32524 Federal Register / Vol. 63, No. 113 / Friday, June 12, 1998 / Notices

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

[CFDA NO: 84.274]

American Overseas Research Centers

(AORC) Program; Notice Inviting New

Awards For Fiscal Year (FY) 1998

Purpose of Program: The American

Overseas Research Centers program

provides grants to eligible consortia of

domestic institutions of higher

education to establish or operate

overseas research centers that promote

postgraduate research, exchanges, and

area studies.

Eligible Applicants: Consortia of U.S.

institutions of higher education.

Deadline for Transmittal of

Applications: July 20, 1998.

Deadline for Intergovernmental

Review: August 20, 1998.

Applications Available: June 16, 1998.

Available Funds: $100,000.

Estimated Range of Awards: $35,000–

50,000.

Estimated Average Size of Awards:

$54,545.

Estimated Number of Awards: 3.

Note: The Department is not bound by any

estimates in this notice.

Project Period: 24 months, beginning

October 1, 1998.

Applicable Regulations: (a) The

Education Department General

Administrative Regulations (EDGAR) in

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

86.

Supplementary Information: Because

there are no program specific

regulations for this program, applicants

are directed to the authorizing statute

for the American Overseas Research

Centers program, section 610 of part A,

title VI, of the Higher Education Act of

1965, as amended. (20 U.S.C. 1127)

The Secretary shall only award grants

to centers under this section that (1)

receive more than 50 percent of their

funding from public or private United

States sources; (2) have a permanent

presence in the country in which the

center is located; and (3) are

organizations described in section

501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code

of 1993 which are exempt from taxation

under section 501(a) of such Code.

Grants awarded under this program

may be used to pay all or a portion of

the cost of establishing or operating a

center or program, including the cost of

faculty and staff stipends and salaries;

faculty, staff, and student travel; the

operation and maintenance of overseas

facilities; the cost of teaching and

research materials; the cost of

acquisition, maintenance, and

preservation of library collections; the

cost of bringing visiting scholars and

faculty to a center to teach or to conduct

research; the cost of organizing and

managing conferences; and the cost of

publications and dissemination of

material for the scholarly and general

public.

Selection Criteria: The Secretary uses

the selection criteria in sections 75.209

and 75.210, 34 CFR Part 75 of Education

Department General Administrative

Regulations (EDGAR) to evaluate grant

applications. The selection criteria and

the points assigned to the criteria are

included in the application package.

FOR APPLICATIONS OR

INFORMATION CONTACT: Cheryl E.

Gibbs, U.S. Department of Education,

International Education and Graduate

Programs Service, 600 Independence

Avenue, S.W., Suite 600–B, Portals

Building, Washington, D.C. 20202–5331.

Telephone (202) 401–9785. Individuals

who use a telecommunications device

for the deaf (TDD) may call the Federal

Information Relay Service (FRS) at 1–

800–877–8339 between 8 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

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:

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To use the pdf you must have the

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Search, which is available free at either

of the previous sites. If you have any

questions about using the pdf, call the

U.S. Government Printing Office at (202)

512–1530 or, 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. 1127.

Dated: June 3, 1998.

David A. Longanecker,

Assistant Secretary for Postsecondary

Education.

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