Department of Education December 28, 2005 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

The Assistant Deputy Secretary for Innovation and Improvement proposes priorities and eligibility requirements under the Parental Information and Resource Centers (PIRC) program. The Assistant Deputy Secretary may use one or more of the priorities for and apply these eligibility requirements to competitions in fiscal year (FY) 2006 and in later years. We intend these priorities and requirements to help ensure that funded projects will effectively address the purposes of the PIRC program.

On December 7, 2005, we published in the Federal Register (70 FR 72796) a notice inviting applications for new awards for FY 2006 for the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary EducationSpecial Focus Competition: Program for North American Mobility in Higher Education. The notice contained incomplete information about the submission of applications. The following language should be inserted on page 72798, column one, as the fourth bulleted paragraph: ``You will not receive additional point value because you submit your application in electronic format, nor will we penalize you if you qualify for an exception to the electronic submission requirement, as described elsewhere in this section, and submit your application in paper format.''