Federal Register, Volume 77 Issue 62 (Friday, March 30, 2012)

[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 62 (Friday, March 30, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 19267-19273]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-7716]

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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

Applications for New Awards; Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian-
Serving Institutions (ANNH) Program

AGENCY: Office of Postsecondary Education, Department of Education.

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ACTION: Notice.

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Overview Information: Alaska Native-Serving and Native Hawaiian-
Serving Institutions (ANNH) Program.
Notice inviting applications for new awards for fiscal year (FY)
2012.

Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) Numbers: 84.031W and
84.031N.

DATES:
Applications Available: March 30, 2012.
Deadline for Transmittal of Applications: April 30, 2012.
Deadline for Intergovernmental Review: June 28, 2012.

Full Text of Announcement

I. Funding Opportunity Description

Purpose of Program: The ANNH program authorized under section 317
of the HEA provides grants to eligible institutions of higher education
(IHEs) to enable them to improve and expand their capacity to serve
Alaska Natives and Native Hawaiians.
Priorities: This notice contains three competitive preference
priorities from the Department's notice of final supplemental
priorities and definitions for discretionary grant programs, published
in the Federal Register on December 15, 2010 (75 FR 78486), and
corrected on May 12, 2011 (76 FR 27637).
Competitive Preference Priorities: For FY 2012, and any subsequent
year in which we make awards from the list of unfunded applicants from
the competition, these priorities are competitive preference
priorities. Under 34 CFR 75.105(c)(2)(i), we award up to three points
for each competitive preference priority for an additional nine points
total to an application, depending on how well the application meets
all competitive preference priorities. Applicants must address all
competitive preference priorities in order to receive any additional
points. Applicants who do not address all three competitive preference
priorities will not receive any additional points.
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.
Competitive Preference Priority 3--Improving Productivity.
Projects that are designed to significantly increase efficiency in
the use of time, staff, money, or other resources while improving
student learning or other educational outcomes (i.e., outcome per unit
of resource). Such projects may include innovative and sustainable uses
of technology, modification of school schedules and teacher
compensation systems, use of open educational resources (as defined in
this notice), or other strategies.

Note: The types of projects identified in Competitive Preference
Priority 3 are suggestions for ways to improve productivity. The
Department recognizes that some of these examples, such as
modification of teacher compensation systems, may not be relevant to
this program. Accordingly, applicants should consider responding to
this competitive preference priority in a way that improves
productivity in a relevant higher education context.

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), and corrected on May 12, 2011 (76 FR 27637), and apply to the
priorities in this notice:
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, who are
migrant, or who have disabilities.
Open educational resources (OER) means teaching, learning, and
research resources that reside in the public domain or have been
released under an intellectual property license that permits their free
use or repurposing by others.
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.

Program Authority: 20 U.S.C. 1057-1059d and 1067q.

Applicable Regulations: (a) The Education Department General
Administrative Regulations (EDGAR) in 34 CFR parts 74, 75, 77, 79, 82,
84, 85, and 86. (b) The regulations for this program in 34 CFR part
607. (c) The notice of final supplemental priorities and definitions
for discretionary grant programs, published in the Federal Register on
December 15, 2010 (75 FR 78486), and corrected on May 12, 2011 (76 FR
27637).

Note: The eligibility criteria for this competition, including
the enrollment of needy students and expenditure provisions, are set
forth in section III. 1. Eligible Applicants of this notice. The
tie-breaker provisions are set in section V. 3. Tie-breaker for
Grants of this notice.

II. Award Information

Type of Award: Individual Development Grants.
Estimated Available Funds: $17,360,518 in funding under Title III,
Part F, section 371 of HEA.
Estimated Range of Awards: Up to $2,000,000.
Average Size of Awards: $826,691.
Estimated Number of Awards: 21.

Note: The Department is not bound by any estimates in this
notice.

Project Period: Up to 24 months.

III. Eligibility Information

1. Eligible Applicants: An IHE that qualifies as an eligible
institution under the ANNH programs may apply for grants under this
notice. At the time of application, an Alaska Native-Serving
Institution must have an enrollment of undergraduate students that is
at least 20 percent Alaska Native. 34 CFR 607.2(e). At the time of
application, a Native Hawaiian-Serving Institution must have an
enrollment of undergraduate students that is at least 10 percent Native
Hawaiian. This program is authorized by Title III, Part A of the HEA.
To qualify as an eligible institution (see section 312(b) of the HEA),
an institution must, among other requirements--
(1) Be accredited or preaccredited by a nationally recognized
accrediting agency or association that the Secretary has determined to
be a reliable authority as to the quality of education or training
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(2) Be legally authorized by the State in which it is located to be
a junior college or to provide an educational program for which it
awards a bachelor's degree;
(3) Be designated as an ``eligible institution'' by demonstrating
that it: (A) Has an enrollment of needy students as described in 34 CFR
607.3; and (B) has low average educational and general expenditures per
full-time equivalent (FTE) undergraduate student, as described in 34
CFR 607.4.

Note: For purposes of establishing eligibility for this
competition, the Notice Inviting Applications for Designation as
Eligible Institutions for FY 2012 was published in the Federal
Register on December 15, 2011 (76 FR 77982) and the deadline for
submission of the designation of eligibility application was
February 10, 2012. Awards under this competition are available only
to institutions that established eligibility through an Application
for Designation as Eligible Institutions for FY 2012.

Relationship Between the Title III, Part A and Part F Programs and the
Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI) Program

Note 1: A grantee under the HSI Program, which is authorized
under Title V of the HEA, may not receive a grant under any HEA,
Title III, Part A or Part F program, including the Alaska Native-
Serving and Native Hawaiian-Serving Institutions Programs (ANNH).
Further, a current HSI Program grantee may not give up its HSI grant
in order to receive a grant under any Title III, Part A or Part F
program.

Note 2: An eligible HSI that does not fall within the limitation
described in Note 1 (i.e., is not a current grantee under the HSI
Program) may apply for a FY 2012 grant under all Title III, Part A
and Part F programs for which it is eligible, as well as receive
consideration for a grant under the HSI Program. However, a
successful applicant may receive only one grant.

2.a. Cost Sharing or Matching: This program does not require cost
sharing or matching.
b. Supplement-Not-Supplant: This program involves supplement-not-
supplant funding requirements. Grant funds shall be used so that they
supplement and, to the extent practical, increase the funds that would
otherwise be available for the activities to be carried out under the
grant and in no case supplant those funds (34 CFR 607.30 (b)).

IV. Application and Submission Information

1. Address to Request Application Package: You can obtain an
application via the Internet using the following address: http://
Grants.gov. If you do not have access to the Internet, please contact
Kelley Harris, U.S. Department of Education, 1990 K Street NW., Room
6033, Washington, DC 20006-8513. Telephone: (202) 219-7083; or, by
email: Kelley.Harris@ed.gov.
If you use a telecommunications device for the deaf (TDD) or a text
telephone (TTY), call the Federal Relay Service (FRS), toll free, at 1-
800-877-8339.
Individuals with disabilities can obtain a copy of the application
package in an accessible format (e.g., braille, large print, audiotape,
or compact disc) by contacting the program contact person listed in
this section.
2. Content and Form of Application Submission: Requirements
concerning the content of an application, together with the forms you
must submit, are in the application package for this program.
Page Limits: The application narrative (Part III of the
application) is where you, the applicant, address the selection
criteria and the competitive priorities that reviewers use to evaluate
your application. We have established mandatory page limits for the
Individual Development Grant applications. You must limit the
application narrative (Part III) to no more than 55 pages for the
Individual Development Grant application.

Note: Please include a separate heading when responding to the
competitive priorities. If you are not addressing the competitive
priorities, you must limit your application narrative to no more
than 50 pages for the Individual Development Grant.

A ``page'' is 8.5 x 11, on one side
only, with 1'' margins at the top, bottom, and both sides. Page numbers
and an identifier may be outside the 1 margin.
Double space (no more than three lines per vertical inch)
all text in the application narrative, except titles, headings,
footnotes, quotations, references, captions and all text in charts,
tables, figures, and graphs. Charts, tables, figures, and graphs in the
application narrative may be single spaced and will count toward the
page limit.
Use a font that is either 12 point or larger, and no
smaller than 10 pitch (characters per inch).
Use one of the following fonts: Times New Roman, Courier,
Courier New, or Arial. An applications submitted in any other font
(including Times Roman and Arial Narrow) will not be accepted.
The page limit does not apply to Part I, the Application for
Federal Assistance (SF-424); the Supplemental Information for SF-424
Form required by the Department of Education; Part II, the Budget
section, Budget Information Non-Construction Programs (ED 524),
including the narrative budget justification; Part IV, the assurances
and certifications; or the one-page program abstract, the resumes, the
bibliography, or the letters of support. However, the page limit does
apply to all of the application narrative section (Part III), including
the budget narrative of the selection criteria and the competitive
priorities. If you include any attachments or appendices not
specifically requested in the application package, these items will be
counted as part of your application narrative (Part III) for the
purpose of the page limit requirement. You must include your complete
response to the selection criteria in the application narrative.

Note: The narrative response to the budget selection criteria is
not the same as the activity detail budget form and supporting
narrative. The supporting narrative for the activity detail budget
form lists the requested budget line items line by line.

We will reject your application if you exceed the page limit.
3. Submission Dates and Times:
Applications Available: March 30, 2012.
Deadline for Transmittal of Applications: April 30, 2012.
Applications for grants under this competition must be submitted
electronically using the Grants.gov Apply site (Grants.gov). For
information (including dates and times) about how to submit your
application electronically, or in paper format by mail or hand delivery
if you qualify for an exception to the electronic submission
requirement, please refer to section IV. 7. Other Submission
Requirements of this notice.
We do not consider an application that does not comply with the
deadline requirements.
Individuals with disabilities who need an accommodation or
auxiliary aid in connection with the application process should contact
the person listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT in section VII
of this notice. If the Department provides an accommodation or
auxiliary aid to an individual with a disability in connection with the
application process, the individual's application remains subject to
all other requirements and limitations in this notice.
Deadline for Intergovernmental Review: June 28, 2012.
4. Intergovernmental Review: This program is subject to Executive
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12372 and the regulations in 34 CFR part 79. Information about
Intergovernmental Review of Federal Programs under Executive Order
12372 is in the application package for these programs.
5. Funding Restrictions: We specify limitations on allowable costs
in 34 CFR 607.30. We reference additional regulations outlining funding
restrictions in the Applicable Regulations section of this notice.
Applicability of Executive Order 13202. Applicants that apply for
construction funds under the Title III, Part A programs, must comply
with Executive Order 13202 signed by former President George W. Bush on
February 17, 2001, and amended on April 6, 2001. This Executive Order
provides that recipients of Federal construction funds may not
``require or prohibit bidders, offerors, contractors, or subcontractors
to enter into or adhere to agreements with one or more labor
organizations, on the same or other construction project(s)'' or
``otherwise discriminate against bidders, offerors, contractors, or
subcontractors for becoming or refusing to become or remain signatories
or otherwise adhere to agreements with one or more labor organizations,
on the same or other construction project(s).'' However, the Executive
Order does not prohibit contractors or subcontractors from voluntarily
entering into these agreements. Projects funded under these programs
that include construction activity will be provided a copy of this
Executive Order and will be asked to certify that they will adhere to
it.
6. Data Universal Numbering System Number, Taxpayer Identification
Number, and Central Contractor Registry: To do business with the
Department of Education, you must--
a. Have a Data Universal Numbering System (DUNS) number and a
Taxpayer Identification Number (TIN);
b. Register both your DUNS number and TIN with the Central
Contractor Registry (CCR), the Government's primary registrant
database;
c. Provide your DUNS number and TIN on your application; and
d. Maintain an active CCR registration with current information
while your application is under review by the Department and, if you
are awarded a grant, during the project period.
You can obtain a DUNS number from Dun and Bradstreet. A DUNS number
can be created within one business day.
If you are a corporate entity, agency, institution, or
organization, you can obtain a TIN from the Internal Revenue Service.
If you are an individual, you can obtain a TIN from the Internal
Revenue Service or the Social Security Administration. If you need a
new TIN, please allow two to five weeks for your TIN to become active.
The CCR registration process may take five or more business days to
complete. If you are currently registered with the CCR, you may not
need to make any changes. However, please make certain that the TIN
associated with your DUNS number is correct. Also note that you will
need to update your CCR registration on an annual basis. This may take
three or more business days to complete. In addition, if you are
submitting your application via Grants.gov, you must (1) be designated
by your organization as an Authorized Organization Representative
(AOR); and (2) register yourself with Grants.gov as an AOR. Details on
these steps are outlined at the following Grants.gov Web page:
www.grants.gov/applicants/get_registered.jsp).
7. Other Submission Requirements: Applications for grants under the
ANNH programs must be submitted electronically unless you qualify for
an exception to this requirement in accordance with the instructions in
this section.
a. Electronic Submission of Applications.
Applications for grants under the Alaska Native-Serving
Institutions Program (CFDA number 84.031N) and the Native Hawaiian-
Serving Institutions Program (CFDA number 84.031W) must be submitted
electronically using the Governmentwide Grants.gov Apply site at
www.grants.gov. Through this site, you will be able to download a copy
of the application package, complete it offline, and then upload and
submit your application. You may not email an electronic copy of a
grant application to us.
We will reject your application if you submit it in paper format
unless, as described elsewhere in this section, you qualify for one of
the exceptions to the electronic submission requirement and submit, no
later than two weeks before the application deadline date, a written
statement to the Department that you qualify for one of these
exceptions. Further information regarding calculation of the date that
is two weeks before the application deadline date is provided later in
this section under Exception to Electronic Submission Requirement.
You may access the electronic grant application for this
competition at www.Grants.gov. You must search for the downloadable
application package for this program by the CFDA number. Do not include
the CFDA number's alpha suffix in your search (e.g., search for 84.031,
not 84.031N).
Please note the following:
When you enter the Grants.gov site, you will find
information about submitting an application electronically through the
site, as well as the hours of operation.
Applications received by Grants.gov are date and time
stamped. Your application must be fully uploaded and submitted and must
be date and time stamped by the Grants.gov system no later than 4:30
p.m., Washington, DC time, on the application deadline date. Except as
otherwise noted in this section, we will not accept your application if
it is received--that is, date and time stamped by the Grants.gov
system--after 4:30 p.m., Washington, DC time, on the application
deadline date. We do not consider an application that does not comply
with the deadline requirements. When we retrieve your application from
Grants.gov, we will notify you if we are rejecting your application
because it was date and time stamped by the Grants.gov system after
4:30 p.m., Washington, DC time, on the application deadline date.
The amount of time it can take to upload an application
will vary depending on a variety of factors, including the size of the
application and the speed of your Internet connection. Therefore, we
strongly recommend that you do not wait until the application deadline
date to begin the submission process through Grants.gov.
You should review and follow the Education Submission
Procedures for submitting an application through Grants.gov that are
included in the application package for this competition to ensure that
you submit your application in a timely manner to the Grants.gov
system. You can also find the Education Submission Procedures
pertaining to Grants.gov under News and Events on the Department's G5
system home page at http://www.G5.gov.
You will not receive additional point value because you
submit your application in electronic format, nor will we penalize you
if you qualify for an exception to the electronic submission
requirement, as described elsewhere in this section, and submit your
application in paper format.
You must submit all documents electronically, including
all information you typically provide on the following forms: The
Application for Federal Assistance (SF 424), the Department of
Education Supplemental Information for SF 424, Budget Information--Non-
Construction Programs (ED 524), and all necessary assurances and
certifications.

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You must upload any narrative sections and all other
attachments to your application as files in a PDF (Portable Document)
read-only, non-modifiable format. Do not upload an interactive or
fillable PDF file. If you upload a file type other than a read-only,
non-modifiable PDF or submit a password-protected file, we will not
review that material.
Your electronic application must comply with any page-
limit requirements described in this notice.
After you electronically submit your application, you will
receive from Grants.gov an automatic notification of receipt that
contains a Grants.gov tracking number. (This notification indicates
receipt by Grants.gov only, not receipt by the Department.) The
Department then will retrieve your application from Grants.gov and send
a second notification to you by email. This second notification
indicates that the Department has received your application and has
assigned your application a PR/Award number (an ED-specified
identifying number unique to your application).
We may request that you provide us original signatures on
forms at a later date.
Application Deadline Date Extension in Case of Technical Issues
With the Grants.gov System: If you are experiencing problems submitting
your application through Grants.gov, please contact the Grants.gov
Support Desk, toll free, at 1-800-518-4726. You must obtain a
Grants.gov Support Desk Case Number and must keep a record of it.
If you are prevented from electronically submitting your
application on the application deadline date because of technical
problems with the Grants.gov system, we will grant you an extension
until 4:30:00 p.m., Washington, DC time, the following business day to
enable you to transmit your application electronically or by hand
delivery. You also may mail your application by following the mailing
instructions described elsewhere in this notice.
If you submit an application after 4:30:00 p.m., Washington, DC
time, on the application deadline date, please contact the person
listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT in section VII of this
notice and provide an explanation of the technical problem you
experienced with Grants.gov, along with the Grants.gov Support Desk
Case Number. We will accept your application if we can confirm that a
technical problem occurred with the Grants.gov system and that that
problem affected your ability to submit your application by 4:30:00
p.m., Washington, DC time, on the application deadline date. The
Department will contact you after a determination is made on whether
your application will be accepted.

Note: The extensions to which we refer in this section apply
only to the unavailability of, or technical problems with, the
Grants.gov system. We will not grant you an extension if you failed
to fully register to submit your application to Grants.gov before
the application deadline date and time or if the technical problem
you experienced is unrelated to the Grants.gov system.

Exception to Electronic Submission Requirement: You qualify for an
exception to the electronic submission requirement, and may submit your
application in paper format, if you are unable to submit an application
through the Grants.gov system because--
You do not have access to the Internet; or
You do not have the capacity to upload large documents to
the Grants.gov system;
and
No later than two weeks before the application deadline
date (14 calendar days or, if the fourteenth calendar day before the
application deadline date falls on a Federal holiday, the next business
day following the Federal holiday), you mail or fax a written statement
to the Department, explaining which of the two grounds for an exception
prevent you from using the Internet to submit your application.
If you mail your written statement to the Department, it must be
postmarked no later than two weeks before the application deadline
date. If you fax your written statement to the Department, we must
receive the faxed statement no later than two weeks before the
application deadline date.
Address and mail or fax your statement to: Kelley Harris, U.S.
Department of Education, 1990 K Street NW., Room 6033, Washington, DC
20006-8513. FAX: (202) 502-7861.
Your paper application must be submitted in accordance with the
mail or hand delivery instructions described in this notice.
b. Submission of Paper Applications by Mail.
If you qualify for an exception to the electronic submission
requirement, you may mail (through the U.S. Postal Service or a
commercial carrier) your application to the Department. You must mail
the original and two copies of your application, on or before the
application deadline date, to the Department at the following address:
U.S. Department of Education, Application Control Center, Attention:
(CFDA Number 84.031N or 84.031W), 400 Maryland Avenue SW., Washington,
DC 20202-4260.
You must show proof of mailing consisting of one of the following:
(1) A legibly dated U.S. Postal Service postmark.
(2) A legible mail receipt with the date of mailing stamped by the
U.S. Postal Service.
(3) A dated shipping label, invoice, or receipt from a commercial
carrier.
(4) Any other proof of mailing acceptable to the Secretary of the
U.S. Department of Education.
If you mail your application through the U.S. Postal Service, we do
not accept either of the following as proof of mailing:
(1) A private metered postmark.
(2) A mail receipt that is not dated by the U.S. Postal Service.
If your application is postmarked after the application deadline
date, we will not consider your application.

Note: The U.S. Postal Service does not uniformly provide a dated
postmark. Before relying on this method, you should check with your
local post office.

c. Submission of Paper Applications by Hand Delivery.
If you qualify for an exception to the electronic submission
requirement, you (or a courier service) may deliver your paper
application to the Department by hand. You must deliver the original
and two copies of your application, by hand, on or before the
application deadline date, to the Department at the following address:
U.S. Department of Education, Application Control Center, Attention:
(CFDA Number 84.031N or 84.031W), 550 12th Street SW., Room 7041,
Potomac Center Plaza, Washington, DC 20202-4260.
The Application Control Center accepts hand deliveries daily
between 8 a.m. and 4:30:00 p.m., Washington, DC time, except Saturdays,
Sundays, and Federal holidays.

Note for Mail or Hand Delivery of Paper Applications: If you
mail or hand deliver your application to the Department--
(1) You must indicate on the envelope and--if not provided by
the Department--in Item 11 of the SF 424 the CFDA number, including
suffix letter, if any, of the competition under which you are
submitting your application; and
(2) The Application Control Center will mail to you a
notification of receipt of your grant application. If you do not
receive this notification within 15 business days from the
application deadline date, you should call the U.S. Department of
Education Application Control Center at (202) 245-6288.

V. Application Review Information

1. Selection Criteria: The selection criteria for these programs
are in 34 CFR

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607.22(a)-(g). Applicants must address each of the following selection
criteria (separately for each proposed activity). The total weight of
the selection criteria is 100 points; the maximum score for each
criterion is noted in parentheses.
(a) Quality of the Applicant's Comprehensive Development Plan
(Maximum 25 Points).
(b) Quality of Activity Objectives (Maximum 15 Points).
(c) Quality of Implementation Strategy (Maximum 20 Points).
(d) Quality of Key Personnel (Maximum 7 Points).
(e) Quality of Project Management Plan (Maximum 10 Points).
(f) Quality of Evaluation Plan (Maximum 15 Points).
(g) Budget (Maximum 8 Points).
2. Review and Selection Process: Awards will be made in rank order
according to the average score received from a panel of three readers.
Tie-Breaker for Development Grants. In tie-breaking situations for
development grants, 34 CFR 607.23(b) requires that additional points be
awarded to any applicants that: (1) Have an endowment fund of which the
current market value, per full-time equivalent (FTE) enrolled student,
is less than the average current market value of the endowment funds,
per FTE enrolled student at comparable institutions that offer similar
instruction; (2) have expenditures for library materials per FTE
enrolled student that are less than the average expenditures per FTE
enrolled student at comparable institutions that offer similar
instruction; or (3) that propose to carry out one or more of the
following activities--
(1) Faculty development;
(2) Funds and administrative management;
(3) Development and improvement of academic programs;
(4) Acquisition of equipment for use in strengthening management
and academic programs;
(5) Joint use of facilities; and
(6) Student services.
For the purpose of these funding considerations, we use 2009-2010
data.
If a tie remains after applying the tie-breaker mechanism above,
priority will be given in the case of applicants for: (a) Individual
development grants to applicants that have the lowest endowment values
per FTE student; and (b) cooperative arrangement development grants to
applicants in accordance with section 394(b) of the HEA, if the
Secretary determines that the cooperative arrangement is geographically
and economically sound or will benefit the applicant institution.
3. Special Conditions: Under 34 CFR 74.14, 80.12, the Secretary may
impose special conditions on a grant if the applicant or grantee is not
financially stable; has a history of unsatisfactory performance; has a
financial or other management system that does not meet the standards
in 34 CFR parts 74 or 80, as applicable; has not fulfilled the
conditions of a prior grant (34 CFR 607.24); or, is otherwise not
responsible.

VI. Award Administration Information

1. Award Notices: If your application is successful, we notify your
U.S. Representative and U.S. Senators and send you a Grant Award
Notification (GAN). We may also notify you informally.
If your application is not evaluated or not selected for funding,
we notify you.
2. Administrative and National Policy Requirements: We identify
administrative and national policy requirements in the application
package and reference these and other requirements in the Applicable
Regulations section in this notice.
We reference the regulations outlining the terms and conditions of
an award in the Applicable Regulations section of this notice and
include these and other specific conditions in the GAN. The GAN also
incorporates your approved application as part of your binding
commitments under the grant.
3. Reporting: (a) If you apply for a grant under this competition,
you must ensure that you have in place the necessary processes and
systems to comply with the reporting requirements in 2 CFR part 170
should you receive funding under the competition. This does not apply
if you have an exception under 2 CFR 170.110(b).
(b) At the end of your project period, you must submit a final
performance report, including financial information, as directed by the
Secretary. If you receive a multi-year award, you must submit an annual
performance report that provides the most current performance and
financial expenditure information as directed by the Secretary in 34
CFR 75.118 and 34 CFR 607.31. The Secretary may also require more
frequent performance reports under 34 CFR 75.720(c). For specific
requirements on reporting, please go to www.ed.gov/fund/grant/apply/appforms/appforms.html.
4. Performance Measures: The Secretary has established the
following key performance measures for assessing the effectiveness of
the Strengthening Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian-Serving
Institutions Programs:
a. The percentage change, over the five-year period, of the number
of full-time degree-seeking undergraduates enrolled at Alaska Native
and Native Hawaiian-Serving Institutions. Note that this is a long-term
measure, which will be used to periodically gauge performance,
beginning in FY 2009.
b. The percentage of first-time, full-time degree-seeking
undergraduate students at 4-year Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian-
Serving Institutions who were in their first year of postsecondary
enrollment in the previous year and are enrolled in the current year at
the same Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian-Serving Institution;
c. The percentage of first-time, full-time degree-seeking
undergraduate students at 2-year Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian-
Serving Institutions who were in their first year of postsecondary
enrollment in the previous year and are enrolled in the current year at
the same Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian-Serving Institution;
d. The percentage of first-time, full-time degree-seeking
undergraduate students enrolled at 4-year Alaska Native and Native
Hawaiian-Serving Institutions graduating within 6 years of enrollment;
and
e. The percentage of first-time, full-time degree seeking
undergraduate students enrolled at 2-year Alaska Native and Native
Hawaiian-Serving Institutions graduating within 3 years of enrollment.
5. Continuation Awards: In making a continuation award, the
Secretary may consider, under 34 CFR 607.31, the extent to which a
grantee has made ``substantial progress toward achieving the objectives
set forth in its grant application, including, if applicable, the
institution's success in institutionalizing practices and improvements
developed under the grant.'' This consideration includes the review of
a grantee's progress in meeting the targets and projected outcomes in
its approved application, and whether the grantee has expended funds in
a manner that is consistent with its approved application and budget.
In making a continuation grant, the Secretary also considers whether
the grantee is operating in compliance with the assurances in its
approved application, including those applicable to Federal civil
rights laws that prohibit discrimination in programs or activities
receiving Federal financial assistance from the Department (34 CFR
100.4, 104.5, 106.4, 108.8, and 110.23).

VII. Agency Contacts

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kelley Harris, U.S. Department of

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Education, 1990 K Street NW., Room 6033, Washington, DC 20006-8513.
Telephone: (202) 219-7083; or, by email: Kelley.Harris@ed.gov.
If you use a TDD or a TTY, call the FRS, toll free, at 1-800-877-
8339.

VIII. Other Information

Accessible Format: Individuals with disabilities can obtain this
document and a copy of the application package in an accessible format
(e.g., braille, large print, audiotape, or compact disc) on request to
the program contact person listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT
in section VII of this notice.
Electronic Access to This Document: 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 via the Federal Digital System
at: www.gpo.gov/fdsys. At this site 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). To use PDF,
you must have Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is available free at this
site.
You may also access documents of the Department published in the
Federal Register by using the article search feature at:
www.federalregister.gov. Specifically through the advanced search
feature at this site, you can limit your search to documents published
by the Department.
Delegation of Authority: The Secretary of Education has delegated
authority to David Bergeron, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy,
Planning, and Innovation to perform the functions and duties of the
Assistant Secretary for Postsecondary Education.

Dated: March 26, 2012.
David Bergeron,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy, Planning, and Innovation,
delegated the authority to perform the functions and duties of the
Assistant Secretary for Postsecondary Education.
[FR Doc. 2012-7716 Filed 3-29-12; 8:45 am]
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