Agency Information Collection Activities; Comment Request; National Study To Inform the 21st Century Community Learning Centers (CCLC) Program, 9915-9916 [2021-03163]
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Abstract: The NAEP 2021 School
Survey is collecting data necessary to
fully understand the impact of the
COVID–19 pandemic on students and
educators, including data on the status
of in-person learning. These data shall
be disaggregated by student
demographics, including race, ethnicity,
disability, English-language-learner
status, and free or reduced lunch status
or other appropriate indicators of family
income.’’ With the participation of
educators and school leaders across the
country, NCES will be able to report the
percentages of students who received
instruction remotely, in-person, or in a
hybrid instructional mode for selected
districts, states, and the nation. NCES
will provide these data for various
student groups, in addition to
information about attendance rates, in
an online dashboard. These metrics are
intended to provide stakeholders with a
clear portrait of equity in the type,
frequency, and amount of instruction
students receive monthly across the
nation, and in states and participating
districts. As monthly data are collected,
stakeholders will be able to track
progress. In addition, a summative
report will be provided at the end of the
collection, relating the results to those
from the NAEP 2021 School and
Teacher Questionnaire.
Additional Information: An
emergency clearance approval for the
use of the system is described due to the
following conditions: NCES requests
emergency clearance to comply with the
January 21, 2021 Executive Order on
Supporting the Reopening and
Continuing Operation of Schools and
Early Childhood Education Providers
which states that the Department of
Education must ‘‘coordinate with the
Director of the Institute of Education
Sciences to facilitate, consistent with
applicable law, the collection of data
necessary to fully understand the
impact of the COVID–19 pandemic on
students and educators, including data
on the status of in-person learning.
These data shall be disaggregated by
student demographics, including race,
ethnicity, disability, English-languagelearner status, and free or reduced lunch
status or other appropriate indicators of
family income.’’ Normal clearance
procedures would not allow IES to
comply with the intent of this Executive
Order.
Dated: February 11, 2021.
Stephanie Valentine,
PRA Coordinator, Strategic Collections and
Clearance Governance and Strategy Division,
Office of Chief Data Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
[Docket No.: ED–2021–SCC–0022]
Agency Information Collection
Activities; Comment Request; National
Study To Inform the 21st Century
Community Learning Centers (CCLC)
Program
Institute of Education Sciences
(IES), Department of Education (ED).
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, ED is
proposing a new information collection.
DATES: Interested persons are invited to
submit comments on or before April 19,
2021.
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–
2021–SCC–0022. 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.
If the regulations.gov site is not
available to the public for any reason,
ED will temporarily accept comments at
ICDocketMgr@ed.gov. Please include the
docket ID number and the title of the
information collection request when
requesting documents or submitting
comments. 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 PRA Coordinator of the
Strategic Collections and Clearance
Governance and Strategy Division, U.S.
Department of Education, 400 Maryland
Ave. SW, LBJ, Room 6W208B,
Washington, DC 20202–8240.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
specific questions related to collection
activities, please contact Erica Johnson,
(202) 245–7676.
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
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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: National Study to
Inform the 21st Century Community
Learning Centers (CCLC) Program.
OMB Control Number: 1850–NEW.
Type of Review: New information
collection.
Respondents/Affected Public:
Individuals or Households.
Total Estimated Number of Annual
Responses: 1,228.
Total Estimated Number of Annual
Burden Hours: 397.
Abstract: The 21st CCLC program
funds services during non-school hours,
primarily during the school year. The
services aim to help students meet state
academic standards, particularly for
students in low-performing schools that
serve high concentrations of low-income
families. Most participants (71 percent)
are students attending afterschool
centers during the school year, with the
remainder being family members (14
percent) or summer attendees (15
percent). Afterschool centers supported
by program funds provide a broad range
of activities and services, such as
academic enrichment, physical activity,
service learning, and activities to engage
families. Program activities and services
may play a crucial role in addressing the
substantial learning loss and other
challenges that have occurred as a result
of the COVID–19 pandemic.
This study will have two components.
The first is a national snapshot of
strategies that afterschool centers in the
21st CCLC program use to serve their
students and families. The national
snapshot will complement and extend
information from the program’s annual
performance measures by providing an
in-depth understanding of the key
outcomes centers aim to promote and
the diverse ways their activities and
services for students and families,
supports for staff, and improvement
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strategies are designed to promote these
outcomes. Describing these strategies
can provide insights into ways that
centers seek to address longer-term
challenges, such as learning loss and
trauma, stemming from the pandemic.
The second component is an evaluation
of a continuous quality improvement
system implemented in the program’s
afterschool centers. The evaluation will
examine the implementation and
effectiveness of a system focused on
improving staff practices that promote
students’ social and emotional skills.
Promoting these skills may be
particularly important to compensate for
the effects of the pandemic, in light of
evidence that remote learning has
negatively affected students’ social and
emotional well-being.
This package only requests clearance
for data collection activities that will
occur before March 2022 and impose
burden on respondents. These activities,
all part of the evaluation of a continuous
quality improvement system (the
study’s second component), involve
collecting parent/guardian
questionnaires and permission forms,
afterschool center coaching logs, and
student afterschool attendance records.
Dated: February 11, 2021.
Stephanie Valentine,
PRA Coordinator, Strategic Collections and
Clearance, Governance and Strategy Division,
Office of Chief Data Officer, Office of
Planning, Evaluation and Policy
Development.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
[EERE–2020–BT–CRT–0018]
Agency Information Collection
Extension
Office of Energy Efficiency and
Renewable Energy, U.S. Department of
Energy.
ACTION: Submission for Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) review;
comment request.
AGENCY:
The Department of Energy
(DOE) has submitted an information
collection request to the OMB for
extension under the provisions of the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. The
information collection requests a threeyear extension of its Certification
Reports, Compliance Statements,
Application for a Test Procedure
Waiver, and Recordkeeping for
Consumer Products and Commercial/
Industrial Equipment subject to Energy
or Water Conservation Standards.
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Comments regarding this
collection must be received on or before
March 19, 2021. If you anticipate that
you will be submitting comments, but
find it difficult to do so within the
period of time allowed by this notice,
please advise the OMB Desk Officer of
your intention to make a submission as
soon as possible. The Desk Officer may
be telephoned at (202) 395–4718.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent
within 30 days of publication of this
notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/
PRAMain. Find this particular
information collection by selecting
‘‘Currently under 30-day Review—Open
for Public Comments’’ or by using the
search function.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Catherine Rivest, U.S. Department of
Energy, Office of Energy Efficiency and
Renewable Energy, Building
Technologies Office, EE–5B, 1000
Independence Avenue SW, Washington,
DC 20585–0121. Telephone: (202) 586–
7335. Email:
ApplianceStandardsQuestions@
ee.doe.gov.
Interested persons are encouraged to
submit comments using the Federal
eRulemaking Portal at https://
www.regulations.gov. Follow the
instructions for submitting comments.
Alternatively, interested persons may
submit comments, identified by docket
number EERE–2020–BT–CRT–0018, by
any of the following methods:
1. Federal eRulemaking Portal: https://
www.regulations.gov. Follow the
instructions for submitting comments.
2. Email: to
InfoCollection2020CRT0018@
ee.doe.gov. Include docket number
EERE–2020–BT–CRT–0018 in the
subject line of the message.
3. Postal Mail: Appliance and
Equipment Standards Program, U.S.
Department of Energy, Building
Technologies Office, Mailstop EE–5B,
1000 Independence Avenue SW,
Washington, DC 20585–0121.
Telephone: (202) 287–1445. If possible,
please submit all items on a compact
disc (‘‘CD’’), in which case it is not
necessary to include printed copies.
4. Hand Delivery/Courier: Appliance
and Equipment Standards Program, U.S.
Department of Energy, Building
Technologies Office, 950 L’Enfant Plaza
SW, Suite 600, Washington, DC 20024.
Telephone: (202) 287–1445. If possible,
please submit all items on a CD, in
which case it is not necessary to include
printed copies.
No telefacsimilies (faxes) will be
accepted.
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Docket: The docket for this activity,
which includes Federal Register
notices, comments, and other
supporting documents/materials, is
available for review at https://
www.regulations.gov. All documents in
the docket are listed in the https://
www.regulations.gov index. However,
some documents listed in the index,
such as those containing information
that is exempt from public disclosure,
may not be publicly available.
The docket web page can be found at
https://www.regulations.gov/
#!docketDetail;D=EERE-2020-BT-CRT0018. The docket web page will contain
simple instructions on how to access all
documents, including public comments,
in the docket.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, as
amended (PRA), 44 U.S.C. 3501–3520,
and its implementing regulations, 5 CFR
part 1320, require Federal agencies to
issue two notices seeking public
comment on information collection
activities before OMB may approve
paperwork packages. 44 U.S.C. 3506,
3507; 5 CFR 1320.5, 1320.8(d)(1), and
1320.12. On November 23, 2020, DOE
published a 60-day notice in the Federal
Register soliciting comment on the
information collection request for which
it is now seeking OMB approval. See 85
FR 74713. The proposed collection
would cover all covered products and
equipment subject to DOE’s regulatory
requirements described in 10 CFR parts
429, 430, and 431. DOE received three
comments in response to this notice,
which are discussed in section I of this
document.
I. Summary of Comments
DOE requested comments as to
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.
In response, the Air-Conditioning,
Heating, and Refrigeration Institute
(AHRI) and Carrier stated that
performance data reporting is necessary
and proper to ensure that manufacturers
are complying with energy conservation
standards. (AHRI, No. 2 at p. 2; Carrier
No. 4 at p. 1)
AHRI stated that the scope of DOE’s
reporting requirements are at times
overbroad, which creates unnecessary
burden. AHRI pointed to the Central Air
Conditioners and Heat Pump reporting
template as an example of
overcollection and noted that it includes
many more fields than DOE publishes
on its public Compliance Certification
Management System (CCMS) database.
AHRI asked that DOE exercise greater
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
[Docket No.: ED-2021-SCC-0022]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Comment Request;
National Study To Inform the 21st Century Community Learning Centers
(CCLC) Program
AGENCY: Institute of Education Sciences (IES), Department of Education
(ED).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, ED is
proposing a new information collection.
DATES: Interested persons are invited to submit comments on or before
April 19, 2021.
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-2021-SCC-0022.
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. If the regulations.gov
site is not available to the public for any reason, ED will temporarily
accept comments at [email protected]. Please include the docket ID
number and the title of the information collection request when
requesting documents or submitting comments. 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 PRA
Coordinator of the Strategic Collections and Clearance Governance and
Strategy Division, U.S. Department of Education, 400 Maryland Ave. SW,
LBJ, Room 6W208B, Washington, DC 20202-8240.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For specific questions related to
collection activities, please contact Erica Johnson, (202) 245-7676.
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: National Study to Inform the 21st Century
Community Learning Centers (CCLC) Program.
OMB Control Number: 1850-NEW.
Type of Review: New information collection.
Respondents/Affected Public: Individuals or Households.
Total Estimated Number of Annual Responses: 1,228.
Total Estimated Number of Annual Burden Hours: 397.
Abstract: The 21st CCLC program funds services during non-school
hours, primarily during the school year. The services aim to help
students meet state academic standards, particularly for students in
low-performing schools that serve high concentrations of low-income
families. Most participants (71 percent) are students attending
afterschool centers during the school year, with the remainder being
family members (14 percent) or summer attendees (15 percent).
Afterschool centers supported by program funds provide a broad range of
activities and services, such as academic enrichment, physical
activity, service learning, and activities to engage families. Program
activities and services may play a crucial role in addressing the
substantial learning loss and other challenges that have occurred as a
result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
This study will have two components. The first is a national
snapshot of strategies that afterschool centers in the 21st CCLC
program use to serve their students and families. The national snapshot
will complement and extend information from the program's annual
performance measures by providing an in-depth understanding of the key
outcomes centers aim to promote and the diverse ways their activities
and services for students and families, supports for staff, and
improvement
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strategies are designed to promote these outcomes. Describing these
strategies can provide insights into ways that centers seek to address
longer-term challenges, such as learning loss and trauma, stemming from
the pandemic. The second component is an evaluation of a continuous
quality improvement system implemented in the program's afterschool
centers. The evaluation will examine the implementation and
effectiveness of a system focused on improving staff practices that
promote students' social and emotional skills. Promoting these skills
may be particularly important to compensate for the effects of the
pandemic, in light of evidence that remote learning has negatively
affected students' social and emotional well-being.
This package only requests clearance for data collection activities
that will occur before March 2022 and impose burden on respondents.
These activities, all part of the evaluation of a continuous quality
improvement system (the study's second component), involve collecting
parent/guardian questionnaires and permission forms, afterschool center
coaching logs, and student afterschool attendance records.
Dated: February 11, 2021.
Stephanie Valentine,
PRA Coordinator, Strategic Collections and Clearance, Governance and
Strategy Division, Office of Chief Data Officer, Office of Planning,
Evaluation and Policy Development.
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