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risk to life safety to within the Corps’ 

tolerable risk guidelines as presented in 

Engineering Regulation 1110–2–1156. 

A Notice of Intent to prepare the Draft 

EIS was published on July 22, 2013 in 

the Federal Register. A public scoping 

meeting was conducted on September 

11, 2013 in the City of Pico Rivera, 

California. The Draft EIS is available for 

a 45-day review period pursuant to the 

NEPA. 

2. Risk Management Plans 

(Alternatives). In addition to a No 

Action Alternative, the Draft EIS 

evaluates an array of remediation 

alternatives including: (1) Raising the 

crest elevation of the dam with a 12 foot 

high parapet wall on top of the crest, 

constructing an auxiliary labyrinth 

spillway adjacent to the existing 

spillway, and a trench drain and filter 

blanket; (2) placing a 10 foot wide roller 

compacted concrete series of steps on 

the downstream slope of the Dam 

embankments with trench drain and 

filter blanket. 

3. NEPA Scope of Analysis. The Draft 

EIS evaluates the impacts of risk 

management plans on environmental 

resources and the human environment. 

Resources initially identified in the 

NEPA scope of analysis as potentially 

significant without implementation of 

mitigation measures include noise and 

vibration and recreation. 

Resources initially identified in the 

NEPA scope of analysis as potentially 

significant without implementation of 

mitigation measures include, but are not 

limited to: Water quality, noise and 

vibration, air quality, socioeconomics 

and environmental justice, land use, 

recreation, visual and esthetic resources, 

traffic and transportation, historical and 

cultural resources, vegetation and 

wildlife, and special status species. 

Public Participation: As part of the 

public involvement process, the Corps’ 

Los Angeles District anticipates the 

public meeting will be held in January 

2019. The public review meeting will 

allow participants the opportunity to 

comment on the Draft EIS. Attendance 

at the public hearing is not necessary to 

provide comments. Written comments 

may also be given to the contact listed 

under FOR FURTHER INFORMATON CONTACT

section. 

Brenda S. Bowen, 

Army Federal Register Liaison Officer. 

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BILLING CODE 3720–58–P 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

[Docket ID ED–2017–IES–0081] 

Privacy Act of 1974; System of 

Records 

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 (the Department) publishes 

this notice of a new system of records 

entitled ‘‘Text Ed: A Study of Text 

Messaging to Improve College 

Enrollment Rates among Disadvantaged 

Adults (18–13–41).’’ This system 

contains individually identifying 

information voluntarily provided by 

grantees under the Department of 

Education’s (Department’) Educational 

Opportunity Centers (EOC) program 

which were selected to participate in 

the study and adult participants who 

receive services from those grantees. 

The EOC program is one of the 

Department’s TRIO programs and 

primarily focuses on disadvantaged 

adults. The information in this system 

will be used to conduct a rigorous study 

of the effectiveness of customized text 

messages as an enhancement to EOC 

services, examining whether the 

messages lead to increased college 

enrollment and Free Application for 

Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) 

completion rates among adults receiving 

support from EOCs. 

DATES: Submit your comments on this 

new system of records notice on or 

before January 14, 2019. 

This new system of records will 

become applicable upon publication in 

the Federal Register on December 14, 

2018, unless the new system of records 

notice needs to be changed as a result 

of public comment. All proposed 

routine uses in the paragraph entitled 

‘‘ROUTINE USES OF RECORDS 

MAINTAINED IN THE SYSTEM 

INCLUDING CATEGORIES OF USERS 

AND PURPOSES OF SUCH USES’’ will 

become applicable on January 14, 2019, 

unless the new system of records notice 

needs to be changed as a result of public 

comment. The Department will publish 

any changes to the system of records or 

routine uses that result from public 

comment. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments 

through the Federal eRulemaking Portal 

or via postal mail, commercial delivery, 

or hand delivery. We will not accept 

comments submitted by fax or by email 

or those submitted after the comment 

period. To ensure that we do not receive 

duplicate copies, please submit your 

comments only once. In addition, please 

include the Docket ID at the top of your 

comments. 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to 

www.regulations.gov to submit your 

comments electronically. Information 

on using Regulations.gov, including 

instructions for accessing agency 

documents, submitting comments, and 

viewing the docket, is available on the 

site under the ‘‘Help’’ tab. 

• Postal Mail, Commercial Delivery, 

or Hand Delivery: If you mail or deliver 

your comments about this modified 

system of records, address them to: 

SORN Coordinator, Institute of 

Education Sciences, U.S. Department of 

Education, Potomac Center Plaza, 550 

12th Street SW, Room 4126, 

Washington, DC 20202. 

Privacy Note: The Department’s policy is 

to make all comments received from 

members of the public available for public 

viewing in their entirety on the Federal 

eRulemaking Portal at www.regulations.gov. 

Therefore, commenters should be careful to 

include in their comments only information 

that they wish to make publicly available. 

Assistance to Individuals with 

Disabilities in Reviewing the 

Rulemaking Record: On request, we will 

provide an appropriate accommodation 

or auxiliary aid 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 

accommodation or auxiliary aid, please 

contact the person listed under FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Teresa Cahalan, Institute of Education 

Sciences, U.S. Department of Education, 

Potomac Center Plaza, 550 12th Street 

SW, Room 4126, Washington, DC 20202, 

or by email at IES_SORN@ed.gov. 

If you use a telecommunications 

device for the deaf (TDD) or a text 

telephone (TTY), you may call the 

Federal Relay Service at 1–800–877– 

8339. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Introduction 

The information contained in the 

system will be used to conduct a study 

of the effectiveness of personalized text 

messaging in improving the college 

enrollment and FAFSA completion rates 

of disadvantaged adults. The messaging 

will be implemented as an enhancement 

to services provided by Educational 

Opportunity Centers. The information 

collected will be used to describe the 

implementation of the study’s text 


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messaging intervention and to estimate 

the impact of the intervention on study 

participants’ rates of FAFSA completion 

and college enrollment. 

Accessible Format: Individuals with 

disabilities can obtain this document in 

an accessible format (e.g., Braille, large 

print, audiotape, or compact disc) on 

request to the person listed under FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT. 

Electronic Access to This Document: 

The official version of this document is 

the document published in the Federal 

Register. You may access the official 

edition of the Federal Register and the 

Code of Federal Regulations at: 

www.govinfo.gov. At this site you can 

view this document, as well as all other 

documents of this Department 

published in the Federal Register, in 

text or Portable Document Format 

(PDF). To use PDF you must have 

Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is 

available free at the site. 

You may also access documents of the 

Department published in the Federal 

Register by using the article search 

feature at: www.federalregister.gov. 

Specifically, through the advanced 

search feature at this site, you can limit 

your search to documents published by 

the Department. 

Dated: December 11, 2018. 

Mark Schneider, 

Director, Institute of Education Sciences. 

SYSTEM NAME AND NUMBER: 

Text Ed: A Study of Text Messaging 

to Improve College Enrollment Rates 

among Disadvantaged Adults (18–13– 

41). 

SECURITY CLASSIFICATION: 

Unclassified. 

SYSTEM LOCATION: 

MDRC, 19th Floor, 16 East 34th 

Street, New York City, NY 10016–4326 

(contractor). 

Signal Vine, 811 North Royal Street, 

Alexandria, VA 22314–1715 

(subcontractor). 

SYSTEM MANAGER(S): 

Project’s contracting officer 

representative, Institute of Education 

Sciences, U.S. Department of Education, 

Potomac Center Plaza, 550 12th Street 

SW, Room 4105, Washington, DC 20202. 

AUTHORITY FOR MAINTENANCE OF THE SYSTEM: 

The study 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 title IV, 

part A, subpart 2, chapter 1 of the 

Higher Education Act of 1965, as 

amended (20 U.S.C. 1070a–11– 

1070a18). 

PURPOSE(S) OF THE SYSTEM: 

The information contained in the 

records maintained in this system will 

be used to conduct a rigorous study of 

customized text messaging to improve 

the college enrollment and Free 

Application for Federal Student Aid 

(FAFSA) completion rates of adult 

participants in Educational Opportunity 

Centers (EOCs). 

The study will address the following 

central research questions: Does 

providing personalized messages to EOC 

participants increase FAFSA 

completion rates? Does it increase 

college enrollment rates? What are 

participants’ experiences with the text 

messages (for instance, how often do 

they receive the messages? How often 

do they text back in response?)? 

Secondary research questions for the 

study are: To what extent does the 

effectiveness of the messaging vary 

across EOC grantee sites? To what 

extent does the effectiveness vary across 

participant subgroups? 

CATEGORIES OF INDIVIDUALS COVERED BY THE

SYSTEM: 

This system will contain records on 

adults participating in an impact study 

of customized text messaging to 

improve college enrollment and FAFSA 

completion rates. The system will 

contain records on approximately 6,000 

adult participants at up to 20 EOCs. 

CATEGORIES OF RECORDS IN THE SYSTEM: 

The information in the records in this 

system will include, but will not 

necessarily be limited to the following 

information about participants: Full 

name, address, telephone number, email 

address, date of birth, sex, race/ 

ethnicity, income, Social Security 

number, educational background and 

plans, whether the participant is a 

caretaker for children, parents’ 

educational background, primary 

language spoken, FAFSA completion 

status, and college enrollment status. 

Participants’ contact and background 

information will be used to send out the 

text messages and customize the content 

of the messages. Social Security 

numbers will be used, along with 

participants’ names and dates of birth, 

to extract college enrollment statuses 

and FAFSA completion statuses from 

the databases of the National Student 

Clearinghouse and the Department’s 

Federal Student Aid office (FSA), 

respectively. 

RECORD SOURCE CATEGORIES: 

Participant background data will be 

obtained through administrative records 

maintained by study EOCs and through 

a survey of study participants. College 

enrollment data will be obtained 

through the National Student 

Clearinghouse. FAFSA completion data 

will be obtained through administrative 

records maintained by FSA. 

Participants’ texting records will be 

obtained from the study’s text message 

provider, Signal Vine. 

ROUTINE USES OF RECORDS MAINTAINED IN THE

SYSTEM, INCLUDING CATEGORIES OF USERS AND

PURPOSES OF SUCH USES: 

The 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 consent of the individual if 

the disclosure is compatible with the 

purposes for which the record was 

collected. The Department may make 

these disclosures on a case-by-case basis 

or, if the Department has complied with 

the computer matching requirements of 

the Privacy Act of 1974, as amended 

(Privacy Act), under a computer 

matching agreement. Any disclosure of 

individually identifiable 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 collection, reporting, 

and publication of data by the Institute 

of Education Sciences. 

(1) Contract Disclosure. If the 

Department contracts with an entity for 

the purpose 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. As part 

of such a contract, the Department will 

require the contractor to agree to 

maintain safeguards to protect the 

security and confidentiality of the 

records disclosed from the system. 

(2) Obtaining Participants’ Academic 

Records Disclosure. In order to permit 

the Department or its contractor to 

obtain a participant’s academic records 

from the National Student 

Clearinghouse consistent with the 

purpose of the study, the Department or 

its contractor may disclose records to 

the National Student Clearinghouse. 

(3) Participant Identification 

Disclosure. In order to permit EOC staff 

to communicate via text message with 

participants assigned to receive text 

messages consistent with the purpose of 

the study, the Department may disclose 

to each participating EOC the identities 

of the Center’s adults assigned to receive 

text messages. 

(4) Research Disclosure. The 

Department may disclose information 

from this system of records to qualified 

researchers solely for the purpose of 

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compatible with the purpose(s) of this 

system of records. The researcher must 

agree to maintain safeguards to protect 

the security and confidentiality of such 

records. 

POLICIES AND PRACTICES FOR STORAGE OF

RECORDS: 

Records in this system are maintained 

in a secure, password-protected 

electronic system. 

POLICIES AND PRACTICES FOR RETRIEVAL OF

RECORDS: 

Records in this system will be 

indexed and retrieved by a unique 

number assigned to each individual that 

will be cross-referenced by the 

individual’s name on a separate list. 

POLICIES AND PRACTICES FOR RETENTION AND

DISPOSAL OF RECORDS: 

The Department will submit a 

retention and disposition schedule that 

covers the records contained in this 

system to the National Archives and 

Records Administration (NARA) for 

review. The records will not be 

destroyed until such time as NARA 

approves said schedule. 

ADMINISTRATIVE, TECHNICAL, AND PHYSICAL

SAFEGUARDS: 

Security protocols for this system of 

records meet all required security 

standards. The contractor will be 

required to ensure that information 

identifying individuals is in files 

physically separated from other research 

data and electronic files identifying 

individuals are separated from other 

electronic research data files. The 

contractor and subcontractor will 

maintain security of the complete set of 

all master data files and documentation. 

Access to individually identifiable data 

will be strictly controlled. All 

information 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 

also will be maintained. Security 

features that protect project data will 

include: Password-protected 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 must 

comply with the requirements of the 

Privacy Act and the confidentiality 

standards in section 183 of the ESRA 

(20 U.S.C. 9573). 

RECORD ACCESS PROCEDURES: 

If you wish to request access to your 

records, you must contact the system 

manager at the address listed above. 

Your request must provide necessary 

particulars of your full name, address, 

telephone number, and any other 

identifying information requested by the 

Department while processing the 

request, to distinguish between 

individuals with the same name. Your 

request must meet the requirements of 

regulations in 34 CFR 5b.5, including 

proof of identity. 

CONTESTING RECORD PROCEDURES: 

If you wish to contest the content of 

a record regarding you in the system of 

records, contact the system manager at 

the address listed above. Your request 

must meet the requirements of the 

regulations in 34 CFR 5b.7. 

NOTIFICATION PROCEDURES: 

If you wish to inquire whether a 

record exists regarding you in this 

system, you must contact the system 

manager at the address listed above. 

You must provide necessary particulars 

of your full name, address, and 

telephone number, and any other 

identifying information requested by the 

Department while processing the 

request, to distinguish between 

individuals with the same name. Your 

request must meet the requirements of 

the Department’s Privacy Act 

regulations at 34 CFR 5b.5, including 

proof of identity. 

EXEMPTIONS PROMULGATED FOR THE SYSTEM: 

None. 

HISTORY: 

None. 

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BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

Docket No. ED–2018–ICCD–0102] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission to the Office of 

Management and Budget for Review 

and Approval; Comment Request; 

Guaranty Agencies Security SelfAssessment and Attestation 

AGENCY: Federal Student Aid (FSA), 

Department of Education (ED). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, ED is 

proposing an extension of an existing 

information collection. 

DATES: Interested persons are invited to 

submit comments on or before January 

14, 2019. 

ADDRESSES: To access and review all the 

documents related to the information 

collection listed in this notice, please 

use http://www.regulations.gov by 

searching the Docket ID number ED– 

2018–ICCD–0102. Comments submitted 

in response to this notice should be 

submitted electronically through the 

Federal eRulemaking Portal at http://

www.regulations.gov by selecting the 

Docket ID number or via postal mail, 

commercial delivery, or hand delivery. 

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 the 

Information Collection Clearance 

Division, U.S. Department of Education, 

550 12th Street SW, PCP, Room 9086, 

Washington, DC 20202–0023. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

specific questions related to collection 

activities, please contact Beth 

Grebeldinger, 202–377–4018. 

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. 


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