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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: Veterans Upward
Bound (VUB) Program Annual
Performance Report.
OMB Control Number: 1840–0832.
Type of Review: A revision of an
existing information collection.
Respondents/Affected Public: State,
Local and Tribal Organizations, Private
Sector.
Total Estimated Number of Annual
Responses: 62.
Total Estimated Number of Annual
Burden Hours: 1,054.
Abstract: Veterans Upward Bound
(VUB), one of the U.S. Department of
Education’s Upward Bound programs, is
designed to motivate and assist veterans
in developing academic and other
requisite skills necessary for acceptance
and success in a program of
postsecondary education. The program
provides assessment and enhancement
of basic skills through counseling,
mentoring, tutoring and academic
instruction in the core subject areas. The
primary goal of the program is to
increase the rate at which participants
enroll in and complete postsecondary
education programs.
All Veterans Upward Bound projects
must provide instruction in
mathematics through pre-calculus,
laboratory science, foreign language,
composition, and literature. Projects
may also provide short-term remedial or
refresher courses for veterans who are
high school graduates but have delayed
pursuing postsecondary education.
Projects are also expected to assist
veterans in securing support services
from other locally available resources
such as the U.S. Department of Veterans
Affairs, veterans’ associations, and other
state and local agencies that serve
veterans.
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The Department’s annual performance
report (APR) for VUB collects each
current grantee’s data at the participant
level on services and performance over
the course of a year. The Department
uses the information conveyed in the
performance report to assess a grantee’s
progress in meeting its approved goals
and objectives and to evaluate a
grantee’s prior experience in accordance
with the program regulations in 34 CFR
645.32. Grantees’ annual performance
reports also provide information on the
outcomes of projects’ work and of the
VUB program as a whole. In addition,
APR data allows the Department to
respond to the reporting requirements of
the Government Performance and
Results Act.
Dated: August 6, 2020.
Kate Mullan,
PRA Coordinator, Strategic Collections and
Clearance Governance and Strategy Division
Office of Chief Data Officer, Office of
Planning, Evaluation and Policy
Development.
[FR Doc. 2020–17546 Filed 8–11–20; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
[Docket No.: ED–2020–SCC–0064]
Agency Information Collection
Activities; Submission to the Office of
Management and Budget for Review
and Approval; Comment Request;
Student Support Services Annual
Performance Report
Office of Postsecondary
Education (OPE), Department of
Education (ED).
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, ED is
proposing a reinstatement with change
of a previously approved information
collection.
DATES: Interested persons are invited to
submit comments on or before
September 11, 2020.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and
recommendations for proposed
information collection requests should
be sent within 30 days of publication of
this notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/
do/PRAMain. Find this particular
information collection request by
selecting ‘‘Department of Education’’
under ‘‘Currently Under Review,’’ then
check ‘‘Only Show ICR for Public
Comment’’ checkbox.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
specific questions related to collection
activities, please contact Emory
Morrison, 202–453–6963.
SUMMARY:
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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: Student Support
Services Annual Performance Report.
OMB Control Number: 1840–0525.
Type of Review: Reinstatement with
change of a previously approved
information collection.
Respondents/Affected Public: Private
Sector.
Total Estimated Number of Annual
Responses: 1,069.
Total Estimated Number of Annual
Burden Hours: 16,302.
Abstract: Student Support Services
(SSS) program grantees must submit the
Annual Performance Report (APR)
annually. The reports are used to
evaluate grantees’ performance for
substantial progress, respond to the
Education Department General
Administrative Regulations (GPRA)
requirements, and award prior
experience points at the end of each
project (budget) period. The Department
also aggregates the data to provide
descriptive information on the projects
and to analyze the impact of the SSS
program on the academic progress of
participating students.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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Dated: August 6, 2020.
Kate Mullan,
PRA Coordinator, Strategic Collections and
Clearance Governance and Strategy Division,
Office of Chief Data Officer, Office of
Planning, Evaluation and Policy
Development.
[FR Doc. 2020–17545 Filed 8–11–20; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Notice of Request for Information (RFI)
on Accelerated Materials R&D, Testing/
Qualification, and Cost-Effective
Manufacturing Routes for Harsh
Service Environment Materials
Advanced Manufacturing
Office, Office of Energy Efficiency and
Renewable Energy, Office of Advanced
Energy Systems, Office of Fossil Energy,
Department of Energy.
ACTION: Request for Information (RFI).
AGENCY:
The Department of Energy
(DOE) invites public comment on its
Request for Information (RFI) number
DE–FOA–0002385 regarding the
MATERIALS FOR HARSH SERVICE
CONDITIONS R&D. This RFI is
sponsored by the Office of Energy
Efficiency and Renewable Energy
(EERE), Advanced Manufacturing Office
(AMO), and the Office of Fossil Energy
(FE), Office of Advanced Energy
Systems (AES). The purpose of this RFI
is to solicit feedback from industry,
academia, research laboratories,
government agencies, and other
stakeholders on issues related to
challenges and opportunities in various
aspects of harsh service environment
materials. These include: Accelerated
materials research, development, and
demonstration (RD&D), testing/
qualification methods, and cost-effective
manufacturing routes for the
development of components, systems,
and products exhibiting significant, or
step-change improvements over current
state-of-the-art in system energy
performance under harsh service
conditions and extended service
lifetimes. This information will be used
by AMO and AES to inform strategies in
support of energy savings and cost
reduction goals, as well as to inform
future planning and to possibly make
adjustments to their R&D portfolios.
DATES: Responses to the RFI must be
received by September 17, 2020.
ADDRESSES: Interested parties are to
submit comments electronically to
HarshMaterialsRFI@ee.doe.gov. Include
Harsh Service Materials R&D in the
subject of the title. Only electronic
responses will be accepted. The
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complete RFI document is located at
https://eere-exchange.energy.gov/.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Questions may be addressed to Nick
Lalena, 202–923–5637, or
HarshMaterialsRFI@ee.doe.gov. Further
instructions can be found in the RFI
document posted on the EERE
Exchange.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
purpose of this RFI is to solicit feedback
from industry, academia, research
laboratories, government agencies, and
other stakeholders on issues related to
challenges and opportunities in
accelerated materials RD&D, testing/
qualification methods, and cost effective
manufacturing routes for the
development of components, systems,
and products exhibiting significant, or
step-change improvements over current
state-of-the-art in system energy
performance under harsh service
conditions and extended service
lifetimes. Harsh environments include
high temperature and corrosive
environments, conditions of high
mechanical wear/stress/load, thermal
cycling and exposure to hydrogen,
irradiation, and other embrittlement
mechanisms. AMO and AES now seek
to gather input from stakeholders on the
technical and commercial prospects of
novel material development and new
manufacturing capabilities including
but not limited to the advantages and
technical challenges associated with
new material breakthroughs, strategies
for de-risking the cost and performance
of novel materials, and considerations
for scale-up of new materials
manufacturing methods. AMO and AES
seek individual input on high-reaching
targets/metrics and identification of key
problem sets to be addressed. The intent
is to define critical crosscutting
problems/barriers whose solutions
represent near-term commercially viable
paths to obtaining materials that can
produce a step change improvement in
energy performance under harsh service
conditions beyond current state of the
art. Specific questions can be found in
the RFI. The RFI is available at: https://
eere-exchange.energy.gov/.
Confidential Business Information
Pursuant to 10 CFR 1004.11, any
person submitting information that he
or she believes to be confidential and
exempt by law from public disclosure
should submit via email two wellmarked copies: One copy of the
document marked ‘‘confidential’’
including all the information believed to
be confidential, and one copy of the
document marked ‘‘non-confidential’’
with the information believed to be
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confidential deleted. DOE will make its
own determination about the
confidential status of the information
and treat it according to its
determination.
Signing Authority
This document of the Department of
Energy was signed on August 06, 2020,
by Valri Lightner, Acting Director,
Advanced Manufacturing Office, Office
of Energy Efficiency and Renewable
Energy, pursuant to delegated authority
from the Secretary of Energy. That
document with the original signature
and date is maintained by DOE. For
administrative purposes only, and in
compliance with requirements of the
Office of the Federal Register, the
undersigned DOE Federal Register
Liaison Officer has been authorized to
sign and submit the document in
electronic format for publication, as an
official document of the Department of
Energy. This administrative process in
no way alters the legal effect of this
document upon publication in the
Federal Register.
Signed in Washington, DC, on August 7,
2020.
Treena V. Garrett,
Federal Register Liaison Officer, U.S.
Department of Energy.
[FR Doc. 2020–17605 Filed 8–11–20; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies
Office Research and Development
Strategy Request for Information
Hydrogen and Fuel Cell
Technologies Office (HFTO), Office of
Energy Efficiency and Renewable
Energy, Department of Energy (DOE).
ACTION: Request for information (RFI).
AGENCY:
The U.S. Department of
Energy (DOE) invites public comment
on its Request for Information (RFI)
number DE–FOA–0002379 regarding the
Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies
Office Research and Development
Strategy. This RFI is issued by the
Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies
Office (HFTO) within DOE’s Office of
Energy Efficiency and Renewable
Energy (EERE) to understand how
hydrogen and fuel cell research
priorities and goals can address
evolving technology needs and to
inform related research, development,
and demonstration (RD&D) activities
that may be undertaken by DOE. The
information being sought under this RFI
is intended to assist HFTO in further
defining the scope and priorities of its
SUMMARY:
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
[Docket No.: ED-2020-SCC-0064]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the
Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Comment
Request; Student Support Services Annual Performance Report
AGENCY: Office of Postsecondary Education (OPE), Department of
Education (ED).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, ED is
proposing a reinstatement with change of a previously approved
information collection.
DATES: Interested persons are invited to submit comments on or before
September 11, 2020.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and recommendations for proposed
information collection requests should be sent within 30 days of
publication of this notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. Find
this particular information collection request by selecting
``Department of Education'' under ``Currently Under Review,'' then
check ``Only Show ICR for Public Comment'' checkbox.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For specific questions related to
collection activities, please contact Emory Morrison, 202-453-6963.
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: Student Support Services Annual Performance
Report.
OMB Control Number: 1840-0525.
Type of Review: Reinstatement with change of a previously approved
information collection.
Respondents/Affected Public: Private Sector.
Total Estimated Number of Annual Responses: 1,069.
Total Estimated Number of Annual Burden Hours: 16,302.
Abstract: Student Support Services (SSS) program grantees must
submit the Annual Performance Report (APR) annually. The reports are
used to evaluate grantees' performance for substantial progress,
respond to the Education Department General Administrative Regulations
(GPRA) requirements, and award prior experience points at the end of
each project (budget) period. The Department also aggregates the data
to provide descriptive information on the projects and to analyze the
impact of the SSS program on the academic progress of participating
students.
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Dated: August 6, 2020.
Kate Mullan,
PRA Coordinator, Strategic Collections and Clearance Governance and
Strategy Division, Office of Chief Data Officer, Office of Planning,
Evaluation and Policy Development.
[FR Doc. 2020-17545 Filed 8-11-20; 8:45 am]
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