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States submitted their Reading First 

applications to the Department in 2002 

and 2003. Currently, the Department has 

approved the Reading First applications 

of all applicants but one. The 

Committee will evaluate this remaining 

application and, at the request of the 

Department, may review issues 

identified in other State applications. 

States submitted their third-year 

progress reports to the Department on or 

before November 30, 2006. The reports 

include, among other things, 

information on the progress State 

educational agencies and local 

educational agencies are making in 

reducing the number of students served 

under the Reading First program in 

grades 1, 2, and 3 who are reading 

below grade level. By statute, the 

Committee will review these reports. In 

addition, the Committee may advise the 

Secretary on other issues that the 

Secretary deems appropriate. 

By statute, the Committee will 

consist, at a minimum, of three 

individuals selected by each of the 

following: the Secretary of Education, 

the National Institute for Literacy, the 

National Research Council of the 

National Academy of Sciences, and the 

National Institute of Child Health and 

Human Development. 

Any non-Federal members of the 

Committee will serve as Special 

Government Employees (SGEs). 

Committee members will serve for a 

period of three years or until the date of 

reauthorization of the ESEA, whichever 

is earlier. The Committee will choose 

one of its members to serve as the 

chairperson. The Team Leader of the 

Reading First program will serve as the 

Designated Federal Officer (DFO) for the 

Committee. As appropriate, the 

Committee may form one or more 

subcommittees to assist it with its 

functions. 

For Additional Information: Contact 

Maria Worthen, U.S. Department of 

Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, SW., 

Washington, DC 20202, Telephone: 

(202) 205–5632. 

Dated: February 23, 2007. 

Margaret Spellings, 

Secretary of Education. 

[FR Doc. E7–3590 Filed 2–28–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

[CFDA NO. 84.361A] 

Office of Innovation and Improvement, 

Voluntary Public School Choice 

Program 

ACTION: Notice announcing a technical 

assistance workshop. 

SUMMARY: This notice provides 

information about a technical assistance 

workshop the Department will be 

holding to assist eligible applicants 

interested in preparing grant 

applications for fiscal year (FY) 2007 

new awards under the Voluntary Public 

School Choice (VPSC) program. Staff 

will present information about the 

purpose of the VPSC program, selection 

criteria, application content, submission 

procedures, and reporting requirements. 

The notice inviting applications for 

new awards for FY 2007 for the VPSC 

program was published in the Federal 

Register on February 1, 2007 (72 FR 

4700). 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Iris 

A. Lane, U.S. Department of Education, 

400 Maryland Avenue, SW., 

Washington, DC 20202–5970. 

Telephone: (202) 205–1999. E-mail: 

vpsc@ed.gov. 

If you use a telecommunications 

device for the deaf (TDD), you may call 

the Federal Relay Service (FRS) at 1–

800–877–8339. 

Individuals with disabilities may 

obtain this document in an alternative 

format (e.g., Braille, large print, audio 

tape, or computer diskette) on request to 

the contact person listed in this section. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

technical assistance workshop will be 

conducted on Tuesday, March 6, 2007, 

from 9 a.m.–12 p.m. at the Holiday Inn 

Capitol, 550 C Street, SW., Washington, 

DC 20024. Hotel telephone: (202) 479–

4000. This site is in Washington, DC, 

across the street from the U.S. 

Department of Education headquarters 

at 400 Maryland Avenue, SW. This site 

is accessible by Metro on the Blue, 

Orange, Green, and Yellow lines at the 

7th Street and Maryland Avenue exit of 

the L’Enfant Plaza station. Please 

contact the U.S. Department of 

Education contact person listed under 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT if 

you have any questions about the details 

of the workshop. 

Individuals interested in attending 

this workshop are encouraged to preregister by e-mailing their name, 

organization, and contact information to 

vpsc@ed.gov. There is no registration fee 

for this workshop. We encourage 

attendance from those who will be 

responsible for submitting program 

applications or providing technical 

support for submission of program 

applications. 

Assistance to Individuals With 

Disabilities Attending the Technical 

Assistance Workshop 

The technical assistance workshop 

site is accessible to individuals with 

disabilities. If you need an auxiliary aid 

or service to participate in the workshop 

(e.g., interpreting service, assistive 

listening device, or materials in an 

alternative format), notify the contact 

persons listed under FOR FURTHER

INFORMATON CONTACT. 

Electronic Access to This Document 

You may view this document, as well 

as 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. If you have any questions 

about using the PDF, call the U.S. 

Government Printing Office (GPO), toll 

free, at 1–888–293–6498; or in the 

Washington, DC 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.gpoaccess.gov/nara/ 

index.html. 

Program Authority: 20 U.S.C. 7225–7225g. 

Dated: February 23, 2007. 

Morgan S. Brown, 

Assistant Deputy Secretary for Innovation and 

Improvement. 

[FR Doc. E7–3613 Filed 2–28–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

Office of Postsecondary Education; 

Overview Information; American Indian 

Tribally Controlled Colleges and 

Universities, Alaska Native-Serving 

Institutions, and Native HawaiianServing Institutions programs; Notice 

Inviting Applications for New Awards 

for Fiscal Year (FY) 2007 

Catalog of Federal Domestic 

Assistance (CFDA) Numbers: 84.031T, 

84.031N and 84.031W. 

Dates: 

Applications Available: March 1, 

2007. 

Deadline for Transmittal of 

Applications: April 16, 2007. 


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Deadline for Intergovernmental 

Review: June 14, 2007. 

Eligible Applicants: Institutions of 

higher education (IHEs) that qualify as 

eligible institutions under the American 

Indian Tribally Controlled Colleges and 

Universities (TCCU), the Alaska NativeServing Institutions (AN), and the 

Native Hawaiian-Serving Institutions 

(NH) programs may apply for grants 

under this notice. These programs are 

authorized by Title III, Part A of the 

Higher Education Act of 1965, as 

amended (HEA). To qualify as an 

eligible institution under any Title III, 

Part A program, an institution must, 

among other requirements—

(1) Be accredited or preaccredited by 

a nationally recognized accrediting 

agency or association that the Secretary 

has determined to be a reliable authority 

as to the quality of education or training 

offered; 

(2) Be legally authorized by the State 

in which it is located to be a junior 

college or to provide an educational 

program for which it awards a 

bachelor’s degree; 

(3) Be designated as an ‘‘eligible 

institution’’ by demonstrating that it: (A) 

Has an enrollment of needy students as 

described in 34 CFR 607.3; and (B) has 

low average educational and general 

expenditures per full-time equivalent 

(FTE) undergraduate student as 

described in 34 CFR 607.4. 

The Notice Inviting Applications for 

Designation as Eligible Institutions for 

FY 2007 was published in the Federal 

Register on January 8, 2007, 72 FR 760. 

The complete eligibility requirements 

for the Title III, Part A programs are in 

34 CFR 607.2 through 607.5 and can be 

accessed from the following Web site: 

http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/cfr/ 

waisidx_05/34cfr607_05.html. 

Relationship Between the Title III, Part 

A Programs and the Hispanic-Serving 

Institutions (HSI) Program 

Note 1: A grantee under the Developing 

Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI) program, 

which is authorized under Title V of the 

HEA, may not receive a grant under any 

HEA, Title III, Part A programs. The Title III, 

Part A programs include: The Strengthening 

Institutions Program (SIP), the TCCU 

program, and the AN and NH programs. 

Further, a current HSI program grantee may 

not give up its HSI grant in order to receive 

a grant under any Title III, Part A program. 

Note 2: An eligible HSI that does not fall 

within the limitation described in Note 1, 

i.e., is not a current grantee under the HSI 

program, may apply for a FY 2007 grant 

under all Title III, Part A programs for which 

it is eligible, as well as under the HSI 

program. However, a successful applicant 

may receive only one grant. 

Note 3: An eligible IHE that submits more 

than one application may only be awarded 

one individual development grant or one 

cooperative arrangement development grant 

in a fiscal year. Furthermore, we will not 

award a second cooperative arrangement 

development grant to an otherwise eligible 

IHE for the same award year as the IHE’s 

existing cooperative arrangement 

development grant award. 

Note 4: The Department will make fiveyear awards for Individual Development 

Grants and five-year awards for Cooperative 

Development Grants in rank order from 

separate funding slates according to the 

average score received from a panel of three 

readers. 

However, the Department will use 

two funding slates each for the one-year 

construction grants under the TCCU 

program and the one-year renovations 

grants under the AN and NH programs. 

Slate number one will contain the rank 

order scores of applicants that did not 

receive a grant under the respective 

program in FY 2006. Slate number two 

will contain the rank order scores of all 

remaining applicants. Awards under the 

TCCU, AN and NH programs will be 

made first in rank order from slate 

number one of the respective program. 

If funds remain after awarding all 

approved applicants from slate number 

one, the remaining awards will be made 

in rank order from slate number two of 

the respective program. The Department 

has adopted this process for the 

construction and renovation grants to 

comply with Section 313(b) of the HEA, 

which directs the Secretary to give 

priority to applicants who are not 

currently receiving a grant. 

Estimated Available Funds: 

$23,570,000 for the TCCU program and 

$11,785,000 for the AN and NH 

program’s for FY 2007. A competition 

will not be held in FY 2007 for the SIP. 

Instead, the Department intends to use 

the grant slate developed for the SIP in 

FY 2006 to make new awards in FY 

2007 because a significant number of 

high-quality applicants remained on the 

FY 2006 slate and limited funding is 

expected to be available for new awards 

in FY 2007. 

For specific funding information, see 

the chart in the Award Information 

section of this notice. 

Estimated Average Size of Awards: 

See chart. 

Maximum Award Amounts: See chart. 

We will not fund any application at an 

amount exceeding the maximum 

amounts specified in the chart for a 

single budget period of 12 months. We 

may choose not to further consider or 

review applications with budgets that 

exceed the maximum amounts 

specified, if we conclude, during our 

initial review of the application, that the 

proposed goals and objectives cannot be 

obtained with the specified maximum 

amount. 

Estimated Number of Awards: See 

chart. 

Program name and type of award Maximum 

award amount 

Estimated 

number of 

awards 

Estimated average award 

amount 

Tribally Controlled Colleges and Universities program (84.031T) 

—5-year individual development grants ............................................................................... $475,000 2 $450,000 

—1-year construction grants ................................................................................................ 1,650,000 7 1,577,000 

Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian programs (84.031N and 84.031W) 

—5-year individual development grants ............................................................................... 500,000 1 500,000 

—1-year renovation grants ................................................................................................... 750,000 4 710,000 

Note: The Department is not bound by any 

estimates in this notice. Applicants should 

periodically check the Title III Part A 

programs Web site for further information. 

The address is: http://www.ed.gov/programs/ 

iduestitle3a/index.html. 

Project Period: Up to 60 months for 

development grants and up to 12 

months for construction and renovation 

grants. 

Full Text of Announcement 

I. Funding Opportunity Description 

Purpose of Program: The TCCU, AN, 

and NH programs provide grants to 

eligible institutions of higher education 

to enable them to improve their 

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management, and fiscal stability, and 

increase their self-sufficiency and 

strengthen their capacity to make a 

substantial contribution to the higher 

education resources of the Nation. 

Program Authority: 20 U.S.C. 1057–

1059d. 

Applicable Regulations: (a) The 

Education Department General 

Administrative Regulations (EDGAR) in 

34 CFR parts 74, 75, 77, 79, 82, 84, 85, 

86, 97, 98, and 99. (b) The regulations 

for this program in 34 CFR part 607. 

II. Award Information 

Type of Awards: Discretionary grants. 

Five-year individual development 

grants; five-year cooperative 

arrangement development grants; oneyear TCCU construction grants, and oneyear AN and NH renovation grants will 

be awarded in FY 2007. Planning grants 

will not be awarded in FY 2007. 

Estimated Available Funds: 

$23,570,000 for the TCCU program and 

$11,785,000 for the AN and NH 

programs for FY 2007. 

A competition will not be held in FY 

2007 for the SIP. Instead, the 

Department intends to use the grant 

slate developed for the SIP in FY 2006 

to make new awards in FY 2007 because 

a significant number of high-quality 

applicants remained on the FY 2006 

slate and limited funding is expected to 

be available for new awards in FY 2007. 

For specific funding information, see 

the chart in the Award Information 

section of this notice. 

Estimated Average Size of Awards: 

See chart. 

Maximum Award Amounts: See chart. 

We will not fund any application at 

an amount exceeding the maximum 

amounts specified in this notice for a 

single budget period of 12 months. We 

may choose not to further consider or 

review applications with budgets that 

exceed the maximum amounts 

specified, if we conclude, during our 

initial review of the application, that the 

proposed goals and objectives cannot be 

obtained with the specified maximum 

amount. 

Estimated Number of Awards: See 

chart. 

Program name and type of award Maximum 

award amount 

Estimated 

number of 

awards 

Estimated average award 

amount 

Tribally Controlled Colleges and Universities Program (84.031T) 

—5-year individual development grants ............................................................................... $475,000 2 $450,000 

—1-year construction grants ................................................................................................ 1,650,000 7 1,577,000 

Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian program (84.031N and 84.031W) 

—5-year individual development grants ............................................................................... 500,000 1 500,000 

—1-year renovation grants ................................................................................................... 750,000 4 710,000 

Note: The Department is not bound by any 

estimates in this notice. Applicants should 

periodically check the Title III Part A 

programs Web site for further information. 

The address is: http://www.ed.gov/programs/ 

iduestitle3a/index.html. 

Project Period: Up to 60 months for 

development and up to 12 months for 

construction and renovation grants. 

III. Eligibility Information 

1. Eligible Applicants: IHEs that 

qualify as eligible institutions under the 

TCCU, AN and the NH programs may 

apply for grants under this notice. These 

programs are authorized by Title III, Part 

A, of the HEA. To qualify as an eligible 

institution under any Title III, Part A 

program, an institution must, among 

other requirements—

(1) Be accredited or preaccredited by 

a nationally recognized accrediting 

agency or association that the Secretary 

has determined to be a reliable authority 

as to the quality of education or training 

offered; 

(2) Be legally authorized by the State 

in which it is located to be a junior 

college or to provide an educational 

program for which it awards a 

bachelor’s degree; 

(3) Be designated as an ‘‘eligible 

institution’’ by demonstrating that it: (A) 

Has an enrollment of needy students as 

described in 34 CFR 607.3; and (B) has 

low average educational and general 

expenditures per full-time equivalent 

(FTE) undergraduate student as 

described in 34 CFR 607.4. 

The Notice Inviting Applications for 

Designation as Eligible Institutions for 

FY 2007 was published in the Federal 

Register on January 8, 2007, 72 FR 760. 

The complete eligibility requirements 

are in 34 CFR 607.2 through 607.5 and 

can be accessed from the following Web 

site: http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/ 

cfr/waisidx_05/34cfr607_05.html. 

Relationship Between the Title III, Part 

A Programs and the Hispanic-Serving 

Institutions (HSI) Program 

Note 1: A grantee under the HSI program, 

which is authorized under Title V of the 

HEA, may not receive a grant under any 

HEA, Title III, Part A program. The Title III, 

Part A programs include: the SIP program, 

the TCCU program, and the AN, and NH 

programs. Further, a current HSI program 

grantee may not give up its HSI grant in order 

to receive a grant under any Title III, Part A 

program. 

Note 2: An eligible HSI that does not fall 

within the limitation described in Note 1, 

i.e., is not a current grantee under the HSI 

program, may apply for a FY 2007 grant 

under all Title III, Part A programs for which 

it is eligible, as well as under the HSI 

program. However, a successful applicant 

may receive only one grant. 

Note 3: An eligible IHE that submits more 

than one application may only be awarded 

one individual development grant or one 

cooperative arrangement development grant 

in a fiscal year. Furthermore, we will not 

award a second cooperative arrangement 

development grant to an otherwise eligible 

institution for the same award year as the 

IHE’s existing cooperative arrangement 

development grant award. 

Note 4: The Department will make fiveyear awards for Individual Development 

Grants and five-year awards for Cooperative 

Development Grants in rank order from 

separate funding slates according to the 

average score received from a panel of three 

readers. 

However, the Department will use 

two funding slates each for the one-year 

construction grants under the TCCU 

program and the one-year renovations 

grants under the AN and NH programs. 

Slate number one will contain the rank 

order scores of applicants that did not 

receive a grant under the respective 

program in FY 2006. Slate number two 

will contain the rank order scores of all 

remaining applicants. Awards under the 

TCCU, AN and NH programs will be 

made first in rank order from slate 

number one of the respective program. 

If funds remain after awarding all 

approved applicants from slate number 

one, the remaining awards will be made 

in rank order from slate number two of 

the respective program. The Department 

has adopted this process for the 

construction and renovation grants to 

comply with Section 313(b) of the HEA, 

which directs the Secretary to give 


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priority to applicants who are not 

currently receiving a grant. 

2. Cost Sharing or Matching: There are 

no cost sharing or matching 

requirements, unless the grantee uses a 

portion of its grant for establishing or 

improving an endowment fund. If a 

grantee uses a portion of its grant for 

endowment fund purposes, it must 

match those grant funds with nonFederal funds. 20 U.S.C. 1057(d)(2) and 

1059c(c)(3)(B). 

IV. Application and Submission 

Information 

1. Address to Request Application 

Package: Darlene Collins, Team Leader, 

U.S. Department of Education, 1990 K 

Street, NW., 6th Floor, Washington, DC 

20006–8513. Telephone: (202) 502–7576 

or by e-mail: darlene.collins@ed.gov; or 

Kelley Harris, Telephone: (202) 219–

7083 or by e-mail: kelley.harris@ed.gov. 

If you use a telecommunications 

device for the deaf (TDD), you may call 

the Federal Relay Service (FRS) 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) by contacting the program 

contact person listed in this section. 

2. Content and Form of Application 

Submission: Requirements concerning 

the content of an application, together 

with the forms you must submit, are in 

the application package for these 

programs. 

Page Limits: We have established 

mandatory page limits for the 

applications to be submitted under this 

notice. You must limit your application 

to the equivalent of no more than 50 

pages for an individual development 

grant; 70 pages for a cooperative 

arrangement development grant; and 35 

pages for a TCCU construction or AN 

and NH renovation grant under the Title 

III, Part A programs, using the following 

standards: 

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

only, with 1 inch margins at the top, 

bottom, and both sides. Page numbers 

and an identifier may be within the 1′′ 

margin. 

• Double space (no more than three 

lines per vertical inch) all text in the 

application narrative, except titles, 

headings, footnotes, quotations, 

references, captions and all text in 

charts, tables, and graphs. 

• Use one of the following fonts: 

Times New Roman, Courier, Courier 

New or Arial. Applications submitted in 

any other font (including Times Roman 

and Arial Narrow) will be rejected. 

• Use not less than 12-point font. 

The page limit does not apply to Part 

I, the Application for Federal Assistance 

Face Sheet (SF 424); the Supplemental 

Information for SF 424 form required by 

the Department of Education; Part II, the 

Budget Information Summary Form (ED 

Form 524); and Part IV, the Assurances 

and Certifications. The page limit also 

does not apply to a Table of Contents 

and the Program Abstract. If you include 

any attachments or appendices, these 

items will be counted as part of the 

Program Narrative (Part III of the 

application) for purposes of the page 

limit requirement. You must include 

your complete response to the selection 

criteria in the program narrative. 

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. 

3. Submission Dates and Times: 

Applications Available: March 1, 

2007. 

Deadline for Transmittal of 

Applications: April 16, 2007. 

Applications for grants under this 

competition must be submitted 

electronically using the Grants.gov 

Apply site (Grants.gov). For information 

(including dates and times) about how 

to submit your application 

electronically or by mail or hand 

delivery if you qualify for an exception 

to the electronic submission 

requirement, please refer to section IV. 

6. Other Submission Requirements in 

this notice. 

Individuals with disabilities who 

need an accommodation or auxiliary aid 

in connection with the application 

process should contact the person listed 

under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT in section VII of this notice. 

We do not consider an application 

that does not comply with the deadline 

requirements. 

Deadline for Intergovernmental 

Review: June 14, 2007. 

4. Intergovernmental Review: This 

program is subject to Executive Order 

12372 and the regulations in 34 CFR 

part 79. Information about 

Intergovernmental Review of Federal 

Programs under Executive Order 12372 

is in the application package for these 

programs. 

5. Funding Restrictions: We reference 

the regulations outlining funding 

restrictions in the Applicable 

Regulations section of this notice. 

• Applicability of Executive Order 

13202. 

Applicants that apply for construction 

funds under the Title III, Part A 

Programs must comply with Executive 

Order 13202 signed by President George 

W. Bush on February 17, 2001 and 

amended on April 6, 2001. This 

Executive order provides that recipients 

of Federal construction funds may not 

‘‘require or prohibit bidders, offerors, 

contractors, or subcontractors to enter 

into or adhere to agreements with one 

or more labor organizations, on the same 

or other construction project(s)’’ or 

‘‘otherwise discriminate against bidders, 

offerors, contractors, or subcontractors 

for becoming or refusing to become or 

remain signatories or otherwise adhere 

to agreements with one or more labor 

organizations, on the same or other 

construction project(s).’’ However, the 

Executive order does not prohibit 

contractors or subcontractors from 

voluntarily entering into these 

agreements. Projects funded under these 

programs that include construction 

activity will be provided a copy of this 

Executive order and will be asked to 

certify that they will adhere to it. 

6. Other Submission Requirements: 

Applications for grants under these 

programs must be submitted 

electronically unless you qualify for an 

exception to this requirement in 

accordance with the instructions in this 

section. 

a. Electronic Submission of 

Applications. Applications for grants 

under the TCCU, AN and NH programs 

(CFDA Numbers 84.031T, 84.031N and 

84.031W) must be submitted 

electronically using the Grants.gov 

Apply site at: http://www.grants.gov. 

Through this site, you will be able to 

download a copy of the application 

package, complete it offline, and then 

upload and submit your application. 

You may not e-mail an electronic copy 

of a grant application to us. 

We will reject your application if you 

submit it in paper format unless, as 

described elsewhere in this section, you 

qualify for one of the exceptions to the 

electronic submission requirement and 

submit, no later than two weeks before 

the application deadline date, a written 

statement to the Department that you 

qualify for one of these exceptions. 

Further information regarding the 

calculation of the date that is two weeks 

before the application deadline date is 

provided later in this section under 

Exception to Electronic Submission 

Requirement. 

You may access the electronic grant 

application for the TCCU, AN and NH 

programs at: http://www.grants.gov. You 

must search for the downloadable 

application package for this program by 

the CFDA number. Do not include the 

CFDA number’s alpha suffix in your 

search (e.g., search for 84.031, not 

84.031W). 

Please note the following: 


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• When you enter the Grants.gov site, 

you will find information about 

submitting an application electronically 

through the site, as well as the hours of 

operation. 

• Applications received by Grants.gov 

are date and time stamped. Your 

application must be fully uploaded and 

submitted, and must be date and time 

stamped by the Grants.gov system no 

later than 4:30 p.m., Washington, DC 

time, on the application deadline date. 

Except as otherwise noted in this 

section, we will not consider your 

application if it is date and time 

stamped by the Grants.gov system later 

than 4:30 p.m., Washington, DC time, on 

the application deadline date. When we 

retrieve your application from 

Grants.gov, we will notify you if we are 

rejecting your application because it 

was date and time stamped by the 

Grants.gov system after 4:30 p.m., 

Washington, DC time, on the 

application deadline date. 

• The amount of time it can take to 

upload an application will vary 

depending on a variety of factors 

including the size of the application and 

the speed of your Internet connection. 

Therefore, we strongly recommend that 

you do not wait until the application 

deadline date to begin the submission 

process through Grants.gov. 

• You should review and follow the 

Education Submission Procedures for 

submitting an application through 

Grants.gov that are included in the 

application package for this competition 

to ensure that you submit your 

application in a timely manner to the 

Grants.gov system. You can also find the 

Education Submission Procedures 

pertaining to Grants.gov at 

http://e-Grants.ed.gov/help/ 

GrantsgovSubmissionProcedures.pdf. 

• To submit your application via 

Grants.gov, you must complete all of the 

steps in the Grants.gov registration 

process (see http://www.grants.gov/ 

applicants/get_registered.jsp). These 

steps include (1) registering your 

organization, a multi-part process that 

includes registration with the Central 

Contractor Registry (CCR); (2) registering 

yourself as an Authorized Organization 

Representative (AOR), and (3) getting 

authorized as an AOR by your 

organization. Details on these steps are 

outlined in the Grants.gov 3-Step 

Registration Guide (see http:// 

www.grants.gov/section910/ 

Grants.govRegistrationBrochure.pdf). 

You also must provide on your 

application the same D–U–N–S Number 

used with this registration. Please note 

that the registration process may take 

five or more business days to complete, 

and you must have completed all 

registration steps to allow you to 

successfully submit an application via 

Grants.gov. In addition you will need to 

update your CCR registration on an 

annual basis. This may take three or 

more business days to complete. 

• You will not receive additional 

point value because you submit your 

application in electronic format, nor 

will we penalize you if you qualify for 

an exception to the electronic 

submission requirement, as described 

elsewhere in this section, and submit 

your application in paper format. 

• You must submit all documents 

electronically, including all information 

typically provided on the following 

forms: Application for Federal 

Assistance (SF 424), the Department of 

Education Supplemental Information for 

SF 424, Budget Information—NonConstruction Programs (ED 524), and all 

necessary assurances and certifications. 

Please note that two of these forms—the 

SF 424 and the Department of Education 

Supplemental Information form SF 

424—have replaced the ED 424 

(Application for Federal Education 

Assistance.) 

• You must attach any narrative 

sections of your application as files in 

a .DOC (document), .RTF (rich text), or 

.PDF (Portable Document) format. If you 

upload a file type other than the three 

file types specified in this paragraph or 

submit a password protected file, we 

will not review that material. 

• Your electronic application must 

comply with any page limit 

requirements described in this notice. 

• After you electronically submit 

your application, you will receive from 

Grants.gov an automatic notification of 

receipt that contains a Grants.gov 

tracking number. (This notification 

indicates receipt by Grants.gov only, not 

receipt by the Department.) The 

Department will then retrieve your 

application from Grants.gov and send a 

second confirmation to you by e-mail. 

This second notification indicates that 

the Department has received your 

application and has assigned your 

application a PR/Award number (an EDspecified identifying number unique to 

your application). 

• We may request that you provide us 

original signatures on forms at a later 

date. 

Application Deadline Date Extension 

in Case of Technical Issues With the 

Grants.gov System: If you are 

experiencing problems submitting your 

application through Grants.gov, please 

contact the Grants.gov Support Desk at 

1–800–518–4726. You may obtain a 

Grants.gov Support Desk Case Number 

and must keep a record of it. 

If you are prevented from 

electronically submitting your 

application on the application deadline 

date because of technical problems with 

the Grants.gov system, we will grant you 

an extension until 4:30 p.m., 

Washington, DC time, the following 

business day to enable you to transmit 

your application electronically, or by 

hand delivery. You also may mail your 

application by following the mailing 

instructions as described elsewhere in 

this notice. 

If you submit an application after 4:30 

p.m., Washington, DC time, on the 

deadline date, please contact the person 

listed elsewhere in this notice under 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT, and 

provide an explanation of the technical 

problem you experienced with 

Grants.gov, along with the Grants.gov 

Support Desk Case Number. We will 

accept your application if we can 

confirm that a technical problem 

occurred with the Grants.gov system 

and that that problem affected your 

ability to submit your application by 

4:30 p.m., Washington, DC time, on the 

application deadline date. The 

Department will contact you after a 

determination is made on whether your 

application will be accepted. 

Note: The extensions to which we refer to 

in this section apply only to the 

unavailability of, or technical problems with, 

the Grants.gov system. We will not grant you 

an extension if you failed to fully register to 

submit your application to Grants.gov before 

the application deadline date and time or if 

the technical problem you experienced is 

unrelated to the Grants.gov system. 

Exception to Electronic Submission 

Requirement: You qualify for an 

exception to the electronic submission 

requirement, and may submit your 

application in paper format, if you are 

unable to submit an application through 

the Grants.gov system because—

• You do not have access to the 

Internet; or 

• You do not have the capacity to 

upload large documents to the 

Grants.gov system; 

and 

• No later than two weeks before the 

application deadline date (14 calendar 

days or, if the fourteenth calendar day 

before the application deadline date 

falls on a Federal holiday, the next 

business day following the Federal 

holiday), you mail or fax a written 

statement to the Department, explaining 

which of the two grounds for an 

exception prevent you from using the 

Internet to submit your application. If 

you mail your written statement to the 

Department, it must be postmarked no 

later than two weeks before the 

application deadline date. If you fax 


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your written statement to the 

Department, we must receive the faxed 

statement no later than two weeks 

before the application deadline date. 

Address and mail or fax your 

statement to: Darlene Collins, U.S. 

Department of Education, 1990 K Street, 

NW., 6th floor, Washington, DC 20006–

8513 Telephone: (202) 502–7576 or by 

e-mail: darlene.collins@ed.gov; FAX: 

(202) 502–7861 or Kelley Harris, 

Telephone: (202) 219–7083 or by e-mail: 

kelley.harris@ed.gov. 

Your paper application must be 

submitted in accordance with the mail 

or hand delivery instructions described 

in this notice. 

b. Submission of Paper Applications 

by Mail. 

If you qualify for an exception to the 

electronic submission requirement, you 

may mail (through the U.S. Postal 

Service or a commercial carrier) your 

application to the Department. You 

must mail the original and two copies 

of your application on or before the 

application deadline date to the 

Department at the applicable following 

address: 

By mail through the U.S. Postal 

Service: 

U.S. Department of Education, 

Application Control Center, 

Attention: (CFDA Number 84.031T, 

84.031N or 84.031W), 400 Maryland 

Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20202–

4260. 

or 

By mail through a commercial carrier: 

U.S. Department of Education, 

Application Control Center—Stop 

4260, Attention: (CFDA Number 

84.031T, 84.031N or 84.031W), 7100 

Old Landover Road, Landover, MD 

20785–1506. 

Regardless of which address you use, 

you must show proof of mailing 

consisting of one of the following: 

(1) A legibly dated U.S. Postal Service 

postmark, 

(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, or 

(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, or 

(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 84.031T, 84.031N or 

84.031W), 550 12th Street, SW., Room 

7041, Potomac Center Plaza, 

Washington, DC 20202–4260. 

The Application Control Center 

accepts hand deliveries daily between 8 

a.m. and 4:30 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,—

and suffix letter, if any—of the competition 

under which you are submitting your 

application. 

(2) The Application Control Center will 

mail a grant application receipt 

acknowledgment to you. If you do not receive 

the grant application receipt 

acknowledgment 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 

1. Selection Criteria: The selection 

criteria for this program are in 34 CFR 

607.22(a)–(g). Applicants must address 

each of the following selection criteria 

(separately for each proposed activity). 

The total weight of the selection criteria 

is 100 points; the weight of each 

criterion is noted in parentheses. 

(a) Quality of The Applicant’s 

Comprehensive Development Plan 

(Total 25 Points). 

(b) Quality of Activity Objectives 

(Total 15 Points). 

(c) Quality of Implementation Strategy 

(Total 20 Points). 

(d) Quality of Key Personnel (Total 7 

Points). 

(e) Quality of Project Management 

Plan (Total 10 Points). 

(f) Quality of Evaluation Plan (Total 

15 Points). 

(g) Budget (Total 8 Points). 

2. Review and Selection Process: For 

five-year individual development 

grants, five-year cooperative 

arrangement development grants, and 

one-year construction and renovation 

grants, awards will be made in rank 

order according to the average score 

received from a panel of three readers. 

Tie-breaker for Development Grants. 

In tie-breaking situations for 

development grants described in 34 CFR 

607.23(b), the regulations for the Title III 

Part A programs require that we award 

one additional point to an application 

from an IHE that has an endowment 

fund for which the market value per 

FTE student is less than the comparable 

average per FTE student at a similar 

type IHE. We also award one additional 

point to an application from an IHE that 

had expenditures for library materials 

per FTE student that are less than the 

comparable average per FTE student at 

a similar type IHE. 

For the purpose of these funding 

considerations, we use 2004–2005 data. 

If a tie remains after applying the tiebreaker mechanism above, priority will 

be given in the case of applicants for: (a) 

Individual development grants to 

applicants that have the lowest 

endowment values per FTE student; and 

(b) cooperative arrangement 

development grants to applicants in 

accordance with section 394(b) of the 

HEA, if the Secretary determines that 

the cooperative arrangement is 

geographically and economically sound 

or will benefit the applicant institution. 

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 also notify you 

informally. 

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 

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most current performance and financial 

expenditure information as specified by 

the Secretary in 34 CFR 75.118, 34 CFR 

75.720 and in 34 CFR 606.31. 

4. Performance Measures: The 

Secretary has established the following 

key performance measures for assessing 

the effectiveness of the Title III, Part A 

programs: (1) The number of full-time 

degree-seeking undergraduates enrolling 

at IHEs. Note that this is a long-term 

measure, which will be used to 

periodically gauge performance, 

beginning in FY 2009; (2) The 

percentage of full-time undergraduate 

students who were in their first year of 

postsecondary enrollment in the 

previous year and are enrolled in the 

current year at the same institution; (3) 

The percentage of students enrolled at 

4-year IHEs graduating within 6 years of 

enrollment; and (4) The percentage of 

students enrolled at 2-year IHEs 

graduating within 3 years of enrollment. 

VII. Agency Contacts 

For Further Information Contact: 

Darlene Collins, Team Leader, U.S. 

Department of Education, 1990 K Street, 

NW., 6th Floor, Washington, DC 20006–

8513. Telephone: (202) 502–7576 or by 

e-mail: darlene.collins.ed.gov or Kelley 

Harris, telephone: (202) 219–7083 or by 

e-mail: Kelley.harris@ed.gov. 

If you use a telecommunications 

device for the deaf (TDD), you may call 

the Federal Relay Service (FRS) at 1–

800–877–8339. 

Individuals with disabilities may 

obtain this document in an alternative 

format (e.g., Braille, large print, 

audiotape, or computer diskette) on 

request to the program contact person 

listed in this section. 

VIII. Other Information 

Electronic Access to This Document: 

You may 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. If you have questions about 

using PDF, call the U.S. Government 

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

888–293–6498; or in the Washington, 

DC, 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.gpoaccess.gov/nara/ 

index.html. 

Dated: February 23, 2007. 

James F. Manning, 

Delegated the Authority of Assistant Secretary 

for Postsecondary Education. 

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BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Study of the Potential Benefits of 

Distributed Generation and RateRelated Issues That May Impede Their 

Expansion 

AGENCY: Office of Electricity Delivery 

and Energy Reliability (OE), Department 

of Energy. 

ACTION: Notice of availability of a study 

of the potential benefits of distributed 

generation and rate-related issues that 

may impede their expansion, and 

request for public comment. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Energy 

(DOE) hereby gives notice that it has 

issued a ‘‘Study of the Potential Benefits 

of Distributed Generation and RateRelated Issues That May Impede Their 

Expansion’’ (DG Study). The DG Study 

is an analysis called for by Section 1817 

of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (EPAct 

2005). Through this Notice, DOE invites 

public review of the DG Study and 

submittal of comments on it. DOE 

requests that comments be submitted 

electronically (preferably Microsoft

Word .doc format), although written 

comments may be submitted as well. 

Submissions should include a cover 

page containing the reviewer’s name, 

affiliation, telephone number, mailing 

address, and e-mail address. 

Copies of Section 1817 of EPAct 2005 

and of the DG Study are available and 

may be downloaded from the OE Web 

site: http://www.oe.energy.gov. 

DATES: Comments, and other pertinent 

information offered in response to this 

Notice must be submitted to and 

received by DOE no later than April 2, 

2007 at any of the addresses listed in the 

ADDRESSES section. 

ADDRESSES: Reviews prepared in 

electronic formats may be uploaded 

directly, via the Internet at: http:// 

www.oe.energy.gov/epa_sec1817.htm. 

Links to this Web page may also be 

found on the OE Web site. 

Comments may also be sent by regular 

mail to: Mario Sciulli, U.S. Department 

of Energy, National Energy Technology 

Laboratory, P.O. Box 10940, MS 922–

342C, Pittsburgh, PA 15236; or by e-mail 

to: mario.sciulli@netl.doe.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Mario Sciulli, U.S. Department of 

Energy, National Energy Technology 

Laboratory, P.O. Box 10940, MS 922–

342C, Pittsburgh, PA 15236, e-mail 

address: mario.sciulli@netl.doe.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

Section 1817 of the Energy Policy Act 

of 2005 requires that DOE, in 

consultation with the Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission (FERC), 

conduct a study of the potential benefits 

of cogeneration and small power 

production. DOE also must analyze the 

impact of regulatory mandates, tariffs, 

rate structures and similar policies on 

the proliferation of distributed energy 

technologies. Section 1817 further 

requires that DOE recommend a 

methodology for valuing the benefits of 

distributed generation (DG). 

To initiate the DG Study DOE 

published a ‘‘notice of inquiry and 

request for public comment’’ in the 

Federal Register on January 30, 2006 

(71 FR 4904). The notice requested 

public input (such as narratives of 

experiences, data, case studies, reports 

and results of analyses, etc.) pertaining 

to the planning, installation, 

commissioning and operation of 

distributed energy systems. The notice 

also invited interested parties to submit 

case studies and similar information 

depicting the impact of regulations, 

statutes, codes, tariffs, rate structures 

and other similar policies on the various 

aspects of DG, combined heat and 

power (CHP) systems, and related 

distributed energy technologies. A copy 

of the January 30, 2006 notice is 

available on the OE Web page. 

II. DG Study, Request for Public Review 

and Comment, and Report 

A. DG Study 

DOE has considered and analyzed 

comments and supporting information 

received in response to the notice of 

January 30, 2006, and has completed a 

DG Study. DOE is hereby announcing 

that the DG Study is available for public 

review and inviting all interested parties 

to submit comments on the DG Study. 

B. Submission of Comments 

In accordance with Section 1817, DOE 

requests written comments from 

interested parties on all aspects of the 

DG Study. DOE is especially interested 

in receiving comments from persons 

with particular knowledge of the legal, 

economic and technical elements 

related to the benefits and rate-related 

issues concerning distributed 

generation. 

C. Report 

At the end of the public review period 

specified in the DATES section of this 


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