[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 34, Volume 3]
[Revised as of July 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 34CFR646.20]

[Page 320]
 
                           TITLE 34--EDUCATION
 
                         DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
 
PART 646--STUDENT SUPPORT SERVICES PROGRAM--Table of Contents
 
             Subpart C--How Does the Secretary Make a Grant?
 
Sec. 646.20  How does the Secretary decide which new grants to make?


    (a) The Secretary evaluates an application for a new grant as 
follows:
    (1)(i) The Secretary evaluates the application on the basis of the 
selection criteria in Sec. 646.21.
    (ii) The maximum score for all the criteria in Sec. 646.21 is 100 
points. The maximum score for each criterion is indicated in parentheses 
with the criterion.
    (2)(i) If an application for a new grant proposes to continue to 
serve substantially the same population or campus that the applicant is 
serving under an expiring grant, the Secretary evaluates the applicant's 
prior experience in delivering services under the expiring grant on the 
basis of the criteria in Sec. 646.22.
    (ii) The maximum score for all the criteria in Sec. 646.22 is 15 
points. The maximum score for each criterion is indicated in parentheses 
with the criterion.
    (b) The Secretary makes new grants in rank order on the basis of the 
applications' total scores under paragraphs (a)(1) and (a)(2) of this 
section.
    (c) If the total scores of two or more applications are the same and 
there is insufficient money available to fully fund them both after 
funding the higher-ranked applications, the Secretary chooses among the 
tied applications so as to serve geographic areas that have been 
underserved by the Student Support Services Program.
    (d) The Secretary does not make grants to applicants that carried 
out a Federal TRIO program project that involved the fraudulent use of 
funds.

(Authority: 20 U.S.C. 1070a-11 and 1070a-14)