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meeting and posted to the GSA’s FACA 

Database. 

Oral Statements 

In addition to written statements, and 

time permitting, the Chairperson of the 

Advisory Panel may allow Oral 

Statements by the public to the 

Members of the Advisory Panel. Any 

person seeking to address orally the 

Advisory Panel must submit a request to 

the Designated Federal Officer no later 

than 11 a.m., EST, Wednesday, March 

10, 2010. Oral statements will be limited 

to five minutes (or less depending on 

time available). The Designated Federal 

Officer will provide timekeeping for oral 

statements and will notify the 

Chairperson when a presenter has 

reached allotted time. 

Dated: February 25, 2010. 

Mitchell S. Bryman, 

Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison 

Officer, Department of Defense. 

[FR Doc. 2010–4390 Filed 3–2–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 5001–06–P 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

Notice of Proposed Information 

Collection Requests 

AGENCY: Department of Education. 

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: Interested persons are invited to 

submit comments on or before May 3, 

2010. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 

3506 of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 

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

that the Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB) provide interested 

Federal agencies and the public an early 

opportunity to comment on information 

collection requests. 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 that 

notice containing proposed information 

collection requests prior to submission 

of these requests to OMB. 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. OMB 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 the 

respondents, including through the use 

of information technology. 

Dated: February 25, 2010. 

James Hyler, 

Acting Director, Information Collection 

Clearance Division, Regulatory Information 

Management Services, Office of Management. 

Office of Planning, Evaluation, and 

Policy Development 

Type of Review: Revision. 

Title: Annual Mandatory Collection of 

Elementary and Secondary Education 

Data through EDFacts. 

Frequency: Annually. 

Affected Public: State, Local, or Tribal 

Gov’t, SEAs or LEAs. 

Reporting and Recordkeeping Hour 

Burden: 

Responses: 7,059. 

Burden Hours: 1,113,034. 

Abstract: EDFacts is in the 

implementation phase of a multiple year 

effort to consolidate the collection of 

education information about States, 

Districts, and Schools in a way that 

improves data quality and reduces 

paperwork burden for all of the national 

education partners. To minimize the 

burden on the data providers, EDEN 

seeks the transfer of the proposed data 

as soon as it has been processed for 

State, District, and School use. These 

data will then be stored in EDFacts and 

accessed by Federal education program 

managers and analysts as needed to 

make program management decisions. 

This process will eliminate redundant 

data collections while providing for the 

timeliness of data submission and use. 

Additional Information: The 

Department of Education (ED) is 

specifically requesting the data 

providers in each the State Education 

Agency (SEA) to review Attachment D 

which ask specific questions about the 

proposed data elements. These 

questions will help ED to determine 

which of these data can be provided for 

the upcoming school year and which 

data would be available in later years 

and which data, if any, is never 

expected to be available from the SEA. 

If information for a data group is not 

available, please provide information 

beyond the fact that it is not available. 

Are there specific impediments to 

providing this data that you can 

describe? Is the definition for the data 

group unclear or ambiguous? Do the 

requested permitted values align with 

the way your state collects the data? 

This is very important information 

because the collection of these data is 

mandatory. ED also seeks to know if the 

SEA data definitions are consistent and 

compatible with the EDEN definitions 

and accurately reflect the way data is 

stored and used for education by the 

States, Districts, and Schools. The 

answers to these questions by the data 

providers will influence the timing and 

content of the final EDEN proposal for 

the collection of this elementary and 

secondary data. 

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 4232. 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 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. 2010–4359 Filed 3–2–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Agency Information Collection 

Extension 

AGENCY: U.S. Department of Energy. 

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