[Federal Register: July 24, 2000 (Volume 65, Number 142)]
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
[CFDA No: 84.047A]
Office of Postsecondary Education, Upward Bound Program
Participant Expansion Initiative Notice Inviting Applications for
Supplemental Awards for Fiscal Year (FY) 2000
Purpose of Program: The Upward Bound Program Participant Expansion
Initiative is designed to increase the number of the neediest eligible
students in the Upward Bound program.
Eligible Applicants: All currently funded Upward Bound projects.
Veteran Upward Bound projects and Upward Bound Math/Science projects
are not eligible to participate.
Deadline for Transmittal of Applications: August 28, 2000.
Deadline for Intergovernmental Review: September 12, 2000.
Applications Available: July 26, 2000.
Available Funds: $13,500,000.
Estimated Range of Awards: Up to $85,600.
Estimated Average Size of Awards: $76,270.
Estimated Number of Awards: 157-177.
Note: The Department is not bound by any estimates in this
notice.
Project Period: Up to 36 months for current 4-year grantees; up to
48 months for current 5-year grantees.
Applicable Regulations: (a) The Education Department General
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Administrative Regulations (EDGAR) in 34 CFR parts 74, 75, 77, 79, 82,
85, 86, 97, 98, and 99; and (b) the regulations for this program in 34
CFR part 645.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Only proposals that meet the absolute
priority will be funded. If more applications that meet the absolute
priority are received than can be funded under the Upward Bound Program
Participant Expansion Initiative, the Secretary will fund those
applicants that received the highest average peer review scores during
the FY 1999 Upward Bound competition. For the purposes of this
initiative, the Secretary will not consider prior experience points.
Applicants for supplemental awards must submit an application that
contains:
* A certification by the Upward Bound project director that
at least one target high school meets the absolute priority;
* The number of additional students, not to exceed 20, that
the project plans to serve;
* A revised budget; and
* A brief narrative describing how the supplemental funds
will be used.
Priorities
Absolute Priority: Under 34 CFR 75.105(c)(3), the Secretary gives
an absolute preference to applications that meet the following
priority, which is published elsewhere in this issue of the Federal
Register. The Secretary funds only applications that meet this absolute
priority:
A project funded under this priority must serve a target high
school in which at least 50 percent of the students were eligible for
the Free Lunch Program during the 1998-99 school year.
Invitational Priority: Within the absolute priority specified in
this notice, the Secretary is particularly interested in applications
that meet the following invitational priority. However, under 34 CFR
75.105(c)(1) an application that meets this invitational priority does
not receive competitive preference over other applications.
The Secretary strongly encourages projects that receive
supplemental funds to enhance their recruitment strategies and services
to target high schools to select and serve students who are at greatest
risk of not graduating from high school or pursuing postsecondary
education.
FOR APPLICATIONS OR INFORMATION CONTACT: Peggy Whitehead, Sheryl
Wilson, or Gaby Watts, U.S. Department of Education, 1990 K Street, NW,
Room 7020, Washington, DC 20006-8510. Telephone (202) 502-7600. The
email address for The Office of Federal TRIO Programs is: Trio@ed.gov.
The email addresses for Ms. Whitehead, Ms. Wilson and Ms. Watts are:
Peggy_Whitehead@ed.gov
Sheryl_Wilson@ed.gov
Gaby_Watts@ed.gov
Individuals who use a telecommunications device for the deaf (TDD) may
call the Federal Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 1-888-877-8339.
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 persons listed in the preceding
paragraph. However, the Department is not able to reproduce in an
alternate format the standard forms included in the application
package.
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Program Authority: 20 U.S.C. 1070.
Dated: July 17, 2000.
A. Lee Fritschler,
Assistant Secretary, Office of Postsecondary Education.
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