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National Assessment Governing
Board; Meeting
AGENCY: Department of Education,
National Assessment Governing Board.
ACTION: Notice of open meeting and
partially closed meetings.
SUMMARY: The notice sets forth the
schedule and proposed agenda of a
forthcoming meeting of the National
Assessment Governing Board. This
notice also describes the functions of
the Board. Notice of this meeting is
required under Section 10(a)(2) of the
Federal Advisory Committee Act. This
document is intended to notify members
of the general public of their
opportunity to attend. This notice is
appearing in the Federal Register less
than 15 days before the date of the
meeting of the Board because of late
additions to the closed meeting
schedule. Individuals who will need
special accommodations in order to
attend the meeting (i.e.; interpreting
services, assistive listening devices,
materials in alternative format) should
notify Munira Mwalimu at 202–357–
6938 or at Munira.Mwalimu@ed.gov no
later than July 31, 2009. We will attempt
to meet requests after this date, but
cannot guarantee availability of the
requested accommodation. The meeting
site is accessible to individuals with
disabilities.
DATES:
August 6–8, 2009.
Times
August 6: Committee Meetings
Assessment Development Committee:
Closed Session—8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Ad Hoc Committee on NAEP Testing
and Reporting on Students with
Disabilities and English Language
Learners: Open Session—2 p.m. to
4 p.m.
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Executive Committee: Open Session—
4:30 p.m. to 5 p.m.; Closed Session—
5 p.m. to 6 p.m.
August 7
Full Board: Open Session—8:30 a.m.
to 9:45 a.m.; Closed Session—12:30 p.m.
to 1:30 p.m.; Open Session—1:30 p.m.
to 4:30 p.m.
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Committee Meetings
Assessment Development Committee:
Open Session—10 a.m. to 11 a.m.;
Closed Session—11 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.
Committee on Standards, Design and
Methodology: Open Session—10 a.m. to
12:15 p.m.
Reporting and Dissemination
Committee: Open Session—10 a.m. to
12:15 p.m.
August 8
Nominations Committee: Closed
Session—7:45 a.m. to 8:15 a.m.
Full Board: Closed Session—8:30 a.m.
to 10 a.m.; Open Session—10 a.m. to
12 p.m.
Location: Mandarin Oriental Hotel,
1330 Maryland Avenue, SW.,
Washington, DC 20024.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Munira Mwalimu, Operations Officer,
National Assessment Governing Board,
800 North Capitol Street, NW., Suite
825, Washington, DC 20002–4233,
Telephone: (202) 357–6938.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
National Assessment Governing Board
is established under section 412 of the
National Education Statistics Act of
1994, as amended.
The Board is established to formulate
policy guidelines for the National
Assessment of Educational Progress
(NAEP). The Board’s responsibilities
include selecting subject areas to be
assessed, developing assessment
specifications and frameworks,
developing appropriate student
achievement levels for each grade and
subject tested, developing standards and
procedures for interstate and national
comparisons, developing guidelines for
reporting and disseminating results, and
releasing initial NAEP results to the
public.
On August 6, 2009, the Assessment
Development Committee will meet in
closed session from 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.
and the Ad Hoc Committee on NAEP
Testing and Reporting on Students with
Disabilities and English Language
Learners will meet in open session from
2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Thereafter, the
Executive Committee will meet in open
session from 4:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. and in
closed session from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m.
During the closed session on August
6, 2009 the Assessment Development
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Committee will review secure NAEP test
questions in grades 4, 8, and 12 for the
2010 operational assessments in U.S.
History and secure writing prompts in
the computer-based platform at grades 8
and 12 for the 2010 pilot test. The
meeting must be conducted in closed
session as disclosure of test items would
significantly impede implementation of
the NAEP program, and is therefore
protected by exemption 9(B) of section
552b(c) of Title 5 U.S.C.
On August 6, 2009, the Executive
Committee will receive a briefing from
the National Center for Education
Statistics (NCES) on options for NAEP
contracts covering the 2008–2012
assessment years, based on funding for
Fiscal Year 2009–2010. The discussion
of contract options and costs will
address the implications for
congressionally mandated goals and
adherence to Board policies on NAEP
assessments. This part of the meeting
must be conducted in closed session
because public discussion of this
information would disclose
independent government cost estimates
and contracting options, adversely
impacting the confidentiality of the
contracting process. Public disclosure of
information discussed would
significantly impede implementation of
the NAEP contracts, and is therefore
protected by exemption 9(B) of section
552b(c) of Title 5 U.S.C.
The second portion of the closed
session of the Executive Committee is
for discussion of nominees for the office
of Vice-Chair of the Board for the oneyear term from October 1, 2009 through
September 30, 2010. Under the current
NAGB by-laws, the Board selects a ViceChair from among its members. The
Executive Committee will review the
names of the candidates for Vice Chair,
and will forward a recommendation to
the whole Board for a final vote. These
discussions pertain solely to internal
personnel rules and practices of an
agency and will disclose information of
a personal nature where disclosure
would constitute an unwarranted
invasion of personal privacy. As such,
the discussions are protected by
exemptions 2 and 6 of section 552b(c)
of Title 5 U.S.C.
On August 7, the full Board will meet
in open session from 8:30 a.m. to 9:45
a.m. The Board will review and approve
the agenda and the May 2009 Board
meeting minutes. Following these
actions, the Chairman will introduce the
Governing Board’s new Executive
Director, Cornelia Orr, who will then
address the Board. Following her
remarks, John Easton, Director, Institute
of Education Sciences, will provide
some remarks and engage in open
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discussion with the Board. This will be
followed by an update from the Acting
Commissioner of Education, Stuart
Kerachsky, on the work of the National
Center for Education Statistics.
From 10 a.m. to 12:15 p.m., two of the
Board’s standing committees—the
Reporting and Dissemination
Committee, and the Committee on
Standards, Design and Methodology
will meet in open sessions. The
Assessment Development Committee
will meet in open session from 10 a.m.
to 11 a.m. From 11 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.
the Assessment Development
Committee will meet in closed session
to review secure writing prompts in the
computer-based platform for the 2010
pilot test in grades 8 and 12 and reading
passages at grade 4 for the 2010 special
study on accessible booklets. This
portion of the Assessment Development
Committee is closed since disclosure of
test items and data would significantly
impede implementation of the NAEP
program, and is therefore protected by
exemption 9(B) of section 552b(c) of
Title 5 U.S.C.
The full Board will meet in closed
session from 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. to
receive a briefing on the 2007 NCES
Study on Mapping State Proficiency
Standards onto the NAEP Scale from
Peggy Carr, the Associate Commissioner
of NCES. The Governing Board will be
provided with embargoed data on the
Mapping Study that cannot be discussed
in an open meeting prior to their official
release. Premature disclosure of data
would significantly impede
implementation of the NCES statistics
program, and is therefore protected by
exemption 9(B) of section 552b(c) of
Title 5 U.S.C.
From 1:30 p.m. to 2:45 p.m., the full
Board will receive a briefing on the
Expert Panel reports to the Ad Hoc
Committee on NAEP Testing and
Reporting of Students with Disabilities
and English Language Learners. This
will be followed by an update on the
Common Core Standards Project from 3
p.m. to 3:45 p.m. Thereafter, the Board
will receive an update on the NAEP
2012 Technological Literacy Framework
Project. The August 7 session of the
Board meeting is scheduled to adjourn
at 4:30 p.m.
On August 8, the Nominations
Committee will meet in closed session
from 7:45 a.m. to 8:15 a.m. to review
and discuss confidential information
regarding nominees received for Board
vacancies for terms beginning on
October 1, 2009. These discussions
pertain solely to internal personnel
rules and practices of an agency and
will disclose information of a personal
nature where disclosure would
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constitute an unwarranted invasion of
personal privacy. As such, the
discussions are protected by exemptions
2 and 6 of section 552b(c) of Title 5
U.S.C.
The full Board will meet in closed
session on August 8 from 8:30 a.m. to
10 a.m. to receive a demonstration on
NAEP Science Interactive Computer
Tasks. The interactive computer tasks
are secure items and cannot be
discussed in an open meeting.
Premature disclosure of the test items
would significantly impede
implementation of the NAEP program,
and is therefore protected by exemption
9(B) of section 552b(c) of Title 5 U.S.C.
Thereafter, the Board will meet in
open session from 10:15 a.m. to 12 p.m.
to review and take action on Committee
reports. The August 8, 2009 session of
the Board meeting is scheduled to
adjourn at 12 p.m.
Detailed minutes of the meeting,
including summaries of the activities of
the closed sessions and related matters
that are informative to the public and
consistent with the policy of section 5
U.S.C. 552b(c) will be available to the
public within 14 days of the meeting.
Records are kept of all Board
proceedings and are available for public
inspection at the U.S. Department of
Education, National Assessment
Governing Board, Suite #825, 800 North
Capitol Street, NW., Washington, DC,
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Dated: July 21, 2009.
Cornelia Orr,
Executive Director, National Assessment
Governing Board, U.S. Department of
Education.
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Notice of an Additional Scoping
Meeting for the Environmental Impact
Statement for the Long-Term
Management and Storage of Elemental
Mercury, Extension of the Public
Comment Period, and Correction
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Notice of an Additional Scoping
Meeting, Extension of the Public
Comment Period, and Correction.
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SUMMARY: On July 2, 2009, the
Department of Energy (DOE or the
Department) published its Notice of
Intent to prepare an Environmental
Impact Statement for the Long-Term
Management and Storage of Elemental
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invited public comments on the
proposed scope of the Mercury Storage
EIS during a 45-day public scoping
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scoping meetings would be held in the
vicinity of the sites proposed for
evaluation in this EIS as candidate
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and an extension of the public scoping
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2009 (74 FR 31723), the Department
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Federal Register. We believe it is
necessary to issue the following
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• On page 31723, the first sentence of
the ‘‘Background’’ section is corrected to
read: The Mercury Export Ban Act of
2008 (Pub. L. No. 110–414), amends
section 6 of the Toxic Substances
Control Act (TSCA) (15 USC 2605) to
prohibit, effective October 14, 2008, any
Federal agency from conveying, selling,
or distributing (with certain limited
exceptions) to any other Federal agency,
any State or local government agency, or
any private individual or entity any
elemental mercury under the control or
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
National Assessment Governing Board; Meeting
AGENCY: Department of Education, National Assessment Governing Board.
ACTION: Notice of open meeting and partially closed meetings.
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SUMMARY: The notice sets forth the schedule and proposed agenda of a
forthcoming meeting of the National Assessment Governing Board. This
notice also describes the functions of the Board. Notice of this
meeting is required under Section 10(a)(2) of the Federal Advisory
Committee Act. This document is intended to notify members of the
general public of their opportunity to attend. This notice is appearing
in the Federal Register less than 15 days before the date of the
meeting of the Board because of late additions to the closed meeting
schedule. Individuals who will need special accommodations in order to
attend the meeting (i.e.; interpreting services, assistive listening
devices, materials in alternative format) should notify Munira Mwalimu
at 202-357-6938 or at Munira.Mwalimu@ed.gov no later than July 31,
2009. We will attempt to meet requests after this date, but cannot
guarantee availability of the requested accommodation. The meeting site
is accessible to individuals with disabilities.
DATES: August 6-8, 2009.
Times
August 6: Committee Meetings
Assessment Development Committee: Closed Session--8:30 a.m. to 2
p.m.
Ad Hoc Committee on NAEP Testing and Reporting on Students with
Disabilities and English Language Learners: Open Session--2 p.m. to 4
p.m.
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Executive Committee: Open Session--4:30 p.m. to 5 p.m.; Closed
Session-- 5 p.m. to 6 p.m.
August 7
Full Board: Open Session--8:30 a.m. to 9:45 a.m.; Closed Session--
12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.; Open Session--1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Committee Meetings
Assessment Development Committee: Open Session--10 a.m. to 11 a.m.;
Closed Session--11 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.
Committee on Standards, Design and Methodology: Open Session--10
a.m. to 12:15 p.m.
Reporting and Dissemination Committee: Open Session--10 a.m. to
12:15 p.m.
August 8
Nominations Committee: Closed Session--7:45 a.m. to 8:15 a.m.
Full Board: Closed Session--8:30 a.m. to 10 a.m.; Open Session--10
a.m. to 12 p.m.
Location: Mandarin Oriental Hotel, 1330 Maryland Avenue, SW.,
Washington, DC 20024.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Munira Mwalimu, Operations Officer,
National Assessment Governing Board, 800 North Capitol Street, NW.,
Suite 825, Washington, DC 20002-4233, Telephone: (202) 357-6938.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The National Assessment Governing Board is
established under section 412 of the National Education Statistics Act
of 1994, as amended.
The Board is established to formulate policy guidelines for the
National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). The Board's
responsibilities include selecting subject areas to be assessed,
developing assessment specifications and frameworks, developing
appropriate student achievement levels for each grade and subject
tested, developing standards and procedures for interstate and national
comparisons, developing guidelines for reporting and disseminating
results, and releasing initial NAEP results to the public.
On August 6, 2009, the Assessment Development Committee will meet
in closed session from 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. and the Ad Hoc Committee on
NAEP Testing and Reporting on Students with Disabilities and English
Language Learners will meet in open session from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Thereafter, the Executive Committee will meet in open session from 4:30
p.m. to 5 p.m. and in closed session from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m.
During the closed session on August 6, 2009 the Assessment
Development Committee will review secure NAEP test questions in grades
4, 8, and 12 for the 2010 operational assessments in U.S. History and
secure writing prompts in the computer-based platform at grades 8 and
12 for the 2010 pilot test. The meeting must be conducted in closed
session as disclosure of test items would significantly impede
implementation of the NAEP program, and is therefore protected by
exemption 9(B) of section 552b(c) of Title 5 U.S.C.
On August 6, 2009, the Executive Committee will receive a briefing
from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) on options for
NAEP contracts covering the 2008-2012 assessment years, based on
funding for Fiscal Year 2009-2010. The discussion of contract options
and costs will address the implications for congressionally mandated
goals and adherence to Board policies on NAEP assessments. This part of
the meeting must be conducted in closed session because public
discussion of this information would disclose independent government
cost estimates and contracting options, adversely impacting the
confidentiality of the contracting process. Public disclosure of
information discussed would significantly impede implementation of the
NAEP contracts, and is therefore protected by exemption 9(B) of section
552b(c) of Title 5 U.S.C.
The second portion of the closed session of the Executive Committee
is for discussion of nominees for the office of Vice-Chair of the Board
for the one-year term from October 1, 2009 through September 30, 2010.
Under the current NAGB by-laws, the Board selects a Vice-Chair from
among its members. The Executive Committee will review the names of the
candidates for Vice Chair, and will forward a recommendation to the
whole Board for a final vote. These discussions pertain solely to
internal personnel rules and practices of an agency and will disclose
information of a personal nature where disclosure would constitute an
unwarranted invasion of personal privacy. As such, the discussions are
protected by exemptions 2 and 6 of section 552b(c) of Title 5 U.S.C.
On August 7, the full Board will meet in open session from 8:30
a.m. to 9:45 a.m. The Board will review and approve the agenda and the
May 2009 Board meeting minutes. Following these actions, the Chairman
will introduce the Governing Board's new Executive Director, Cornelia
Orr, who will then address the Board. Following her remarks, John
Easton, Director, Institute of Education Sciences, will provide some
remarks and engage in open discussion with the Board. This will be
followed by an update from the Acting Commissioner of Education, Stuart
Kerachsky, on the work of the National Center for Education Statistics.
From 10 a.m. to 12:15 p.m., two of the Board's standing
committees--the Reporting and Dissemination Committee, and the
Committee on Standards, Design and Methodology will meet in open
sessions. The Assessment Development Committee will meet in open
session from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. From 11 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. the
Assessment Development Committee will meet in closed session to review
secure writing prompts in the computer-based platform for the 2010
pilot test in grades 8 and 12 and reading passages at grade 4 for the
2010 special study on accessible booklets. This portion of the
Assessment Development Committee is closed since disclosure of test
items and data would significantly impede implementation of the NAEP
program, and is therefore protected by exemption 9(B) of section
552b(c) of Title 5 U.S.C.
The full Board will meet in closed session from 12:30 p.m. to 1:30
p.m. to receive a briefing on the 2007 NCES Study on Mapping State
Proficiency Standards onto the NAEP Scale from Peggy Carr, the
Associate Commissioner of NCES. The Governing Board will be provided
with embargoed data on the Mapping Study that cannot be discussed in an
open meeting prior to their official release. Premature disclosure of
data would significantly impede implementation of the NCES statistics
program, and is therefore protected by exemption 9(B) of section
552b(c) of Title 5 U.S.C.
From 1:30 p.m. to 2:45 p.m., the full Board will receive a briefing
on the Expert Panel reports to the Ad Hoc Committee on NAEP Testing and
Reporting of Students with Disabilities and English Language Learners.
This will be followed by an update on the Common Core Standards Project
from 3 p.m. to 3:45 p.m. Thereafter, the Board will receive an update
on the NAEP 2012 Technological Literacy Framework Project. The August 7
session of the Board meeting is scheduled to adjourn at 4:30 p.m.
On August 8, the Nominations Committee will meet in closed session
from 7:45 a.m. to 8:15 a.m. to review and discuss confidential
information regarding nominees received for Board vacancies for terms
beginning on October 1, 2009. These discussions pertain solely to
internal personnel rules and practices of an agency and will disclose
information of a personal nature where disclosure would
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constitute an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy. As such, the
discussions are protected by exemptions 2 and 6 of section 552b(c) of
Title 5 U.S.C.
The full Board will meet in closed session on August 8 from 8:30
a.m. to 10 a.m. to receive a demonstration on NAEP Science Interactive
Computer Tasks. The interactive computer tasks are secure items and
cannot be discussed in an open meeting. Premature disclosure of the
test items would significantly impede implementation of the NAEP
program, and is therefore protected by exemption 9(B) of section
552b(c) of Title 5 U.S.C.
Thereafter, the Board will meet in open session from 10:15 a.m. to
12 p.m. to review and take action on Committee reports. The August 8,
2009 session of the Board meeting is scheduled to adjourn at 12 p.m.
Detailed minutes of the meeting, including summaries of the
activities of the closed sessions and related matters that are
informative to the public and consistent with the policy of section 5
U.S.C. 552b(c) will be available to the public within 14 days of the
meeting. Records are kept of all Board proceedings and are available
for public inspection at the U.S. Department of Education, National
Assessment Governing Board, Suite 825, 800 North Capitol
Street, NW., Washington, DC, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Eastern Standard
Time, Monday through Friday.
Electronic Access to This Document: You may view this document, as
well as all other documents of this Department published in the Federal
Register, in text or Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) on the
Internet at the following site: https://www.ed.gov/news/fedregister/ To use PDF you must have Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is
available free at this site. If you have questions about using PDF,
call the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO), toll free at 1-888-293-
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Note: The official version of this document is the document
published in the Federal Register. Free Internet access to the
official edition of the Federal Register and the Code of Federal
Regulations is available on GPO Access at: https://www.gpoaccess.gov/nara/.
Dated: July 21, 2009.
Cornelia Orr,
Executive Director, National Assessment Governing Board, U.S.
Department of Education.
[FR Doc. E9-17728 Filed 7-23-09; 8:45 am]
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