NEH Grant Programs
Landmarks of American History and Culture: Workshops for Community College Faculty,Receipt Deadline: March 17, 2009 (for workshops to be held in summer 2010)
Date posted: January 6, 2009
Draft proposals (optional): Program staff recommend that draft proposals be submitted four weeks before the deadline. Time constraints may prevent staff from reviewing draft proposals submitted after that date.
Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) Number: 45.163
Questions?
Contact the staff of NEH’s Division of Education Programs at 202-606-8463 or sem-inst@neh.gov. Hearing-impaired applicants can contact NEH via TDD at 1-866-372-2930.
Grant Program Description
As part of NEH’s We the People program, the Landmarks of American History and Culture program supports series of one-week residence-based workshops for a national audience of community college educators. The workshops use historic sites to address central themes and issues in American history, government, literature, art history, and other related subjects in the humanities. The goals of the workshops are to
  • provide community college faculty with expertise in the use and interpretation of historical sites and of material and archival resources,
  • increase knowledge and appreciation of places significant to American history and culture, and
  • encourage historical sites to develop greater capacity and scale for professional development programs.
Workshops should take place at or near sites important to American history and culture (e.g., presidential residences or libraries, colonial-era settlements, major battlefields, historic districts, and sites associated with major writers or artists). Applicants should make a compelling case for the historical significance of the site, the material resources available for use, and the ways in which the site will enhance the workshop. Workshops should be academically rigorous and focus on key primary sources, documents, and works relevant to major themes of American history and culture. Leading scholars should serve as lecturers or seminar leaders to help participants enhance their teaching. Participants should demonstrate their expanded knowledge and skills through the development of a research paper or course materials. Institutions or organizations that may host workshops include community colleges, universities, four-year colleges, learned societies, libraries or other repositories, centers for advanced study, cultural organizations, and professional associations. NEH expects host institutions to provide facilities conducive to scholarly research, discussion, and interaction. Host institutions should arrange adequate housing for participants, which participants pay for from the stipends provided to them as part of the Landmarks Workshop grant.
NEH encourages proposals for Landmarks of American History and Culture workshops that focus on one or more of the artists or artworks featured in the NEH Picturing America program.
Workshops, which should be offered two times during the summer, should accommodate twenty-five faculty at each one-week session.
Grants for Landmarks of American History and Culture may not be used for
  • empirical social scientific research;
  • policy studies;
  • educational or technical impact assessments;
  • work undertaken in the pursuit of an academic degree;
  • the preparation or publication of textbooks;
  • projects that focus on cognitive psychology, pedagogical theory, research on educational methods, tests, or measurements;
  • projects that seek to promote a particular political, philosophical, religious, or ideological point of view; or
  • projects that advocate a particular program of social action.
III. Award Information
NEH expects to make ten awards of up to $140,000 each, in outright funds, assuming that a one-week session costs approximately $70,000.
Cost Sharing
No cost sharing is required.
Award Period
The award period is fifteen months: October 1, 2009, to December 31, 2010.
Eligibility
Any U.S. nonprofit organization with 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status is eligible, as are state and local governmental agencies and tribal governments. Individuals are not eligible to apply.
NEH generally does not award grants to other federal entities or to applicants whose projects are so closely intertwined with a federal entity that the project takes on characteristics of the federal entity’s own authorized activities. This does not preclude applicants from using grant funds from, or sites and materials controlled by, other federal entities in their projects.
Ineligible applications will not be reviewed.
Application and Submission Information
Applicants are encouraged to contact program officers who may offer advice about preparing the proposal, provide samples of previously funded projects, and review preliminary proposal drafts if they are submitted at least one month before the deadline. Responses to late-arriving drafts cannot be guaranteed. Although this preliminary review is not part of the formal process and has no bearing on the final outcome of the proposal, previous applicants have found it helpful in strengthening their applications.
HOW TO PREPARE YOUR APPLICATION
You will prepare your application for submission via Grants.gov just as you would a paper application. Your application should consist of the following parts:
  1. Table of contents List all parts of the application and page numbers.
  2. Narrative
    Limit the narrative to fifteen double-spaced pages with one-inch margins and a font size no smaller than twelve points. Use appendices to provide concise supplementary material that is directly germane to the project.
    Provide a detailed description of the project, consisting of the following sections: sections:
    • Intellectual rationale
      Provide an intellectual justification for the workshop and address the importance of the subject for understanding American history and culture. Explain the significance of the landmark, and how its resources will contribute to the workshop's goal. Identify topics that participants will explore in the workshop and put them in their scholarly and educational contexts. Describe the intended impact of the workshop on participating community college faculty and the courses that they teach.
    • Content and design
      Describe the structure of the workshop and what is expected of participants. Identify assigned and recommended readings, field trips, scholars’ presentations, and discussion topics. Provide a detailed daily schedule. Maps and diagrams may be included to explain how the workshop will make use of the landmark. Describe plans for facilitating participants’ individual projects (e.g., developing classroom resources or undertaking research) and for providing feedback.
    • Faculty and staff
      Identify the principal faculty, visiting lecturers, and support staff. Describe their roles, responsibilities, and qualifications. Include in an appendix up-to-date letters of commitment and brief résumés (two pages); alternatively, one- to two-page narrative biographies could be submitted. Project directors should provide full résumés no longer than five pages in an appendix.
    • Selection of participants
      Explain how participants will be chosen. NEH will provide guidelines for general eligibility and selection criteria. Applicants should note any special criteria pertinent to the proposed workshop. Keep in mind that Landmarks workshops should draw on a national pool of applicants.
    • Institutional context
      Provide specific details about the availability, quality, and costs of housing. Describe the options for meals. Discuss the academic and technological resources available for the workshop.
    • Outreach and promotion
      Describe plans to ensure that faculty at community colleges nationwide learn about the proposed workshop and how to apply to it. Provide details of the sponsoring institution’s experience in working with community colleges and/or their regional or national associations.
    • Dissemination and evaluation
      Describe any plans, including the creation of listservs and Web sites, to facilitate discussion among participants after the workshop. NEH encourages using project Web sites or other distance learning opportunities to extend the impact of the workshop to those who were unable to attend it.
      Directors should describe plans to conduct interim and final evaluations of their workshops.
  3. Project Budget
    Provide a budget for the workshop. A sample budget (1-page PDF) is available for guidance.
    All of the items listed must be reasonable, necessary to accomplish project objectives, allowable in terms of the applicable federal cost principles, auditable, and incurred during the grant period. Charges to the project for items such as salaries, fringe benefits, travel, and contractual services must conform to the written policies and established practices of the applicant organization. When indirect costs are charged to the project, care should be taken that expenses included in the organization’s indirect-cost pool are not charged to the project as direct costs.
    1. Participant stipends
      Workshops, which should be held two times during the summer, should accommodate twenty-five teachers at each one-week session. Each participant will receive a $1,200 stipend, which is intended to help cover travel, housing, meals, and other living expenses, as well as basic books and other research expenses. NEH expects the sponsoring institution to make provision for suitable housing for participants at reasonable rates.
    2. Operating costs
      Item 1: Salaries and wages
      Item 1a: Project directors are compensated for the time required to conduct the residential portion of the project during the summer and for the time required to oversee all arrangements and to recruit and select the participants. An appropriate compensation rate is 13.9 percent of the base annual academic salary (the salary for the academic year prior to the summer of the project). If there is more than one director, each should receive 80 percent of this amount, or 11.12 percent of the base annual academic salary.
      In some instances, compensation may be reduced if an administrative assistant or project coordinator will carry out many project tasks. Directors should assume no other commitments when the participants are in residence.
      Item 1b: List other project faculty, lecturers, or professional administrative staff employed by the applicant institution. Depending on their assignments and duties, their compensation may be calculated on the basis of an appropriate percentage of their full-time academic-year or administrative salary or on a per diem basis. The role and duties that the project staff performs should justify the costs charged to the workshop budget.
      Item 1c: List clerical and secretarial support, as well as any support that graduate assistants will provide.
      Item 2: Fringe benefits
      Calculate fringe benefits for those individuals employed by the applicant institution and listed on lines 1 a, b, or c. Fringe benefits may include contributions for such items as Social Security, employee insurance, and pension plans. Only those benefits that are not included in an organization’s indirect-cost pool may be shown as direct costs. Also, fringe benefits for clerical, administrative, and part-time personnel may be calculated at different rates than for employees on academic-year appointments. The breakdown shown in the budget form should reflect these calculations.
      Item 3: Supplies and materials
      A request may be made to cover reasonable administrative and project charges for supplies, such as computer and instructional materials, educational software, etc. Please note that these costs may be included only if they are not part of the indirect-cost pool.
      Item 4: Services
      Services include the cost of duplication and printing, long-distance telephone charges and postage, rental of films and equipment, technical support, rental of buses and vans for site visits, and subcontracts of any kind. Modest charges for food, such as light refreshments and water on site visits, may also be included. All charges must be essential to the project. (See the section on inadmissible budget items.) Justify these modest requests in the budget narrative. Include an itemization of subcontract costs.
      Note on publicity. NEH posts lists of the workshops on its Web site; it also distributes this information to teachers through electronic bulletin boards, e-mail discussion lists, individual e-mail messages, and printed posters distributed at professional conferences. To supplement this general publicity, project budgets should include a modest amount of money (up to $2,000) to develop a project Web site and for publicity efforts to constituencies unique to the specific workshop.
      Item 5: Consultant fees
      List those individuals who will contribute to the project as visiting lecturers and leaders of breakout sessions, but who are not employed by the applicant institution. Programs may pay honoraria for distinguished visiting faculty up to $750 per person per day. Enter travel and subsistence reimbursement for consultants on line 6.
      Item 6: Professional travel and subsistence
      List travel and accommodation expenses for visiting consultants listed in Item 5. Include costs for the project director’s travel to a two-day project directors’ meeting held in Washington, DC. The project director’s travel to and from a workshop site is allowed, as are accommodation expenses at that site. Calculate costs in conformity with the applicant institution’s policy.
      Item 7: Total direct costs are calculated by adding items 1 through 6.
    3. Indirect costs (overhead)
      These costs are incurred for common or joint objectives and therefore cannot be readily identified with a specific project or activity of an organization. Items that would be regarded as indirect costs include the salaries of executive officers, the costs of operating and maintaining facilities, local telephone service, office supplies, and accounting and legal services.
      Calculate indirect costs by applying a negotiated indirect-cost rate to a distribution base (typically a portion of the direct costs of the project). Organizations that wish to include overhead charges in the budget but do not have a current federally negotiated indirect-cost rate or have not submitted a pending indirect-cost proposal to a federal agency may choose one of the following options:
      1. NEH will not require the formal negotiation of an indirect-cost rate, provided that the charge for indirect costs does not exceed 10 percent of direct costs, less distorting items (e.g., capital expenditures, participant stipends, major subcontracts), up to a maximum total project charge of $5,000 per year. (Applicants who choose this option should understand that they must maintain documentation to support overhead charges claimed as part of project costs.)
      2. If your organization wishes to use a rate higher than 10 percent or claim more than $5,000 in indirect costs per year, provide an estimate of the indirect-cost rate and the charges on the budget form. If the application is approved for funding, you will be instructed to contact the NEH Office of the Inspector General to develop an indirect-cost proposal.
    4. Amount requested from NEH
      Amount requested includes items A, B, and C (Total Project Costs).
    4. Budget Narrative
    A brief budget narrative may be included when requested costs are unusual or not obviously related to the proposed project. Clarification of requested compensation levels may be useful here. If released time from teaching duties is proposed, indicate clearly how it will be used. Provide justifications for equipment rentals and purchases in the narrative.
    Inadmissible budget items
    The following costs are not allowable and may not appear in project budgets:
    • The cost of replacement teachers or compensation for faculty members performing their regular duties.
    • The rental of recreational facilities and costs related to social events such as banquets, receptions, and entertainment.
    • Tuition fees for participants. (At the discretion of the applicant institution, credit may be awarded to participants who seek it . If any filing fee or tuition must be charged, fix it at the lowest possible rate and charge it directly to those participants wishing to receive credit. Do not deduct such fees from the participants’ stipends.)
  4. Appendices
    Limit your appendices to essential materials only, including
    • expanded study plans,
    • detailed reading lists,
    • brief biographies or résumés, and
    • letters of commitment.
    Number the pages of the appendices and refer to items included in the appendices in the proposal narrative.
HOW TO SUBMIT YOUR APPLICATION VIA GRANTS.GOV
Register or Verify Registration with Grants.gov
Applications for this program must be submitted via Grants.gov. Before using Grants.gov for the first time, each organization must register with the Web site to create an institutional profile. Once registered, your organization can then apply for any government grant on the Grants.gov Web site.
If your organization has already registered and you have verified that your registration is still valid, you may skip this step. If not, please see our handy checklist to guide you through the registration process. We strongly recommend that you complete or verify your registration at least two weeks before the application deadline, as it takes time for your registration to be processed. If you have problems registering with Grants.gov, call the Grants.gov help desk at 1-800-518-4726.
Download the Free Adobe Reader software
To fill out a Grants.gov application package, you will need to download and install the current version of Adobe Reader. The latest version of Adobe Reader, which is designed to function with PCs and Macintosh computers using a variety of popular operating systems, is available at no charge from the Adobe Web site (www.adobe.com).
Once installed, the current version of Adobe Reader will allow you to view and fill out Grants.gov application packages for any federal agency. If you have a problem installing Adobe Reader, it may be because you do not have permission to install a new program on your computer. Many organizations have rules about installing new programs. If you encounter a problem, contact your system administrator.
To submit your application, you will need to download the application package from the Grants.gov Web site. You can download the application package at any time. (You do not have to wait for your Grants.gov registration to be complete.) Click the button to the right to download the package.
Save the application package to your computer’s hard drive. To open the application package, select the file and double click. You do not have to be online to work on it.
You can save your application package at any time by clicking the “Save” button at the top of your screen. Tip: If you choose to save your application package before you have completed it, you may receive an error message indicating that your application is not valid if all of the forms have not been completed. Click “OK” to save your work and complete the package another time. You can also use e-mail to share the application package with members of your organization or project team.
The application package contains three forms that you must complete in order to submit your application:
  1. Application for Federal Domestic Assistance - Short Organizational (SF-424 Short)—this form asks for basic information about the project, the project director, and the institution.
  2. Supplementary Cover Sheet for NEH Grant Programs—this form asks for additional information about the project director, the institution, and the budget.
  3. NEH Attachment Form—this form allows you to attach your narrative, budget, and the other parts of your application.
    To assist applicants, Grants.gov provides a helpful troubleshooting page.
HOW TO FILL OUT THE APPLICATION FOR FEDERAL DOMESTIC ASSISTANCE SF-424 SHORT FORM
Select the form from the menu and double click to open it. Please provide the following information:
  1. Name of Federal Agency: This will be filled in automatically with “National Endowment for the Humanities.”
  2. Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Number: This will be filled in automatically with the CFDA number and title of the NEH program to which you are applying.
  3. Date Received: Please leave blank.
  4. Funding Opportunity Number: This will be filled in automatically.
  5. Applicant Information: In this section, please supply the name, address, employer/taxpayer identification number (EIN/TIN), DUNS number, Web site address, and congressional district of the institution. Also choose the “type” that best describes your institution (you only need to select one).
    If your institution is located, for example, in the 5th Congressional District of your state, put a “5.” If your institution doesn’t have a congressional district (e.g. it is in a state or U.S. territory that doesn’t have districts or is in a foreign country), put a “0” (zero).
    All institutions applying to federal grant programs are required to provide a DUNS number, issued by Dun & Bradstreet, as part of their application. Project directors should contact their institution’s grant administrator or chief financial officer to obtain their institution’s DUNS number. Federal grant applicants can obtain a DUNS number free of charge by calling 1-866-705-5711. (Learn more about the requirement.)
  6. Project Information: Provide the title of your project. Your title should be brief, descriptive, and substantive. It should also be informative to a non-specialist audience. Provide a brief description of your project. The description should be written for a nonspecialist audience and clearly state the importance of the proposed work and its relation to larger issues in the humanities. List the starting and ending dates for your project.
  7. Project Director: Provide the Social Security Number, name, title, mailing address, e-mail address, and telephone and fax numbers for the project director.
    Disclosure of Social Security Numbers is optional. NEH uses them for internal application processing only.
  8. Primary Contact/Grants Administrator: Provide the contact information for the official responsible for the administration of the grant (e.g., negotiating the project budget and ensuring compliance with the terms and conditions of the award). This person is often a grants or research officer or a sponsored programs official. Normally, the Institutional Grants Administrator is not the same person as the Project Director. If the project director and the grant administrator are the same person, skip to item 9.
  9. Authorized Representative: Provide the contact information for the Authorized Organization Representative (AOR) who is submitting the application on behalf of the institution. This person, often called an “Authorizing Official,” is typically the president, vice president, executive director, provost, or chancellor. In order to become an AOR, the person must be designated by the institution’s E-Business Point of Contact. For more information, please consult the Grants.gov user guide, which is available at: www.grants.gov/applicants/applicant_help.jsp.
HOW TO FILL OUT THE SUPPLEMENTARY COVER SHEET FOR NEH GRANT PROGRAMS
Select the form from the menu and double click to open it. Please provide the following information:
  1. Project Director: Use the pull-down menu to select the major field of study for the project director.
  2. Institution Information: Use the pull-down menu to select your type of institution.
  3. Project Funding: Enter your project funding information. Note that applicants for Challenge Grants should use the right column only; applicants to all other programs should use the left column only.
  4. Application Information: Indicate whether the applications will be submitted to other NEH grant programs, government agencies, or private entities for funding. If so, please indicate where and when. NEH frequently cosponsors projects with other funding sources. Providing this information will not prejudice the review of your application.
    For Type of Application, check “new” if the application requests a new period of funding, whether for a new project or the next phase of a project previously funded by NEH. Check “supplement” if the application requests additional funding for a current NEH grant. Applicants requesting a supplement should provide the current grant number. Before submitting an application for a supplement, applicants should discuss their request with an NEH program officer.
    For Project Field Code, use the pull-down menu to select the humanities field of the project. If the project is multidisciplinary, choose the field that corresponds to the project's predominant discipline.
HOW TO USE THE NEH ATTACHMENT FORM
You will use this form to attach the various files that make up your application.
Your attachments must be in Portable Document Format (.pdf). We cannot accept attachments in their original word processing or spreadsheet formats. If you don’t already have software to convert your files into PDFs, there are many low-cost and free software packages available. To learn more, go to http://www.neh.gov/grants/grantsgov/pdf.html.
When you open the NEH Attachment Form, you will find fifteen attachment buttons, labeled “Attachment 1” through “Attachment 15.” By clicking on a button, you will be able to choose the file from your computer that you wish to attach. You must name and attach your files in the proper order so that we can identify them. Please attach the proper file to the proper button as listed below:
ATTACHMENT 1: To this button, please attach your table of contents. Please name the file “contents.pdf”.
ATTACHMENT 2: To this button, please attach your narrative. Please name the file “narrative.pdf”.
ATTACHMENT 3: To this button, please attach your budget. Please name the file “budget.pdf”.
ATTACHMENT 4: To this button, please attach your appendices Please name the file “appendices.pdf”.
Use the remaining buttons to attach any additional materials (if appropriate). Please give these attachments meaningful file names and ensure that they are PDFs.
UPLOADING YOUR APPLICATION TO GRANTS.GOV
When you have completed all three forms, use the right-facing arrow to move each of them to the “Mandatory Documents for Submission” column. Once they have been moved over, the “Submit” button will activate. You are now ready to upload your application package to Grants.gov.
During the registration process, your institution designated one or more AORs (Authorized Organization Representatives). These AORs typically work in your institution’s Sponsored Research Office or Grants Office. When you have completed your application, you must ask your AOR to submit the application, using the special username and password that was assigned to him or her during the registration process.
To submit your application, your computer must have an active connection to the Internet. To begin the submission process, click the “submit” button. A page will appear, asking you to sign and submit your application. At this point, your AOR will enter his or her username and password. When you click the “sign and submit application” button, your application package will be uploaded to Grants.gov. Please note that it may take some time to upload your application package, depending on the size of your files and the speed of your Internet connection.
After the upload is complete, a confirmation page, which includes a tracking number, will appear, indicating that you have submitted your application to Grants.gov. Please print this page for your records. The AOR will also receive a confirmation e-mail.
NEH suggests that you submit your application no later than 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on the day of the deadline. That way, should you encounter a technical problem of some kind, you will still have time to contact the Grants.gov help desk for support. The Grants.gov help desk is open Monday to Friday from 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. Eastern Time at 1-800-518-4726. You can also send an e-mail to support@grants.gov.
Deadlines
Draft proposals (optional): Program staff recommends that draft proposals be submitted four weeks before the deadline. Time constraints may prevent staff from reviewing draft proposals submitted after that date.
Applications must be received by Grants.gov on or before March 17, 2009. Grants.gov will date- and time-stamp your application after it is fully uploaded. Applications submitted after that date will not be accepted.
Application Review
Proposals for Landmarks in American History and Culture: Workshops for Community College Facutly are evaluated according to the following criteria:
  1. Intellectual quality and significance
    • Is the proposal’s intellectual rationale clear and persuasive?
    • How significant is the site that will be studied?
      If more than one site will be studied, how significant are they?
    • Does the study engage topics and texts important for understanding American history and culture and for teaching effectively in community college courses?
    • Does it draw on sound humanities research?
    • Do the principal faculty members have strong scholarly records and a demonstrated commitment to excellent teaching?
  2. Impact
    • Will the project meet its objectives?
    • Will the workshop actively engage participants in collegial intellectual inquiry?
    • Will it inform participants’ teaching skills and scholarship?
    • Will it lead to a deeper engagement with the humanities?
  3. Feasibility
    • Are the workshop personnel well qualified to carry out their responsibilities?
    • Are the workshop activities well planned, and described in adequate detail?
    • Do letters from visiting scholars and consultants demonstrate interest and commitment?
    • Does the institutional setting support the workshop's objectives both in terms of access to scholarly resources and membership in a residential community?
    • Are the plans for administration sound? Are the costs reasonable?
Late applications will not be reviewed.
Review and selection process
Knowledgeable persons outside NEH will read each application and advise the agency about its merits. NEH staff comments on matters of fact or on significant issues that otherwise would be missing from these reviews, then makes recommendations to the National Council on the Humanities. The National Council meets at various times during the year to advise the NEH chairman on grants. The chairman takes into account the advice provided by the review process and, by law, makes all funding decisions.
Award Administration Information
Award notices
Applicants will be notified by mail by September 2009 of the decision. Institutional grants administrators and project directors of successful applications will also receive at that time award documents by mail. Applicants may obtain the evaluations of their applications by sending a letter or e-mail message to:
Division of Education Programs
National Endowment for the Humanities
Room 302
1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
Washington, DC 20506
or sem-inst@neh.gov.
Administrative requirements
Before submitting an application, applicants should review their responsibilities as an award recipient and the lobbying certification requirement.
Award conditions
The requirements for awards are contained in the General Terms and Conditions for Awards to Organizations, any specific terms and conditions contained in the award document, and the applicable OMB circulars governing federal grants management.
Reporting Requirements
A schedule of report due dates will be included with the award document.
Interim and final performance reports will be required. Further details can be found in Performance Reporting Requirements (formerly Enclosure 2).
A Federal Cash Transactions Report (2-page PDF) will be due within thirty days after the end of each calendar quarter. A final Financial Status Report (2-page PDF) will be due within ninety days after the completion date of the award period. Further details can be found in Financial Reporting Requirements (formerly Enclosure 1).
Points of Contact
If you have questions about the program, contact:
Landmarks of American History and Culture:
Workshops for Community College Faculty
Division of Education Programs
National Endowment for the Humanities
Room 302
1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20506
202-606-8463
sem-inst@neh.gov
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Grants.gov trouble shooting tips.
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Privacy Policy
Information in these guidelines is solicited under the authority of the National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities Act of 1965, as amended, 20 U.S.C. 956. The principal purpose for which the information will be used is to process the grant application. The information may also be used for statistical research, analysis of trends, and Congressional oversight. Failure to provide the information may result in the delay or rejection of the application.
Application Completion Time
The Office of Management and Budget requires federal agencies to supply information on the time needed to complete forms and also to invite comments on the paperwork burden.NEH estimates that the average time to complete this application is fifteen hours per response. This estimate includes time for reviewing instructions, researching, gathering, and maintaining the information needed, and completing and reviewing the application.
Please send any comments regarding the estimated completion time or any other aspect of this application, including suggestions for reducing the completion time, to the Office of Publications, National Endowment for the Humanities, Washington, DC 20506; and to the Office of Management and Budget, Paperwork Reduction Project (3136-0134), Washington, DC 20503. According to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, no persons are required to respond to a collection of information unless it displays a valid OMB number.