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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools;
Overview Information; Mentoring
Programs; Notice Inviting Applications
for New Awards for Fiscal Year (FY)
2007
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Catalog of Federal Domestic
Assistance (CFDA) Number: 84.184B.
Dates: Applications Available: April
11, 2007. Deadline for Transmittal of
Applications: May 23, 2007. Deadline
for Intergovernmental Review: July 23,
2007.
Eligible Applicants: (1) Local
educational agencies (LEAs); (2)
Nonprofit, community-based
organizations (CBOs), which may
include faith-based organizations; and
(3) A partnership between an LEA and
a non-profit CBO.
Note: The Secretary is limiting eligibility
under the Mentoring Programs grant
competition (CFDA Number 84.184B) to
applicants that do not currently have an
active grant under this program. For the
purpose of this eligibility requirement, a
grant is considered active until the end of the
grant’s project or funding period, including
any extensions of those periods that extend
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the grantee’s authority to obligate funds (71
FR 70369).
Estimated Available Funds:
$29,347,000. Contingent upon the
availability of funds and the quality of
applications, we may make additional
awards later in FY 2007 and in
subsequent years from the rank-ordered
list of unfunded applications from this
competition.
Estimated Range of Awards:
$100,000–$200,000.
Estimated Average Size of Awards:
$150,000.
Estimated Number of Awards: 198.
Note: The Department is not bound by any
estimates in this notice.
Project Period: Up to 36 months.
Full Text of Announcement
I. Funding Opportunity Description
Purpose of Program: This program
provides assistance to promote
mentoring programs for children with
greatest need that: (1) Assist these
children in receiving support and
guidance from a mentor; (2) improve the
academic performance of the children;
(3) improve interpersonal relationships
between the children and their peers,
teachers, other adults, and family
members; (4) reduce the dropout rate of
the children; and (5) reduce juvenile
delinquency and involvement in gangs
by the children.
Priorities: The following absolute and
competitive preference priorities are
from the notice of final priorities,
requirements, and selection criteria for
this program published in the Federal
Register on May 28, 2004 (69 FR 30794).
Absolute Priority: For FY 2007 and
any subsequent year in which we make
awards on the basis of the list of
unfunded applications from this
competition, this priority is an absolute
priority. Under 34 CFR 75.105(c)(3) we
consider only applications that meet
this priority.
This priority is:
This priority supports projects that
address the academic and social needs
of children with the greatest need
through school-based mentoring
programs and activities and provide
these students with mentors. These
programs and activities must serve
children with the greatest need in one
or more grades 4 through 8 living in
rural areas, high-crime areas, or troubled
home environments, or who attend
schools with violence problems.
Competitive Preference Priority:
Within this absolute priority, we give
competitive preference to applications
that address the following priority.
Under 34 CFR 75.105(c)(2)(i) we will
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award an additional five points to an
application that meets this priority.
This priority is:
We will award five additional points
to a consortium of eligible applicants
that includes either: (a) At least one
local educational agency (LEA) and at
least one community-based organization
(CBO) that is not a school and that
provides services to youth and families
in the community; or (b) at least one
private school that qualifies as a
nonprofit CBO and at least one other
CBO that is not a school and that
provides services to youth and families
in the community.
The consortium must designate one
member of the group to apply for the
grant, unless the consortium is itself
eligible as a partnership between a LEA
and a nonprofit CBO.
To receive this competitive
preference, the applicant must clearly
identify the agencies that comprise the
consortium and must include a detailed
plan of their working relationship and
of the activities that each member will
perform, including a project budget that
reflects the contractual disbursements to
the members of the consortium. For the
purpose of this priority, a ‘‘consortium’’
means a group application in
accordance with the provisions of 34
CFR 75.127 through 75.129.
Program Authority: 20 U.S.C. 7140.
Applicable Regulations: (a) The
Education Department General
Administrative Regulations (EDGAR) in
34 CFR parts 74, 75, 77, 79, 80, 81, 82,
84, 85, 86, 97, 98, 99 and 299. (b) The
notice of final priorities, requirements,
and selection criteria published in the
Federal Register on May 28, 2004 (69
FR 30794).
(c) The notice of final eligibility
requirement for the Office of Safe and
Drug-Free Schools discretionary grant
programs published in the Federal
Register on December 4, 2006 (71 FR
70369).
Note: The regulations in 34 CFR part 79
apply to all applicants except federally
recognized Indian tribes.
Note: The regulations in 34 CFR part 86
apply to IHEs only.
II. Award Information
Type of Award: Discretionary grants.
Estimated Available Funds:
$29,347,000. Contingent upon the
availability of funds and the quality of
applications, we may make additional
awards later in FY 2007 and in
subsequent years from the rank-ordered
list of unfunded applications from this
competition.
Estimated Range of Awards:
$100,000–$200,000.
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Estimated Average Size of Awards:
$150,000.
Estimated Number of Awards: 198.
Note: The Department is not bound by any
estimates in this notice.
Project Period: Up to 36 months.
III. Eligibility Information
1. Eligible Applicants: (1) LEAs; (2)
Non-profit CBOs, which may include
faith-based organizations; and (3) A
partnership between an LEA and a nonprofit CBO.
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Note: The Secretary is limiting eligibility
under the Mentoring Programs grant
competition (CFDA Number 84.184B) to
applicants that do not currently have an
active grant under this program. For the
purpose of this eligibility requirement, a
grant is considered active until the end of the
grant’s project or funding period, including
any extensions of those periods that extend
the grantee’s authority to obligate funds (71
FR 70369).
2. Cost Sharing or Matching: This
program does not involve cost sharing
or matching.
3. Other:
(a) To be eligible for funding, an
applicant must include in its
application an assurance that it will: (1)
Establish clear, measurable performance
goals; and (2) collect and report to the
Department data related to the
established Government Performance
and Results Act (GPRA) performance
indicators for the Mentoring Programs
grant competition. We will reject any
application that does not contain this
assurance.
(b) To be eligible for funding, each
CBO must include in its application an
assurance that: (a) It is an eligible
applicant under the definitions
provided in the application package; (b)
timely and meaningful consultation
with an LEA or private school has taken
place during the design and/or
development of the proposed program;
(c) LEA or private school staff will
participate in the identification and
referral of students to the CBO’s
proposed program; and (d) the LEA or
private school will participate in the
collection of data related to the
established GPRA performance
measures for the Mentoring Programs
grant competition.
4. Equitable Participation by Private
School Children and Teachers: LEAs are
required to provide for the equitable
participation of private school children,
their teachers, and other educational
personnel in private schools located in
areas served by the grant recipient.
In order to ensure that grant program
activities address the needs of private
school children, the LEA must engage in
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timely and meaningful consultation
with private school officials during the
design and development of the program.
This consultation must take place before
any decision is made that affects the
opportunities of eligible private school
children, teachers, and other
educational personnel to participate.
In order to ensure equitable
participation of private school children,
teachers, and other educational
personnel, the LEA must consult with
private school officials on issues such
as: How children’s needs will be
identified; what services will be offered;
how and where the services will be
provided; who will provide the services;
how the services will be assessed and
how the results of assessment will be
used to improve those services; the
amount of funds available for services;
the size and scope of the services to be
provided; how and when decisions
about the delivery of services will be
made; and the provision of contract
services through potential third-party
providers.
See Section 9501 of the Elementary
and Secondary Education Act of 1965,
as reauthorized by the No Child Left
Behind Act of 2001 (ESEA).
5. Maintenance of Effort: Under
section 9521 of the ESEA, an LEA may
receive a grant under the Mentoring
Programs grant competition only if the
State educational agency finds that the
combined fiscal effort per student or the
aggregate expenditures of the agency
and the State with respect to the
provision of free public education by
the LEA for the preceding fiscal year
was not less than 90 percent of the
combined fiscal effort or aggregate
expenditures for the second preceding
fiscal year.
IV. Application Submission
Information
1. Address to Request Application
Package: Education Publications Center
(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.
You may also access the electronic
version of the application at the
following Web sites: https://
www.grants.gov or https://www.ed.gov/
programs/dvpmentoring/.
If you request an application from ED
Pubs, be sure to identify this
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competition as follows: CFDA number
84.184B.
Individuals with disabilities may
obtain a copy of the application package
in an alternative format (e.g., Braille,
large print, audiotape, or computer
diskette) on request to the contact
person listed in Section VII of this
notice under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
CONTACT.
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 program narrative
section should not exceed 25 doublespaced pages using a standard font no
smaller than 12-point, with 1-inch
margins (top, bottom, left, and right).
The narrative should follow the format
and sequence of the selection criteria.
3. Submission Dates and Times:
Applications Available: April 11,
2007.
Deadline for Transmittal of
Applications: May 23, 2007.
Applications for grants under the
Mentoring Program 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.
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.
Deadline for Intergovernmental review:
July 23, 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 this
program.
5. Funding Restrictions: Grant funds
may not be used to (1) Directly
compensate mentors; (2) obtain
educational or other materials or
equipment that would otherwise be
used in the ordinary course of the
grantee’s operations; or (3) support
litigation of any kind. We reference
additional regulations outlining funding
restrictions in the Applicable
Regulations section of this notice.
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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.
To comply with the President’s
Management Agenda, we are
participating as a partner in the
Governmentwide Grants.gov Apply site.
The Mentoring Program, CFDA Number
84.184B, is included in this project. We
request your participation in Grants.gov.
If you choose to submit your
application electronically, you must use
the Governmentwide 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 the Mentoring Programs
at https://www.Grants.gov. You must
search for the downloadable application
package for this competition by the
CFDA number. Do not include the
CFDA number’s alpha suffix in your
search (e.g., search for 84.184, not
84.184B).
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 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
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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 steps
in the Grants.gov registration process
(see https://www.grants.gov/applicants/
getlregistered.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 submit
successfully 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 submit your
application in paper format.
• If you submit your application
electronically, you must submit all
documents electronically, including all
information you typically provide 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 for SF 424—
have replaced the ED 424 (Application
for Federal Education Assistance).
• If you 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)
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format. If you upload a file type other
than the three file types specified in this
paragraph or submit a passwordprotected 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 then will retrieve your
application from Grants.gov and send a
second notification 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 must 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 described elsewhere in this
notice.
If you submit an application after 4:30
p.m., Washington, DC time, on the
application 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.
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Note: The extensions to which we refer 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.
(CFDA Number 84.184B), 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.
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 84.184B), 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 84.184B),
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.
(4) Any other proof of mailing
acceptable to the Secretary of the U.S.
Department of Education.
If you mail your application through
the U.S. Postal Service, we do not
accept either of the following as proof
of mailing:
(1) A private metered postmark.
(2) A mail receipt that is not dated by
the U.S. Postal Service.
If your application is postmarked after
the application deadline date, we will
not consider your application.
Note: 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,
including suffix letter, if any, of the
competition under which you are submitting
your application; and
(2) The Application Control Center will
mail to you a notification of receipt of your
grant application. If you do not receive this
notification within 15 business days from the
application deadline date, you should call
the U.S. Department of Education
Application Control Center at (202) 245–
6288.
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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 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,
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V. Application Review Information
Selection Criteria: The selection
criteria for this program are from the
notice of final priorities, requirements,
and selection criteria published in the
Federal Register on May 28, 2004 (69
FR 30794) and are in the application
package for this competition.
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: If funded, you are
expected to collect data on the key
GPRA performance measures for this
program and report those data to the
Department in your annual performance
report and final performance report. 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
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annual performance report that provides
the most current performance and
financial expenditure information as
specified by the Secretary in 34 CFR
75.118. We also may require more
frequent performance reports in
accordance with 34 CFR 75.720(c).
4. Performance Measures: We have
identified the following key GPRA
performance measures for assessing the
effectiveness of this program: (1) The
percentage of student/mentor matches
that are sustained for a period of twelve
months; (2) The percentage of mentored
students who demonstrate improvement
in core academic subjects as measured
by grade point average after 12 months;
and (3) The percentage of mentored
students whose number of unexcused
absences from school decreases.
VII. Agency Contacts
For Further Information Contact:
Bryan Williams, U.S. Department of
Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, SW.,
room 3E226, Washington, DC 20202–
6450. Telephone: (202) 260-2391 or by
e-mail: bryan.williams@ed.gov.
Earl Myers, Jr., U.S. Department of
Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, SW.,
room 3E254, Washington, DC 20202–
6450. Telephone: (202) 708–8846 or by
e-mail: earl.myers@ed.gov.
If you use a telecommunications
device for the deaf (TDD), you may call
the Federal Relay Service (FRS) at 1–
888–877–8339.
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.
You may also view this document in
text or PDF at the following site:https://
www.ed.gov/programs/dvpmentoring/
applicant.html.
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
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Deborah A. Price,
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ANR Pipeline Company; Notice of
Negotiated Rate Filing
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
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April 5, 2007.
Take notice that on March 30, 2007,
ANR Pipeline Company (ANR) tendered
for filing and approval a negotiated rate
agreement between ANR and Nexen
Marketing U.S.A., Inc. (Nexen). The
service agreement is being filed as a
negotiated rate because the parties have
agreed to a fixed rate for the term of the
contract.
ANR requests that the Commission
accept and approve the subject filing to
be effective April 1, 2007.
Any person desiring to intervene or to
protest this filing must file in
accordance with Rules 211 and 214 of
the Commission’s Rules of Practice and
Procedure (18 CFR 385.211 and
385.214). Protests will be considered by
the Commission in determining the
appropriate action to be taken, but will
not serve to make protestants parties to
the proceeding. Any person wishing to
become a party must file a notice of
intervention or motion to intervene, as
appropriate. Such notices, motions, or
protests must be filed in accordance
with the provisions of Section 154.210
of the Commission’s regulations (18 CFR
154.210). Anyone filing an intervention
or protest must serve a copy of that
document on the Applicant. Anyone
filing an intervention or protest on or
before the intervention or protest date
need not serve motions to intervene or
protests on persons other than the
Applicant.
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electronic submission of protests and
interventions in lieu of paper using the
‘‘eFiling’’ link at https://www.ferc.gov.
Persons unable to file electronically
should submit an original and 14 copies
of the protest or intervention to the
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission,
888 First Street, NE., Washington, DC
20426.
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should submit an original and 14 copies
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Online service, please e-mail
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(202) 502–8659.
Philis J. Posey,
Acting Secretary.
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[Docket No. RP99–301–154]
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ANR Pipeline Company; Notice of
Negotiated Rate Filing
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
April 5, 2007.
Take notice that on April 2, 2007,
ANR Pipeline Company (ANR) tendered
for filing and approval a negotiated rate
agreement between ANR and Tenaska
Gas Storage, L.L.C. (Tenaska). The
service agreement is being filed as a
negotiated rate because the parties have
agreed to a fixed rate for the term of the
contract.
ANR requests that the Commission
accept and approve the subject filing to
be effective April 1, 2007.
Any person desiring to intervene or to
protest this filing must file in
accordance with Rules 211 and 214 of
the Commission’s Rules of Practice and
Procedure (18 CFR 385.211 and
385.214). Protests will be considered by
the Commission in determining the
appropriate action to be taken, but will
not serve to make protestants parties to
the proceeding. Any person wishing to
become a party must file a notice of
intervention or motion to intervene, as
appropriate. Such notices, motions, or
protests must be filed in accordance
with the provisions of Section 154.210
of the Commission’s regulations (18 CFR
154.210). Anyone filing an intervention
or protest must serve a copy of that
document on the Applicant. Anyone
filing an intervention or protest on or
before the intervention or protest date
need not serve motions to intervene or
protests on persons other than the
Applicant.
The Commission encourages
electronic submission of protests and
interventions in lieu of paper using the
‘‘eFiling’’ link at https://www.ferc.gov.
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ANR Pipeline Company (ANR) tendered
for filing and approval a negotiated rate
agreement between ANR and Oneok
Energy Services Company, L.P. (Oneok).
The service agreement is being filed as
a negotiated rate because the parties
have agreed to a fixed reservation rate
for the term of the contract. ANR
requests that the Commission accept
and approve the subject filing to be
effective April 1, 2007.
Any person desiring to intervene or to
protest this filing must file in
accordance with Rules 211 and 214 of
the Commission’s Rules of Practice and
Procedure (18 CFR 385.211 and
385.214). Protests will be considered by
the Commission in determining the
appropriate action to be taken, but will
not serve to make protestants parties to
the proceeding. Any person wishing to
become a party must file a notice of
intervention or motion to intervene, as
appropriate. Such notices, motions, or
protests must be filed in accordance
with the provisions of Section 154.210
of the Commission’s regulations (18 CFR
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools; Overview Information;
Mentoring Programs; Notice Inviting Applications for New Awards for
Fiscal Year (FY) 2007
Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) Number: 84.184B.
Dates: Applications Available: April 11, 2007. Deadline for
Transmittal of Applications: May 23, 2007. Deadline for
Intergovernmental Review: July 23, 2007.
Eligible Applicants: (1) Local educational agencies (LEAs); (2)
Nonprofit, community-based organizations (CBOs), which may include
faith-based organizations; and (3) A partnership between an LEA and a
non-profit CBO.
Note: The Secretary is limiting eligibility under the Mentoring
Programs grant competition (CFDA Number 84.184B) to applicants that
do not currently have an active grant under this program. For the
purpose of this eligibility requirement, a grant is considered
active until the end of the grant's project or funding period,
including any extensions of those periods that extend the grantee's
authority to obligate funds (71 FR 70369).
Estimated Available Funds: $29,347,000. Contingent upon the
availability of funds and the quality of applications, we may make
additional awards later in FY 2007 and in subsequent years from the
rank-ordered list of unfunded applications from this competition.
Estimated Range of Awards: $100,000-$200,000.
Estimated Average Size of Awards: $150,000.
Estimated Number of Awards: 198.
Note: The Department is not bound by any estimates in this
notice.
Project Period: Up to 36 months.
Full Text of Announcement
I. Funding Opportunity Description
Purpose of Program: This program provides assistance to promote
mentoring programs for children with greatest need that: (1) Assist
these children in receiving support and guidance from a mentor; (2)
improve the academic performance of the children; (3) improve
interpersonal relationships between the children and their peers,
teachers, other adults, and family members; (4) reduce the dropout rate
of the children; and (5) reduce juvenile delinquency and involvement in
gangs by the children.
Priorities: The following absolute and competitive preference
priorities are from the notice of final priorities, requirements, and
selection criteria for this program published in the Federal Register
on May 28, 2004 (69 FR 30794).
Absolute Priority: For FY 2007 and any subsequent year in which we
make awards on the basis of the list of unfunded applications from this
competition, this priority is an absolute priority. Under 34 CFR
75.105(c)(3) we consider only applications that meet this priority.
This priority is:
This priority supports projects that address the academic and
social needs of children with the greatest need through school-based
mentoring programs and activities and provide these students with
mentors. These programs and activities must serve children with the
greatest need in one or more grades 4 through 8 living in rural areas,
high-crime areas, or troubled home environments, or who attend schools
with violence problems.
Competitive Preference Priority: Within this absolute priority, we
give competitive preference to applications that address the following
priority. Under 34 CFR 75.105(c)(2)(i) we will award an additional five
points to an application that meets this priority.
This priority is:
We will award five additional points to a consortium of eligible
applicants that includes either: (a) At least one local educational
agency (LEA) and at least one community-based organization (CBO) that
is not a school and that provides services to youth and families in the
community; or (b) at least one private school that qualifies as a
nonprofit CBO and at least one other CBO that is not a school and that
provides services to youth and families in the community.
The consortium must designate one member of the group to apply for
the grant, unless the consortium is itself eligible as a partnership
between a LEA and a nonprofit CBO.
To receive this competitive preference, the applicant must clearly
identify the agencies that comprise the consortium and must include a
detailed plan of their working relationship and of the activities that
each member will perform, including a project budget that reflects the
contractual disbursements to the members of the consortium. For the
purpose of this priority, a ``consortium'' means a group application in
accordance with the provisions of 34 CFR 75.127 through 75.129.
Program Authority: 20 U.S.C. 7140.
Applicable Regulations: (a) The Education Department General
Administrative Regulations (EDGAR) in 34 CFR parts 74, 75, 77, 79, 80,
81, 82, 84, 85, 86, 97, 98, 99 and 299. (b) The notice of final
priorities, requirements, and selection criteria published in the
Federal Register on May 28, 2004 (69 FR 30794).
(c) The notice of final eligibility requirement for the Office of
Safe and Drug-Free Schools discretionary grant programs published in
the Federal Register on December 4, 2006 (71 FR 70369).
Note: The regulations in 34 CFR part 79 apply to all applicants
except federally recognized Indian tribes.
Note: The regulations in 34 CFR part 86 apply to IHEs only.
II. Award Information
Type of Award: Discretionary grants.
Estimated Available Funds: $29,347,000. Contingent upon the
availability of funds and the quality of applications, we may make
additional awards later in FY 2007 and in subsequent years from the
rank-ordered list of unfunded applications from this competition.
Estimated Range of Awards: $100,000-$200,000.
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Estimated Average Size of Awards: $150,000.
Estimated Number of Awards: 198.
Note: The Department is not bound by any estimates in this
notice.
Project Period: Up to 36 months.
III. Eligibility Information
1. Eligible Applicants: (1) LEAs; (2) Non-profit CBOs, which may
include faith-based organizations; and (3) A partnership between an LEA
and a non-profit CBO.
Note: The Secretary is limiting eligibility under the Mentoring
Programs grant competition (CFDA Number 84.184B) to applicants that
do not currently have an active grant under this program. For the
purpose of this eligibility requirement, a grant is considered
active until the end of the grant's project or funding period,
including any extensions of those periods that extend the grantee's
authority to obligate funds (71 FR 70369).
2. Cost Sharing or Matching: This program does not involve cost
sharing or matching.
3. Other:
(a) To be eligible for funding, an applicant must include in its
application an assurance that it will: (1) Establish clear, measurable
performance goals; and (2) collect and report to the Department data
related to the established Government Performance and Results Act
(GPRA) performance indicators for the Mentoring Programs grant
competition. We will reject any application that does not contain this
assurance.
(b) To be eligible for funding, each CBO must include in its
application an assurance that: (a) It is an eligible applicant under
the definitions provided in the application package; (b) timely and
meaningful consultation with an LEA or private school has taken place
during the design and/or development of the proposed program; (c) LEA
or private school staff will participate in the identification and
referral of students to the CBO's proposed program; and (d) the LEA or
private school will participate in the collection of data related to
the established GPRA performance measures for the Mentoring Programs
grant competition.
4. Equitable Participation by Private School Children and Teachers:
LEAs are required to provide for the equitable participation of private
school children, their teachers, and other educational personnel in
private schools located in areas served by the grant recipient.
In order to ensure that grant program activities address the needs
of private school children, the LEA must engage in timely and
meaningful consultation with private school officials during the design
and development of the program. This consultation must take place
before any decision is made that affects the opportunities of eligible
private school children, teachers, and other educational personnel to
participate.
In order to ensure equitable participation of private school
children, teachers, and other educational personnel, the LEA must
consult with private school officials on issues such as: How children's
needs will be identified; what services will be offered; how and where
the services will be provided; who will provide the services; how the
services will be assessed and how the results of assessment will be
used to improve those services; the amount of funds available for
services; the size and scope of the services to be provided; how and
when decisions about the delivery of services will be made; and the
provision of contract services through potential third-party providers.
See Section 9501 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of
1965, as reauthorized by the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (ESEA).
5. Maintenance of Effort: Under section 9521 of the ESEA, an LEA
may receive a grant under the Mentoring Programs grant competition only
if the State educational agency finds that the combined fiscal effort
per student or the aggregate expenditures of the agency and the State
with respect to the provision of free public education by the LEA for
the preceding fiscal year was not less than 90 percent of the combined
fiscal effort or aggregate expenditures for the second preceding fiscal
year.
IV. Application Submission Information
1. Address to Request Application Package: Education Publications
Center (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.
You may also access the electronic version of the application at
the following Web sites: https://www.grants.gov or https://www.ed.gov/
programs/dvpmentoring/.
If you request an application from ED Pubs, be sure to identify
this competition as follows: CFDA number 84.184B.
Individuals with disabilities may obtain a copy of the application
package in an alternative format (e.g., Braille, large print,
audiotape, or computer diskette) on request to the contact person
listed in Section VII of this notice under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
CONTACT.
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 program narrative section should not exceed 25
double-spaced pages using a standard font no smaller than 12-point,
with 1-inch margins (top, bottom, left, and right). The narrative
should follow the format and sequence of the selection criteria.
3. Submission Dates and Times:
Applications Available: April 11, 2007.
Deadline for Transmittal of Applications: May 23, 2007.
Applications for grants under the Mentoring Program 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.
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. Deadline for Intergovernmental review: July 23, 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 this program.
5. Funding Restrictions: Grant funds may not be used to (1)
Directly compensate mentors; (2) obtain educational or other materials
or equipment that would otherwise be used in the ordinary course of the
grantee's operations; or (3) support litigation of any kind. We
reference additional regulations outlining funding restrictions in the
Applicable Regulations section of this notice.
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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.
To comply with the President's Management Agenda, we are
participating as a partner in the Governmentwide Grants.gov Apply site.
The Mentoring Program, CFDA Number 84.184B, is included in this
project. We request your participation in Grants.gov.
If you choose to submit your application electronically, you must
use the Governmentwide 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 the Mentoring
Programs at https://www.Grants.gov. You must search for the downloadable
application package for this competition by the CFDA number. Do not
include the CFDA number's alpha suffix in your search (e.g., search for
84.184, not 84.184B).
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 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 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 submit successfully 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 submit your application in paper format.
If you submit your application electronically, you must
submit all documents electronically, including all information you
typically provide 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 for SF 424--have replaced the ED 424
(Application for Federal Education Assistance).
If you 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 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 then will retrieve your application from Grants.gov and send
a second notification 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 must 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 described elsewhere in this notice.
If you submit an application after 4:30 p.m., Washington, DC time,
on the application 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.
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Note: The extensions to which we refer 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.
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
84.184B), 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
84.184B), 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.
(4) Any other proof of mailing acceptable to the Secretary of the
U.S. Department of Education.
If you mail your application through the U.S. Postal Service, we do
not accept either of the following as proof of mailing:
(1) A private metered postmark.
(2) A mail receipt that is not dated by the U.S. Postal Service.
If your application is postmarked after the application deadline
date, we will not consider your application.
Note: The U.S. Postal Service does not uniformly provide a dated
postmark. Before relying on this method, you should check with your
local post office.
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
84.184B), 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, including
suffix letter, if any, of the competition under which you are
submitting your application; and
(2) The Application Control Center will mail to you a
notification of receipt of your grant application. If you do not
receive this notification within 15 business days from the
application deadline date, you should call the U.S. Department of
Education Application Control Center at (202) 245-6288.
V. Application Review Information
Selection Criteria: The selection criteria for this program are
from the notice of final priorities, requirements, and selection
criteria published in the Federal Register on May 28, 2004 (69 FR
30794) and are in the application package for this competition.
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: If funded, you are expected to collect data on the
key GPRA performance measures for this program and report those data to
the Department in your annual performance report and final performance
report. 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. We also may require more frequent performance reports in
accordance with 34 CFR 75.720(c).
4. Performance Measures: We have identified the following key GPRA
performance measures for assessing the effectiveness of this program:
(1) The percentage of student/mentor matches that are sustained for a
period of twelve months; (2) The percentage of mentored students who
demonstrate improvement in core academic subjects as measured by grade
point average after 12 months; and (3) The percentage of mentored
students whose number of unexcused absences from school decreases.
VII. Agency Contacts
For Further Information Contact: Bryan Williams, U.S. Department of
Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, SW., room 3E226, Washington, DC 20202-
6450. Telephone: (202) 260-2391 or by e-mail: bryan.williams@ed.gov.
Earl Myers, Jr., U.S. Department of Education, 400 Maryland Avenue,
SW., room 3E254, Washington, DC 20202-6450. Telephone: (202) 708-8846
or by e-mail: earl.myers@ed.gov.
If you use a telecommunications device for the deaf (TDD), you may
call the Federal Relay Service (FRS) at 1-888-877-8339.
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.
You may also view this document in text or PDF at the following
site:https://www.ed.gov/programs/dvpmentoring/applicant.html.
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
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Access at: https://www.gpoaccess.gov/nara/.
Dated: April 6, 2007.
Deborah A. Price,
Assistant Deputy Secretary for Safe and Drug-Free Schools.
[FR Doc. E7-6863 Filed 4-10-07; 8:45 am]
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