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Department’s specific plans and actions

for this program.

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(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance

Number: 84.299 Indian Education—Special

Programs)

Program Authority: Section 9122; 20

U.S.C. 7832.

Dated: April 24, 2000.

Michael Cohen,

Assistant Secretary for Elementary and

Secondary Education.

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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

[CFDA No. 84.299B]

Indian Education Discretionary Grant

Programs—Professional Development

AGENCY: Department of Education.

ACTION: Notice inviting applications for

new awards for fiscal year (FY) 2000.

Purpose of the Program

The purposes of this program are to:

(1) Increase the number of qualified

Indian individuals in professions that

serve Indian people; (2) provide training

to qualified Indian individuals to

become teachers, administrators, teacher

aides, social workers, and ancillary

educational personnel; and (3) improve

the skills of qualified Indian individuals

who serve in the capacities described in

(2). Activities may include, but are not

limited to, continuing programs,

symposia, workshops, conferences, and

direct financial support.

Grants for training educational

personnel may be for preservice or

inservice training. For individuals who

are being trained to enter any field other

than education, the training received

must be in a program resulting in a

graduate degree.

For FY 2000 the competition for new

awards focuses on projects designed to

meet the priority described in the

PRIORITY section of this application

notice.

Eligible Applicants

Eligible applicants for this program

are institutions of higher education,

including Indian institutions of higher

education; State or local educational

agencies, in consortium with

institutions of higher education; and

Indian tribes or organizations, in

consortium with institutions of higher

education. An application from a

consortium of eligible entities must

meet the requirements of 34 CFR 75.127

through 75.129. The consortium

agreement must be submitted with the

application. Letters of support do not

meet the consortium requirements.

Deadline for Transmittal of

Applications: May 31, 2000.

Deadline for Intergovernmental

Review: July 31, 2000.

Applications Available:April 28,

2000.

Available Funds: $10,000,000.

Estimated Range of Awards: $175,000

to $500,000.

Estimated Average Size of Awards:

$300,000.

Estimated Number of Awards: 30.

Project Period

Up to 24 months for projects that

provide only in-service training, and up

to 36 months for projects that provide

pre-service training.

Note: The Department is not bound by any

estimates in this notice.

Budget Requirement

All projects funded under this

competition must budget for a two-day

Project Directors’ meeting in

Washington, DC during each year of the

project.

Maximum Annual Award Amount

In no case does the Secretary make an

award greater than $500,000 for a single

budget period of 12 months for the first

24 months of the award period. The last

12 months of a 36-month award will be

limited to induction services only at a

cost not to exceed $75,000 for the third

12-month budget period. The Secretary

rejects and does not consider an

application that proposes a budget

exceeding these maximum amounts.

Page Limit

The application narrative Part III of

the application) is where you, the

applicant, addresses the selection

criteria reviewers use to evaluate your

application. You must limit Part III to

the equivalent of no more than 75 pages,

using the following standards:

• A ‘‘page’’ is 8.5′′ x 11′′, one side

only, with 1′′ margins at the top, bottom,

and both sides.

• 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.

• Use a font that is either 12-point

font or larger or no smaller than 10 pitch

(characters per inch).

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, 86, 97, 98, and 99; and (b) for the

Professional Development Program, the

payback provisions of 34 CFR 263.1(b),

263.3, and 263.35 through 263.37.

Absolute Priority

Under section 34 CFR 75.105 of

EDGAR, the Secretary gives an absolute

preference to applications that meet the

priority selected. The Secretary reserves

all of the funds available for new awards

under the Professional Development

program to fund only those applications

that meet this absolute priority:

Pre-Service Training for Teachers —

Provide support and training to

Indian individuals to complete a preservice education program that:

(a) Enables individuals to meet the

requirements for full state certification

or licensure as a teacher through —

(i) Training that leads to a bachelor’s

degree in education within a two-year

period; or

(ii) Training in a current or new

specialized teaching assignment, that

requires at least a bachelor’s degree, in

which a teacher shortage exists.

(b) Provides graduates of the preservice program with one year of

induction services while they are

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working in schools with significant

Indian student populations.

Selection Criteria

The selection criteria are included in

full in the application package for this

competition. These selection criteria

were established based on the

regulations for evaluating discretionary

grants found in 34 CFR 75.200 through

75.210.

Fiscal Information

Stipends may be paid only to fulltime students. For the payment of

stipends to project participants being

trained, the Secretary expects to set the

stipend maximum at $1250 per month

for full-time students and $200

allowance per month per dependent

during the academic year. The terms

‘‘stipend,’’ ‘‘full-time student,’’ and

‘‘dependent allowance’’ are defined in

34 CFR 263.3.

Competitive Preference

(1) The Secretary will award a total of

five additional points to applications for

programs that include only Indian

individuals as training participants.

Authority: Section 9122(e)(2); 20 U.S.C.

7832(e)(2).

(2) The Secretary will award a total of

five additional points to applications

submitted by Indian tribes, Indian

organizations, and Indian institutions of

higher education. A consortium

application of eligible entities that

meets the requirements of 34 CFR

75.127 through 75.129 and includes an

Indian tribe, Indian organization or

Indian institution of higher education

shall be considered eligible to receive

the five additional priority points.

Letters of support do not meet the

consortium requirements.

Authority: 20 U.S.C. 7873.

(3) The Secretary will award a total of

five additional points to applications

submitted by a consortium of eligible

applicants that include a tribal college

or university and which designate that

tribal college or university as the fiscal

agent for the application. The

consortium application of eligible

entities must meet the requirements of

34 CFR 75.127 through 75.129 of

EDGAR to be considered eligible to

receive the five priority points. Letters

of support do not meet the consortium

requirements. These competitive

preference points are in addition to the

five competitive preference points that

may be given under Competitive

Priority 2—Preference for Indian

Applicants.

Tribal colleges and universities are

those institutions cited in section 532 of

the Equity in Educational Land-Grant

Status Act of 1994 (7 U.S.C. 301 note),

any other institution that qualifies for

funding under the Tribally Controlled

College or University Assistance Act of

1978 (25 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.), and

Navajo Community College, authorized

in the Navajo Community College

Assistance Act of 1978, Public Law 95–

471, title II (25 U.S.C. 640a note).

Authority: Section 9153; 20 U.S.C. 7873;

and 20 U.S.C. 1221e–3.

For Applications Contact

Education Publications Center (ED

Pubs), P.O. 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 via its Web site

(http://www.ed.gov/pubs/edpubs.html)

or 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 84.299B.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Cathie Martin, Office of Indian

Education, U.S. Department of

Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, SW.,

Room 3W111, Washington, DC 20202–

6335. Telephone: (202) 260–1683.

Internet address: Cathie_Martin@ed.gov

Individuals who use a

telecommunications device for the deaf

(TDD), may call the Federal Information

Relay Service (FIRS) at 1–800–877–

8339.

Individuals with disabilities may

obtain a copy of the application package

in an alternative format (e.g., Braille,

large print, audiotape, or computer

diskette) on request to the contact

person listed in the preceding

paragraph.

Individuals with disabilities may

obtain a copy of the application package

in an alternative format, also, by

contacting that person. However, the

Department is not able to reproduce in

an alternative format the standard forms

included in the application package.

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as all other Department of Education

documents published in the Federal

Register, in text or Adobe Portable

Document Format (pdf) on the Internet

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sites. If you have questions about using

the PDF, call the U.S. Government

Printing Office, toll free, at 1–888–293–

6498; or in the Washington, DC, area at

(202) 512–1530.

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Regulations is available on GPO Access at:

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Program Authority: 20 U.S.C. 7832.

Dated: April 24, 2000.

Michael Cohen,

Assistant Secretary for Elementary and

Secondary Education.

[FR Doc. 00–10645 Filed 4–27–00; 8:45 am]

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