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CPSC specifically solicits information
relevant to the following topics:
—Whether the collection of information
described above is necessary for the
proper performance of the
Commission’s functions, including
whether the information would have
practical utility;
—Whether the estimated burden of the
proposed collection of information is
accurate;
—Whether the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected could be enhanced; and
—Whether the burden imposed by the
collection of information could be
minimized by use of automated,
electronic or other technological
collection techniques, or other forms
of information technology.
Abioye Mosheim,
Acting Secretary, Consumer Product Safety
Commission.
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CORPORATION FOR NATIONAL AND
COMMUNITY SERVICE
Agency Information Collection
Activities; Comment Request;
Application Package for AmeriCorps
Program Life Cycle Evaluation—
Climate Change Bundled Evaluation
Corporation for National and
Community Service.
ACTION: Notice of information collection;
request for comment.
AGENCY:
In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the
Corporation for National and
Community Service, operating as
AmeriCorps, is proposing a new
information collection.
DATES: Written comments must be
submitted to the individual and office
listed in the ADDRESSES section by
October 17, 2022.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments,
identified by the title of the information
collection activity, by any of the
following methods:
(1) By mail sent to: AmeriCorps,
Attention Jehyra M. Asencio-Yace, 250
E Street SW, Washington, DC 20525.
(2) By hand delivery or by courier to
the AmeriCorps mailroom at the mail
address given in paragraph (1) above,
between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. Eastern Time,
Monday through Friday, except Federal
holidays.
(3) Electronically through
www.regulations.gov.
Comments submitted in response to
this notice may be made available to the
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public through regulations.gov. For this
reason, please do not include in your
comments information of a confidential
nature, such as sensitive personal
information or proprietary information.
If you send an email comment, your
email address will be automatically
captured and included as part of the
comment that is placed in the public
docket and made available on the
internet. Please note that responses to
this public comment request containing
any routine notice about the
confidentiality of the communication
will be treated as public comment that
may be made available to the public,
notwithstanding the inclusion of the
routine notice.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Xiaodong Zhang, 703–251–0883, or by
email at xiaodong.zhang@icf.com.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title of Collection: AmeriCorps
Program Life Cycle Evaluation—Climate
Change Bundled Evaluation.
OMB Control Number: TBD. Type of
Review: New.
Respondents/Affected Public: Grantee
and sponsor organizations, national
service members, community members,
and partner organization staff.
Total Estimated Number of Annual
Responses: 610 responses.
Total Estimated Number of Annual
Burden Hours: 232 hours.
Abstract: The purpose of this
evaluation is to provide insight on the
implementation of the climate change
bundle programs and explore variation
in activities for education and training,
disaster response, conservation, wildfire
mitigation, and energy efficiency. It will
explore the ways in which the programs
influence community resilience. It will
also examine changes in attitudes and
behaviors toward civic engagement
among national service members and
the development of job skills, including
skills for green jobs. Finally, it will
examine how the programs are serving
vulnerable communities and at-risk
populations. The research questions for
this evaluation will be:
1. How do programs/members
connect their work to climate change?
2. To what extent does the program
include opportunities to increase
equity?
3. To what extent is the program
operating as intended?
4. What are some promising practices
and some challenges in implementing
the climate change grant programs?
5. What were the barriers and
facilitators to meet the intended
outcomes of the program?
6. What are the lessons learned that
can inform the field or be useful for
practitioners that work in this space?
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7. What is the likelihood that the
program will be sustained beyond the
grant?
8. How were the communities and
community members impacted by
climate change prior to the program?
9. What types of communities are
being helped by the climate change
grant programs?
10. To what extent are programs
focused on vulnerable populations and
communities?
11. What are the demographic
characteristics of national service
members (e.g., gender, age, race,
ethnicity, education)?
12. How did the COVID–19 pandemic
affect program operations?
13. How did the COVID–19 pandemic
affect national service members?
14. What partner organizations are
involved (e.g., community
organizations, local agencies)? What are
their roles in the program?
15. What is the breadth (number and
type of partnership), quality, and
quantity of the partnership(s) (number
and frequency of joint activities and
their strength)?
16. How were partnerships built and
maintained?
17. How do grantee and sponsor
organizations work with partners to
build community resilience?
18. To what extent do the climate
change grant programs:
a. improve energy efficiency and
increase the use of renewable energy
sources?
b. help communities prepare,
respond, and recover from natural
disasters and other climate change
effects?
c. preserve public lands and
waterways and protect or restore
biodiversity?
d. increase community members’
knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors
around climate change?
e. build capacity of the community to
be resilient?
19. How do the climate change grant
programs lead to increased civic
engagement?
20. In what ways does participation in
the climate change grant programs
influence national service members’ job
skills development toward green jobs?
21. To what extent does participation
in the climate change grant programs:
a. increase national service members’
functional and technical job skills?
b. increase national service members’
interest/willingness to pursue a career
in a green job?
c. lead to a job after their service?
d. lead to a career in a green job after
their service?
ICF will conduct a bundled
evaluation of grantees and sponsors
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with an explicit emphasis on activities
related to addressing climate change. By
bundling, this evaluation combines
programs and projects with similar
program approaches into a single
evaluation. Spanning 32 months, the
evaluation includes up to 30 grantees
and sponsors to examine program
design, implementation, and outcomes
using surveys, interviews, and focus
groups with a wide range of
stakeholders including grantee and
sponsor staff, partner organizations,
national service members, and
community members. This is a new
information collection.
Comments submitted in response to
this notice will be summarized and/or
included in the request for OMB
approval. Comments are invited on: (a)
whether the 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
collection of information; (c) ways to
enhance the quality, utility, and clarity
of the information to be collected; (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;
and (e) estimates of capital or start-up
costs and costs of operation,
maintenance, and purchase of services
to provide information. Burden means
the total time, effort, or financial
resources expended by persons to
generate, maintain, retain, disclose, or
provide information to or for a Federal
agency. This includes the time needed
to review instructions; to develop,
acquire, install, and use technology and
systems for the purpose of collecting,
validating, and verifying information,
processing and maintaining
information, and disclosing and
providing information; to train
personnel to be able to respond to a
collection of information, to search data
sources, and to complete and review the
collection of information; and to
transmit or otherwise disclose the
information. All written comments will
be available for public inspection on
regulations.gov.
Dated: August 11, 2022.
Mary Hyde,
Director, Office of Research and Evaluation.
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
[Docket No.: ED–2022–SCC–0105]
Agency Information Collection
Activities; Comment Request; Study of
the Impact of English Learner
Reclassification Policies
Institute of Education Science
(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 October
17, 2022.
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–
2022–SCC–0105. 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 6W208C,
Washington, DC 20202–8240.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
specific questions related to collection
activities, please contact Tracy
Rimdzius, 202–245–7283.
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
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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: Study of the
Impact of English Learner
Reclassification Policies.
OMB Control Number: 1850–NEW.
Type of Review: A new information
collection.
Respondents/Affected Public: State,
Local, and Tribal Governments.
Total Estimated Number of Annual
Responses: 30.
Total Estimated Number of Annual
Burden Hours: 817.
Abstract: The data collection
described in this submission will assist
policymakers in understanding the
impact of reclassification policies that
exit students from English learner (EL)
status. Specifically, the study will
examine (1) whether reclassification
was implemented more consistently
across districts within states after the
start of the Every Student Succeeds Act
(ESSA) and (2) whether reclassification
at current thresholds helps, harms, or is
neutral for former ELs’ instructional
opportunities, experiences,
achievement, and attainment. Data for
the study will come from extant state
longitudinal data systems and publicly
available data on state policies.
Dated: August 12, 2022.
Juliana Pearson,
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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CORPORATION FOR NATIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE
Agency Information Collection Activities; Comment Request;
Application Package for AmeriCorps Program Life Cycle Evaluation--
Climate Change Bundled Evaluation
AGENCY: Corporation for National and Community Service.
ACTION: Notice of information collection; request for comment.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the
Corporation for National and Community Service, operating as
AmeriCorps, is proposing a new information collection.
DATES: Written comments must be submitted to the individual and office
listed in the ADDRESSES section by October 17, 2022.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by the title of the
information collection activity, by any of the following methods:
(1) By mail sent to: AmeriCorps, Attention Jehyra M. Asencio-Yace,
250 E Street SW, Washington, DC 20525.
(2) By hand delivery or by courier to the AmeriCorps mailroom at
the mail address given in paragraph (1) above, between 9 a.m. and 4
p.m. Eastern Time, Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays.
(3) Electronically through www.regulations.gov.
Comments submitted in response to this notice may be made available
to the public through regulations.gov. For this reason, please do not
include in your comments information of a confidential nature, such as
sensitive personal information or proprietary information. If you send
an email comment, your email address will be automatically captured and
included as part of the comment that is placed in the public docket and
made available on the internet. Please note that responses to this
public comment request containing any routine notice about the
confidentiality of the communication will be treated as public comment
that may be made available to the public, notwithstanding the inclusion
of the routine notice.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Xiaodong Zhang, 703-251-0883, or by
email at [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title of Collection: AmeriCorps Program Life Cycle Evaluation--
Climate Change Bundled Evaluation.
OMB Control Number: TBD. Type of Review: New.
Respondents/Affected Public: Grantee and sponsor organizations,
national service members, community members, and partner organization
staff.
Total Estimated Number of Annual Responses: 610 responses.
Total Estimated Number of Annual Burden Hours: 232 hours.
Abstract: The purpose of this evaluation is to provide insight on
the implementation of the climate change bundle programs and explore
variation in activities for education and training, disaster response,
conservation, wildfire mitigation, and energy efficiency. It will
explore the ways in which the programs influence community resilience.
It will also examine changes in attitudes and behaviors toward civic
engagement among national service members and the development of job
skills, including skills for green jobs. Finally, it will examine how
the programs are serving vulnerable communities and at-risk
populations. The research questions for this evaluation will be:
1. How do programs/members connect their work to climate change?
2. To what extent does the program include opportunities to
increase equity?
3. To what extent is the program operating as intended?
4. What are some promising practices and some challenges in
implementing the climate change grant programs?
5. What were the barriers and facilitators to meet the intended
outcomes of the program?
6. What are the lessons learned that can inform the field or be
useful for practitioners that work in this space?
7. What is the likelihood that the program will be sustained beyond
the grant?
8. How were the communities and community members impacted by
climate change prior to the program?
9. What types of communities are being helped by the climate change
grant programs?
10. To what extent are programs focused on vulnerable populations
and communities?
11. What are the demographic characteristics of national service
members (e.g., gender, age, race, ethnicity, education)?
12. How did the COVID-19 pandemic affect program operations?
13. How did the COVID-19 pandemic affect national service members?
14. What partner organizations are involved (e.g., community
organizations, local agencies)? What are their roles in the program?
15. What is the breadth (number and type of partnership), quality,
and quantity of the partnership(s) (number and frequency of joint
activities and their strength)?
16. How were partnerships built and maintained?
17. How do grantee and sponsor organizations work with partners to
build community resilience?
18. To what extent do the climate change grant programs:
a. improve energy efficiency and increase the use of renewable
energy sources?
b. help communities prepare, respond, and recover from natural
disasters and other climate change effects?
c. preserve public lands and waterways and protect or restore
biodiversity?
d. increase community members' knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors
around climate change?
e. build capacity of the community to be resilient?
19. How do the climate change grant programs lead to increased
civic engagement?
20. In what ways does participation in the climate change grant
programs influence national service members' job skills development
toward green jobs?
21. To what extent does participation in the climate change grant
programs:
a. increase national service members' functional and technical job
skills?
b. increase national service members' interest/willingness to
pursue a career in a green job?
c. lead to a job after their service?
d. lead to a career in a green job after their service?
ICF will conduct a bundled evaluation of grantees and sponsors
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with an explicit emphasis on activities related to addressing climate
change. By bundling, this evaluation combines programs and projects
with similar program approaches into a single evaluation. Spanning 32
months, the evaluation includes up to 30 grantees and sponsors to
examine program design, implementation, and outcomes using surveys,
interviews, and focus groups with a wide range of stakeholders
including grantee and sponsor staff, partner organizations, national
service members, and community members. This is a new information
collection.
Comments submitted in response to this notice will be summarized
and/or included in the request for OMB approval. Comments are invited
on: (a) whether the 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 collection of information; (c)
ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to
be collected; (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; and (e)
estimates of capital or start-up costs and costs of operation,
maintenance, and purchase of services to provide information. Burden
means the total time, effort, or financial resources expended by
persons to generate, maintain, retain, disclose, or provide information
to or for a Federal agency. This includes the time needed to review
instructions; to develop, acquire, install, and use technology and
systems for the purpose of collecting, validating, and verifying
information, processing and maintaining information, and disclosing and
providing information; to train personnel to be able to respond to a
collection of information, to search data sources, and to complete and
review the collection of information; and to transmit or otherwise
disclose the information. All written comments will be available for
public inspection on regulations.gov.
Dated: August 11, 2022.
Mary Hyde,
Director, Office of Research and Evaluation.
[FR Doc. 2022-17650 Filed 8-16-22; 8:45 am]
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