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Association of District Supervisors of 

Foreign Languages; and a survey of LRC 

Summer workshop participants. Results 

from the three surveys will inform the 

writing of a final report determining the 

impact of the LRC program. 

Requests for copies of the information 

collection submission for OMB review 

may be accessed from http:// 

edicsweb.ed.gov, by selecting the 

‘‘Browse Pending Collections’’ link and 

by clicking on link number 4172. 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 the Internet address 

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. 

[FR Doc. 2010–1198 Filed 1–21–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

Notice of Proposed Information 

Collection Requests 

AGENCY: Department of Education. 

ACTION: Notice of Proposed Information 

Collection Requests. 

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: An emergency review has been 

requested in accordance with the Act 

(44 U.S.C. Chapter 3507 (j)), since 

public harm is reasonably likely to 

result if normal clearance procedures 

are followed. Approval by the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) has 

been requested by February 5, 2010. A 

regular clearance process is also 

beginning. Interested persons are 

invited to submit comments on or before 

March 23, 2010. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments 

regarding the emergency review should 

be addressed to the Office of 

Information and Regulatory Affairs, 

Attention: Education Desk Officer, 

Office of Management and Budget; 725 

17th Street, NW., Room 10222, New 

Executive Office Building, Washington, 

DC 20503, or by e-mail to 

oira_submission@omb.eop.gov or faxed 

to (202) 395–5806. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 

3506 of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 

1995 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35) requires 

that the Director of OMB provide 

interested Federal agencies and the 

public an early opportunity to comment 

on information collection requests. The 

Office of Management and Budget 

(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 this notice 

containing proposed information 

collection requests at the beginning of 

the Departmental review of the 

information collection. 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. ED 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 respondents, including 

through the use of information 

technology. 

Dated: January 15, 2010. 

Angela C. Arrington, 

Acting Director, Information Collection 

Clearance Division, Regulatory Information 

Management Services, Office of Management. 

Office of Innovation and Improvement 

Type of Review: Emergency. 

Title: Open Innovation Web Portal. 

Abstract: The U.S. Department of 

Education’s (ED) Office of Innovation 

and Improvement (OII) has developed a 

web-based platform, the Open 

Innovation Web Portal (Portal), to 

support communication and 

collaboration among a wide range of key 

education stakeholders, including 

practitioners, funders, and the general 

public. Once this platform goes on-line, 

it will allow geographically dispersed 

but like-minded entities to discover 

each other and work together to address 

some of the most intractable challenges 

in education. 

OII plans to promote this platform as 

a tool for use with the Investing in 

Innovation grant program (i3), which 

was established as the ‘‘Innovation 

Fund’’ in the ‘‘American Recovery and 

Reinvestment Act of 2009’’ (ARRA), 

signed into law by the President on 

February 17, 2009. Since passage of 

ARRA, the Department has worked with 

all possible speed to develop the i3 

program, which will conduct three 

separate competitions. This new 

program will provide $650,000,000 in 

competitive grants to Local Education 

Agencies (LEAs), non-profit 

organizations working in collaboration 

with LEAs, or non-profit organizations 

working in collaboration with a 

consortium of schools. The Department 

must obligate funds to i3 grantees before 

the end of fiscal year 2010, September 

30, 2010. The Department requests 

emergency approval under the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA) 

of the information collection request 

(ICR) for the Portal so that prospective 

applicants to the i3 competitions may 

use the Portal to identify partners, find 

matching funding, and improve the 

quality of their applications. 

Additional Information: Part of our 

intent in implementing the i3 program 

is to identify innovative new 

approaches proposed by individuals 

and organizations that have previously 

had limited experience in obtaining 

grants in the education sector yet have 

promising evidence-based ideas for 

improving American education. These 

applicants in particular face challenges 

in identifying schools or LEAs with 

which to partner given their limited 

experience in the field. Further, 

organizations without existing 

relationships in education may find it 

difficult to secure the private sector 

matching funds required of all grantees 

under ARRA. Receiving OMB’s approval 

on an emergency basis is thus essential 

to launching the Portal and supporting 

improved student achievement through 

school improvement and reform, one of 

the primary objectives of ARRA. Failure 

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would cause substantial harm to 

precisely the applicants that the i3 

program hopes to entice and as a direct 

result would negatively impact the 

schools and students who would benefit 

most from new and improved 

approaches to education. 

Frequency: On Occasion. 

Affected Public: Business or other forprofits; Federal Government; 

Individuals or households; Not-forprofit-institutions; Private Sector; State, 

Local or Tribal Governments. 

Reporting and Recordkeeping Hour 

Burden: 

Responses: 4,850. 

Burden Hours: 63,050. 

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 4204. 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 the Internet address 

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. 

[FR Doc. 2010–1199 Filed 1–21–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

Office of Postsecondary Education; 

Overview Information; Fund for the 

Improvement of Postsecondary 

Education (FIPSE)—Special Focus 

Competition: United States (U.S.)- 

Brazil Higher Education Consortia 

Program; Notice Inviting Applications 

for New Awards for Fiscal Year (FY) 

2010. 

Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance 

(CFDA) Number: 84.116M. 

Dates: 

Applications Available: January 22, 

2010. 

Deadline for Transmittal of 

Applications: March 25, 2010. 

Deadline for Intergovernmental 

Review: May 25, 2010. 

Full Text of Announcement 

I. Funding Opportunity Description 

Purpose of Program: The purpose of 

this program is to provide grants or 

enter into cooperative agreements to 

improve postsecondary education 

opportunities by focusing on problem 

areas in postsecondary education or 

approaches to improve postsecondary 

education. 

Priorities: This competition includes 

one absolute priority and one 

invitational priority. 

Absolute Priority: This priority is from 

the notice of final priorities for this 

program, published in the Federal 

Register on December 11, 2009 (74 FR 

65764). For FY 2010 this priority is an 

absolute priority. Under 34 CFR 

75.105(c)(3) we consider only 

applications that meet this priority. 

This priority is: 

U.S.-Brazil Higher Education 

Consortia Program (84.116M). 

This priority supports the formation 

of educational consortia of U.S. and 

Brazilian institutions. To meet this 

priority, the applicant must propose a 

project that supports cooperation in the 

coordination of curricula; the exchange 

of students, if pertinent to grant 

activities; and the opening of 

educational opportunities between the 

U.S. and Brazil. In order to be eligible 

for an award under this priority, the 

applicant in the U.S. must be a U.S. 

institution and the applicant in Brazil 

must be a Brazilian institution. Brazilian 

institutions participating in any 

consortium proposal under this priority 

may apply to the Coordination of 

Improvement of Personnel of Superior 

Level (CAPES), Brazilian Ministry of 

Education, for additional funding under 

a separate but parallel Brazilian 

competition. 

Invitational Priority: For FY 2010, this 

priority is an invitational priority. 

Under 34 CFR 75.105(c)(1) we do not 

give an application that meets this 

invitational priority a competitive or 

absolute preference over other 

applications. 

This priority is: 

Projects that support exchanges 

between Brazilian universities and U.S. 

minority-serving institutions to increase 

the participation of underrepresented 

minorities in the program. 

Program Authority: 20 U.S.C. 1138– 

1138d. 

Applicable Regulations: The 

Education Department General 

Administrative Regulations (EDGAR) in 

34 CFR parts 74, 75, 77, 79, 80, 82, 84, 

85, 86, 97, 98, and 99. 

Note: The regulations in 34 CFR part 79 

apply to all applicants except federally 

recognized Indian tribes. 

Note: The regulations in 34 CFR part 86 

apply to institutions of higher education 

(IHEs) only. 

II. Award Information 

Type of Award: Discretionary grants. 

Estimated Available Funds: $490,000. 

Estimated Range of Awards: $30,000– 

$35,000 for the first year. $210,000– 

$250,000 for the four-year duration of 

the grant. 

Estimated Average Size of Awards: 

$240,000 for the four-year duration of 

the grant. 

Maximum Award: We will reject any 

application that proposes a budget 

exceeding $100,000 for a single budget 

period of 12 months. The Assistant 

Secretary for Postsecondary Education 

may change the maximum amount 

through a notice published in the 

Federal Register. 

Estimated Number of Awards: 14. 

Note: The Department is not bound by any 

estimates in this notice. 

Project Period: Up to 48 months. 

III. Eligibility Information 

1. Eligible Applicants: IHEs or 

combinations of IHEs and other public 

and private nonprofit institutions and 

agencies. 

2. Cost Sharing or Matching: This 

program does not require cost sharing or 

matching. 

IV. Application and Submission 

Information 

1. Address to Request Application 

Package: Sarah T. Beaton, Fund for the 

Improvement of Postsecondary 

Education, U.S. Department of 

Education, 1990 K Street, NW., room 

6154, Washington, DC 20006–8544. 

Telephone: (202) 502–7621. 

If you use a telecommunications 

device for the deaf (TDD), call the 

Federal Relay Service (FRS), toll free, at 

1–800–877–8339. 

Individuals with disabilities can 

obtain a copy of the application package 

in an accessible format (e.g., braille, 

large print, audiotape, or computer 

diskette) by contacting the program 

contact person listed in this section. 

2. Content and Form of Application 

Submission: Requirements concerning 

the content of an application, together 

with the forms you must submit, are in 

the application package for this 

competition. 

Page Limit: The application narrative 

(Part III of the application) is where you, 

the applicant, address the selection 

criteria that reviewers use to evaluate 


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