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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 130 / Monday, July 12, 2021 / Notices
respondents, including through the use of information technology. Please note that written comments received in response to this notice will be considered public records.
Title of Collection: Assurance of ComplianceCivil Rights Certificate.
OMB Control Number: 18700503.
Type of Review: An extension of a currently approved collection.
Respondents/Affected Public: State, Local, and Tribal Governments; Private Sector.
Total Estimated Number of Annual Responses: 25.
Total Estimated Number of Annual Burden Hours: 8.
Abstract: The Office for Civil Rights OCR has enforcement responsibilities under several civil rights laws, including Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Age Discrimination Act of 1975, and the Boy Scouts of America Equal Access Act. To meet these responsibilities, OCR collects assurances of compliance from applicants for Federal financial assistance from, and applicants for funds made available through, the Department of Education, as required by regulations. These entities include, for example, State educational agencies, local education agencies, and postsecondary educational institutions.
If a recipient violates one or more of these civil rights laws, OCR and the Department of Justice can use the signed assurances of compliance in an enforcement proceeding.
Dated: July 7, 2021.
Juliana Pearson, PRA Coordinator, Strategic Collections and Clearance Governance and Strategy Division Office of Chief Data Officer Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development.
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Applications for New Awards;
Innovative Approaches to Literacy Program Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, Department of Education.
ACTION: Notice.

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The Department of Education Department is issuing a notice inviting applications for new awards for fiscal year FY 2021 for the Innovative Approaches to Literacy IAL Program, Assistance Listing Number 84.215G.
This notice relates to the approved
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DATES:
Applications Available: July 12, 2021.
Deadline for Notice of Intent to Apply:
July 22, 2021.
Deadline for Transmittal of Applications: August 11, 2021.
Deadline for Intergovernmental Review: September 10, 2021.
ADDRESSES: For the addresses for obtaining and submitting an application, please refer to our Common Instructions for Applicants to Department of Education Discretionary Grant Programs, published in the Federal Register on February 13, 2019
84 FR 3768 and available at www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-201902-13/pdf/2019-02206.pdf.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Simon Earle, U.S. Department of Education, 400 Maryland Avenue SW, Room 3E254, Washington, DC 20202
6450. Telephone: 202 4537923.
Email: Simon.Earle@ed.gov.
If you use a telecommunications device for the deaf TDD or a text telephone TTY, call the Federal Relay Service FRS, toll free, at 1800877
8339.
Pre-Application Webinar Information:
The Department will hold a preapplication meeting via webinar for prospective applicants. For information about the pre-application webinar, visit the IAL website at: https oese.ed.gov/
offices/office-of-discretionary-grantssupport-services/well-roundededucation-programs/innovativeapproaches-to-literacy/.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Full Text of Announcement I. Funding Opportunity Description Purpose of Program: The IAL program supports high-quality programs designed to develop and improve literacy skills for children and students from birth through 12th grade in highneed local educational agencies LEAs and schools. The Department intends to promote innovative literacy programs that support the development of literacy skills in low-income communities, including programs that 1 develop and enhance effective school library programs, which may include providing professional development for school librarians, books, and up-to-date materials to high-need schools; 2
provide early literacy services, including pediatric literacy programs through which, during well-child visits, medical providers trained in researchbased methods of early language and literacy promotion provide developmentally appropriate books and
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recommendations to parents to encourage them to read aloud to their children starting in infancy; and 3
provide high-quality books on a regular basis to children and adolescents from low-income communities to increase reading motivation, performance, and frequency.
The Explanatory Statement for Division H of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 Pub. L. 116
260 2021 Appropriations Explanatory Statement includes language directing the Department to reserve no less than 50 percent of funds under the IAL
program for grants to develop and enhance effective school library programs, which may include providing professional development to school librarians and books and up-to-date materials to high-need schools 166
Cong. Rec. H8634, 2020. While report language does not create a legal requirement to reserve the specified amount of funding for school library programs, the number of high-quality applications related to school library programs received under IAL
competitions generally has allowed the Department to meet this report language directive.
Priorities: This notice contains two absolute priorities and three competitive preference priorities. Absolute Priorities 1 and 2 were established in the notice of final priorities and requirement for IAL NFP, published elsewhere in this issue of the Federal Register.
Competitive Preference Priority 1 is from the Administrative Priorities for Discretionary Grant Programs, published in the Federal Register on March 9, 2020 85 FR 13640
Administrative Priorities. Competitive Preference Priorities 2 and 3 are from the NFP.
Absolute Priorities: For FY 2021 and any subsequent year in which we make awards from the list of unfunded applications from this competition, these priorities are absolute priorities.
Under 34 CFR 75.105c3, we consider only applications that meet at least one of these absolute priorities.
These priorities are:
Absolute Priority 1Projects, Carried Out in Coordination With School Libraries, for Book Distribution, Childhood Literacy Activities, or Both.
Projects that propose to coordinate with school libraries to carry out grant activities, such as book distributions, childhood literacy activities, or both, for the proposed project.
Absolute Priority 2Projects, Carried Out in Coordination With School Libraries, That Provide a Learning Environment That Is Racially, Ethnically, Culturally, Disability Status
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