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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION Application Deadline Data Extension in requirements and limitations in the Case of Technical Issues with the competition NIA. Common Instructions for Applicants to Grants.gov System, we are changing, in 4. Data Universal Numbering System Department of Education Discretionary three places, the time of the application Number, Taxpayer Identification Grant Programs deadline from 4:30:00 p.m., Eastern Number, and System for Award Time, to 11:59:59 p.m., Eastern Time. Management: To do business with the AGENCY: Office for Planning, Evaluation We are making these changes so that Department, and to submit your and Policy Development, Department of applicants not located in the Eastern application electronically using Education. Time will have a full business day to Grants.gov, you must— ACTION: Notice; revised common submit their applications before the a. Have a Data Universal Numbering instructions. deadline passes. We are also adding a System (DUNS) number and a Taxpayer Identification Number (TIN); SUMMARY: On February 12, 2018, the sentence notifying applicants that b. Register both your DUNS number Department of Education (Department) assistance from Principal Office staff is and TIN with the System for Award published a set of common instructions available until 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time Management (SAM.gov), the for applicants seeking funds under a on the application deadline date. Government’s primary registrant Department discretionary grant Lastly, we are revising the database; competition as part of a broader effort to instructions for submitting an c. Provide your DUNS number and reduce barriers for applicants. These application electronically, under section TIN on your application; and common instructions are referenced in 5, Other Submission Requirements, so d. Maintain an active SAM individual competition notices inviting that applications can be submitted using registration with current information applications (NIAs). In this notice, we Microsoft Word. We are making this while your application is under review are publishing a revised version of the change to provide greater flexibility for by the Department and, if you are common instructions that supersedes applicants to submit an acceptable awarded a grant, during the project the version published on February 12, application for review; however, we period. 2018. recommend that applicants submit all documents as read-only flattened PDFs. You can obtain a DUNS number from FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: The revised common instructions are Dun and Bradstreet at the following Ronald B. Petracca, U.S. Department of set forth as follows: website: http://fedgov.dnb.com/ Education, 400 Maryland Avenue SW, Common Set of Instructions for webform. A DUNS number can be Room 6E306, Washington, DC 20202. Applicants: Application and created within one to two business days. Telephone: (202) 401–6008. Email: Submission Information. If you are a corporate entity, agency, [email protected]. 1. Address to Request Application institution, or organization, you can If you use a telecommunications Package: You can obtain an application obtain a TIN from the Internal Revenue device for the deaf (TDD) or a text package from the Department’s website Service (IRS). If you are an individual, telephone (TTY), call the Federal Relay or Grants.gov. you can obtain a TIN from the IRS or the Service (FRS), toll-free, at 1–800–877– To obtain a copy via the Department’s Social Security Administration. If you 8339. website, use the following address: need a new TIN, please allow two to SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: www.ed.gov/fund/grant/apply/ five weeks for your TIN to become Background: This document provides grantapps/index.html. active. applicants with a centralized and up-to- 2. Content and Form of Application The SAM registration process can take date set of instructions for applying to Submission: Requirements concerning approximately seven business days, but the Department’s discretionary grant the content and form of an application, may take upwards of several weeks, programs. Future NIAs will reference together with the forms you must depending on the completeness and this document in lieu of providing this submit, are in the application package accuracy of the data you enter into the series of instructions within each NIA. for the program. SAM.gov database. Thus, if you think Rarely, exceptions will need to be made 3. Submission Dates and Times: you might want to apply for Federal to these instructions and will be noted Submit applications for grants under the financial assistance under a program in an individual competition NIA. program electronically using Grants.gov. administered by the Department, please Revised Common Instructions: The For information (including dates and allow sufficient time to obtain and Department is making several changes times) about how to submit your register your DUNS number and TIN. to the common instructions for application electronically, please refer We recommend that you register early. applicants provided in the notice to Other Submission Requirements in If you are unable to submit an published in the Federal Register on section 5 of these instructions. application on Grants.gov by the February 12, 2018 (83 FR 6003). First, in We do not consider an application application deadline because you do not section four, Data Universal Numbering that does not comply with the deadline have an active SAM registration, you System Number, Taxpayer requirements. will not be considered for funding. Identification Number, and System for Individuals with disabilities who Note: Once your SAM.gov registration is Award Management, we are adding a need an accommodation or auxiliary aid active, it may be 24 to 48 hours before you sentence above the Note that clarifies in connection with the application can access the information in, and submit an that applicants who are unable to process should contact the person listed application through, Grants.gov. submit an application via Grants.gov by in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION If you are currently registered with the application deadline, because their CONTACT section in the competition NIA. SAM.gov, you may not need to make System for Award Management (SAM) If the Department provides an any changes. However, please make registration is not active, will not be accommodation or auxiliary aid to an certain that the TIN associated with considered for funding. individual with a disability in your DUNS number is correct. Note: Second, in section 5(a), under Other connection with the application You must update your SAM registration Submission Requirements—Electronic process, the individual’s application annually. This may take three or more Submission of Applicants and— remains subject to all other business days.

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Information about SAM is available at the person listed in the FOR FURTHER attachments to your application as files www.SAM.gov. To further assist you INFORMATION CONTACT section in the in either Portable Document Format with obtaining and registering your competition NIA during normal (PDF) or Microsoft Word. Although DUNS number and TIN in SAM.gov or business hours and no later than 5:00 applicants have the option of uploading updating your existing SAM account, p.m., Eastern Time, on the application any narrative sections and all other we have prepared a SAM.gov Tip Sheet, deadline date. attachments to their application in which you can find at: http:// • The amount of time it can take to either PDF or Microsoft Word, we www2.ed.gov/fund/grant/apply/sam- upload an application will vary recommend applicants submit all faqs.html. depending on a variety of factors, documents as read-only flattened PDFs, In addition, in order to submit your including the size of the application and meaning any fillable PDF files must be application via Grants.gov, you must (1) the speed of your internet connection. saved and submitted as non-fillable PDF register as an applicant using your Therefore, we recommend that you files and not as interactive or fillable DUNS number and (2) be designated by leave yourself plenty of time to PDF files, to better ensure applications your organization’s E-Biz Point of complete your submission. are processed in a more timely, Contact as an Authorized Organization • Applications received by accurate, and efficient manner. If you Representative (AOR). Details on these Grants.gov are date- and time-stamped choose to submit your application in steps are outlined at the following upon submission. Your application Microsoft Word, you may do so using Grants.gov web page: https:// must be fully uploaded and submitted any version of Microsoft Word (i.e., a www.grants.gov/web/grants/ and must be date- and time-stamped by document ending in a .doc or .docx register.html. the Grants.gov system no later than extension). If you upload a file type 5. Other Submission Requirements: 11:59:59 p.m., Eastern Time, on the other than PDF or Microsoft Word or if a. Electronic Submission of application deadline date. Except as you submit a password-protected file, Applications. otherwise noted in this section, we will we will be unable to review that We are participating as a partner in not accept your application if it is material. Please note that this will likely the Government-wide Grants.gov site. received—that is, date- and time- result in your application not being Submit applications electronically using stamped by the Grants.gov system—after considered for funding. The Department Grants.gov and do not email them 11:59:59 p.m., Eastern Time, on the will not convert material from other unless explicitly allowed in a application deadline date. We do not formats to PDF or Microsoft Word. competition NIA. consider an application that does not • After you electronically submit A Grants.gov applicant must apply comply with the deadline requirements. your application, you will receive from online using Workspace, a shared When we retrieve your application from Grants.gov an automatic notification of environment where members of a grant Grants.gov, we will notify you if we are receipt that contains a Grants.gov team may simultaneously access and rejecting your application because it tracking number. Grants.gov also will edit different web forms within an was late. Receipt of a date- and time- notify you automatically by email if application. An applicant can create an stamp does not mean that your your application met all of the individual Workspace for each application meets program eligibility Grants.gov validation requirements or if application and establish for that requirements described in the there were any errors (such as application a collaborative application application package. submission of your application by package that allows more than one • You should review and follow the someone other than a registered AOR, person in the applicant’s organization to Education Submission Procedures for issues with your DUNS number, or work concurrently on an application. submitting an application through inclusion of an attachment with a file The Grants.gov system also enables the Grants.gov that are included in the name that contains special characters). applicant to reuse forms from previous application package for the program to You will be given an opportunity to submissions, check them in and out to ensure that you submit your application correct any errors and resubmit, but you complete them, and submit the on time. You can also find the must still meet the deadline for application package. For access to Education Submission Procedures submission of your application. further instructions on how to apply pertaining to Grants.gov under News Once your application is successfully using Grants.gov, refer to: and Events on the Department’s G5 validated by Grants.gov, the Department www.grants.gov/web/grants/applicants/ system home page at www.G5.gov. In will retrieve your application from apply-for-grants.html. addition, for specific guidance and Grants.gov and send you an email with You may access the electronic grant procedures for submitting an a unique PR/Award number for your applications at www.Grants.gov. You application through Grants.gov, please application. must search for the downloadable refer to the Grants.gov website at: Email confirmations and receipts from application package for this competition www.grants.gov/web/grants/applicants/ Grants.gov do not indicate receipt by the by the CFDA number. Do not include apply-for-grants.html. Department, nor do they mean that your the CFDA number’s alpha suffix in your • When you submit your application application is complete or has met all search (e.g., search for 84.184, not electronically, all documents must be application requirements. While your 84.184D). submitted in this manner, including all application may have been successfully Please note the following: information you typically provide on validated by Grants.gov, it also must be • Applicants needing assistance with the following forms: The Application for reviewed in accordance with the Grants.gov may contact the Grants.gov Federal Assistance (SF 424), the Department’s application requirements Support Center either by calling 1–800– Department of Education Supplemental as specified in the competition NIA and 518–4726 or by sending an email to Information for SF 424, Budget in these application instructions. It is [email protected]. The Grants.gov Information—Non-Construction your responsibility to ensure that your Support Center is available 24 hours a Programs (ED 524), and all necessary submitted application has met all of the day, seven days a week, except for assurances and certifications. Department’s requirements. Federal holidays. Applicants needing • When you submit your application Additionally, we may request that you assistance from Principal Office staff electronically, you must upload any provide us original signatures on forms with their applications should contact narrative sections and all other at a later date.

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Application Deadline Date Extension application deadline date, to the Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is in Case of Technical Issues with the Department at the following address: available free at the site. Grants.gov System: If you experience U.S. Department of Education, You may also access documents of the problems submitting your application Application Control Center, Attention: Department published in the Federal through Grants.gov, please contact the (CFDA Number), LBJ Basement Level 1, Register by using the article search Grants.gov Support Desk immediately, 400 Maryland Avenue SW, Washington, feature at: www.federalregister.gov. toll-free, at 1–800–518–4726. The DC 20202–4260. Specifically, through the advanced Grants.gov Support Center will provide You must show proof of mailing search feature at this site, you can limit you with a Support Desk Case Number consisting of one of the following: your search to documents published by documenting your communication. You (1) A legibly dated U.S. Postal Service the Department. must retain your Support Desk Case postmark. James C. Blew, (2) A legible mail receipt with the Number for future reference as proof of Assistant Secretary for Planning, Evaluation your communication with the Support date of mailing stamped by the U.S. and Policy Development. Center. Please subsequently contact the Postal Service. [FR Doc. 2019–02206 Filed 2–12–19; 8:45 am] person listed in the FOR FURTHER (3) A dated shipping label, invoice, or BILLING CODE 4000–01–P INFORMATION CONTACT section in the receipt from a commercial carrier. competition NIA and provide an (4) Any other proof of mailing explanation of the technical problem acceptable to the Secretary of the U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY you experienced with Grants.gov, along Department of Education. with the Grants.gov Support Desk Case If you mail your application through Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technical Number. the U.S. Postal Service, we do not Advisory Committee; Meeting If you are prevented from accept either of the following as proof electronically submitting your of mailing: AGENCY: Office of Energy Efficiency and application on the application deadline (1) A private metered postmark. Renewable Energy, Department of date because of technical problems (2) A mail receipt that is not dated by Energy. within the Grants.gov system, we will the U.S. Postal Service. ACTION: Notice of open meeting. grant you an extension until 11:59:59 Note: The U.S. Postal Service does not SUMMARY: This notice announces an p.m., Eastern Time, the following uniformly provide a dated postmark. Before business day to enable you to transmit relying on this method, you should check open meeting of the Hydrogen and Fuel your application electronically, with your local post office. Cell Technical Advisory Committee provided we can verify the technical (HTAC). The Federal Advisory We will not consider applications Committee Act requires notice of the issues affected your ability to submit postmarked after the application your application on time via your meeting be announced in the Federal deadline date. Register. Grants.gov Support Desk Case Number. Note for Mail Delivery of Paper Note: The extensions to which we refer in Applications: If you mail your DATES: Monday, March 18, 2019; 8:00 this section apply only to technical problems application to the Department— a.m.–6:30 p.m. with the Grants.gov system. We will not grant (1) You must indicate on the envelope ADDRESSES: National Renewable Energy you an extension if you failed to fully register and in Item 11 of the SF 424 the CFDA Laboratory, 901 D Street SW, Suite 930, in order to submit your application to number, including suffix letter, if any, Washington, DC 20024. Grants.gov (including with the required FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: DUNS number and TIN currently registered of the competition under which you are in SAM) before the application deadline date submitting your application; and Email: [email protected] or at the mailing and time or if the technical problem you (2) The Application Control Center address: Shawna McQueen, Designated experienced is unrelated to the Grants.gov will notify you of the Department’s Federal Officer, U.S. Department of system. receipt of your grant application. If you Energy, Office of Energy Efficiency and b. Submission of Paper Applications. do not receive this notification within Renewable Energy, 1000 Independence We discourage paper applications, but 15 business days from the application Avenue SW, EE–3F, Washington, DC if electronic submission is not possible deadline date, you should call the 20585, Telephone number (202) 586– (e.g., you do not have access to the Application Control Center at (202) 0833. internet), you must provide a written 245–6288. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: statement that you intend to submit a Accessible Format: Individuals with Purpose of the Committee: The paper application. Send this written disabilities can obtain this document Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technical statement no later than two weeks and a copy of the application package in Advisory Committee (HTAC) was before the application deadline date (14 an accessible format (e.g., braille, large established under section 807 of the calendar days or, if the 14th calendar print, audiotape, or compact disc) on Energy Policy Act of 2005 (EPACT), day before the application deadline date request to the program contact person Public Law 109–58; 119 Stat. 849, to falls on a Federal holiday, the next listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION provide advice and recommendations to business day following the Federal CONTACT. the Secretary of Energy on the program holiday). Electronic Access to This Document: authorized by Title VIII of EPACT. If you mail your written statement to The official version of this document is Tentative Agenda: (updates will be the Department, it must be postmarked the document published in the Federal posted on the web at): http:// no later than two weeks before the Register. You may access the official hydrogen.energy.gov/advisory_ application deadline date. Please send edition of the Federal Register and the htac.html). this statement to the person listed in the Code of Federal Regulations at: • HTAC Business (including public FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT www.govinfo.gov. At this site you can comment period) section of the competition NIA. view this document, as well as all other • DOE Leadership Updates If you submit a paper application, you documents of this Department • Program and Budget Updates must mail the original and two copies published in the Federal Register, in • Updates from Federal/State of your application, on or before the text or PDF. 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