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V. Application Review Information 

1. Selection Criteria: The selection 

criteria for this program are from 34 CFR 

part 75.210 and are listed in the 

application package. 

2. Review and Selection Process: We 

remind potential applicants that in 

reviewing applications in any grant 

competition, the Secretary may 

consider, under 34 CFR 75.217(d)(3), the 

past performance of the applicant in 

carrying out a previous award, such as 

the applicant’s use of funds, 

achievement of project objectives, and 

compliance with grant conditions. The 

Secretary may also consider whether the 

applicant failed to submit a timely 

performance report or submitted a 

report of unacceptable quality. 

In addition, in making a competitive 

grant award, the Secretary also requires 

various assurances including those 

applicable to Federal civil rights laws 

that prohibit discrimination in programs 

or activities receiving Federal financial 

assistance from the Department of 

Education (34 CFR 100.4, 104.5, 106.4, 

108.8, and 110.23). 

3. Special Conditions: Under 2 CFR 

3474.10, the Secretary may impose 

special conditions and, in appropriate 

circumstances, high-risk conditions on a 

grant if the applicant or grantee is not 

financially stable; has a history of 

unsatisfactory performance; has a 

financial or other management system 

that does not meet the standards in 2 

CFR part 200, subpart D; has not 

fulfilled the conditions of a prior grant; 

or is otherwise not responsible. 

VI. Award Administration Information 

1. Award Notices: If your consortium 

application is successful, we notify your 

U.S. Representative and U.S. Senators 

and send you a Grant Award 

Notification (GAN); or we may send you 

an email containing a link to access an 

electronic version of your GAN. We may 

also notify you informally. 

If an 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: Grant recipients under 

this program must submit the annual 

and final performance and financial 

reports specified in the notice of final 

requirements for this grant program 

published in the Federal Register on 

March 3, 2004 (69 FR 10110). 

4. Performance Measures: Consortium 

grantees are required to report on their 

project’s effectiveness based on the 

project objectives, performance 

measures, and scheduled activities 

outlined in the consortium’s 

application. 

In addition, all grantees are required, 

under 34 CFR 80.40(b), to report on the 

Government Performance and Results 

Act (GPRA) indicators as part of their 

Consolidated State Performance Report. 

The GPRA indicators established by the 

Department for the MEP, of which the 

Consortium Incentive Grants are a 

component, are: 

a. The percentage of MEP students 

that scored at or above proficient on 

their State’s annual Reading/Language 

Arts assessments in grades 3–8. 

b. The percentage of MEP students 

that scored at or above proficient on 

their State’s annual Mathematics 

assessments in grades 3–8. 

c. The percentage of MEP students 

who were enrolled in grades 7–12, and 

graduated or were promoted to the next 

grade level. 

d. The percentage of MEP students 

who entered 11th grade that had 

received full credit for Algebra I. 

VII. Agency Contacts 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Rachel Crawford, U.S. Department of 

Education, 400 Maryland Avenue SW., 

Room 3E319, LBJ, Washington, DC 

20202–6135. Telephone: (202)260–2590, 

or by email: Rachel.Crawford@ed.gov. 

If you use a TDD or a TTY, call the 

FRS, toll free, at 1–800–877–8339. 

VIII. Other Information 

Accessible Format: Individuals with 

disabilities may obtain this document 

and a copy of the application package in 

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

print, audiotape, or compact disc) on 

request to the program contact person 

listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT in section VII of this notice. 

Electronic Access to This Document: 

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 via the Federal Digital System 

at: www.gpo.gov/fdsys. At this site you 

can view this document, as well as all 

other documents of this Department 

published in the Federal Register, in 

text or Adobe Portable Document 

Format (PDF). To use PDF you must 

have Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is 

available free at the site. 

You may also access documents of the 

Department published in the Federal 

Register by using the article search 

feature at: www.federalregister.gov. 

Specifically, through the advanced 

search feature at this site, you can limit 

your search to documents published by 

the Department. 

Dated: February 2, 2015. 

Deborah Delisle, 

Assistant Secretary for Elementary and 

Secondary Education. 

[FR Doc. 2015–02350 Filed 2–4–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

National Energy Technology 

Laboratory; Notice of Intent To Grant 

Partially Exclusive License 

AGENCY: National Energy Technology 

Laboratory, Department of Energy. 

ACTION: Notice of intent to grant 

partially exclusive license. 

SUMMARY: This notice is issued in 

accordance with 35 U.S.C. 209(c)(1) and 

37 CFR 404.7(a)(1)(i). The National 

Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) 

hereby gives notice of its intent to grant 

a partially exclusive license to practice 

the invention described and claimed in 

U.S. Patent Number 8,111,059, titled 

‘‘Electric Current Locator’’ to KW 

Associates, LLC., a small business 

having its principal place of business in 

Albany, Oregon. The patent is owned by 

United States of America, as represented 

by the Department of Energy. The 

prospective partially exclusive license 

complies with the requirements of 35 

U.S.C. 209 and 37 CFR 404.7. 

DATES: Written comments, objections, or 

nonexclusive license applications must 

be received at the address listed below 

no later than February 20, 2015. 

Objections submitted in response to this 

notice will not be made available to the 

public for inspection and, to the extent 

permitted by law, will not be released 

under the Freedom of Information Act, 

5 U.S.C. 552. 

ADDRESSES: Comments, applications for 

nonexclusive licenses, or objections 

relating to the prospective exclusive 

license should be submitted to Jessica 

Sosenko, Technology Transfer Program 

Manager, U.S. Department of Energy, 

National Energy Technology Laboratory, 

P.O. Box 10940, Pittsburgh, PA 15236– 

0940, or via facsimile to (412) 386–5920. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Jessica Sosenko, Technology Transfer 

Program Manager, U.S. Department of 


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Energy, National Energy Technology 

Laboratory, P.O. Box 10940, Pittsburgh, 

PA 15236; Telephone (412) 386–7417; 

Email: jessica.sosenko@netl.doe.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 

209(c) of title 35 of the United States 

Code gives the U.S. Department of 

Energy (DOE) the authority to grant 

exclusive or partially exclusive licenses 

in Department-owned inventions where 

a determination can be made, among 

other things, that the desired practical 

application of the invention has not 

been achieved, or is not likely to be 

achieved expeditiously, under a 

nonexclusive license. The statute and 

implementing regulations (37 CFR 404) 

require that the necessary 

determinations be made after public 

notice and opportunity for filing written 

comments and objections. 

KW Associations, LLC, a small 

business, has applied for a partially 

exclusive license to practice the 

invention and has a plan for 

commercialization of the invention. 

DOE intends to grant the license, upon 

a final determination in accordance 

with 35 U.S.C. 209(c), unless within 15 

days of publication of this notice, 

NETL’s Technology Transfer Manager 

(contact information listed above), 

receives in writing any of the following, 

together with supporting documents: 

(i) A statement from any person 

setting forth reasons why it would not 

be in the best interest of the United 

States to grant the proposed license; or 

(ii) An application for a nonexclusive 

license to the invention, in which 

applicant states that it already has 

brought the invention to practical 

application or is likely to bring the 

invention to practical application 

expeditiously. 

The proposed license will be partially 

exclusive, subject to a license and other 

rights retained by the United States, and 

subject to a negotiated royalty. The 

exclusive field of use is: Industrial 

processes exhibiting diffuse current 

paths, such as specialty steel and alloy 

processing, industrial microwave 

processing, solid state energy systems, 

and other high temperature industrial 

processes. DOE will review all timely 

written responses to this notice, and 

will grant the license if, after expiration 

of the 15-day notice period, and after 

consideration of any written responses 

to this notice, a determination is made 

in accordance with 35 U.S.C. 209(c) that 

the license is in the public interest. 

Issued: January 20, 2015. 

Grace M. Bochenek, 

Director, National Energy Technology 

Laboratory. 

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Quadrennial Technology Review 

Workshop 

AGENCY: Office of the Under Secretary 

for Science and Energy, Quadrennial 

Technology Review Task Force, 

Department of Energy. 

ACTION: Notice of open meeting and 

request for public comment. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Energy 

(DOE) is conducting a comprehensive 

assessment of science and energy 

technology research, development, 

demonstration, and deployment (RD3) 

opportunities to address our nation’s 

energy-linked economic, environmental, 

and security challenges. This 

comprehensive document—the 2015 

edition of the DOE’s Quadrennial 

Technology Review, or QTR–2015—is 

examining an ‘‘all of the above’’ range 

of energy technologies to inform the 

configuration of the Department’s 

programs and priorities, industry and 

university engagement, and national lab 

activities, and will serve as a key input 

into the Department’s forthcoming 

Science and Energy Plan. 

DATES: A series of open meetings will be 

held between February 11 and March 4 

to describe work in progress. Written 

comments should be submitted on or 

before March 9, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: The meetings will be held 

via webinar and conference call. The 

schedule and the web links will be 

provided at http://www.energy.gov/qtr 

by February 10. 

Comments may be submitted 

electronically to: DOE–QTR2015@

hq.doe.gov or by U.S. mail to the Office 

of the Under Secretary of Science and 

Energy, S–4, QTR Meeting Comments, 

U.S. Department of Energy, 1000 

Independence Avenue SW., 

Washington, DC 20585–0121. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. 

Sam Baldwin, S–4, U.S. Department of 

Energy, Office of the Under Secretary for 

Science and Energy, 1000 Independence 

Avenue SW., Washington, DC 20585– 

0121. Telephone: (202) 586–0927. 

Email: DOE–QTR2015@hq.doe.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

nation faces serious energy-linked 

economic, environmental, and security 

challenges. Addressing these challenges 

requires an aggressive plan for our 

science and energy enterprise while 

ensuring that America maintains its 

leadership in a broad range of science 

and technology activities. These 

activities include basic and applied 

research in the physical sciences, 

developing the next generation of 

computational technology and 

developing and maintaining world class 

scientific user facilities. The output of 

the QTR process will be coordinated 

with the Quadrennial Energy Review 

(QER). These planning products will 

build and extend existing strategic, 

program and budget planning activities 

within the Science and Energy offices 

and are expected to inform ongoing 

budget discussions. 

The QTR 2015, focusing on DOE 

energy technology RDD&D activities, 

builds upon the first QTR in 2011, and 

complements the work of the QER, 

which focuses on government-wide 

energy policy. The 2011 QTR was 

developed in response to the Report to 

the President on ‘‘Accelerating the Pace 

of Change in Energy Technologies 

through an Integrated Federal Energy 

Policy’’ by the President’s Council of 

Advisors on Science and Technology. 

The first QTR defined a framework for 

understanding and discussing energy 

system challenges, established a set of 

priorities for the Department, and 

explained to stakeholders the roles of 

DOE and the national laboratories, the 

broader government, the private sector, 

academia, and innovation in energy 

transformation. 

QTR 2015 will describe the nation’s 

energy landscape and the dramatic 

changes that have taken place in the last 

four years. Specifically, it will begin by 

building on the first QTR and 

identifying what has changed in the 

technologies reviewed within it since 

2011. It will then identify the RDD&D 

activities, opportunities, and pathways 

forward to help address our national 

energy challenges. QTR 2015 will 

approach the analysis from a strong 

systems perspective, it will explore the 

integration of science and energy 

technology RDD&D, it will examine 

cross-cutting technology RDD&D, and it 

will conduct an integrated analysis of 

RDD&D opportunities. 

The Department of Energy has the 

largest role in the Federal Government 

in conducting energy RDD&D. Many 

other executive departments and 

agencies also play important roles in 

developing and implementing energy 

RDD&D. In addition, non-Federal actors 

are crucial contributors to energy 

RDD&D. 

Purpose of the Meeting: The purpose 

of these meetings is to provide input to 


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