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Federal Register/Vol. 76, No. 149/Wednesday, August 3, 2011 /Notices
Dated: July 29, 2011.
Darrin A. King,
Director, Information Collection Clearance
Division, Regulatory Information
Management Services, Office of Management.
Office of Special Education and
Rehabilitative Services
Type of Review: Extension.
Title of Collection: Case Service
Report.
OMB Control Number: 1820-0508.
Agency Form Number(s): N/A.
Frequency of Responses: Annually.
Affected Public: State, Local or Tribal
Government.
Total Estimated Number of Annual
Responses: 80.
Total Estimated Number of Annual
Burden Hours: 3,600.
Abstract: As required by Sections 13,
101(a)(10), 106 and 626 of the
Rehabilitation Act, the data are
submitted annually by state Vocational
Rehabilitation (VR) agencies. The data
contain personal and program-related
characteristics, including economic
outcomes of persons with disabilities
whose service records are closed. The
information is used to compute agency
performance on standards and
indicators mandated by Section 106 of
the Act as well as to assess agency
performance on other evaluative
measures used in monitoring of VR
grantees and for other program and
research purposes.
Copies of the proposed information
collection request may be accessed from
http://edicsweb.ed.gov, by selecting the
"Browse Pending Collections" link and
by clicking on link number 4693. When
you access the information collection,
click on "Download Attachments" to
view. Written requests for information
should be addressed to U.S. Department
of Education, 400 Maryland Avenue,
SW., LBJ, Washington, DC 20202-4537.
Requests may also be electronically
mailed to ICDocketMgr@ed.gov or faxed
to 202-401-0920. Please specify the
complete title of the information
collection and OMB Control Number
when making your request.
Individuals who use a
telecommunications device for the deaf
(TDD) may call the Federal Information
Relay Service (FIRS) at 1-800-877-
8339.
[FR Doc. 2011-19683 Filed 8-2-11; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4000-01-PDEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Applications for New Awards; Minority
Science and Engineering Improvement
Program
AGENCY: Department of Education,
Office of Postsecondary Education.
ACTION: Notice.
Overview Information: Minority
Science and Engineering Improvement
Program (MSEIP) Notice inviting
applications for new awards for fiscal
year (FY) 2011.
Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance
(CFDA) Number: 84.120A.
Dates:
Applications Available: August 3,
2011.
Deadline for Transmittal of
Applications: September 2, 2011.
Full Text of Announcement
I. Funding Opportunity Description
Purpose of Program: The MSEIP is
designed to effect long-range
improvement in science and
engineering education at predominantly
minority institutions and to increase the
flow of underrepresented ethnic
minorities, particularly minority
women, into scientific and
technological careers.
Competitive Preference Priorities:
This notice includes five competitive
preference priorities. Competitive
Preference Priorities 1 and 2 are from
the notice of final supplemental
priorities and definitions for
discretionary grant programs, published
in the Federal Register on December 15,
2010 (75 FR 78486). Competitive
Preference Priorities 3, 4, and 5 are from
34 CFR 637.31(c).
For FY 2011 and any subsequent year
in which we make awards from the list
of unfunded applicants from this
competition, these priorities are
competitive preference priorities.
Under 34 CFR 75.105(c)(2)(i), we
award an additional two and one-half
points to an application that meets
either Competitive Preference Priority 1
or 2, or an additional five points to an
application that meets both Competitive
Preference Priorities 1 and 2.
Under 34 CFR 75.105(c)(2)(i), we will
also award an additional five points to
an application that meets Competitive
Preference Priority 3. Under 34 CFR
75.105(c)(2)(ii), we give preference to an
application that meets Competitive
Preference Priority 4 and Competitive
Preference Priority 5 over an application
of comparable merit that does not meet
these priorities.These priorities are:
Competitive Preference Priority 1-
Increasing Postsecondary Success
Projects that are designed to address
the following priority area:
Increasing the number and proportion
of high-need students (as defined in this
notice) who persist in and complete
college or other postsecondary
education and training.
Competitive Preference Priority 2-
Enabling More Data-Based Decision-
Making
Projects that are designed to collect
(or obtain), analyze, and use high-
quality and timely data, including data
on program participant outcomes, in
accordance with privacy requirements
(as defined in this notice), in the
following priority area:
Improving postsecondary student
outcomes relating to enrollment,
persistence, and completion and leading
to career success.
Note: Applicants seeking to address these
competitive priorities must do so in the
context of meeting all other program
requirements, including those provisions
requiring a focus on science and engineering
education in the grants funded under this
program.
Definitions: The following definitions
are from the notice of final
supplemental priorities and definitions
for discretionary grant programs,
published in the Federal Register on
December 15, 2010 (75 FR 78486).
High-need children and high-need
students means children and students at
risk of educational failure, such as
children and students who are living in
poverty, who are English learners, who
are far below grade level or who are not
on track to becoming college- or career-
ready by graduation, who have left
school or college before receiving,
respectively, a regular high school
diploma or a college degree or
certificate, who are at risk of not
graduating with a diploma on time, who
are homeless, who are in foster care,
who are pregnant or parenting
teenagers, who have been incarcerated,
who are new immigrants, or who have
disabilities.
Privacy requirements means the
requirements of the Family Educational
Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), 20
U.S.C. 1232g, and its implementing
regulations in 34 CFR part 99, the
Privacy Act, 5 U.S.C. 552a, as well as all
applicable Federal, State and local
requirements regarding privacy.
These priorities are competitive
preference priorities based on 34 CFR
637.31(c).
Under 34 CFR 75.105(c)(2)(i), we willalso award an additional five (5) points
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