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U.S. Department of Education, 

Application Control Center, Attention: 

(CFDA Number 84.326R), 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. Selection Criteria: The selection 

criteria for this competition are from 34 

CFR 75.210 and are listed in the 

application package. 

2. Peer Review: 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 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 the 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. 

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 of 1993 (GPRA), the Department has 

established a set of performance 

measures, including long-term 

measures, that are designed to yield 

information on various aspects of the 

effectiveness and quality of the 

Technical Assistance and Dissemination 

to Improve Services and Results for 

Children With Disabilities program. 

These measures focus on the extent to 

which projects provide high-quality 

products and services, the relevance of 

project products and services to 

educational and early intervention 

policy and practice, and the use of 

products and services to improve 

educational and early intervention 

policy and practice. 

Grantees will be required to report 

information on their project’s 

performance in annual reports to the 

Department (34 CFR 75.590). 

VII. Agency Contact 

For Further Information Contact: Rex 

Shipp, U.S. Department of Education, 

400 Maryland Avenue, SW., Room 4178, 

Potomac Center Plaza (PCP), 

Washington, DC 20202–2550. 

Telephone: (202) 245–7523. 

If you use a TDD, call the Federal 

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

877–8339. 

VIII. Other Information 

Accessible Format: Individuals with 

disabilities can obtain this document 

and a copy of the application package in 

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

print, audiotape, or computer diskette) 

by contacting the Grants and Contracts 

Services Team, U.S. Department of 

Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, SW., 

Room 5075, PCP, Washington, DC 

20202–2550. Telephone: (202) 245– 

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

free, at 1–800–877–8339. 

Electronic Access to This Document: 

You can view this document, as well as 

all other documents of this Department 

published in the Federal Register, in 

text or Adobe Portable Document 

Format (PDF) on the Internet at the 

following site: http://www.ed.gov/news/ 

fedregister. 

To use PDF you must have Adobe 

Acrobat Reader, which is available free 

at this site. 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 

Andrew J. Pepin, Executive 

Administrator for Special Education and 

Rehabilitative Services to perform the 

functions of the Assistant Secretary for 

Special Education and Rehabilitative 

Services. 

Dated: July 6, 2009. 

Andrew J. Pepin, 

Executive Administrator for Special 

Education and Rehabilitative Services. 

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Advanced Scientific Computing 

Advisory Committee 

AGENCY: Department of Energy, Office of 

Science. 

ACTION: Notice of open meeting. 


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1The Nuclear Posture Review is a congressionally 

mandated comprehensive review of U.S. nuclear 

deterrence policy and strategy that the Secretary of 

Defense will conduct in consultation with the 

Secretary of Energy and the Secretary of State. The 

requirement for this review can be found in the 

National Defense Appropriations Act for 2008, 

Public Law 110–181. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces a 

meeting of the Advanced Scientific 

Computing Advisory Committee 

(ASCAC). Federal Advisory Committee 

Act (Pub. L. 92–463, 86 Stat. 770) 

requires that public notice of these 

meetings be announced in the Federal 

Register. 

DATES: Tuesday, August 11, 2009, 9 a.m. 

to 5 p.m.; Wednesday, August 12, 2009, 

9 a.m. to 12 p.m. 

ADDRESSES: American Geophysical 

Union, (AGU), 2000 Florida Avenue, 

NW., Washington, DC 20009–1277. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Melea Baker, Office of Advanced 

Scientific Computing Research, SC–21/ 

Germantown Building, U.S. Department 

of Energy, 1000 Independence Avenue, 

SW., Washington, DC 20585–1290; 

Telephone (301)–903–7486, (E-mail: 

Melea.Baker@science.doe.gov). 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Purpose of the Meeting: The purpose 

of this meeting is to provide advice and 

guidance with respect to the advanced 

scientific computing research program. 

Tentative Agenda: Agenda will 

include discussions of the following: 

Tuesday, August 11, 2009 

View from Washington, 

Office of Science Update, 

ASCR Update, 

Computing at the National Science 

Foundation, 

Computational Research Needs in 

Alternative and Renewable Energy, 

SciDAC Update, 

Potential Impact of High-end Capability 

Computing on Four Illustrative Fields 

of Science and Engineering, 

ASCR Recovery Act projects, 

Public Comment. 

Wednesday, August 12, 2009 

ASCAC Committee of Visitors Update, 

Challenges in Climate Change Science 

and the Role of Computing at the 

Extreme Scale, 

Petascale Science Results, 

Public Comment. 

Public Participation: The meeting is 

open to the public. If you would like to 

file a written statement with the 

Committee, you may do so either before 

or after the meeting. If you would like 

to make oral statements regarding any of 

the items on the agenda, you should 

contact Melea Baker via FAX at 301– 

903–4846 or via e-mail 

(Melea.Baker@science.doe.gov). You 

must make your request for an oral 

statement at least 5 business days prior 

to the meeting. Reasonable provision 

will be made to include the scheduled 

oral statements on the agenda. The 

Chairperson of the Committee will 

conduct the meeting to facilitate the 

orderly conduct of business. Public 

comment will follow the 10-minute 

rule. 

Minutes: The minutes of this meeting 

will be available for public review and 

copying within 30 days at the Freedom 

of Information Public Reading Room, 

1E–190, Forrestal Building, 1000 

Independence Avenue, SW., 

Washington, DC 20585, between 9 a.m. 

and 4 p.m., Monday through Friday, 

except holidays. 

Issued in Washington, DC, on July 1, 2009. 

Rachel Samuel, 

Deputy Committee Management Officer. 

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

National Nuclear Security 

Administration 

Record of Decision: Site-Wide 

Environmental Impact Statement for 

the Continued Operation of Los 

Alamos National Laboratory, Los 

Alamos, NM 

AGENCY: National Nuclear Security 

Administration, U.S. Department of 

Energy. 

ACTION: Record of decision. 

SUMMARY: The National Nuclear 

Security Administration (NNSA), a 

separately organized agency within the 

U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), is 

issuing this Record of Decision (ROD) 

for the continued operation of the Los 

Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) in 

Los Alamos, New Mexico, pursuant to 

the Final Site-Wide Environmental 

Impact Statement for the Continued 

Operation of Los Alamos National 

Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, 

DOE/EIS–0380 (SWEIS) (73 FR 28453, 

May 16, 2008). This ROD is the second 

ROD based on the information and 

analyses contained in the SWEIS and 

other factors, including comments 

received on the SWEIS, costs, technical 

and security considerations, and the 

missions of NNSA. These decision 

factors also include results from the 

analyses in the October 24, 2008, Final 

Complex Transformation Supplemental 

Programmatic Environmental Impact 

Statement (DOE/EIS–0236–S4, 73 FR 

63460) (Complex Transformation SPEIS) 

and its two RODs (73 FR 77644, 73 FR 

77656, December 19, 2008). NNSA 

issued the first ROD for the continued 

operation of LANL based on the SWEIS 

(73 FR 55833) on September 26, 2008. 

In the LANL SWEIS, NNSA analyzed 

three alternatives for the continued 

operation of LANL: (1) No Action, (2) 

Reduced Operations, and (3) Expanded 

Operations. NNSA identified the 

Expanded Operations Alternative as its 

Preferred Alternative. 

For this second ROD, NNSA 

continues to select the No Action 

Alternative, announced in the 2008 

ROD as its decision for continuing the 

operation of LANL, and has decided to 

implement additional elements of the 

Expanded Operations Alternative. 

Specific projects that will be 

implemented under this ROD are: (1) 

Complete the environmental 

remediation and closure of Technical 

Area 18 (TA–18) Pajarito Site; (2) 

complete the environmental 

remediation and closure of TA–21 (also 

referred to as the Delta Prime or DP 

Site); (3) refurbish the Plutonium 

Facility Complex at TA–55; (4) 

construct and operate a new Radioactive 

Liquid Waste Treatment Facility in TA– 

50 and operate a zero liquid discharge 

facility in TA–52 as an auxiliary action; 

(5) install additional processors and 

equipment to further expand the 

capabilities and operation level of the 

Nicholas C. Metropolis Center for 

Modeling and Simulation in TA–3; and 

(6) construct and operate a new Science 

and Engineering Complex at TA–62. 

These projects and the changes in 

operations associated with them are 

needed to support DOE and NNSA 

missions; to maintain and improve the 

safety and security of existing 

capabilities at LANL; and to further 

LANL intra-site facility consolidation. 

Decisions that NNSA is announcing in 

this ROD will not change the plutonium 

pit production throughput capability at 

LANL (20 plutonium pits per year), nor 

will they influence or be impacted by 

future decisions that may be made based 

on the upcoming Nuclear Posture 

Review.1

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

copies of the SWEIS, the 2008 SWEIS 

ROD or this ROD, or to receive further 

information about other issues regarding 

the Los Alamos Site Office’s National 

Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) 

compliance program, contact: Mr. 

George J. Rael, Assistant Manager 

Environmental Operations, NEPA 

Compliance Officer, U.S. Department of 

Energy, National Nuclear Security 

Administration, Los Alamos Site Office, 

3747 West Jemez Road, Los Alamos, NM 


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