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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.
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
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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:
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.
Dated: October 4, 2005.
Jack Martin,
Chief Financial Officer.
[FR Doc. 05-20263 Filed 10-6-05; 8:45 am]
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