Department of Education July 16, 2008 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

The notice sets forth the schedule and proposed agenda of a forthcoming meeting of the National Assessment Governing Board. This notice also describes the functions of the Board. Notice of this meeting is required under Section 10(a)(2) of the Federal Advisory Committee Act. This document is intended to notify members of the general public of their opportunity to attend. Individuals who will need special accommodations in order to attend the meeting (i.e., interpreting services, assistive listening devices, materials in alternative format) should notify Munira Mwalimu at 202-357-6938 or at Munira.Mwalimu@ed.gov no later than July 21, 2008. We will attempt to meet requests after this date, but cannot guarantee availability of the requested accommodation. The meeting site is accessible to individuals with disabilities.

On July 9, 2008, the Department of Education published a comment period notice in the Federal Register (Page 39286, Column 3) for the information collection, ``Application for Grants under the Student Support Services Program.'' This notice hereby corrects the Responses to 1,500 and the Burden Hours to 66,000. The IC Clearance Official, Regulatory Information Management Services, Office of Management, hereby issues a correction notice as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.

On June 12, 2008, the Department of Education published a comment period notice in the Federal Register (Page 33414, Column 3) for the information collection, ``Consolidated State Performance Report (Part I and II).'' This notice hereby corrects the Focused Question for Public Comment to read: Focused Question for Public Comment: EDFacts Data Linkages for Prepopulation of CSPR. The SY 2006-07 CSPR contained questions that were ``Initially Pre- populated from EDFacts.'' The ``Initial Prepopulation'' strategy allowed CSPR coordinators the flexibility to use either the data submitted through EDFacts or an alternative data source to respond to questions on the CSPR. It is ED's intention and desire to move as many of those questions, which were ``Initially prepopulated'' in 2006-07 to full utilization of EDFacts Submissions for 2007-08. As a result, CSPR coordinators will only be able to amend responses to those questions on the CSPR by working with their EDFacts coordinator to resubmit a file through EDFacts. The Department plans to move cautiously towards this new strategy by carefully reviewing each state's EDFacts transition agreement to ensure that all states will continue to have the capacity to submit their CSPR to the Department in a timely manner and with complete and accurate information. The Department is soliciting public comment from the states on the viability of moving any or all of the following questions, which were initially pre-populated in 2006-07 to exclusive pre-population for 2007-08 or 2008-09. Questions on the 2007-08 CSPR which were ``Initially Prepopulated from EDFacts'' in 2006-07 are listed below:

The IC Clearance Official, Regulatory Information Management Services, Office of Management, invites comments on the proposed information collection requests as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.