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3. Reporting: At the end of your 

project period, you must submit a final 

performance report, including financial 

information, as directed by the 

Secretary. The Secretary may also 

require more frequent performance 

reports under 34 CFR 75.720(c). For 

specific requirements on reporting, 

please go to http://www.ed.gov/fund/ 

grant/apply/appforms/appforms.html. 

4. Performance Measures: In response 

to the Government Performance and 

Results Act of 1993 (GPRA), the 

Department developed three measures 

for evaluating the overall effectiveness 

of the Improving Literacy Through 

School Libraries program. These 

measures gauge improvement in student 

achievement and resources in the 

schools and LEAs served by the program 

by assessing: (1) The percentage of 

students in schools served by the 

Improving Literacy Through School 

Libraries program who are proficient in 

reading; (2) the number of books and 

media resources purchased per student, 

pre- and post-grant, compared to the 

national average; and (3) the difference 

in the number of purchases of school 

library materials (books and media 

resources) between schools participating 

in the Improving Literacy Through 

School Libraries program and the 

national average. The Department will 

collect data for these measures from 

grantees’ final performance reports and 

other data sources. 

VII. Agency Contact 

For Further Information Contact: Pilla 

Parker, U.S. Department of Education, 

400 Maryland Avenue, SW., room 

3E244, Washington, DC 20202–6200. 

Telephone: (202) 260–3710 or by e-mail: 

pilla.parker@ed.gov. 

If you use a TDD, call the Federal 

Relay Service (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 

following site: http://www.ed.gov/news/ 

fedregister. 

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Acrobat Reader, which is available free 

at this site. 

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of Federal Regulations is available on GPO 

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

index.html. 

Dated: February 5, 2010. 

Thelma Mele ́ndez de Santa Ana, 

Assistant Secretary for Elementary and 

Secondary Education. 

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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

National Assessment Governing 

Board; Meeting 

AGENCY: Department of Education, 

National Assessment Governing Board. 

ACTION: Notice of open meeting and 

partially closed sessions. 

SUMMARY: The notice sets forth the 

schedule and proposed agenda of a 

forthcoming meeting of the National 

Assessment Governing Board. This 

notice also describes the functions of 

the Board. Notice of this meeting is 

required under Section 10(a)(2) of the 

Federal Advisory Committee Act. This 

document is intended to notify members 

of the general public of their 

opportunity to attend. Individuals who 

will need special accommodations in 

order to attend the meeting (e.g., 

interpreting services, assistive listening 

devices, materials in alternative format) 

should notify Munira Mwalimu at 202– 

357–6938 or at 

Munira.Mwalimu@ed.gov no later than 

February 19, 2010. We will attempt to 

meet requests after this date, but cannot 

guarantee availability of the requested 

accommodation. The meeting site is 

accessible to individuals with 

disabilities. 

DATES: March 4–6, 2010. 

Times 

March 4: Committee Meetings 

Assessment Development Committee: 

Closed Session—8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. 

Ad Hoc Committee on NAEP Testing 

and Reporting on Students with 

Disabilities and English Language 

Learners: Open Session—2:00 p.m. to 

4:00 p.m. 

Executive Committee: Open Session— 

4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.; Closed Session— 

5:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. 

March 5 

Full Board: Open Session—8:30 a.m. 

to 9:30 a.m.; Closed Session—12:30 p.m. 

to 1:30 p.m.; Open Session—1:30 p.m. 

to 5:00 p.m. 

Committee Meetings 

Assessment Development Committee: 

Open Session—9:30 a.m. to 11:15 a.m.; 

Closed Session—11:15 a.m. to 12:15 

p.m. 

Committee on Standards, Design and 

Methodology: Open Session—9:30 a.m. 

to 11:30 a.m.; Closed Session 11:30 a.m. 

to 12:15 p.m. 

Reporting and Dissemination 

Committee: Open Session—9:30 a.m. to 

12:15 p.m. 

March 6 

Nominations Committee: Closed 

Session—7:30 a.m. to 8:15 a.m. 

Full Board: Closed Session—8:30 a.m. 

to 9:00 a.m.; Open Session—9:30 a.m. to 

12:00 p.m. 

Location: Park Hyatt Washington, DC, 

24th and M Street, NW., Washington, 

DC 20037. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Munira Mwalimu, Operations Officer, 

National Assessment Governing Board, 

800 North Capitol Street, NW., Suite 

825, Washington, DC, 20002–4233, 

Telephone: (202) 357–6938. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

National Assessment Governing Board 

is established under section 412 of the 

National Education Statistics Act of 

1994, as amended. 

The Board is established to formulate 

policy guidelines for the National 

Assessment of Educational Progress 

(NAEP). The Board’s responsibilities 

include selecting subject areas to be 

assessed, developing assessment 

specifications and frameworks, 

developing appropriate student 

achievement levels for each grade and 

subject tested, developing standards and 

procedures for interstate and national 

comparisons, developing guidelines for 

reporting and disseminating results, and 

releasing initial NAEP results to the 

public. 

On March 4, from 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 

p.m., the Assessment Development 

Committee will meet in closed session 

to review test items in reading 

operational blocks for grades 4 and 8. 

The Board will be provided with 

embargoed test items that cannot be 

discussed in an open meeting. 

Premature disclosure of data would 

significantly impede implementation of 

the NAEP assessments in the subjects, 

and is therefore protected by exemption 

9(B) of section 552b(c) of Title 5 U.S.C. 

On March 4, the Ad Hoc Committee 

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Students with Disabilities (SD) and 

English Language Learners (ELL) will 

meet in open session from 2:00 p.m. to 

4:00 p.m. Thereafter, the Executive 

Committee will meet in open session 

from 4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. and in 

closed session from 5:30 p.m. to 6:00 

p.m. During the closed session on 

March 4, the Executive Committee will 

receive a briefing from the National 

Center for Education Statistics (NCES) 

on options for NAEP contracts covering 

the 2010–2012 assessment years, based 

on funding for Fiscal Year 2010–2011. 

The discussion of contract options and 

costs will address the implications for 

congressionally mandated goals and 

adherence to Board policies on NAEP 

assessments. This part of the meeting 

must be conducted in closed session 

because public discussion of this 

information would disclose 

independent government cost estimates 

and contracting options, adversely 

impacting the confidentiality of the 

contracting process. Public disclosure of 

information discussed would 

significantly impede implementation of 

the NAEP contracts, and is therefore 

protected by exemption 9(B) of section 

552b(c) of Title 5 U.S.C. 

On March 5, the full Board will meet 

in open session from 8:30 a.m. to 9:15 

a.m. The Board will review and approve 

the meeting agenda and meeting 

minutes from the November 2009 Board 

meeting. This session will be followed 

by a report from the Governing Board’s 

Executive Director and an update from 

the Deputy Commissioner of Education 

Statistics on the work of the National 

Center for Education Statistics (NCES). 

Thereafter the Board will recess for 

Committee meetings from 9:30 a.m. to 

12:15 p.m. 

From 9:30 a.m. to 11:15 p.m. on 

March 5, the Assessment Development 

Committee will meet in open session, 

followed by a closed session from 11:15 

a.m. to 12:15 p.m. During the closed 

session, the Committee will receive 

briefings on NAEP assessment 

development topics related to science 

interactive computer tasks at grades 4, 8, 

and 12, reading vocabulary items at 

grades 4, 8, and 12, and the writing 

computer-based assessment at grades 8 

and 12. The Board will be provided 

with embargoed test items data that 

cannot be discussed in an open meeting 

prior to their official release. Premature 

disclosure of data would significantly 

impede implementation of the NAEP 

assessments in the subjects, and is 

therefore protected by exemption 9(B) of 

section 552b(c) of Title 5 U.S.C. 

On March 5, the Committee on 

Standards, Design and Methodology 

will meet in closed session from 11:30 

a.m. to 12:15 p.m. to receive and discuss 

results of the science achievement levels 

setting process implemented on January 

28–31, 2010. The Board will be 

provided with embargoed achievement 

level data that have not yet been 

released to the public and therefore 

cannot be discussed in an open meeting. 

Premature disclosure of data would 

significantly impede implementation of 

the NAEP assessment program, and is 

therefore protected by exemption 9(B) of 

section 552b(c) of Title 5 U.S.C. 

The Reporting and Dissemination 

Committee will meet in open session on 

March 5 from 9:30 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. 

Thereafter, the full Board will meet in 

closed session from 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 

p.m. to receive a briefing on the 2009 

NAEP Reading Report Card for Grades 4 

and 8. The Board will be provided with 

embargoed results that cannot be 

discussed in an open meeting prior to 

their official release. Premature 

disclosure of data would significantly 

impede implementation of the NAEP 

assessments in the subjects, and is 

therefore protected by exemption 9(B) of 

section 552b(c) of Title 5 U.S.C. 

Following this closed session, the full 

Board will meet in open session from 

1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. to receive a 

briefing on the NAEP evaluation on 

achievement levels and reporting NAEP 

results. From 2:45 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. the 

Board will discuss recommended Board 

actions on the following items: 

(1) Modification of NAEP Reading 

Achievement Level Descriptions. 

(2) Governing Board Policy on Testing 

and Reporting on Students with 

Disabilities and English Language 

Learners. 

(3) NAEP Technological Literacy 

Framework. 

The March 5, 2010 Board meeting is 

scheduled to conclude at 5:00 p.m. 

On March 6, the Nominations 

Committee will meet in closed session 

from 7:30 a.m. to 8:15 a.m. to discuss 

final candidates being proposed to the 

Board for appointment terms beginning 

October 1, 2010. From 8:30 a.m. to 9:00 

a.m. the full Board will meet in closed 

session to take action on the final slate 

of candidates proposed by the 

Nominations Committee for submission 

to Secretary Arne Duncan. These 

discussions pertain solely to internal 

personnel rules and practices of an 

agency and will disclose information of 

a personal nature where disclosure 

would constitute an unwarranted 

invasion of personal privacy. As such, 

the discussions are protected by 

exemptions 2 and 6 of section 552b(c) 

of Title 5 U.S.C. 

The full Board will meet in open 

session on March 6 from 9:00 a.m. to 

10:00 a.m. to receive a briefing on NAEP 

quality assurance. From 10:00 a.m. to 

noon, the Board will receive Committee 

reports and take action on Committee 

recommendations. 

The March 6, 2010 session of the 

Board meeting is scheduled to adjourn 

at 12:00 p.m. 

Detailed minutes of the meeting, 

including summaries of the activities of 

the closed sessions and related matters 

that are informative to the public and 

consistent with the policy of section 5 

U.S.C. 552b(c) will be available to the 

public within 14 days of the meeting. 

Records are kept of all Board 

proceedings and are available for public 

inspection at the U.S. Department of 

Education, National Assessment 

Governing Board, Suite #825, 800 North 

Capitol Street, NW., Washington, DC, 

from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Eastern 

Standard Time, Monday through Friday. 

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 

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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: www.gpoaccess.gov/nara/ 

index.html. 

Dated: February 16, 2010. 

Cornelia S. Orr, 

Executive Director, National Assessment 

Governing Board, U.S. Department of 

Education. 

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Energy Efficient Building Systems 

Regional Innovation Cluster Initiative— 

Joint Federal Funding Opportunity 

Announcement Information Session 

AGENCY: Department of Energy (DOE). 

ACTION: Notice of public meeting and 

webcast. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces a 

conference and webcast for potential 

applicants and other interested parties 

to learn about the Joint Federal Funding 

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