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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. Please note 

that written comments received in 

response to this notice will be 

considered public records. 

Title of Collection: Lender’s 

Application Process (LAP). 

OMB Control Number: 1845–0032. 

Type of Review: An extension of an 

existing information collection. 

Respondents/Affected Public: Private 

Sector. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Responses: 10. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Burden Hours: 2. 

Abstract: The Lender’s Application 

Process (LAP) is submitted by lenders 

who are eligible for reimbursement of 

interest and special allowance, as well 

as Federal Insured Student Loan (FISL) 

claims payment, under the Federal 

Family Education Loan Program. The 

information will be used by ED to 

update Lender Identification Numbers 

(LID’s), lender names, addresses with 9 

digit zip codes, and other pertinent 

information. 

Dated: January 17, 2018. 

Kate Mullan, 

Acting Director, Information Collection 

Clearance Division, Office of the Chief Privacy 

Officer, Office of Management. 

[FR Doc. 2018–01000 Filed 1–19–18; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

Applications for New Awards; Lead of 

a Career and Technical Education 

(CTE) Network: Research Networks 

Focused on Critical Problems of 

Education Policy and Practice Program 

AGENCY: Institute of Education Sciences, 

Department of Education. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Education 

is issuing a notice inviting applications 

for a new award for fiscal year (FY) 2018 

to fund the Lead of a Career and 

Technical Education (CTE) Network 

under the Research Networks Focused 

on Critical Problems of Education Policy 

and Practice Program, Catalog of Federal 

Domestic Assistance (CFDA) number 

84.305N. 

DATES:

Request for Applications Available: 

January 22, 2018. 

Applications Available: February 15, 

2018. 

Deadline for Notice of Intent to Apply: 

February 15, 2018. 

Deadline for Transmittal of 

Applications: April 5, 2018. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. 

Corinne Alfeld, Institute of Education 

Sciences, U.S. Department of Education, 

Potomac Center Plaza, 550 12th Street 

SW, Washington, DC 20202 or by email: 

Corinne.Alfeld@ed.gov. 

If you use a telecommunications 

device for the deaf (TDD) or a text 

telephone (TTY), call the Federal Relay 

Service (FRS), toll free, at 1–800–877– 

8339. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Full Text of Announcement 

I. Funding Opportunity Description 

Purpose of Program: The Research 

Networks Focused on Critical Problems 

of Education Policy and Practice 

Program is designed to direct resources 

and attention to education problems or 

issues that are a high priority for the 

Nation, and to create a structure and 

process for researchers who are working 

on these issues to share ideas, build new 

knowledge, and strengthen their 

research and dissemination capacity. 

Under this announcement, the Institute 

of Education Sciences (Institute) intends 

to award one grant under this program 

to fund the Lead of a CTE Network, 

which is to carry out the requirements 

under section 114(d)(4) of the Carl D. 

Perkins Career and Technical Education 

Act to establish a national research 

center to carry out scientifically based 

research on career and technical 

education programs. The CTE Network 

will conduct research on CTE through 

projects funded by other Institute grant 

competitions. The goal of the CTE 

Network is to support and expand the 

causal research base on CTE at the 

secondary and/or postsecondary level 

specifically through research on 

whether and how CTE practices, 

programs, and policies affect student 

education outcomes. The Network Lead 

will be responsible for: (1) CTE Network 

administration and coordination, 

including convening meetings and 

coordinating supplemental research 

activities among Network members; (2) 

conducting research activities including 

an evaluability assessment of CTE 

programs and a final synthesis of the 

CTE Network’s major findings and 

lessons; (3) providing research training 

to increase the capacity of the field and 

to create a pipeline of new CTE 

researchers; and (4) developing and 

hosting a CTE Network website and 

conducting other leadership and 

dissemination activities to share the 

findings and products of the CTE 

Network with policymakers, 

practitioners, and other researchers. 

Program Authority: 20 U.S.C. 

2324(d)(4); 20 U.S.C. 9501 et seq. 

Applicable Regulations: (a) The 

Education Department General 

Administrative Regulations in 34 CFR 

parts 77, 81, 82, 84, 86, 97, 98, and 99. 

In addition, the regulations in 34 CFR 

part 75 are applicable, except for the 

provisions in 34 CFR 75.100, 75.101(b), 

75.102, 75.103, 75.105, 75.109(a), 

75.200, 75.201, 75.209, 75.210, 75.211, 

75.217(a)-(c), 75.219, 75.220, 75.221, 

75.222, and 75.230. (b) The Office of 

Management and Budget Guidelines to 

Agencies on Governmentwide 

Debarment and Suspension 

(Nonprocurement) in 2 CFR part 180, as 

adopted and amended as regulations of 

the Department in 2 CFR part 3485. (c) 

The Uniform Administrative 

Requirements, Cost Principles, and 

Audit Requirements for Federal Awards 

in 2 CFR part 200, as adopted and 

amended in 2 CFR part 3474. 

Note: The regulations in 34 CFR part 86 

apply to institutions of higher education 

only. 

II. Award Information 

Type of Award: Cooperative 

agreement. 

Estimated Number of Awards: 1. 

Maximum Award: The maximum total 

award is $5 million for the entire project 

period of 60 months. 

Note: The Department is not bound by any 

estimates in this notice. 

Project Period: 60 months. 

III. Eligibility Information 

1. Eligible Applicants: Eligible 

applicants are institutions of higher 

education, public and private non-profit 

organizations and agencies, and 

consortia of such institutions, 

organizations, or agencies that have the 

ability and capacity to conduct 

scientifically valid research. 

2. Cost Sharing or Matching: This 

program does not require cost sharing or 

matching. 

IV. Application and Submission 

Information 

1. Request for Applications and Other 

Information: Information regarding 

program and application requirements 

for this competition will be contained in 

the Request for Applications (RFA), 

which will be available on or before 

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website at: http://ies.ed.gov/funding/. 

The application package for this 

competition will be available on 

February 15, 2018, on the 

Governmentwide Grants.gov Apply site 

at www.Grants.gov. 

Individuals with disabilities can 

obtain a copy of the application package 

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

large print, audiotape, or compact disc) 

by contacting the person listed under 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT. 

2. Content and Form of Application 

Submission: Requirements concerning 

the content of an application are 

contained in the RFA. The forms that 

must be submitted will be in the 

application package for this 

competition. 

3. Submission Dates and Times: 

Request for Applications Available: 

January 22, 2018. 

Applications Available: February 15, 

2018. 

Deadline for Notice of Intent to Apply: 

February 15, 2018. 

Deadline for Transmittal of 

Applications: April 5, 2018. 

We do not consider an application 

that does not comply with the deadline 

requirements. 

The application package for this 

competition must be submitted 

electronically using the Grants.gov 

Apply site (www.Grants.gov). For 

information about how to submit your 

application package electronically, or in 

paper format by mail or hand delivery 

if you qualify for an exception to the 

electronic submission requirement, 

please refer to the Other Submission 

Requirements section below. 

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. 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. 

4. Intergovernmental Review: This 

competition is not subject to Executive 

Order 12372 and the regulations in CFR 

part 79. 

5. Funding Restrictions: We reference 

regulations outlining funding 

restrictions in the Applicable 

Regulations section of this notice. 

6. Data Universal Numbering System 

Number, Taxpayer Identification 

Number, and System for Award 

Management: To do business with the 

Department of Education, you must— 

a. Have a Data Universal Numbering 

System (DUNS) number and a Taxpayer 

Identification Number (TIN); 

b. Register both your DUNS number 

and TIN with the System for Award 

Management (SAM), the Government’s 

primary registrant database; 

c. Provide your DUNS number and 

TIN on your application; and 

d. Maintain an active SAM 

registration with current information 

while your application is under review 

by the Department and, if you are 

awarded a grant, during the project 

period. 

You can obtain a DUNS number from 

Dun and Bradstreet at the following 

website: http://fedgov.dnb.com/ 

webform. A DUNS number can be 

created within one to two business days. 

If you are a corporate entity, agency, 

institution, or organization, you can 

obtain a TIN from the Internal Revenue 

Service. If you are an individual, you 

can obtain a TIN from the Internal 

Revenue Service or the Social Security 

Administration. If you need a new TIN, 

please allow two to five weeks for your 

TIN to become active. 

The SAM registration process can take 

approximately seven business days, but 

may take upwards of several weeks, 

depending on the completeness and 

accuracy of the data you enter into the 

SAM database. Thus, if you think you 

might want to apply for Federal 

financial assistance under a program 

administered by the Department, please 

allow sufficient time to obtain and 

register your DUNS number and TIN. 

We strongly recommend that you 

register early. 

Note: Once your SAM registration is active, 

it may be 24 to 48 hours before you can 

access the information in, and submit an 

application through, Grants.gov. 

If you are currently registered with 

SAM, you may not need to make any 

changes. However, please make certain 

that the TIN associated with your DUNS 

number is correct. Also, note that you 

will need to update your registration 

annually. This may take three or more 

business days. 

Information about SAM is available at 

www.SAM.gov. To further assist you 

with obtaining and registering your 

DUNS number and TIN in SAM or 

updating your existing SAM account, 

we have prepared a SAM.gov Tip Sheet, 

which you can find at: www2.ed.gov/ 

fund/grant/apply/sam-faqs.html. 

In addition, if you are submitting your 

application via Grants.gov, you must (1) 

be designated by your organization as an 

Authorized Organization Representative 

(AOR); and (2) register yourself with 

Grants.gov as an AOR. Details on these 

steps are outlined at the following 

Grants.gov web page: www.grants.gov/ 

web/grants/register.html. 

7. Other Submission Requirements: 

Applications for grants under this 

competition 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 

Research Networks Focused on Critical 

Problems of Education Policy and 

Practice Program, CFDA number 

84.305N, must be submitted 

electronically using the 

Governmentwide Grants.gov Apply site 

at www.Grants.gov. You may not email 

an electronic copy of a grant application 

to us. 

A Grants.gov applicant must apply 

online using Workspace, a shared 

environment where members of a grant 

team may simultaneously access and 

edit different webforms within an 

application. An applicant can create an 

individual Workspace for each 

application notice and, thus, establish 

for that application a collaborative 

application package that allows more 

than one person in the applicant’s 

organization to work concurrently on an 

application. The applicant can, thus, 

assign other users to participate in the 

Workspace. The system also enables the 

applicant to reuse forms from previous 

submissions; check them in and out and 

complete them; and submit its 

application package. For access to 

complete instructions on how to apply, 

refer to: www.grants.gov/web/grants/ 

applicants/apply-for-grants.html. 

Effective January 1, 2018, applicants 

may not download an Adobe form 

application package from Grants.gov. 

Applicants must instead use Workspace. 

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 the Research Networks 

Focused on Critical Problems of 

Education Policy and Practice 

competition at www.Grants.gov. You 

must search for the downloadable 


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application package for this competition 

by the CFDA number. Do not include 

the CFDA number’s alpha suffix in your 

search (e.g., search for 84.305, not 

84.305N). 

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 the competition 

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 under News 

and Events on the Department’s G5 

system home page at www.G5.gov. In 

addition, for specific guidance and 

procedures for submitting an 

application through Grants.gov, please 

refer to the Grants.gov website at: 

www.grants.gov/web/grants/applicants/ 

apply-for-grants.html. 

• 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: The 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 upload any narrative 

sections and all other attachments to 

your application as files in a read-only, 

flattened Portable Document Format 

(PDF), meaning any fillable PDF 

documents must be saved as flattened 

non-fillable files. Therefore, do not 

upload an interactive or fillable PDF 

file. If you upload a file type other than 

a read-only, flattened PDF (e.g., Word, 

Excel, WordPerfect, etc.) or submit a 

password-protected file, we will not 

review that material. Please note that 

this could result in your application not 

being considered for funding because 

the material in question—for example, 

the project narrative—is critical to a 

meaningful review of your proposal. For 

that reason it is important to allow 

yourself adequate time to upload all 

material as PDF files. The Department 

will not convert material from other 

formats to PDF. There is no need to 

password protect a file in order to meet 

the requirement to submit a read-only 

flattened PDF. And, as noted, the 

Department will not review passwordprotected files. 

• 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.) Grants.gov 

will also notify you automatically by 

email if your application met all the 

Grants.gov validation requirements or if 

there were any errors (such as 

submission of your application by 

someone other than a registered 

Authorized Organization 

Representative, or inclusion of an 

attachment with a file name that 

contains special characters). You will be 

given an opportunity to correct any 

errors and resubmit, but you must still 

meet the deadline for submission of 

applications. 

Once your application is successfully 

validated by Grants.gov, the Department 

will retrieve your application from 

Grants.gov and send you an email with 

a unique PR/Award number for your 

application. 

These emails do not mean that your 

application is without any disqualifying 

errors. While your application may have 

been successfully validated by 

Grants.gov, it must also meet the 

Department’s application requirements 

as specified in this notice and in the 

application instructions. Disqualifying 

errors could include, for instance, 

failure to upload attachments in a readonly, flattened PDF; failure to submit a 

required part of the application; or 

failure to meet applicant eligibility 

requirements. It is your responsibility to 

ensure that your submitted application 

has met all of the Department’s 

requirements. 

• 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 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 the problem affected your 

ability to submit your application by 

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

the application deadline date. We will 

contact you after we determine 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 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 


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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 prevents you from using the 

internet to submit your application. 

If you mail your written statement to 

the Department, it must be postmarked 

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: Ellie Pelaez, U.S. 

Department of Education, 550 12th 

Street SW, Potomac Center Plaza, Room 

4107, Washington, DC 20202. Fax: 202– 

245–6752. 

If you use a TDD or a TTY, call the 

FRS, toll free, at 1–800–877–8339. 

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: 84.305N), 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 Institute. 

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. 

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. 

We will not consider applications 

postmarked after the application 

deadline date. 

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: 84.305N), 550 12th 

Street SW, Room 7039, 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: For all of its 

grant competitions, the Institute uses 

selection criteria based on a peer-review 

process that has been approved by the 

National Board for Education Sciences. 

The Peer Review Procedures for Grant 

Applications can be found on the 

Institute’s website at https://ies.ed.gov/ 

director/sro/peer_review/application_

review.asp. For this competition, peer 

reviewers will be asked to evaluate the 

significance of the application, the 

quality of the network plan (including 

network administration, research 

activities, research training, leadership 

and dissemination), the qualifications 

and experience of the personnel, and 

the resources of the applicant to support 

the proposed activities. These criteria 

are described in greater detail in the 

RFA. 

2. Review and Selection Process: We 

remind potential applicants that in 

reviewing applications in any 

discretionary grant competition, the 

Institute may consider, under 34 CFR 

75.217(d)(3), the past performance of the 

applicant in carrying out a previous 

award, such as the applicant’s use of 

funds, achievement of project 

objectives, and compliance with grant 

conditions. The Institute may also 

consider whether the applicant failed to 

submit a timely performance report or 

submitted a report of unacceptable 

quality. 

In addition, in making a competitive 

grant award, the Institute also requires 

various assurances including those 

applicable to Federal civil rights laws 

that prohibit discrimination in programs 

or activities receiving Federal financial 

assistance from the Department of 

Education (34 CFR 100.4, 104.5, 106.4, 

108.8, and 110.23). 

3. Risk Assessment and Special 

Conditions: Consistent with 2 CFR 

200.205, before awarding grants under 

this competition the Department 

conducts a review of the risks posed by 

applicants. Under 2 CFR 3474.10, the 

Institute may impose special conditions 

and, in appropriate circumstances, highrisk conditions on a grant if the 

applicant or grantee is not financially 

stable; has a history of unsatisfactory 

performance; has a financial or other 

management system that does not meet 

the standards in 2 CFR part 200, subpart 

D; has not fulfilled the conditions of a 

prior grant; or is otherwise not 

responsible. 

4. Integrity and Performance System: 

If you are selected under this 

competition to receive an award that 

over the course of the project period 

may exceed the simplified acquisition 

threshold (currently $150,000), under 2 

CFR 200.205(a)(2) we must make a 

judgment about your integrity, business 

ethics, and record of performance under 

Federal awards—that is, the risk posed 

by you as an applicant—before we make 

an award. In doing so, we must consider 

any information about you that is in the 

integrity and performance system 

(currently referred to as the Federal 

Awardee Performance and Integrity 

Information System (FAPIIS)), 

accessible through SAM. You may 

review and comment on any 

information about yourself that a 

Federal agency previously entered and 

that is currently in FAPIIS. 

Please note that, if the total value of 

your currently active grants, cooperative 

agreements, and procurement contracts 


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from the Federal Government exceeds 

$10,000,000, the reporting requirements 

in 2 CFR part 200, Appendix XII, 

require you to report certain integrity 

information to FAPIIS semiannually. 

Please review the requirements in 2 CFR 

part 200, Appendix XII, if this grant 

plus all the other Federal funds you 

receive exceed $10,000,000. 

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); or we may send you an email 

containing a link to access an electronic 

version of your GAN. We may notify 

you informally, also. 

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. Grant Administration: Applicants 

should budget for an annual two-day 

meeting for project directors to be held 

in Washington, DC. 

4. Reporting: (a) If you apply for a 

grant under this competition, you must 

ensure that you have in place the 

necessary processes and systems to 

comply with the reporting requirements 

in 2 CFR part 170 should you receive 

funding under the competition. This 

does not apply if you have an exception 

under 2 CFR 170.110(b). 

(b) At the end of your project period, 

you must submit a final performance 

report, including financial information, 

as directed by the Institute. If you 

receive a multiyear award, you must 

submit an annual performance report 

that provides the most current 

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information as directed by the Institute 

under 34 CFR 75.118. The Institute may 

also require more frequent performance 

reports under 34 CFR 75.720(c). For 

specific requirements on reporting, 

please go to www.ed.gov/fund/grant/ 

apply/appforms/appforms.html. 

5. Performance Measures: To evaluate 

the overall success of its education 

research grant programs, the Institute 

annually assesses the percentage of 

projects that result in peer-reviewed 

publications, the number of newly 

developed or modified interventions 

with evidence of promise for improving 

student education outcomes, and the 

number of Institute-supported 

interventions with evidence of efficacy 

in improving student outcomes 

including student academic outcomes 

and social and behavioral competencies 

for school-age students. Student 

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and achievement in core academic 

content areas (reading, writing, math, 

and science), and outcomes that reflect 

students’ successful progression through 

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grade completion; high school 

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progress, and completion). Social and 

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and emotional skills, attitudes, and 

behaviors that are important to student’s 

academic and post-academic success. 

6. Continuation Awards: In making a 

continuation award under 34 CFR 

75.253, the Institute considers, among 

other things: Whether a grantee has 

made substantial progress in meeting 

the goals and objectives of the project; 

whether the grantee has expended funds 

in a manner that is consistent with its 

approved application and budget; and, 

if the Institute has established 

performance measurement 

requirements, whether the grantee has 

met the performance targets in the 

grantee’s approved application. 

In making a continuation award, the 

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grantee is operating in compliance with 

the assurances in its approved 

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to Federal civil rights laws that prohibit 

discrimination in programs or activities 

receiving Federal financial assistance 

from the Department (34 CFR 100.4, 

104.5, 106.4, 108.8, and 110.23). 

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Dated: January 16, 2018. 

Thomas Brock, 

Commissioner of the National Center for 

Education Research, Delegated the Duties of 

the Director of the Institute of Education 

Sciences. 

[FR Doc. 2018–00998 Filed 1–19–18; 8:45 am] 

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