ALAWON: American Library Association Washington Office Newsline Volume 13, Number 24 April 21, 2004 In This Issue: CTC Grants Notice Re-printed from the Federal Register. For the full text of the notice, see: http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/14mar20010800/edocket.access.gpo.gov/2004/04-8660.htm. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION GRANTS Office of Vocational and Adult Education; Overview Information; Community Technology Centers (CTC) Program; Notice Inviting Applications for New Awards for Fiscal Year (FY) 2004 for Novice and Non-Novice Applicants for the Community Technology Centers Program Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) Number: 84.341A. Dates: Applications Available: April 16, 2004. Deadline for Transmittal of Applications: June 1, 2004. Deadline for Intergovernmental Review: June 16, 2004. Eligible Applicants: Eligible applicants shall be an entity, such as a foundation, museum, library, for-profit business, public or private nonprofit organization or community-based organization (including faith-based organizations), an institution of higher education, a State educational agency (SEA), a local educational agency (LEA) (including a charter school that meets its State's definition of an LEA), a private school, or a consortium of such entities, institutions, or agencies. To be eligible, an applicant must have the capacity to significantly expand access to computers and related services for disadvantaged residents of economically distressed urban and rural communities who would otherwise be denied such access. One combined competition will be conducted for both non-novice and novice applicants. The Department will rank and fund the two groups separately. At least seventy-five percent of the funds will be set aside for non-novice applicants and up to twenty-five percent will be set aside for novice applicants. Novice Applicants: An applicant is considered a ``novice applicant'' if it meets the following definition taken from 34 CFR 75.225(a)(1): The applicant must-- (i) Have never received a grant or subgrant under the Community Technology Centers program; (ii) Have never been a member of a group application, submitted in accordance with 34 CFR 75.127-75.129, that received a grant under the Community Technology Centers program; and (iii) Have not had an active discretionary grant from the Federal Government in the five (5) years before the deadline date for applications in this competition. 34 CFR 75.225(a)(2) and (b) further interpret this definition in cases of group applications in this competition. Estimated Available Funds: $10,000,000. Up to 25 percent of the available funds will be set aside for novice applicants. Estimated Average Size of Awards: $350,000. Minimum and Maximum Award Amounts: The minimum award amount is $250,000 and the maximum award amount is $500,000, for the 12-month project period. No grant application will be considered for funding if it requests an award amount outside the funding range of $250,000 to $500,000. Estimated Number of Awards: 18-25. Note: The Department is not bound by any estimates in this notice. Project Period: Up to 12 months. For the full text of the notice, see: http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/14mar20010800/edocket.access.gpo.gov/2004/04-8660.htm. ****** ALAWON (ISSN 1069-7799) is a free, irregular publication of the American Library Association Washington Office. All materials subject to copyright by the American Library Association may be reprinted or redistributed for noncommercial purposes with appropriate credits. To subscribe to ALAWON, send the message: subscribe ala-wo [your_firstname] [your_lastname] to listproc@ala.org or go to http://www.ala.org/washoff/alawon. To unsubscribe to ALAWON, send the message: unsubscribe ala-wo to listproc@ala.org. ALAWON archives at http://www.ala.org/washoff/alawon. ALA Washington Office, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W., Suite 403, Washington, D.C. 20004-1701; phone: 202.628.8410 or 800.941.8478 toll-free; fax: 202.628.8419; e-mail: alawash@alawash.org; Web site: http://www.ala.org/washoff. Executive Director: Emily Sheketoff. Office of Government Relations: Lynne Bradley, Director; Carol Ashworth, Camille Bowman, Don Essex, Joshua Farrelman, Patrice McDermott and Miriam Nisbet. Office for Information Technology Policy: Rick Weingarten, Director; Carrie Lowe, Kathy Mitchell, Carrie Russell. ALAWON Editor: Bernadette Murphy.