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ADDRESSES: Written comments should 

be addressed to the Office of 

Information and Regulatory Affairs, 

Attention: Education Desk Officer, 

Office of Management and Budget, 725 

17th Street, NW., Room 10222, New 

Executive Office Building, Washington, 

DC 20503, be faxed to (202) 395–5806 or 

e-mailed to 

oira_submission@omb.eop.gov with a 

cc: to ICDocketMgr@ed.gov. Please note 

that written comments received in 

response to this notice will be 

considered public records. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 

3506 of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 

1995 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35) requires 

that the Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB) provide interested 

Federal agencies and the public an early 

opportunity to comment on information 

collection requests. The OMB is 

particularly interested in comments 

which: (1) Evaluate whether the 

proposed collection of information is 

necessary for the proper performance of 

the functions of the agency, including 

whether the information will have 

practical utility; (2) Evaluate the 

accuracy of the agency’s estimate of the 

burden of the proposed collection of 

information, including the validity of 

the methodology and assumptions used; 

(3) Enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and (4) Minimize the burden 

of the collection of information on those 

who are to respond, including through 

the use of appropriate automated, 

electronic, mechanical, or other 

technological collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology. 

Dated: March 31, 2011. 

Darrin A. King, 

Director, Information Collection Clearance 

Division, Information Management and 

Privacy Services, Office of Management. 

Office of Postsecondary Education 

Type of Review: Extension. 

Title of Collection: Annual Student 

Activities Report. 

OMB Control Number: 1840–0781. 

Agency Form Number(s): N/A. 

Frequency of Responses: Annually. 

Affected Public: Individuals or 

households. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Responses: 190. 

Total Estimated Annual Burden 

Hours: 570. 

Abstract: Section 703 of the Higher 

Education Act of 1965, as amended, 

authorizes the Secretary to award 

fellowships under the Jacob K. Javits 

Fellowship Program for graduate study 

in the arts, humanities, and social 

sciences. The fellowships support 

graduate students of superior ability 

selected on the basis of demonstrated 

achievement, exceptional promise and 

financial need. This information 

collection provides the U.S. Department 

of Education with information needed 

to determine if fellows have made 

substantial progress toward meeting the 

program’s objectives and allows 

program staff to monitor and evaluate 

time-to-degree completion and the 

graduation rate of Javits fellows. 

Congress has mandated, through the 

Government Performance Results Act of 

1993, that the U.S. Department of 

Education provide documentation 

regarding the progress being made by 

the program. 

Copies of the information collection 

submission for OMB review may be 

accessed from the RegInfo.gov Web site 

at http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/ 

PRAMain or from the Department’s Web 

site at http://edicsweb.ed.gov, by 

selecting the ‘‘Browse Pending 

Collections’’ link and by clicking on link 

number 4495. When you access the 

information collection, click on 

‘‘Download Attachments’’ to view. 

Written requests for information should 

be addressed to U.S. Department of 

Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, SW., 

LBJ, Washington, DC 20202–4537. 

Requests may also be electronically 

mailed to the Internet address 

ICDocketMgr@ed.gov or faxed to 202– 

401–0920. Please specify the complete 

title of the information collection and 

OMB Control Number when making 

your request. 

Individuals who use a 

telecommunications device for the deaf 

(TDD) may call the Federal Information 

Relay Service (FIRS) at 1–800–877– 

8339. 

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BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

Privacy Act of 1974; System of 

Records—Evaluation of Teacher 

Residency Programs 

AGENCY: Institute of Education Sciences, 

Department of Education. 

ACTION: Notice of a new system of 

records. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Privacy Act of 1974, as amended 

(Privacy Act), the Department of 

Education (Department) publishes this 

notice of a new system of records 

entitled ‘‘Evaluation of Teacher 

Residency Programs’’ (18–13–24). The 

National Center for Education 

Evaluation and Regional Assistance at 

the Department’s Institute of Education 

Sciences (IES) commissioned this 

evaluation. It will be conducted under 

a contract that IES awarded in February 

2010. 

The central research questions that 

the study will address are: What are the 

characteristics of Teacher Residency 

Programs (TRPs)? What are the 

characteristics of participants in TRPs? 

What is the average performance of 

novice TRP teachers as measured by 

value-added estimates benchmarked 

against novice and all teachers in the 

district? What are the retention rates of 

novice TRP teachers and their novice 

colleagues who did not go through 

TRPs? 

The system will contain information 

on approximately 255 residents and 270 

mentors from 15 teacher residency 

programs and approximately 800 

teachers and 20,000 students from 8 

districts. 

DATES: The Department seeks comment 

on the new system of records described 

in this notice, in accordance with the 

requirements of the Privacy Act. We 

must receive your comments on the 

proposed routine uses for the system of 

records referenced in this notice on or 

before May 5, 2011. 

The Department filed a report 

describing the new system of records 

covered by this notice with the Chair of 

the Senate Committee on Homeland 

Security and Governmental Affairs, the 

Chair of the House Committee on 

Oversight and Government Reform, and 

the Administrator of the Office of 

Information and Regulatory Affairs, 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) on March 31, 2011. This system 

of records will become effective at the 

later date of—(1) the expiration of the 

40-day period for OMB review on May 

10, 2011, unless OMB waves 10 days of 

the 40-day review period for compelling 

reasons shown by the Department, or (2) 

May 5, 2011, unless the system of 

records needs to be changed as a result 

of public comment or OMB review. 

ADDRESSES: Address all comments about 

the proposed routine uses to Dr. Audrey 

Pendleton, Acting Associate 

Commissioner, Evaluation Division, 

National Center for Education 

Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 

Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. 

Department of Education, 555 New 

Jersey Avenue, NW., room 502D, 

Washington, DC 20208–0001. 

Telephone: (202) 208–7078. If you 

prefer to send comments through the 

Internet, use the following address: 

comments@ed.gov. 

You must include the term 

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Programs’’ in the subject line of the 

electronic message. 

During and after the comment period, 

you may inspect all comments about 

this notice at the U.S. Department of 

Education in room 502D, 555 New 

Jersey Avenue, NW., Washington, DC, 

between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 4:30 

p.m., Eastern time, Monday through 

Friday of each week except Federal 

holidays. 

Assistance to Individuals With 

Disabilities in Reviewing the 

Rulemaking Record 

On request, we will supply an 

appropriate aid, such as a reader or 

print magnifier, to an individual with a 

disability who needs assistance to 

review the comments or other 

documents in the public rulemaking 

record for this notice. If you want to 

schedule an appointment for this type of 

aid, please contact the person listed 

under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. 

Audrey Pendleton. Telephone: (202) 

208–7078. If you use a 

telecommunications device for the deaf 

(TDD), you may call the Federal Relay 

Service (FRS), toll free, at 1–800–877– 

8339. 

Individuals with disabilities may 

obtain this document in an alternative 

format (e.g., braille, large print, 

audiotape, or computer diskette) on 

request to the contact person listed in 

this section. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Introduction 

The Privacy Act (5 U.S.C. 552a) 

requires the Department to publish in 

the Federal Register this notice of a new 

system of records maintained by the 

Department. The Department’s 

regulations implementing the Privacy 

Act are contained in part 5b of title 34 

of the Code of Federal Regulations 

(CFR). 

The Privacy Act applies to 

information about individuals that 

contains individually identifying 

information and that is retrieved by a 

unique identifier associated with each 

individual, such as a name or social 

security number. The information about 

each individual is called a ‘‘record,’’ and 

the system, whether manual or 

computer-based, is called a ‘‘system of 

records.’’ 

The Privacy Act requires each agency 

to publish a notice of a system of 

records in the Federal Register and to 

prepare and send a report to OMB 

whenever the agency publishes a new 

system of records. Each agency is also 

required to send copies of the report to 

the Chair of the Senate Committee on 

Homeland Security and Governmental 

Affairs and the Chair of the House 

Committee on Oversight and 

Government Reform. These reports are 

included to permit an evaluation of the 

probable effect of the proposal on the 

privacy rights of individuals. 

Electronic Access to This Document 

You can view this document, as well 

as all other documents of this 

Department published in the Federal 

Register, in text or Adobe Portable 

Document Format (PDF) on the Internet 

at the following site: http://www.ed.gov/ 

news/fedregister. To use PDF you must 

have Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is 

available free at this site. 

Note: The official version of this document 

is the document published in the Federal 

Register. Free Internet access to the official 

edition of the Federal Register and the Code 

of Federal Regulations is available via the 

Federal Digital System at: http:// 

www.gpo.gov/fdsys. 

Dated: March 31, 2010. 

John Q. Easton, 

Director, Institute of Education Sciences. 

For the reasons discussed in the 

preamble, the Director of the Institute of 

Education Sciences, U.S. Department of 

Education, publishes a notice of a new 

system of records to read as follows: 

18–13–24 

SYSTEM NAME: 

Evaluation of Teacher Residency 

Programs. 

SECURITY CLASSIFICATION: 

None. 

SYSTEM LOCATION: 

(1) Evaluation Division, National 

Center for Education Evaluation and 

Regional Assistance, Institute of 

Education Sciences (IES), U.S. 

Department of Education, 555 New 

Jersey Avenue, NW., room 502D, 

Washington, DC 20208–0001. 

(2) Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., 

600 Alexander Park, Princeton, NJ 

08540 (contractor). 

(3) Decision Information Resources, 

Inc., 2600 Southwest Freeway, Suite 

900, Houston, TX 77098 (subcontractor). 

CATEGORIES OF INDIVIDUALS COVERED BY THE

SYSTEM: 

This system contains records on 

approximately 255 residents and 270 

mentors from approximately 15 teacher 

residency programs and 800 teachers 

and 20,000 students from 8 districts. 

CATEGORIES OF RECORDS IN THE SYSTEM: 

The system of records will include 

personally identifying information 

about the students in the participating 

teacher classrooms, including 

demographic information such as race, 

ethnicity, gender, age, and educational 

background; information on attendance 

and disciplinary incidences; and scores 

on reading and mathematics 

achievement tests. The system of 

records will also include personally 

identifying information about the 

mentors, residents and teachers 

participating in the evaluation, 

including demographic information, 

such as race, ethnicity, gender, and 

educational background, and teaching 

experience. The system of records will 

also include employment information 

on the teachers participating in the 

evaluation. 

AUTHORITY FOR MAINTENANCE OF THE SYSTEM: 

The evaluation is authorized under 

sections 171(b) and 173 of the Education 

Sciences Reform Act of 2002 (ESRA) (20 

U.S.C. 9561(b) and 9563), and section 

202(h)(1) of the Higher Education Act, 

as amended by the Higher Education 

Opportunity Act of 2008 (HEA) (20 

U.S.C. 1022a(h)). The grant programs 

that are the subject of this evaluation are 

authorized under Part A of Title II of the 

HEA (sec. 201–204) (20 U.S.C. 1022– 

1022c). 

PURPOSE(S): 

The information contained in the 

records maintained in this system is 

used for the following purpose: 

To describe Teacher Residency 

Programs (TRPs) and summarize the 

teacher retention and student 

achievement outcomes of TRP 

participants. The study will address the 

following research questions: 

(1) What are the characteristics of 

TRPs? 

(2) What are the characteristics of 

participants in TRPs? 

(3) What is the average performance of 

novice TRP teachers as measured by 

value-added estimates benchmarked 

against novice and all teachers in the 

district? 

(4) What are the retention rates of 

novice TRP teachers and their novice 

colleagues who did not go through 

TRPs? 

ROUTINE USES OF RECORDS MAINTAINED IN THE

SYSTEM, INCLUDING CATEGORIES OF USERS AND

THE PURPOSES OF SUCH USES: 

The Department of Education 

(Department) may disclose information 

contained in a record in this system of 

records under the routine uses listed in 

this system of records without the 


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consent of the individual if the 

disclosure is compatible with the 

purposes for which the record was 

collected. These disclosures may be 

made on a case-by-case basis or, if the 

Department has complied with the 

computer matching requirements of the 

Privacy Act, under a computer matching 

agreement. Any disclosure of 

individually identifying information 

from a record in this system must also 

comply with the requirements of section 

183 of the ESRA (20 U.S.C. 9573) 

providing for confidentiality standards 

that apply to all collections, reporting, 

and publication of data by IES. 

Contract Disclosure. If the Department 

contracts with an entity for the purposes 

of performing any function that requires 

disclosure of records in this system to 

employees of the contractor, the 

Department may disclose the records to 

those employees. Before entering into 

such a contract, the Department shall 

require the contractor to maintain 

Privacy Act safeguards as required 

under 5 U.S.C. 552a(m) with respect to 

the records in the system. 

DISCLOSURE TO CONSUMER REPORTING

AGENCIES: 

Not applicable to this system notice. 

POLICIES AND PRACTICES FOR STORING, 

RETRIEVING, ACCESSING, RETAINING, AND

DISPOSING OF RECORDS IN THE SYSTEM: 

STORAGE: 

The Department maintains records on 

CD–ROM, and the contractor 

(Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.) and 

sub-contractor (Decision Information 

Resources, Inc.) maintain data for this 

system on computers and in hard copy. 

RETRIEVABILITY: 

Records in this system are indexed 

and retrieved by a number assigned to 

each individual that is cross-referenced 

by the individual’s name on a separate 

list. 

SAFEGUARDS: 

All physical access to the 

Department’s site and to the sites of the 

Department’s contractor and 

subcontractor, where this system of 

records is maintained, is controlled and 

monitored by security personnel. The 

computer system employed by the 

Department offers a high degree of 

resistance to tampering and 

circumvention. This security system 

limits data access to Department and 

contract staff on a need-to-know basis, 

and controls individual users’ ability to 

access and alter records within the 

system. The contractor and 

subcontractor will establish a similar set 

of procedures at their sites to ensure 

confidentiality of data. The contractor 

and subcontractor are required to ensure 

that information identifying individuals 

is in files physically separated from 

other research data. The contractor and 

subcontractor will maintain security of 

the complete set of all master data files 

and documentation. Access to 

individually identifying data will be 

strictly controlled. All data will be kept 

in locked file cabinets during 

nonworking hours, and work on 

hardcopy data will take place in a single 

room, except for data entry. Physical 

security of electronic data will also be 

maintained. Security features that 

protect project data include: Passwordprotected accounts that authorize users 

to use the contractor’s and 

subcontractor’s systems but to access 

only specific network directories and 

network software; user rights and 

directory and file attributes that limit 

those who can use particular directories 

and files and determine how they can 

use them; and additional security 

features that the network administrators 

will establish for projects as needed. 

The contractor’s and subcontractor’s 

employees who ‘‘maintain’’ (collect, 

maintain, use, or disseminate) data in 

this system shall comply with the 

requirements of the confidentiality 

standards in section 183 of the ESRA 

(20 U.S.C. 9573). 

RETENTION AND DISPOSAL: 

Records are maintained and disposed 

of in accordance with the Department’s 

Records Disposition Schedules (ED/ 

RDS, Part 3, Item 2b and Part 3, Item 

5a). 

SYSTEM MANAGER AND ADDRESS: 

Acting Associate Commissioner, 

Evaluation Division, National Center for 

Education Evaluation and Regional 

Assistance, Institute of Education 

Sciences, U.S. Department of Education, 

555 New Jersey Avenue, NW., room 

502D, Washington, DC 20208. 

NOTIFICATION PROCEDURE: 

If you wish to determine whether a 

record exists regarding you in the 

system of records, contact the systems 

manager. Your request must meet the 

requirements of regulations at 34 CFR 

5b.5, including proof of identity. 

RECORD ACCESS PROCEDURE: 

If you wish to gain access to your 

record in the system of records, contact 

the system manager. Your request must 

meet the requirements of regulations at 

34 CFR 5b.5, including proof of identity. 

CONTESTING RECORD PROCEDURE: 

If you wish to contest the content of 

a record regarding you in the system of 

records, contact the system manager. 

Your request must meet the 

requirements of the regulations at 34 

CFR 5b.7, including proof of identity. 

RECORD SOURCE CATEGORIES: 

This system contains records on 

residents, mentors, teachers, and 

students participating in an evaluation 

of teacher residency programs. Data will 

be obtained through student records 

maintained by the school districts, 

assessments administered to students, 

and surveys of residents, mentors, and 

teachers. 

EXEMPTIONS CLAIMED FOR THE SYSTEM: 

None. 

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BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. IC11–603–000] 

Commission Information Collection 

Activities (FERC–603); Comment 

Request; Extension 

AGENCY: Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice of proposed information 

collection and request for comments. 

SUMMARY: In compliance with the 

requirements of section 3506(c)(2)(A) of 

the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 

44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A) (2006) (Pub. L. 

104–13), the Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission (Commission or FERC) is 

soliciting public comment on the 

proposed information collection 

described below. 

DATES: Comments in consideration of 

the collection of information are due 

June 3, 2011. 

ADDRESSES: Comments may be filed 

either electronically (eFiled) or in paper 

format, and should refer to Docket No. 

IC11–603–000. Documents must be 

prepared in an acceptable filing format 

and in compliance with Commission 

submission guidelines at http:// 

www.ferc.gov/help/submissionguide.asp. eFiling instructions are 

available at: http://www.ferc.gov/docsfiling/efiling.asp. First time users must 

follow eRegister instructions at: http:// 

www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/ 

eregistration.asp, to establish a user 

name and password before eFiling. The 

Commission will send an automatic 

acknowledgement to the sender’s e-mail 

address upon receipt of eFiled 

comments. Commenters making an 


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