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(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 84.116S), 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 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 

Selection Criteria: The selection 

criteria for evaluating the applications 

for this program are from 34 CFR 75.210 

and are listed in the application 

package. 

VI. Award Administration Information 

1. Award Notices: If your application 

is successful, we notify your U.S. 

Representative and U.S. Senators and 

send you a Grant Award Notification 

(GAN). We may 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: 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: Under the 

Government Performance and Results 

Act (GPRA), the Department will use the 

following measures to assess the 

performance of this program: 

(a) The percentage of FIPSE grantees 

reporting project dissemination to 

others. 

(b) The percentage of FIPSE projects 

reporting institutionalization on their 

home campuses. 

If funded, you will be asked to collect 

and report data on these measures in 

your project’s annual performance 

report (34 CFR 75.590). Applicants are 

also advised to consider these two 

measures in conceptualizing the design, 

implementation, and evaluation of the 

proposed project because of their 

importance in the application review 

process. Collection of data on these 

measures should be part of the project 

evaluation plan, along with any 

measures of progress on goals and 

objectives that are specific to your 

project. 

VII. Agency Contacts 

For Further Information Contact: 

Krish Mathur, FIPSE—Fund for the 

Improvement of Postsecondary 

Education, 1990 K Street, NW., Room 

6155, Washington, DC 20006–8544. 

Telephone: (202) 502–7512 or by e-mail: 

krish.mathur@ed.gov. 

If you use a TDD, call the 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) 

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. If you have questions about 

using PDF, call the U.S. Government 

Printing Office (GPO), toll free, at 1– 

888–293–6498; or in the Washington, 

DC, area at (202) 512–1530. 

Note: The official version of this document 

is the document published in the Federal 

Register. Free Internet access to the official 

edition of the Federal Register and the Code 

of Federal Regulations is available on GPO 

Access at: http://www.gpoaccess.gov/nara/ 

index.html. 

Delegation of Authority: The Secretary 

of 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: May 5, 2009. 

Daniel T. Madzelan, 

Director, Forecasting and Policy Analysis. 

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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

Gaining Early Awareness and 

Readiness for Undergraduate 

Programs (GEAR UP) CFDA No. 

84.334S (State Grants) and 84.334A 

(Partnership Grants) 

AGENCY: Office of Postsecondary 

Education, Department of Education. 


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ACTION: Notice of intent to fund down 

the fiscal year (FY) 2008 grant slate for 

the GEAR UP Program. 

SUMMARY: The Secretary intends to use 

the grant slate developed in FY 2008 for 

the GEAR UP Program authorized by 

Title IV, Part A, of the Higher Education 

Act of 1965, as amended (HEA), to make 

new grant awards in FY 2009. The 

Secretary takes this action because a 

significant number of high-quality 

applications remain on last year’s grant 

slate. We expect to use an estimated 

$9,789,000 for new awards in FY 2009. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

James Davis, U.S. Department of 

Education, 1990 K Street, NW., room 

6109, Washington, DC 20006–8524. 

Telephone: (202) 502–7676 or via 

Internet: James.Davis@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. 

Individuals with disabilities can 

obtain this document in an accessible 

format (e.g., braille, large print, 

audiotape, or computer diskette) on 

request to the contact person listed 

under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

On November 5, 2007, we published 

a notice in the Federal Register (72 FR 

62499) inviting applications for new 

awards under the GEAR UP Program. 

In response to this notice, we received 

a significant number of high-quality 

applications and made seven new State 

grant awards and 31 new Partnership 

grant awards. However, many 

applications that were awarded high 

scores by peer reviewers did not receive 

funding in FY 2008 due to the level of 

appropriations. 

The Department’s FY 2009 

appropriation is sufficient to allow the 

Department to make continuation 

awards to the 38 current grantees, and 

have funds still available for new 

awards under this program for FY 2009. 

Rather than using program funds for a 

new peer review process, the 

Department has decided to use the 

remaining funds after continuation 

awards are made to select grantees in FY 

2009 from the existing slate of 

applicants. This slate was developed 

during the FY 2008 competition using 

the selection criteria referenced in the 

Federal Register notice. 

Note: To be eligible to receive a grant 

pursuant to this notice, all applicants being 

considered for funding based on the funding 

slate for the FY 2008 competition must meet 

all statutory and regulatory eligibility criteria 

and other requirements for this program. 

Program Authority: 20 U.S.C. 1070a– 

21—1070–28. 

Electronic Access to This Document: 

You may view this document, as well 

as all other documents of this 

Department published in the Federal 

Register, in text or Adobe Portable 

Document Format (PDF), on the Internet 

at the following site: http://www.ed.gov/ 

news/fedregister. To use PDF, you must 

have Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is 

available free at this site. If you have 

questions about using PDF, call the U.S. 

Government Printing Office (GPO), toll 

free, at 1–888–293–6498; or in the 

Washington, DC, area at (202) 512–1530. 

Note: The official version of this document 

is the document published in the Federal 

Register. Free Internet access to the official 

edition of the Federal Register and the Code 

of Federal Regulations is available on GPO 

Access at: www.gpoaccess.gov/nara/ 

index.html. 

Delegation of Authority: The Secretary 

of 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: May 5, 2009. 

Daniel T. Madzelan, 

Director, Forecasting and Policy Analysis. 

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ELECTION ASSISTANCE COMMISSION 

Sunshine Act Notice 

AGENCY: U.S. Election Assistance 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice of Virtual Public Forum 

for EAC Board of Advisors (Amended). 

DATE AND TIME: Monday, May 11, 2009, 

9 a.m. EDT through Friday, May 15, 

2009, 9 p.m. EDT. 

PLACE: EAC Board of Advisors Virtual 

Meeting Room at http://www.eac.gov. 

Once at the main page of EAC’s Web 

site, viewers should click the link to the 

Board of Advisors Virtual Meeting 

Room. The virtual meeting room will 

open on Monday, May 11, 2009, at 9 

a.m. EDT and will close on Friday, May 

15, 2009, at 9 p.m. EDT. The site will 

be available 24 hours per day during 

that 5-day period. 

PURPOSE: The EAC Board of Advisors 

will review and provide comment on 

Phase I of the draft Election Operations 

Assessment. Phase I of the project is an 

information gathering and modeling 

phase designed to create the framework 

for the remaining two phases of the 

project. The scope of the document and 

the project that created it are geared 

toward the procedures and equipment 

that move the ballot through the 

electoral process. The end goal of the 

election operations assessment is to 

create a work product that will allow 

the EAC to evaluate security risks to 

various types of voting systems (i.e. 

hand counted paper ballots, Precinct 

Based Optical Scan, or Remote 

Electronic Systems, etc.) and in order to 

better inform their work with future 

iterations of the Voluntary Voting 

System Guidelines. In addition, the 

assessment will allow policy makers 

and election officials to assess the 

potential risks to systems that they are 

looking to purchase in the future. 

The EAC Board of Advisors Virtual 

Meeting Room was established to enable 

the Board of Advisors to conduct 

business in an efficient manner in a 

public forum, including being able to 

review and discuss draft documents, 

when it is not feasible for an in-person 

board meeting. The Board of Advisors 

will not take any votes or propose any 

resolutions during the 5-day forum of 

May 11–15, 2009. 

This activity is open to the public. 

The public may view the Proceedings of 

this forum by visiting the eac board of 

advisors Virtual meeting room at 

http://www.eac.gov at any time between 

Monday, May 11, 2009, 9 a.m. EDT and 

Friday, May 15, 2009, 9 p.m. EDT. The 

public also may view the election 

operations assessment, which will be 

posted on EAC’s Web site beginning 

May 11, 2009. The public may file 

written statements to the EAC board of 

advisors at boardofadvisors@eac.gov. 

Data on EAC’s Web site is accessible to 

visitors with disabilities and meets the 

requirements of section 508 of the 

rehabilitation act. 

This meeting will be open to the 

public. 

STATEMENT OF EXCEPTIONAL

CIRCUMSTANCES: The May 5, 2009 notice 

of the EAC Board of Advisors Virtual 

Meeting inadvertently omitted the 

following important information: Notice 

of the special forum will not be 

published in the Federal Register 15 

days prior to the dates that the forum 

will be open. Late notice was 

unavoidable due to the short timeline 

remaining in Phase I of the Elections 

Operation Assessment project. The 

timetable for the noticed forum was 

expedited to allow the EAC Board of 

Advisors an opportunity to review and 

comment on the draft document. 


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