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Office of Special Education and
Rehabilitative Services; Overview
Information; Migrant and Seasonal
Farmworkers Program; Notice Inviting
Applications for New Awards for Fiscal
Year (FY) 2008
Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance
(CFDA) Number: 84.128G.
Applications Available: February
20, 2008.
Deadline for Transmittal of
Applications: May 20, 2008.
Deadline for Intergovernmental
Review: July 21, 2008.
DATES:
Full Text of Announcement
I. Funding Opportunity Description
Purpose of Program: The purpose of
the Migrant and Seasonal Farmworkers
program is to provide grants for
vocational rehabilitation services to
individuals with disabilities who are
migrant and seasonal farmworkers, as
determined in accordance with rules
prescribed by the Secretary of Labor,
and to the family members who are
residing with such individuals (whether
or not such family members are
individuals with disabilities).
Priorities: This competition uses a
competitive preference priority and an
invitational priority. In accordance with
34 CFR 75.105(b)(2)(ii), the competitive
preference priority is from the
Education Department General
Administrative Regulations (34 CFR
75.225(c)(2)).
Competitive Preference Priority: For
FY 2008 and any subsequent year in
which we make awards based on the list
of unfunded applicants from this
competition, this priority is a
competitive preference priority. Under
34 CFR 75.105(c)(2)(i) we will award
five additional points to an application
that meets this priority.
This priority is:
Novice Applicant.
The applicant must be a novice
applicant. Novice applicant means any
applicant for a grant from the
Department that:
a. Has never received a grant or
subgrant under the Migrant and
Seasonal Farmworkers program;
b. Has never been a member of a
group application, submitted in
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accordance with 34 CFR 75.127 through
75.129, that received a grant under the
Migrant and Seasonal Farmworkers
program; and
c. Has not had an active discretionary
grant from the Federal Government in
the five years before the deadline date
for applications under the Migrant and
Seasonal Farmworkers program.
Invitational Priority: For FY 2008 and
any subsequent year in which we make
awards from the list of unfunded
applicants from this competition, this
priority is an invitational priority.
Under 34 CFR 75.105(c)(1) we do not
give an application that meets this
invitational priority a competitive or
absolute preference over other
applications.
This priority is:
The Secretary is especially interested
in applications that propose to engage
faith-based and community
organizations in the delivery of services
under the Migrant and Seasonal
Farmworkers program.
Program Authority: 29 U.S.C. 774.
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 and 99. (b) The
regulations in 34 CFR part 369.
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 institutions of higher education
only.
II. Award Information
Type of Award: Discretionary grants.
Estimated Available Funds: $337,700.
Contingent upon the availability of
funds and the quality of applications,
we may make additional awards in FY
2009 from the list of unfunded
applicants from this competition.
Estimated Range of Awards:
$145,000–$195,000.
Estimated Average Size of Awards:
$168,850.
Estimated Number of Awards: 2.
Note: The Department is not bound by any
estimates in this notice.
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Project Period: Up to 60 months.
III. Eligibility Information
1. Eligible Applicants: State
designated agencies (interpreted to
mean designated State agencies as
defined in section 7(8) of the
Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended);
nonprofit agencies working in
collaboration with a State designated
agency; and local agencies working in
collaboration with a State designated
agency.
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2. Cost Sharing or Matching: Cost
sharing of at least 10 percent of the total
cost of the project is required of grantees
under the Migrant and Seasonal
Farmworkers Program. See 29 U.S.C.
774(a)(1).
IV. Application and 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), call, toll free: 1–877–
576–7734.
You can contact ED Pubs at its Web
site, also: https://www.ed.gov/pubs/
edpubs.html or at its e-mail address:
edpubs@inet.ed.gov.
If you request an application package
from ED Pubs, be sure to identify this
competition as follows: CFDA number
84.128G.
Individuals with disabilities can
obtain a copy of the application package
in an alternative format (e.g., Braille,
large print, audiotape, or computer
diskette) by contacting the person or
team listed under Alternative Format in
section VIII of this notice.
2. Content and Form of Application
Submission: Requirements concerning
the content of an application, together
with the forms you must submit, are in
the application package for this
competition.
3. Submission Dates and Times:
Applications Available: February 20,
2008.
Deadline for Transmittal of
Applications: May 20, 2008.
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 in paper format 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.
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 in this notice. If
the Department provides an
accommodation or auxiliary aid to an
individual with a disability in
connection with the application
process, the individual’s application
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remains subject to all other
requirements and limitations in this
notice.
Deadline for Intergovernmental
Review: July 21, 2008.
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
competition.
5. Funding Restrictions: We reference
regulations outlining funding
restrictions in the Applicable
Regulations section in this notice.
6. Other Submission Requirements:
Applications for grants under this
competition 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
Migrant and Seasonal Farmworkers
Program, CFDA Number 84.128G, must
be submitted electronically using 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 email 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
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 Migrant and
Seasonal Farmworkers Program 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 84.128, not
84.128G).
Please note the following:
• 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.
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• 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://eGrants.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
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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
you typically provide 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 for 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 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,
toll free, 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.,
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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 under FOR
FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT in
section VII in this notice 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 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
your written statement to the
Department, we must receive the faxed
statement no later than two weeks
before the application deadline date.
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Address and mail or fax your
statement to: Sonja T. Turner, U.S.
Department of Education, 400 Maryland
Avenue, SW., room 5089, Potomac
Center Plaza (PCP), Washington, DC
20202–2740. FAX: (202) 245–7593.
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 84.128G),
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
84.128G), 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 qualify for an exception to the
electronic submission requirement, you
(or a courier service) may deliver your
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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 84.128G), 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 competition are from 34
CFR 75.210 and are listed in the
application package.
VI. Award Administration Information
1. Award Notices: If your application
is successful, we notify your U.S.
Representative and U.S. Senators and
send you a Grant Award Notification
(GAN). We may notify you informally,
also.
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 in this notice.
We reference the regulations outlining
the terms and conditions of an award in
the Applicable Regulations section in
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
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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 directed by
the Secretary under 34 CFR 75.118. The
Secretary may also require more
frequent performance reports under 34
CFR 75.720(c). For specific
requirements on reporting, please go to
https://www.ed.gov/fund/grant/apply/
appforms/appforms.html.
4. Performance Measures: The
Government Performance and Results
Act of 1993 (GPRA) directs Federal
departments and agencies to improve
the effectiveness of their programs by
engaging in strategic planning, setting
outcome-related goals for programs, and
measuring program results against those
goals. Program officials must develop
performance measures for all their grant
programs to assess their performance
and effectiveness. The Rehabilitation
Services Administration (RSA) has
established the following performance
measures for the Migrant and Seasonal
Farmworkers Program and will use
these measures to assess the
effectiveness of the program:
• Total number of migrant and
seasonal farmworkers with disabilities
who receive vocational rehabilitation
(VR) services from the project each
reporting period.
• Total number of migrant and
seasonal farmworkers with disabilities
in the project who also receive VR
services from the designated State unit
(the State VR agency) each reporting
period.
• Total number of migrant and
seasonal farmworkers with disabilities
in the project who achieved
employment outcomes each reporting
period (an employment outcome refers
to maintaining employment for at least
90 consecutive days).
• Total number of migrant and
seasonal farmworkers with disabilities
served by the project who exited the
project each reporting period without
achieving an employment outcome.
• Total number of migrant and
seasonal farmworkers with disabilities
served by the project who exited the
project each reporting period without
achieving an employment outcome but
who transfer to another State.
• Percentage of migrant and seasonal
farmworkers with disabilities served by
the project who achieved employment
outcomes each reporting period
(number of migrant and seasonal
farmworkers with disabilities served by
the project who achieved employment
outcomes each reporting period divided
by the number of migrant and seasonal
farmworkers with disabilities who
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received services through the project
that reporting period).
• Total number of migrant and
seasonal farmworkers with disabilities
served by the project who remain
employed three months after achieving
an employment outcome.
• Annual cost per participant who
achieved an employment outcome
(annual cost refers to the annual Federal
funds awarded to the project divided by
the actual number of migrant and
seasonal farmworkers in the project who
achieved employment outcomes that
reporting period).
Each grantee must annually report on
these measures in its annual
performance report. In addition, the
Migrant and Seasonal Farmworkers
Program is part of the Administration’s
job training and employment common
measures initiative. The common
measures for job training and
employment programs targeting adults
are as follows: Entered employment
(percentage employed in the first
quarter after program exit); retention in
employment (percentage of those
employed in the first quarter after exit
that were still employed in the second
and third quarter after program exit);
earnings increase (percentage change in
earnings pre-registration to postprogram and first quarter after exit to
third quarter after exit); and efficiency
(annual cost per participant). The
Department is currently working toward
the implementation of these common
measures. Each grantee will be required
to collect and report data for the
common measures when they are
approved for implementation.
We require reporting of annual
performance measures at the time of the
continuation award processing to ensure
that grantees separately report
information for individuals served
exclusively by their project.
VII. Agency Contact
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
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Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, SW.,
room 5089, PCP, Washington, DC
20202–2649. Telephone: (202) 245–7557
or e-mail: Sonja.Turner@ed.gov.
If you use a TDD, call the FRS, toll
free, at 1–800–877–8339.
VIII. Other Information
Alternative Format: Individuals with
disabilities can obtain this document
and a copy of the application package in
an alternative format (e.g., Braille, large
print, audiotape, or computer diskette)
by contacting the Grants and Contracts
Services Team, U.S. Department of
Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, SW.,
room 5075, PCP, Washington, DC
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7363. If you use a TDD, call the FRS,
toll-free, at 1–800–877–8339.
Electronic Access to This Document:
You can 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/
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To use PDF you must have Adobe
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is the document published in the Federal
Register. Free Internet access to the official
edition of the Federal Register and the Code
of Federal Regulations is available on GPO
Access at: https://www.gpoaccess.gov/nara/
index.html.
Dated: February 14, 2008.
Tracy R. Justesen,
Assistant Secretary for Special Education and
Rehabilitative Services.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Notice of Interim Approval
Southeastern Power
Administration, DOE.
ACTION: Notice of rate extension.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: The Deputy Secretary of
Energy, confirmed and approved on an
interim basis, Interim Rate Schedules
CBR–1–F, CSI–1–F, CEK–1–F, CM–1–F,
CC–1–G, CK–1–F, and CTV–1–F. The
rate schedules were approved on an
interim basis through September 30,
2008. The new rates take effect on
February 25, 2008, and are subject to
confirmation and approval on a final
basis by the Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission.
DATES: Approval of the rate schedules
on an interim basis is effective February
25, 2008 through September 30, 2008.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Leon Jourolmon, Assistant
Administrator, Finance & Marketing,
Southeastern Power Administration,
Department of Energy, 1166 Athens
Tech Road, Elberton, Georgia 30635–
6711, (706) 213–3800.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On
February 28, 2007, the Administrator of
Southeastern Power Administration
confirmed and approved Interim
Wholesale Power Rate Schedules CBR–
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period from February 25, 2007 to
February 24, 2008. A copy of the
February 28, 2007, Order is included in
the Background Section. This order
extends approval of these rate schedules
to September 30, 2008.
Dated: February 5, 2008.
Clay Sell,
Deputy Secretary of Energy.
[Rate Order: No. SEPA–49]
In the Matter of:
Southeastern Power Administration
Cumberland System Rates;
Order Confirming and Approving
Power Rates on an Interim Basis
Pursuant to Sections 302(a) and
301(b) of the Department of Energy
Organization Act, Public Law 95–91, the
functions of the Secretary of the Interior
and the Federal Power Commission
under Section 5 of the Flood Control
Act of 1944, 16 U.S.C. 825s, relating to
the Southeastern Power Administration
(Southeastern) were transferred to and
vested in the Secretary of Energy. By
Delegation Order No. 0204–108,
effective May 30, 1986, 51 FR 19744
(May 30, 1986), the Secretary of Energy
delegated to Southeastern’s
Administrator the authority to develop
power and transmission rates, delegated
to the Under Secretary of Energy the
authority to confirm, approve, and place
in effect such rates on an interim basis,
and delegated to the Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission (FERC) the
authority to confirm, approve, and place
into effect on a final basis or to
disapprove rates developed by the
Administrator under the delegation. On
December 6, 2001, the Secretary of
Energy issued Delegation Order No. 00–
037.00, granting the Deputy Secretary of
Energy authority to confirm, approve,
and place into effect Southeastern’s
rates on an interim basis. This rate order
is issued by the Deputy Secretary
pursuant to said notice.
Background
The Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission issued an order approving
Rate Schedules CBR–1–E, CSI–1–E,
CEK–1–E, CM–1–E, CC–1–F, CK–1–E
and SJ–1–B for the sale of power from
the Cumberland System August 2, 2004
(108 FERC ¶ 62,113). These rates were
approved for a period from October 1,
2003, to September 30, 2008. These rate
schedules were predicated on a
marketing policy that provides peaking
capacity, along with 1500 hours of
energy with each kilowatt of capacity, to
customers outside the Tennessee Valley
Authority (TVA) transmission system.
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services; Overview
Information; Migrant and Seasonal Farmworkers Program; Notice Inviting
Applications for New Awards for Fiscal Year (FY) 2008
Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) Number: 84.128G.
DATES: Applications Available: February 20, 2008.
Deadline for Transmittal of Applications: May 20, 2008.
Deadline for Intergovernmental Review: July 21, 2008.
Full Text of Announcement
I. Funding Opportunity Description
Purpose of Program: The purpose of the Migrant and Seasonal
Farmworkers program is to provide grants for vocational rehabilitation
services to individuals with disabilities who are migrant and seasonal
farmworkers, as determined in accordance with rules prescribed by the
Secretary of Labor, and to the family members who are residing with
such individuals (whether or not such family members are individuals
with disabilities).
Priorities: This competition uses a competitive preference priority
and an invitational priority. In accordance with 34 CFR
75.105(b)(2)(ii), the competitive preference priority is from the
Education Department General Administrative Regulations (34 CFR
75.225(c)(2)).
Competitive Preference Priority: For FY 2008 and any subsequent
year in which we make awards based on the list of unfunded applicants
from this competition, this priority is a competitive preference
priority. Under 34 CFR 75.105(c)(2)(i) we will award five additional
points to an application that meets this priority.
This priority is:
Novice Applicant.
The applicant must be a novice applicant. Novice applicant means
any applicant for a grant from the Department that:
a. Has never received a grant or subgrant under the Migrant and
Seasonal Farmworkers program;
b. Has never been a member of a group application, submitted in
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accordance with 34 CFR 75.127 through 75.129, that received a grant
under the Migrant and Seasonal Farmworkers program; and
c. Has not had an active discretionary grant from the Federal
Government in the five years before the deadline date for applications
under the Migrant and Seasonal Farmworkers program.
Invitational Priority: For FY 2008 and any subsequent year in which
we make awards from the list of unfunded applicants from this
competition, this priority is an invitational priority. Under 34 CFR
75.105(c)(1) we do not give an application that meets this invitational
priority a competitive or absolute preference over other applications.
This priority is:
The Secretary is especially interested in applications that propose
to engage faith-based and community organizations in the delivery of
services under the Migrant and Seasonal Farmworkers program.
Program Authority: 29 U.S.C. 774.
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 and 99. (b) The regulations in 34 CFR part
369.
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 institutions of
higher education only.
II. Award Information
Type of Award: Discretionary grants.
Estimated Available Funds: $337,700.
Contingent upon the availability of funds and the quality of
applications, we may make additional awards in FY 2009 from the list of
unfunded applicants from this competition.
Estimated Range of Awards: $145,000-$195,000.
Estimated Average Size of Awards: $168,850.
Estimated Number of Awards: 2.
Note: The Department is not bound by any estimates in this
notice.
Project Period: Up to 60 months.
III. Eligibility Information
1. Eligible Applicants: State designated agencies (interpreted to
mean designated State agencies as defined in section 7(8) of the
Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended); nonprofit agencies working in
collaboration with a State designated agency; and local agencies
working in collaboration with a State designated agency.
2. Cost Sharing or Matching: Cost sharing of at least 10 percent of
the total cost of the project is required of grantees under the Migrant
and Seasonal Farmworkers Program. See 29 U.S.C. 774(a)(1).
IV. Application and 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), call, toll free: 1-877-
576-7734.
You can contact ED Pubs at its Web site, also: https://www.ed.gov/
pubs/edpubs.html or at its e-mail address: edpubs@inet.ed.gov.
If you request an application package from ED Pubs, be sure to
identify this competition as follows: CFDA number 84.128G.
Individuals with disabilities can obtain a copy of the application
package in an alternative format (e.g., Braille, large print,
audiotape, or computer diskette) by contacting the person or team
listed under Alternative Format in section VIII of this notice.
2. Content and Form of Application Submission: Requirements
concerning the content of an application, together with the forms you
must submit, are in the application package for this competition.
3. Submission Dates and Times:
Applications Available: February 20, 2008.
Deadline for Transmittal of Applications: May 20, 2008.
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 in paper format 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.
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
in this notice. If the Department provides an accommodation or
auxiliary aid to an individual with a disability in connection with the
application process, the individual's application remains subject to
all other requirements and limitations in this notice.
Deadline for Intergovernmental Review: July 21, 2008.
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 competition.
5. Funding Restrictions: We reference regulations outlining funding
restrictions in the Applicable Regulations section in this notice.
6. Other Submission Requirements: Applications for grants under
this competition 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 Migrant and Seasonal Farmworkers
Program, CFDA Number 84.128G, must be submitted electronically using
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.
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 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 Migrant and
Seasonal Farmworkers Program 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 84.128, not 84.128G).
Please note the following:
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.
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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 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 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).
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, toll free, 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
under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT in section VII in this notice 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 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 your written statement to the Department, we must
receive the faxed statement no later than two weeks before the
application deadline date.
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Address and mail or fax your statement to: Sonja T. Turner, U.S.
Department of Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, SW., room 5089, Potomac
Center Plaza (PCP), Washington, DC 20202-2740. FAX: (202) 245-7593.
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 84.128G), 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
84.128G), 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 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 84.128G), 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 competition are
from 34 CFR 75.210 and are listed in the application package.
VI. Award Administration Information
1. Award Notices: If your application is successful, we notify your
U.S. Representative and U.S. Senators and send you a Grant Award
Notification (GAN). We may notify you informally, also.
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 in this notice.
We reference the regulations outlining the terms and conditions of
an award in the Applicable Regulations section in this notice and
include these and other specific conditions in the GAN. The GAN also
incorporates your approved application as part of your binding
commitments under the grant.
3. Reporting: At the end of your project period, you must submit a
final performance report, including financial information, as directed
by the Secretary. If you receive a multi-year award, you must submit an
annual performance report that provides the most current performance
and financial expenditure information as directed by the Secretary
under 34 CFR 75.118. The Secretary may also require more frequent
performance reports under 34 CFR 75.720(c). For specific requirements
on reporting, please go to https://www.ed.gov/fund/grant/apply/appforms/
appforms.html.
4. Performance Measures: The Government Performance and Results Act
of 1993 (GPRA) directs Federal departments and agencies to improve the
effectiveness of their programs by engaging in strategic planning,
setting outcome-related goals for programs, and measuring program
results against those goals. Program officials must develop performance
measures for all their grant programs to assess their performance and
effectiveness. The Rehabilitation Services Administration (RSA) has
established the following performance measures for the Migrant and
Seasonal Farmworkers Program and will use these measures to assess the
effectiveness of the program:
Total number of migrant and seasonal farmworkers with
disabilities who receive vocational rehabilitation (VR) services from
the project each reporting period.
Total number of migrant and seasonal farmworkers with
disabilities in the project who also receive VR services from the
designated State unit (the State VR agency) each reporting period.
Total number of migrant and seasonal farmworkers with
disabilities in the project who achieved employment outcomes each
reporting period (an employment outcome refers to maintaining
employment for at least 90 consecutive days).
Total number of migrant and seasonal farmworkers with
disabilities served by the project who exited the project each
reporting period without achieving an employment outcome.
Total number of migrant and seasonal farmworkers with
disabilities served by the project who exited the project each
reporting period without achieving an employment outcome but who
transfer to another State.
Percentage of migrant and seasonal farmworkers with
disabilities served by the project who achieved employment outcomes
each reporting period (number of migrant and seasonal farmworkers with
disabilities served by the project who achieved employment outcomes
each reporting period divided by the number of migrant and seasonal
farmworkers with disabilities who
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received services through the project that reporting period).
Total number of migrant and seasonal farmworkers with
disabilities served by the project who remain employed three months
after achieving an employment outcome.
Annual cost per participant who achieved an employment
outcome (annual cost refers to the annual Federal funds awarded to the
project divided by the actual number of migrant and seasonal
farmworkers in the project who achieved employment outcomes that
reporting period).
Each grantee must annually report on these measures in its annual
performance report. In addition, the Migrant and Seasonal Farmworkers
Program is part of the Administration's job training and employment
common measures initiative. The common measures for job training and
employment programs targeting adults are as follows: Entered employment
(percentage employed in the first quarter after program exit);
retention in employment (percentage of those employed in the first
quarter after exit that were still employed in the second and third
quarter after program exit); earnings increase (percentage change in
earnings pre-registration to post-program and first quarter after exit
to third quarter after exit); and efficiency (annual cost per
participant). The Department is currently working toward the
implementation of these common measures. Each grantee will be required
to collect and report data for the common measures when they are
approved for implementation.
We require reporting of annual performance measures at the time of
the continuation award processing to ensure that grantees separately
report information for individuals served exclusively by their project.
VII. Agency Contact
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Sonja T. Turner, U.S. Department of
Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, SW., room 5089, PCP, Washington, DC
20202-2649. Telephone: (202) 245-7557 or e-mail: Sonja.Turner@ed.gov.
If you use a TDD, call the FRS, toll free, at 1-800-877-8339.
VIII. Other Information
Alternative Format: Individuals with disabilities can obtain this
document and a copy of the application package in an alternative format
(e.g., Braille, large print, audiotape, or computer diskette) by
contacting the Grants and Contracts Services Team, U.S. Department of
Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, SW., room 5075, PCP, Washington, DC
20202-2550. Telephone: (202) 245-7363. If you use a TDD, call the FRS,
toll-free, at 1-800-877-8339.
Electronic Access to This Document: You can view this document, as
well as all other documents of this Department published in the Federal
Register, in text or Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) on the
Internet at the following site: https://www.ed.gov/news/fedregister.
To use PDF you must have Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is available
free at this site. If you have questions about using PDF, call the U.S.
Government Printing Office (GPO), toll free, at 1-888-293-6498; or in
the Washington, DC, area at (202) 512-1530.
Note: The official version of this document is the document
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Dated: February 14, 2008.
Tracy R. Justesen,
Assistant Secretary for Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.
[FR Doc. E8-3143 Filed 2-19-08; 8:45 am]
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