31338 Federal Register / Vol. 66, No. 112 / Monday, June 11, 2001 / Notices

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

[CFDA Nos: 84.044 and 84.066]

Office of Postsecondary Education

Talent Search and Educational

Opportunity Centers Programs

Notice inviting applications for new

awards for fiscal year (FY) 2002 and

Notice of Technical Assistance

Workshops.

Purpose of Programs

The Talent Search Program provides

grants to enable applicants to conduct

projects designed to (1) identify

qualified youths with potential for

education at the postsecondary level,

and encourage such youths to complete

secondary school and to undertake a

program of postsecondary education; (2)

publicize the availability of student

financial assistance available to persons

who pursue a program of postsecondary

education; and (3) encourage persons

who have not completed programs of

education at the secondary or

postsecondary level, but who have the

ability to complete such programs, to

reenter such programs.

The Educational Opportunity Centers

Program provides grants to conduct

projects designed (1) to provide

information with respect to financial

and academic assistance available for

individuals desiring to pursue a

program of postsecondary education;

and (2) to provide assistance to such

persons in applying for admission to

institutions at which a program of

postsecondary education is offered,

including preparing necessary

applications for use by admissions and

financial aid officers.

Eligible Applicants: Institutions of

higher education, public and private

agencies and organizations,

combinations of institutions, agencies,

and organizations, and, in exceptional

cases, secondary schools if there are no

other applicants capable of providing a

Talent Search or Educational

Opportunity Centers project in the

proposed target area.

Applications Available: August 1,

2001.

Deadline for Transmittal of

Applications: September 28, 2001—

Educational Opportunity Centers

Program; October 19, 2001—Talent

Search.

Deadline for Intergovernmental

Review: November 28, 2001—

Educational Opportunity Centers

Program; December 19, 2001—Talent

Search Program.

Estimated Available Funds: The

Administration has requested

$125,532,000 for the Talent Search

Program and $37,890,000 for the

Educational Opportunity Centers

Program for FY 2002. The actual level

of funding, if any, depends on final

congressional action. However, we are

inviting applications to allow enough

time to complete the grant process

before the end of the fiscal year, if

Congress appropriates funds for these

programs.

Estimated Range of Awards:

$190,000–$553,000 for year 1 of a Talent

Search project; $190,000–$953,000 for

year 1 of an Educational Opportunity

Centers project.

Estimated Average Size of Awards:

$317,000 for the Talent Search Program;

$421,000 for the Educational

Opportunity Centers Program.

Estimated Number of Awards: 396 for

the Talent Search Program; 90 for the

Educational Opportunity Centers

Program.

Note: The Department is not bound by any

estimates in this notice.

Project Period: Up to 60 months for

both the Talent Search and Educational

Opportunity Centers Programs.

Page Limit for Talent Search and

Educational Opportunity Centers

Programs: The application narrative

(Part III of the application) is where you,

the applicant, address the selection

criteria that reviewers use to evaluate

your application. You must limit Part III

to the equivalent of no more than 100

pages, using the following standards:

• A ‘‘page’’ is 8.5′′ x 11′′, on one side

only, with 1′′ margins at the top, bottom,

and both sides.

• Double space (no more than three

lines per vertical inch) all text in the

application narrative, including titles,

headings, footnotes, quotations,

references, and captions, as well as all

text in charts, tables, figures, and

graphs.

• Use a font that is either 12-point or

larger or no smaller than 10 pitch

(characters per inch).

The page limit does not apply to Part

I, the cover sheet; Part II, the budget

section, including the narrative budget

justification; Part IV, the assurances and

certifications; or the one-page abstract,

the resumes, the bibliography, or the

letters of support. However, you must

include all of the application narrative

in Part III.

We will reject your application if—

• You apply these standards and

exceed the page limit; or

• You apply other standards and

exceed the equivalent of the page limit.

Applicable Regulations: (a) The

Education Department General

Administrative Regulations (EDGAR) in

34 CFR parts 74, 75, 77, 79, 82, 85, 86,

97, 98, and 99; and (b) The regulations

for the Talent Search program in 34 CFR

part 643 and the regulations for the

Educational Opportunity Centers

Program in 34 CFR part 644.

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 No.

84.044 (Talent Search) or CFDA No.

84.066 (Educational Opportunity

Centers).

Technical Assistance Workshops: We

will conduct 10 technical assistance

workshops for these programs. At these

workshops, Department of Education

staff will assist prospective applicants

in developing proposals and will

provide budget information regarding

these programs. The dates and sites for

the technical assistance workshops,

which will be held in August, will be

posted on the TRIO Web site in June.

The TRIO Web site is: http://

www.ed.gov/offices/OPE/HEP/trio

Assistance to Individuals With

Disabilities at the Technical Assistance

Workshops

The technical assistance workshops

sites are accessible to individuals with

disabilities. If you will need an auxiliary

aid or service to participate in the

workshop (e.g., interpreting service,

assistive listening device, or materials in

an alternative format), notify one of the

contact persons listed under For Further

Information Contact at least two weeks

before the scheduled workshop date.

For Further Information Contact:

Talent Search Program: Clinton Black,

Federal TRIO Programs, U.S.

Department of Education, 1990 K Street,

NW, Suite 7000, Washington, DC

20006–8510. Telephone: (202) 502–7600

or via Internet: TRIO@ed.gov;

Clinton.Black@ed.gov.

Educational Opportunity Centers

Program: Margaret A. Wingfield, Federal

TRIO Programs, U.S. Department of

Education, 1990 K Street, NW, Suite

7000, Washington, DC 20006–8510.

Telephone: (202) 502–7600 or via

Internet: TRIO@ed.gov;

Margaret.Wingfield@ed.gov.

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If you use a telecommunications

device for the deaf (TDD), you may call

the Federal Information Relay Service

(FIRS) at 1–800–877–8339.

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 persons

listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT.

Individuals with disabilities may

obtain a copy of the application package

in an alternative format by contacting

ED Pubs. 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 the following site: 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. 1070a–11

and 20 U.S.C. 1070a–12 for the Talent Search

Program; and 20 U.S.C. 1070a–16 for the

Educational Opportunity Centers Program.

Dated: June 6, 2001.

Maureen A. McLaughlin,

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy,

Planning, and Innovation, Office of

Postsecondary Education.

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