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Date: October 2005 FRPart: |
Page Numbers: 58696-58697
Notice reopening competitions or extending application deadline dates for certain direct grant and fellowship programs.
Posted on 10-07-2005
[Federal Register: October 7, 2005 (Volume 70, Number 194)]
[Notices]
[Page 58696-58697]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Direct Grant Programs
AGENCY: Department of Education.
ACTION: Notice reopening competitions or extending application deadline dates for certain direct grant and fellowship programs.
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SUMMARY: The Secretary extends the deadline dates for the submission of applications for several programs. In all of the affected competitions the Secretary is making new awards for fiscal year (FY) 2006. The Secretary takes this action to allow more time for the preparation and submission of applications by potential applicants who have been affected by Hurricanes Katrina and/or Rita and are located in Louisiana, Texas, Alabama, Mississippi, and Florida. The reopening and extension of the programs or competitions are intended to help potential applicants compete fairly with other applicants under these programs.
Note: Two of the affected programs or competitions are administered by the Office of Postsecondary Education and three are administered by the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services. You can find information related to each of these competitions under the ``List of Programs Affected'' in this notice.
Eligibility: The reopening
or extension of deadline dates in this notice applies to you if you are: (1)
an institution of higher education, state educational agency (SEA), local educational
agency (LEA), non-profit organization or other public or private organization
applicant that is located in a federally-declared disaster area as determined
by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) (see http://www.fema.gov/news/disasters.fema)
and you were adversely affected
by Hurricanes Katrina and/or Rita, or (2) an individual applicant who resides
or resided, on the disaster declaration date, in a federally-declared disaster
area as determined by FEMA (see http://www.fema.gov/news/disasters.fema
) and you were adversely affected by Hurricanes
Katrina and/or Rita. You must provide a certification in
your application that you meet one of these criteria for submitting an application
on the Extended Deadline and be prepared to provide appropriate supporting documentation,
if requested. If you are submitting the application electronically, the submission
of the application serves as your attestation that you meet the criteria for
submitting an application on the Extended Deadline.
Note for Individual Applicants Under Competition 84.170A, Jacob K. Javits Fellowship Program:
The reopening or extension of deadline date for this competition also applies to you if you cannot obtain your undergraduate academic records or references from your undergraduate institution because the institution is in a federally-declared disaster area as determined by FEMA (see http://www.fema.gov/news/disasters.fema) and was adversely affected by Hurricanes Katrina and/or Rita.
DATES: The new deadline
date for transmitting applications under each competition is listed with that
competition in the ``List of Programs Affected.'' If the program is subject
to Executive Order 12372, the
relevant deadline for intergovernmental review is also indicated in the chart.
ADDRESSES: The address
and telephone number for obtaining applications for, or information about, an
individual program are in the application notice for that program. We have listed
the date and Federal Register citation of the application notice for each program.
If you use a telecommunications device for the deaf (TDD), you may call the
TDD number, if any, listed in the individual application notice. If we have
not listed a TDD number, you may call the Federal Relay Service (FRS) at 1-800-877-8339.
If you want to transmit a recommendation or comment under Executive Order 12372,
you can find the latest list and addresses of individual SPOCs on the Web site
of the Office of Management and Budget at the following address: http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/grants/spoc.html
You can also find the list of SPOCs in the appendix to the Forecast of
Funding Opportunities under the Department of Education Discretionary Grant
Programs for Fiscal Year (FY) 2005 and 2006. This
is available on the Internet at: http://www.ed.gov/funding.html.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The following is specific information about each
of the programs or competitions covered by this notice:
List of Programs Affected
(Chart Omitted - See PDF.)
If you are an individual with a disability, you may obtain a copy of this notice in an alternative format (e.g., Braille, large print, audiotape, or computer diskette) on request to the contact person listed in the individual application notices.
Electronic Access to This Document
You may view this document,
as well as all other Department of Education documents 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
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Dated: October 4, 2005.
Jack Martin, Chief Financial Officer.
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