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grouped by office, contains the

following: (1) Type of review requested,

e.g., new, revision, extension, existing

or reinstatement; (2) Title; (3) Summary

of the collection; (4) Description of the

need for, and proposed use of, the

information; (5) Respondents and

frequency of collection; and (6)

Reporting and/or Recordkeeping

burden. OMB invites public comment at

the address specified above. Copies of

the requests are available from Patrick J.

Sherrill at the address specified above.

Dated: January 13, 1998.

Gloria Parker,

Deputy Chief Information Officer, Office of

the Chief Information Officer.

Office of Educational Research and

Improvement

Type of Review: New.

Title: Application for Grants Under

the Javits Gifted and Talented Students

Education Program.

Frequency: Annually.

Affected Public: Business or other forprofit; Not-for-profit institutions; State,

local or Tribal Gov’t, SEAs or LEAs.

Reporting Burden and Recordkeeping:

Responses: 300. Burden Hours: 12,000.

Abstract: Applications are required to

receive grants under the the Javits Gifted

and Talented Students Education

Program. Program participants include

SEAs, LEAs, Institutions of Higher

Education, other public and private

agencies and organizations, including

Indian tribes and organizations—as

defined by the Indian SelfDetermination and Education

Assistance Act—and Native Hawaiian

organizations.

[FR Doc. 98–1194 Filed 1–16–98; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

[CFDA No. 84.116R]

Fund for the Improvement of

Postsecondary Education (FIPSE)—

Special Focus Competition:

Controlling the Cost of Postsecondary

Education; Notice Inviting Applications

for New Awards for Fiscal Year (FY)

1998

Purpose of Program: To provide

grants or enter into cooperative

agreements to improve postsecondary

education opportunities by focusing on

problem areas or improvement

approaches in postsecondary education.

Eligible Applicants: Institutions of

higher education, other public and

private nonprofit educational

institutions and agencies, or

combinations of those institutions or

agencies.

Deadline for Transmittal of

Applications: March 20, 1998.

Deadline for Intergovernmental

Review: May 19, 1998.

Applications Available: January 20,

1998.

Available Funds: $1,300,000.

Estimated Range of Awards: $70,000–

$200,000.

Estimated Average Size of Awards:

$100,000.

Estimated Number of Awards: 5–15.

Note: The Department is not bound by any

estimates in this notice.

Project Period: Up to 24 months.

Applicable Regulations: The

Education Department General

Administrative Regulations (EDGAR) in

34 CFR Parts 74, 75, 77, 79, 80, 82, 85

and 86.

Priority

Invitational Priority

The Secretary is particularly

interested in applications that meet the

following invitational priority.

However, an application that meets this

invitational priority does not receive

competitive or absolute preference over

other applications (34 CFR 75.105(c)(1)).

Invitational Priority

Projects that are designed to deliver

postsecondary education at less cost

than in previous years, while

maintaining high quality.

Methods for Applying Selection Criteria

The Secretary gives equal weight to

the listed criteria. Within each of the

criterion, the Secretary gives equal

weight to each of the factors.

Selection Criteria

In evaluating applications for grants

under this program competition, the

Secretary uses the following selection

criteria chosen from those listed in 34

CFR 75.210:

(a) The significance of the proposed

project, as determined by—

(1) The extent to which the proposed

project involves the development or

demonstration of promising new

strategies that build on, or are

alternatives to, existing strategies; and

(2) The potential replicability of the

proposed project or strategies,

including, as appropriate, the potential

for implementation in a variety of

settings.

(b) The quality of the design of the

proposed project, as determined by the

extent to which the goals, objectives,

and outcomes to be achieved by the

proposed project are clearly specified

and measurable.

(c) The quality of the evaluation to be

conducted of the proposed project, as

determined by the extent to which the

methods of evaluation are thorough,

feasible, and appropriate to the goals,

objectives, and outcomes of the

proposed project.

(d) The quality of the personnel who

will carry out the proposed project, as

determined by—

(1) The qualifications, including

relevant training and experience, of key

project personnel; and

(2) The extent to which the applicant

encourages applications for employment

from persons who are members of

groups that have traditionally been

underrepresented based on race, color,

national origin, gender, age, or

disability.

(e) The adequacy of resources for the

proposed project, as determined by—

(1) The extent to which the budget is

adequate to support the proposed

project;

(2) The extent to which the costs are

reasonable in relation to the objectives,

design, and potential significance of the

proposed project;

(3) The relevance and demonstrated

commitment of each partner in the

proposed project to the implementation

and success of the project;

(4) The adequacy of support,

including facilities, equipment,

supplies, and other resources from the

applicant organization or the lead

applicant organization; and

(5) The potential for continued

support of the project after Federal

funding ends, including, as appropriate,

the demonstrated commitment of

appropriate entities to such support.

For Applications or Information

Contact: Fund for the Improvement of

Postsecondary Education (FIPSE), U.S.

Department of Education, 600

Independence Avenue, S.W., Room

3100, ROB–3, Washington, D.C. 20202–

5175. You may request applications by

calling 202–358–3041 (voice mail) or

732–544–2872 (fax-on-demand) or by

submitting the name of the competition

and your name and postal address to

FIPSE@ED.GOV (e-mail). Applications

are also listed on the FIPSE Web Site

<http://www.ed.gov/offices/OPE/

FIPSE>. 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. For additional

program information call David Johnson

at the FIPSE office (202–708–5750)

between the hours of 9 a.m. and 5 p.m.,

Eastern time, Monday through Friday.

Individuals with disabilities may

obtain this document in an alternate

format (e.g., Braille, large print,

audiotape, or computer diskette) on
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request to the contact person listed in

the preceding paragraph.

Individuals with disabilities may

obtain a copy of the application package

in an alternate format, also, by

contacting that person. However, the

Department is not able to reproduce in

an alternate format the standard forms

included in the application package.

Electronic Access to This Document

Anyone may view this document, as

well as all other Department of

Education documents published in the

Federal Register, in text or portable

document format (pdf) on the World

Wide Web at either of the following

sites:

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

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

To use the pdf you must have the

Adobe Acrobat Reader Program with

Search, which is available free at either

of the previous sites. If you have

questions about using the pdf, call the

U.S. Government Printing Office toll

free at 1–888–293–6498.

Anyone may also view these

documents in text copy only on an

electronic bulletin board of the

Department. Telephone: (202) 219–1511

or, toll free, 1–800–222–4922. The

documents are located under Option

G—Files/Announcements, Bulletins and

Press Releases.

Note: The official version of a document is

the document published in the Federal

Register.

Program Authority: 20 U.S.C. 1135–1135a–

3.

Dated: January 13, 1998.

David A. Longanecker,

Assistant Secretary for Postsecondary

Education.

[FR Doc. 98–1208 Filed 1–16–98; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Directory Database Available for

License

AGENCY: Office of General Counsel,

Department of Energy.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of

Energy announces that the following

Directory Database is available for

license: ‘‘Commercial Environmental

Cleanup, Products and Services

Directory.’’

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: Michael P.

Hoffman, Office of the Assistant General

Counsel for Technology Transfer and

Intellectual Property, U.S. Department

of Energy, 1000 Independence Avenue,

SW., Washington, DC. 20585; Telephone

(202) 586–2802.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The

above-captioned Directory, which is in

the nature of a database of companies

working in the area of environmental

cleanup, was prepared under

Government contract. The Department

of Energy (DOE) is currently paying for

the continued maintenance and

dissemination of the above-captioned

Directory database, both to Government

agencies and to the general public. DOE

is attempting to secure a private entity

which, in return for a possible exclusive

royalty-free license in the Directory

database, will maintain the Directory

database as well as print and market it,

both to the Government and the general

public as a stand-alone entity or

incorporated with other services on a

for-profit basis, thereby relieving the

Government of the labor and expense of

doing so.

Issued in Washington, DC., on January 9,

1998.

Paul A. Gottlieb,

Assistant General Counsel for Technology

Transfer and Intellectual Property.

[FR Doc. 98–1224 Filed 1–16–98; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6450–01–U

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission

[Docket No. CP98–171–000]

Koch Gateway Pipeline Company;

Notice of Request Under Blanket

Authorization

January 13, 1998.

Take notice that on January 7, 1998,

Koch Gateway Pipeline Company (Koch

Gateway), P.O. Box 1478, Houston, TX

77251–1478, filed in Docket No. CP98–

171–000 a request pursuant to Sections

157.205 and 157.216 of the

Commission’s Regulations under the

Natural Gas Act (18 CFR 157.205,

157.216) for authorization to abandon a

leased compressor unit, under Koch

Gateway’s blanket certificate issued in

Docket No. CP82–430, pursuant to

Section 7 of the Natural Gas Act, all as

more fully set forth in the request that

is on file with the Commission and open

to public inspection.

Koch Gateway proposes to abandon,

by returning to the lessor, a 1200

horsepower skid-mounted compressor

unit located on its Index 201 low

pressure pipeline system at its existing

Hecker Compressor Station yard in

Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana. Koch

Gateway states that it installed this unit

as part of its low pressure lateral system

for the purpose of lifting additional gas

supplies from its low pressure system to

its higher pressure system and ultimate

delivery to the Lake Charles market

area. Koch Gateway states that it will no

longer need the compressor unit once its

transportation contract with Union

Pacific Resource Company (UPRC)

expires in May of 1998. Koch Gateway

also states that the proposed

abandonment will have no impact on

any of its existing customers, since this

compressor unit was placed in service

for UPRC.

Any person or the Commission’s staff

may, within 45 days after issuance of

the instant notice by the Commission,

file pursuant to Rule 214 of the

Commission’s Procedural Rules (18 CFR

385.214) a motion to intervene or notice

of intervention and pursuant to Section

157.205 of the Regulations under the

Natural Gas Act (18 CFR 157.205) a

protest to the request. If no protest is

filed within the time allowed therefor,

the proposed activity shall be deemed to

be authorized effective the day after the

time allowed for filing a protest. If a

protest is filed and not withdrawn

within 30 days after the time allowed

for filing a protest, the instant request

shall be treated as an application for

authorization pursuant to Section 7 of

the Natural Gas Act.

David P. Boergers,

Acting Secretary.

[FR Doc. 98–1218 Filed 1–16–98; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6717–01–M

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission

[Docket No. ER98–11–000]

Long Island Lighting Company; Notice

of Filing

January 13, 1998.

Take notice that on December 22,

1997, Long Island Lighting Company

tendered for filing a Settlement

Agreement Request for Establishment of

Technical Conference.

Any person desiring to be heard or to

protest said filing should file a motion

to intervene or protest with the Federal

Energy Regulatory Commission, 888

First Street, NE., Washington DC 20426,

in accordance with Rules 211 and 214

of the Commission’s Rules of Practice

and Procedure (18 CFR 385.211 and 18

CFR 385.214). All such motions or

protests should be filed on or before

January 20, 1998. Protests will be

considered by the Commission in