80_FR_15644 80 FR 15588 - Agency Information Collection Activities; Comment Request; Formula Grant EASIE Annual Performance Report

80 FR 15588 - Agency Information Collection Activities; Comment Request; Formula Grant EASIE Annual Performance Report

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 56 (March 24, 2015)

Page Range15588-15589
FR Document2015-06379

In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. chapter 3501 et seq.), ED is proposing a new information collection.

Federal Register, Volume 80 Issue 56 (Tuesday, March 24, 2015) 
[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 56 (Tuesday, March 24, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 15588-15589]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2015-06379]


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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

[Docket No.: ED-2015-ICCD-0031]


Agency Information Collection Activities; Comment Request; 
Formula Grant EASIE Annual Performance Report

AGENCY: Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE), Department 
of Education (ED).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 
U.S.C. chapter 3501 et seq.), ED is proposing a new information 
collection.

DATES: Interested persons are invited to submit comments on or before 
May 26, 2015.

ADDRESSES: Comments submitted in response to this notice should be 
submitted electronically through the Federal eRulemaking Portal at 
http://www.regulations.gov by selecting Docket ID number ED-2015-ICCD-
0031 or via postal mail, commercial delivery, or hand delivery. If the 
regulations.gov site is not available to the public for any reason, ED 
will temporarily accept comments at [email protected]. Please note 
that comments submitted by fax or email and those submitted after the 
comment period will not be accepted; ED will ONLY accept comments 
during the comment period in this mailbox when the regulations.gov site 
is not available. Written requests for information or comments 
submitted by postal mail or delivery should be addressed to the 
Director of the Information Collection Clearance Division, U.S. 
Department of Education, 400 Maryland Avenue SW., LBJ, Mailstop L-OM-2-
2E319, Room 2E115, Washington, DC 20202.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For specific questions related to 
collection activities, please contact Kimberly Smith, 202-453-6459.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Department of Education (ED), in 
accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA) (44 U.S.C. 
3506(c)(2)(A)), provides the general public and Federal agencies with 
an opportunity to comment on proposed, revised, and continuing 
collections of information. This helps the Department assess the impact 
of its information collection requirements and minimize the public's 
reporting burden. It also helps the public understand the Department's 
information collection requirements and provide the requested data in 
the desired format. ED is soliciting comments on the proposed 
information collection request (ICR) that is described below. The 
Department of Education is especially interested in public comment 
addressing the following issues: (1) Is this collection necessary to 
the proper functions of the Department; (2) will this information be 
processed and used in a timely manner; (3) is the estimate of burden 
accurate; (4) how might the Department enhance the quality, utility, 
and clarity of the information to be collected; and (5) how might the 
Department minimize the burden of this collection on the respondents, 
including through the use of information technology. Please note that 
written comments received in response to this notice will be considered 
public records.
    Title of Collection: Formula Grant EASIE Annual Performance Report.
    OMB Control Number: 1810-NEW.
    Type of Review: A new information collection.
    Respondents/Affected Public: State, Local and Tribal Governments.
    Total Estimated Number of Annual Responses: 1,300.
    Total Estimated Number of Annual Burden Hours: 20,800.
    Abstract: The purpose of Indian Education Formula Grant to Local 
Agencies, as authorized under title VII, part A, subpart 1 of the 
Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), as amended sections 
7111-7119, 20 U.S.C. 7421-7429 is to assist applicants to provide 
Indian students with the opportunity to meet the same challenging state 
standards as all other students and meet the unique educational and 
culturally related academic needs of American Indian and Alaska Native 
students. The Indian Education Formula Grant (CFDA 84.060A) is not 
competitive or discretionary and requires the annual submission of the 
application from either a local education agency (LEA) and/or tribe. 
The amount of the award for each applicant is determined by a formula 
based on the reported number of American Indian/Alaska Native students 
identified in the application, the state per pupil expenditure, and the 
total appropriation available. The 524B Annual Performance Report (APR) 
was designed for discretionary grants, however the title VII program is 
a formula grant program. Therefore, the EASIE APR goes beyond the 
generic 524B APR and facilitates the collection of more specific and 
comprehensive data due to grantees entering project specific data into 
an online database. This will allow for a comparison of LEAs across 
objectives. By entering information into the EASIE APR database, data 
will be able to be generated quickly and uniformly to

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facilitate data collection, as required under 34 CFR 75.720, and 2 CFR 
part 200.301. This APR will improve the quality of data collected that 
can be used for evaluation and to help make policy decisions, reduce 
burden on the grantees, and allow ED to inform Congress on the outcomes 
of this grant program.

    Dated: March 16, 2015.
Tomakie Washington,
Acting Director, Information Collection Clearance Division, Privacy, 
Information and Records Management Services, Office of Management.
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15588 Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 56 / Tuesday, March 24, 2015 / Notices electronic mail, the preferred mode of DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION is described below. The Department of submission, at the address listed in the Education is especially interested in [Docket No.: ED–2015–ICCD–0031] FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT public comment addressing the section. Each page of the comment or Agency Information Collection following issues: (1) Is this collection statement must include the author’s Activities; Comment Request; Formula necessary to the proper functions of the name, title or affiliation, address, and Grant EASIE Annual Performance Department; (2) will this information be daytime phone number. Written Report processed and used in a timely manner; comments or statements being (3) is the estimate of burden accurate; submitted in response to the agenda set AGENCY: Office of Elementary and (4) how might the Department enhance Secondary Education (OESE), the quality, utility, and clarity of the forth in this notice must be received by Department of Education (ED). information to be collected; and (5) how the Designated Federal Officer at least ACTION: Notice. might the Department minimize the seven business days prior to the meeting burden of this collection on the to be considered by the Committee. The SUMMARY: In accordance with the respondents, including through the use Designated Federal Officer will review Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 of information technology. Please note all timely submitted written comments U.S.C. chapter 3501 et seq.), ED is that written comments received in or statements with the Committee proposing a new information collection. response to this notice will be Chairperson, and ensure the comments DATES: Interested persons are invited to considered public records. are provided to all members of the submit comments on or before May 26, Title of Collection: Formula Grant Committee before the meeting. Written 2015. EASIE Annual Performance Report. comments or statements received after ADDRESSES: Comments submitted in OMB Control Number: 1810–NEW. this date may not be provided to the response to this notice should be Type of Review: A new information Committee until its next meeting. submitted electronically through the collection. Pursuant to 41 CFR 102–3.140d, the Federal eRulemaking Portal at http:// Respondents/Affected Public: State, Committee is not obligated to allow a www.regulations.gov by selecting Local and Tribal Governments. Total Estimated Number of Annual member of the public to speak or Docket ID number ED–2015–ICCD–0031 Responses: 1,300. otherwise address the Committee during or via postal mail, commercial delivery, Total Estimated Number of Annual the meeting. Members of the public will or hand delivery. If the regulations.gov Burden Hours: 20,800. be permitted to make verbal comments site is not available to the public for any Abstract: The purpose of Indian during the Committee meeting only at reason, ED will temporarily accept Education Formula Grant to Local the time and in the manner described comments at ICDocketMgr@ed.gov. Agencies, as authorized under title VII, below. If a member of the public is Please note that comments submitted by part A, subpart 1 of the Elementary and interested in making a verbal comment fax or email and those submitted after Secondary Education Act (ESEA), as at the open meeting, that individual the comment period will not be amended sections 7111–7119, 20 U.S.C. must submit a request, with a brief accepted; ED will ONLY accept 7421–7429 is to assist applicants to statement of the subject matter to be comments during the comment period provide Indian students with the in this mailbox when the regulations.gov opportunity to meet the same addressed by the comment, at least three site is not available. Written requests for challenging state standards as all other (3) days in advance to the Committee’s information or comments submitted by students and meet the unique Designated Federal Official, via postal mail or delivery should be educational and culturally related electronic mail, the preferred mode of addressed to the Director of the submission, at the addresses listed in academic needs of American Indian and Information Collection Clearance Alaska Native students. The Indian the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT Division, U.S. Department of Education, section. The Designated Federal Official Education Formula Grant (CFDA 400 Maryland Avenue SW., LBJ, 84.060A) is not competitive or will log each request, in the order Mailstop L–OM–2–2E319, Room 2E115, discretionary and requires the annual received, and in consultation with the Washington, DC 20202. submission of the application from Committee Chair determine whether the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For either a local education agency (LEA) subject matter of each comment is specific questions related to collection and/or tribe. The amount of the award relevant to the Committee’s mission activities, please contact Kimberly for each applicant is determined by a and/or the topics to be addressed in this Smith, 202–453–6459. formula based on the reported number public meeting. A 15-minute period SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The of American Indian/Alaska Native near the end of meeting will be available Department of Education (ED), in students identified in the application, for verbal public comments. Members of accordance with the Paperwork the state per pupil expenditure, and the the public who have requested to make Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA) (44 U.S.C. total appropriation available. The 524B a verbal comment and whose comments 3506(c)(2)(A)), provides the general Annual Performance Report (APR) was have been deemed relevant under the public and Federal agencies with an designed for discretionary grants, process described above, will be allotted opportunity to comment on proposed, however the title VII program is a no more than three (3) minutes during revised, and continuing collections of formula grant program. Therefore, the this period, and will be invited to speak information. This helps the Department EASIE APR goes beyond the generic in the order in which their requests assess the impact of its information 524B APR and facilitates the collection mstockstill on DSK4VPTVN1PROD with NOTICES were received by the Designated Federal collection requirements and minimize of more specific and comprehensive Official. the public’s reporting burden. It also data due to grantees entering project helps the public understand the specific data into an online database. Brenda S. Bowen, Department’s information collection This will allow for a comparison of Army Federal Register Liaison Officer. requirements and provide the requested LEAs across objectives. By entering [FR Doc. 2015–06610 Filed 3–23–15; 8:45 am] data in the desired format. 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Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 56 / Tuesday, March 24, 2015 / Notices 15589 facilitate data collection, as required activities, please contact Tyra Stewart, these grantee project evaluation reports. under 34 CFR 75.720, and 2 CFR part 202–260–1847. An analysis of these reports has 200.301. This APR will improve the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The provided some data on grantee quality of data collected that can be Department of Education (ED), in activities, prior to the usage of the TTT used for evaluation and to help make accordance with the Paperwork survey, missing or incomplete data policy decisions, reduce burden on the Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA) (44 U.S.C. made it difficult to aggregate data across grantees, and allow ED to inform 3506(c)(2)(A)), provides the general grantees in order to accurately describe Congress on the outcomes of this grant public and Federal agencies with an to Congress the extent of program program. opportunity to comment on proposed, implementation. This data collection Dated: March 16, 2015. revised, and continuing collections of allows ED to gather data on a common Tomakie Washington, information. This helps the Department set of indicators across grantees in order assess the impact of its information to describe and improve program Acting Director, Information Collection Clearance Division, Privacy, Information and collection requirements and minimize implementation with the end goal of Records Management Services, Office of the public’s reporting burden. It also improving program performance. Management. helps the public understand the Dated: March 18, 2015. [FR Doc. 2015–06379 Filed 3–23–15; 8:45 am] Department’s information collection Tomakie Washington, BILLING CODE 4000–01–P requirements and provide the requested Acting Director, Information Collection data in the desired format. ED is Clearance Division, Privacy, Information and soliciting comments on the proposed Records Management Services, Office of DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION information collection request (ICR) that Management. is described below. The Department of [FR Doc. 2015–06625 Filed 3–23–15; 8:45 am] [Docket No. ED–2015–ICCD–0033] Education is especially interested in BILLING CODE 4000–01–P public comment addressing the Agency Information Collection following issues: (1) Is this collection Activities; Comment Request; necessary to the proper functions of the DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY Transition to Teaching Survey Department; (2) will this information be processed and used in a timely manner; Federal Energy Regulatory AGENCY: Office of Innovation and (3) is the estimate of burden accurate; Commission Improvement (OII), Department of (4) how might the Department enhance Education (ED). [Docket No. RM98–1–000] the quality, utility, and clarity of the ACTION: Notice. information to be collected; and (5) how Records Governing Off-the-Record SUMMARY: In accordance with the might the Department minimize the Communications Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 burden of this collection on the respondents, including through the use Public Notice U.S.C. chapter 3501 et seq.), ED is proposing an extension of an existing of information technology. Please note This constitutes notice, in accordance information collection. that written comments received in with 18 CFR 385.2201(b), of the receipt response to this notice will be of prohibited and exempt off-the-record DATES: Interested persons are invited to considered public records. communications. submit comments on or before May 26, Title of Collection: Transition to Order No. 607 (64 FR 51222, 2015. Teaching Survey. September 22, 1999) requires ADDRESSES: Comments submitted in OMB Control Number: 1855–0018. Commission decisional employees, who response to this notice should be Type of Review: An extension of an make or receive a prohibited or exempt submitted electronically through the existing information collection. off-the-record communication relevant Federal eRulemaking Portal at http:// Respondents/Affected Public: State, to the merits of a contested proceeding, www.regulations.gov by selecting Local and Tribal Governments. to deliver to the Secretary of the Docket ID number ED–2015–ICCD–0033 Total Estimated Number of Annual Commission, a copy of the or via postal mail, commercial delivery, Responses: 144. communication, if written, or a or hand delivery. If the regulations.gov Total Estimated Number of Annual summary of the substance of any oral site is not available to the public for any Burden Hours: 42. communication. reason, ED will temporarily accept Abstract: This is a request for Prohibited communications are comments at ICDocketMgr@ed.gov. approval to collect information from included in a public, non-decisional file Please note that comments submitted by Transition to Teaching (TTT) grantees associated with, but not a part of, the fax or email and those submitted after that will be used to describe the extent decisional record of the proceeding. the comment period will not be to which local education agencies that Unless the Commission determines that accepted; ED will ONLY accept received TTT grant funds have met the the prohibited communication and any comments during the comment period goals relating to teacher recruitment and responses thereto should become a part in this mailbox when the regulations.gov retention described in their application. of the decisional record, the prohibited site is not available. Written requests for TTT grantees are funded for a period of off-the-record communication will not information or comments submitted by five years. Currently, grantees are be considered by the Commission in postal mail or delivery should be required by statute to submit an interim reaching its decision. Parties to a addressed to the Director of the mstockstill on DSK4VPTVN1PROD with NOTICES project evaluation to the Department of proceeding may seek the opportunity to Information Collection Clearance Education (ED) at the end of the third respond to any facts or contentions Division, U.S. Department of Education, project year and a final project made in a prohibited off-the-record 400 Maryland Avenue SW., LBJ, evaluation at the project’s end. 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PublisherOffice of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
SectionNotices
ActionNotice.
DatesInterested persons are invited to submit comments on or before May 26, 2015.
ContactFor specific questions related to collection activities, please contact Kimberly Smith, 202-453-6459.
FR Citation80 FR 15588 
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