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(2) A legible mail receipt with the 

date of mailing stamped by the U.S. 

Postal Service. 

(3) A dated shipping label, invoice, or 

receipt from a commercial carrier. 

(4) Any other proof of mailing 

acceptable to the Secretary of the U.S. 

Department of Education. 

If you mail your application through 

the U.S. Postal Service, we do not 

accept either of the following as proof 

of mailing: 

(1) A private metered postmark. 

(2) A mail receipt that is not dated by 

the U.S. Postal Service. 

If your application is postmarked after 

the application deadline date, we will 

not consider your application. 

Note: The U.S. Postal Service does not 

uniformly provide a dated postmark. Before 

relying on this method, you should check 

with your local post office. 

c. Submission of Paper Applications 

by Hand Delivery. 

If you qualify for an exception to the 

electronic submission requirement, you 

(or a courier service) may deliver your 

paper application to the Department by 

hand. You must deliver the original and 

two copies of your application, by hand, 

on or before the application deadline 

date, to the Department at the following 

address: U.S. Department of Education, 

Application Control Center, Attention: 

(CFDA Number 84.229A), 550 12th 

Street, SW., Room 7041, Potomac Center 

Plaza, Washington, DC 20202–4260. 

The Application Control Center 

accepts hand deliveries daily between 

8:00 a.m. and 4:30:00 p.m., Washington, 

DC time, except Saturdays, Sundays, 

and Federal holidays. 

Note for Mail or Hand Delivery of Paper 

Applications: If you mail or hand deliver 

your application to the Department— 

(1) You must indicate on the envelope 

and—if not provided by the Department—in 

Item 11 of the SF 424 the CFDA number, 

including suffix letter, if any, of the 

competition under which you are submitting 

your application; and 

(2) The Application Control Center will 

mail to you a notification of receipt of your 

grant application. If you do not receive this 

grant notification within 15 business days 

from the application deadline date, you 

should call the U.S. Department of Education 

Application Control Center at (202) 245– 

6288. 

V. Application Review Information 

Selection Criteria: The selection 

criteria for this program are from 34 CFR 

sections 655.31, 669.21, and 669.22 and 

are listed in the application package. 

VI. Award Administration Information 

1. Award Notices: If your application 

is successful, we notify your U.S. 

Representative and U.S. Senators and 

send you a Grant Award Notification 

(GAN). We may notify you informally, 

also. 

If your application is not evaluated or 

not selected for funding, we notify you. 

2. Administrative and National Policy 

Requirements: We identify 

administrative and national policy 

requirements in the application package 

and reference these and other 

requirements in the Applicable 

Regulations section of this notice. 

We reference the regulations outlining 

the terms and conditions of an award in 

the Applicable Regulations section of 

this notice and include these and other 

specific conditions in the GAN. The 

GAN also incorporates your approved 

application as part of your binding 

commitments under the grant. 

3. Reporting: At the end of your 

project period, you must submit a final 

performance report, including financial 

information, as directed by the 

Secretary. If you receive a multi-year 

award, you must submit an annual 

performance report that provides the 

most current performance and financial 

expenditure information as directed by 

the Secretary in 34 CFR 75.118. You are 

required to use the electronic data 

instrument International Resource 

Information System (IRIS) to submit 

annual and final performance reports. 

You may view the LRC program IRIS 

performance reporting screens and 

instructions at the following site: 

http://iris.ed.gov/iris/pdfs/LRC.pdf. 

The Secretary may also require more 

frequent performance reports under 34 

CFR 75.720(c). For specific 

requirements on reporting, please go to 

http://www.ed.gov/fund/grant/apply/ 

appforms/appforms.html. 

4. Performance Measures: The 

performance and efficiency measures for 

evaluating the overall effectiveness of 

the LRC Program are: 

LRC Performance Measure 1: Number 

of outreach activities that are adopted or 

disseminated within a year. 

LRC Performance Measure 2: 

Percentage of LRC projects judged to be 

successful by the program officer, based 

on a review of information provided in 

annual performance reports. 

LRC Efficiency Measure: Cost per 

high-quality, successfully completed 

LRC project. 

VII. Agency Contact 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Cynthia Dudzinski, U.S. Department of 

Education, 1990 K Street, NW., room 

6077, Washington, DC 20006–8521. 

Telephone: (202) 502–7589 or by e-mail: 

cynthia.dudzinski@ed.gov. 

If you use a TDD, call the FRS, toll 

free, at 1–800–877–8339. 

VIII. Other Information 

Accessible Format: Individuals with 

disabilities can obtain this document 

and a copy of the application package in 

an accessible format (e.g., braille, large 

print, audiotape, or computer diskette) 

on request to the program contact 

person listed under FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT in Section VII of 

this notice. 

Electronic Access to This Document: 

You can view this document, as well as 

all other documents of this Department 

published in the Federal Register, in 

text or Adobe Portable Document 

Format (PDF), on the Internet at the 

following site: http://www.ed.gov/news/ 

fedregister. 

To use PDF, you must have Adobe 

Acrobat Reader, which is available free 

at this site. 

Note: The official version of this document 

is the document published in the Federal 

Register. Free Internet access to the official 

edition of the Federal Register and the Code 

of Federal Regulations is available on GPO 

Access at: http://www.gpoaccess.gov/nara/ 

index.html. 

Delegation of Authority: The Secretary 

of Education has delegated authority to 

Daniel T. Madzelan, Director, 

Forecasting and Policy Analysis for the 

Office of Postsecondary Education, to 

perform the functions and duties of the 

Assistant Secretary for Postsecondary 

Education. 

Dated: March 2, 2010. 

Daniel T. Madzelan, 

Director, Forecasting and Policy Analysis. 

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BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

ELECTION ASSISTANCE COMMISSION 

Publication of State Plan Pursuant to 

the Help America Vote Act; Correction 

AGENCY: U.S. Election Assistance 

Commission (EAC). 

ACTION: Notice; correction. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Election Assistance 

Commission published a document in 

the Federal Register on February 10, 

2010, concerning Puerto Rico’s 

amended State plan. The document 

contained the wrong States. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Bryan Whitener, 202–566–3100. 

Correction 

In the Federal Register of February 

10, 2010, in the FR Doc. 2010–2919, on 

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column, correct the SUMMARY caption to 

read: 

SUMMARY: Pursuant to sections 

254(a)(11)(A) and 255(b) of the Help 

America Vote Act (HAVA), Public Law 

107–252, the U.S. Election Assistance 

Commission (EAC) hereby causes to be 

published in the Federal Register 

changes to the HAVA State plans 

previously submitted by Puerto Rico. 

Dated: March 2, 2010. 

Thomas R. Wilkey, 

Executive Director. 

[FR Doc. 2010–4707 Filed 3–4–10; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

[OE Docket No. PP–362] 

Application for Presidential Permit; 

Champlain Hudson Power Express, 

Inc. 

AGENCY: Office of Electricity Delivery 

and Energy Reliability, DOE. 

ACTION: Notice of application. 

SUMMARY: Champlain Hudson Power 

Express, Inc. (CHPEI) has applied for a 

Presidential permit to construct, 

operate, maintain, and connect an 

electric transmission line across the 

United States border with Canada. 

DATES: Comments, protests, or requests 

to intervene must be submitted on or 

before April 5, 2010. 

ADDRESSES: Comments, protests, or 

requests to intervene should be 

addressed as follows: Dr. Jerry Pell, 

Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy 

Reliability (OE–20), U.S. Department of 

Energy, 1000 Independence Avenue, 

SW., Washington, DC 20585. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. 

Jerry Pell (Program Office) at 202–586– 

3362 or via electronic mail at 

Jerry.Pell@hq.doe.gov, or Lot H. Cooke 

(Attorney-Adviser) at 202–586–0503 or 

via electronic mail at 

Lot.Cooke@hq.doe.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

construction, operation, maintenance, 

and connection of facilities at the 

international border of the United States 

for the transmission of electric energy 

between the United States and a foreign 

country is prohibited in the absence of 

a Presidential permit issued pursuant to 

Executive Order (EO) 10485, as 

amended by EO 12038. 

On January 27, 2010, CHPEI filed an 

application with the Office of Electricity 

Delivery and Energy Reliability of the 

Department of Energy (DOE) for a 

Presidential permit. CHPEI is a joint 

venture of TDI–USA Holdings 

Corporation (TUHC), a Delaware 

corporation, and National Resources 

Energy, LLC (NRE). TUHC, the majority 

shareholder in CHPEI, is a wholly 

owned subsidiary of Transmission 

Developers Inc. (TDI), a Canadian 

Corporation. NRE is a wholly owned 

subsidiary of National RE/sources 

Group, a limited liability corporation 

duly organized under the laws of the 

State of Connecticut. 

CHPEI proposes to construct and 

operate a primarily underground and 

submarine high-voltage direct current 

(HVDC) electric transmission line that 

will originate at an HVDC converter 

station in Quebec, Canada, and 

ultimately terminate in Yonkers, New 

York, and Bridgeport, Connecticut. 

The proposed CHPEI project (the 

‘‘Project’’) would be a 2,000-megawatt 

(MW) HVDC Voltage Source Converter 

(VSC) controllable transmission system, 

comprising two 1,000–MW HVDC 

bipoles, each of which would include 

two submarine or underground cables 

connected as a bipole pair. Each bipole 

will at all times utilize its partner in the 

bipole pair as a metallic return. The 

ground will never be used as a return. 

In total, four cables would be laid 

between Quebec and the converter 

stations in New York City, where two 

will be terminated. The remaining two 

would continue to Bridgeport, 

Connecticut. 

From the U.S.-Canada border, the 

submarine transmission cables would be 

routed through Lake Champlain and 

travel south to the northern entrance of 

the Champlain Canal, near Whitehall, 

New York. To the extent practicable, the 

submerged cables would continue 

through the Champlain Canal to Fort 

Edward, where the canal joins the 

Hudson River. CHPEI expects that the 

transmission cables would exit the 

Champlain Canal near Lock C8, and the 

cables would be buried within a railroad 

ROW for a distance of approximately 

69.9 miles (107.7 km). The cables would 

re-enter the Hudson River near the 

Town of Coeymans, downstream from 

the City of Albany, N.Y. South of 

Coeymans, the proposed alignment 

follows the Hudson River to the New 

York City metropolitan area. 

Two cables (one bipole) would 

terminate approximately 318.7 miles 

(512.9 km) south of the U.S.-Canada 

border at an HVDC converter station 

near Wells Avenue in Yonkers, New 

York. The remaining two cables would 

continue along the Hudson River to the 

entrance of Spuyten Duyvil Creek, and 

then follow a 65.8-mile-long (105.9 km) 

route through Spuyten Duyvil Creek, the 

Harlem River, and the East River into 

Long Island Sound before terminating at 

a converter station near 1 W Avenue in 

Bridgeport, Connecticut. 

Submarine or underground 

alternating current (AC) cables would 

transmit electricity from the converter 

stations to existing substations 

connected to the electrical grid. From 

the Yonkers converter station, 345-kV 

AC cables would re-enter the Hudson 

River and travel south along the East 

River, Spuyten Duyvil Creek, and the 

Harlem River for a distance of 

approximately 6.7 miles (10.8 km). The 

AC cables would terminate at the 

existing Consolidated Edison (ConEd) 

Sherman Creek/Academy substation, 

near the intersection of West 201st 

Street and 9th Street, in Manhattan. 

From the Bridgeport converter station, 

345–kV AC cables would extend for a 

distance of approximately 150 feet (45.7 

m) to the existing Singer substation, 

owned and operated by the United 

Illuminating Company. 

The applicant represents that the 

Project’s precise final route would be 

subject to a number of factors, including 

resource issues, permitting, land 

acquisition, and stakeholder agreement. 

The 384.5-mile-long (618.8 km) portion 

of the Project located within the United 

States would be owned and operated by 

the applicant. 

Since the restructuring of the electric 

industry began, resulting in the 

introduction of different types of 

competitive entities into the 

marketplace, DOE has consistently 

expressed its policy that cross-border 

trade in electric energy should be 

subject to the same principles of 

comparable open access and nondiscrimination that apply to 

transmission in interstate commerce. 

DOE has stated that policy in export 

authorizations granted to entities 

requesting authority to export over 

international transmission facilities. 

Specifically, DOE expects transmitting 

utilities owning border facilities to 

provide access across the border in 

accordance with the principles of 

comparable open access and nondiscrimination contained in the Federal 

Power Act and articulated in Federal 

Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) 

Order No. 888 (Promoting Wholesale 

Competition Through Open Access 

Non-Discriminatory Transmission 

Services by Public Utilities; FERC Stats. 

& Regs. ¶ 31,036 (1996)), as amended. In 

furtherance of this policy, DOE invites 

comments on whether it would be 

appropriate to condition any 

Presidential permit issued in this 

proceeding on compliance with these 

open access principles. 

Procedural Matters: Any person 

desiring to become a party to this 


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