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receiving the list from the Council, 

whichever is later. The Secretary will 

also recommend the lead Federal agency 

for each project to be funded. The NonFederal Sponsor of each proposal will 

be notified of its status at the conclusion 

of the selection process. Staff from the 

appropriate Federal agency will work 

with the Non-Federal Sponsor of each 

selected project to develop the costsharing agreements and schedules for 

project implementation. 

IX. Structure and Content of 

Application Submission 

Each application should include: 

lll PART I questions completed (see 

Project Application) 

lll Project description organized 

according to the Project Application, 

including descriptions of: 

lll how regional habitat trends 

were considered in developing the 

project proposal 

lll expected ecosystem benefits, 

their significance/importance, when 

the benefits will be realized, and 

the project’s expected lifetime 

lll the roles and contributions of 

project partners 

lll how the long-term operation 

and maintenance of the project will 

be handled 

lll Monitoring plan specifying at 

least one structural and one 

functional parameter to be 

measured and that monitoring will 

occur for five years postconstruction 

lll Name and link to Federal or 

State restoration plan the project 

will address 

lll Detailed budget broken out by 

object class (see Supplemental 

Guidance for Prospective 

Applicants for more detail on 

creating a budget, including a 

budget table template and example 

narrative) 

lll Justification for an innovative 

project. If an applicant feels their 

project could be considered 

innovative, they should develop 

two budgets—one considering it 

innovative and one considering it as 

a standard project 

lll Map showing the project site 

and key features 

lll Description of compliance 

activities (e.g., NEPA) if any are 

completed 

lll Brief resumes of key staff (no 

more than one page per person, not 

more than 5 individuals) 

lll Letter of assurance stating 

adequate personnel, funding, and 

authority to conduct the project 

lll Signed certification form (see 

Project Application) that the project 

is not an excluded activity (for a list 

of excluded activities see section III 

EXCLUDED ACTIVITIES) 

A complete application package 

should be submitted in accordance with 

the guidelines in this solicitation. 

X. Application Process 

Proposal application forms, including 

Supplemental Guidance for Prospective 

Applicants, are available at http:// 

www.usace.army.mil/CECW/ERA/ 

Pages/pps.aspx and http://era.noaa.gov 

or by contacting Ms. Jenni Wallace (see 

ADDRESSES and FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT sections). Project 

proposals may be submitted 

electronically, by mail, or by courier. 

Electronic submissions are preferred. 

The application form has been approved 

by OMB in compliance with the Paper 

Work Reduction Act and is OMB No. 

0710–0014 with an expiration date of 

November 30, 2011. Send electronic 

submissions to Jenni.Wallace@noaa.gov. 

Questions may also be sent to the same 

e-mail address. If it is not feasible to 

provide an electronic submission, hard 

copy submissions may be sent or 

delivered to Ms. Jenni Wallace, NOAA 

Restoration Center, SSMC3 F/HC3 Room 

14730, 1315 East-West Highway, Silver 

Spring, MD 20910. The part of the 

proposal prepared to address the 

‘‘proposal elements’’ portion of the 

application should be no more than 

twelve double-spaced pages, using a 10 

or 12-point font. Paper copies should be 

printed on 8.5 in. x 11 in. paper and 

may be double sided but must not be 

bound as multiple copies will be 

necessary for review. Only one hard 

copy is required. A PC-compatible CD– 

ROM in either Microsoft Word or PDF 

format may accompany the paper copy. 

Nominations for multiple projects 

submitted by the same applicant must 

be submitted in separate e-mail 

messages and/or envelopes. 

Brenda S. Bowen, 

Army Federal Register Liaison Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2010–681 Filed 1–14–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3720–58–P 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

Notice of Proposed Information 

Collection Requests 

AGENCY: Department of Education. 

SUMMARY: The Acting Director, 

Information Collection Clearance 

Division, Regulatory Information 

Management Services, Office of 

Management, invites comments on the 

proposed information collection 

requests as required by the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995. 

DATES: Interested persons are invited to 

submit comments on or before March 

16, 2010. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 

3506 of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 

1995 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35) requires 

that the Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB) provide interested 

Federal agencies and the public an early 

opportunity to comment on information 

collection requests. OMB may amend or 

waive the requirement for public 

consultation to the extent that public 

participation in the approval process 

would defeat the purpose of the 

information collection, violate State or 

Federal law, or substantially interfere 

with any agency’s ability to perform its 

statutory obligations. The Acting 

Director, Information Collection 

Clearance Division, Regulatory 

Information Management Services, 

Office of Management, publishes that 

notice containing proposed information 

collection requests prior to submission 

of these requests to OMB. Each 

proposed information collection, 

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. 

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. 

Dated: January 12, 2010. 

Stephanie Valentine, 

Acting Director, Information Collection 

Clearance Division, Regulatory Information 

Management Services, Office of Management. 

Office of Postsecondary Education 

Type of Review: New. 

Title: Annual Performance Report for 

the Historically Black Colleges and 

Universities Master’s Degree Program 

(HBCU). 

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

Reporting and Recordkeeping Hour 

Burden: 

Responses: 18. 

Burden Hours: 360. 

Abstract: The Department is 

requesting authorization to annually 

collect performance report data for the 

new Historically Black Colleges and 

Universities (HBCU) Masters Degree 

Program. This information is being 

collected to comply with the 

Government Performance and Results 

Act (GPRA) of 1993, Section 4 (1115), 

and the Education Department General 

Administrative Regulations (EDGAR), 

34 CFR 75.253. EDGAR states that 

recipients of multi-year discretionary 

grants must submit an APR 

demonstrating that substantial progress 

has been made towards meeting the 

approved objectives of the project. 

Further, the APR lends itself to the 

collection of quantifiable data needed to 

respond to the requirements of OMB’s 

Program Assessment Rating Tool 

process. In addition, grantees will be 

required to report on their progress 

towards meeting the performance 

measures established for the HBCU 

Master’s Degree Program. 

Requests for copies of the proposed 

information collection request may be 

accessed from http://edicsweb.ed.gov, 

by selecting the ‘‘Browse Pending 

Collections’’ link and by clicking on link 

number 4155. When you access the 

information collection, click on 

‘‘Download Attachments’’ to view. 

Written requests for information should 

be addressed to U.S. Department of 

Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, SW., 

LBJ, Washington, DC 20202–4537. 

Requests may also be electronically 

mailed to ICDocketMgr@ed.gov or faxed 

to 202–401–0920. Please specify the 

complete title of the information 

collection when making your request. 

Comments regarding burden and/or 

the collection activity requirements 

should be electronically mailed to 

ICDocketMgr@ed.gov. Individuals who 

use a telecommunications device for the 

deaf (TDD) may call the Federal 

Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 

1–800–877–8339. 

[FR Doc. 2010–749 Filed 1–14–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

Office of Innovation and Improvement; 

Overview Information; Arts in 

Education Model Development and 

Dissemination Program; Notice 

Inviting Applications for New Awards 

for Fiscal Year (FY) 2010 

Catalog of Federal Domestic 

Assistance (CFDA) Number: 84.351D. 

Dates: 

Applications Available: January 15, 

2010. 

Deadline for Notice of Intent to Apply: 

February 16, 2010. 

Deadline for Transmittal of 

Applications: March 16, 2010. 

Deadline for Intergovernmental 

Review: May 17, 2010. 

Full Text of Announcement 

I. Funding Opportunity Description 

Purpose of Program: The Arts in 

Education Model Development and 

Dissemination (AEMDD) Program 

supports the enhancement, expansion, 

documentation, evaluation, and 

dissemination of innovative, cohesive 

models that are based on research and 

have demonstrated that they 

effectively—(1) Integrate standardsbased arts education into the core 

elementary and middle school 

curriculum; (2) strengthen standardsbased arts instruction in these grades; 

and (3) improve students’ academic 

performance, including their skills in 

creating, performing, and responding to 

the arts. Projects funded through the 

AEMDD Program are intended to 

increase the amount of nationally 

available information on effective 

models for arts education that integrate 

the arts with standards-based education 

programs. 

Priorities: This competition includes 

one absolute priority, one competitive 

preference priority, and five invitational 

priorities. 

Absolute Priority: This priority is from 

the notice of final priority, 

requirements, and definitions for this 

program, published in the Federal 

Register on March 30, 2005 (70 FR 

16234). For FY 2010 and any 

subsequent year in 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: 

This priority supports projects that 

enhance, expand, document, evaluate, 

and disseminate innovative, cohesive 

models that are based on research and 

have demonstrated their effectiveness in 

(1) Integrating standards-based arts 

education into the core elementary or 

middle school curriculum, (2) 

strengthening standards-based arts 

instruction in the elementary or middle 

school grades, and (3) improving the 

academic performance of students in 

elementary or middle school grades, 

including their skills in creating, 

performing, and responding to the arts. 

In order to meet this priority, an 

applicant must demonstrate that the 

model project for which it seeks funding 

(1) serves only elementary school or 

middle school grades, or both, and (2) 

is linked to State and national standards 

intended to enable all students to meet 

challenging expectations and to improve 

student and school performance. 

Note: National standards refer to the arts 

standards developed by the Consortium of 

National Arts Education Association. The 

standards outline what students should know 

and be able to do in the arts. These are not 

Department standards. 

Competitive Preference Priority: This 

priority is from the notice of final 

priority for Scientifically Based 

Evaluation Methods published in the 

Federal Register on January 25, 2005 

(70 FR 3586). For FY 2010 and any 

subsequent year in which we make 

awards from the list of unfunded 

applicants from this competition, this 

priority is a competitive preference 

priority. Under 34 CFR 75.105(c)(2)(i) 

we award up to an additional 20 points 

to an application, depending on how 

well the application meets this 

competitive preference priority. These 

points are in addition to any points the 

application earns under the selection 

criteria. 

When using the priority to give 

competitive preference to an 

application, we will review the 

applications using a two-stage review 

process. In the first stage, we will 

review the applications without taking 

the competitive preference priority into 

account. In the second stage of the 

process, we will review the applications 

rated highest in the first stage of the 

process to determine whether they will 

receive the competitive preference 

points. We will consider awarding 

additional (competitive preference) 

points only to those applicants with topranked scores based on the selection 

criteria. We expect that approximately 

50 applicants will receive these 

additional competitive preference 

points. 

This priority is: 

The Secretary establishes a priority 

for projects proposing an evaluation 

plan that is based on rigorous 

scientifically based research methods to 

assess the effectiveness of a particular 


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