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[FR Doc. E9–741 Filed 1–14–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

Office of Innovation and Improvement; 

Overview Information: State Charter 

School Facilities Incentive Grants 

Program; Notice Inviting Applications 

for New Awards for Fiscal Year (FY) 

2009 

Catalog of Federal Domestic 

Assistance (CFDA) Number: 84.282D. 

DATES: Applications Available: 

January 15, 2009. 

Deadline for Transmittal of 

Applications: July 1, 2009. 

Deadline for Intergovernmental 

Review: August 31, 2009. 

Full Text of Announcement 

I. Funding Opportunity Description 

Purpose of Program: This program 

provides grants to eligible States to help 

them establish or enhance, and 

administer, per-pupil facilities aid 

programs for charter schools. States 

eligible for these grants are those with 

per-pupil aid programs that assist 

charter schools with their school facility 

costs. 

Priorities: In accordance with 34 CFR 

75.105(b)(2)(ii), these priorities are from 

the regulations for this program (34 CFR 

226.13 and 226.14). 

Competitive Preference Priorities: For 

FY 2009 and any subsequent year in 

which we make awards from the list of 

unfunded applicants from this 

competition, these priorities are 

competitive preference priorities. Under 

34 CFR 75.105(c)(2)(i) we award up to 

an additional 40 points to an 

application, depending on how well the 

application meets these priorities. 

These priorities are: 

Competitive Preference Priority 1. The 

Secretary will award up to 20 points to 

an application under competitive 

preference priority 1. The applicant 

must meet all of the following 

requirements ((a) through (d)) in order 

to receive the full 20 points. The 

requirements are: 

(a) Periodic Review and Evaluation. 

The State provides for periodic review 

and evaluation by the authorized public 

chartering agency of each charter school 

at least once every five years unless 

required more frequently by State law, 

to determine whether the charter school 

is meeting the terms of the school’s 

charter and is meeting or exceeding the 

student academic performance 

requirements and goals for charter 

schools as set forth under State law or 

the school’s charter. 

(b) Number of High-Quality Charter 

Schools. 

The State has demonstrated progress 

in increasing the number of high-quality 

charter schools that are held 

accountable in the terms of the schools’ 

charters for meeting clear and 

measurable objectives for the 

educational progress of the students 

attending the schools, in the period 

prior to the period for which the State 

applies for a grant under this 

competition. 

(c) One Authorized Public Chartering 

Agency Other than an LEA, or an 

Appeals Process. 

The State— 

(1) Provides for one authorized public 

chartering agency that is not a local 

educational agency (LEA), such as a 

State chartering board, for each 

individual or entity seeking to operate a 

charter school pursuant to State law; or 

(2) In the case of a State in which 

LEAs are the only authorized public 

chartering agencies, allows for an 

appeals process for the denial of an 

application for a charter school. 

(d) High Degree of Autonomy. 

The State ensures that each charter 

school has a high degree of autonomy 

over the charter school’s budgets and 

expenditures. 

Competitive Preference Priority 2. The 

Secretary may award up to 10 points to 

an application under a competitive 

preference priority regarding the 

capacity of charter schools to offer 

public school choice in those 

communities with the greatest need for 

this choice based on— 

(1) The extent to which the applicant 

would target services to geographic 

areas in which a large proportion or 

number of public schools have been 

identified for improvement, corrective 

action, or restructuring under title I of 

the Elementary and Secondary 

Education Act of 1965 (ESEA), as 

amended by the No Child Left Behind 

Act of 2001 (NCLB), 20 U.S.C. 7221a(e); 

(2) The extent to which the applicant 

would target services to geographic 

areas in which a large proportion of 

students perform poorly on State 

academic assessments; and 

(3) The extent to which the applicant 

would target services to communities 

with large proportions of low-income 

students. 

Competitive Preference Priority 3. The 

Secretary may award up to 10 points to 

an application under a competitive 

preference priority for applicants that 

have not previously received a grant 

under the program. 

Program Authority: 20 U.S.C. 7221d(b). 

Applicable Regulations: (a) The 

Education Department General 

Administrative Regulations (EDGAR) in 

34 CFR parts 74, 75, 77, 79, 80, 81, 82, 

84, 85, 97, 98, and 99. (b) The 

regulations for this program in 34 CFR 

part 226. 

Note: The regulations in 34 CFR part 79 

apply to all applicants except federally 

recognized Indian tribes. 

II. Award Information 

Type of Award: Discretionary grants. 

Estimated Available Funds: The 

Administration has requested 

$14,782,000 for new awards for this 

program for FY 2009. The actual level 

of funding, if any, depends on final 

congressional action. However, we are 

inviting applications to allow enough 

time to complete the grant process 

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if Congress appropriates funds for this 

program. 

Contingent upon the availability of 

funds and the quality of applications, 

we may make additional awards in FY 

2010 from the list of unfunded 

applications from this competition. 

Estimated Range of Awards: 

$2,000,000–$10,000,000. 

Estimated Average Size of Awards: 

$3,695,500. 

Estimated Number of Awards: 4. 

Note: The Department is not bound by any 

estimates in this notice. 

Project Period: Up to 60 months. 

III. Eligibility Information 

1. Eligible Applicants: States that have 

enacted a State law authorizing perpupil facilities aid for charter schools. 

2. a. Cost Sharing or Matching: Under 

section 5205(b)(2)(C) of the ESEA, as 

amended by the NCLB, States, or parties 

that are closely collaborating with them, 

are required to provide matching funds. 

The minimum non-Federal share of the 

total cost of the project increases each 

year of the grant, from 10 percent the 

first year to 80 percent in the fifth year. 

Applicants that are initially selected 

to receive grants will not receive grant 

funds unless they demonstrate, by July 

15, 2009, that they will be able to fund 

the non-Federal share of the matching 

funds required under this program. The 

Department reserves the right to reject 

an application if an initial recipient 

does not demonstrate that it will have 

the required non-Federal funding by 

this date. 

b. Supplement-Not-Supplant: This 

program involves supplement-notsupplant funding requirements under 

section 5205(b)(3)(C) of the ESEA (20 

U.S.C. 7221d(b)(3)(C)). 

Funds under this program must be 

used to supplement, and not supplant, 

State and local public funds expended 

to provide per pupil facilities aid 

programs, operations, financing 

programs, or other programs, for charter 

schools. Therefore, the Federal funds 

provided under this program, as well as 

the matching funds provided by the 

grantee, must be in addition to the State 

and local funds that would otherwise be 

used for this purpose in the absence of 

this Federal program. The Department 

generally considers that State and local 

funds would be available for this 

purpose at least in the amount of the 

funds that was available in the 

preceding comparison year and that the 

Federal funds and matching funds 

under this program would supplement 

that amount. 

3. Other: The charter schools that a 

grantee selects to benefit from this 

program must meet the definition of a 

charter school, as defined in the Charter 

Schools Program authorizing statute in 

section 5210(1) of the ESEA. The 

definitions of charter school and 

authorized public chartering agency are 

in the application package. 

IV. Application and Submission 

Information 

1. Address To Request Application 

Package: Valarie Perkins, U.S. 

Department of Education, 400 Maryland 

Avenue, SW., room 4W258, 

Washington, DC 20202–5970. 

Telephone: (202) 260–1924 or by e-mail: 

Valarie.Perkins@ed.gov. 

If you use a telecommunications 

device for the deaf (TDD), call the 

Federal Relay Service (FRS), toll free, at 

1–800–877–8339. 

Individuals with disabilities can 

obtain a copy of the application package 

in an accessible format (e.g., braille, 

large print, audiotape, or computer 

diskette) by contacting the program 

contact person listed in this section. 

2. Content and Form of Application 

Submission: Requirements concerning 

the content of an application, together 

with the forms you must submit, are in 

the application package for this 

program. 

Page Limit: We have found that 

reviewers are able to conduct the 

highest-quality review when 

applications are concise and easy to 

read. Applicants are encouraged to limit 

their applications to no more than 30 

double-spaced pages (not including the 

required forms and tables), to use a 12- 

point or larger-size font with one-inch 

margins at the top, bottom, and both 

sides, and to number pages 

consecutively. Furthermore, applicants 

are strongly encouraged to include a 

table of contents that specifies where 

each required part of the application is 

located. 

3. Submission Dates and Times: 

Applications Available: January 15, 

2009. 

Deadline for Transmittal of 

Applications: July 1, 2009. 

Applications for grants under this 

program must be submitted 

electronically using the Grants.gov 

Apply site (Grants.gov). For information 

(including dates and times) about how 

to submit your application 

electronically, or in paper format by 

mail or hand delivery if you qualify for 

an exception to the electronic 

submission requirement, please refer to 

section IV.6. Other Submission 

Requirements of this notice. 

We do not consider an application 

that does not comply with the deadline 

requirements. 

Individuals with disabilities who 

need an accommodation or auxiliary aid 

in connection with the application 

process should contact the person listed 

under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT in section VII of this notice. If 

the Department provides an 

accommodation or auxiliary aid to an 

individual with a disability in 

connection with the application 

process, the individual’s application 

remains subject to all other 

requirements and limitations in this 

notice. 

Deadline for Intergovernmental 

Review: August 31, 2009. 

4. Intergovernmental Review: This 

program is subject to Executive Order 

12372 and the regulations in 34 CFR 

part 79. Information about 

Intergovernmental Review of Federal 

Programs under Executive Order 12372 

is in the application package for this 

program. 

5. Funding Restrictions: We specify 

unallowable costs in 34 CFR 75.533. We 

reference additional regulations 

outlining funding restrictions in the 

Applicable Regulations section of this 

notice. 

6. Other Submission Requirements: 

Applications for grants under this 

program must be submitted 

electronically unless you qualify for an 

exception to this requirement in 

accordance with the instructions in this 

section. 

a. Electronic Submission of 

Applications. 

Applications for grants under the 

State Charter School Facilities Incentive 

Grants Program, CFDA number 84.282D, 

must be submitted electronically using 

the Governmentwide Grants.gov Apply 

site at www.Grants.gov. Through this 

site, you will be able to download a 

copy of the application package, 

complete it offline, and then upload and 

submit your application. You may not email an electronic copy of a grant 

application to us. 

We will reject your application if you 

submit it in paper format unless, as 

described elsewhere in this section, you 

qualify for one of the exceptions to the 

electronic submission requirement and 

submit, no later than two weeks before 

the application deadline date, a written 

statement to the Department that you 

qualify for one of these exceptions. 

Further information regarding 

calculation of the date that is two weeks 

before the application deadline date is 

provided later in this section under 

Exception to Electronic Submission 

Requirement. 

You may access the electronic grant 

application for State Charter School 

Facilities Incentive Grants Program at 


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www.Grants.gov. You must search for 

the downloadable application package 

for this program by the CFDA number. 

Do not include the CFDA number’s 

alpha suffix in your search (e.g. , search 

for 84.282, not 84.282D). 

Please note the following: 

• When you enter the Grants.gov site, 

you will find information about 

submitting an application electronically 

through the site, as well as the hours of 

operation. 

• Applications received by Grants.gov 

are date and time stamped. Your 

application must be fully uploaded and 

submitted and must be date and time 

stamped by the Grants.gov system no 

later than 4:30:00 p.m., Washington, DC 

time, on the application deadline date. 

Except as otherwise noted in this 

section, we will not accept your 

application if it is received—that is, date 

and time stamped by the Grants.gov 

system—after 4:30:00 p.m., Washington, 

DC time, on the application deadline 

date. We do not consider an application 

that does not comply with the deadline 

requirements. When we retrieve your 

application from Grants.gov, we will 

notify you if we are rejecting your 

application because it was date and time 

stamped by the Grants.gov system after 

4:30:00 p.m., Washington, DC time, on 

the application deadline date. 

• The amount of time it can take to 

upload an application will vary 

depending on a variety of factors, 

including the size of the application and 

the speed of your Internet connection. 

Therefore, we strongly recommend that 

you do not wait until the application 

deadline date to begin the submission 

process through Grants.gov. 

• You should review and follow the 

Education Submission Procedures for 

submitting an application through 

Grants.gov that are included in the 

application package for this program to 

ensure that you submit your application 

in a timely manner to the Grants.gov 

system. You can also find the Education 

Submission Procedures pertaining to 

Grants.gov at http://e-Grants.ed.gov/ 

help/ 

GrantsgovSubmissionProcedures.pdf. 

• To submit your application via 

Grants.gov, you must complete all steps 

in the Grants.gov registration process 

(see www.grants.gov/applicants/ 

get_registered.jsp). These steps include 

(1) registering your organization, a 

multi-part process that includes 

registration with the Central Contractor 

Registry (CCR); (2) registering yourself 

as an Authorized Organization 

Representative (AOR); and (3) getting 

authorized as an AOR by your 

organization. Details on these steps are 

outlined in the Grants.gov 3-Step 

Registration Guide (see http:// 

www.grants.gov/section910/ 

Grants.govRegistrationBrochure.pdf). 

You also must provide on your 

application the same D–U–N–S Number 

used with this registration. Please note 

that the registration process may take 

five or more business days to complete, 

and you must have completed all 

registration steps to allow you to submit 

successfully an application via 

Grants.gov. In addition you will need to 

update your CCR registration on an 

annual basis. This may take three or 

more business days to complete. 

• You will not receive additional 

point value because you submit your 

application in electronic format, nor 

will we penalize you if you qualify for 

an exception to the electronic 

submission requirement, as described 

elsewhere in this section, and submit 

your application in paper format. 

• You must submit all documents 

electronically, including all information 

you typically provide on the following 

forms: Application for Federal 

Assistance (SF 424), the Department of 

Education Supplemental Information for 

SF 424, Budget Information—NonConstruction Programs (ED 524), and all 

necessary assurances and certifications. 

• You must attach any narrative 

sections of your application as files in 

a .DOC (document), .RTF (rich text), or 

.PDF (Portable Document) format. If you 

upload a file type other than the three 

file types specified in this paragraph or 

submit a password-protected file, we 

will not review that material. 

• Your electronic application must 

comply with any page-limit 

requirements described in this notice. 

• After you electronically submit 

your application, you will receive from 

Grants.gov an automatic notification of 

receipt that contains a Grants.gov 

tracking number. (This notification 

indicates receipt by Grants.gov only, not 

receipt by the Department.) The 

Department then will retrieve your 

application from Grants.gov and send a 

second notification to you by e-mail. 

This second notification indicates that 

the Department has received your 

application and has assigned your 

application a PR/Award number (an EDspecified identifying number unique to 

your application). 

• We may request that you provide us 

original signatures on forms at a later 

date. 

Application Deadline Date Extension 

in Case of Technical Issues With the 

Grants.gov System: If you are 

experiencing problems submitting your 

application through Grants.gov, please 

contact the Grants.gov Support Desk, 

toll free, at 1–800–518–4726. You must 

obtain a Grants.gov Support Desk Case 

Number and must keep a record of it. 

If you are prevented from 

electronically submitting your 

application on the application deadline 

date because of technical problems with 

the Grants.gov system, we will grant you 

an extension until 4:30:00 p.m., 

Washington, DC time, the following 

business day to enable you to transmit 

your application electronically or by 

hand delivery. You also may mail your 

application by following the mailing 

instructions described elsewhere in this 

notice. 

If you submit an application after 

4:30:00 p.m., Washington, DC time, on 

the application deadline date, please 

contact the person listed under FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT in 

section VII of this notice and provide an 

explanation of the technical problem 

you experienced with Grants.gov, along 

with the Grants.gov Support Desk Case 

Number. We will accept your 

application if we can confirm that a 

technical problem occurred with the 

Grants.gov system and that that problem 

affected your ability to submit your 

application by 4:30:00 p.m., 

Washington, DC time, on the 

application deadline date. The 

Department will contact you after a 

determination is made on whether your 

application will be accepted. 

Note: The extensions to which we refer in 

this section apply only to the unavailability 

of, or technical problems with, the Grants.gov 

system. We will not grant you an extension 

if you failed to fully register to submit your 

application to Grants.gov before the 

application deadline date and time or if the 

technical problem you experienced is 

unrelated to the Grants.gov system. 

Exception to Electronic Submission 

Requirement: You qualify for an 

exception to the electronic submission 

requirement, and may submit your 

application in paper format, if you are 

unable to submit an application through 

the Grants.gov system because— 

• You do not have access to the 

Internet; or 

• You do not have the capacity to 

upload large documents to the 

Grants.gov system; and 

• No later than two weeks before the 

application deadline date (14 calendar 

days or, if the fourteenth calendar day 

before the application deadline date 

falls on a Federal holiday, the next 

business day following the Federal 

holiday), you mail or fax a written 

statement to the Department, explaining 

which of the two grounds for an 

exception prevent you from using the 

Internet to submit your application. 

If you mail your written statement to 

the Department, it must be postmarked 


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no later than two weeks before the 

application deadline date. If you fax 

your written statement to the 

Department, we must receive the faxed 

statement no later than two weeks 

before the application deadline date. 

Address and mail or fax your 

statement to: Valarie Perkins, U.S. 

Department of Education, 400 Maryland 

Avenue, SW., room 4W258, 

Washington, DC 20202–5970. FAX: 

(202) 205–5630. 

Your paper application must be 

submitted in accordance with the mail 

or hand delivery instructions described 

in this notice. 

b. Submission of Paper Applications 

by Mail. 

If you qualify for an exception to the 

electronic submission requirement, you 

may mail (through the U.S. Postal 

Service or a commercial carrier) your 

application to the Department. You 

must mail the original and two copies 

of your application, on or before the 

application deadline date, to the 

Department at the following address: 

U.S. Department of Education, 

Application Control Center, 

Attention: (CFDA Number 84.282D) 

LBJ Basement Level 1, 400 Maryland 

Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20202– 

4260. 

You must show proof of mailing 

consisting of one of the following: 

(1) A legibly dated U.S. Postal Service 

postmark. 

(2) A legible mail receipt with the 

date of mailing stamped by the U.S. 

Postal Service. 

(3) A dated shipping label, invoice, or 

receipt from a commercial carrier. 

(4) Any other proof of mailing 

acceptable to the Secretary of the U.S. 

Department of Education. 

If you mail your application through 

the U.S. Postal Service, we do not 

accept either of the following as proof 

of mailing: 

(1) A private metered postmark. 

(2) A mail receipt that is not dated by 

the U.S. Postal Service. 

If your application is postmarked after 

the application deadline date, we will 

not consider your application. 

Note: The U.S. Postal Service does not 

uniformly provide a dated postmark. Before 

relying on this method, you should check 

with your local post office. 

c. Submission of Paper Applications 

by Hand Delivery. 

If you qualify for an exception to the 

electronic submission requirement, you 

(or a courier service) may deliver your 

paper application to the Department by 

hand. You must deliver the original and 

two copies of your application by hand, 

on or before the application deadline 

date, to the Department at the following 

address: 

U.S. Department of Education, 

Application Control Center, 

Attention: (CFDA Number 84.282D) 

550 12th Street, SW., Room 7041, 

Potomac Center Plaza, Washington, 

DC 20202–4260. 

The Application Control Center accepts 

hand deliveries daily between 8:00 a.m. 

and 4:30:00 p.m., Washington, DC time, 

except Saturdays, Sundays, and Federal 

holidays. 

Note for Mail or Hand Delivery of 

Paper Applications: If you mail or hand 

deliver your application to the 

Department— 

(1) You must indicate on the envelope 

and—if not provided by the 

Department—in Item 11 of the SF 424 

the CFDA number, including suffix 

letter, if any, of the competition under 

which you are submitting your 

application; and 

(2) The Application Control Center 

will mail to you a notification of receipt 

of your grant application. If you do not 

receive this notification within 15 

business days from the application 

deadline date, you should call the U.S. 

Department of Education Application 

Control Center at (202) 245–6288. 

V. Application Review Information 

1. Selection Criteria: The selection 

criteria for this program are from the 

program regulations in 34 CFR 226.12. 

The maximum score for all of the 

selection criteria is 100 points. The 

maximum score for each criterion is 

indicated in parentheses. Each criterion 

also includes the factors that the 

reviewers will consider to determine 

how well an application meets the 

criterion. We encourage applicants to 

make explicit connections to the 

selection criteria and factors in their 

applications. 

(a) Need for facility funding (30 

points). 

(1) The need for per-pupil charter 

school facility funding in the State. 

(2) The extent to which the proposal 

meets the need to fund charter school 

facilities on a per-pupil basis. 

(b) Quality of plan (30 points). 

(1) The likelihood that the proposed 

grant project will result in the State 

either retaining a new per-pupil 

facilities aid program or continuing to 

enhance such a program without the 

total amount of assistance (State and 

Federal) declining over a five-year 

period. 

(2) The flexibility charter schools 

have in their use of facility funds for the 

various authorized purposes. 

(3) The quality of the plan for 

identifying charter schools and 

determining their eligibility to receive 

funds. 

(4) The per-pupil facilities aid 

formula’s ability to target resources to 

charter schools with the greatest need 

and the highest proportions of students 

in poverty. 

(5) For projects that plan to reserve 

funds for evaluation, the quality of the 

applicant’s plan to use grant funds for 

this purpose. 

(6) For projects that plan to reserve 

funds for technical assistance, 

dissemination, or personnel, the quality 

of the applicant’s plan to use grant 

funds for these purposes. 

(c) The grant project team (15 points). 

(1) The qualifications, including 

relevant training and experience, of the 

project manager and other members of 

the grant project team, including 

employees not paid with grant funds, 

consultants, and subcontractors. 

(2) The adequacy and appropriateness 

of the applicant’s staffing plan for the 

grant project. 

(d) The budget (15 points). 

(1) The extent to which the requested 

grant amount and the project costs are 

reasonable in relation to the objectives, 

design, and potential significance of the 

proposed grant project. 

(2) The extent to which the costs are 

reasonable in relation to the number of 

students served and to the anticipated 

results and benefits. 

(3) The extent to which the nonFederal share exceeds the minimum 

percentages (which are based on the 

percentages under section 5205(b)(2)(C) 

of the ESEA), particularly in the initial 

years of the program. 

(e) State experience (10 points). 

The experience of the State in 

addressing the facility needs of charter 

schools through various means, 

including providing per-pupil aid, 

access to State loan or bonding pools, 

and the use of Qualified Zone Academy 

Bonds. 

2. Review and Selection Process: 

Additional factors we consider in 

selecting an application for an award are 

in 34 CFR 226.13 and 226.14. 

Note: As described in 34 CFR 226.14(c), the 

Secretary may elect to consider the points 

awarded under the competitive preference 

priorities only for proposals that exhibit 

sufficient quality to warrant funding under 

the selection criteria. 

VI. Award Administration Information 

1. Award Notices: If your application 

is successful, we notify your U.S. 

Representative and U.S. Senators and 

send you a Grant Award Notification 

(GAN). We may notify you informally, 

also. 


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If your application is not evaluated or 

not selected for funding, we notify you. 

2. Administrative and National Policy 

Requirements: We identify 

administrative and national policy 

requirements in the application package 

and reference these and other 

requirements in the Applicable 

Regulations section of this notice. 

We reference the regulations outlining 

the terms and conditions of an award in 

the Applicable Regulations section of 

this notice and include these and other 

specific conditions in the GAN. The 

GAN also incorporates your approved 

application as part of your binding 

commitments under the grant. 

3. Reporting: At the end of your 

project period, you must submit a final 

performance report, including financial 

information, as directed by the 

Secretary. If you receive a multi-year 

award, you must submit an annual 

performance report that provides the 

most current performance and financial 

expenditure information as directed by 

the Secretary under 34 CFR 75.118. The 

Secretary may also require more 

frequent performance reports under 34 

CFR 75.720(c). 

4. Performance Measures: The 

performance measure for this program is 

the ratio of funds leveraged by States for 

charter school facilities to funds 

awarded by the Department under the 

State Charter School Facilities Incentive 

Program. 

VII. Agency Contacts 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Valarie Perkins or Ann Margaret 

Galiatsos, U.S. Department of 

Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, SW., 

room 4W258, Washington, DC 20202– 

5970. Telephone: (202) 260–1924 or by 

e-mail: charter.facilities@ed.gov. 

If you use a TDD, call the FRS, toll 

free, at 1–800–877–8339. 

VIII. Other Information 

Accessible Format: Individuals with 

disabilities can obtain this document 

and a copy of the application package in 

an accessible format (e.g., braille, large 

print, audiotape, or computer diskette) 

on request to the program contact 

persons listed under FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT in section VII of 

this notice. 

Electronic Access to This Document: 

You can view this document, as well as 

all other documents of this Department 

published in the Federal Register, in 

text or Adobe Portable Document 

Format (PDF) on the Internet at the 

following site: http://www.ed.gov/news/ 

fedregister. 

To use PDF you must have Adobe 

Acrobat Reader, which is available free 

at this site. If you have questions about 

using PDF, call the U.S. Government 

Printing Office (GPO), toll free, at 1– 

888–293–6498; or in the Washington, 

DC, area at (202) 512–1530. 

Note: The official version of this document 

is the document published in the Federal 

Register. Free Internet access to the official 

edition of the Federal Register and the Code 

of Federal Regulations is available on GPO 

Access at: http://www.gpoaccess.gov/nara/ 

index.html. 

Dated: January 9, 2009. 

Amanda L. Farris, 

Assistant Deputy Secretary for Innovation and 

Improvement. 

[FR Doc. E9–772 Filed 1–14–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

Office of Innovation and Improvement; 

Women’s Educational Equity Act 

Program 

Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance 

(CFDA) Number: 84.083A. 

ACTION: Notice inviting applications for 

new awards for fiscal year (FY) 2009; 

correction. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Education 

is correcting the notice inviting 

applications for new awards for FY 2009 

for the Women’s Educational Equity Act 

Program (WEEA) that was published in 

the Federal Register on January 2, 2009 

(74 FR 101). On page 105, in the third 

column, second line, the e-mail address 

is corrected to read ‘‘oii.weea@ed.gov.’’ 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Beverly A. Farrar, U.S. Department of 

Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, SW., 

Room 4W242, Washington, DC 20202– 

5950. Telephone: (202) 205–3145. 

If you use a telecommunications 

device for the deaf (TDD), call the 

Federal Relay Service (FRS), toll free, at 

1–800–877–8339. 

Individuals with disabilities can 

obtain this document in an accessible 

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

audiotape, or computer diskette) on 

request to the contact person listed 

under this section. 

Electronic Access to This Document: 

You can view this document, as well as 

all other documents of this Department 

published in the Federal Register, in 

text or Adobe Portable Document 

Format (PDF) on the Internet at the 

following site: http://www.ed.gov/news/ 

fedregister. 

To use PDF you must have Adobe 

Acrobat Reader, which is available free 

at this site. If you have questions about 

using PDF, call the U.S. Government 

Printing Office (GPO), toll free, at 1– 

888–293–6498; or in the Washington, 

DC, area at (202) 512–1530. 

Note: The official version of this document 

is the document published in the Federal 

Register. Free Internet access to the official 

edition of the Federal Register and the Code 

of Federal Regulations is available on GPO 

Access at: http://www.gpoaccess.gov/nara/ 

index.html. 

Dated: January 8, 2009. 

Amanda L. Farris, 

Assistant Deputy Secretary for Innovation and 

Improvement. 

[FR Doc. E9–744 Filed 1–14–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. IC09–587–000] 

Commission Information Collection 

Activities (FERC–587); Comment 

Request; Extension 

January 9, 2009. 

AGENCY: Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission, DOE. 

ACTION: Notice of proposed information 

collection and request for comments. 

SUMMARY: In compliance with the 

requirements of section 3506(c) (2) (a) of 

the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 

(Pub. L. No. 104–13), the Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission (Commission) is 

soliciting public comment on the 

specific aspects of the information 

collection described below. 

DATES: Comments in consideration of 

the collection of information are due 

Monday, March 23, 2009. 

ADDRESSES: An example of this 

collection of information may be 

obtained from the Commission’s Web 

site (at http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/ 

elibrary.asp). Comments may be filed 

either electronically or in paper format, 

and should refer to Docket No. IC09– 

587–000. Documents must be prepared 

in an acceptable filing format and in 

compliance with the Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission submission 

guidelines at http://www.ferc.gov/help/ 

submission-guide.asp. 

Comments may be filed electronically 

via the eFiling link on the Commission’s 

Web site at http://www.ferc.gov. First 

time users will have to establish a user 

name and password (http:// 

www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/ 

eregistration.asp) before eFiling. The 

Commission will send an automatic 

acknowledgement to the sender’s e-mail 

address upon receipt of comments 

through eFiling. 


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