This application package invites small business concerns to submit a Phase I application for the Small Business Innovation Research Program (CFDA 84.133). This is in response to P.L. 106-554 , the "Small Business Reauthorization Act of 2000, H.R. 5667" (the "Act") enacted on December 21, 2000. The Act requires certain agencies, including the Department of Education, to establish a Small Business Innovation Research program by reserving a statutory percentage of their extramural research and development budgets be awarded for small business concerns for research or research and development through a uniform, highly competitive, three-phase process each fiscal year. This is a discretionary grant falling under the Streamlined Clearance Process for Discretionary Grant Information Collection Requests (1894-0001).
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(ii) Use of information;
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(v) Nature and extent of confidentiality; and
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