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person agrees to the nomination, 

acknowledges the responsibilities of 

serving on the Committee, and will 

actively participate in good faith in the 

tasks of the Committee. 

3. The Department of Commerce is 

committed to equal opportunity in the 

workplace and seeks a broad-based and 

diverse Committee membership. 

Visiting Committee on Advanced 

Technology (VCAT) 

Addresses: Please submit nominations 

to Gail Ehrlich, Executive Director, 

Visiting Committee on Advanced 

Technology, National Institute of 

Standards and Technology, 100 Bureau 

Drive, Mail Stop 1060, Gaithersburg, 

MD 20899–1060. Nominations may also 

be submitted via FAX to 301–216–0529 

or via e-mail at gail.ehrlich@nist.gov. 

Additional information regarding the 

Committee, including its charter, 

current membership list, and executive 

summary may be found on its electronic 

homepage at: http://www.nist.gov/ 

director/vcat/vcat.htm. 

For Further Information Contact: Gail 

Ehrlich, Executive Director,Visiting 

Committee on Advanced Technology, 

National Institute of Standards and 

Technology, 100 Bureau Drive, Mail 

Stop 1060, Gaithersburg, MD 20899– 

1060, telephone 301–975–2149, fax 

301–216–0529; or via e-mail at 

gail.ehrlich@nist.gov. 

Committee Information: The VCAT 

was established in accordance with 15 

U.S.C. 278 and the Federal Advisory 

Committee Act (5 U.S.C. App. 2). 

Objectives and Duties 

1. The Committee shall review and 

make recommendations regarding 

general policy for NIST, its organization, 

its budget, and its programs, within the 

framework of applicable national 

policies as set forth by the President and 

the Congress. 

2. The Committee functions solely as 

an advisory body, in accordance with 

the provisions of the Federal Advisory 

Committee Act. 

3. The Committee shall report to the 

Director of NIST. 

4. The Committee shall provide a 

written annual report, through the 

Director of NIST, to the Secretary of 

Commerce for submission to the 

Congress no later than 30 days after the 

submittal to Congress of the President’s 

annual budget request in each year. 

Such report shall deal essentially, 

though not necessarily exclusively, with 

policy issues or matters which affect the 

Institute, or with which the Committee 

in its official role as the private sector 

policy advisor of the Institute is 

concerned. Each such report shall 

identify areas of program emphasis for 

the Institute of potential importance to 

the long-term competitiveness of the 

United States industry, which could be 

used to assist the United States 

enterprises and United States industrial 

joint research and development 

ventures. Such report also shall 

comment on the programmatic planning 

document and updates thereto 

submitted to Congress under 

subsections (c) and (d) of section 23 of 

the NIST Act (15 U.S.C. 278i). The 

Committee shall submit to the Secretary 

and Congress such additional reports on 

specific policy matters as it deems 

appropriate. 

Membership 

1. The Committee is composed of 

fifteen members that provide 

representation of a cross-section of 

traditional and emerging United States 

industries. Members shall be selected 

solely on the basis of established 

records of distinguished service and 

shall be eminent in such fields as 

business, research, new product 

development, engineering, labor, 

education, management consulting, 

environment, and international 

relations. No employee of the Federal 

Government shall serve as a member of 

the Committee. 

2. The Director of the National 

Institute of Standards and Technology 

shall appoint the members of the 

Committee, and they will be selected on 

a clear, standardized basis, in 

accordance with applicable Department 

of Commerce guidance. 

Miscellaneous 

1. Members of the VCAT are not paid 

for their service, but will, upon request, 

be allowed travel expenses in 

accordance with 5 U.S.C. 5701 et seq., 

while attending meetings of the 

Committee or of its subcommittees, or 

while otherwise performing duties at 

the request of the chairperson, while 

away from their homes or a regular 

place of business. 

2. Members of the Committee shall 

serve as Special Government Employees 

and are required to file an annual 

Executive Branch Confidential Financial 

Disclosure Report. 

3. Meetings of the VCAT take place at 

the NIST headquarters in Gaithersburg, 

Maryland, and once each year at the 

NIST site in Boulder, Colorado. 

Meetings are one or two days in 

duration and are held at least twice each 

year. 

4. Committee meetings are open to the 

public. 

Nomination Information 

1. Nominations are sought from all 

fields described above. 

2. Nominees should have established 

records of distinguished service and 

shall be eminent in fields such as 

business, research, new product 

development, engineering, labor, 

education, management consulting, 

environment and international relations. 

The category (field of eminence) for 

which the candidate is qualified should 

be specified in the nomination letter. 

Nominations for a particular category 

should come from organizations or 

individuals within that category. A 

summary of the candidate’s 

qualifications should be included with 

the nomination, including (where 

applicable) current or former service on 

Federal advisory boards and Federal 

employment. In addition, each 

nomination letter should state that the 

candidate agrees to the nomination, 

acknowledges the responsibilities of 

serving on the VCAT, and will actively 

participate in good faith in the tasks of 

the VCAT. Besides participation in one 

or two-day meetings held at least twice 

each year, it is desired that members be 

able to devote the equivalent of two 

days between meetings to either 

developing or researching topics of 

potential interest, and so forth in 

furtherance of the Committee duties. 

3. The Department of Commerce is 

committed to equal opportunity in the 

workplace and seeks a broad-based and 

diverse VCAT membership. 

Dated: July 30, 2009. 

Patrick Gallagher, 

Deputy Director. 

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review as required by the Paperwork 

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DATES: Interested persons are invited to 

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Reporting and/or Recordkeeping 

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Dated: July 28, 2009. 

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Director, Information Collection Clearance 

Official, Regulatory Information Management 

Services, Office of Management. 

Institute of Education Sciences 

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Title: The School Survey on Crime 

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Affected Public: State, Local, or Tribal 

Gov’t, SEAs or LEAs. 

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Abstract: The School Survey on Crime 

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representative survey of elementary and 

secondary school principals that serve 

as the primary source of school-level 

data on crime and safety in public 

schools. SSOCS is the only recurring 

federal survey collecting detailed 

information on the incidence, 

frequency, seriousness, and nature of 

violence affecting students and school 

personnel from the school’s perspective. 

Additionally, data are collected on 

frequency and types of disciplinary 

actions taken for select offenses; 

perceptions of other disciplinary 

problems, such as bullying, verbal abuse 

and disorder in the classroom; and, 

school policies and programs 

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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

Office of Innovation and Improvement; 

Overview Information; Teacher Quality 

Partnership Grants Program 

Revised notice inviting applications 

for new awards for fiscal year (FY) 2009. 

Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance 

(CFDA) Number: 84.405A. 

Note: On May 27, 2009, we published in 

the Federal Register (74 FR 25221) a notice 

inviting applications for new FY 2009 awards 

for the Teacher Quality Partnership Program 

(Initial TQP Application Notice). Since that 

time, Public Law (Pub. L.) 111–39 was 

enacted, which made certain technical 

amendments to the Higher Education 

Opportunity Act of 2008, the original statute 

authorizing the program. This notice inviting 

applications has been updated to respond to 

statutory changes made to the TQP program 

and supersedes the Initial TQP Application 

Notice. 

Dates: 

Applications Available: August 4, 

2009. 

Deadline for Transmittal of 

Applications: First Deadline: July 23, 

2009. Second Deadline: October 6, 2009. 

Deadline for Intergovernmental 

Review: First Deadline: September 21, 

2009. Second Deadline: December 7, 

2009. 

Full Text of Announcement 

I. Funding Opportunity Description 

Purpose of Program: The purposes of 

the Teacher Quality Partnership (TQP) 

Grants Program are to: Improve student 

achievement; improve the quality of 

new and prospective teachers by 

improving the preparation of 

prospective teachers and enhancing 

professional development activities for 

new teachers; hold teacher preparation 

programs at institutions of higher 

education (IHEs) accountable for 

preparing highly qualified teachers; and 

recruit highly qualified individuals, 

including minorities and individuals 

from other occupations, into the 

teaching force. 

More specifically, the TQP Grants 

Program seeks to improve the quality of 

new teachers by creating partnerships 

among IHEs, high-need school districts 

(local educational agencies (LEAs)) their 

high-need schools, and/or high-need 

early childhood education (ECE) 

program. These partnerships would 

create model teacher preparation 

programs at the pre-baccalaureate or 

fifth-year level through the 

implementation of specific reforms of 

the IHE’s existing teacher preparation 

programs, and/or model teaching 

residency programs for individuals with 

strong academic and/or professional 

backgrounds but without teaching 

experience. The TQP Grants Program 

may also support school leadership 

programs to train superintendents, 

principals, ECE program directors, and 

other school leaders in high-need or 

rural LEAs. 

Background: 

On May 27, 2009, we published in the 

Federal Register (74 FR 25221) the 

Initial TQP Application Notice. Since 

that time, Public Law 111–39 was 

enacted, which made certain technical 

amendments to the Higher Education 

Act of 1965, as amended by the Higher 

Education Opportunity Act—the 

original statute authorizing the program. 

This revised notice inviting applications 

incorporates changes to the competition 

that are based on technical amendments 

made to the TQP program in Public Law 

111–39. 

Summary of Changes 

Substantive Changes Made to Priorities 

Based on Public Law 111–39 Technical 

Amendments 

For the convenience of applicants, we 

summarize here the changes made to the 

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