32708 Federal Register / Vol. 66, No. 116 / Friday, June 15, 2001 / Notices

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

[CFDA No.: 84.306N]

Office of Educational Research and

Improvement; American Indian and

Alaska Native Education Research

Grant Program; Notice Inviting

Applications for New Awards for Fiscal

Year (FY) 2001

Purpose of Program: The purpose of

the American Indian and Alaska Native

(AIAN) Education Research Grant

Program is to fund research, evaluation,

and data collection to provide

information on the status of education

for the Indian population and on the

effectiveness of Indian Education

Programs. For FY 2001 the competition

for new awards focuses on projects

designed to meet the absolute priority

published elsewhere in this issue of the

Federal Register.

Eligible Applicants: Indian Tribes,

Indian organizations, State education

agencies, local education agencies,

institutions of higher education,

including Indian institutions of higher

education, and other public and private

agencies and institutions, or a

consortium of these institutions that

meet the requirements of 34 CFR 75.127

through 75.129 of EDGAR.

Applications Available: June 29, 2001

for hardcopies.

On the date of publication of this

notice application packages will also be

available electronically on the World

Wide Web at the following site:

www.ed.gov/GrantApps/

Deadline for Transmittal of

Applications: July 30, 2001.

Estimated Available Funds:

Approximately $1.4 million.

Estimated Range of Awards: The size

of the awards will be commensurate

with the nature and scope of the work

proposed.

Estimated Number of Awards: 5.

Note: The Department is not bound by any

estimates in this notice.

Budget Period: 12 months.

Project Period: 12 to 36 months.

Page Limit: The application narrative

may not exceed the equivalent of 20

double-spaced pages, with printing on

only one side of 81⁄2 x 11-inch paper.

Our reviewers will not read any pages

of your application that—

• Exceed the page limit if you apply

these standards; or

• Exceed the equivalent of the page

limit if you apply other standards.

Note: We have found that reviewers are

able to conduct the highest quality review

when applications are concise and easy to

read. We strongly encourage applicants to

use a 12-point or larger size font, one-inch

margins at the top, bottom, and both sides,

and pages numbered consecutively.

Applicable Regulations: (a) The

Education Department General

Administrative Regulations (EDGAR) in

34 CFR parts 74, 75, 77, 80, 81, 82, 85,

86 (part 86 applies to IHEs only), 97, 98,

and 99. (b) The regulations in 34 CFR

part 700.

Priority: This competition focuses on

projects designed to meet the absolute

priority in the notice of final priority for

this program, published elsewhere in

this issue of the Federal Register.

Under 34 CFR 75.105(c)(3) we

consider only applications that meet

this priority.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Collaboration: The Secretary encourages

collaboration in the conduct of this

research. Examples of collaboration

include: public and private research

institutions collaborating with Indian

organizations, including schools funded

by the Bureau of Indian Affairs; and

tribal colleges collaborating with major

research universities and local

educational agencies in urban areas

serving high concentrations of Indian

children.

For Applications Contact: Education

Publications Center (ED Pubs), PO 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 E-mail address:

edpubs@inet.ed.gov.

If you request an application from ED

Pubs, be sure to identify this

competition as follows: CFDA Number

84.306N.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Karen Suagee, American Indian and

Alaska Native Research Grant Program,

Office of Educational Research and

Improvement, U.S. Department of

Education, 555 New Jersey Avenue,

NW., Room 610B, Washington, DC

20208–5521. Telephone: (202) 219–2244

or via Internet: karen.suagee@ed.gov or

you may contact Eileen O’Brien, at the

same program and address. Telephone:

(202) 208–2978 or via Internet:

eileen.o’brien@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.

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

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 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.

6031(c)(2)(B); 20 U.S.C. 7873 and 20 U.S.C.

7881(4)).

Dated: June 12, 2001.

Sue Betka,

Deputy Assistant Secretary, Office of

Educational Research and Improvement.

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BILLING CODE 4000–01–P

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

American Indian and Alaska Native

Education Research Grant Program

AGENCY: Office of Educational Research

and Improvement, Department of

Education.

ACTION: Notice of final priority.

SUMMARY: The Secretary announces a

priority for the American Indian and

Alaska Native Education Research Grant

Program to fund research that will

evaluate the role of Native language and

culture in the development of

educational strategies for improving

achievement and academic progress of

American Indian and Alaska Native

students. The Secretary uses this

particular priority for a competition in

fiscal year (FY) 2001 and may use this

priority in later fiscal years.

EFFECTIVE DATE: This priority is effective

July 16, 2001.