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applications for Targeted Assistance
Grants to determine whether the data
the SEA submits demonstrate an
increase in student achievement in
schools and districts participating in the
Reading First program.
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How Is the Targeted Assistance Grant
Application Submitted?
The data that States must submit to
demonstrate an increase in student
achievement are the same data States
must submit in their annual
performance reports. Accordingly, the
annual performance report will serve as
the Targeted Assistance Grant
application, and States may apply for a
Targeted Assistance Grant by submitting
their annual performance reports. The
annual performance report is available
and submitted electronically at: https://
www.readingfirstapr.org. States should
indicate that they want their data
reviewed in consideration for a Targeted
Assistance Grant by checking the
appropriate box on the annual
performance report and by providing
the assurances and information
requested. In order to be considered for
a Targeted Assistance Grant, the annual
performance report must be submitted
by July 31, 2006. Only those States that
want to be considered for a Targeted
Assistance Grant this year must submit
their annual performance reports by this
date. All other States must submit their
reports no later than November 30,
2006.
How Will Targeted Assistance Grants
be Awarded to Eligible States?
The Department will award the grants
to eligible SEAs based on the
information provided in the annual
performance report and a statutory
formula for determining award amounts.
The statutory formula is calculated
based on the proportion of children
aged 5 to 17 who reside within the State
and are from families with incomes
below the poverty line, compared to the
number of children aged 5 to 17 from
families with incomes below the
poverty line who reside in all States
with approved Targeted Assistance
Grant applications for that year. Poverty
data are drawn from the most recent
fiscal year for which satisfactory data
are available.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Sandi Jacobs, telephone: (202) 401–4877
or by e-mail: sandi.jacobs@ed.gov.
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Program Authority: 20 U.S.C. 6364.
Dated: June 8, 2006.
Henry Johnson,
Assistant Secretary for Elementary and
Secondary Education.
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
National Mathematics Advisory Panel
National Mathematics Advisory
Panel, U.S. Department of Education.
ACTION: Notice of open meeting and
public hearing.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: This notice sets forth the
schedule and proposed agenda of an
upcoming meeting, including a public
hearing, with members of the National
Mathematics Advisory Panel. The notice
also describes the functions of the
Panel. Notice of this meeting is required
by section 10(a)(2) of the Federal
Advisory Committee Act and is
intended to notify the public of their
opportunity to attend.
DATES: Wednesday, June 28, 2006 and
Thursday, June 29, 2006. Time:
Meetings on June 28, 2006: 9 a.m. to 10
a.m. and 3 p.m.–4:30 p.m.; open session
for public comment on June 29, 2006: 1
p.m. to 4 p.m.
ADDRESSES: All meetings and the open
session for public comment will be held
at the University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill. However, please note the
locations for meetings on each day.
• June 28th Meetings—The Kenan
Center, Kenan Drive, Building 498.
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• June 29th Open session with public
comment—The Carolina Inn, Pittsboro
Street.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Tyrrell Flawn, Executive Director,
National Mathematics Advisory Panel,
400 Maryland Avenue, SW.,
Washington, DC 20202; telephone: (202)
260–8354.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Panel
was established by Executive Order
13398. The purpose of this Panel is to
foster greater knowledge of and
improved performance in mathematics
among American students, in order to
keep America competitive, support
American talent and creativity,
encourage innovation throughout the
American economy, and help State,
local, territorial, and tribal governments
give the nation’s children and youth the
education they need to succeed.
The June 28th meeting will begin with
a discussion of methodology from 9–10
a.m. followed later in the day from 3–
4:30 p.m with a report on subgroup
progress in the areas of Conceptual
Knowledge and Skills, Learning
Processes, Instructional Practices, and
Teachers, as set forth in the Executive
Order. Individuals interested in
attending the meeting must register in
advance because of limited space issues.
Please contact Jennifer Graban at (202)
260–1491 or by e-mail at
Jennifer.Graban@ed.gov.
On June 29th, from 1–4 p.m. the
public is invited to comment on
elements of the Executive Order and the
Panel’s work. If you are interested in
participating in the open session on
June 29th, please contact Jennifer
Graban at 202–260–1491 or
Jennifer.Graban@ed.gov to reserve time
on the agenda. Please include your
name, the organization you represent if
appropriate, and a brief description of
the issue you would like to present.
Participants will be allowed five
minutes to make their comments. At the
meeting, participants are also
encouraged to submit three written
copies of their comments.
Given the expected number of
individuals interested in providing
comments at the meeting, reservations
for presenting comments should be
made as soon as possible. Reservations
will be processed on a first-come, firstserved basis. Persons who are unable to
obtain reservations to speak during the
meeting are encouraged to submit
written comments. Written comments
will be accepted at the meeting site, via
e-mail at tyrrell.flawn@ed.gov, or mailed
to Tyrrell Flawn, Executive Director,
National Math Panel, 400 Maryland
Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20202.
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The Panel will submit to the
President, through the Secretary, a
preliminary report not later than
January 31, 2007, and a final report not
later than February 28, 2008. Both
reports shall, at a minimum, contain
recommendations, based on the best
available scientific evidence.
The meeting site is accessible to
individuals with disabilities.
Individuals who will need
accommodations in order to attend the
meeting such as interpreting services,
assistive listening devices, or materials
in alternative format, should notify
Alyson Knapp at 202–260–0583 or by email at Alyson.Knapp@ed.gov no later
than June 19, 2006. We will attempt to
meet requests for accommodations after
this date but cannot guarantee their
availability.
Records are kept of all Panel
proceedings and are available for public
inspection at the staff office for the
Panel, from the hours of 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Dated: June 8, 2006.
Margaret Spellings,
Secretary, U.S. Department of Education.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Energy Information Administration
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Proposed Collection;
Comment Request
Energy Information
Administration (EIA), Department of
Energy (DOE).
ACTION: Agency information collection
activities: proposed collection; comment
request.
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AGENCY:
SUMMARY: The EIA is soliciting
comments on the proposed
reinstatement, and three-year approval
to the Form RW–859, ‘‘Nuclear Fuel
Data Survey.’’ The previous version of
the Form RW–859 survey was
discontinued on February 28, 2005.
DATES: Comments must be filed by
August 14, 2006. If you anticipate
difficulty in submitting comments
within that period, contact the person
listed below as soon as possible.
ADDRESSES: Send comments to Jim
Finucane. To ensure receipt of the
comments by the due date, submission
by fax (202–287–1934) or e-mail
jim.finucane@eia.doe.gov is
recommended. The mailing address is
Office of Coal, Nuclear, Electric and
Alternate Fuels, EI–52, 950 L’Enfant
Plaza, SW., U.S. Department of Energy,
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Alternatively, Jim Finucane may be
contacted by telephone at 202–287–
1966.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Requests for additional information or
copies of any forms and instructions
should be directed to Jim Finucane at
the address listed above.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
II. Current Actions
III. Request for Comments
I. Background
The Federal Energy Administration
Act of 1974 (Pub. L. No. 93–275, 15
U.S.C. 761 et seq.) and the DOE
Organization Act (Pub. L. No. 95–91, 42
U.S.C. 7101 et seq.) require the EIA to
carry out a centralized, comprehensive,
and unified energy information
program. This program collects,
evaluates, assembles, analyzes, and
disseminates information on energy
resource reserves, production, demand,
technology, and related economic and
statistical information. This information
is used to assess the adequacy of energy
resources to meet near and longer term
domestic demands.
The EIA, as part of its effort to comply
with the Paperwork Reduction Act of
1995 (Pub. L. 104–13, 44 U.S.C. chapter
35), provides the general public and
other Federal agencies with
opportunities to comment on collections
of energy information conducted by or
in conjunction with the EIA. Any
comments received help the EIA to
prepare data requests that maximize the
utility of the information collected, and
to assess the impact of collection
requirements on the public. Also, the
EIA will later seek approval by the
Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) under Section 3507(a) of the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
This data collection will provide the
Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste
Management (OCRWM) of DOE with
detailed information concerning the
spent nuclear fuel generated by the
respondents (commercial utility
generators of spent nuclear fuel within
the U.S. are respondents to this survey).
The DOE will take possession of this
spent fuel and will need this data to
properly design the spent fuel
repository (spent fuel receiving systems,
spent fuel handling systems, etc.),
which will be the final disposal site for
the spent fuel and high-level radioactive
waste materials.
II. Current Actions
EIA will be requesting a reinstatement
with revisions and a three-year approval
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of its form RW–859, ‘‘Nuclear Fuel Data
Survey.’’ As in previous surveys, all
data will be collected once. Only
changes in the specific previously
reported data elements will require
updating.
The current Form RW–859 redesign
effort and associated changes has
several fundamental goals and
objectives:
—Maintain the fidelity of collection of
the information required by OCRWM,
by continuing to collect quality data
on reactors, historical spent fuel
discharges, projections of spent fuel
discharges, pool capacities and
inventories, and special fuel and nonfuel forms relevant to OCRWM needs;
—Simplify the process of data collection
and validation, by enhancing the
ability of respondents to provide data
through electronic data transfer in any
available format (spreadsheet,
database, etc.);
—Minimize the impacts of changes to
the supporting database and
associated software by maintaining
the look and feel of previous systems
and by providing incremental
improvements without the need for
outside programming support; and
—Enhance internal reports to improve
the quality of submitted data by
enhancing existing procedures
through the use of internal reporting
tools to standardize and automate
data quality and consistency checks.
The major changes to the Form RW–
859 survey include the following:
The EIA is proposing to modify the
structure of the Form RW–859 survey
form to organize the data into separate
utility, reactor, discharged fuel, storage
facility, non-fuel, and comments
schedules. The seven sections from the
2002 version of the survey would be
replaced with the six schedules. The
redesign increases the visibility of
storage facilities as individual entities.
The collection of all discharged fuel
data in a single survey section thus
consolidates all basic fuel data
(enrichment, weight, burnup, discharge
date) for all fuel, including special
forms to ensure consistent, nonrepetitive data. This would involve the
inclusion of data on special fuel forms
(consolidated fuel, fuel in canisters, fuel
rods, fuel pieces) as a supplement to the
basic fuel data survey section, rather
than being collected in separate sections
as in previous surveys.
The revised form eliminates the
collection of duplicative information.
Previous surveys collected contact
information separately for each reactor;
the new survey methodology collects
and stores information once for an
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
National Mathematics Advisory Panel
AGENCY: National Mathematics Advisory Panel, U.S. Department of
Education.
ACTION: Notice of open meeting and public hearing.
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SUMMARY: This notice sets forth the schedule and proposed agenda of an
upcoming meeting, including a public hearing, with members of the
National Mathematics Advisory Panel. The notice also describes the
functions of the Panel. Notice of this meeting is required by section
10(a)(2) of the Federal Advisory Committee Act and is intended to
notify the public of their opportunity to attend.
DATES: Wednesday, June 28, 2006 and Thursday, June 29, 2006. Time:
Meetings on June 28, 2006: 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. and 3 p.m.-4:30 p.m.; open
session for public comment on June 29, 2006: 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.
ADDRESSES: All meetings and the open session for public comment will be
held at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. However, please
note the locations for meetings on each day.
June 28th Meetings--The Kenan Center, Kenan Drive,
Building 498.
June 29th Open session with public comment--The Carolina
Inn, Pittsboro Street.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Tyrrell Flawn, Executive Director,
National Mathematics Advisory Panel, 400 Maryland Avenue, SW.,
Washington, DC 20202; telephone: (202) 260-8354.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Panel was established by Executive Order
13398. The purpose of this Panel is to foster greater knowledge of and
improved performance in mathematics among American students, in order
to keep America competitive, support American talent and creativity,
encourage innovation throughout the American economy, and help State,
local, territorial, and tribal governments give the nation's children
and youth the education they need to succeed.
The June 28th meeting will begin with a discussion of methodology
from 9-10 a.m. followed later in the day from 3-4:30 p.m with a report
on subgroup progress in the areas of Conceptual Knowledge and Skills,
Learning Processes, Instructional Practices, and Teachers, as set forth
in the Executive Order. Individuals interested in attending the meeting
must register in advance because of limited space issues. Please
contact Jennifer Graban at (202) 260-1491 or by e-mail at
Jennifer.Graban@ed.gov.
On June 29th, from 1-4 p.m. the public is invited to comment on
elements of the Executive Order and the Panel's work. If you are
interested in participating in the open session on June 29th, please
contact Jennifer Graban at 202-260-1491 or Jennifer.Graban@ed.gov to
reserve time on the agenda. Please include your name, the organization
you represent if appropriate, and a brief description of the issue you
would like to present. Participants will be allowed five minutes to
make their comments. At the meeting, participants are also encouraged
to submit three written copies of their comments.
Given the expected number of individuals interested in providing
comments at the meeting, reservations for presenting comments should be
made as soon as possible. Reservations will be processed on a first-
come, first-served basis. Persons who are unable to obtain reservations
to speak during the meeting are encouraged to submit written comments.
Written comments will be accepted at the meeting site, via e-mail at
tyrrell.flawn@ed.gov, or mailed to Tyrrell Flawn, Executive Director,
National Math Panel, 400 Maryland Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20202.
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The Panel will submit to the President, through the Secretary, a
preliminary report not later than January 31, 2007, and a final report
not later than February 28, 2008. Both reports shall, at a minimum,
contain recommendations, based on the best available scientific
evidence.
The meeting site is accessible to individuals with disabilities.
Individuals who will need accommodations in order to attend the meeting
such as interpreting services, assistive listening devices, or
materials in alternative format, should notify Alyson Knapp at 202-260-
0583 or by e-mail at Alyson.Knapp@ed.gov no later than June 19, 2006.
We will attempt to meet requests for accommodations after this date but
cannot guarantee their availability.
Records are kept of all Panel proceedings and are available for
public inspection at the staff office for the Panel, from the hours of
9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Dated: June 8, 2006.
Margaret Spellings,
Secretary, U.S. Department of Education.
[FR Doc. 06-5384 Filed 6-13-06; 8:45am]
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