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activities, please contact Bernadette 

Miles, 202–453–7892. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Department of Education (ED), in 

accordance with the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA) (44 U.S.C. 

3506(c)(2)(A)), provides the general 

public and Federal agencies with an 

opportunity to comment on proposed, 

revised, and continuing collections of 

information. This helps the Department 

assess the impact of its information 

collection requirements and minimize 

the public’s reporting burden. It also 

helps the public understand the 

Department’s information collection 

requirements and provide the requested 

data in the desired format. ED is 

soliciting comments on the proposed 

information collection request (ICR) that 

is described below. The Department of 

Education is especially interested in 

public comment addressing the 

following issues: (1) Is this collection 

necessary to the proper functions of the 

Department; (2) will this information be 

processed and used in a timely manner; 

(3) is the estimate of burden accurate; 

(4) how might the Department enhance 

the quality, utility, and clarity of the 

information to be collected; and (5) how 

might the Department minimize the 

burden of this collection on the 

respondents, including through the use 

of information technology. Please note 

that written comments received in 

response to this notice will be 

considered public records. 

Title of Collection: Application 

Package for Strengthening Historically 

Black Graduate Institutions (HBGI) 

(1894–0001). 

OMB Control Number: 1840–0836. 

Type of Review: An extension without 

change of a currently approved 

collection. 

Respondents/Affected Public: State, 

Local, and Tribal Governments; Private 

Sector. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Responses: 32. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Burden Hours: 704. 

Abstract: The Strengthening 

Historically Black Graduate Institutions 

(HBGI) Program provides grants to assist 

institutions in establishing and 

strengthening their physical plants, 

development offices, endowment funds, 

academic resources and student services 

so that they may continue to participate 

in fulfilling the goal of equality of 

educational opportunity in graduate 

education. 

This collection is being submitted 

under the Streamlined Clearance 

Process for Discretionary Grant 

Information Collections (1894–0001). 

Therefore, the 30-day public comment 

period notice will be the only public 

comment notice published for this 

information collection. 

Dated: April 14, 2022. 

Juliana Pearson, 

PRA Coordinator, Strategic Collections and 

Clearance, Governance and Strategy Division, 

Office of Chief Data Officer, Office of 

Planning, Evaluation and Policy 

Development. 

[FR Doc. 2022–08341 Filed 4–18–22; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

Applications for New Awards; Upward 

Bound Math and Science Program 

AGENCY: Office of Postsecondary 

Education, Department of Education. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Education 

(Department) is issuing a notice inviting 

applications for new awards for fiscal 

year (FY) 2022 for the Upward Bound 

Math and Science (UBMS) Program, 

Assistance Listing Number 84.047M. 

This notice relates to the approved 

information collection under OMB 

control number 1840–0824. 

DATES: 

Applications Available: April 19, 

2022. 

Deadline for Transmittal of 

Applications: June 3, 2022. 

Deadline for Intergovernmental 

Review: August 2, 2022. 

ADDRESSES: For the addresses for 

obtaining and submitting an 

application, please refer to our Common 

Instructions for Applicants to 

Department of Education Discretionary 

Grant Programs, published in the 

Federal Register on December 27, 2021 

(86 FR 73264) and available at 

www.federalregister.gov/d/2021-27979. 

Please note that these Common 

Instructions supersede the version 

published on February 13, 2019, and, in 

part, describe the transition from the 

requirement to register in SAM.gov a 

Data Universal Numbering System 

(DUNS) number to the implementation 

of the Unique Entity Identifier (UEI). 

More information on the phase-out of 

DUNS numbers is available at https://

www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ofo/ 

docs/unique-entity-identifier-transitionfact-sheet.pdf. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Tanisha Hamblin-Johnson, U.S. 

Department of Education, 400 Maryland 

Avenue SW, Room 2C104, Washington, 

DC 20202–4260. Telephone: (202) 453– 

6090. Email: Tanisha.Johnson@ed.gov. 

or, 

Tara Lawrence, U.S. Department of 

Education, 400 Maryland Avenue SW, 

Room 2C104, Washington, DC 20202– 

4260. Telephone: (202) 260–1475. 

Email: Tara.Lawrence@ed.gov. 

If you are deaf, hard of hearing, or 

have a speech disability and wish to 

access telecommunications relay 

services, please dial 7–1–1. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Full Text of Announcement 

I. Funding Opportunity Description 

Purpose of Program: The Upward 

Bound (UB) Program is one of seven 

programs collectively known as the 

Federal TRIO Programs. The UB 

Program is a discretionary grant 

program that supports projects that 

provide students with the skills and 

motivation necessary to complete a 

program of secondary education and 

enter into and succeed in a program of 

postsecondary education. There are 

three types of grants under the UB 

Program: UB; Veterans UB; and UB 

Math and Science grants. In this notice, 

we invite applications for UBMS grants 

only. The invitation to apply for UB 

grants published in the Federal Register 

on December 16, 2021, and available at 

https://www.federalregister.gov/ 

documents/2021/12/16/2021-27235/ 

applications-for-new-awards-upwardbound-program. We will invite 

applications for Veterans UB grants in a 

forthcoming notice. 

The UBMS Program supports projects 

designed to prepare high school 

students for postsecondary education 

programs that lead to careers in the 

fields of math and science. 

UBMS grantees are required to 

provide the services listed in sections 

402C(b) and (c) of the Higher Education 

Act of 1965, as amended (HEA) (20 

U.S.C. 1070a–13(b), (c)). Permissible 

services under the UBMS Program are 

specified in section 402C(d) of the HEA 

(20 U.S.C. 1070a–13(d)). 

Priorities: This notice contains three 

competitive preference priorities. 

Competitive Preference Priority 1 is 

from the Secretary’s Notice of 

Administrative Priorities for 

Discretionary Grant Programs, 

published in the Federal Register on 

March 9, 2020 (85 FR 13640) 

(Administrative Priorities). Competitive 

Preference Priorities 2 and 3 are from 

the Secretary’s Supplemental Priorities 

and Definitions for Discretionary Grant 

Programs, published in the Federal 

Register on December 10, 2021 (86 FR 

70612) (Supplemental Priorities). 

Note: Applicants must include in the 

one-page abstract submitted with the 

application a statement indicating 


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which, if any, competitive preference 

priorities are addressed. If the applicant 

has addressed one or more of the 

competitive preference priorities, this 

information must also be listed on the 

UBMS Program Profile Form. 

Competitive Preference Priorities: For 

FY 2022 and any subsequent year in 

which we make awards from the list of 

unfunded applicants from this 

competition, these priorities are 

competitive preference priorities. Under 

34 CFR 75.105(c)(2)(i), we award up to 

an additional nine points to an 

applicant, depending on how well the 

application meets the priorities. 

The priorities are: 

Competitive Preference Priority 1: 

Applications that Demonstrate a 

Rationale (Up to 3 points). 

Under this priority, an applicant 

proposes a project that demonstrates a 

rationale (as defined in this notice). 

Note: A list of evidence-based 

practices that are relevant to the UBMS 

Program is available at https://

www2.ed.gov/programs/triomathsci/ 

applicant.html. This list is not 

exhaustive. Additional information 

regarding the What Works 

Clearinghouse practice guides and 

intervention reports that could also be 

relevant is posted on the Department’s 

website at www.ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc. 

Competitive Preference Priority 2: 

Meeting Student Social, Emotional, and 

Academic Needs (Up to 3 points). 

Projects that are designed to improve 

students’ social, emotional, academic, 

and career development, with a focus on 

underserved students, through 

providing multi-tiered systems of 

supports that address learning barriers 

both in and out of the classroom, that 

enable healthy development and 

respond to students’ needs, and which 

may include evidence-based traumainformed practices and professional 

development for educators on avoiding 

deficit-based approaches. 

Note: Because the UBMS Program 

supports students and not the 

professional development of educators, 

applicants should address supports for 

students only. 

Competitive Preference Priority 3: 

Strengthening Cross-Agency 

Coordination and Community 

Engagement to Advance Systemic 

Change (Up to 3 points). 

Projects that are designed to take a 

systemic evidence-based approach to 

improving outcomes for underserved 

students by establishing cross-agency 

partnerships, or community-based 

partnerships with local nonprofit 

organizations, businesses, philanthropic 

organizations, or others, to meet family 

well-being needs. 

Definitions: The definitions below are 

from 34 CFR 77.1 and the Supplemental 

Priorities. 

Demonstrates a rationale means a key 

project component included in the 

project’s logic model is informed by 

research or evaluation findings that 

suggest the project component is likely 

to improve relevant outcomes. 

Disconnected youth means an 

individual, between the ages of 14 and 

24, who may be from a low-income 

background, experiences homelessness, 

is in foster care, is involved in the 

justice system, or is not working or not 

enrolled in (or at risk of dropping out of) 

an educational institution. 

Evidence-based means the proposed 

project component is supported by 

evidence that demonstrates a rationale. 

Logic model (also referred to as a 

theory of action) means a framework 

that identifies key project components 

of the proposed project (i.e., the active 

‘‘ingredients’’ that are hypothesized to 

be critical to achieving the relevant 

outcomes) and describes the theoretical 

and operational relationships among the 

key project components and relevant 

outcomes. 

Note: In developing logic models, 

applicants may want to use resources 

such as the Regional Educational 

Laboratory Program’s (REL Pacific) 

Education Logic Model Application, 

available at https://ies.ed.gov/ncee/ 

edlabs/regions/pacific/elm.asp. 

Other sources include: https://

ies.ed.gov/ncee/edlabs/regions/pacific/ 

pdf/REL_2014025.pdf, https://

ies.ed.gov/ncee/edlabs/regions/pacific/ 

pdf/REL_2014007.pdf, and https://

ies.ed.gov/ncee/edlabs/regions/ 

northeast/pdf/REL_2015057.pdf. 

Project component means an activity, 

strategy, intervention, process, product, 

practice, or policy included in a project. 

Evidence may pertain to an individual 

project component or to a combination 

of project components (e.g., training 

teachers on instructional practices for 

English learners and follow-on coaching 

for these teachers). 

Relevant outcome means the student 

outcome(s) or other outcome(s) the key 

project component is designed to 

improve, consistent with the specific 

goals of the program. 

Underserved student means a student 

in one or more of the following 

subgroups: 

(a) A student who is living in poverty 

or is served by schools with high 

concentrations of students living in 

poverty. 

(b) A student experiencing 

homelessness or housing insecurity. 

(c) A student who is in foster care. 

(d) A student who is the first in their 

family to attend postsecondary 

education. 

(e) A student who is enrolled in or is 

seeking to enroll in postsecondary 

education who is eligible for a Pell 

Grant. 

(f) A student performing significantly 

below grade level. 

Application Requirements: The 

following application requirements for 

FY 2022 are from section 402C(e) of the 

HEA (20 U.S.C. 1070a–13(e)) and the 

program regulations at 34 CFR 645.21. 

An applicant must submit the 

following assurances, as part of its 

application— 

(1) Not less than two-thirds of the 

youths participating in the project 

proposed to be carried out under any 

application be low-income individuals 

who are first generation college 

students; 

(2) The remaining youths 

participating in the project proposed to 

be carried out under any application be 

low-income individuals or potential 

first-generation college students; 

(3) No student will be denied 

participation in a project assisted under 

section 402C of the HEA because the 

student will enter the project after the 

9th grade. 

(4) The project will collaborate with 

other Federal TRIO projects, GEAR UP 

projects, or programs serving similar 

populations that are serving the same 

target schools or target area in order to 

minimize the duplication of services 

and promote collaborations so that more 

students can be served. 

Program Authority: 20 U.S.C. 1070a– 

11 and 1070a–13. 

Note: Projects will be awarded and 

must be operated in a manner consistent 

with the nondiscrimination 

requirements contained in Federal civil 

rights laws. 

Applicable Regulations: (a) The 

Education Department General 

Administrative Regulations in 34 CFR 

parts 75, 77, 79, 82, 84, 86, 97, 98, and 

99. (b) The Office of Management and 

Budget Guidelines to Agencies on 

Governmentwide Debarment and 

Suspension (Nonprocurement) in 2 CFR 

part 180, as adopted and amended as 

regulations of the Department in 2 CFR 

part 3485. (c) The Uniform 

Administrative Requirements, Cost 

Principles, and Audit Requirements for 

Federal Awards in 2 CFR part 200, as 

adopted and amended as regulations of 

the Department in 2 CFR part 3474. (d) 

The regulations for this program in 34 

CFR part 645. (e) The Administrative 

Priorities. (f) The Supplemental 

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Note: The regulations in 34 CFR 86 

apply to institutions of higher education 

only. 

II. Award Information 

Type of Award: Discretionary grants. 

Estimated Available Funds: The 

Administration received $1,137,000,000 

for the Federal TRIO Program for FY 

2022, of which we intend to use an 

estimated $65,928,188 for UBMS 

awards. 

Contingent upon the availability of 

funds and the quality of applications, 

we may make additional awards in 

subsequent years from the list of 

unfunded applications from this 

competition. 

Estimated Range of Awards: 

$287,537–$442,525. 

Estimated Average Size of Awards: 

$310,982. 

Maximum Award: The maximum 

award varies based on whether the 

applicant is currently receiving a UBMS 

Program grant, as well as the number of 

participants served. 

• For an applicant that is not 

currently receiving a UBMS Program 

grant, the maximum award amount is 

$287,537, based upon a per-participant 

cost of no more than $4,792 and a 

minimum of 60 participants. 

• For an applicant that is currently 

receiving a UBMS Program grant, the 

maximum award amount is equal to the 

applicant’s base award amount for FY 

2021, and the minimum number of 

participants is the number of 

participants in the project’s FY 2021 

grant award notification. 

Estimated Number of Awards: 212. 

Note: The Department is not bound by 

any estimates in this notice. 

Project Period: Up to 60 months. 

III. Eligibility Information 

1. Eligible Applicants: Institutions of 

higher education, public and private 

agencies, and organizations including 

community-based organizations with 

experience in serving disadvantaged 

youth, secondary schools, combinations 

of such institutions, agencies, and 

organizations. 

2. Cost Sharing or Matching: This 

competition does not require cost 

sharing or matching. 

3. Indirect Cost Rate Information: This 

program uses a training indirect cost 

rate. This limits indirect cost 

reimbursement to an entity’s actual 

indirect costs, as determined in its 

negotiated indirect cost rate agreement, 

or eight percent of a modified total 

direct cost base, whichever amount is 

less. For more information regarding 

training indirect cost rates, see 34 CFR 

75.562. For more information regarding 

indirect costs, or to obtain a negotiated 

indirect cost rate, please see 

www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocfo/ 

intro.html. 

4. Administrative Cost Limitation: 

This program does not include any 

program-specific limitation on 

administrative expenses. All 

administrative expenses must be 

reasonable and necessary and conform 

to Cost Principles described in 2 CFR 

part 200 subpart E of the Uniform 

Guidance. 

5. Subgrantees: A grantee under this 

competition may not award subgrants to 

entities to directly carry out project 

activities described in its application. 

6. Other: An applicant may submit 

more than one application for a UBMS 

Program grant so long as each 

application describes a project that 

serves a different target area or target 

school (34 CFR 645.20(a)). The Secretary 

is not designating any additional 

populations for which an applicant may 

submit a separate application under this 

competition (34 CFR 645.20(b)). The 

term ‘‘target area’’ is defined as a 

discrete local or regional geographic 

area served by a project (34 CFR 

645.6(b)). The term ‘‘target school’’ is 

defined as a school designated by the 

applicant as a focus of project services 

(34 CFR 645.6(b)). 

IV. Application and Submission 

Information 

1. Application Submission 

Instructions: Applicants are required to 

follow the Common Instructions for 

Applicants to Department of Education 

Discretionary Grant Programs, 

published in the Federal Register on 

December 27, 2021 (86 FR 73264) and 

available at www.federalregister.gov/d/ 

2021-27979, which contain 

requirements and information on how to 

submit an application. Please note that 

these Common Instructions supersede 

the version published on February 13, 

2019, and, in part, describe the 

transition from the requirement to 

register in SAM.gov a DUNS number to 

the implementation of the UEI. More 

information on the phase-out of DUNS 

numbers is available at https://

www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ofo/ 

docs/unique-entity-identifier-transitionfact-sheet.pdf. 

2. Intergovernmental Review: This 

program is subject to Executive Order 

12372 and the regulations in 34 CFR 

part 79. Information about 

Intergovernmental Review of Federal 

Programs under Executive Order 12372 

is in the application package for this 

program. 

3. Funding Restrictions: We specify 

unallowable costs in 34 CFR 645.41. We 

reference additional regulations 

outlining funding restrictions in the 

Applicable Regulations section of this 

notice. 

4. Recommended Page Limit: The 

application narrative is where you, the 

applicant, address the selection criteria 

that reviewers use to evaluate your 

application. We recommend that you (1) 

limit the application narrative, which 

includes the budget narrative, to no 

more than 65 pages and (2) use 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, excluding titles, 

headings, footnotes, quotations, 

references, and captions as well as all 

text in charts, tables, figures, and 

graphs, which may be single-spaced. 

• Use a font that is either 12 point or 

larger, and no smaller than 10 pitch 

(characters per inch). 

• Use one of the following fonts: 

Times New Roman, Courier, Courier 

New, or Arial. 

The recommended page limit does not 

apply to the cover sheet; the budget 

section, including the narrative budget 

justification; the assurances and 

certifications; or the one-page abstract. 

However, the recommended page limit 

does apply to all of the application 

narrative. We recommend that any 

application addressing the competitive 

preference priorities include no more 

than three additional pages for each 

priority, for a total of up to nine 

additional pages for the competitive 

preference priorities if the three 

competitive preference priorities are 

addressed. 

V. Application Review Information 

1. Selection Criteria: The selection 

criteria for this competition are from 34 

CFR 645.31. 

We will award up to 100 points to an 

application under the selection criteria 

and up to 9 additional points to an 

application under the competitive 

preference priorities, for a total score of 

up to 109 points. The maximum number 

of points available for each criterion is 

indicated in parentheses. 

(a) Need for the project. (Up to 24 

points). The Secretary evaluates the 

need for a UBMS Program in the 

proposed target area on the basis of— 

(i) The extent to which student 

performance on standardized 

achievement and assessment tests in 

mathematics and science in the target 

area is lower than State or national 

norms; (Up to 6 points) 


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(ii) The extent to which potential 

participants attend schools in the target 

area that lack the resources and 

coursework that would help prepare 

persons for entry into postsecondary 

programs in mathematics, science, or 

engineering; (Up to 6 points) 

(iii) The extent to which such 

indicators as attendance data, dropout 

rates, college-going rates and student/ 

counselor ratios in the target area 

indicate the importance of having 

additional educational opportunities 

available to low-income, first-generation 

students; and (Up to 6 points) 

(iv) The extent to which there are 

eligible students in the target area who 

have demonstrated interest and capacity 

to pursue academic programs and 

careers in mathematics and science, and 

who could benefit from an Upward 

Bound Math and Science program. (Up 

to 6 points) 

(b) Objectives. (Up to 9 points). The 

Secretary evaluates the quality of the 

applicant’s objectives and proposed 

targets (percentages) in the following 

areas on the basis of the extent to which 

they are both ambitious, as related to the 

need data provided under selection 

criterion (a), and attainable, given the 

project’s plan of operation, budget, and 

other resources— 

(i) Academic performance (GPA); (1 

point) 

(ii) Academic performance 

(standardized test scores); (1 point) 

(iii) Secondary school retention and 

graduation (with regular secondary 

school diploma); (2 points) 

(iv) Completion of rigorous secondary 

school program of study; (1 point) 

(v) Postsecondary enrollment; (3 

points) and 

(vi) Postsecondary completion. (1 

point) 

(c) Plan of operation. (Up to 30 

points). The Secretary determines the 

quality of the applicant’s plan of 

operation by assessing the quality of— 

(1) The plan to inform the faculty and 

staff at the applicant institution or 

agency and the interested individuals 

and organizations throughout the target 

area of the goals and objectives of the 

project; (Up to 3 points) 

(2) The plan for identifying, 

recruiting, and selecting participants to 

be served by the project; (Up to 3 points) 

(3) The plan for assessing individual 

participant needs and monitoring the 

academic progress of participants while 

they are in UBMS; (Up to 3 points) 

(4) The plan for locating the project 

within the applicant’s organizational 

structure; (Up to 3 points) 

(5) The curriculum, services and 

activities that are planned for 

participants in both the academic year 

and summer components; (Up to 3 

points) 

(6) The planned timelines for 

accomplishing critical elements of the 

project; (Up to 3 points) 

(7) The plan to ensure effective and 

efficient administration of the project, 

including, but not limited to, financial 

management, student records 

management, and personnel 

management; (Up to 3 points) 

(8) The applicant’s plan to use its 

resources and personnel to achieve 

project objectives and to coordinate the 

UBMS project with other projects for 

disadvantaged students; (Up to 3 points) 

(9) The plan to work cooperatively 

with parents and key administrative, 

teaching, and counseling personnel at 

the target schools to achieve project 

objectives; (Up to 3 points) and 

(10) A follow-up plan for tracking 

graduates of UBMS as they enter and 

continue in postsecondary education. 

(Up to 3 points) 

(d) Applicant and community 

support. (Up to 16 points). The 

Secretary evaluates the applicant and 

community support for the proposed 

project on the basis of the extent to 

which— 

(1) The applicant is committed to 

supplementing the project with 

resources that enhance the project such 

as: Space, furniture and equipment, 

supplies, and the time and effort of 

personnel other than those employed in 

the project. (Up to 8 points) 

(2) Resources secured through written 

commitments from community partners. 

(Up to 8 points) 

(i) An applicant that is an institution 

of higher education must include in its 

application commitments from the 

target schools and community 

organizations; 

(ii) An applicant that is a secondary 

school must include in its application 

commitments from institutions of higher 

education, community organizations, 

and, as appropriate, other secondary 

schools and the school district; and 

(iii) An applicant that is a community 

organization must include in its 

application commitments from the 

target schools and institutions of higher 

education. 

(e) Quality of personnel. (Up to 8 

points). To determine the quality of 

personnel the applicant plans to use, the 

Secretary looks for information that 

shows— 

(1) The qualifications required of the 

project director, including formal 

training or work experience in fields 

related to the objectives of the project 

and experience in designing, managing, 

or implementing similar projects; (Up to 

3 points) 

(2) The qualifications required of each 

of the other personnel to be used in the 

project, including formal training or 

work experience in fields related to the 

objectives of the project; (Up to 3 points) 

(3) The quality of the applicant’s plan 

for employing personnel who have 

succeeded in overcoming barriers 

similar to those confronting the project’s 

target population. (Up to 2 points) 

(f) Budget and cost effectiveness. (Up 

to 5 points) The Secretary reviews each 

application to determine the extent to 

which— 

(1) The budget for the project is 

adequate to support planned project 

services and activities; (Up to 3 points) 

and 

(2) Costs are reasonable in relation to 

the objectives and scope of the project. 

(Up to 2 points) 

(g) Evaluation plan. (Up to 8 points). 

The Secretary evaluates the quality of 

the evaluation plan for the project on 

the basis of the extent to which the 

applicant’s methods of evaluation— 

(1) Are appropriate to the project and 

include both quantitative and 

qualitative evaluation measures; (Up to 

4 points) and 

(2) Examine in specific and 

measurable ways the success of the 

project in making progress toward 

achieving its process and outcomes 

objectives. (Up to 4 points) 

2. Review and Selection Process: We 

remind potential applicants that in 

reviewing applications in any 

discretionary grant competition, the 

Secretary may consider, under 34 CFR 

75.217(d)(3), the past performance of the 

applicant in carrying out a previous 

award, such as the applicant’s use of 

funds, achievement of project 

objectives, and compliance with grant 

conditions. The Secretary may also 

consider whether the applicant failed to 

submit a timely performance report or 

submitted a report of unacceptable 

quality. 

In addition, in making a competitive 

grant award, the Secretary requires 

various assurances including those 

applicable to Federal civil rights laws 

that prohibit discrimination in programs 

or activities receiving Federal financial 

assistance from the Department (34 CFR 

100.4, 104.5, 106.4, 108.8, and 110.23). 

For this competition, a panel of nonFederal reviewers will review each 

application in accordance with the 

selection criteria in 34 CFR 645.31. The 

individual scores of the reviewers will 

be added and the sum divided by the 

number of reviewers to determine the 

peer review score received in the review 

process. Additionally, in accordance 

with 34 CFR 645.32, the Secretary will 

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applicants that conducted a UBMS 

Program project during budget periods 

2017–18, 2018–19, 2019–20, and 2020– 

21, based on their documented 

experience. Prior experience points, if 

any, will be added to the application’s 

averaged reader score to determine the 

total score for each application. 

If there are insufficient funds for all 

applications with the same total scores, 

the Secretary will choose among the tied 

applications so as to serve geographic 

areas in which there is significant child 

poverty and that have been underserved 

by the UBMS Program, in accordance 

with the following procedures. The 

Secretary will identify and recommend 

an award for— 

• First, applicants in the funding 

band that applied to serve target schools 

within a Congressional District (a) that 

has a child poverty level greater than 30 

percent and (b) where UBMS projects 

previously served either 10 or fewer 

target schools or fewer than 150 

students within that Congressional 

District. If this first tie-breaker provision 

exhausts available funds, then no 

further action is taken. 

• Second, applicants in the funding 

band that applied to serve target schools 

within a Congressional District (a) that 

has a child poverty level greater than 25 

percent and (b) where UBMS projects 

previously served either 15 or fewer 

target schools or fewer than 200 

students within that Congressional 

District. If this second tie-breaker 

provision exhausts available funds, then 

no further action is taken. 

• Third, applicants in the funding 

band that applied to serve target schools 

within a Congressional District where 

UBMS projects previously served zero 

target schools. 

Note: Within each of the steps of the 

tie-breaker process, if there is more than 

one application with the same score and 

insufficient funding to support these 

applications, the applicant proposing to 

serve target schools within the more 

impoverished Congressional District 

will be the final application identified 

and recommended to receive an award. 

In applying the tie-breaker criteria, 

the Department will use the most 

current data available. With respect to 

Congressional Districts and child 

poverty data within Congressional 

Districts, the most recent available Child 

Poverty data from the United States 

Census for Congressional Districts is for 

the 117th Congress, and therefore, the 

geographical boundaries used for the 

tie-breaker are drawn from the 115th 

Congress. The number of target schools 

served within the boundaries of a 

Congressional District, and the number 

of students served within these target 

schools, will be derived from the UBMS 

Annual Performance Report (APR). The 

Department will use data from the 

2020–21 APR to count the number of 

target schools that receive services 

within Congressional District 

boundaries. 

3. Risk Assessment and Specific 

Conditions: Consistent with 2 CFR 

200.206, before awarding grants under 

this competition the Department 

conducts a review of the risks posed by 

applicants. Under 2 CFR 200.208, the 

Secretary may impose specific 

conditions and, under 2 CFR 3474.10, in 

appropriate circumstances, high-risk 

conditions on a grant if the applicant or 

grantee is not financially stable; has a 

history of unsatisfactory performance; 

has a financial or other management 

system that does not meet the standards 

in 2 CFR part 200, subpart D; has not 

fulfilled the conditions of a prior grant; 

or is otherwise not responsible. 

4. Integrity and Performance System: 

If you are selected under this 

competition to receive an award that 

over the course of the project period 

may exceed the simplified acquisition 

threshold (currently $250,000), under 2 

CFR 200.206(a)(2), we must make a 

judgment about your integrity, business 

ethics, and record of performance under 

Federal awards—that is, the risk posed 

by you as an applicant—before we make 

an award. In doing so, we must consider 

any information about you that is in the 

integrity and performance system 

(currently referred to as the Federal 

Awardee Performance and Integrity 

Information System (FAPIIS)), 

accessible through the System for 

Award Management. You may review 

and comment on any information about 

yourself that a Federal agency 

previously entered and that is currently 

in FAPIIS. 

Please note that, if the total value of 

your currently active grants, cooperative 

agreements, and procurement contracts 

from the Federal Government exceeds 

$10,000,000, the reporting requirements 

in 2 CFR part 200, Appendix XII, 

require you to report certain integrity 

information to FAPIIS semiannually. 

Please review the requirements in 2 CFR 

part 200, Appendix XII, if this grant 

plus all the other Federal funds you 

receive exceed $10,000,000. 

5. In General: In accordance with the 

Office of Management and Budget’s 

guidance located at 2 CFR part 200, all 

applicable Federal laws, and relevant 

Executive guidance, the Department 

will review and consider applications 

for funding pursuant to this notice 

inviting applications in accordance 

with— 

(a) Selecting recipients most likely to 

be successful in delivering results based 

on the program objectives through an 

objective process of evaluating Federal 

award applications (2 CFR 200.205); 

(b) Prohibiting the purchase of certain 

telecommunication and video 

surveillance services or equipment in 

alignment with section 889 of the 

National Defense Authorization Act of 

2019 (Pub. L. 115—232) (2 CFR 

200.216); 

(c) Providing a preference, to the 

extent permitted by law, to maximize 

use of goods, products, and materials 

produced in the United States (2 CFR 

200.322); and 

(d) Terminating agreements in whole 

or in part to the greatest extent 

authorized by law if an award no longer 

effectuates the program goals or agency 

priorities (2 CFR 200.340). 

VI. Award Administration Information 

1. Award Notices: If your application 

is successful, we notify your U.S. 

Representative and U.S. Senators and 

send you a Grant Award Notification 

(GAN); or we may send you an email 

containing a link to access an electronic 

version of your GAN. We may notify 

you informally, also. 

If your application is not evaluated or 

not selected for funding, we notify you. 

2. Administrative and National Policy 

Requirements: We identify 

administrative and national policy 

requirements in the application package 

and reference these and other 

requirements in the Applicable 

Regulations section of this notice. 

We reference the regulations outlining 

the terms and conditions of an award in 

the Applicable Regulations section of 

this notice and include these and other 

specific conditions in the GAN. The 

GAN also incorporates your approved 

application as part of your binding 

commitments under the grant. 

3. Open Licensing Requirements: 

Unless an exception applies, if you are 

awarded a grant under this competition, 

you will be required to openly license 

to the public grant deliverables created 

in whole, or in part, with Department 

grant funds. When the deliverable 

consists of modifications to pre-existing 

works, the license extends only to those 

modifications that can be separately 

identified and only to the extent that 

open licensing is permitted under the 

terms of any licenses or other legal 

restrictions on the use of pre-existing 

works. Additionally, a grantee or 

subgrantee that is awarded competitive 

grant funds must have a plan to 

disseminate these public grant 

deliverables. This dissemination plan 

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your application has been reviewed and 

selected for funding. For additional 

information on the open licensing 

requirements please refer to 2 CFR 

3474.20. 

4. Reporting: (a) If you apply for a 

grant under this competition, you must 

ensure that you have in place the 

necessary processes and systems to 

comply with the reporting requirements 

in 2 CFR part 170 should you receive 

funding under the competition. This 

does not apply if you have an exception 

under 2 CFR 170.110(b). 

(b) At the end of your project period, 

you must submit a final performance 

report, including financial information, 

as directed by the Secretary. If you 

receive a multiyear award, you must 

submit an annual performance report 

that provides the most current 

performance and financial expenditure 

information as directed by the Secretary 

under 34 CFR 75.118. The Secretary 

may also require more frequent 

performance reports under 34 CFR 

75.720(c). For specific requirements on 

reporting, please go to www.ed.gov/ 

fund/grant/apply/appforms/ 

appforms.html. 

5. Performance Measures: The success 

of the UBMS Program will be measured 

by the percentage of UBMS participants 

who enroll in and complete 

postsecondary education. The following 

performance measures have been 

developed to track progress toward 

achieving program success for purposes 

of Department reporting under 34 CFR 

75.110: 

a. The percentage of UBMS students 

who took two years of mathematics 

beyond Algebra I by the 12th grade; 

b. The percentage of UBMS students 

who graduated from secondary school 

with a regular secondary school 

diploma; 

c. The percentage of UBMS students 

who enrolled in postsecondary 

education; 

d. The percentage of UBMS students 

who enrolled in a program of 

postsecondary education by the fall 

term following graduation from high 

school and who in the first year of 

postsecondary education placed into 

college-level math and English without 

need for remediation; 

e. The percentage of former UBMS 

students who enrolled in a program of 

postsecondary education and graduated 

on time—within four years for the 

bachelor’s degree and within two years 

for the associate’s degree; 

f. The percentage of former UBMS 

participants who enrolled in a program 

of postsecondary education and attained 

either an associate’s degree within three 

years or a bachelor’s degree within six 

years of enrollment; and 

g. The percentage of UBMS students 

expected to graduate high school in the 

reporting year who complete a Free 

Application for Federal Student Aid 

(FAFSA). 

All UBMS Program grantees will be 

required to submit APRs. 

6. Continuation Awards: In making a 

continuation award under 34 CFR 

75.253, the Secretary considers, among 

other things: Whether a grantee has 

made substantial progress in achieving 

the goals and objectives of the project; 

whether the grantee has expended funds 

in a manner that is consistent with its 

approved application and budget; and, 

if the Secretary has established 

performance measurement 

requirements, whether the grantee has 

made substantial progress in achieving 

the performance targets in the grantee’s 

approved application. 

In making a continuation award, the 

Secretary also considers whether the 

grantee is operating in compliance with 

the assurances in its approved 

application, including those applicable 

to Federal civil rights laws that prohibit 

discrimination in programs or activities 

receiving Federal financial assistance 

from the Department (34 CFR 100.4, 

104.5, 106.4, 108.8, and 110.23). 

VII. Other Information 

Accessible Format: On request to the 

program contact person listed under FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT, 

individuals with disabilities can obtain 

this document and a copy of the 

application package in an accessible 

format. The Department will provide the 

requestor with an accessible format that 

may include Rich Text Format (RTF) or 

text format (txt), a thumb drive, an MP3 

file, braille, large print, audiotape, or 

compact disc, or other accessible format. 

Electronic Access to This Document: 

The official version of this document is 

the document published in the Federal 

Register. You may access the official 

edition of the Federal Register and the 

Code of Federal Regulations at 

www.govinfo.gov. At this site you can 

view this document, as well as all other 

documents of this Department 

published in the Federal Register, in 

text or Portable Document Format 

(PDF). To use PDF you must have 

Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is 

available free at the site. 

You may also access documents of the 

Department published in the Federal 

Register by using the article search 

feature at: www.federalregister.gov. 

Specifically, through the advanced 

search feature at this site, you can limit 

your search to documents published by 

the Department. 

Michelle Asha Cooper, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Higher 

Education Programs, Delegated the Authority 

to Perform the Functions and Duties of the 

Assistant Secretary, Office of Postsecondary 

Education. 

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Sunshine Act Meetings 

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PLACE: Room 2C, 888 First Street NE, 

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