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Dated: July 2, 2010.
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Dated: July 2, 2010.
Darrin A. King,
Director, Information Collection Clearance
Division, Regulatory Information
Management Services, Office of Management.
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Notice of Proposed Information
Collection Requests
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Office of Postsecondary Education.
Department of Education.
SUMMARY: The 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.
DATES: Interested persons are invited to
submit comments on or before
September 7, 2010.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section
3506 of the Paperwork Reduction Act of
1995 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35) requires
that the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) provide interested
Federal agencies and the public an early
opportunity to comment on information
collection requests. OMB may amend or
waive the requirement for public
consultation to the extent that public
participation in the approval process
would defeat the purpose of the
information collection, violate State or
Federal law, or substantially interfere
with any agency’s ability to perform its
statutory obligations. The Director,
Information Collection Clearance
Division, Regulatory Information
Management Services, Office of
Management, publishes that notice
containing proposed information
collection requests prior to submission
of these requests to OMB. Each
proposed information collection,
grouped by office, contains the
following: (1) Type of review requested,
e.g. new, revision, extension, existing or
reinstatement; (2) Title; (3) Summary of
the collection; (4) Description of the
need for, and proposed use of, the
information; (5) Respondents and
frequency of collection; and (6)
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Reporting and/or Recordkeeping
burden. OMB invites public comment.
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.
Type of Review: Reinstatement.
Title: Annual Performance Reports for
Title III and Title V Programs.
OMB #: 1840–0766.
Agency Form Number(s): N/A.
Frequency: Annually.
Affected Public: Not-for-profit
institutions.
Reporting and Recordkeeping Hour
Burden:
Responses: 891.
Burden Hours: 17,460.
Abstract: Titles III and V programs
authorized by the Higher Education Act
of 1965 (HEA), as amended, provide
discretionary and formula grants to
approximately 40 percent of eligible
institutions of higher education and
organizations (MSEIP–Title III, E only)
to support improvements in educational
quality, institutional management and
fiscal stability. The office of
Institutional Development and
Undergraduate Education Services
(IDUES) is authorized to award one year
planning grants and five-year
development grants and collect key
data, analyze, report, and evaluate
grantee and Program performance and
outcomes. Grantees submit a yearly
performance report to demonstrate that
substantial progress is being made
towards meeting the objectives of their
project and first year grantees submit an
interim (six month) report as well. This
request continues the use of a webbased performance report to more
effectively elicit program-specific
information to be used for program
monitoring, data analysis, and
Government Performance and Results
Act (GPRA) reporting purposes. The
Annual Performance Report (APR)
continues to be the cornerstone of the
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Information Management Performance
System (IMPS) tailored to strengthen the
Department of Education’s program
monitoring efforts, streamline our
processes, and enhance our customer
service to the end of meeting legislative,
regulatory, and directive requirements.
The colleges and communities served
by Titles III and V of the HEA include:
Historically Black Colleges and
Universities (HBCU); Historically Black
Graduate Institutions (HBGI); HispanicServing Institutions (HSI); American
Indian Tribally Controlled Colleges and
Universities (TCCU); Alaska NativeServing Institutions; Native HawaiianServing Institutions; Asian American
and Native American Pacific IslanderServing Institutions (AANAPISI); Native
American-Serving Nontribal Institutions
(NASNTI); and other institutions that
serve a significant number of minority
and financially disadvantaged students
and have low average and general
expenditures per student.
There are major forces continuing to
drive the APR: (1) The need to improve
the quality and effectiveness of our
program monitoring efforts; (2) the need
to provide more reliable and valid data
for the Government Performance and
Results Act (GPRA); (3) the need to
evaluate grantee and Program
effectiveness; and (4) capacity building
efforts toward a Title III and Title V
community of practice. The Office of
Inspector General (IG) has identified
repeatedly the aforementioned needs as
areas that IDUES should resolve. For the
past seven years, IDUES has been
focused on addressing these areas and
has designed this APR as the data
collection tool of the Information
Management Performance System
platform.
The APR supports IDUES IMPS as the
database tool of our monitoring
oversight, analysis, evaluation, trend
and profile reporting of grant and
program life cycle performance.
According the IG audit ED–OIG/A04–
90013 (‘‘Office of Higher Education
Programs Needs to Improve its
Oversight of Parts A and B of the Title
III Program’’), ‘‘[Higher Education
Programs] needs a systematic approach
to effectively and efficiently monitor
Title III grantees for compliance and
program performance.’’ With this
methodical approach to program
monitoring, IDUES is significantly
reducing the risk of grantees using
federal funds inappropriately and better
ensuring that grant objectives are being
met. In our most recent collection
grantees indicated that only one percent
of grantees requested a change to
scheduled objectives and 57 percent of
grantee objectives were on schedule of
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the more than 9,000 objectives
identified. Prior to the development and
implementation of the APR electronic
collection we were not able to present
data that indicated success or failure of
the programs individually or
collectively without laboring through
hundreds of hard copy reports.
In addition to improving our program
oversight, the IG has found that the
current Title III and Title V performance
indicators for GPRA were developed
with minimal consultation with the
grantee communities, and minimal
involvement from IDUES staff. In the
Audit Report ED–OIG/A04–90014
(‘‘Review of Title III Program, HEA,
Compliance with GPRA Requirements
for Implementation of Performance
Indicators’’), the IG recommends that we
create a more reliable system for
collecting and aggregating the data
needed to demonstrate the effectiveness
of the Title III and Title V programs.
Clearly, the APR should play a central
role in collecting the GPRA data that we
are required to report to Congress. With
this in mind, the APR was designed to
collect data in a manner that is flexible,
reliable, valid and pertinent to program
objectives and Program performance
measures. Furthermore the resulting
profile and trend reports from the APR
are facilitating dialogues with the
grantee community on performance
indicators and individual program
success.
In conjunction with the IG’s findings
and in accordance with Actions (4)(a)(1)
& (4)(a)(2) of the Corrective Action Plan
(CAN #04–6001) issued by IDUES, we
are continuing use of an Annual
Performance Report that substantially
improves our efforts to meet the
aforementioned objectives. Yet it is clear
that a single, annual report would be
insufficient for satisfying the multiple
and varied demands that are required
for program monitoring and GPRA
reporting. Therefore the APR is being
submitted for OMB approval as IDUES’
cornerstone of an Information
Management Performance System that
employs various tools to
comprehensively analyze, evaluate,
report Program trends and community
practice, and monitor our grantees and
Program success. Catalog of Federal
Domestic Assistance program numbers
are being added for 84.031C, 84.031L,
84.382B, 84.031M, and 84.031X. Current
questions for CFDA 84.031B and
84.031S are edited for clarity.
Requests for copies of the proposed
information collection request may be
accessed from https://edicsweb.ed.gov,
by selecting the ‘‘Browse Pending
Collections’’ link and by clicking on link
number 4348. When you access the
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information collection, click on
‘‘Download Attachments’’ to view.
Written requests for information should
be addressed to U.S. Department of
Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, SW.,
LBJ, Washington, DC 20202–4537.
Requests may also be electronically
mailed to ICDocketMgr@ed.gov or faxed
to 202–401–0920. Please specify the
complete title of the information
collection when making your request.
Comments regarding burden and/or
the collection activity requirements
should be electronically mailed to
ICDocketMgr@ed.gov. Individuals who
use a telecommunications device for the
deaf (TDD) may call the Federal
Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 1–
800–877–8339.
information; (5) Respondents and
frequency of collection; and (6)
Reporting and/or Recordkeeping
burden. OMB invites public comment.
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.
[FR Doc. 2010–16655 Filed 7–7–10; 8:45 am]
Dated: July 2, 2010.
Darrin A. King,
Director, Information Collection Clearance
Division, Regulatory Information
Management Services, Office of Management.
BILLING CODE 4000–01–P
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Notice of Proposed Information
Collection Requests
AGENCY: Department of Education.
SUMMARY: The 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.
DATES: Interested persons are invited to
submit comments on or before
September 7, 2010.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section
3506 of the Paperwork Reduction Act of
1995 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35) requires
that the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) provide interested
Federal agencies and the public an early
opportunity to comment on information
collection requests. OMB may amend or
waive the requirement for public
consultation to the extent that public
participation in the approval process
would defeat the purpose of the
information collection, violate State or
Federal law, or substantially interfere
with any agency’s ability to perform its
statutory obligations. The Director,
Information Collection Clearance
Division, Regulatory Information
Management Services, Office of
Management, publishes that notice
containing proposed information
collection requests prior to submission
of these requests to OMB. Each
proposed information collection,
grouped by office, contains the
following: (1) Type of review requested,
e.g. new, revision, extension, existing or
reinstatement; (2) Title; (3) Summary of
the collection; (4) Description of the
need for, and proposed use of, the
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Institute of Education Sciences
Type of Review: Reinstatement.
Title: National Household Education
Survey (NHES 2011/2012) Field Test.
OMB#: 1850–0768.
Agency Form Number(s): N/A.
Frequency: Once.
Affected Public: Individuals or
households.
Reporting and Recordkeeping Hour
Burden:
Responses: 40,905.
Burden Hours: 5,535.
Abstract: The National Household
Education Surveys Program (NHES)
collects data directly from households
on early childhood care and education,
children’s readiness for school, parent
perceptions of school safety and
discipline, before- and after-school
activities of school-age children,
participation in adult and continuing
education, parent involvement in
education, school choice,
homeschooling, and civic involvement.
NHES surveys have been conducted
approximately every other year from
1991 through 2007 using random digit
dial (RDD) sampling and telephone data
collection from landline telephones
only. Each survey collection included
the administration of household
screening questions (screener) and two
or three topical surveys. Like virtually
all RDD surveys, NHES Screener
response rates have declined (from
above 80% in early 1990s to 53% in
2007) and the decline in the percentage
of households without landline
telephones (from 93% in early 2004 to
about 75% in 2009 mostly due to
conversion to cellular-only coverage)
raises issues about population coverage.
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Notice of Proposed Information Collection Requests
AGENCY: Department of Education.
SUMMARY: The 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.
DATES: Interested persons are invited to submit comments on or before
September 7, 2010.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 3506 of the Paperwork Reduction Act
of 1995 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35) requires that the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) provide interested Federal agencies and the public an
early opportunity to comment on information collection requests. OMB
may amend or waive the requirement for public consultation to the
extent that public participation in the approval process would defeat
the purpose of the information collection, violate State or Federal
law, or substantially interfere with any agency's ability to perform
its statutory obligations. The Director, Information Collection
Clearance Division, Regulatory Information Management Services, Office
of Management, publishes that notice containing proposed information
collection requests prior to submission of these requests to OMB. Each
proposed information collection, grouped by office, contains the
following: (1) Type of review requested, e.g. new, revision, extension,
existing or reinstatement; (2) Title; (3) Summary of the collection;
(4) Description of the need for, and proposed use of, the information;
(5) Respondents and frequency of collection; and (6) Reporting and/or
Recordkeeping burden. OMB invites public comment.
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.
Dated: July 2, 2010.
Darrin A. King,
Director, Information Collection Clearance Division, Regulatory
Information Management Services, Office of Management.
Office of Postsecondary Education.
Type of Review: Reinstatement.
Title: Annual Performance Reports for Title III and Title V
Programs.
OMB #: 1840-0766.
Agency Form Number(s): N/A.
Frequency: Annually.
Affected Public: Not-for-profit institutions.
Reporting and Recordkeeping Hour Burden:
Responses: 891.
Burden Hours: 17,460.
Abstract: Titles III and V programs authorized by the Higher
Education Act of 1965 (HEA), as amended, provide discretionary and
formula grants to approximately 40 percent of eligible institutions of
higher education and organizations (MSEIP-Title III, E only) to support
improvements in educational quality, institutional management and
fiscal stability. The office of Institutional Development and
Undergraduate Education Services (IDUES) is authorized to award one
year planning grants and five-year development grants and collect key
data, analyze, report, and evaluate grantee and Program performance and
outcomes. Grantees submit a yearly performance report to demonstrate
that substantial progress is being made towards meeting the objectives
of their project and first year grantees submit an interim (six month)
report as well. This request continues the use of a web-based
performance report to more effectively elicit program-specific
information to be used for program monitoring, data analysis, and
Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) reporting purposes. The
Annual Performance Report (APR) continues to be the cornerstone of the
Information Management Performance System (IMPS) tailored to strengthen
the Department of Education's program monitoring efforts, streamline
our processes, and enhance our customer service to the end of meeting
legislative, regulatory, and directive requirements.
The colleges and communities served by Titles III and V of the HEA
include: Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU);
Historically Black Graduate Institutions (HBGI); Hispanic-Serving
Institutions (HSI); American Indian Tribally Controlled Colleges and
Universities (TCCU); Alaska Native-Serving Institutions; Native
Hawaiian-Serving Institutions; Asian American and Native American
Pacific Islander-Serving Institutions (AANAPISI); Native American-
Serving Nontribal Institutions (NASNTI); and other institutions that
serve a significant number of minority and financially disadvantaged
students and have low average and general expenditures per student.
There are major forces continuing to drive the APR: (1) The need to
improve the quality and effectiveness of our program monitoring
efforts; (2) the need to provide more reliable and valid data for the
Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA); (3) the need to evaluate
grantee and Program effectiveness; and (4) capacity building efforts
toward a Title III and Title V community of practice. The Office of
Inspector General (IG) has identified repeatedly the aforementioned
needs as areas that IDUES should resolve. For the past seven years,
IDUES has been focused on addressing these areas and has designed this
APR as the data collection tool of the Information Management
Performance System platform.
The APR supports IDUES IMPS as the database tool of our monitoring
oversight, analysis, evaluation, trend and profile reporting of grant
and program life cycle performance. According the IG audit ED-OIG/A04-
90013 (``Office of Higher Education Programs Needs to Improve its
Oversight of Parts A and B of the Title III Program''), ``[Higher
Education Programs] needs a systematic approach to effectively and
efficiently monitor Title III grantees for compliance and program
performance.'' With this methodical approach to program monitoring,
IDUES is significantly reducing the risk of grantees using federal
funds inappropriately and better ensuring that grant objectives are
being met. In our most recent collection grantees indicated that only
one percent of grantees requested a change to scheduled objectives and
57 percent of grantee objectives were on schedule of
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the more than 9,000 objectives identified. Prior to the development and
implementation of the APR electronic collection we were not able to
present data that indicated success or failure of the programs
individually or collectively without laboring through hundreds of hard
copy reports.
In addition to improving our program oversight, the IG has found
that the current Title III and Title V performance indicators for GPRA
were developed with minimal consultation with the grantee communities,
and minimal involvement from IDUES staff. In the Audit Report ED-OIG/
A04-90014 (``Review of Title III Program, HEA, Compliance with GPRA
Requirements for Implementation of Performance Indicators''), the IG
recommends that we create a more reliable system for collecting and
aggregating the data needed to demonstrate the effectiveness of the
Title III and Title V programs. Clearly, the APR should play a central
role in collecting the GPRA data that we are required to report to
Congress. With this in mind, the APR was designed to collect data in a
manner that is flexible, reliable, valid and pertinent to program
objectives and Program performance measures. Furthermore the resulting
profile and trend reports from the APR are facilitating dialogues with
the grantee community on performance indicators and individual program
success.
In conjunction with the IG's findings and in accordance with
Actions (4)(a)(1) & (4)(a)(2) of the Corrective Action Plan (CAN
04-6001) issued by IDUES, we are continuing use of an Annual
Performance Report that substantially improves our efforts to meet the
aforementioned objectives. Yet it is clear that a single, annual report
would be insufficient for satisfying the multiple and varied demands
that are required for program monitoring and GPRA reporting. Therefore
the APR is being submitted for OMB approval as IDUES' cornerstone of an
Information Management Performance System that employs various tools to
comprehensively analyze, evaluate, report Program trends and community
practice, and monitor our grantees and Program success. Catalog of
Federal Domestic Assistance program numbers are being added for
84.031C, 84.031L, 84.382B, 84.031M, and 84.031X. Current questions for
CFDA 84.031B and 84.031S are edited for clarity.
Requests for copies of the proposed information collection request
may be accessed from https://edicsweb.ed.gov, by selecting the ``Browse
Pending Collections'' link and by clicking on link number 4348. When
you access the information collection, click on ``Download
Attachments'' to view. Written requests for information should be
addressed to U.S. Department of Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, SW.,
LBJ, Washington, DC 20202-4537. Requests may also be electronically
mailed to ICDocketMgr@ed.gov or faxed to 202-401-0920. Please specify
the complete title of the information collection when making your
request.
Comments regarding burden and/or the collection activity
requirements should be electronically mailed to ICDocketMgr@ed.gov.
Individuals who use a telecommunications device for the deaf (TDD) may
call the Federal Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 1-800-877-8339.
[FR Doc. 2010-16655 Filed 7-7-10; 8:45 am]
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