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burden of the proposed collection of
information, including the validity of
the methodology and assumptions used;
(3) Enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and (4) Minimize the burden
of the collection of information on those
who are to respond, including through
the use of appropriate automated,
electronic, mechanical, or other
technological collection techniques or
other forms of information technology.
Dated: June 16, 2011.
James Hyler,
Acting Director, Information Collection
Clearance Division, Privacy, Information and
Records Management Services, Office of
Management.
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Institute of Education Sciences
Type of Review: Revision.
Title of Collection: Program for
International Student Assessments
(PISA) 2012 Main Study.
OMB Control Number: 1850–0755.
Agency Form Number(s): N/A.
Frequency of Responses: Annually.
Affected Public: Individuals or
households.
Total Estimated Number of Annual
Responses: 15,744.
Total Estimated Annual Burden
Hours: 8,888.
Abstract: The Program for
International Student Assessment
(PISA) is an international assessment
that focuses on 15-year-olds’ capabilities
in reading, mathematics, and science
literacy. It was first implemented by the
National Center for Education Statistics
(NCES) in 2000 and has been
administered every 3 years since. This
submission is for the fifth cycle in the
series, PISA 2012, and requests OMB
approval for the main study recruitment
and data collection, and for student
contact information collection for a
future follow-up study. As in 2003, in
PISA 2012, mathematics will be the
major subject domain. The field test will
also include computer-based
assessments in reading, science, and
general problem solving, and an
assessment of financial literacy in a
paper-and-pencil format. In addition to
assessment data, PISA provides
background information on school
context and student demographics to
benchmark performance and inform
policy. School recruitment for the field
test will begin in September 2011 with
data collection beginning in September
2012. NCES will submit to OMB the
final versions of the main study data
collection instruments in March 2012.
Copies of the information collection
submission for OMB review may be
accessed from the RegInfo.gov Web site
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at https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/
PRAMain or from the Department’s
website at https://edicsweb.ed.gov, by
selecting the ‘‘Browse Pending
Collections’’ link and by clicking on
link number 4650. 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 the Internet address
ICDocketMgr@ed.gov or faxed to 202–
401–0920. Please specify the complete
title of the information collection and
OMB Control Number when making
your request.
Individuals who use a
telecommunications device for the deaf
(TDD) may call the Federal Information
Relay Service (FIRS) at 1–800–877–
8339.
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Notice of Submission for OMB Review
Department of Education.
Comment request.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
The Acting Director,
Information Collection Clearance
Division, Privacy, Information and
Records Management Services, Office of
Management, invites comments on the
submission for OMB review as required
by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
(Pub. L. 104–13).
DATES: Interested persons are invited to
submit comments on or before July 21,
2011.
ADDRESSES: Written comments should
be addressed to the Office of
Information and Regulatory Affairs,
Attention: Education Desk Officer,
Office of Management and Budget, 725
17th Street, NW., Room 10222, New
Executive Office Building, Washington,
DC 20503, be faxed to (202) 395–5806 or
e-mailed to
oira_submission@omb.eop.gov with a
cc: to ICDocketMgr@ed.gov. Please note
that written comments received in
response to this notice will be
considered public records.
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. The OMB is
particularly interested in comments
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which: (1) Evaluate whether the
proposed collection of information is
necessary for the proper performance of
the functions of the agency, including
whether the information will have
practical utility; (2) evaluate the
accuracy of the agency’s estimate of the
burden of the proposed collection of
information, including the validity of
the methodology and assumptions used;
(3) enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and (4) minimize the burden
of the collection of information on those
who are to respond, including through
the use of appropriate automated,
electronic, mechanical, or other
technological collection techniques or
other forms of information technology.
Dated: June 16, 2011.
James Hyler,
Acting Director, Information Collection
Clearance Division, Privacy, Information and
Records Management Services, Office of
Management.
Institute of Education Sciences
Type of Review: Revision.
Title of Collection: 2011–12 National
Postsecondary Student Aid Study
(NPSAS:12) Full Scale Lists and
Contacting.
OMB Control Number: 1850–0666.
Agency Form Number(s): N/A.
Frequency of Responses: Annually.
Affected Public: Not-for-profit
institutions.
Total Estimated Number of Annual
Responses: 4,665.
Total Estimated Annual Burden
Hours: 4,128.
Abstract: National Postsecondary
Student Aid Study (NPSAS), a
nationally representative study of how
students and their families finance
education beyond high school, was first
implemented by the National Center for
Education Statistics in 1987 and has
been fielded every 3 to 4 years since.
This submission is for contacting
respondents and collection of data from
institutions in the eighth cycle in the
series, NPSAS:12, and follows approvals
for NPSAS:12 field test institutional and
student data collections (OMB# 1850–
0666 v. 7 & 8). NPSAS:12 will also serve
as the base year study for the Beginning
Postsecondary Students Longitudinal
Study (BPS) of first-time postsecondary
students that will focus on issues of
persistence, degree attainment, and
employment outcome. BPS will conduct
follow-up studies in 2014 and 2017,
with revised strata for institution
sampling to reflect the recent growth in
enrollment in for-profit 4-year
institutions. Institution contacting for
the full scale collection will begin in
September 2011, list collection will be
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conducted January through June 2012,
and student data collection will take
place January through September 2012.
This submission requests approval for
contacting institutions and students, list
sampling, obtaining student enrollment
lists and institution record data for the
full-scale NPSAS:12. A separate request
for review pertaining to student record
data collection, the student interview,
and post-data collection administrative
record matching will be submitted in
September 2011.
Copies of the information collection
submission for OMB review may be
accessed from the RegInfo.gov Web site
at https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/
PRAMain or from the Department’s Web
site at https://edicsweb.ed.gov, by
selecting the ‘‘Browse Pending
Collections’’ link and by clicking on
link number 4636. 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, D.C. 20202–4537.
Requests may also be electronically
mailed to the Internet address
ICDocketMgr@ed.gov or faxed to 202–
401–0920. Please specify the complete
title of the information collection and
OMB Control Number when making
your request.
Individuals who use a
telecommunications device for the deaf
(TDD) may call the Federal Information
Relay Service (FIRS) at 1–800–877–
8339.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Notice of Intent To Prepare a
Programmatic Environmental Impact
Statement for the U.S. Department of
Energy Uranium Leasing Program
Department of Energy (DOE).
Notice of intent to prepare a
programmatic environmental impact
statement for the DOE Uranium Leasing
Program.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
DOE announces its intent to
prepare a Programmatic Environmental
Impact Statement (PEIS), pursuant to
the National Environmental Policy Act
of 1969 (NEPA) (42 U.S.C. 4321, et seq.),
the Council on Environmental Quality’s
(CEQ) NEPA regulations (40 CFR Parts
1500–1508), and DOE’s NEPA
implementing procedures (10 CFR part
1021), to analyze the reasonably
foreseeable environmental impacts,
including the site-specific impacts, of
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alternatives for the management of
DOE’s Uranium Leasing Program (ULP),
under which DOE administers tracts of
land for the exploration, development,
and extraction of uranium and
vanadium ores. DOE’s ULP includes
tracts of land located in Mesa, Montrose,
and San Miguel counties in western
Colorado that cover a cumulative
acreage of approximately 25,000 acres.
In July 2007, DOE issued a
Programmatic Environmental
Assessment (PEA) for the ULP (DOE/
EA–1535) (available at https://
www.lm.doe.gov/land/sites/
uranium_leasing/uranium_leasing.htm),
in which it examined three alternatives
for the management of the ULP for the
next ten years. In that same month, DOE
issued a Finding of No Significant
Impact (FONSI) (available at https://
nepa.energy.gov/documents/EA1535FONSI.pdf), in which DOE
announced its decision to proceed with
the preferred ‘‘Expanded Program
Alternative’’ that was examined in its
July 2007 PEA, and also determined that
the preparation of an Environmental
Impact Statement (EIS) was not
required.
DOE has determined that, in light of
the site-specific information that DOE
has gathered as a result of the sitespecific agency actions proposed and
approved pursuant to the July 2007
PEA/FONSI, it is now appropriate for
DOE to prepare a PEIS in order to
analyze the reasonably foreseeable
environmental impacts, including the
site-specific impacts, of a range of
alternatives for the management of the
ULP for the remainder of the ten-year
period that was covered by the July
2007 PEA.
DOE is issuing this Notice of Intent
(NOI) to inform interested parties of this
PEIS and to invite public comments on
its proposed scope, including the
preliminary range of alternatives and
environmental issues to be considered.
DOE plans to invite Federal, state, and
local governmental agencies with
jurisdiction by law or special expertise
to participate as cooperating agencies in
preparing the PEIS.
DATES: DOE invites comments on the
proposed scope of the PEIS. To ensure
consideration, comments must be
submitted by August 22, 2011. DOE will
consider comments e-mailed or
postmarked after that date to the extent
practicable. In addition to receiving
written comments (see ADDRESSES
below), DOE will conduct public
scoping meetings during which
interested government agencies, Native
American tribes, private-sector
organizations, and the general public are
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invited to present oral and written
comments. DOE will announce the
dates, times, and locations of the public
scoping meetings in a separate Federal
Register notice and in local news media
at least 15 days before the meetings.
ADDRESSES: Written comments on the
scope of the PEIS and requests to be
included in future communications
should be addressed to the ULP Program
Manager, Ms. Laura Kilpatrick, Esq.,
Realty Officer, Asset Management Team,
Office of Legacy Management, U.S.
Department of Energy, 11025 Dover
Street, Suite 1000, Westminster, CO
80021, 720–880–4338,
laura.kilpatrick@lm.doe.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
further information about this PEIS,
please contact the ULP Program
Manager, Ms. Laura Kilpatrick, at the
addresses listed above.
For general information on the DOE
NEPA process, please contact Ms. Carol
M. Borgstrom, Director, Office of NEPA
Policy and Compliance (GC–54), U.S.
Department of Energy, 1000
Independence Avenue, SW.,
Washington, DC 20585; telephone (202–
586–4600); fax (202–586–7031); or leave
a toll-free message (1–800–472–2756).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
Congress directed DOE’s predecessor
agency, the U.S. Atomic Energy
Commission (AEC), to develop a supply
of domestic uranium that would
adequately meet the Nation’s defense
needs (42 U.S.C. 2096–2097). Congress
gave to AEC the authority to withdraw
Federal lands for the exploration and
development of a viable domestic
uranium source under a variety of
programs that were carried forward in
the Atomic Energy Act of 1954. Around
the same time, the U.S. Bureau of Land
Management (BLM) issued Public Land
Order (PLO) 459 that stated, ‘‘Subject to
valid existing rights and existing
withdrawals, the public lands and the
minerals reserved to the United States
in the patented lands in the following
areas in Colorado are hereby withdrawn
from all forms of appropriation under
the public-land laws, including the
mining laws but not the mineral-leasing
laws, and reserved for the use of the
United States Atomic Energy
Commission.’’ The areas under
consideration are located in western
Colorado in Mesa, Montrose, and San
Miguel counties. Subsequently, other
PLOs increased or decreased the total
acreage in withdrawn status.
In addition, the Federal Government,
through the Union Mines Development
Corporation, acquired a substantial
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[FR Doc No: 2011-15418]
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Notice of Submission for OMB Review
AGENCY: Department of Education.
ACTION: Comment request.
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SUMMARY: The Acting Director, Information Collection Clearance
Division, Privacy, Information and Records Management Services, Office
of Management, invites comments on the submission for OMB review as
required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104-13).
DATES: Interested persons are invited to submit comments on or before
July 21, 2011.
ADDRESSES: Written comments should be addressed to the Office of
Information and Regulatory Affairs, Attention: Education Desk Officer,
Office of Management and Budget, 725 17th Street, NW., Room 10222, New
Executive Office Building, Washington, DC 20503, be faxed to (202) 395-
5806 or e-mailed to oira_submission@omb.eop.gov with a cc: to
ICDocketMgr@ed.gov. Please note that written comments received in
response to this notice will be considered public records.
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. The
OMB is particularly interested in comments which: (1) Evaluate whether
the proposed collection of information is necessary for the proper
performance of the functions of the agency, including whether the
information will have practical utility; (2) evaluate the accuracy of
the agency's estimate of the burden of the proposed collection of
information, including the validity of the methodology and assumptions
used; (3) enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information
to be collected; and (4) minimize the burden of the collection of
information on those who are to respond, including through the use of
appropriate automated, electronic, mechanical, or other technological
collection techniques or other forms of information technology.
Dated: June 16, 2011.
James Hyler,
Acting Director, Information Collection Clearance Division, Privacy,
Information and Records Management Services, Office of Management.
Institute of Education Sciences
Type of Review: Revision.
Title of Collection: 2011-12 National Postsecondary Student Aid
Study (NPSAS:12) Full Scale Lists and Contacting.
OMB Control Number: 1850-0666.
Agency Form Number(s): N/A.
Frequency of Responses: Annually.
Affected Public: Not-for-profit institutions.
Total Estimated Number of Annual Responses: 4,665.
Total Estimated Annual Burden Hours: 4,128.
Abstract: National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS), a
nationally representative study of how students and their families
finance education beyond high school, was first implemented by the
National Center for Education Statistics in 1987 and has been fielded
every 3 to 4 years since. This submission is for contacting respondents
and collection of data from institutions in the eighth cycle in the
series, NPSAS:12, and follows approvals for NPSAS:12 field test
institutional and student data collections (OMB 1850-0666 v. 7
& 8). NPSAS:12 will also serve as the base year study for the Beginning
Postsecondary Students Longitudinal Study (BPS) of first-time
postsecondary students that will focus on issues of persistence, degree
attainment, and employment outcome. BPS will conduct follow-up studies
in 2014 and 2017, with revised strata for institution sampling to
reflect the recent growth in enrollment in for-profit 4-year
institutions. Institution contacting for the full scale collection will
begin in September 2011, list collection will be
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conducted January through June 2012, and student data collection will
take place January through September 2012. This submission requests
approval for contacting institutions and students, list sampling,
obtaining student enrollment lists and institution record data for the
full-scale NPSAS:12. A separate request for review pertaining to
student record data collection, the student interview, and post-data
collection administrative record matching will be submitted in
September 2011.
Copies of the information collection submission for OMB review may
be accessed from the RegInfo.gov Web site at https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain or from the Department's Web site at https://edicsweb.ed.gov, by selecting the ``Browse Pending Collections'' link
and by clicking on link number 4636. 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, D.C. 20202-4537. Requests
may also be electronically mailed to the Internet address
ICDocketMgr@ed.gov or faxed to 202-401-0920. Please specify the
complete title of the information collection and OMB Control Number
when making your request.
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. 2011-15418 Filed 6-20-11; 8:45 am]
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