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Part VI
Department of
Education
Early Reading First; Notice of Deadline;
Notice
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17594 Federal Register / Vol. 67, No. 69 / Wednesday, April 10, 2002 / Notices
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Federal Register / Vol. 67, No. 69 / Wednesday, April 10, 2002 / Notices 17595
Eligibility Standard for Applicants in • By FedEx, other mail carrier, or 437(d)(1) of GEPA, has decided to forego
States that Do Not Submit a List of mail: Patricia McKee, Group Leader, public comment with respect to the
Eligible LEAs by Deadline Compensatory Education Programs, State data submission deadline, and the
Office of Elementary and Secondary eligibility standards and threshold
So that the Department can make
Education, U.S. Department of levels.
timely awards of Early Reading First
Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, SW.,
funds for the initial year’s (FY 2002) Paperwork Reduction Act
Room 3W106, Washington, DC 20202.
competition, if an SEA does not identify Considerations
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
and provide to the Department a list of
• Questions about the Early Reading As required by the Paperwork
LEAs eligible for Early Reading First, Reduction Act, the Office of
First Program or this notice, contact
using the Reading First statutory Management and Budget has approved
Patricia McKee by e-mail at
criteria, by the April 23, 2002 deadline, this information collection under OMB
ERF@ed.gov, or Tracy Bethel or Jennifer
the Department will identify eligible control number 1810–0647, which
Flood by telephone at 202–260–4555.
LEAs in that State for Early Reading
• Questions about the Reading First expires August 31, 2002.
First grants (upon which the Early
State Grants Program, contact Chris Electronic Access to This Document
Reading First applicant pool is based)
Doherty by e-mail at
using solely the Title I Basic Grant You may view this document, as well
chris.doherty@ed.gov, or by telephone at
allocation child count for FY 2001. This as all other Department of Education
202–401–2176.
information is available from Federal If you use a telecommunications documents published in the Federal
records. device for the deaf (TDD), you may call Register, in text or Adobe Portable
Specifically, the Department will the Federal Information Relay Service Document Format (PDF) on the Internet
consider as eligible LEAs for these (FIRS) at 1–800–877–8339. Individuals at the following site: www.ed.gov/
States: (1) LEAs in which at least 20 with disabilities may obtain this legislation/fedregister.
percent of children are counted by the document in an alternative format (e.g., To use PDF, you must have Adobe
Department under section 1124(c) of Braille, large print, audiotape, or Acrobat Reader, which is available free
title I of the ESEA (the number of computer diskette) on request to Tracy at this site. If you have questions about
children counted for Title I basic grants Bethel or Jennifer Flood as listed under using PDF, call the U.S. Government
to LEAs) for FY 2001; and (2) LEAs with this section. Printing Office (GPO), toll free, at 1–
at least 10,000 of those children. These 888–293–6498; or in the Washington,
LEAs will be identified on the Excel Waiver of Proposed Rulemaking DC area at (202) 512–1530.
spreadsheet that will be available on the It is the Secretary’s practice, in Note: The official version of this document
Department’s website at http:// accordance with the Administrative is the document published in the Federal
www.ed.gov/offices/OESE/earlyreading/ Procedure Act (5 U.S.C. 553), to offer Register. Free Internet access to the official
index.html. interested parties the opportunity to edition of the Federal Register and the Code
State Submission of Information comment on proposed requirements that of Federal Regulations is available on GPO
are not taken directly from statute. Access at: http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/
If an SEA chooses to submit LEA Ordinarily, this practice would have index.html.
eligibility information for Early Reading applied to the requirements in this
First, the Department requests the SEA Program Authority: Subpart 2, part B, title
notice. Section 437(d)(1) of the General I of the ESEA, Pub. L. 107–110.
to submit that information Education Provisions Act (GEPA),
electronically, by sending it to however, exempts from this requirement Dated: April 8, 2002.
ERF@ed.gov as an e-mail attachment. If rules that apply to the first competition Susan B. Neuman,
that is not possible, States should send under a new or substantially revised Assistant Secretary for Elementary and
the information as follows: program authority. To ensure timely Secondary Education.
• By FAX: 202–205–0303 (Attention: awards of Early Reading First grants, the [FR Doc. 02–8808 Filed 4–9–02; 8:45 am]
Tracy Bethel). Secretary, in accordance with section BILLING CODE 4000–01–M
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