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by admissions and financial aid officers;
and assist in improving the financial
and economic literacy of program
participants.
An Educational Opportunity Centers
project may provide the following
services:
(1) Public information campaigns
designed to inform the community
regarding opportunities for
postsecondary education and training;
(2) Academic advice and assistance in
course selection;
(3) Assistance in completing college
admission and financial aid
applications;
(4) Assistance in preparing for college
entrance examinations;
(5) Education or counseling services
designed to improve the financial
literacy and economic literacy of
students;
(6) Guidance on secondary school
reentry or entry to a general educational
development (GED) program or other
alternative education program for
secondary school dropouts;
(7) Individualized personal, career,
and academic counseling;
(8) Tutorial services;
(9) Career workshops and counseling;
(10) Mentoring programs involving
elementary or secondary school
teachers, faculty members at institutions
of higher education (IHEs), students, or
any combination of these persons; and
(11) Programs and activities as
described in items (1) through (10) that
are specially designed for students who
are limited English proficient, students
from groups that are traditionally
underrepresented in postsecondary
education, students with disabilities,
students who are homeless children and
youths, students who are in foster care
or are aging out of the foster care
system, or other disconnected students.
(12) Other activities designed to meet
the purposes of the EOC Program.
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Dated: September 14, 2016.
Kate Mullan,
Acting Director, Information Collection
Clearance Division, Office of the Chief Privacy
Officer, Office of Management.
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
[Docket No.: ED–2016–ICCD–0102]
Agency Information Collection
Activities; Submission to the Office of
Management and Budget for Review
and Approval; Comment Request;
Program for International Student
Assessment (PISA 2018) Recruitment
and Field Test
National Center for Education
Statistics (NCES), Department of
Education (ED).
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44
U.S.C. chapter 3501 et seq.), ED is
proposing a revision of an existing
information collection.
DATES: Interested persons are invited to
submit comments on or before October
19, 2016.
ADDRESSES: To access and review all the
documents related to the information
collection listed in this notice, please
use https://www.regulations.gov by
searching the Docket ID number ED–
2016–ICCD–0102. Comments submitted
in response to this notice should be
submitted electronically through the
Federal eRulemaking Portal at https://
www.regulations.gov by selecting the
Docket ID number or via postal mail,
commercial delivery, or hand delivery.
Please note that comments submitted by
fax or email and those submitted after
the comment period will not be
accepted. Written requests for
information or comments submitted by
postal mail or delivery should be
addressed to the Director of the
Information Collection Clearance
Division, U.S. Department of Education,
400 Maryland Avenue SW., LBJ, Room
2E–347, Washington, DC 20202–4537.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
specific questions related to collection
activities, please contact NCES
Information Collections at
NCES.Information.Collections@ed.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
Department of Education (ED), in
accordance with the Paperwork
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
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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: Program for
International Student Assessment (PISA
2018) Recruitment and Field Test.
OMB Control Number: 1850–0755.
Type of Review: A revision of an
existing information collection.
Respondents/Affected Public:
Individuals or Households.
Total Estimated Number of Annual
Responses: 14,392.
Total Estimated Number of Annual
Burden Hours: 8,775.
Abstract: We are announcing a second
30-day comment period for the Program
for International Student Assessments
(PISA) 2017 Field Test to include
additional survey items in the field test
questionnaires, as recently stipulated by
the Organization for Economic
Cooperation and Development (OECD).
The Program for International Student
Assessments (PISA) is an international
assessment of 15-year-olds which
focuses on assessing students’ reading,
mathematics, and science literacy. PISA
was first administered in 2000 and is
conducted every three years. The United
States has participated in all of the
previous cycles, and will participate in
2018 in order to track trends and to
compare the performance of U.S.
students with that of students in other
education systems. PISA 2018 is
sponsored by the Organization for
Economic Cooperation and
Development (OECD). In the United
States, PISA is conducted by the
National Center for Education Statistics
(NCES), within the U.S. Department of
Education. In each administration of
PISA, one of the subject areas (reading,
mathematics, or science literacy) is the
major domain and has the broadest
content coverage, while the other two
subjects are the minor domains. PISA
emphasizes functional skills that
students have acquired as they near the
end of mandatory schooling (aged 15
years), and students’ knowledge and
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skills gained both in and out of school
environments. PISA 2018 will focus on
reading literacy as the major domain.
Mathematics and science literacy will
also be assessed as minor domains, with
additional assessments of global
competence and financial literacy. In
addition to the cognitive assessments
described above, PISA 2018 will include
questionnaires administered to assessed
students, school principals, and
teachers. To prepare for the main study
in 2018, NCES will conduct a PISA field
test from April–May 2017 to evaluate
newly developed assessment and
questionnaire items, to test the
assessment operations, and to test
school recruitment, data collection, and
data management procedures. The PISA
main study will be conducted in the
U.S. from September–November 2018.
This submission requests approval for:
Recruitment and pre-assessment
activities for the 2017 field test sample;
administration of the field test; and
recruitment of schools for the 2018 main
study sample.
Dated: September 14, 2016.
Kate Mullan,
Acting Director, Information Collection
Clearance Division, Office of the Chief Privacy
Officer, Office of Management.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Western Area Power Administration
Boulder Canyon Project
Western Area Power
Administration, DOE.
ACTION: Notice of approval for Fiscal
Year 2017 base charge and rates.
AGENCY:
In this notice, the Western
Area Power Administration (WAPA)
establishes the Fiscal Year (FY) 2017
base charge and rates for Boulder
Canyon Project (BCP) electric service, as
approved by the Deputy Secretary of
Energy (Deputy Secretary). The base
charge will provide sufficient revenue to
cover all annual costs, including interest
expense, and to repay investments
within the allowable period.
DATES: The base charge and rates will be
effective the first day of the first full
billing period beginning on or after
October 1, 2016, and will remain in
effect through September 30, 2017, or
until superseded.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr.
Ronald E. Moulton, Regional Manager,
Desert Southwest Region, Western Area
Power Administration, P.O. Box 6457,
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Phoenix, AZ 85005–6457, (602) 605–
2453, email rmoulton@wapa.gov, or Mr.
Scott Lund, Rates Manager, Desert
Southwest Region, Western Area Power
Administration, P.O. Box 6457,
Phoenix, AZ 85005–6457, (602) 605–
2442, email slund@wapa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Hoover
Dam, authorized by the Boulder Canyon
Project Act (45 Stat. 1057, December 21,
1928), sits on the Colorado River along
the Arizona and Nevada border. The
Hoover Dam power plant has 19
generating units (two for plant use) and
an installed capacity of 2,078,800
kilowatts (kW) (4,800 kW for plant use).
High-voltage transmission lines and
substations connect BCP power to
consumers in southern Nevada,
Arizona, and southern California.
Electric service rates are adjusted
annually using an existing rate formula
established on April 19, 1996. The rate
formula requires BCP power customers
to pay a base charge (expressed in
dollars), rather than a rate, for their
power. The base charge is calculated to
generate sufficient revenue to cover all
annual costs, including interest
expense, and to repay investments
within allowable time periods. The base
charge is allocated to each BCP power
customer in proportion to its allocation
of Hoover power. The composite power
rate, expressed in mills per kilowatthour (mills/kWh), is calculated by
dividing the base charge by energy sales
in a year. However, it is the base charge
and not the power rate that is used to
calculate BCP customers’ bills.
Rate Schedule BCP–F9 under Rate
Order No. WAPA–171 was approved on
an interim basis by the Deputy Secretary
for a five-year period beginning October
1, 2015, and ending September 30,
2020.1 This rate schedule, which was
approved by the Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission (FERC) on a
final basis on December 11, 2015,
requires the base charge be calculated
annually based on current financial and
hydrological data.2 This notice sets forth
the calculation for the FY 2017 BCP
base charge.
The FY 2017 base charge for BCP
electric service is $69,662,289, a 9.3
percent increase from the FY 2016 base
charge of $63,735,856. The primary
factors contributing to the change in the
base charge are prior year carryover and
total expenses. Prior year carryover, the
difference between the previous year’s
base charge and expense, has decreased
by $9 million, or 62.7 percent. Prior year
carryover offset current year expenses,
thereby reducing the base charge. In FY
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FR 44098 (July 24, 2015).
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2014, carryover increased significantly
when customers repaid certain
capitalized investments. Since that time
carryover has steadily decreased,
contributing to the increase in the FY
2017 base charge. Total expenses, which
include operation, maintenance and
replacement costs, increased by $6
million, or 9.2 percent, while other
expenses such as the uprating credit
program and Hoover Dam Visitor Center
costs decreased by $10 million, or 37
percent. Despite the overall expense
decrease of $4 million, the FY 2017 base
charge is increasing due to the reduction
of prior year carryover.
The FY 2017 composite rate of 19.63
mills/kWh increased 7.11 percent
compared to the FY 2016 composite rate
of 18.33 mills/kWh. The FY 2017 energy
rate of 9.82 mills/kWh increased 7.11
percent compared to the FY 2016 energy
rate of 9.17 mills/kWh. The FY 2017
capacity rate of $1.89/kW-month
increased 9.8 percent compared to the
FY 2016 capacity rate of $1.72/kWmonth. Energy sales are forecast to
increase 2 percent from FY 2016 while
FY 2017 capacity sales are expected to
decrease 0.5 percent due to poor
hydrological conditions. The increase in
the FY 2017 base charge is the primary
driver behind the increases in the
composite, energy and capacity rates.
The base charge and rates were
calculated using WAPA’s FY 2016 Final
Master Schedule which provides FY
2017 energy and capacity sales
projections.
The following summarizes the steps
taken by WAPA to ensure involvement
of all interested parties in determining
the base charge and rates:
1. A Federal Register notice was
published on April 4, 2016 (81 FR
19169), announcing the proposed rate
adjustment process, initiating a public
consultation and comment period,
announcing public information and
public comment forums, and presenting
procedures for public participation.
2. Discussion of the proposal occurred
at two informal BCP Contractor
meetings held April 5, 2016, in Phoenix,
Arizona and April 12, 2016, via web
conference. Representatives from WAPA
and the Bureau of Reclamation
(Reclamation) explained the basis for
the estimates used to calculate the base
charge and rates and held a question
and answer session.
3. At the public information forum
held on April 27, 2016, in Phoenix,
Arizona, WAPA and Reclamation
representatives explained the proposed
base charge and rates for FY 2017 and
held a question and answer session at
these informal meetings.
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
[Docket No.: ED-2016-ICCD-0102]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the
Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Comment
Request; Program for International Student Assessment (PISA 2018)
Recruitment and Field Test
AGENCY: National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), Department of
Education (ED).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44
U.S.C. chapter 3501 et seq.), ED is proposing a revision of an existing
information collection.
DATES: Interested persons are invited to submit comments on or before
October 19, 2016.
ADDRESSES: To access and review all the documents related to the
information collection listed in this notice, please use https://www.regulations.gov by searching the Docket ID number ED-2016-ICCD-
0102. Comments submitted in response to this notice should be submitted
electronically through the Federal eRulemaking Portal at https://www.regulations.gov by selecting the Docket ID number or via postal
mail, commercial delivery, or hand delivery. Please note that comments
submitted by fax or email and those submitted after the comment period
will not be accepted. Written requests for information or comments
submitted by postal mail or delivery should be addressed to the
Director of the Information Collection Clearance Division, U.S.
Department of Education, 400 Maryland Avenue SW., LBJ, Room 2E-347,
Washington, DC 20202-4537.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For specific questions related to
collection activities, please contact NCES Information Collections at
NCES.Information.Collections@ed.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Department of Education (ED), in
accordance with the Paperwork 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: Program for International Student Assessment
(PISA 2018) Recruitment and Field Test.
OMB Control Number: 1850-0755.
Type of Review: A revision of an existing information collection.
Respondents/Affected Public: Individuals or Households.
Total Estimated Number of Annual Responses: 14,392.
Total Estimated Number of Annual Burden Hours: 8,775.
Abstract: We are announcing a second 30-day comment period for the
Program for International Student Assessments (PISA) 2017 Field Test to
include additional survey items in the field test questionnaires, as
recently stipulated by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and
Development (OECD).
The Program for International Student Assessments (PISA) is an
international assessment of 15-year-olds which focuses on assessing
students' reading, mathematics, and science literacy. PISA was first
administered in 2000 and is conducted every three years. The United
States has participated in all of the previous cycles, and will
participate in 2018 in order to track trends and to compare the
performance of U.S. students with that of students in other education
systems. PISA 2018 is sponsored by the Organization for Economic
Cooperation and Development (OECD). In the United States, PISA is
conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES),
within the U.S. Department of Education. In each administration of
PISA, one of the subject areas (reading, mathematics, or science
literacy) is the major domain and has the broadest content coverage,
while the other two subjects are the minor domains. PISA emphasizes
functional skills that students have acquired as they near the end of
mandatory schooling (aged 15 years), and students' knowledge and
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skills gained both in and out of school environments. PISA 2018 will
focus on reading literacy as the major domain. Mathematics and science
literacy will also be assessed as minor domains, with additional
assessments of global competence and financial literacy. In addition to
the cognitive assessments described above, PISA 2018 will include
questionnaires administered to assessed students, school principals,
and teachers. To prepare for the main study in 2018, NCES will conduct
a PISA field test from April-May 2017 to evaluate newly developed
assessment and questionnaire items, to test the assessment operations,
and to test school recruitment, data collection, and data management
procedures. The PISA main study will be conducted in the U.S. from
September-November 2018. This submission requests approval for:
Recruitment and pre-assessment activities for the 2017 field test
sample; administration of the field test; and recruitment of schools
for the 2018 main study sample.
Dated: September 14, 2016.
Kate Mullan,
Acting Director, Information Collection Clearance Division, Office of
the Chief Privacy Officer, Office of Management.
[FR Doc. 2016-22443 Filed 9-16-16; 8:45 am]
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