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(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance 

Number 84.184L Safe Schools/Healthy 

Students Program.) 

Program Authority: Safe and Drug-Free 

Schools and Communities Act (20 U.S.C. 

7131); Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 

290aa); and Juvenile Justice and Delinquency 

Prevention Act (42 U.S.C. 5614(b)(4)(e) and 

5781 et seq.). 

Dated: May 4, 2007. 

Deborah A. Price, 

Assistant Deputy Secretary for Safe and DrugFree Schools. 

[FR Doc. E7–9043 Filed 5–9–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools; 

Overview Information; Safe Schools/ 

Healthy Students Program; Notice 

Inviting Applications for New Awards 

for Fiscal Year (FY) 2007 

Catalog of Federal Domestic 

Assistance (CFDA) Number: 84.184L. 

Dates: Applications Available: May 

10, 2007. 

Deadline for Transmittal of 

Applications: June 19, 2007. 

Deadline for Intergovernmental 

Review: August 20, 2007. 

Full Text of Announcement 

I. Funding Opportunity Description 

Purpose of Program: The Safe 

Schools/Healthy Students program 

(SS/HS) supports the implementation 

and enhancement of integrated, 

comprehensive community-wide plans 

that create safe and drug-free schools 

and promote healthy childhood 

development. 

Priorities: These priorities are from 

the notice of final priorities, 

requirements, selection criteria, and 

definitions for this program, published 

elsewhere in this issue of the Federal 

Register. 

Absolute Priority: For FY 2007 and 

any subsequent year in which we make 

awards based on the list of unfunded 

applicants from this competition, this 

priority is an absolute priority. Under 34 

CFR 75.105(c)(3) we consider only those 

applications that meet this priority. 

This priority is: 

Comprehensive Plan 

This priority supports projects of local 

educational agencies (LEAs) proposing 

to implement an integrated, 

comprehensive community-wide plan 

designed to create safe, respectful, and 

drug-free school environments and 

promote prosocial skills and healthy 

childhood development. Plans must 

focus activities, curricula, programs, 

and services in a manner that responds 

to the community’s existing needs, gaps, 

or weaknesses in areas related to the 

five comprehensive plan elements: 

Element One—Safe School 

Environments and Violence Prevention 

Activities. 

Element Two—Alcohol, Tobacco, and 

Other Drug Prevention Activities. 

Element Three—Student Behavioral, 

Social, and Emotional Supports. 

Element Four—Mental Health 

Services. 

Element Five—Early Childhood 

Social and Emotional Learning 

Programs. 

Competitive Preference Priority: 

Within this absolute priority, we give 

competitive preference to applications 

that address the following priority. 

Under 34 CFR 75.105(c)(2)(i) we 

award an additional 5 points to an 

application that meets this priority. 

This priority is: 

LEAs That Have Not Previously 

Received a Grant or Services Under the 

Safe Schools/Healthy Students Initiative 

Under this priority, we give priority to 

applications from LEAs that have not 

yet received a grant under this program 

as an applicant or as a member of a 

consortium. In order for a consortium 

application to be eligible under this 

priority, no member of the LEA 

consortium may have received a grant or 

services under this program as an 

applicant or as a member of a 

consortium. 

Application Requirements: The 

following requirements apply to all 

applications submitted under this 

competition (Definitions for important 

terms associated with this competition 

can be found in the notice of final 

priorities, requirements, selection 

criteria, and definitions published 

elsewhere in this issue of the Federal 

Register.): 

(1) Program-Specific Assurances for 

Former SS/HS Grant Recipients. For 

those LEAs that have previously 

received funds or services (or for those 

LEA consortia that include a member 

LEA that has received funds or services) 

under the SS/HS program, a programspecific assurance must be submitted as 

part of the SS/HS application. All 

participating LEAs in a proposed 

consortium project must sign this 

program-specific assurance. The 

assurance must state that, if awarded, 

the project will not serve those schools 

or sub-regions that were served by the 

first SS/HS project. Applications from 

prior SS/HS grant recipients (or from a 

consortium that includes an LEA that 

has previously received SS/HS funds or 

services) that do not include the 

program-specific assurance will be 

rejected and not considered for funding. 

(2) Funding Limits for Applicants. An 

applicant’s request for funding must not 

exceed the following maximum 

amounts, based on student enrollment 

data, for any of the project’s four 

12-month budget periods: $2,250,000 for 

an LEA with at least 35,000 students; 

$1,500,000 for an LEA with at least 

5,000 students but fewer than 35,000 

students; and $750,000 for an LEA with 

fewer than 5,000 students. In applying 

these maximums, applicants must use 

the most recent student enrollment data 

from the National Center for Education 

Statistics’ (NCES) Common Core of Data 

(CCD) as posted on the NCES Web site. 

In the case of consortium applicants, the 

maximum funding request is based on 

the combined student enrollment data 

for the participating LEAs. Department 

of the Interior, Bureau of Indian 

Education-funded schools that are not 

included in the NCES database and 

request grant funds that exceed 

$750,000 for any of the project’s four 12- 

month budget periods must provide 

documentation of enrollment data. 

(3) Preliminary Memorandum of 

Agreement (MOA). Each applicant must 

include in its application a preliminary 

MOA that is signed by the authorized 

representatives of the LEA, the local 

juvenile justice agency, the local law 

enforcement agency, and the local 

public mental health authority—the 

required SS/HS partners. For 

consortium applicants, the preliminary 

MOA must be signed by the authorized 

representative of each member LEA and 

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corresponding required SS/HS partner 

for each member LEA. Additionally, the 

preliminary MOA must: 

(a) Include information that supports 

the selection of each identified SS/HS 

required partner that has signed the 

preliminary MOA; 

(b) Demonstrate the support and 

commitment of the required SS/HS 

partners to implement and sustain the 

project if funded; 

(c) Name a core management team of 

senior representatives from the required 

partners, and clearly define how each 

member of the team will support the 

project director in the day-to-day 

management of the project; 

(d) Describe how multiple and diverse 

sectors of the community, including 

parents and students, have been and 

will continue to be involved in the 

design, implementation, and continuous 

improvement of the project; and 

(e) Include, as an attachment, a logic 

model (a graphic representation of the 

project in chart format) that identifies 

needs or gaps and connects those needs 

or gaps with corresponding project 

goals, objectives, activities, partners’

roles, outcomes, and outcome measures 

for each of the SS/HS elements. 

Applications that do not include the 

preliminary MOA signed by the 

authorized representatives of each of the 

required SS/HS partners (the LEA, the 

local juvenile justice agency, the local 

law enforcement agency, and the local 

public mental health authority) and the 

logic model will be rejected and not 

considered for funding. 

(4) Final MOA. If funded, grant 

recipients must complete a final MOA. 

The final MOA must be signed by the 

authorized representatives of the LEA, 

the local juvenile justice agency, the 

local law enforcement agency, and the 

local public mental health authority—

the required SS/HS partners. For 

consortium applicants, the final MOA 

must be signed by the authorized 

representative for each member LEA 

and authorized representative for each 

of the corresponding required SS/HS 

partners for each member LEA. The 

final MOA must also include the 

following: 

(a) Information that supports the 

selection of each identified SS/HS 

required partner that has signed the 

final MOA; 

(b) Any needed revisions to the 

statement of support and commitment 

for each of the required SS/HS partners 

to implement and sustain the project; 

(c) A final roster of the core 

management team of senior 

representatives from the required SS/HS 

partners that clearly defines how each 

member of the team will support the 

project director in the day-to-day 

management of the project; 

(d) Any needed revisions to the 

process for including multiple and 

diverse sectors of the community in the 

implementation and continuous 

improvement of the project; 

(e) A final logic model that identifies 

needs or gaps and connects those needs 

or gaps with corresponding project 

goals, objectives, activities, partners’

roles, outcomes, and outcome measures 

for each of the SS/HS elements; 

(f) A description of each partner’s 

financial responsibility for the services 

that it will provide, along with the 

conditions and terms of responsibility 

for those services, including the quality, 

accountability, and coordination of 

services as they relate to achieving the 

goals, objectives, and outcomes of the 

project; 

(g) A description of the procedures to 

be used for referral, treatment, and 

follow-up for children and adolescents 

in need of mental health services and an 

assurance that the local public mental 

health authority will provide 

administrative control and/or oversight 

of the delivery of mental health services; 

and 

(h) Any other necessary revisions to 

information furnished in the 

preliminary MOA. 

Program Authority: Safe and Drug-Free 

Schools and Communities Act (20 U.S.C. 

7131); Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 

290aa); and Juvenile Justice and Delinquency 

Prevention Act (42 U.S.C. 5614(b)(4)(e) and 

5781 et seq.). 

Applicable Regulations: (a) The 

Education Department General 

Administrative Regulations (EDGAR) in 

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

85, 97, 98, 99, and 299. (b) The notice 

of final priorities, requirements, 

selection criteria, and definitions 

published elsewhere in this issue of the 

Federal Register. (c) The notice of final 

eligibility requirement for the Office of 

Safe and Drug-Free Schools 

discretionary grant programs published 

in the Federal Register on December 4, 

2006 (71 FR 70369). 

Note: The regulations in part 79 apply to 

all applicants except Federally recognized 

Indian tribes. 

II. Award Information 

Type of Award: Discretionary grants. 

Estimated Available Funds: 

$38,000,000. Contingent upon the 

availability of funds and the quality of 

applications, the Secretary may make 

additional awards later in FY 2007 and 

in FY 2008 from the list of unfunded 

applicants from this competition. 

Estimated Range of Awards: Up to 

$750,000 for an LEA with fewer than 

5,000 students; up to $1,500,000 for an 

LEA with at least 5,000 students but 

fewer than 35,000 students; and up to 

$2,250,000 for an LEA with at least 

35,000 students. 

Estimated Average Size of Awards: 

$750,000 for an LEA with fewer than 

5,000 students; $1,500,000 for an LEA 

with at least 5,000 students but fewer 

than 35,000 students; and $2,250,000 for 

an LEA with at least 35,000 students. 

Estimated Number of Awards: 25. 

Note: The Department is not bound by any 

estimates in this notice. 

Project Period: Up to 48 months. 

III. Eligibility Information 

1. Eligible Applicants: LEAs and 

consortium of LEAs. 

Note: The Secretary is limiting eligibility 

under the SS/HS grant competition (CFDA 

Number 84.184L) to applicants that do not 

currently have an active grant under this 

program. For the purpose of this eligibility 

requirement, a grant is considered active 

until the end of the grant’s project or funding 

period, including any extensions of those 

periods that extend the grantee’s authority to 

obligate funds (notice of final eligibility 

requirement (71 FR 70369). 

2. Cost Sharing or Matching: This 

competition does not involve cost 

sharing or matching. 

3. (a) Other: Participation by Private 

School Children and Teachers. Section 

9501 of the Elementary and Secondary 

Education Act (ESEA) of 1965, as 

amended, requires that LEAs or other 

entities receiving funds under the Safe 

and Drug-Free Schools and 

Communities Act provide for the 

equitable participation of private school 

children, their teachers, and other 

educational personnel in private schools 

located in areas served by the grant 

recipient. In order to ensure that grant 

program activities, curricula, programs, 

and services address the needs of 

private school children, LEAs must 

engage in timely and meaningful 

consultation with private school 

officials during the design and 

development of the program. This 

consultation must take place before any 

decision is made that affects the 

opportunities of eligible private school 

children, teachers, and other 

educational personnel to participate. 

Administrative direction and control 

over grant funds must remain with the 

grantee. 

(b) Maintenance of Effort. Section 

9521 of the ESEA provides that LEAs 

may receive a grant only if the State 

educational agency finds that the 

combined fiscal effort per student or the 

aggregate expenditures of the LEA and 

the State with respect to the provision 


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of free public education by the LEA for 

the preceding fiscal year was not less 

than 90 percent of the combined effort 

or aggregate expenditures for the second 

preceding fiscal year. 

IV. Application and Submission 

Information 

1. Address to Request Application 

Package: You can obtain an application 

package via the Internet, from the 

Education Publications Center (ED 

Pubs), or from the program office. 

To obtain a copy via the Internet, use 

the following address: http:// 

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

grantapps/index.html. 

To obtain a copy from ED Pubs, write, 

fax, or call the following: 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), call toll free: 1–877–576–7734. 

You can contact ED Pubs at its Web 

site, also: edpubs@inet.ed.gov. 

If you request an application from ED 

Pubs, be sure to identify this 

competition as follows: CFDA number 

84.184L. 

To obtain a copy from the program 

office, contact: Karen Dorsey, U.S. 

Department of Education, 400 Maryland 

Avenue, SW., room 3E336, Washington, 

DC 20202–6450. Telephone: (202) 708–

4674 or by e-mail: karen.dorsey@ed.gov. 

If you use TDD, call the Federal Relay 

Service (FRS), toll free, at 1–800–877–

8339. 

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 program 

contact person in this section. 

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. 

Page Limit: The application narrative 

is where you, the applicant, address the 

selection criteria that reviewers use to 

evaluate your application. You must 

limit the application narrative to the 

equivalent of no more than 40 pages, 

using the following standards: 

• A page is 8.5′′ x 11′′, on one side 

only, with 1′′ margins at the top, bottom, 

and on both sides. 

• Double space (no more than three 

lines per vertical inch) all text in the 

application narrative. Titles, headings, 

footnotes, quotations, references, and 

captions, as well as text in charts, tables, 

figures, and graphs, can be single 

spaced. 

• Use a font that is either 12 point or 

larger or no smaller than 10 pitch 

(characters per inch). 

• Use one of the following fonts: 

Times New Roman, Courier, Courier 

New, or Arial. 

• Number all pages consecutively 

using the style 1 of 40, 2 of 40, and so 

forth. 

• Include a Table of Contents with 

page references. The 40-page limit does 

not apply to the Table of Contents. 

Our reviewers will not read any pages 

of the narrative portion of your 

application that—

• Exceeds the page limit if you apply 

these standards; or 

• Exceeds the equivalent of the pages 

limit if you apply other standards. 

3. Submission Dates and Times: 

Applications Available: May 10, 2007. 

Deadline for Transmittal of 

Applications: June 19, 2007. 

Applications for grants under this 

competition may be submitted 

electronically using the Grants.gov 

Apply site (Grants.gov), or in paper 

format by mail or hand delivery. For 

information (including dates and times) 

about how to submit your application 

electronically, or by mail or hand 

delivery, 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 in section VII of this notice. If 

the Department provides an 

accommodation or auxiliary aid to an 

individual with a disability in 

connection with the application 

process, the individual’s application 

remains subject to all other 

requirements and limitations in this 

notice. 

Deadline for Intergovernmental 

Review: August 20, 2007. 

4. Intergovernmental Review: This 

competition 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: 

(1) No less than seven percent of a 

grantee’s budget for each project year 

must be used to support costs associated 

with local evaluation activities. 

(2) No more than 10 percent of the 

total budget for each project year may be 

used to support costs associated with 

security equipment, security personnel, 

and minor remodeling of school 

facilities to improve school safety. 

(3) We reference additional 

regulations outlining funding 

restrictions in the Applicable 

Regulations section of this notice. 

6. Other Submission Requirements: 

Applications for grants under this 

competition may be submitted 

electronically or in paper format by mail 

or hand delivery. 

a. Electronic Submission of 

Applications. 

To comply with the President’s 

Management Agenda, we are 

participating as a partner in the 

Governmentwide Grants.gov Apply site. 

The Safe Schools/Healthy Students 

competition, CFDA Number 84.184L, is 

included in this project. We request 

your participation in Grants.gov. 

If you choose to submit your 

application electronically, you must use 

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. 

You may access the electronic grant 

application for the Safe Schools/Healthy 

Students competition at http:// 

www.Grants.gov. You must search for 

the downloadable application package 

for this competition by the CFDA 

number. Do not include the CFDA 

number’s alpha suffix in your search 

(e.g., search for 84.184, not 84.184L). 

Please note the following: 

• Your participation in Grants.gov is 

voluntary. 

• 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. 


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• 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 

Education Submission Procedures 

pertaining to Grants.gov at 

http://e-Grants.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 submit your 

application in paper format. 

• If you submit your application 

electronically, 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—Non-Construction 

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). 

• If you submit your application 

electronically, 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 passwordprotected 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 under FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT in 

section VII in this notice 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. 

b. Submission of Paper Applications 

by Mail. 

If you submit your application in 

paper format by mail (through the U.S. 

Postal Service or a commercial carrier), 

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 84.184L), 

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 

84.184L), 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 submit your 

application in paper format by hand 

delivery, you (or a courier service) must 


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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 84.184L), 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 

1. Selection Criteria: The selection 

criteria for this competition are from the 

notice of final priorities, requirements, 

selection criteria, and definitions 

published elsewhere in this issue of the 

Federal Register and are listed in the 

application package. 

2. Review and Selection Process: 

Additional factors we consider in 

selecting an application for award are: 

(1) Geographic distribution; and (2) 

diversity of activities addressed by the 

projects. 

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: Semi-annual and annual 

performance reports are required for 

each of the project’s four 12 month 

performance periods in accordance with 

34 CFR 75.720(c). At the end of your 

project period, you must submit a final 

performance report, including financial 

information, as directed by the Secretary 

in 34 CFR 75.118. For specific 

requirements on reporting, please go to 

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

appforms/appforms.html. 

4. Performance Measures: The 

Department has established the 

following Government Performance and 

Results Act (GPRA) performance 

measures for the SS/HS program: 

(1) Student Victimization/Perception 

of School Safety 

(a) Percentage of grantees that 

experience a decrease in students who 

did not go to school on 1 or more days 

during the past 30 days because they felt 

unsafe at school or on their way to and 

from school. 

(b) Percentage of grantees that 

experience a decrease in students who 

have been in a physical fight on school 

property in the 12 months prior to the 

survey. 

(2) Student Substance Use/Abuse 

(a) Percentage of grantees that report 

a decrease in students who report 

current (30-day) marijuana use. 

(b) Percentage of grantees that report 

a decrease in students who report 

current (30-day) alcohol use. 

(3) Mental Health Services Provided 

(a) Percentage of grantees that report 

an increase in the number of students 

receiving school-based mental health 

services. 

(b) Percentage of grantees that report 

an increase in the percentage of mental 

health referrals for students that result 

in mental health services being 

provided in the community. 

These measures constitute the 

Department’s indicator of success for 

this program. Consequently, we advise 

an applicant for a grant under this 

program to give careful consideration to 

these measures in conceptualizing the 

approach and evaluation for its 

proposed project. Each grantee will be 

required to provide, in its annual 

performance and final reports, data 

about its progress in meeting these 

measures. 

VII. Agency Contacts 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Karen Dorsey, U.S. Department of 

Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, SW., 

room 3E336, Washington, DC 20202–

6450. Telephone: (202) 708–4674 or by 

e-mail: karen.dorsey@ed.gov. 

If you use a TDD, call the FRS, toll 

free, at 1–800–877–8339. 

VIII. Other Information 

Alternative Format: Individuals with 

disabilities can obtain this document 

and a copy of the application package in 

an alternative format (e.g., Braille, large 

print, audiotape, or computer diskette) 

on request to the program contact 

person listed under FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT in section VII in 

this notice. 

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. 

You may also view this document in 

text or PDF at the following sites: 

http://www.ed.gov/programs/ 

dvpsafeschools/applicant.html; http:// 

www.sshs.samhsa.gov. 

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: May 4, 2007. 

Deborah A. Price, 

Assistant Deputy Secretary for Safe and DrugFree Schools. 

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