Department of Education March 16, 2010 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

Across the country, childhood obesity has reached epidemic rates. On February 9, 2010, President Obama signed a Presidential Memo establishing a Task Force on Childhood Obesity that directs Federal agencies to create a comprehensive interagency national action plan to solve the challenge of childhood obesity within a generation. The Presidential Memo directs the Task Force to focus on four pillars: Ensuring access to healthy, affordable food; increasing physical activity in schools and communities; providing healthier food in schools; and empowering parents with information and tools to make good choices for themselves and their families. This notice announces a request for public comments to assist the Task Force in making recommendations on public and private sector actions that can be taken to solve the problem.

On February 26, 2010, the Department of Education published a 30-day comment period notice in the Federal Register (Page 8928, Column 3) seeking public comment for an information collection entitled, ``Native American Career and Technical Education Program (NACTEP)''. This notice is hereby cancelled. NACTEP 1830-0542 is the application portion of the NACTEP grant. The application does not need extension as it is the performance reporting stage of the grant. The performance report will need its own OMB number and run under a full clearance with a 60-day/30-day public comment period. The application will be discontinued until reinstatement in 2012. The Acting Director, Information Collection Clearance Division, Regulatory Information Management Services, Office of Management, hereby issues a correction notice as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.

The Acting Director, Information Collection Clearance Division, Regulatory Information Management Services, Office of Management, invites comments on the proposed information collection requests as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.