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view. Written requests for information 

should be addressed to U.S. Department 

of Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, 

SW., Potomac Center, 9th Floor, 

Washington, DC 20202–4700. Requests 

may also be electronically mailed to 

ICDocketMgr@ed.gov or faxed to 202–

245–6623. 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. E7–5720 Filed 3–27–07; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request 

AGENCY: Department of Education. 

SUMMARY: The IC Clearance Official, 

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 April 27, 

2007. 

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, 

Washington, DC 20503. Commenters are 

encouraged to submit responses 

electronically by e-mail to 

oira_submission@omb.eop.gov or via fax 

to (202) 395–6974. Commenters should 

include the following subject line in 

their response ‘‘Comment: [insert OMB 

number], [insert abbreviated collection 

name, e.g., ‘‘Upward Bound 

Evaluation’’]. Persons submitting 

comments electronically should not 

submit paper copies. 

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 IC Clearance 

Official, 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: March 23, 2007. 

Angela C. Arrington, 

IC Clearance Official, Regulatory Information 

Management Services, Office of Management. 

Institute of Education Sciences 

Type of Review: New. 

Title: Study of the Program for Infant 

Toddler Care. 

Frequency: Annually. 

Affected Public: Not-for-profit 

institutions; Individuals or household; 

Businesses or other for-profit. 

Reporting and Recordkeeping Hour 

Burden: 

Responses: 2,667. 

Burden Hours: 2,298. 

Abstract: The current OMB package 

requests clearance for data collection 

instruments to be used in the Study of 

the Program for Infant Toddler Care 

(PITC). This study is one of the rigorous 

research studies of REL West (the 

Regional Educational Laboratory—West) 

and will measure the impact of the PITC 

on child care quality and children’s 

development. The evaluation will be 

conducted by Berkeley Policy 

Associates in partnership with the 

University of Texas at Austin and SRM 

Boulder. Evaluation measures include 

baseline and follow-up questionnaires 

for parents, programs, and caregivers; 

baseline and follow-up program 

observations; and two rounds of child 

observations/interviews to measure 

children’s language, social and cognitive 

development. Baseline data collection 

will take place 2007; follow-up data 

collection will take place in 2008 and 

2009. 

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 3222. 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., Potomac Center, 9th Floor, 

Washington, DC 20202–4700. Requests 

may also be electronically mailed to 

ICDocketMgr@ed.gov or faxed to 202–

245–6623. 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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BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

Advisory Committee on Student 

Financial Assistance: Hearing 

AGENCY: Advisory Committee on 

Student Financial Assistance, 

Education. 

ACTION: Notice of Upcoming Hearing. 

SUMMARY: This notice sets forth the 

schedule and proposed agenda of a 

forthcoming hearing of the Advisory 

Committee on Student Financial 

Assistance (The Advisory Committee). 

Individuals who will need 

accommodations for a disability in order 

to attend the hearing (i.e., interpreting 

services, assistive listening devices, 

and/or materials in alternative format) 

should notify the Advisory Committee 

no later than Thursday, April 5, 2007, 

by contacting Ms. Hope Gray at (202) 

219–2099 or via e-mail at 

Hope.Gray@ed.gov. We will attempt to 

meet requests after this date, but cannot 

guarantee availability of the requested 

accommodation. The hearing site is 

accessible to individuals with 

disabilities. This notice also describes 

the functions of the Advisory 

Committee. Notice of this hearing is 

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

Federal Advisory Committee Act. This 

document is intended to notify the 

general public. 

DATE AND TIME: Friday, April 13, 2007, 

beginning at 8:30 a.m. and ending at 

approximately 3 p.m. 

ADDRESSES: Portaland State University, 

Smith Memorial Student Union, Rooms 

327–329, 1825 SW Broadway Avenue, 

Portland, Oregon 97207. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. 

Erin B. Renner, Director of Government 


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Relations or Ms. Julie J. Johnson, 

Assistant Director, Advisory Committee 

or Student Financial Assistance, Capitol 

Place, 80 F Street, NW., Suite 413, 

Washington, DC 20202–7582, (202) 219–

2099. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Advisory Committee on Student 

Financial Assistance is established 

under Section 491 of the Higher 

Education Act of 1965 as amended by 

Public Law 100–50 (20 U.S.C. 1098). 

The Advisory Committee serves as an 

independent source of advice and 

counsel to the Congress and the 

Secretary of Education on student 

financial aid policy. Since its inception, 

the congressional mandate requires the 

Advisory Committee to conduct 

objective, nonpartisan, and independent 

analyses on important aspects of the 

student assistance programs under Title 

IV of the Higher Education Act, and to 

make recommendations that will result 

in the maintenance of access to 

postsecondary education for low- and 

middle-income students. In addition, 

Congress expanded the Advisory 

Committee’s mission in the Higher 

Education Amendments of 1998 to 

include several important areas: access, 

Title IV modernization, distance 

education, and early information and 

needs assessment. Specifically, the 

Advisory Committee is to review, 

monitor and evaluate the Department of 

Education’s progress in these areas and 

report recommended improvements to 

Congress and the Secretary. 

The Advisory Committee has 

scheduled the hearing on Friday, April 

13 in Portland, Oregon to conduct 

activities related to its congressionally 

requested study to make textbooks more 

affordable (Textbook Study). This oneyear study, which was requested by the 

U.S. House of Representative Committee 

on Education and Labor (formerly 

Education and the Workforce), will 

investigate further the problem of rising 

textbook prices; determine the impact of 

rising textbook prices on students’

ability to afford a postsecondary 

education; and make recommendations 

to Congress, the Secretary, and other 

stakeholders on what can be done to 

make textbooks more affordable for 

students. Over the course of the study, 

the Committee will conduct three field 

hearings that will include testimony 

from stakeholders around the country 

who are currently working to make 

textbooks more affordable for students. 

The proposed agenda includes expert 

testimony and discussions by prominent 

higher education community leaders, 

state representatives, and institutions 

that will share what they are doing to 

make textbooks more affordable for 

students. The Advisory Committee will 

also conduct a public comment and 

discussion session. 

The Advisory Committee invites the 

public to submit written comments on 

the Textbook Study to the following email address: ACSFA@ed.gov. 

Information regarding the Textbook 

Study will also be available on the 

Advisory Committee’s Web site, http:// 

www.ed.gov/ACSFA. To be included in 

the hearing materials, we must receive 

your comments on or before Thursday, 

April 5, 2007; additional comments 

should be provided to the Committee no 

later than May 7, 2007. 

Space for the hearing is limited and 

you are encouraged to register early if 

you plan to attend. You may register by 

sending an e-mail to the following 

address: ACSFA@ed.gov or 

Tracy.Deanna.Jones@ed.gov. Please 

include your name, title, affiliation, 

complete address (including Internet 

and e-mail address, if available), and 

telephone and fax numbers. If you are 

unable to register electronically, you 

may fax your registration information to 

the Advisory Committee staff office at 

(202) 219–3032. You may also contact 

the Advisory Committee staff directly at 

(202) 219–2099. The registration 

deadline is Friday, April 6, 2007. 

Records are kept for Advisory 

Committee proceedings, and are 

available for inspection at the Office of 

the Advisory Committee on Student 

Financial Assistance, Capitol Place, 80 F 

Street, NW.,—Suite 413, Washington, 

DC from the hours of 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. 

Monday through Friday, except Federal 

holidays. Information regarding the 

Advisory Committee is available on the 

Committee’s Web site, http:// 

www.ed.gov/ACSFA. 

Dated: March 22, 2007. 

Dr. William J. Goggin, 

Executive Director, Advisory Committee on 

Student Financial Assistance. 

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Notice of Intent To Prepare a 

Supplemental Environmental Impact 

Statement for Surplus Plutonium 

Disposition at the Savannah River Site 

AGENCY: Department of Energy. 

ACTION: Notice of Intent. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of 

Energy (DOE) intends to prepare a 

Supplemental Environmental Impact 

Statement (SEIS) to evaluate the 

potential environmental impacts of 

plutonium disposition capabilities that 

would be constructed and operated at 

the Savannah River Site (SRS) near 

Aiken, South Carolina. DOE completed 

the Surplus Plutonium Disposition 

(SPD) EIS (DOE/EIS–0283) in November 

1999, and on January 11, 2000, 

published a Record of Decision (ROD) in 

the Federal Register (65 FR 1608). DOE 

decided to dispose of approximately 17 

metric tons of plutonium surplus to the 

nation’s defense needs using an 

immobilization process and up to 33 

metric tons by using the surplus 

plutonium as feedstock in the 

fabrication of mixed oxide (MOX) fuel 

to be irradiated in commercial reactors. 

DOE selected the SRS as the site for all 

surplus plutonium disposition facilities. 

Subsequently, DOE cancelled the 

immobilization portion of its 

disposition strategy due to budgetary 

constraints (ROD, 67 FR 19432, April 

19, 2002). The selection of the SRS as 

the location for disposition facilities for 

up to 50 metric tons of surplus 

plutonium remains unchanged. Site 

preparation for the MOX Fuel 

Fabrication Facility at the SRS began in 

November 2005. 

The 2002 decision left DOE with 

about 13 metric tons of surplus 

plutonium that does not have a defined 

path to disposition (about 4 metric tons 

of the 17 metric tons originally 

considered for immobilization has been 

designated for programmatic use). DOE 

has been investigating alternative 

disposition technologies and will now 

prepare an SEIS for Surplus Plutonium 

Disposition at the SRS (DOE/EIS–0283–

S2) to evaluate the potential 

environmental impacts of those 

alternatives. DOE’s preferred alternative 

is to construct and operate a vitrification 

facility within an existing building at 

the SRS. This facility would immobilize 

plutonium within a lanthanide 

borosilicate glass inside stainless steel 

cans. The cans then would be placed 

within larger canisters to be filled with 

vitrified high-level radioactive waste in 

the Defense Waste Processing Facility 

(DWPF) at the SRS. The canisters would 

be suitable for disposal in a geologic 

repository. DOE also would prepare 

some of the surplus plutonium for 

disposal by processing it in the HCanyon at the SRS, then sending it to 

the high-level waste tanks and DWPF. 

DOE seeks to take this action to reduce 

the threat of nuclear weapons 

proliferation worldwide by disposing of 

surplus plutonium in the United States 

in a safe and environmentally sound 

manner. The preferred vitrification 

technology, along with processing in HCanyon, would fulfill this need for 


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