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receive the grant application receipt 

acknowledgment within 15 business 

days from the application deadline date, 

you should call the U.S. Department of 

Education Application Control Center at 

(202) 245–6288. 

V. Application Review Information 

Selection Criteria: The selection 

criteria for this competition are from 34 

CFR 75.210 and are listed in the 

application package. 

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). We may also notify you 

informally. 

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. Reporting: 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 multi-year 

award, you must submit an annual 

performance report that provides the 

most current performance and financial 

expenditure information as specified by 

the Secretary in 34 CFR 75.118. 

4. Performance Measures: Under the 

Government Performance and Results 

Act (GPRA), the Department is currently 

developing measures that will yield 

information on various aspects of the 

quality of the Training and Information 

for Parents of Children with Disabilities 

program. The measures will focus on: 

The extent to which projects provide 

high quality products and services, the 

relevance of project products and 

services to educational and early 

intervention policy and practice, and 

the use of products and services to 

improve educational and early 

intervention policy and practice. 

Once the measures are developed, we 

will notify grantees if they will be 

required to provide any information 

related to these measures. 

Grantees will also be required to 

report information on their projects’

performance in annual reports to the 

Department (34 CFR 75.590). 

VII. Agency Contact 

For Further Information Contact: 

Donna Fluke, U.S. Department of 

Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, SW., 

room 4059, Potomac Center Plaza, 

Washington, DC 20202–2550. 

Telephone: (202) 245–7345. 

If you use a telecommunications 

device for the deaf (TDD), you may call 

the Federal Relay Service (FRS) 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 by contacting the following 

office: The Grants and Contracts 

Services Team, U.S. Department of 

Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, SW., 

Potomac Center Plaza, Washington, DC 

20202–2550. Telephone: (202) 245–

7363. 

VIII. Other Information 

Electronic Access to This Document: 

You may view this document, as well as 

all other documents of this Department 

published in the Federal Register, in 

text or Adobe Portable Document 

Format (PDF) on the Internet at the 

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

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.gpoaccess.gov/nara/ 

index.html. 

Dated: November 3, 2005. 

John H. Hager, 

Assistant Secretary for Special Education and 

Rehabilitative Services. 

[FR Doc. 05–22257 Filed 11–7–05; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

Office of Special Education and 

Rehabilitative Services; Overview 

Information; Training and Information 

for Parents of Children With 

Disabilities—Community Parent 

Resource Centers; Notice Inviting 

Applications for New Awards for Fiscal 

Year (FY) 2006 

Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance 

(CFDA) Number: 84.328C. 

DATES: Applications Available: 

November 8, 2005. 

Deadline for Transmittal of 

Applications: January 3, 2006. 

Deadline for Intergovernmental 

Review: March 4, 2006. 

Eligible Applicants: Local parent 

organizations, as defined in section III. 

Eligibility Information in this notice. 

Estimated Available Funds: The 

Administration has requested 

$25,964,000 for the Training and 

Information for Parents of Children with 

Disabilities program for FY 2006, of 

which we intend to use an estimated 

$1,000,000 for the Community Parent 

Resource Centers competition. 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 if Congress appropriates funds 

for this program. 

Estimated Average Size of Awards: 

$100,000. 

Maximum Award: We will reject any 

application that proposes a budget 

exceeding $100,000 for a single budget 

period of 12 months. The Assistant 

Secretary for the Office of Special 

Education and Rehabilitative Services 

may change the maximum amount 

through a notice published in the 

Federal Register. 

Estimated Number of Awards: 10. 

Note: The Department is not bound by any 

estimates in this notice. 

Project Period: Up to 36 months. 

Full Text of Announcement 

I. Funding Opportunity Description 

Purpose of Program: The purpose of 

this program is to ensure that parents of 

children with disabilities receive 

training and information to help 

improve results for their children. 

Priorities: This competition contains 

an absolute priority and a competitive 

preference priority. In accordance with 

34 CFR 75.105(b)(2)(iv) and (v), these 

priorities are from allowable activities 

specified in the statute, or otherwise 

authorized in the statute (see sections 

672 and 681(d) of the Individuals with 

Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)). 

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Absolute Priority: For FY 2006 this 

priority is an absolute priority. Under 34 

CFR 75.105(c)(3), we consider only 

applications that meet this priority. 

This priority is: 

Community Parent Resource Centers 

Background: This priority supports 

community parent training and 

information centers in targeted 

communities that will provide 

underserved parents of children with 

disabilities, including low-income 

parents, parents of limited English 

proficient children, and parents with 

disabilities in that community, with the 

training and information they need to 

enable them to participate effectively in 

helping their children with disabilities 

to—

(a) Meet developmental and 

functional goals, and challenging 

academic achievement goals that have 

been established for all children; and 

(b) Be prepared to lead productive, 

independent adult lives, to the 

maximum extent possible. 

In addition, a purpose of this priority 

is to ensure that children with 

disabilities and their parents receive 

training and information on their rights, 

responsibilities, and protections under 

IDEA in order to develop the skills 

necessary to cooperatively and 

effectively participate in planning and 

decision making relating to early 

intervention, educational, and 

transitional services. 

Text of Priority: Each community 

parent resource center assisted under 

this priority shall—

(a) Provide training and information 

that meets the training and information 

needs of parents of children with 

disabilities within the proposed targeted 

community to be served by the center, 

particularly underserved parents and 

parents of children who may be 

inappropriately identified as having 

disabilities when they do not have 

them; 

Note: For purposes of this priority, 

‘‘community to be served’’ refers to a 

community whose members experience 

significant isolation from available sources of 

information and support as a result of 

cultural, economic, linguistic, or other 

circumstances deemed appropriate by the 

Secretary. 

(b) Carry out the activities required of 

parent training and information centers 

under section 671(b) of IDEA, which are 

listed as follows: 

(1) Serve the parents of infants, 

toddlers, and children, from ages birth 

through 26, with the full range of 

disabilities described in section 602(3) 

of IDEA. 

(2) Familiarize themselves with the 

provision of special education, related 

services, and early intervention services 

in the areas they serve to help ensure 

that children with disabilities are 

receiving appropriate services. 

(3) Ensure that the training and 

information provided meets the needs of 

low-income parents and parents of 

limited English proficient children. 

(4) Assist parents to—

(A) Better understand the nature of 

their children’s disabilities and their 

educational, developmental, and 

transitional needs; 

(B) Communicate effectively and work 

collaboratively with personnel 

responsible for providing special 

education, early intervention services, 

transition services, and related services; 

(C) Participate in decision making 

processes, including those regarding 

participation in State and local 

assessments, and the development of 

individualized education programs 

under Part B of IDEA and 

individualized family service plans 

under Part C of IDEA; 

(D) Obtain appropriate information 

about the range, type, and quality of—

(1) options, programs, services, 

technologies, practices and 

interventions that are based on 

scientifically based research, to the 

extent practicable; and 

(2) resources available to assist 

children with disabilities and their 

families in school and at home, 

including information available through 

the Office of Special Education 

Programs’ (OSEP) technical assistance 

network and Communities of Practice; 

(E) Understand the provisions of IDEA 

for the education of, and the provision 

of early intervention services to, 

children with disabilities; 

(F) Participate in activities at the 

school level that benefit their children; 

and 

(G) Participate in school reform 

activities. 

(5) In States where the State elects to 

contract with the parent training and 

information center, contract with the 

State educational agencies to provide, 

consistent with paragraphs (B) and (D) 

of section 615(e)(2) of IDEA, individuals 

to meet with parents in order to explain 

the mediation process. 

(6) Assist parents in resolving 

disputes in the most expeditious and 

effective way possible, including 

encouraging the use, and explaining the 

benefits, of alternative methods of 

dispute resolution, such as the 

mediation process described in section 

615(e) of IDEA. 

(7) Assist parents and students with 

disabilities to understand their rights 

and responsibilities under IDEA, 

including those under section 615(m) of 

IDEA upon the student’s reaching the 

age of majority (as appropriate under 

State law). 

(8) Assist parents to understand the 

availability of, and how to effectively 

use, procedural safeguards under IDEA, 

including the resolution session 

described in section 615(e) of IDEA. 

(9) Assist parents in understanding, 

preparing for, and participating in, the 

resolution session as described in 

section 615(f)(1)(B) of IDEA; 

(c) Establish cooperative partnerships 

with the parent training and information 

centers and other community parent 

resource centers funded in the State 

under sections 671 and 672 of IDEA; 

(d) Be designed to meet the specific 

needs of families who experience 

significant isolation from available 

sources of information and support; 

(e) Annually report to the Department 

on—

(1) The number and demographics of 

parents to whom it provided 

information and training in the most 

recently concluded fiscal year, 

including additional information 

regarding their unique needs and levels 

of service provided to them; and 

(2) The effectiveness of strategies used 

to reach and serve parents, including 

underserved parents of children with 

disabilities, by providing evidence of 

how those parents were served 

effectively; 

(f) Respond to requests from the 

National Technical Assistance Center 

(NTAC) and Regional Parent Technical 

Assistance Centers (PTACs) and use the 

technical assistance services of the 

NTAC and PTACs in order to serve the 

families of infants, toddlers, and 

children with disabilities as efficiently 

as possible. PTACs are charged with 

assisting parent centers with 

administrative and programmatic issues; 

(g) Budget for a two-day Project 

Directors’ meeting in Washington, DC 

during each year of the project. In 

addition, a project’s budget must 

include funds for the center’s project 

director to attend a Regional Project 

Directors meeting to be held each year 

of the project; and 

(h) If the community parent resource 

center maintains a Web site, include 

relevant information and documents in 

a format that meets a government or 

industry-recognized standard for 

accessibility; 

(i) Prior to developing any new 

product, whether paper or electronic, 

submit for approval a proposal 

describing the content and purpose of 

the product to the document review 

board of OSEP’s Dissemination Center; 

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(j) In collaboration with OSEP and the 

NTAC, participate in an annual 

collection of program data for the 

community parent resource centers and 

the parent training and information 

centers. 

Competitive Preference Priority: 

Within this absolute priority, we give 

competitive preference to applications 

that address the following priority. 

Under 34 CFR 75.105(c)(2)(i), we award 

additional points to an application that 

meets this priority. 

This priority is: 

We will award five points to an 

application that proposes to provide 

services to one or more Empowerment 

Zones, Enterprise Communities, or 

Renewal Communities that are 

designated within the areas served by 

the center. (A list of areas that have been 

selected as Empowerment Zones, 

Enterprise Communities, or Renewal 

Communities can be found at http:// 

hud.esri.com/egis/cpd/rcezec/ 

ezec_open.htm) To meet this priority, an 

applicant must indicate that it will—

(a)(1) Design a program that includes 

special activities focused on the unique 

needs of one or more Empowerment 

Zones, Enterprise Communities, or 

Renewal Communities; or 

(2) Devote a substantial portion of 

program resources to providing services 

within, or meeting the needs of 

residents of these zones and 

communities; 

(b) As appropriate, contribute to the 

strategic plan of the Empowerment 

Zones, Enterprise Communities, or 

Renewal Communities and become an 

integral component of the 

Empowerment Zone, Enterprise 

Community, or Renewal Community 

activities. 

Therefore, for purposes of this 

competitive preference priority, 

applicants can be awarded up to a total 

of five points in addition to those 

awarded under the selection criteria for 

this competition (see Selection Criteria 

in section V of this notice). That is, an 

applicant meeting the competitive 

preference priority could earn a 

maximum total of 105 points. 

Waiver of Proposed Rulemaking: 

Under the Administrative Procedure Act 

(APA) (5 U.S.C. 553) the Department 

generally offers interested parties the 

opportunity to comment on proposed 

priorities. However, section 681(d) of 

IDEA makes the public comment 

requirements under the APA 

inapplicable to the priorities in this 

notice. 

Program Authority: 20 U.S.C. 1472. 

Applicable Regulations: The 

Education Department General 

Administrative Regulations (EDGAR) in 

34 CFR parts 74, 75, 77, 79, 81, 82, 84, 

85, 97, 98, and 99. 

II. Award Information 

Type of Award: Discretionary grants. 

Estimated Available Funds: The 

Administration has requested 

$25,964,000 for the Training and 

Information for Parents of Children with 

Disabilities program for FY 2006, of 

which we intend to use an estimated 

$1,000,000 for the Community Parent 

Resource Centers competition. 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 if Congress appropriates funds 

for this program. 

Estimated Average Size of Awards: 

$100,000. 

Maximum Award: We will reject any 

application that proposes a budget 

exceeding $100,000 award for a single 

budget period of 12 months. The 

Assistant Secretary for the Office of 

Special Education and Rehabilitative 

Services may change the maximum 

amount through a notice published in 

the Federal Register. 

Estimated Number of Awards: 10. 

Note: The Department is not bound by any 

estimates in this notice. 

Project Period: Up to 36 months. 

III. Eligibility Information 

1. Eligible Applicants: Local parent 

organizations. Under section 672(a)(2) of 

IDEA, a ‘‘local parent organization’’ is a 

parent organization (as that term is 

defined in section 671(a)(2) of IDEA) 

that must meet the following criteria: 

(a) Has a board of directors, the 

majority of whom are parents of 

children with disabilities ages birth 

through 26 from the community to be 

served. 

(b) Has as its mission serving parents 

of children with disabilities from that 

community who (1) are ages birth 

through 26, and (2) have the full ranges 

of disabilities as defined in section 

602(3) of IDEA. 

Section 671(a)(2) of IDEA defines a 

‘‘parent organization’’ as a private 

nonprofit organization (other than an 

institution of higher education) that—

(a) Has a board of directors—

(1) The majority of whom are parents 

of children with disabilities ages birth 

through 26; 

(2) That includes—

(i) Individuals working in the fields of 

special education, related services, and 

early intervention; and 

(ii) Individuals with disabilities; and 

(iii) The parent and professional 

members of which are broadly 

representative of the population to be 

served including low-income parents 

and parents of limited English proficient 

children; and 

(b) Has as its mission serving families 

of children with disabilities who are 

ages birth through 26, and have the full 

range of disabilities described in section 

602(3) of IDEA. 

2. Cost Sharing or Matching: This 

competition does not involve cost 

sharing or matching. 

3. Other: General Requirements—(a) 

The projects funded under this 

competition must make positive efforts 

to employ and advance in employment 

qualified individuals with disabilities 

(see section 606 of IDEA). 

(b) Applicants and grant recipients 

funded under this competition must 

involve individuals with disabilities or 

parents of individuals with disabilities 

ages birth through 26 in planning, 

implementing, and evaluating the 

projects (see section 682(a)(1)(A) of 

IDEA). 

IV. Application and Submission 

Information 

1. Address to Request Application 

Package: 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: 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 

84.328C. 

Individuals with disabilities may 

obtain a copy of the application package 

in an alternative format (e.g., Braille, 

large print, audiotape, or computer 

diskette) by contacting the Grants and 

Contracts Services Team listed under 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT in 

section VII of this notice. 

2. Content and Form of Application 

Submission: Requirements concerning 

the content of an application, together 

with the forms you must submit, are in 

the application package for this 

competition. 

Page Limit: 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 50 

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. 

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• 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; the one-page abstract, the 

resumes, the bibliography, the 

references, 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. 

3. Submission Dates and Times: 

Applications Available: November 8, 

2005. 

Deadline for Transmittal of 

Applications: January 3, 2006. 

Applications for grants under this 

competition may be submitted 

electronically using the Grants.gov 

Apply site (Grants.gov), or in paper 

format by mail or hand delivery. For 

information (including dates and times) 

about how to submit your application 

electronically, or by mail or hand 

delivery, please refer to section IV.6. 

Other Submission Requirements in this 

notice. 

We do not consider an application 

that does not comply with the deadline 

requirements. 

Deadline for Intergovernmental 

Review: March 4, 2006. 

4. 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 

competition. 

5. Funding Restrictions: We reference 

regulations outlining funding 

restrictions in the Applicable 

Regulations section of this notice. 

6. Other Submission Requirements: 

Applications for grants under this 

competition may be submitted 

electronically or in paper format by mail 

or hand delivery. 

a. Electronic Submission of 

Applications. We have been accepting 

applications electronically through the 

Department’s e-Application system 

since FY 2000. In order to expand on 

those efforts and comply with the 

President’s Management Agenda, we are 

continuing to participate as a partner in 

the new government wide Grants.gov 

Apply site in FY 2006. The Community 

Parent Resource Centers—CFDA 

Number 84.328C is one of the 

competitions included in this project. 

We request your participation in 

Grants.gov. 

If you choose to submit your 

application electronically, you must use 

the Grants.gov Apply site at http:// 

www.Grants.gov. Through this site, you 

will be able to download a copy of the 

application package, complete it offline, 

and then upload and submit your 

application. You may not e-mail an 

electronic copy of a grant application to 

us. 

You may access the electronic grant 

application for the Community Parent 

Resource Centers-CFDA Number 

84.328C competition at: http:// 

www.grants.gov. You must search for 

the downloadable application package 

for this program by the CFDA number. 

Do not include the CFDA number’s 

alpha suffix in your search. 

Please note the following: 

• Your participation in Grants.gov is 

voluntary. 

• When you enter the Grants.gov site, 

you will find information about 

submitting an application electronically 

through the site, as well as the hours of 

operation. 

• Applications received by Grants.gov 

are time and date stamped. Your 

application must be fully uploaded and 

submitted, and must be date/time 

stamped by the Grants.gov system no 

later than 4:30 p.m., Washington, DC 

time, on the application deadline date. 

Except as otherwise noted in this 

section, we will not consider your 

application if it is date/time stamped by 

the Grants.gov system later than 4:30 

p.m., Washington, DC time, on the 

application deadline date. When we 

retrieve your application from 

Grants.gov, we will notify you if we are 

rejecting your application because it 

was date/time stamped by the 

Grants.gov system after 4:30 p.m., 

Washington, DC time, on the 

application deadline date. 

• The amount of time it can take to 

upload an application will vary 

depending on a variety of factors 

including the size of the application and 

the speed of your Internet connection. 

Therefore, we strongly recommend that 

you do not wait until the application 

deadline date to begin the application 

process through Grants.gov. 

• You should review and follow the 

Education Submission Procedures for 

submitting an application through 

Grants.gov that are included in the 

application package for this competition 

to ensure that you submit your 

application in a timely manner to the 

Grants.gov system. You can also find the 

Education Submission Procedures 

pertaining to Grants.gov at http://eGrants.ed.gov/help/ 

GrantsgovSubmissionProcedures.pdf. 

• To submit your application via 

Grants.gov, you must complete the steps 

in the Grants.gov registration process 

(see http://www.Grants.gov/GetStarted) 

and provide on your application the 

same D-U-N-S Number used with this 

registration. Please note that the 

registration process may take five or 

more business days to complete. 

• You will not receive additional 

point value because you submit your 

application in electronic format, nor 

will we penalize you if you submit your 

application in paper format. 

• You may submit all documents 

electronically, including all information 

typically included on the Application 

for Federal Education Assistance (ED 

424), Budget Information—NonConstruction Programs (ED 524), and all 

necessary assurances and certifications. 

If you choose to submit your application 

electronically, you must attach any 

narrative sections of your application as 

files in a .DOC (document), .RTF (rich 

text) or .PDF (portable document) 

format. If you upload a file type other 

than the three file types specified above 

or submit a password protected file, we 

will not review that material. 

• Your electronic application must 

comply with any page limit 

requirements described in this notice. 

• After you electronically submit 

your application, you will receive an 

automatic acknowledgment from 

Grants.gov that contains a Grants.gov 

tracking number. The Department will 

retrieve your application from 

Grants.gov and send you a second 

confirmation by e-mail that will include 

a PR/Award number (an ED-specified 

identifying number unique to your 

application). 

• We may request that you provide us 

original signatures on forms at a later 

date. 

Application Deadline Date Extension in 

Case of System Unavailability 

If you are prevented from 

electronically submitting your 

application on the application deadline 

date because of technical problems with 

the Grants.gov system, we will grant you 

an extension until 4:30 p.m., 

Washington, DC time, the following 

business day to enable you to transmit 

your application electronically, or by 

hand delivery. You also may mail your 

application by following the mailing 

instructions as described elsewhere in 

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this notice. If you submit an application 

after 4:30 p.m., Washington, DC time, on 

the deadline date, please contact the 

person listed elsewhere in this notice 

under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT, and provide an explanation of 

the technical problem you experienced 

with Grants.gov, along with the 

Grants.gov Support Desk Case Number 

(if available). We will accept your 

application if we can confirm that a 

technical problem occurred with the 

Grants.gov system and that that problem 

affected your ability to submit your 

application by 4:30 p.m., Washington, 

DC time, on the application deadline 

date. The Department will contact you 

after a determination is made on 

whether your application will be 

accepted. 

Note: Extensions referred to in this section 

apply only to the unavailability of or 

technical problems with the Grants.gov 

system. We will not grant you an extension 

if you failed to fully register to submit your 

application to Grants.gov before the deadline 

date and time or if the technical problem you 

experienced is unrelated to the Grants.gov 

system. 

b. Submission of Paper Applications 

by Mail. If you submit your application 

in paper format by mail (through the 

U.S. Postal Service or a commercial 

carrier), you must mail the original and 

two copies of your application, on or 

before the application deadline date, to 

the Department at the applicable 

following address: 

By mail through the U.S. Postal 

Service: U.S. Department of Education, 

Application Control Center, Attention: 

(CFDA Number 84.328C), 400 Maryland 

Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20202–

4260; or 

By mail through a commercial carrier: 

U.S. Department of Education, 

Application Control Center—Stop 4260, 

Attention: (CFDA Number 84.328C), 

7100 Old Landover Road, Landover, MD 

20785–1506. 

Regardless of which address you use, 

you must show proof of mailing 

consisting of one of the following: 

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

postmark, 

(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, or 

(4) Any other proof of mailing 

acceptable to the Secretary of the U.S. 

Department of Education. 

If you mail your application through 

the U.S. Postal Service, we do not 

accept either of the following as proof 

of mailing: 

(1) A private metered postmark, or 

(2) A mail receipt that is not dated by 

the U.S. Postal Service. 

If your application is postmarked after 

the application deadline date, we will 

not consider your application. 

Note: The U.S. Postal Service does not 

uniformly provide a dated postmark. Before 

relying on this method, you should check 

with your local post office. 

c. Submission of Paper Applications 

by Hand Delivery. 

If you submit your application in 

paper format by hand delivery, you (or 

a courier service) must deliver the 

original and two copies of your 

application by hand, on or before the 

application deadline date, to the 

Department at the following address: 

U.S. Department of Education, 

Application Control Center, Attention: 

(CFDA Number 84.328C), 550 12th 

Street, SW., Room 7041, Potomac Center 

Plaza, Washington, DC 20202–4260. 

The Application Control Center 

accepts hand deliveries daily between 8 

a.m. and 4:30 p.m., Washington, DC 

time, except Saturdays, Sundays and 

Federal holidays. 

Note for Mail or Hand Delivery of 

Paper Applications: If you mail or hand 

deliver your application to the 

Department: 

(1) You must indicate on the envelope 

and—if not provided by the 

Department—in Item 4 of the ED 424 the 

CFDA number—and suffix letter, if 

any—of the competition under which 

you are submitting your application. 

(2) The Application Control Center 

will mail a grant application receipt 

acknowledgment to you. If you do not 

receive the grant application receipt 

acknowledgment within 15 business 

days from the application deadline date, 

you should call the U.S. Department of 

Education Application Control Center at 

(202) 245–6288. 

V. Application Review Information 

Selection Criteria: The selection 

criteria for this competition are from 34 

CFR 75.210 and are listed in the 

application package. 

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). We may also notify you 

informally. 

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. Reporting: 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 multi-year 

award, you must submit an annual 

performance report that provides the 

most current performance and financial 

expenditure information as specified by 

the Secretary in 34 CFR 75.118. 

4. Performance Measures: Under the 

Government Performance and Results 

Act (GPRA), the Department is currently 

developing measures that will yield 

information on various aspects of the 

quality of the Training and Information 

for Parents of Children with Disabilities 

program. The measures will focus on: 

The extent to which projects provide 

high quality products and services, the 

relevance of project products and 

services to educational and early 

intervention policy and practice, and 

the use of products and services to 

improve educational and early 

intervention policy and practice. 

Once the measures are developed, we 

will notify grantees if they will be 

required to provide any information 

related to these measures. 

Grantees will also be required to 

report information on their projects’

performance in annual reports to the 

Department (34 CFR 75.590). 

VII. Agency Contact 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Lisa 

Gorove, U.S. Department of Education, 

400 Maryland Avenue, SW., room 4056, 

Potomac Center Plaza, Washington, DC 

20202–2550. Telephone: (202) 245–

7357. 

If you use a telecommunications 

device for the deaf (TDD), you may call 

the Federal Relay Service (FRS) 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 by contacting the following 

office: The Grants and Contracts 

Services Team, U.S. Department of 

Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, SW., 

Potomac Center Plaza, Washington, DC 

20202–2550. Telephone: (202) 245–

7363. 

Federal Register / Vol. 70, No. 215 / Tuesday, November 8, 2005 / Notices 67685 

VIII. Other Information 

Electronic Access to This Document: 

You may view this document, as well as 

all other documents of this Department 

published in the Federal Register, in 

text or Adobe Portable Document 

Format (PDF) on the Internet at the 

following site: www.ed.gov/news/ 

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.gpoaccess.gov/nara/ 

index.html. 

Dated: November 3, 2005. 

John H. Hager, 

Assistant Secretary for Special Education and 

Rehabilitative Services. 

[FR Doc. 05–22258 Filed 11–7–05; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Albany Research Center; Notice of 

Intent To Grant Exclusive or Partially 

Exclusive Patent License 

AGENCY: Department of Energy (DOE), 

Albany Research Center (ALRC). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given of an 

intent to grant to Harbison-Walker 

Refractories Co. at Moon Township, 

Pennsylvania, an exclusive or partially 

exclusive license to practice the 

invention described in the U.S. patent 

number 6,815,386 titled, ‘‘Use of 

Phosphates to Reduce Slag Penetration 

in Cr2O3-Based Refractories.’’ The 

invention is owned by the United States 

of America, as represented by the 

Department of Energy (DOE). The 

proposed license will be exclusive or 

partially exclusive, subject to a license 

and other rights retained by the U.S. 

Government, and other terms and 

conditions to be negotiated. DOE 

intends to grant the license, upon a final 

determination in accordance with 35 

U.S.C. 209(c), unless within 15 days of 

publication of this Notice the Research 

Marketing Specialist, Department of 

Energy, Albany Research Center, 1450 

Queen Avenue, SW., Albany, OR 

97321–2198, receives in writing any of 

the following, together with the 

supporting documents: 

(i) A statement from any person 

setting forth reasons why it would not 

be in the best interest of the United 

States to grant the proposed license; or 

(ii) An application for a nonexclusive 

license to the invention, in which 

applicant states that it already has 

brought the invention to practical 

application or is likely to bring the 

invention to practical application 

expeditiously. 

DATES: Written comments or 

nonexclusive license applications are to 

be received at the address listed below 

no later than fifteen (15) days after the 

date of this published Notice. 

ADDRESSES: Paula Turner, Research 

Marketing Specialist, U.S. Department 

of Energy, Albany Research Center, 1450 

Queen Avenue SW., Albany, OR 97321–

2198. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: Paula Turner, 

Research Marketing Specialist, U.S. 

Department of Energy, Albany Research 

Center, 1450 Queen Avenue SW., 

Albany, OR 97321–2198; Telephone 

(541) 967–5966; E-mail: 

@turnerp@alrc.doe.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 35 U.S.C. 

209(c) provides the DOE with authority 

to grant exclusive or partially exclusive 

licenses in Department-owned 

inventions, where a determination can 

be made, among other things, that the 

desired practical application of the 

invention has not been achieved, or is 

not likely expeditiously to be achieved, 

under a nonexclusive license. The 

statute and implementing regulations 

(37 CFR part 404) require that the 

necessary determinations be made after 

public notice and opportunity for filing 

written objections. 

Harbison-Walker Refractories, a 

business located at Moon Township, 

Pennsylvania, has applied for an 

exclusive or partially exclusive license 

to practice the invention and has a plan 

for commercialization of the invention. 

The proposed license will be 

exclusive or partially exclusive, subject 

to a license and other rights retained by 

the U.S. Government, and subject to a 

negotiated royalty. The Department will 

review all timely written responses to 

this notice, and will grant the license if, 

after expiration of the 15-day notice 

period, and after consideration of 

written responses to this notice, a 

determination is made, in accordance 

with 35 U.S.C. 209(c), that the license 

grant is in the public interest. 

Dated: October 18, 2005. 

George J. Dooley, 

Research Director, Albany Research Center. 

[FR Doc. 05–22232 Filed 11–7–05; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Bonneville Power Administration 

[BPA File No.: WP–07] 

2007 Wholesale Power Rate 

Adjustment Proceeding; Public 

Hearings, and Opportunities for Public 

Review and Comment 

AGENCY: Bonneville Power 

Administration (BPA), Department of 

Energy (DOE). 

ACTION: Notice of proposed wholesale 

power rates. 

SUMMARY: The Pacific Northwest 

Electric Power Planning and 

Conservation Act (Northwest Power 

Act), 16 U.S.C. 839, provides that BPA 

must establish and periodically review 

and revise its rates so that they are 

adequate to recover, in accordance with 

sound business principles, the costs 

associated with the acquisition, 

conservation and transmission of 

electric power, and to recover the 

Federal investment in the Federal 

Columbia River Power System (FCRPS) 

and other costs incurred by BPA. 

ADDRESSES: 1. Persons wishing to 

become formal parties to the proceeding 

must file a petition to intervene 

notifying BPA in writing of their 

intention to do so in conformance with 

the requirements stated in this notice. 

Petitions to intervene should be directed 

to Jennifer Sanders, Hearing Clerk, LP–

7, Bonneville Power Administration, 

905 NE 11th Avenue, Portland, OR 

97232 or may be e-mailed to the 

following e-mail address: 

jsanders@bpa.gov, and must be received 

no later than 5 p.m., Pacific Standard 

Time, on November 17, 2005. In 

addition, a copy of the petition must be 

served concurrently on BPA’s General 

Counsel and directed to Peter J. Burger, 

LP–7, Office of General Counsel, 

Bonneville Power Administration, 905 

NE 11th Avenue, Portland, OR 97232 or 

be e-mailed to the following e-mail 

address: http://www.pjburger@bpa.gov. 

(See Part III (A) for more information.) 

2. Non-party participants may submit 

written comments between November 

21, 2005, and February 13, 2006. 

Comments must be received no later 

than 5 p.m., Pacific Standard Time, on 

February 13, 2006, in order to be 

considered in the draft Record of 

Decision (ROD). Written comments may 

be made as follows: in person at the 

field hearings (see schedule and 

locations in Part I of this Notice), online 

at BPA’s Web site: www.bpa.gov/ 

comment, or by mail to: BPA 

Communications, DKP–7, P.O. Box 

14428, Portland, OR 97293–4428. Please