Agency Information Collection Activities; Comment Request; Common Core of Data (CCD) School-Level Finance Survey (SLFS) 2022-2024, 58493-58494 [2022-20838]

Download as PDF jspears on DSK121TN23PROD with NOTICES Federal Register / Vol. 87, No. 186 / Tuesday, September 27, 2022 / Notices activities, please contact Carrie Clarady, (202) 245–6347. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Department, 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 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: 2023–24 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS:24) Field Test—Student Data Collection and Student Records. OMB Control Number: 1850–0666. Type of Review: Revision of a currently approved information collection. Respondents/Affected Public: Individuals or Households. Total Estimated Number of Annual Responses: 6,240. Total Estimated Number of Annual Burden Hours: 8,550. Abstract: This request is to conduct the 2023–24 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study Field Test (NPSAS:24 FT) student data collection, consisting of a student record data abstraction and a student survey, carrying over the approved NPSAS:24 FT Institution Collection (OMB #1859– 0666 v. 33). This study is being conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), within the Institute of Education Sciences (IES), part of the U.S. Department of Education. This submission covers materials and procedures related to the NPSAS:24 student data collection, which includes VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:51 Sep 26, 2022 Jkt 256001 abstraction of student data from institutions and a student survey, administered primarily as a web survey, and carries over respondent burden, procedures, and materials related to the NPSAS:24 FT institution sampling, enrollment list collection, and matching to administrative data files as approved by OMB in September 2022 (OMB #1859–0666 v. 33). The materials and procedures are based on those developed for previous institution-based data collections, including the 2019–20 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS:20) [OMB #1850–0666 v. 25]. The first NPSAS was implemented by NCES during the 1986–87 academic year to meet the need for national data about significant financial aid issues. Since 1987, NPSAS has been fielded every 2 to 4 years, most recently during the 2019–20 academic year (NPSAS:20). NPSAS:24 will be nationallyrepresentative. The NPSAS:24 field test sample size will be 6,000 students, and the full-scale sample will include 137,000 nationally representative undergraduate and 25,000 nationally representative graduate students who will be asked to complete a survey and for whom we will collect student records and administrative data. If the full-scale budget allows, we will include state-representative sampling for the full-scale collection and provide the budget for a state-representative sampling plan in the 30-day full-scale package, planned for 2023. Also, if exercised, NPSAS:24 will serve as the base year for the 2024 cohort of the Baccalaureate and Beyond (B&B) Longitudinal Study and will include a nationally representative sample of students who will complete requirements for the bachelor’s degree during the NPSAS year (i.e., completed at some point between July 1, 2022, and June 30, 2023 for the field test and July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2024 for the fullscale). Subsets of questions in the student survey will focus on describing aspects of the experience of students in their last year of postsecondary education, including student debt and education experiences. This submission is designed to adequately justify the need for and overall practical utility of the full study, presenting the overarching plan for all phases of the student data collection and providing as much detail about the measures to be used as is available at the time of this submission. As part of this submission, NCES is publishing a notice in the Federal Register allowing first a 60- and then a 30-day public comment period. Field test materials, procedures, and results PO 00000 Frm 00021 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 58493 will inform the full-scale study. After completion of this field test, NCES will publish a notice in the Federal Register allowing additional 30-day public comment period on the final details of the NPSAS:24 full-scale student records and student survey data collections. Dated: September 21, 2022. Stephanie Valentine, PRA Coordinator, Strategic Collections and Clearance, Governance and Strategy Division, Office of Chief Data Officer, Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development. [FR Doc. 2022–20839 Filed 9–26–22; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4000–01–P DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION [Docket No.: ED–2022–SCC–0120] Agency Information Collection Activities; Comment Request; Common Core of Data (CCD) SchoolLevel Finance Survey (SLFS) 2022– 2024 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 revision of a currently approved information collection. DATES: Interested persons are invited to submit comments on or before November 28, 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–0120. 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 Director of Strategic Collections and Clearance, Governance and Strategy Division, U.S. Department of Education, 400 Maryland Ave. SW, SUMMARY: E:\FR\FM\27SEN1.SGM 27SEN1 jspears on DSK121TN23PROD with NOTICES 58494 Federal Register / Vol. 87, No. 186 / Tuesday, September 27, 2022 / Notices LBJ, Room 6W203, Washington, DC 20202–8240. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For specific questions related to collection activities, please contact Carrie Clarady, (202) 245–6347. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Department, 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 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: Common Core of Data (CCD) School-Level Finance Survey (SLFS) 2022–2024. OMB Control Number: 1850–0930. Type of Review: Revision of a currently approved information collection. Respondents/Affected Public: State, Local, and Tribal Governments. Total Estimated Number of Annual Responses: 306. Total Estimated Number of Annual Burden Hours: 4,938. Abstract: NCES annually publishes comprehensive data on the finances of public elementary/secondary schools through the Common Core of Data (CCD). For numerous years, these data have been released at the state level through the National Public Education Financial Survey (NPEFS) (OMB#1850– 0067) and at the school district level through the Local Education Agency (School District) Finance Survey (F–33). (OMB#0607–0700). There is a significant demand for finance data at the school level. Policymakers, VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:51 Sep 26, 2022 Jkt 256001 researchers, and the public have long voiced concerns about the equitable distribution of school funding within and across school districts. School-level finance data addresses the need for reliable and unbiased measures that can be utilized to compare how resources are distributed among schools within local districts. Education expenditure data are now available at the school level through the School-Level Finance Survey (SLFS). The School-Level Finance Survey (SLFS) data collection is conducted annually by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), within the U.S. Department of Education (ED). In November of 2018, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approved changes to the SLFS wherein variables have been added to make the SLFS directly analogous to the F–33 Survey and to the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) provisions on reporting expenditures per-pupil at the local education agency (LEA) and school-level. A previous package cleared in October 2021 approved data collection for FY 2021, 2022, and 2023 (OMB#1850–0930 v.3). This request includes considerable modifications to the previous package and will allow NCES to conduct in 2023 through 2025 the SLFS for fiscal years 2022 through 2024 (corresponding to school years 2021/22 through 2023/24) and to continue the collection of data that is analogous to the current ESSA expenditures per pupil provision. As an important new addition that is part of this request, the Department’s Office of Civil Rights (OCR) proposes to engage NCES to assist OCR with collecting school level finance data as part of the Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC). Pursuant to its authority under the DEOA, as well as its regulations, OCR has determined that the CRDC is necessary to ascertain or ensure compliance with the civil rights laws within its jurisdiction, and therefore established it as a mandatory collection. Parts A and B of this submission present the justification for the information collection and an explanation of the statistical methods employed. Part C describes the SLFS instrument, Appendix A provides the SEA communication materials that will be used to conduct the SLFS data collection, Appendix B provides the SLFS data collection form and instructions, and Appendix C provides the survey of SEA’s school-level finances fiscal data plan. PO 00000 Frm 00022 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 Dated: September 21, 2022. Stephanie Valentine, PRA Coordinator, Strategic Collections and Clearance, Governance and Strategy Division, Office of Chief Data Officer, Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development. [FR Doc. 2022–20838 Filed 9–26–22; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4000–01–P DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY Public Availability of the Department of Energy’s FY 2020 Service Contract Inventory Office of Acquisition Management, Department of Energy. ACTION: Notice of public availability of FY 2020 service contract inventory. AGENCY: In accordance with Division C of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2010 and Office of Management and Budget (OMB) guidance, the Department of Energy (DOE) is publishing this notice to advise the public on the availability of the FY 2020 Service Contract Inventory Analysis Plan and FY 2019 Service Contract Inventory Analysis. This inventory provides information on service contract actions over $150,000 that DOE completed in FY 2020. The inventory has been developed in accordance with guidance issued by the Office of Management and Budget’s Office of Federal Procurement Policy (OFPP). FY 2020 governmentwide service contract inventory can be found at https://www.acquisition.gov/ service-contract-inventory. The Department of Energy’s service contract inventory data is included in the government-wide inventory posted on the above link and the government-wide inventory can be filtered to display the inventory data for the Department. DOE has posted its FY 2019 Service Contract Inventory Analysis and FY 2020 Service Contract Inventory Analysis Plan at: https://energy.gov/management/ downloads/service-contract-inventory. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Questions regarding the service contract inventory should be directed to Lance Nyman in the Strategic Programs Division at (240) 474–7960 or Lance.Nyman@hq.doe.gov. SUMMARY: Signing Authority This document of the Department of Energy was signed on September 20, 2022, by John R. Bashista, Director, Office of Acquisition Management, pursuant to delegated authority from the Secretary of Energy. That document with the original signature and date is maintained by DOE. For administrative E:\FR\FM\27SEN1.SGM 27SEN1

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[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 186 (Tuesday, September 27, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 58493-58494]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-20838]


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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

[Docket No.: ED-2022-SCC-0120]


Agency Information Collection Activities; Comment Request; Common 
Core of Data (CCD) School-Level Finance Survey (SLFS) 2022-2024

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 revision of a currently approved information collection.

DATES: Interested persons are invited to submit comments on or before 
November 28, 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-0120. 
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 
Director of Strategic Collections and Clearance, Governance and 
Strategy Division, U.S. Department of Education, 400 Maryland Ave. SW,

[[Page 58494]]

LBJ, Room 6W203, Washington, DC 20202-8240.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For specific questions related to 
collection activities, please contact Carrie Clarady, (202) 245-6347.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Department, 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 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: Common Core of Data (CCD) School-Level Finance 
Survey (SLFS) 2022-2024.
    OMB Control Number: 1850-0930.
    Type of Review: Revision of a currently approved information 
collection.
    Respondents/Affected Public: State, Local, and Tribal Governments.
    Total Estimated Number of Annual Responses: 306.
    Total Estimated Number of Annual Burden Hours: 4,938.
    Abstract: NCES annually publishes comprehensive data on the 
finances of public elementary/secondary schools through the Common Core 
of Data (CCD). For numerous years, these data have been released at the 
state level through the National Public Education Financial Survey 
(NPEFS) (OMB#1850-0067) and at the school district level through the 
Local Education Agency (School District) Finance Survey (F-33). 
(OMB#0607-0700). There is a significant demand for finance data at the 
school level. Policymakers, researchers, and the public have long 
voiced concerns about the equitable distribution of school funding 
within and across school districts. School-level finance data addresses 
the need for reliable and unbiased measures that can be utilized to 
compare how resources are distributed among schools within local 
districts. Education expenditure data are now available at the school 
level through the School-Level Finance Survey (SLFS).
    The School-Level Finance Survey (SLFS) data collection is conducted 
annually by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), within 
the U.S. Department of Education (ED). In November of 2018, the Office 
of Management and Budget (OMB) approved changes to the SLFS wherein 
variables have been added to make the SLFS directly analogous to the F-
33 Survey and to the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) provisions on 
reporting expenditures per-pupil at the local education agency (LEA) 
and school-level. A previous package cleared in October 2021 approved 
data collection for FY 2021, 2022, and 2023 (OMB#1850-0930 v.3). This 
request includes considerable modifications to the previous package and 
will allow NCES to conduct in 2023 through 2025 the SLFS for fiscal 
years 2022 through 2024 (corresponding to school years 2021/22 through 
2023/24) and to continue the collection of data that is analogous to 
the current ESSA expenditures per pupil provision. As an important new 
addition that is part of this request, the Department's Office of Civil 
Rights (OCR) proposes to engage NCES to assist OCR with collecting 
school level finance data as part of the Civil Rights Data Collection 
(CRDC). Pursuant to its authority under the DEOA, as well as its 
regulations, OCR has determined that the CRDC is necessary to ascertain 
or ensure compliance with the civil rights laws within its 
jurisdiction, and therefore established it as a mandatory collection.
    Parts A and B of this submission present the justification for the 
information collection and an explanation of the statistical methods 
employed. Part C describes the SLFS instrument, Appendix A provides the 
SEA communication materials that will be used to conduct the SLFS data 
collection, Appendix B provides the SLFS data collection form and 
instructions, and Appendix C provides the survey of SEA's school-level 
finances fiscal data plan.

    Dated: September 21, 2022.
Stephanie Valentine,
PRA Coordinator, Strategic Collections and Clearance, Governance and 
Strategy Division, Office of Chief Data Officer, Office of Planning, 
Evaluation and Policy Development.
[FR Doc. 2022-20838 Filed 9-26-22; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4000-01-P
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