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DATES: Interested persons are invited to 

submit comments on or before June 14, 

2007. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments should 

be addressed to the Office of 

Information and Regulatory Affairs, 

Attention: Education Desk Officer, 

Office of Management and Budget, 725 

17th Street, NW., Room 10222, 

Washington, DC 20503. Commenters are 

encouraged to submit responses 

electronically by e-mail to 

oira_submission@omb.eop.gov or via fax 

to (202) 395–6974. Commenters should 

include the following subject line in 

their response ‘‘Comment: [insert OMB 

number], [insert abbreviated collection 

name, e.g., ‘‘Upward Bound 

Evaluation’’]. Persons submitting 

comments electronically should not 

submit paper copies. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 

3506 of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 

1995 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35) requires 

that the Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB) provide interested 

Federal agencies and the public an early 

opportunity to comment on information 

collection requests. OMB may amend or 

waive the requirement for public 

consultation to the extent that public 

participation in the approval process 

would defeat the purpose of the 

information collection, violate State or 

Federal law, or substantially interfere 

with any agency’s ability to perform its 

statutory obligations. The IC Clearance 

Official, Regulatory Information 

Management Services, Office of 

Management, publishes that notice 

containing proposed information 

collection requests prior to submission 

of these requests to OMB. Each 

proposed information collection, 

grouped by office, contains the 

following: (1) Type of review requested, 

e.g., new, revision, extension, existing 

or reinstatement; (2) Title; (3) Summary 

of the collection; (4) Description of the 

need for, and proposed use of, the 

information; (5) Respondents and 

frequency of collection; and (6) 

Reporting and/or Recordkeeping 

burden. OMB invites public comment. 

Dated: May 9, 2007. 

Angela C. Arrington, 

IC Clearance Official, Regulatory Information 

Management Services, Office of Management. 

Office of Postsecondary Education 

Type of Review: New Collection. 

Title: Application for Fulbright-Hays 

Group Projects Abroad Program. 

Frequency: Annually. 

Affected Public: Not-for-profit 

institutions. 

Reporting and Recordkeeping Hour 

Burden: 

Responses: 100. 

Burden Hours: 10,000. 

Abstract: The Fulbright-Hays Group 

Projects Abroad program provides 

grants for overseas projects in training, 

research and curriculum development 

in modern foreign languages and area 

studies for groups of teachers, students 

and faculty. 

This information collection is being 

submitted under the Streamlined 

Clearance Process for Discretionary 

Grant Information Collections (1890–

0001). Therefore, the 30-day public 

comment period notice will be the only 

public comment notice published for 

this information collection. 

Requests for copies of the information 

collection submission for OMB review 

may be accessed from http:// 

edicsweb.ed.gov, by selecting the 

‘‘Browse Pending Collections’’ link and 

by clicking on link number 3333. When 

you access the information collection, 

click on ‘‘Download Attachments’’ to 

view. Written requests for information 

should be addressed to U.S. Department 

of Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, 

SW., Potomac Center, 9th Floor, 

Washington, DC 20202–4700. Requests 

may also be electronically mailed to 

ICDocketMgr@ed.gov or faxed to 202–

245–6623. Please specify the complete 

title of the information collection when 

making your request. 

Comments regarding burden and/or 

the collection activity requirements 

should be electronically mailed to 

ICDocketMgr@ed.gov. Individuals who 

use a telecommunications device for the 

deaf (TDD) may call the Federal 

Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 

1–800–877–8339. 

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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request 

AGENCY: Department of Education. 

SUMMARY: The IC Clearance Official, 

Regulatory Information Management 

Services, Office of Management invites 

comments on the submission for OMB 

review as required by the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995. 

DATES: Interested persons are invited to 

submit comments on or before June 14, 

2007. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments should 

be addressed to the Office of 

Information and Regulatory Affairs, 

Attention: Education Desk Officer, 

Office of Management and Budget, 725 

17th Street, NW., Room 10222, 

Washington, DC 20503. Commenters are 

encouraged to submit responses 

electronically by e-mail to 

oira_submission@omb.eop.gov or via fax 

to (202) 395–6974. Commenters should 

include the following subject line in 

their response ‘‘Comment: [insert OMB 

number], [insert abbreviated collection 

name, e.g., ‘‘Upward Bound 

Evaluation’’]. Persons submitting 

comments electronically should not 

submit paper copies. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 

3506 of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 

1995 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35) requires 

that the Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB) provide interested 

Federal agencies and the public an early 

opportunity to comment on information 

collection requests. OMB may amend or 

waive the requirement for public 

consultation to the extent that public 

participation in the approval process 

would defeat the purpose of the 

information collection, violate State or 

Federal law, or substantially interfere 

with any agency’s ability to perform its 

statutory obligations. The IC Clearance 

Official, Regulatory Information 

Management Services, Office of 

Management, publishes that notice 

containing proposed information 

collection requests prior to submission 

of these requests to OMB. Each 

proposed information collection, 

grouped by office, contains the 

following: (1) Type of review requested, 

e.g., new, revision, extension, existing 

or reinstatement; (2) Title; (3) Summary 

of the collection; (4) Description of the 

need for, and proposed use of, the 

information; (5) Respondents and 

frequency of collection; and (6) 

Reporting and/or Recordkeeping 

burden. OMB invites public comment. 

Dated: May 9, 2007. 

Angela C. Arrington, 

IC Clearance Official, Regulatory Information 

Management Services, Office of Management. 

Office of Postsecondary Education 

Type of Review: Revision of a 

currently approved collection. 

Title: Fulbright-Hays Training Grants: 

Faculty Research Abroad Program CFDA 

84.019A and Doctoral Dissertation 

Research Abroad Program CFDA 

84.022A. 

Frequency: Annually. 

Affected Public: Not-for-profit 

institutions; Individuals or household. 

Reporting and Recordkeeping Hour 

Burden: 

Responses: 780. 

Burden Hours: 27,240. 

Abstract: This application allows 

individual graduate students and faculty 

members to compete for Fulbright-Hays 

fellowships and enables the Department 


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of Education to make awards to U.S. 

institutions of higher education to 

develop and improve modern foreign 

language and area studies training 

programs. 

This information collection is being 

submitted under the Streamlined 

Clearance Process for Discretionary 

Grant Information Collections (1890–

0001). Therefore, the 30-day public 

comment period notice will be the only 

public comment notice published for 

this information collection. 

Requests for copies of the information 

collection submission for OMB review 

may be accessed from http:// 

edicsweb.ed.gov, by selecting the 

‘‘Browse Pending Collections’’ link and 

by clicking on link number 3296. When 

you access the information collection, 

click on ‘‘Download Attachments’’ to 

view. Written requests for information 

should be addressed to U.S. Department 

of Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, 

SW., Potomac Center, 9th Floor, 

Washington, DC 20202–4700. Requests 

may also be electronically mailed to 

ICDocketMgr@ed.gov or faxed to 202–

245–6623. Please specify the complete 

title of the information collection when 

making your request. 

Comments regarding burden and/or 

the collection activity requirements 

should be electronically mailed to 

ICDocketMgr@ed.gov. Individuals who 

use a telecommunications device for the 

deaf (TDD) may call the Federal 

Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 

1–800–877–8339. 

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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

Office of Vocational and Adult 

Education (OVAE); Overview 

Information; Tribally Controlled 

Postsecondary Career and Technical 

Institutions Program (TCPCTIP); Notice 

Inviting Applications for New Awards 

for Fiscal Year (FY) 2007 

Catalog of Federal Domestic 

Assistance (CFDA) Number: 84.245. 

DATES: Applications Available: May 15, 

2007. 

Deadline for Transmittal of 

Applications: June 14, 2007. 

Eligible Applicants: A tribally 

controlled postsecondary career and 

technical institution that does not 

receive Federal support under the 

Tribally Controlled College or 

University Assistance Act of 1978 (25 

U.S.C. 1801 et seq.), or the Navajo 

Community College Act (25 U.S.C. 640a 

et seq.). 

Estimated Available Funds: 

$7,366,000 for the first 12 months of this 

project period. Funding for years two 

through five is subject to the availability 

of funds and to a grantee meeting the 

requirements of 34 CFR 75.253. 

Estimated Range of Awards: 

$3,000,000 to $4,000,000 for the first 12 

months. 

Estimated Average Size of Awards: 

$3,683,000 for a single budget period of 

12 months. 

Estimated Number of Awards: 2. 

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: Section 117 of 

the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical 

Education Act of 2006 (Act or Perkins 

IV), authorizes the Secretary to make 

grants to tribally controlled 

postsecondary career and technical 

institutions that do not receive Federal 

support under the Tribally Controlled 

College or University Assistance Act of 

1978 or the Navajo Community College 

Act to provide basic support for the 

education and training of Indian 

students in career and technical 

education programs. 

Statutory Changes Affecting TCPCTIP: 

For the convenience of applicants, we 

describe in this section the major 

statutory changes made to the Carl D. 

Perkins Vocational and Technical 

Education Act of 1998 (Perkins III), 

which was amended by the Act, that 

affect TCPCTIP. 

(a) Purpose. In the Act, Congress has 

expanded and added elements to the 

law’s statement of purpose, most 

significantly by stating that, among 

other statutory purposes, programs 

supported under the Act should build 

on the efforts of States and localities to 

develop challenging academic and 

technical standards and should assist 

students in meeting such standards, 

including student academic 

achievement standards, especially in 

preparation for high-skill, high-wage, or 

high-demand occupations in emerging 

or established professions. (20 U.S.C. 

2301(1)) Congress also added to the 

statement of purpose a requirement that 

programs provide technical assistance 

that promotes leadership, initial 

preparation, and professional 

development at the State and local 

levels, and improves the quality of 

career and technical education teachers, 

faculty, administrators, and counselors. 

(20 U.S.C. 2301(5)) Additionally, the 

Act’s statement of purpose was 

amended to support partnerships among 

secondary schools, postsecondary 

institutions, baccalaureate degreegranting institutions, area career and 

technical education schools, local 

workforce investment boards, business 

and industry, and intermediaries, and to 

provide career and technical education 

students with opportunities throughout 

their lifetimes to develop, in 

conjunction with other education and 

training programs, the knowledge and 

skills needed to keep the United States 

competitive. (20 U.S.C. 2301(6) and (7)) 

(b) Definitions. Congress replaced the 

term ‘‘vocational and technical 

education’’ with the term ‘‘career and 

technical education’’ throughout the 

Act. The term career and technical 

education is defined in section 3(5) of 

the Act and, for the convenience of 

potential applicants, is reiterated in the 

Definitions section of this notice. (20 

U.S.C. 2302(5)(A)) 

(c) Annual needs estimates, facilities 

reports, and long-term facilities study. 

Congress eliminated the requirements 

that the Department prepare annual 

institutional needs estimates, facilities 

reports, and long-term facilities studies. 

(d) Indian student count. As 

described in detail elsewhere in this 

notice, the Act made changes to the 

statutory definition of the term ‘‘Indian 

student count.’’ These changes mean 

that the Department will require 

somewhat different certified data from 

grantees for grant calculations in years 

when the amounts appropriated for 

TCPCTIP are insufficient to pay the total 

allowable costs proposed by grantees. 

(e) Requirement for Complaint 

Resolution Procedure. The Act requires 

the Department to establish, after 

consultation with tribally controlled 

postsecondary career and technical 

institutions, a complaint resolution 

procedure for grant determinations and 

calculations. The Department developed 

what it believes is a fair, effective, and 

efficient complaint resolution procedure 

that will provide program grantees with 

a process for resolving complaints 

regarding grant determinations and 

grant amount calculations without 

resulting in inordinate delays in the 

grant award process. To effectuate the 

consultation process, the Department 

requested input from the two current 

TCPCTIP grantees on the procedure, 

placed the Department’s proposed 

procedure on the Department’s Web 

site, and made it available to the 

American Indian Higher Education 

Consortium (AIHEC). The Department 

appreciated the input it received during 

the consultation process and carefully 

considered the suggestions provided in 

finalizing its complaint resolution 

procedure. 


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