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(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 84.362A), 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. 

(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: The selection 

criteria for this competition are from 34 

CFR 75.210 of EDGAR and are listed 

below and in the application package. 

The maximum possible score for this 

competition is 105 points (100 points 

under the selection criteria and 5 points 

under the competitive preference). The 

maximum possible points for each 

criterion are as follows: 

a. Significance and Need for Project 

(10 points). 

b. Quality of the Project Design and 

Services (40 points). 

c. Quality of Project Personnel (10 

points). 

d. Quality of the Management Plan 

(20 points). 

e. Quality of the Project Evaluation 

(20 points). 

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. For 

specific requirements on grantee 

reporting, please go to the ED 

Performance Report Form 524B at 

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

appforms/appforms.html. 

4. Performance Measures: Under the 

Government Performance and Results 

Act (GPRA), the Department has 

developed three measures for evaluating 

the overall effectiveness of the Native 

Hawaiian Education Program—(1) 

Increasing the percentage of teachers 

who participate in professional 

development activities under the 

program that address the unique 

educational needs of program 

participants; (2) Increasing the 

percentage of Native Hawaiian children 

who participate in early education 

programs and improve on measures of 

school readiness and literacy; and (3) 

Increasing the percentage of students 

participating in the program who will 

meet or exceed proficiency standards in 

mathematics, science, or reading. 

All grantees will be expected to 

submit an annual performance report 

addressing these performance measures, 

to the extent that they apply to the 

grantee’s project. 

VII. Agency Contacts 

For Further Information Contact: 

Francisco Ramirez, U.S. Department of 

Education, 400 Maryland Ave., SW., 

room 3W237, Washington, DC 20202–

6200. Telephone: (202) 260–1541 or by 

e-mail: francisco.ramirez@ed.gov or 

Beth Fine, U.S. Department of 

Education, 400 Maryland Ave., SW., 

room 3W223, Washington, DC 20202–

6200. Telephone: (202) 260–1091 or by 

e-mail: beth.fine@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 persons 

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: gpoaccess.gov/nara/index.html. 

Dated: March 20, 2007. 

Kerri L. Briggs, 

Acting Assistant Secretary for Elementary and 

Secondary Education. 

[FR Doc. E7–5374 Filed 3–22–07; 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; Notice Inviting 

Applications for New Awards for Fiscal 

Year (FY) 2007 

Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance 

(CFDA) Number: 84.128G. 

Dates: 

Applications Available: March 23, 

2007. 

Deadline for Transmittal of 

Applications: May 7, 2007. 

Deadline for Intergovernmental 

Review: July 6, 2007. 


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Eligible Applicants: State designated 

agencies (interpreted to mean 

designated State agencies as defined in 

section 7(8) of the Rehabilitation Act of 

1973, as amended); nonprofit agencies 

working in collaboration with a State 

designated agency; and local agencies 

working in collaboration with a State 

designated agency. 

Estimated Available Funds: $851,200. 

Contingent upon the availability of 

funds and the quality of applications, 

the Secretary may make additional 

awards in FY 2008 from the list of 

unfunded applicants from this 

competition. 

Estimated Range of Awards: 

$170,000–$220,000. 

Estimated Average Size of Awards: 

$212,800. 

Estimated Number of Awards: 4. 

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 purpose of 

this program is to provide grants for 

vocational rehabilitation services to 

individuals with disabilities who are 

migrant and seasonal farmworkers, 

(individuals who have been determined 

in accordance with rules prescribed by 

the Secretary of Labor), and to the 

family members who are residing with 

those individuals (whether or not those 

family members are individuals with 

disabilities). 

Priority: In accordance with 34 CFR 

75.105(b)(2)(ii), this priority is from the 

Education Department General 

Administrative Regulations (34 CFR 

75.225). 

Competitive Preference Priority: For 

FY 2007 and any subsequent year in 

which we make awards based on the list 

of unfunded applications from this 

competition, this priority is a 

competitive preference priority. Under 

34 CFR 75.105(c)(2)(i) we will award 

five additional points to an application, 

depending on the extent to which the 

application meets this priority. 

This priority is: 

Novice Applicant 

The applicant must be a novice 

applicant. Novice applicant means any 

applicant for a grant from the 

Department that: 

1. Has never received a grant or 

subgrant under the Migrant and 

Seasonal Farmworkers program; 

2. Has never been a member of a 

group application, submitted in 

accordance with §§ 75.127–75.129, that 

received a grant under the Migrant and 

Seasonal Farmworkers program; and 

3. Has not had an active discretionary 

grant from the Federal Government in 

the five years before the deadline date 

for applications under the Migrant and 

Seasonal Farmworkers program. 

Program Authority: 29 U.S.C. 774. 

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 part 369. 

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: Discretionary grants. 

Estimated Available Funds: $851,200. 

Contingent upon the availability of 

funds and the quality of applications, 

the Secretary may make additional 

awards in FY 2008 from the list of 

unfunded applicants from this 

competition. 

Estimated Range of Awards: 

$170,000–$220,000. 

Estimated Average Size of Awards: 

$212,800. 

Estimated Number of Awards: 4. 

Note: The Department is not bound by any 

estimates in this notice. 

Project Period: Up to 60 months. 

III. Eligibility Information 

1. Eligible Applicants: State 

designated agencies (interpreted to 

mean designated State agencies as 

defined in section 7(8) of the 

Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended); 

nonprofit agencies working in 

collaboration with a State designated 

agency; and local agencies working in 

collaboration with a State designated 

agency. 

2. Cost Sharing or Matching: Cost 

sharing of at least 10 percent of the total 

cost of the project is required of grantees 

under the Migrant and Seasonal 

Farmworkers Program. See 29 U.S.C. 

774(a)(1). 

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 

84.128G. 

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 

program. 

3. Submission Dates and Times: 

Applications Available: March 23, 

2007. 

Deadline for Transmittal of 

Applications: May 7, 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: July 6, 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 


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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 

Migrant and Seasonal Farmworkers 

Program-CFDA Number 84.128G 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 Migrant and 

Seasonal Farmworkers Program 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 84.128, not 84.128G). 

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 application 

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 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 

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

necessary assurances and certifications. 

Please note that two of these forms—the 

SF 424 and the Department of Education 

Supplemental Information form SF 

424—have replaced the ED 424 

(Application for Federal Education 

Assistance). 

• You must attach any narrative 

sections of your application as files in 

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

.PDF (Portable Document) format. If you 

upload a file type other than the three 

file types specified in this paragraph or 

submit a password protected file, we 

will not review that material. 

• Your electronic application must 

comply with any page limit 

requirements described in this notice. 

• After you electronically submit 

your application, you will receive from 

Grants.gov an automatic notification of 

receipt that contains a Grants.gov 

tracking number. (This notification 

indicates receipt by Grants.gov only, not 

receipt by the Department.) The 

Department 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 as 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 


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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: Sonja T. Turner, U.S. 

Department of Education, 400 Maryland 

Avenue, SW., room 5019, Potomac 

Center Plaza, Washington, DC 20202–

2740. FAX: (202) 245–7593. 

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 84.128G), 

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 

84.128G), 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 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 84.128G), 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: The selection 

criteria for this competition are from 34 

CFR 75.210 and are listed in the 

application package. 

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. Program officials must develop 

performance measures for all their grant 

programs to assess their performance 

and effectiveness. The Rehabilitation 

Services Administration (RSA) has 

established the following performance 

measure for the Migrant and Seasonal 

Farmworkers Program and will use this 

measure to assess the effectiveness of 

the program. 

• Percentage of individuals served 

who were placed in employment. 


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Each grantee must annually report on 

this measure in its annual performance 

report. In addition, the Migrant and 

Seasonal Farmworkers Program is part 

of the Administration’s job training and 

employment common measures 

initiative. The common measures for job 

training and employment programs 

targeting adults are: entered 

employment (percentage employed in 

the first quarter after program exit); 

retention in employment (percentage of 

those employed in the first quarter after 

exit that were still employed in the 

second and third quarter after program 

exit); earnings increase (percentage 

change in earnings pre-registration to 

post-program and first quarter after exit 

to third quarter after exit); and 

efficiency (annual cost per participant). 

The Department is currently working 

toward the implementation of these 

common measures. Each grantee will be 

required to collect and report data for 

the common measures when they are 

implemented. 

In addition, the Department will 

modify the annual performance 

reporting form that grantees use for 

progress reporting to ensure that 

grantees separately report information 

for individuals served exclusively by 

their project. Grantees will report—(1) 

The number of individuals served 

exclusively by the project who achieved 

successful employment outcomes; (2) 

the number of individuals served by the 

project who did not achieve 

employment outcomes; and (3) the 

number of individuals served by both 

the State designated agency and the 

project. We anticipate that this modified 

performance reporting form will be 

published for public comment in March 

2007. 

VII. Agency Contact 

For Further Information Contact: 

Sonja T. Turner, U.S. Department of 

Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, SW., 

room 5019, Potomac Center Plaza, 

Washington, DC 20202–2649. 

Telephone: (202) 245–7557 or by e-mail: 

Sonja.Turner@ed.gov. 

If you use a telecommunications 

device for the deaf (TDD), you may call 

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Dated: March 20, 2007. 

John H. Hager, 

Assistant Secretary for Special Education and 

Rehabilitative Services. 

[FR Doc. E7–5370 Filed 3–22–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

Office of Special Education and 

Rehabilitative Services; Overview 

Information; Recreational Programs; 

Notice Inviting Applications for New 

Awards for Fiscal Year (FY) 2007 

Catalog of Federal Domestic 

Assistance (CFDA) Number: 84.128J. 

Dates: 

Applications Available: March 23, 

2007. 

Deadline for Transmittal of 

Applications: May 22, 2007. 

Deadline for Intergovernmental 

Review: July 23, 2007. 

Eligible Applicants: States, public 

agencies, and nonprofit private 

organizations. 

Estimated Available Funds: 

$1,078,665. 

Contingent upon the availability of 

funds and the quality of applications, 

the Secretary may make additional 

awards in FY 2008 from the list of 

unfunded applicants from this 

competition. 

Estimated Range of Awards: 

$130,000–$140,000. 

Estimated Average Size of Awards: 

$130,000. 

Estimated Number of Awards: 8. 

Note: The Department is not bound by any 

estimates in this notice. 

Project Period: Up to 36 months. 

Full Text of Announcement 

I. Funding Opportunity Description 

Purpose of Program: The purpose of 

the Recreational Programs is to provide 

individuals with disabilities with 

recreational activities and related 

experiences to aid in their employment, 

mobility, socialization, independence, 

and community integration. 

Recreational Programs initiate local 

recreation projects that will continue 

after Federal assistance ends. 

Statutory Requirements for Program 

All applicants seeking funding under 

this competition must—

(a) Describe the manner in which the 

applicant will address the needs of 

individuals with disabilities from 

minority backgrounds (section 21(c) of 

the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as 

amended (the Act)); 

(b) Describe the manner in which the 

findings and results of the project to be 

funded under the grant, particularly 

information that facilitates the 

replication of the results of that project, 

will be made generally available 

(section 305(a)(4)(A) of the Act); 

(c) Demonstrate ways in which 

recreational activities assist in 

maximizing the independence and 

integration of individuals with 

disabilities into community-based 

recreational programs (section 

305(a)(1)(C) of the Act); 

(d) Assure that the project will 

maintain, at a minimum, the same level 

of services over the three-year project 

period (section 305(a)(5) of the Act); 

(e) Assure that the service program 

funded under the grant will be 

continued after Federal assistance ends 

(section 305(a)(4)(B) of the Act); and 

(f) Provide non-Federal resources (in 

cash or in-kind) to pay the non-Federal 

share cost of the project in year two at 

25 percent of the year one Federal grant 

and in year three at 50 percent of the 

year one Federal grant (section 

305(a)(3)(B) of the Act). 

Priorities: This competition includes 

one absolute priority and one 

competitive preference priority. In 

accordance with 34 CFR 75.105(b)(1), 

the absolute priority is from the notice 

of final priority for this program, 

published in the Federal Register on 

April 19, 2001 (66 FR 20176). The 

competitive preference priority is from 

section 75.225 of the Education 

Department General Administrative 

Regulations (EDGAR). 

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: 

Projects must provide recreational 

services to individuals with disabilities. 

Recreational services include, but are 

not limited to, vocational skills 

development, leisure education, leisure 


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