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VII. Agency Contact 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Cassandra Courtney, Fund for the 

Improvement of Postsecondary 

Education, U.S. Department of 

Education, 1990 K Street, NW., room 

6166, Washington, DC 20006–8544. 

Telephone: (202) 502–7506 or by e-mail: 

HEDR@ed.gov or 

Cassandra.Courtney@ed.gov. 

If you use a TDD, call the FRS, toll 

free, at 1–800–877–8339. 

VIII. Other Information 

Accessible Format: Individuals with 

disabilities can obtain this document 

and a copy of the application package in 

an accessible format (e.g. Braille, large 

print, audiotape, or computer diskette) 

on request to the program contact 

person listed under FOR FURTHER 

INFORMATION CONTACT in section VII of 

this notice. 

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 

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fedregister. 

To use PDF, you must have Adobe 

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Register. Free Internet access to the official 

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of Federal Regulations is available on GPO 

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index.html. 

Dated: January 12, 2009. 

Vickie L. Schray, 

Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Higher 

Education Programs. 

[FR Doc. E9–958 Filed 1–15–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

Privacy Act of 1974; System of 

Records—Impact Evaluation of Title I 

Supplemental Educational Services 

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 ‘‘Impact Evaluation of Title I 

Supplemental Educational Services.’’ 

The National Center for Education 

Evaluation and Regional Assistance at 

the Department’s Institute of Education 

Sciences (IES) commissioned this study 

to evaluate the effectiveness of Title I 

Supplemental Educational Services 

(SES) in improving the reading or 

mathematics achievement, or both, of 

students in Title I schools that have 

failed to make adequate yearly progress 

for three years. 

Section 1116 of the Elementary and 

Secondary Education Act of 1965, as 

amended by the No Child Left Behind 

Act of 2001 (20 U.S.C. 6316), requires 

districts with Title I schools that fail to 

make adequate yearly progress for three 

years or more to offer SES to students 

from low-income families who attend 

these schools. SES are tutoring and 

other supplemental academic 

enrichment services that are offered in 

addition to instruction provided during 

the regular school day and are provided 

by State-approved providers free of 

charge to eligible students. Parents can 

choose the specific SES provider from 

among a list approved to serve their 

district. The Department has contracted 

with Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. 

to evaluate the impact of SES on student 

achievement in up to twelve school 

districts across the country. 

The study will address the following 

questions: 

(1) What is the impact of participation 

in Title I SES on student achievement 

in reading and mathematics? 

(2) Are district characteristics and 

practices, SES provider characteristics 

and services, and student characteristics 

related to the impact on student 

achievement? 

The evaluation will target school 

districts where Title I SES are 

oversubscribed. When more students 

apply for SES than the district is able to 

serve, under statute, the district must 

give priority to the lowest-achieving 

students. The students who apply but 

do not meet the achievement level 

criteria are an unbiased comparison 

group for the students who do 

participate in SES. 

The system will contain information 

about approximately 50,000 third- to 

eighth-graders from up to twelve school 

districts. The system of records will 

include individually identifying 

information about the student 

applicants participating in the 

evaluation, including names; 

demographic information such as race, 

ethnicity, gender, age, and educational 

background; level of participation in 

SES programs; and scores on State 

reading and mathematics achievement 

tests. 

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 February 17, 2009. 

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 January 13, 2009. This system 

of records will become effective at the 

later date of—(1) the expiration of the 

40-day period for OMB review on 

February 23, 2009 or (2) February 17, 

2009, 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 502E, 

Washington, DC 20208–0001. 

Telephone: (202) 208–7085. If you 

prefer to send comments through the 

Internet, use the following address: 

comments@ed.gov. 

You must include the term ‘‘Impact 

Evaluation of Supplemental Educational 

Services’’ 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 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 
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person listed under FOR FURTHER 

INFORMATION CONTACT. 


FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. 


Audrey Pendleton. Telephone: (202) 


208–7085. If you use a 


telecommunications device for the deaf 


(TDD), you may call the Federal Relay 


Service (FRS) at 1–800–877–8339. 


Individuals with disabilities can 

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 paragraph. 

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 

intended to permit an evaluation of the 

probable effect of the proposal on the 

privacy rights of individuals. 

Electronic Access to This Document 

You may 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/index.html. 

To use PDF you must have Adobe 

Acrobat Reader, which is available free 

at this site. If you have questions about 

using PDF, call the U.S. Government 

Printing Office (GPO), toll free, at 1– 

888–293–6498; or in the Washington, 

DC, area at (202) 512–1530. 

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 on GPO 

Access at: http://www.gpoaccess.gov/nara/ 

index.html. 

Dated: January 13, 2009. 

Sue Betka, 

Acting 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: 

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SYSTEM NAME: 

Impact Evaluation of Title I 

Supplemental Educational Services. 

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 502E, 

Washington, DC 20208–0001. 

(2) Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., 

600 Alexander Park, Princeton, NJ 

08540–2393 and 955 Massachusetts 

Avenue, Suite 801, Cambridge, MA 

02139–3226. 

CATEGORIES OF INDIVIDUALS COVERED BY THE 

SYSTEM: 

This system contains records on thirdto eighth-grade students who are 

participating in an evaluation of the 

effectiveness of Title I Supplemental 

Educational Services (SES). Parents will 

apply to their school districts for their 

child to participate in SES. For students 

whose parents apply for them to 

participate in SES, the districts will 

provide to the Department’s contractor 

demographic data, data on student 

achievement, and will report on 

whether or not students were selected to 

participate in SES. SES providers will 

provide information to the Department’s 

contractor on the services provided to 

students. 

The system will contain information 

about approximately 50,000 third- to 

eighth-graders. In up to twelve school 

districts, approximately 50,000 students 

are expected to apply to participate in 

Title I SES provided by the district, 

private providers, or both. 

CATEGORIES OF RECORDS IN THE SYSTEM: 

The system of records will include 

individually identifying information 

about the student applicants 

participating in the evaluation, 

including names; demographic 

information such as race, ethnicity, 

gender, age, and educational 

background; level of participation in 

SES programs; scores on State reading 

or mathematics achievement tests, or 

both; and, for each student participating 

in SES, the name and characteristics of 

SES provider organizations such as type 

of provider (district, private for profit, 

non-profit, community-based 

organization), location (at student’s 

school or not at student’s school), 

delivery method (teacher, technology, 

distance learning), and delivery group 

size (one-on-one, small group, large 

group). 

AUTHORITY FOR MAINTENANCE OF THE SYSTEM: 

The evaluation is authorized under 

section 1501(a)(2) of the Elementary and 

Secondary Education Act of 1965, as 

amended by the No Child Left Behind 

Act of 2001 (20 U.S.C. 6491(a)(2)), as 

well as sections 171(b) and 173 of the 

Education Sciences Reform Act of 2002 

(ESRA) (20 U.S.C. 9561(b) and 9563). 

PURPOSE(S): 

The information in this system is used 

for the following purpose: To evaluate 

the effectiveness of Title I SES in 

improving the reading or mathematics 

achievement, or both, of students in 

Title I schools that have failed to make 

adequate yearly progress for three years. 

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 

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 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 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 
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those employees. Before entering into 

such a contract, the Department will 

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.) 

maintains 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 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 will establish 

similar sets of procedures at its sites to 

ensure confidentiality of data. The 

contractor’s system is required to ensure 

that information identifying individuals 

is in files physically separated from 

other research data. The contractor will 

maintain security of the complete set of 

all master data files and documentation. 

Access to individually identifying data 

will be strictly controlled. At each 

contractor site, 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 and cyber 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 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 employees who 

‘‘maintain’’ (collect, maintain, use, or 

disseminate) data in this system must 

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, Items 

4b and 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 

502E, 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 the regulations in 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 the regulations 

in 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 in 34 

CFR 5b.7, including proof of identity. 

RECORD SOURCE CATEGORIES: 

The system of records will include 

individually identifying information 

collected from school districts on thirdto eighth graders applying to participate 

in Title I SES and the SES provider 

organization for each student 

participating in SES. Data collected will 

include information about the student 

applicants participating in the 

evaluation, including names; 

demographic information such as race, 

ethnicity, gender, age, and educational 

background; level of participation in 

SES programs; scores on State reading 

or mathematics achievement tests, or 

both; and, for each student participating 

in SES, the name and characteristics of 

SES provider organizations such as type 

of provider (district, private for profit, 

non-profit, community-based 

organization), location (at student’s 

school or not at student’s school), 

delivery method (teacher, technology, 

distance learning), and delivery group 

size (one-on-one, small group, large 

group). 

EXEMPTIONS CLAIMED FOR THE SYSTEM: 

None. 

[FR Doc. E9–972 Filed 1–15–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Environmental Management SiteSpecific Advisory Board, Hanford 

AGENCY: Department of Energy. 

ACTION: Notice of open meeting. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces a 

meeting of the Environmental 

Management Site-Specific Advisory 

Board (EM SSAB), Hanford. The Federal 

Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92– 

463, 86 Stat. 770) requires that public 

notice of this meeting be announced in 

the Federal Register. 

DATES: Thursday, February 5, 2009, 9 

a.m.–5 p.m. Friday, February 6, 2009, 

8:30 a.m.–4 p.m. 


ADDRESSES: Red Lion Hotel, 1101 North 


Columbia Center Boulevard, 


Kennewick, Washington 99336, Phone: 


(509) 783–0611 or 1–800–733–5466, 


Fax: (509) 374–0391. 


FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Paula Call, Federal Coordinator, 

Department of Energy Richland 

Operations Office, 825 Jadwin Avenue, 

P.O. Box 550, A7–75, Richland, WA 

99352; Phone: (509) 376–2048; or Email: Paula_K_Call@rl.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Purpose of the Board: The purpose of 

the Board is to make recommendations 

to DOE in the areas of environmental 

restoration, waste management, and 

related activities. 

Tentative Agenda: 

• Agency Updates (Department of 

Energy Office of River Protection and 

Richland Operations Office; Washington 

State Department of Ecology; and the 

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency) 

• Committee Updates, including: 

Tank Waste Committee; River and 

Plateau Committee; Health, Safety and 

Environmental Protection Committee; 

Public Involvement Committee; and 

Budgets and Contracts Committee 

• Hanford Advisory Board Principles 

on Institutional Controls and Long-Term 

Stewardship 

• Public Involvement: Tank Closure 

and Waste Management Environmental 

Impact Statement