[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 115 (Wednesday, June 16, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 34249-34251]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-14404]
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Part III
Department of Education
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Centers for Independent Living Program--Training and Technical
Assistance; Notices
Federal Register / Vol. 75, No. 115 / Wednesday, June 16, 2010 /
Notices
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Centers for Independent Living Program--Training and Technical
Assistance
Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) Number: 84.400B.
AGENCY: Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services,
Department of Education.
ACTION: Notice of final priority.
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SUMMARY: The Assistant Secretary for Special Education and
Rehabilitative Services announces a priority under the Centers for
Independent Living Program--Training and Technical Assistance. The
Assistant Secretary may use this priority for competitions in fiscal
year (FY) 2010, using American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
(ARRA) funds appropriated for the Centers for Independent Living (CIL)
program authorized under title VII, chapter 1, part C of the
Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended (the Act), and competitions in
later years. We take this action to improve outcomes for individuals
with significant disabilities by enhancing the quality of independent
living (IL) services provided to those individuals and the efficiency
of the delivery of those services by CILs funded through the CIL
program.
DATES: Effective Date: This priority is effective July 16, 2010.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Sean Barrett, U.S. Department of
Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, SW., room 5016, Potomac Center Plaza
(PCP), Washington, DC 20202-2800. Telephone: (202) 245-7604 or by e-
mail: [email protected].
If you use a telecommunications device for the deaf (TDD), call the
Federal Relay Service (FRS), toll free, at 1-800-877-8339.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Purpose of Program: The purpose of the CIL program is to maximize
independence, productivity, empowerment, and leadership of individuals
with disabilities and integrate these individuals into the mainstream
of society.
CILs are consumer-controlled, community-based, cross-disability,
nonresidential, private nonprofit agencies that are designed and
operated within a local community by individuals with disabilities and
provide an array of IL services to individuals with significant
disabilities, including the core services of information and referral,
IL skills training, peer counseling, and individual and systems
advocacy.
Each State has established a Statewide Independent Living Council
(SILC) that jointly develops and signs the State Plan for Independent
Living with the designated State unit; monitors, reviews, and evaluates
the implementation of the State plan; and coordinates activities with
the State Rehabilitation Council and other organizations related to
issues that affect individuals with disabilities. A majority of a
SILC's members are individuals with disabilities. Other members include
CIL representatives and State agency representatives, as well as other
appropriate individuals.
Through the ARRA, Congress has appropriated $87,500,000 for the CIL
program to be obligated by FY 2010. Under section 721(b)(1) of the Act,
the Department is required to reserve between 1.8 and 2 percent of the
funds appropriated for the CIL program to provide training and
technical assistance to CILs, agencies eligible to become CILs, and
SILCs with respect to planning, developing, conducting, administering,
and evaluating CILs.
Program Authority: 29 U.S.C. 796f(b).
Applicable Program Regulations: 34 CFR part 366.
We published a notice of proposed priority for this program in the
Federal Register on March 22, 2010 (75 FR 13521). That notice contained
background information and our reasons for proposing the particular
priority.
There are no differences between the proposed priority and this
final priority.
Public Comment: In response to our invitation in the notice of
proposed priority, we did not receive any comments on the proposed
priority.
Final Priority
Centers for Independent Living (CILs) Community-Based Training and
Technical Assistance Project
The Assistant Secretary for Special Education and Rehabilitative
Services establishes a priority to support a Training and Technical
Assistance Project to assist CILs in one or more of the following
important and challenging areas: Developing strategies to address the
needs of underserved populations and underserved geographic areas;
promoting community-based alternatives to institutionalization;
assisting transition-age youths to succeed after secondary school; and
providing IL services in rural settings.
To meet this priority, applicants must demonstrate all of the
following in their applications:
(a) Evidence that the project team includes staff members with
expertise in each of the priority topic areas on which the applicant is
proposing to provide training and technical assistance;
(b) A sound plan for providing training and technical assistance
and materials that (1) Is based on rigorous research, where available;
(2) utilizes a broad range of available, accessible technologies and
methodologies; and (3) is sufficient to provide training and technical
assistance to as many CILs as possible.
(c) An assurance that the applicant will coordinate and collaborate
with other training projects funded by the Department to ensure that
its training activities are complementary and non-duplicative and that
its dissemination activities are effective and efficient. At a minimum,
the Training and Technical Assistance Project must coordinate with
RSA's CILs Training and Technical Assistance Center.
Types of Priorities
When inviting applications for a competition using one or more
priorities, we designate the type of each priority as absolute,
competitive preference, or invitational through a notice in the Federal
Register. The effect of each type of priority follows:
Absolute priority: Under an absolute priority, we consider only
applications that meet the priority (34 CFR 75.105(c)(3)).
Competitive preference priority: Under a competitive preference
priority, we give competitive preference to an application by (1)
awarding additional points, depending on the extent to which the
application meets the priority (34 CFR 75.105(c)(2)(i)); or (2)
selecting an application that meets the priority over an application of
comparable merit that does not meet the priority (34 CFR
75.105(c)(2)(ii)).
Invitational priority: Under an invitational priority, we are
particularly interested in applications that meet the priority.
However, we do not give an application that meets the priority a
preference over other applications (34 CFR 75.105(c)(1)).
This notice does not preclude us from proposing additional
priorities, requirements, definitions, or selection criteria, subject
to meeting applicable rulemaking requirements.
Note: This notice does not solicit applications. In any year in
which we choose to use this priority, we invite applications through
a notice in the Federal Register.
Executive Order 12866: This notice has been reviewed in accordance
with Executive Order 12866. Under the terms of the order, we have
assessed the potential costs and benefits of this proposed regulatory
action and have
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determined that it is not ``significant'' under the terms of that
Executive order.
We have determined, also, that this final regulatory action does
not unduly interfere with State, local, and Tribal governments in the
exercise of their governmental functions.
We summarized the costs and benefits of this regulatory action in
the notice of proposed priority.
Intergovernmental Review: This program is subject to Executive
Order 12372 and the regulations in 34 CFR part 79. One of the
objectives of the Executive order is to foster an intergovernmental
partnership and a strengthened federalism. The Executive order relies
on processes developed by State and local governments for coordination
and review of proposed Federal financial assistance.
This document provides early notification of our specific plans and
actions for this program.
Accessible Format: Individuals with disabilities can obtain this
document in an accessible format (e.g., braille, large print,
audiotape, or computer diskette) on request to the program contact
person listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT.
Electronic Access to This Document: You can view this document, as
well as all other documents of this Department 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.
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: June 9, 2010.
Alexa Posny,
Assistant Secretary for Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.
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