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these meetings, the Defense Science 

Board Task Force will: assess the 

features and capabilities VTOL/STOL 

aircraft should have in order to support 

the nation’s defense needs through at 

least the first half of the 21st century. 

In accordance with Section 10(d) of 

the Federal Advisory Committee Act, 

Pub. L. 92–463, as amended (5 U.S.C. 

App. II), it has been determined that 

these Defense Science Board Task Force 

meetings concern matters listed in 5 

U.S.C. 552b(c)(1) and that, accordingly, 

the meetings will be closed to the 

public. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: CDR 

Clifton Phillips, USN, Defense Science 

Board, 3140 Defense Pentagon, Room 

3C553, Washington, DC 20301–3140, via 

e-mail at clifton.phillips@osd.mil, or via 

phone at (703) 571–0083. 

Dated: September 26, 2006. 

C.R. Choate, 

Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison 

Officer, Department of Defense. 

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BILLING CODE 5001–06–M 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

Privacy Act of 1974; System of 

Records—Impact Evaluation of a 

School-based Violence Prevention 

Program 

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 ‘‘Impact Evaluation of a Schoolbased Violence Prevention Program,’’ 

18–13–15. The purpose of the impact 

evaluation is to determine the 

effectiveness of a violence prevention 

program comprised of two violence 

prevention interventions for middle 

schools using a rigorous research 

design. Currently, there is lack of 

rigorous research concerning schoolbased violence prevention in middle 

schools. The Department’s contractor, 

RTI International (RTI), selected the 

violence prevention interventions to be 

evaluated through an open competition 

with advisement from a panel of experts 

in the field of violence prevention. RTI 

selected the Responding in Peaceful and 

Positive Ways (RiPP) and Best Behavior 

interventions and combined the two 

approaches into a single violence 

prevention program with two 

components: (1) A curriculum-based 

model to facilitate students’ social 

competency, problem solving, and selfcontrol skills, and (2) a whole-school 

model that targets school practices and 

policies usually through classroom 

management or teaching strategies, or 

through systemic reorganization and 

modification of school management, 

disciplinary policies, and enforcement 

procedures. The RiPP intervention will 

provide the curriculum-based 

component of the program , and the Best 

Behavior intervention will provide the 

whole-school component of the 

program. 

The system will contain information 

about students, teachers, and other 

school staff members in schools that are 

randomly assigned either to implement 

the violence prevention program or not 

to implement the program. The sample 

will consist of approximately 20,000 

students and approximately 3,000 

teachers and other school staff members 

drawn from approximately 40 schools 

over 3 years. Each of the 40 schools that 

participate in the study will be 

randomly assigned either to receive the 

violence prevention program or not to 

receive the program so that 

approximately 20 schools are in each 

study condition. At each school, sixth 

graders will be surveyed in the 2006– 

2007 school year, seventh graders in the 

2007–2008 school year, and eighth 

graders in the 2008–2009 school year. 

The teacher survey will be administered 

to a random sample of 24 teachers 

(stratified by grade) at each of the 

middle schools participating in the 

study. Teachers will complete the 

survey in spring of 2007, 2008, and 

2009, with a new random sample of 

teachers selected each year. Other 

school staff members will be 

interviewed about victimization and 

their experiences implementing the 

program. 

The system of records will include 

students’ names, demographic 

information (such as date of birth and 

race/ethnicity), self-reported attitudes 

about violence and feelings of safety, 

self-reported victimization, and selfreported violent and delinquent 

behaviors. The system also will include 

information from school records such as 

records of students’ attendance, 

suspensions, expulsions, and school 

policy violations. The system also will 

include teachers’ and other school staff 

members’ self-reported victimization at 

school as well as their experiences with 

training and technical assistance related 

to their schools’ violence prevention 

efforts. 

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 described in this notice on or 

before November 1, 2006. 

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 Acting 

Administrator of the Office of 

Information and Regulatory Affairs, 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) on September 27, 2006. This 

system of records will become effective 

at the later date of: (1) The expiration of 

the 40 day period for OMB review on 

November 6, 2006 or (2) November 1, 

2006, 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 of this system 

of records 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 20208–0001. 

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 ‘‘Violence 

Prevention Impact Study’’ 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 

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 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. 

Ricky Takai. Telephone: (202) 208– 

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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 

under 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 identifiable 

information 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 new or 

altered systems of records in the Federal 

Register and to submit reports to the 

Administrator of the Office of 

Information and Regulatory Affairs, 

OMB, the Chair of the Senate Committee 

on Homeland Security and 

Governmental Affairs, and the Chair of 

the House Committee on Government 

Reform, whenever the agency publishes 

a new or altered system of records. 

Electronic Access to This Document 

You may view this document, as well 

as all other documents of this 

Department that are 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 CFR 

is available on GPO Access at: http:// 

www.gpoaccess.gov/nara/index.html. 

Dated: August 15, 2006. 

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 (Department), publishes a 

notice of a new system of records to 

read as follows: 

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SYSTEM NAME: 

Impact Evaluation of a School-based 

Violence Prevention Program. 

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 

20208–0001. 

(2) RTI International, 3040 Cornwallis 

Road, Research Triangle Park, NC 

12194. 

(3) Tanglewood Research, Inc., 7017 

Albert Pick Road, Suite D, Greensboro, 

NC 27409. 

(4) Pacific Institute for Research and 

Evaluation (PIRE), 1516 Franklin Street, 

Chapel Hill, NC 27514. 

CATEGORIES OF INDIVIDUALS COVERED BY THE 

SYSTEM: 

This system contains records on 

students, school teachers, and other 

school staff members who are 

participating in the Impact Evaluation of 

a School-based Violence Prevention 

Program. The purpose of the impact 

evaluation is to determine the 

effectiveness of a violence prevention 

program for middle schools using a 

rigorous research design. Currently, 

there is lack of rigorous research 

concerning school-based violence 

prevention in middle schools. Through 

an open competition with advisement 

from a panel of experts in the field of 

violence prevention, the Department’s 

contractor, RTI, selected two violence 

prevention interventions and combined 

them into a single program for the 

purpose of this evaluation. The program 

has the following two components: (1) 

A curriculum-based model to facilitate 

students’ social competency, problem 

solving, and self-control skills, and (2) 

a whole-school model that targets 

school practices and policies usually 

through classroom management or 

teaching strategies, or through systemic 

reorganization and modification of 

school management, disciplinary 

policies, and enforcement procedures. 

The RiPP intervention will provide the 

curriculum-based component of the 

program and the Best Behavior 

intervention will provide the wholeschool component of the program. 

The study sample consists of 

approximately 20,000 students and 

approximately 3,000 teachers and other 

school staff members drawn from 

approximately 40 middle schools over 3 

years. Participation of students, 

teachers, and other school staff members 

in the evaluation is voluntary. 

CATEGORIES OF RECORDS IN THE SYSTEM: 

The system includes students’ names, 

demographic information (such as date 

of birth and race/ethnicity), selfreported attitudes about violence and 

feelings of safety, self-reported 

victimization, and self-reported violent 

and delinquent behaviors. The system 

also will include information from 

school records such as records of 

students’ attendance, suspensions, 

expulsions, and school policy 

violations. The system also will include 

teachers’ and other staff members’ selfreported victimization at school as well 

as their experiences with training and 

technical assistance related to their 

schools’ violence prevention efforts. 

AUTHORITY FOR MAINTENANCE OF THE SYSTEM: 

The evaluation being conducted is 

authorized under sections 4111(a)(2)(A) 

and 4122(a) of the Elementary and 

Secondary Education Act of 1965, as 

amended by the No Child Left Behind 

Act of 2001 (ESEA) (20 U.S.C. 

7111(a)(2)(A) and 7132(a)), which limits 

the amount of funds available for 

program evaluation to $2,000,000 

during each fiscal year. Implementation 

of the violence prevention program 

being evaluated is authorized under 

section 4121(a)(2) of the ESEA (20 

U.S.C. 7131(a)(2)). The evaluation is 

also authorized under 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 will be 

used for the following purposes: (1) To 

support an impact evaluation of a 

violence prevention program for middle 

schools; and (2) to provide information 

for improvement of programs within the 

Department’s Office of Safe and Drugfree Schools. 

ROUTINE USES OF RECORDS MAINTAINED IN THE 

SYSTEM, INCLUDING CATEGORIES OF USERS AND 

THE PURPOSE 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 

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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 the Institute 

of Education Sciences (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 and 

subcontractors maintain data for this 

system on computers and in hard copy. 

RETRIEVABILITY: 

Records in this system are indexed by 

a number assigned to each student, each 

teacher or other school staff member 

that is cross-referenced by the 

individual’s name on a separate list. A 

list of names of the students whose 

parents have consented to their 

participation in the impact evaluation, 

as well as a list of names of participating 

teachers and other school staff members 

will be entered into a Microsoft Access 

database for purposes of tracking over 

the three years of the study. 

SAFEGUARDS: 

All physical access to the 

Department’s site, and the site of the 

Department’s contractor and 

subcontractors 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 computer system 

permits data access to Department and 

contract staff only on a ‘‘need to know’’ 

basis, and controls individual users’ 

ability to access and alter records within 

the system. 

The Department’s contractor, RTI, and 

its subcontractors, Tanglewood and 

PIRE, have established a set of 

procedures to ensure confidentiality of 

data. The systems of RTI, Tanglewood, 

and PIRE ensure that information 

identifying individuals is in files 

physically separated from other research 

data. RTI and its subcontractors will 

maintain security of the complete set of 

all master data files and documentation. 

Access to individually identifiable 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 also will be 

maintained. Security features that 

protect project data include: Passwordprotected accounts that authorize users 

to use the system of records 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 administrator 

establishes for projects as needed. The 

contractor and subcontractor 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 in Part 3 

(Research Projects and Management 

Study Records) and Part 14 (Electronic 

Records). 

SYSTEM MANAGER AND ADDRESS: 

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 20208–0001. 

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 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 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. 

Your request must meet the 

requirements of regulations in 34 CFR 

5b.7, including proof of identity. 

RECORD SOURCE CATEGORIES: 

The system includes students’ names, 

demographic information (such as date 

of birth and race/ethnicity), selfreported attitudes about violence and 

feelings of safety, self-reported 

victimization, and self-reported violent 

and delinquent behaviors. The system 

also will include information from 

school records such as records of 

students’ attendance, suspensions, 

expulsions, and school policy 

violations. The system also will include 

teachers’ and other school staff 

members’ self-reported victimization at 

school as well as their experiences with 

training and technical assistance related 

to the violence prevention program. 

EXEMPTIONS CLAIMED FOR THE SYSTEM: 

None. 

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BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

ELECTION ASSISTANCE COMMISSION 

Request for Substantive Comments on 

Procedural Manual for the Election 

Assistance Commission’s Voting 

System Testing and Certification 

Program; Proposed Information 

Collection: Request for Comments on 

Information Collection Burden; U.S. 

EAC Voting System Testing and 

Certification Program 

AGENCY: United States Election 

Assistance Commission (EAC). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The EAC has drafted a 

procedural manual for its Voting System 

Testing and Certification Program. This 

program sets administrative procedures 

for obtaining an EAC Certification for 

voting systems. Participation in the 

program is strictly voluntary. The 

program is mandated by 42 U.S.C. 

§ 15371. The purpose of this notice is 

twofold: (1) To request public comment 

on the substantive aspects of the 

program (2) to request public comment 

on the proposed collection of