[Federal Register: June 6, 2001 (Volume 66, Number 109)]
[Notices]
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
[CFDA No.: 84.264B]
Rehabilitation Continuing Education Programs (RCEP); Notice
Inviting Applications for New Awards for Fiscal Year (FY) 2001
Purpose of Program: To support training centers that serve either a
Federal region or another geographical area and provide for a broad,
integrated sequence of training activities that focus on meeting
recurrent and common training needs of employed rehabilitation
personnel throughout a multi-State geographical area.
Eligible Applicants: States and public or nonprofit agencies and
organizations, including Indian tribes and institutions of higher
education. Applications under this notice are invited for the provision
of training for Department of Education Regions II, IV, and X only.
Applications Available: June 29, 2001.
Deadline for Transmittal of Applications: August 31, 2001.
Deadline for Intergovernmental Review: October 30, 2001.
Estimated Available Funds: The Administration has requested
$39,629,000 for the Rehabilitation Training Program for FY 2002, of
which an estimated $1,499,500 would be allocated for this competition.
The actual level of funding, if any, depends on final congressional
action. However, we are inviting applications to allow enough time to
complete the grant process if Congress appropriates funds for this
program.
Note: This competition is being conducted in FY 2001 for grants
that will be awarded using FY 2002 funds.
Estimated Range of Awards: $475,000--$500,000.
Estimated Average Size of Awards: $499,000.
Maximum Awards by Rehabilitation Services Administration (RSA)
Region: We will reject any application that proposes a budget exceeding
the following stated maximum award amount for a single budget period of
12 months.
Maximum Level of Awards by RSA Region
Region II--$500,000
Region IV--$500,000
Region X--$499,000
Estimated Number of Awards
Region II--1
Region IV--1
Region X--1
Note: The Department is not bound by any estimates in this
notice.
Project Period: Up to 60 months.
Page Limit: The application narrative (Part III of the application)
is where you, the applicant, address the selection criteria that
reviewers use to evaluate your 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 inches by 11 inches, on one side only, with 1-
inch margins at the top, bottom, and both sides.
(2) 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.
(3) Use a font that is either 12-point or larger or no smaller than
10 pitch (characters per inch).
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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.
We will reject your application if--
You apply these standards and exceed the page limit; or
You apply other standards and exceed the equivalent of the
page limit.
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 389.
Note: The regulations in 34 CFR part 79 apply to all applicants
except federally recognized Indian tribes.
Note: The regulations in 34 CFR part 86 apply to institutions of
higher education only.
Selection Criteria: In evaluating an application for a new grant
under this competition, we use the selection criteria in 34 CFR 385.31
and 389.30. The selection criteria to be used for this competition will
be provided in the application package for this competition.
The maximum score for all these criteria is 100 points; however, we
will also use the competitive preference priority so that up to an
additional 10 points may be earned by an applicant for a total possible
score of 110 points.
Priority
Competitive Preference Priority
This competition focuses on projects designed to meet the
competitive preference priority in the notice of final competitive
preference for this program, published in the Federal Register on
August 31, 2000 (65 FR 52996). Under 34 CFR 75.105(c)(2)(i) we award up
to an additional 10 points to an application that is otherwise eligible
for funding under this competition based on the extent to which an
application includes effective strategies for employing and advancing
in employment qualified individuals with disabilities in projects
awarded under the competition. In determining the effectiveness of
those strategies, we will consider the applicant's prior success, as
described in the application, in employing and advancing in employment
qualified individuals with disabilities.
For Applications Contact: Education Publications Center (ED Pubs),
PO Box 1398, Jessup, MD 20794-1398. Telephone (toll free): 1-877-433-
7827. FAX: (301) 470-1244. If you use a telecommunications device for
the deaf (TDD), you may call (toll free): 1-877-576-7734.
You may also contact ED Pubs at its Web site: http://www.ed.gov/
pubs/edpubs.html.
Or you may contact ED Pubs at its e-mail address:
edpubs@inet.ed.gov.
If you request an application from ED Pubs, be sure to identify
this competition as follows: CFDA number 84.264B.
Individuals with disabilities may obtain a copy of the application
package in an alternative format by contacting the Grants and Contracts
Services Team, U.S. Department of Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, SW.,
room 3317, Switzer Building, Washington, DC 20202-2550. Telephone:
(202) 205-8351. 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
alternative format the standard forms included in the application
package.
For Information Contact: Michael Winter, U.S. Department of
Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, SW., room 3332 Switzer Building,
Washington, DC 20202-2649. Telephone: (202) 205-8286. 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
alternative 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
You may view this document, as well as all other Department of
Education documents published in the Federal Register, in text or Adobe
Portable Document Format (PDF) on the Internet at the following site:
www.ed.gov/legislation/FedRegister.
To use PDF you must have Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is available
free at this site. If you have questions about using PDF, call the U.S.
Government Printing Office (GPO), toll free, at 1-888-293-6498; or in
the Washington, DC, area at (202) 512-1530.
Note: The official version of this document is the document
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Program Authority: 29 U.S.C. 772.
Dated: June 1, 2001.
Francis V. Corrigan,
Deputy Director, National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitative
Research.
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