[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 34, Volume 3]

[Revised as of July 1, 2005]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 34CFR646.20]



[Page 320-321]

 

                           TITLE 34--EDUCATION

 

 CHAPTER VI--OFFICE OF POSTSECONDARY 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.



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    (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)