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Respondent’s Obligation: Required to 

obtain or retain benefits. 

OMB Desk Officer: Ms. Jacqueline 

Zeiher. Written comments and 

recommendations on the proposed 

information collection should be sent to 

Ms. Zeiher at the Office of Management 

and Budget, Desk Officer for DoD, Room 

10236, New Executive Office Building, 

Washington, DC 20503. 

DOD Clearance Officer: Mr. Robert 

Cushing. Written requests for copies of 

the information collection proposal 

should be sent to Mr. Cushing, WHS/

ESCD/Information Management 

Division, 1225 South Clark Street, Suite 

504, Arlington, VA 22202–4326.

Dated: October 5, 2004. 

Patricia L. Toppings, 

Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison 

Officer, Department of Defense.

[FR Doc. 04–23762 Filed 10–22–04; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 5001–06–M

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Office of the Secretary 

Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request

ACTION: Notice.

The Department of Defense has 

submitted to OMB for clearance, the 

following proposal for collection of 

information under the provisions of the 

Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 

Chapter 35).

DATES: Consideration will be given to all 

comments received by November 24, 

2004. 

Title and OMB number: Defense 

Federal Acquisition Regulation 

Supplement (DFARS) Part 232, Contract 

Financing, and related clause at DFARS 

252.232–7007 Limitation of 

Government’s Obligation; OMB Control 

Number 0704–0359. 

Type of Request: Extension. 

Number of Respondents: 800. 

Responses Per Respondent: 1. 

Annual Responses: 800. 

Average Burden Per Response: 1 hour. 

Annual Burden Hours: 800. 

Needs and Uses: This information 

collection requires contractors that are 

awarded incrementally funded, fixedprice DoD contracts to notify the 

Government when the work under the 

contract will, within 90 days, reach the 

point at which the amount payable by 

the government (including any 

termination costs) approximates 85 

percent of the funds currently allotted to 

the contract. This information will be 

used to determine what course of action 

the government will take (e.g., allot 

performance, terminate the contract, or 

terminate certain contract line items). 

Affected Public: Businesses or other 

profit and not-for-profit institutions. 

Frequency: On occasion. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Required to 

obtain or retain benefits. 

OMB Desk Officer: Ms. Jacqueline 

Zeiher. Written comments and 

recommendations on the proposed 

information collection should be sent to 

Ms. Zeiher at the Office of Management 

and Budget, Desk Officer for DoD, Room 

10236, New Executive Office Building, 

Washington, DC 20503. 

DOD Clearance Officer: Mr. Robert 

Cushing. Written requests for copies of 

the information collection proposal 

should be sent to Mr. Cushing, WHS/

ESCD/Information Management 

Division, 1225 South Clark Street, Suite 

504, Arlington, VA 22202–4326.

Dated: October 5, 2004. 

Particia L. Toppings, 

Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison 

Officer.

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BILLING CODE 5001–06–M

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

Office of Postsecondary Education 

Overview Information; Teacher Quality 

Enhancement Grants Program—

Teacher Quality Enhancement (TQE) 

Grants for States; Notice Inviting 

Applications for New Awards for Fiscal 

Year (FY) 2005 

Catalog of Federal Domestic 

Assistance (CFDA) Number: 84.336A.

DATES: Applications Available: October 

25, 2004. 

Deadline For Transmittal of 

Applications: December 17, 2004. 

Deadline for Intergovernmental 

Review: February 15, 2005. 

Eligible Applicants: Eligible States, as 

defined in sections 103(16) and 202(b) 

of the Higher Education Act of 1965, as 

amended (HEA). A State that received a 

previous grant under this program is not 

eligible for a FY 2005 grant. The 

following States are eligible: Alaska, 

Delaware, Hawaii, Iowa, Montana, New 

York, the Commonwealth of Northern 

Mariana Islands, Guam, and the United 

States Virgin Islands. 

Estimated Available Funds: The 

Administration has requested 

$88,887,451 for this program for FY 

2005. Of that amount, $39,999,353 

would be allocated to TQE Grants for 

States under current law. Of this, 

approximately $30,624,151 would be 

available for new awards. The 

Department has requested 

appropriations language to override the 

statutory requirements that 45 percent 

of program funds be allocated for the 

State program and allow excess funds to 

be used where unmet demand for 

program funds exists. If this request is 

not approved, the Department will use 

funds allocated to Grants to States to 

provide additional years of funding for 

the awardees. 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. 

Estimated Range of Awards:

$500,000—$5,000,000. 

Estimated Average Size of Awards:

$2,038,000 per year. 

Estimated Number of Awards: 9.

Note: The Department is not bound by any 

estimates in this notice.

Project Period: Up to 36 months. 

Full Text of Announcement

I. Funding Opportunity Description 

Purpose of Program: The purpose of 

this program is to provide grants to 

promote improvements in the quality of 

new teachers, with the ultimate goal of 

increasing student achievement in the 

nation’s K–12 classrooms. State grants 

are designed to improve the quality of 

a State’s teaching force by supporting 

the implementation of comprehensive 

statewide reform activities in areas such 

as teacher licensing and certification, 

accountability for high-quality teacher 

preparation, and recruitment. 

Priorities: In accordance with 34 CFR 

75.105(b)(2)(ii), these priorities are 

taken from the regulations for this 

program (34 CFR 611.13). 

Competitive Preference Priority: For 

FY 2005, these priorities are competitive 

preference priorities. Under 34 CFR 

75.105(c)(2)(i), we award up to an 

additional 10 points to an application, 

depending on how well the application 

meets these priorities. 

These priorities are: 

The Secretary provides a competitive 

preference on the basis of how well the 

State’s proposed activities in any one or 

more of the following statutory 

priorities are likely to yield successful 

and sustained results: (a) Initiatives to 

reform State teacher licensure and 

certification requirements so that 

current and future teachers possess 

strong teaching skills and academic 

content knowledge in the subject areas 

in which they will be certified or 

licensed to teach; (b) innovative reforms 

to hold higher education institutions 

with teacher preparation programs