81_FR_19651 81 FR 19586 - Agency Information Collection Activities; Comment Request; NCES System Clearance for Cognitive, Pilot, and Field Test Studies

81 FR 19586 - Agency Information Collection Activities; Comment Request; NCES System Clearance for Cognitive, Pilot, and Field Test Studies

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

Federal Register Volume 81, Issue 65 (April 5, 2016)

Page Range19586-19587
FR Document2016-07708

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

Federal Register, Volume 81 Issue 65 (Tuesday, April 5, 2016) 
[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 65 (Tuesday, April 5, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 19586-19587]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2016-07708]


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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

[Docket No.: ED-2016-ICCD-0040]


Agency Information Collection Activities; Comment Request; NCES 
System Clearance for Cognitive, Pilot, and Field Test Studies

AGENCY: National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), 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 an extension of an 
existing information collection.

DATES: Interested persons are invited to submit comments on or before 
June 6, 2016.

ADDRESSES: To access and review all the documents related to the 
information collection listed in this notice, please use http://www.regulations.gov by searching the Docket ID number ED-2016-ICCD-
0040. Comments submitted in response to this notice should be submitted 
electronically through the Federal eRulemaking Portal at http://www.regulations.gov by selecting the Docket ID number or via postal 
mail, commercial delivery, or hand delivery. Please note that comments 
submitted by fax or email and those submitted after the comment period 
will not be accepted. 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, Room 2E-103, 
Washington, DC 20202-4537.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For specific questions related to 
collection activities, please contact Kashka Kubzdela at 
[email protected].

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: NCES System Clearance for Cognitive, Pilot, 
and Field Test Studies.
    OMB Control Number: 1850-0803.
    Type of Review: An extension of an existing information collection.
    Respondents/Affected Public: Individuals.
    Total Estimated Number of Annual Responses: 405,000.
    Total Estimated Number of Annual Burden Hours: 81,000.
    Abstract: This is a request for a 3-year renewal of the generic 
clearance to allow the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) 
to continue to develop, test, and improve its survey and assessment 
instruments and methodologies. The procedures utilized to this effect 
include but are not limited to experiments with levels of incentives 
for various types of survey operations, focus groups, cognitive 
laboratory activities, pilot testing, exploratory interviews, 
experiments with questionnaire design, and usability

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testing of electronic data collection instruments.

Kate Mullan,
Acting Director, Information Collection Clearance Division, Privacy, 
Information and Records Management Services, Office of Management.
[FR Doc. 2016-07708 Filed 4-4-16; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4000-01-P

19586 Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 65 / Tuesday, April 5, 2016 / Notices afforded an opportunity to speak for available via the Federal Digital System 400 Maryland Avenue SW., LBJ, Room three minutes. at: www.gpo.gov/fdsys. At this site you 2E–103, Washington, DC 20202–4537. Method Two: Register at the meeting can view this document, as well as all FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For location on April 18, 2016, to make an other documents of this Department specific questions related to collection oral comment during the PBA’s published in the Federal Register, in activities, please contact Kashka deliberations concerning Historically text or Adobe Portable Document Kubzdela at kashka.kubzdela@ed.gov. Black Colleges and Universities. The Format (PDF). To use PDF, you must SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The requestor must provide his or her name, have Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is Department of Education (ED), in title, organization/affiliation, mailing available free at the site. accordance with the Paperwork address, email address, and telephone You may also access documents of the Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA) (44 U.S.C. number. Individuals will be selected on Department published in the Federal 3506(c)(2)(A)), provides the general a first-come, first-served basis. If Register by using the article search public and Federal agencies with an selected, each commenter will have an feature at: www.federalregister.gov. opportunity to comment on proposed, opportunity to speak for three minutes. Specifically, through the advanced All oral comments made will become revised, and continuing collections of search feature at this site, you can limit information. This helps the Department part of the official record of the Board. your search to documents published by Similarly, written materials distributed assess the impact of its information the Department. collection requirements and minimize during oral presentations will become part of the official record of the meeting. Authority: Presidential Executive Order the public’s reporting burden. It also Submission of written public 13532, continued by Executive Order 13708. helps the public understand the comments: The Board invites written Ted Mitchell, Department’s information collection comments, which will be read during requirements and provide the requested Under Secretary. the Public Comment segment of the data in the desired format. ED is [FR Doc. 2016–07675 Filed 4–4–16; 8:45 am] agenda. Comments must be received by soliciting comments on the proposed BILLING CODE P April 11, 2016, in the whirsvps@ed.gov information collection request (ICR) that mailbox, include in the subject line is described below. The Department of ‘‘Written Comments: Public Comment’’. Education is especially interested in DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION The email must include the name(s), public comment addressing the title, organization/affiliation, mailing [Docket No.: ED–2016–ICCD–0040] following issues: (1) Is this collection address, email address, and telephone necessary to the proper functions of the number, of the person(s) making the Agency Information Collection Department; (2) will this information be comment. Comments should be Activities; Comment Request; NCES processed and used in a timely manner; submitted as a Microsoft Word System Clearance for Cognitive, Pilot, (3) is the estimate of burden accurate; document or in a medium compatible and Field Test Studies (4) how might the Department enhance with Microsoft Word (not a PDF file) the quality, utility, and clarity of the AGENCY: National Center for Education that is attached to an electronic mail information to be collected; and (5) how Statistics (NCES), Department of message (email) or provided in the body might the Department minimize the Education (ED). of an email message. Please do not send burden of this collection on the material directly to the PBA members. ACTION: Notice. respondents, including through the use Access to Records of the Meeting: The of information technology. Please note SUMMARY: In accordance with the Department will post the official report that written comments received in Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 of the meeting on the PBA Web site 90 response to this notice will be U.S.C. chapter 3501 et seq.), ED is days after the meeting. Pursuant to the considered public records. proposing an extension of an existing Federal Advisory Committee Act Title of Collection: NCES System information collection. (FACA), the public may also inspect the Clearance for Cognitive, Pilot, and Field materials at 400 Maryland Avenue SW., DATES: Interested persons are invited to Test Studies. Washington, DC, by emailing oswhi- submit comments on or before June 6, OMB Control Number: 1850–0803. hbcu@ed.gov or by calling (202) 453– 2016. Type of Review: An extension of an 5634 to schedule an appointment. ADDRESSES: To access and review all the existing information collection. Reasonable Accommodations: The documents related to the information Respondents/Affected Public: meeting site is accessible to individuals collection listed in this notice, please Individuals. with disabilities. If you will need an use http://www.regulations.gov by Total Estimated Number of Annual auxiliary aid or service to participate in searching the Docket ID number ED– Responses: 405,000. the meeting (e.g., interpreting service, 2016–ICCD–0040. Comments submitted Total Estimated Number of Annual assistive listening device, or materials in in response to this notice should be Burden Hours: 81,000. an alternate format), notify the contact submitted electronically through the Abstract: This is a request for a 3-year person listed in this notice at least one Federal eRulemaking Portal at http:// renewal of the generic clearance to week before the meeting date. Although www.regulations.gov by selecting the allow the National Center for Education we will attempt to meet a request Docket ID number or via postal mail, Statistics (NCES) to continue to develop, received after that date, we may not be commercial delivery, or hand delivery. test, and improve its survey and able to make available the requested Please note that comments submitted by assessment instruments and asabaliauskas on DSK3SPTVN1PROD with NOTICES auxiliary aid or service because of fax or email and those submitted after methodologies. The procedures utilized insufficient time to arrange it. the comment period will not be to this effect include but are not limited Electronic Access to this Document: accepted. Written requests for to experiments with levels of incentives The official version of this document is information or comments submitted by for various types of survey operations, the document published in the Federal postal mail or delivery should be focus groups, cognitive laboratory Register. Free Internet access to the addressed to the Director of the activities, pilot testing, exploratory official edition of the Federal Register Information Collection Clearance interviews, experiments with and the Code of Federal Regulations is Division, U.S. Department of Education, questionnaire design, and usability VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:18 Apr 04, 2016 Jkt 238001 PO 00000 Frm 00038 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\05APN1.SGM 05APN1

Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 65 / Tuesday, April 5, 2016 / Notices 19587 testing of electronic data collection assess the impact of its information submit to the Department. The excel instruments. collection requirements and minimize spreadsheet is the mechanism through the public’s reporting burden. It also which the Department proposes Kate Mullan, helps the public understand the agencies submit the information. Acting Director, Information Collection Department’s information collection Agencies are invited to review both Clearance Division, Privacy, Information and Records Management Services, Office of requirements and provide the requested items and provide comment to improve Management. data in the desired format. ED is their clarity and usefulness. The [FR Doc. 2016–07708 Filed 4–4–16; 8:45 am] soliciting comments on the proposed Department will consider public information collection request (ICR) that comment and make revisions as BILLING CODE 4000–01–P is described below. The Department of necessary before issuing final versions. Education is especially interested in This data is required to demonstrate DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION public comment addressing the compliance with criteria at 34 CFR part following issues: (1) Is this collection 602; State agencies for the approval of [Docket No.: ED–2016–ICCD–0035] necessary to the proper functions of the vocational education to demonstrate Department; (2) will this information be compliance with the criteria at 34 CFR Agency Information Collection processed and used in a timely manner; part 603; State agencies for the approval Activities; Comment Request; (3) is the estimate of burden accurate; of nurse education to demonstrate Accrediting Agencies Reporting (4) how might the Department enhance compliance with the criteria published Activities for Institutions and the quality, utility, and clarity of the in the 1969 Federal Register notice; Programs information to be collected; and (5) how foreign medical accrediting entities in AGENCY: Office of Postsecondary might the Department minimize the accordance with criteria 34 CFR 600.55; Education (OPE), Department of burden of this collection on the and criteria established by Department Education (ED). respondents, including through the use staff to evaluate foreign veterinary ACTION: Notice. of information technology. Please note accrediting organizations in accordance that written comments received in with 34 CFR 600.56. SUMMARY: In accordance with the response to this notice will be Dated: March 31, 2016. Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 considered public records. Kate Mullan, U.S.C. chapter 3501 et seq.), ED is Title of Collection: Accrediting Acting Director, Information Collection proposing a new information collection. Agencies Reporting Activities for Clearance Division, Office of the Chief Privacy DATES: Interested persons are invited to Institutions and Programs. Officer, Office of Management. submit comments on or before June 6, OMB Control Number: 1840–NEW. [FR Doc. 2016–07701 Filed 4–4–16; 8:45 am] 2016. Type of Review: A new information BILLING CODE 4000–01–P ADDRESSES: To access and review all the collection. documents related to the information Respondents/Affected Public: Private collection listed in this notice, please Sector. Total Estimated Number of Annual DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY use http://www.regulations.gov by Responses: 76. searching the Docket ID number ED– Total Estimated Number of Annual Notice of Public Meeting To Inform the 2016–ICCD–0035. Comments submitted Burden Hours: 200. Design of a Consent-Based Siting in response to this notice should be Abstract: The Secretary of Education Process for Nuclear Waste Storage submitted electronically through the is authorized by 34 CFR part 602 to and Disposal Facilities Federal eRulemaking Portal at http:// recognize accrediting agencies to ensure AGENCY: Fuel Cycle Technologies, Office www.regulations.gov by selecting the that these agencies are, for the purposes of Nuclear Energy, Department of Docket ID number or via postal mail, of the Higher Education Act of 1965, as Energy. commercial delivery, or hand delivery. amended (HEA), or for other Federal ACTION: Notice of public meeting. Please note that comments submitted by purposes, reliable authorities regarding fax or email and those submitted after the quality of education or training SUMMARY: The U.S Department of the comment period will not be offered by the institutions or programs Energy (DOE) is implementing a accepted. Written requests for they accredit. Federal regulations (34 consent-based siting process to establish information or comments submitted by CFR 602.26) outline information that an integrated waste management system postal mail or delivery should be accrediting agencies must report to the to transport, store, and dispose of spent addressed to the Director of the Department of Education on a timely nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive Information Collection Clearance basis in order to support the waste. In a consent-based siting Division, U.S. Department of Education, Department’s oversight role, including approach, DOE will work with 400 Maryland Avenue SW., LBJ, Room information on accreditation actions communities, tribal governments and 2E–103, Washington, DC 20202–4537. taken with regard to institutions and states across the country that express FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For programs. The proposed information interest in hosting any of the facilities specific questions related to collection collection will clarify the categories of identified as part of an integrated waste activities, please contact Herman actions taken by accreditors, the management system. As part of this Bounds, 202–453–6128. reporting required or requested on those process, the Department is hosting a SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The actions, and the format for submitting series of public meetings to engage asabaliauskas on DSK3SPTVN1PROD with NOTICES Department of Education (ED), in the information. communities and individuals and accordance with the Paperwork The proposed information collection discuss the development of a consent- Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA) (44 U.S.C. includes two items—a letter and an based approach to managing our 3506(c)(2)(A)), provides the general Excel spreadsheet. The Accreditor Letter nation’s nuclear waste. A public public and Federal agencies with an on Terminology and Reporting is a draft meeting will be held in Minneapolis on opportunity to comment on proposed, of a letter the Department plans to send July 21, 2016. revised, and continuing collections of to accrediting agencies to clarify the DATES: The meeting will take place on information. This helps the Department information those agencies should Thursday, July 21, 2016 from 5:00 p.m. VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:18 Apr 04, 2016 Jkt 238001 PO 00000 Frm 00039 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\05APN1.SGM 05APN1


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CategoryRegulatory Information
CollectionFederal Register
sudoc ClassAE 2.7:
GS 4.107:
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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 June 6, 2016.
ContactFor specific questions related to collection activities, please contact Kashka Kubzdela at [email protected]
FR Citation81 FR 19586 
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