[Federal Register: October 11, 2002 (Volume 67, Number 198)]
[Notices]
[Page 63390]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
[CFDA No.: 84.359B]
Early Reading First Program
AGENCY: Department of Education.
ACTION: Notice extending Full Application deadline date for Early
Reading First Program for fiscal year (FY) 2002.
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SUMMARY: The Secretary extends the deadline date for the submission of
Full Applications by certain applicants (see the ``Eligibility''
section of this notice) under the Early Reading First Program
discretionary grant competition for FY 2002. The Secretary takes this
action to allow more time for the preparation and submission of
applications by potential applicants and their partners in the State of
Louisiana that were adversely affected by severe weather conditions
resulting from Hurricane Lili. This extension is intended to help these
potential applicants and their partners compete fairly with other
applicants.
Eligibility: The extension of the deadline date in this notice
applies to you if (1) You are an eligible applicant for the Full
Application phase of the Early Reading First grant competition for FY
2002, and (2) you or one of your official partners is located in one of
the areas of Louisiana listed below that the President has declared a
disaster area as a result of Hurricane Lili.
Potential eligible applicants for Early Reading First for the
purpose of this notice are defined as those eligible applicants who
submitted Pre-Applications and that were invited by the Secretary
(through the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education) to submit
Full Applications.
The areas of Louisiana affected include the following cites,
counties, or parishes: Acadia, Ascension, Assumption, Avoyelles,
Beauregard, Calcasieu Cameron East Baton Rouge, Evangeline, Iberia,
Iberville, Jefferson Davis, Jefferson, Lafayette, Lafourche,
Livingston, Natchitoches, Orleans, Plaquemines, Pointe Coupee, Rapides,
St. Bernard, St. Charles, St. James, St. John the Baptist, St. Landry,
St. Martin, St. Mary, St. Tammany, Tangipahoa, Terrebonne, Vermillion,
Washington, and West Baton Rouge.
DATES: The new deadline date for receipt of Full Applications under the
Early Reading First Program from applicants eligible for this extension
is October 18, 2002. If you or a courier or delivery service delivers
an application by hand, the deadline on October 18 is 4:30 p.m. For
applicants in the above Louisiana areas only, this deadline replaces
the original October 11, 2002 receipt deadline for Full Applications.
All other instructions for transmitting applications in the Early
Reading First application package (pp. E-3 and E-4) remain in effect.
The deadline date for the transmittal of State process recommendations
by State Single Points of Contact (SPOCs) and comments by other
interested parties remains as originally posted.
The invitation to submit applications was originally published in
the Federal Register on June 7, 2002 (67 FR 39369-39374).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Tracy Bethel or Mary Ann Lesiak,
Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, 400 Maryland Avenue SW.,
Washington, DC 20202-6132. Telephone: (202) 260-4555, or via Internet:
erf@ed.gov. Applications for, and information about, the Early Reading
First program competition are available here: http://www.ed.gov/
offices/OESE/earlyreading/index.html.
If you use a telecommunications device for the deaf (TDD), you may
call the Federal Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 1-800-877-8339.
If you want to transmit a recommendation or comment under Executive
Order 12372, you can find the latest list and addresses of individual
SPOCs on the Web site of the Office of Management and Budget at the
following address: http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/grants.
If you are an individual with a disability, you may obtain this
document in an alternative format (e.g., Braille, large print,
audiotape, or computer diskette) on request to either of the contact
persons listed in this notice.
Electronic Access to This Document
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Note: The official version of this document is the document
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Dated: October 8, 2002.
Susan B. Neuman,
Assistant Secretary for Elementary and Secondary Education.
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