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might the Department minimize the 

burden of this collection on the 

respondents, including through the use 

of information technology. Please note 

that written comments received in 

response to this notice will be 

considered public records. 

Title of Collection: Application Forms 

and Instructions for the Fulbright-Hays 

Seminars Abroad Program. 

OMB Control Number: 1840–0501. 

Type of Review: A revision of a 

currently approved collection. 

Respondents/Affected Public: 

Individuals and Households. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Responses: 300. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Burden Hours: 900. 

Abstract: The Department of 

Education (US/ED) is responsible for 

administering the Fulbright-Hays 

Seminars Abroad (SA) Program under 

authority of Section 102(b)(6) of the 

Mutual Educational and Cultural 

Exchange (Fulbright-Hays) Act of 1961, 

as amended. The program is 

administered under the policies 

established by the J. William Fulbright 

Foreign Scholarship Board (FSB), a 12- 

member body appointed by the 

President. US/ED recruits and 

recommends candidates for seminar 

positions abroad in accordance with 

FSB policies, which support the 

purposes of the Fulbright-Hays Act. The 

application is necessary in order for the 

Department to award funds under this 

program. 

This is a revision of a currently 

approved collection. The suggested 

changes from the currently approved 

application are minor, and consist of 

mainly updated language to reflect 

improvements in clarity and minor 

updates to instructions. The burden of 

the applicants is an average of three 

hours for each applicant and includes 

the time needed to obtain references. 

There is no change in burden per 

response. 

This collection is being submitted 

under the Streamlined Clearance 

Process for Discretionary Grant 

Information Collections (1894–0001). 

Therefore, the 30-day public comment 

period notice will be the only public 

comment notice published for this 

information collection request. 

Dated: January 31, 2022. 

Kate Mullan, 

PRA Coordinator, Strategic Collections and 

Clearance Governance and Strategy Division, 

Office of Chief Data Officer Office of Planning, 

Evaluation and Policy Development. 

[FR Doc. 2022–02189 Filed 2–2–22; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

Application Deadline for Fiscal Year 

2022; Small, Rural School 

Achievement Program 

AGENCY: Office of Elementary and 

Secondary Education, Department of 

Education. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: Under the Small, Rural 

School Achievement (SRSA) program, 

Assistance Listing Number 84.358A, the 

U.S. Department of Education 

(Department) awards grants on a 

formula basis to eligible local 

educational agencies (LEAs) to address 

the unique needs of rural school 

districts. In this notice, we establish the 

deadline and describe the submission 

procedures for fiscal year (FY) 2022 

SRSA grant applications. This notice 

relates to the approved information 

collection under OMB control number 

1810–0646. All LEAs eligible for FY 

2022 SRSA funds must submit an 

application electronically via the 

process described in this notice by the 

deadline in this notice. 

DATES: 

Applications Available: February 9, 

2022. 

Deadline for Transmittal of 

Applications: April 15, 2022. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. 

Leslie Poynter, U.S. Department of 

Education, 400 Maryland Avenue SW, 

Washington, DC 20202. Telephone: 

(202) 401–0039. Email: reap@ed.gov. 

If you use a telecommunications 

device for the deaf (TDD) or a text 

telephone (TTY), call the Federal Relay 

Service, toll free, at 1–800–877–8339. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Award Information 

Type of Award: Formula grant. 

Available Funds: The Administration 

has requested $96,420,000 for SRSA in 

FY 2022. 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 if Congress 

appropriates funds for this program. 

Estimated Range of Awards: $0– 

$60,000. 

Note: Depending on the number of 

eligible LEAs identified in a given year 

and the amount appropriated by 

Congress for the program, some eligible 

LEAs may receive an SRSA allocation of 

$0 under the statutory funding formula. 

Estimated Number of Awards: 4,260. 

II. Program Authority and Eligibility 

Information 

Under what statutory authority will FY 

2022 SRSA grant awards be made? 

The FY 2022 SRSA grant awards will 

be made under title V, part B, subpart 

1 of the Elementary and Secondary 

Education Act of 1965, as amended 

(ESEA). 

Which LEAs are eligible for an award 

under the SRSA program? 

For FY 2022, an LEA (including a 

public charter school that meets the 

definition of LEA in section 8101(30) of 

the ESEA) is eligible for an award under 

the SRSA program if it meets both 

criteria below: 

(a) The total number of students in 

average daily attendance at all of the 

schools served by the LEA is fewer than 

600; or each county in which a school 

served by the LEA is located has a total 

population density of fewer than 10 

persons per square mile; and 

(b) All of the schools served by the 

LEA are designated with a school locale 

code of 41, 42, or 43 by the 

Department’s National Center for 

Education Statistics (NCES); or the 

Secretary has determined, based on a 

demonstration by the LEA and 

concurrence of the State educational 

agency, that the LEA is located in an 

area defined as rural by a governmental 

agency of the State. 

The Department provides an 

eligibility spreadsheet containing each 

LEA eligible for FY 2022 SRSA grant 

funds, which is available on the 

Department’s website at: https://

oese.ed.gov/offices/office-of-formulagrants/rural-insular-nativeachievement-programs/rural-educationachievement-program/small-ruralschool-achievement-program/ 

eligibility/. 

If an LEA on the Department’s list of 

LEAs eligible to receive an FY 2022 

SRSA award will close prior to the 

2022–2023 school year, that LEA is no 

longer eligible to receive an FY 2022 

SRSA award and should not apply. 

Note: The ‘‘Choice of Participation’’ 

provision under section 5225 of the 

ESEA gives an LEA eligible for both 

SRSA and the Rural and Low-Income 

School (RLIS) program authorized under 

title V, part B, subpart 2 of the ESEA the 

option to participate in either the SRSA 

program or the RLIS program. An LEA 

eligible for both SRSA and RLIS is 

henceforth referred to as a ‘‘dual-eligible 

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Which eligible LEAs must submit an 

application to receive an FY 2022 SRSA 

grant award? 

Under 34 CFR 75.104(a), the Secretary 

makes a grant only to an eligible entity 

that submits an application. 

In FY 2022, each LEA eligible to 

receive an SRSA award is required to 

submit an SRSA application in order to 

receive SRSA funds, regardless of 

whether the LEA received an award or 

submitted an application in any 

previous year. This includes each dualeligible LEA that chooses to participate 

in the SRSA program instead of the 

RLIS program, and each SRSA-eligible 

LEA that is a member of an educational 

service agency (ESA) that does not 

receive SRSA funds on the LEA’s behalf. 

In the case of an SRSA-eligible LEA that 

is a member of an SRSA-eligible ESA, 

the LEA and ESA must coordinate with 

each other to determine which entity 

will submit an SRSA application on the 

LEA’s behalf, as both entities may not 

apply for or receive SRSA funds for the 

LEA. Pursuant to section 5225 of the 

ESEA, a dual-eligible LEA that applies 

for SRSA funds in accordance with 

these application submission 

procedures will not be considered for an 

RLIS award. 

A separate application must be 

submitted for each eligible LEA and 

each applicant must apply with its own 

unique entity identifier pursuant to 2 

CFR part 25. For example, if a rural 

community has two distinct LEAs—one 

composed of its elementary school(s) 

and one composed of its high 

school(s)—each LEA is required to 

submit its own SRSA application with 

the LEA’s own unique entity identifier. 

An LEA eligible to receive FY 2022 

SRSA funds that fails to submit an FY 

2022 SRSA application in accordance 

with the requirements below risks not 

receiving an FY 2022 SRSA award. The 

Department may consider applications 

submitted after the deadline to the 

extent practicable and contingent upon 

the availability of funding. 

As noted above, each applicant must 

apply with its own unique entity 

identifier. The applicant’s Data 

Universal Numbering System (DUNS) 

number will serve as the entity 

identifier until April 4, 2022, when the 

Federal Government transitions 

government-wide from using DUNS 

numbers to the new Unique Entity 

Identifier (UEI) system for Federal 

awards. For more information and 

resources on the transition from DUNS 

number to UEI, please visit the Federal 

Service Desk website at fsd.gov. 

III. Application and Submission 

Information 

Electronic Submission of Applications 

Using MAX.gov 

The Department will email each LEA 

eligible for FY 2022 SRSA grant funds 

a uniquely identifiable application link 

on February 9, 2022. The email will 

include customized instructions for 

completing the electronic application 

via the Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB) MAX Survey platform. 

An eligible LEA must submit an 

electronic application via OMB MAX 

Survey by April 15, 2022, to be assured 

of receiving an FY 2022 SRSA grant 

award. The Department may consider 

applications submitted after the 

deadline to the extent practicable and 

contingent upon the availability of 

funding. 

Please note the following: 

• We estimate that it will take 30 

minutes to submit an application. We 

strongly recommend that you do not 

wait until the application deadline date 

to begin the application process, 

however. 

• To better ensure applications are 

processed in a timely, accurate, and 

efficient manner, we will send reminder 

emails to any LEAs that have not 

submitted applications by March 1, 

2022. 

• An application received by OMB 

MAX Survey is date and time stamped 

upon submission and an applicant will 

receive a confirmation email after the 

application is submitted. 

• If you need to update any 

information in the application after it 

has been submitted via OMB MAX 

Survey, you must contact the REAP 

program staff directly at reap@ed.gov. 

Application Deadline Date Extension in 

Case of Technical Issues With OMB 

MAX Survey 

If you are unable to submit an 

application by April 15, 2022, because 

of technical problems with OMB MAX 

Survey, contact the REAP program staff 

at reap@ed.gov within five business 

days and explain the technical problem 

you experienced. We will accept your 

late application as having met the 

deadline if we can confirm that a 

technical problem occurred with the 

OMB MAX Survey system and that the 

problem affected your ability to submit 

your application by the application 

deadline date. As noted above, if you 

submit your application after the 

deadline and the late submission is not 

due to a technical issue about which 

you have notified the REAP program 

staff, the Department may consider your 

application to the extent practicable and 

contingent upon the availability of 

funding. 

IV. Other Procedural Requirements 

System for Award Management 

To do business with the Department, 

you must register in the System for 

Award Management (SAM), the Federal 

Government’s primary registrant 

database, using the following 

information: 

a. DUNS number until April 3, 2022, 

and UEI starting April 4, 2022. 

b. Legal business name. 

c. Physical address associated with 

your DUNS number or UEI. 

d. Taxpayer identification number 

(TIN). 

e. Taxpayer name associated with 

your TIN. 

f. Bank information to set up 

Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) (i.e., 

routing number, account number, and 

account type (checking/savings)). 

For assistance on the SAM 

registration process, including 

directions for how to check your entity’s 

registration status, please view the 

resources or utilize the live chat 

function on the FSD.gov website. 

V. Accessibility Information and 

Program Authority 

Accessible Format: On request to the 

program contact person listed under FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT, 

individuals with disabilities can obtain 

this document and a copy of the 

application package in an accessible 

format. The Department will provide the 

requestor with an accessible format that 

may include Rich Text Format (RTF) or 

text format (txt), a thumb drive, an MP3 

file, braille, large print, audiotape, or 

compact disc, or other accessible format. 

Electronic Access to This Document: 

The official version of this document is 

the document published in the Federal 

Register. You may access the official 

edition of the Federal Register and the 

Code of Federal Regulations at 

www.govinfo.gov. 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 Portable Document Format 

(PDF). To use PDF you must have 

Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is 

available free at the site. 

You may also access documents of the 

Department published in the Federal 

Register by using the article search 

feature at www.federalregister.gov. 

Specifically, through the advanced 

search feature at this site, you can limit 

your search to documents published by 

the Department. 


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Program Authority: Sections 5211– 

5212 of the ESEA, 20 U.S.C. 7345– 

7345a. 

Ian Rosenblum, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy and 

Programs, Delegated the Authority to Perform 

the Functions and Duties of the Assistant 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2022–02179 Filed 2–2–22; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

[Docket No. ED–2022–SCC–0011] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Comment Request; 

Supplemental Support Under the 

American Rescue Plan (SSARP) 

Application 

AGENCY: Office of Postsecondary 

Education (OPE), Department of 

Education (ED). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, ED is 

requesting the Office of Management 

and Budget (OMB) to conduct an 

emergency review of a new information 

collection. 

DATES: The Department requested 

emergency processing from OMB for 

this information collection request on 

January 31, 2022. As a result, the 

Department is providing the public with 

the opportunity to comment under the 

full comment period. Interested persons 

are invited to submit comments on or 

before April 4, 2022. 

ADDRESSES: To access and review all the 

documents related to the information 

collection listed in this notice, please 

use http://www.regulations.gov by 

searching the Docket ID number ED– 

2022–SCC–0011. Comments submitted 

in response to this notice should be 

submitted electronically through the 

Federal eRulemaking Portal at http://

www.regulations.gov by selecting the 

Docket ID number or via postal mail, 

commercial delivery, or hand delivery. 

If the regulations.gov site is not 

available to the public for any reason, 

ED will temporarily accept comments at 

ICDocketMgr@ed.gov. Please include the 

docket ID number and the title of the 

information collection request when 

requesting documents or submitting 

comments. Please note that comments 

submitted by fax or email and those 

submitted after the comment period will 

not be accepted. Written requests for 

information or comments submitted by 

postal mail or delivery should be 

addressed to the Director of the Strategic 

Collections and Clearance Governance 

and Strategy Division, U.S. Department 

of Education, 400 Maryland Ave. SW, 

LBJ, Room 6W208D, Washington, DC 

20202–4537. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

specific questions related to collection 

activities, please contact Karen Epps, 

202–453–6337. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Department of Education (ED), in 

accordance with the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA) (44 U.S.C. 

3506(c)(2)(A)), provides the general 

public and Federal agencies with an 

opportunity to comment on proposed, 

revised, and continuing collections of 

information. This helps the Department 

assess the impact of its information 

collection requirements and minimize 

the public’s reporting burden. It also 

helps the public understand the 

Department’s information collection 

requirements and provide the requested 

data in the desired format. ED is 

soliciting comments on the proposed 

information collection request (ICR) that 

is described below. The Department of 

Education is especially interested in 

public comment addressing the 

following issues: (1) Is this collection 

necessary to the proper functions of the 

Department; (2) will this information be 

processed and used in a timely manner; 

(3) is the estimate of burden accurate; 

(4) how might the Department enhance 

the quality, utility, and clarity of the 

information to be collected; and (5) how 

might the Department minimize the 

burden of this collection on the 

respondents, including through the use 

of information technology. Please note 

that written comments received in 

response to this notice will be 

considered public records. 

Title of Collection: Supplemental 

Support under the American Rescue 

Plan (SSARP) Application. 

OMB Control Number: 1840–0860. 

Type of Review: A new information 

collection. 

Respondents/Affected Public: Private 

Sector; State, Local, and Tribal 

Governments. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Responses: 300. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Burden Hours: 900. 

Abstract: Section 2003 of the 

American Rescue Plan allocates funds 

for institutions of higher education that 

the Secretary determines have the 

greatest unmet needs related to the 

coronavirus. This collection includes (1) 

a certification and agreement and (2) a 

profile form that will be used by 

institutions applying for discretionary 

grant funding under this section. 

Dated: January 31, 2022. 

Kate Mullan, 

PRA Coordinator, Strategic Collections and 

Clearance, Governance and Strategy Division, 

Office of Chief Data Officer, Office of 

Planning, Evaluation and Policy 

Development. 

[FR Doc. 2022–02262 Filed 2–2–22; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

Applications for New Awards; 

Supplemental Support Under the 

American Rescue Plan 

AGENCY: Office of Postsecondary 

Education, Department of Education. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Education 

(Department) is issuing a notice 

announcing the availability of funds and 

the application deadline for new grants 

to institutions of higher education under 

the Higher Education Emergency Relief 

Fund (HEERF or HEERF III), 

Supplemental Support under the 

American Rescue Plan (SSARP) 

program, Assistance Listing Number 

(ALN) 84.425T. The SSARP program 

supports institutions of higher 

education (IHEs or institutions) with the 

greatest unmet needs related to the 

novel coronavirus 2019 pandemic 

(coronavirus or COVID–19). 

DATES: 

Applications available: February 3, 

2022. 

Deadline for transmittal of 

applications: April 4, 2022. 

ADDRESSES: For the addresses for 

obtaining and submitting an 

application, please refer to our Common 

Instructions for Applicants to 

Department of Education Discretionary 

Grant Programs, published in the 

Federal Register on December 27, 2021 

(86 FR 73264) and available at 

www.federalregister.gov/d/2021-27979. 

Please note that these Common 

Instructions supersede the version 

published on February 13, 2019, and, in 

part, describe the transition from the 

requirement to register in SAM.gov a 

Data Universal Numbering System 

(DUNS) number to the implementation 

of the Unique Entity Identifier (UEI). 

More information on the phase-out of 

DUNS number is available at 

www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ofo/ 

docs/unique-entity-identifier-transitionfact-sheet.pdf. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Karen Epps, U.S. Department of 

Education, 400 Maryland Avenue SW, 

Room 2B133, Washington, DC 20202– 


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