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(vi) Sales Commission, Fee, etc., Paid, 

offered, or Agreed to be paid: None 

(vii) Sensitivity of Technology 

Contained in the Defense Article or 

Defense Services Proposed to be Sold: 

See Attached Annex 

(viii) Date Report Delivered to 

Congress: 11 Dec 14 

POLICY JUSTIFICATION 

Greece—CH–47D Chinook Helicopters 

The Government of Greece has 

requested a possible sale of 10 CH–47D 

Model Chinook Helicopters to include 

23 T55–GA–714A Engines (20 installed 

and, 3 spares), 12 AN/AAR–57 Common 

Missile Warning System (10 installed 

and 2 spares), 12 AN/ARC–220 High 

Frequency (HF) Radios, 12 AN/ARC– 

186 Very High Frequency (VHF) AM/

FM Radios, 12 AN/ARC–164 Ultra High 

Frequency (UHF)-AM, 12 AN/ARN 123 

VOR ILS Marker Beacons, 12 AN/ARN– 

89 or AN/ARN–149 Direction Finder 

Sets, 12 AN/ASN–128 Doppler/Global 

Positioning System Navigation Sets, 12 

AN/ARC–201D or AN/ARC–201E VHF 

FM Homing Radios, 12 AN/APX–118 

Transponders, 3 AN/APX–118A 

Transponders, 12 AN/APR–39A(V)1 

Radar Signal Detecting Sets, mission 

equipment, communication and 

navigation equipment, Maintenance 

Work Orders/Engineering Change 

Proposals (MWO/ECPs), aircraft 

hardware and software support, repair 

and return, spare and repair parts, 

publications and technical 

documentation, support equipment, 

minor modifications, personnel training 

and training equipment, U.S. 

government and contractor technical 

and engineering support services, and 

other related elements of logistics and 

program support. The estimated cost is 

$150 million. 

This proposed sale of these 

helicopters and support will contribute 

to the foreign policy and national 

security of the United States by helping 

to improve the security of a NATO ally. 

This sale will contribute to both the 

United States’ and Greece’s defense and 

security goal of greater stability in the 

Balkans and the Levant regions by 

enhancing a critical helicopter lift 

capability. Additionally, this sale will 

facilitate greater interoperability of 

Greek systems both bilaterally and 

within NATO. Greece, which already 

operates CH–47s, will have no difficulty 

absorbing these helicopters into its 

armed forces. 

The proposed sale of these helicopters 

and support will not alter the basic 

military balance in the region. 

There is no principal contractor as the 

systems will be coming from U.S. Army 

stock. There are no known offset 

agreements proposed in connection 

with this potential sale. 

Implementation of this proposed sale 

will require the assignment of U.S. 

Government or contractor 

representatives to Greece at some point 

in future. 

There will be no adverse impact on 

U.S. defense readiness as a result of this 

proposed sale. 

Transmittal No. 14–59 

Notice of Proposed Issuance of Letter of 

Offer Pursuant to Section 36(b)(1) Of the 

Arms Export Control Act, as amended 

Annex 

Item No. vii 

(vii) Sensitivity of Technology: 

1. Identification and security 

classification of classified equipment, 

major components, subsystems, 

software, and technical data 

(performance, maintenance, operational 

(R&M, etc), documentation, training 

devices, and services to be conveyed 

with the purposed sale are classified up 

to Secret. The CH–47D is a medium lift 

aircraft, remanufactured from CH–47A, 

B, and C aircraft. The avionic system in 

the CH–47D helicopter consists of the 

following communications equipment: 

HF (AN/ARC–220), VHF AM/FM (AN/

ARC–186) and UHF–AM (AN/ARC 164). 

The navigation equipment includes 

Automatic Direction Finder (AN/ARN– 

89 or 149), VOR ILS Marker Beacon 

(AN/ARN 123), Doppler/GPS (AN/ASN 

128) Navigation System, and VHF FM 

Homing (AN/ARC–201D) provided 

through the FM communications radio. 

Transponder equipment (AN/APX–118 

and AN/APX–118A) consists of an IFF 

receiver with inputs from the barometric 

altimeter for altitude encoding. Mission 

equipment consists of the radar signal 

detecting set, (AN/APR–39A (V) 1) and 

the Common Missile Warning System 

(CMWS) AN/AAR–57. 

2. If a technologically advanced 

adversary were to obtain knowledge of 

the specific hardware and software 

elements, the information could be used 

to develop countermeasures that might 

reduce weapon system effectiveness or 

be used in the development of a system 

with similar advanced capabilities. 

3. A determination has been made 

that the recipient country can provide 

the same degree of protection for the 

sensitive technology being released as 

the U.S. Government. This sale is 

necessary in furtherance of the US 

foreign policy and national security 

objectives outlined in the Policy 

Justification. 

4. All defense articles and services 

listed in this transmittal have been 

authorized for release and export to the 

Government of Greece. 

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BILLING CODE 5001–06–P 

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Department of the Army; Corps of 

Engineers 

Proposed Reduction in Hours of 

Operation at Okeechobee Waterway 

Ranging From the Atlantic Ocean at 

Stuart, FL to the Gulf of Mexico at Fort 

Myers, FL 

AGENCY: Department of the Army, U.S. 

Army Corps of Engineers, DOD. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Army Corps of 

Engineers Jacksonville District is 

seeking comment from the public on a 

proposal to reduce the lock operating 

hours on the Okeechobee Waterway. 

The new proposed operating hours at 

each of the five locks are 7 a.m. to 5 

p.m., seven days a week. The proposed 

change would take effect no earlier than 

April 1, 2015 and would impact the 

following locks: 

• Moore Haven Lock on the west side 

of Lake Okeechobee 

• Ortona Lock near LaBelle 

• Port Mayaca Lock on the east side of 

Lake Okeechobee 

• St. Lucie Lock near Stuart 

• W.P. Franklin Lock near Fort Myers 

The changes are the result of an 

evaluation of the service levels at each 

lock as the U.S. Army Corps of 

Engineers seek methods to gain 

efficiencies on water transit systems 

across the nation. The changes will 

allow the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers 

to reduce costs while still maintaining 

operating hours that accommodate 95 

percent of the boat traffic passing 

through the locks. 

DATES: Submit written comments 

concerning this notice by February 13, 

2015. 

ADDRESSES: Written inquires can be sent 

to Mr. Carl Williams at U.S. Army Corps 

of Engineers South Florida Operations 

Office located at 525 Ridgelawn Road, 

Clewiston, Fl 33440. Email inquiries can 

be sent to PublicMail.CESAJ-CC@

USACE.Army.mil. Please direct phone 

calls to 863–983–8101. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

Carl Williams at U.S. Army Corps of 

Engineers South Florida Operations 

Office located at 525 Ridgelawn Road, 

Clewiston, Fl 33440. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Canaveral 

Lock near Port Canaveral will not be 

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1This program was formerly called ‘‘Technology 

and Media Services for Individuals with 

Disabilities.’’ The Department has changed the 

name to Educational Technology, Media, and 

Materials for Individuals with Disabilities Program 

and updated the purposes of the program to more 

clearly convey that the program includes accessible 

educational materials. The program’s activities and 

statutory authorization (20 U.S.C. 1474) remain 

unchanged. 

impacted by these changes. It will 

continue to operate from 6 a.m. to 9:30 

p.m. daily. A Notice to Navigation will 

also be issued on this subject. For more 

information on navigation notices 

concerning Canaveral Lock or the 

Okeechobee Waterway, please visit the 

following Web site: 

www.saj.usace.army.mil 

Jerry T. Murphy, 

Deputy Chief, Operations Division. 

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BILLING CODE 3710–58–P 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

Applications for New Awards; 

Educational Technology, Media, and 

Materials for Individuals With 

Disabilities—Television Access 

AGENCY: Office of Special Education and 

Rehabilitative Services, Department of 

Education. 

ACTION: Notice. 

Overview Information 

Educational Technology, Media, and 

Materials for Individuals with 

Disabilities—Television Access Notice 

inviting applications for new awards for 

fiscal year (FY) 2015. 

Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance 

(CFDA) Number: 84.327C. 

DATES: Applications Available: January 

14, 2015. 

Deadline for Transmittal of 

Applications: March 16, 2015. 

Deadline for Intergovernmental 

Review: May 14, 2015. 

Full Text of Announcement 

I. Funding Opportunity Description 

Purpose of Program: The purposes of 

the Educational Technology, Media, and 

Materials for Individuals with 

Disabilities Program 1 are to improve 

results for children with disabilities by: 

(1) Promoting the development, 

demonstration, and use of technology; 

(2) supporting educational media 

activities designed to be of educational 

value in the classroom for students with 

disabilities; (3) providing support for 

captioning and video description that is 

appropriate for use in the classroom; 

and (4) providing accessible educational 

materials to students with disabilities in 

a timely manner. 

Priority: In accordance with 34 CFR 

75.105(b)(2)(v), this priority is from 

allowable activities specified in the 

statute (see sections 674(c) and 681(d) of 

the Individuals with Disabilities 

Education Act (IDEA) (20 U.S.C. 1474(c) 

and 1481(d))). 

Absolute Priority: For FY 2015 and 

any subsequent year for which we make 

awards from the list of unfunded 

applicants from this competition, this 

priority is an absolute priority. Under 34 

CFR 75.105(c)(3), we consider only 

applications that meet this priority. 

This priority is: 

Educational Technology, Media, and 

Materials for Individuals With 

Disabilities—Television Access 

Background 

The Federal Communications 

Commission (FCC) is responsible for 

implementing and monitoring 

compliance with the captioning 

requirements of the 

Telecommunications Act of 1996 (Act). 

Consistent with the Act, the FCC 

requires most television programs to be 

captioned, but provides for certain 

exemptions to this requirement. The 

FCC also has limited requirements for 

video description. The FCC’s video 

description requirements provide some 

access to television programs for 

individuals with blindness or low 

vision, but are not as widely applicable 

as the closed captioning requirements. 

Therefore, only a small number of 

television programs are actually 

broadcast with video description. The 

following Web sites provide more 

information on captioning and video 

description: www.fcc.gov/cgb/

consumerfacts/closedcaption.html and 

www.fcc.gov/encyclopedia/videodescription. 

Pursuant to the authority in IDEA 

Section 1464(c), the Department has 

made awards for television access since 

1995 in order to provide video 

description and captioning under the 

Educational Technology, Media, and 

Materials for Individuals with 

Disabilities program. The following Web 

site contains abstracts of previously 

funded projects: http://

publicddb.tadnet.org/. (Use the keyword 

search function with the term ‘‘video 

description.’’) Despite the efforts of the 

Department, not all television programs 

that are appropriate for use in the 

classroom setting for children with 

disabilities are being video described or 

captioned. 

Priority 

The purpose of this absolute priority 

for Television Access is to fund 

cooperative agreements that will 

improve the learning opportunities for 

children with disabilities by providing 

access to television programming 

through high-quality video description 

and captioning. This project will 

support access—through high-quality 

video description and captioning—to 

widely available television programs 

that are appropriate for use in the 

classroom setting and are not otherwise 

required to be captioned or described by 

the FCC. 

Application Requirements 

In addition to these programmatic 

requirements, to be considered for 

funding under this priority, applicants 

must meet the application and 

administrative requirements in this 

priority. The Department’s Office of 

Special Education Programs (OSEP) 

encourages innovative approaches to 

meet these requirements: 

(a) Demonstrate, in the narrative 

section of the application under 

‘‘Significance of the Project,’’ how the 

proposed project will address the need 

for access to educational television 

programming to support equitable 

opportunities in early learning 

programs, schools, and workplaces. To 

meet this requirement, the applicant 

must— 

(1) Present applicable national, State, 

regional, or local data demonstrating the 

need for accessible educational 

television programs in schools and 

workplaces for children with 

disabilities, including children with 

disabilities who may be underserved; 

and 

(2) Demonstrate knowledge of the 

benefits, services, or opportunities that 

are available through the use of 

educational television programming in 

schools and workplaces that are fully 

accessible to children with disabilities, 

including children with disabilities who 

may be underserved. 

(b) Demonstrate, in the narrative 

section of the application under 

‘‘Quality of Project Services,’’ how the 

project will— 

(1) Take into account the preferences 

of educators, students with disabilities, 

and the parents of these students in 

selecting the programming to be video 

described, or video described and 

captioned; 

(2) Use criteria to select television 

programs of high educational value that 

are widely available and are appropriate 

for use in the classroom setting for 

children with disabilities at the 

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