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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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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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the possibility that additional years of 

funding under the Comprehensive 

Centers program may be available for 

current grantees through continuation 

awards. As outlined in that notice, it 

would not be in the public interest to 

hold new competitions under the 

Comprehensive Centers program 

because of the pending reauthorization 

of the ESEA and the ETAA, and the fact 

that the primary work of the 

Comprehensive Centers is to help 

States, LEAs, and schools implement 

key school improvement provisions of 

the ESEA. In addition, it would be 

contrary to the public interest to have a 

lapse in Comprehensive Center services 

pending these reauthorizations. The 

comments we received in response to 

the notice of proposed waivers were 

supportive of the Comprehensive 

Centers program and the proposed 

waivers. 

For these reasons, the Secretary 

waives the requirement in 34 CFR 

75.250, which prohibits project periods 

exceeding five years, and the 

requirement in 34 CFR 75.261(c)(2), 

which limits the extension of a project 

period if the extension involves the 

obligation of additional Federal funds. 

With these waivers: (1) Current 

Comprehensive Centers grantees will 

receive FY 2010 funds and continue to 

operate through FY 2011 and possibly 

beyond, and (2) we will not announce 

a new competition or make new awards 

under the Comprehensive Centers 

program in FY 2010. 

Analysis of Comments and Changes 

In response to the Secretary’s 

invitation in the March 18, 2010, notice 

of proposed waivers, two parties 

submitted comments regarding the 

proposed waivers. An analysis of the 

comments follows. 

Comment: One commenter identified 

specific support that a regional center 

and content center have provided in 

helping a State educational agency 

(SEA) to assist LEAs and schools in 

closing achievement gaps and raising 

student achievement, especially in those 

LEAs and schools in need of 

improvement and stated that the 

waivers would ensure that these 

important services can be continued 

without interruption. 

Discussion: We note the importance of 

the support of the Comprehensive 

Centers program for school 

improvement initiatives and agree that 

it would be contrary to the public 

interest to have a lapse in these services. 

Changes: None. 

Comment: One commenter noted the 

important financial and programmatic 

contributions made by the Office of 

Special Education Programs within the 

Department’s Office of Special 

Education and Rehabilitative Services 

(OSERS) to the Comprehensive Centers. 

The commenter credited these 

contributions with creating more 

effective communication between the 

Office of Elementary and Secondary 

Education (OESE) and OSERS, reducing 

needless duplication of initiatives, and 

increasing integration of content 

expertise. Finally, the commenter urged 

the Department to continue promoting 

this shared oversight by involving 

OSERS leadership in deliberations 

about the future of the Comprehensive 

Centers program. 

Discussion: We appreciate the 

commenter’s identification of the 

valuable contribution of OSERS 

leadership in supporting the 

Comprehensive Centers program, both 

financially and programmatically. OESE 

anticipates continuing this positive 

relationship by involving OSERS in 

discussions about the future of the 

program. 

Changes: None. 

These waivers of 34 CFR 75.250 and 

75.261(c)(2) do not affect the 

applicability of the requirements in 34 

CFR 75.253 (continuation of a multiyear project after the first budget period) 

to any current Comprehensive Centers 

grantee that receives a continuation 

award as a result of the waivers. 

In addition, these waivers do not 

exempt current Comprehensive Centers 

grantees from the account closing 

provisions of 31 U.S.C. 1552(a) nor do 

they extend the availability of funds 

previously awarded to current 

Comprehensive Center grantees. As a 

result of 31 U.S.C. 1552(a), 

appropriations available for a limited 

period may be used for payment of valid 

obligations for only five years after the 

expiration of their period of availability 

for Federal obligation. After that time, 

the unexpended balance of those funds 

is canceled and returned to the U.S. 

Treasury Department and is unavailable 

for restoration for any purpose. These 

waivers do not change this requirement. 

These waivers ensure that the 

important services provided by the 

current Comprehensive Centers grantees 

will be continued, as the Department 

works on reauthorization of the ESEA 

and ETAA and designs a 

Comprehensive Centers program that is 

aligned with the Department’s technical 

assistance priorities. During this interim 

period, the activities of the current 

Comprehensive Centers grantees will be 

modified to support these technical 

assistance priorities. 

Waivers—Comprehensive Centers 

Program 

The Secretary waives the 

requirements in 34 CFR 75.250 and 

75.261(c)(2), which prohibit project 

periods exceeding five years and 

extensions of project periods that 

involve the obligation of additional 

Federal funds, for the current 

Comprehensive Centers grantees. 

Regulatory Flexibility Act Certification 

The Secretary certifies that the 

waivers will not have a significant 

economic impact on a substantial 

number of small entities. 

The small entities that will be affected 

by these waivers are: 

(a) The FY 2005 grantees currently 

receiving Federal funds; and 

(b) The entities that are eligible for an 

award under the Comprehensive 

Centers program (i.e., research 

organizations, institutions, agencies, 

institutions of higher education, 

partnerships among such entities, or 

individuals, with the 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)). 

The Secretary certifies that these 

waivers will not have a significant 

economic impact on these entities 

because the waivers and the activities 

required to support the additional years 

of funding will not impose excessive 

regulatory burdens or require 

unnecessary Federal supervision. The 

waivers will impose minimal 

requirements to ensure the proper 

expenditure of program funds, 

including requirements that are 

standard for continuation awards. 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 

This notice of waivers does not 

contain any information collection 

requirements. 

Intergovernmental Review 

This program is subject to Executive 

Order 12372 and the regulations in 34 

CFR part 79. One of the objectives of the 

Executive Order is to foster an 

intergovernmental partnership and a 

strengthened federalism. The Executive 

Order relies on processes developed by 

State and local governments for 

coordination and review of proposed 

Federal financial assistance. 

This document provides notification 

of our specific plans and actions for this 

program. 

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

print, audiotape, or computer diskette) 

on request to the contact person listed 

under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT. 

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. 

(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance 

Number 84.283B, Comprehensive Centers 

Program) 

Program Authority: 20 U.S.C. 9601–9608. 

Dated: June 2, 2010. 

Thelma Mele ́ndez de Santa Ana, 

Assistant Secretary for Elementary and 

Secondary Education. 

[FR Doc. 2010–13571 Filed 6–4–10; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

American Electric Power Service 

Corporation’s Mountaineer 

Commercial Scale Carbon Capture and 

Storage Project: Mason County, WV; 

Notice of Intent To Prepare an 

Environmental Impact Statement and 

Potential Floodplain and Wetlands 

Involvement 

AGENCY: Department of Energy. 

ACTION: Notice of Intent and Notice of 

Potential Floodplain and Wetlands 

Involvement. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of 

Energy (DOE or the Department) 

announces its intent to prepare an 

Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) 

pursuant to the National Environmental 

Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA) (42 U.S.C. 

4321 et seq.), the Council on 

Environmental Quality’s (CEQ) NEPA 

regulations (40 CFR Parts 1500–1508), 

and DOE’s NEPA implementing 

procedures (10 CFR Part 1021), to assess 

the potential environmental impacts of 

providing financial assistance for the 

construction and operation of a project 

proposed by American Electric Power 

Service Corporation (AEP). DOE 

selected this project for an award of 

financial assistance through a 

competitive process under the Clean 

Coal Power Initiative (CCPI) Program. 

AEP’s Mountaineer Commercial Scale 

Carbon Capture and Storage Project 

(Mountaineer CCS II Project) would 

construct a commercial scale carbon 

dioxide (CO2) capture and storage (CCS) 

system at AEP’s existing Mountaineer 

Power Plant and other AEP owned 

properties located near New Haven, 

West Virginia. 

For the Mountaineer CCS II Project, 

AEP would design, construct, and 

operate a CCS facility using Alstom’s 

chilled ammonia process that would 

capture approximately 1.5 million 

metric tons annually of CO2 from a 235- 

megawatt (MWe) flue gas slip stream 

taken from the 1,300 MWe Mountaineer 

Plant. The captured CO2 would be 

treated, compressed, and transported by 

pipeline to proposed injection site(s) on 

AEP properties within an estimated 12 

miles of the Mountaineer Plant where it 

would be injected into one or more 

geologic formations approximately 1.5 

miles below ground. The project would 

remove up to 90 percent of the CO2 from 

the 235–MWe slip stream and would 

demonstrate a commercial-scale 

deployment of the chilled ammonia 

process for CO2 capture and 

sequestration of CO2 in a saline 

formation. DOE selected this project for 

an award of financial assistance through 

a competitive process under Round 3 

(second selection phase) of the CCPI 

Program. 

The EIS will inform DOE’s decision 

on whether to provide financial 

assistance to AEP for the Mountaineer 

CCS II Project. DOE proposes to provide 

AEP with up to $334 million of the 

overall project cost, which would 

constitute about 50 percent of the 

estimated total development cost, 50 

percent of the capital cost of the project 

and 50 percent of the operational cost 

during the 3-year and 10-month 

demonstration period. The total project 

cost, including both DOE’s and AEP’s 

shares, is approximately $668 million 

(in 2010 dollars). The project would 

further a specific objective of Round 3 

of the CCPI program by demonstrating 

advanced coal-based technologies that 

capture and sequester, or put to 

beneficial use, CO2 emissions from coalfired power plants. 

The purposes of this Notice of Intent 

(NOI) are to: (1) Inform the public about 

DOE’s proposed action and AEP’s 

proposed project; (2) announce the 

public scoping meeting; (3) solicit 

comments for DOE’s consideration 

regarding the scope and content of the 

EIS; (4) invite those agencies with 

jurisdiction by law or special expertise 

to be cooperating agencies in 

preparation of the EIS; and (5) provide 

notice that the proposed project may 

involve potential impacts to floodplains 

and wetlands. 

DOE does not have regulatory 

jurisdiction over the Mountaineer CCS II 

Project, and its decisions are limited to 

whether and under what circumstances 

it would provide financial assistance to 

the project. As part of the EIS process, 

DOE will consult with interested Native 

American Tribes and Federal, state, 

regional and local agencies. 

DATES: DOE invites comments on the 

proposed scope and content of the EIS 

from all interested parties. Comments 

must be received within 30 days after 

publication of this NOI in the Federal 

Register to ensure consideration. In 

addition to receiving comments in 

writing and by e-mail [See ADDRESSES

below], DOE will conduct a public 

scoping meeting in which government 

agencies, private-sector organizations, 

and the general public are invited to 

present oral and written comments or 

suggestions with regard to DOE’s 

proposed action, alternatives, and 

potential impacts of AEP’s proposed 

project that DOE will consider in 

developing the EIS. The scoping 

meeting will be held at the New Haven 

Elementary School at 138 Mill Street in 

New Haven, West Virginia on Tuesday, 

June 22, 2010. Oral comments will be 

heard during the formal portion of the 

scoping meeting beginning at 7 p.m. 

[See Public Scoping Process]. The 

public is also invited to an informal 

session to learn more about the project 

and the proposed action at the same 

location beginning at 5 p.m. Various 

displays and other information about 

DOE’s proposed action and AEP’s 

Mountaineer CCS II Project will be 

available, and representatives from DOE 

and AEP will be present at the informal 

session to discuss the proposed project, 

the CCPI program, and the EIS process. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments on the 

scope of the EIS and requests to 

participate in the public scoping 

meeting should be addressed to: Mr. 

Mark Lusk, U.S. Department of Energy, 

National Energy Technology Laboratory, 

3610 Collins Ferry Road, P.O. Box 880, 

Morgantown, WV 26507–0880. 

Individuals and organizations who 

would like to provide oral or electronic 

comments should contact Mr. Lusk by 

postal mail at the above address; 

telephone (412–386–7435, or toll-free 

1–877–812–1569); fax (304–285–4403); 

or electronic mail 

(Mountaineer.EIS0445@netl.doe.gov). 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

For further information about this 

project, contact Mr. Mark Lusk, as 

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