Direct Grant Programs and Fellowship Programs

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

Direct Grant Programs and Fellowship Programs

AGENCY: Department of Education.

ACTION: Notice identifying direct grant programs and fellowship

programs under which the Secretary has invited or expects to invite

applications for new awards for fiscal year (FY) 1999.

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SUMMARY: This notice identifies programs and competitions under which

the Secretary has invited or expects to invite applications for new

awards for FY 1999. The notice also announces actual or estimated

deadline dates for the transmittal of applications. The notice is

intended to help potential applicants in preparing to respond to

expected FY 1999 grant competitions.

Note: This notice is advisory only and is not an official

application notice of the Department of Education.

Organization of Notice: This notice provides charts, grouped by

principal office, of virtually all the Department's direct grant and

fellowship competitions for new awards the Secretary has announced or

expects to announce for FY 1999. Each principal office is assigned a

separate chart as follows:

Chart 1--Office of Bilingual Education and Minority Languages

Affairs.

Chart 2--Office of Educational Research and Improvement.

Chart 3--Office of Elementary and Secondary Education.

Chart 4--Office of Postsecondary Education.

Chart 5--Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

Chart 6--Office of Vocational and Adult Education.

DATES: Dates of Application Notices. The actual or estimated date for

publication of the application notice for a given program or

competition is listed in column two of the charts. Application notices

that have already been published in the Federal Register can be

identified by the Federal Register page number, also shown in column

two. If a program has yet to publish an application notice, an

estimated date is listed.

Applications Available. The actual or estimated date for the

availability of an application package for a given program or

competition is listed in column three of the charts.

Deadline Dates for Transmitting Applications. The actual or

estimated deadline for transmitting applications under a given program

or competition is listed in column four of the charts. If a program has

yet to publish an application notice, the estimated deadline date is

listed. The actual deadline will appear in the Federal Register.

Deadline Dates for Transmitting Intergovernmental Reviews. Certain

programs identified in this notice are subject to Executive Order 12372

and the regulations in 34 CFR part 79. The actual or estimated deadline

date for the transmittal of State Process Recommendations by State

Single Points of Contact (SPOCs) and comments by other interested

parties is listed in column five of the charts. If a program has yet to

publish an application notice, the estimated deadline date is listed.

The actual deadline will appear in the application notice to be

published in the Federal Register. For further information, an

applicant under a program subject to the Executive order--and other

parties interested in that program--are directed to the appendix to

this notice.

ADDRESSES: For Applications or Further Information. The address and

telephone number for obtaining applications for, or further information

about, an individual program are in the actual application notice for

that program.

For Users of TDD or FIRS. Individuals who use a telecommunications

device for the deaf (TDD) may call the TDD number, if any, listed in

the individual application notices. If a TDD number is not listed for a

given program, individuals who use a TDD may call the Federal

Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 1-800-877-8339 between 8 a.m. and 8

p.m., Eastern time, Monday through Friday.

Individuals with disabilities may obtain this document in an

alternate format (e.g., Braille, large print, audiotape, or computer

diskette) on request to Arthur Stewart, U.S. Department of Education,

600 Independence Avenue, SW., room 3652, ROB-3, Washington, DC 20202-

4248. Telephone: (202) 708-8515. Internet: Arthur__S[email protected]

For Intergovernmental Review. The address for transmitting

recommendations and comments under Executive Order 12372 is in the

appendix to this notice. The appendix also contains the addresses of

individual SPOCs.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION

Available Funds

The Secretary is publishing this notice in order to give potential

applicants adequate time to prepare applications. The amounts of funds

listed as available for these programs are estimates and are based on

the recently passed FY 1999 appropriation for the Department of

Education. Potential applicants should note, however, that some of the

competitions listed in this notice may be canceled and some new

competitions not listed in this notice may be announced.

Estimated Range and Average Size of Awards

Except for programs and competitions administered by the Office of

Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS), columns six and

seven list estimated ranges and average size of awards. The amounts

referenced in these columns are advisory and represent the Secretary's

best estimates at this time. The average size of an award is the

estimate for a single-year project or for the first budget period of a

multi-year project. In the application package for an individual

program or competition, applicants will receive information about the

amount the Secretary intends to make available for each year of a

multi-year project.

In the case of programs and competitions administered by the

principal components of OSERS, the charts differ with regard to the

amount of awards. For programs and competitions of this program office,

column six of the charts lists the actual or estimated maximum amount

the Secretary will award per year. Applicants will receive further

information about funding amounts in the application packages for the

individual programs.

In the case of programs and competitions administered by the Office

of Postsecondary Education, please note that the reauthorization of the

Higher Education Act (Pub.L. 105-244, enacted October 7, 1998) may

significantly affect the discretionary grant program competitions and

timelines in the chart. Actual deadline dates will appear in the

application notices published in the Federal Register.

Note: The Department is not bound by any of the estimates in

this document. The dates, fiscal information, and number of new

awards listed are estimates only and, thus, subject to change.

Readers are advised to read the actual individual application

notices for these programs or competitions when the notices are

published in the Federal Register.

Applicability of the Federal Debt Collection Procedures Act of 1990

The programs identified in the chart make discretionary awards

subject to the eligibility requirements of the Federal Debt Collection

Procedures Act of 1990 (Pub. L. 101-647; 28 U.S.C. 3201). The Act

provides that if there is a judgement lien against a debtor's

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property for a debt to the United States, the debtor is not eligible to

receive a Federal grant or loan, except direct payments to which the

debtor is entitled as beneficiary, until the judgement is paid in full

or otherwise satisfied.

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Electronic Access to This Document

Anyone may view this document, as well as all other Department of

Education documents published in the Federal Register, in text or

portable document format (pdf) via the Internet at either of the

following sites:

http://ocfo.ed.gov/fedreg.htm

http://www.ed.gov/news.html

To use the pdf you must have the Adobe Acrobat Reader Program with

Search, which is available free at either of the previous sites. If you

have questions about using the pdf, call the U.S. Government Printing

Office at (202) 512-1530, or, toll free, at 1-888-293-6498.

Anyone may also view these documents in text copy only on an

electronic bulletin board of the Department. Telephone: (202) 219-1511

or, toll free, 1-800-222-4922. The documents are located under Option

G--Files/Announcements, Bulletins and Press Releases.

Note: The official version of this document is the document

published in the Federal Register. The Department expects to provide

periodic updates to this document via the Internet in December 1998

and February 1999. The updates can be accessed at the following

site:

http://ocfo.ed.gov/grntinfo.htm

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For further information regarding a

competition listed in this document, please contact the person whose

name appears at the top of the particular chart in which that

competition is listed.

Dated: October 27, 1998.

Donald Rappaport,

Chief Financial and Chief Information Officer.

Appendix--Intergovernmental Review of Federal Programs

This appendix applies to each program that is subject to the

requirements of Executive Order 12372 (Intergovernmental Review of

Federal Programs) and the regulations in 34 CFR part 79.

The objective of the Executive order is to foster an

intergovernmental partnership and to strengthen federalism by

relying on State and local processes for State and local

coordination and review of proposed Federal financial assistance.

Applicants must contact the appropriate State Single Point of

Contact to find out about, and to comply with, the State's process

under Executive Order 12372. Applicants proposing to perform

activities in more than one State should immediately contact the

Single Point of Contact for each of those States and follow the

procedure established in each of those States under the Executive

order. A listing containing the Single Point of Contact for each

State is included in this appendix.

In States that have not established a process or chosen a

program for review, State, areawide, regional, and local entities

may submit comments directly to the Department.

Any State Process Recommendation and other comments submitted by

a State Single Point of Contact and any comments from State,

areawide, regional, and local entities must be mailed or hand-

delivered by the date indicated in the actual application notice to

the following address: The Secretary, EO 12372-CFDA# [commenter must

insert number--including suffix letter, if any], U.S. Department of

Education, room 6213, 600 Independence Avenue, SW., Washington, DC

20202-0124.

Proof of mailing will be determined on the same basis as

applications (see 34 CFR 75.102). Recommendations or comments may be

hand-delivered until 4:30 p.m. (Washington, DC time) on the date

indicated in the actual application notice.

Please note that the above address is not the same address as

the one to which the applicant submits its completed application. Do

not send applications to the above address.

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