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checkbox. Comments may also be sent 

to ICDocketmgr@ed.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

specific questions related to collection 

activities, please contact Darryl Davis, 

202–453–7582. 

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. 

Title of Collection: Application for 

Grants Under the Historically Black 

Colleges and Universities Master’s 

Degree Program. 

OMB Control Number: 1840–0806. 

Type of Review: Reinstatement 

without change of a previously 

approved collection. 

Respondents/Affected Public: State, 

Local, and Tribal Governments. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Responses: 18. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Burden Hours: 306. 

Abstract: The Higher Education 

Opportunity Act (HEOA) of 2008 

amended Title VII, Subpart 4 of the 

Higher Education Act of 1965 to add a 

new master’s degree program to advance 

educational opportunities for African 

Americans. The Historically Black 

Colleges and Universities Master’s 

Degree Program authorizes the 

Department of Education (the 

Department) to award grants to specified 

institutions that the Department 

determines are making a substantial 

contribution to graduate education 

opportunities for African Americans at 

the master’s level in mathematics, 

engineering, the physical or natural 

sciences, computer science, information 

technology, nursing, allied health or 

other scientific disciplines. This 

program provides grants for up to six 

years to establish or strengthen qualified 

master’s degree programs in these fields 

at eligible institutions. 

This collection is being submitted 

under the Streamlined Clearance 

Process for Discretionary Grant 

Information Collections (1894–0001). 

Therefore, the 30-day public comment 

period notice will be the only public 

comment notice published for this 

information collection request. 

Dated: January 26, 2021. 

Kate Mullan, 

PRA Coordinator, Strategic Collections and 

Clearance, Governance and Strategy Division, 

Office of Chief Data Officer, Office of 

Planning, Evaluation and Policy 

Development. 

[FR Doc. 2021–01970 Filed 1–28–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

[Docket ID ED–2020–FSA–0139] 

Privacy Act of 1974; Matching Program 

AGENCY: Department of Education. 

ACTION: Notice of a new Computer 

Matching Agreement. 

SUMMARY: This document provides 

notice of a new Computer Matching 

Agreement (CMA) between the U.S. 

Department of Education (the 

Department) and the Department of 

Defense (DoD). The current 18-month 

CMA was recertified for an additional 

12 months on February 27, 2020, and 

will automatically expire on February 

26, 2021. 

DATES: Submit your comments on the 

proposed CMA on or before March 1, 

2021. The CMA will be effective March 

1, 2021, unless comments have been 

received from interested members of the 

public requiring modification and 

republication of the notice. 

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 new CMA, 

address them to the person listed under 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT. 

Privacy Note: ED’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. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Gerard Duffey, Management and 

Program Analyst, Wanamaker Building, 

U.S. Department of Education, Federal 

Student Aid, 100 Penn Square East, 

Suite 509.B10, Philadelphia, PA 19107. 

Telephone: (215) 656–3249. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In 

accordance with the Privacy Act; OMB 

Final Guidance Interpreting the 

Provisions of Public Law 100–503, the 

Computer Matching and Privacy 

Protection Act of 1988, published in the 

Federal Register on June 19, 1989 (54 

FR 25818); and OMB Circular No. A– 

108, notice is hereby provided of the reestablishment of the matching program 

between ED and DoD. 

The Secretary of Defense must 

provide the Secretary of Education with 

information to identify the children of 

military personnel who have died as a 

result of their military service in Iraq or 

Afghanistan after September 11, 2001, to 

determine if the child is eligible for 

increased amounts of title IV, HEA 

program assistance. 

The CMA will continue for 18 months 

after the effective date of the CMA and 

may be extended for an additional 12 

months thereafter, if the conditions 

specified in sections 420R and 473(b) of 

the Higher Education Act (HEA) (20 

U.S.C. 1070h), 473(b) of the HEA (20 

U.S.C. 1087mm(b)(3)), and in 

accordance with the Privacy Act of 1974 

(5 U.S.C. 552a), have been met. 

Participating Agencies: The 

Department of Education (the 

Department) and the Department of 

Defense (DoD). 

Authority for Conducting the 

Matching Program: ED is authorized to 

participate in the matching program 

under sections 420R and 473(b) of the 


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1 ‘‘Accelerators for America’s Future’’, workshop 

report, http://science.energy.gov/∼/media/hep/pdf/ 

accelerator-rd-stewardship/Report.pdf (2009). 

HEA (20 U.S.C. 1070h and 20 U.S.C. 

1087mm(b)) and in accordance with the 

Privacy Act of 1974 (5 U.S.C. 552a). 

Purpose(s): The purpose of this 

matching program between ED and DoD 

is to identify children whose parent or 

guardian was a member of the Armed 

Forces of the United States and died as 

a result of performing military service in 

Iraq or Afghanistan after September 11, 

2001. These children (referred to as 

qualifying students) may be eligible for 

a greater amount of title IV, HEA 

program assistance. A qualifying 

student must have been age 24 or 

younger at the time of the parent’s or 

guardian’s death, or, if older than 24, 

enrolled part-time or full-time in an 

institution of higher education at the 

time of the parent’s or guardian’s death. 

Verification by this matching program 

provides an efficient and 

comprehensive method of identifying 

students whose parent or guardian was 

a member of the Armed Forces of the 

United States and died as a result of 

performing military service in Iraq or 

Afghanistan after September 11, 2001. 

Categories of Individuals: The 

individuals whose records are included 

in this matching program are 

dependents of service personnel who 

died as a result of performing their 

Armed Forces military service in Iraq or 

Afghanistan after September 11, 2001, 

whose records are located in the DoD 

Defense Manpower Data Center (DMDC) 

Database (76 FR 72391) (November 23, 

2011), the Defense Enrollment 

Eligibility Reporting System (DEERS) 

(81 FR 49210) (July 27, 2016), and all 

students who complete a Free 

Application for Federal Student Aid. 

Categories of Records: DoD uses the 

following data elements in this 

matching program: Dependent’s Name, 

Date of Birth and Social Security 

Number (SSN)—extracted from DEERS; 

and Parent or Guardian’s Date of 

Death—extracted from the DMDC Data 

Base. ED uses the SSN, date of birth, 

and the first two letters of an applicant’s 

last name to match applicant records. 

System(s) of Records: ED system of 

records: Federal Student Aid 

Application File (18–11–01) last 

published in the Federal Register on 

October 29, 2019 (84 FR 57856). Routine 

Uses 1 and 13 apply to this CMA. (See 

https://www.federalregister.gov/ 

documents/2019/10/29/2019-23581/ 

privacy-act-of-1974-system-of-records.) 

(Note: The ED Central Processing 

System [CPS] is the ED information 

system that processes data from the 

Federal Student Aid Application File.) 

DoD system of records: DMDC 01, 

Defense Manpower Data Center Data 

Base (76 FR 72391) (November 23, 

2011), and DMDC 02 DoD Defense 

Enrollment Eligibility Reporting 

Systems (DEERS) (81 FR 49210) (July 

27, 2016). 

Accessible Format: Individuals with 

disabilities can obtain this document in 

an accessible format (such as, braille, 

large print, or audiotape) by contacting 

the contact 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. 

Mark Brown, 

Chief Operating Officer Federal Student Aid. 

[FR Doc. 2021–02002 Filed 1–27–21; 4:15 pm] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Creating a Robust Accelerator Science 

& Technology Ecosystem 

AGENCY: Office of Accelerator R&D and 

Production, Office of Science, 

Department of Energy (DOE). 

ACTION: Request for information (RFI). 

SUMMARY: The Office of Accelerator R&D 

and Production, as DOE’s coordinating 

office for accelerator R&D to support the 

Office of Science research mission, is 

requesting information on the current 

state of the accelerator technology 

market, and for information about 

successful public-private-partnership 

models. 

DATES: Written comments and 

information are requested on or before 

March 15, 2021. 

ADDRESSES: Interested persons may 

submit comments by email only. 

Comments must be sent to ARDAPRFI@

science.doe.gov with the subject line 

‘‘Accelerator RFI Comments’’. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. 

Eric R. Colby, (301) 903–5475, 

Eric.Colby@science.doe.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

The Challenge: Particle Accelerators 

and closely related technologies play a 

key role in the discovery sciences, 

including Basic Energy Sciences, Fusion 

Energy Sciences, High Energy Physics, 

and Nuclear Physics. Modern discovery 

science accelerators are high technology 

instruments of remarkable complexity, 

having advanced over eight orders of 

magnitude in energy since their 

invention. Aggressive reinvention of the 

underlying technology has driven 

improvements in this science and has 

required sustained investment in 

accelerator science R&D that advances 

the methods, materials, and 

understanding of accelerator science. 

National Laboratories, academia, and 

industry each play vital, mutually 

reinforcing roles in the success of the 

accelerator-based discovery sciences. 

They provide a pipeline of scientific 

and technological advances and 

corresponding accelerator-component 

production capability, both necessary to 

sustain U.S. leadership in this area. 

With an estimated 30,000 particle 

accelerators operating worldwide, there 

is a significant and growing need 1 for a 

technically proficient industrial base 

that can provide the increasingly high 

technology components for modern 

accelerators. Reductions in federally 

funded long-term accelerator R&D over 

the past decade, coupled with marginal 

domestic markets for accelerator 

technologies have resulted in weakening 

of the domestic accelerator technology 

production capability. 

The Response: The U.S. Department 

of Energy, acting through the Office of 

Accelerator R&D and Production in the 

Office of Science, is gathering 

information on the state of the 

accelerator technology ecosystem, and 

on future investments that would be of 

mutual benefit to both DOE’s physical 

sciences research mission and to 

industry. 

For the purposes of this Request for 

Information, Accelerator Technology 

encompasses the materials, components, 

subsystems, and integrated accelerator 

systems needed for modern accelerators. 

This includes accelerator structures 

(both room temperature and 

superconducting); high power radio 

frequency sources and transmission 

components; high efficiency highvoltage pulsed-power systems; high 

precision accelerator magnets (both 

conventional and superconducting); 

high power laser systems; high 

brightness sources of electrons, protons, 


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