83_FR_5110 83 FR 5086 - Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Comment Request; SEA and LEA Self-Assessment and Monitoring Protocol

83 FR 5086 - Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Comment Request; SEA and LEA Self-Assessment and Monitoring Protocol

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

Federal Register Volume 83, Issue 24 (February 5, 2018)

Page Range5086-5087
FR Document2018-02259

In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, ED is proposing a new information collection.

Federal Register, Volume 83 Issue 24 (Monday, February 5, 2018) 
[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 24 (Monday, February 5, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Pages 5086-5087]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2018-02259]


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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

[Docket No.: ED-2017-ICCD-0145]


Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the 
Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Comment 
Request; SEA and LEA Self-Assessment and Monitoring Protocol

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, ED is 
proposing a new information collection.

DATES: Interested persons are invited to submit comments on or before 
March 7, 2018.

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-2017-ICCD-
0145. 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 216-44, 
Washington, DC 20202-4537.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For specific questions related to 
collection activities, please contact Patrick Carr, 202-708-8196.

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: SEA and LEA Self-Assessment and Monitoring 
Protocol.
    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: 60.
    Total Estimated Number of Annual Burden Hours: 16,800.
    Abstract: OSS administers Title I, Sections 1001-1004 (School 
Improvement); Title I, Part A (Improving Basic Programs Operated by 
Local Educational Agencies); Title I, Part B (Enhanced Assessments 
Grants (EAG), and Grants for State Assessments and Related Activities); 
Title II, Part A (Supporting Effective Instruction); Title III, Part A 
(English Language Acquisition, Language Enhancement, and Academic 
Achievement); and School Improvement Grants (SIG). Annual fiscal 
reviews--annual phone or on-site conversations with a purposeful sample 
of SEA and LEA program directors and coordinators--help ensure

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that an SEA and its LEAs are making progress toward improving student 
achievement and the quality of instruction for all students and are 
ensuring requirements are met through the review of fiscal requirements 
to safeguard public funds from waste, fraud, and abuse. The information 
shared with the OSS also informs the selection and delivery of 
technical assistance to SEAs and aligns structures, processes, and 
routines so the OSS can regularly monitor the connection between grant 
administration and intended outcomes. Because grantees are monitored on 
a multiyear cycle, administration of this information collection, 
including the publication of fiscal review results, is necessary to 
enable the OSS to identify potential areas of noncompliance ahead of 
formal monitoring visits, decreasing the need for enforcement actions 
and minimizing burden for SEAs.

    Dated: January 31, 2018.
Tomakie Washington,
Acting Director, Information Collection Clearance Division, Office of 
the Chief Privacy Officer, Office of Management.
[FR Doc. 2018-02259 Filed 2-2-18; 8:45 am]
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5086 Federal Register / Vol. 83, No. 24 / Monday, February 5, 2018 / Notices (3) Are retained in postsecondary available via the Federal Digital System FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For education or transfer to a baccalaureate at: www.gpo.gov/fdsys. At this site you specific questions related to collection degree program; can view this document, as well as all activities, please contact Patrick Carr, (4) Are placed in— other documents of this Department 202–708–8196. (i) Military service; or published in the Federal Register, in SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The (ii) Apprenticeship programs; or text or PDF. To use PDF you must have Department of Education (ED), in (5) Are placed or have been retained Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is accordance with the Paperwork in employment, including in high-skill, available free at the site. Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA) (44 U.S.C. high-wage, or high-demand occupations You may also access documents of the 3506(c)(2)(A)), provides the general or professions. Department published in the Federal public and Federal agencies with an (c) At the adult education level: An Register by using the article search opportunity to comment on proposed, increase in the percentage of feature at: www.federalregister.gov. revised, and continuing collections of participating adult career and technical Specifically, through the advanced information. This helps the Department education students who—- search feature at this site, you can limit assess the impact of its information (1) Enroll in a postsecondary your search to documents published by collection requirements and minimize education or training program; the Department. the public’s reporting burden. It also (2) Attain career and technical Dated: January 31, 2018. helps the public understand the education skill proficiencies aligned Michael E. Wooten, Department’s information collection with industry-recognized standards; Acting Assistant Secretary for Career, requirements and provide the requested (3) Receive industry-recognized Technical, and Adult Education. data in the desired format. ED is credentials or certificates; or [FR Doc. 2018–02246 Filed 2–2–18; 8:45 am] soliciting comments on the proposed (4) Are placed in a job, upgraded in information collection request (ICR) that BILLING CODE 4000–01–P a job, or retain employment. is described below. The Department of Note: All grantees will be expected to Education is especially interested in submit an annual performance report DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION public comment addressing the addressing these performance measures, to following issues: (1) Is this collection the extent feasible and to the extent that they [Docket No.: ED–2017–ICCD–0145] necessary to the proper functions of the apply to each grantee’s NACTEP project. Department; (2) will this information be Agency Information Collection 6. Continuation Awards: In making a Activities; Submission to the Office of processed and used in a timely manner; continuation award under 34 CFR Management and Budget for Review (3) is the estimate of burden accurate; 75.253, the Secretary considers, among and Approval; Comment Request; SEA (4) how might the Department enhance other things: whether a grantee has and LEA Self-Assessment and the quality, utility, and clarity of the made substantial progress in achieving Monitoring Protocol information to be collected; and (5) how the goals and objectives of the project; might the Department minimize the whether the grantee has expended funds AGENCY: Office of Elementary and burden of this collection on the in a manner that is consistent with its Secondary Education (OESE), respondents, including through the use approved application and budget; and, Department of Education (ED). of information technology. Please note if the Secretary has established ACTION: Notice. that written comments received in performance measurement response to this notice will be requirements, the performance targets in SUMMARY: In accordance with the considered public records. the grantee’s approved application. Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, ED is Title of Collection: SEA and LEA Self- In making a continuation award, the proposing a new information collection. Assessment and Monitoring Protocol. Secretary also considers whether the DATES: Interested persons are invited to OMB Control Number: 1810—NEW. grantee is operating in compliance with submit comments on or before March 7, Type of Review: A new information the assurances in its approved 2018. collection. application, including those applicable ADDRESSES: To access and review all the Respondents/Affected Public: State, to Federal civil rights laws that prohibit documents related to the information Local, and Tribal Governments. discrimination in programs or activities collection listed in this notice, please Total Estimated Number of Annual receiving Federal financial assistance use http://www.regulations.gov by Responses: 60. from the Department (34 CFR 100.4, searching the Docket ID number ED– Total Estimated Number of Annual 104.5, 106.4, 108.8, and 110.23). 2017–ICCD–0145. Comments submitted Burden Hours: 16,800. in response to this notice should be Abstract: OSS administers Title I, VII. Other Information submitted electronically through the Sections 1001–1004 (School Accessible Format: Individuals with Federal eRulemaking Portal at http:// Improvement); Title I, Part A (Improving disabilities can obtain this document www.regulations.gov by selecting the Basic Programs Operated by Local and a copy of the application package in Docket ID number or via postal mail, Educational Agencies); Title I, Part B an accessible format (e.g., braille, large commercial delivery, or hand delivery. (Enhanced Assessments Grants (EAG), print, audiotape, or compact disc) on Please note that comments submitted by and Grants for State Assessments and request to the program contact persons fax or email and those submitted after Related Activities); Title II, Part A listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION the comment period will not be (Supporting Effective Instruction); Title CONTACT. If you use a TDD or TTY, call accepted. Written requests for III, Part A (English Language sradovich on DSK3GMQ082PROD with NOTICES the FRS, toll-free, at 1–800–877–8339. information or comments submitted by Acquisition, Language Enhancement, Electronic Access to This Document: postal mail or delivery should be and Academic Achievement); and The official version of this document is addressed to the Director of the School Improvement Grants (SIG). the document published in the Federal Information Collection Clearance Annual fiscal reviews—annual phone or Register. Free internet access to the Division, U.S. Department of Education, on-site conversations with a purposeful official edition of the Federal Register 400 Maryland Avenue SW, LBJ, Room sample of SEA and LEA program and the Code of Federal Regulations is 216–44, Washington, DC 20202–4537. directors and coordinators—help ensure VerDate Sep<11>2014 18:08 Feb 02, 2018 Jkt 244001 PO 00000 Frm 00029 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\05FEN1.SGM 05FEN1

Federal Register / Vol. 83, No. 24 / Monday, February 5, 2018 / Notices 5087 that an SEA and its LEAs are making established the process the Secretary seven years from the date of publication progress toward improving student uses to determine the suitability of tests of this notice: achievement and the quality of for use in the NRS by States and local Comprehensive Adult Student instruction for all students and are eligible providers. We annually publish Assessment System (CASAS) Reading ensuring requirements are met through in the Federal Register and post on the GOALS Series. Forms 901, 902, 903, the review of fiscal requirements to internet at www.nrsweb.org a list of the 904, 905, 906, 907, and 908 are safeguard public funds from waste, names of tests and the educational approved for use on paper and through fraud, and abuse. The information functioning levels the tests are suitable shared with the OSS also informs the to measure in the NRS as required by a computer-based delivery format. selection and delivery of technical § 462.12(c)(2). Publisher: CASAS, 5151 Murphy assistance to SEAs and aligns structures, On December 13, 2016, the Secretary Canyon Road, Suite 220, San Diego, CA processes, and routines so the OSS can published in the Federal Register (81 92123–4339. Telephone: (800) 255– regularly monitor the connection FR 89920) an annual notice of tests 1036. Internet: www.casas.org/. between grant administration and determined to be suitable for use in the Revocation of Tests intended outcomes. Because grantees NRS (December 2016 notice). In the are monitored on a multiyear cycle, December 2016 notice, the Secretary Under certain circumstances, the administration of this information extended the approved periods for all 12 Secretary may revoke the determination collection, including the publication of of the tests listed in the notice through that a test is suitable (see § 462.12(e)). If fiscal review results, is necessary to February 2, 2019. the Secretary revokes the determination enable the OSS to identify potential On September 7, 2017, the Secretary of suitability, the Secretary announces areas of noncompliance ahead of formal published in the Federal Register (82 through the Federal Register and posts monitoring visits, decreasing the need FR 42339) an annual notice of tests on the internet at www.nrsweb.org a for enforcement actions and minimizing determined to be suitable for use in the notice of that revocation, along with the burden for SEAs. NRS (September 2017 notice). In the date by which States and local eligible Dated: January 31, 2018. September 2017 notice, the Secretary providers must stop using the revoked Tomakie Washington, announced a new test and test forms test. Acting Director, Information Collection that were determined to be suitable for use in the NRS, in accordance with Accessible Format: Individuals with Clearance Division, Office of the Chief Privacy disabilities can obtain this document in Officer, Office of Management. § 462.13. In addition to the tests identified in an accessible format (such as braille, [FR Doc. 2018–02259 Filed 2–2–18; 8:45 am] the December 2016 and September 2017 large print, audiotape, or compact disc) BILLING CODE 4000–01–P notices as determined to be suitable for on request to the contact person listed use in the NRS through February 2, under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 2019, and September 7, 2024, CONTACT in this notice. respectively, the Secretary now Electronic Access to This Document: Tests Determined To Be Suitable for announces another test and test forms The official version of this document is Use in the National Reporting System that have been determined to be suitable the document published in the Federal for Adult Education for use in the NRS, in accordance with Register. Free internet access to the AGENCY: Office of Career, Technical, and § 462.13. This test measures the NRS official edition of the Federal Register Adult Education, Department of educational functioning levels for and the Code of Federal Regulations is Education. Literacy/English Language Arts at all available via the Federal Digital System Adult Basic Education (ABE) levels, as at: www.gpo.gov/fdsys. At this site you ACTION: Notice. described in Appendix A of Measures can view this document, as well as all SUMMARY: The Secretary announces and Methods for the National Reporting other documents of this Department tests, test forms, and delivery formats System for Adult Education (OMB published in the Federal Register, in that the Secretary determines to be Control Number: 1830–0027). text or Portable Document Format suitable for use in the National Approved Tests, Forms, and Approved (PDF). To use PDF you must have Reporting System for Adult Education Periods Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is (NRS). available free at the site. Adult education programs must use FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jay only the approved forms and computer- You may also access documents of the LeMaster, Department of Education, 400 based delivery formats for the tests Department published in the Federal Maryland Avenue SW, Room 11–152, published in this document. If a Register by using the article search Potomac Center Plaza, Washington, DC particular test form or computer feature at: www.federalregister.gov. 20202–7240. Telephone: (202) 245–6218 delivery format is not explicitly Specifically, through the advanced or by email: John.LeMaster@ed.gov. specified for a test in the December 2016 search feature at this site, you can limit If you use a telecommunications notice, the September 2017 notice, or in device for the deaf (TDD) or a text your search to documents published by this notice, it is not approved for use in the Department. telephone (TTY), call the Federal Relay the NRS. Service (FRS), toll-free, at 1–800–877– Program Authority: 29 U.S.C. 3292. 8339. Test Determined To Be Suitable for Use sradovich on DSK3GMQ082PROD with NOTICES Dated: January 31, 2018. in the NRS for a Seven-Year Period SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On Michael E. Wooten, From the Date of Publication of This January 14, 2008, we published in the Acting Assistant Secretary for Career, Notice Federal Register final regulations for 34 Technical, and Adult Education. CFR part 462, Measuring Educational The Secretary has determined that the [FR Doc. 2018–02237 Filed 2–2–18; 8:45 am] Gain in the National Reporting System following test is suitable for use in BILLING CODE 4000–01–P for Adult Education (NRS regulations) Literacy/English Language Arts at all (73 FR 2306). The NRS regulations ABE levels of the NRS for a period of VerDate Sep<11>2014 18:08 Feb 02, 2018 Jkt 244001 PO 00000 Frm 00030 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 9990 E:\FR\FM\05FEN1.SGM 05FEN1


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SectionNotices
ActionNotice.
DatesInterested persons are invited to submit comments on or before March 7, 2018.
ContactFor specific questions related to collection activities, please contact Patrick Carr, 202-708-8196.
FR Citation83 FR 5086 
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