24352 Federal Register / Vol. 66, No. 93 / Monday, May 14, 2001 / Notices

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

[CFDA No.: 84.235M]

Special Demonstration Programs—

Model Demonstration Projects Notice

Inviting Applications for New Awards

for Fiscal Year (FY) 2001

Purpose of Program: To provide

funding for model demonstration

projects with innovative methods of

promoting achievement of high-quality

employment outcomes for individuals

with disabilities. These projects will

expand and improve the provision of

rehabilitation services, as defined in 34

CFR part 373, for individuals with

disabilities.

Eligible Applicants: State vocational

rehabilitation agencies; community

rehabilitation programs; Indian tribes or

tribal organizations; and public or

nonprofit agencies or organizations,

including institutions of higher

education.

Supplementary Information: Funds

under this competition will be used to

support projects in FY 2001. In FY 2002,

the Assistant Secretary may consider

funding high-quality applications

submitted in FY 2001.

Applications Available: May 18, 2001.

Deadline for Transmittal of

Applications: July 18, 2001.

Deadline for Intergovernmental

Review: September 17, 2001.

Available Funds: $1,600,000.

Estimated Range of Awards: $225,000

to $300,000.

Estimated Number of Awards: 6.

Note: The Department is not bound by any

estimates in this notice.

Project Period: Up to 60 months.

Page Limit: The application narrative

(Part III of the application) is where you,

the applicant, address the selection

criteria that reviewers use to evaluate

your application. It is suggested that you

limit Part III to 35 pages.

Applicable Regulations: (a) The

Education Department General

Administrative Regulations (EDGAR) in

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

85, 86, 97, and 99; and (b) The

regulations for this program in 34 CFR

part 373.

Note: The regulations in 34 CFR part 79

apply to all applicants except federally

recognized Indian tribes.

Note: The regulations in 34 CFR part 86

apply to institutions of higher education

only.

Priorities

Background

The unemployment rate for workingage adults with disabilities has hovered

at 70 percent for over a decade. Model

demonstration projects that promote

high-quality employment outcomes will

provide opportunities for individuals

with disabilities to be placed in jobs at

which they will—(1) receive the

minimum wage or higher, with benefits;

(2) have opportunities for advancement;

(3) work on a full-time basis, or as close

to full-time as appropriate; (4) work in

an integrated setting, if appropriate; and

(5) obtain employment that is consistent

with the strengths, resources, priorities,

concerns, abilities, capabilities,

interests, and informed choice of the

individual with disabilities.

Absolute Priority

This competition focuses on projects

designed to meet a priority that we have

chosen from allowable activities

specified in the program statute (see 34

CFR 75.105(b)(2)(v) and section

303(b)(4)(B) and (5)(B)(ix) of the

Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended,

(29 U.S.C. 773(b)). For FY 2001 this

priority is an absolute priority. Under 34

CFR 75.105(c)(3) we consider only

applications that meet the priority.

The projects must be model

demonstrations with innovative service

methods for promoting achievement of

high-quality employment outcomes for

individuals with disabilities. To meet

the absolute priority requirements for

model demonstration projects of

rehabilitation service delivery, the

application must—

(1) Demonstrate a model of

rehabilitation service delivery that is

innovative for the applicant and in the

local service area and is expected to

lead to high-quality employment

outcomes for individuals with

disabilities;

(2) Certify that the project includes

activities that have not been funded

previously, for that applicant or in that

service area, under an award from the

Special Demonstration Programs; and

(3) Include a plan to widely

disseminate the results of the project,

including any rehabilitation service

delivery model proven to be effective, so

the model may be adapted, replicated,

or integrated into fee-for-service

arrangements by State vocational

rehabilitation agencies and other

disability organizations.

Competitive Preference Priority

Within the absolute priority for this

competition for FY 2001, this

competition focuses on projects

designed to meet the competitive

preference priority in the notice of final

competitive preference for this program,

published in the Federal Register on

November 22, 2000 (65 FR 70408).

Under 34 CFR 75.105(c)(2)(i) we award

up to an additional 10 points to an

application that is otherwise eligible for

funding under this program, depending

on the extent to which the application

meets the competitive preference

priority.

Invitational Priorities

Within the absolute priority for this

competition for FY 2001, we are

particularly interested in applications

that meet one or more of the following

invitational priorities. However, under

34 CFR 75.105(c)(1), we do not give an

application that meets one or more of

these invitational priorities a

competitive or absolute preference over

other applications.

Invitational Priority 1—Model

Demonstrations To Increase

Employment Outcomes, Especially Selfemployment, Telecommuting, or

Business Ownership, for American

Indians With Disabilities Who Reside on

or Near Reservations or in Urban

Settings

We are interested in projects that

would increase employment

opportunities by providing vocational

rehabilitation services to American

Indians with disabilities. These projects,

which would provide services to

American Indians and may provide

training and instruction to other

nonprofit agencies to provide these

services, would lead to vocational

outcomes related to self-employment,

telecommuting, or business ownership.

Services may include, but are not

limited to, technical assistance and

other consultation services to conduct

market analyses, develop business

plans, and obtain loans, occupational

licenses, tools, equipment, initial stocks,

and supplies for eligible individuals.

These projects would work closely with

the National Technical Assistance

Center to increase employment

opportunities and vocational outcomes

for Native Americans with disabilities.

Invitational Priority 2—Programs That

Demonstrate Methods That Lead to

Employment Opportunities With Career

Advancement for Individuals With

Disabilities Who Are Homeless or Reside

in Supportive or Subsidized Housing

We are interested in projects that

would demonstrate service delivery

models that would further high-quality

employment outcomes for individuals

with disabilites who are homeless or

reside in supportive or subsidized

housing. Projects would focus on

developing systems to link the

supportive or the subsidized housing

industry with the public vocational

rehabilitation system. Projects

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supported under this invitational

priority may include, but are not limited

to, maintaining and replicating

successful approaches to link the

supportive or the subsidized housing

industry with the vocational

rehabilitation (VR) system; developing

methodologies to expedite entry into the

VR system for those individuals with

disabilities who are homeless or

residing in supportive or subsidized

housing who need and may benefit from

VR services; developing appropriate

mechanisms to build on existing

supportive or subsidized housing

systems to provide VR services to

increase employment outcomes

including long-term job placements in

competitive work, in a cost effective and

efficient manner; and developing

linkages with the Department of Labor’s

One-Stop service delivery system and

focusing on individuals with disabilities

in the Department of Housing and

Urban Development’s housing

programs, including the Shelter Care

Plus and the Section 8 programs. The

goal would be to not only increase

employment rates but to encourage new

local collaboration between

employment and housing providers.

Projects would provide services that

may include, but are not limited to,

training, education, counseling,

placement, and follow-up activities that

would allow the individuals with

disabilites to possess the knowledge and

skills necessary to compete for jobs with

the potential for career advancement

and higher wages and benefits. Projects

may also provide services to improve

career advancement opportunities for

individuals with disabilities who are

employed.

Invitational Priority 3—Programs That

Demonstrate Methods of Providing

Affordable Transportation Services to

Individuals With Disabilities

We are interested in projects that

would demonstrate methods of

providing affordable transportation

services to individuals who are

employed, seeking employment, or

receiving vocational rehabilitation

services from public or private

organizations and who reside in

geographic areas in which public

transportation or paratransit service is

not available or, if available, does not

adequately meet the needs of the

consumers (e.g., need for 24-hour

service).

Selection Criteria: In evaluating an

application for a new grant under this

competition, we use selection criteria

chosen from the general selection

criteria in 34 CFR 75.210 of EDGAR.

The selection criteria to be used for this

competition will be provided in the

application package for this

competition.

For Applications Contact: Education

Publications Center (ED Pubs), P.O. Box

1398, Jessup, MD 20794–1398.

Telephone (toll free): 1–877–433–7827.

Fax: (301) 470–1244. If you use a

telecommunications device for the deaf

(TDD), you may call (toll free): 1–877–

576–7734.

You may also contact ED Pubs via its

Web site: http://www.ed.gov/pubs/

edpubs.html or you may contact ED

Pubs at its e-mail address: ed

pubs@inet.ed.gov

If you request an application from ED

Pubs, be sure to identify this

competition as follows: CFDA number

84.235M.

Individuals with disabilities may

obtain a copy of the application package

in an alternative format by contacting

the Grants and Contracts Services Team,

U.S. Department of Education, 400

Maryland Avenue, SW., room 3317,

Switzer Building, Washington, DC

20202–2550. Telephone: (202) 205–

8351. If you use a telecommunications

device for the deaf (TDD), you may call

the Federal Information Relay Service

(FIRS) at 1–800–877–8339. However,

the Department is not able to reproduce

in an alternative format the standard

forms included in the application

package.

For Further Information Contact:

Alfreda Reeves, U.S. Department of

Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, SW.,

room 3314, Switzer Building,

Washington, DC. 20202–2650.

Telephone: (202) 205–9361. If you use a

telecommunications device for the deaf

(TDD), you may call the Federal

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Program Authority: 29 U.S.C. 773(b).

Dated: May 8, 2001.

Francis V. Corrigan,

Deputy Director, National Institute on

Disability and Rehabilitation Research.

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission

[Docket No. IC01–719B–000; FERC–719B]

Proposed Information Collection and

Request for Comments

May 10, 2001.

AGENCY: Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission, DOE.

ACTION: Request for Office of

Management and Budget Emergency

Processing of proposed information

collection and request for comments.

SUMMARY: The Federal Energy

Regulatory Commission (Commission) is

providing notice of a request to the

Office of Management and Budget

(OMB) for emergency processing of a

proposed collection of information in

connection with the California

electricity markets, and is soliciting

public comment on that information

collection.

DATES: Comments are requested on or

before May 14, 2001.

ADDRESSES: Send comments to: (1)

Michael Miller, Office of the Chief

Information Officer, CI–1, Federal

Energy Regulatory Commission, 888

First Street NE., Washington, DC 20426.

Mr. Miller may be reached by telephone

at (202) 208–1415 and by e-mail at

mike.miller@ferc.fed.us; and (2) Amy

Farrell, FERC Desk Officer, Office of

Information and Regulatory Affairs,

Office of Management and Budget,

Room 10202 NEOB, 725 17th Street

NW., Washington, DC 20503. Ms. Farrell

may be reached by telephone at (202)

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Stuart Fischer, Office of the General

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Federal Power Act directs the

Commission to ensure just and