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outcome-related goals for programs, and 

measuring program results against those 

goals. The goal of the National AT 

Internet Site is to provide the public 

with comprehensive, up-to-date 

information on resources related to AT 

and programs supported under the AT 

Act. In order to assess the success of the 

grantee in meeting this goal, in addition 

to the annual performance report 

provided by the grantee, a biannual 

review of the site will be conducted by 

a panel of individuals with relevant 

expertise. This panel will report to the 

Rehabilitation Services Administration 

and the grantee on the—(1) 

Effectiveness of the site at linking 

visitors to appropriate resources related 

to AT; (2) comprehensiveness and 

relevance of resources and information 

available on the site; (3) availability of 

content or features unique to the site; (4) 

effectiveness at supporting and 

promoting programs supported under 

sections 4, 5, and 6 of the AT Act and 

other AT resources not funded under 

the AT Act; (5) responsiveness to the 

input of stakeholders; (6) 

responsiveness to the recommendations 

of previous biannual reviews; and (7) 

other factors relevant to determining the 

performance of the grantee. 

VII. Agency Contact 

For Further Information Contact: 

Jeremy Buzzell, U.S. Department of 

Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, SW., 

room 5025, Potomac Center Plaza, 

Washington, DC 20202–2800. 

Telephone: (202) 245–7319 or by e-mail: 

jeremy.buzzell@ed.gov. 

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 may 

obtain this document in an alternative 

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

audiotape, or computer diskette) on 

request to the program contact person 

listed in this section. 

VIII. Other Information 

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. 

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: June 16, 2005. 

John H. Hager, 

Assistant Secretary for Special Education and 

Rehabilitative Services. 

[FR Doc. 05–12592 Filed 6–23–05; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

Privacy Act of 1974; System of 

Records—Evaluation of the Impact of 

Supplemental Literacy Interventions in 

Freshman Academies 

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, the 

Department of Education (Department) 

publishes this notice of a new system of 

records entitled ‘‘Evaluation of the 

Impact of Supplemental Literacy 

Interventions in Freshman Academies’’ 

(18–13–12). This evaluation, which is 

also called the Adolescent Literacy 

Project, has been commissioned by the 

National Center for Education 

Evaluation and Regional Assistance at 

the Department’s Institute of Education 

Sciences (IES). It is being conducted by 

MDRC in collaboration with the 

American Institutes for Research (AIR). 

IES has been collaborating with the 

Department’s Office of Vocational and 

Adult Education (OVAE) to coordinate 

the study of supplemental literacy 

interventions within OVAE’s Smaller 

Learning Communities (SLC) program. 

The study will address the following 

questions: 

(1) Do specific supplemental reading 

programs that support personalized and 

intensive instruction for striving ninthgrade readers significantly improve 

reading proficiency? 

(2) What are the effects of 

supplemental reading programs on inschool outcomes such as attendance and 

course-taking behavior, and on longerterm outcomes such as student 

performance on State assessments in the 

tenth or eleventh grade? 

(3) Which students benefit most from 

participation in the programs? 

The system will contain information 

about two cohorts of approximately 

3,200 high school freshmen each in 

SLCs in eight to twelve school districts 

yet to be determined. Half of these 

students will be participants in a 

supplemental literacy program, and half 

will be in a control group. The system 

will include these students’ names, 

addresses, demographic information 

such as race/ethnicity, age, gender, and 

educational background, their results on 

literacy assessments, some of their 

school records data such as attendance, 

state test results, course performance, 

and classes taken, and their responses to 

a survey about their attitude toward 

reading and their reading and writing 

activities during the school year. The 

system will also include responses to 

survey and interview questions from 

teachers of these students, and possibly 

other school staff working with the 

literacy classes, about their backgrounds 

and the supplemental literacy 

interventions. 

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 July 25, 2005. 

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 

Government Reform, and the 

Administrator of the Office of 

Information and Regulatory Affairs, 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) on June 21, 2005. This system of 

records will become effective at the later 

date of—(1) the expiration of the 40 day 

period for OMB review on August 1, 

2005 or (2) July 25, 2005, 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. Ricky 

Takai, 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. 

Telephone: (202) 208–7083. If you 

prefer to send comments through the 

Internet, use the following address: 

comments@ed.gov. 

You must include the term 

‘‘Supplemental Literacy Interventions’’ 

in the subject line of the electronic 

message. 

During and after the comment period, 

you may inspect all comments about 

this notice in room 502D, 555 New 

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Jersey Avenue, NW., Washington, DC, 

between the hours of 8 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 

person listed under FOR FURTHER 

INFORMATION CONTACT. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. 

Ricky Takai. Telephone: (202) 208– 

7083. 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 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) 

(Privacy Act) 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 Act are contained in the Code of 

Federal Regulations (CFR) in 34 CFR 

part 5b. 

The Privacy Act applies to 

information about individuals that 

contain individually identifiable 

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 notices of systems of 

records in the Federal Register and to 

prepare reports to the OMB and 

Congress whenever the agency 

publishes a new system of records. 

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. 

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: June 21, 2005. 

Grover Whitehurst, 

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: 

18–13–12 

SYSTEM NAME: 

Evaluation of the Impact of 

Supplemental Literacy Interventions in 

Freshman Academies (The Adolescent 

Literacy Project). 

SECURITY CLASSIFICATION: 

None. 

SYSTEM LOCATION: 

(1) 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. 

(2) MDRC, 16 East 34th Street, New 

York, NY 10016. 

(3) American Institutes for Research, 

1000 Thomas Jefferson Street, NW., 

Washington, DC 20007. 

CATEGORIES OF INDIVIDUALS COVERED BY THE 

SYSTEM: 

This system contains records on 

adolescents, teachers, and project staff 

participating in the literacy 

interventions in the Adolescent Literacy 

Project. The goal of this study is to 

establish and evaluate the effects of two 

supplemental literacy programs for 

students who enter ninth grade with 

reading skills well below grade level. A 

distinctive aspect of this project is that 

the schools mounting the literacy 

programs will be ones that already 

operate Smaller Learning Communities 

(SLCs) that address the transition 

freshman students are making into high 

school, sometimes referred to as 

‘‘Freshman Academies.’’ Freshman 

Academies should provide a more 

supportive environment within which 

the supplemental literacy interventions 

can be implemented and sustained for 

this study. 

CATEGORIES OF RECORDS IN THE SYSTEM: 

This system consists of information 

about two cohorts of approximately 

3,200 high school freshmen each, one in 

the 2005–2006 school year and the other 

in the 2006–2007 school year, in SLC in 

eight to twelve school districts yet to be 

determined. Half of these students will 

be participants in supplemental literacy 

program, and half will be in a control 

group. The system will include these 

students’ names, addresses, 

demographic information such as race/ 

ethnicity, age, gender, and educational 

background, their results on literacy 

assessments, some of their school 

records data such as attendance, state 

test results, course performance, and 

classes taken, and their attitude toward 

reading and their reading and writing 

activities during the school year. The 

system will also include responses to 

survey and interview questions from 

teachers of these students, and possibly 

other school staff working with the 

literacy classes. These surveys and 

interviews will request information 

about the teachers’ backgrounds, 

professional experience, and training, as 

well as their observations and 

impressions of the supplemental 

literacy interventions. 

AUTHORITY FOR MAINTENANCE OF THE SYSTEM: 

The evaluation being conducted 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). The SLC program is 

authorized under Title V, Part D, 

Subpart 4 of the Elementary and 

Secondary Education Act of 1965 

(ESEA) (20 U.S.C. 7249), as amended by 

the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 

(Pub. L. 107–110). 

PURPOSE(S): 

The information in this system is used 

for the following purpose: To study 

promising organizational and 

instructional strategies that will be used 

in the SLC program, as authorized by 

the ESEA, as amended. In particular, 

this system is necessary to provide 

information for analyses of the 

effectiveness of specific literacy 

interventions for ninth graders that will 

be used in SLCs. 

ROUTINE USES OF RECORDS MAINTAINED IN THE 

SYSTEM, INCLUDING CATEGORIES OF USERS AND 

THE 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 

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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 

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. 

(1) Freedom of Information Act 

(FOIA) Advice Disclosure. The 

Department may disclose records to the 

U.S. Department of Justice and the 

Office of Management and Budget if the 

Department concludes that disclosure is 

desirable or necessary in determining 

whether particular records are required 

to be disclosed under the FOIA. 

(2) 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. 

(3) Research Disclosure. The 

Department may disclose records to a 

researcher if an appropriate official of 

the Department determines that the 

individual or organization to which the 

disclosure would be made is qualified to 

carry out specific research related to 

functions or purposes of this system of 

records. The official may disclose 

records from this system of records to 

that researcher solely for the purpose of 

carrying out that research related to the 

functions or purposes of this system of 

records. The researcher shall be 

required to maintain Privacy Act 

safeguards with respect to the disclosed 

records. 

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 and 

subcontractor maintain data for this 

system on computers and in hard copy. 

RETRIEVABILITY: 

Records in this system are indexed 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, MDRC, and its 

subcontractor, AIR, have established 

similar sets of procedures at their sites 

to ensure confidentiality of data. Their 

systems ensure that information 

identifying individuals is in files 

physically separated from other research 

data. They will maintain security of the 

complete set of all master data files and 

documentation. Access to individually 

identifiable data will be strictly 

controlled. At each 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 

security of electronic data will also be 

maintained. Security features that 

protect project data include passwordprotected accounts that authorize users 

to use the MDRC or AIR system 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; e-mail passwords that 

authorize the user to access mail 

services and additional security features 

that the network administrators 

establish for projects as needed. The 

contractor and subcontractor 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, Part 3, 

Items 2b and 5a. 

SYSTEM MANAGER AND ADDRESS: 

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 PROCEDURES: 

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 PROCEDURES: 

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 consists of information 

about two cohorts of approximately 

3,200 high school freshmen each in 

SLCs in eight to twelve school districts 

yet to be determined. The system will 

include information taken directly from 

the students. It will also include 

information from the students’ 

education records, such as attendance, 

State test results, course performance, 

and classes taken. The system will also 

include responses to survey and 

interview questions from teachers of 

these students, and possibly other 

school staff working with the literacy 

classes. 

EXEMPTIONS CLAIMED FOR THE SYSTEM: 

None. 

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BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Agency Information Collection 

Extension 

AGENCY: Department of Energy.
 

ACTION: Submission for Office of 


Management and Budget (OMB) review; 


comment request. 


SUMMARY: The Department of Energy 

(DOE) has submitted an information 

collection package to the OMB for 

extension under the provisions of the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. The 

package requests a three-year extension 

of OMB Control Number 1910–0100, 

entitled, Printing and Publishing 

Activities. The Department of Energy is 

required to submit an annual report to 

the Joint Committee on Printing (JCP) 

regarding its printing activities. The