[Federal Register: July 27, 1999 (Volume 64, Number 143)]
[Notices]
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
(CFDA No.: 84.129W)
Rehabilitation Training: Rehabilitation Long-Term Training--
Comprehensive System of Personnel Development; Inviting Applications
for New Awards for Fiscal Year (FY) 2000
Purpose of Program: To assist State vocational rehabilitation
agencies in carrying out their Comprehensive System of Personnel
Development (CSPD) plans.
Eligible Applicants: State agencies and other public or nonprofit
agencies and organizations, including Indian Tribes and institutions of
higher education, are eligible for assistance under the Rehabilitation
Training: Rehabilitation Long-Term Training program.
Deadline for Transmittal of Applications: September 17, 1999.
Deadline for Intergovernmental Review: November 16, 1999.
Applications Available: July 27, 1999.
Estimated Available Funds: $2,000,000.
Estimated Range of Awards: $75,000-$500,000.
Estimated Average Size of Awards: $200,000.
Estimated Number of Awards: 10.
Note: The Department is not bound by any estimates in this
notice.
Project Period: Up to 60 months.
Page Limit: Part III of the application, the application narrative,
is where you, the applicant, address the selection criteria used by
reviewers in evaluating the application. You must limit Part III to the
equivalent of no more than 45 pages, using the following standards:
(1) A page is 8.5'' x 11'' on one side only with 1'' margins at the
top, bottom, and both sides.
(2) You must double space (no more than three lines per vertical
inch) all text in the application narrative, including titles,
headings, footnotes, quotations, references, and captions, as well as
all text in charts, tables, figures, and graphs.
If you use a proportional computer font, you may not use a font
smaller than a 12-point font or an average character density greater
than 18 characters per inch. If you use a nonproportional font or a
typewriter, you may not use more than 12 characters per inch.
The page limit does not apply to Part I, the cover sheet; Part II,
the budget section, including the narrative budget justification; Part
IV, the assurances and certifications; or the one-page abstract, the
resumes, the bibliography, or the letters of support. However, you must
include all of the application narrative in Part III.
If, in order to meet the page limit, you use print size, spacing,
or margins smaller than the standards specified in this notice, we
won't consider your application for funding.
Applicable Regulations: (a) The Education Department General
Administrative Regulations (EDGAR) in 34 CFR parts 74, 75, 77, 79, 80,
81, 82, 85, and 86; and (b) The regulations for this program in 34 CFR
parts 385 and 386.
Priority
The priority in the notice of final priority for this program
published in the Federal Register on October 16, 1998 (63 FR 55764)
applies to this competition.
Selection Criteria: In evaluating an application for a new grant
under this competition, the Secretary uses selection criteria chosen
from the general selection criteria in 34 CFR 75.210 of EDGAR. The
selection criteria to be used for this competition will be provided in
the application package for this competition.
For Applications Contact: Education Publications Center (ED Pubs),
P.O. Box 1398, Jessup, MD 20794-1398. Telephone (toll free): 1-877-433-
7827. FAX: (301) 470-1244. If you use a telecommunication device for
the deaf (TDD), you may call (toll free): 1-877-576-7734. You may also
contact ED Pubs via its web site (http://www.ed.gov/pubs/edpubs.html)
or its E-mail address (edpubs@inet.ed.gov).
Individuals with disabilities may obtain a copy of the application
package in an alternate format by contacting the Grants and Contracts
Service Team, U.S. Department of Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, SW.,
room 3317, Switzer Building, Washington, DC 20202-2550. Telephone:
(202) 205-9817. If you use a telecommunications device for the deaf
(TDD), you may call the Federal Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 1-
800-877-8339. However, the Department is not able to reproduce in an
alternate format the standard forms included in the application
package.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Beverly Steburg, U.S. Department of
Education, Rehabilitation Services Administration, 61 Forsyth Street,
SW, room 18T91, Atlanta, Georgia 30303. Telephone (404) 562-6336. If
you use a telecommunications device for the deaf (TDD), you may call
the Federal Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 1-800-877-8339.
Individuals with disabilities may obtain this document in an
alternate
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format (e.g., Braille, large print, audiotape, or computer diskette) on
request to the contact person listed in the preceding paragraph.
Electronic Access to This Document
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area at (202) 512-1530.
Note: The official version of a document is the document
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Regulations is available on GPO Access at: http://
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Program Authority: 29 U.S.C. 774.
Dated: July 22, 1999.
Curtis L. Richards,
Acting Assistant Secretary for Special Education and Rehabilitative
Services.
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