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1This program was formerly called ‘‘Technology 

and Media Services for Individuals with 

Disabilities.’’ The Department has changed the 

name to Educational Technology, Media, and 

Materials for Individuals with Disabilities Program 

and updated the purposes of the program to more 

clearly convey that the program includes accessible 

educational materials. The program’s activities and 

statutory authorization (20 U.S.C. 1474) remain 

unchanged. 

impacted by these changes. It will 

continue to operate from 6 a.m. to 9:30 

p.m. daily. A Notice to Navigation will 

also be issued on this subject. For more 

information on navigation notices 

concerning Canaveral Lock or the 

Okeechobee Waterway, please visit the 

following Web site: 

www.saj.usace.army.mil 

Jerry T. Murphy, 

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[FR Doc. 2015–00399 Filed 1–13–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3710–58–P 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

Applications for New Awards; 

Educational Technology, Media, and 

Materials for Individuals With 

Disabilities—Television Access 

AGENCY: Office of Special Education and 

Rehabilitative Services, Department of 

Education. 

ACTION: Notice. 

Overview Information 

Educational Technology, Media, and 

Materials for Individuals with 

Disabilities—Television Access Notice 

inviting applications for new awards for 

fiscal year (FY) 2015. 

Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance 

(CFDA) Number: 84.327C. 

DATES: Applications Available: January 

14, 2015. 

Deadline for Transmittal of 

Applications: March 16, 2015. 

Deadline for Intergovernmental 

Review: May 14, 2015. 

Full Text of Announcement 

I. Funding Opportunity Description 

Purpose of Program: The purposes of 

the Educational Technology, Media, and 

Materials for Individuals with 

Disabilities Program 1 are to improve 

results for children with disabilities by: 

(1) Promoting the development, 

demonstration, and use of technology; 

(2) supporting educational media 

activities designed to be of educational 

value in the classroom for students with 

disabilities; (3) providing support for 

captioning and video description that is 

appropriate for use in the classroom; 

and (4) providing accessible educational 

materials to students with disabilities in 

a timely manner. 

Priority: In accordance with 34 CFR 

75.105(b)(2)(v), this priority is from 

allowable activities specified in the 

statute (see sections 674(c) and 681(d) of 

the Individuals with Disabilities 

Education Act (IDEA) (20 U.S.C. 1474(c) 

and 1481(d))). 

Absolute Priority: For FY 2015 and 

any subsequent year for which we make 

awards from the list of unfunded 

applicants from this competition, this 

priority is an absolute priority. Under 34 

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

applications that meet this priority. 

This priority is: 

Educational Technology, Media, and 

Materials for Individuals With 

Disabilities—Television Access 

Background 

The Federal Communications 

Commission (FCC) is responsible for 

implementing and monitoring 

compliance with the captioning 

requirements of the 

Telecommunications Act of 1996 (Act). 

Consistent with the Act, the FCC 

requires most television programs to be 

captioned, but provides for certain 

exemptions to this requirement. The 

FCC also has limited requirements for 

video description. The FCC’s video 

description requirements provide some 

access to television programs for 

individuals with blindness or low 

vision, but are not as widely applicable 

as the closed captioning requirements. 

Therefore, only a small number of 

television programs are actually 

broadcast with video description. The 

following Web sites provide more 

information on captioning and video 

description: www.fcc.gov/cgb/

consumerfacts/closedcaption.html and 

www.fcc.gov/encyclopedia/videodescription. 

Pursuant to the authority in IDEA 

Section 1464(c), the Department has 

made awards for television access since 

1995 in order to provide video 

description and captioning under the 

Educational Technology, Media, and 

Materials for Individuals with 

Disabilities program. The following Web 

site contains abstracts of previously 

funded projects: http://

publicddb.tadnet.org/. (Use the keyword 

search function with the term ‘‘video 

description.’’) Despite the efforts of the 

Department, not all television programs 

that are appropriate for use in the 

classroom setting for children with 

disabilities are being video described or 

captioned. 

Priority 

The purpose of this absolute priority 

for Television Access is to fund 

cooperative agreements that will 

improve the learning opportunities for 

children with disabilities by providing 

access to television programming 

through high-quality video description 

and captioning. This project will 

support access—through high-quality 

video description and captioning—to 

widely available television programs 

that are appropriate for use in the 

classroom setting and are not otherwise 

required to be captioned or described by 

the FCC. 

Application Requirements 

In addition to these programmatic 

requirements, to be considered for 

funding under this priority, applicants 

must meet the application and 

administrative requirements in this 

priority. The Department’s Office of 

Special Education Programs (OSEP) 

encourages innovative approaches to 

meet these requirements: 

(a) Demonstrate, in the narrative 

section of the application under 

‘‘Significance of the Project,’’ how the 

proposed project will address the need 

for access to educational television 

programming to support equitable 

opportunities in early learning 

programs, schools, and workplaces. To 

meet this requirement, the applicant 

must— 

(1) Present applicable national, State, 

regional, or local data demonstrating the 

need for accessible educational 

television programs in schools and 

workplaces for children with 

disabilities, including children with 

disabilities who may be underserved; 

and 

(2) Demonstrate knowledge of the 

benefits, services, or opportunities that 

are available through the use of 

educational television programming in 

schools and workplaces that are fully 

accessible to children with disabilities, 

including children with disabilities who 

may be underserved. 

(b) Demonstrate, in the narrative 

section of the application under 

‘‘Quality of Project Services,’’ how the 

project will— 

(1) Take into account the preferences 

of educators, students with disabilities, 

and the parents of these students in 

selecting the programming to be video 

described, or video described and 

captioned; 

(2) Use criteria to select television 

programs of high educational value that 

are widely available and are appropriate 

for use in the classroom setting for 

children with disabilities at the 

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preschool, elementary, or secondary 

level; 

(3) Determine the extent to which the 

programming selected for video 

description or video description and 

captioning is widely available; 

(4) Ensure equal access and treatment 

for members of groups that have 

traditionally been underrepresented 

based on race, color, national origin, 

linguistic diversity, gender, age, or 

disability; 

(5) Achieve its goals, objectives, and 

intended outcomes. To meet this 

requirement, the applicant must 

provide— 

(i) Measurable intended project 

outcomes; and 

(ii) The logic model on how the 

proposed project will achieve its 

intended outcomes; 

(6) Use a conceptual framework to 

develop project plans and activities 

describing any underlying concepts, 

assumptions, expectations, beliefs, or 

theories, as well as the presumed 

relationships or linkages among these 

variables, and any empirical support for 

this framework; and 

(7) Be based on current research and 

make use of evidence-based practices. 

To meet this requirement, the applicant 

must describe— 

(i) The current research and evidencebased practices related to the benefits, 

services, or opportunities that are 

available through the use of educational 

television programming in schools and 

workplaces; and 

(ii) The process the proposed project 

will use to incorporate current research 

and evidence-based practices to guide 

the development and delivery of its 

products and services. 

(c) Demonstrate, in the narrative 

section of the application under 

‘‘Adequacy of Project Resources,’’ 

how— 

(1) The proposed key personnel, 

consultants, and contractors have the 

qualifications, experience, and 

commitment to carry out the proposed 

activities and achieve the project’s 

intended outcomes; 

(2) The proposed project will 

encourage applications for employment 

from persons who are members of 

groups that have traditionally been 

underrepresented based on race, color, 

national origin, linguistic diversity, 

gender, age, or disability, as appropriate; 

(3) The applicant and key partners 

have adequate resources to carry out 

proposed project activities. To address 

this requirement, the applicant must 

describe— 

(i) The willingness of the potential 

television program providers or program 

owners, as appropriate, to permit and 

facilitate the video description or the 

video description and captioning of 

their programs; 

(ii) Requirements and assurances that 

the programming that is made accessible 

under this project will continue to 

contain those video descriptions and 

captions after the programming is aired; 

and 

(iii) How programming video 

described or captioned under this 

project would not otherwise be video 

described or captioned to meet the 

FCC’s requirements, or how this 

programming is specifically exempt 

from the FCC’s requirements; 

(4) The proposed costs are reasonable 

in relation to the anticipated results and 

benefits. To address this requirement, 

the applicant must describe— 

(i) The total number of program hours 

proposed to be made accessible through 

video description, or video description 

and captioning, under this project; 

(ii) The cost per hour for video 

description and, if the applicant is 

proposing both video description and 

captioning, the cost per hour for video 

description and for captioning; 

(iii) A plan, if any, to increase the 

anticipated shelf-life and distribution of 

educational programming described, or 

captioned and described, under this 

project; and 

(iv) How the project will use emerging 

technology to lower the cost of video 

description. 

(d) Demonstrate, in the narrative 

section of the application under 

‘‘Quality of the Management Plan,’’ 

how— 

(1) The proposed management plan 

will ensure that the project’s intended 

outcomes will be achieved on time and 

within budget. To address this 

requirement, the applicant must 

describe— 

(i) Clearly defined responsibilities for 

key project personnel, consultants, and 

subcontractors, as applicable; and 

(ii) Timelines and milestones for 

accomplishing the project tasks; 

(2) Key personnel, consultants, and 

contractors will be sufficiently allocated 

to the project and how these allocations 

are appropriate and adequate to achieve 

the project’s intended outcomes; 

(3) The proposed management plan 

will ensure that the products and 

services provided are of high quality; 

and 

(4) The proposed project will benefit 

from a diversity of perspectives, 

including, but not limited to, students 

and families, early intervention service 

providers, educators, researchers, and 

other OSEP-funded projects. 

(e) In the narrative section of the 

application under ‘‘Quality of the 

Evaluation Plan,’’ include an evaluation 

plan, as described in the following 

paragraphs. The evaluation plan must 

describe: measures of progress in 

implementation, including the extent to 

which the project’s products and 

services have reached its target 

population; and measures of intended 

outcomes or results of the project’s 

activities in order to assess the 

effectiveness of those activities. 

In designing the evaluation plan, the 

project must— 

(1) Revise, as needed, the logic model 

submitted in the grant application to 

provide for a more comprehensive 

measurement of implementation and 

outcomes and to reflect any changes or 

clarifications to the model discussed at 

the kick-off meeting; 

(2) Revise, as needed, the evaluation 

plan submitted in the grant application 

so that it clearly— 

(i) Specifies the measures and 

associated instruments or sources for 

data appropriate to the evaluation 

questions, suggests analytic strategies 

for those data, provides a timeline for 

conducting the evaluation, and includes 

staff assignments for completion of the 

plan; and 

(ii) Can be used to assist the project 

director and the OSEP project officer to 

specify the performance measures to be 

addressed in the project’s annual 

performance report; and 

(3) Dedicate sufficient funds in each 

budget year to cover the costs of 

carrying out the tasks described in 

paragraphs (e)(1) and (e)(2) of this 

priority and implementing the 

evaluation plan. 

(f) In the narrative under ‘‘Required 

Project Assurances’’ or appendices as 

directed, the applicant must— 

(1) Include, in Appendix A, a logic 

model that depicts, at a minimum, the 

goals, activities, outputs, and intended 

outcomes of the proposed project. A 

logic model communicates how a 

project will achieve its intended 

outcomes and provides a framework for 

both the formative and summative 

evaluations of the project. 

Note: The following Web sites provide 

more information on logic models: 

www.researchutilization.org/matrix/

logicmodel_resource3c.html and 

www.tadnet.org/pages/589; 

(2) Include, in Appendix A, a 

conceptual framework for the project; 

(3) Include, in Appendix A, personloading charts and timelines to illustrate 

the management plan described in the 

narrative; 

(4) Include in the budget costs 

associated with attendance at the 

following: 

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(i) A one and one-half day kick-off 

meeting to be held in Washington, DC, 

after receipt of the award, and an annual 

planning meeting held in Washington, 

DC, with the OSEP project officer and 

other relevant staff during each 

subsequent year of the project period. 

Note: Within 30 days of receipt of the 

award, a post-award teleconference must be 

held between the OSEP project officer and 

the grantee’s project director or other 

authorized representative; 

(ii) A three-day project directors’ 

conference in Washington, DC, during 

each year of the project period; and 

(iii) One trip annually to attend 

Department briefings, Departmentsponsored conferences, and other 

meetings, as requested by OSEP; and 

(5) Ensure that the project maintains 

a Web site that meets government or 

industry-recognized standards for 

accessibility. 

Waiver of Proposed Rulemaking: 

Under the Administrative Procedure Act 

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

generally offers interested parties the 

opportunity to comment on proposed 

priorities and requirements. Section 

681(d) of IDEA, however, makes the 

public comment requirements of the 

APA inapplicable to the priority in this 

notice. 

Program Authority: 20 U.S.C. 1474 and 

1481. 

Applicable Regulations: This 

application notice (also referred to as a 

notice inviting applications (NIA)) is 

being published before the Department 

adopts the Uniform Administrative 

Requirements, Cost Principles, and 

Audit Requirements in 2 CFR part 200. 

We expect to publish interim final 

regulations that would adopt those 

requirements before December 26, 2014, 

and make those regulations effective on 

that date. Because grants awarded under 

this NIA will likely be made after the 

Department adopts the requirements in 

2 CFR part 200, we list as applicable 

regulations both those that are currently 

effective and those that will be effective 

at the time the Department makes 

grants. 

The current regulations follow: (a) 

The Education Department General 

Administrative Regulations (EDGAR) in 

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

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

Guidelines to Agencies on 

Governmentwide Debarment and 

Suspension (Nonprocurement) in 2 CFR 

part 180, as adopted and amended as 

regulations of the Department in 2 CFR 

part 3485. 

At the time we award grants under 

this NIA, the following regulations will 

apply: (a) EDGAR in 34 CFR parts 75, 

77, 79, 81, 82, 84, 86, 97, 98, and 99. (b) 

The OMB Guidelines to Agencies on 

Governmentwide Debarment and 

Suspension (Nonprocurement) in 2 CFR 

part 180, as adopted and amended as 

regulations of the Department in 2 CFR 

part 3485, and the Uniform 

Administrative Requirements, Cost 

Principles, and Audit Requirements for 

Federal Awards in 2 CFR part 200, as 

adopted and amended in 2 CFR part 

3474. 

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 

(IHEs) only. 

II. Award Information 

Type of Award: Cooperative 

agreements. 

Estimated Available Funds: The 

Administration has requested 

$28,047,000 for the Educational 

Technology, Media, and Materials for 

Individuals with Disabilities program 

for FY 2015, of which we intend to use 

an estimated $2,000,000 for this 

competition. The actual level of 

funding, if any, depends on final 

congressional action. However, we are 

inviting applications to allow enough 

time to complete the grant process if 

Congress appropriates funds for this 

program. 

Contingent on the availability of 

funds and the quality of applications, 

we may make additional awards in FY 

2016 from the list of unfunded 

applicants from this competition. 

Estimated Range of Awards: 

$300,000–$400,000. 

Estimated Average Size of Awards: 

$400,000. 

Maximum Award: We will reject any 

application that proposes a budget 

exceeding $400,000 for a single budget 

period of 12 months. The Assistant 

Secretary for Special Education and 

Rehabilitative Services 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: State 

educational agencies (SEAs); local 

educational agencies (LEAs), including 

public charter schools that are 

considered LEAs under State law; IHEs; 

other public agencies; private nonprofit 

organizations; freely associated States 

and outlying areas; Indian tribes or 

tribal organizations; and for-profit 

organizations. 

2. Cost Sharing or Matching: This 

program does not require cost sharing or 

matching. 

3. Other General Requirements: 

(a) Recipients of funding under this 

competition must make positive efforts 

to employ and advance in employment 

qualified individuals with disabilities 

(see section 606 of IDEA). 

(b) Each applicant for, and recipient 

of, funding under this program must 

involve individuals with disabilities, or 

parents of individuals with disabilities 

ages birth through 26, in planning, 

implementing, and evaluating the 

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

IDEA). 

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: 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) or a text telephone (TTY), call, 

toll free: 1–877–576–7734. 

You can contact ED Pubs at its Web 

site, also: www.EDPubs.gov or at its 

email address: edpubs@inet.ed.gov. 

If you request an application from ED 

Pubs, be sure to identify this 

competition as follows: CFDA number 

84.327C. 

Individuals with disabilities can 

obtain a copy of the application package 

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

large print, audiotape, or compact disc) 

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 Part III 

to no more than 50 pages, using the 

following standards: 

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

only, with 1’’ margins at the top, 

bottom, and both sides. 

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• Double-space (no more than three 

lines per vertical inch) all text in the 

application narrative, including titles, 

headings, footnotes, quotations, 

reference citations, and captions, as well 

as all text in charts, tables, figures, 

graphs, and screen shots. 

• Use a font that is 12 point or larger. 

• Use one of the following fonts: 

Times New Roman, Courier, Courier 

New, or Arial. An application submitted 

in any other font (including Times 

Roman or Arial Narrow) will not be 

accepted. 

The page limit and double-spacing 

requirements do 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 abstract (follow the 

guidance provided in the application 

package for completing the abstract), the 

table of contents, the list of priority 

requirements, the resumes, the reference 

list, the letters of support, or the 

appendices. However, the page limit 

and double-spacing requirement does 

apply to all of Part III, the application 

narrative, including all text in charts, 

tables, figures, graphs, and screen shots. 

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: January 14, 

2015. 

Deadline for Transmittal of 

Applications: March 16, 2015. 

Applications for grants under this 

competition must be submitted 

electronically using the Grants.gov 

Apply site (Grants.gov). 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: May 14, 2015. 

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 

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 System for Award 

Management: To do business with the 

Department of Education, you must— 

a. Have a Data Universal Numbering 

System (DUNS) number and a Taxpayer 

Identification Number (TIN); 

b. Register both your DUNS number 

and TIN with the System for Award 

Management (SAM) (formerly the 

Central Contractor Registry (CCR)), the 

Government’s primary registrant 

database; 

c. Provide your DUNS number and 

TIN on your application; and 

d. Maintain an active SAM 

registration with current information 

while your application is under review 

by the Department and, if you are 

awarded a grant, during the project 

period. 

You can obtain a DUNS number from 

Dun and Bradstreet. A DUNS number 

can be created within one-to-two 

business days. 

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 SAM registration process can take 

approximately seven business days, but 

may take upwards of several weeks, 

depending on the completeness and 

accuracy of the data entered into the 

SAM database by an entity. Thus, if you 

think you might want to apply for 

Federal financial assistance under a 

program administered by the 

Department, please allow sufficient time 

to obtain and register your DUNS 

number and TIN. We strongly 

recommend that you register early. 

Note: Once your SAM registration is active, 

you will need to allow 24 to 48 hours for the 

information to be available in Grants.gov and 

before you can submit an application through 

Grants.gov. 

If you are currently registered with 

SAM, 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 registration 

annually. This may take three or more 

business days. 

Information about SAM is available at 

www.SAM.gov. To further assist you 

with obtaining and registering your 

DUNS number and TIN in SAM or 

updating your existing SAM account, 

we have prepared a SAM.gov Tip Sheet, 

which you can find at: http://

www2.ed.gov/fund/grant/apply/samfaqs.html. 

In addition, if you are submitting your 

application via Grants.gov, you must (1) 

be designated by your organization as an 

Authorized Organization Representative 

(AOR); and (2) register yourself with 

Grants.gov as an AOR. Details on these 

steps are outlined at the following 

Grants.gov Web page: www.grants.gov/

web/grants/register.html. 

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 

Television Access competition, CFDA 

number 84.327C, must be submitted 

electronically using the 

Governmentwide Grants.gov Apply site 

at www.Grants.gov. Through this site, 

you will be able to download a copy of 

the application package, complete it 

offline, and then upload and submit 

your application. You may not email an 

electronic copy of a grant application to 

us. 

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. 

You may access the electronic grant 

application for the Television Access 

competition at www.Grants.gov. You 

must search for the downloadable 

application package for this competition 

by the CFDA number. Do not include 

the CFDA number’s alpha suffix in your 

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search (e.g., search for 84.327, not 

84.327C). 

Please note the following: 

• When you enter the Grants.gov site, 

you will find information about 

submitting an application electronically 

through the site, as well as the hours of 

operation. 

• Applications received by Grants.gov 

are date and time stamped. Your 

application must be fully uploaded and 

submitted and must be date and time 

stamped by the Grants.gov system no 

later than 4:30:00 p.m., Washington, DC 

time, on the application deadline date. 

Except as otherwise noted in this 

section, we will not accept your 

application if it is received—that is, date 

and time stamped by the Grants.gov 

system—after 4:30:00 p.m., Washington, 

DC time, on the application deadline 

date. We do not consider an application 

that does not comply with the deadline 

requirements. When we retrieve your 

application from Grants.gov, we will 

notify you if we are rejecting your 

application because it was date and time 

stamped by the Grants.gov system after 

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

the application deadline date. 

• The amount of time it can take to 

upload an application will vary 

depending on a variety of factors, 

including the size of the application and 

the speed of your Internet connection. 

Therefore, we strongly recommend that 

you do not wait until the application 

deadline date to begin the submission 

process through Grants.gov. 

• You should review and follow the 

Education Submission Procedures for 

submitting an application through 

Grants.gov that are included in the 

application package for this competition 

to ensure that you submit your 

application in a timely manner to the 

Grants.gov system. You can also find the 

Education Submission Procedures 

pertaining to Grants.gov under News 

and Events on the Department’s G5 

system home page at www.G5.gov. 

• 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 upload any narrative 

sections and all other attachments to 

your application as files in a PDF 

(Portable Document) read-only, nonmodifiable format. Do not upload an 

interactive or fillable PDF file. If you 

upload a file type other than a readonly, non-modifiable PDF or submit a 

password-protected file, we will not 

review that material. Additional, 

detailed information on how to attach 

files is in the application instructions. 

• Your electronic application must 

comply with any page-limit 

requirements described in this notice. 

• After you electronically submit 

your application, you will receive from 

Grants.gov an automatic notification of 

receipt that contains a Grants.gov 

tracking number. (This notification 

indicates receipt by Grants.gov only, not 

receipt by the Department.) The 

Department then will retrieve your 

application from Grants.gov and send a 

second notification to you by email. 

This second notification indicates that 

the Department has received your 

application and has assigned your 

application a PR/Award number (an EDspecified 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 Technical Issues 

with the Grants.gov System: If you are 

experiencing problems submitting your 

application through Grants.gov, please 

contact the Grants.gov Support Desk, 

toll free, at 1–800–518–4726. You must 

obtain a Grants.gov Support Desk Case 

Number and must keep a record of it. 

If you are prevented from 

electronically submitting your 

application on the application deadline 

date because of technical problems with 

the Grants.gov system, we will grant you 

an extension until 4:30:00 p.m., 

Washington, DC time, the following 

business day to enable you to transmit 

your application electronically or by 

hand delivery. You also may mail your 

application by following the mailing 

instructions described elsewhere in this 

notice. 

If you submit an application after 

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

the application deadline date, please 

contact the person listed under FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT in 

section VII of this notice and provide an 

explanation of the technical problem 

you experienced with Grants.gov, along 

with the Grants.gov Support Desk Case 

Number. We will accept your 

application if we can confirm that a 

technical problem occurred with the 

Grants.gov system and that that problem 

affected your ability to submit your 

application by 4:30:00 p.m., 

Washington, DC time, on the 

application deadline date. The 

Department will contact you after a 

determination is made on whether your 

application will be accepted. 

Note: The extensions to which we refer in 

this section apply only to the unavailability 

of, or technical problems with, the Grants.gov 

system. We will not grant you an extension 

if you failed to fully register to submit your 

application to Grants.gov before the 

application deadline date and time or if the 

technical problem you experienced is 

unrelated to the Grants.gov system. 

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 

the Grants.gov system because— 

• You do not have access to the 

Internet; or 

• You do not have the capacity to 

upload large documents to the 

Grants.gov system; 

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: Jo Ann McCann, U.S. 

Department of Education, 400 Maryland 

Avenue SW., Room 4076, Potomac 

Center Plaza (PCP), Washington, DC 

20202–2600. FAX: (202) 245–7617. 

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 

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Department at the following address: 

U.S. Department of Education, 

Application Control Center, Attention: 

(CFDA Number 84.327C), 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 84.327C), 550 12th 

Street SW., Room 7039, 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 

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. Selection Criteria: The selection 

criteria for this competition are from 34 

CFR 75.210 and are listed in the 

application package. 

2. Review and Selection Process: We 

remind potential applicants that in 

reviewing applications in any 

discretionary grant competition, the 

Secretary may consider, under 34 CFR 

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

applicant in carrying out a previous 

award, such as the applicant’s use of 

funds, achievement of project 

objectives, and compliance with grant 

conditions. The Secretary may also 

consider whether the applicant failed to 

submit a timely performance report or 

submitted a report of unacceptable 

quality. 

In addition, in making a competitive 

grant award, the Secretary also requires 

various assurances including those 

applicable to Federal civil rights laws 

that prohibit discrimination in programs 

or activities receiving Federal financial 

assistance from the Department of 

Education (34 CFR 100.4, 104.5, 106.4, 

108.8, and 110.23). 

3. Additional Review and Selection 

Process Factors: In the past, the 

Department has had difficulty finding 

peer reviewers for certain competitions 

because so many individuals who are 

eligible to serve as peer reviewers have 

conflicts of interest. The standing panel 

requirements under section 682(b) of 

IDEA also have placed additional 

constraints on the availability of 

reviewers. Therefore, the Department 

has determined that, for some 

discretionary grant competitions, 

applications may be separated into two 

or more groups and ranked and selected 

for funding within specific groups. This 

procedure will make it easier for the 

Department to find peer reviewers by 

ensuring that greater numbers of 

individuals who are eligible to serve as 

reviewers for any particular group of 

applicants will not have conflicts of 

interest. It also will increase the quality, 

independence, and fairness of the 

review process, while permitting panel 

members to review applications under 

discretionary grant competitions for 

which they also have submitted 

applications. However, if the 

Department decides to select an equal 

number of applications in each group 

for funding, this may result in different 

cut-off points for fundable applications 

in each group. 

4. Special Conditions: Under current 

34 CFR 74.14 and 80.12 and, when 

grants are made under this NIA, 2 CFR 

3474.10, the Secretary may impose 

special conditions and, in appropriate 

circumstances, high-risk conditions on a 

grant if the applicant or grantee is not 

financially stable; has a history of 

unsatisfactory performance; has a 

financial or other management system 

that does not meet the standards in 34 

CFR parts 74 or 80, as applicable or, 

when grants are awarded, the standards 

in 2 CFR part 200, subpart D; has not 

fulfilled the conditions of a prior grant; 

or is otherwise not responsible. 

VI. Award Administration Information 

1. Award Notices: If your application 

is successful, we notify your U.S. 

Representative and U.S. Senators and 

send you a Grant Award Notification 

(GAN); or we may send you an email 

containing a link to access an electronic 

version of your GAN. We may notify 

you informally, also. 

If your application is not evaluated or 

not selected for funding, we notify you. 

2. Administrative and National Policy 

Requirements: We identify 

administrative and national policy 

requirements in the application package 

and reference these and other 

requirements in the Applicable 

Regulations section of this notice. 

We reference the regulations outlining 

the terms and conditions of an award in 

the Applicable Regulations section of 

this notice and include these and other 

specific conditions in the GAN. The 

GAN also incorporates your approved 

application as part of your binding 

commitments under the grant. 

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

grant under this competition, you must 

ensure that you have in place the 

necessary processes and systems to 

comply with the reporting requirements 

in 2 CFR part 170 should you receive 

funding under the competition. This 

does not apply if you have an exception 

under 2 CFR 170.110(b). 

(b) At the end of your project period, 

you must submit a final performance 

report, including financial information, 

as directed by the Secretary. If you 

receive a 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 www.ed.gov/

fund/grant/apply/appforms/

appforms.html. 

4. Performance Measures: Under the 

Government Performance and Results 

Act of 1993 (GPRA), the Department has 

established a set of performance 

measures, including long-term 

measures, that are designed to yield 

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information on various aspects of the 

effectiveness and quality of the 

Educational Technology, Media, and 

Materials for Individuals with 

Disabilities program. These measures 

are included in the application package 

and focus on the extent to which 

projects are of high quality, are relevant 

to improving outcomes of children with 

disabilities, contribute to improving 

outcomes for children with disabilities, 

and generate evidence of validity and 

availability to appropriate populations. 

Projects funded under this competition 

are required to submit data on these 

measures as directed by OSEP. 

Grantees will be required to report 

information on their project’s 

performance in annual performance 

reports and additional performance data 

to the Department (34 CFR 75.590 and 

75.591). 

5. Continuation Awards: In making a 

continuation award under 34 CFR 

75.253, the Secretary considers, among 

other things: whether a grantee has 

made substantial progress in achieving 

the goals and objectives of the project; 

whether the grantee has expended funds 

in a manner that is consistent with its 

approved application and budget; and, 

if the Secretary has established 

performance measurement 

requirements, the performance targets in 

the grantee’s approved application. In 

making a continuation grant, the 

Secretary also considers whether the 

grantee is operating in compliance with 

the assurances in its approved 

application, including those applicable 

to Federal civil rights laws that prohibit 

discrimination in programs or activities 

receiving Federal financial assistance 

from the Department (34 CFR 100.4, 

104.5, 106.4, 108.8, and 110.23). 

VII. Agency Contact 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jo 

Ann McCann, U.S. Department of 

Education, 400 Maryland Avenue SW., 

Room 4076, PCP, Washington, DC 

20202–2600. Telephone: (202) 245– 

7434. 

If you use a TDD or a TTY, 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 compact disc) by 

contacting the Grants and Contracts 

Services Team, U.S. Department of 

Education, 400 Maryland Avenue SW., 

Room 5037, PCP, Washington, DC 

20202–2550. Telephone: (202) 245– 

7363. If you use a TDD or a TTY, call 

the FRS, toll free, at 1–800–877–8339. 

Electronic Access to This Document: 

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 via the Federal Digital System 

at: www.gpo.gov/fdsys. At this site you 

can view this document, as well as all 

other documents of this Department 

published in the Federal Register, in 

text or Adobe Portable Document 

Format (PDF). To use PDF you must 

have Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is 

available free at the site. 

You may also access documents of the 

Department published in the Federal 

Register by using the article search 

feature at: www.federalregister.gov. 

Specifically, through the advanced 

search feature at this site, you can limit 

your search to documents published by 

the Department. 

Dated: January 8, 2015. 

Michael K. Yudin, 

Acting Assistant Secretary for Special 

Education and Rehabilitative Services. 

[FR Doc. 2015–00406 Filed 1–13–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Orders Granting Authority To Import 

and Export Natural Gas, To Import and 

Export Liquefied Natural Gas, To 

Vacate Prior Authority and, To 

Approve Change in Control of 

Authority During September 2014 

FE Docket Nos. 

POWER CITY PARTNERS, L.P ....................................................................................................................................................... 14–113–NG 

TWIN EAGLE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT, LLC .......................................................................................................................... 14–102–NG 

CARIB ENERGY (USA) LLC ............................................................................................................................................................ 11–141–LNG 

CAMERON LNG, LLC ...................................................................................................................................................................... 11–162–LNG 

NUTRECO CANADA INC ................................................................................................................................................................. 14–111–NG 

IBERDROLA ENERGY SERVICES, LLC ......................................................................................................................................... 14–104–NG 

HESS ENERGY TRADING COMPANY, LLC .................................................................................................................................. 14–109–NG 

AKITON SA LLC ............................................................................................................................................................................... 14–114–LNG 

ENERGY PLUS GAS LLC ................................................................................................................................................................ 14–116–NG 

COMISION FEDERAL DE ELECTRICIDAD .................................................................................................................................... 14–117–NG 

TRAFIGURA AG ............................................................................................................................................................................... 14–118–NG 

FREEPORT LNG EXPANSION, L.P.; FLNG LIQUEFACTION, LLC; FLNG LIQUEFACTION 2, LLC; FLNG LIQUEFACTION 3, 

LLC.

14–005–CIC 

BTG PACTUAL COMMODITIES (US LLC) ..................................................................................................................................... 14–105–NG 

SEMCO ENERGY, INC. d/b/a SEMCO ENERGY GAS COMPANY ............................................................................................... 14–121–NG 

SEQUENT ENERGY MANAGEMENT, L.P ...................................................................................................................................... 14–122–NG 

MEXICANA DE COBRE, S.A. DE C.V ............................................................................................................................................. 14–124–NG 

REGENT RESOURCES LTD ........................................................................................................................................................... 14–125–NG 

AGENCY: Office of Fossil Energy, 

Department of Energy. 

ACTION: Notice of orders. 

SUMMARY: The Office of Fossil Energy 

(FE) of the Department of Energy gives 

notice that during September 2014, it 

issued orders granting authority to 

import and export natural gas, to import 

and export liquefied natural gas, to 

vacate prior authority, and to approve 

change in control of authority. These 

orders are summarized in the attached 

appendix and may be found on the FE 

Web site at http://

www.fossil.energy.gov/programs/

gasregulation/authorizations/Orders2014.html. 

They are also available for inspection 

and copying in the Office of Fossil 

Energy, Office of Oil and Gas Global 

Security and Supply, Docket Room 3E– 

033, Forrestal Building, 1000 

Independence Avenue SW., 

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