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Title of Collection: Charter Online 

Management and Performance System 

(COMPS) CMO APR. 

OMB Control Number: 1810–NEW. 

Type of Review: A new ICR. 

Respondents/Affected Public: State, 

Local, and Tribal Governments. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Responses: 90. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Burden Hours: 2,970. 

Abstract: This request is for a new 

OMB approval to collect the Annual 

Performance Report (APR) data from 

Charter School Programs (CSP) 

Replication and Expansion of HighQuality Charter Schools (CMO) grantees. 

The Charter School Programs (CSP) was 

originally authorized under Title V, Part 

B, Subpart 1, Sections 5201 through 

5211 of the Elementary and Secondary 

Education Act (ESEA) of 1965, as 

amended by the No Child Left Behind 

(NCLB) Act of 2001. For fiscal year 2017 

and thereafter, ESEA has been amended 

by the Every Student Succeeds Act 

(ESSA), (20 U.S.C. 7221–7221i), which 

reserves funds to improve education by 

supporting innovation in public 

education and to: (2) provide financial 

assistance for the planning, program 

design, and initial implementation of 

charter schools; (3) increase the number 

of high-quality charter schools available 

to students across the United States; (4) 

evaluate the impact of charter schools 

on student achievement, families, and 

communities, and share best practices 

between charter schools and other 

public schools; (5) encourage States to 

provide support to charter schools for 

facilities financing in an amount more 

nearly commensurate to the amount 

States typically provide for traditional 

public schools; (6) expand opportunities 

for children with disabilities, English 

learners, and other traditionally 

underserved students to attend charter 

schools and meet the challenging State 

academic standards; (7) support efforts 

to strengthen the charter school 

authorizing process to improve 

performance management, including 

transparency, oversight and monitoring 

(including financial audits), and 

evaluation of such schools; and (8) 

support quality, accountability, and 

transparency in the operational 

performance of all authorized public 

chartering agencies, including State 

educational agencies, local educational 

agencies, and other authorizing entities. 

The U.S. Department of Education 

(ED) is requesting authorization to 

collect data from CSP grantees within 

the CMO program through a new online 

platform. In 2022, ED began 

development of a new data collection 

system, the Charter Online Management 

and Performance System (COMPS), 

designed specifically to reduce the 

burden of reporting for users and 

increase validity of the overall data. 

This new collection consists of 

questions responsive to the actions 

established in the program’s final rule 

published in the Federal Register on 

July 6, 2022, as well as the CMO 

program Notice Inviting Applications 

(NIA). This collection request is a 

consolidation of all previously 

established program data collection 

efforts and provides a more 

comprehensive representation of grantee 

performance. 

Dated: August 21, 2023. 

Kun Mullan, 

PRA Coordinator, Strategic Collections and 

Clearance, Governance and Strategy Division, 

Office of Chief Data Officer, Office of 

Planning, Evaluation and Policy 

Development. 

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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

National Board for Education Sciences 

AGENCY: National Board for Education 

Sciences, Department of Education, 

Institute of Education Sciences (IES). 

ACTION: Notice of an open meeting. 

SUMMARY: This notice sets forth the 

agenda, time, and instructions to access 

or participate in the National Board for 

Education Sciences (hereafter referred to 

as NBES or Board) virtual meeting 

scheduled for September 11, 2023. This 

notice provides information about the 

meeting to members of the public who 

may be interested in attending the 

meeting and/or providing written 

comment. Notice of this meeting is 

required under 5 U.S.C. chapter 10 

(Federal Advisory Committees). 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be 

conducted virtually. 

DATES: The NBES virtual meeting will 

be held on September 11, 2023, from 

12:00 p.m.–4:30 p.m. (EST). 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Andrea Miralia, Designated Federal 

Officer (DFO) for NBES, (PCP 4126–1), 

U.S. Department of Education, IES: 550 

12th St. SW, Washington, DC 20024, 

Telephone: (202) 245–6046, email: 

andrea.miralia@ed.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Statutory Authority and Function: 

The Board is authorized by § 116 of the 

Education Sciences Reform Act of 2002 

(20 U.S.C. 9516). The Board is 

established as part of the U.S. 

Department of Education, IES, and shall, 

consistent with 20 U.S.C. 9514, 9515(b) 

and (c), 9516, and 9567, function as a 

board of directors for IES. IES’ mission 

is to provide national leadership in 

expanding fundamental knowledge and 

understanding of education from early 

childhood through postsecondary study, 

in order to provide parents, educators, 

students, researchers, policymakers, and 

the general public with reliable 

information about the condition and 

progress of education in the United 

States, the educational practices that 

support learning and improve academic 

achievement and access to educational 

opportunities for all students, and the 

effectiveness of Federal and other 

education programs. 

The Board’s responsibilities are: (1) 

advise and consult with the Director of 

IES (Director) on the policies of IES; (2) 

consider and approve priorities 

proposed by the Director under 20 

U.S.C. 9515 to guide the work of IES; (3) 

transmit approved priorities to the 

appropriate congressional committee 

(20 U.S.C. 9515(b)); (4) ensure that the 

priorities of IES and the National 

Education Centers are consistent with 

the mission of IES (20 U.S.C. 9515(c)); 

(5) review and approve procedures for 

technical and scientific peer review of 

the activities of IES; (6) advise the 

Director on the establishment of 

activities to be supported by IES, 

including the general areas of research 

to be carried out by the National Center 

for Education Research and the National 

Center for Special Education Research; 

(7) present to the Director such 

recommendations as it may find 

appropriate for (a) the strengthening of 

education research, and (b) the funding 

of IES; (8) advise the Director on the 

funding of applications for grants, 

contracts, and cooperative agreements 

for research, after the completion of peer 

review; (9) review and regularly 

evaluate the work of IES, to ensure that 

scientifically valid research, 

development, evaluation, and statistical 

analysis are consistent with the 

standards for such activities under this 

title; (10) advise the Director on 

ensuring that activities conducted or 

supported by IES are objective, secular, 

neutral, and non-ideological, and are 

free of partisan political influence and 

racial, cultural, gender, or regional bias; 

(11) solicit advice and information from 

those in the educational field, 

particularly practitioners and 

researchers, to recommend to the 

Director topics that require long-term, 

sustained, systematic, programmatic, 

and integrated research efforts, 

including knowledge utilization and 

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consistent with the priorities and 

mission of IES; (12) advise the Director 

on opportunities for the participation in, 

and the advancement of, women, 

minorities, and persons with disabilities 

in education research, statistics, and 

evaluation activities of IES; (13) 

recommend to the Director ways to 

enhance strategic partnerships and 

collaborative efforts among other 

Federal and State research agencies; (14) 

recommend to the Director individuals 

to serve as Commissioners of the 

National Education Centers; and (15) 

make recommendations to the President 

with respect to the appointment of the 

Director (20 U.S.C. 9514). 

Meeting Agenda: The purpose of this 

meeting is to convene the members of 

NBES to conduct the following 

business: (1) call to order and welcome 

by the Director and the DFO for the 

Board; (2) member roll call; (3) 

housekeeping on meeting ground rules; 

(4) ceremonial swearing-in of NBES 

members by the Director; (5) review of 

member roles and duties; (6) Chair 

nomination and election; (7) remarks 

from the elected Chairperson; (8) 

introduction of the following IES Offices 

and Centers: Office of the Director, 

including Office of Science, 

Administration and Policy, and Data 

Sciences and Communications, National 

Center for Education Evaluation and 

Regional Assistance (NCEE), National 

Center for Education Research (NCER), 

National Center for Special Education 

Research (NCSER), and National Center 

for Education Statistics (NCES); (9) 

presentation by the Director on the 

priorities of IES, followed by Board 

discussion, (10) a presentation by the 

Director of the Institute of Education 

Sciences on the overview and status of 

National Center for Advanced 

Development in Education (NCADE) 

and ESRA (Education Sciences Reform 

Act); and (11) closing remarks. 

Instructions for Accessing the 

Meeting: Members of the public 

interested in attending this virtual 

meeting may email the DFO listed in 

this notice no later than 11:59 p.m. 

Eastern Time (ET) on September 4, 

2023. The DFO will provide a link and 

instructions on how to access the 

meeting via Microsoft Teams. 

Public Comment: Members of the 

public interested in submitting written 

comments may do so by emailing the 

DFO listed in this notice no later than 

11:59 p.m. ET on September 4, 2023. 

Please note that written comments 

should pertain to the work of NBES. 

Reasonable Accommodations: The 

virtual meeting is accessible to 

individuals with disabilities. If you will 

need an auxiliary aid or service for the 

meeting (e.g., interpreting service, 

assistive listening device, or materials in 

an alternate format), notify the DFO 

listed in this notice no later than 

Sunday, September 3, 2023. 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. 

Access to Records of the Meeting: The 

Department will post the official 

minutes of this meeting on the IES 

website, https://ies.ed.gov/director/ 

board/index.asp, no later than 30 days 

after the meeting. Pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 

1009(b), the public may also inspect 

NBES records at the U.S. Department of 

Education, IES, 550 12th St. SW, 

Washington, DC 2002, Monday–Friday, 

8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. ET. Please email 

andrea.miralia@ed.gov to schedule an 

appointment. 

Electronic Access to This Document: 

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 via the Federal Digital System 

at: www.gpo.gov/fdsys. At this site 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). To use PDF, you must 

have Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is 

available free at the site. You also may 

access documents of the Department 

published in the Federal Register by 

using the article search feature at: 

www.federalregister.gov. Specifically, 

through the advanced search feature at 

this site, you can limit your search to 

documents published by the 

Department. 

Authority: § 116 of the Education 

Sciences Reform Act of 2002 (20 U.S.C. 

9516). 

Mark Schneider, 

Director, Institute of Education Sciences. 

[FR Doc. 2023–18373 Filed 8–24–23; 8:45 am] 

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ELECTION ASSISTANCE COMMISSION 

Sunshine Act Notice; Withdrawal 

AGENCY: U.S. Election Assistance 

Commission. 

ACTION: Sunshine Act notice; notice of 

public agenda, withdrawal. 

SUMMARY: This action withdraws the 

Sunshine Act Notice published in the 

Federal Register on August 21, 2023, 

Public Meeting: U.S. Election Assistance 

Commission. 

DATES: As of August 22, 2023, the 

Sunshine Act Notice published in the 

Federal Register on August 21, 2023 (88 

FR 56811) is withdrawn. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Kristen Muthig, Telephone: (202) 897– 

9285, Email: kmuthig@eac.gov. 

Camden Kelliher, 

Senior Associate Counsel, U.S. Election 

Assistance Commission. 

[FR Doc. 2023–18425 Filed 8–23–23; 11:15 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

Combined Notice of Filings #1 

Take notice that the Commission 

received the following electric corporate 

filings: 

Docket Numbers: EC23–85–000. 

Applicants: Boomtown Solar Energy 

LLC, BREC Holding Company, LLC, 

Union Electric Company d/b/a Ameren 

Missouri. 

Description: Ameren Missouri 

submits Response to July 14, 2023, 

Deficiency Letter re Amendment to 

Application. 

Filed Date: 8/14/23. 

Accession Number: 20230814–5104. 

Comment Date: 5 p.m. ET 9/5/23. 

Docket Numbers: EC23–123–000. 

Applicants: Carroll County Energy 

LLC. 

Description: Application for 

Authorization Under Section 203 of the 

Federal Power Act of Carroll County 

Energy LLC. 

Filed Date: 8/17/23. 

Accession Number: 20230817–5151. 

Comment Date: 5 p.m. ET 9/7/23. 

Take notice that the Commission 

received the following exempt 

wholesale generator filings: 

Docket Numbers: EG23–261–000. 

Applicants: Richfield Solar Energy 

LLC. 

Description: Richfield Solar Energy 

LLC submits Notice of Self-Certification 

of Exempt Wholesale Generator Status. 

Filed Date: 8/21/23. 

Accession Number: 20230821–5089. 

Comment Date: 5 p.m. ET 9/11/23. 

Take notice that the Commission 

received the following Complaints and 

Compliance filings in EL Dockets: 

Docket Numbers: EL23–92–000; 

QF13–402–008; QF13–436–001; QF13– 

437–001. 

Applicants: Bennington Solar LLC, 

Apple Hill Solar LLC, Otter Creek Solar 

LLC, ALLCO Finance Limited, Otter 


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