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on request to the program contact 

person listed in this section. 

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Dated: March 7, 2007. 

Raymond Simon, 

Deputy Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 07–1149 Filed 3–9–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

Office of Special Education and 

Rehabilitative Services; Overview 

Information; Rehabilitation Short-Term 

Training Program—National 

Rehabilitation Leadership Institute; 

Notice Inviting Applications for New 

Awards for Fiscal Year (FY) 2007 

Catalog of Federal Domestic 

Assistance (CFDA) Number: 84.246D. 

Dates: Applications Available: March 

12, 2007. 

Deadline for Transmittal of 

Applications: April 11, 2007. 

Deadline for Intergovernmental 

Review: June 11, 2007. 

Eligible Applicants: States and public 

and nonprofit agencies and 

organizations, including Indian tribes 

and institutions of higher education. 

Estimated Available Funds: $250,000. 

Maximum Award: We will reject any 

application that proposes a budget 

exceeding $250,000 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. 

Estimated Range of Awards: 

$225,000–$250,000. 

Estimated 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 Short-Term 

Training program supports special 

seminars, institutes, workshops, and 

other short-term courses in technical 

matters relating to the vocational, 

medical, social, and psychological 

rehabilitation programs, independent 

living services programs, and client 

assistance programs. 

Priority: This priority is from the 

notice of final priority for this program, 

published in the Federal Register on 

November 7, 2001 (66 FR 56422). This 

priority is designed to improve the 

leadership among top-level managers 

and administrators of the State 

Vocational Rehabilitation Services 

Program. This priority supports a 

National Rehabilitation Leadership 

Institute that will address the leadership 

needs in all VR agencies funded under 

the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as 

amended (Act), and programs funded 

under section 121 of the Act. 

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 Rehabilitation Leadership 

Institute 

We will fund one project to establish 

a National Rehabilitation Leadership 

Institute that will focus on developing 

the leadership skills of top-level 

managers and administrators in State 

VR agencies. The project must have 

plans for addressing the leadership 

needs in all VR agencies funded under 

the Act and programs funded under 

section 121 of the Act. 

The project must employ a 

curriculum that focuses on the 

development of leadership skills and on 

the application of those skills to current 

challenges and issues in the VR 

program. The project must be capable of 

structuring leadership curricula around 

current VR issues of national 

significance, such as using VR 

evaluation standards and performance 

indicators to assess and improve agency 

performance, coordinating effectively 

with generic employment and training 

programs, and increasing client choice. 

The advisory committee (described later 

in this notice) and the Assistant 

Secretary will determine actual issues. 

The project must employ a 

curriculum that includes several levels 

of training to meet the needs of 

audiences ranging from new State 

administrators and directors to seasoned 

administrators and directors. The 

project’s curriculum must include 

sequential courses that allow for 

repeated practice of newly learned skills 

over time, with performance feedback. 

The project must provide training in a 

peer setting. 

The project must coordinate its 

training activities with activities 

conducted under the State Vocational 

Rehabilitation Unit In-Service Training 

program, the Rehabilitation Continuing 

Education Program, and the National 

Technical Assistance Centers funded by 

the Rehabilitation Services 

Administration (RSA). These programs 

are also charged with improving the 

leadership skills of State agency 

personnel. Therefore, collaboration and 

coordination are necessary. 

The project must establish an 

advisory committee that includes RSA 

central and regional office 

representatives, representatives of State 

VR agency administrators and trainers, 

rehabilitation counselors, VR clients, 

Regional Continuing Education Centers, 

other educators and trainers of VR 

personnel, tribes and tribal agencies, 

and others as determined to be 

appropriate by the grantee and RSA. 

This committee must provide 

substantial input on and direction to the 

training curriculum, including the 

specific VR issues to be incorporated. 

The project must include an 

evaluation component based upon clear, 

specific performance and outcome 

measures. The results must be reported 

in its annual progress report. 

The project must be designed to 

ensure that State agencies will 

contribute to the costs of the 

participant’s training. 

Note: Examples of current challenges and 

issues in the VR program include the new 

approach to monitoring, and how State 

agency leaders should plan to use the system 

and the information it yields for program 

improvement. 

Note: There are no longer RSA regional 

offices. References to regional offices in the 

program priority should be interpreted to 

apply to the RSA central office. 

Program Authority: 29 U.S.C. 

709(a)(2) and 772. 

Applicable Regulations: (a) The 

Education Department General 

Administrative Regulations (EDGAR) in 

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

84, 85, and 86. (b) The regulations in 34 

CFR parts 385 and 390. (c) The notice 

of final priority for this program 

published in the Federal Register on 

November 7, 2001 (66 FR 56422). 

Note: The regulations in 34 CFR part 79 

apply to all applicants except federally 

recognized Indian tribes. 

Note: The regulations in 34 CFR part 86 

apply to institutions of higher education 

only. 

II. Award Information 

Type of Award: Cooperative 

agreement. 

Estimated Available Funds: $250,000. 


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Maximum Award: We will reject any 

application that proposes a budget 

exceeding $250,000 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. 

Estimated Range of Awards: 

$225,000–$250,000. 

Estimated 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: States and 

public and nonprofit agencies and 

organizations, including Indian tribes 

and institutions of higher education. 

2. Cost Sharing or Matching: The 

Secretary has determined that a grantee 

must provide a match of at least 10 

percent of the total cost of the project 

(34 CFR 390.40). 

Note: Under 34 CFR 75.562(c), an indirect 

cost reimbursement on a training grant is 

limited to the recipient’s actual indirect 

costs, as determined by its negotiated 

indirect cost rate agreement, or eight percent 

of a modified total direct cost base, 

whichever amount is less. Indirect costs in 

excess of the eight percent limit may not be 

charged directly, used to satisfy matching or 

cost-sharing requirements, or charged to 

another Federal award. 

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 

84.246D. 

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, U.S. 

Department of Education, 400 Maryland 

Avenue, SW., room 5075, Potomac 

Center Plaza, Washington, DC 20202–

2550. Telephone: (202) 245–7363. If you 

use a telecommunications device for the 

deaf (TDD), you may call the Federal 

Relay Service (FRS) at 1–800–877–8339. 

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. 

3. Submission Dates and Times: 

Applications Available: March 12, 

2007. 

Deadline for Transmittal of 

Applications: April 11, 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. 

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 11, 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: 

Applications for grants under this 

competition 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 

Rehabilitation Short-Term Training—

National Rehabilitation Leadership 

Institute, CFDA Number 84.246D must 

be submitted electronically using 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. 

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 

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 Rehabilitation ShortTerm Training Program—National 

Rehabilitation Leadership Institute 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 84.246, not 84.246D). 

Please note the following: 

• 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 

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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 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 

you typically provide 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 for 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 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. 

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. 

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 

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: Christine Marschall, U.S. 

Department of Education, 400 Maryland 

Avenue, SW., room 5053, Potomac 

Center Plaza, Washington, DC 20202–

2800. Fax: (202) 245–6824. 

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 84.246D), 

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 

84.246D), 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. 


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(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 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 84.246D), 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 

Selection Criteria: In reviewing 

applications under this competition, the 

Secretary will use selection criteria 

selected from 34 CFR 75.210 of EDGAR. 

These are listed in the application 

package for this competition. The 

Secretary also will use the selection 

criterion in 34 CFR 390.30 to evaluate 

applications under this competition. 

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: The 

Government Performance and Results 

Act of 1993 (GPRA) directs Federal 

departments and agencies to improve 

the effectiveness of their programs by 

engaging in strategic planning, setting 

outcome-related goals for programs, and 

measuring program results against those 

goals. The absolute priority for this 

competition requires the applicant to 

include in its application an evaluation 

component based upon clear, specific 

performance and outcome measures. 

The results of its evaluation must be 

reported in its required annual progress 

report. The cooperative agreement for 

this project will further describe the 

reporting requirements. In addition, the 

annual report must include information 

on the percentage of training 

participants who report an increase in 

their knowledge, skills, and abilities and 

the percentage of training participants 

who report the training is relevant to 

their employment. The data on these 

measures will be collected by the 

grantee via survey, assessed, and 

reported in the aggregate to RSA. The 

grantee will negotiate targets with RSA 

after the first year, which will be used 

to establish a baseline. 

VII. Agency Contact 

For Further Information Contact: 

Christine Marschall, U.S. Department of 

Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, SW., 

room 5053, Potomac Center Plaza, 

Washington, DC 20202–2800. 

Telephone: (202) 245–7429 or by e-mail: 

Christine.Marschall@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: March 7, 2007. 

John H. Hager, 

Assistant Secretary for Special Education and 

Rehabilitative Services. 

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BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

National Advisory Committee on 

Institutional Quality and Integrity 

(National Advisory Committee); 

Meeting 

AGENCY: National Advisory Committee 

on Institutional Quality and Integrity, 

Department of Education. 

What Is the Purpose of This Notice? 

The purpose of this notice is to 

announce the public meeting of the 

National Advisory Committee and invite 

third-party oral presentations (3–5 

minutes) before the Committee. In all 

instances, your comments about 

agencies seeking initial recognition, 

continued recognition and/or an 

expansion of an agency’s scope of 

recognition must relate to the Criteria 


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