Office of Postsecondary Education, Department of Education.
Notice reopening the Higher Education Disaster Relief fiscal year (FY) 2009 competition.
On January 16, 2009, we published in the
To afford an opportunity to receive funding to those eligible applicants that submitted their pre-applications on time, we are reopening the Higher Education Disaster Relief FY 2009 competition only for eligible applicants who timely submitted a pre-application and received an e-mail from the Department with the applicant's calculated allotment for an award.
The January 16, 2009
Applicants that successfully submitted their complete applications on or before the deadline date of March 19, 2009 are not required to resubmit their applications. All other eligible applicants who timely submitted a pre-application and received an e-mail from the Department with the applicant's calculated allotment for an award must submit their applications by mail as provided in this notice.
All information in the January 16, 2009 notice, as amended by the January 26, 2009 correction notice, remains the same, except for the following updates.
Applications for grants under the Higher Education Disaster Relief program must be mailed on or before the application deadline date, for next business-day delivery, to the Department at the following address:
You must show proof of mailing consisting of one of the following:
(1) A legibly dated U.S. Postal Service postmark with evidence demonstrating that next business-day delivery was scheduled.
(2) A legible mail receipt with the date of mailing stamped by the U.S. Postal Service with evidence demonstrating that next business-day delivery was scheduled.
(3) A dated shipping label, invoice, or receipt from a commercial carrier.
(4) Any other proof of mailing acceptable to the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Education.
If you mail your application through the U.S. Postal Service, we do not accept either of the following as proof of mailing:
(1) A private metered postmark.
(2) A mail receipt that is not dated by the U.S. Postal Service.
The U.S. Postal Service does not uniformly provide a dated postmark. Before relying on this method, you should check with your local post office.
When you mail your application to the Department—
(1) You must indicate on the envelope and—if not provided by the Department—in Item 11 of the SF 424, the CFDA Number, including suffix letter, if any, of the competition under which you are submitting your application; and
(2) The Application Control Center will mail to you a notification of receipt of your grant application. If you do not receive this notification within 15 business days from the application deadline date, you should call the U.S. Department of Education Application Control Center at (202) 245–6288.
Ms. Cassandra Courtney, Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education, U.S. Department of Education, 1990 K Street, NW., 6th Floor, Washington, DC 20006–8544.
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The official version of this document is the document published in the
20 U.S.C. 1138–1138d.