[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 249 (Wednesday, December 27, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 82219-82220]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-32888]
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
[CFDA No.: 84.133A]
Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services; National
Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research; Notice Inviting
Applications for a New Disability and Rehabilitation Research Project
for Fiscal Year 2001-2002
Purpose of the Program: The purpose of the Disability and
Rehabilitation Research Projects and Centers Program is to improve the
effectiveness of services authorized under the Rehabilitation Act of
1973. The Assistant Secretary takes this action to focus research
attention on an area of national need. The priority is intended to
improve rehabilitation services and outcomes for individuals with
disabilities.
National Education Goals: This notice would address the National
Education Goal that every adult American will be literate and will
possess the knowledge and skills necessary to compete in a global
economy and exercise the rights and responsibilities of citizenship.
The notice of a final funding priority for a Traumatic Brain Injury
Data Collection Center is published elsewhere in this issue of the
Federal Register.
Eligible Applicants: Parties eligible to apply for grants under
this program are States, public or private agencies, including for-
profit agencies, public or private organizations, including for-profit
organizations, institutions of higher education, and Indian tribes and
tribal organizations.
Deadline for Transmittal of Applications: February 8, 2001.
Applications Available: December 26, 2000.
Maximum Award Amount (Per Year): $350,000.
Note: Consistent with EDGAR 34 CFR 75.104(b), we will reject any
application that proposes a project funding level for any year that
exceeds the stated maximum award amount for that year.
Reasonable Accommodation: We will consider, and may fund, requests
for additional funding as an addendum to an application to reflect the
costs of reasonable accommodations necessary to allow individuals with
disabilities to be employed on the project as personnel on project
activities.
Estimated Number of Awards: 1.
Note: The estimated funding level in this notice does not bind
the Department of Education to make awards, or to any specific
number of awards or funding levels, unless otherwise specified in
statute.
Project Period: 60 months.
Applicable Regulations: The Education Department General
Administrative Regulations (EDGAR), 34 CFR parts 74, 75, 77, 80, 81,
82, 85, and 86, and the program regulations in 34 CFR part 350.
Selection Criteria: In evaluating an application for a new grant
under this competition, we use selection criteria chosen from the
selection criteria in 34 CFR 350.54 and 75.210, as well as the ten
additional competitive preference points that have been announced in a
notice published elsewhere in this issue of the Federal Register. The
selection criteria to be used for this competition will be provided in
the application package for this competition.
For Applications Contact: Education Publications Center (ED Pubs),
P.O. Box 1398, Jessup, MD 20794-1398. Telephone (toll free): 1-877-433-
7827. FAX: (301) 470-1244. If you use a telecommunications device for
the deaf (TDD), you may call (toll free): 1-877-576-7734. You may also
contact ED Pubs via its Web site: http://www.ed.gov/pubs/edpubs.html or
its E-mail address ([email protected]). If you request an application
from ED Pubs, be sure to identify this competition as follows: CFDA
number 84.133A.
Individuals with disabilities may obtain a copy of the application
package in an alternative format by contacting the Grants and Contracts
Services Team, U.S. Department of Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, SW.,
room 3317, Switzer Building, Washington, DC 20202-2550. Telephone:
(202) 205-8351. If you use a telecommunications device for the deaf
(TDD), you may call
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the Federal Information Relay Services (FIRS) at 1-800-877-8339.
However, the Department is not able to reproduce in an alternative
format the standard forms included in the application package.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Donna Nangle, U.S. Department of
Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, SW, room 3414, Switzer Building,
Washington, DC 20202-2645. Telephone: (202) 205-5880. Individuals who
use a telecommunications device for the deaf (TDD) may call the TDD
number at (202) 205-4475.
Internet: [email protected].
Individuals with disabilities may obtain this document in an
alternative format (e.g., Braille, large print, audiotape, or computer
diskette) on request to the contact person listed in the preceding
paragraph.
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
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following sites:
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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.access.gpo.gov/nara/index.html.
Dated: December 20, 2000.
Program Authority: 29 U.S.C. 762(g) and 764(b)(4).
Curtis L. Richards,
Acting Assistant Secretary for Special Education and Rehabilitative
Services.
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