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communities with high concentrations

of young children living in proverty.

Additional Information: Due to the

unexpected delay in passage of an

appropriations law, ED is requesting an

emergency review of this information

collection in order to make awards in

sufficient time for applicants to provide

high-quality professional development

programs by early summer 2001 when

many early childhood educators and

caregivers will be available to

participate. Based upon the occurrence

of this unanticipated event, and the

public harm that might otherwise occur

with delaying grant awards so that the

opportunity is missed to provide

professional development during

summer 2001. OMB approval is

requested by January 5, 2000, so that the

application notice can be published and

the application be made available to

eligible applicants. We anticipate that

this time schedule will allow eligible

applicants 60 days to prepare grant

applications, and the Department to

award grants by mid-May.

Frequency: Annually.

Affected Public: State, Local, or Tribal

Gov’t, SEAs or LEAs; Not-for-profit

institutions.

Reporting and Recordkeeping Hour

Burden:

Responses: 100.

Burden Hours: 1,300.

Requests for copies of the proposed

information collection request should be

directed to Vivian Reese, Department of

Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, SW.,

Room 4050, Regional Office Building 3,

Washington, DC 20202–4651, or should

be electronically mailed to the internet

address OCIO_IMG_Issues@ed.gov, or

should be faxed to 202–708–9346.

Comments regarding burden and/or

the collection activity requirements,

contact Kathy Axt at her internet

address Kathy_Axt@ed.gov. Individuals

who use a telecommunications device

for the deaf (TDD) may call the Federal

Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 1–

800–877–8339.

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BILLING CODE 4000–01–P

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

[CFDA No. 84.287]

21st Century Community Learning

Centers; Notice Inviting Applications

for New Awards for Fiscal Year (FY)

2001

Purpose of Program: The 21st Century

Community Learning Centers Program

was established by Congress to award

grants to rural and inner-city public

schools, or consortia of such schools, to

enable them to plan, implement, or

expand projects that benefit the

educational, health, social services,

cultural and recreational needs of the

community. School-based community

learning centers can provide expanded

learning opportunities for children,

youth and their families as well as a

safe, drug-free, supervised and costeffective afterschool, weekend or

summer haven.

For fiscal year (FY) 2001 we strongly

encourage applicants to design projects

that focus on the invitational priority in

the PRIORITIES section of this

application notice.

Eligible Applicants: Only rural or

inner-city public elementary or

secondary schools, consortia of those

schools, or local educational agencies

(LEAs) applying on their behalf, are

eligible to receive a grant under the 21st

Century Community Learning Centers

Program. An LEA considering serving

more than one school is encouraged to

submit a consortium application on

their behalf. Grants awarded under the

program may be used to plan,

implement, or expand community

learning centers. Applicants must

demonstrate that they meet the statutory

program purpose of serving either

‘‘rural’’ or ‘‘inner-city’’ schools or a

consortium of such schools.

Applications Available: January 4,

2001.

Deadline for Transmittal of

Applications: March 30, 2001.

Deadline for Intergovernmental

Review: May 31, 2001.

Available Funds: Approximately $205

million.

Estimated Range of Awards: $35,000–

$2,000,000, depending on the number of

Centers included in each grant

application.

Estimated Average Size of Awards:

$500,000, for a grant that will support

4 Centers. The average funding for a

single Center is $125,000.

Estimated Number of Awards:

Approximately 400 awards.

Project Period: Up to 36 months.

Please note that all applicants for multiyear awards are required to provide

detailed budget information for the total

grant period requested. The Department

will negotiate at the time of the initial

award the funding level for each year of

the grant award.

Note: The Department is not bound by any

estimates in this notice.

Page Limit: The application narrative

(Part IV of the application) is where you,

the applicant, address the selection

criteria reviewers use to evaluate your

application. Applicants are strongly

encouraged to limit Part IV to the

equivalent of no more than 20 pages.

Applicable Regulations: (a) The

Education Department General

Administrative Regulations (EDGAR) in

34 CFR parts 75, 77, 79, 80, 81, 82, 85,

and 86, and (b) the regulations in 34

CFR part 299.

Priorities

The Absolute Priority, published in

the notice of final priorities for this

program in the Federal Register on

December 2, 1997 (62 FR 63773) and

repeated below, applies to this

competition. In addition, we give

preference to applications that meet the

Competitive Priority (34 CFR

75.105(c)(2)(ii) and 34 CFR 299.3(a)).

Absolute Priority: Under 34 CFR

75.105(c)(3), we consider only

applications that meet the absolute

priority in the next paragraph.

Activities To Expand Learning

Opportunities: We fund only those

applications for 21st Century

Community Learning Centers grants that

include, among the array of services

required and authorized by the statute,

activities that offer significant expanded

learning opportunities for children and

youth in the community and that

contribute to reduced drug use and

violence.

Invitational Priority: Within the

absolute priority, Activities to Expand

Learning Opportunities, in accordance

with the Department of Education

Appropriations Act, 2001, the Secretary

strongly encourages applications that

are submitted jointly by a local

educational agency (or a consortium of

local educational agencies) and at least

one community-based organization that

has experience in providing before-and

afterschool services. We are particularly

interested in applications that meet this

invitational priority.

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

give to an application that meets the

invitational priority a competitive or

absolute preference over other

applications.

Competitive Priority: Under 34 CFR

75.105(c)(2)(i), we give preference to

applications that meet the competitive

priority described below.

Competitive Priority. Projects that will

use a significant portion of the program

funds to address substantial problems in

an Empowerment Zone, including a

Supplemental Empowerment Zone, or

an Enterprise Community designated by

the United States Department of

Housing and Urban Development or the

United States Department of

Agriculture. We select an application

that meets this priority over an

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application of comparable merit that

does not meet this competitive priority.

Note: A list of areas that have been

designated as Empowerment Zones and

Enterprise Communities is published as an

appendix to this notice.

Applicable Funding Criteria: See

application package.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 21st

Century Community Learning Centers

Program is authorized under Title X,

Part I (20 U.S.C. 8241) of the Elementary

and Secondary Education Act. Grantees

under this program must use grant

funds to plan, implement, or expand

community learning centers which are

required to carry out at least four of the

activities listed in section 10905 of the

Elementary and Secondary Education

Act (20 U.S.C. 8245), as listed below:

(1) Literacy education programs;

(2) Senior citizen programs;

(3) Children’s day care services;

(4) Integrated education, health, social

service, recreational, or cultural

programs;

(5) Summer and weekend school

programs in conjunction with recreation

programs;

(6) Nutrition and health programs;

(7) Expanded library service hours to

serve community needs;

(8) Telecommunications and

technology education programs for

individuals of all ages;

(9) Parenting skills education

programs;

(10) Support and training for child

day care providers;

(11) Employment counseling, training,

and placement;

(12) Services for individuals who

leave school before graduating from

secondary school, regardless of the age

of such individual; and

(13) Services for individuals with

disabilities.

Applicants should propose an array of

inclusive and supervised services that

include expanded learning

opportunities (such as instructional

enrichment programs, tutoring, or

homework assistance) but may also

include recreational, musical and

artistic activities, and opportunities to

use advanced technology, particularly

for those community members who do

not have access to computers or

telecommunications at home.

Application Requirements. In

accordance with the Department of

Education Appropriations Act, 2001,

applicants must describe in their

application the elements of their

projects that are designed to assist

students to meet or exceed state and

local standards in core academic

subjects, as appropriate to the needs of

the participating children.

For the purpose of the program, the

term ‘‘community learning center’’

‘‘means an entity within a public

elementary or secondary school

building that

‘‘(1) provides educational,

recreational, health, and social service

programs for residents of all ages within

a local community; and

‘‘(2) is operated by a local educational

agency in conjunction with local

governmental agencies, businesses,

vocational education programs,

institutions of higher education,

community colleges, and cultural,

recreational, and other community and

human service entities’’ (20 U.S.C.

8246).

Geographic distribution: In awarding

grants, the Secretary assures an

equitable distribution of assistance

among the States, among urban and

rural areas of a State, and among urban

and rural areas of the United States (20

U.S.C. 8243(b)).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Amanda Clyburn (Telephone: (202)

260–3804) or Peter Eldridge (Telephone:

(202) 260–2514), U.S. Department of

Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, SW.,

Washington, DC 20202–6175. E-mail:

21stCCLC@ed.gov.

If you use a telecommunications

device for the deaf (TDD), you may call

the Federal Information Relay Service

(FIRS) at 1–800–877–8339.

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 at its

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

edpubs.html.

Or you may contact ED Pubs at its email address: edpubs@inet.ed.gov

If you request an application from ED

Pubs, be sure to identify this

competition as follows: CFDA number

84.287.

Individuals with disabilities may

obtain this document in an alternative

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

audiotape, or computer diskette) on

request to the program contact person

listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT.

Individuals with disabilities also may

obtain a copy of the application package

in an alternative format by contacting

that person. However, the Department is

not able to reproduce in an alternative

format the standard forms included in

the application package.

Electronic Access to This Document

You may view this document, as well

as all other Department of Education

documents published in the Federal

Register, in text or Adobe Portable

Document Format (PDF) on the Internet

at either of the following sites: http://

ocfo.ed.gov/fedreg.htm http://

www.ed.gov/news.html.

To use the PDF you must have the

Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is

available free at either of the previous

sites. If you have questions about using

the PDF, call the U.S. Government

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

888–293–6498; or in the Washington,

D.C., 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.access.gpo.gov /nara/

index.html.

Program Authority: 20 U.S.C. 8241–8246.

Dated: December 28, 2000.

Michael Cohen,

Assistant Secretary for Elementary and

Secondary Education.

Appendix—Empowerment Zones and

Enterprise Communities

Urban and Rural Empowerment Zones

(* indicates a rural zone)

California: Los Angeles, Oakland, Santa Ana,

Riverside County*

Connecticut: New Haven

Florida: Miami/Dade County

Georgia: Atlanta, Cordele*

Illinois: Chicago, East St. Louis, Ullin*

Indiana: Gary, East Chicago

Kentucky: Kentucky Highlands* (Clinton,

Jackson, and Wayne Counties)

Maryland: Baltimore

Massachusetts: Boston

Michigan: Detroit

Minnesota: Minneapolis

Mississippi: Mid-Delta* (Bolivar, Holmes,

Humphreys, LeFlore, Sunflower,

Washington Counties)

Missouri/Kansas: Kansas City

Missouri: St. Louis

New Jersey: Cumberland County

New York: New York (Harlem, Bronx)

North Dakota: Lake Agassiz *

Ohio: Cleveland, Cincinnati, Columbus

Ohio/West Virginia: Ironton/Huntington

Pennsylvania/New Jersey: Philadelphia/

Camden

South Carolina: Columbia/Sumter*

South Dakota: Oglala Sioux Reservation in

Pine Ridge*

Tennessee: Knoxville

Texas: Houston, El Paso, Rio Grande Valley*

(Cameron, Hidalgo, Starr, and Willacy

Counties)

Virginia: Norfolk/Portsmouth

Urban and Rural Enterprise Communities

(* indicates a rural community)

Alabama: Birmingham, Chambers County*,

Greene County*, Sumter County*

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Alaska: Juneau*

Arizona: Arizona Border* (Cochise, Santa

Cruz and Yuma Counties), Phoenix,

Window Rock*

Arkansas: East Central* (Cross, Lee, Monroe,

and St. Francis Counties), Mississippi

County*, Pulaski County

California: Imperial County*, Los Angeles,

Huntington Park, San Diego, San

Francisco, Bayview, Hunter’s Point,

Watonsville*, Orange Cove*

Colorado: Denver

Connecticut: Bridgeport, New Haven

Delaware: Wilmington

District of Columbia: Washington

Florida: Jackson County*, Miami, Dade

County, Tampa, Immokalee*

Georgia: Albany, Central Savannah River*

(Burke, Hancock, Jefferson, McDuffie,

Tallafero, and Warren Counties), Crisp

County*, Dooley County*

Hawaii: Kaunakakai*

Illinois: East St. Louis, Springfield

Indiana: Indianapolis, Austin*

Iowa: Des Moines

Kansas: Leoti*

Kentucky: Louisville, Bowling Green*

Louisiana: Macon Ridge* (Catahoula,

Concordia, Franklin, Morehouse, and

Tensas Parishes), New Orleans, Northeast

Louisiana Delta* (Madison Parish),

Ouachita Parish

Maine: Lewiston*

Massachusetts: Lowell, Springfield

Michigan: Five Cap*, Flint, Muskegon,

Harrison*

Minnesota: Minneapolis, St. Paul

Mississippi: Jackson, North Delta Area*

(Panola, Quitman, and Tallahatchie

Counties)

Missouri: East Prairie*, St. Louis

Montana: Poplar*

Nebraska: Omaha

Nevada: Clarke County, Las Vegas

New Hampshire: Manchester

New Jersey: Newark

New Mexico: Albuquerque, La Jicarita*

(Mora, Rio Arriba, Taos Counties),

Deming*

New York: Albany, Schenectady, Troy,

Buffalo, Newburg, Kingston, Rochester

North Carolina: Charlotte, Edgecombe,

Halifax, Wilson*, Robeson Counties

Ohio: Akron, Columbus, Greater Portsmouth*

(Scioto County)

Oklahoma: Choctaw, McCurtain Counties*,

Oklahoma City, Ada*

Oregon: Josephine County*, Portland

Pennsylvania: Lock Haven*, Harrisburg,

Pittsburgh, Uniontown*

Rhode Island: Providence

South Carolina: Hallandale*, Charleston,

Williamsburg, Florence County*

South Dakota: Beadle, Spink Counties*

Tennessee: Fayette*, Haywood Counties*,

Memphis, Nashville, Rutledge*

Tennessee/Kentucky: Scott, McCreary

Counties*

Texas: Dallas, El Paso, San Antonio, Waco,

Uvalde*

Utah: Ogden

Vermont: Burlington

Virginia: Accomack* (Northhampton

County), Norfolk

Washington: Lower Yakima County*, Seattle,

Tacoma, Collie*

West Virginia: Charleston*, Huntington,

McDowell County*, West Central

Appalachia* (Braxton, Clay, Fayette,

Nicholas, and Roane)

Wisconsin: Milwaukee, Keshena*

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BILLING CODE 4000–01–P

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

[CFDA No. 84.120A]

Office of Postsecondary Education;

Minority Science and Engineering

Improvement Program; Notice Inviting

Applications for New Awards for Fiscal

Year (FY) 2001

Purpose of Program: The Minority

Science and Engineering Improvement

Program (MSEIP) is designed to effect

long-range improvement in science and

engineering education at predominantly

minority institutions and to increase the

flow of underrepresented ethnic

minorities, particularly minority

women, into scientific careers.

Eligibility for Grants: Under Section

361 of Title III of the Higher Education

Act (HEA), as amended, the following

entities are eligible to receive a grant

under the MSEIP:

(1) Public and private nonprofit

institutions of higher education that:

(A) Award baccalaureate degrees; and

(B) Are minority institutions;

(2) Public or private nonprofit

institutions of higher education that:

(A) Award associate degrees; and

(B) Are minority institutions that:

(i) Have a curriculum that includes

science or engineering subjects; and

(ii) Enter into a partnership with

public or private nonprofit institutions

of higher education that award

baccalaureate degrees in science and

engineering;

(3) Nonprofit science-oriented

organizations, professional scientific

societies, and institutions of higher

education that award baccalaureate

degrees, that:

(A) Provide a needed service to a

group of minority institutions; or

(B) Provide in-service training for

project directors, scientists, and

engineers from minority institutions;

(4) Consortia of organizations that

provide needed services to one or more

minority institutions, the membership

of which may include:

(A) Institutions of higher education

that have a curriculum in science and

engineering;

(B) Institutions of higher education

that have a graduate or professional

program in science or engineering;

(C) Research laboratories of, or under

contract with, the Department of Energy;

(D) Private organizations that have

science or engineering facilities; or

(E) Quasi-governmental entities that

have a significant scientific or

engineering mission.

Eligible Applicants: (a) For

institutional, design, and special

projects described respectively in 34

CFR 637.14 (a), (b), and (c): public and

nonprofit private minority institutions

as defined in section 361 (1) and (2) of

the HEA.

(b) For special projects described in

34 CFR 637.14 (b) and (c): nonprofit

organizations, institutions, and

consortia as defined in section 361(3)

and (4) of the HEA.

(c) For cooperative projects described

in 34 CFR 637.15: groups of nonprofit

accredited colleges and universities

whose primary fiscal agent is an eligible

minority institution as defined in 34

CFR 637.4(b).

Notes: 1. A minority institution is defined

in 34 CFR 637.4(b) as an accredited college

or university whose enrollment of a single

minority group or combination of minority

groups, as defined in 34 CFR 637.4(b),

exceeds 50 percent of the total enrollment.

2. Section 365(4) of the HEA now defines

the term ‘‘science’’ to include ‘‘behavior

science.’’

Applications Available: February 2,

2001.

Deadline for Transmittal of

Applications: March 19, 2001.

Deadline for Intergovernmental

Review: May 18, 2001.

Estimated Available Funds:

$8,500,000.

Estimated Range of Awards: $15,000–

$500,000.

Estimated Average Size of Awards:

The amounts referenced are advisory

and represent the Department’s best

estimate at this time. The average size

of an award is the estimate for a singleyear project or for the first budget period

of a multi-year project.

Institutional

Estimated Range of Awards:

$100,000–$200,000.

Estimated Average Size of Awards:

$120,000.

Estimated Number of Awards: 23.

Design

Estimated Range of Awards: $15,000–

$20,000.

Estimated Average Size of Awards:

$19,000.

Estimated Number of Awards: 3.

Special

Estimated Range of Awards: $20,000–

$150,000.

Estimated Average Size of Awards:

$75,000.