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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

Direct Grant Programs and Fellowship

Programs

AGENCY: Department of Education.

ACTION: Notice announcing direct grant

programs and fellowship programs

under which the Secretary has invited

or expects to invite applications for new

awards for fiscal year (FY) 1998.

SUMMARY: This notice identifies

programs and competitions under

which the Secretary has invited or plans

to invite applications for new awards for

FY 1998 and announces actual or

estimated deadline dates for the

transmittal of applications under these

programs. The notice lists programs and

competitions previously announced, as

well as those to be announced at a later

date. The notice is intended to help

potential applicants in planning for FY

1998 grant competitions.

DATES: Dates of Application Notices.

The actual or estimated date for

publication of the application notice for

a given program or competition is listed

in column two of the charts.

Application notices that have already

been published in the Federal Register

can be identified by the Federal

Register page number, also shown in

column two. If a program has yet to

publish an application notice, an

estimated date is listed.

Applications Available. The actual or

estimated date for the availability of an

application package for a given program

or competition is listed in column three

of the charts.

Deadline Dates for Transmitting

Applications. The actual or estimated

deadline for transmitting applications

under a given program or competition is

listed in column four of the charts. If a

program has yet to publish an

application notice, the estimated

deadline date is listed. The actual

deadline will appear in the application

notice to be published in the Federal

Register.

Deadline Dates for Transmitting

Intergovernmental Reviews. Certain

programs in this notice are subject to

Executive Order 12372 and the

regulations in 34 CFR part 79. The

actual or estimated deadline date for the

transmittal of State Process

Recommendations by State Single

Points of Contact (SPOCs) and

comments by other interested parties is

listed in column five of the chart. If a

program has yet to publish an

application notice, the estimated

deadline date is listed. The actual

deadline will appear in the application

notice to be published in the Federal

Register.

ADDRESSES: For Applications or Further

Information. The address and telephone

number for obtaining applications for,

or further information about, an

individual program are in the actual

application notice for that program.

For Users of TDD or FIRS. Individuals

who use a telecommunications device

for the deaf (TDD) may call the TDD

number, if any, listed in the individual

application notices. If a TDD number is

not listed for a given program,

individuals who use a TDD may call the

Federal Information Relay Service

(FIRS) at 1–800–877–8339 between 8

a.m. and 8 p.m., Eastern time, Monday

through Friday.

Individuals with disabilities may

obtain this document in an alternate

format (e.g., Braille, large print,

audiotape, or computer diskette) on

request to Art Stewart, U.S. Department

of Education, 600 Independence

Avenue, S.W., Room 3652, ROB–3,

Washington, DC 20202–4248.

Telephone: (202) 708–8515. Internet:

ArthurlStewart@ed.gov

For Intergovernmental Review. The

address for transmitting

recommendations and comments under

Executive Order 12372 is in the

appendix to this notice. The appendix

also contains the addresses of

individual SPOCs.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Available Funds

The Congress has not yet enacted a FY

1998 appropriation for the Department

of Education. The Secretary is

publishing this notice in order to give

potential applicants adequate time to

prepare applications. The estimates of

amounts of funds that will be available

for these programs are based on the

President’s FY 1998 budget request.

Potential applicants should note,

however, that the Congress may

increase, eliminate, or reduce funding in

FY 1998 for some direct grant or

fellowship programs administered by

the Department. Final action on the FY

1998 appropriation may require the

Department to cancel some of the

competitions listed in this notice

including some of those the notice

indicates will be announced at a later

date.

Estimated Range and Average Size of

Awards

Except for programs and competitions

administered by the Office of Special

Education and Rehabilitative Services

(OSERS), columns six and seven list

estimated ranges and average size of

awards. The amounts referenced in

these columns are advisory and

represent the Secretary’s best estimates

at this time. The average size of an

award is the estimate for a single-year

project or for the first budget period of

a multi-year project. In the application

package for an individual program or

competition, applicants will receive

information about the amount the

Secretary intends to make available for

each year of a multi-year project.

In the case of programs and

competitions administered by the

principal components of OSERS, the

charts differ with regard to the amount

of awards. For programs and

competitions of the National Institute on

Disability and Rehabilitation Research

and the Office of Special Education

Programs, column six of the charts lists

the actual or estimated maximum

amount the Secretary will award per

year. For programs and competitions of

the Rehabilitative Services

Administration, column seven lists

either the estimated average size or

maximum amount of the award.

Note: The Department is not bound by any

of the estimates in this notice. For those

programs or competitions for which the

Department has not yet published

application notices, the dates, fiscal

information, and number of new awards

listed in this combined notice are estimates

only and, thus, subject to change. Readers are

advised to read the actual individual

application notices for these programs or

competitions when the notices are published

in the Federal Register.

National Education Goals

In developing this combined

application notice the Department has

sought to ensure that programs

awarding grants during FY 1998 will

further achievement of the National

Education Goals, as found in Pub. L.

103–227 (the Goals 2000: Educate

America Act, enacted March 31, 1994).

The Secretary encourages applicants

under these programs to consider the

National Education Goals in developing

their applications.

The National Education Goals for the

year 2000 are as follows:

• All children in America will start

school ready to learn.

• The high school graduation rate

will increase to at least 90 percent.

• All students will leave grades 4, 8,

and 12 having demonstrated

competency in challenging subject

matter, including English, mathematics,

science, foreign languages, civics and

government, economics, arts, history,

and geography; and every school in

America will ensure that all students

learn to use their minds well, so they

may be prepared for responsible
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citizenship, further learning, and

productive employment in our Nation’s

modern economy.

• United States students will be first

in the world in mathematics and science

achievement.

• Every adult American will be

literate and will possess the knowledge

and skills necessary to compete in a

global economy and exercise the rights

and responsibilities of citizenship.

• Every school in the United States

will be free of drugs, violence, and the

unauthorized presence of firearms and

alcohol and will offer a disciplined

environment conducive to learning.

• The Nation’s teaching force will

have access to programs for the

continued improvement of their

professional skills and the opportunity

to acquire the knowledge and skills

needed to instruct and prepare all

American students for the next century.

• Every school will promote

partnerships that will increase parental

involvement and participation in

promoting the social, emotional, and

academic growth of children.

Applicability of Section 421 of the

Controlled Substance Act

A number of programs listed in the

charts provide that a grant, fellowship,

traineeship, or other monetary benefit

may be awarded to an individual. This

award may be made to the individual

either directly by the Department or by

a grantee that receives Federal funds for

the purpose of providing, for example,

fellowships, traineeships, or other

awards to individuals.

Section 421 of the Controlled

Substance Act (21 U.S.C. 862) provides

that a sentencing court may deny

eligibility for certain Federal benefits to

an individual convicted of drug

trafficking or possession. Thus, an

individual who applies for a grant,

fellowship, or other monetary benefit

under a program covered by this notice

should understand that, if convicted of

drug trafficking or possession, he or she

is subject to denial of eligibility for that

benefit if the sentencing court imposes

such a sanction. This denial applies

whether the Federal benefit is provided

to the individual directly by the

Department or is provided through a

grant, fellowship, traineeship, or other

award made available with Federal

funds by a grantee.

Any persons determined to be

ineligible for Federal benefits under the

provisions of section 421 are listed in

the General Services Administration’s

‘‘Lists of Parties Excluded from Federal

Procurement or Nonprocurement

Programs.’’

Applicability of the Federal Debt

Collection Procedures Act of 1990

The programs listed in the chart make

discretionary awards subject to the

eligibility requirements of the Federal

Debt Collection Procedures Act of 1990

(Pub. L. 101–647; 28 U.S.C. 3201). The

Act provides that if there is a judgment

lien against a debtor’s property for a

debt to the United States, the debtor is

not eligible to receive a Federal grant or

loan, except direct payments to which

the debtor is entitled as beneficiary,

until the judgment is paid in full or

otherwise satisfied.

Intergovernmental Review of Federal

Programs

Certain programs in this notice are

subject to the requirements of EO 12372

and the regulations in 34 CFR part 79.

These programs are identified in Charts

1 through 6 with a date in the column

headed ‘‘Deadline for Intergovernmental

Review.’’ For further information, an

applicant under a program subject to the

Executive order—and other parties

interested in that program—are directed

to the appendix to this notice.

Explanation of Charts

This notice provides charts by

principal office of virtually all the

Department’s direct grant and

fellowship competitions for new awards

the Secretary has announced or expects

to announce for FY 1998. Each principal

office is assigned a separate chart as

follows:

Chart 1—Office of Bilingual Education

and Minority Languages.

Chart 2—Office of Educational Research

and Improvement.

Chart 3—Office of Elementary and

Secondary Education.

Chart 4—Office of Postsecondary

Education.

Chart 5—Office of Special Education

and Rehabilitative Services.

Chart 6—Office of Vocational and Adult

Education.

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Electronic Access to This Document

Anyone may view this document, as

well as all other Department of

Education documents published in the

Federal Register, in text or portable

document format (pdf) on the World

Wide Web at either of the following

sites:

http://ocfo.ed.gov/fedreg.htm

http://www.ed.gov/news.html

To use the pdf you must have the

Adobe Acrobat Reader Program with

Search, which is available free at either

of the previous sites. If you have

questions about using the pdf, call the

U.S. Government Printing Office toll

free at 1–888–293–6498.

Anyone may also view these

documents in text copy only on an

electronic bulletin board of the

Department. Telephone: (202) 219–1511

or, toll free, 1–800–222–4922. The

documents are located under Option

G—Files/Announcements, Bulletins and

Press Releases.

Note: The official version of this document

is the document published in the Federal

Register.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For

further information regarding a

competition listed in this notice, please

contact the person whose name appears

at the top of the particular chart in

which that competition is listed.

Dated: October 2, 1997.

Donald Rappaport,

Chief Financial and Chief Information

Officer.

Appendix

Intergovernmental Review of Federal

Programs

This appendix applies to each program that

is subject to the requirements of Executive

Order 12372 (Intergovernmental Review of

Federal Programs) and the regulations in 34

CFR part 79.

The objective of the Executive order is to

foster an intergovernmental partnership and

to strengthen federalism by relying on State

and local processes for State and local

government coordination and review of

proposed Federal financial assistance.

Applicants must contact the appropriate

State Single Point of Contact to find out

about, and to comply with, the State’s

process under Executive Order 12372.

Applicants proposing to perform activities in

more than one State should immediately

contact the Single Point of Contact for each

of those States and follow the procedure

established in each of those States under the

Executive order. A listing containing the

Single Point of Contact for each State is

included in this appendix.

In States that have not established a

process or chosen a program for review,

State, areawide, regional, and local entities

may submit comments directly to the

Department.

Any State Process Recommendation and

other comments submitted by a State Single

Point of Contact and any comments from

State, areawide, regional, and local entities

must be mailed or hand-delivered by the date

indicated in the actual application notice to

the following address: The Secretary, EO

12372—CFDA# [commenter must insert

number—including suffix letter, if any], U.S.

Department of Education, room 6213, 600

Independence Avenue, SW., Washington, DC

20202–0124.

Proof of mailing will be determined on the

same basis as applications (see 34 CFR

75.102). Recommendations or comments may

be hand-delivered until 4:30 p.m.

(Washington, DC time) on the date indicated

in the actual application notice.

PLEASE NOTE THAT THE ABOVE

ADDRESS IS NOT THE SAME ADDRESS AS

THE ONE TO WHICH THE APPLICANT

SUBMITS ITS COMPLETED APPLICATION.

DO NOT SEND APPLICATIONS TO THE

ABOVE ADDRESS.

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