Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 142 / Wednesday, July 28, 2021 / Notices 40509 

Dated: July 23, 2021. 

Aaron T. Siegel, 

Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison 

Officer, Department of Defense. 

[FR Doc. 2021–16082 Filed 7–27–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 5001–06–C 

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Army Corps of Engineers 

Sunshine Act Meetings 

AGENCY HOLDING THE MEETINGS: 

Mississippi River Commission. 

TIME AND DATE: 9:00 a.m., August 23, 

2021. 

PLACE: On board MISSISSIPPI V at 

Caruthersville City Front, 

Caruthersville, Missouri. 

STATUS: Open to the public. 

MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED: (1) 

Summary report by President of the 


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Commission on national and regional 

issues affecting the U.S. Army Corps of 

Engineers and Commission programs 

and projects on the Mississippi River 

and its tributaries; (2) District 

Commander’s overview of current 

project issues within the St. Louis and 

Memphis Districts; and (3) Presentations 

by local organizations and members of 

the public giving views or comments on 

any issue affecting the programs or 

projects of the Commission and the 

Corps of Engineers. 

TIME AND DATE: 9:00 a.m., August 24, 

2021. 

PLACE: On board MISSISSIPPI V at 

Beale Street Landing, Memphis, 

Tennessee. 

STATUS: Open to the public. 

MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED: (1) 

Summary report by President of the 

Commission on national and regional 

issues affecting the U.S. Army Corps of 

Engineers and Commission programs 

and projects on the Mississippi River 

and its tributaries; (2) District 

Commander’s overview of current 

project issues within the Memphis 

District; and (3) Presentations by local 

organizations and members of the 

public giving views or comments on any 

issue affecting the programs or projects 

of the Commission and the Corps of 

Engineers. 

TIME AND DATE: 1:00 p.m., August 25, 

2021. 

PLACE: On board MISSISSIPPI V at 

Greenville City Front, Greenville, 

Mississippi. 

STATUS: Open to the public. 

MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED: (1) 

Summary report by President of the 

Commission on national and regional 

issues affecting the U.S. Army Corps of 

Engineers and Commission programs 

and projects on the Mississippi River 

and its tributaries; (2) District 

Commander’s overview of current 

project issues within the Vicksburg 

District; and (3) Presentations by local 

organizations and members of the 

public giving views or comments on any 

issue affecting the programs or projects 

of the Commission and the Corps of 

Engineers. 

TIME AND DATE: 9:00 a.m., August 27, 

2021. 

PLACE: On board MISSISSIPPI V at Port 

Commission Dock, Morgan City, 

Louisiana. 

STATUS: Open to the public. 

MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED: (1) 

Summary report by President of the 

Commission on national and regional 

issues affecting the U.S. Army Corps of 

Engineers and Commission programs 

and projects on the Mississippi River 

and its tributaries; (2) District 

Commander’s overview of current 

project issues within the Vicksburg 

District; and (3) Presentations by local 

organizations and members of the 

public giving views or comments on any 

issue affecting the programs or projects 

of the Commission and the Corps of 

Engineers. 

CONTACT PERSON FOR MORE INFORMATION: 

Mr. Charles A. Camillo, telephone 601– 

634–7023. 

Diana M. Holland, 

Major General, USA, President, Mississippi 

River Commission. 

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BILLING CODE 3720–58–P 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

Applications for New Awards; 

Education Innovation and Research 

(EIR) Program—Early-Phase Grants 

AGENCY: Office of Elementary and 

Secondary Education, Department of 

Education. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Education 

(Department) is issuing a notice inviting 

applications for fiscal year (FY) 2021 for 

the EIR program—Early-phase Grants, 

Assistance Listing Number 84.411C 

(Early-phase Grants). This notice relates 

to the approved information collection 

under OMB control number 1894–0006. 

DATES: 

Applications Available: July 30, 2021. 

Deadline for Notice of Intent to Apply: 

August 17, 2021. 

Deadline for Transmittal of 

Applications: August 27, 2021. 

Deadline for Intergovernmental 

Review: October 26, 2021. 

Pre-Application Information: The 

Department will post additional 

competition information for prospective 

applicants on the EIR program website: 

https://oese.ed.gov/offices/office-ofdiscretionary-grants-support-services/ 

innovation-early-learning/educationinnovation-and-research-eir/fy-2021- 

competition/. 

ADDRESSES: For the addresses for 

obtaining and submitting an 

application, please refer to our Common 

Instructions for Applicants to 

Department of Education Discretionary 

Grant Programs, published in the 

Federal Register on February 13, 2019 

(84 FR 3768) and available at 

www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2019- 

02-13/pdf/2019-02206.pdf. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Yvonne Crockett, U.S. Department of 

Education, 400 Maryland Avenue SW, 

Room 3E344, Washington, DC 20202– 

5900. Telephone: (202) 453–7122. 

Email: eir@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 EIR program, 

established under section 4611 of the 

Elementary and Secondary Education 

Act, as amended (ESEA), provides 

funding to create, develop, implement, 

replicate, or take to scale 

entrepreneurial, evidence-based (as 

defined in this notice), field-initiated 

innovations to improve student 

achievement and attainment for highneed students; and rigorously evaluate 

such innovations. The EIR program is 

designed to generate and validate 

solutions to persistent education 

challenges and to support the expansion 

of those solutions to serve substantially 

larger numbers of students. 

The central design element of the EIR 

program is its multi-tier structure that 

links the amount of funding an 

applicant may receive to the quality of 

the evidence supporting the efficacy of 

the proposed project, with the 

expectation that projects that build this 

evidence will advance through EIR’s 

grant tiers: ‘‘Early-phase,’’ ‘‘Mid-phase,’’ 

and ‘‘Expansion.’’ 

The Department awards three types of 

grants under this program: ‘‘Earlyphase’’ grants, ‘‘Mid-phase’’ grants, and 

‘‘Expansion’’ grants. These grants differ 

in terms of the level of prior evidence 

of effectiveness required for 

consideration for funding, the 

expectations regarding the kind of 

evidence and information funded 

projects should produce, the level of 

scale funded projects should reach, and, 

consequently, the amount of funding 

available to support each type of project. 

Early-phase grants must demonstrate 

a rationale (as defined in this notice). 

The Department expects that Earlyphase grants will be used to fund the 

development, implementation, and 

feasibility testing of a program, which 

prior research suggests has promise, for 

the purpose of determining whether the 

program can successfully improve 

student achievement and attainment for 

high need students. These Early-phase 

grants are not intended simply to 

implement established practices in 

additional locations or address needs 

that are unique to one particular 


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