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34 CFR Chapter III
[CFDA Number: 84.133P–1.]
Proposed Priority—National Institute
on Disability and Rehabilitation
Research—Advanced Rehabilitation
Research Training Program
Office of Special Education and
Rehabilitative Services, Department of
Education.
ACTION: Proposed priority.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: The Assistant Secretary for
Special Education and Rehabilitative
Services proposes a priority for the
Advanced Rehabilitation Research
Training (ARRT) program under the
Disability and Rehabilitation Research
Projects and Centers Program
administered by the National Institute
on Disability and Rehabilitation
Research (NIDRR). The Assistant
Secretary may use this priority for
competitions in fiscal year (FY) 2013
and later years. We take this action to
ensure that NIDRR’s resources are
appropriately allocated across the three
outcome domains of individual wellbeing—community living and
participation, employment, and health
and function. We intend this priority to
strengthen the capacity of the disability
and rehabilitation field to train qualified
individuals, including individuals with
disabilities, to conduct high-quality,
advanced multidisciplinary
rehabilitation research; and through this
training contribute to improved
outcomes for individuals with
disabilities across the domains of
community living and participation,
employment, and health and function.
DATES: We must receive your comments
on or before April 29, 2013.
ADDRESSES: Address all comments about
this notice to Marlene Spencer, U.S.
Department of Education, 400 Maryland
Avenue SW., room 5133, Potomac
Center Plaza (PCP), Washington, DC
20202–2700.
If you prefer to send your comments
by email, use the following address:
marlene.spencer@ed.gov. You must
include the phrase ‘‘Proposed Priority
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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
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This
want to schedule an appointment for
notice of proposed priority is in concert
this type of accommodation or auxiliary
with NIDRR’s Long-Range Plan (Plan).
aid, please contact the person listed
The currently approved Plan, which
under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
was published in the Federal Register
CONTACT.
on February 15, 2006 (71 FR 8166), can
Purpose of Program: The purpose of
be accessed on the Internet at the
the Disability and Rehabilitation
following site: www2.ed.gov/legislation/ Research Projects and Centers Program
FedRegister/other/2006-1/021506d.html. is to plan and conduct research,
Through the implementation of the
demonstration projects, training, and
Plan, NIDRR seeks to: (1) Improve the
related activities, including
quality and utility of disability and
international activities, to develop
rehabilitation research; (2) foster an
methods, procedures, and rehabilitation
exchange of expertise, information, and
technology, that maximize the full
training methods to facilitate the
inclusion and integration into society,
advancement of knowledge and
employment, independent living, family
understanding of the unique needs of
support, and economic and social selftraditionally underserved populations;
sufficiency of individuals with
(3) determine best strategies and
disabilities, especially individuals with
programs to improve rehabilitation
the most severe disabilities, and to
outcomes for underserved populations;
improve the effectiveness of services
(4) identify research gaps; (5) identify
authorized under the Rehabilitation Act
mechanisms for integrating research and of 1973, as amended (Rehabilitation
practice; and (6) disseminate findings.
Act).
This notice proposes a new priority
Advanced Rehabilitation Research
that NIDRR intends to use in FY 2013
Training:
and possibly later years. However,
The purpose of NIDRR’s ARRT
nothing precludes NIDRR from
program, which is funded through the
publishing additional priorities, if
Disability and Rehabilitation Research
needed. Furthermore, NIDRR is under
Projects and Centers Program, is to
no obligation to make an award using
provide advanced research training and
this priority. The decision to make an
experience to individuals with
award will be based on the quality of
doctorates, or similar advanced degrees,
applications received and available
who have clinical or other relevant
funding.
experience. ARRT projects train
Invitation to Comment: We invite you rehabilitation researchers, including
to submit comments regarding this
researchers with disabilities, with
notice. To ensure that your comments
particular attention to research areas
have maximum effect in developing the that support the implementation and
notice of final priority, we urge you to
objectives of the Rehabilitation Act, and
identify clearly the specific topic that
that improve the effectiveness of
each comment addresses.
services authorized under the
We invite you to assist us in
Rehabilitation Act.
complying with the specific
Additional information on the ARRT
requirements of Executive Orders 12866 program can be found at: www.ed.gov/
and 13563 and their overall requirement rschstat/research/pubs/resof reducing regulatory burden that
program.html#DRRP.
might result from this proposed priority.
Program Authority: 29 U.S.C. 762(g)
Please let us know of any further ways
and 764(a).
we could reduce potential costs or
Applicable Program Regulations: 34
increase potential benefits while
CFR part 350.
preserving the effective and efficient
Proposed Priority: This notice
administration of the program.
contains one proposed priority.
During and after the comment period,
Advanced Rehabilitation Research
you may inspect all public comments
Training Program.
Background: NIDRR’s mission is to
about this notice in room 5133, 550 12th
support the generation of new
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for ARRT Projects’’ in the subject line of
your electronic message.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Marlene Spencer. Telephone: (202) 245–
7532 or by email:
marlene.spencer@ed.gov.
If you use a telecommunications
device for the deaf (TDD) or a text
telephone (TTY), call the Federal Relay
Service (FRS), toll free, at 1–800–877–
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knowledge and promote its effective use
to improve the abilities of individuals
with disabilities to participate in
community activities of their choice and
to enhance society’s capacity to provide
full opportunities and accommodations
for these individuals. NIDRR research
focuses on major life domains as
identified in NIDRR’s Final Long-Range
Plan for FY 2005–2009 (Federal
Register, 2006): (1) Employment, (2)
Participation and Community Living,
and (3) Health and Function. To help
ensure that rehabilitation researchers
receive advanced research training and
experience consistent with the outcome
areas identified in NIDRR’s Long-Range
Plan, NIDRR is proposing priorities
under the ARRT program for the Plan’s
major life domains.
References: National Institute on
Disability and Rehabilitation Research
(2006). Notice of Final Long-Range Plan
for Fiscal Years 2005–2009. Federal
Register. Vol. 71, No 31. P 8166–8200.
Proposed Priority: The Assistant
Secretary for Special Education and
Rehabilitative Services proposes a new
priority for the Advanced Rehabilitation
Research Training (ARRT) program. For
FY 2013, and potential subsequent
years, ARRT projects must provide
advanced research training to eligible
individuals to enhance their capacity to
conduct high-quality multidisciplinary
rehabilitation and disability research to
improve outcomes for individuals with
disabilities in one of NIDRR’s major
domains of individual well-being: (a)
Community living and participation, (b)
employment, or (c) health and function.
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
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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.
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Executive Orders 12866 and 13563
Regulatory Impact Analysis
Under Executive Order 12866, the
Secretary must determine whether this
regulatory action is ‘‘significant’’ and,
therefore, subject to the requirements of
the Executive order and subject to
review by the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB). Section 3(f) of Executive
Order 12866 defines a ‘‘significant
regulatory action’’ as an action likely to
result in a rule that may—
(1) Have an annual effect on the
economy of $100 million or more, or
adversely affect a sector of the economy,
productivity, competition, jobs, the
environment, public health or safety, or
State, local, or tribal governments or
communities in a material way (also
referred to as an ‘‘economically
significant’’ rule);
(2) Create serious inconsistency or
otherwise interfere with an action taken
or planned by another agency;
(3) Materially alter the budgetary
impacts of entitlement grants, user fees,
or loan programs or the rights and
obligations of recipients thereof; or
(4) Raise novel legal or policy issues
arising out of legal mandates, the
President’s priorities, or the principles
stated in the Executive order.
This proposed regulatory action is not
a significant regulatory action subject to
review by OMB under section 3(f) of
Executive Order 12866.
We have also reviewed this regulatory
action under Executive Order 13563,
which supplements and explicitly
reaffirms the principles, structures, and
definitions governing regulatory review
established in Executive Order 12866.
To the extent permitted by law,
Executive Order 13563 requires that an
agency—
(1) Propose or adopt regulations only
on a reasoned determination that their
benefits justify their costs (recognizing
that some benefits and costs are difficult
to quantify);
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(2) Tailor its regulations to impose the
least burden on society, consistent with
obtaining regulatory objectives and
taking into account—among other things
and to the extent practicable—the costs
of cumulative regulations;
(3) In choosing among alternative
regulatory approaches, select those
approaches that maximize net benefits
(including potential economic,
environmental, public health and safety,
and other advantages; distributive
impacts; and equity);
(4) To the extent feasible, specify
performance objectives, rather than the
behavior or manner of compliance a
regulated entity must adopt; and
(5) Identify and assess available
alternatives to direct regulation,
including economic incentives—such as
user fees or marketable permits—to
encourage the desired behavior, or
provide information that enables the
public to make choices.
Executive Order 13563 also requires
an agency ‘‘to use the best available
techniques to quantify anticipated
present and future benefits and costs as
accurately as possible.’’ The Office of
Information and Regulatory Affairs of
OMB has emphasized that these
techniques may include ‘‘identifying
changing future compliance costs that
might result from technological
innovation or anticipated behavioral
changes.’’
We are issuing this proposed priority
only upon a reasoned determination
that its benefits would justify its costs.
In choosing among alternative
regulatory approaches, we selected
those approaches that would maximize
net benefits. Based on the analysis that
follows, the Department believes that
this regulatory action is consistent with
the principles in Executive Order 13563.
We also have determined that this
regulatory action would not unduly
interfere with State, local, and tribal
governments in the exercise of their
governmental functions.
In accordance with both Executive
orders, the Department has assessed the
potential costs and benefits, both
quantitative and qualitative, of this
regulatory action. The potential costs
are those resulting from statutory
requirements and those we have
determined as necessary for
administering the Department’s
programs and activities.
The benefits of the Disability and
Rehabilitation Research Projects and
Centers Programs have been well
established over the years, as projects
similar to the one envisioned by the
proposed priority have been completed
successfully. This proposed priority
would strengthen the capacity of the
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rehabilitation and disability field to
train qualified individuals, including
individuals with disabilities, to conduct
high-quality, advanced
multidisciplinary research across all of
NIDRR’s major domains of community
living and participation, employment,
and health and function; and thereby
contribute to advancing knowledge and
solving problems encountered by
individuals with disabilities of all ages.
Intergovernmental Review: This
program is not subject to Executive
Order 12372 and the regulations in 34
CFR part 79.
Accessible Format: Individuals with
disabilities can obtain this document in
an accessible format (e.g., braille, large
print, audiotape, or compact disc) 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 or a TTY, call
the FRS, toll free, at 1–800–877–8339.
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feature at: www.federalregister.gov.
Specifically, through the advanced
search feature at this site, you can limit
your search to documents published by
the Department.
Dated: March 25, 2013.
Michael Yudin,
Delegated the authority to Perform the
functions and Duties of Assistant Secretary
for Special Education and Rehabilitative
Services.
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
34 CFR Chapter III
[CFDA Number: 84.133P-1.]
Proposed Priority--National Institute on Disability and
Rehabilitation Research--Advanced Rehabilitation Research Training
Program
AGENCY: Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services,
Department of Education.
ACTION: Proposed priority.
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SUMMARY: The Assistant Secretary for Special Education and
Rehabilitative Services proposes a priority for the Advanced
Rehabilitation Research Training (ARRT) program under the Disability
and Rehabilitation Research Projects and Centers Program administered
by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research
(NIDRR). The Assistant Secretary may use this priority for competitions
in fiscal year (FY) 2013 and later years. We take this action to ensure
that NIDRR's resources are appropriately allocated across the three
outcome domains of individual well-being--community living and
participation, employment, and health and function. We intend this
priority to strengthen the capacity of the disability and
rehabilitation field to train qualified individuals, including
individuals with disabilities, to conduct high-quality, advanced
multidisciplinary rehabilitation research; and through this training
contribute to improved outcomes for individuals with disabilities
across the domains of community living and participation, employment,
and health and function.
DATES: We must receive your comments on or before April 29, 2013.
ADDRESSES: Address all comments about this notice to Marlene Spencer,
U.S. Department of Education, 400 Maryland Avenue SW., room 5133,
Potomac Center Plaza (PCP), Washington, DC 20202-2700.
If you prefer to send your comments by email, use the following
address: marlene.spencer@ed.gov. You must include the phrase ``Proposed
Priority
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for ARRT Projects'' in the subject line of your electronic message.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Marlene Spencer. Telephone: (202) 245-
7532 or by email: marlene.spencer@ed.gov.
If you use a telecommunications device for the deaf (TDD) or a text
telephone (TTY), call the Federal Relay Service (FRS), toll free, at 1-
800-877-8339.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This notice of proposed priority is in
concert with NIDRR's Long-Range Plan (Plan). The currently approved
Plan, which was published in the Federal Register on February 15, 2006
(71 FR 8166), can be accessed on the Internet at the following site:
www2.ed.gov/legislation/FedRegister/other/2006-1/021506d.html.
Through the implementation of the Plan, NIDRR seeks to: (1) Improve
the quality and utility of disability and rehabilitation research; (2)
foster an exchange of expertise, information, and training methods to
facilitate the advancement of knowledge and understanding of the unique
needs of traditionally underserved populations; (3) determine best
strategies and programs to improve rehabilitation outcomes for
underserved populations; (4) identify research gaps; (5) identify
mechanisms for integrating research and practice; and (6) disseminate
findings.
This notice proposes a new priority that NIDRR intends to use in FY
2013 and possibly later years. However, nothing precludes NIDRR from
publishing additional priorities, if needed. Furthermore, NIDRR is
under no obligation to make an award using this priority. The decision
to make an award will be based on the quality of applications received
and available funding.
Invitation to Comment: We invite you to submit comments regarding
this notice. To ensure that your comments have maximum effect in
developing the notice of final priority, we urge you to identify
clearly the specific topic that each comment addresses.
We invite you to assist us in complying with the specific
requirements of Executive Orders 12866 and 13563 and their 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 5133, 550 12th Street, SW., PCP,
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 Disability and
Rehabilitation Research Projects and Centers Program is to plan and
conduct research, demonstration projects, training, and related
activities, including international activities, to develop methods,
procedures, and rehabilitation technology, that maximize the full
inclusion and integration into society, employment, independent living,
family support, and economic and social self-sufficiency of individuals
with disabilities, especially individuals with the most severe
disabilities, and to improve the effectiveness of services authorized
under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended (Rehabilitation Act).
Advanced Rehabilitation Research Training:
The purpose of NIDRR's ARRT program, which is funded through the
Disability and Rehabilitation Research Projects and Centers Program, is
to provide advanced research training and experience to individuals
with doctorates, or similar advanced degrees, who have clinical or
other relevant experience. ARRT projects train rehabilitation
researchers, including researchers with disabilities, with particular
attention to research areas that support the implementation and
objectives of the Rehabilitation Act, and that improve the
effectiveness of services authorized under the Rehabilitation Act.
Additional information on the ARRT program can be found at:
www.ed.gov/rschstat/research/pubs/res-program.html#DRRP.
Program Authority: 29 U.S.C. 762(g) and 764(a).
Applicable Program Regulations: 34 CFR part 350.
Proposed Priority: This notice contains one proposed priority.
Advanced Rehabilitation Research Training Program.
Background: NIDRR's mission is to support the generation of new
knowledge and promote its effective use to improve the abilities of
individuals with disabilities to participate in community activities of
their choice and to enhance society's capacity to provide full
opportunities and accommodations for these individuals. NIDRR research
focuses on major life domains as identified in NIDRR's Final Long-Range
Plan for FY 2005-2009 (Federal Register, 2006): (1) Employment, (2)
Participation and Community Living, and (3) Health and Function. To
help ensure that rehabilitation researchers receive advanced research
training and experience consistent with the outcome areas identified in
NIDRR's Long-Range Plan, NIDRR is proposing priorities under the ARRT
program for the Plan's major life domains.
References: National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation
Research (2006). Notice of Final Long-Range Plan for Fiscal Years 2005-
2009. Federal Register. Vol. 71, No 31. P 8166-8200.
Proposed Priority: The Assistant Secretary for Special Education
and Rehabilitative Services proposes a new priority for the Advanced
Rehabilitation Research Training (ARRT) program. For FY 2013, and
potential subsequent years, ARRT projects must provide advanced
research training to eligible individuals to enhance their capacity to
conduct high-quality multidisciplinary rehabilitation and disability
research to improve outcomes for individuals with disabilities in one
of NIDRR's major domains of individual well-being: (a) Community living
and participation, (b) employment, or (c) health and function.
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
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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 Orders 12866 and 13563
Regulatory Impact Analysis
Under Executive Order 12866, the Secretary must determine whether
this regulatory action is ``significant'' and, therefore, subject to
the requirements of the Executive order and subject to review by the
Office of Management and Budget (OMB). Section 3(f) of Executive Order
12866 defines a ``significant regulatory action'' as an action likely
to result in a rule that may--
(1) Have an annual effect on the economy of $100 million or more,
or adversely affect a sector of the economy, productivity, competition,
jobs, the environment, public health or safety, or State, local, or
tribal governments or communities in a material way (also referred to
as an ``economically significant'' rule);
(2) Create serious inconsistency or otherwise interfere with an
action taken or planned by another agency;
(3) Materially alter the budgetary impacts of entitlement grants,
user fees, or loan programs or the rights and obligations of recipients
thereof; or
(4) Raise novel legal or policy issues arising out of legal
mandates, the President's priorities, or the principles stated in the
Executive order.
This proposed regulatory action is not a significant regulatory
action subject to review by OMB under section 3(f) of Executive Order
12866.
We have also reviewed this regulatory action under Executive Order
13563, which supplements and explicitly reaffirms the principles,
structures, and definitions governing regulatory review established in
Executive Order 12866. To the extent permitted by law, Executive Order
13563 requires that an agency--
(1) Propose or adopt regulations only on a reasoned determination
that their benefits justify their costs (recognizing that some benefits
and costs are difficult to quantify);
(2) Tailor its regulations to impose the least burden on society,
consistent with obtaining regulatory objectives and taking into
account--among other things and to the extent practicable--the costs of
cumulative regulations;
(3) In choosing among alternative regulatory approaches, select
those approaches that maximize net benefits (including potential
economic, environmental, public health and safety, and other
advantages; distributive impacts; and equity);
(4) To the extent feasible, specify performance objectives, rather
than the behavior or manner of compliance a regulated entity must
adopt; and
(5) Identify and assess available alternatives to direct
regulation, including economic incentives--such as user fees or
marketable permits--to encourage the desired behavior, or provide
information that enables the public to make choices.
Executive Order 13563 also requires an agency ``to use the best
available techniques to quantify anticipated present and future
benefits and costs as accurately as possible.'' The Office of
Information and Regulatory Affairs of OMB has emphasized that these
techniques may include ``identifying changing future compliance costs
that might result from technological innovation or anticipated
behavioral changes.''
We are issuing this proposed priority only upon a reasoned
determination that its benefits would justify its costs. In choosing
among alternative regulatory approaches, we selected those approaches
that would maximize net benefits. Based on the analysis that follows,
the Department believes that this regulatory action is consistent with
the principles in Executive Order 13563.
We also have determined that this regulatory action would not
unduly interfere with State, local, and tribal governments in the
exercise of their governmental functions.
In accordance with both Executive orders, the Department has
assessed the potential costs and benefits, both quantitative and
qualitative, of this regulatory action. The potential costs are those
resulting from statutory requirements and those we have determined as
necessary for administering the Department's programs and activities.
The benefits of the Disability and Rehabilitation Research Projects
and Centers Programs have been well established over the years, as
projects similar to the one envisioned by the proposed priority have
been completed successfully. This proposed priority would strengthen
the capacity of the rehabilitation and disability field to train
qualified individuals, including individuals with disabilities, to
conduct high-quality, advanced multidisciplinary research across all of
NIDRR's major domains of community living and participation,
employment, and health and function; and thereby contribute to
advancing knowledge and solving problems encountered by individuals
with disabilities of all ages.
Intergovernmental Review: This program is not subject to Executive
Order 12372 and the regulations in 34 CFR part 79.
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Dated: March 25, 2013.
Michael Yudin,
Delegated the authority to Perform the functions and Duties of
Assistant Secretary for Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.
[FR Doc. 2013-07260 Filed 3-27-13; 8:45 am]
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