Federal Register / Vol. 75, No. 50 / Tuesday, March 16, 2010 / Notices 12521 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

Notice of Proposed Information 

Collection Requests 

AGENCY: Department of Education. 

SUMMARY: The Acting Director, 

Information Collection Clearance 

Division, Regulatory Information 

Management Services, Office of 

Management, invites comments on the 

proposed information collection 

requests as required by the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995. 

DATES: Interested persons are invited to 

submit comments on or before May 17, 

2010. 

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. OMB may amend or 

waive the requirement for public 

consultation to the extent that public 

participation in the approval process 

would defeat the purpose of the 

information collection, violate State or 

Federal law, or substantially interfere 

with any agency’s ability to perform its 

statutory obligations. The Acting 

Director, Information Collection 

Clearance Division, Regulatory 

Information Management Services, 

Office of Management, publishes that 

notice containing proposed information 

collection requests prior to submission 

of these requests to OMB. Each 

proposed information collection, 

grouped by office, contains the 

following: (1) Type of review requested, 

e.g. new, revision, extension, existing or 

reinstatement; (2) Title; (3) Summary of 

the collection; (4) Description of the 

need for, and proposed use of, the 

information; (5) Respondents and 

frequency of collection; and (6) 

Reporting and/or Recordkeeping 

burden. OMB invites public comment. 

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. 

Dated: March 11, 2010. 

James Hyler, 

Acting Director, Information Collection 

Clearance Division, Regulatory Information 

Management Services, Office of Management. 

Institute of Education Sciences 

Type of Review: Reinstatement. 

Title: 2011–12 National 

Postsecondary Student Aid Study 

(NPSAS:12) Field Test. 

Frequency: Annually. 

Affected Public: Businesses or other 

for-profit; Individuals or household; 

Not-for-profit institutions. 

Reporting and Recordkeeping Hour 

Burden: 

Responses: 616. 

Burden Hours: 576. 

Abstract: NPSAS, a nationally 

representative study of how students 

and their families finance education 

beyond high school, was first 

implemented by National Center for 

Education Statistics (NCES) in 1987 and 

has been fielded every 3 to 4 years 

since. This submission is for the eighth 

cycle in the series, NPSAS:12, and 

requests reinstatement of the previously 

obtained clearance for NPSAS:08 (OMB 

No. 1850–0666 v.4). NPSAS:12 will also 

serve as the base year study for the 

Beginning Postsecondary Students 

Longitudinal Study (BPS) of first-time 

postsecondary students that will focus 

on issues of persistence, degree 

attainment, and employment outcomes. 

Following the field test study in 2010, 

NCES will submit an OMB clearance 

package for the full scale. The 

NPSAS:12 field test sample will include 

about 225 institutions (full-scale sample 

about 1,670) and about 4,500 students 

(120,000 full-scale). Institution 

contacting for the field test will begin in 

September 2010 and list collection will 

be conducted January through May 2011 

(full-scale institution contacting will 

begin in September 2011 and student 

lists will be collected January through 

June 2012). A separate package to 

request clearance for student data 

collection (interviews and institution 

record data) will be submitted in 

September 2010. The main changes 

since the last NPSAS collection in 2008 

consist of a new cohort of the Beginning 

Postsecondary Students Longitudinal 

Study (BPS) which will conduct followup studies in 2014 and 2017, and 

revised strata for institution sampling to 

reflect the recent growth in enrollment 

in for-profit 4-year institutions. 

Requests for copies of the proposed 

information collection request may be 

accessed from http://edicsweb.ed.gov, 

by selecting the ‘‘Browse Pending 

Collections’’ link and by clicking on link 

number 4238. 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 ICDocketMgr@ed.gov or faxed 

to 202–401–0920. Please specify the 

complete title of the information 

collection when making your request. 

Comments regarding burden and/or 

the collection activity requirements 

should be electronically mailed to 

ICDocketMgr@ed.gov. 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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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request 

AGENCY: Department of Education. 

ACTION: Correction notice. 

SUMMARY: On February 26, 2010, the 

Department of Education published a 

30-day comment period notice in the 

Federal Register (Page 8928, Column 3) 

seeking public comment for an 

information collection entitled, ‘‘Native 

American Career and Technical 

Education Program (NACTEP)’’. This 

notice is hereby cancelled. NACTEP 

1830–0542 is the application portion of 

the NACTEP grant. The application does 

not need extension as it is the 

performance reporting stage of the grant. 

The performance report will need its 

own OMB number and run under a full 

clearance with a 60-day/30-day public 

comment period. The application will 

be discontinued until reinstatement in 

2012. The Acting Director, Information 

Collection Clearance Division, 

Regulatory Information Management 

Services, Office of Management, hereby 

issues a correction notice as required by 

the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. 

Dated: March 11, 2010. 

James Hyler, 

Acting Director, Information Collection 

Clearance Division, Regulatory Information 

Management Services, Office of Management. 

[FR Doc. 2010–5714 Filed 3–15–10; 8:45 am] 

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