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§ 552b(c)(1) (1994), and that accordingly

these meetings will be closed to the

public.

Dated: October 18, 2000.

L.M. Bynum,

Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison

Officer, Department of Defense.

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UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY

OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES

Sunshine Act Meeting

AGENCY HOLDING THE MEETING:

Uniformed Services University of the

Health Sciences.

TIME AND DATE: 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.,

November 20, 2000.

PLACE: Uniformed Services University

of the Health Sciences, Board of Regents

Conference Room (D3001), 4301 Jones

Bridge Road, Bethesda, MD 20814–4799.

STATUS: Open—under ‘‘Government in

the Sunshine Act’’ (5 U.S.C. 552b(e)(3)).

MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED: 

8:30 a.m. Meeting—Board of Regents

(1) Approval of Minutes—September 8,

2000

(2) Faculty Matters

(3) Departmental Reports

(4) Financial Report

(5) Report—President, USUHS

(6) Report—Dean, School of Medicine

(7) Report—Dean, Graduate School of

Nursing

(8) Comments—Chairman, Board of

Regents

(9) New Business

CONTACT PERSON FOR MORE INFORMATION:

Mr. Bobby D. Anderson, Executive

Secretary, Board of Regents, (301) 295–

3116.

Dated: October 20, 2000.

Linda Bynum,

OSD Federal Register Liaison Officer,

Department of Defense.

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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

[CFDA No.: 84.215V]

Office of Educational Research and

Improvement; Fund for the

Improvement of Education—

Partnerships in Character Education

Pilot Projects; Notice Inviting

Applications for New Awards for Fiscal

Year (FY) 2001

Purpose of Program: The purpose of

the Fund for the Improvement of

Education (FIE) is to support nationally

significant programs to improve the

quality of education, assist all students

to meet challenging State content

standards, and contribute to the

achievement of the National Education

Goals. The purpose of this competition

is to support pilot projects that design

and implement character education

programs as a way to address the

broader FIE objectives.

Eligible Applicants: Only State

educational agencies that have not

already received a grant or grants that

total $1,000,000 under the Partnerships

in Character Education Pilot Projects

Program, in partnership with one or

more local educational agencies, may

apply. Please note that 19 States (list of

States is provided in the last paragraph

of the ‘‘Supplementary Information’’

section) have already received the

maximum amount of $1,000,000 and

are, therefore, no longer eligible to

apply. Eighteen additional States have

received grants close to the $1,000,000

allowed by law. If you are not sure if

your State is eligible, please contact the

person listed under FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT.

The term ‘‘State educational agency’’

means the agency primarily responsible

for the State supervision of public

elementary and secondary schools (20

U.S.C. 8011(28)).

The term ‘‘local educational agency’’

means—

(1) A public board of education or

other public authority legally

constituted within a State for either

administrative control or direction of, or

to perform a service function for, public

elementary or secondary schools in a

city, county, township, school district,

or other political subdivision of a State,

or for such combination of school

districts or counties as are recognized in

a State as an administrative agency for

its public elementary or secondary

schools.

(2) The term includes any other

public institution or agency having

administrative control and direction of

a public elementary or secondary

school.

(3) The term includes an elementary

or secondary school funded by the

Bureau of Indian Affairs but only to the

extent that the inclusion makes the

school eligible for programs for which

specific eligibility is not provided to the

school in another provision of law and

the school does not have a student

population that is smaller than the

student population of the local

educational agency receiving assistance

under this chapter with the smallest

student population, except that the

school shall not be subject to the

jurisdiction of any State educational

agency other than the Bureau of Indian

Affairs (20 U.S.C. 8011 (18)).

Applications Available: October 30,

2000.

The application package for this

competition is also available on line at:

http://ed.gov/GrantApps/

Deadline for Transmittal of

Applications: December 20, 2000.

Deadline for Intergovernmental

Review: February 19, 2000.

Estimated Available Funds: Up to

$4,100,000. The Administration has

requested funding for this program for

FY 2001. The actual level of funding, if

any, depends on final congressional

action. However, we are inviting

applications to allow enough time to

complete the grant process before the

end of the fiscal year, if Congress

appropriates funds for this program.

Estimated Range of Awards:

$100,000–$1,000,000.

Estimated Average Size of Awards:

$350,000

Maximum Award: The authorizing

legislation for this program specifies

that no State education agency shall

receive more than a total of $1,000,000

in grants under this program. Therefore,

we will reject an application that

proposes a budget exceeding a total of

$1,000,000 in Federal funds for the

entire project period.

Estimated Number of Awards: Up to

10.

Note: The Department is not bound by any

estimates in this notice.

Budget Period: 12 months.

Project Period: Up to 60 months.

Applicable Regulations: (a) The

Education Department General

Administrative Regulations (EDGAR) in

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

85, 86, 97, 98, and 99. (b) The

regulations in 34 CFR part 299.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The

statute governing the Partnerships in

Character Education Pilot Projects

program limits the total amount

awarded to any State to $1,000,000 and

the funding period to five years, of

which not more than one year may be

used for planning and program design.

Each applicant, operating within these

parameters, may, in designing character

education activities, determine the

combination of funds and time that is

most appropriate. For example, one

applicant may request $500,000 per year

for two years, another may request

$100,000 for the first year, $400,000 for

the second and third years, and

$100,000 for the fourth year, and a third

may request $200,000 per year for five

years. In preparing your application,

you should take special care to provide

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a timeline and a narrative that explains

the costs requested for each budget

period. Under the Character Education

program, State educational agencies

provide technical and professional

assistance to local educational agencies

in the development and implementation

of curriculum materials, teacher

training, and other activities related to

character education. You must propose

projects designed to develop character

education programs that incorporate the

following elements of character:

(a) Caring.

(b) Civic virtue and citizenship.

(c) Justice and fairness.

(d) Respect.

(e) Responsibility.

(f) Trustworthiness.

(g) Any other elements deemed

appropriate by the members of the

partnership. Other program

requirements are described in the

application package.

Please note that the following States

are no longer eligible to apply to this

grant competition because the State has

been awarded a grant for the total

amount allowed by law: California,

Connecticut, Georgia, Idaho, Kansas,

Kentucky, Maine, Minnesota, New

Jersey, New Mexico, North Dakota,

Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South

Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia,

Washington, and Wisconsin.

For Applications Contact: Judy

Collins, U.S. Department of Education,

555 New Jersey Avenue, NW., room 502,

Washington, DC 20202–5645.

Telephone: (202) 219–2116; FAX: (202)

219–2053; or via Internet:

judy_collins@ed.gov

If you use a telecommunications

device for the deaf (TDD), you may call

the Federal Information Relay Service

(FIRS) at 1–800–877–8339.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Beverly Farrar, U.S. Department of

Education, 555 New Jersey Avenue,

NW., room 502J, Washington, DC

20208–5645. Telephone: (202) 219–

1301; or via Internet at:

beverly_farrar@ed.gov

If you use a telecommunications

device for the deaf (TDD), you may call

the Federal Information Relay Service

(FIRS) at 1–800–877–8339.

Individuals with disabilities may

obtain this document 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.

Individuals with disabilities may

obtain a copy of the application package

in an alternative format by contacting

that person. However, the Department is

not able to reproduce in an alternative

format the standard forms included in

the application package.

Electronic Access to This Document

You may view this document, as well

as all other Department of Education

documents published in the Federal

Register, in text or Adobe Portable

Document Format (PDF) on the Internet

at either of the following sites:

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

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

To use PDF you must have Adobe

Acrobat Reader, which is available free

at either of the previous sites. 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.access.gpo.gov/nara/

index.html

Program Authority: 20 U.S.C. 8003.

Dated: October 19, 2000.

C. Kent McGuire,

Assistant Secretary, Office of Educational

Research and Improvement.

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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

[CDFA Nos: 84.116A and 84.116B]

Office of Postsecondary Education,

Fund for the Improvement of

Postsecondary Education (FIPSE)

Notice Announcing Technical

Assistance Workshops on Fiscal Year

(FY) 2001 Programs

SUMMARY: This notice provides

information about workshops to assist

individuals interested in learning more

about the Fiscal Year (FY) 2001

programs of the Fund for the

Improvement of Postsecondary

Education (FIPSE). Program staff will

present program information and

answer questions about FIPSE’s

programs. The workshops will focus

primarily on the Comprehensive

Program, which provides grants for

innovative reform projects that hold

promise as models for the resolution of

important issues and problems in

postsecondary education. Additional

information about FIPSE’s programs can

be found on the Internet at the following

site: http://www.ed.gov/FIPSE

Although the Department has not yet

announced in the Federal Register a

closing date for any of its FY 2001 grant

competitions, the Department is holding

these workshops to give potential

applicants relevant background

information on FIPSE programs for

which grant competitions are expected

to be held in FY 2001. Specific

requirements for grant competitions will

be announced in the Federal Register.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The

technical assistance workshops will be

held as follows:

1. Charlotte, North Carolina: Friday,

November 3, 2000, 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.,

University of North Carolina at

Charlotte, Charlotte, NC.

2. Washington, District of Columbia:

Monday, November 6, 2000, 1 p.m. to 4

p.m., U.S. Department of Education,

Washington, DC.

3. Chicago, Illinois: Monday,

November 13, 2000, 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.,

Roosevelt University, Chicago, IL.

4. San Bernardino, California:

Wednesday, November 15, 2000, 1:30

p.m. to 3 p.m., California State

University, San Bernardino, CA.

Registration

Space at the workshops is limited.

Interested individuals are invited to

register by sending an e-mail message

with the subject ‘‘Workshop 2000’’ to:

levenia_ishmell@ed.gov

Indicate the location you are

requesting. You will receive an e-mail

reply confirming the status of your

registration along with exact

information on workshop locations. All

confirmed registrants are asked to bring

their printed e-mail confirmation to the

workshop.

The meeting sites are accessible to

individuals with disabilities. An

individual with a disability who will

need an auxiliary aid or service to

participate in the meeting (e.g., assistive

listening device, sign language

interpreter, or materials in an alternative

format) should notify the listed contact

person at least two weeks before the

scheduled meeting date. Although the

Department will attempt to meet a

request received after that date, the

requested service may not be available

due to insufficient time to arrange it.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Levenia Ishmell, U.S. Department of

Education, 1990 K Street NW., room

8031, Washington, DC 20006–8544.

Telephone: (202) 502–7668 or by e-mail:

levenia_ishmell@ed.gov

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.