Agency Information Collection Activities; Comment Request; Charter Online Management and Performance System (COMPS) CSP Credit Enhancement APR, 71343-71344 [2023-22743]

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The Designated Federal Officer will review all timely submissions with the Air University Board of Visitors’ Board Chairperson and ensure they are provided to ddrumheller on DSK120RN23PROD with NOTICES1 DATES: VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:03 Oct 13, 2023 Jkt 262001 members of the Board before the meeting that is the subject of this notice. Tommy W. Lee, Acting Air Force Federal Register Liaison Officer. [FR Doc. 2023–22716 Filed 10–13–23; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 5001–10–P DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION [Docket No.: ED–2023–SCC–0181] Agency Information Collection Activities; Comment Request; Charter Online Management and Performance System (COMPS) CSP Credit Enhancement APR Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE), Department of Education (ED). ACTION: Notice. AGENCY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995, the Department is proposing a new information collection request (ICR). SUMMARY: Interested persons are invited to submit comments on or before December 15, 2023. 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– 2023–SCC–0181. 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, the Department 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 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 Manager of the Strategic Collections and Clearance Governance and Strategy Division, U.S. Department of Education, 400 Maryland Ave. SW, LBJ, Room 6W203, Washington, DC 20202–8240. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For specific questions related to collection activities, please contact Andrew Brake, (202) 453–6136. DATES: PO 00000 Frm 00011 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 71343 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. The Department 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: Charter Online Management and Performance System (COMPS) CSP Credit Enhancement APR. OMB Control Number: 1810–NEW. Type of Review: New ICR. Respondents/Affected Public: Private Sector. Total Estimated Number of Annual Responses: 82. Total Estimated Number of Annual Burden Hours: 2,050. Abstract: This request is for a new OMB approval to collect the Annual Performance Report (APR) data from Charter School Programs (CSP) Credit Enhancement for Charter School Facilities Program (CE) grantees. The Charter School Programs was originally authorized under title V, part B, subpart 1, sections 5201 through 5211 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) of 1965, as amended by the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act of 2001. For fiscal year 2017 and thereafter, ESEA has been amended by the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), (20USC 7221–7221i), which reserves funds to improve education by supporting innovation in public education and to: (2) provide financial assistance for the planning, program design, and initial implementation of charter schools; (3) increase the number SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: E:\FR\FM\16OCN1.SGM 16OCN1 ddrumheller on DSK120RN23PROD with NOTICES1 71344 Federal Register / Vol. 88, No. 198 / Monday, October 16, 2023 / Notices of high-quality charter schools available to students across the United States; (4) evaluate the impact of charter schools on student achievement, families, and communities, and share best practices between charter schools and other public schools; (5) encourage States to provide support to charter schools for facilities financing in an amount more nearly commensurate to the amount States typically provide for traditional public schools; (6) expand opportunities for children with disabilities, English learners, and other traditionally underserved students to attend charter schools and meet the challenging State academic standards; (7) support efforts to strengthen the charter school authorizing process to improve performance management, including transparency, oversight and monitoring (including financial audits), and evaluation of such schools; and (8) support quality, accountability, and transparency in the operational performance of all authorized public chartering agencies, including State educational agencies, local educational agencies, and other authorizing entities. Specific to the CE program, grant funds are awarded to demonstrate innovative methods of helping charter schools to address the costs of acquiring, constructing, and renovating facilities by enhancing the availability of loans or bond financing and used by grantees to assist one or more charter schools to access private-sector capital to accomplish one or more of the following objectives: (1) The acquisition (by purchase, lease, donation, or otherwise) of an interest (including an interest held by a third party for the benefit of a charter schools) in improved or unimproved real property that is necessary to commence or continue the operation of a charter schools; (2) The construction of new facilities, or the renovation, repair, or alteration of existing facilities, necessary to commence or continue the operation of a charter school; (3) The predevelopment costs required to assess sites for purposes of paragraph (1) or (2) and that are necessary to commence or continue the operation of a charter school. The U.S. Department of Education (ED) is requesting authorization to collect data from CSP grantees within the CE program with new APR tool. The former APR data collection package for CE grantees was discontinued in March 2023. The CSP made revisions to the questionnaire aimed at reducing grantee burden (e.g., eliminating questions) and collecting more accurate and useful program data (e.g., identifying joint transactions with other CE grantees). To VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:03 Oct 13, 2023 Jkt 262001 further these aims, CSP is planning to collect the APR data through a webbased system used to collect APR data from other CSP program grantees. Dated: October 11, 2023. Kun Mullan, PRA Coordinator, Strategic Collections and Clearance, Governance and Strategy Division, Office of Chief Data Officer, Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development. Pursuant to HAVA and the TGDC charter, the EAC is publishing this notice of vacancy on the TGDC. This vacancy shall be filled through a joint appointment by the EAC and NIST. Camden Kelliher, Deputy General Counsel, U.S. Election Assistance Commission. [FR Doc. 2023–22750 Filed 10–13–23; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE P [FR Doc. 2023–22743 Filed 10–13–23; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4000–01–P ELECTION ASSISTANCE COMMISSION ELECTION ASSISTANCE COMMISSION Technical Guidelines Development Committee (TGDC) Notice of Vacancy U.S. Election Assistance Commission. ACTION: Notice of vacancy. AGENCY: Pursuant to the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) and the Charter of the EAC Technical Guidelines Development Committee (TGDC), the EAC is posting this notice of vacancy for an individual with technical and scientific expertise relating to voting systems and voting equipment. The vacancy shall be filled jointly by the EAC and the Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). ADDRESSES: Pursuant to the TGDC Charter, the EAC will post the notice on the EAC website: https://www.eac.gov. 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The TGDC Charter requires that notice of vacancies on the Committee for those individuals jointly appointed by EAC and NIST be published in the Federal Register as well as on the Commission’s website. PO 00000 Frm 00012 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 Technical Guidelines Development Committee (TGDC) Notice of Vacancy U.S. Election Assistance Commission. ACTION: Notice of vacancy. AGENCY: Pursuant to the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) and the Charter of the EAC Technical Guidelines Development Committee (TGDC), the EAC is posting this notice of vacancy for a Standards Board representative to the TGDC. The vacancy shall be filled jointly by the EAC and the Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). SUMMARY: Pursuant to the TGDC Charter, the EAC will post the notice on the EAC website: https://www.eac.gov. Interested Standards Board members should contact the Alternate Designated Federal Official by email, ksmith@ eac.gov. ADDRESSES: SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: TGDC Appointment Process The Technical Guidelines Development Committee (TGDC) is a non-discretionary Federal Advisory Committee established by the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (HAVA), Public Law 107–252, 116 Stat. 1666 (2002). The TGDC assists the EAC in developing the Voluntary Voting System Guidelines (VVSG). The chairperson of the TGDC is the director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The TGDC is composed of 14 other members appointed jointly by EAC and the director of NIST. HAVA mandates that the 14 other members appointed jointly by the EAC and NIST must include an equal number of members of the EAC Standards Board, members of the EAC Board of Advisors, and members of the Architectural and Transportation Barrier Compliance Board. 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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 198 (Monday, October 16, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 71343-71344]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-22743]


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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

[Docket No.: ED-2023-SCC-0181]


Agency Information Collection Activities; Comment Request; 
Charter Online Management and Performance System (COMPS) CSP Credit 
Enhancement APR

AGENCY: Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE), Department 
of Education (ED).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995, 
the Department is proposing a new information collection request (ICR).

DATES: Interested persons are invited to submit comments on or before 
December 15, 2023.

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-2023-SCC-0181. 
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, the Department 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 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 Manager of the Strategic 
Collections and Clearance Governance and Strategy Division, U.S. 
Department of Education, 400 Maryland Ave. SW, LBJ, Room 6W203, 
Washington, DC 20202-8240.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For specific questions related to 
collection activities, please contact Andrew Brake, (202) 453-6136.

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. The Department 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: Charter Online Management and Performance 
System (COMPS) CSP Credit Enhancement APR.
    OMB Control Number: 1810-NEW.
    Type of Review: New ICR.
    Respondents/Affected Public: Private Sector.
    Total Estimated Number of Annual Responses: 82.
    Total Estimated Number of Annual Burden Hours: 2,050.
    Abstract: This request is for a new OMB approval to collect the 
Annual Performance Report (APR) data from Charter School Programs (CSP) 
Credit Enhancement for Charter School Facilities Program (CE) grantees.
    The Charter School Programs was originally authorized under title 
V, part B, subpart 1, sections 5201 through 5211 of the Elementary and 
Secondary Education Act (ESEA) of 1965, as amended by the No Child Left 
Behind (NCLB) Act of 2001. For fiscal year 2017 and thereafter, ESEA 
has been amended by the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), (20USC 7221-
7221i), which reserves funds to improve education by supporting 
innovation in public education and to: (2) provide financial assistance 
for the planning, program design, and initial implementation of charter 
schools; (3) increase the number

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of high-quality charter schools available to students across the United 
States; (4) evaluate the impact of charter schools on student 
achievement, families, and communities, and share best practices 
between charter schools and other public schools; (5) encourage States 
to provide support to charter schools for facilities financing in an 
amount more nearly commensurate to the amount States typically provide 
for traditional public schools; (6) expand opportunities for children 
with disabilities, English learners, and other traditionally 
underserved students to attend charter schools and meet the challenging 
State academic standards; (7) support efforts to strengthen the charter 
school authorizing process to improve performance management, including 
transparency, oversight and monitoring (including financial audits), 
and evaluation of such schools; and (8) support quality, 
accountability, and transparency in the operational performance of all 
authorized public chartering agencies, including State educational 
agencies, local educational agencies, and other authorizing entities.
    Specific to the CE program, grant funds are awarded to demonstrate 
innovative methods of helping charter schools to address the costs of 
acquiring, constructing, and renovating facilities by enhancing the 
availability of loans or bond financing and used by grantees to assist 
one or more charter schools to access private-sector capital to 
accomplish one or more of the following objectives: (1) The acquisition 
(by purchase, lease, donation, or otherwise) of an interest (including 
an interest held by a third party for the benefit of a charter schools) 
in improved or unimproved real property that is necessary to commence 
or continue the operation of a charter schools; (2) The construction of 
new facilities, or the renovation, repair, or alteration of existing 
facilities, necessary to commence or continue the operation of a 
charter school; (3) The predevelopment costs required to assess sites 
for purposes of paragraph (1) or (2) and that are necessary to commence 
or continue the operation of a charter school.
    The U.S. Department of Education (ED) is requesting authorization 
to collect data from CSP grantees within the CE program with new APR 
tool. The former APR data collection package for CE grantees was 
discontinued in March 2023. The CSP made revisions to the questionnaire 
aimed at reducing grantee burden (e.g., eliminating questions) and 
collecting more accurate and useful program data (e.g., identifying 
joint transactions with other CE grantees). To further these aims, CSP 
is planning to collect the APR data through a web-based system used to 
collect APR data from other CSP program grantees.

    Dated: October 11, 2023.
Kun 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. 2023-22743 Filed 10-13-23; 8:45 am]
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