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ambitious yet achievable compared to 

the baseline for the performance 

measure and when, during the project 

period, the applicant would meet the 

performance target(s). 

Note: The Secretary encourages the 

applicant to consider measures and targets 

tied to the applicant’s grant activities during 

the grant period. The measures should be 

sufficient to gauge the progress throughout 

the grant period, show results by the end of 

the grant period, and be included in the logic 

model. 

For technical assistance in developing 

effective performance measures, 

applicants are encouraged to review 

information provided by the 

Department’s Regional Educational 

Laboratories (RELs). The RELs seek to 

build the capacity of States and school 

districts to incorporate data and 

research into education decisionmaking. Each REL provides research 

support and technical assistance to its 

region but makes learning opportunities 

available to educators everywhere. For 

example, the REL Pacific has developed 

an electronic program that guides users 

through the processes of designing logic 

models, which is available at: http://

relpacific.mcrel.org/ELM.html. 

(3) The applicant must also describe 

in the application: 

(i) The data collection and reporting 

methods the applicant would use and 

why those methods are likely to yield 

reliable, valid, and meaningful 

performance data, and 

(ii) The applicant’s capacity to collect 

and report reliable, valid, and 

meaningful performance data, as 

evidenced by high-quality data 

collection, analysis, and reporting in 

other projects or research. 

Note: If the applicant does not have 

experience with collection and reporting of 

performance data through other projects or 

research, it should provide other evidence of 

its capacity to successfully carry out data 

collection and reporting for their proposed 

project. 

5. Continuation Awards: In making a 

continuation award, the Secretary may 

consider, under 34 CFR 75.253, the 

extent to which a grantee has made 

‘‘substantial progress toward meeting 

the objectives in its approved 

application.’’ This consideration 

includes the review of a grantee’s 

progress in meeting the targets and 

projected outcomes in its approved 

application, and whether the grantee 

has expended funds in a manner that is 

consistent with its approved application 

and budget. In making a continuation 

grant, the Secretary also considers 

whether the grantee is operating in 

compliance with the assurances in its 

approved application, including those 

applicable to Federal civil rights laws 

that prohibit discrimination in programs 

or activities receiving Federal financial 

assistance from the Department (34 CFR 

100.4, 104.5, 106.4, 108.8, and 110.23). 

VII. Agency Contact 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Kristin Lundholm, U.S. Department of 

Education, 400 Maryland Avenue SW., 

Room 4W221, Washington, DC 20202– 

5970. Telephone: (202) 205–4352 or by 

email: Kristin.Lundholm@ed.gov. 

If you use a TDD or a TTY, call the 

FRS, toll free, at 1–800–877–8339. 

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disabilities can obtain this document 

and a copy of the application package in 

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print, audiotape, or compact disc) on 

request to the program contact person 

listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT in section VII of this notice. 

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Dated: May 9, 2014. 

Nadya Chinoy Dabby, 

Assistant Deputy Secretary for Innovation and 

Improvement. 

[FR Doc. 2014–11113 Filed 5–14–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

[OE Docket No. PP–399] 

Application To Rescind Presidential 

Permit; Application for Presidential 

Permit; Montana Alberta Tie Ltd. and 

MATL LLP 

AGENCY: Office of Electricity Delivery 

and Energy Reliability, DOE. 

ACTION: Notice of application. 

SUMMARY: Montana Alberta Tie Ltd. 

(Montana Alberta Tie) and MATL LLP 

(MATL) filed a joint application to 

voluntarily transfer the facilities 

authorized by Presidential Permit No. 

PP–305, as amended, to MATL. The 

application requested that the 

Department of Energy (DOE) rescind the 

Presidential permit held by Montana 

Alberta Tie and simultaneously issue a 

permit to MATL covering the same 

international transmission facilities. 

DATES: Comments or motions to 

intervene must be submitted on or 

before June 13, 2014. 

ADDRESSES: Comments or motions to 

intervene should be addressed as 

follows: Office of Electricity Delivery 

and Energy Reliability (OE–20), U.S. 

Department of Energy, 1000 

Independence Avenue SW., 

Washington, DC 20585. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Christopher Lawrence (Program Office) 

at 202–586–5260, or by email to 

Christopher.Lawrence@hq.doe.gov, or 

Katherine Konieczny (Program 

Attorney) at 202–586–0503. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

construction, operation, maintenance, 

and connection of facilities at the 

international border of the United States 

for the transmission of electric energy 

between the United States and a foreign 

country is prohibited in the absence of 

a Presidential permit issued pursuant to 

Executive Order (EO) 10485, as 

amended by EO 12038. Existing 

Presidential permits are not transferable 

or assignable. However, in the event of 

a proposed voluntary transfer of 

facilities, in accordance with DOE 

regulations at 10 CFR 205.323, the 

existing permit holder and the 

transferee are required to file a joint 

application with DOE that includes a 

statement of reasons for the transfer. 

On April 17, 2014, Montana Alberta 

Tie and MATL jointly filed an 

application with DOE requesting, as an 

alternative to amending the existing 

Presidential permit, rescission of 

Presidential Permit No. PP–305, as 

amended, issued to Montana Alberta Tie 

and a simultaneous issuance of a 

Presidential permit to MATL for the 

same international transmission 

facilities. The international transmission 

facilities authorized by Presidential 

Permit No. PP–305, as amended, 

include one 230 kilovolt (kV) 

transmission line running from Great 

Falls, Montana north to a point at the 

Canadian border near Cut Bank, 

Montana. 

The rescission and reissuance is being 

requested for business reasons so that 

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owned and operated by both Montana 

Alberta Tie and MATL. MATL, which is 

a U.S. entity organized under the laws 

of the state of Montana, will own and 

operate the transmission facilities on the 

U.S. side the border, and Montana 

Alberta Tie, which is a Canadian entity, 

will remain the owner and operator of 

the portion of the facilities in Canada. 

Procedural Matters: Any person may 

comment on this application by filing 

such comment at the address provided 

above. Any person seeking to become a 

party to this proceeding must file a 

motion to intervene at the address 

provided above in accordance with Rule 

214 of FERC’s Rules of Practice and 

Procedure (18 CFR 385.214). Two copies 

of each comment or motion to intervene 

should be filed with DOE on or before 

the date listed above. 

Additional copies of such motions to 

intervene also should be filed directly 

with: Stacy Myers, Senior Legal 

Counsel, Green Power Transmission, 

Enbridge Energy Company, Inc., 1100 

Louisiana St., Suite 2500, Houston, TX 

77002 AND Travis Allen, Senior 

Regulatory Analyst, Green Power 

Transmission, Enbridge Energy 

Company, Inc., 1100 Louisiana St., Suite 

2500, Houston, TX 77002. 

Before a Presidential permit may be 

granted or amended, DOE must 

determine that the proposed action will 

not adversely impact on the reliability 

of the U.S. electric power supply 

system. In addition, DOE must consider 

the environmental impacts of the 

proposed action (i.e., granting the 

Presidential permit or amendment, with 

any conditions and limitations, or 

denying the permit) pursuant to the 

National Environmental Policy Act of 

1969. DOE also must obtain the 

concurrences of the Secretary of State 

and the Secretary of Defense before 

taking final action on a Presidential 

permit application. 

Copies of this application will be 

made available, upon request, for public 

inspection and copying at the address 

provided above. In addition, the 

application may be reviewed or 

downloaded electronically at http://

energy.gov/oe/services/electricitypolicy-coordination-andimplementation/internationalelectricity-regulatio-2. Upon reaching 

the home page, select ‘‘Pending 

Applications.’’ 

Issued in Washington, DC, on May 8, 2014. 

Christopher A. Lawrence, 

Electricity Policy Analyst, Office of Electricity 

Delivery and Energy Reliability. 

[FR Doc. 2014–11107 Filed 5–13–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

[OE Docket No. PP–398] 

Application for Presidential Permit; 

Great Northern Transmission Line 

AGENCY: Office of Electricity Delivery 

and Energy Reliability, DOE. 

ACTION: Notice of application. 

SUMMARY: Minnesota Power, an 

operating division of ALLETE, Inc., has 

applied for a Presidential permit to 

construct, operate, maintain, and 

connect an electric transmission line 

across the United States border with 

Canada. 

DATES: Comments or motions to 

intervene must be submitted on or 

before June 13, 2014. 

ADDRESSES: Comments or motions to 

intervene should be addressed as 

follows: Office of Electricity Delivery 

and Energy Reliability (OE–20), U.S. 

Department of Energy, 1000 

Independence Avenue SW., 

Washington, DC 20585. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Christopher Lawrence (Program Office) 

at 202–586–5260 or via electronic mail 

at Christopher.Lawrence@hq.doe.gov, 

Katherine Konieczny (Program 

Attorney) at 202–586–0503. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

construction, operation, maintenance, 

and connection of facilities at the 

international border of the United States 

for the transmission of electric energy 

between the United States and a foreign 

country is prohibited in the absence of 

a Presidential permit issued pursuant to 

Executive Order (EO) 10485, as 

amended by EO 12038. 

On April 15, 2014, Minnesota Power 

filed an application with the Office of 

Electricity Delivery and Energy 

Reliability of the Department of Energy 

(DOE) for a Presidential permit. 

Minnesota Power has its principal place 

of business in Duluth, Minnesota. 

Minnesota Power is an investor-owned 

utility and provides retail electric 

service to 144,000 customers and 

wholesale electric service to 16 

municipalities and several industrial 

customers. 

Minnesota Power proposes to 

construct and operate the Great 

Northern Transmission Line (GNTL), a 

500 kilovolt (kV) overhead alternating 

current (AC) electric transmission line 

that would originate at the Dorsey 

Substation northwest of Winnipeg, 

Manitoba, Canada, and terminate at the 

existing Blackberry Substation east of 

Grand Rapids, Minnesota. The proposed 

GNTL facilities would be capable of 

transmitting up to 750 megawatts (MW) 

of power. 

The Minnesota portion of the 

proposed Great Northern Transmission 

Line (GNTL) would cross the U.S.- 

Canada border northwest of the town of 

Roseau, Minnesota, and would run 220 

miles before terminating at the 

Blackberry Substation. 

As proposed, GNTL is a high voltage 

alternating current (HVAC) electric 

transmission line with an expected 

power transfer rating of at least 750 

MW. The northern terminal would be at 

the Dorsey Substation located 10 miles 

northwest of Winnipeg, Manitoba, 

Canada. The southern terminal would 

be at the existing Blackberry 230/115 kV 

Substation near Grand Rapids, 

Minnesota. The Blackberry Substation 

would be expanded to include the 500 

kV Substation to accommodate the 500 

kV GNTL, 500/230 kV transformation, 

existing 230 kV lines and all associated 

equipment. 

In its application, Minnesota Power 

identified two routing options, the 

Orange Route and the Blue Route, for 

the GNTL. In addition, Minnesota 

Power also presented several segment 

options. Each route option would run 

for approximately 220 miles within the 

United States. Minnesota Power has 

entered into a 250 MW Power Purchase 

Agreement (PPA) as well as an 

additional 133 MW Renewable 

Optimization Agreement with Manitoba 

Hydro. 

Since the restructuring of the electric 

industry began, resulting in the 

introduction of different types of 

competitive entities into the 

marketplace, DOE has consistently 

expressed its policy that cross-border 

trade in electric energy should be 

subject to the same principles of 

comparable open access and nondiscrimination that apply to 

transmission in interstate commerce. 

DOE has stated that policy in export 

authorizations granted to entities 

requesting authority to export over 

international transmission facilities. 

Specifically, DOE expects transmitting 

utilities owning border facilities to 

provide access across the border in 

accordance with the principles of 

comparable open access and nondiscrimination contained in the Federal 

Power Act and articulated in Federal 

Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) 

Order No. 888 (Promoting Wholesale 

Competition Through Open Access 

Non-Discriminatory Transmission 

Services by Public Utilities; FERC Stats. 

& Regs. ¶31,036 (1996)), as amended. In 

furtherance of this policy, DOE invites 

comments on whether it would be 

appropriate to condition any 


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