[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 17 (Wednesday, January 27, 1999)]
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Part II
Department of Education
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Technological Innovation and Cooperation for Foreign Information Access
Program; Notice Inviting Applications for New Awards for Fiscal Year
(FY) 1999
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
[CFDA No. 84.337]
Technological Innovation and Cooperation for Foreign Information
Access Program; Notice Inviting Applications for New Awards for Fiscal
Year (FY) 1999
Purpose of Program: The Technological Innovation and Cooperation
for Foreign Information Access Program provides grants to develop
innovative techniques or programs using new electronic technologies, to
collect and distribute information on world regions and countries other
than the United States. The techniques or programs the Secretary
assists are those that address our Nation's teaching and research needs
in international education and foreign languages.
Eligible Applicants: Institutions of higher education, public or
nonprofit private libraries, or consortia of such institutions or
libraries.
Applications Available: January 15, 1999.
Deadline for Transmittal of Applications: March 17, 1999.
Deadline for Intergovernmental Review: May 17, 1999.
Estimated Range of Awards: $95,000 to $225,000.
Estimated Average Size of Awards: $200,000.
Estimated Number of Awards: 5.
Project Period: 36 months.
Note: The Department is not bound by any estimates in this
notice.
Supplementary Information: The techniques or projects this program
supports are those designed to collect, organize, preserve, and widely
disseminate information that addresses our Nation's teaching and
research needs in International Education and Foreign Languages.
Because the program has no specific regulations we encourage each
potential applicant to read the authorizing statute (section 606 of
part A, title VI, of the Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended by
the Higher Education Amendments of 1998). The statute will be included
in the application package.
The statute lists the following activities an applicant may apply
to carry out. However, an applicant may propose to carry out other
activities that are consistent with the legislation. The activities
listed in the statute are:
(a) To facilitate access to or preserve foreign information
resources in print or electronic forms;
(b) To develop new means of immediate, full-text document delivery
for information and scholarship from abroad;
(c) To develop new means of shared electronic access to
international data;
(d) To support collaborative projects of indexing, cataloging, and
other means of bibliographic access for scholars to important research
materials published or distributed outside the United States;
(e) To develop methods for the wide dissemination of resources
written in non-Roman language alphabets;
(f) To assist teachers of less commonly taught languages in
acquiring, via electronic and other means, materials suitable for
classroom use; and
(g) To promote collaborative technology based projects in foreign
languages, area studies, and international studies among grant
recipients under this title.
Please note that the statute limits the Federal share of the total
cost of carrying out a program supported by a grant under this section
shall to no more than 66\2/3\ percent. A grantee may provide the non
Federal share of this cost may be provided either in-kind or in cash
and may include contributions from private sector corporations or
foundations.
Applicable Regulations: (a) The Education Department General
Administrative Regulations (EDGAR) in 34 CFR Parts 74, 75, 77, 79, 82,
85, and 86.
Selection Criteria: The Secretary uses the selection criteria
published in 34 CFR 75.209 and 75.210 to evaluate applications for the
Technological Innovation and Cooperation for Foreign Information Access
Program. The application package includes selection criteria and the
points assigned to the criteria.
For Applications or Information Contact: Susanna C. Easton,
International Education and Graduate Program Service, U.S. Department
of Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, SW., suite 600C, Portals Building,
Washington, DC 20202-5332. Telephone (202) 401-9780. Internet:
Susanna__Easton@ed.gov
If you use a telecommunications device for the deaf (TDD) may call
the Federal Information Relay Service (FRS) at 1-800-877-8339 between 8
a.m. and 8 p.m., Eastern time, Monday through Friday.
Individuals with disabilities may obtain this document in an
alternate format (e.g., Braille, large print, audiotape, or computer
diskette) on request to the contact person for the respective program,
as listed in the preceding paragraph. Individuals with disabilities may
obtain a copy of the application package in an alternate format, also,
by contacting that person. However, the Department is not able to
reproduce in an alternate format the standard forms included in the
application package.
Electronic Access To This Document
You may view this document, as well as all other Department of
Education documents published in the Federal Register, in text or
portable document format (pdf) on the Internet at either of the
following sites:
http://ocfo.ed.gov/fedreg.htm
http://www.ed.gov/news.html
To use the pdf you must have the Adobe Acrobat Reader Program with
Search, which is available free at either of the previous sites. If you
have any questions about using the pdf, call the U.S. Government
Printing Office at (202) 512-1530 or, toll free, at 1-888-293-6498.
You may also view these documents in text copy only on an
electronic bulletin board of the Department. Telephone: (202) 219-1511
or, toll free, 1-800-222-4922. The documents are located under Option
G--Files/Announcements, Bulletins, and Press Releases.
Note: The official version of a document is the document
published in the Federal Register.
Program Authority: 20 U.S.C. 1121 et. seq.
Dated: January 21, 1999.
David A. Longanecker,
Assistant Secretary for Postsecondary Education.
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