64124 Federal Register / Vol. 62, No. 232 / Wednesday, December 3, 1997 / Notices

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

[CFDA NO: 84.031]

Reopening of Closing Date for Receipt

of Applications for Designation as an

Eligible Institution for Fiscal Year 1997;

Eligibility for the Strengthening

Institutions, Hispanic-Serving

Institutions, and Endowment

Challenge Grant Programs

SUMMARY: On November 27, 1996 (61 FR

60254), January 13, 1997 (62 FR 1739),

and May 16, 1997 (62 FR 27130), the

Department of Education (ED) published

in the Federal Register closing dates for

the receipt of applications from

institutions that wished to be designated

as eligible institutions under the

Strengthening Institutions, HispanicServing Institutions and Endowment

Challenge Grant Programs for Fiscal

Year 1997. An eligible institution under

these programs may not apply for a

grant at this time but they may receive

a waiver. The FSEOG and FWS

Programs are student financial

assistance programs authorized under

Title IV of the Higher Education Act of

1965, as amended.

Some institutions, that were only

interested in receiving a waiver of the

non-Federal share requirement under

the FSEOG and FWS Programs, did not

submit an institutional eligibility

application before those deadline dates.

As a result, ED is reopening the closing

date for that limited purpose. Thus, an

institution that seeks designation as an

eligible institution for Fiscal Year 1997

under the Strengthening Institutions,

Hispanic-Serving Institutions and

Endowment Challenge Grant Programs,

solely for the purpose of obtaining a

waiver of the non-Federal share

requirement under the FSEOG and FWS

Programs for the 1997–98 award year,

may submit an application to ED for that

purpose through December 31, 1997. An

institution may apply under this

reopened closing whether or not it

submitted a previous application.

Applicants should base any waiver

request of the needy student criterion on

the corrected Base Year Low-Income

Levels table included as an errata sheet

with the eligibility application package

and published in the Federal Register

on May 16, 1997 (62 FR 27130).

DEADLINE FOR TRANSMITTAL OF

APPLICATIONS: December 31, 1997.

APPLICATIONS AVAILABLE:

November 26, 1997.

FOR APPLICATIONS OR INFORMATION

CONTACT: Blanca Westgate or Jane

Wrenn, Strengthening Institutions

Program, Institutional Development and

Undergraduate Education Service, U.S.

Department of Education, 600

Independence Avenue, S.W., (Suite CY–

80, Portals Building), Washington, DC

20202–5335. Telephones: (202) 708–

8816, 708–8839 or 708–8866.

Individuals who use a

telecommunications device for the deaf

(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 the contact person listed in

the preceding paragraph.

Information about the Department’s

funding opportunities, including copies

of application notices for discretionary

grant competitions, can be viewed on

the Department’s electronic bulletin

board (ED Board), telephone (202) 260–

9950; on the Internet Gopher Server (at

gopher://gcs.ed.gov/); or on the World

Wide Web (at http://gcs.ed.gov).

However, the official application notice

for a discretionary grant competition is

the notice published in the Federal

Register.

Authority: 20 U.S.C.1057, 1059c and

1065a.

Dated: November 24, 1997.

David A. Longanecker,

Assistant Secretary for Postsecondary

Education.

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