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performance report that provides the 

most current performance and financial 

expenditure information as directed by 

the Secretary under 34 CFR 75.118. 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. 

Some of the funds awarded through 

this program were appropriated under 

the American Recovery and 

Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009, 

Public Law 111–5, and are subject to 

additional accountability and 

transparency reporting requirements, 

which are described in section 1512(c) 

of the ARRA. Grantees receiving funds 

provided by the ARRA must be able to 

distinguish these funds from any other 

funds they receive through this 

program. Recipients of ARRA funds will 

be required to submit quarterly reports 

on the expenditure of these funds no 

later than ten days after the end of each 

calendar quarter through a centralized 

reporting Web site administered by the 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB): http://www.federalreporting.gov. 

The information reported at this Web 

site will be available to the Department, 

the White House, OMB and the public 

on http://www.Recovery.gov. Additional 

guidance providing further detail on the 

quarterly report will be provided at a 

later time. 

4. Performance Measures: The 

objective of the TQP Grants Program is 

to increase student achievement in K–12 

schools by developing highly qualified 

teachers. Under GPRA, the following 

measures will be used by the 

Department in assessing the 

performance of this program: 

(a) Performance Measure 1: 

Graduation. The percentage of program 

completers who— 

(1) Attain initial certification/ 

licensure by passing all necessary 

certification/licensure assessments and 

attain a bachelor’s degree (prebaccalaureate teacher preparation 

program) or initial license (fifth year 

initial licensing program) within six 

years of beginning the program, or a 

master’s degree (residency program) 

within two years of beginning the 

program; or 

(2) Attain Highly Competent Early 

Childhood Educator status by earning a 

bachelor’s degree within six years of 

beginning the program or an associate’s 

degree within three years of beginning 

the program. 

(b) Performance Measure 2: 

Employment Retention. The percentage 

of beginning teachers who are retained 

in teaching in the partner high-need 

LEA or high-need ECE program three 

years after being hired by the high-need 

LEA or high-need ECE program; 

(c) Performance Measure 3: Improved 

Scores. The percentage of grantees that 

report improved scaled scores on 

assessments for initial State certification 

or licensure of teachers; 

(d) Efficiency Measure: Employment 

Retention. The cost of a successful 

outcome where success is defined as 

retention of the teacher in the partner 

high-need LEA or high-need ECE 

program three years after the teacher is 

hired by the high-need LEA or highneed ECE program; 

(e) Short-Term Performance 

Measures. Because the performance 

measures already listed would not 

provide data for a number of years, the 

Department has also established the 

following two measures that will 

provide data in a shorter timeframe— 

(1) Short-Term Performance Measure 

1: Persistence. The percentage of 

program participants, who were not 

scheduled to graduate in the previous 

reporting period, and persisted in the 

postsecondary program in the current 

reporting period; and 

(2) Short-Term Performance Measure 

2: Employment Retention. The 

percentage of beginning teachers who 

are retained in teaching in the partner 

high-need LEA or high-need ECE 

program one year after being hired by 

the LEA or high-need ECE program. 

Note: If funded, you will be asked to 

collect and report data on these measures in 

your project’s annual performance report 

(EDGAR, 34 CFR 75.590). Applicants are also 

advised to consider these measures in 

conceptualizing the design, implementation, 

and evaluation of their proposed projects 

because of their importance in the 

application review process. Collection of data 

on these measures should be a part of the 

evaluation plan, along with measures of 

progress on goals and objectives that are 

specific to your project. 

All grantees will be expected to 

submit an annual performance report 

documenting their success in addressing 

these performance measures. 

VII. Agency Contact 

For Further Information Contact: 

Teacher Quality Partnership Grants 

Program, U.S. Department of Education, 

400 Maryland Avenue, SW., room 

4W320, Washington, DC 20202. 

Telephone: (202) 260–0563 or by e-mail: 

TQPartnership@ed.gov. 

If you use a TDD, call the Federal 

Relay Service, 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. 

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

index.html. 

Dated: July 30, 2009. 

James H. Shelton, III, 

Assistant Deputy Secretary for Innovation and 

Improvement. 

[FR Doc. E9–18614 Filed 8–3–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Energy Information Administration 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Submission for OMB 

Review; Comment Request 

AGENCY: Energy Information 

Administration (EIA), Department of 

Energy (DOE). 

ACTION: Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request. 

SUMMARY: The EIA has submitted the 

Office of Radioactive Waste 

Management’s NWPA–830R Surveys 

package to the Office of Management 

and Budget (OMB) for review and a 

three-year extension under section 

3507(h)(1) of the Paperwork Reduction 

Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104–13) (44 U.S.C. 

3501 et seq.). 

DATES: Comments must be filed by 

September 3, 2009. If you anticipate that 

you will be submitting comments but 

find it difficult to do so within that 

period, you should contact the OMB 

Desk Officer for DOE listed below as 

soon as possible. 

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ADDRESSES: Send comments to OMB 

Desk Officer for DOE, Office of 

Information and Regulatory Affairs, 

Office of Management and Budget. To 

ensure receipt of the comments by the 

due date, submission by FAX (202–395– 

7285) or e-mail to 

Christine_J._Kymn@omb.eop.gov is 

recommended. The mailing address is 

726 Jackson Place, NW., Washington, 

DC 20503. The OMB DOE Desk Officer 

may be telephoned at (202) 395–4638. 

(A copy of your comments should also 

be provided to EIA’s Statistics and 

Methods Group at the address below.) 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Requests for additional information 

should be directed to Alethea Jennings. 

To ensure receipt of the comments by 

the due date, submission by FAX (202– 

586–5271) or e-mail 

(alethea.jennings@eia.doe.gov) is also 

recommended. The mailing address is 

Statistics and Methods Group (EI–70), 

Forrestal Building, U.S. Department of 

Energy, Washington, DC 20585–0670. 

Ms. Jennings may be contacted by 

telephone at (202) 586–5879. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

section contains the following 

information about the energy 

information collection submitted to 

OMB for review: (1) The collection 

numbers and title; (2) the sponsor (i.e., 

the Department of Energy component); 

(3) the current OMB docket number (if 

applicable); (4) the type of request (i.e., 

new, revision, extension, or 

reinstatement); (5) response obligation 

(i.e., mandatory, voluntary, or required 

to obtain or retain benefits); (6) a 

description of the need for and 

proposed use of the information; (7) a 

categorical description of the likely 

respondents; and (8) an estimate of the 

total annual reporting burden (i.e., the 

estimated number of likely respondents 

times the proposed frequency of 

response per year times the average 

hours per response). 

1. Form NWPA–830R, ‘‘Appendix G— 

Standard Remittance Advice for 

Payment of Fees (including Annex A 

and Annex B to Appendix G).’’ 

2. Office of Radioactive Waste 

Management (OCRWM). 

3. OMB Number 1901–0260. 

4. Three-year extension. 

5. Mandatory. 

6. Form NWPA–830R ‘‘Appendix G— 

Standard Remittance Advice for 

Payment of Fees’’, and ‘‘Annex A and 

Annex B to Appendix G—Standard 

Remittance Advice for Payment of Fees’’ 

are designed to serve as the source 

documents for entries into DOE 

accounting records to transmit data from 

Purchasers to the DOE concerning 

payment of their fees for spent nuclear 

fuel and high-level waste disposal into 

the Nuclear Waste Fund. The 

Remittance Advice (RA) must be 

submitted by Purchasers who signed the 

Standard Contract for Disposal of Spent 

Nuclear Fuel and/or High-Level 

Radioactive Waste with the DOE. 

Appendix G is an appendix to the 

Standard Contract. 

7. Business or other for-profit. 

8. 2,080 hours. 

Please refer to the supporting 

statement as well as the proposed forms 

and instructions for more information 

about the purpose, who must report, 

when to report, where to submit, the 

elements to be reported, detailed 

instructions, provisions for 

confidentiality, and uses (including 

possible nonstatistical uses) of the 

information. For instructions on 

obtaining materials, see the ‘‘FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT’’ section. 

Statutory Authority: 10 CFR 961.11, at Art. 

VIII, § (B)(3)(6) and section 3507(h)(1) of the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 

104–13) (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.). 

Issued in Washington, DC, July 28, 2009. 

Stephanie Brown, 

Director, Statistics and Methods Group, 

Energy Information Administration. 

[FR Doc. E9–18555 Filed 8–3–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. CP09–443–000] 

Columbia Gulf Transmission 

Company; Notice of Application 

July 28, 2009. 

Take notice that on July 10, 2009, 

Columbia Gulf Transmission Company 

tendered for filing an abbreviated 

application pursuant to section 7(b) of 

the Natural Gas Act, as amended, to 

abandon its obligation to provide 

transportation service through various 

facilities comprising the Project Central 

Texas Loop system. 

Any person desiring to intervene or to 

protest in any of the above proceedings 

must file in accordance with Rules 211 

and 214 of the Commission’s Rules of 

Practice and Procedure (18 CFR 385.211 

and 385.214) on or before 5 p.m. Eastern 

time on the specified comment date. It 

is not necessary to separately intervene 

again in a subdocket related to a 

compliance filing if you have previously 

intervened in the same docket. Protests 

will be considered by the Commission 

in determining the appropriate action to 

be taken, but will not serve to make 

protestants parties to the proceeding. 

Anyone filing a motion to intervene or 

protest must serve a copy of that 

document on the Applicant. In reference 

to filings initiating a new proceeding, 

interventions or protests submitted on 

or before the comment deadline need 

not be served on persons other than the 

Applicant. 

The Commission encourages 

electronic submission of protests and 

interventions in lieu of paper, using the 

FERC Online links at http:// 

www.ferc.gov. To facilitate electronic 

service, persons with Internet access 

who will eFile a document and/or be 

listed as a contact for an intervenor 

must create and validate an 

eRegistration account using the 

eRegistration link. Select the eFiling 

link to log on and submit the 

intervention or protests. 

Persons unable to file electronically 

should submit an original and 14 copies 

of the intervention or protest to the 

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 

888 First St., NE., Washington, DC 

20426. 

The filings in the above proceedings 

are accessible in the Commission’s 

eLibrary system by clicking on the 

appropriate link in the above list. They 

are also available for review in the 

Commission’s Public Reference Room in 

Washington, DC. There is an 

eSubscription link on the Web site that 

enables subscribers to receive e-mail 

notification when a document is added 

to a subscribed dockets(s). For 

assistance with any FERC Online 

service, please e-mail 

FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov. or call 

(866) 208–3676 (toll free). For TTY, call 

(202) 502–8659. 

Comment Date: 5 p.m. Eastern Time 

Monday, August 3, 2009. 

Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr., 

Deputy Secretary. 

[FR Doc. E9–18497 Filed 8–3–09; 8:45 am] 

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