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John J. Kingman Road, Suite 2533, Fort

Belvoir, VA 22060–6221. Official

mailing addresses are published as an

appendix to DLA’s compilation of

systems of records notices.

Individuals must provide name of

litigant, year of incident, and should

contain court case number in order to

ensure proper retrieval in those

situations where a single litigant has

more than one case with the Agency.

RECORD ACCESS PROCEDURES:

Individuals seeking access to

information about themselves contained

in this system should address written

inquiries to the Privacy Act Officer,

Headquarters, Defense Logistics Agency,

ATTN: CAAR, 8725 John J. Kingman

Road, Suite 2533, Fort Belvoir, VA

22060–6221, and Privacy Act offices of

the DLA PLFAs. Official mailing

addresses are published as an appendix

to DLA’s compilation of systems of

records notices.

Written request for information

should contain the full name, current

address and telephone number of the

individual.

CONTESTING RECORD PROCEDURES:

The DLA rules for accessing records,

for contesting contents and appealing

initial agency determinations are

contained in DLA Regulation 5400.21,

32 CFR part 323, or may be obtained

from the Privacy Act Officer,

Headquarters, Defense Logistics Agency,

ATTN: CAAR, 8725 John J. Kingman

Road, Suite 2533, Fort Belvoir, VA

22060–6221.

RECORD SOURCE CATEGORIES:

Claimants, litigants, investigators, and

through legal discovery under the

Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.

EXEMPTIONS CLAIMED FOR THE SYSTEM:

None.

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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

[CFDA NO.: 84.162A]

Emergency Immigrant Education

Program; Notice Inviting Applications

for New Awards for Fiscal Year (FY)

2000

AGENCY: Department of Education.

Purpose of Program: This program

provides grants to State educational

agencies (SEAS) to assist local

educational agencies (LEAS) that

experience unexpectedly large increases

in their student population due to

immigration. These grants are to be used

to provide high-quality instruction to

immigrant children and youth and to

help those children and youth make the

transition into American society and

meet the same challenging State

performance standards expected of all

children and youth.

Eligible Applicants: State educational

agencies.

Deadline For Transmittal of

Applicants: March 17, 2000.

Deadline for Intergovernmental

Review: May 19, 2000.

Applications Available: January 24,

2000.

Available Funds: $150 million.

Note: The Department is not bound by any

estimates in this notice.

Project Period: Up to 17 months.

Applicable Regulations: (a) The

Education Department General

Administrative Regulations (EDGAR) in

34 CFR Parts 76, 77, 79, 80, 81, 82, and

85; and (b) 34 CFR Part 299.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: An SEA is

eligible for a grant if it meets the

eligibility requirements specified in

sections 7304 and 7305 of the

Elementary and Secondary Education

Act of 1965 (the Act), as amended by the

Improving America’s Schools Act of

1994 (Pub. L. 103–382, enacted October

20, 1994). (20 U.S.C. 7544 and 7545). In

order to receive an award under this

program, an SEA must provide a count,

taken during February 2000, of the

number of immigrant children and

youth enrolled in public and nonpublic

schools in eligible LEAs in accordance

with the requirements specified in

section 7304 of the Act. An eligible LEA

is one in which the number of

immigrant children and youth enrolled

in the public and nonpublic elementary

and secondary schools within the

district is at least either 500 or 3 percent

of the total number of students enrolled

in those public and nonpublic schools.

(20 U.S.C. 7544(b)(2)). Under section

7501(7) of the Act, the term immigrant

children and youth means individuals

who are aged 3 through 21, were not

born in any State, and have not been

attending one or more schools in any

one or more States for more than 3 full

academic years. (20 U.S.C. 7601(7)).

FOR APPLICATIONS OR INFORMATION

CONTACT: Darlene Miles, U.S.

Department of Education, 400 Maryland

Avenue, SW, Room 5620, Switzer

Building, Washington, D.C. 20202–6510.

Telephone: (202) 205–8259. Harpreet

Sandhu, U.S. Department of Education,

Maryland Avenue, SW, Room 5617,

Switzer Building, Washington D.C.

20202–6510. Telephone (202) 205–9808.

Brenda Turner, U.S. Department of

Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, SW,

Room 5629, Switzer Building,

Washington, D.C. 20202–6510.

Telephone: (202) 205–9839. 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 this document in an alternate

format (e.g., Braille, Large Print,

Audiotape, or computer diskette) on

request to the contact persons listed in

the preceding paragraph.

Electronic Access to This Document

You may view this document, as well

as all other Department of Education

documents published in the Federal

Register in text or Adobe Portable

Document Format (PDF) on the Internet

at either of the following sites:

http://ocfo.ed.gov/fedreg, htm

http://www.ed.gov/news, html

To use the pdf you must have the Adobe

Acrobat Reader Program with search,

which is available free at either of the

previous 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,

D.C. area at (202) 512–1530.

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.access.gpo.gov/nara/

index.html.

Program Authority: 20 U.S.C. 7541–7549.

Dated: January 14, 2000.

Art Love,

Acting Director, Office of Bilingual Education

and Minority Languages Affairs.

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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

[CFDA No. 84.116J]

Fund for the Improvement of

Postsecondary Education (FIPSE)—

Special Focus Competition: Higher

Education Collaboration between the

United States and the European

Community; Notice Inviting

Application for New Awards for Fiscal

Year (FY) 2000

Purpose of Program: To provide

grants or enter into cooperative

agreements to improve postsecondary

education opportunities by focusing on

problem areas or improvement

approaches in postsecondary education.

Eligible Applicants: Institutions of

higher education or combinations of

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institutions and other public and private

nonprofit educational institutions and

agencies.

Deadline For Transmittal of

Applications: March 17, 2000

Deadline For Intergovernmental

Review: May 26, 2000

Applications Available: January 14,

2000

Available Funds: $600,000 in fiscal

year 2000; $1,800,000 over three years.

Estimated Range Of Awards:

$160,000–$175,000 total for up to three

years.

Estimated Average Size of Awards:

$50,000 in fiscal year 2000; $160,000

total for up to three years.

Estimated Number Of Awards: 10–12

Note: The Department is not bound by any

estimates in this notice.

Project Period: Up to 36 months.

Applicable Regulations: The

Education Department General

Administrative Regulations (EDGAR) in

34 CFR Parts 74, 75, 77, 79, 80, 82, 85,

86, 97, 98, and 99.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the

Special Focus Competition, we will

award grants or enter into cooperative

agreements that focus on problem areas

or improvement approaches in

postsecondary education. We have

included an invitational priority to

encourage proposals designed to

support the formation of educational

consortia of institutions in the U.S. and

the European Union to encourage

cooperation in the coordination of

curricula, the exchange of students and

the opening of educational

opportunities between the U.S. and the

European Union. The invitational

priority is issued in cooperation with

the European Union. European

institutions participating in any

consortium proposal responding to the

invitational priority may apply to the

European Commission’s Directorate

General for Education and Culture for

additional funding under a separate

European competition.

Priority

Invitational Priority

The Secretary is particularly

interested in applications that meet the

following invitational priority.

However, an application that meets this

invitational priority does not receive

competitive or absolute preference over

other applications (34 CFR 75.105(c)(1)).

Invitational Priority: Projects that

support consortia of institutions of

higher education that promote

institutional cooperation and student

mobility between the United States and

the member states of the European

Union.

Methods for Applying Selection Criteria

The Secretary gives equal weight to

the listed criteria. Within each of the

criteria, the Secretary gives equal weight

to each of the factors.

Selection Criteria

In evaluating applications for grants

under this program competition, the

Secretary uses the following selection

criteria chosen from those listed in 34

CFR 75.210.

1. The quality of the design of the

proposed project, as determined by—

a. The extent to which the goals,

objectives, and outcomes to be achieved

by the proposed project are clearly

specified and measurable; and

b. The extent to which the design of

the proposed project is appropriate to,

and will successfully address, the needs

of the target population or other

identified needs.

2. The significance of the proposed

project, as determined by—

a. The extent to which the proposed

project involves the development or

demonstration of promising new

strategies that build on, or are

alternatives to, existing strategies;

b. The likely utility of the products

(such as information, materials,

processes, or techniques) that will result

from the proposed project, including the

potential for their being used in a

variety of other settings; and

c. The importance or magnitude of the

results or outcomes likely to be attained

by the proposed project, especially

improvements in teaching and student

achievement.

3. The adequacy of resources, as

determined by—

a. The extent to which the costs are

reasonable in relation to the objectives,

design, and potential significance of the

proposed project;

b. The potential for continued support

of the project after Federal funding

ends, including, as appropriate, the

demonstrated commitment of

appropriate entities to such support;

and

c. The relevance and demonstrated

commitment of each partner in the

proposed project to the implementation

and success of the project.

FOR APPLICATIONS OR INFORMATION

CONTACT: U.S. Department of Education

Publications Center (ED Pubs), P.O. Box

1398, Jessup, MD 20794–1398, tel 877–

433–7827, fax 301–470–1244, e-mail:

edpubs@inet.ed.gov; web: http://

www.ed.gov/pubs/edpubs.html.

Identify the US/EC competition as

CFDA number 84.116J. Copies of the

application materials may also be

obtained from the Fund for the

Improvement of Postsecondary

Education (FIPSE), U.S. Department of

Education, 1990 K Street, NW, 8th floor,

Washington, D.C. 20006–8544,

telephone 202–502–7500. You may

request application forms from FIPSE by

submitting the name of the competition

(US/EC) and your name and postal

address to FIPSE@ed.gov. Applications

are available on the FIPSE web site at

http://www.ed.gov/FIPSE.

Individuals who use a

telecommunications device for the deaf

(TDD) may call the Federal Information

Relay Service (FIRS) at 1–800–877–

8339. For additional program

information call Cindy Fischer at the

FIPSE office (202–502–7500) between

the hours of 8 a.m. and 5 p.m., Eastern

time, Monday through Friday.

Individuals with disabilities may

obtain this document in an alternate

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 alternate format, also, by

contacting that person. However, the

Department is not able to reproduce in

an alternate format the standard forms

included in the application package.

Electronic Access to This Document

You may view this document, as well

as all other Department of Education

documents published in the Federal

Register, in text or Adobe Portable

Document Format (PDF) on the Internet

at either of the following sites: http://

ocfo.ed.gov/fedreg.htm; http://

www.ed.gov/news.html. To use the PDF

you must have the Adobe Acrobat

Reader Program with Search, which is

available free at either of the previous

sites. If you have questions about using

the PDF, call the U.S. Government

Printing Office (GPO), toll free, at 1–

888–293–6498; or in Washington, DC at

(202) 512–1530.

Note: The official version of a 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.access.gpo.gov/nara/

index.html

Program Authority: 20 U.S.C. 1135–

1135a–3.

Dated: January 13, 2000.

A. Lee Fritschler,

Assistant Secretary for Postsecondary

Education.

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