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Secretary may also require more 

frequent performance reports under 34 

CFR 75.720(c). For specific 

requirements on reporting, please go to 

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

appforms/appforms.html. 

5. Performance Measures: The 

Department has established the 

following Government Performance and 

Results Act of 1993 (GPRA) performance 

measures for the Ready-to-Learn 

Television Grant Program: (1) the 

percentage of Ready-to-Learn 

programming and educational content 

deemed to be of high quality and (2) the 

percentage of Ready-to-Learn outreach 

products deemed to be of high quality. 

These measures constitute the 

Department’s indicators of success for 

this program. Consequently, we advise 

an applicant for a grant under this 

program to give careful consideration to 

these measures in conceptualizing the 

approach and evaluation for its 

proposed project. Each grantee will be 

required to provide, in its annual 

performance and final reports, data 

about its progress in meeting these 

measures. 

VII. Agency Contact 

For Further Information Contact: Joe 

Caliguro, U.S. Department of Education, 

400 Maryland Avenue, SW., Room 

4W214, Washington, DC 20202–5980. 

Telephone: (202) 205–5449 or by e-mail: 

readytolearn@ed.gov. 

If you use a TDD, call the FRS, toll 

free, at 1–800–877–8339. 

VIII. Other Information 

Accessible Format: Individuals with 

disabilities can obtain this document 

and a copy of the application package in 

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

print, audiotape, or computer diskette) 

on request to the program contact 

person listed under For Further 

Information Contact in section VII of 

this notice. 

Electronic Access to This Document: 

You can view this document, as well as 

all other documents of this Department 

published in the Federal Register, in 

text or Adobe Portable Document 

Format (PDF) on the Internet at the 

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

fedregister. To use PDF you must have 

Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is 

available free at this site. 

Note: The official version of this document 

is the document published in the Federal 

Register. Free Internet access to the official 

edition of the Federal Register and the Code 

of Federal Regulations is available on GPO 

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

index.html. 

Dated: March 17, 2010. 

James H. Shelton, III, 

Assistant Deputy Secretary for Innovation and 

Improvement. 

[FR Doc. 2010–6289 Filed 3–19–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

Centers for Independent Living 

Program—Training and Technical 

Assistance 

AGENCY: Office of Special Education and 

Rehabilitative Services, Department of 

Education. 

ACTION: Notice of proposed priority. 

Catalog of Federal Domestic 

Assistance (CFDA) Number: 84.400B. 

SUMMARY: The Assistant Secretary for 

Special Education and Rehabilitative 

Services proposes a priority under the 

Centers for Independent Living 

Program—Training and Technical 

Assistance (CIL–TA program). The 

Assistant Secretary may use this priority 

for competitions in fiscal year (FY) 

2010, using American Recovery and 

Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) funds 

appropriated for the Centers for 

Independent Living program (CIL 

program) authorized under title VII, 

chapter 1, part C of the Rehabilitation 

Act of 1973, as amended (the Act), and 

competitions in later years. We take this 

action to improve outcomes for 

individuals with significant disabilities 

by enhancing the quality of independent 

living (IL) services provided to those 

individuals and the efficiency of the 

delivery of those services by CILs 

funded through the CIL program. 

DATES: We must receive your comments 

on or before April 21, 2010. 

ADDRESSES: Address all comments about 

this notice to Sue Rankin-White, U.S. 

Department of Education, 400 Maryland 

Avenue, SW., Potomac Center Plaza 

(PCP), Room 5013, Washington, DC 

20202–2800. 

If you prefer to send your comments 

by e-mail, use the following address: 

sue.rankin-white@ed.gov. You must 

include the term ‘‘CIL–TA program’’ in 

the subject line of your electronic 

message. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Sue 

Rankin-White. Telephone: (202) 245– 

7312 or e-mail: sue.rankinwhite@ed.gov. 

If you use a telecommunications 

device for the deaf (TDD), call, toll free, 

(866) 889–6737. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Invitation To Comment: We invite 

you to submit comments regarding this 

notice. 

We invite you to assist us in 

complying with the specific 

requirements of Executive Order 12866 

and its overall requirement of reducing 

regulatory burden that might result from 

this proposed priority. Please let us 

know of any further ways we could 

reduce potential costs or increase 

potential benefits while preserving the 

effective and efficient administration of 

the program. 

During and after the comment period, 

you may inspect all public comments 

about this notice in room 5013, PCP, 

550 12th Street, SW., Washington, DC, 

between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 

4:00 p.m., Washington, DC time, 

Monday through Friday of each week 

except Federal holidays. 

Assistance to Individuals with 

Disabilities in Reviewing the 

Rulemaking Record: On request, we will 

provide an appropriate accommodation 

or auxiliary aid to an individual with a 

disability who needs assistance to 

review the comments or other 

documents in the public rulemaking 

record for this notice. If you want to 

schedule an appointment for this type of 

accommodation or auxiliary aid, please 

contact the person listed under FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT. 

Purpose of Program: The purpose of 

the CIL program is to maximize 

independence, productivity, 

empowerment, and leadership of 

individuals with disabilities and 

integrate these individuals into the 

mainstream of society. 

CILs are consumer-controlled, 

community-based, cross-disability, 

nonresidential, private nonprofit 

agencies that are designed and operated 

within a local community by 

individuals with disabilities and 

provide an array of IL services to 

individuals with significant disabilities, 

including the core services of 

information and referral, IL skills 

training, peer counseling, and 

individual and systems advocacy. 

Each State has established a Statewide 

Independent Living Council (SILC) that 

jointly develops and signs the State Plan 

for Independent Living with the 

designated State unit, monitors, 

reviews, and evaluates the 

implementation of the State plan, and 

coordinates activities with the State 

Rehabilitation Council and other 

organizations related to issues that affect 

individuals with disabilities. A majority 

of a SILC’s members are individuals 

with disabilities. Other members 

include CIL representatives and State 

agency representatives, as well as other 

appropriate individuals. 

Through the ARRA, Congress has 

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program to be obligated by FY 2010. 

Under section 721(b)(1) of the Act, the 

Department is required to reserve 

between 1.8 and 2 percent of the funds 

appropriated for the CIL program to 

provide training and technical 

assistance to CILs, agencies eligible to 

become CILs, and SILCs with respect to 

planning, developing, conducting, 

administering, and evaluating CILs. 

Program Authority: 29 U.S.C. 796f(b). 

Applicable Program Regulations: 34 

CFR part 366. 

Proposed Priority 

This notice contains one proposed 

priority. 

Centers for Independent Living (CILs) 

Community-Based Training and 

Technical Assistance Project 

Background: Under the CIL–TA 

program, the Department currently 

funds three training and technical 

assistance grants: one is in its final year 

and supports training and technical 

assistance to CILs and SILCs on the 

issue of service delivery to young 

people with disabilities as they 

transition from school to living 

independently, and two provide 

general, comprehensive training and 

technical assistance to CILs and SILCs, 

respectively. 

The training and technical assistance 

needs of CILs are ongoing and evolve as 

new centers are funded, and existing 

centers add and reassign personnel, 

expand, and change. The Department 

identifies the training and technical 

assistance needs of CILs and SILCs 

through its review of responses to a 

survey in their annual performance 

reports and through its monitoring and 

technical assistance efforts. 

Based on this annual survey and on 

our ongoing monitoring and technical 

assistance activities, we have 

determined that a significant proportion 

of CILs would benefit from training and 

technical assistance to improve their 

efforts: to develop strategies to address 

the needs of underserved populations 

and underserved geographic areas 

within the center’s service area; to 

promote community-based alternatives 

to institutionalization; to assist youths 

with disabilities in their transition from 

school to postsecondary education, 

employment, and IL; and to better serve 

individuals with disabilities residing in 

rural areas. 

For this reason, we intend to use this 

priority to award a grant to provide 

targeted training and technical 

assistance to CILs on one or more of the 

following topics: 

• Developing Strategies to Address 

the Needs of Underserved Populations 

and Underserved Geographic Areas. 

Although CILs provide IL services to 

individuals with significant disabilities 

within a defined geographical area, CILs 

have acknowledged that often there are 

barriers to serving certain populations 

and certain areas within the center’s 

service area. For example, cultural 

mores of particular ethnic populations 

may not be supportive of interventions 

by ‘‘outsiders’’ to provide independent 

living to individuals with significant 

disabilities, and, in isolated, rural areas, 

it may be physically difficult to access 

the consumers who live in that area in 

order to provide services. Providing 

technical assistance to CILs so that they 

can implement better strategies to 

overcome barriers and reach out to serve 

underserved populations and 

geographic areas will result in centers 

that are truly community-based and that 

adequately serve the entire community 

they were intended to serve. 

• Promoting Community-based 

Alternatives to Institutionalization. CILs 

play a critical role in assisting 

individuals with significant disabilities 

to move from institutional settings to 

community-based living, or to prevent 

institutionalization in the first place, by 

helping these individuals obtain the 

accessible housing, transportation, 

assistive technology, and IL skills they 

need to leave nursing homes and other 

institutional settings. Providing 

technical assistance and training in this 

area and sharing effective practices 

among CILs will enhance their current 

efforts to promote community-based 

alternatives to institutionalization. 

• Assisting Transition-age Youths to 

Live Independently. CILs are working 

with an increasing number of transitionage youths with significant disabilities 

exiting secondary schools and entering 

postsecondary institutions or the labor 

market. Training and technical 

assistance in this area will help CILs 

work collaboratively with the 

elementary and secondary education 

system, colleges and universities, 

employers, and vocational rehabilitation 

agencies to ensure that transition-age 

youths with significant disabilities and 

their families have the information, 

resources, and services they need to 

ensure their success as adults. 

• Providing IL Services in Rural 

Settings. Individuals with significant 

disabilities who need IL services and 

live in rural settings pose difficult 

challenges to CILs. For example, it is not 

unusual in rural States for the CIL’s cost 

of travelling to meet with the consumer 

to exceed the cost of the services that 

are eventually provided to that 

individual. Training and technical 

assistance in this area will help CILs to 

utilize efficient outreach practices, 

including the use of information 

technology whenever possible, to 

provide IL services effectively in rural 

settings. 

Proposed Priority: This proposed 

priority supports a Training and 

Technical Assistance Project to assist 

CILs in one or more of the following 

important and challenging areas: 

developing strategies to address the 

needs of underserved populations and 

underserved geographic areas; 

promoting community-based 

alternatives to institutionalization; 

assisting transition-age youths to 

succeed after secondary school; and 

providing IL services in rural settings. 

To meet this priority, applicants must 

demonstrate all of the following in their 

applications: 

(a) Evidence that the project team 

includes staff members with expertise in 

each of the priority topic areas on which 

the applicant is proposing to provide 

training and technical assistance; 

(b) A sound plan for providing 

training and technical assistance and 

materials that (1) is based on rigorous 

research, where available; (2) utilizes a 

broad range of available, accessible 

technologies and methodologies; and (3) 

is sufficient to provide training and 

technical assistance to as many CILs as 

possible. 

(c) An assurance that the applicant 

will coordinate and collaborate with 

other training projects funded by the 

Department to ensure that its training 

activities are complementary and nonduplicative and that its dissemination 

activities are effective and efficient. At 

a minimum, the Training and Technical 

Assistance Project must coordinate with 

RSA’s CILs Training and Technical 

Assistance Center. 

Types of Priorities: When inviting 

applications for a competition using one 

or more priorities, we designate the type 

of each priority as absolute, competitive 

preference, or invitational through a 

notice in the Federal Register. The 

effect of each type of priority follows: 

Absolute priority: Under an absolute 

priority, we consider only applications 

that meet the priority (34 CFR 

75.105(c)(3)). 

Competitive preference priority: 

Under a competitive preference priority, 

we give competitive preference to an 

application by (1) awarding additional 

points, depending on the extent to 

which the application meets the priority 

(34 CFR 75.105(c)(2)(i)); or (2) selecting 

an application that meets the priority 

over an application of comparable merit 

that does not meet the priority (34 CFR 

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Invitational priority: Under an 

invitational priority, we are particularly 

interested in applications that meet the 

priority. However, we do not give an 

application that meets the priority a 

preference over other applications (34 

CFR 75.105(c)(1)). 

Final Priority: We will announce the 

final priority in a notice in the Federal 

Register. We will determine the final 

priority after considering responses to 

this notice and other information 

available to the Department. This notice 

does not preclude us from proposing 

additional priorities, requirements, 

definitions, or selection criteria, subject 

to meeting applicable rulemaking 

requirements. 

Note: This notice does not solicit 

applications. In any year in which we choose 

to use this priority, we invite applications 

through a notice in the Federal Register. 

Executive Order 12866: Under 

Executive Order 12866, we have 

assessed the potential costs and benefits 

of this regulatory action and have 

determined that it is not ‘‘significant’’ 

under the terms of that Executive order. 

We have determined, also, that this 

proposed regulatory action does not 

unduly interfere with State, local, and 

Tribal governments in the exercise of 

their governmental functions. 

Intergovernmental Review: This 

program is subject to Executive Order 

12372 and the regulations in 34 CFR 

part 79. One of the objectives of the 

Executive order is to foster an 

intergovernmental partnership and a 

strengthened federalism. The Executive 

order relies on processes developed by 

State and local governments for 

coordination and review of proposed 

Federal financial assistance. 

This document provides early 

notification of our specific plans and 

actions for this program. 

Accessible Format: Individuals with 

disabilities can obtain this document in 

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

print, audiotape, or computer diskette) 

on request to the program contact 

person listed under FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT. 

Electronic Access to This Document: 

You can view this document, as well as 

all other documents of this Department 

published in the Federal Register, in 

text or Adobe Portable Document 

Format (PDF) on the Internet at the 

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

fedregister. To use PDF you must have 

Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is 

available free at this site. 

Note: The official version of this document 

is the document published in the Federal 

Register. Free Internet access to the official 

edition of the Federal Register and the Code 

of Federal Regulations is available on GPO 

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

index.html. 

Dated: March 17, 2010. 

Alexa Posny, 

Assistant Secretary for Special Education and 

Rehabilitative Services. 

[FR Doc. 2010–6229 Filed 3–19–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

Office of Special Education and 

Rehabilitative Services Overview 

Information; Migrant and Seasonal 

Farmworkers Program 

Correction 

In notice document 2010–5976 

beginning on page 13106 in the issue of 

Thursday, March 18, 2010 make the 

following correction: 

On page 13106, in the second column, 

under the Applications Available: 

heading, in the first line, ‘‘April 2, 2010’’ 

should read ‘‘March 18, 2010’’. 

[FR Doc. C1–2010–5976 Filed 3–19–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 1505–01–D 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. RM07–10–002] 

Transparency Provisions of Section 23 

of the Natural Gas Act; Notice of the 

Agenda for Form No. 552 Technical 

Conference 

March 15, 2010. 

In a ‘‘Notice of Technical Conference’’ 

issued on February 22, 2010 in the 

above-referenced proceeding, the 

Commission stated that this conference, 

to be held on March 25, 2010, will 

address select issues identified by staff. 

Those issues include: (1) 

Inconsistencies in reporting upstream 

transactions in the natural gas supply 

chain on Form No. 552, and whether 

these transactions contribute to 

wholesale price formation; (2) whether 

transactions involving balancing, cashout, operational, and in-kind 

transactions should be reported on Form 

No. 552; and (3) whether the units of 

measurement (TBtu) currently used for 

reporting volumes in the form are 

appropriate. The Agenda for this 

Technical Conference is attached to this 

notice. 

Specific questions to each panel are 

on the attached Agenda. Each panelist 

will be given the opportunity to provide 

a brief introductory statement on these 

questions. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

March 25, 2010: Commission Meeting 

Room 

9 a.m.–9:10 a.m.—Opening Remarks. 

9:10 a.m.–10:45 a.m.—Upstream 

transactions in the natural gas supply 

chain. 

1. How has your company addressed 

the reporting of unprocessed gas on 

Form No. 552? 

2. Are there unreported volumes of 

unprocessed physical natural gas 

(between the wellhead and any 

processing plant) that use, contribute to, 

or might they contribute to the 

formation of daily or monthly gas price 

indices? Are the volumes associated 

with these transactions material? 

3. What effect, if any, will the 

development of nontraditional gas 

sources have on the reporting on 

unprocessed gas? 

4. Is the current reporting 

measurement (TBtus) an appropriate 

measurement? Would reporting volumes 

in decatherms be more appropriate? 

Panelists 

• John Poe, Manager, Regulatory 

Affairs, ExxonMobil Gas & Power 

Marketing Company (Natural Gas 

Supply Association). 

• William E. Shanahan, Marketing 

Manager, Chaparral LLC, (Natural Gas & 

Energy Association of Oklahoma). 

• Mary Nelson, Manager, Regulatory 

Affairs, Devon Energy Corp. (Natural 

Gas Supply Association). 

• Katie Rice, Director, Regulatory 

Affairs, DCP Midstream LLC. 

• Representative, Independent 

Producers Association of America. 

10:45 a.m.–11 a.m.—Break 

11 a.m. –12:15 p.m. Cashouts, 

Imbalances and Operational Volumes 

1. How has your company addressed 

the reporting of cashouts, imbalance 

makeup and operational volumes on the 

Form No. 552 in relation to the total 

volumes of physical natural gas 

reported? 

2. Are the volumes associated with 

these transactions material? Please 

quantify. 

3. Is the current reporting 

measurement (TBtus) an appropriate 

measurement? Would reporting volumes 

in decatherms be more appropriate? 

Panelists 

• Scott Brewer, Director, North 

American Energy, Terra Industries, Inc. 

(Process Gas Consumers). 

• Katie Rice, Director, Regulatory 

Affairs, DCP Midstream LLC. 


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