94-30254. Projects With Industry; Notice Inviting Applications for New Awards for Fiscal Year 1995

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Projects With Industry; Notice Inviting Applications for New 
Awards for Fiscal Year 1995

    Purpose of Program: Projects With Industry (PWI) projects create 
and expand job and career opportunities for individuals with 
disabilities in the competitive labor market by engaging the talent and 
leadership of private industry as partners in the rehabilitation 
process. PWI projects identify competitive job and career opportunities 
and the skills needed to perform those jobs, create practical settings 
for job readiness and training programs, and provide job placement and 
career advancement services.
    This program supports the National Education Goal that, by the year 
2000, every adult American will be literate and will possess the 
knowledge and skills necessary to compete in a global economy and 
exercise the rights and responsibilities of citizenship.
    Eligible Applicants: Employers and profitmaking and nonprofit 
organizations: designated State units, labor unions, employers, 
community rehabilitation program providers, trade associations, Indian 
tribes or tribal organizations, and other agencies or organizations 
with the capacity to create and expand job and career opportunities for 
individuals with disabilities.
    Only applicants that propose to serve a geographic area that is 
currently unserved or underserved by the PWI program can receive new 
awards under this program.
    Deadline for Transmittal of Applications: March 13, 1995.
    Dateline for Intergovernmental Review: May 11, 1995.
    Applications Available: December 15, 1994.
    Available Funds: $1,700,000.
    Estimated Range of Awards: $190,000-$245,000.
    Estimated Average Size of Awards: $213,000.
    Estimated Number of Awards: 7-9.

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

    Project Period: Up to 60 months.
    Applicable Regulations: (a) The Education Department General 
Administrative Regulations (EDGAR) in 34 CFR Parts 74, 75, 77, 79, 80, 
81, 82, 85, and 86; and (b) The regulations for this program in 34 CFR 
Parts 369 and 379.
    Priority: The priority in the notice of final priorities for this 
program, as published elsewhere in this issue of the Federal Register, 
applies to this competition.
    The Department anticipates that the Empowerment Zones and 
Enterprise Communities will be announced by early January 1995. 
Interested individuals may contact the Department of Housing and Urban 
Development at 1-800-998-9999 for additional information on the 
Empowerment Zone and Enterprise Community program, including which 
communities have applied for designation or which have been selected.
    For Applications: Written requests for applications should be 
addressed to Constance Pledger, U.S. Department of Education, 600 
Independence Avenue, S.W., Room 3318 MES, Washington, D.C. 20202-2741.
    Application Request Line: [phone]; Individuals who use a 
telecommunications device for the deaf (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.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Thomas Finch, U.S. Department of 
Education, 600 Independence Avenue, S.W., Room 3315 MES, Washington, 
D.C. 20202-2650. Telephone: [phone].
    Information about the Department's funding opportunities, including 
copies of application notices for discretionary grant competitions, can 
be viewed on the Department's electronic bulletin board (ED Board), 
telephone [phone]; or on the Internet Gopher Server at 
GOPHER.ED.GOV (under Announcements, Bulletins, and Press Releases). 
This application notice can also be viewed on the Rehabilitation 
Services Administration Bulletin Board System, telephone [phone] 
(low speed-2400 bps and lower) or [phone] (high speed-9600 and 
higher). However, the official application notice for a discretionary 
grant competition is the notice published in the Federal Register.

    Program Authority: 29 U.S.C. 795g.

    Dated: December 5, 1994.
Judith E. Heumann,
Assistant Secretary for Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.
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