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Dated: May 17, 2001.

John Tressler,

Leader, Regulatory Information Management,

Office of the Chief Information Officer.

Office of Student Financial Assistance

Programs

Type of Review: Revision.

Title: Campus-Based Reallocation

Form E40–4P.

Frequency: On Occasion.

Affected Public: Businesses or other

for-profit; Not-for-profit institutions;

State, Local, or Tribal Gov’t, SEAs or

LEAs.

Reporting and Recordkeeping Hour

Burden:

Responses: 3,000.

Burden Hours: 500.

Abstract: The Reallocation Form is

necessary to determine the funds

available and to establish eligibility for

the distribution of supplemental Federal

Work-Study (FWS) awards.

Requests for copies of the proposed

information collection request may be

accessed from http://edicsweb.ed.gov, or

should be addressed to Vivian Reese,

Department of Education, 400 Maryland

Avenue, SW, Room 4050, Regional

Office Building 3, Washington, D.C.

20202–4651. Requests may also be

electronically mailed to the internet

address OCIO_IMG_Issues@ed.gov or

faxed to 202–708–9346.

Please specify the complete title of the

information collection when making

your request. Comments regarding

burden and/or the collection activity

requirements should be directed to

Joseph Schubart at (202) 708–9266 or

via his internet address

Joe.Schubart@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

Submission for OMB Review;

Comment Request

AGENCY: Department of Education.

SUMMARY: The Leader, Regulatory

Information Management Group, Office

of the Chief Information Officer invites

comments on the submission for OMB

review as required by the Paperwork

Reduction Act of 1995.

DATES: Interested persons are invited to

submit comments on or before June 22,

2001.

ADDRESSES: Written comments should

be addressed to the Office of

Information and Regulatory Affairs,

Attention: Lauren Wittenberg, Acting

Desk Officer, Department of Education,

Office of Management and Budget, 725

17th Street, NW., Room 10235, New

Executive Office Building, Washington,

DC 20503 or should be electronically

mailed to the internet address

Lauren_Wittenberg@omb.eop.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section

3506 of the Paperwork Reduction Act of

1995 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35) requires

that the Office of Management and

Budget (OMB) provide interested

Federal agencies and the public an early

opportunity to comment on information

collection requests. OMB may amend or

waive the requirement for public

consultation to the extent that public

participation in the approval process

would defeat the purpose of the

information collection, violate State or

Federal law, or substantially interfere

with any agency’s ability to perform its

statutory obligations. The Leader,

Regulatory Information Management

Group, Office of the Chief Information

Officer, publishes that notice containing

proposed information collection

requests prior to submission of these

requests to OMB. Each proposed

information collection, grouped by

office, contains the following: (1) Type

of review requested, e.g. new, revision,

extension, existing or reinstatement; (2)

Title; (3) Summary of the collection; (4)

Description of the need for, and

proposed use of, the information; (5)

Respondents and frequency of

collection; and (6) Reporting and/or

Recordkeeping burden. OMB invites

public comment.

Dated: May 17, 2001.

John Tressler,

Leader, Regulatory Information Management,

Office of the Chief Information Officer.

Office of Student Financial Assistance

Programs

Type of Review: Revision.

Title: The Joint Application for the

Leveraging Educational Assistance

Partnership (SLEAP) and Special

Leveraging Educational Assistance and

Partnership (LEAP) Programs.

Frequency: Annually.

Affected Public: State, Local, or Tribal

Gov’t, SEAs or LEAs.

Reporting and Recordkeeping Hour

Burden:

Responses: 56.

Burden Hours: 112.

Abstract: The LEAP and SLEAP

programs use matching Federal and

State funds to provide a nationwide

system of grants to assist postsecondary

educational students with substantial

financial need. On this application the

states provide information the

Department requires to obligate funds

and for program management. The

signed assurances legally bind the states

to administer the programs according to

regulatory and statutory requirements.

With the clearance of this collection, the

Department is seeking to automate the

application for web-based applying for

both the LEAP Program and the

subprogram, SLEAP. There are no

significant changes to the current LEAP

form data elements. There are, however,

some additional items pertaining to the

SLEAP Program which combines the

application into one form for both

programs.

Requests for copies of the proposed

information collection request may be

accessed from http://edicsweb.ed.gov, or

should be addressed to Vivian Reese,

Department of Education, 400 Maryland

Avenue, SW, Room 4050, Regional

Office Building 3, Washington, D.C.

20202–4651. Requests may also be

electronically mailed to the internet

address OCIO_IMG_Issues@ed.gov or

faxed to 202–708–9346.

Please specify the complete title of the

information collection when making

your request. Comments regarding

burden and/or the collection activity

requirements should be directed to

Joseph Schubart at (202) 708–9266 or

via his internet address

Joe.Schubart@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. 84.215X]

Teaching American History Grant

Program; Notice Inviting Grant

Applications for New Awards for Fiscal

Year (FY) 2001

Note to Applicants: This notice is a

complete application package. Together

with the statute authorizing these grants

and the Education Department General

Administrative Regulations (EDGAR),

this notice contains all of the

information, application forms, and

instructions needed to apply for a

Teaching American History grant under

this competition. These grants are

funded under Title X, Part A of the

Elementary and Secondary Education

Act of 1965, as amended (20 U.S.C. 8001

et seq.).

Purpose of Program: Teaching

American History grants will support

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programs to raise student achievement

by improving teachers’ knowledge,

understanding, and appreciation of

American history. Grant awards will

assist local educational agencies (LEAs),

in partnership with entities that have

extensive content expertise, to develop,

document, evaluate, and disseminate

innovative, cohesive models of

professional development. By helping

teachers to develop a deeper

understanding and appreciation of

American history as a separate subject

matter within the core curriculum, these

programs will improve instruction and

raise student achievement.

Eligible Applicants: Local educational

agencies (LEAs), working in partnership

with one or more of the following

entities:

• Institutions of higher education;

• Non-profit history or humanities

organizations; and

• Libraries and museums.

Note: Groups of LEAs interested in

submitting a single application must follow

the procedures for group applications in 34

CFR 75.127–129 of EDGAR.

E-Mail Notification of Intent To Apply

for Funding: The Department will be

able to develop a more efficient process

for reviewing grant applications if it has

a better understanding of the number of

LEAs that intend to apply for funding

under this competition. Therefore, the

Secretary strongly encourages each

potential applicant to notify the

Department with a short e-mail noting

the intent to submit an application for

funding. The e-mail need not include

information regarding the content of the

proposed application, only the

applicant’s intent to submit it. The

Secretary requests that this e-mail

notification be sent no later than June

22, 2001. The e-mail notification should

be sent to Ms. Christine Miller at:

TeachingAmericanHistory@ed.gov.

Applicants that fail to provide this email notification may still apply for

funding.

Deadline for Transmittal of

Applications: July 23, 2001.

Deadline for Intergovernmental

Review: September 21, 2001.

Estimated Available Funds:

$50,000,000.

Estimated Range of Awards:

$350,000–$1,000,000 (total funding per

grant, for a three-year project period).

Estimated Average Size: $500,000

(total for all three years).

Maximum Award Amount: The total

amount of funding that an LEA may

receive under this competition is

$1,000,000.

Estimated Number of Awards: 75–

125.

Project Period: Up to 36 months.

Please note that applicants for multiyear awards are required to provide

detailed budget information for the total

grant period requested. The Department

will determine at the time of the initial

award the funding levels for each year

of the grant award. The Department of

Education is not bound by any estimates

in this notice.

Note: To provide the applicant the capacity

to effectively plan for and carry out the

comprehensive long-term activities involved

in ongoing, intensive professional

development, to establish partnerships to

support this work, and to document and

demonstrate the effectiveness of its program

for future dissemination, the Secretary

anticipates awarding the entire three-year

grant amount for the project at the time of the

initial award.

Page Limits: Applicants are strongly

encouraged to limit the application

narrative to no more than 20 doublespaced pages.

The following standards are preferred:

(1) A ‘‘page’’ is 8.5′′ x 11′′ (one side only)

with one-inch margins (top, bottom, and

sides). (2) Use 12-point font for all text

in the application narrative.

The page limit does not apply to the

cover sheet, the one-page abstract,

budget section, appendices, and forms

and assurances.

Applicable Regulations: The

Education Department General

Administrative Regulations (EDGAR) in

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

86, 97, 98 and 99.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Budgets

must include funds for at least two

project staff members to attend a twoday annual meeting of the Teaching

American History Grant Program in

Washington, DC, each year of the

project. Applicants must include funds

to cover travel and lodging expenses for

these training activities during each year

of the project.

Program Description: The Teaching

American History grant program is

funded under Part A of Title X of the

Elementary and Secondary Education

Act.

Students who know and appreciate

the great ideas of American history are

more likely to understand and exercise

their civic rights and responsibilities.

Their understanding of traditional

American history will be enhanced if

teachers make the study of history more

exciting, interesting, and engaging.

Students need teachers who have a

thorough understanding of American

history as a separate subject within the

core curriculum, and incorporate into

their teaching effective strategies to help

students learn.

The Teaching American History Grant

Program will support projects to raise

student achievement in American

history by improving teachers’

knowledge, understanding, and

appreciation for American history

through intensive, ongoing professional

development. These professional

development activities should reflect

the best available research and practice

in teaching, learning, and leadership.

Project activities should enable teachers

to develop further expertise in

American History subject content,

teaching strategies, use of technologies,

and other essential elements of teaching

to higher standards. Projects should be

driven by a coherent, long-term plan

and should be evaluated on the basis of

their impact on teacher effectiveness

and student learning. This assessment

should guide subsequent professional

development efforts.

This program will demonstrate how

school districts and institutions with

expertise in American history can

collaborate over a three-year period to

ensure that teachers develop the

knowledge and skills necessary to teach

American history in an exciting and

engaging way. Through these projects,

districts will demonstrate

comprehensive professional

development approaches for providing

high-quality American history

instruction. In addition to any

dissemination conducted directly by

grantees, the Department intends to take

the products and information resulting

from this grant and share the results

with other communities.

Under this program, applicants must

propose projects that:

• Develop and implement highquality in-service and/or pre-service

professional development that provides

educators with content and teaching

skills to prepare all students to achieve

to higher standards in American history;

and

• Develop and implement strategies

for sustained and on-going collaboration

that will take place over the course of

at least three years among teachers and

outside experts to improve instruction

in American history.

Applicants should consider projects

that include at least one or more of the

following:

• Supporting participation of teams of

teachers in summer institutes and

summer immersion activities;

• Supporting school-based

collaborative efforts among teachers,

including programs that facilitate

teacher observation and analyses of

fellow history teachers’ classroom

practice to improve instruction;

• Developing programs to assist new

history teachers in the classroom, such

as—

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(a) Mentoring and coaching by trained

mentor teachers over the entire grant

period;

(b) Team teaching with experienced

history teachers; or

(c) Providing released time for

observation and consultation with

experienced history teachers;

• Providing collaborative professional

development experiences for veteran

history teachers;

• Establishing and maintaining

professional networks that provide a

forum for interaction among teachers

and that allow for the exchange of

information;

• Providing guidance to teachers on

the use of technology to provide access

to primary historical documents, enable

cooperative learning efforts, and

develop effective presentations of

historical content; and

• Creating materials documenting the

implementation and benefits of the

program and products for other

educators to use in the course of

teaching American history as a separate

subject within the core curriculum.

Application Content: To apply for

Teaching American History program

funds, applicants must fully describe, in

their project narrative, projects that:

• Further the development of highquality professional development

programs, through collaboration,

designed to improve American history

education programs in elementary,

middle, or high schools;

• Develop materials designed to help

replicate or adapt the program;

• Document the program’s outcomes

and benefits; and

• Develop products and services that

may be used to replicate the program in

other settings.

Thus, grant applications must

describe existing or proposed strategies

that could successfully be implemented,

expanded, documented, evaluated and

disseminated. Taken together, these

strategies and methods should comprise

a research-based comprehensive

American History education

improvement project that:

• Is based on reliable theory,

preliminary internal or external

research, and evaluation regarding

effective practice;

• Has the potential to improve

students’ achievement in American

history;

• Highlights the development of

model pre-service and/or in-service

professional development for history

teachers;

• Involves multiple partners and

effectively combines resources to create

quality, sustainable programs;

• Demonstrates the feasibility of

further replication and dissemination;

• Is applicable to a broad range of

rural and urban schools serving poor

and disadvantaged students, including

those schools that are chronically lowperforming;

• Makes effective use of technology to

further the program goals; and

• Describes methods by which the

applicant will assess the project’s

outcomes.

Reporting Requirements and Expected

Outcomes

The Secretary requires successful

applicants to submit annual

performance reports that document the

grantee’s yearly progress toward

meeting expected programmatic

outcomes. The Secretary will use these

reports to measure the success of the

grantee’s project and contribute to a

broader knowledge base about highquality, effective professional

development strategies that can improve

the teaching and learning of American

history nationwide. In addition,

grantees will be required to submit a

final performance report, due no later

than 90 days after the end of the project

period.

Waiver of Proposed Rulemaking

In accordance with the

Administrative Procedure Act (5 U.S.C.

553), it is the practice of the Secretary

to offer interested parties the

opportunity to comment on proposed

rules. Section 437(d)(1) of the General

Education Provisions Act (GEPA),

however, allows the Secretary to exempt

from rulemaking requirements rules

governing the first grant competition

under a new or substantially revised

program authority (20 U.S.C.

1232(d)(1)). Funding was provided for

this new initiative in the FY 2001

appropriations act, enacted December

21, 2000. The Secretary, in accordance

with section 437(d)(1) of GEPA, has

decided to forego public comment in

order to ensure timely grant awards.

These requirements will apply to the FY

2001 grant competition only.

Competition Requirements

Absolute Priority: The following

requirement applies to all applicants

seeking funding under this competition.

An applicant must meet this

requirement in order to be eligible for

funding.

Collaboration With Other Agencies or

Institutions

(a) Each applicant must propose to

work in collaboration with one or more

of the following entities:

• Institutions of higher education;

• Non-profit history or humanities

organizations; or

• Libraries or museums.

(a) The applicant must identify the

entity or entities with which it will

collaborate and include in its

application an assurance from

appropriate officials of those entities

that they will work with the applicant

in implementing the proposal.

Invitational Priority

The Secretary is particularly

interested in receiving applications from

high-poverty rural and urban LEAs for

projects designed to improve American

history instruction in chronically lowperforming schools.

Definition: In addition to definitions

in the statute and EDGAR, the following

definition applies:

Research-based, when used with

respect to an activity or a program,

means that, to the extent possible, the

activity or program is based on the most

rigorous theory, research, and

evaluation available and effective in

improving student achievement and

performance and other program

objectives.

Selection Criteria: The Secretary uses

the following selection criteria to

evaluate applications for grants under

this competition. In all instances where

the word ‘‘project’’ appears in the

selection criteria, the reference to a

Teaching American History program

should be made.

The maximum composite score for all

of these criteria is 100 points. The

maximum score for each criterion is

indicated in parentheses. Within each

criterion, the Secretary evaluates each

factor equally.

(a) Need for Project (10 points)

In determining the need for the

proposed project, the Secretary

considers the following factors:

(i) The extent to which the proposed

project addresses the needs of

disadvantaged students and students at

risk of educational failure.

(ii) The extent to which specific gaps

or weaknesses in services,

infrastructure, or opportunities have

been identified and will be addressed by

the proposed project, including the

nature and magnitude of those gaps or

weaknesses.

(b) Significance. (20 points)

In determining the significance of the

proposed project, the Secretary

considers one or more of the following

factors:

(i) The potential contribution of the

proposed project to increased

knowledge or understanding of effective

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strategies to improve instruction and

student achievement in American

History.

(ii) The likelihood that the proposed

project will result in systematic

improvement in the delivery of

professional development to improve

teacher’s knowledge, understanding and

appreciation of American History.

(iii) The extent to which the proposed

partnership with institutions with

expertise in the field will contribute to

teachers’ ability to instruct students in

American History in an engaging

manner.

(iv) The likely utility of the products

(such as information, materials,

processes, or techniques) that will result

from the proposed project, including the

potential for their being used effectively

in a variety of other settings.

(c) Quality of the Project Design (25

points)

In determining the quality of the

design of the proposed project, the

Secretary considers one or more of the

following factors:

(i) The extent to which the goals,

objectives, and outcomes to be achieved

by the proposed project are clearly

specified and measurable.

(ii) The extent to which the

professional development activities to

be provided by the project are of

sufficient quality, intensity, and

duration to lead to improved instruction

in American History.

(iii) The extent to which the project

involves the collaboration of

appropriate partners with expertise in

the content of American History to

improve teachers’ knowledge and

instruction.

(iv) The extent to which coherent

theory or quality external and internal

research and evaluation underlie the

proposed project.

(d) Quality of the Management Plan (15

points)

In determining the quality of the

management plan for the proposed

project, the Secretary considers one or

more of the following factors:

(i) The adequacy of the management

plan to achieve the objectives of the

proposed project on time and within

budget, including clearly defined

responsibilities, timelines, continuous

improvement strategies and milestones

for accomplishing project tasks.

(ii) The extent to which the time

commitments of the project director and

other key project personnel are

appropriate and adequate to meet the

objectives of the proposed project.

(e) Quality of Project Personnel (5

points)

In determining the quality of the

project personnel, the Secretary

considers one or more of the following

factors:

(i) The qualifications, including

relevant training and experience in

American history, of key project

personnel and major partners, project

consultants and contractors.

(ii) The extent to which the applicant

encourages applications for employment

from persons who are members of

groups that have traditionally been

underrepresented based on race, color,

national origin, gender, age, or

disability.

(f) Quality of the Project Evaluation (15

points)

In determining the quality of the

evaluation, the Secretary considers one

or more of the following factors:

(i) The extent to which the methods

of evaluation are thorough, feasible, and

appropriate to the goals, objectives, and

outcomes of the proposed project.

(ii) The extent to which the methods

of evaluation include the use of

objective performance measures that are

clearly related to the intended outcomes

of the project and will produce

quantitative and qualitative data to the

extent possible.

(iii) The extent to which the

evaluation will provide guidance about

effective strategies suitable for

replication or testing in other settings.

(g) Adequacy of Resources (10 points)

In determining the adequacy of

resources for the proposed project, the

Secretary considers:

(i) The extent to which the costs are

reasonable and the budget sufficient in

relation to the objectives, design, and

scope of project activities.

(ii) The relevance and demonstrated

commitment of each partner in the

proposed project to the implementation

and success of the project.

Intergovernmental Review of Federal

Programs

This program is subject to the

requirements of Executive Order 12372

(Intergovernmental Review of Federal

Programs) and the regulations in 34 CFR

part 79.

The objective of the Executive order is

to foster an intergovernmental

partnership and to strengthen

federalism by relying on State and local

processes for State and local

government coordination and review of

proposed Federal financial assistance.

Applicants must contact the

appropriate State Single Point of

Contact to find out about, and to comply

with, the State’s process under

Executive Order 12372. Applicants

proposing to perform activities in more

than one State should immediately

contact the Single Point of Contact for

each of those States and follow the

procedures established in each State

under the Executive order.

If you want to know the name and

address of any State Single Point of

Contact (SPOC) you may view the latest

SPOC list on the OMB Web site at the

following address: http://

www.whitehouse.gov/omb/grants.

In States that have not established a

process or chosen a program for review,

State, area-wide, regional, and local

entities may submit comments directly

to the Department.

Any State Process Recommendation

and other comments submitted by a

State Single Point of Contact and any

comments from State, area-wide,

regional, and local entities must be

mailed or hand-delivered by the date

indicated in this notice to the following

address: The Secretary, E.O.

12372’CFDA #84.215X, U.S. Department

of Education, Room 7E200, 400

Maryland Avenue, SW., Washington,

DC 20202–0125.

Proof of mailing will be determined

on the same basis as applications (see 34

CFR 75.102). Recommendations or

comments may be hand-delivered until

4:30 p.m. (Eastern Standard Time) on

the date indicated in this notice. Please

note that the above address is not the

same address as the one to which the

applicant submits its completed

application. Do not send applications to

the above address.

Instructions for Transmittal of

Applications

(a) If an applicant wants to apply for

a grant, the applicant must—

(1) Mail the original and two copies

of the application on or before the

deadline date to: U.S. Department of

Education, Application Control Center,

Attention: CFDA # 84.215X, Room 3633,

Regional Office Building #3, 7th and D

Streets, SW., Washington, DC

or

(2) Hand deliver the original and two

copies of the application by 4:30 p.m.

(Eastern Standard Time) on or before the

deadline date to: U.S. Department of

Education, Application Control Center,

Attention: CFDA #84.215X, Room 3633,

Regional Office Building #3, 7th and D

Streets, SW., Washington, DC.

(b) An applicant must show one of the

following as proof of mailing:

(1) A legibly dated U.S. Postal Service

postmark.

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(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 Secretary.

(c) If an application is mailed through

the U.S. Postal Service, the Secretary

does 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: (1) The U.S. Postal Service does not

uniformly provide a dated postmark. Before

relying on this method, an applicant should

check with its local post office.

(2) The Application Control Center will

mail a Grant Application Receipt

Acknowledgment to each applicant. If an

applicant fails to receive the notification of

application receipt within 15 days from the

date of mailing the application, the applicant

should call the U.S. Department of Education

Application Control Center at (202) 708–

9494.

(3) The applicant must indicate on the

envelope and—if not provided by the

Department—in Item 3 of the Application for

Federal Assistance (ED 424) the CFDA

number—and suffix letter, if any—of the

competition under which the application is

being submitted.

Application Instructions and Forms

The appendix to this notice contains

all required forms and instructions,

including instructions for preparing the

application narrative, a statement

regarding estimated public reporting

burden, a notice to applicants regarding

compliance with section 427 of the

General Education Provisions Act

(GEPA), various assurances and

certifications, and a checklist for

applicants.

To apply for an award under this

competition, your application must be

organized in the following order and

include the following four parts. The

parts and additional materials are as

follows:

Part I: Application for Federal

Assistance (ED 424, Exp. 06/30/2001)

and Instructions

Part II: Budget Information-NonConstruction Programs (ED Form No.

524) and Instructions

An applicant for a multi-year project

must provide a budget narrative that

provides budget information for each

budget period of the proposed project

period.

Part III: Application Narrative

The application narrative is where an

applicant addresses the selection

criteria that are used by reviewers in

evaluating the application. Applicants

are strongly encouraged to limit the

application narrative to no more than 20

double-spaced, standard-type pages.

The following standards are preferred:

(1) A ‘‘page’’ is 8.5′′ x 11′′ (one side only)

with one-inch margins (top, bottom, and

sides). (2) If using a proportional

computer font, applicants are requested

to use a 12-point font.

Part IV: Assurances and Certifications

a. Assurances—Non-Construction

Programs (Standard Form 424B).

b. Certifications Regarding Lobbying;

Debarment, Suspension, and Other

Responsibility Matters; and Drug-Free

Workplace Requirements (ED 80–0013)

and instructions.

c. Certifications regarding Debarment,

Suspension, Ineligibility and Voluntary

Exclusion—Lower Tier Covered

Transactions (ED 80–0014, 9/90) and

instructions.

Note: ED Form 80–0014 is intended for the

use of grantees and should not be transmitted

to the Department.

d. Disclosure of Lobbying Activities

(Standard Form LLL) (if applicable) and

instructions.

An applicant may submit information

on photostatic copies of the application,

budget forms, assurances, and

certifications as printed in this notice in

the Federal Register. However, the

application form, assurances, and

certifications must each have an original

signature. All applicants are required to

submit ONE original signed application,

including ink signatures on all forms

and assurances, and TWO copies of the

application, one bound and one

unbound copy suitable for

photocopying. Please mark each

application as ‘‘original’’ or ‘‘copy.’’ To

aid with the review of applications, the

Department encourages applicants to

submit two additional paper copies of

the application. The Department will

not penalize applicants who do not

provide additional copies. No grant may

be awarded unless a completed

application form, including the signed

assurances and certifications, has been

received.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Christine Miller or Alex Stein, Teaching

American History Grant Program, U.S.

Department of Education, 400 Maryland

Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20202–

6200. Telephone (202) 260–8766

(Christine Miller) or (202) 205–9085

(Alex Stein). E-mail:

teachingamericanhistory@ed.gov.

Individuals who use a

telecommunications device for the deaf

(TDD) may call the Federal Information

Relay Service (FIRS) at 1–888–877–

8339.

Individuals with disabilities may

obtain this notice in an alternative

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

audiotape, or computer diskette) on

request to the contact persons.

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 the following site: http://www.ed.gov/

legislation/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.access.gpo.gov/nara/

index.html

Program Authority: 20 U.S.C. 8001 et seq.

Dated: May 17, 2001.

Thomas M. Corwin,

Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for

Elementary and Secondary Education.

Appendix

Instructions for the Application Narrative

The narrative is the section of the

application where the selection criteria used

by reviewers in evaluating the application are

addressed. The narrative must encompass

each function or activity for which funds are

being requested. Before preparing the

application narrative, an applicant should

read carefully the description of the program

and the selection criteria the Secretary uses

to evaluate applications.

Applicants should note the preferable page

limits for the application narrative stated in

this notice under Page Limits.

1. Begin with a one-page Abstract

summarizing the proposed Teaching

American History project, including a

description of project objectives and

activities and partners in the application.

Also include a short description of the

population to be served by the project.

2. Include a table of contents listing the

parts of the narrative in the order of the

selection criteria and the page numbers

where the parts of the narrative are found. Be

sure to number the pages.

3. Describe how the applicant meets the

absolute priority.

4. Describe fully the proposed project in

light of the selection criteria in the order in

which the criteria are listed in the

application package. Do not simply

paraphrase the criteria.

5. Provide the following in response to the

attached ‘‘Notice to all Applicants:’’ (1) A

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reference to the portion of the application in

which information appears as to how the

applicant is addressing steps to promote

equitable access and participation, or (2) a

separate statement that contains that

information.

6. If the application is from a group, attach

the group’s agreement. When applying for

funds as a group, such as a consortium,

individual eligible applicants must enter into

an agreement signed by all members of the

group. The group’s agreement must detail the

activities each member of the group plans to

perform, and must bind each member to

every statement and assurance made in the

group’s application. (The designated

applicant must submit the group’s agreement

with its application.)

7. Applicants may include supporting

documentation as appendices to the

narrative. This material should be concise

and pertinent to the competition. Note that

the Secretary considers only information

contained in the application in ranking

applications for funding consideration.

Letters of support sent separately from the

formal application package are not

considered in the review by the technical

review panels.

8. Attach copies of all required assurances

and forms.

Estimated Public Reporting Burden

According to the Paperwork Reduction Act

of 1995, you are not required to respond to

a collection of information unless it displays

a valid OMB Control Number. The valid

OMB control number for this information

collection is 1810–0639, (Expiration Date: 05/

31/2004). The time required to complete this

information collection is estimated to average

sixty-five (65) hours per response, including

the time to review instructions, search

existing data resources, gather the data

needed, and complete and review the

information collection. If you have any

comments concerning the accuracy of the

time estimate or suggestions for improving

this form, please write to: Christine Miller,

Teaching American History Grant Program,

U.S. Department of Education, 400 Maryland

Avenue SW, FB–6, 5C126, Washington, DC

20202–6200.

If you have comments or concerns

regarding the status of your individual

submission of this form, write directly to:

Christine Miller, Teaching American History

Grant Program, U.S. Department of

Education, 400 Maryland Avenue SW, FB–6,

5C126, Washington, DC 20202–6200.

Checklist for Applicants

The following forms and other items must

be included in the application in the order

listed below:

l1. Application for Federal Assistance (ED

424)

l2. Budget Information—Non-Construction

Programs ED Form No. 524) and budget

narrative.

l3. Application Narrative, including

information that addresses section 427 of

the General Education Provisions Act (see

the section entitled ‘‘NOTICE TO ALL

APPLICANTS’’), and relevant appendices.

l4. Group agreement, if applicable.

l5. Assurances—Non-Construction

Programs (SF 242B).

l6. Certifications Regarding Lobbying;

Debarment, Suspension, and Other

Responsibility Matters; and Drug-Free

Workplace Requirements (ED 80–0013).

l7. Disclosure of Lobbying Activities

(Standard Form LLL).

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