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Note: The regulations in 34 CFR part 79
such as pre- and post-tests and
prosecution and pay the cost of such
apply to all applicants except federally
descriptive or attitudinal studies, were
prosecution.
recognized Indian tribes.
appropriate for use in generating the
Authority: 35 U.S.C. 207, 37 CFR Part 404.
hypotheses that will now be tested on Note: The regulations in 34 CFR part 86
Dated: March 17, 2008. a larger scale, using more rigorous apply to institutions of higher education
T.M. Cruz, methodologies and reducing or (IHEs) only.
Lieutenant, Judge Advocate General鈥檚 Corps, eliminating biases that are common in
U.S. Navy, Federal Register Liaison Officer. smaller, anecdotal studies. Applicants II. Award Information
[FR Doc. E8鈥?5735 Filed 3鈥?20鈥?08; 8:45 am] are encouraged to consult the report by
Type of Award: Discretionary grants
the Secretary鈥檚 Academic
BILLING CODE 3810鈥揊F鈥揚
or cooperative agreements.
Competitiveness Council (http://
Estimated Available Funds:
www.ed.gov/about/inits/ed/
$2,584,000. The Secretary expects that
competitiveness/acc-mathscience/
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION grantees will receive funding in FY 2008
index.html) for a more detailed
for the full project period.
Office of Postsecondary Education; explanation about appropriate Estimated Range of Awards:
Overview Information; Fund for the evaluation methodologies for rigorous $400,000鈥?$600,000 for a four-year
Improvement of Postsecondary evaluations, defined as being at least at project period.
Education鈥擟omprehensive Program; the quasi-experimental level. Estimated Average Size of Awards:
Notice Inviting Applications for New We are particularly interested in $500,000 for a four-year project period.
Awards for Fiscal Year (FY) 2008 proposals for projects that can be Maximum Award: We will reject any
expanded, scaled up, and evaluated application that proposes a budget
Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance
rigorously to achieve one or more of the exceeding $600,000 for a four-year
(CFDA) Number: 84.116B.
following goals: project period. The Assistant Secretary
Applications Available: March
DATES: (1) To encourage higher levels of for Postsecondary Education may
21, 2008. access, persistence, and completion of change the maximum amount through a
Deadline for Transmittal of graduation requirements for higher notice published in the Federal
Applications: May 5, 2008. education students. Register.
Deadline for Intergovernmental (2) To align curriculum on a State or
Estimated Number of Awards: 5鈥?7.
Review: July 7, 2008. multi-state level between high schools
Note: The Department is not bound by any
and colleges, and between two-year and
Full Text of Announcement
estimates in this notice.
four-year postsecondary programs, to
I. Funding Opportunity Description
ensure continuing academic progress Project Period: Up to 48 months.
Purpose of Program: The and transferability of credits.
III. Eligibility Information
Comprehensive Program supports (3) To improve the mathematics and
innovative grants and cooperative 1. Eligible Applicants: IHEs, other
science proficiency of postsecondary
agreements to improve postsecondary public and private nonprofit institutions
students, including pre-service
education. It supports reforms, and agencies, and combinations of these
mathematics and science teachers.
innovations, and significant (4) To enable postsecondary students, institutions and agencies.
2. Cost Sharing or Matching: This
improvements of postsecondary including pre-service teachers, to
program does not require cost sharing or
education that respond to problems of achieve proficiency in or advanced
matching.
national significance and serve as proficiency or postsecondary
national models. institutions to develop programs in one
IV. Application and Submission
Priorities: Under this competition, we or more critical need languages: Arabic,
Information
are particularly interested in Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Russian, and
1. Address to Request Application
applications that meet the following languages in the Indic, Iranian, and
Package: You can obtain an application
invitational priorities. Turkic language families.
package via the Internet or from the
Invitational Priorities: For FY 2008 Invitational Priority 2.
Under this priority we are particularly Education Publications Center (ED
these priorities are invitational
interested in projects that are designed Pubs). To obtain a copy via the Internet,
priorities. Under 34 CFR 75.105(c)(1) we
to establish, improve, or expand use the following address:
do not give an application that meets
Professional Science Master鈥檚 degree www.Grants.gov. To obtain a copy from
these invitational priorities a
programs, which combine traditional ED Pubs, write, fax, or call the
competitive or absolute preference over
academic training with specialized following: Education Publications
other applications.
These priorities are: knowledge and skills needed for work Center, PO Box 1398, Jessup, MD
Invitational Priority 1. in science and technology research, 20794鈥?1398. Telephone, toll free: 1鈥?
Under this priority we are particularly product development, manufacturing, or 877鈥?433鈥?7827. Fax: (301) 470鈥?1244. If
interested in projects that have related areas. Projects should include you use a telecommunications device
demonstrated promising results in industry partners to ensure that for the deaf (TDD), call, toll free: 1鈥?877鈥?
earlier evaluations and that will yield education and training in the 576鈥?7734.
greater impact on a larger scale, using You can contact ED Pubs at its Web
Professional Science Master鈥檚 degree
more rigorous evaluation methodologies site, also: http://www.ed.gov/pubs/
program align with the expectations and
(at least quasi-experimental). It is edpubs.html or at its e-mail address:
needs of business and industry.
expected that the educational activities Program Authority: 20 U.S.C. 1138鈥? edpubs@inet.ed.gov.
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and interventions that are the subject of If you request an application from ED
1138d.
Applicable Regulations: The
proposals will have demonstrated Pubs, be sure to identify this program or
Education Department General
successful outcomes, but not necessarily competition as follows: CFDA number
Administrative Regulations (EDGAR) in
with methods that meet the rigor of an 84.116B.
34 CFR parts 74, 75, 77, 79, 80, 82, 84,
experimental or quasi-experimental Individuals with disabilities can
85, 86, 97, 98, and 99.
design. Less rigorous methodologies, obtain a copy of the application package
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submit, no later than two weeks before
Applications for grants under this
in an alternative format (e.g., Braille,
the application deadline date, a written
program must be submitted
large print, audiotape, or computer
statement to the Department that you
electronically using the Grants.gov
diskette) by contacting the person or
qualify for one of these exceptions.
Apply site (Grants.gov). For information
team listed under Alternative Format in
Further information regarding
(including dates and times) about how
section VIII of this notice.
calculation of the date that is two weeks
to submit your application
2. Content and Form of Application
before the application deadline date is
electronically, or in paper format by
Submission: Requirements concerning
provided later in this section under
mail or hand delivery if you qualify for
the content of an application, together
Exception to Electronic Submission
an exception to the electronic
with the forms you must submit, are in
Requirement.
submission requirement, please refer to
the application package for this
You may access the electronic grant
section IV. 6. Other Submission
program.
application for the Comprehensive
Requirements in this notice.
Page Limit: The application narrative
Program at http://www.Grants.gov. You
We do not consider an application
(Part III of the application) is the section
must search for the downloadable
that does not comply with the deadline
in which the applicant addresses most
application package for this program by
requirements.
of the selection criteria that reviewers
Individuals with disabilities who the CFDA number. Do not include the
use to evaluate the application. The
need an accommodation or auxiliary aid CFDA number鈥檚 alpha suffix in your
application narrative must be limited to
search (e.g., search for 84.116, not
in connection with the application
no more than 20 pages, using the
84.116B).
process should contact the person listed
following standards:
Please note the following:
under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
鈥? A 鈥樷?榩age鈥欌?? is 8.5鈥? x 11鈥?, on one side
鈥? When you enter the Grants.gov site,
CONTACT in section VII in this notice.
only, with 1鈥欌?? margins at the top,
you will find information about
If the Department provides an
bottom, and both sides.
submitting an application electronically
accommodation or auxiliary aid to an
鈥? Double space (no more than three
through the site, as well as the hours of
individual with a disability in
lines per vertical inch) all text in the
operation.
connection with the application
application narrative, except titles, 鈥? Applications received by Grants.gov
process, the individual鈥檚 application
headings, footnotes, quotations, are date and time stamped. Your
remains subject to all other
references, and captions. Charts, tables, application must be fully uploaded and
requirements and limitations in this
figures, and graphs in the application submitted and must be date and time
notice.
narrative may be single spaced and will stamped by the Grants.gov system no
Deadline for Intergovernmental
count toward the page limit. later than 4:30 p.m., Washington, DC
Review: July 7, 2008.
鈥? Use a font that is either 12 point or time, on the application deadline date.
4. Intergovernmental Review: This
larger or no smaller than 10 pitch Except as otherwise noted in this
program is subject to Executive Order
(characters per inch). However, you may section, we will not consider your
12372 and the regulations in 34 CFR
use a 10 point font in charts, tables, application if it is date and time
part 79. Information about
figures, and graphs. stamped by the Grants.gov system later
Intergovernmental Review of Federal
鈥? Use one of the following fonts: than 4:30 p.m., Washington, DC time, on
Programs under Executive Order 12372
Times New Roman, Courier, Courier the application deadline date. When we
is in the application package for this
New, or Arial. An application submitted retrieve your application from
program.
in any other font (including Times Grants.gov, we will notify you if we are
5. Funding Restrictions: We reference
Roman and Arial Narrow) will not be rejecting your application because it
regulations outlining funding
accepted. was date and time stamped by the
restrictions in the Applicable
鈥? The page limit does not apply to Grants.gov system after 4:30 p.m.,
Regulations section of this notice.
Part I, the title page; Part II, the budget Washington, DC time, on the
6. Other Submission Requirements:
summary form (ED Form 524); Part IV, application deadline date.
Applications for grants under the
assurances, certifications, and the 鈥? The amount of time it can take to
Comprehensive Program must be
response to section 427 of the upload an application will vary
submitted electronically unless you
Department of Education鈥檚 General depending on a variety of factors,
qualify for an exception to this
Education Provisions Act (GEPA); the including the size of the application and
requirement in accordance with the
table of contents; the project abstract; or the speed of your Internet connection.
instructions in this section.
the appendix. The appendix may only Therefore, we strongly recommend that
a. Electronic Submission of
include the project evaluation chart, you do not wait until the application
Applications.
summaries of the qualifications of key Applications for grants under the deadline date to begin the submission
personnel, letters of support, and Comprehensive Program, CFDA number process through Grants.gov.
鈥? You should review and follow the
references. If you include any 84.116B must be submitted
attachments or appendices not Education Submission Procedures for
electronically using the
specifically requested, these items will submitting an application through
Governmentwide Grants.gov Apply site
be counted as part of the program Grants.gov that are included in the
at http://www.Grants.gov. Through this
narrative (Part III) for purposes of the application package for this program to
site, you will be able to download a
page limit requirement. ensure that you submit your application
copy of the application package,
We will reject your application if you in a timely manner to the Grants.gov
complete it offline, and then upload and
exceed the page limit; or if you apply system. You can also find the Education
submit your application. You may not e-
other standards and exceed the Submission Procedures pertaining to
mail an electronic copy of a grant
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equivalent of the page limit. Grants.gov at http://e-Grants.ed.gov/
application to us.
3. Submission Dates and Times: We will reject your application if you help/
Applications Available: March 21, submit it in paper format unless, as GrantsgovSubmissionProcedures.pdf.
鈥? To submit your application via
2008. described elsewhere in this section, you
Grants.gov, you must complete all steps
qualify for one of the exceptions to the
Deadline for Transmittal of
in the Grants.gov registration process
electronic submission requirement and
Applications: May 5, 2008.
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鈥? You do not have the capacity to
This second notification indicates that
(see http://www.grants.gov/applicants/
the Department has received your
get_registered.jsp). These steps include upload large documents to the
application and has assigned your
(1) registering your organization, a Grants.gov system;
and
application a PR/Award number (an ED-
multi-part process that includes
鈥? No later than two weeks before the
specified identifying number unique to
registration with the Central Contractor
application deadline date (14 calendar
Registry (CCR); (2) registering yourself your application).
鈥? We may request that you provide us days or, if the fourteenth calendar day
as an Authorized Organization
before the application deadline date
original signatures on forms at a later
Representative (AOR); and (3) getting
falls on a Federal holiday, the next
date.
authorized as an AOR by your
Application Deadline Date Extension business day following the Federal
organization. Details on these steps are
in Case of Technical Issues with the holiday), you mail or fax a written
outlined in the Grants.gov 3-Step
Grants.gov System: If you are statement to the Department, explaining
Registration Guide (see http://
experiencing problems submitting your which of the two grounds for an
www.grants.gov/section910/
application through Grants.gov, please exception prevent you from using the
Grants.govRegistrationBrochure.pdf).
contact the Grants.gov Support Desk, Internet to submit your application.
You also must provide on your
toll free, at 1鈥?800鈥?518鈥?4726. You must If you mail your written statement to
application the same D-U-N-S Number
obtain a Grants.gov Support Desk Case the Department, it must be postmarked
used with this registration. Please note
Number and must keep a record of it. no later than two weeks before the
that the registration process may take
If you are prevented from application deadline date. If you fax
five or more business days to complete,
electronically submitting your your written statement to the
and you must have completed all
application on the application deadline Department, we must receive the faxed
registration steps to allow you to submit
date because of technical problems with
successfully an application via statement no later than two weeks
the Grants.gov system, we will grant you
Grants.gov. In addition you will need to before the application deadline date.
an extension until 4:30 p.m., Address and mail or fax your
update your CCR registration on an
Washington, DC time, the following statement to: Levenia Ishmell,
annual basis. This may take three or
business day to enable you to transmit Comprehensive Program Assistant,
more business days to complete.
鈥? You will not receive additional your application electronically or by Fund for the Improvement of
point value because you submit your hand delivery. You also may mail your Postsecondary Education, U.S.
application in electronic format, nor application by following the mailing Department of Education, 1990 K Street,
will we penalize you if you qualify for instructions described elsewhere in this NW., Room 6147, Washington, DC
an exception to the electronic notice. 20006鈥?8544. Fax: (202) 502鈥?7877.
submission requirement, as described If you submit an application after 4:30 Your paper application must be
elsewhere in this section, and submit p.m., Washington, DC time, on the submitted in accordance with the mail
your application in paper format. application deadline date, please or hand delivery instructions described
鈥? You must submit all documents contact the person listed under FOR in this notice.
electronically, including all information b. Submission of Paper Applications
FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT in
you typically provide on the following by Mail.
section VII in this notice and provide an
forms: Application for Federal If you qualify for an exception to the
explanation of the technical problem
Assistance (SF 424), the Department of electronic submission requirement, you
you experienced with Grants.gov, along
Education Supplemental Information for may mail (through the U.S. Postal
with the Grants.gov Support Desk Case
SF 424, Budget Information鈥擭on- Service or a commercial carrier) your
Number. We will accept your
Construction Programs (ED 524), and all application to the Department. You
application if we can confirm that a
necessary assurances and certifications. must mail the original and two copies
technical problem occurred with the
Please note that two of these forms鈥攖he of your application, on or before the
Grants.gov system and that that problem
SF 424 and the Department of Education application deadline date, to the
affected your ability to submit your
Supplemental Information for SF 424鈥? Department at the applicable following
application by 4:30 p.m., Washington,
have replaced the ED 424 (Application address:
DC time, on the application deadline
for Federal Education Assistance). By mail through the U.S. Postal
date. The Department will contact you
鈥? You must attach any narrative Service: U.S. Department of Education,
after a determination is made on
sections of your application as files in Application Control Center, Attention:
whether your application will be
a .DOC (document), .RTF (rich text), or (CFDA Number 84.116B), 400 Maryland
accepted.
.PDF (Portable Document) format. If you Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20202鈥?
Note: The extensions to which we refer in
upload a file type other than the three 4260; or
this section apply only to the unavailability
file types specified in this paragraph or By mail through a commercial carrier:
of, or technical problems with, the Grants.gov
submit a password-protected file, we U.S. Department of Education,
system. We will not grant you an extension
will not review that material. Application Control Center, Stop 4260,
if you failed to fully register to submit your
鈥? Your electronic application must application to Grants.gov before the Attention: (CFDA Number 84.116B),
application deadline date and time or if the
comply with any page-limit 7100 Old Landover Road, Landover, MD
technical problem you experienced is
requirements described in this notice. 20785鈥?1506.
鈥? After you electronically submit unrelated to the Grants.gov system.
Regardless of which address you use,
your application, you will receive from Exception to Electronic Submission you must show proof of mailing
Grants.gov an automatic notification of Requirement: You qualify for an consisting of one of the following:
receipt that contains a Grants.gov exception to the electronic submission (1) A legibly dated U.S. Postal Service
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tracking number. (This notification requirement, and may submit your postmark.
indicates receipt by Grants.gov only, not (2) A legible mail receipt with the
application in paper format, if you are
receipt by the Department.) The date of mailing stamped by the U.S.
unable to submit an application through
Department then will retrieve your Postal Service.
the Grants.gov system because鈥?
鈥? You do not have access to the (3) A dated shipping label, invoice, or
application from Grants.gov and send a
receipt from a commercial carrier.
second notification to you by e-mail. Internet; or
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(4) Any other proof of mailing 2. Administrative and National Policy Telephone: (202) 502鈥?7668 or by e-mail:
acceptable to the Secretary of the U.S. Requirements: We identify Levenia.Ishmell@ed.gov.
If you use a TDD, call the FRS, toll
Department of Education. administrative and national policy
If you mail your application through free, at 1鈥?800鈥?877鈥?8339.
requirements in the application package
the U.S. Postal Service, we do not and reference these and other VIII. Other Information
accept either of the following as proof requirements in the Applicable
Alternative Format: Individuals with
of mailing: Regulations section in this notice.
disabilities can obtain this document
(1) A private metered postmark. We reference the regulations outlining
and a copy of the application package in
(2) A mail receipt that is not dated by the terms and conditions of an award in
an alternative format (e.g., Braille, large
the U.S. Postal Service. the Applicable Regulations section in
If your application is postmarked after print, audiotape, or computer diskette)
this notice and include these and other
the application deadline date, we will on request to the program contact
specific conditions in the GAN. The
not consider your application. person listed under FOR FURTHER
GAN also incorporates your approved
INFORMATION CONTACT in section VII in
application as part of your binding
Note: The U.S. Postal Service does not
this notice.
uniformly provide a dated postmark. Before commitments under the grant.
Electronic Access to This Document:
relying on this method, you should check 3. Reporting: At the end of your
You can view this document, as well as
with your local post office.
project period, you must submit a final
all other documents of this Department
c. Submission of Paper Applications performance report, including financial
published in the Federal Register, in
by Hand Delivery. information, as directed by the
text or Adobe Portable Document
If you qualify for an exception to the Secretary. If you receive a multi-year
Format (PDF) on the Internet at the
electronic submission requirement, you award, you must submit an annual
following site: http://www.ed.gov/news/
(or a courier service) may deliver your performance report that provides the
fedregister.
paper application to the Department by most current performance and financial
To use PDF you must have Adobe
hand. You must deliver the original and expenditure information as directed by
Acrobat Reader, which is available free
two copies of your application by hand, the Secretary in 34 CFR 75.118. The
at this site. If you have questions about
on or before the application deadline Secretary may also require more
using PDF, call the U.S. Government
date, to the Department at the following frequent performance reports under 34
Printing Office (GPO), toll free, at 1鈥?
address: U.S. Department of Education, CFR 75.720(c). For specific
888鈥?293鈥?6498; or in the Washington,
Application Control Center, Attention: requirements on reporting, please go to:
DC, area at (202) 512鈥?1530.
(CFDA Number 84.116B), 550 12th http://www.ed.gov/fund/grant/apply/
Street, SW., Room 7041, Potomac Center Note: The official version of this document
appforms.html.
is the document published in the Federal
Plaza, Washington, DC 20202鈥?4260. 4. Performance Measures: Under the
Register. Free Internet access to the official
The Application Control Center Government Performance and Results edition of the Federal Register and the Code
accepts hand deliveries daily between 8 Act of 1993 (GPRA), the following of Federal Regulations is available on GPO
a.m. and 4:30 p.m., Washington, DC measures will be used by the Access at: http://www.gpoaccess.gov/nara/
time, except Saturdays, Sundays, and Department in assessing the index.html.
Federal holidays. performance of the Fund for the
Dated: March 18, 2008.
Improvement of Postsecondary
Note for Mail or Hand Delivery of Paper
Diane Auer Jones,
Applications: If you mail or hand deliver Education鈥檚 Comprehensive Program:
your application to the Department鈥? Assistant Secretary for Postsecondary
(1) The percentage of FIPSE grantees
(1) You must indicate on the envelope Education.
reporting project dissemination to
and鈥攊f not provided by the Department鈥攊n [FR Doc. E8鈥?5782 Filed 3鈥?20鈥?08; 8:45 am]
others; and
Item 11 of the SF 424 the CFDA number
(2) The percentage of FIPSE projects BILLING CODE 4000鈥?01鈥揚
including suffix letter, if any, of the
reporting institutionalization on their
competition under which you are submitting
home campuses.
your application; and
If funded, you will be asked to collect
(2) The Application Control Center will DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
mail to you a notification of receipt of your and report data on these measures in
grant application. If you do not receive this Supplemental Environmental Impact
your project鈥檚 annual performance
notification within 15 business days from the Statement: Site Selection for the
report (EDGAR, 34 CFR 75.590).
application deadline date, you should call Expansion of the Strategic Petroleum
Applicants are also advised to consider
the U.S. Department of Education
Reserve
these two measures in conceptualizing
Application Control Center at (202) 245鈥?
the design, implementation, and
6288. Department of Energy.
AGENCY:
evaluation of the proposed project
Notice of additional public
ACTION:
because of their importance in the
V. Application Review Information scoping meeting.
application review process. Collection
Selection Criteria: The selection
of data on these measures should be a On March 5, 2008, the
SUMMARY:
criteria for this program are from 34 CFR
part of the project evaluation plan, along Department of Energy (DOE) published
75.210 and are listed in the application
with measures of progress on goals and a Notice of Intent in the Federal
package.
objectives that are specific to your Register (73 FR 11895) to prepare a
VI. Award Administration Information project. supplemental environmental impact
statement (SEIS) to analyze the impacts
1. Award Notices: If your application VII. Agency Contact
of potential new locations for certain off
is successful, we notify your U.S.
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site facilities associated with the
Representative and U.S. Senators and FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Levenia Ishmell, Fund for the proposed Strategic Petroleum Reserve
send you a Grant Award Notification
Improvement of Postsecondary expansion site at Richton, Mississippi.
(GAN). We may notify you informally,
Education, U.S. Department of That Notice also announced that DOE
also.
If your application is not evaluated or Education, 1990 K Street, NW., Room will hold three meetings at which
interested agencies, organizations,
not selected for funding, we notify you. 6147, Washington, DC 20006鈥?8544.
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