81 FR 3162 - Request for Letters of Intent To Apply for 2015 Technology Initiative Grant Funding

LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION

Federal Register Volume 81, Issue 12 (January 20, 2016)

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The Legal Services Corporation (LSC) issues this Notice describing the conditions under which Letters of Intent To Apply for Technology Initiative Grants (TIG) will be received. LSC's TIG program was established in 2000. Since that time, LSC has made 647 grants totaling more than $53 million. This grant program provides an important tool to help achieve LSC's goal of increasing the quantity and quality of legal services available to eligible persons. Projects funded under the TIG program develop, test and replicate innovative technologies that can enable grant recipients and state justice communities to improve low-income persons' access to high quality legal assistance through an integrated and well managed technology system. When submitting Letters of Intent, applicants should consider the growth and continued development of technology and the resulting effects on the practice of law, management of legal aid organizations and legal aid service delivery.

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LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION

Request for Letters of Intent To Apply for 2015 Technology
Initiative Grant Funding

AGENCY: Legal Services Corporation.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Legal Services Corporation (LSC) issues this Notice
describing the conditions under which Letters of Intent To Apply for
Technology Initiative Grants (TIG) will be received. LSC's TIG program
was established in 2000. Since that time, LSC has made 647 grants
totaling more than $53 million. This grant program provides an
important tool to help achieve LSC's goal of increasing the quantity
and quality of legal services available to eligible persons. Projects
funded under the TIG program develop, test and replicate innovative
technologies that can enable grant recipients and state justice
communities to improve low-income persons' access to high quality legal
assistance through an integrated and well managed technology system.
When submitting Letters of Intent, applicants should consider the
growth and continued development of technology and the resulting
effects on the practice of law, management of legal aid organizations
and legal aid service delivery.

DATES: Letters of Intent must be submitted by 11:59 p.m. EST on
February 29, 2016.

ADDRESSES: Letters of Intent must be submitted electronically at http://lscgrants.lsc.gov.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jane Ribadeneyra, Program Analyst,
Office of Program Performance, Legal Services Corporation, 3333 K
Street NW., Washington, DC 20007; (202) 295-1554 (phone);
ribadeneyraj@lsc.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

General Information

The Legal Services Corporation awards Technology Initiative Grant
funds through an open, competitive, and impartial selection process.
All prospective applicants for 2016 TIG funds must submit a Letter of
Intent to Apply (LOI) prior to submitting a formal application. The
format and contents of the LOI should conform to the requirements
specified below in Section IV.
Through the LOI process, LSC identifies those projects that have a
reasonable chance of success in the competitive grant process based on
LSC's analysis of the project description and other information
provided in the LOI. LSC will solicit full proposals for those
projects.

LSC Requirements

Technology Initiative Grant funds are subject to all LSC
requirements, including the requirements of the Legal Services
Corporation Act (LSC Act), any applicable appropriations acts and any
other applicable laws, rules, regulations, policies, guidelines,
instructions, and other directives of the Legal Services Corporation,
including, but not limited to, the LSC Audit Guide for Recipients and
Auditors, the Accounting Guide for LSC Recipients, the CSR Handbook,
the 1981 LSC Property Manual (as amended) and the Property Acquisition
and Management Manual, with any amendments to the foregoing adopted
before or during the period of the grant. Before submitting a Letter of
Intent to Apply, applicants should be familiar with LSC's transfer and
subgrant requirements at 45 CFR parts 1610 and 1627 (see http://www.lsc.gov/about/laws-regulations/lsc-regulations-cfr-45-part-1600-et-seq), particularly as they pertain to payments of LSC funds to other
entities for programmatic activities.
For additional information and resources regarding TIG compliance,
including transfers, subgrants, third-party contracting, conflicts of
interest, grant modification procedures, and special TIG grant
assurances, see LSC's TIG compliance Web page.

Eligible Applicants

TIG awards are available only to current LSC Basic Field Grant
recipients that are not subject to any short funding (i.e., less than
one year) on Basic Field Grants.
LSC will not award a TIG to any applicant that is not in good
standing on any existing TIG projects. Applicants must be up to date,
according to the milestone schedule on all existing TIG projects prior
to submitting a LOI or have requested and received an adjustment to the
original milestone schedule. LSC will not award a TIG to any applicant
that has not made satisfactory progress on prior TIGs. LSC recipients
that have had a previous TIG terminated for failure to provide timely
reports and submissions are not eligible to receive a TIG for three
years after their earlier grant was terminated. This policy does not
apply to applicants that worked with LSC to end a TIG early after an
unsuccessful project implementation resulting from technology
limitations, a failed proof of concept, or other reasons outside of the
applicant's control.

Funding Availability

LSC has received an appropriation of $4 million for fiscal year
2016 to fund TIG projects. In 2015, 36 TIG projects received funding
with a median funding amount of $86,200. (See TIG's past awards Web
page for more information on past grants.) LSC recommends a minimum
amount for TIG funding requests of $40,000, but lower requests will be
considered. There is no maximum amount for TIG funding requests that
are within the total appropriation for TIG.

Collaborations

The TIG program encourages applicants to reach out to and include
in TIG projects others interested in access to justice--the courts, bar
associations, pro bono projects, libraries, and social service
agencies. Partnerships can enhance the reach, effectiveness and
sustainability of many projects.

Grant Categories

LSC will accept projects in two application categories:
(1) Innovations and Improvements
(2) Replication and Adaptation

Grant Category 1: Innovations and Improvements

The Innovations and Improvements Category is designated for
projects that:

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(1) Implement new or innovative approaches for using technology in
legal services or (2) enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of
existing technologies so that they may be better used to increase the
quality and quantity of services to clients.
Although there is no funding limit or matching requirement for
applications in this category, additional weight is given to projects
with strong support from partners. Proposals for initiatives with broad
applicability and/or that would have impact throughout the legal
services community are strongly encouraged.

Grant Category 2: Replication and Adaptation

The Replication and Adaptation category is for proposals that seek
to replicate, adapt, or provide added value to the work of prior
technology projects. This includes, but is not limited to, the
implementation and improvement of tested methodologies and technologies
from previous TIG projects. Applicants may also replicate technology
projects funded outside of the TIG program, including sectors outside
the legal aid community, such as other social services organizations,
the broader non-profit community, and the private sector.
Project proposals in the Replication and Adaptation category may
include, but are not limited to:

A: Replication of Previous TIG Projects

LSC requires that any original software developed with TIG funding
be available to other legal services programs at little or no cost.
Applicants should look to previous successful TIG projects to determine
how they could be replicated at a reduced cost from the original
project, and/or how they could be expanded and/or enhanced. Projects
where original software or content has already been created lend
themselves to replication, and LSC encourages programs to look to these
projects to see how they could benefit the delivery systems in their
state.

B: Automated Form Replication

LawHelp Interactive (LHI \1\) is deployed across the country with
thousands of active HotDocs templates and A2J Author modules hosted on
the LawHelp Interactive National HotDocs Server at https://lawhelpinteractive.org. Despite differences from state to state in the
content and format, many of these forms can be edited for use in other
jurisdictions with less effort, hence a lower cost, than developing the
document from scratch.
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Even if a form differs from one state to another, the information
needed to populate a form will, for the most part, be similar. (What
are the names of the plaintiff, the defendant, the children, etc.?).
This means the interviews are more easily replicated than templates.
All of these templates and interviews are available to be modified as
needed. Applicants should identify which forms and templates are to be
adapted, and then estimate the cost to do this and compare that to the
cost of developing them from scratch.
LHI has the capacity to support Spanish, Vietnamese, Mandarin and
Korean language interviews. In addition, LHI has been integrated with
other systems to allow the flow of information between LHI and court e-
filing systems, and legal aid case management systems. The ``Connect''
feature enables pro bono programs from across a state to use LHI
interviews and forms to assign pre-screened pro bono cases and their
documents to panel attorneys. For additional information, including
examples, best practices, models and training materials, see the
LawHelp Interactive Resource Center at http://www.probono.net/dasupport
(you may need to request a free membership to access this Web site).

C. Replication of Technology Projects in Other Sectors

In addition to replicating other TIG funded technology projects,
LSC encourages replication of proven technologies from non-LSC funded
legal aid organizations as well as sectors outside the legal aid
community. Ideas for replication may be found through resources and
organizations such as LSNTAP, the ABA, international legal aid
providers such as the Legal Services Society of British Columbia and
HiiL's Innovating Justice project (http://www.innovatingjustice.com),
Idealware (see the article on Unleashing Innovation), NTEN, and
TechSoup.

Areas of Interest

LSC welcomes applications for a wide variety of projects. For 2016,
LSC has three areas of particular interest in which programs are
encouraged to submit proposals for innovative technology approaches.
The designation of these areas does not in any way limit the scope of
proposals in which LSC is interested. The 2016 areas of particular
interest are:
A. Achieving ``100 Percent Access.'' LSC's 2013 Technology Summit
Report, available at http://www.lsc.gov/media-center/publications/report-summit-use-technology-expand-access-justice, proposed an
integrated service-delivery system that would ``move the United States
toward providing some form of effective assistance to 100 percent of
persons otherwise unable to afford an attorney for dealing with
essential civil legal needs.'' Recently, the Conference of Chief
Justices and the Conference of State Court Administrators adopted a
resolution advocating a similar access goal:

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Conference of Chief
Justices and the Conference of State Court Administrators support
the aspirational goal of 100 percent access to effective assistance
for essential civil legal needs and urge their members to provide
leadership in achieving that goal and to work with their Access to
Justice Commission or other such entities to develop a strategic
plan with realistic and measurable outcomes;

and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Conferences urge the National
Center for State Courts and other national organizations to develop
tools and provide assistance to states in achieving the goal of 100
percent access through a continuum of meaningful and appropriate
services.

With this area of interest, LSC seeks proposals that use technology
to further the goal of 100 percent access to effective assistance for
essential civil legal needs, particularly through projects that advance
related objectives developed by the Access to Justice Commission in the
applicant's state.
LSC's Technology Summit Report provides examples of strategies for
achieving 100 percent access, but proposals should not be limited to
approaches discussed in the report. Applicants should work with their
local commissions (where they exist) and/or other stakeholders to
determine the best ways to use technology to move toward achieving this
goal.
B. Projects to Move Organizations above the LSC Technology
Baselines. ``LSC Baselines: Technologies That Should Be in Place in a
Legal Aid Office Today,'' available at http://www.lsc.gov/sites/default/files/TIG/pdfs/LSC-Technology-Baselines-2015.PDF, provides a
detailed overview of the technologies that enable modern legal aid
offices to operate efficiently and effectively. While LSC's policy is
that TIGs cannot be used to bring grantees up to the baselines in an
area, we encourage applicants as they implement a baseline capacity to
think about how they can do more than just the minimum. This area of
interest focuses on initiatives that advance organizations beyond the
2015 Baselines by developing innovative, creative

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technology solutions that not only address one or more Baseline
capacities, but also exceed them. Grantees applying under this area of
interest should address how their project could establish a new
technology best practice that could be incorporated into future
versions of the Baselines.
C. Innovations in Legal Information Design and Delivery. Legal
tools and content should be developed with the end user in mind, but
too often the result reflects what the developer determines the end
user will need, rather than what the user understands and finds
helpful. Technology provides an opportunity to design and deliver legal
information optimized for the end user, and there are good examples of
how user-centric design can improve legal innovation (see
www.legaltechdesign.com and www.nulawlab.org). Projects in this area of
interest could incorporate new approaches to visual law, online
learning, and user interaction in the design and delivery of content.
In one example from the 2015 TIG cycle, a grantee received funding to
develop a courtroom experience app that delivers just-in-time support
directly to litigants' smartphones as they navigate various stages of
the court process, increasing effective self-representation. Projects
could also focus on low/no-literacy and Limited English Proficiency
(LEP) communities or others who are under-served by traditional
methods.

Specific Letter of Intent To Apply Requirements

One Project per Letter of Intent

Applicants may submit multiple LOIs, but a separate LOI should be
submitted for each project for which funding is sought.

Letter Requirements and Format

Letters of Intent must be submitted using the online system at
http://lscgrants.lsc.gov. Additional instructions and information can
be found on the TIG Web site, http://www.lsc.gov/grants-grantee-resources/our-grant-programs/tig. This system will walk you through the
process of creating a simple two-page LOI. The LOI should concisely
provide the following information about the proposed project:
1. Category--Select the appropriate category from the drop down
list.
2. Description of Project (maximum 2500 characters)--Briefly
describe the basic elements of the project, including the specific
technology(ies) the project will develop or implement; how they will be
developed, how they will operate, the function they will serve within
the legal services delivery system, their expected impact, and other
similar factors. (Only the impact should be highlighted here; more
details about the system's benefits should be provided below.)
3. Major Benefits (maximum 2500 characters)--Describe the specific
ways in which the project will increase or improve services to clients
and/or enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of program operations.
To the extent feasible, discuss both the qualitative and quantitative
aspects of these benefits.
4. Estimated Costs (maximum 1500 characters)--Start by stating the
amount of funding you are seeking from the TIG program, followed by the
estimated total project cost, summarizing the anticipated costs of the
major components of the project. List anticipated contributions, both
in-kind and monetary, from all partners involved in the project.
5. Major Partners (maximum 1500 characters)--Identify organizations
that are expected to be important partners. Specify the role(s) each
partner will play.
6. Innovation/Replication (maximum 1500 characters)--Identify how
and why the proposed project is new and innovative and/or is a
replication or adaptation of a previous technology project. Identify
how and why the proposed project can significantly benefit and/or be
replicated by other legal services providers and/or the legal services
community at large.

Letter of Intent To Apply Deadline

Letters of Intent must be completed and submitted into the online
system at http://lscgrants.lsc.gov no later than 11:59 p.m. EST,
Monday, February 29, 2016. The online system may experience technical
difficulties due to heavy traffic on the day of the deadline.
Applicants are strongly encouraged to complete LOI submissions as early
as possible.
LSC will not accept applications submitted after the application
deadline unless a waiver of the deadline has been approved in advance
(see Waiver Authority). Therefore, allow sufficient time for online
submission.
LSC will provide confirmation via email upon the completed
electronic submission of each Letter of Intent. Keep this email as
verification that the program's LOI was submitted. If no confirmation
email is received, inquire about the status of your LOI at
Techgrants@lsc.gov.

Selection Process

LSC will initially review all Letters of Intent to Apply to
determine whether they conform to the required format and clearly
present all of the required elements listed and described above.
Failure to meet these requirements may result in rejection of the
Letter of Intent.
LSC will review each Letter of Intent to identify those projects
likely to improve access to justice, or to improve the efficiency,
effectiveness, and quality of legal services provided by grantees. The
Letters of Intent will also be reviewed to determine the extent to
which the project proposed is clearly described and well thought out,
offers major benefits to our targeted client community, is cost-
effective, involves all of the parties needed to make it successful and
sustainable, and is either innovative or a cost-effective replication
of prior successful projects. LSC will invite those applicants that
satisfy these criteria to submit full applications.

Next Steps for Successful Applicants

LSC will notify successful applicants by April 11, 2016. Successful
applicants will have until 11:59 p.m. EDT, Friday, May 20, 2016 to
complete and submit full applications in the online application system.

Waiver Authority

LSC, upon its own initiative or when requested, may waive
provisions in this Notice at its sole discretion under extraordinary
circumstances and when it is in the best interest of the eligible
client community. Waivers may be granted only for requirements that are
discretionary and not mandated by statute or regulation. Any request
for a waiver must set forth the extraordinary circumstances for the
request and be included in the application. LSC will not consider a
request to waive the deadline for a Letter of Intent to Apply unless
the waiver request is received by LSC prior to the deadline.

Contact Information

For information on the status of a current TIG project, contact
Eric Mathison, Program Analyst, Telephone: 202-295-1535; Email:
emathison@lsc.gov.
For questions about projects in CT, IL, IN, ME, MA, MI, NH, NJ, NY,
OH, PA, RI, WI, WV, VT, contact David Bonebrake, Program Counsel,
Telephone: 202.295.1547; Email: dbonebrake@lsc.gov.
For questions about projects in AK, AZ, CA, CO, GU, HI, ID, IA, KS,
MP, MN, MT, NE., NV, NH, NM, ND, OK, OR, SD, TX, UT, WA, WY, contact
Glenn Rawdon, Program Counsel, Telephone: 202.295.1552; Email:
grawdon@lsc.gov.

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For questions about projects in AL, AR, DC, FL, GA, KY, LA, MD, MS,
MO, NC, PR, SC, TN, VI, VA, contact Jane Ribadeneyra, Program Analyst,
Telephone: 202.295.1554, Email: ribadeneyraj@lsc.gov.
If you have a general question, please email techgrants@lsc.gov.

Dated: January 12, 2016.
Stefanie K. Davis,
Assistant General Counsel.
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technology solutions that not only within the legal services delivery they conform to the required format and
address one or more Baseline capacities, system, their expected impact, and other clearly present all of the required
but also exceed them. Grantees applying similar factors. (Only the impact should elements listed and described above.
under this area of interest should be highlighted here; more details about Failure to meet these requirements may
address how their project could the system’s benefits should be result in rejection of the Letter of Intent.
establish a new technology best practice provided below.) LSC will review each Letter of Intent
that could be incorporated into future 3. Major Benefits (maximum 2500 to identify those projects likely to
versions of the Baselines. characters)—Describe the specific ways improve access to justice, or to improve
C. Innovations in Legal Information in which the project will increase or the efficiency, effectiveness, and quality
Design and Delivery. Legal tools and improve services to clients and/or of legal services provided by grantees.
content should be developed with the enhance the effectiveness and efficiency The Letters of Intent will also be
end user in mind, but too often the of program operations. To the extent reviewed to determine the extent to
result reflects what the developer feasible, discuss both the qualitative and which the project proposed is clearly
determines the end user will need, quantitative aspects of these benefits. described and well thought out, offers
rather than what the user understands 4. Estimated Costs (maximum 1500 major benefits to our targeted client
and finds helpful. Technology provides characters)—Start by stating the amount community, is cost-effective, involves
an opportunity to design and deliver of funding you are seeking from the TIG all of the parties needed to make it
legal information optimized for the end program, followed by the estimated total successful and sustainable, and is either
user, and there are good examples of project cost, summarizing the innovative or a cost-effective replication
how user-centric design can improve anticipated costs of the major of prior successful projects. LSC will
legal innovation (see components of the project. List invite those applicants that satisfy these
www.legaltechdesign.com and anticipated contributions, both in-kind criteria to submit full applications.
www.nulawlab.org). Projects in this area and monetary, from all partners
of interest could incorporate new involved in the project. Next Steps for Successful Applicants
approaches to visual law, online 5. Major Partners (maximum 1500 LSC will notify successful applicants
learning, and user interaction in the characters)—Identify organizations that by April 11, 2016. Successful applicants
design and delivery of content. In one are expected to be important partners. will have until 11:59 p.m. EDT, Friday,
example from the 2015 TIG cycle, a Specify the role(s) each partner will May 20, 2016 to complete and submit
grantee received funding to develop a play. full applications in the online
courtroom experience app that delivers 6. Innovation/Replication (maximum application system.
just-in-time support directly to litigants’ 1500 characters)—Identify how and why
smartphones as they navigate various the proposed project is new and Waiver Authority
stages of the court process, increasing innovative and/or is a replication or LSC, upon its own initiative or when
effective self-representation. Projects adaptation of a previous technology requested, may waive provisions in this
could also focus on low/no-literacy and project. Identify how and why the Notice at its sole discretion under
Limited English Proficiency (LEP) proposed project can significantly extraordinary circumstances and when
communities or others who are under- benefit and/or be replicated by other it is in the best interest of the eligible
served by traditional methods. legal services providers and/or the legal client community. Waivers may be
services community at large. granted only for requirements that are
Specific Letter of Intent To Apply
Requirements Letter of Intent To Apply Deadline discretionary and not mandated by
statute or regulation. Any request for a
Letters of Intent must be completed
One Project per Letter of Intent waiver must set forth the extraordinary
and submitted into the online system at
Applicants may submit multiple LOIs, circumstances for the request and be
http://lscgrants.lsc.gov no later than
but a separate LOI should be submitted included in the application. LSC will
11:59 p.m. EST, Monday, February 29,
for each project for which funding is not consider a request to waive the
2016. The online system may
sought. deadline for a Letter of Intent to Apply
experience technical difficulties due to
unless the waiver request is received by
Letter Requirements and Format heavy traffic on the day of the deadline.
LSC prior to the deadline.
Applicants are strongly encouraged to
Letters of Intent must be submitted complete LOI submissions as early as Contact Information
using the online system at http:// possible.
lscgrants.lsc.gov. Additional LSC will not accept applications For information on the status of a
instructions and information can be submitted after the application deadline current TIG project, contact Eric
found on the TIG Web site, http:// unless a waiver of the deadline has been Mathison, Program Analyst, Telephone:
www.lsc.gov/grants-grantee-resources/ approved in advance (see Waiver 202–295–1535; Email: emathison@
our-grant-programs/tig. This system will Authority). Therefore, allow sufficient lsc.gov.
walk you through the process of creating time for online submission. For questions about projects in CT, IL,
a simple two-page LOI. The LOI should LSC will provide confirmation via IN, ME, MA, MI, NH, NJ, NY, OH, PA,
concisely provide the following email upon the completed electronic RI, WI, WV, VT, contact David
information about the proposed project: submission of each Letter of Intent. Bonebrake, Program Counsel,
1. Category—Select the appropriate Keep this email as verification that the Telephone: 202.295.1547; Email:
category from the drop down list. program’s LOI was submitted. If no dbonebrake@lsc.gov.
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2. Description of Project (maximum confirmation email is received, inquire For questions about projects in AK,
2500 characters)—Briefly describe the about the status of your LOI at AZ, CA, CO, GU, HI, ID, IA, KS, MP,
basic elements of the project, including Techgrants@lsc.gov. MN, MT, NE., NV, NH, NM, ND, OK,
the specific technology(ies) the project OR, SD, TX, UT, WA, WY, contact
will develop or implement; how they Selection Process Glenn Rawdon, Program Counsel,
will be developed, how they will LSC will initially review all Letters of Telephone: 202.295.1552; Email:
operate, the function they will serve Intent to Apply to determine whether grawdon@lsc.gov.

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The Library Services and Technology
The purpose of this Notice is to solicit Act requires each State Library In accordance with the Federal
comments concerning the guidelines for Administrative Agency to submit a plan Advisory Committee Act (Pub., L. 92–
the agency’s Grants to States program’s that details library services goals for a 463, as amended), the National Science
five-year evaluations. five-year period. Pursuant to 20 U.S.C. Foundation announces the following
A copy of the proposed information 9134, each State Library Administrative meeting:
collection request can be obtained by Agency that receives an IMLS grant Name: Astronomy and Astrophysics
contacting the individual listed below under the Grants to States Program is Advisory Committee (#13883).
in the ADDRESSES section of this notice. required to evaluate and report to the Date and Time: February 25, 2016; 12:00
DATES: Written comments must be agency, prior to the end of their five- p.m.–4:00 p.m. EDT.
submitted to the office listed in the year plan, regarding the activities Place: National Science Foundation, Room
1060, Stafford I Building, 4201 Wilson Blvd.,
tkelley on DSK4VPTVN1PROD with NOTICES

ADDRESSES section below on or before assisted under the LSTA. These five-
March 15, 2016. year plans and evaluations are the Arlington, VA 22230. (Via Teleconference).
Type of Meeting: Open. http://
IMLS is particularly interested in foundation for improving practice and www.nsf.gov/mps/ast/aaac.jsp. Attendance
comments that help the agency to: informing policy. The purpose of the information for the meeting will be
• Evaluate whether the proposed proposed information collection is to forthcoming on the Web site.
collection of information is necessary promulgate guidelines to establish a Contact Person: Dr. James Ulvestad,
for the proper performance of the consistent framework for the Division Director, Division of Astronomical

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Category		Regulatory Information
Collection		Federal Register
sudoc Class		AE 2.7: GS 4.107: AE 2.106:
Publisher		Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
Section		Notices
Action		Notice.
Dates		Letters of Intent must be submitted by 11:59 p.m. EST on February 29, 2016.
Contact		Jane Ribadeneyra, Program Analyst, Office of Program Performance, Legal Services Corporation, 3333 K Street NW., Washington, DC 20007; (202) 295-1554 (phone); [email protected]
FR Citation		81 FR 3162