[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 91 (Wednesday, May 12, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 26742-26743]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-11451]
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Investing in Innovation Fund
Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) Numbers: 84.396A
(Scale-up grants), 84.396B (Validation grants), and 84.396C
(Development grants).
AGENCY: Office of Innovation and Improvement, Department of Education.
ACTION: Notice; Extension of the application deadline date for the
Investing in Innovation Fund.
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SUMMARY: The Assistant Deputy Secretary for Innovation and Improvement
extends, for certain prospective eligible applicants described
elsewhere in this notice, the deadline date for transmittal of
applications for new awards for fiscal year (FY) 2010 under the
Investing in Innovation Fund. The Assistant Deputy Secretary takes this
action to allow more time for the preparation and submission of
applications by prospective eligible applicants affected by the severe
storms, flooding, straight-line winds, and tornadoes beginning on April
30, 2010, and continuing, in Tennessee. The extension of the
application deadline date for this competition is intended to help
affected eligible applicants compete fairly with other eligible
applicants under this competition.
DATES: The extended deadline for transmitting applications under the
Investing in Innovation Fund is listed in the chart entitled ``List of
Affected Programs'' in the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of this
notice.
ADDRESSES: The address and telephone number for obtaining applications
for or information about the Investing in Innovation Fund is in the
notice inviting applications for this program. We have provided the
date and Federal Register citation of the notice inviting applications
for this program in the chart entitled ``List of Affected Programs'' in
the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of this notice.
If you use a telecommunications device for the deaf (TDD), call the
Federal Relay Service (FRS), toll free, at 1-800-877-8339.
Individuals with disabilities can obtain this document in an
accessible format (e.g., braille, large print, audiotape, or computer
diskette) on request to the contact listed in the notice inviting
applications for this program.
If you want to transmit a recommendation or comment under Executive
Order 12372, you can find the most recent list and addresses of
individual Single Points of Contact (SPOCs) on the Web site of the
Office of Management and Budget at the following address: http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/grants_spoc/.
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) 2010. This is
available on the Internet at: http://www2.ed.gov/fund/landing.jhtml.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Eligibility: The extension of the application deadline date in this
notice applies to eligible applicants under the Investing in Innovation
Fund that are 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 adversely affected by the
severe storms, flooding, straight-line winds, and tornadoes beginning
on April 30, 2010, and continuing, in Tennessee.
Under section 14007(a)(1) of the American Recovery and Reinvestment
Act of 2009 (Pub. L. 111-5), an eligible applicant for the Investing in
Innovation Fund is (a) a local educational agency (LEA) or (b) a
partnership between a nonprofit organization and (1) one or more LEAs
or (2) a consortium of schools. In the case of an eligible applicant
that is a partnership, the extension of the application deadline date
applies if any of the entities required to be part of the partnership
(i.e., a nonprofit organization, an LEA, or a consortium of schools)
are located in a Federally-declared disaster area, as determined by
FEMA, and adversely affected by the severe storms, flooding, straight-
line winds, and tornadoes in Tennessee.
An eligible applicant submitting an application on the Extended
Deadline must provide a certification in its application that it meets
the criteria for doing so and be prepared to provide appropriate
supporting documentation, if requested. If such an eligible applicant
is submitting its application electronically, the submission of the
application serves as the eligible applicant's attestation that it
meets the criteria for submitting an application on the Extended
Deadline.
The following is information about the competition covered by this
notice:
List of Affected Programs
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Original Extended
Publication date Original Extended deadline for deadline for
CFDA No. and name and Federal deadline for deadline for inter- inter-
Register transmittal of transmittal of governmental governmental
citation applications applications review review
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84.396A, B, and C: Investing 3/12/2010 (75 FR 5/12/2010 5/19/2010 7/12/2010 7/19/2010
in Innovation Fund (Scale-up, 12072).
Validation, and Development
grants).
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Dated: May 10, 2010.
James H. Shelton III,
Assistant Deputy Secretary For Innovation and Improvement.
[FR Doc. 2010-11451 Filed 5-11-10; 8:45 am]
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