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Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA) (44 U.S.C.
3506(c)(2)(A)), provides the general
public and Federal agencies with an
opportunity to comment on proposed,
revised, and continuing collections of
information. This helps the Department
assess the impact of its information
collection requirements and minimize
the public’s reporting burden. It also
helps the public understand the
Department’s information collection
requirements and provide the requested
data in the desired format. ED is
soliciting comments on the proposed
information collection request (ICR) that
is described below. 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. Please note
that written comments received in
response to this notice will be
considered public records.
Title of Collection: Case Studies of the
Implementation of Kindergarten Entry
Assessments.
OMB Control Number: 1875–NEW.
Type of Review: A new information
collection.
Respondents/Affected Public: State,
Local, or Tribal Governments.
Total Estimated Number of Annual
Responses: 240.
Total Estimated Number of Annual
Burden Hours: 230.
Abstract: In the past decade, interest
has increased in implementing
Kindergarten Entry Assessments (KEAs)
to better understand individual
children’s strengths and needs, plan
instruction, pinpoint areas for program
improvement and staff development,
and evaluate the effectiveness of
prekindergarten (PreK) programs to
inform program planning and
improvement. The purpose of the
Kindergarten Entry Assessments
implementation case studies is to
document the processes,
accomplishments, challenges, and
solutions of four states implementing
KEAs, and to share what state, district,
and school personnel have learned with
federal and state policymakers, and
practitioners in the field. These findings
will support the technical assistance
efforts of the U.S. Department of
Education (the Department) regarding
the implementation of KEAs across the
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nation. This information collection
consists of interview and observation
protocols for case studies of the
implementation of Kindergarten Entry
Assessments in 24 schools within 12
districts within 4 states.
Dated: May 9, 2014.
Kate Mullan,
Acting Director, Information Collection
Clearance Division, Privacy, Information and
Records Management Services, Office of
Management.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Office of Energy Efficiency and
Renewable Energy
Proposed Agency Information
Collection
Office of Energy Efficiency and
Renewable Energy, U.S. Department of
Energy.
ACTION: Notice and Request for
Comments.
AGENCY:
The Department of Energy
(DOE) invites public comment on a
proposed collection of information that
DOE is developing for submission to the
Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) pursuant to the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995. Comments are
invited on: (a) Whether the proposed
collection of information is necessary
for the proper performance of the
functions of the agency, including
whether the information shall have
practical utility; (b) 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; (c)
ways to enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and (d) ways to minimize the
burden of the collection of information
on respondents, including through the
use of automated collection techniques
or other forms of information
technology.
SUMMARY:
Comments regarding this
proposed information collection must
be received on or before July 14, 2014.
If you anticipate difficulty in submitting
comments within that period, contact
the person listed in ADDRESSES as soon
as possible.
ADDRESSES: Written comments may be
sent to Mr. Chris Early, U.S. Department
of Energy, Building Technologies Office,
Mail Stop EE–5B, Forrestal Building,
1000 Independence Avenue SW.,
Washington, DC 20585–0121 or by fax at
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202–586–4617 or by email at
Chris.Early@ee.doe.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Requests for additional information or
copies of the information collection
instrument and instructions should be
directed to Mr. Chris Early, U.S.
Department of Energy, Building
Technologies Office, Mail Stop EE–5B,
Forrestal Building, 1000 Independence
Avenue SW., Washington, DC 20585–
0121. Chris.Early@ee.doe.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This
information collection request contains:
(1) OMB No. New; (2) Information
Collection Request Title: Programs for
Improving Energy Efficiency in
Residential Buildings (3) Type of
Request: New; (4) Purpose: The
proposed collection is for the activities
of four Department of Energy programs:
The Challenge Home Program, the
Better Buildings Residential Network,
the Building America Program, and
Home Energy Score (HEScore). Through
these programs DOE encourages and
assists the people and organizations that
volunteer to participate in them to build
and renovate new and existing houses to
use less energy. The program partners
who voluntarily participate in the
programs consist of most of the actors in
the home building industry including
home owners, home builders, home
builder tradesman and associations,
home design professionals, students in
architecture and related building
construction industries, home energy
raters, home energy auditors, home
inspectors, building consultants,
manufacturers of building products,
professional trainers, utility companies,
home building and manufacturing
industry associations, consumer and
home building industry advocacy
organizations, financial institutions,
non-profit organizations, educational
institutions, energy program
administrators and implementers, Home
Performance with ENERGY STAR
sponsors, and other organizations who
believe peer sharing will help them
improve their effectiveness in
encouraging homeowners to complete
energy upgrades. DOE proposes to
collect information about the
participants such as their names and
addresses, their evaluations of training
they received about the programs,
descriptions of their qualifications to
conduct training for the programs, their
plans to get additional people to
participate in the programs, their
certifications describing how they can
assess homes, estimates of how many
homes they can get to participate in the
programs, and information about the
homes. The collected information will
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help DOE understand the participating
partners’ activities and progress toward
achieving scheduled milestones
enabling DOE to make decisions about
the best way to run the programs and
respond to partners’ needs to improve
their operations and actions to lower
energy consumption. (5) Annual
Estimated Number of Respondents:
12,702. (6) Annual Estimated Number of
Total Responses: 47,804. (7) Annual
Estimated Number of Burden Hours:
22,332. (8) Annual Estimated Reporting
and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: Zero
dollars.
Statutory Authority: The U.S. Code, Title
42, Chapter 149, Subchapter IX, Part A,
Section 16191—Energy Efficiency.
Issued in Washington, DC, on May 8, 2014.
Kathleen B. Hogan,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Energy
Efficiency, Energy Efficiency and Renewable
Energy.
[FR Doc. 2014–11196 Filed 5–14–14; 8:45 am]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
AGENCY
[FRL–9910–26–OW]
Clean Water Act; Contractor Access to
Confidential Business Information
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice of Intended Transfer of
Confidential Business Information to
Subcontractor.
AGENCY:
The Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) intends to transfer
confidential business information (CBI)
collected from numerous industries to
NEK Associates (NEK), a newly retained
subcontractor of Eastern Research Group
(ERG). Transfer of the information will
allow the contractor and subcontractor
to support EPA in the planning,
development, and review of effluent
limitations guidelines and standards
under the Clean Water Act (CWA).
Interested persons may submit
comments on this intended transfer of
information to the address noted below.
DATES: Comments on the transfer of data
are due May 20, 2014.
ADDRESSES: Comments may be sent to
Mr. M. Ahmar Siddiqui, Document
Control Officer, Engineering and
Analysis Division (4303T), Room 6231S
EPA West, U.S. EPA, 1200 Pennsylvania
Ave. NW., Washington, DC 20460.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr.
M. Ahmar Siddiqui, Document Control
Officer, at (202) 566–1044, or via email
at siddiqui.ahmar@epa.gov.
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SUMMARY:
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EPA has
transferred CBI to various contractors
and subcontractors over the history of
the effluent guidelines program. EPA
determined that this transfer was
necessary to enable the contractors and
subcontractors to perform their work in
supporting EPA in planning,
developing, and reviewing effluent
guidelines and standards for certain
industries.
Today, EPA is giving notice that it is
transferring CBI to NEK (located in
Allston, MA), a new subcontractor to
ERG, which operates under contract
number EP–C–12–021. EPA initially
announced its intention to transfer CBI
to ERG and its subcontractors and
consultants on October 5, 2012 (77 FR
60962). The purpose of this transfer is
to support technical and engineering
analysis support for EPA in its
development, review, implementation,
and defense of water-related initiatives
for a variety of industries.
All EPA contractor, subcontractor,
and consultant personnel are bound by
the requirements and sanctions
contained in their contracts with EPA
and in EPA’s confidentiality regulations
found at 40 CFR Part 2, Subpart B. NEK
will adhere to an ERG-approved security
plan which describes procedures to
protect CBI. NEK will apply the
procedures in this plan to CBI
previously gathered by EPA and to CBI
that may be gathered in the future. The
security plan specifies that
subcontractor personnel are required to
sign non-disclosure agreements and are
briefed on appropriate security
procedures before they are permitted
access to CBI. No person is
automatically granted access to CBI: A
need to know must exist.
The information that will be
transferred to NEK consists of
information previously collected by
EPA under the authority of section 308
of the CWA to support the development
and review of effluent limitations
guidelines and standards. In particular,
information, including CBI, collected for
the planning, development, and review
of effluent limitations guidelines and
standards for the following industries
may be transferred: Airport deicing;
aquaculture; centralized waste
treatment; coal bed methane;
concentrated animal feeding operations;
coal mining; construction and
development; drinking water treatment;
industrial container and drum cleaning;
industrial laundries; industrial waste
combustors; iron and steel
manufacturing; landfills; meat and
poultry products; metal finishing; metal
products and machinery; nonferrous
metals manufacturing; oil and gas
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extraction (including coalbed methane);
ore mining and dressing; organic
chemicals, plastics, and synthetic fibers;
pesticide chemicals; petroleum refining;
pharmaceutical manufacturing; pulp,
paper, and paperboard manufacturing;
shale gas extraction; steam electric
power generation; textile mills; timber
products processing; tobacco; and
transportation equipment cleaning.
Additionally, note that some
information being transferred from the
pulp, paper, and paperboard industry
was collected under the additional
authorities of section 114 of the Clean
Air Act (CAA) and section 3007 of the
Resource Conservation and Recovery
Act (RCRA).
EPA also intends to transfer to NEK
all information listed in this notice, of
the type described above (including
CBI) that may be collected in the future
under the authority of section 308 of the
CWA or voluntarily submitted (e.g., in
comments in response to a Federal
Register notice), as is necessary to
enable NEK to carry out the work
required by its subcontract to support
EPA’s effluent guidelines planning
process and the development of effluent
limitations guidelines and standards.
Dated: April 23, 2014.
Elizabeth Southerland,
Director, Office of Science and Technology.
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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS
COMMISSION
Sunshine Act; Open Commission
Meeting; Thursday, May 15, 2014
May 8, 2014.
The Federal Communications
Commission will hold an Open Meeting
on the subjects listed below on
Thursday, May 15, 2014. The meeting is
scheduled to commence at 10:30 a.m. in
Room TW–C305, at 445 12th Street SW.,
Washington, DC.
Public Comment on Item No. 1:
Protecting and Promoting the Open
Internet
With respect to agenda item 1,
Protecting and Promoting the Open
Internet, the Commission has
determined that strict enforcement of
the Sunshine Period prohibition on
comment would place an unnecessarily
restrictive burden on the public, who
should have full opportunity to express
their views. Therefore, the Commission
is waiving the Sunshine Period
prohibition contained in section 1.1203
of the Commission’s rules, 47 CFR
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[FR Doc No: 2014-11196]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
Proposed Agency Information Collection
AGENCY: Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, U.S.
Department of Energy.
ACTION: Notice and Request for Comments.
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SUMMARY: The Department of Energy (DOE) invites public comment on a
proposed collection of information that DOE is developing for
submission to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) pursuant to the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. Comments are invited on: (a) Whether
the proposed collection of information is necessary for the proper
performance of the functions of the agency, including whether the
information shall have practical utility; (b) 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; (c) ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the
information to be collected; and (d) ways to minimize the burden of the
collection of information on respondents, including through the use of
automated collection techniques or other forms of information
technology.
DATES: Comments regarding this proposed information collection must be
received on or before July 14, 2014. If you anticipate difficulty in
submitting comments within that period, contact the person listed in
ADDRESSES as soon as possible.
ADDRESSES: Written comments may be sent to Mr. Chris Early, U.S.
Department of Energy, Building Technologies Office, Mail Stop EE-5B,
Forrestal Building, 1000 Independence Avenue SW., Washington, DC 20585-
0121 or by fax at 202-586-4617 or by email at Chris.Early@ee.doe.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Requests for additional information or
copies of the information collection instrument and instructions should
be directed to Mr. Chris Early, U.S. Department of Energy, Building
Technologies Office, Mail Stop EE-5B, Forrestal Building, 1000
Independence Avenue SW., Washington, DC 20585-0121.
Chris.Early@ee.doe.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This information collection request
contains: (1) OMB No. New; (2) Information Collection Request Title:
Programs for Improving Energy Efficiency in Residential Buildings (3)
Type of Request: New; (4) Purpose: The proposed collection is for the
activities of four Department of Energy programs: The Challenge Home
Program, the Better Buildings Residential Network, the Building America
Program, and Home Energy Score (HEScore). Through these programs DOE
encourages and assists the people and organizations that volunteer to
participate in them to build and renovate new and existing houses to
use less energy. The program partners who voluntarily participate in
the programs consist of most of the actors in the home building
industry including home owners, home builders, home builder tradesman
and associations, home design professionals, students in architecture
and related building construction industries, home energy raters, home
energy auditors, home inspectors, building consultants, manufacturers
of building products, professional trainers, utility companies, home
building and manufacturing industry associations, consumer and home
building industry advocacy organizations, financial institutions, non-
profit organizations, educational institutions, energy program
administrators and implementers, Home Performance with ENERGY STAR
sponsors, and other organizations who believe peer sharing will help
them improve their effectiveness in encouraging homeowners to complete
energy upgrades. DOE proposes to collect information about the
participants such as their names and addresses, their evaluations of
training they received about the programs, descriptions of their
qualifications to conduct training for the programs, their plans to get
additional people to participate in the programs, their certifications
describing how they can assess homes, estimates of how many homes they
can get to participate in the programs, and information about the
homes. The collected information will
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help DOE understand the participating partners' activities and progress
toward achieving scheduled milestones enabling DOE to make decisions
about the best way to run the programs and respond to partners' needs
to improve their operations and actions to lower energy consumption.
(5) Annual Estimated Number of Respondents: 12,702. (6) Annual
Estimated Number of Total Responses: 47,804. (7) Annual Estimated
Number of Burden Hours: 22,332. (8) Annual Estimated Reporting and
Recordkeeping Cost Burden: Zero dollars.
Statutory Authority: The U.S. Code, Title 42, Chapter 149,
Subchapter IX, Part A, Section 16191--Energy Efficiency.
Issued in Washington, DC, on May 8, 2014.
Kathleen B. Hogan,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency, Energy Efficiency and
Renewable Energy.
[FR Doc. 2014-11196 Filed 5-14-14; 8:45 am]
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