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successful exchange programs

including: significant experience in

developing and administering

international exchange programs, sound

fiscal management, and full compliance

with all reporting requirements for past

Bureau cooperative agreement awards as

determined by the Bureau’s Grants

Division. In its review of proposals, the

Bureau will consider the past

performance of prior recipients and the

demonstrated potential of new

applicants.

6. Cost-effectiveness: Overhead and

administrative components including

salaries should be kept as low as

possible while adequate and appropriate

to provide the required services.

Proposals should document plans to

realize cost-savings and other

efficiencies through use of technology,

administrative streamlining and other

management techniques.

7. Cost-sharing: Proposals should

demonstrate maximum cost-sharing.

Preference will be given to proposals

which demonstrate innovative

approaches to leveraging of funds, fundraising and other sharing of costs.

8. Support of Diversity: Proposals

should demonstrate the applicant’s

awareness and understanding of

diversity and a commitment to its

achievement through individual grant

awards and institutional participation

and in other ways in both

administrative and programmatic

aspects of the Fulbright program.

9. Evaluation: Proposals should

include a plan to evaluate the success of

the Program. The Bureau recommends

that proposals include a draft survey

questionnaire or other techniques plus

description of a methodology to use to

link outcomes to original project

objectives.

Notice

The terms and conditions published

in this RFP are binding and may not be

modified by any Bureau representative.

Explanatory information provided by

the Bureau that contradicts published

language will not be binding. Issuance

of the RFP does not constitute an award

commitment on the part of the

Government. The Bureau reserves the

right to accept proposals in whole or in

part and make an award or awards in

accordance with what best serves the

interests of the global Fulbright Student

Program. The Bureau also reserves the

right to reduce, revise, or increase

proposal budgets in accordance with the

needs of the program and the

availability of funds. Awards made will

be subject to periodic reporting and

evaluation requirements. Programs must

comply with J–1 visa regulations. Please

refer to the Solicitation Package for

further information.

Notification

Final awards cannot be made until

funds have been appropriated by

Congress, allocated and committed

through internal Department of State

procedures.

Dated: October 18, 2000.

William B. Bader,

Assistant Secretary for Educational and

Cultural Affairs, U.S. Department of State.

[FR Doc. 00–27292 Filed 10–23–00; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4710–05–U

DEPARTMENT OF STATE

[Public Notice No. 3445]

Shipping Coordinating Committee;

Notice of Meeting

The Shipping Coordinating

Committee (SHC) scheduled to take

place on Wednesday, November 8, 2000

at U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters has

been cancelled. For further information,

please contact Captain Joesph F. Ahern

or Lieutenant Daniel J. Goettle, U.S.

Coast Guard, Office of Maritime and

International Law (G–LMI), 2100

Second Street, S.W., Washington, D.C.

20593–0001; telephone (202) 267–1527;

fax (202) 267–4496.

Dated: October 18, 2000.

Stephen M. Miller,

Executive Secretary, Shipping Coordinating

Committee.

[FR Doc. 00–27290 Filed 10–23–00; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4710–07–P

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Transit Administration

Notice of Granted Buy America Waiver

AGENCY: Federal Transit Administration

(FTA), DOT.

ACTION: Notice of Granted Buy America

Waiver.

SUMMARY: This waiver allows ticket

vending machine manufacturers to

install the Giesecke & Devrient (‘‘G&D’’)

banknote identification modules (BIM)

and count it as domestic for purposes of

Buy America compliance. It is

predicated on the non-availability of the

item domestically and granted on July

21, 2000, for the period of two years, or

until such time as a domestic source for

this BIM becomes available, whichever

occurs first. This notice shall insure that

the public, particularly potential

manufacturers, is aware of this waiver.

FTA requests that the public notify it of

any relevant changes in the domestic

market. FTA also granted an identical

waiver to Mars Electronics, a competitor

of G&D and manufacturer of a similar

device. That waiver is published

elsewhere in today’s Federal Register.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Meghan G. Ludtke, FTA Office of Chief

Counsel, Room 9316, (202) 366–4011

(telephone) or (202) 366–3809 (fax).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The

above-referenced waiver follows:

July 21, 2000.

Mr. Klaus J. Krauth, Vice President, Chief

Financial Officer, Giesecke & Devrient

America, Inc., 45925 Horseshoe Drive,

Dulles, Virginia 20166.

Re: Application for Waiver of Buy America

for Automated Fare Collection System

Component

Dear Mr. Krauth: This letter responds to

your correspondence of June 1, 2000, in

which you request a Buy America component

waiver based upon nonavailability for certain

banknote identification modules (BIM)

manufactured for use in ticket vending

machines. The BIM at issue here features

unique security functions and the ability to

be upgraded for currency changes.

Based upon the fact that there were no

known domestic sources, the Federal Transit

Administration (FTA) has granted Buy

America waivers to one of your competitors,

Mars Electronics, for its bill handling unit

(BHU), an item with similar functionality to

the BIM. Upon hearing from both Mars and

G&D on the subject of a component waiver,

FTA contacted Cubic Transportation

Systems, Inc., a manufacturer of ticket

vending machines using both BIM’s and

BHU’s and requested that it submit its

assessment of the state of this market.

Cubic contended, by letter dated April 19,

2000, that based upon an extensive survey of

the market, which is continuously updated

by technical staff, there is no known U.S.

manufacturer of a BIM/BHU that perform the

functions listed herein. To date, Cubic has

qualified only two sources for the BIM/BHU

used in its ticket vending machines; those

sources are G&D and Mars Electronics. This

letter incorporates, by reference, the

information contained in the abovereferenced correspondence.

FTA’s requirements concerning domestic

preference for federally funded transit

projects are set forth in 49 U.S.C. § 5323(j).

However, Section 5323(j)(2)(B) states that

those requirements shall not apply if the item

or items being procured are not produced in

the U.S. in sufficient and reasonably

available quantities and of a satisfactory

quality. The implementing regulation also

provides that a waiver may be requested ‘‘for

a specific item or material that is used in the

production of a manufactured product.’’ 49

CFR 661.7(g). The regulations allow a bidder

or supplier to request a waiver only if it is

being sought under this section. See 49 CFR

661.7(g) and 49 CFR 661.9(d). This waiver

would allow G&D to treat the BIM as

domestic.