[Federal Register: March 18, 1999 (Volume 64, Number 52)]
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

[CFDA NO: 84.333]

 
Demonstration Projects To Ensure a Quality Higher Education for 
Students With Disabilities; Notice of Technical Assistance Workshops 
for Fiscal Year (FY) 2000 Grant Applications

SUMMARY: The Secretary announces three technical assistance workshops 
to assist institutions of higher education in preparing grant 
applications for the Demonstration Projects To Ensure Quality Higher 
Education for Students with Disabilities grant competition. For further 
information on this competition, please refer to Title VII, Part D, of 
the Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended.

DATE AND TIME: The date, time, location of the workshops, and hotel 
accommodations are as follows:
    Workshop #1: Monday, March 22, 1999 (9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.), U.S. 
Department of Education, Departmental Auditorium, First Floor, 400 
Maryland Avenue, SW., Washington, DC. For those in need of hotel 
accommodations, a number of rooms have been reserved for the evening of 
March 21 at: Holiday Inn on the Hill, 415 New Jersey Avenue, NW, 
Washington DC. Telephone: (202) 638-1616.
    Workshop #2: Tuesday, April 6, 1999 (9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.), 
University of San Francisco, McLaren Center, Room 252, 2345 Golden Gate 
Avenue, San Francisco, CA. For those in need of hotel accommodations, a 
number of rooms have been reserved for the evening of April 5 at: 
Canterbury Hotel, 750 Sutter Street, San Francisco, CA. Telephone: 
1(800) 227-4788.
    Workshop #3: Friday, April 9, 1999 (9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.), John F. 
Kennedy Federal Building Building, Room 275 ``C'', 55 New Sudberry 
Street, Boston, MA. For those in need of hotel accommodations, a number 
of rooms have been reserved for the evening of April 8 at: Omni Parker 
House Hotel, 60 School Street, Boston, MA. Telephone: (617) 227-8600.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Amie Amiot, U.S. Department of 
Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, SW, Suite 6222 Portals Building, 
Washington, DC 20202-5331. Telephone (202) 260-0415. Individuals who 
use a telecommunications device for the deaf (TDD) may call the Federal 
Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 1-800-877-8339 between 8 a.m. and 5 
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 the contact person listed in the preceding 
paragraph.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The technical assistance workshop site is 
accessible to individuals with disabilities. An individual with a 
disability who will need an auxiliary aid or service to participate in 
the workshop (e.g., interpreting service, assistive listening device, 
or materials in an alternate format), should notify the contact person 
listed in this notice at least two weeks before the scheduled workshop 
date. Although the Department will attempt to meet a request received 
after that date, the requested auxiliary aid or service may not be 
available because of insufficient time to arrange it.

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) on the World Wide Web at either of the 
following sites:

http://ocfo.ed.gov/fedreg.html
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 any 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 Options 
G--Files/Announcements, Bulletins and Press Releases.

    Note: The official version of a document is the document 
published in the Federal Register.

    Program Authority: 20 U.S.C. 1140.

    Dated: March 15, 1999.
David A. Longanecker,
Assistant Secretary for Postsecondary Education.
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