ed.gov.
If you use a telecommunications
device for the deaf (TDD), you may call
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
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all other documents of this Department
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text or Adobe Portable Document
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following site: https://www.ed.gov/news/
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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
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edition of the Federal Register and the Code
of Federal Regulations is available on GPO
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James F. Manning,
Delegated the Authority of Assistant Secretary
for Postsecondary Education.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Study of the Potential Benefits of
Distributed Generation and RateRelated Issues That May Impede Their
Expansion
Office of Electricity Delivery
and Energy Reliability (OE), Department
of Energy.
ACTION: Notice of availability of a study
of the potential benefits of distributed
generation and rate-related issues that
may impede their expansion, and
request for public comment.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: The Department of Energy
(DOE) hereby gives notice that it has
issued a ‘‘Study of the Potential Benefits
of Distributed Generation and RateRelated Issues That May Impede Their
Expansion’’ (DG Study). The DG Study
is an analysis called for by Section 1817
of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (EPAct
2005). Through this Notice, DOE invites
public review of the DG Study and
submittal of comments on it. DOE
requests that comments be submitted
electronically (preferably Microsoft
Word .doc format), although written
comments may be submitted as well.
Submissions should include a cover
page containing the reviewer’s name,
affiliation, telephone number, mailing
address, and e-mail address.
Copies of Section 1817 of EPAct 2005
and of the DG Study are available and
may be downloaded from the OE Web
site: https://www.oe.energy.gov.
DATES: Comments, and other pertinent
information offered in response to this
Notice must be submitted to and
received by DOE no later than April 2,
2007 at any of the addresses listed in the
ADDRESSES section.
ADDRESSES: Reviews prepared in
electronic formats may be uploaded
directly, via the Internet at: https://
www.oe.energy.gov/epa_sec1817.htm.
Links to this Web page may also be
found on the OE Web site.
Comments may also be sent by regular
mail to: Mario Sciulli, U.S. Department
of Energy, National Energy Technology
Laboratory, P.O. Box 10940, MS 922–
342C, Pittsburgh, PA 15236; or by e-mail
to: mario.sciulli@netl.doe.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Mario Sciulli, U.S. Department of
Energy, National Energy Technology
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342C, Pittsburgh, PA 15236, e-mail
address: mario.sciulli@netl.doe.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
Section 1817 of the Energy Policy Act
of 2005 requires that DOE, in
consultation with the Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission (FERC),
conduct a study of the potential benefits
of cogeneration and small power
production. DOE also must analyze the
impact of regulatory mandates, tariffs,
rate structures and similar policies on
the proliferation of distributed energy
technologies. Section 1817 further
requires that DOE recommend a
methodology for valuing the benefits of
distributed generation (DG).
To initiate the DG Study DOE
published a ‘‘notice of inquiry and
request for public comment’’ in the
Federal Register on January 30, 2006
(71 FR 4904). The notice requested
public input (such as narratives of
experiences, data, case studies, reports
and results of analyses, etc.) pertaining
to the planning, installation,
commissioning and operation of
distributed energy systems. The notice
also invited interested parties to submit
case studies and similar information
depicting the impact of regulations,
statutes, codes, tariffs, rate structures
and other similar policies on the various
aspects of DG, combined heat and
power (CHP) systems, and related
distributed energy technologies. A copy
of the January 30, 2006 notice is
available on the OE Web page.
II. DG Study, Request for Public Review
and Comment, and Report
A. DG Study
DOE has considered and analyzed
comments and supporting information
received in response to the notice of
January 30, 2006, and has completed a
DG Study. DOE is hereby announcing
that the DG Study is available for public
review and inviting all interested parties
to submit comments on the DG Study.
B. Submission of Comments
In accordance with Section 1817, DOE
requests written comments from
interested parties on all aspects of the
DG Study. DOE is especially interested
in receiving comments from persons
with particular knowledge of the legal,
economic and technical elements
related to the benefits and rate-related
issues concerning distributed
generation.
C. Report
At the end of the public review period
specified in the DATES section of this
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Office of Postsecondary Education; Overview Information; American
Indian Tribally Controlled Colleges and Universities, Alaska Native-
Serving Institutions, and Native Hawaiian-Serving Institutions
programs; Notice Inviting Applications for New Awards for Fiscal Year
(FY) 2007
Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) Numbers: 84.031T,
84.031N and 84.031W.
Dates:
Applications Available: March 1, 2007.
Deadline for Transmittal of Applications: April 16, 2007.
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Deadline for Intergovernmental Review: June 14, 2007.
Eligible Applicants: Institutions of higher education (IHEs) that
qualify as eligible institutions under the American Indian Tribally
Controlled Colleges and Universities (TCCU), the Alaska Native-Serving
Institutions (AN), and the Native Hawaiian-Serving Institutions (NH)
programs may apply for grants under this notice. These programs are
authorized by Title III, Part A of the Higher Education Act of 1965, as
amended (HEA). To qualify as an eligible institution under any Title
III, Part A program, an institution must, among other requirements--
(1) Be accredited or preaccredited by a nationally recognized
accrediting agency or association that the Secretary has determined to
be a reliable authority as to the quality of education or training
offered;
(2) Be legally authorized by the State in which it is located to be
a junior college or to provide an educational program for which it
awards a bachelor's degree;
(3) Be designated as an ``eligible institution'' by demonstrating
that it: (A) Has an enrollment of needy students as described in 34 CFR
607.3; and (B) has low average educational and general expenditures per
full-time equivalent (FTE) undergraduate student as described in 34 CFR
607.4.
The Notice Inviting Applications for Designation as Eligible
Institutions for FY 2007 was published in the Federal Register on
January 8, 2007, 72 FR 760. The complete eligibility requirements for
the Title III, Part A programs are in 34 CFR 607.2 through 607.5 and
can be accessed from the following Web site: https://www.access.gpo.gov/
nara/cfr/waisidx_05/34cfr607_05.html.
Relationship Between the Title III, Part A Programs and the Hispanic-
Serving Institutions (HSI) Program
Note 1: A grantee under the Developing Hispanic-Serving
Institutions (HSI) program, which is authorized under Title V of the
HEA, may not receive a grant under any HEA, Title III, Part A
programs. The Title III, Part A programs include: The Strengthening
Institutions Program (SIP), the TCCU program, and the AN and NH
programs. Further, a current HSI program grantee may not give up its
HSI grant in order to receive a grant under any Title III, Part A
program.
Note 2: An eligible HSI that does not fall within the limitation
described in Note 1, i.e., is not a current grantee under the HSI
program, may apply for a FY 2007 grant under all Title III, Part A
programs for which it is eligible, as well as under the HSI program.
However, a successful applicant may receive only one grant.
Note 3: An eligible IHE that submits more than one application
may only be awarded one individual development grant or one
cooperative arrangement development grant in a fiscal year.
Furthermore, we will not award a second cooperative arrangement
development grant to an otherwise eligible IHE for the same award
year as the IHE's existing cooperative arrangement development grant
award.
Note 4: The Department will make five-year awards for Individual
Development Grants and five-year awards for Cooperative Development
Grants in rank order from separate funding slates according to the
average score received from a panel of three readers.
However, the Department will use two funding slates each for the
one-year construction grants under the TCCU program and the one-year
renovations grants under the AN and NH programs. Slate number one will
contain the rank order scores of applicants that did not receive a
grant under the respective program in FY 2006. Slate number two will
contain the rank order scores of all remaining applicants. Awards under
the TCCU, AN and NH programs will be made first in rank order from
slate number one of the respective program. If funds remain after
awarding all approved applicants from slate number one, the remaining
awards will be made in rank order from slate number two of the
respective program. The Department has adopted this process for the
construction and renovation grants to comply with Section 313(b) of the
HEA, which directs the Secretary to give priority to applicants who are
not currently receiving a grant.
Estimated Available Funds: $23,570,000 for the TCCU program and
$11,785,000 for the AN and NH program's for FY 2007. A competition will
not be held in FY 2007 for the SIP. Instead, the Department intends to
use the grant slate developed for the SIP in FY 2006 to make new awards
in FY 2007 because a significant number of high-quality applicants
remained on the FY 2006 slate and limited funding is expected to be
available for new awards in FY 2007.
For specific funding information, see the chart in the Award
Information section of this notice.
Estimated Average Size of Awards: See chart.
Maximum Award Amounts: See chart. We will not fund any application
at an amount exceeding the maximum amounts specified in the chart for a
single budget period of 12 months. We may choose not to further
consider or review applications with budgets that exceed the maximum
amounts specified, if we conclude, during our initial review of the
application, that the proposed goals and objectives cannot be obtained
with the specified maximum amount.
Estimated Number of Awards: See chart.
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Estimated Estimated
Program name and type of award Maximum award number of average award
amount awards amount
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Tribally Controlled Colleges and Universities program (84.031T)
--5-year individual development grants...................... $475,000 2 $450,000
--1-year construction grants................................ 1,650,000 7 1,577,000
Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian programs (84.031N and 84.031W)
--5-year individual development grants...................... 500,000 1 500,000
--1-year renovation grants.................................. 750,000 4 710,000
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Note: The Department is not bound by any estimates in this
notice. Applicants should periodically check the Title III Part A
programs Web site for further information. The address is: https://
www.ed.gov/programs/iduestitle3a/.
Project Period: Up to 60 months for development grants and up to 12
months for construction and renovation grants.
Full Text of Announcement
I. Funding Opportunity Description
Purpose of Program: The TCCU, AN, and NH programs provide grants to
eligible institutions of higher education to enable them to improve
their academic quality, institutional
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management, and fiscal stability, and increase their self-sufficiency
and strengthen their capacity to make a substantial contribution to the
higher education resources of the Nation.
Program Authority: 20 U.S.C. 1057-1059d.
Applicable Regulations: (a) The Education Department General
Administrative Regulations (EDGAR) in 34 CFR parts 74, 75, 77, 79, 82,
84, 85, 86, 97, 98, and 99. (b) The regulations for this program in 34
CFR part 607.
II. Award Information
Type of Awards: Discretionary grants. Five-year individual
development grants; five-year cooperative arrangement development
grants; one-year TCCU construction grants, and one-year AN and NH
renovation grants will be awarded in FY 2007. Planning grants will not
be awarded in FY 2007.
Estimated Available Funds: $23,570,000 for the TCCU program and
$11,785,000 for the AN and NH programs for FY 2007.
A competition will not be held in FY 2007 for the SIP. Instead, the
Department intends to use the grant slate developed for the SIP in FY
2006 to make new awards in FY 2007 because a significant number of
high-quality applicants remained on the FY 2006 slate and limited
funding is expected to be available for new awards in FY 2007.
For specific funding information, see the chart in the Award
Information section of this notice.
Estimated Average Size of Awards: See chart.
Maximum Award Amounts: See chart.
We will not fund any application at an amount exceeding the maximum
amounts specified in this notice for a single budget period of 12
months. We may choose not to further consider or review applications
with budgets that exceed the maximum amounts specified, if we conclude,
during our initial review of the application, that the proposed goals
and objectives cannot be obtained with the specified maximum amount.
Estimated Number of Awards: See chart.
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Estimated Estimated
Program name and type of award Maximum award number of average award
amount awards amount
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Tribally Controlled Colleges and Universities Program (84.031T)
--5-year individual development grants...................... $475,000 2 $450,000
--1-year construction grants................................ 1,650,000 7 1,577,000
Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian program (84.031N and 84.031W)
--5-year individual development grants...................... 500,000 1 500,000
--1-year renovation grants.................................. 750,000 4 710,000
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Note: The Department is not bound by any estimates in this
notice. Applicants should periodically check the Title III Part A
programs Web site for further information. The address is: https://
www.ed.gov/programs/iduestitle3a/.
Project Period: Up to 60 months for development and up to 12 months
for construction and renovation grants.
III. Eligibility Information
1. Eligible Applicants: IHEs that qualify as eligible institutions
under the TCCU, AN and the NH programs may apply for grants under this
notice. These programs are authorized by Title III, Part A, of the HEA.
To qualify as an eligible institution under any Title III, Part A
program, an institution must, among other requirements--
(1) Be accredited or preaccredited by a nationally recognized
accrediting agency or association that the Secretary has determined to
be a reliable authority as to the quality of education or training
offered;
(2) Be legally authorized by the State in which it is located to be
a junior college or to provide an educational program for which it
awards a bachelor's degree;
(3) Be designated as an ``eligible institution'' by demonstrating
that it: (A) Has an enrollment of needy students as described in 34 CFR
607.3; and (B) has low average educational and general expenditures per
full-time equivalent (FTE) undergraduate student as described in 34 CFR
607.4.
The Notice Inviting Applications for Designation as Eligible
Institutions for FY 2007 was published in the Federal Register on
January 8, 2007, 72 FR 760. The complete eligibility requirements are
in 34 CFR 607.2 through 607.5 and can be accessed from the following
Web site: https://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/cfr/waisidx_05/34cfr607_
05.html.
Relationship Between the Title III, Part A Programs and the Hispanic-
Serving Institutions (HSI) Program
Note 1: A grantee under the HSI program, which is authorized
under Title V of the HEA, may not receive a grant under any HEA,
Title III, Part A program. The Title III, Part A programs include:
the SIP program, the TCCU program, and the AN, and NH programs.
Further, a current HSI program grantee may not give up its HSI grant
in order to receive a grant under any Title III, Part A program.
Note 2: An eligible HSI that does not fall within the limitation
described in Note 1, i.e., is not a current grantee under the HSI
program, may apply for a FY 2007 grant under all Title III, Part A
programs for which it is eligible, as well as under the HSI program.
However, a successful applicant may receive only one grant.
Note 3: An eligible IHE that submits more than one application
may only be awarded one individual development grant or one
cooperative arrangement development grant in a fiscal year.
Furthermore, we will not award a second cooperative arrangement
development grant to an otherwise eligible institution for the same
award year as the IHE's existing cooperative arrangement development
grant award.
Note 4: The Department will make five-year awards for Individual
Development Grants and five-year awards for Cooperative Development
Grants in rank order from separate funding slates according to the
average score received from a panel of three readers.
However, the Department will use two funding slates each for the
one-year construction grants under the TCCU program and the one-year
renovations grants under the AN and NH programs. Slate number one will
contain the rank order scores of applicants that did not receive a
grant under the respective program in FY 2006. Slate number two will
contain the rank order scores of all remaining applicants. Awards under
the TCCU, AN and NH programs will be made first in rank order from
slate number one of the respective program. If funds remain after
awarding all approved applicants from slate number one, the remaining
awards will be made in rank order from slate number two of the
respective program. The Department has adopted this process for the
construction and renovation grants to comply with Section 313(b) of the
HEA, which directs the Secretary to give
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priority to applicants who are not currently receiving a grant.
2. Cost Sharing or Matching: There are no cost sharing or matching
requirements, unless the grantee uses a portion of its grant for
establishing or improving an endowment fund. If a grantee uses a
portion of its grant for endowment fund purposes, it must match those
grant funds with non-Federal funds. 20 U.S.C. 1057(d)(2) and
1059c(c)(3)(B).
IV. Application and Submission Information
1. Address to Request Application Package: Darlene Collins, Team
Leader, U.S. Department of Education, 1990 K Street, NW., 6th Floor,
Washington, DC 20006-8513. Telephone: (202) 502-7576 or by e-mail:
darlene.collins@ed.gov; or Kelley Harris, Telephone: (202) 219-7083 or
by e-mail: kelley.harris@ed.gov.
If you use a telecommunications device for the deaf (TDD), you may
call the Federal Relay Service (FRS) at 1-800-877-8339.
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 in this section.
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 these programs.
Page Limits: We have established mandatory page limits for the
applications to be submitted under this notice. You must limit your
application to the equivalent of no more than 50 pages for an
individual development grant; 70 pages for a cooperative arrangement
development grant; and 35 pages for a TCCU construction or AN and NH
renovation grant under the Title III, Part A programs, using the
following standards:
A ``page'' is 8.5 x 11, on one side
only, with 1 inch margins at the top, bottom, and both sides. Page
numbers and an identifier may be within the 1'' margin.
Double space (no more than three lines per vertical inch)
all text in the application narrative, except titles, headings,
footnotes, quotations, references, captions and all text in charts,
tables, and graphs.
Use one of the following fonts: Times New Roman, Courier,
Courier New or Arial. Applications submitted in any other font
(including Times Roman and Arial Narrow) will be rejected.
Use not less than 12-point font.
The page limit does not apply to Part I, the Application for
Federal Assistance Face Sheet (SF 424); the Supplemental Information
for SF 424 form required by the Department of Education; Part II, the
Budget Information Summary Form (ED Form 524); and Part IV, the
Assurances and Certifications. The page limit also does not apply to a
Table of Contents and the Program Abstract. If you include any
attachments or appendices, these items will be counted as part of the
Program Narrative (Part III of the application) for purposes of the
page limit requirement. You must include your complete response to the
selection criteria in the program narrative.
We will reject your application if--
You apply these standards and exceed the page limit; or
You apply other standards and exceed the equivalent of the
page limit.
3. Submission Dates and Times:
Applications Available: March 1, 2007.
Deadline for Transmittal of Applications: April 16, 2007.
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 or by mail or hand delivery if you qualify
for an exception to the electronic submission requirement, please refer
to section IV. 6. Other Submission Requirements in this notice.
Individuals with disabilities who need an accommodation or
auxiliary aid in connection with the application process should contact
the person listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT in section VII
of this notice.
We do not consider an application that does not comply with the
deadline requirements.
Deadline for Intergovernmental Review: June 14, 2007.
4. Intergovernmental Review: This program is subject to Executive
Order 12372 and the regulations in 34 CFR part 79. Information about
Intergovernmental Review of Federal Programs under Executive Order
12372 is in the application package for these programs.
5. Funding Restrictions: We reference the regulations outlining
funding restrictions in the Applicable Regulations section of this
notice.
Applicability of Executive Order 13202.
Applicants that apply for construction funds under the Title III,
Part A Programs must comply with Executive Order 13202 signed by
President George W. Bush on February 17, 2001 and amended on April 6,
2001. This Executive order provides that recipients of Federal
construction funds may not ``require or prohibit bidders, offerors,
contractors, or subcontractors to enter into or adhere to agreements
with one or more labor organizations, on the same or other construction
project(s)'' or ``otherwise discriminate against bidders, offerors,
contractors, or subcontractors for becoming or refusing to become or
remain signatories or otherwise adhere to agreements with one or more
labor organizations, on the same or other construction project(s).''
However, the Executive order does not prohibit contractors or
subcontractors from voluntarily entering into these agreements.
Projects funded under these programs that include construction activity
will be provided a copy of this Executive order and will be asked to
certify that they will adhere to it.
6. Other Submission Requirements: Applications for grants under
these programs must be submitted electronically unless you qualify for
an exception to this requirement in accordance with the instructions in
this section.
a. Electronic Submission of Applications. Applications for grants
under the TCCU, AN and NH programs (CFDA Numbers 84.031T, 84.031N and
84.031W) must be submitted electronically using 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.
We will reject your application if you submit it in paper format
unless, as described elsewhere in this section, you qualify for one of
the exceptions to the electronic submission requirement and submit, no
later than two weeks before the application deadline date, a written
statement to the Department that you qualify for one of these
exceptions. Further information regarding the calculation of the date
that is two weeks before the application deadline date is provided
later in this section under Exception to Electronic Submission
Requirement.
You may access the electronic grant application for the TCCU, AN
and NH programs 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 (e.g.,
search for 84.031, not 84.031W).
Please note the following:
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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 date and time
stamped. Your application must be fully uploaded and submitted, and
must be date and 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 and 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 and 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 submission 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/applicants/get_registered.jsp). These steps
include (1) registering your organization, a multi-part process that
includes registration with the Central Contractor Registry (CCR); (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/section910/
Grants.govRegistrationBrochure.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 registration steps to
allow you to successfully submit an application via Grants.gov. In
addition you will need to update your CCR registration on an annual
basis. This may take three or more business days to complete.
You will not receive additional point value because you
submit your application in electronic format, nor will we penalize you
if you qualify for an exception to the electronic submission
requirement, as described elsewhere in this section, and submit your
application in paper format.
You must submit all documents electronically, including
all information typically provided on the following forms: Application
for Federal Assistance (SF 424), the Department of Education
Supplemental Information for SF 424, Budget Information--Non-
Construction Programs (ED 524), and all necessary assurances and
certifications. Please note that two of these forms--the SF 424 and the
Department of Education Supplemental Information form SF 424--have
replaced the ED 424 (Application for Federal Education Assistance.)
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 in this paragraph 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 from Grants.gov an automatic notification of receipt that
contains a Grants.gov tracking number. (This notification indicates
receipt by Grants.gov only, not receipt by the Department.) The
Department will then retrieve your application from Grants.gov and send
a second confirmation to you by e-mail. This second notification
indicates that the Department has received your application and has
assigned your application 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 Technical Issues
With the Grants.gov System: If you are experiencing problems submitting
your application through Grants.gov, please contact the Grants.gov
Support Desk at 1-800-518-4726. You may obtain a Grants.gov Support
Desk Case Number and must keep a record of it.
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. 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: The extensions to which we refer 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 application deadline date and time or if the technical problem
you experienced is unrelated to the Grants.gov system.
Exception to Electronic Submission Requirement: You qualify for an
exception to the electronic submission requirement, and may submit your
application in paper format, if you are unable to submit an application
through the Grants.gov system because--
You do not have access to the Internet; or
You do not have the capacity to upload large documents to
the Grants.gov system;
and
No later than two weeks before the application deadline
date (14 calendar days or, if the fourteenth calendar day before the
application deadline date falls on a Federal holiday, the next business
day following the Federal holiday), you mail or fax a written statement
to the Department, explaining which of the two grounds for an exception
prevent you from using the Internet to submit your application. If you
mail your written statement to the Department, it must be postmarked no
later than two weeks before the application deadline date. If you fax
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your written statement to the Department, we must receive the faxed
statement no later than two weeks before the application deadline date.
Address and mail or fax your statement to: Darlene Collins, U.S.
Department of Education, 1990 K Street, NW., 6th floor, Washington, DC
20006-8513 Telephone: (202) 502-7576 or by e-mail:
darlene.collins@ed.gov; FAX: (202) 502-7861 or Kelley Harris,
Telephone: (202) 219-7083 or by e-mail: kelley.harris@ed.gov.
Your paper application must be submitted in accordance with the
mail or hand delivery instructions described in this notice.
b. Submission of Paper Applications by Mail.
If you qualify for an exception to the electronic submission
requirement, you may mail (through the U.S. Postal Service or a
commercial carrier) your application to the Department. 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 84.031T, 84.031N or 84.031W), 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 84.031T, 84.031N or 84.031W), 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 qualify for an exception to the electronic submission
requirement, you (or a courier service) may deliver your paper
application to the Department by hand. You 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 84.031T, 84.031N or 84.031W), 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 11 of the SF 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
1. Selection Criteria: The selection criteria for this program are
in 34 CFR 607.22(a)-(g). Applicants must address each of the following
selection criteria (separately for each proposed activity). The total
weight of the selection criteria is 100 points; the weight of each
criterion is noted in parentheses.
(a) Quality of The Applicant's Comprehensive Development Plan
(Total 25 Points).
(b) Quality of Activity Objectives (Total 15 Points).
(c) Quality of Implementation Strategy (Total 20 Points).
(d) Quality of Key Personnel (Total 7 Points).
(e) Quality of Project Management Plan (Total 10 Points).
(f) Quality of Evaluation Plan (Total 15 Points).
(g) Budget (Total 8 Points).
2. Review and Selection Process: For five-year individual
development grants, five-year cooperative arrangement development
grants, and one-year construction and renovation grants, awards will be
made in rank order according to the average score received from a panel
of three readers.
Tie-breaker for Development Grants. In tie-breaking situations for
development grants described in 34 CFR 607.23(b), the regulations for
the Title III Part A programs require that we award one additional
point to an application from an IHE that has an endowment fund for
which the market value per FTE student is less than the comparable
average per FTE student at a similar type IHE. We also award one
additional point to an application from an IHE that had expenditures
for library materials per FTE student that are less than the comparable
average per FTE student at a similar type IHE.
For the purpose of these funding considerations, we use 2004-2005
data.
If a tie remains after applying the tie-breaker mechanism above,
priority will be given in the case of applicants for: (a) Individual
development grants to applicants that have the lowest endowment values
per FTE student; and (b) cooperative arrangement development grants to
applicants in accordance with section 394(b) of the HEA, if the
Secretary determines that the cooperative arrangement is geographically
and economically sound or will benefit the applicant institution.
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
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most current performance and financial expenditure information as
specified by the Secretary in 34 CFR 75.118, 34 CFR 75.720 and in 34
CFR 606.31.
4. Performance Measures: The Secretary has established the
following key performance measures for assessing the effectiveness of
the Title III, Part A programs: (1) The number of full-time degree-
seeking undergraduates enrolling at IHEs. Note that this is a long-term
measure, which will be used to periodically gauge performance,
beginning in FY 2009; (2) The percentage of full-time undergraduate
students who were in their first year of postsecondary enrollment in
the previous year and are enrolled in the current year at the same
institution; (3) The percentage of students enrolled at 4-year IHEs
graduating within 6 years of enrollment; and (4) The percentage of
students enrolled at 2-year IHEs graduating within 3 years of
enrollment.
VII. Agency Contacts
For Further Information Contact: Darlene Collins, Team Leader, U.S.
Department of Education, 1990 K Street, NW., 6th Floor, Washington, DC
20006-8513. Telephone: (202) 502-7576 or by e-mail:
darlene.collins.ed.gov or Kelley Harris, telephone: (202) 219-7083 or
by e-mail: Kelley.harris@ed.gov.
If you use a telecommunications device for the deaf (TDD), you may
call 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
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/.
Dated: February 23, 2007.
James F. Manning,
Delegated the Authority of Assistant Secretary for Postsecondary
Education.
[FR Doc. E7-3612 Filed 2-28-07; 8:45 am]
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