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identification for admission into The 

Aerospace Corporation facility. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Alan L. Adams, 310–336–7476 or 

DeeDee Madrid, 310–336–7256 or 

Douglas Brown, 310–416–7704. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Director of National Security Space 

Office, Office of the Under Secretary to 

the Air Force, United States Air Force 

was appointed as the Compliance 

Officer for Department of Defense in 

keeping with a decree issued by the 

United States District court, District of 

Columbia. The Anti-Trust Division of 

the Department of Justice brought suit 

against Northrop-Grumman Corporation 

to prevent their merger with TRW, 

Incorporated because it would 

substantially reduce competition in 

production of certain satellites. 

However, the merger was permitted 

with the agreement that NorthropGrumman Corporation would comply 

with certain prescribed behaviors 

decreed in the Final Judgment. The 

Compliance Division was established 

within NSSO to monitor the NorthropGrumman Corporation’s compliance 

with the Final Judgment on behalf of the 

Director, who has contracted with the 

Aerospace Corporation for much of the 

administrative support. 

Bao-Anh Trinh, 

Air Force Federal Register Liaison Officer. 

[FR Doc. E7–3771 Filed 3–2–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 5000–04–P 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

Office of Special Education and 

Rehabilitative Services Overview 

Information; Personnel Development 

To Improve Services and Results for 

Children With Disabilities—National 

Center To Enhance the Training of 

Personnel Who Share Responsibility 

for Improving Outcomes for Young 

Children With Disabilities (National 

Early Childhood Training 

Enhancement Center); Notice Inviting 

Applications for New Awards for Fiscal 

Year (FY) 2007 

Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance 

(CFDA) Number: 84.325J. 

Dates: Applications Available: March 

5, 2007. 

Deadline for Transmittal of 

Applications: April 19, 2007. 

Deadline for Intergovernmental 

Review: June 18, 2007. 

Eligible Applicants: Institutions of 

higher education (IHEs). 

Estimated Available Funds: The 

Administration has requested 

$90,626,000 for the Personnel 

Development To Improve Services and 

Results for Children with Disabilities 

program for FY 2007, of which we 

intend to use an estimated $600,000 for 

the National Early Childhood Training 

Enhancement Center competition. The 

actual level of funding, if any, depends 

on final congressional action. However, 

we are inviting applications to allow 

enough time to complete the grant 

process if Congress appropriates funds 

for this program. 

Maximum Award: We will reject any 

application that proposes a budget 

exceeding $600,000 for a single budget 

period of 12 months. The Assistant 

Secretary for Special Education and 

Rehabilitative Services may change the 

maximum amount through a notice 

published in the Federal Register. 

Number of Awards: 1. 

Note: The Department is not bound by any 

estimates in this notice. 

Project Period: Up to 60 months. 

Full Text of Announcement 

I. Funding Opportunity Description 

Purpose of Program: The purposes of 

this program are to (1) help address 

State-identified needs for highly 

qualified personnel—in special 

education, related services, early 

intervention, and regular education—to 

work with infants or toddlers with 

disabilities, or children with 

disabilities; and (2) ensure that those 

personnel have the skills and 

knowledge—derived from practices that 

have been determined through research 

and experience to be successful—that 

are needed to serve those children. 

Priority: In accordance with 34 CFR 

75.105(b)(2)(v), this priority is from 

allowable activities specified in the 

statute (see sections 662(d) and 681(d) 

of the Individuals with Disabilities 

Education Act (IDEA)). 

Absolute Priority: For FY 2007 this 

priority is an absolute priority. Under 34 

CFR 75.105(c)(3), we consider only 

applications that meet this priority. 

This priority is: National Early 

Childhood Training Enhancement 

Center Background: 

In growing numbers, infants, toddlers, 

and preschoolers with disabilities are 

joining their peers without disabilities 

in natural settings such as childcare 

centers, Early Head Start and Head Start 

programs, and public and private 

preschools. Early interventionists, early 

childhood educators and special 

educators, related services providers, 

and childcare personnel share 

responsibility for ensuring high quality 

services and improved outcomes for 

young children with disabilities. To 

effectively meet the learning and 

developmental needs of young children 

(birth through five) with disabilities, all 

of these professionals must have 

knowledge and training in early 

intervention and early childhood 

special education, including how to 

work with families with young children. 

Recent data collected by the Office of 

Special Education Programs (OSEP)- 

funded Center to Inform Personnel 

Preparation Policy and Practice in Early 

Intervention and Preschool Education 

(http://www.uconnucedd.org/ 

per_prep_center/index.html) suggest, 

however, that programs have serious 

difficulty finding and hiring personnel 

with adequate training in early 

intervention or early childhood special 

education. In addition, many early care 

and education personnel do not have 

the training or knowledge to effectively 

meet the diverse developmental and 

educational needs of young children 

with disabilities in natural 

environments. In order to meet the early 

learning and developmental needs of 

young children more effectively, future 

and current early childhood personnel 

must have access to training, 

educational resources, and materials 

that reflect evidence-based practice in 

the fields of early intervention and early 

childhood education. 

In particular, educators and service 

providers must have: (1) Knowledge of 

authentic assessment practices such as 

collecting work samples and 

observational records, which go beyond 

assessment of discrete skills to 

assessments that capture the depth of 

children’s functional abilities within 

their daily context; (2) training in 

service coordination and collaborative 

models of service delivery (this is 

particularly important as specialized 

service providers go into natural 

environments, such as childcare centers 

and preschools, where staff may not be 

as knowledgeable about evidence-based 

practices in working with children with 

disabilities and their families); and (3) 

knowledge of interventions and 

practices that support the development 

of school readiness skills, particularly in 

the areas of language, early literacy, and 

social-emotional development. 

To this end, the Assistant Secretary 

proposes a National Early Childhood 

Training Enhancement Center for 

preservice higher education faculty and 

professional development providers 

who train early interventionists, early 

childhood educators and special 

educators, related services providers, 

and childcare personnel (the targeted 

constituent group) to work with infants, 

toddlers, and preschoolers with 

disabilities (birth through five) and their 

families. 


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Priority 

The purpose of this priority is to 

address the need for high quality early 

childhood personnel and ensure that 

they have the skills and knowledge to 

provide collaborative services to meet 

the developmental and learning needs 

of infants, toddlers, and preschoolers 

with disabilities. The goal of this 

priority is to establish a National Early 

Childhood Training Enhancement 

Center (Center) that will identify, 

develop, and disseminate evidencebased training modules for use by 

higher education faculty, including 

community college faculty, and 

professional development providers 

who provide ongoing training to the 

targeted constituent group. The Center 

must provide technical assistance to 

programs providing preservice 

preparation and professional 

development. The Center also must 

ensure that these programs have ready 

access to current materials and 

resources necessary to support the 

development of personnel to effectively 

work within a collaborative model to 

effectively serve young children with 

disabilities in natural environments. 

The Center must: 

(a) Identify needs. Identify knowledge 

and skill enhancement needs of 

preservice trainees and practicing 

personnel in the targeted constituent 

group that are most critical to ensuring 

that these personnel are well prepared 

to meet the developmental and learning 

needs of young children with 

disabilities. As part of this needsidentification process, the Center must 

consult with, representatives of 

professional organizations, faculty from 

both 4-year and 2-year programs 

engaged in preservice training, 

professional development providers, 

students in training, practicing 

personnel, families of young children 

with disabilities, and other stakeholders 

as appropriate. In addition to the needs 

identified through this process, the 

Center must, as appropriate to the roles 

of the targeted constituents, focus on the 

following topic areas: Authentic 

assessment of young children, 

collaborative service delivery, working 

with families of young children with 

disabilities, and knowledge of 

intervention and practices that support 

the development of school readiness 

outcomes for young children with 

disabilities, especially in the areas of 

language, early literacy, and socialemotional development. 

(b) Identify appropriate existing 

resources. Identify existing resources 

that represent state of the art, evidencebased knowledge and practice in early 

intervention and early childhood 

education, including resources that have 

been developed through early childhood 

discretionary grants or contracts funded 

by OSEP, Head Start and the Child Care 

Bureau in the Department of Health and 

Human Services, or other relevant 

agencies. Additionally, the Center must 

review and consider for incorporation, 

into proposed training modules and 

supporting materials, appropriate early 

childhood products that have been 

developed by projects that are part of 

the OSEP Technical Assistance 

Network, including State Personnel 

Development projects, Parent Training 

and Information Centers, and other 

OSEP-funded technical assistance 

projects. 

(c) Identify and develop training 

modules. Identify and evaluate existing 

training modules in the field using 

established criteria and develop 

content-rich training modules that 

address the critical knowledge and skillenhancement needs identified through 

activities conducted under paragraph 

(a); reflect evidence-based practices and 

scientifically-based research; are 

designed to maximize adult learning; 

and integrate existing resources 

identified in paragraph (b). In addition, 

the training modules must be designed 

for ease of integration into existing 

curricular and experiential 

opportunities in the targeted preservice 

preparation programs or structured to be 

effective resources for providing 

professional development opportunities 

for personnel already in practice. 

Training modules also must be 

identified and developed in 

collaboration with content experts, 

through sub-contractual or consultative 

arrangements with the Center, to ensure 

that module content is current and 

reflects promising and effective 

practices. Each proposed content expert 

and module topic must be approved by 

OSEP prior to the initiation of any 

development activity. 

(d) Disseminate training modules and 

provide targeted technical assistance. 

Develop and implement mechanisms 

that will result in broad, effective 

dissemination and use of training 

modules identified or developed in 

paragraph (c). The Center must make all 

training modules and supporting 

materials available on a dedicated Web 

site that is easily searchable by topic 

and is available for use to everyone at 

no cost. As an example of previous 

OSEP-supported work that utilizes this 

approach, please see the following Web 

site: http://iris.peabody.vanderbilt.edu/. 

The Center must develop a 

dissemination partnership with at least 

one publisher who links (without cost to 

the Center or additional costs to the 

consumer) the materials and resources 

created by the Center to its products and 

services. The Center must develop 

targeted mechanisms for the 

dissemination and utilization of 

products by preservice personnel 

preparation programs in institutions of 

higher education, including community 

colleges, OSEP-funded State Personnel 

Development grantees, and professional 

development providers whose services 

target personnel serving infants, 

toddlers, and preschoolers with 

disabilities. The Center must also 

develop efficient, effective strategies for 

providing technical assistance to assist 

higher education faculty and 

professional development providers in 

the use of the training modules created 

by the Center. 

(e) Conduct comprehensive project 

evaluation. Design and conduct a 

comprehensive evaluation of the work, 

accomplishments, outcomes, impact, 

and effectiveness of the Center. This 

evaluation must be designed to provide 

information to guide ongoing 

refinements to the structure, activities, 

workflow, and products that will 

improve the ultimate impact and 

effectiveness of the Center. This 

comprehensive evaluation must also be 

designed to measure the impact of the 

Center’s work on the goal of enhancing 

the knowledge and skills of the targeted 

constituent group so that they can 

effectively provide young children with 

disabilities the services and supports 

necessary for them to fully participate in 

natural environments, meet their 

developmental and learning potential, 

and be prepared to enter school ready to 

learn. 

(f) Establish an advisory board. In 

designing and carrying out the required 

activities of the Center, the project must 

establish and make ongoing and 

effective use of a Board of Advisors. The 

make-up of the Board of Advisors 

should include as appropriate: 

Professional organization 

representatives, higher education 

faculty, practicing personnel, 

professional development providers, 

family members of young children with 

disabilities, State and local IDEA Part C 

and section 619 coordinators, federally 

supported technical assistance 

providers, and federally supported 

higher education project directors. 

(g) Maintain communication with 

OSEP. The project should maintain 

ongoing communication with the OSEP 

Project Officer, including monthly 

conference calls. The project must also 

budget for a three-day Project Directors’

meeting in Washington, DC during each 

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day trips annually to Washington, DC to 

attend additional national meetings and 

to meet and collaborate with the OSEP 

Project Officer and other funded 

projects for purposes of cross-project 

collaboration and information exchange. 

Fourth and Fifth Years of the Project 

In deciding whether to continue 

funding the Center for the fourth and 

fifth years, the Secretary will consider 

the requirements of 34 CFR 75.253(a), 

and in addition—

(a) The recommendation of a review 

team consisting of experts selected by 

the Secretary. The review will be 

conducted in Washington, DC during 

the last half of the project’s second year; 

projects must budget for travel expenses 

associated with this one-day intensive 

review; 

(b) The timeliness and effectiveness 

with which all requirements of the 

negotiated cooperative agreement have 

been or are being met by the Center; and 

(c) The degree to which the Center’s 

products reflect evidence-based 

practices and scientifically-based 

research and address the identified 

critical knowledge and skill 

enhancement needs within the field. 

Waiver of Proposed Rulemaking: 

Under the Administrative Procedure Act 

(APA) (5 U.S.C. 553) the Department 

generally offers interested parties the 

opportunity to comment on a proposed 

priority. However, section 681(d) of 

IDEA makes the public comment 

requirements of the APA inapplicable to 

the priority in this notice. 

Program Authority: 20 U.S.C. 1462 

and 1481(d). 

Applicable Regulations: The 

Education Department General 

Administrative Regulations (EDGAR) in 

34 CFR parts 74, 75, 77, 79, 80, 81, 82, 

84, 85, 86, 97, 98, and 99. 

II. Award Information 

Type of Award: Cooperative 

agreement. 

Estimated Available Funds: The 

Administration has requested 

$90,626,000 for the Personnel 

Development to Improve Services and 

Results for Children with Disabilities 

program for FY 2007, of which we 

intend to use an estimated $600,000 for 

the National Early Childhood Training 

Enhancement Center competition. The 

actual level of funding, if any, depends 

on final congressional action. However, 

we are inviting applications to allow 

enough time to complete the grant 

process if Congress appropriates funds 

for this program. 

Maximum Award: We will reject any 

application that proposes a budget 

exceeding $600,000 for a single budget 

period of 12 months. The Assistant 

Secretary for Special Education and 

Rehabilitative Services may change the 

maximum amount through a notice 

published in the Federal Register. 

Number of Awards: 1. 

Note: The Department is not bound by any 

estimates in this notice. 

Project Period: Up to 60 months. 

III. Eligibility Information 

1. Eligible Applicants: IHEs. 

2. Cost Sharing or Matching: This 

competition does not involve cost 

sharing or matching. 

3. Other: General Requirements—(a) 

The projects funded under this 

competition must make positive efforts 

to employ and advance in employment 

qualified individuals with disabilities 

(see section 606 of IDEA). 

(b) Applicants and grant recipients 

funded under this competition must 

involve individuals with disabilities or 

parents of individuals with disabilities 

ages birth through 26 in planning, 

implementing, and evaluating the 

projects (see section 682(a)(1)(A) of 

IDEA). 

IV. Application and Submission 

Information 

1. Address to Request Application 

Package: 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 at its 

Web site: http://www.ed.gov/pubs/ 

edpubs.html or you may contact ED 

Pubs at 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 

84.325J. 

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 Grants and 

Contracts Services Team listed under 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT in 

section VII of this notice. 

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 this 

competition. 

Page Limit: The application narrative 

(Part III of the application) is where you, 

the applicant, address the selection 

criteria that reviewers use to evaluate 

your application. You must limit Part III 

to the equivalent of no more than 70 

pages, using the following standards: 

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

references, 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. 

3. Submission Dates and Times: 

Applications Available: March 5, 

2007. 

Deadline for Transmittal of 

Applications: April 19, 2007. 

Applications for grants under this 

competition may be submitted 

electronically using the Grants.gov 

Apply site (Grants.gov), or in paper 

format by mail or hand delivery. For 

information (including dates and times) 

about how to submit your application 

electronically, or by mail or hand 

delivery, please refer to section IV. 6. 

Other Submission Requirements in this 

notice. 

We do not consider an application 

that does not comply with the deadline 

requirements. 

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. 

Deadline for Intergovernmental 

Review: June 18, 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 this 

competition. 

5. Funding Restrictions: We reference 

regulations outlining funding 

restrictions in the Applicable 

Regulations section of this notice. 

6. Other Submission Requirements: 

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competition may be submitted 

electronically or in paper format by mail 

or hand delivery. 

a. Electronic Submission of 

Applications. To comply with the 

President’s Management Agenda, we are 

participating as a partner in the 

Governmentwide Grants.gov Apply site. 

The National Early Childhood Training 

Enhancement Center competition—

CFDA number 84.325J is included in 

this project. We request your 

participation in Grants.gov. 

If you choose to submit your 

application electronically, you must use 

the Governmentwide 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 email an electronic copy of a grant 

application to us. 

You may access the electronic grant 

application for the National Early 

Childhood Training Enhancement 

Center competition—CFDA number 

84.325J 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 84.326, not 

84.326A). 

Please note the following: 

• Your participation in Grants.gov is 

voluntary. 

• 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 time and date 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://eGrants.ed.gov/help/ 

GrantsgovSubmissionProcedures.pdf. 

• To submit your application via 

Grants.gov, you must complete all 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 submit 

successfully 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 submit your 

application in paper format. 

• If you submit your application 

electronically, you must submit all 

documents electronically, including all 

information you typically provide on 

the following forms: Application for 

Federal Assistance (SF 424), the 

Department of Education Supplemental 

Information for SF 424, Budget 

Information—Non-Construction 

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 for SF 424—

have replaced the ED 424 (Application 

for Federal Education Assistance). 

• If you submit your application 

electronically, 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 passwordprotected 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 then will retrieve your 

application from Grants.gov and send a 

second notification 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 must 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 described elsewhere in this 

notice. 

If you submit an application after 4:30 

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

application 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. 


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Note: The extensions to which we refer 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. 

b. Submission of Paper Applications 

by Mail. If you submit your application 

in paper format by mail (through the 

U.S. Postal Service or a commercial 

carrier), 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 84.325J), 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 84.325J), 

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. 

(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 submit your 

application in paper format by hand 

delivery, you (or a courier service) 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 84.325J), 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, 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 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 

1. Selection Criteria: The selection 

criteria for this competition are from 34 

CFR 75.210 and are listed in the 

application package. 

2. Treating A Priority As Two 

Separate Competitions: In the past, 

there have been problems in finding 

peer reviewers without conflicts of 

interest for competitions in which many 

entities throughout the country submit 

applications. The Standing Panel 

requirements under IDEA also have 

placed additional constraints on the 

availability of reviewers. Therefore, the 

Department has determined that, for 

some discretionary competitions, 

applications may be separated into two 

or more groups and ranked and selected 

for funding within the specific group. 

This procedure will ensure the 

availability of a much larger group of 

reviewers without conflicts of interest. It 

also will increase the quality, 

independence and fairness of the review 

process and permit panel members to 

review applications under discretionary 

competitions for which they have also 

submitted applications. However, if the 

Department decides to select for funding 

an equal number of applications in each 

group, this may result in different cutoff points for fundable applications in 

each group. 

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 

performance report that provides the 

most current performance and financial 

expenditure information as specified by 

the Secretary in 34 CFR 75.118. 

4. Performance Measures: Under the 

Government Performance and Results 

Act of 1993 (GPRA), the Department has 

developed annual performance 

measures that will yield information on 

various aspects of the technical 

assistance and dissemination activities 

currently being supported under IDEA 

Part D. These measures will be used for 

the National Early Childhood Training 

Enhancement Center competition. They 

are: The percentage of products and 

services deemed to be of high quality by 

an independent review panel of 

qualified experts or individuals with 

appropriate expertise to review the 

substantive content of the products and 

services; the percentage of products and 

services deemed to be of high relevance 

to educational and early intervention 

policy or practice by an independent 

review panel of qualified members of 

the target audiences of the technical 

assistance and disseminations; the 

percentage of all products and services 

deemed to be of high usefulness by 

target audiences to improve educational 

or early intervention policy or practice. 

We will notify grantees if they will be 

required to provide any information 

related to these measures. 

Grantees will also be required to 

report information on their projects’

performance in annual reports to the 

Department (34 CFR 75.590). 

VII. Agency Contact 

For Further Information Contact: 

Christy Kavulic, U.S. Department of 

Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, SW., 

Room 4057, Potomac Center Plaza, 

Washington, DC 20202–2550. 

Telephone: (202) 245–7359. 


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BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–8283–2] 

Proposed Settlement Agreement, 

Clean Air Act Citizen Suit 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of proposed settlement 

agreement; request for public comment. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with section 

113(g) of the Clean Air Act, as amended 

(‘‘Act’’), 42 U.S.C. 7413(g), notice is 

hereby given of a proposed settlement 

agreement, to address a lawsuit filed by 

the Center for Biological Diversity, 

Preston Forsythe and Hilary Lambert 

(collectively ‘‘Plaintiffs’’): Center for 

Biological Diversity et al. v. Johnson, 

No. 06–1350 (D. D.C.). On July 31, 2006, 

Plaintiffs filed a complaint alleging that 

EPA had a mandatory duty under 42 

U.S.C. 7661(b)(2), to respond within 60 

days to Plaintiffs Title V petition 

requesting that EPA object to the 

proposed Tennessee Valley Authority’s 

(‘‘TVA’’) Paradise Fossil Plant Title V 

Operating Permit (‘‘TVA Paradise Title 

V Operating Permit’’). The complaint 

also alleges that EPA had a mandatory 

duty under 42 U.S.C. 7661(b)(3) and (c) 

and 40 CFR 71.4(e) to modify, terminate, 

or revoke, or issue or deny, the 

proposed TVA Paradise Title V 

Operating permit and that EPA has 

unreasonably delayed modifying, 

terminating, or revoking, or issuing or 

denying, the permit. The complaint also 

alleges that EPA has unreasonably 

delayed responding to the Plaintiffs’

petition for rulemaking requesting, 

pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 553(a), that EPA 

promulgate a rule to amend the 

Kentucky State Implementation Plan to 

fully incorporate the credible evidence 

rule. Under the terms of the proposed 

settlement agreement, EPA shall by May 

25, 2007, take final action to grant or 

deny Plaintiffs’ April 2005 petition for 

rulemaking. The proposed settlement 

agreement also provides that EPA shall 

conclude a completeness determination 

within 60 days after receipt of TVA’s 

forthcoming Title V federal operating 

permit application for the Paradise 

Plant. Within 18 months after 

determining the application is complete, 

EPA shall take final action to issue the 

permit. 

DATES: Written comments on the 

proposed settlement agreement must be 

received by April 4, 2007. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

identified by Docket ID number EPA–

HQ–OGC–2007–0190, online at http:// 

www.regulations.gov (EPA’s preferred 

method); by e-mail to 

oei.docket@epa.gov; mailed to EPA 

Docket Center, Environmental 

Protection Agency, Mailcode: 2822T, 

1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., 

Washington, DC 20460–0001; or by 

hand delivery or courier to EPA Docket 

Center, EPA West, Room 3334, 1301 

Constitution Ave., NW., Washington, 

DC, between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. 

Monday through Friday, excluding legal 

holidays. Comments on a disk or CD–

ROM should be formatted in Word or 

ASCII file, avoiding the use of special 

characters and any form of encryption, 

and may be mailed to the mailing 

address above. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Apple Chapman, Air and Radiation Law 

Office (2344A), Office of General 

Counsel, U.S. Environmental Protection 

Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., 

Washington, DC 20460; telephone: (202) 

564–5666; fax number (202) 564–5603; 

e-mail address: 

chapman.apple@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Additional Information About the 

Proposed Settlement 

On February 18, 2005, EPA formally 

objected to the issuance of the proposed 

TVA Paradise’s Title V Operating Permit 

submitted by the Kentucky Division of 

Air Quality (‘‘KDAQ’’). On April 21, 

2005, Plaintiffs filed a petition 

requesting that EPA object to the 

proposed TVA Paradise Title V 

Operating Permit and a petition for 

rulemaking requesting that EPA amend 

the Kentucky State Implementation 

Plant to fully incorporate the credible 

evidence rule. On August 18, 2006, 

KDAQ withdrew the proposed TVA 

Paradise Title V Operating Permit. 

Subsequently, EPA initiated a Part 71 

permit process for the TVA Paradise 

Plant and on December 14, 2006, EPA 

published notice in the Federal Register 

denying Plaintiffs’ Title V petition. EPA 

has filed a motion to dismiss Plaintiffs’

Complaint. 

The settlement agreement, which is 

subject to CAA section 113(g), provides 

that by May 25, 2007, EPA shall take 

final action to grant or deny Plaintiffs’

petition for rulemaking. The agreement 

also provides that within 60 days after 

receipt of TVA’s forthcoming permit 

application to EPA for a Title V permit 

for the Paradise Plant, EPA shall 

conclude a completeness determination. 

Within 18 months after determining the 

application is complete, EPA shall take 

final action to issue the permit. Should 

KDAQ submit a new proposed CAA 

Title V Operating Permit for the TVA 

Paradise Plant that EPA determines 

adequately addresses the issues raised 

by EPA in its February 18, 2006 

objections, EPA must notify Plaintiff’s 

counsel with written notice that the 

commitments with regard to the Title V 

Federal Operating Permit for the TVA 

Paradise Plant are null and void. Within 

20 days after EPA has fulfilled the above 

obligations or after agreement becomes 

null and void, Plaintiffs shall file a 

motion to dismiss with prejudice. 

For a period of thirty (30) days 

following the date of publication of this 

notice, the Agency will receive written 

comments relating to the proposed 

settlement agreement from persons who 

were not named as parties or 

intervenors to the litigation in question. 

EPA or the Department of Justice may 

withdraw or withhold consent to the 

proposed settlement agreement if the 


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