[Federal Register Volume 59, Number 199 (Monday, October 17, 1994)] [Unknown Section] [Page 0] From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov] [FR Doc No: 94-25623] [[Page Unknown]] [Federal Register: October 17, 1994] ======================================================================= ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION Direct Grant Programs and Fellowship Programs AGENCY: Department of Education. ACTION: Notice postponing publication of section two of the combined application notice for fiscal year 1995. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY: The Secretary postpones publication of section two of the Department's annual combined application notice (CAN) for fiscal year (FY) 1995. The Secretary takes this action for reasons stated elsewhere in this notice. The postponement is designed to make the CAN as useful as possible to the educational community and other parties interested in programs administered by the Department. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On June 10, 1994 the Secretary published in the Federal Register (59 FR 30190) the first section of the CAN for FY 1995. Included in that document were individual notices inviting applications for new awards under 65 programs and competitions. These were direct grant and fellowship programs administered mainly by the Office of Postsecondary Education and the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services. Since June 10 a number of other programs have published application notices for new awards for FY 1995. In the document published on June 10, the Secretary announced the Department's intent to publish a second section of the CAN for FY 1995 in September, 1994. However, legislation authorizing or reauthorizing many of the Department's remaining programs has only recently been passed by the Congress. This legislation includes programs administered by the Office of Bilingual Education and Minority Languages Affairs and the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, some programs of the Office of Educational Research and Improvement, and some programs of the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education. These programs could not publish application notices in September without enacted legislation authorizing the programs and, in some cases, without necessary implementing regulations or notices of funding priorities. Thus, the Secretary believes it would be more helpful to the Department's customers to delay publication of the second section of the CAN until a time when application notices for most of these programs can be published or, at least, listed with an estimated date for publication. In addition to awards under programs affected by reauthorization, awards under some other programs and competitions are to be governed by new regulations or funding priorities that have not yet been issued in final form. Still other programs and competitions must delay publication of application notices for FY 1995 pending approval of application forms by the Office of Management and Budget under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1980. The Secretary estimates that publication of section two of the CAN for FY 1995 will take place before the end of January 1995. That document will (1) include any individual application notices ready for publication at the time, (2) reference all application notices for FY 1995 previously announced in the Federal Register, including those contained in section one of the CAN, which was published on June 10, 1994, and (3) give estimated dates for programs and competitions for which application notices are to be published at a later date. In the meantime, the Department will continue to publish individual application notices when they are ready. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For further information about a program, please write to that program at the U.S. Department of Education, 600 Independence Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20202. Telephone numbers for programs and individuals may be obtained from the Department's Locator Service at (202) 708-5366 or, if calling from outside the Washington, DC, area, at (800) 572-5580. For Further Information about the CAN: For further information about the CAN only, please contact Stanley M. Cohen, Department Regulations Quality Officer, U.S. Department of Education, 600 Independence Avenue, SW., room 5121, Federal Building 10B, Washington, DC 20202. Telephone: (202) 401-8300. For Users of TDD or FIRS: Individuals who use a telecommunications device for the deaf (TDD) may call the TDD number, if any, for a program or person at the Department. If a TDD number is not assigned to a program or person, individuals who use a TDD may call the Federal Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 1-800-877-8339 between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m., Eastern time, Monday through Friday. Dated: October 12, 1994. Richard W. Riley, Secretary of Education. [FR Doc. 94-25623 Filed 10-14-94; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4000-01-P