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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 84.382A), 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 34 CFR 

75.209(a) and 75.210, and are as 

follows— 

Need for the project (20 points); 

Quality of the project design (15 

points); 

Quality of project services (15 points); 

Quality of project personnel (10 

points); 

Adequacy of resources (5 points); 

Quality of the management plan (20 

points); 

Quality of project evaluation (15 

points). 

Additional information regarding these 

criteria is in the application package for 

this competition. 

2. Review and Selection Process: 

Applicants must provide, as an 

attachment to the application, the 

documentation the institution relied 

upon to determine that at least 40 

percent of the institution’s 

undergraduate enrollment are Black 

American students. 

Note: The 40 percent requirement applies 

only to undergraduate Black American 

students and is calculated based upon 

unduplicated undergraduate enrollment. 

Instructions for formatting and submitting 

the verification documentation to 

e-Application are in the application package 

for this competition. 

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. 

If your application is not evaluated or 

not selected for funding, we will 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 in 

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. 

Grantees are required to use the 524B 

Grant Performance Report to complete 

both annual and the final report. The 

Secretary may also require more 

frequent performance reports under 34 

CFR 75.720(c). For specific 

requirements on reporting please go to: 

http://www.ed.gov/fund/grant/apply/ 

appforms/appforms.html. 

4. Performance Measures: The 

Secretary has established the following 

key performance measures for assessing 

the effectiveness of the PBI Program: 

(1) The number of full-time degreeseeking undergraduates enrolling at 

PBIs. 

(2) The increase in the persistence 

rate for students enrolled at PBIs. 

VII. Agency Contact 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Blanca Rodriguez, Teacher and Student 

Development Programs Service, U.S. 

Department of Education, 1990 K Street, 

NW., room 6162, Washington, DC 

20006–8515. Telephone: (202) 502– 

7728, or by e-mail: 

blanca.rodriguez@ed.gov or sara starke, 

Teacher and Student Development 

Programs Service, U.S. Department of 

Education, 1990 K Street, NW., room 

6019, Washington, DC 20006–8515. 

Telephone: (202) 502–7688, or by email: sara.starke@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 either of 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. 

Delegation of Authority: The Secretary 

of Education has delegated authority to 

Daniel T. Madzelan, Director, 

Forecasting and Policy Analysis for the 

Office of Postsecondary Education, to 

perform the function of the Assistant 

Secretary for Postsecondary Education. 

Dated: April 24, 2009. 

Daniel T. Madzelan, 

Director, Forecasting and Policy Analysis. 

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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

Office of Postsecondary Education; 

Title IV, Part I, Section 499 of the 

Higher Education Act of 1965, as 

Amended—Competitive Loan Auction 

Pilot Program 

AGENCY: Office of Postsecondary 

Education, U.S. Department of 

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ACTION: Notice of cancellation of the 

auction under the Competitive Loan 

Auction Pilot Program for the right to 

originate PLUS loans to new parent 

borrowers under the Federal Family 

Education Loan (FFEL) Program. 

SUMMARY: Through this notice, the 

Secretary of Education (the Secretary) 

announces the cancellation of the 

auction (Auction) that was scheduled to 

occur on April 15, 2009 under the 

Competitive Loan Auction Pilot 

Program (Auction Program) for the 

rights to originate PLUS loans to parent 

borrowers under the FFEL Program. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

information about the Auction Program 

go to http://www.ed.gov/ope/plusauction or contact: Donald Conner, U.S. 

Department of Education, 1990 K Street, 

NW., room 8030, Washington, DC 

20006. Telephone (202) 502–7818, or by 

fax to (202) 502–7873. You may also email your questions about the Auction 

Program to: donald.conner@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 this document in an accessible 

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

audiotape, or computer diskette) by 

contacting the program contact person 

listed in this section. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In the 

Federal Register of March 3, 2009, the 

Secretary announced his intention to 

conduct, and invited eligible FFEL 

lenders to participate in, an Auction for 

the rights to originate PLUS loans to 

new parent borrowers under the FFEL 

Program (74 FR 9232). Through the 

Auction, the Secretary would award the 

rights to originate PLUS loans to new 

parent borrowers under the Federal 

PLUS Program authorized by section 

428B of Title IV of the Higher Education 

Act of 1965, as amended (HEA), for loan 

periods beginning on or after July 1, 

2009 and ending on or before June 30, 

2011. 

The period for the submission by 

lenders of pre-qualification requests for 

the Auction closed on April 1, 2009. In 

order for the Auction to have been 

considered successful for any State, at 

least two lenders must have submitted 

pre-qualification requests for that State. 

However, the Department failed to 

receive two requests for prequalification for any State, and for the 

vast majority of States the Department 

received no requests. For this reason, 

the Secretary has determined that the 

purpose of the Competitive Loan 

Auction Pilot Program has been 

frustrated, and he is cancelling the 

Auction that was scheduled to occur on 

April 15, 2009. During the 2009–10 and 

2010–11 award years, Parent PLUS 

loans under the FFEL Program may be 

made by any eligible lender selected by 

the parent borrower. 

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. 

Delegation of Authority: The Secretary 

of Education has delegated authority to 

Daniel T. Madzelan, Director, 

Forecasting and Policy Analysis for the 

Office of Postsecondary Education, to 

perform the functions of the Assistant 

Secretary for Postsecondary Education. 

Dated: April 24, 2009. 

Daniel T. Madzelan, 

Director, Forecasting and Policy Analysis. 

[FR Doc. E9–9884 Filed 4–28–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

Office of Postsecondary Education; 

Overview Information; Fund for the 

Improvement of Postsecondary 

Education, FIPSE—Special Focus 

Competition: The U.S.-Russia 

Program: Improving Research and 

Educational Activities in Higher 

Education; Notice Inviting Applications 

for New Awards for Fiscal Year (FY) 

2009 

Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance 

(CFDA) Number: 84.116S. 

DATES: 

Applications Available: April 30, 

2009. 

Deadline for Transmittal of 

Applications: June 29, 2009. 

Full Text of Announcement 

I. Funding Opportunity Description 

Purpose of Program: The U.S.-Russia 

Program encourages cooperative 

education programs between 

institutions of higher education (IHEs) 

in the Russian Federation and the 

United States of America. The objective 

of this program is to provide grants that 

demonstrate partnerships between 

Russian and American IHEs that 

contribute to the development and 

promotion of educational opportunities 

between the two nations. The aim is to 

use the educational content as the 

vehicle for learning languages, cultural 

appreciation, sharing knowledge, and 

forming long-term relationships 

between the two countries. In the 

context of the modern international 

society and a global economy, an 

understanding of the cultural context 

plays a vital role in education and 

training. 

Thus, this program is designed to 

support the formation of educational 

consortia of American and Russian IHEs 

to encourage mutual socio-culturallinguistic cooperation; the joint 

development of curricula, educational 

materials, and other types of 

educational and methodological 

activities; and related educational 

student and staff mobility (exchanges). 

Russian institutions will apply to The 

Russian Ministry of Education and 

Science for funding. 

Priority: Under this competition, we 

are particularly interested in 

applications that address the following 

priority. 

Invitational Priority: For FY 2009, this 

priority is an invitational priority. 

Under 34 CFR 75.105(c)(1), we do not 

give an application that meets this 

invitational priority a competitive or 

absolute preference over other 

applications. 

Applicants must select one academic 

discipline as the subject area for their 

grant proposal in this U.S.-Russia 

competition. For the year 2009, the 

Department and the Russian Ministry 

have jointly decided to make up to three 

awards, as follows: 

(A) Environmental Science Studies— 

No more than one award. 

(B) Biotechnology—No more than one 

award. 

(C) Any discipline, other than (A) and 

(B)—No more than one award. 

Applications are invited from 

institutions of higher education with the 

capacity to contribute to a collaborative 

project in the areas listed with a Russian 

institution. The consortium partners, 

through promoting the study of and 

communication in foreign languages, are 

expected to increase awareness and 

understanding of the two cultures, and 

to strengthen the professional and 

scholarly ties between the two 

countries. 


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