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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Centers for Independent Living
Program—Training and Technical
Assistance
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Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance
(CFDA) Number: 84.400B.
AGENCY: Office of Special Education and
Rehabilitative Services, Department of
Education.
ACTION: Notice of final priority.
SUMMARY: The Assistant Secretary for
Special Education and Rehabilitative
Services announces a priority under the
Centers for Independent Living
Program—Training and Technical
Assistance. 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 (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: Effective Date: This priority is
effective July 16, 2010.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Sean Barrett, U.S. Department of
Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, SW.,
room 5016, Potomac Center Plaza (PCP),
Washington, DC 20202–2800.
Telephone: (202) 245–7604 or by e-mail:
sean.barrett@ed.gov.
If you use a telecommunications
device for the deaf (TDD), call the
Federal Relay Service (FRS), toll free, at
1–800–877–8339.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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.
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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
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.
We published a notice of proposed
priority for this program in the Federal
Register on March 22, 2010 (75 FR
13521). That notice contained
background information and our reasons
for proposing the particular priority.
There are no differences between the
proposed priority and this final priority.
Public Comment: In response to our
invitation in the notice of proposed
priority, we did not receive any
comments on the proposed priority.
Final Priority
Centers for Independent Living (CILs)
Community-Based Training and
Technical Assistance Project
The Assistant Secretary for Special
Education and Rehabilitative Services
establishes a priority to support 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
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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)).
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)).
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: This notice
has been reviewed in accordance with
Executive Order 12866. Under the terms
of the order, we have assessed the
potential costs and benefits of this
proposed regulatory action and have
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determined that it is not ‘‘significant’’
under the terms of that Executive order.
We have determined, also, that this
final regulatory action does not unduly
interfere with State, local, and Tribal
governments in the exercise of their
governmental functions.
We summarized the costs and benefits
of this regulatory action in the notice of
proposed priority.
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/
index.html.
Dated: June 9, 2010.
Alexa Posny,
Assistant Secretary for Special Education and
Rehabilitative Services.
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Office of Special Education and
Rehabilitative Services; Overview
Information; Centers for Independent
Living Program—Training and
Technical Assistance; Notice Inviting
Applications for New Awards for Fiscal
Year (FY) 2010
Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance
(CFDA) Number: 84.400B.
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Dates: Applications Available: June
16, 2010.
Deadline for Transmittal of
Applications: July 16, 2010.
Deadline for Intergovernmental
Review: September 14, 2010.
I. Funding Opportunity Description
Purpose of Program: The purpose of
the Centers for Independent Living (CIL)
program is to maximize independence,
productivity, empowerment, and
leadership of individuals with
disabilities and integrate these
individuals into the mainstream of
society.
Priority: This priority is from the
notice of final priority for this program,
published elsewhere in this issue of the
Federal Register.
Absolute Priority: For FY 2010 and
any subsequent year in which we make
awards from the list of unfunded
applicants 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:
Centers for Independent Living (CILs)
Community-Based Training and
Technical Assistance Project.
Program Authority: 29 U.S.C. 796f(b);
American Recovery and Reinvestment
Act of 2009, Pub. L. 111–5 (ARRA).
Applicable Regulations: (a) The
Education Department General
Administrative Regulations (EDGAR) in
34 CFR parts 74, 75, 77, 79, 80, 81, 82,
84, 85, 86, and 97. (b) The regulations
for this program in 34 CFR part 366. (c)
The notice of final priority, published
elsewhere in this issue of the Federal
Register.
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 grant.
Estimated Available Funds:
$1,325,303 from the American Recovery
and Reinvestment Act of 2009, Pub. L.
No. 111–5 (ARRA).
Maximum Award: We will reject any
application that proposes a budget
exceeding $1,325,303 for a single budget
period of 60 months. The Assistant
Secretary for OSERS may change the
maximum amount through a notice
published in the Federal Register.
Estimated Number of Awards: 1.
Note: The Department is not bound by any
estimates in this notice.
Project Period: Up to 60 months.
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III. Eligibility Information
1. Eligible Applicants: Entities that
have experience in the operation of
CILs.
2. Cost Sharing or Matching: This
program does not require cost sharing or
matching.
IV. Application and Submission
Information
1. Address to Request Application
Package: You can obtain an application
package via the Internet or from the
Education Publications Center (ED
Pubs). To obtain a copy via the Internet,
use the following address: https://
www.ed.gov/fund/grant/apply/
grantapps/. To obtain a copy
from ED Pubs, write, fax, or call the
following: ED Pubs, U.S. Department of
Education, P.O. Box 22207, Alexandria,
VA 22304. Telephone, toll free: 1–877–
433–7827. FAX: (703) 605–6794. 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.EDPubs.gov or at
its e-mail address: edpubs@inet.ed.gov.
If you request an application from ED
Pubs, be sure to identify this
competition as follows: CFDA number
84.400B.
Individuals with disabilities can
obtain a copy of the application package
in an accessible format (e.g., braille,
large print, audiotape, or computer
diskette) by contacting the person or
team listed under Accessible 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.
Page Limit: The application narrative
(Part III of the application) is where you,
the applicant, address the selection
criteria that reviewers use to evaluate
your application. You must limit the
application narrative (Part III) to the
equivalent of no more than 45 pages,
using the following standards:
• A ‘‘page’’ is 8.5″ x 11″, on one side
only, with 1″ margins at the top, bottom,
and both sides.
• Double space (no more than three
lines per vertical inch) all text in the
application narrative, including titles,
headings, footnotes, quotations,
references, and captions, as well as all
text in charts, tables, figures, and
graphs.
• Use a font that is either 12 point or
larger or no smaller than 10 pitch
(characters per inch).
• Use one of the following fonts:
Times New Roman, Courier, Courier
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Centers for Independent Living Program--Training and Technical
Assistance
Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) Number: 84.400B.
AGENCY: Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services,
Department of Education.
ACTION: Notice of final priority.
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SUMMARY: The Assistant Secretary for Special Education and
Rehabilitative Services announces a priority under the Centers for
Independent Living Program--Training and Technical Assistance. 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 (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: Effective Date: This priority is effective July 16, 2010.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Sean Barrett, U.S. Department of
Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, SW., room 5016, Potomac Center Plaza
(PCP), Washington, DC 20202-2800. Telephone: (202) 245-7604 or by e-
mail: sean.barrett@ed.gov.
If you use a telecommunications device for the deaf (TDD), call the
Federal Relay Service (FRS), toll free, at 1-800-877-8339.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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
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.
We published a notice of proposed priority for this program in the
Federal Register on March 22, 2010 (75 FR 13521). That notice contained
background information and our reasons for proposing the particular
priority.
There are no differences between the proposed priority and this
final priority.
Public Comment: In response to our invitation in the notice of
proposed priority, we did not receive any comments on the proposed
priority.
Final Priority
Centers for Independent Living (CILs) Community-Based Training and
Technical Assistance Project
The Assistant Secretary for Special Education and Rehabilitative
Services establishes a priority to support 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)).
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)).
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: This notice has been reviewed in accordance
with Executive Order 12866. Under the terms of the order, we have
assessed the potential costs and benefits of this proposed regulatory
action and have
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determined that it is not ``significant'' under the terms of that
Executive order.
We have determined, also, that this final regulatory action does
not unduly interfere with State, local, and Tribal governments in the
exercise of their governmental functions.
We summarized the costs and benefits of this regulatory action in
the notice of proposed priority.
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: June 9, 2010.
Alexa Posny,
Assistant Secretary for Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.
[FR Doc. 2010-14404 Filed 6-15-10; 8:45 am]
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