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requirements, definitions, or selection 

criteria, subject to meeting applicable 

rulemaking requirements. 

Note: This notice does not solicit 

applications. In any year in which we choose 

to use one or more of these priorities, we 

invite applications through a notice in the 

Federal Register. 

Executive Order 12866: This notice of 

final priorities has been reviewed in 

accordance with Executive Order 12866. 

Under the terms of the order, we have 

assessed the potential costs and benefits 

of this regulatory action. 

The potential costs associated with 

this regulatory action are those resulting 

from statutory requirements and those 

we have determined as necessary for 

administering these programs effectively 

and efficiently. 

In assessing the potential costs and 

benefits—both quantitative and 

qualitative—of this regulatory action, 

we have determined that the benefits of 

the final priorities justify the costs. 

We have also determined that this 

regulatory action does not unduly 

interfere with State, local, and Tribal 

governments in the exercise of their 

governmental functions. 

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 early 

notification of our specific plans and 

actions for this program. 

Accessible Format: Individuals with 

disabilities can obtain this document in 

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

print, audiotape, or computer diskette) 

on request to the program 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. 

Delegation of Authority: The Assistant 

Secretary of Postsecondary Education 

has delegated authority to Daniel T. 

Madzelan, Director, Forecasting and 

Policy Analysis for the Office of 

Postsecondary Education to perform the 

functions of the Assistant Secretary for 

Postsecondary Education. 

Dated: September 21, 2010. 

Daniel T. Madzelan, 

Director, Forecasting and Policy Analysis. 

[FR Doc. 2010–24002 Filed 9–23–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

Office of Postsecondary Education: 

Overview Information; Fulbright-Hays 

Group Projects Abroad Program; 

Notice Inviting Applications for New 

Awards for Fiscal Year (FY) 2011 

Catalog of Federal Domestic 

Assistance (CFDA) Number: 84.021A. 

Dates: 

Applications Available: September 

24, 2010. 

Deadline for Transmittal of 

Applications: October 26, 2010. 

Deadline for Intergovernmental 

Review: December 27, 2010. 

Full Text of Announcement 

I. Funding Opportunity Description 

Purpose of Program: The FulbrightHays Group Projects Abroad (GPA) 

Program supports overseas projects in 

training, research, and curriculum 

development in modern foreign 

languages and area studies for groups of 

teachers, students, and faculty engaged 

in a common endeavor. Projects are 

short-term and include seminars, 

curriculum development, or group 

research or study. 

Priorities: This notice contains one 

absolute priority, three competitive 

preference priorities, and one 

invitational priority. In accordance with 

34 CFR 75.105(b), the absolute priority 

and competitive preference priority I are 

from the regulations for this program (34 

CFR 664.32), and competitive 

preference priorities II and III are from 

the notice of final priorities published 

elsewhere in this issue of the Federal 

Register. 

Absolute Priority: For FY 2011, this 

priority is an absolute priority. Under 34 

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

applications that meet this priority. 

This priority is: 

Specific geographic regions of the 

world: A group project funded under 

this priority must focus on one or more 

of the following geographic regions of 

the world: Africa, East Asia, South Asia, 

Southeast Asia and the Pacific, the 

Western Hemisphere (Central and South 

America, Mexico, and the Caribbean), 

East Central Europe and Eurasia, and 

the Near East. 

Competitive Preference Priorities: 

Within this absolute priority, we are 

establishing the following competitive 

preference priorities. 

Competitive Preference Priority I: For 

FY 2011, this priority is a competitive 

preference priority. Under 34 CFR 

75.105(c)(2)(i) and 664.31(g), we award 

up to an additional five (5) points to an 

application that meets this priority. 

This priority is: 

Projects that provide substantive 

training and thematic focus on any of 

the seventy-eight (78) priority languages 

selected from the U.S. Department of 

Education’s list of Less Commonly 

Taught Languages (LCTLs) found below. 

This list includes the following: Akan 

(Twi-Fante), Albanian, Amharic, Arabic 

(all dialects), Armenian, Azeri 

(Azerbaijani), Balochi, Bamanakan 

(Bamana, Bambara, Mandikan, 

Mandingo, Maninka, Dyula), Belarusian, 

Bengali (Bangla), Berber (all languages), 

Bosnian, Bulgarian, Burmese, Cebuano 

(Visayan), Chechen, Chinese 

(Cantonese), Chinese (Gan), Chinese 

(Mandarin), Chinese (Min), Chinese 

(Wu), Croatian, Dari, Dinka, Georgian, 

Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew (Modern), 

Hindi, Igbo, Indonesian, Japanese, 

Javanese, Kannada, Kashmiri, Kazakh, 

Khmer (Cambodian), Kirghiz, Korean, 

Kurdish (Kurmanji), Kurdish (Sorani), 

Lao, Malay (Bahasa Melayu or 

Malaysian), Malayalam, Marathi, 

Mongolian, Nepali, Oromo, Panjabi, 

Pashto, Persian (Farsi), Polish, 

Portuguese (all varieties), Quechua, 

Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Sinhala 

(Sinhalese), Somali, Swahili, Tagalog, 

Tajik, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Tibetan, 

Tigrigna, Turkish, Turkmen, Ukrainian, 

Urdu, Uyghur/Uigur, Uzbek, 

Vietnamese, Wolof, Xhosa, Yoruba, and 

Zulu. 

Competitive Preference Priority II: For 

FY 2011, this priority is a competitive 

preference priority. Under 34 CFR 

75.105(c)(2)(i) and 664.31(g), we award 

up to an additional five (5) points to a 

short-term project abroad application 

that meets this priority. 

This priority is: 

Applications that propose short-term 

projects abroad that develop and 

improve foreign language studies, area 

studies, or both at elementary and 

secondary schools by including K–12 

teachers or K–12 administrators as at 

least 50 percent of the project 

participants. 

Competitive Preference Priority III: 

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competitive preference priority. Under 

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

an additional five (5) points to a shortterm project abroad application that 

meets this priority. 

This priority is: 

Applications that, through 

collaborative efforts between one or 

more colleges or departments of 

education and one or more colleges or 

departments of arts and sciences within 

a single institution of higher education 

or within a consortium of higher 

education institutions, propose shortterm projects that provide pre-service 

teachers with training or courses in 

foreign languages and international area 

studies as part of the teacher education 

curriculum. 

Invitational Priority: For FY 2011 this 

priority is an invitational priority. 

Under 34 CFR 75.105(c)(1) we do not 

give an application that meets this 

invitational priority a competitive or 

absolute preference over other 

applications. 

This priority is: 

Applications that propose projects 

with K–12 teachers or administrators 

among the project participants and that 

recruit those teachers and 

administrators from high-need local 

educational agencies (LEAs). For 

purposes of this priority, the term highneed LEA means an LEA (a) that serves 

not fewer than 10,000 children from 

families with incomes below the 

poverty line; or (b) for which not less 

than 20 percent of the children served 

by the LEA are from families with 

incomes below the poverty line. 

Program Authority: 22 U.S.C. 

2452(b)(6). 

Applicable Regulations: (a) The 

Education Department General 

Administrative Regulations (EDGAR) in 

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

84, 85, 86, 97, 98, and 99. (b) The 

regulations for this program in 34 CFR 

part 664. (c) The notice of final 

priorities for this program published 

elsewhere in this issue of the Federal 

Register. 

Note: The regulations in 34 CFR part 86 

apply to institutions of higher education 

(IHEs) only. 

II. Award Information 

Type of Award: Discretionary grants. 

Estimated Available Funds: The 

Administration has requested 

$15,576,000 for the Fulbright-Hays 

Programs (also referred to as the 

International Overseas Programs) for FY 

2011, of which we intend to allocate 

$2,026,480 for new short-term projects 

under the Fulbright-Hays Group Projects 

Abroad Program. 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. 

Note: As part of its FY 2011 budget request, 

the Administration proposed to continue to 

allow funds under this program to be used 

to support the participation of individuals 

who plan to apply their language skills and 

knowledge of countries vital to the United 

States’ national security in fields outside 

teaching, including government, the 

professions, or international development. 

Therefore, institutions of higher education 

may propose projects for visits and study in 

foreign countries by individuals in these 

fields, in addition to those planning a 

teaching career. However, whether authority 

exists to use funds for participants outside of 

the field of teaching depends on final 

Congressional action. Applicants will be 

given an opportunity to amend their 

applications if Congress does not provide this 

authority. 

Estimated Range of Awards: $30,000– 

$125,000. 

Estimated Average Size of Awards: 

$84,437. 

Maximum Award: We will reject any 

short-term GPA application that 

proposes a budget exceeding $125,000 

for a single budget period of 18 months. 

The Assistant Secretary for 

Postsecondary Education may change 

the maximum award through a notice 

published in the Federal Register. 

Estimated Number of Awards: 24. 

Note: The Department is not bound by any 

estimates in this notice. 

Project Period: Up to 18 months. 

III. Eligibility Information 

1. Eligible Applicants: (1) Institutions 

of higher education, (2) State 

departments of education, (3) Private 

nonprofit educational organizations, 

and (4) Consortia of these entities. 

Institutions that have never received an 

award under this program are 

encouraged to apply. 

2. Cost Sharing or Matching: This 

program does not require cost sharing or 

matching. 

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://egrants.ed.gov. 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 from ED 

Pubs, be sure to identify this program or 

competition as follows: CFDA number 

84.021A. 

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 in this section. 

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 

program. 

Page Limit: The application narrative 

(Part III of the application) is the section 

in which the applicant addresses the 

selection criteria that reviewers use to 

evaluate the application. The 

application narrative must be limited to 

no more than 40 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, except titles, 

headings, footnotes, quotations, 

references, and captions. Charts, tables, 

figures, and graphs in the application 

narrative may be single spaced and will 

count toward the page limit. 

• Use a font that is either 12 point or 

larger; or, no smaller than 10 pitch 

(characters per inch). However, you may 

use a 10 point font in charts, tables, 

figures, and graphs. 

• Use one of the following fonts: 

Times New Roman, Courier, Courier 

New, or Arial. An application submitted 

in any other font (including Times 

Roman and Arial Narrow) will not be 

accepted. 

• The page limit does not apply to 

Part I, the Application for Federal 

Assistance face sheet (SF 424); the 

supplemental information form required 

by the Department of Education; Part II, 

the budget summary form (ED Form 

524); Part IV, assurances, certifications, 

and the response to Section 427 of the 

General Education Provisions Act 

(GEPA); the table of contents; the onepage project abstract; the appendices; or 

the line item budget. If you include any 

attachments or appendices not 

specifically requested, these items will 

be counted as part of the program 

narrative [Part III] for purposes of the 

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We will reject your application if you 

exceed the page limit. 

3. Submission Dates and Times: 

Applications Available: September 

24, 2010. 

Deadline for Transmittal of 

Applications: October 26, 2010. 

Applications for grants under this 

program must be submitted 

electronically using the Electronic Grant 

Application site (e-Application) 

accessible through the Department’s eGrants system. 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: December 27, 2010. 

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 

program. 

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 two to five 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 

program 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 GPA 

Program, CFDA number 84.021A, must 

be submitted electronically by using eApplication, accessible through the 

Department’s e-Grants portal page 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 program 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). 

• We may request that you provide us 

original signatures on 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 

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(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: Michelle Guilfoil, 

Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad 

Program, U.S. Department of Education, 

1990 K Street, NW., Room 6098, 

Washington, DC 20006–8521. FAX: 

(202) 502–7860. 

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 84.021A) 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 84.021A) 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 

1. General: For FY 2011, short-term 

project applications will be reviewed by 

separate panels according to world area. 

Each panel reviews, scores, and ranks 

its applications separately from the 

applications assigned to the other world 

area panels. However, all applications 

will be ranked together from the highest 

to the lowest score for funding 

purposes. 

2. Selection Criteria: The selection 

criteria for this program are from 34 CFR 

664.31 and are as follows: (a) Plan of 

operation (20 points); (b) Quality of key 

personnel (10 points); (c) Budget and 

cost effectiveness (10 points); (d) 

Evaluation plan (20 points); (e) 

Adequacy of resources (5 points); (f) 

Potential impact of the project on the 

development of the study of modern 

foreign languages and area studies in 

American education (15 points); (g) The 

project’s relevance to the applicant’s 

educational goals and its relationship to 

its program development in modern 

foreign languages and area studies (5 

points); and (h) The extent to which 

direct experience abroad is necessary to 

achieve the project’s objectives and the 

effectiveness with which relevant host 

country resources will be utilized (10 

points). 

Additional information about these 

criteria is in the application package for 

this competition. 

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 in this notice. 

We reference the regulations outlining 

the terms and conditions of an award in 

the Applicable Regulations section in 

this notice and include these and other 


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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. 

Grantees are required to use the 

electronic data instrument International 

Resource Information System (IRIS) to 

complete the final report. 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: Under the 

Government Performance and Results 

Act of 1993, the following measure will 

be used by the Department to evaluate 

the success of the program: Percentage 

of all Fulbright-Hays Group Projects 

Abroad Program projects judged to be 

successful by the program officer, based 

on a review of information provided in 

annual performance reports. 

The information provided by grantees 

in their performance reports submitted 

via IRIS will be the source of data for 

this measure. Reporting screens for 

institutions can be viewed at: http:// 

iris.ed.gov/iris/pdfs/gpa_director.pdf 

and http://iris.ed.gov/iris/pdfs/ 

gpa_participant.pdf. 

VII. Agency Contact 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Michelle Guilfoil, Fulbright-Hays Group 

Projects Abroad Program, U.S. 

Department of Education, 1990 K Street, 

NW., Room 6098, Washington, DC 

20006–8521. Telephone: (202) 502–7625 

or by e-mail: michelle.guilfoil@ed.gov. 

The agency contact person does not 

mail application materials and does not 

accept applications. 

If you use a TDD, call the FRS, tollfree, 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) 

on request to the program contact 

person listed under FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT in section VII of 

this notice. 

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. 

Delegation of Authority: The Assistant 

Secretary of Postsecondary Education 

has delegated authority to Daniel T. 

Madzelan, Director, Forecasting and 

Policy Analysis for the Office of 

Postsecondary Education to perform the 

functions of the Assistant Secretary for 

Postsecondary Education. 

Dated: September 21, 2010. 

Daniel T. Madzelan, 

Director, Forecasting and Policy Analysis. 

[FR Doc. 2010–23999 Filed 9–23–10; 8:45 am] 

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