Reopening; Applications for New Awards; Personnel Development To Improve Services and Results for Children With Disabilities-Early Childhood Personnel Center, 37579-37580 [2017-17014]

Download as PDF Federal Register / Vol. 82, No. 154 / Friday, August 11, 2017 / Notices For specific questions related to collection activities, please contact Beth Grebeldinger, 202–377–4018. 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: Health Education Assistance Loan (HEAL) Program: Lender’s Application for Insurance Claim Form and Request for Collection Assistance Form. OMB Control Number: 1845–0127. Type of Review: An extension of an existing information collection. Respondents/Affected Public: Private Sector. Total Estimated Number of Annual Responses: 4,613. Total Estimated Number of Annual Burden Hours: 875. Abstract: The HEAL Lender’s application for Insurance Claim and the request for Collection Assistance forms are used in the administration of the Health Education Assistant Loan (HEAL) program. The HEAL program provided federally insured loans to students in certain health professions disciplines, and these forms are used in the administration of the HEAL program. The Lender’s Application for Insurance Claim is used by the lending institution to request payment of a claim by the Federal Government. The asabaliauskas on DSKBBXCHB2PROD with NOTICES FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:18 Aug 10, 2017 Jkt 241001 Request for Collection Assistance form is used by the lender to request proclaims assistance from the Department. Section 525 of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2014, transferred the collection of the Health Education Assistance Loan (HEAL) program loans from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to the U.S. Department of Education (ED). Dated: August 8, 2017. Kate Mullan, Acting Director, Information Collection Clearance Division, Office of the Chief Privacy Officer, Office of Management. [FR Doc. 2017–16974 Filed 8–10–17; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4000–01–P DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION [Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) Number: 84.325B] Reopening; Applications for New Awards; Personnel Development To Improve Services and Results for Children With Disabilities—Early Childhood Personnel Center Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, Department of Education. ACTION: Notice. AGENCY: On April 19, 2017, we published in the Federal Register (82 FR 18447) a notice inviting applications (NIA) for the Personnel Development to Improve Services and Results for Children with Disabilities—Early Childhood Personnel Center competition. The NIA established a deadline date of June 5, 2017, for the transmittal of applications. This notice reopens the competition until September 11, 2017. DATES: Deadline for Transmittal of Applications: September 11, 2017. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: No applications received in response to the NIA were funded because the applicants did not adequately address the selection criteria for the competition. Therefore, we are reopening the competition to allow applicants to submit or resubmit applications that meet the requirements in the NIA, in order to ensure that State Part C and Part B, section 619 programs receive the technical assistance necessary to implement high-quality Comprehensive Systems of Personnel Development. We have eliminated the formatting and page-limit requirements specified in the NIA. Further, the specification in the NIA that the Secretary will not consider budgets above the maximum SUMMARY: PO 00000 Frm 00023 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 37579 award amount is no longer applicable. However, we will only fund a successful application up to $2,000,000 for any single budget period of 12 months. Applicants that have already submitted applications under the FY 2017 competition are encouraged to review their applications and determine whether they have met all eligibility requirements and adequately addressed the selection criteria in the NIA and the application package, which is available at www.grants.gov. Applications that were previously deemed ineligible for review must be resubmitted to be considered for review. If a new application is not submitted by an applicant whose application was reviewed, the Department will use the application that was submitted before 4:30:00 p.m., Washington DC time, on June 5, 2017, 4:30:00 p.m. Finally, this competition is subject to intergovernmental review as set forth in Executive Order 12372 and the regulations in 34 CFR part 79. However, under 34 CFR 79.8(a), we waive intergovernmental review in order to make an award by the end of FY 2017. Note: All information in the NIA for this competition remains the same, except for the deadline for the transmittal of applications, the formatting and page limit requirements, the mandatory page limit, the eligibility of applications that exceed the maximum award amount, and the intergovernmental review requirements. Program Authority: 20 U.S.C. 1462 and 1481. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Tracie Dickson, U.S. Department of Education, 400 Maryland Avenue SW., Room 5181, Potomac Center Plaza, Washington, DC 20202–5076. Telephone: (202) 245–7844. If you use a telecommunications device for the deaf (TDD) or a text telephone (TTY), call the Federal Relay Service (FRS), toll free, at 1–800–877– 8339. Accessible Format: Individuals with disabilities can obtain this document and a copy of the application package in an accessible format (e.g., braille, large print, audiotape, or compact disc) by contacting the Management Support Services Team, U.S. Department of Education, 400 Maryland Avenue SW., Room 5113, Potomac Center Plaza, Washington DC 20202–2500. Telephone: (202) 245–7363. If you use a TDD or a TTY, call the FRS, toll free, at 1–800–877–8339. Electronic Access to This Document: 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 E:\FR\FM\11AUN1.SGM 11AUN1 37580 Federal Register / Vol. 82, No. 154 / Friday, August 11, 2017 / Notices Dated: August 8, 2017. Kimberly M. Richey, Acting Assistant Secretary for Special Education and Rehabilitative Services. [FR Doc. 2017–17014 Filed 8–10–17; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4000–01–P DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY Federal Energy Regulatory Commission [Docket No. IC17–13–000] Commission Information Collection Activities (FERC–717); Comment Request; Revision and Extension Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Department of Energy. ACTION: Notice of revised information collection and request for comments. AGENCY: In compliance with the requirements of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (Commission or FERC) is soliciting public comment on a revision to the information collection, FERC–717, (Open Access Same-Time Information System and Standards for Business Practices and Communication Protocol) which will be submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for a review of the information collection requirements. SUMMARY: Comments on the collection of information are due October 10, 2017. ADDRESSES: You may submit comments identified by Docket No. IC17–13–000 by either of the following methods: asabaliauskas on DSKBBXCHB2PROD with NOTICES DATES: 1 Burden is defined as the total time, effort, or financial resources expended by persons to generate, maintain, retain, or disclose or provide VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:18 Aug 10, 2017 Jkt 241001 • eFiling at Commission’s Web site: https://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/ efiling.asp. • Mail/Hand Delivery/Courier: Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Secretary of the Commission, 888 First Street NE., Washington, DC 20426. Instructions: All submissions must be formatted and filed in accordance with submission guidelines at: https:// www.ferc.gov/help/submissionguide.asp. For user assistance contact FERC Online Support by email at ferconlinesupport@ferc.gov, or by phone at: (866) 208–3676 (toll-free), or (202) 502–8659 for TTY. Docket: Users interested in receiving automatic notification of activity in this docket or in viewing/downloading comments and issuances in this docket may do so at https://www.ferc.gov/docsfiling/docs-filing.asp. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ellen Brown may be reached by email at DataClearance@FERC.gov, telephone at (202) 502–8663, and fax at (202) 273– 0873. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Title: FERC–717, Open Access SameTime information System and Standards for Business Practices & Communication Protocols. OMB Control No.: 1902–0173. Type of Request: Three-year approval of the FERC–717 information collection requirements with no changes to the current reporting requirements. Abstract: The Commission directs all public utilities that own, control or operate facilities for transmitting energy in interstate commerce to provide certain types of information regarding their transmission operations on an Open Access Same-time Information System (OASIS). The Commission does not believe that open-access nondiscriminatory transmission services can be completely realized until it removes real-world obstacles that prevent transmission customers from competing effectively with the Transmission Provider. One of the obstacles is unequal access to transmission information. The Commission believes that transmission customers must have simultaneous access to the same information available to the Transmission Provider if truly nondiscriminatory transmission services are to be a reality. The Commission also established Standards of Conduct requiring that personnel engaged in transmission system operations function independently from personnel engaged in marketing functions. The Standards of Conduct were designed to prevent employees of a public utility (or any of its affiliates) engaged in marketing functions from preferential access to OASIS-related information or from engaging in unduly discriminatory business practices. Companies were required to separate their transmission operations/reliability functions from their marketing/merchant functions and prevent system operators from providing merchant employees and employees of affiliates with transmission-related information not available to all customers at the same time through public posting on the OASIS. Type of Respondents: Transmission Owners and Transmission Operators. Estimate of Annual Burden: 1 The Commission estimates a reduction in the annual public reporting burden for the FERC–717. The numbers comport two separate entities: Transmission Owners and Transmission Operators. The respondent estimate provide corresponds to 170 Transmission Operators. The rational is that many Transmission Owners have elected to turn over operational control of their collective transmission systems to Transmission Operators, including RTOs/IS0s (as authorized in 18 CFR 37.5). These Transmission Operators offer OASIS access to the collective systems facilitating a single OASIS transmission request serving multiple transmission systems. As a result of these efficiency gains, the lower respondent count is appropriate. For completeness, we ascribe the reduction in Transmission Owners to mergers and acquisitions occurring during the time periods examined. Many Transmission Owners have turned over operational control of their collective transmission systems to Transmission Operators, including RTOs/ISOs. As a result of the efficiency gains, and an overestimate of the respondents in our past request, we are submitting a more accurate number of respondents. The changes in business practice standards from version to version requires a different number of hours each time a respondent submits there response. The estimate below reflects the work associated with the most recent version of the standards: information to or for a Federal agency. For further explanation of what is included in the information and the Code of Federal Regulations is available via the Federal Digital System at: www.gpo.gov/fdsys. At this site you can view this document, as well as all other documents of this Department published in the Federal Register, in text or Portable Document Format (PDF). To use PDF you must have Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is available free at the site. You may also access documents of the Department published in the Federal Register by using the article search feature at: www.federalregister.gov. Specifically, through the advanced search feature at this site, you can limit your search to documents published by the Department. collection burden, refer to 5 Code of Federal Regulations 1320.3. PO 00000 Frm 00024 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\11AUN1.SGM 11AUN1

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[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 154 (Friday, August 11, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 37579-37580]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-17014]


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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

[Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) Number: 84.325B]


Reopening; Applications for New Awards; Personnel Development To 
Improve Services and Results for Children With Disabilities--Early 
Childhood Personnel Center

AGENCY: Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, 
Department of Education.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: On April 19, 2017, we published in the Federal Register (82 FR 
18447) a notice inviting applications (NIA) for the Personnel 
Development to Improve Services and Results for Children with 
Disabilities--Early Childhood Personnel Center competition. The NIA 
established a deadline date of June 5, 2017, for the transmittal of 
applications. This notice reopens the competition until September 11, 
2017.

DATES: 
    Deadline for Transmittal of Applications: September 11, 2017.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: No applications received in response to the 
NIA were funded because the applicants did not adequately address the 
selection criteria for the competition. Therefore, we are reopening the 
competition to allow applicants to submit or resubmit applications that 
meet the requirements in the NIA, in order to ensure that State Part C 
and Part B, section 619 programs receive the technical assistance 
necessary to implement high-quality Comprehensive Systems of Personnel 
Development.
    We have eliminated the formatting and page-limit requirements 
specified in the NIA. Further, the specification in the NIA that the 
Secretary will not consider budgets above the maximum award amount is 
no longer applicable. However, we will only fund a successful 
application up to $2,000,000 for any single budget period of 12 months.
    Applicants that have already submitted applications under the FY 
2017 competition are encouraged to review their applications and 
determine whether they have met all eligibility requirements and 
adequately addressed the selection criteria in the NIA and the 
application package, which is available at www.grants.gov.
    Applications that were previously deemed ineligible for review must 
be resubmitted to be considered for review. If a new application is not 
submitted by an applicant whose application was reviewed, the 
Department will use the application that was submitted before 4:30:00 
p.m., Washington DC time, on June 5, 2017, 4:30:00 p.m.
    Finally, this competition is subject to intergovernmental review as 
set forth in Executive Order 12372 and the regulations in 34 CFR part 
79. However, under 34 CFR 79.8(a), we waive intergovernmental review in 
order to make an award by the end of FY 2017.

    Note: All information in the NIA for this competition remains 
the same, except for the deadline for the transmittal of 
applications, the formatting and page limit requirements, the 
mandatory page limit, the eligibility of applications that exceed 
the maximum award amount, and the intergovernmental review 
requirements.


    Program Authority:  20 U.S.C. 1462 and 1481.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Tracie Dickson, U.S. Department of 
Education, 400 Maryland Avenue SW., Room 5181, Potomac Center Plaza, 
Washington, DC 20202-5076. Telephone: (202) 245-7844.
    If you use a telecommunications device for the deaf (TDD) or a text 
telephone (TTY), call the Federal Relay Service (FRS), toll free, at 1-
800-877-8339.
    Accessible Format: Individuals with disabilities can obtain this 
document and a copy of the application package in an accessible format 
(e.g., braille, large print, audiotape, or compact disc) by contacting 
the Management Support Services Team, U.S. Department of Education, 400 
Maryland Avenue SW., Room 5113, Potomac Center Plaza, Washington DC 
20202-2500. Telephone: (202) 245-7363. If you use a TDD or a TTY, call 
the FRS, toll free, at 1-800-877-8339.
    Electronic Access to This Document: 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

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and the Code of Federal Regulations is available via the Federal 
Digital System at: www.gpo.gov/fdsys. At this site you can view this 
document, as well as all other documents of this Department published 
in the Federal Register, in text or Portable Document Format (PDF). To 
use PDF you must have Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is available free at 
the site.
    You may also access documents of the Department published in the 
Federal Register by using the article search feature at: 
www.federalregister.gov. Specifically, through the advanced search 
feature at this site, you can limit your search to documents published 
by the Department.

    Dated: August 8, 2017.
Kimberly M. Richey,
Acting Assistant Secretary for Special Education and Rehabilitative 
Services.
[FR Doc. 2017-17014 Filed 8-10-17; 8:45 am]
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