10162 Federal Register / Vol. 62, No. 43 / Wednesday, March 5, 1997 / Notices

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

(CFDA No.: 84.162A)

Emergency Immigrant Education

Program; Notice Inviting Applications

for New Awards for Fiscal Year (FY)

1997

Purpose of Program: This program

provides grants to State educational

agencies (SEAs) to assist local

educational agencies (LEAs) that

experience unexpectedly large increases

in their student population due to

immigration. These grants are to be used

to provide high-quality instruction to

immigrant children and youth and to

help those children and youth make the

transition into American society and

meet the same challenging State

performance standards expected of all

children and youth.

Eligible Applicants: State educational

agencies.

Deadline for Transmittal of

Applications: May 15, 1997.

Deadline for Intergovernmental

Review: July 15, 1997.

Applications Available: March 10,

1997.

Available Funds: $100 million.

Project Period: Up to 16 months.

Applicable Regulations: The

Education Department General

Administrative Regulations (EDGAR) in

34 CFR Parts 76, 77, 79, 80, 81, 82, and

85.

Programmatic Information: An SEA is

eligible for a grant if it meets the

eligibility requirements specified in

sections 7304 and 7305 of the

Elementary and Secondary Education

Act of 1965 (the Act), as amended by the

Improving America’s School’s Act of

1994 (Pub. L. 103–382, enacted October

20, 1994). (20 U.S.C. 7544 and 7545). In

order to receive an award under this

program, an SEA must provide a count,

taken during April 1997, of the number

of immigrant children and youth

enrolled in public and nonpublic

schools in eligible LEAs in accordance

with the requirements specified in

section 7304 of the Act. An eligible LEA

is one in which the number of

immigrant children and youth enrolled

in the public and nonpublic elementary

and secondary schools within the

district is at least either 500 or 3 percent

of the total number of students enrolled

in those public and nonpublic schools.

(20 U.S.C. 7544(b)(2)). Under section

7501(7) of the Act, the term ‘‘immigrant

children and youth’’ means individuals

who are aged 3 through 21, were not

born in any State, and have not been

attending one or more schools in any

one or more States for more than 3 full

academic years. (20 U.S.C. 7601(7)).

For Applications or Information

Contact: Ms. Harpreet K. Sandhu, U.S.

Department of Education, 600

Independence Avenue, SW., Room

5086, Switzer Building, Washington, DC

20202–6510. Telephone: (202) 205–

9808. Individuals who use a

telecommunications device for the deaf

(TDD) may call the Federal Information

Relay Service (FIRS) at 1–800–877–8339

between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m., Eastern time,

Monday through Friday.

Information about the Department’s

funding opportunities, including copies

of the application notices for

discretionary grant competitions, can be

viewed on the Department’s electronic

bulletin board (ED Board), telephone

(202) 260–9950; on the Internet Gopher

Server (at Gopher.//gcs.ed.gov); or on

the World Wide Web (at http://

www.ed.gov/money.html). However,

the official application notice for this

grant program is the notice published in

the Federal Register.

Program Authority: 20 U.S.C. 7541–7549.

Dated: February 27, 1997.

Delia Pompa,

Director, Office of Bilingual Education and

Minority Language Affairs.

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