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participate in the NEPA process. A 

public hearing will be held as described 

in the DATES section. This hearing will 

be announced in advance through 

notices, media news releases, and/or 

mailings. 

Copies of the SDEIS may be reviewed 

at the following locations: 1. U.S. Army 

Corps of Engineers, Sacramento District 

Web Site: http:// 

www.spk.usace.army.mil/; 2. City of 

Rancho Cordova City Hall, 2729 

Prospect Park Drive, Rancho Cordova, 

CA 95670; 3. City of Rancho Cordova 

Planning Department Web site: http:// 

www.cityofranchocordova.org/ 

Index.aspx?page=128. 

Dated: April 29, 2008. 

Christine Altendorf, 

Acting District Engineer. 

[FR Doc. E8–10216 Filed 5–6–08; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3710–EZ–P 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

Office of Elementary and Secondary 

Education; Overview Information; 

Advanced Placement Incentive 

Program; Notice Inviting Applications 

for New Awards for Fiscal Year (FY) 

2008 

Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance 

(CFDA) Number: 84.330C. 

DATES: Applications Available: May 7, 

2008. 

Deadline for Notice of Intent To 

Apply: June 6, 2008. 

Deadline for Transmittal of 

Applications: July 7, 2008. 

Deadline for Intergovernmental 

Review: September 4, 2008. 

Full Text of Announcement 

I. Funding Opportunity Description 

Purpose of Program: The Advanced 

Placement Incentive (API) program 

awards competitive grants designed to 

increase the successful participation of 

low-income students in advanced 

placement courses and tests. The 

program expands opportunities for lowincome students to take college-level 

classes and earn college credit while 

still in high school. The program also 

supports efforts to raise the rigor of the 

academic curriculum for all students 

attending high-poverty high schools. 

Priority: In accordance with 34 CFR 

75.105(b)(2)(iv), this priority is from 

section 1705(c) of the ESEA (20 U.S.C 

6535(c)). 

Absolute Priority: For FY 2008 and 

any subsequent year in which we make 

awards from the list of unfunded 

applicants from this competition, this 

priority is an absolute priority. Under 34 

CFR 75.105(c)(3) we consider only 

applications that meet this priority. 

This priority is: 

Implementation of Advanced 

Placement Programs in High-Poverty 

Schools. 

This priority supports projects that 

expand access for low-income 

individuals to advanced placement 

programs by: 

(1) Developing, enhancing, or 

expanding advanced placement 

programs in English, mathematics, and 

science in high schools with a high 

concentration of low-income students 

and a pervasive need for access to 

advanced placement programs; 

(2) Involving business and community 

organizations in the activities to be 

assisted; and 

(3) Providing matching funds from 

State, local, or other sources to pay for 

the costs of activities to be assisted. 

Note: In order to meet this absolute 

priority, an application must identify the 

specific high schools that will receive project 

services, and provide evidence that those 

schools have a high concentration of lowincome students. 

Competitive Preference Priorities: 

Within this absolute priority, we give 

competitive preference to applications 

that address the following priorities. 

Competitive Preference Priority 1: 

This priority is from the notice of final 

priorities for discretionary grant 

programs published in the Federal 

Register on October 11, 2006 (71 FR 

60045). 

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

award up to an additional 4 points to an 

application, depending on how well the 

application meets this priority. 

This priority is: 

Critical-Need Languages. 

This priority supports projects that 

support activities to enable students to 

achieve proficiency or advanced 

proficiency or to develop programs in 

one or more of the following less 

commonly taught languages: Arabic, 

Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Russian, and 

languages in the Indic, Iranian, and 

Turkic language families. 

Competitive Preference Priority 2: In 

accordance with 34 CFR 

75.105(b)(2)(iv), this priority is from 

section 1705(c) of the ESEA (20 U.S.C. 

6535(c)). 

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

award an additional 1 point to an 

application that meets this priority. 

This priority is: 

On-Line Advanced Placement 

Courses. 

This priority supports projects that 

demonstrate an intent to carry out 

activities to increase the availability of, 

and participation in, on-line advanced 

placement courses. 

Within this absolute priority, we are 

particularly interested in applications 

that address the following invitational 

priority. 

Invitational Priority: For FY 2008 and 

any subsequent year in which we make 

awards from the list of unfunded 

applicants from this competition, this 

priority is an invitational priority. 

Under 34 CFR 75.105(c)(1), we do not 

give an application that meets this 

invitational priority a competitive or 

absolute preference over other 

applications. 

This priority is: 

Training and Incentives for Advanced 

Placement Teachers. 

This priority supports projects that 

seek to increase the successful 

participation of low-income individuals 

in advanced placement courses and 

tests by: 

(1) Compensating teachers of 

advanced placement courses for 

completing intensive professional 

development that enhances their 

knowledge of the advanced placement 

subjects they teach; and 

(2) Providing financial incentives that 

reward teachers of advanced placement 

courses for the successful performance 

of their students on advanced placement 

tests. 

Program Authority: 20 U.S.C. 6535–6537. 

Applicable Regulations: (a) The 

Education Department General 

Administrative Regulations (EDGAR) in 

34 CFR parts 74, 75, 77, 79, 80, 81, 82, 

84, 85, 97, 98, and 99. (b) The notice of 

final priorities for discretionary grant 

programs published in the Federal 

Register on October 11, 2006 (71 FR 

60045). 

II. Award Information 

Type of Award: Discretionary grants. 

Estimated Available Funds: 

$12,400,000. 

Contingent upon the availability of 

funds and the quality of applications, 

we may make additional awards in FY 

2009 from the list of unfunded 

applicants from this competition. 

Estimated Range of Awards: $93,040–

975,163. 

Estimated Average Size of Awards: 

$590,476. 

Maximum Award: We will reject any 

application that proposes a budget 

exceeding $1,000,000 for a single budget 

period of 12 months. The Assistant 

Secretary for Elementary and Secondary 

Education may change the maximum 

amount through a notice published in 

the Federal Register . 

Estimated Number of Awards: 21. 


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Note: The Department is not bound by any 

estimates in this notice. 

Project Period: Up to 36 months. 

III. Eligibility Information 

1. Eligible Applicants: 

(a) State educational agencies (SEAs); 

(b) Local educational agencies (LEAs), 

including charter schools that are 

considered LEAs under State law; or 

(c) National nonprofit educational 

entities with expertise in advanced 

placement services. 

Note: In the case of an eligible entity that 

is an SEA, the SEA may use API grant funds 

to award subgrants to LEAs to enable those 

LEAs to carry out authorized activities that 

support the absolute priority for this 

competition. 

2. a. Cost Sharing or Matching: In 

order to meet the absolute priority for 

this competition, an applicant must 

provide matching funds from State, 

local, or other sources to pay for the 

costs of activities to be assisted. 

b. Supplement-Not-Supplant: Funds 

provided under this program must be 

used only to supplement, and not 

supplant, other non-Federal funds that 

are available to assist low-income 

individuals in paying advanced 

placement test fees or to expand access 

to advanced placement or pre-advanced 

placement courses (20 U.S.C. 6536). 

This restriction also has the effect of 

allowing projects to recover indirect 

costs only on the basis of a restricted 

indirect cost rate, according to the 

requirements in 34 CFR 75.563 and 34 

CFR 76.564 through 76.569. 

3. Other: Definitions. The following 

definitions are taken from the API 

program authorizing statute in Title I, 

Part G of the ESEA (20 U.S.C. 6537). 

They are repeated in this application 

notice for the convenience of the 

applicant. 

(a) The term advanced placement test 

means an advanced placement test 

administered by the College Board or 

approved by the Secretary. 

Note: The Department approves advanced 

placement tests administered by the 

International Baccalaureate Organization. As 

part of the grant application process, 

applicants may request approval of tests from 

other educational entities that provide 

comparable programs of rigorous academic 

courses and testing through which students 

may earn college credit. 

(b) The term high concentration of 

low-income students, used with respect 

to a school, means a school that serves 

a student population 40 percent or more 

of whom are low-income individuals. 

(c) The term low-income individual 

means an individual who is determined 

by an SEA or LEA to be a child, ages 5 

through 19, from a low-income family 

on the basis of data used by the 

Secretary to determine allocations under 

section 1124 of the ESEA, data on 

children eligible for free or reducedprice lunches under the National School 

Lunch Act, data on children in families 

receiving assistance under Part A of 

Title IV of the Social Security Act, or 

data on children eligible to receive 

medical assistance under the Medicaid 

program under Title XIX of the Social 

Security Act, or through an alternate 

method that combines or extrapolates 

from those data. 

IV. Application and Submission 

Information 

1. Address to Request Application 

Package: You can obtain an application 

package via the Internet, 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 the program 

office, contact: Ivonne Jaime, U.S. 

Department of Education, 400 Maryland 

Avenue, SW., LBJ Building, Room 

3W246, Washington, DC 20202–6200. 

Telephone: (202) 260–1519 or by e-mail: 

AdvancedPlacementProgram@ed.gov. 

If you use a telecommunications 

device for the deaf (TDD), call the 

Federal Relay Service (FRS), toll free, at: 

1–800–877–8339. 

Individuals with disabilities can 

obtain a copy of the application package 

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

large print, audiotape, or computer 

diskette) by contacting the person or 

team listed under Alternative Format in 

section VIII of this notice. 

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. 

Page Limit: The application narrative 

is where you, the applicant, address the 

selection criteria that reviewers use to 

evaluate your application. We 

encourage you to limit the narrative to 

the equivalent of no more than 40 pages 

and suggest that you use the following 

standards: 

• A ‘‘page’’ is 8.5′′ × 11′′, on one side 

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

and 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 suggested page limit does not 

apply to the Table of Contents; forms; 

the budget section, including the 

narrative budget justification; the 

assurances and certifications; the onepage abstract; the resumes; or letters of 

support. However, the suggested page 

limit does apply to all of the application 

narrative section. We further encourage 

applicants to limit to no more than 20 

pages any attachments or appendices 

that are not resumes or letters of 

support. 

3. Submission Dates and Times: 

Applications Available: May 7, 2008. 

Deadline for Notice of Intent to Apply: 

June 6, 2008. We will be able to develop 

a more efficient process for reviewing 

grant applications if we have a better 

understanding of the number of entities 

that intend to apply for funding. 

Therefore, we strongly encourage each 

potential applicant to send a 

notification of its intent to apply for 

funding to 

AdvancedPlacementProgram@ed.gov by 

June 6, 2008. The notification of intent 

to apply for funding is optional. 

Applicants that do not supply this email notification may still apply for 

funding. 

Deadline for Transmittal of 

Applications: July 7, 2008. 

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 in paper format 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 in section VII in this notice. If 

the Department provides an 

accommodation or auxiliary aid to an 

individual with a disability in 

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process, the individual’s application 

remains subject to all other 

requirements and limitations in this 

notice. 

Deadline for Intergovernmental 

Review: September 4, 2008. 

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 in this notice. 

6. Other Submission Requirements: 

Applications for grants under this 

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 

Advanced Placement Incentive Program, 

CFDA Number 84.330C, 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 Advanced Placement 

Incentive Program 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 84.330, not 84.330C). 

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 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://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 for 

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 for 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, 

toll free, 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., 


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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. 

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: Ivonne Jaime, U.S. 

Department of Education, 400 Maryland 

Avenue, SW., LBJ Building, Room 

3W246, Washington, DC 20202–6200. 

FAX: (202) 205–4921. 

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 84.330C), 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 

84.330C), 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 84.330C), 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, where otherwise noted, 

sections 1702 and 1705 of the ESEA (20 

U.S.C. 6532 and 6535). 

Note: The maximum score for all selection 

criteria is 95 points. The points or weights 

assigned to each criterion or subcriterion are 

indicated in parentheses. 

Need for the Project 

In determining need for the proposed 

project, we will consider the following 

factors: 

(1) The extent to which the 

application demonstrates a pervasive 

need for access to advanced placement 

incentive programs by low-income 

individuals (5 points) (20 U.S.C. 

6535(c)(1)); and 

(2) The extent to which specific gaps 

or weaknesses in services, 

infrastructure, or opportunities have 

been identified and will be addressed by 

the proposed project, including the 

nature and magnitude of those gaps or 

weaknesses (10 points). 

Quality of Project Design 

In determining the quality of the 

design of the proposed project, we will 

consider the following factors: 

(1) The extent to which the goals, 

objectives, and outcomes to be achieved 

by the proposed project are clearly 

specified and measurable (5 points); 

(2) The extent to which the proposed 

project will increase the rate at which 

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advanced placement courses and 

increase the numbers of students who 

receive advanced placement test scores 

for which college academic credit is 

awarded (20 points) (20 U.S.C. 6532(7)); 

(3) The extent to which the proposed 

activities constitute a coherent, 

sustained program of training in the 

field (15 points); and 

(4) The extent to which there is 

effective coordination and articulation 

between grade levels to prepare students 

for academic achievement in advanced 

placement courses (15 points) (20 U.S.C. 

6535(d)(C)). 

Quality of the Management Plan 

In determining the quality of the 

management plan for the proposed 

project, we will consider the following 

factors: 

(1) 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 (8 points); 

(2) The extent to which the time 

commitments of the project director and 

principal investigator and other key 

project personnel are appropriate and 

adequate to meet the objectives of the 

proposed project (5 points); and 

(3) The extent to which the applicant 

demonstrates that it will have the 

capacity to report annually the data 

required by section 1705(f) of the ESEA 

(4 points). 

Adequacy of Resources 

In determining the adequacy of 

resources for the proposed project, we 

will consider the extent to which the 

applicant assures the availability of 

matching funds from State, local, or 

other sources to pay for the cost of 

activities to be assisted by the proposed 

project (20 U.S.C. 6535(c)(3))(8 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 notify you informally, 

also. 

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 in this notice. 

We reference the regulations outlining 

the terms and conditions of an award in 

the Applicable Regulations section in 

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. Grant Administration: Applicants 

should budget for a two-day meeting for 

project directors to be held annually in 

Washington, DC. In addition to setting 

aside funds for travel, hotel, and per 

diem costs for these meetings, 

applicants should budget for an 

estimated $500 per participant for the 

costs of materials and technical 

assistance products and services that 

will be delivered during these meetings. 

4. 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 directed by 

the Secretary under 34 CFR 75.118. The 

Secretary may also require more 

frequent performance reports under 34 

CFR 75.720(c). For specific 

requirements on reporting, please go to: 

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

appforms/appforms.html. 

5. Performance Measures: The 

Department has established six 

performance measures for assessing the 

effectiveness of the API program in 

improving the successful participation 

in advanced placement courses and 

tests by students attending public high 

schools served by API grants. These 

measures are: 

(1) The number of students who 

enrolled in an advanced placement 

course at each school served by an API 

grant, disaggregated by subject. 

(2) The number of low-income 

individuals who enrolled in an 

advanced placement course at each 

school served by an API grant, 

disaggregated by subject. 

(3) The number of advanced 

placement tests taken by students at 

each school served by an API grant, 

disaggregated by subject, divided by the 

number of seniors enrolled in each 

school at or around October 1. 

(4) The number of advanced 

placement tests taken by low-income 

individuals at each school served by an 

API grant, disaggregated by subject. 

(5) The scores students at each school 

served by an API grant earned on 

advanced placement tests, disaggregated 

by subject. 

(6) The scores low-income individuals 

at each school served by an API earned 

on advanced placement tests, 

disaggregated by subject. 

These measures constitute the 

Department’s measures of success for 

this program. Consequently, applicants 

for a grant under this program are 

advised to give careful consideration to 

these measures in identifying their goals 

and objectives and conceptualizing the 

approach and evaluation of their 

proposed projects. If funded, applicants 

will be asked to collect and report data 

in their performance and final reports 

about progress toward these measures. 

VII. Agency Contact 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Ivonne Jaime, U.S. Department of 

Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, SW., 

LBJ Building, Room 3W246, 

Washington, DC 20202–6200. 

Telephone: (202) 260–1519 or by e-mail: 

AdvancedPlacementProgram@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 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) 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. 

Dated: May 2, 2008. 

Kerri L. Briggs, 

Assistant Secretary for Elementary and 

Secondary Education. 

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