TO: Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy and Programs Office of Elementary and 

Secondary Education 

FROM: James Lane, Delegated Authority to Perform the Functions and Duties of the 

Assistant Secretary for Elementary and Secondary Education 

SUBJECT: Redelegation of Authority for Certain Programmatic Decisions and for the 

Performance of Functions Related to the Award, Management, and Oversight of Formula and 

Discretionary Grants and Cooperative Agreements, Including Authority to Approve State 

Applications, Consolidated State Applications, State Plans, and Consolidated State Plans for 

Formula Grants, within the Delegated Programmatic Authorities 

I.DELEGATION OF AUTHORITY 

Under the authority vested in me by the delegations listed below from the Secretary of 

Education, I redelegate to you, or to anyone serving for you in an acting capacity or delegated 

the authority to perform the functions and duties of your position in the event that the Assistant 

Secretary for Elementary and Secondary Education or the individual acting as or delegated the 

authority to perform the functions and duties of such position is disqualified and recused because 

of a conflict of interest or the appearance of a loss of impartiality:

A. the performance of functions related to the award, management and 

oversight of formula and discretionary grants and cooperative agreements within 

your programmatic authority.   See:  Delegation EAR/ES/77 certified on April 11, 

2008, as amended by Delegation EAR/ES/77-A certified on February 2, 2010 to 

include the authority to approve State applications, consolidated State 

applications, State plans, and consolidated State plans for formula grants; and 

B. the programmatic authorities delegated to me under Delegation EA/ES/87 

certified on February 3, 2012, as amended by Delegation EA/ES/94 certified on 

November 7, 2014, Delegation EA/ES/97 certified on September 19, 2017, and 

Delegation EA/ES/101 certified on April 17, 2020. 

Unless otherwise noted in future redelegations of authority, amendments to the authorities 

redelegated above are included within the scope of this redelegation. 

II. RESERVATIONS

Unless otherwise noted in existing or future redelegations of authority, the following are not 

redelegated:

A. the authority to sign documents for publication in the Federal Register; 

B. the authority to appoint members of advisory councils and fix 

compensation; 

C. unless otherwise provided by law, the authority to submit reports to 

Congress or the President: 

D. the authority to set administrative policy for formula and discretionary 

grants and cooperative agreements, including issuing Department directives, 

handbooks, and manuals relating to grants and cooperative agreements; 
E. the authority to impose non-procurement debarments and suspensions and 

to manage enforcement of non-debarments and suspension; 

F. the authority to issue licenses to individuals to record obligations and 

award grant funds for discretionary grants and cooperative agreements; and 

G. the authority as final arbiter on cross-Department risk management 

strategies developed to manage and mitigate risks associated with Department 

high-risk or at-risk grants and grantees. 

III.REDELEGATION

No further redelegation is authorized.

IV. CERTIFICATION AND EFFECTIVE DATE

This redelegation is effective upon certification by the Department's Principal Delegations 

Control Officer.

I hereby ratify actions within the scope of this redelegation taken by the addressee prior to the 

date of certification.

__________/s_____________

James Lane

OGC Clearance and Date: 9/27/2022

Control Number: ES/ES/106

Certification Date: 9/27/2022

Departmental Delegations Control Officer: Jim Clemmens