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[Federal Register: May 12, 2010 (Volume 75, Number 91)]
[Notices]               
[Page 26742-26743]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

 
Investing in Innovation Fund

    Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) Numbers: 84.396A 
(Scale-up grants), 84.396B (Validation grants), and 84.396C 
(Development grants).
AGENCY: Office of Innovation and Improvement, Department of Education.

ACTION: Notice; Extension of the application deadline date for the 
Investing in Innovation Fund.

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SUMMARY: The Assistant Deputy Secretary for Innovation and Improvement 
extends, for certain prospective eligible applicants described 
elsewhere in this notice, the deadline date for transmittal of 
applications for new awards for fiscal year (FY) 2010 under the 
Investing in Innovation Fund. The Assistant Deputy Secretary takes this 
action to allow more time for the preparation and submission of 
applications by prospective eligible applicants affected by the severe 
storms, flooding, straight-line winds, and tornadoes beginning on April 
30, 2010, and continuing, in Tennessee. The extension of the 
application deadline date for this competition is intended to help 
affected eligible applicants compete fairly with other eligible 
applicants under this competition.

DATES: The extended deadline for transmitting applications under the 
Investing in Innovation Fund is listed in the chart entitled ``List of 
Affected Programs'' in the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of this 
notice.

ADDRESSES: The address and telephone number for obtaining applications 
for or information about the Investing in Innovation Fund is in the 
notice inviting applications for this program. We have provided the 
date and Federal Register citation of the notice inviting applications 
for this program in the chart entitled ``List of Affected Programs'' in 
the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of this notice.
    If you use a telecommunications device for the deaf (TDD), call the 
Federal Relay Service (FRS), toll free, at 1-800-877-8339.
    Individuals with disabilities can obtain this document in an 
accessible format (e.g., braille, large print, audiotape, or computer 
diskette) on request to the contact listed in the notice inviting 
applications for this program.
    If you want to transmit a recommendation or comment under Executive 
Order 12372, you can find the most recent list and addresses of 
individual Single Points of Contact (SPOCs) on the Web site of the 
Office of Management and Budget at the following address: http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/grants_spoc/.
    You can also find the list of SPOCs in the appendix to the Forecast 
of Funding Opportunities under the Department of Education 
Discretionary Grant Programs for Fiscal Year (FY) 2010. This is 
available on the Internet at: http://www2.ed.gov/fund/landing.jhtml.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 
    Eligibility: The extension of the application deadline date in this 
notice applies to eligible applicants under the Investing in Innovation 
Fund that are located in a Federally-declared disaster area, as 
determined by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) (see 
http://www.fema.gov/news/disasters.fema), and adversely affected by the 
severe storms, flooding, straight-line winds, and tornadoes beginning 
on April 30, 2010, and continuing, in Tennessee.
    Under section 14007(a)(1) of the American Recovery and Reinvestment 
Act of 2009 (Pub. L. 111-5), an eligible applicant for the Investing in 
Innovation Fund is (a) a local educational agency (LEA) or (b) a 
partnership between a nonprofit organization and (1) one or more LEAs 
or (2) a consortium of schools. In the case of an eligible applicant 
that is a partnership, the extension of the application deadline date 
applies if any of the entities required to be part of the partnership 
(i.e., a nonprofit organization, an LEA, or a consortium of schools) 
are located in a Federally-declared disaster area, as determined by 
FEMA, and adversely affected by the severe storms, flooding, straight-
line winds, and tornadoes in Tennessee.
    An eligible applicant submitting an application on the Extended 
Deadline must provide a certification in its application that it meets 
the criteria for doing so and be prepared to provide appropriate 
supporting documentation, if requested. If such an eligible applicant 
is submitting its application electronically, the submission of the 
application serves as the eligible applicant's attestation that it 
meets the criteria for submitting an application on the Extended 
Deadline.
    The following is information about the competition covered by this 
notice:

                                            List of Affected Programs
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                                                                                     Original        Extended
                                Publication date     Original        Extended      deadline for    deadline for
       CFDA No. and name           and Federal     deadline for    deadline for       inter-          inter-
                                    Register      transmittal of  transmittal of   governmental    governmental
                                    citation        applications   applications       review          review
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84.396A, B, and C: Investing    3/12/2010 (75 FR       5/12/2010       5/19/2010       7/12/2010       7/19/2010
 in Innovation Fund (Scale-up,   12072).
 Validation, and Development
 grants).
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    Dated: May 10, 2010.
James H. Shelton III,
Assistant Deputy Secretary For Innovation and Improvement.
[FR Doc. 2010-11451 Filed 5-11-10; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4000-01-P
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