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(b) Quality of the project design (30 

points). The Secretary considers the 

quality of the design of the proposed 

project. In determining the quality of the 

design of the proposed project, the 

Secretary considers the extent to which 

the design of the proposed project is 

appropriate to, and will successfully 

address, the needs of the target 

population or other identified needs. 

(c) Quality of the management plan 

(20 points). The Secretary considers the 

quality of the management plan for the 

proposed project. In determining the 

quality of the management plan for the 

proposed project, the Secretary 

considers the adequacy of the 

management plan to achieve the 

objectives of the proposed project on 

time and within budget, including 

clearly defined responsibilities, 

timelines, and milestones for 

accomplishing project tasks. 

(d) Adequacy of resources (15 points). 

The Secretary considers the adequacy of 

resources for the proposed project. In 

determining the adequacy of resources 

for the proposed project, the Secretary 

considers the extent to which the budget 

is adequate to support the proposed 

project. 

(e) Quality of the project evaluation 

(15 points). The Secretary considers the 

quality of the evaluation to be 

conducted of the proposed project. In 

determining the quality of the 

evaluation, the Secretary considers the 

following factors: 

(i) The extent to which the methods 

of evaluation are thorough, feasible, and 

appropriate to the goals, objectives, and 

outcomes of the proposed project. 

(ii) The extent to which the methods 

of evaluation include the use of 

objective performance measures that are 

clearly related to the intended outcomes 

of the project and will produce 

quantitative and qualitative data to the 

extent possible. 

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 Alaska 

Native Education Program seeks to 

support supplemental education 

programs to benefit Alaska Native 

populations. The Department uses the 

following performance targets to 

measure the program’s success: (1) The 

percentage of Alaska Native students 

who meet or exceed proficiency 

standards in mathematics, science, or 

reading; (2) The percentage of Alaska 

Native children who improve on 

measures of school readiness; and (3) 

The dropout rate of Alaska Native 

middle and high school students. 

Each grantee is expected to submit an 

annual performance report documenting 

its contributions in assisting the 

Department in meeting these 

performance measures. 

VII. Agency Contact 

For Further Information Contact: 

Alexis Fisher, U.S. Department of 

Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, SW., 

Room 3W217, Washington, DC 20202–

6200. Telephone: (202) 401–0281 or by 

e-mail: alexis.fisher@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: www.gpoaccess.gov/nara/ 

index.html. 

Dated: January 12, 2007. 

Raymond Simon, 

Deputy Secretary. 

[FR Doc. E7–683 Filed 1–18–07; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

[CFDA 84.060A] 

Indian Education Formula Grants to 

Local Educational Agencies—Notice 

Inviting Applications for Fiscal Year 

(FY) 2007 

AGENCY: Office of Elementary and 

Secondary Education, Department of 

Education. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Purpose of Program: The Indian 

Education Formula Grant to Local 

Educational Agencies program provides 

grants to support local educational 

agencies (LEAs) and other eligible 

entities described in this notice in their 

efforts to reform and improve 

elementary and secondary school 

programs that serve Indian students. 

The Department funds programs 

designed to assist Indian students to 

meet the same challenging State 

academic content and student academic 

achievement standards used for all 

students. In addition, under section 

7116 of the Elementary and Secondary 

Education Act of 1965, as amended 

(ESEA), the Secretary will, upon receipt 

of an acceptable plan for the integration 

of education and related services, 

authorize the entity receiving the funds 

under this program to consolidate, in 

accordance with the entity’s plan, the 

funds for any Federal program 

exclusively serving Indian children, or 

the funds reserved under any Federal 

program to exclusively serve Indian 

children, that are awarded under a 

statutory or administrative formula to 

the entity, for the purposes of providing 

education and related services to Indian 

students. Instructions for submitting an 

integration of education and related 

services plan are included in the webbased EASIE application system 

described elsewhere in this notice under 

Application Process and Submission 

Information. 

Eligible Applicants: LEAs, certain 

schools funded by the Bureau of Indian 


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Affairs, and Indian tribes under certain 

conditions, as prescribed by section 

7112(c) of the ESEA. 

Application Process and Submission 

Information: The application process for 

the Indian Education Formula Grants to 

Local Educational Agencies program has 

changed to the Formula Grant Electronic 

Application System for Indian 

Education (EASIE), an easy-to-use, webbased application system. Formula 

Grant EASIE provides special features 

that will progressively enhance data 

availability and performance reporting 

for applicants, including the use of data 

from State submissions to EDFacts, the 

Department’s data collection system 

containing performance information 

from State educational agencies about 

schools and Federal education 

programs. To the extent that your State 

has provided the necessary EDFacts 

data files, Formula Grant EASIE will be 

able to interface with EDFacts and pull 

that LEA-specific data into the 

application. Additionally, this new 

system allows the Department to review 

applications and interact online with 

applicants during the application 

review and approval process. 

Although you may download and 

print sample forms from the system, the 

application must be submitted 

electronically through the Formula 

Grant EASIE unless you do not have 

Internet access and have made prior 

arrangements with the Department. For 

approval to submit a paper application, 

you must contact the EDFacts Partner 

Support Center (see the contact 

information listed elsewhere in this 

notice under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT) prior to the deadline for 

transmittal of Part I or Part II 

applications. If you are approved to 

submit a paper application, you must 

meet the submission deadlines included 

in this notice. 

Registration for Formula Grant EASIE 

is required. For information on how to 

register, contact the EDFacts Partner 

Support Center listed elsewhere in this 

notice under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT. 

The Formula Grant EASIE application 

is divided into two parts—Part I and 

Part II. 

Part I, Student Count, provides the 

appropriate data entry screens to submit 

your Indian student count totals. 

Part II, Program and Budget 

Information, provides your award 

amount based on the Indian student 

count total submitted under Part I. Part 

II also enables you to enter student 

performance data, identify your 

project’s services and activities, and 

build a realistic program budget based 

on a known grant amount. Based on 

student assessment data, you will select 

your program objectives and services 

from a variety of menu options that 

were designed with grantee input. 

Note: The information to be collected 

under Part II of the application is currently 

under review by the Office of Management 

and Budget. The Department will not request 

applicants to submit information under Part 

II of the application until the collection of 

that information is approved. The deadline 

for transmittal of Part II data or applications, 

along with further information concerning 

Part II, will be announced in a separate 

notice in the Federal Register. 

DATES: Part I of Formula Grant EASIE 

Available: December 12, 2006. 

Deadline for Transmittal of PART I 

Applications: February 20, 2007. 

Applications not meeting the deadline 

for Part I will not be considered for 

funding in the initial allocation of 

awards. Applications or data 

submissions under Part II will be 

accepted only from those eligible 

applicants that meet the Part I deadline. 

If funds become available after the 

initial allocation of funds, applications 

not meeting the deadline may be 

considered for funding if the Secretary 

determines, under section 7118(d) of the 

ESEA, that reallocation of those funds to 

applicants filing after the deadline 

would best assist in advancing the 

purposes of the program. However, the 

amount and length of an individual 

award, if any, may be less than the 

applicant would have received had the 

application been submitted on time. 

Estimated Available Funds: The 

Administration has requested 

$95,331,000 for this program for FY 

2007. The actual level of funding, if any, 

depends on final Congressional action. 

However, we are inviting applications to 

allow enough time to complete the grant 

process if Congress appropriates funds 

for this program. 

Estimated Range of Awards: $3,000–

$2,000,000. 

Estimated Average Size of Awards: 

$80,422. 

Estimated Number of Awards: 1,185. 

Note: The Department is not bound by any 

estimates in this notice and funding levels 

may change based on final appropriations for 

the program. 

Project Period: 12 months. 

Applicable Regulations: The 

Education Department General 

Administrative Regulations (EDGAR) in 

34 CFR Parts 75, 77, 79, 80, 81, 82, 84, 

85, 86, 97, 98, and 99. 

Note: The regulations in 34 CFR part 79 

apply to all applicants except federally 

recognized Indian tribes. 

Performance Measures: The Secretary 

has established the following key 

performance measures for assessing the 

effectiveness of the Indian Education 

Formula Grants to Local Educational 

Agency program: (1) The percentage of 

American Indian and Alaska Native 

students in grades 4 and 8 who are at 

or above the basic level in reading on 

the National Assessment of Educational 

Progress (NAEP); and (2) the percentage 

of American Indian and Alaska Native 

students in grades 4 and 8 who are at 

or above the basic level in mathematics 

on NAEP. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Contact the EDFacts Partner Support 

Center, Telephone: 877–457–3336 (877–

HLP–EDEN) or by e-mail at: 

eden_OIE@ed.gov. 

Individuals who use a 

telecommunications device for the deaf 

(TDD) may call the EDFacts Partner 

Support Center 1–888–403–3336 (888–

403–EDEN). 

Individuals with disabilities may 

obtain a copy of the application package 

or a copy of this document in an 

alternative format (e.g., Braille, large 

print, audiotape, or computer diskette) 

on request by contacting the EDFacts 

Partner Support Center. 

Electronic Access to This Document: 

You may view this document, as well as 

all other Department of Education 

documents 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. 

Program Authority: 20 U.S.C. 7421 et seq. 

Dated: January 16, 2007. 

Ray Simon, 

Deputy Secretary. 

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