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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.
5. Performance Measures: The
Department has established the
following Government Performance and
Results Act of 1993 (GPRA) performance
measures for the Ready-to-Learn
Television Grant Program: (1) the
percentage of Ready-to-Learn
programming and educational content
deemed to be of high quality and (2) the
percentage of Ready-to-Learn outreach
products deemed to be of high quality.
These measures constitute the
Department’s indicators of success for
this program. Consequently, we advise
an applicant for a grant under this
program to give careful consideration to
these measures in conceptualizing the
approach and evaluation for its
proposed project. Each grantee will be
required to provide, in its annual
performance and final reports, data
about its progress in meeting these
measures.
VII. Agency Contact
For Further Information Contact: Joe
Caliguro, U.S. Department of Education,
400 Maryland Avenue, SW., Room
4W214, Washington, DC 20202–5980.
Telephone: (202) 205–5449 or by e-mail:
readytolearn@ed.gov.
If you use a TDD, call the FRS, toll
free, at 1–800–877–8339.
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VIII. Other Information
Accessible Format: Individuals with
disabilities can obtain this document
and a copy of the application package in
an accessible format (e.g., braille, large
print, audiotape, or computer diskette)
on request to the program contact
person listed under For Further
Information Contact in section VII of
this notice.
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all other documents of this Department
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James H. Shelton, III,
Assistant Deputy Secretary for Innovation and
Improvement.
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Centers for Independent Living
Program—Training and Technical
Assistance
AGENCY: Office of Special Education and
Rehabilitative Services, Department of
Education.
ACTION: Notice of proposed priority.
Catalog of Federal Domestic
Assistance (CFDA) Number: 84.400B.
SUMMARY: The Assistant Secretary for
Special Education and Rehabilitative
Services proposes a priority under the
Centers for Independent Living
Program—Training and Technical
Assistance (CIL–TA program). The
Assistant Secretary may use this priority
for competitions in fiscal year (FY)
2010, using American Recovery and
Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) funds
appropriated for the Centers for
Independent Living program (CIL
program) authorized under title VII,
chapter 1, part C of the Rehabilitation
Act of 1973, as amended (the Act), and
competitions in later years. We take this
action to improve outcomes for
individuals with significant disabilities
by enhancing the quality of independent
living (IL) services provided to those
individuals and the efficiency of the
delivery of those services by CILs
funded through the CIL program.
DATES: We must receive your comments
on or before April 21, 2010.
ADDRESSES: Address all comments about
this notice to Sue Rankin-White, U.S.
Department of Education, 400 Maryland
Avenue, SW., Potomac Center Plaza
(PCP), Room 5013, Washington, DC
20202–2800.
If you prefer to send your comments
by e-mail, use the following address:
sue.rankin-white@ed.gov. You must
include the term ‘‘CIL–TA program’’ in
the subject line of your electronic
message.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Sue
Rankin-White. Telephone: (202) 245–
7312 or e-mail: sue.rankinwhite@ed.gov.
If you use a telecommunications
device for the deaf (TDD), call, toll free,
(866) 889–6737.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Invitation To Comment: We invite
you to submit comments regarding this
notice.
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We invite you to assist us in
complying with the specific
requirements of Executive Order 12866
and its overall requirement of reducing
regulatory burden that might result from
this proposed priority. Please let us
know of any further ways we could
reduce potential costs or increase
potential benefits while preserving the
effective and efficient administration of
the program.
During and after the comment period,
you may inspect all public comments
about this notice in room 5013, PCP,
550 12th Street, SW., Washington, DC,
between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and
4:00 p.m., Washington, DC time,
Monday through Friday of each week
except Federal holidays.
Assistance to Individuals with
Disabilities in Reviewing the
Rulemaking Record: On request, we will
provide an appropriate accommodation
or auxiliary aid to an individual with a
disability who needs assistance to
review the comments or other
documents in the public rulemaking
record for this notice. If you want to
schedule an appointment for this type of
accommodation or auxiliary aid, please
contact the person listed under FOR
FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT.
Purpose of Program: The purpose of
the CIL program is to maximize
independence, productivity,
empowerment, and leadership of
individuals with disabilities and
integrate these individuals into the
mainstream of society.
CILs are consumer-controlled,
community-based, cross-disability,
nonresidential, private nonprofit
agencies that are designed and operated
within a local community by
individuals with disabilities and
provide an array of IL services to
individuals with significant disabilities,
including the core services of
information and referral, IL skills
training, peer counseling, and
individual and systems advocacy.
Each State has established a Statewide
Independent Living Council (SILC) that
jointly develops and signs the State Plan
for Independent Living with the
designated State unit, monitors,
reviews, and evaluates the
implementation of the State plan, and
coordinates activities with the State
Rehabilitation Council and other
organizations related to issues that affect
individuals with disabilities. A majority
of a SILC’s members are individuals
with disabilities. Other members
include CIL representatives and State
agency representatives, as well as other
appropriate individuals.
Through the ARRA, Congress has
appropriated $87,500,000 for the CIL
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program to be obligated by FY 2010.
Under section 721(b)(1) of the Act, the
Department is required to reserve
between 1.8 and 2 percent of the funds
appropriated for the CIL program to
provide training and technical
assistance to CILs, agencies eligible to
become CILs, and SILCs with respect to
planning, developing, conducting,
administering, and evaluating CILs.
Program Authority: 29 U.S.C. 796f(b).
Applicable Program Regulations: 34
CFR part 366.
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Proposed Priority
This notice contains one proposed
priority.
Centers for Independent Living (CILs)
Community-Based Training and
Technical Assistance Project
Background: Under the CIL–TA
program, the Department currently
funds three training and technical
assistance grants: one is in its final year
and supports training and technical
assistance to CILs and SILCs on the
issue of service delivery to young
people with disabilities as they
transition from school to living
independently, and two provide
general, comprehensive training and
technical assistance to CILs and SILCs,
respectively.
The training and technical assistance
needs of CILs are ongoing and evolve as
new centers are funded, and existing
centers add and reassign personnel,
expand, and change. The Department
identifies the training and technical
assistance needs of CILs and SILCs
through its review of responses to a
survey in their annual performance
reports and through its monitoring and
technical assistance efforts.
Based on this annual survey and on
our ongoing monitoring and technical
assistance activities, we have
determined that a significant proportion
of CILs would benefit from training and
technical assistance to improve their
efforts: to develop strategies to address
the needs of underserved populations
and underserved geographic areas
within the center’s service area; to
promote community-based alternatives
to institutionalization; to assist youths
with disabilities in their transition from
school to postsecondary education,
employment, and IL; and to better serve
individuals with disabilities residing in
rural areas.
For this reason, we intend to use this
priority to award a grant to provide
targeted training and technical
assistance to CILs on one or more of the
following topics:
• Developing Strategies to Address
the Needs of Underserved Populations
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and Underserved Geographic Areas.
Although CILs provide IL services to
individuals with significant disabilities
within a defined geographical area, CILs
have acknowledged that often there are
barriers to serving certain populations
and certain areas within the center’s
service area. For example, cultural
mores of particular ethnic populations
may not be supportive of interventions
by ‘‘outsiders’’ to provide independent
living to individuals with significant
disabilities, and, in isolated, rural areas,
it may be physically difficult to access
the consumers who live in that area in
order to provide services. Providing
technical assistance to CILs so that they
can implement better strategies to
overcome barriers and reach out to serve
underserved populations and
geographic areas will result in centers
that are truly community-based and that
adequately serve the entire community
they were intended to serve.
• Promoting Community-based
Alternatives to Institutionalization. CILs
play a critical role in assisting
individuals with significant disabilities
to move from institutional settings to
community-based living, or to prevent
institutionalization in the first place, by
helping these individuals obtain the
accessible housing, transportation,
assistive technology, and IL skills they
need to leave nursing homes and other
institutional settings. Providing
technical assistance and training in this
area and sharing effective practices
among CILs will enhance their current
efforts to promote community-based
alternatives to institutionalization.
• Assisting Transition-age Youths to
Live Independently. CILs are working
with an increasing number of transitionage youths with significant disabilities
exiting secondary schools and entering
postsecondary institutions or the labor
market. Training and technical
assistance in this area will help CILs
work collaboratively with the
elementary and secondary education
system, colleges and universities,
employers, and vocational rehabilitation
agencies to ensure that transition-age
youths with significant disabilities and
their families have the information,
resources, and services they need to
ensure their success as adults.
• Providing IL Services in Rural
Settings. Individuals with significant
disabilities who need IL services and
live in rural settings pose difficult
challenges to CILs. For example, it is not
unusual in rural States for the CIL’s cost
of travelling to meet with the consumer
to exceed the cost of the services that
are eventually provided to that
individual. Training and technical
assistance in this area will help CILs to
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utilize efficient outreach practices,
including the use of information
technology whenever possible, to
provide IL services effectively in rural
settings.
Proposed Priority: This proposed
priority supports a Training and
Technical Assistance Project to assist
CILs in one or more of the following
important and challenging areas:
developing strategies to address the
needs of underserved populations and
underserved geographic areas;
promoting community-based
alternatives to institutionalization;
assisting transition-age youths to
succeed after secondary school; and
providing IL services in rural settings.
To meet this priority, applicants must
demonstrate all of the following in their
applications:
(a) Evidence that the project team
includes staff members with expertise in
each of the priority topic areas on which
the applicant is proposing to provide
training and technical assistance;
(b) A sound plan for providing
training and technical assistance and
materials that (1) is based on rigorous
research, where available; (2) utilizes a
broad range of available, accessible
technologies and methodologies; and (3)
is sufficient to provide training and
technical assistance to as many CILs as
possible.
(c) An assurance that the applicant
will coordinate and collaborate with
other training projects funded by the
Department to ensure that its training
activities are complementary and nonduplicative and that its dissemination
activities are effective and efficient. At
a minimum, the Training and Technical
Assistance Project must coordinate with
RSA’s CILs Training and Technical
Assistance Center.
Types of Priorities: When inviting
applications for a competition using one
or more priorities, we designate the type
of each priority as absolute, competitive
preference, or invitational through a
notice in the Federal Register. The
effect of each type of priority follows:
Absolute priority: Under an absolute
priority, we consider only applications
that meet the priority (34 CFR
75.105(c)(3)).
Competitive preference priority:
Under a competitive preference priority,
we give competitive preference to an
application by (1) awarding additional
points, depending on the extent to
which the application meets the priority
(34 CFR 75.105(c)(2)(i)); or (2) selecting
an application that meets the priority
over an application of comparable merit
that does not meet the priority (34 CFR
75.105(c)(2)(ii)).
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Access at: https://www.gpoaccess.gov/nara/
index.html.
Note: This notice does not solicit
applications. In any year in which we choose
to use this priority, we invite applications
through a notice in the Federal Register.
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Invitational priority: Under an
invitational priority, we are particularly
interested in applications that meet the
priority. However, we do not give an
application that meets the priority a
preference over other applications (34
CFR 75.105(c)(1)).
Final Priority: We will announce the
final priority in a notice in the Federal
Register. We will determine the final
priority after considering responses to
this notice and other information
available to the Department. This notice
does not preclude us from proposing
additional priorities, requirements,
definitions, or selection criteria, subject
to meeting applicable rulemaking
requirements.
Correction
Executive Order 12866: Under
Executive Order 12866, we have
assessed the potential costs and benefits
of this regulatory action and have
determined that it is not ‘‘significant’’
under the terms of that Executive order.
We have determined, also, that this
proposed regulatory action does not
unduly interfere with State, local, and
Tribal governments in the exercise of
their governmental functions.
Intergovernmental Review: This
program is subject to Executive Order
12372 and the regulations in 34 CFR
part 79. One of the objectives of the
Executive order is to foster an
intergovernmental partnership and a
strengthened federalism. The Executive
order relies on processes developed by
State and local governments for
coordination and review of proposed
Federal financial assistance.
This document provides early
notification of our specific plans and
actions for this program.
Accessible Format: Individuals with
disabilities can obtain this document in
an accessible format (e.g., braille, large
print, audiotape, or computer diskette)
on request to the program contact
person listed under FOR FURTHER
INFORMATION CONTACT.
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.
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
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Dated: March 17, 2010.
Alexa Posny,
Assistant Secretary for Special Education and
Rehabilitative Services.
[FR Doc. 2010–6229 Filed 3–19–10; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Office of Special Education and
Rehabilitative Services Overview
Information; Migrant and Seasonal
Farmworkers Program
In notice document 2010–5976
beginning on page 13106 in the issue of
Thursday, March 18, 2010 make the
following correction:
On page 13106, in the second column,
under the Applications Available:
heading, in the first line, ‘‘April 2, 2010’’
should read ‘‘March 18, 2010’’.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
[Docket No. RM07–10–002]
Transparency Provisions of Section 23
of the Natural Gas Act; Notice of the
Agenda for Form No. 552 Technical
Conference
March 15, 2010.
In a ‘‘Notice of Technical Conference’’
issued on February 22, 2010 in the
above-referenced proceeding, the
Commission stated that this conference,
to be held on March 25, 2010, will
address select issues identified by staff.
Those issues include: (1)
Inconsistencies in reporting upstream
transactions in the natural gas supply
chain on Form No. 552, and whether
these transactions contribute to
wholesale price formation; (2) whether
transactions involving balancing, cashout, operational, and in-kind
transactions should be reported on Form
No. 552; and (3) whether the units of
measurement (TBtu) currently used for
reporting volumes in the form are
appropriate. The Agenda for this
Technical Conference is attached to this
notice.
Specific questions to each panel are
on the attached Agenda. Each panelist
will be given the opportunity to provide
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a brief introductory statement on these
questions.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
March 25, 2010: Commission Meeting
Room
9 a.m.–9:10 a.m.—Opening Remarks.
9:10 a.m.–10:45 a.m.—Upstream
transactions in the natural gas supply
chain.
1. How has your company addressed
the reporting of unprocessed gas on
Form No. 552?
2. Are there unreported volumes of
unprocessed physical natural gas
(between the wellhead and any
processing plant) that use, contribute to,
or might they contribute to the
formation of daily or monthly gas price
indices? Are the volumes associated
with these transactions material?
3. What effect, if any, will the
development of nontraditional gas
sources have on the reporting on
unprocessed gas?
4. Is the current reporting
measurement (TBtus) an appropriate
measurement? Would reporting volumes
in decatherms be more appropriate?
Panelists
• John Poe, Manager, Regulatory
Affairs, ExxonMobil Gas & Power
Marketing Company (Natural Gas
Supply Association).
• William E. Shanahan, Marketing
Manager, Chaparral LLC, (Natural Gas &
Energy Association of Oklahoma).
• Mary Nelson, Manager, Regulatory
Affairs, Devon Energy Corp. (Natural
Gas Supply Association).
• Katie Rice, Director, Regulatory
Affairs, DCP Midstream LLC.
• Representative, Independent
Producers Association of America.
10:45 a.m.–11 a.m.—Break
11 a.m. –12:15 p.m. Cashouts,
Imbalances and Operational Volumes
1. How has your company addressed
the reporting of cashouts, imbalance
makeup and operational volumes on the
Form No. 552 in relation to the total
volumes of physical natural gas
reported?
2. Are the volumes associated with
these transactions material? Please
quantify.
3. Is the current reporting
measurement (TBtus) an appropriate
measurement? Would reporting volumes
in decatherms be more appropriate?
Panelists
• Scott Brewer, Director, North
American Energy, Terra Industries, Inc.
(Process Gas Consumers).
• Katie Rice, Director, Regulatory
Affairs, DCP Midstream LLC.
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Centers for Independent Living Program--Training and Technical
Assistance
AGENCY: Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services,
Department of Education.
ACTION: Notice of proposed priority.
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Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) Number: 84.400B.
SUMMARY: The Assistant Secretary for Special Education and
Rehabilitative Services proposes a priority under the Centers for
Independent Living Program--Training and Technical Assistance (CIL-TA
program). The Assistant Secretary may use this priority for
competitions in fiscal year (FY) 2010, using American Recovery and
Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) funds appropriated for the Centers for
Independent Living program (CIL program) authorized under title VII,
chapter 1, part C of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended (the
Act), and competitions in later years. We take this action to improve
outcomes for individuals with significant disabilities by enhancing the
quality of independent living (IL) services provided to those
individuals and the efficiency of the delivery of those services by
CILs funded through the CIL program.
DATES: We must receive your comments on or before April 21, 2010.
ADDRESSES: Address all comments about this notice to Sue Rankin-White,
U.S. Department of Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, SW., Potomac Center
Plaza (PCP), Room 5013, Washington, DC 20202-2800.
If you prefer to send your comments by e-mail, use the following
address: sue.rankin-white@ed.gov. You must include the term ``CIL-TA
program'' in the subject line of your electronic message.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Sue Rankin-White. Telephone: (202)
245-7312 or e-mail: sue.rankin-white@ed.gov.
If you use a telecommunications device for the deaf (TDD), call,
toll free, (866) 889-6737.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Invitation To Comment: We invite you to submit comments regarding
this notice.
We invite you to assist us in complying with the specific
requirements of Executive Order 12866 and its overall requirement of
reducing regulatory burden that might result from this proposed
priority. Please let us know of any further ways we could reduce
potential costs or increase potential benefits while preserving the
effective and efficient administration of the program.
During and after the comment period, you may inspect all public
comments about this notice in room 5013, PCP, 550 12th Street, SW.,
Washington, DC, between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 4:00 p.m.,
Washington, DC time, Monday through Friday of each week except Federal
holidays.
Assistance to Individuals with Disabilities in Reviewing the
Rulemaking Record: On request, we will provide an appropriate
accommodation or auxiliary aid to an individual with a disability who
needs assistance to review the comments or other documents in the
public rulemaking record for this notice. If you want to schedule an
appointment for this type of accommodation or auxiliary aid, please
contact the person listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT.
Purpose of Program: The purpose of the CIL program is to maximize
independence, productivity, empowerment, and leadership of individuals
with disabilities and integrate these individuals into the mainstream
of society.
CILs are consumer-controlled, community-based, cross-disability,
nonresidential, private nonprofit agencies that are designed and
operated within a local community by individuals with disabilities and
provide an array of IL services to individuals with significant
disabilities, including the core services of information and referral,
IL skills training, peer counseling, and individual and systems
advocacy.
Each State has established a Statewide Independent Living Council
(SILC) that jointly develops and signs the State Plan for Independent
Living with the designated State unit, monitors, reviews, and evaluates
the implementation of the State plan, and coordinates activities with
the State Rehabilitation Council and other organizations related to
issues that affect individuals with disabilities. A majority of a
SILC's members are individuals with disabilities. Other members include
CIL representatives and State agency representatives, as well as other
appropriate individuals.
Through the ARRA, Congress has appropriated $87,500,000 for the CIL
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program to be obligated by FY 2010. Under section 721(b)(1) of the Act,
the Department is required to reserve between 1.8 and 2 percent of the
funds appropriated for the CIL program to provide training and
technical assistance to CILs, agencies eligible to become CILs, and
SILCs with respect to planning, developing, conducting, administering,
and evaluating CILs.
Program Authority: 29 U.S.C. 796f(b).
Applicable Program Regulations: 34 CFR part 366.
Proposed Priority
This notice contains one proposed priority.
Centers for Independent Living (CILs) Community-Based Training and
Technical Assistance Project
Background: Under the CIL-TA program, the Department currently
funds three training and technical assistance grants: one is in its
final year and supports training and technical assistance to CILs and
SILCs on the issue of service delivery to young people with
disabilities as they transition from school to living independently,
and two provide general, comprehensive training and technical
assistance to CILs and SILCs, respectively.
The training and technical assistance needs of CILs are ongoing and
evolve as new centers are funded, and existing centers add and reassign
personnel, expand, and change. The Department identifies the training
and technical assistance needs of CILs and SILCs through its review of
responses to a survey in their annual performance reports and through
its monitoring and technical assistance efforts.
Based on this annual survey and on our ongoing monitoring and
technical assistance activities, we have determined that a significant
proportion of CILs would benefit from training and technical assistance
to improve their efforts: to develop strategies to address the needs of
underserved populations and underserved geographic areas within the
center's service area; to promote community-based alternatives to
institutionalization; to assist youths with disabilities in their
transition from school to postsecondary education, employment, and IL;
and to better serve individuals with disabilities residing in rural
areas.
For this reason, we intend to use this priority to award a grant to
provide targeted training and technical assistance to CILs on one or
more of the following topics:
Developing Strategies to Address the Needs of Underserved
Populations and Underserved Geographic Areas. Although CILs provide IL
services to individuals with significant disabilities within a defined
geographical area, CILs have acknowledged that often there are barriers
to serving certain populations and certain areas within the center's
service area. For example, cultural mores of particular ethnic
populations may not be supportive of interventions by ``outsiders'' to
provide independent living to individuals with significant
disabilities, and, in isolated, rural areas, it may be physically
difficult to access the consumers who live in that area in order to
provide services. Providing technical assistance to CILs so that they
can implement better strategies to overcome barriers and reach out to
serve underserved populations and geographic areas will result in
centers that are truly community-based and that adequately serve the
entire community they were intended to serve.
Promoting Community-based Alternatives to
Institutionalization. CILs play a critical role in assisting
individuals with significant disabilities to move from institutional
settings to community-based living, or to prevent institutionalization
in the first place, by helping these individuals obtain the accessible
housing, transportation, assistive technology, and IL skills they need
to leave nursing homes and other institutional settings. Providing
technical assistance and training in this area and sharing effective
practices among CILs will enhance their current efforts to promote
community-based alternatives to institutionalization.
Assisting Transition-age Youths to Live Independently.
CILs are working with an increasing number of transition-age youths
with significant disabilities exiting secondary schools and entering
postsecondary institutions or the labor market. Training and technical
assistance in this area will help CILs work collaboratively with the
elementary and secondary education system, colleges and universities,
employers, and vocational rehabilitation agencies to ensure that
transition-age youths with significant disabilities and their families
have the information, resources, and services they need to ensure their
success as adults.
Providing IL Services in Rural Settings. Individuals with
significant disabilities who need IL services and live in rural
settings pose difficult challenges to CILs. For example, it is not
unusual in rural States for the CIL's cost of travelling to meet with
the consumer to exceed the cost of the services that are eventually
provided to that individual. Training and technical assistance in this
area will help CILs to utilize efficient outreach practices, including
the use of information technology whenever possible, to provide IL
services effectively in rural settings.
Proposed Priority: This proposed priority supports a Training and
Technical Assistance Project to assist CILs in one or more of the
following important and challenging areas: developing strategies to
address the needs of underserved populations and underserved geographic
areas; promoting community-based alternatives to institutionalization;
assisting transition-age youths to succeed after secondary school; and
providing IL services in rural settings.
To meet this priority, applicants must demonstrate all of the
following in their applications:
(a) Evidence that the project team includes staff members with
expertise in each of the priority topic areas on which the applicant is
proposing to provide training and technical assistance;
(b) A sound plan for providing training and technical assistance
and materials that (1) is based on rigorous research, where available;
(2) utilizes a broad range of available, accessible technologies and
methodologies; and (3) is sufficient to provide training and technical
assistance to as many CILs as possible.
(c) An assurance that the applicant will coordinate and collaborate
with other training projects funded by the Department to ensure that
its training activities are complementary and non-duplicative and that
its dissemination activities are effective and efficient. At a minimum,
the Training and Technical Assistance Project must coordinate with
RSA's CILs Training and Technical Assistance Center.
Types of Priorities: When inviting applications for a competition
using one or more priorities, we designate the type of each priority as
absolute, competitive preference, or invitational through a notice in
the Federal Register. The effect of each type of priority follows:
Absolute priority: Under an absolute priority, we consider only
applications that meet the priority (34 CFR 75.105(c)(3)).
Competitive preference priority: Under a competitive preference
priority, we give competitive preference to an application by (1)
awarding additional points, depending on the extent to which the
application meets the priority (34 CFR 75.105(c)(2)(i)); or (2)
selecting an application that meets the priority over an application of
comparable merit that does not meet the priority (34 CFR
75.105(c)(2)(ii)).
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Invitational priority: Under an invitational priority, we are
particularly interested in applications that meet the priority.
However, we do not give an application that meets the priority a
preference over other applications (34 CFR 75.105(c)(1)).
Final Priority: We will announce the final priority in a notice in
the Federal Register. We will determine the final priority after
considering responses to this notice and other information available to
the Department. This notice does not preclude us from proposing
additional priorities, requirements, definitions, or selection
criteria, subject to meeting applicable rulemaking requirements.
Note: This notice does not solicit applications. In any year in
which we choose to use this priority, we invite applications through
a notice in the Federal Register.
Executive Order 12866: Under Executive Order 12866, we have
assessed the potential costs and benefits of this regulatory action and
have determined that it is not ``significant'' under the terms of that
Executive order.
We have determined, also, that this proposed regulatory action does
not unduly interfere with State, local, and Tribal governments in the
exercise of their governmental functions.
Intergovernmental Review: This program is subject to Executive
Order 12372 and the regulations in 34 CFR part 79. One of the
objectives of the Executive order is to foster an intergovernmental
partnership and a strengthened federalism. The Executive order relies
on processes developed by State and local governments for coordination
and review of proposed Federal financial assistance.
This document provides early notification of our specific plans and
actions for this program.
Accessible Format: Individuals with disabilities can obtain this
document in an accessible format (e.g., braille, large print,
audiotape, or computer diskette) on request to the program contact
person listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT.
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.
Note: The official version of this document is the document
published in the Federal Register. Free Internet access to the
official edition of the Federal Register and the Code of Federal
Regulations is available on GPO Access at: https://www.gpoaccess.gov/nara/.
Dated: March 17, 2010.
Alexa Posny,
Assistant Secretary for Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.
[FR Doc. 2010-6229 Filed 3-19-10; 8:45 am]
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