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Dated: July 29, 2013. 

Michael K. Yudin, 

Acting Assistant Secretary for Special 

Education and Rehabilitative Services. 

[FR Doc. 2013–18529 Filed 8–1–13; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

34 CFR Chapter III 

Proposed Waiver and Extension of the 

Project Period for the Technical 

Assistance Coordination Center 

AGENCY: Office of Special Education 

Programs (OSEP), Office of Special 

Education and Rehabilitative Services 

(OSERS), Department of Education. 

ACTION: Proposed waiver and extension 

of the project period. 

[Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance 

(CFDA) Number: 84.326Z.] 

SUMMARY: The Secretary proposes to 

waive the requirements in our 

regulations of the Education Department 

General Administrative Regulations 

that, respectively, generally prohibit 

project periods exceeding five years and 

project period extensions involving the 

obligation of additional Federal funds. 

The proposed waiver and extension of 

the project period would enable the 

currently funded Technical Assistance 

Coordination Center to receive funding 

from October 1, 2013, through 

September 30, 2014. 

DATES: We must receive your comments 

on or before September 3, 2013. 

ADDRESSES: Address all comments about 

this proposed waiver and extension of 

the project period to David Guardino, 

U.S. Department of Education, 400 

Maryland Avenue SW., Room 4106, 

Potomac Center Plaza (PCP), 

Washington, DC 20202–2600. 

If you prefer to send your comments 

by email, use the following address: 

david.guardino@ed.gov. You must 

include the phrase ‘‘Proposed waiver 

and extension of the project period’’ in 

the subject line of your message. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

David Guardino. Telephone: (202) 245– 

6209, or by email: 

david.guardino@ed.gov. 

If you use a telecommunications 

device for the deaf or a text telephone, 

call the Federal Relay Service, toll free, 

at 1–800–877–8339. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Invitation to Comment: We invite you 

to submit comments regarding this 

proposed waiver and extension. During 

and after the comment period, you may 

inspect all public comments about this 

proposed waiver and extension of the 

project period in Room 4106, PCP, 550 

12th Street SW., Washington, DC, 

between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 4:00 

p.m., Washington, DC time, Monday 

through Friday of each week, except 

Federal holidays. 

Assistance to Individuals with 

Disabilities in Reviewing the 

Rulemaking Record: On request, we will 

provide an appropriate accommodation 

or auxiliary aid to an individual with a 

disability who needs assistance to 

review the comments or other 

documents in the public rulemaking 

record for this notice. If you want to 

schedule an appointment for this type of 

aid, please contact the person listed 

under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT. 

Background 

On June 5, 2008, the Department 

published a notice in the Federal 

Register (73 FR 32016) inviting 

applications for new awards for fiscal 

year (FY) 2008 for a Technical 

Assistance Coordination Center 

(Center). The Center was funded under 

the Technical Assistance and 

Dissemination to Improve Services and 

Results for Children with Disabilities 

(TA&D) program, authorized under 

section 663 of the Individuals with 

Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). Its 

purpose is to support ongoing 

communication, collaboration, and 

coordination among the centers in the 

OSEP-funded TA&D Network, and 

between these centers and other 

relevant federally funded TA&D centers, 

national professional organizations, and 

a broad spectrum of stakeholders. 

Approximately 30 OSEP-funded centers 

comprise the TA&D Network and 

provide technical assistance (TA) 

covering a variety of areas to State 

educational agencies (SEAs), local 

educational agencies (LEAs), Part C 

State lead agencies, early intervention 

service (EIS) programs and providers, 

families of children with disabilities, 

and others to improve services and 

outcomes for children served under Part 

B and Part C of IDEA. 

Based on the selection criteria 

published in the 2008 notice inviting 

applications, the Department made one 

award for a period of 60 months to the 

Academy for Educational Development, 

Inc. (now FHI 360) to establish the 

Center, which is currently known as the 

Technical Assistance Coordination 

Center. 

The Center has two broad goals: 

(1) Create a resource center where the 

various TA&D centers funded by OSEP 

and other Federal agencies that provide 

assistance and support to States, LEAs, 

EIS programs and providers, and 

stakeholders in the field can store and 

share information and resources 

developed by TA providers. 

(2) Support OSEP in developing a 

comprehensive network integrating a 

variety of relevant federally funded 

centers, professional organizations, and 

other stakeholders to collaborate, solve 

problems together, and exchange 

knowledge and expertise. 

The Center accomplishes this work 

by: (a) Creating ongoing opportunities to 

promote coordination, communication, 

and collaboration among OSEP-funded 

TA centers and other federally funded 

TA centers through various workgroups, 

meetings, listservs, and TA 

communities of practice; (b) 

maintaining a Web site that houses tools 

that TA&D Network projects have 

developed or can use in their TA 

delivery (e.g., product database, 

discretionary database, and TA&D 

Network Web site search); and (c) 

sharing knowledge of best practices in 

collaboration with the TA&D Network 

and other federally funded TA centers. 

The Center’s current project period is 

scheduled to end on September 30, 

2013. We do not believe that it would 

be in the public interest to run a 

competition for a new Center this year 

because the Department is planning to 

change the organization of its TA 

activities to better coordinate Federal 

TA activities to meet the needs of 

children with disabilities. We also have 

concluded that it would be contrary to 

the public interest to have a lapse in the 

provision of TA services currently 

provided by the Center pending the 

changes to the organization of the 

Department’s TA activities. For these 

reasons, the Secretary proposes to waive 

the requirements in 34 CFR 75.250, 

which prohibit project periods 

exceeding five years, and waive the 

requirements in 34 CFR 75.261(a) and 

(c)(2), which allow the extension of a 

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not involve the obligation of additional 

Federal funds. The waiver would allow 

the Department to issue a continuation 

award in the amount of $1,299,827 to 

FHI 360 for an additional 12-month 

period, which should ensure that the 

Center’s support of, and collaboration 

and coordination with, the Federal 

TA&D centers will not be interrupted. 

Any activities to be carried out during 

the year of the continuation award 

would have to be consistent with, or be 

a logical extension of, the scope, goals, 

and objectives of the grantee’s 

application as approved in the 2008 

Technical Assistance Coordination 

Center competition. 

If the proposed waiver and extension 

of the project period are announced in 

a final notice in the Federal Register, 

the requirements applicable to 

continuation awards for this 

competition, set forth in the June 5, 

2008, notice inviting applications, and 

the requirements in 34 CFR 75.253 

would apply to any continuation awards 

sought by the current Technical 

Assistance Coordination Center grantee. 

If we announce the waiver and 

extension as final, we will base our 

decisions regarding a continuation 

award on the program narrative, budget, 

budget narrative, and program 

performance report submitted by the 

current grantee, and the requirements in 

34 CFR 75.253. 

Regulatory Flexibility Act Certification 

The Department certifies that the 

proposed waiver and extension of the 

project period would not have a 

significant economic impact on a 

substantial number of small entities. 

The only entity that would be affected 

by the proposed waiver and extension of 

the project period is the current grantee. 

The Secretary certifies that the 

proposed waiver and extension would 

not have a significant economic impact 

on this entity because the extension of 

an existing project imposes minimal 

compliance costs, and the activities 

required to support the additional year 

of funding would not impose additional 

regulatory burdens or require 

unnecessary Federal supervision. 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 

This notice of proposed waiver and 

extension of the project period does not 

contain any information collection 

requirements. 

Intergovernmental Review 

This program is subject to Executive 

Order 12372 and the regulations in 34 

CFR part 79. One of the objectives of the 

Executive order is to foster an 

intergovernmental partnership and a 

strengthened federalism. The Executive 

order relies on processes developed by 

State and local governments for 

coordination and review of proposed 

Federal financial assistance. This 

document provides early notification of 

our specific plans and actions for this 

program. 

Accessible Format: Individuals with 

disabilities can obtain this document in 

an accessible format (e.g., braille, large 

print, audiotape, or compact disc) on 

request to the contact person listed 

under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT. 

Electronic Access to This Document: 

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 via the Federal Digital System 

at: www.gpo.gov/fdsys. At this site 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). To use PDF you must 

have Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is 

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Dated: July 29, 2013. 

Michael K. Yudin, 

Acting Assistant Secretary for Special 

Education and Rehabilitative Services. 

[FR Doc. 2013–18539 Filed 8–1–13; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

40 CFR Part 52 

[EPA–R08–OAR–2011–0658; FRL–9840–8] 

Approval and Promulgation of Air 

Quality Implementation Plans; State of 

Colorado; Second Ten-Year Carbon 

Monoxide Maintenance Plan for 

Greeley 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Proposed rule. 

SUMMARY: EPA is proposing to approve 

a State Implementation Plan (SIP) 

revision submitted by the State of 

Colorado. On March 31, 2010, the 

Governor of Colorado’s designee 

submitted to EPA a Clean Air Act (CAA) 

section 175A(b) second 10-year 

maintenance plan for the Greeley area 

for the carbon monoxide (CO) National 

Ambient Air Quality Standard 

(NAAQS). This limited maintenance 

plan (LMP) addresses maintenance of 

the CO NAAQS for a second 10-year 

period beyond the original 

redesignation. This action is being taken 

under sections 110 and 175A of the 

CAA. 

DATES: Written comments must be 

received on or before September 3, 

2013. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

identified by Docket ID No. EPA–R08– 

OAR–2011–0658, by one of the 

following methods: 

• http://www.regulations.gov. Follow 

the on-line instructions for submitting 

comments. 

• Email: clark.adam@epa.gov. 

• Fax: (303) 312–6064 (please alert 

the individual listed in the FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT if you are faxing 

comments). 

• Mail: Carl Daly, Director, Air 

Program, EPA, Region 8, Mailcode 8P– 

AR, 1595 Wynkoop Street, Denver, 

Colorado 80202–1129. 

• Hand Delivery: Carl Daly, Director, 

Air Program, EPA, Region 8, Mailcode 

8P–AR, 1595 Wynkoop, Denver, 

Colorado 80202–1129. Such deliveries 

are only accepted Monday through 

Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., excluding 

federal holidays. Special arrangements 

should be made for deliveries of boxed 

information. 

Please see the direct final rule which 

is located in the Rules and Regulations 

section of this Federal Register for 

detailed instruction on how to submit 

comments. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Adam Clark, Air Program, EPA, Region 

8, Mailcode 8P–AR, 1595 Wynkoop, 

Denver, Colorado 80202–1129, (303) 

312–7104, clark.adam@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In the 

‘‘Rules and Regulations’’ section of this 

Federal Register, EPA is approving 

Colorado’s SIP revision as a direct final 

rule without prior proposal because the 

Agency views this as a noncontroversial 

SIP revision and anticipates no adverse 

comments. A detailed rationale for the 

approval is set forth in the preamble to 

the direct final rule. If EPA receives no 

adverse comments, EPA will not take 

further action on this proposed rule. If 

EPA receives adverse comments, EPA 

will withdraw the direct final rule and 

it will not take effect. EPA will address 

all public comments in a subsequent 

final rule based on this proposed rule. 

EPA will not institute a second 


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