42882 Federal Register / Vol. 74, No. 163 / Tuesday, August 25, 2009 / Notices 

SUMMARY: The Director, Information 

Collection Clearance Division, 

Regulatory Information Management 

Services, Office of Management invites 

comments on the submission for OMB 

review as required by the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995. 

DATES: Interested persons are invited to 

submit comments on or before 

September 24, 2009. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments 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, be faxed to (202) 395–5806 or 

send e-mail to 

oira_submission@omb.eop.gov. 

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 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. 

Dated: August 19, 2009. 

Angela C. Arrington, 

Director, Information Collection Clearance 

Division, Regulatory Information 

Management Services, Office of Management. 

Office of Special Education and 

Rehabilitative Services 

Type of Review: Revision. 

Title: Report of Children Receiving 

Special Education Under part B of the 

Individuals with Disabilities Education 

Act (IDEA), as Amended. 

Frequency: Annually. 

Affected Public: State, Local, or Tribal 

Gov’t, SEAs or LEAs. 

Reporting and Recordkeeping Hour 

Burden: 

Responses: 60. 

Burden Hours: 30,084. 

Abstract: This package provides 

instructions and forms necessary for 

States to report the count of children 

with disabilities receiving special 

education and related services under 

IDEA, part B. The form satisfies 

reporting requirements and is used by 

the Office of Special Education 

Programs (OSEP) to monitor SEAs and 

for Congressional reporting. 

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 4059. 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. 

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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

National Committee on Foreign 

Medical Education and Accreditation 

Meeting 

AGENCY: Department of Education. 

What Is the Purpose of This Notice? 

The purpose of this notice is to 

announce the upcoming meeting of the 

National Committee on Foreign Medical 

Education and Accreditation 

(NCFMEA). Parts of this meeting will be 

open to the public, and the public is 

invited to attend those portions. 

When and Where Will the Meeting 

Take Place? 

The public meeting will be held on 

Monday, September 14, 2009, from 8 

a.m. until approximately 5 p.m. in the 

Barnard Auditorium, U.S. Department 

of Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, 

SW., Washington, DC 20202. Due to 

security restrictions, all attendees must 

pre-register with the Acting Committee 

Director in order to be admitted to the 

building on the day of the meeting. 

Please notify the contact person, listed 

below, prior to September 1, 2009 to 

pre-register. 

What Assistance Will Be Provided to 

Individuals With Disabilities? 

The meeting site is accessible to 

individuals with disabilities. If you will 

need an auxiliary aid or service to 

participate in the meeting, e.g., 

interpreting service, assistive listening 

device, or materials in an alternate 

format, notify the contact person listed 

in this notice at least two weeks before 

the scheduled meeting date. Although 

we will attempt to meet a request 

received after that date, we may not be 

able to make available the requested 

auxiliary aid or service because of 

insufficient time to arrange it. 

Who Is the Contact Person for the 

Meeting? 

Please contact Dr. Rachael A. Shultz, 

the Acting Executive Director for the 

NCFMEA, if you have questions about 

the meeting. You may contact her at the 

U.S. Department of Education, 1990 K 

St., NW., Room 7127, Washington, DC 

20006–8129, telephone: 202–219–7009, 

fax: 202–219–7005, e-mail: 

Rachael.Shultz@ed.gov Individuals who 

use a telecommunications device for the 

deaf (TDD) may call the Federal 

Information Relay Service at 1–800– 

877–8339. 

What Are the Functions of the 

NCFMEA? 

The NCFMEA was established by the 

Secretary of Education under Section 

102 of the Higher Education Act of 

1965, as amended. The NCFMEA’s 

responsibilities are to: 

• Upon request of a foreign country, 

evaluate the standards of accreditation 

applied to medical schools in that 

country; and 

• Determine the comparability of 

those standards to standards for 

accreditation applied to United States 

medical schools. Comparability of the 

applicable accreditation standards is an 

eligibility requirement for foreign 

medical schools to participate in the 

Federal Family Education Loan 

program, 20 U.S.C. 1071 et seq. 

What Items Will Be on the Agenda for 

Discussion at the Meeting? 

The Committee will review the 

standards of accreditation applied to 

medical schools by several foreign 


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countries to determine whether those 

standards are comparable to the 

standards of accreditation applied to 

medical schools in the United States. 

Discussions of the standards of 

accreditation will be held in sessions 

open to the public. Discussions 

resulting in specific determinations of 

comparability are closed to the public in 

order that each country may be properly 

notified of the decision. The countries 

tentatively scheduled to be discussed at 

the meeting include: Australia/New 

Zealand, Costa Rica, Hungary, Ireland, 

Mexico, Poland, Saba, Slovakia, 

Sweden, and the United Kingdom. 

Beginning September 1, 2009, you may 

call the contact person listed above to 

obtain the final listing of the countries 

whose standards will be discussed 

during this meeting. The meeting 

agenda, as well as the staff analyses 

pertaining to this meeting, will be 

posted on the Department of 

Education’s Web site at the following 

address: http://www.ed.gov/about/ 

bdscomm/list/ncfmea.html. CDs 

containing PDF files of the staff reports 

will be available at the meeting at no 

charge to the attendees and otherwise 

upon request to the contact person 

listed above. 

How May I Obtain Electronic Access to 

This Document? 

You may view this document, as well 

as all other Department of Education 

documents published in the Federal 

Register, in text or Adobe Portable 

Document Format (PDF), on the Internet 

at the following site: http://www.ed.gov/ 

legislation/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. 

Authority: 5 U.S.C. Appendix 2. 

Delegation of Authority: The Secretary 

of Education has delegated authority to 

Daniel T. Madzelan, Director, 

Forecasting and Policy Analysis for the 

Office of Postsecondary Education, to 

perform the functions of the Assistant 

Secretary for Postsecondary Education. 

Daniel T. Madzelan, 

Director, Forecasting and Policy Analysis. 

[FR Doc. E9–20396 Filed 8–24–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

ELECTION ASSISTANCE COMMISSION 

Sunshine Act Meeting Notice 

AGENCY: U.S. Election Assistance 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice of Virtual Public Forum 

for EAC Standards Board. 

DATE AND TIME: Wednesday, September 

9, 2009, 9 a.m. EDT through Friday, 

September 18, 2009, 9 p.m. EDT. 

PLACE: EAC Standards Board Virtual 

Meeting Room at http://www.eac.gov. 

Once at the main page of EAC’s Web 

site, viewers should click the link to the 

Standards Board Virtual Meeting Room. 

The virtual meeting room will open on 

Wednesday, September 9, 2009, at 9 

a.m. EDT and will close on Friday, 

September 18, 2009, at 9 p.m. EDT. The 

site will be available 24 hours per day 

during that 9-day period. 

PURPOSE: The EAC Standards Board will 

review and provide comment on five 

draft chapters of the Election 

Management Guidelines. The draft 

chapters contain best practices and 

recommendations regarding: Building 

Community Partnerships; Canvassing 

and Certifying an Election; 

Communicating with the Public; 

Conducting a Recount, and Provisional 

Ballots. 

The EAC Standards Board Virtual 

Meeting Room was established to enable 

the Standards Board to conduct 

business in an efficient manner in a 

public forum, including being able to 

review and discuss draft documents, 

when it is not feasible for an in-person 

board meeting. The Standards Board 

will not take any votes or propose any 

resolutions during the 9-day forum of 

September 9–September 18, 2009. 

Members will post comments about the 

five draft chapters of the Election 

Management Guidelines. 

This activity is open to the public. 

The public may view the proceedings of 

this special forum by visiting the EAC 

Standards Board Virtual Meeting Room 

at http://www.eac.gov at any time 

between Wednesday, September 9, 

2009, 9 a.m. EDT and Friday, September 

18, 2009, 9 p.m. EDT. The public also 

may view the five draft chapters of the 

Election Management Guidelines 

alternative, which will be posted on 

EAC’S Web site beginning September 9, 

2009. The public may file written 

statements to the EAC Standards Board 

at standardsboard@eac.gov. Data on 

EAC’s Web site is accessible to visitors 

with disabilities and meets the 

requirements of section 508 of the 

Rehabilitation Act. 

PERSON TO CONTACT FOR INFORMATION: 

Bryan Whitener, Telephone: (202) 566– 

3100. 

Alice Miller, 

Chief Operating Officer, U.S. Election 

Assistance Commission. 

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BILLING CODE 6820–KF–P 

ELECTION ASSISTANCE COMMISSION 

Sunshine Act Notice 

AGENCY: U.S. Election Assistance 

Commission. 

* * * * * 

ACTION: Notice of Virtual Public Forum 

for EAC Board of Advisors. 

DATE AND TIME: Wednesday, September 

9, 2009, 9 a.m. EDT through Friday, 

September 18, 2009, 9 p.m. EDT. 

PLACE: EAC Board of Advisors Virtual 

Meeting Room at http://www.eac.gov. 

Once at the main page of EAC’s 

website, viewers should click the link to 

the Board of Advisors Virtual Meeting 

Room. The virtual meeting room will 

open on Wednesday, September 9, 2009, 

at 9 a.m. EDT and will close on Friday, 

September 18, 2009, at 9 p.m. EDT. The 

site will be available 24 hours per day 

during that 9-day period. 

PURPOSE: The EAC Board of Advisors 

will review and provide comment on 

five draft chapters of the Election 

Management Guidelines. The draft 

chapters contain best practices and 

recommendations regarding: Building 

Community Partnerships; Canvassing 

and Certifying an Election; 

Communicating with the Public; 

Conducting a Recount, and Provisional 

Ballots. 

The EAC Board of Advisors Virtual 

Meeting Room was established to enable 

the Board of Advisors to conduct 

business in an efficient manner in a 

public forum, including being able to 

review and discuss draft documents, 

when it is not feasible for an in-person 

board meeting. The Board of Advisors 

will not take any votes or propose any 

resolutions during the 9-day forum of 

September 9–September 18, 2009. 

Members will post comments about the 

five draft chapters of the Election 

Management Guidelines. 

This activity is open to the public. 

The public may view the proceedings of 


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