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rigorously tested in a future impact 

evaluation study. 

Requests for copies of the information 

collection submission for OMB review 

may be accessed from http:// 

edicsweb.ed.gov, by selecting the 

‘‘Browse Pending Collections’’ link and 

by clicking on link number 4260. When 

you access the information collection, 

click on ‘‘Download Attachments ’’ to 

view. Written requests for information 

should be addressed to U.S. Department 

of Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, 

SW., LBJ, Washington, DC 20202–4537. 

Requests may also be electronically 

mailed to the Internet address 

ICDocketMgr@ed.gov or faxed to 202– 

401–0920. Please specify the complete 

title of the information collection when 

making your request. 

Comments regarding burden and/or 

the collection activity requirements 

should be electronically mailed to 

ICDocketMgr@ed.gov. Individuals who 

use a telecommunications device for the 

deaf (TDD) may call the Federal 

Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 

1–800–877–8339. 

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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request 

AGENCY: Department of Education. 

SUMMARY: The Acting Director, 

Information Collection Clearance 

Division, Regulatory Information 

Management Services, Office of 

Management invites comments on the 

submission for OMB review as required 

by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 

1995. 

DATES: Interested persons are invited to 

submit comments on or before July 7, 

2010. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments should 

be addressed to the Office of 

Information and Regulatory Affairs, 

Attention: Education Desk Officer, 

Office of Management and Budget, 725 

17th Street, NW., Room 10222, New 

Executive Office Building, Washington, 

DC 20503, be faxed to (202) 395–5806 or 

e-mailed to oira_submission@omb.

eop.gov with a cc: to 

ICDocketMgr@ed.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 

3506 of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 

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

that the Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB) provide interested 

Federal agencies and the public an early 

opportunity to comment on information 

collection requests. OMB may amend or 

waive the requirement for public 

consultation to the extent that public 

participation in the approval process 

would defeat the purpose of the 

information collection, violate State or 

Federal law, or substantially interfere 

with any agency’s ability to perform its 

statutory obligations. The Acting 

Director, Information Collection 

Clearance Division, Regulatory 

Information Management Services, 

Office of Management, publishes that 

notice containing proposed information 

collection requests prior to submission 

of these requests to OMB. Each 

proposed information collection, 

grouped by office, contains the 

following: (1) Type of review requested, 

e.g. new, revision, extension, existing or 

reinstatement; (2) Title; (3) Summary of 

the collection; (4) Description of the 

need for, and proposed use of, the 

information; (5) Respondents and 

frequency of collection; and (6) 

Reporting and/or Recordkeeping 

burden. OMB invites public comment. 

Dated: June 2, 2010. 

James Hyler, 

Acting Director, Information Collection 

Clearance Division, Regulatory Information 

Management Services, Office of Management. 

Office of Special Education and 

Rehabilitative Services 

Type of Review: Revision. 

Title: Annual Performance Reporting 

(APR) Forms for National Institute on 

Disability and Rehabilitation Research 

Grantees. 

Frequency: Annually. 

Affected Public: Businesses or other 

for-profit; Not-for-profit institutions. 

Reporting and Recordkeeping Hour 

Burden: 

Responses: 276. 

Burden Hours: 14,352. 

Abstract: The Annual Performance 

Reporting Forms (APRs) are completed 

via the Internet. Data collected through 

these forms will be used to: (a) Facilitate 

program planning and management; (b) 

respond to Education Department 

General Administrative Regulations 

(EDGAR) requirements; and (c) respond 

to the reporting requirements of the 

Government Performance and Results 

Act (GPRA) of 1993 (Pub. L. 103–62). 

Requests for copies of the information 

collection submission for OMB review 

may be accessed from http:// 

edicsweb.ed.gov, by selecting the 

‘‘Browse Pending Collections’’ link and 

by clicking on link number 4263. When 

you access the information collection, 

click on ‘‘Download Attachments ’’ to 

view. Written requests for information 

should be addressed to U.S. Department 

of Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, 

SW., LBJ, Washington, DC 20202–4537. 

Requests may also be electronically 

mailed to the Internet address 

ICDocketMgr@ed.gov or faxed to 202– 

401–0920. Please specify the complete 

title of the information collection when 

making your request. 

Comments regarding burden and/or 

the collection activity requirements 

should be electronically mailed to 

ICDocketMgr@ed.gov. Individuals who 

use a telecommunications device for the 

deaf (TDD) may call the Federal 

Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 

1–800–877–8339. 

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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

Office of Special Education and 

Rehabilitative Services; Overview 

Information; Regional Interpreter 

Education Centers for Training of 

Interpreters for Individuals Who Are 

Deaf or Hard of Hearing and 

Individuals Who Are Deaf-Blind; Notice 

Inviting Applications for New Awards 

for Fiscal Year (FY) 2010 

Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance 

(CFDA) Number: 84.160A. 

DATES: 

Applications Available: June 7, 2010. 

Deadline for Transmittal of 

Applications: July 22, 2010. 

Deadline for Intergovernmental 

Review: September 20, 2010. 

Full Text of Announcement 

I. Funding Opportunity Description 

Purpose of Program: This program 

provides grants to eligible entities to 

establish regional interpreter training 

programs that will train a sufficient 

number of qualified interpreters to meet 

the communications needs of 

individuals who are deaf or hard of 

hearing and individuals who are deafblind. 

Priorities: These priorities and 

definitions are from the notice of final 

priorities and definitions for this 

program, published in the Federal 

Register on August 3, 2005 (70 FR 

44834). 

Definitions: For the purposes of these 

priorities, we use the following 

definitions: 

Deaf means individuals who are deaf, 

hard of hearing, late deafened, or deafblind. The term makes no reference or 

judgment of preferred mode of 

communication or language preference. 

Interpreter means individuals, both 

hearing and deaf, who provide 

interpreting or transliterating, or both, 

for deaf, hard of hearing, and deaf-blind 

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individuals using a variety of languages 

and modes of communication including 

but not limited to American Sign 

Language, Conceptually Accurate 

Signed English, other forms of signed 

English, oral communication, tactile 

communication, and cued speech. 

Local Partner Network means a formal 

network of individuals, organizations, 

and agencies including consumers, 

consumer organizations, community 

resources, service providers (especially 

vocational rehabilitation (VR) agencies), 

VR State coordinators for the deaf, 

rehabilitation counselors for the deaf, 

and other appropriate entities with 

whom the Regional Interpreter 

Education Center will have Memoranda 

of Understanding or other recognized 

mechanisms for the provision of 

educational activities for interpreters. 

National Interpreter Education Center 

means a project supported by the 

Rehabilitation Services Administration 

(RSA) to—(1) coordinate the activities of 

the Regional Interpreter Education 

Centers; (2) ensure the effectiveness of 

the educational opportunities offered by 

the Regional Interpreter Education 

Centers; (3) ensure the effectiveness of 

the program as a whole by evaluating 

and reporting outcomes; (4) provide 

technical assistance to the field on 

effective practices in interpreter 

education; and (5) provide educational 

opportunities for interpreter educators. 

Novice interpreter means an 

interpreter who has graduated from an 

interpreter training program and 

demonstrates language fluency in 

American Sign Language and in English, 

but lacks experience working as an 

interpreter. 

Qualified interpreter means an 

interpreter who is able to interpret 

effectively, accurately, and impartially 

both receptively and expressively, using 

any necessary specialized vocabulary. 

This definition, which is mentioned in 

the Senate Report for the Rehabilitation 

Act Amendments of 1998, Senate Report 

105–166 (Second Session 1998), is one 

way for States to determine if 

interpreters are sufficiently qualified 

and is based on the standard specified 

in the regulations implementing titles II 

and III of the Americans with 

Disabilities Act of 1990. 

Regional Interpreter Education Center 

means a coordinated regional center to 

provide quality educational 

opportunities for interpreters at all skill 

levels. 

Training and education will be used 

interchangeably. Absolute Priority: For 

FY 2010 this priority is an absolute 

priority. Under 34 CFR 75.105(c)(3) we 

consider only applications that meet 

this priority. 

This priority is: 

Priority One—Regional Interpreter 

Education Center or Centers. 

The purpose of this priority is to 

support a coordinated Regional 

Interpreter Education Center or Centers 

to provide quality educational 

opportunities for interpreters at all skill 

levels. The educational opportunities 

provided by a Regional Interpreter 

Education Center, through collaboration 

with Local Partner Networks and with 

substantial involvement from deaf 

consumers, must be of sufficient scope 

and sequence to demonstrate an 

increased skill and knowledge base of 

the participants through the use of preand post-assessments. The pre- and 

post-assessments will measure the 

knowledge and skill base of the 

participants, both when first entering 

the training program and when exiting 

the training program, to demonstrate 

their enhanced knowledge and skills as 

interpreters as a result of the training 

opportunity. In addition, the primary 

focus of the educational opportunities 

must be on interpreting for consumers 

of VR services. Consequently, this 

means educating hearing and deaf 

interpreters to work with consumers 

from diverse cultural and linguistic 

backgrounds in diverse environments 

(i.e., urban, rural, low socioeconomic, 

territories, etc.) and within a variety of 

contexts (i.e., employment, job training, 

technical, medical, etc.). 

Further, the educational opportunities 

must encompass both skill-based and 

knowledge-based topics, provide for 

both hearing interpreters and deaf 

interpreters, and focus on interpreting 

for a variety of individuals who have 

communication skills along the full 

spectrum of language from those with 

limited language skills to those with 

high-level, professional language skills. 

Educational opportunities must be 

provided for interpreters from all skill 

levels from novice to advanced, and the 

skill level of the training must be clearly 

identified. All training activities must 

involve cooperative efforts with 

consumers, consumer organizations, 

community resources, and service 

providers, especially VR agencies, VR 

State coordinators for the deaf, and 

rehabilitation counselors for the deaf. 

Delivery of educational opportunities 

may not be limited to traditional 

methods. Distance technologies and 

delivery, use of teams of deaf and 

hearing presenters, assignment of 

mentors, immersion experiences, 

intensive institutes, and other 

innovative practices must be used. 

A Regional Interpreter Education 

Center funded under this priority also 

must do the following: 

(a) Develop formal relationships with 

Local Partner Networks as defined in 

this notice. 

(b) In collaboration with the National 

Center, Local Partner Networks, and 

consumers, implement effective 

practices in interpreter education. 

(c) In collaboration with the National 

Center, Local Partner Networks, and 

consumers, implement the ‘‘Program 

Quality Indicators’’ for this program. 

(d) Coordinate with existing 

interpreter training programs to identify 

and conduct outreach activities with 

recent and new graduates in order to 

provide training, including mentoring, 

to make them work-ready. 

(e) In collaboration with the National 

Center, Local Partner Networks, and 

consumers, provide skill-based, contextbased, and knowledge-based interpreter 

education activities of significant scope 

and sequence to interpreters in the 

identified region. Products developed 

by the National Center must be 

incorporated into the educational 

activities to the greatest extent 

appropriate. Educational opportunities 

must include, but not be limited to— 

(1) Educating deaf individuals and 

practicing deaf and hearing interpreters 

to serve as mentors and provide 

mentoring to novice and working 

interpreters who need additional 

feedback and experience to become 

qualified; 

(2) Addressing the various linguistic 

and cultural preferences within the 

deaf, hard of hearing, and deaf-blind 

communities through strands of 

specialized interpreter education; 

(3) Focusing on interpreting in 

specialized environments such as 

rehabilitation, legal, medical, mental 

health, or multicultural environments, 

working with specific populations such 

as deaf-blind, oral, trilingual (including 

those who are fluent in spoken English 

and spoken Spanish along with both 

American Sign Language and Mexican 

Sign Language or other sign languages 

used by Spanish-speaking 

communities), or cued speech users, 

and improving specific skill sets such as 

sign-to-voice interpreting, team 

interpreting, sight translation, or ethical 

decisionmaking and professionalism; 

(4) Developing interpretation and 

transliteration competencies for 

interpreters working with deaf, hard of 

hearing, and deaf-blind individuals with 

differing modes of communication, 

including, but not limited to, the use of 

language immersion experiences in 

American Sign Language, Conceptually 

Accurate Signed English, oral 

communication, tactile communication, 

and cued speech; 

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(5) Using state-of-the-art technologies 

for training on how to deliver 

interpreter services from remote 

locations and in handling various 

technologies during interpreter 

assignments (e.g., microphones, 

assistive listening devices, cameras, 

lights, etc.); and 

(6) Educating consumers on skills 

related to self-advocacy and working 

effectively with interpreters. 

(f) In collaboration with the National 

Center, Local Partner Networks, and 

consumers, implement and deliver the 

specific educational activities identified 

in the education needs assessments. 

(g) Provide information to the 

National Center for the purpose of 

promoting the educational activities of 

the National Center. 

(h) Provide qualitative and 

quantitative data on the educational 

activities conducted, pre- and postassessments, portfolios produced, 

participant demographics, and other 

pertinent information to the National 

Center for the purpose of evaluating 

program effectiveness. 

(i) Coordinate and collaborate with 

the other Regional Interpreter Education 

Centers funded by RSA and funded 

through this priority. 

(j) Set aside 10 percent of the project’s 

annual budget submitted to RSA to 

cover the costs of specific collaborative 

activities between the National Center 

and the Regional Interpreter Education 

Center or Centers including, but not 

limited to, travel, communications, 

materials development, Web site 

development, and other collaborative 

efforts. 

Fourth and Fifth Years of Project: 

In deciding whether to continue a 

project for the fourth and fifth years, the 

Secretary will consider the requirements 

of 34 CFR 75.253(a) for continuation 

awards. 

The Secretary will also consider the 

following: 

(a) The recommendation of a review 

team consisting of experts selected by 

the Secretary. The team will conduct its 

review in Washington, DC, during the 

first half of the project’s third year. A 

project must budget for the travel 

associated with this one-day intensive 

review. 

(b) The timeliness and effectiveness 

with which all requirements of the 

award have been or are being met by the 

project. 

(c) Evidence of the degree to which 

the project’s activities have contributed 

to changed practices and improved 

quality of interpreters. 

(d) Evidence of the degree to which 

the project’s activities have served each 

State within its designated geographic 

region. 

Competitive Preference Priority: For 

FY 2010 this priority is a competitive 

preference priority. Under 34 CFR 

75.105(c)(2)(ii) we give preference to an 

application that meets this priority over 

an application of comparable merit that 

does not meet the priority. 

This priority is: 

Priority Two—Programs Offering at 

Least a Bachelor’s Degree in Interpreter 

Education. 

Within the existing priority from 34 

CFR 396.33, we are establishing a 

priority to support applications from 

postsecondary institutions that offer and 

have awarded at least a bachelor’s 

degree in interpreter education. 

Program Authority: 29 U.S.C. 772(f). 

Applicable Regulations: (a) The 

Education Department General 

Administrative Regulations (EDGAR) in 

34 CFR parts 74, 75, 77, 79, 80, 81, 82, 

84, 85, 86, and 99. (b) The regulations 

for this program in 34 CFR parts 385 

and 396. (c) The notice of final priorities 

and definitions for this program, 

published in the Federal Register on 

August 3, 2005 (70 FR 44834). 

Note: The regulations in 34 CFR part 79 

apply to all applicants except federally 

recognized Indian tribes. 

Note: The regulations in 34 CFR part 86 

apply to institutions of higher education 

only. 

II. Award Information 

Type of Award: Discretionary grants. 

Estimated Available Funds: 

$1,500,000. 

Estimated Average Size of Awards: 

$300,000. 

Maximum Award: We will reject any 

application that proposes a budget 

exceeding $300,000 for a single budget 

period of 12 months. The Assistant 

Secretary may change the maximum 

amount through a notice published in 

the Federal Register. 

Estimated Number of Awards: 5. 

Note: The Department is not bound by any 

estimates in this notice. 

Project Period: Up to 60 months. 

III. Eligibility Information 

1. Eligible Applicants: States and 

public or nonprofit agencies and 

organizations, including institutions of 

higher education. 

2. Cost Sharing or Matching: This 

program does not require cost sharing or 

matching. 

Note: Under 34 CFR 75.562(c), an indirect 

cost reimbursement on a training grant is 

limited to the recipient’s actual indirect 

costs, as determined by its negotiated 

indirect cost rate agreement, or eight percent 

of a modified total direct cost base, 

whichever amount is less. Indirect costs in 

excess of the eight percent limit may not be 

charged directly, used to satisfy matching or 

cost-sharing requirements, or charged to 

another Federal award. 

IV. Application and Submission 

Information 

1. Address to Request Application 

Package: You can obtain an application 

package via the Internet or from the 

Education Publications Center (ED 

Pubs). To obtain a copy via the Internet, 

use the following address: http://

www.ed.gov/fund/grant/apply/

grantapps/index.html. To obtain a copy 

from ED Pubs, write, fax, or call the 

following: ED Pubs, U.S. Department of 

Education, P.O. Box 22207, Alexandria, 

VA 22304. Telephone, toll free: 1–877– 

433–7827. Fax: (703) 605–6794. If you 

use a telecommunications device for the 

deaf (TDD), call, toll free: 1–877–576– 

7734. 

You can contact ED Pubs at its Web 

site, also: http://www.EDPubs.gov or at 

its e-mail address: edpubs@inet.ed.gov. 

If you request an application package 

from ED Pubs, be sure to identify this 

program or competition as follows: 

CFDA number 84.160A. 

Individuals with disabilities can 

obtain a copy of the application package 

in an accessible format (e.g., braille, 

large print, audiotape, or computer 

diskette) by contacting the person or 

team listed under Accessible Format in 

section VIII 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 the 

application narrative [Part III] to the 

equivalent of no more than 45 pages, 

using the following standards: 

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

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

and both sides. 

• Double space (no more than three 

lines per vertical inch) all text in the 

application narrative, including titles, 

headings, footnotes, quotations, 

references, and captions, as well as all 

text in charts, tables, figures, and 

graphs. 

• Use a font that is either 12 point or 

larger or no smaller than 10 pitch 

(characters per inch). 

• Use one of the following fonts: 

Times New Roman, Courier, Courier 

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New, or Arial. An application submitted 

in any other font (including Times 

Roman or Arial Narrow) will not be 

accepted. 

The page limit does not apply to Part 

I, the cover sheet; Part II, the budget 

section, including the narrative budget 

justification; Part IV, the assurances and 

certifications; or the one-page abstract, 

the resumes, the bibliography, or the 

letters of support. However, the page 

limit does apply to all of the application 

narrative section [Part III]. 

We will reject your application if you 

exceed the page limit or if you apply 

other standards and exceed the 

equivalent of the page limit. 

3. Submission Dates and Times: 

Applications Available: June 7, 2010. 

Deadline for Transmittal of 

Applications: July 22, 2010. 

Applications for grants under this 

competition must be submitted 

electronically using the Electronic Grant 

Application System (e-Application) 

accessible through the Department’s eGrants site. For information (including 

dates and times) about how to submit 

your application electronically, or in 

paper format by mail or hand delivery 

if you qualify for an exception to the 

electronic submission requirement, 

please refer to section IV.7. Other 

Submission Requirements of this notice. 

We do not consider an application 

that does not comply with the deadline 

requirements. 

Individuals with disabilities who 

need an accommodation or auxiliary aid 

in connection with the application 

process should contact the person listed 

under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT in section VII of this notice. If 

the Department provides an 

accommodation or auxiliary aid to an 

individual with a disability in 

connection with the application 

process, the individual’s application 

remains subject to all other 

requirements and limitations in this 

notice. 

Deadline for Intergovernmental 

Review: September 20, 2010. 

4. Intergovernmental Review: This 

competition 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. Data Universal Numbering System 

Number, Taxpayer Identification 

Number, and Central Contractor 

Registry: To do business with the 

Department of Education, (1) you must 

have a Data Universal Numbering 

System (DUNS) number and a Taxpayer 

Identification Number (TIN); (2) you 

must register both of those numbers 

with the Central Contractor Registry 

(CCR), the Government’s primary 

registrant database; and (3) you must 

provide those same numbers on your 

application. 

You can obtain a DUNS number from 

Dun and Bradstreet. A DUNS number 

can be created within one business day. 

If you are a corporate entity, agency, 

institution, or organization, you can 

obtain a TIN from the Internal Revenue 

Service. If you are an individual, you 

can obtain a TIN from the Internal 

Revenue Service or the Social Security 

Administration. If you need a new TIN, 

please allow 2–5 weeks for your TIN to 

become active. 

The CCR registration process may take 

five or more business days to complete. 

If you are currently registered with the 

CCR, you may not need to make any 

changes. However, please make certain 

that the TIN associated with your DUNS 

number is correct. Also note that you 

will need to update your CCR 

registration on an annual basis. This 

may take three or more business days to 

complete. 

7. Other Submission Requirements: 

Applications for grants under this 

competition must be submitted 

electronically unless you qualify for an 

exception to this requirement in 

accordance with the instructions in this 

section. 

a. Electronic Submission of 

Applications. 

Applications for grants under the 

Regional Interpreter Education Centers 

for Training of Interpreters for 

Individuals Who Are Deaf or Hard of 

Hearing and Individuals Who are DeafBlind program—CFDA Number 84.160A 

must be submitted electronically using 

e-Application, accessible through the 

Department’s e-Grants Web site at: 

http://e-grants.ed.gov. 

We will reject your application if you 

submit it in paper format unless, as 

described elsewhere in this section, you 

qualify for one of the exceptions to the 

electronic submission requirement and 

submit, no later than two weeks before 

the application deadline date, a written 

statement to the Department that you 

qualify for one of these exceptions. 

Further information regarding 

calculation of the date that is two weeks 

before the application deadline date is 

provided later in this section under 

Exception to Electronic Submission 

Requirement. 

While completing your electronic 

application, you will be entering data 

online that will be saved into a 

database. You may not e-mail an 

electronic copy of a grant application to 

us. 

Please note the following: 

• You must complete the electronic 

submission of your grant application by 

4:30:00 p.m., Washington, DC time, on 

the application deadline date. EApplication will not accept an 

application for this competition after 

4:30:00 p.m., Washington, DC time, on 

the application deadline date. 

Therefore, we strongly recommend that 

you do not wait until the application 

deadline date to begin the application 

process. 

• The hours of operation of the eGrants Web site are 6:00 a.m. Monday 

until 7:00 p.m. Wednesday; and 6:00 

a.m. Thursday until 8:00 p.m. Sunday, 

Washington, DC time. Please note that, 

because of maintenance, the system is 

unavailable between 8:00 p.m. on 

Sundays and 6:00 a.m. on Mondays, and 

between 7:00 p.m. on Wednesdays and 

6:00 a.m. on Thursdays, Washington, 

DC time. Any modifications to these 

hours are posted on the e-Grants Web 

site. 

• You will not receive additional 

point value because you submit your 

application in electronic format, nor 

will we penalize you if you qualify for 

an exception to the electronic 

submission requirement, as described 

elsewhere in this section, and submit 

your application in paper format. 

• You must submit all documents 

electronically, including all information 

you typically provide on the following 

forms: The Application for Federal 

Assistance (SF 424), the Department of 

Education Supplemental Information for 

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

necessary assurances and certifications. 

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 in this paragraph 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. 

• Prior to submitting your electronic 

application, you may wish to print a 

copy of it for your records. 

• After you electronically submit 

your application, you will receive an 

automatic acknowledgment that will 

include a PR/Award number (an 

identifying number unique to your 

application). 

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• Within three working days after 

submitting your electronic application, 

fax a signed copy of the SF 424 to the 

Application Control Center after 

following these steps: 

(1) Print SF 424 from e-Application. 

(2) The applicant’s Authorizing 

Representative must sign this form. 

(3) Place the PR/Award number in the 

upper right hand corner of the hardcopy signature page of the SF 424. 

(4) Fax the signed SF 424 to the 

Application Control Center at (202) 

245–6272. 

• We may request that you provide us 

original signatures on other forms at a 

later date. 

Application Deadline Date Extension 

in Case of e-Application Unavailability: 

If you are prevented from electronically 

submitting your application on the 

application deadline date because eApplication is unavailable, we will 

grant you an extension of one business 

day to enable you to transmit your 

application electronically, by mail, or by 

hand delivery. We will grant this 

extension if— 

(1) You are a registered user of eApplication and you have initiated an 

electronic application for this 

competition; and 

(2) (a) E-Application is unavailable for 

60 minutes or more between the hours 

of 8:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m., Washington, 

DC time, on the application deadline 

date; or 

(b) E-Application is unavailable for 

any period of time between 3:30 p.m. 

and 4:30:00 p.m., Washington, DC time, 

on the application deadline date. 

We must acknowledge and confirm 

these periods of unavailability before 

granting you an extension. To request 

this extension or to confirm our 

acknowledgment of any system 

unavailability, you may contact either 

(1) the person listed elsewhere in this 

notice under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT (see VII. Agency Contact) or (2) 

the e-Grants help desk at 1–888–336– 

8930. If e-Application is unavailable 

due to technical problems with the 

system and, therefore, the application 

deadline is extended, an e-mail will be 

sent to all registered users who have 

initiated an e-Application. Extensions 

referred to in this section apply only to 

the unavailability of e-Application. 

Exception to Electronic Submission 

Requirement: You qualify for an 

exception to the electronic submission 

requirement, and may submit your 

application in paper format, if you are 

unable to submit an application through 

e-Application because— 

• You do not have access to the 

Internet; or 

• You do not have the capacity to 

upload large documents to eApplication; 

and 

• No later than two weeks before the 

application deadline date (14 calendar 

days or, if the fourteenth calendar day 

before the application deadline date 

falls on a Federal holiday, the next 

business day following the Federal 

holiday), you mail or fax a written 

statement to the Department, explaining 

which of the two grounds for an 

exception prevents you from using the 

Internet to submit your application. If 

you mail your written statement to the 

Department, it must be postmarked no 

later than two weeks before the 

application deadline date. If you fax 

your written statement to the 

Department, we must receive the faxed 

statement no later than two weeks 

before the application deadline date. 

Address and mail or fax your 

statement to: Traci DiMartini, U.S. 

Department of Education, 400 Maryland 

Avenue, SW., room 5027, Potomac 

Center Plaza (PCP), Washington, DC 

20202–2800. FAX: (202) 245–7591. 

Your paper application must be 

submitted in accordance with the mail 

or hand delivery instructions described 

in this notice. 

b. Submission of Paper Applications 

by Mail. 

If you qualify for an exception to the 

electronic submission requirement, you 

may mail (through the U.S. Postal 

Service or a commercial carrier) your 

application to the Department. You 

must mail the original and two copies 

of your application, 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 84.160A, LBJ Basement 

Level 1, 400 Maryland Avenue, SW., 

Washington, DC 20202–4260. 

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. 

(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. 

(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 qualify for an exception to the 

electronic submission requirement, you 

(or a courier service) may deliver your 

paper application to the Department by 

hand. You 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 84.160A, 550 12th Street, 

SW., Room 7041, Potomac Center Plaza, 

Washington, DC 20202–4260. 

The Application Control Center 

accepts hand deliveries daily between 

8:00 a.m. and 4:30:00 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 11 of the SF 424 the CFDA number, 

including suffix letter, if any, of the 

competition under which you are submitting 

your application; and 

(2) The Application Control Center will 

mail to you a notification of receipt of your 

grant application. If you do not receive this 

grant notification 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, 396.31, and 396.32 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 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. 

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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 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 

http://www.ed.gov/fund/grant/apply/

appforms/appforms.html. 

4. Performance Measures: The 

Government Performance and Results 

Act (GPRA) of 1993 directs Federal 

departments and agencies to improve 

the effectiveness of programs by 

engaging in strategic planning, setting 

outcome-related goals for programs, and 

measuring program results against those 

goals. 

The goal of the Training of 

Interpreters for Individuals Who Are 

Deaf or Hard of Hearing and Individuals 

Who Are Deaf-Blind program is to 

establish interpreter training programs 

or to assist ongoing training programs to 

train a sufficient number of qualified 

interpreters in order to meet the 

communications needs of individuals 

who are deaf or hard of hearing and 

individuals who are deaf-blind. 

As required by the absolute priority, 

grantees must develop and implement 

quality indicators and measure their 

performance against these indicators. In 

addition, RSA will use the following 

indicators for each of the Regional 

Interpreter Education Centers for 

Training of Interpreters for Individuals 

Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing and 

Individuals Who are Deaf-Blind: 

• A listing of all formal relationships 

with Local Partner Networks across the 

region. 

• The percentage of interpreters at all 

skill levels receiving educational 

opportunities by the Regional 

Interpreter Center who successfully 

completed those opportunities as 

demonstrated through pre-and postactivities assessments, the development 

of portfolios, the completion of 

mentoring goals, the attainment of 

interpreter certification, etc. 

• The degree to which the project’s 

activities have contributed to changed 

practices and improved the quality of 

interpreters. 

• The degree to which the project’s 

activities have served each State within 

its designated geographic region. 

Each Regional Center must report 

annually to RSA on these indicators 

through its annual performance report. 

VII. Agency Contact 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Traci DiMartini, U.S. Department of 

Education, Rehabilitation Services 

Administration, 400 Maryland Avenue 

SW., room 5027, PCP, Washington, DC 

20202–2800. Telephone: (202) 245–6425 

or by e-mail: Traci.DiMartini@ed.gov. 

If you use a TDD, call the Federal 

Relay Service (FRS), toll free, at 1–800– 

877–8339. 

VIII. Other Information 

Accessible Format: Individuals with 

disabilities can obtain this document 

and a copy of the application package in 

an accessible format (e.g., braille, large 

print, audiotape, or computer diskette) 

by contacting the Grants and Contracts 

Services Team, U.S. Department of 

Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, SW., 

room 5075, PCP, Washington, DC 

20202–2550. Telephone: (202) 245– 

7363. If you use a TDD, call the FRS, toll 

free, at 1–800–877–8339. 

Electronic Access to This Document: 

You can 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. 

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: June 2, 2010. 

Alexa Posny, 

Assistant Secretary for Special Education and 

Rehabilitative Services. 

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BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

Comprehensive Centers Program 

AGENCY: Office of Elementary and 

Secondary Education. 

ACTION: Notice of waivers for the 

Comprehensive Centers program and 

funding of continuation grants. 

SUMMARY: The Secretary waives the 

requirements in 34 CFR 75.250 and 

75.261(c)(2) of the Education 

Department General Administrative 

Regulations (EDGAR) that, respectively, 

generally prohibit project periods 

exceeding five years and project period 

extensions involving the obligation of 

additional Federal funds. The waivers 

enable the 21 current grantees under the 

Comprehensive Centers program to 

continue to receive Federal funding 

beyond the five-year limitation in 34 

CFR 75.250. 

DATES: These waivers are effective June 

7, 2010. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Frances Walter, U.S. Department of 

Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, SW., 

room 3W113, Washington, DC 20202– 

5970. Telephone: (202) 205–9198 or by 

e-mail: fran.walter@ed.gov. 

If you use a telecommunications 

device for the deaf (TDD), call the 

Federal Relay Service (FRS), toll free, at 

1–800–877–8339. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

Under the Comprehensive Centers 

program, the Department supports 

grants to operate regional technical 

assistance centers and national content 

centers as authorized by sections 203 

through 207 of the Educational 

Technical Assistance Act of 2002 

(ETAA) (20 U.S.C. 9602–9606). The 

purpose of these centers is to provide 

technical assistance primarily to States 

as States work to help local educational 

agencies (LEAs) and schools to close 

achievement gaps in core content areas 

and raise student achievement in 

schools, and especially to help LEAs 

and schools to implement the school 

improvement provisions under section 

1116 of the Elementary and Secondary 

Education Act of 1965, as amended 

(ESEA) in schools in need of 

improvement, as defined by section 

1116(b) of the ESEA. 

Eligible applicants for Comprehensive 

Centers grants are research 

organizations, institutions, agencies, 

institutions of higher education, 

partnerships among such entities, or 

individuals, with demonstrated ability 

or capacity to carry out the activities 

described in the notice inviting 

applications published in the Federal 

Register on June 3, 2005 (70 FR 53283) 

and corrected in the Federal Register on 

June 20, 2005 (70 FR 35415). 

On March 18, 2010, we published a 

notice in the Federal Register (75 FR 

13110) proposing waivers of 34 CFR 

75.250 and 34 CFR 75.261(c)(2) of 

EDGAR in order to give early notice of 

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