[Federal Register: March 18, 1999 (Volume 64, Number 52)]
[Notices]
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
[CFDA NO: 84.333]
Demonstration Projects To Ensure a Quality Higher Education for
Students With Disabilities; Notice of Technical Assistance Workshops
for Fiscal Year (FY) 2000 Grant Applications
SUMMARY: The Secretary announces three technical assistance workshops
to assist institutions of higher education in preparing grant
applications for the Demonstration Projects To Ensure Quality Higher
Education for Students with Disabilities grant competition. For further
information on this competition, please refer to Title VII, Part D, of
the Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended.
DATE AND TIME: The date, time, location of the workshops, and hotel
accommodations are as follows:
Workshop #1: Monday, March 22, 1999 (9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.), U.S.
Department of Education, Departmental Auditorium, First Floor, 400
Maryland Avenue, SW., Washington, DC. For those in need of hotel
accommodations, a number of rooms have been reserved for the evening of
March 21 at: Holiday Inn on the Hill, 415 New Jersey Avenue, NW,
Washington DC. Telephone: (202) 638-1616.
Workshop #2: Tuesday, April 6, 1999 (9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.),
University of San Francisco, McLaren Center, Room 252, 2345 Golden Gate
Avenue, San Francisco, CA. For those in need of hotel accommodations, a
number of rooms have been reserved for the evening of April 5 at:
Canterbury Hotel, 750 Sutter Street, San Francisco, CA. Telephone:
1(800) 227-4788.
Workshop #3: Friday, April 9, 1999 (9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.), John F.
Kennedy Federal Building Building, Room 275 ``C'', 55 New Sudberry
Street, Boston, MA. For those in need of hotel accommodations, a number
of rooms have been reserved for the evening of April 8 at: Omni Parker
House Hotel, 60 School Street, Boston, MA. Telephone: (617) 227-8600.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Amie Amiot, U.S. Department of
Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, SW, Suite 6222 Portals Building,
Washington, DC 20202-5331. Telephone (202) 260-0415. 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 5
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 listed in the preceding
paragraph.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The technical assistance workshop site is
accessible to individuals with disabilities. An individual with a
disability who will need an auxiliary aid or service to participate in
the workshop (e.g., interpreting service, assistive listening device,
or materials in an alternate format), should notify the contact person
listed in this notice at least two weeks before the scheduled workshop
date. Although the Department will attempt to meet a request received
after that date, the requested auxiliary aid or service may not be
available because of insufficient time to arrange it.
Electronic Access to This Document
Anyone 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 World Wide Web at either of the
following sites:
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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.
Anyone 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 Options
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. 1140.
Dated: March 15, 1999.
David A. Longanecker,
Assistant Secretary for Postsecondary Education.
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