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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 56 / Thursday, March 25, 2021 / Proposed Rules DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
34 CFR Chapter II
DOCKET ID ED2021OESE0037

Proposed Waiver and Extension of the Project Periods for the Equity Assistance Centers Grant Program Office of Elementary and Secondary Education OESE, Department of Education.
ACTION: Proposed waiver and extension of project periods.
AGENCY:

The Secretary proposes to waive the requirements in the Education Department General Administrative Regulations that generally prohibit project periods exceeding five years and project period extensions involving the obligation of additional Federal funds.
The proposed waiver and extension would enable four projects under Assistance Listing Number ALN
84.004D to receive funding for an additional period, not to exceed September 30, 2022.
DATES: We must receive your comments on or before April 26, 2021.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments through the Federal eRulemaking Portal or via postal mail, commercial delivery, or hand delivery. We will not accept comments submitted by fax or by email or those submitted after the comment period. To ensure that we do not receive duplicate copies, please submit your comments only once. In addition, please include the Docket ID at the top of your comments.
Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to www.regulations.gov to submit your comments electronically. Information on using Regulations.gov, including instructions for accessing agency documents, submitting comments, and viewing the docket, is available on the site under FAQ.
Postal Mail, Commercial Delivery, or Hand Delivery: If you mail or deliver your comments, address them to Ed Vitelli, U.S. Department of Education, 400 Maryland Avenue SW, Room 3E106, Washington, DC 20202.
Privacy Note: The Departments policy is to make all comments received SUMMARY:

from members of the public available for public viewing in their entirety on the Federal eRulemaking Portal at www.regulations.gov. Therefore, commenters should be careful to include in their comments only information that they wish to make publicly available.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ed Vitelli, U.S. Department of Education, 400 Maryland Avenue SW, Room 3E106, Washington, DC 20202.
Telephone: 2024536203. Email:
Edward.Vitelli@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.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Invitation to Comment: We invite you to submit comments regarding this proposed waiver and extension. To ensure that your comments have maximum effect in developing the final waiver and extension, we urge you to identify clearly the specific grantee or grantees listed in the table under the Background section that each comment addresses.
We invite you to assist us in complying with the specific requirements of Executive Orders 12866
and 13563 and their overall requirement of reducing regulatory burden that might result from these proposed waivers and extensions. Please let us know of any further ways we could reduce potential costs or increase potential benefits while preserving the effective and efficient administration of the program.
During and after the comment period, you may inspect all public comments about this proposed waiver and extension of the project period by accessing Regulations.gov. Due to the current COVID19 public health emergency, the Department buildings are not open to the public. However, upon reopening, you may also inspect the comments in person at 400
Maryland Avenue SW, Room 3E106, Washington, DC, between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 4:00 p.m., Eastern Time, Monday through Friday of each week except Federal holidays.

FY 2016 awards under ALN
84.004D

Project information
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Mid-Atlantic Equity Consortium, Bethesda, MD.
Project: Center for Education Equity.
Intercultural Development Research Association, San Antonio, TX.
Project: IDRA Equity Assistance Center South.
Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN.
Project: Midwest and Plains Equity Assistance Center.
Metropolitan State University of Denver, Denver, CO.
Project: Western Educational Equity Assistance Center WEEAC.

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Assistance to Individuals with Disabilities in Reviewing the Rulemaking Record: On request, we will provide an appropriate accommodation or auxiliary aid to an individual with a disability who needs assistance to review the comments or other documents in the public rulemaking record for this proposed waiver and extension. If you want to schedule an appointment for this type of aid, please contact the person listed under FOR
FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT.
Background On July 18, 2016, the Department of Education Department published in the Federal Register 81 FR 46820 a notice inviting applications for four projects for fiscal year FY 2016 under the Equity Assistance Centers EAC
program, authorized under title IV of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C.
2000c2000c2, 2000c5.
The purpose of the EAC projects is to provide technical assistance including training at the request of school boards and other responsible governmental agencies in the preparation, adoption, and implementation of plans for the desegregation of public schools, and in the development of effective methods of coping with special educational problems occasioned by desegregation.
Desegregation assistance, per 34 CFR
270.4, may include, among other activities: 1 Dissemination of information regarding effective methods of coping with special educational problems occasioned by desegregation;
2 assistance and advice in coping with these problems; and 3 training designed to improve the ability of teachers, supervisors, counselors, parents, community members, community organizations, and other elementary or secondary school personnel to deal effectively with special educational problems occasioned by desegregation. All four projects provide technical assistance including training in all four of the desegregation assistance areas: race, sex, national origin, and religion. A table listing the FY 2016 EAC projects follows.

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