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with disabilities for the purchase of 

computers and other equipment that 

support teleworking for an employer or 

self-employment on a full or part-time 

basis. These grantees are required to 

report annual data on their programs to 

the Rehabilitation Services 

Administration. This information 

collection provides a standard format 

for the submission of those annual 

performance reports and a follow-up 

survey to be administered to individuals 

who receive loans. 

The proposed instrument eliminates 

an entire section of optional information 

that is not required for submission by 

the Telework grantees, further reducing 

the burden from approximately 12.5 

hours to 11 hours per state. Section C. 

Telework Optional Data Elements, 

which are not annual reporting 

requirements for the Telework grantees, 

has been proposed for removal from the 

current instrument. The information 

collected in this optional data section 

includes: 1. Types of Telework 

programs (partnership loans or 

revolving loans), 2. Interest Rates 

(lowest and highest interest rates 

established by policy), 3. Loan Amounts 

(lowest and highest loan amounts 

established by policy), 4. Repayment 

Terms (shortest and longest repayment 

terms established by policy), and Loan 

Guarantee Requirement, the percentage 

of the loans that must be repaid by the 

alternative financing program (AFP) to 

the lender in case of default as 

established by the agreement with the 

lender. Since the data reported under C. 

Telework Optional Data Elements of the 

current instrument is not required, 

grantees did not report this information 

uniformly across programs. If every 

grantee doesn’t report in this section, 

then the data can’t be reported in 

aggregate form. This optional section 

contains information about program 

features and descriptions that may or 

may not change on an annual basis. 

Since there is limited utility to the 

annual reporting of this optional 

information, the decision was made to 

further reduce the burden to all grantees 

by eliminating this section from the 

current instrument in the Management 

Information System (MIS). 

Dated: August 7, 2014. 

Tomakie Washington, 

Acting Director, Information Collection 

Clearance Division, Privacy, Information and 

Records Management Services, Office of 

Management. 

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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

[Docket No. ED–2014–ICCD–0117] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Comment Request; National 

Evaluation of the Investing in 

Innovation (i3) Program 

AGENCY: Institute of Education Sciences/ 

National Center for Education Statistics 

(IES), Department of Education (ED). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 

U.S.C. chapter 3501 et seq.), ED is 

proposing a new information collection. 

DATES: Interested persons are invited to 

submit comments on or before October 

14, 2014. 

ADDRESSES: Comments submitted in 

response to this notice should be 

submitted electronically through the 

Federal eRulemaking Portal at http://

www.regulations.gov by selecting 

Docket ID number ED–2014–ICCD–0117 

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 note that comments submitted by 

fax or email and those submitted after 

the comment period will not be 

accepted; ED will ONLY accept 

comments during the comment period 

in this mailbox when the regulations.gov 

site is not available. Written requests for 

information or comments submitted by 

postal mail or delivery should be 

addressed to the Director of the 

Information Collection Clearance 

Division, U.S. Department of Education, 

400 Maryland Avenue SW., LBJ, 

Mailstop L–OM–2–2E319, Room 2E105, 

Washington, DC 20202. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

specific questions related to collection 

activities, please contact Tracy 

Rimdzius, 202–208–7154. 

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 

Evaluation of the Investing in 

Innovation (i3) Program. 

OMB Control Number: 1850–NEW. 

Type of Review: A new information 

collection. 

Respondents/Affected Public: Private 

Sector. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Responses: 130. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Burden Hours: 1,507. 

Abstract: This submission requests 

approval to collect data in support of 

the National Evaluation of the Investing 

in Innovation (i3) Program. The i3 

Program is designed to support school 

districts and nonprofit organizations in 

expanding, developing, and evaluating 

evidence-based practices and promising 

efforts to improve outcomes for the 

nations’ students, teachers, and schools. 

Each i3 grantee is required to fund an 

independent evaluation. The National 

Evaluation of i3 (NEi3) requires data 

collection to assess the strength of the 

evidence produced under the grantees 

independent evaluations as well as 

provide a cross-site summary of the 

findings. Specifically, the data collected 

for the NEi3 will be used to support 

reviews and reports to ED that: describe 

the intervention implemented by each 

i3 grantee; assess the strength of the 

evidence produced by each i3 

evaluation; present the evidence 

produced by each i3 evaluation; identify 

effective and promising interventions; 

and, assess the results of the i3 Program. 

The NEi3 will collect data from the 

universe of all 117 i3 projects funded 

under the i3 Program through FY 2013. 

Dated: August 7, 2014. 

Stephanie Valentine, 

Acting Director, Information Collection 

Clearance Division, Privacy, Information and 

Records Management Services, Office of 

Management. 

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