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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 32 / Friday, February 19, 2021 / Proposed Rules
community rehabilitation programs, and workforce development boards, as reflected in the Unified or Combined State Plans.
b Discrete skills related to CAP
duties and responsibilities i Individual advocacy;
ii Systems advocacy;
iii Alternate dispute resolution; and iv Leadership, relationship building, and outreach.
c Strategic planning i Assessments of VR program challenges, needs, and opportunities in the State, including the State VR
agencys own innovative approaches as well as the expanded provisions under WIOA. Strategic assessments include targeted reviews of the RSA227, Unified or Combined State Plans, RSA
monitoring reports, and feedback from VR clients, applicants, and other key stakeholders;
ii Development of the individual CAP programs strategic goals and action plans including their particular training or technical assistance needs, based on their identified State VR
program challenges, needs, and opportunities; and iii Strategic outreach and engagement with State VR agencies, the SRC, and workforce development partners, among others.
d Resource management i Budgeting and financial oversight practices in support of strategic goals and objectives, consistent with Generally Accepted Accounting Practices; and ii Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for Federal Awards, at 2 CFR part 200, pertinent to CAP and VR program operations.
2 Comprehensive plan for the delivery of training and technical assistance on the required subject areas and topics. The plan must describe the following:
a Subject areas and topics, specifically, how they will be prioritized and made available in the initial year and subsequent years of the project;
b Training activities, consisting of both established training modules and ad hoc training responsive to emerging circumstances or trends;
c Technical assistance, consisting of individualized information on identified subject areas and topics, as well as consultation on options for applying existing law, regulations, and RSA-issued guidance to specific factual circumstances that arise in the course of CAP professionals individual or systems advocacy efforts;
d Training and technical assistance curricula, materials, and tools, which
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may include resources developed by RSA VR technical assistance centers and demonstration projects, available at the National Clearinghouse of Rehabilitation Training Materials;
e Information delivery methods, including in-person and virtual activities, communities of practice, social media, and searchable databases;
and f State-of-the-art communication tools and platforms, including an interactive project website, distance learning and convening technologies, and searchable databases.
The training and technical assistance plan must be based on a comprehensive review of CAP professionals needs with respect to the required subject areas and topics outlined above. The comprehensive needs assessment may comprise reviews of the RSA227, Unified or Combined State Plans, and RSA State monitoring reports as well as questionnaires, surveys, and interviews with CAP professionals and key stakeholders, among others.
3 Quality control processes to ensure that training and technical assistance activities and materials are updated to reflect the statutory and regulatory changes in the Rehabilitation Act as amended by title IV of WIOA, the RSA
policy guidance updates, and future reauthorizations of the Rehabilitation Act;
4 Coordination with and leveraging the resources of RSAs vocational rehabilitation technical assistance centers and other Federal or nonFederal programs, including the recently funded RSA technical assistance centers on Quality Employment and Quality Management and the National Technical Assistance Center on Transition, in the development of CAP Training project activities, curriculum, materials, and tools;
5 Coordination with the entity providing training and technical assistance to the Protection and Advocacy of Individual Rights program, consistent with section 509 of the Rehabilitation Act; and 6 Project evaluation based on performance measures to be established in the notice inviting applications, consistent with the Government Performance and Results Act.
CAP Training performance will be assessed based on the following considerations:
a Quality, relevance, and usefulness of the training and technical assistance;
b Trends in pertinent CAP program services, including individual and systems advocacy; and
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c Relationship between the observed CAP services trends and the training and technical assistance provided under this priority.
The performance assessment will be based on a variety of quantitative and qualitative data sources, including, but not limited to:
a RSA227;
b Preand post-training assessments;
c Questionnaires, surveys, and focus groups;
d Success stories; and e Peer reviews.
The foregoing performance considerations and data sources must be incorporated in a comprehensive evaluation plan. The evaluation plan will include a logic model that outlines the proposed project activities, outputs, outcomes, baselines, and targets. The plan also will describe how the evaluation results will be used to promote continuous program improvement throughout the grants period of performance.
Types of Priorities When inviting applications for a competition using one or more priorities, we designate the type of each priority as absolute, competitive preference, or invitational through a notice in the Federal Register. The effect of each type of priority follows:
Absolute priority: Under an absolute priority, we consider only applications that meet the priority 34 CFR
75.105c3.
Competitive preference priority:
Under a competitive preference priority, we give competitive preference to an application by 1 awarding additional points, depending on the extent to which the application meets the priority 34 CFR 75.105c2a; or 2 selecting an application that meets the priority over an application of comparable merit that does not meet the priority 34 CFR
75.105c2ii.
Invitational priority: Under an invitational priority, we are particularly interested in applications that meet the priority. However, we do not give an application that meets the priority a preference over other applications 34
CFR 75.105c1.
Final Priority: We will announce the final priority in a notice in the Federal Register. We will determine the final priority after considering responses to the proposed priority and other information available to the Department.
This document does not preclude us from proposing additional priorities, requirements, definitions, or selection criteria, subject to meeting applicable rulemaking requirements.

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