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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance
(CFDA) Number: 84.191B.
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The Secretary proposes to
waive the requirements that generally
prohibit project period extensions
involving the obligation of additional
Federal funds, and to extend the project
period of the four currently-funded
Literacy Information and
Communication System (LINCS)
Regional Professional Development
SUMMARY:
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Proposed waiver and extension
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ACTION:
Proposed Waiver and Extension of the
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Information and Communication
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Centers (RPDC) program grants for one
year. The proposed waiver and
extension would enable these grantees
to receive funding for FY 2015 (through
September 30, 2016), using FY 2014
funds. The Secretary proposes this
action because we do not believe that it
would be in the public interest to hold
a LINCS RPDC competition during a
period of significant change for State
grantees transitioning to new program
requirements under the Workforce
Innovation and Opportunity Act
(WIOA).
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We must receive your comments
on or before August 24, 2015.
ADDRESSES: Address all comments about
this proposed waiver and extension of
the project period to Patricia Bennett,
U.S. Department of Education, 400
Maryland Avenue SW., Room 11013,
Potomac Center Plaza, Washington, DC
20202–7241.
If you prefer to send your comments
by email, use the following address:
patricia.bennett@ed.gov. You must
include the phrase ‘‘Proposed waiver
and extension of the project period for
LINCS RPDCs’’ in the subject line of
your message.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Patricia Bennett by telephone at (202)
245–7758 or by email at:
patricia.bennett@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.
DATES:
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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Invitation To Comment
We invite you to submit comments
regarding this notice. We are
particularly interested in receiving
comments on the potential impact that
this proposed project period waiver and
extension might have on current LINCS
RPDCs and on potential applicants that
would be eligible to apply for grant
awards under any new LINCS RPDC
notice inviting applications, should
there be one.
The following entities would be
eligible to apply should the Department
conduct a new competition for LINCS
RPDCs:
(a) Institutions of higher education;
(b) Public or private agencies or
organizations; and
(c) Consortia of entities listed in
paragraphs (a) and (b).
During and after the comment period,
you may inspect all public comments
about this proposed waiver and
extension of the project period in room
11013, Potomac Center Plaza, 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 of proposed
waiver and extension of the project
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period. If you want to schedule an
appointment for this type of aid, please
contact the person listed under FOR
FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT.
Background
In FY 2011, using FY 2010 funds, we
funded four LINCS RPDC grants under
section 243(2)(H) of the Adult Education
and Family Literacy Act (AEFLA), as
authorized under title II of the
Workforce Investment Act of 1998
(WIA) (20 U.S.C. 9253(2)(H)). Each
RPDC served one of the following four
regions:
(1) Region 1—Connecticut, Delaware,
District of Columbia, Maine, Maryland,
Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New
Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Puerto
Rico, Rhode Island, Vermont, and the
Virgin Islands.
(2) Region 2—Alabama, Arkansas,
Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana,
Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma,
South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas,
Virginia, and West Virginia.
(3) Region 3—Illinois, Indiana, Iowa,
Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri,
Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South
Dakota, and Wisconsin.
(4) Region 4—Alaska, Arizona,
California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho,
Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon,
Utah, Washington, Wyoming, Guam,
American Samoa, the Commonwealth of
the Northern Mariana Islands, and the
Republic of Palau.
Through the LINCS RPDC grants,
established under WIA, we supported
evidence-based virtual or in-person
adult education professional
development (AEPD) activities to assist
educators who provide adult education
services 1 or adult education
instruction 2 to adult learners (adult
educators).
In addition, the LINCS RPDCs
supported each eligible agency
responsible for administering or
supervising policy for adult education
and literacy programs under section
203(4) of AEFLA 3 under WIA (eligible
1 Adult education services (e.g., career
counseling, transportation counseling, education
counseling) are provided to adult learners by
educators who may include staff of eligible
providers identified in section 203(5) of AEFLA
under WIA, as well as State staff responsible for the
implementation of adult education programs.
2 Adult education instruction (e.g., instruction in
basic literacy, mathematics, and English language
skills) is provided to adult learners by educators
who may include adult education teachers and
other instructional personnel of eligible providers
identified in section 203(5) of AEFLA under WIA.
3 Section 203(4) of AEFLA under WIA defines the
term ‘‘eligible agency’’ as the sole entity or agency
in a State or an outlying area responsible for
administering or supervising policy for adult
education and literacy in the or outlying area,
respectively, consistent with the law of the State or
outlying area, respectively.
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agency), and adult education and
related organizations within each State 4
and outlying area.5
The RPDCs provided substantial and
direct operational involvement in the
management of project implementation
and on plans for AEPD and project
activities, including by facilitating the
collaboration between grantees and the
Department’s LINCS Resource
Collection contractor and the LINCS
technical services contractor. The
LINCS RPDCs have also provided high
quality professional development
information and assistance to States in
support of the transition to new AEFLA
program requirements under the
Workforce Innovation and Opportunity
Act (WIOA), which was signed into law
on July 22, 2014 (29 U.S.C. 3101 et seq.).
The project period for the four LINCS
RPDC grantees that received awards
under the FY 2011 competition was for
36 months, through FY 2013, to end on
September 30, 2014, and the Secretary
had planned to hold a competition to
award new grants. However, we
determined that holding an RPDC
competition for FY 2014—the same year
in which the Department’s LINCS
Resource Collection contract and the
LINCS technical services contract would
end—was not in the public interest
because it would have disrupted the
continuity and stability of services that
we provided to adult educators and
thereby would have negatively impacted
service delivery to our adult education
customers.
On June 2, 2014, we published in the
Federal Register a final waiver and
extension for the initial 36-month grant
projects under the LINCS RPDC
program. In that notice the Secretary
waived the restriction against project
period extensions involving the
obligation of additional Federal funds
and extended for an additional 12
months—for FY 2014 (through
September 30, 2015), using FY 2013
funds—the project period of the four
LINCS RPDC grants issued under the FY
2011 competition. (See 79 FR 31315, as
corrected in the Correction Notice of
Final Waiver and Extension of the
Project Period for the LINCS RPDCs
published elsewhere in this issue of the
Federal Register.) This one-year
extension of the LINCS RPDC project
period through September 30, 2015,
ensured seamless technical assistance
service delivery to our adult education
customers.
In this notice of proposed waiver and
extension, the Secretary proposes to
extend the project period of the current
4 See
5 See
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section 203(17) of AEFLA under WIA.
section 203(14) of AEFLA under WIA.
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LINCS RPDC grants for an additional 12
months, for FY 2015 (through
September 30, 2016), using FY 2014
funds. The Secretary is proposing this
action in light of the reauthorization of
AEFLA by title II of WIOA and the
resulting period of significant change for
State grantees in transitioning from the
program requirements in AEFLA as
authorized under WIA to the new
program requirements in AEFLA as
authorized under WIOA. This action is
also consistent with the transition
authority in section 503(c) of WIOA, 29
U.S.C. 3343(c), which states that the
Secretary shall take such action as
determined to be appropriate to provide
for the orderly transition from any
authority under AEFLA (20 U.S.C. 9201
et seq.), as in effect on the day before the
date of enactment of WIOA, to any
authority under AEFLA, as amended by
WIOA. The extension of the four current
LINCS RPDCs will provide continuity
for States, minimize disruption during
the critical transition year, when
support and technical assistance from
the four experienced LINCS RPDC
grantees would be critical, and align a
LINCS RPDC grant competition with the
full implementation of WIOA.
If the waiver of 34 CFR 75.261(a) and
(c)(2) that we propose in this notice is
announced by the Department in a final
notice, the requirements applicable to
continuation awards for current LINCS
RPDC grantees and the requirements in
34 CFR 75.253 would apply to any
continuation awards sought by current
LINCS RPDC grantees.
If we announce this proposed waiver
and extension of the project period as
final, we would make continuation
awards based on information that each
grantee had provided, indicating that it
is making substantial progress
performing its LINCS RPDC grant
activities based on the requirements in
the notice inviting applications, and
based on the regulations in 34 CFR
75.253.
Any activities to be carried out during
the continuation year must be consistent
with, or be a logical extension of, the
scope, goals, and objectives of each
grantee’s application as approved in the
FY 2011 LINCS RPDC competition.
Under this proposed waiver and
extension, the project period for current
LINCS RPDC grantees would be
extended through FY 2015 (ending
September 30, 2016).
Regulatory Flexibility Act Certification
The Secretary certifies that the
proposed waiver and extension of the
project period and the activities
required to support the additional year
of funding would not have a significant
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economic impact on a substantial
number of small entities. The small
entities that would be affected by this
proposed waiver and extension of the
project period are the four currentlyfunded LINCS RPDC grantees and any
potential eligible applicants for the
LINCS RPDC grants.
The proposed waiver and extension of
these current projects would involve
minimal compliance costs, and the
activities required to support the
additional year of funding would not
impose additional regulatory burdens or
require unnecessary Federal
supervision.
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
This notice of proposed waiver and
extension of the project period does not
contain any information collection
requirements.
Intergovernmental Review
The LINCS RPDC 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.
Accessible Format: Individuals with
disabilities can obtain this document in
an accessible format (e.g., braille, large
print, audiotape, or compact disc) on
request to the contact person listed
under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
CONTACT.
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and the Code of Federal Regulations is
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Program Authority: 29 U.S.C.
3332(c)(2)(G).
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Dated: July 21, 2015.
Johan E. Uvin,
Acting Assistant Secretary for Career,
Technical, and Adult Education.
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Notice of Final Waiver and Extension
of the Project Period for the Literacy
Information and Communication
System Regional Professional
Development Centers
Office of Career, Technical, and
Adult Education, Department of
Education.
ACTION: Notice, Correction.
AGENCY:
Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance
(CFDA) Number: 84.191B.
On June 2, 2014, the
Department of Education published in
the Federal Register (79 FR 31315) a
final waiver and extension of the project
period for the Literacy Information and
Communication System (LINCS)
Regional Professional Development
Centers (RPDCs) (Final Waiver and
Extension). This notice corrects errors
that appeared on pages 31315 and 31316
of the Final Waiver and Extension in the
identification of the year of the
extension and the fiscal year (FY) funds
that would be used for continuation
awards during the extension of the
project period.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Patricia Bennett, U.S. Department of
Education, 400 Maryland Avenue SW.,
Room 11013, Potomac Center Plaza,
Washington, DC 20202–2600.
Telephone: (202) 245–7758.
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: We make
the following corrections:
On page 31315 in the third column in
the SUMMARY section, second sentence,
first clause, we remove the phrase ‘‘FY
2015 with FY 2014 funds’’ and replace
it with the phrase ‘‘FY 2014 with FY
2013 funds’’. The sentence now
correctly reads, ‘‘This will enable the
four current LINCS RPDC grantees that
received awards under the FY 2011
competition to seek a continuation
award for one additional year through
FY 2014 with FY 2013 funds; and we
will not announce a new LINCS RPDC
competition for FY 2014.’’
On page 31316, in the first column in
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION, last
sentence, we remove the phrase ‘‘FY
2015 with FY 2014 funds’’ replace it
SUMMARY:
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Proposed Waiver and Extension of the Project Period for the
Literacy Information and Communication System Regional Professional
Development Centers
AGENCY: Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education, Department of
Education.
ACTION: Proposed waiver and extension of the project period.
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Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) Number: 84.191B.
SUMMARY: The Secretary proposes to waive the requirements that
generally prohibit project period extensions involving the obligation
of additional Federal funds, and to extend the project period of the
four currently-funded Literacy Information and Communication System
(LINCS) Regional Professional Development Centers (RPDC) program grants
for one year. The proposed waiver and extension would enable these
grantees to receive funding for FY 2015 (through September 30, 2016),
using FY 2014 funds. The Secretary proposes this action because we do
not believe that it would be in the public interest to hold a LINCS
RPDC competition during a period of significant change for State
grantees transitioning to new program requirements under the Workforce
Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA).
[[Page 44089]]
DATES: We must receive your comments on or before August 24, 2015.
ADDRESSES: Address all comments about this proposed waiver and
extension of the project period to Patricia Bennett, U.S. Department of
Education, 400 Maryland Avenue SW., Room 11013, Potomac Center Plaza,
Washington, DC 20202-7241.
If you prefer to send your comments by email, use the following
address: patricia.bennett@ed.gov. You must include the phrase
``Proposed waiver and extension of the project period for LINCS RPDCs''
in the subject line of your message.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Patricia Bennett by telephone at (202)
245-7758 or by email at: patricia.bennett@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:
Invitation To Comment
We invite you to submit comments regarding this notice. We are
particularly interested in receiving comments on the potential impact
that this proposed project period waiver and extension might have on
current LINCS RPDCs and on potential applicants that would be eligible
to apply for grant awards under any new LINCS RPDC notice inviting
applications, should there be one.
The following entities would be eligible to apply should the
Department conduct a new competition for LINCS RPDCs:
(a) Institutions of higher education;
(b) Public or private agencies or organizations; and
(c) Consortia of entities listed in paragraphs (a) and (b).
During and after the comment period, you may inspect all public
comments about this proposed waiver and extension of the project period
in room 11013, Potomac Center Plaza, 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 of proposed waiver and
extension of the project period. If you want to schedule an appointment
for this type of aid, please contact the person listed under FOR
FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT.
Background
In FY 2011, using FY 2010 funds, we funded four LINCS RPDC grants
under section 243(2)(H) of the Adult Education and Family Literacy Act
(AEFLA), as authorized under title II of the Workforce Investment Act
of 1998 (WIA) (20 U.S.C. 9253(2)(H)). Each RPDC served one of the
following four regions:
(1) Region 1--Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Maine,
Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York,
Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, Vermont, and the Virgin
Islands.
(2) Region 2--Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky,
Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina,
Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia.
(3) Region 3--Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota,
Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin.
(4) Region 4--Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho,
Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, Wyoming, Guam,
American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and
the Republic of Palau.
Through the LINCS RPDC grants, established under WIA, we supported
evidence-based virtual or in-person adult education professional
development (AEPD) activities to assist educators who provide adult
education services \1\ or adult education instruction \2\ to adult
learners (adult educators).
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\1\ Adult education services (e.g., career counseling,
transportation counseling, education counseling) are provided to
adult learners by educators who may include staff of eligible
providers identified in section 203(5) of AEFLA under WIA, as well
as State staff responsible for the implementation of adult education
programs.
\2\ Adult education instruction (e.g., instruction in basic
literacy, mathematics, and English language skills) is provided to
adult learners by educators who may include adult education teachers
and other instructional personnel of eligible providers identified
in section 203(5) of AEFLA under WIA.
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In addition, the LINCS RPDCs supported each eligible agency
responsible for administering or supervising policy for adult education
and literacy programs under section 203(4) of AEFLA \3\ under WIA
(eligible agency), and adult education and related organizations within
each State \4\ and outlying area.\5\
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\3\ Section 203(4) of AEFLA under WIA defines the term
``eligible agency'' as the sole entity or agency in a State or an
outlying area responsible for administering or supervising policy
for adult education and literacy in the or outlying area,
respectively, consistent with the law of the State or outlying area,
respectively.
\4\ See section 203(17) of AEFLA under WIA.
\5\ See section 203(14) of AEFLA under WIA.
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The RPDCs provided substantial and direct operational involvement
in the management of project implementation and on plans for AEPD and
project activities, including by facilitating the collaboration between
grantees and the Department's LINCS Resource Collection contractor and
the LINCS technical services contractor. The LINCS RPDCs have also
provided high quality professional development information and
assistance to States in support of the transition to new AEFLA program
requirements under the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA),
which was signed into law on July 22, 2014 (29 U.S.C. 3101 et seq.).
The project period for the four LINCS RPDC grantees that received
awards under the FY 2011 competition was for 36 months, through FY
2013, to end on September 30, 2014, and the Secretary had planned to
hold a competition to award new grants. However, we determined that
holding an RPDC competition for FY 2014--the same year in which the
Department's LINCS Resource Collection contract and the LINCS technical
services contract would end--was not in the public interest because it
would have disrupted the continuity and stability of services that we
provided to adult educators and thereby would have negatively impacted
service delivery to our adult education customers.
On June 2, 2014, we published in the Federal Register a final
waiver and extension for the initial 36-month grant projects under the
LINCS RPDC program. In that notice the Secretary waived the restriction
against project period extensions involving the obligation of
additional Federal funds and extended for an additional 12 months--for
FY 2014 (through September 30, 2015), using FY 2013 funds--the project
period of the four LINCS RPDC grants issued under the FY 2011
competition. (See 79 FR 31315, as corrected in the Correction Notice of
Final Waiver and Extension of the Project Period for the LINCS RPDCs
published elsewhere in this issue of the Federal Register.) This one-
year extension of the LINCS RPDC project period through September 30,
2015, ensured seamless technical assistance service delivery to our
adult education customers.
In this notice of proposed waiver and extension, the Secretary
proposes to extend the project period of the current
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LINCS RPDC grants for an additional 12 months, for FY 2015 (through
September 30, 2016), using FY 2014 funds. The Secretary is proposing
this action in light of the reauthorization of AEFLA by title II of
WIOA and the resulting period of significant change for State grantees
in transitioning from the program requirements in AEFLA as authorized
under WIA to the new program requirements in AEFLA as authorized under
WIOA. This action is also consistent with the transition authority in
section 503(c) of WIOA, 29 U.S.C. 3343(c), which states that the
Secretary shall take such action as determined to be appropriate to
provide for the orderly transition from any authority under AEFLA (20
U.S.C. 9201 et seq.), as in effect on the day before the date of
enactment of WIOA, to any authority under AEFLA, as amended by WIOA.
The extension of the four current LINCS RPDCs will provide continuity
for States, minimize disruption during the critical transition year,
when support and technical assistance from the four experienced LINCS
RPDC grantees would be critical, and align a LINCS RPDC grant
competition with the full implementation of WIOA.
If the waiver of 34 CFR 75.261(a) and (c)(2) that we propose in
this notice is announced by the Department in a final notice, the
requirements applicable to continuation awards for current LINCS RPDC
grantees and the requirements in 34 CFR 75.253 would apply to any
continuation awards sought by current LINCS RPDC grantees.
If we announce this proposed waiver and extension of the project
period as final, we would make continuation awards based on information
that each grantee had provided, indicating that it is making
substantial progress performing its LINCS RPDC grant activities based
on the requirements in the notice inviting applications, and based on
the regulations in 34 CFR 75.253.
Any activities to be carried out during the continuation year must
be consistent with, or be a logical extension of, the scope, goals, and
objectives of each grantee's application as approved in the FY 2011
LINCS RPDC competition. Under this proposed waiver and extension, the
project period for current LINCS RPDC grantees would be extended
through FY 2015 (ending September 30, 2016).
Regulatory Flexibility Act Certification
The Secretary certifies that the proposed waiver and extension of
the project period and the activities required to support the
additional year of funding would not have a significant economic impact
on a substantial number of small entities. The small entities that
would be affected by this proposed waiver and extension of the project
period are the four currently-funded LINCS RPDC grantees and any
potential eligible applicants for the LINCS RPDC grants.
The proposed waiver and extension of these current projects would
involve minimal compliance costs, and the activities required to
support the additional year of funding would not impose additional
regulatory burdens or require unnecessary Federal supervision.
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
This notice of proposed waiver and extension of the project period
does not contain any information collection requirements.
Intergovernmental Review
The LINCS RPDC 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.
Accessible Format: Individuals with disabilities can obtain this
document in an accessible format (e.g., braille, large print,
audiotape, or compact disc) on request to the contact person listed
under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT.
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Program Authority: 29 U.S.C. 3332(c)(2)(G).
Dated: July 21, 2015.
Johan E. Uvin,
Acting Assistant Secretary for Career, Technical, and Adult Education.
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