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12 p.m. on December 1, 2014, will 

include discussion of new and pending 

administrative/minor disciplinary 

infractions and non-judicial 

punishments involving the Midshipmen 

attending the U.S. Naval Academy to 

include but not limited to individual 

honor/conduct violations within the 

Brigade. The discussion of such 

information cannot be adequately 

segregated from other topics, which 

precludes opening the executive session 

of this meeting to the public. 

Accordingly, the Deputy Under 

Secretary of the Navy (Management) has 

determined in writing that the meeting 

shall be partially closed to the public 

because the discussions during the 

executive session from 11 a.m. to 12 

p.m. will be concerned with matters 

coming under sections 552b(c)(5), (6), 

and (7) of title 5, United States Code. 

Dated: September 29, 2014. 

N.A. Hagerty-Ford, 

Commander, Office of the Judge Advocate 

General, U.S. Navy, Federal Register Liaison 

Officer. 

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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

[Docket No.: ED–2014–ICCD–0139] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Comment Request; 

Evaluation of Preschool Special 

Education Practices Phase I 

AGENCY: Institute of Education Sciences/ 

National Center for Education Statistics 

(IES), Department of Education (ED). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 

U.S.C. chapter 3501 et seq.), ED is 

proposing a new information collection. 

DATES: Interested persons are invited to 

submit comments on or before 

December 8, 2014. 

ADDRESSES: Comments submitted in 

response to this notice should be 

submitted electronically through the 

Federal eRulemaking Portal at http://

www.regulations.gov by selecting 

Docket ID number ED–2014–ICCD–0139 

or via postal mail, commercial delivery, 

or hand delivery. If the regulations.gov 

site is not available to the public for any 

reason, ED will temporarily accept 

comments at ICDocketMgr@ed.gov. 

Please note that comments submitted by 

fax or email and those submitted after 

the comment period will not be 

accepted; ED will ONLY accept 

comments during the comment period 

in this mailbox when the regulations.gov 

site is not available. Written requests for 

information or comments submitted by 

postal mail or delivery should be 

addressed to the Director of the 

Information Collection Clearance 

Division, U.S. Department of Education, 

400 Maryland Avenue SW., LBJ, 

Mailstop L–OM–2–2E319, Room 2E105, 

Washington, DC 20202. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

specific questions related to collection 

activities, please contact Yumiko 

Sekino, 202–219–2046. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Department of Education (ED), in 

accordance with the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA) (44 U.S.C. 

3506(c)(2)(A)), provides the general 

public and Federal agencies with an 

opportunity to comment on proposed, 

revised, and continuing collections of 

information. This helps the Department 

assess the impact of its information 

collection requirements and minimize 

the public’s reporting burden. It also 

helps the public understand the 

Department’s information collection 

requirements and provide the requested 

data in the desired format. ED is 

soliciting comments on the proposed 

information collection request (ICR) that 

is described below. The Department of 

Education is especially interested in 

public comment addressing the 

following issues: (1) Is this collection 

necessary to the proper functions of the 

Department; (2) will this information be 

processed and used in a timely manner; 

(3) is the estimate of burden accurate; 

(4) how might the Department enhance 

the quality, utility, and clarity of the 

information to be collected; and (5) how 

might the Department minimize the 

burden of this collection on the 

respondents, including through the use 

of information technology. Please note 

that written comments received in 

response to this notice will be 

considered public records. 

Title of Collection: Evaluation of 

Preschool Special Education Practices 

Phase I. 

OMB Control Number: 1850–NEW. 

Type of Review: A new information 

collection. 

Respondents/Affected Public: State, 

Local and Tribal Governments. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Responses: 1,251. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Burden Hours: 609. 

Abstract: The main objective of the 

Evaluation of Preschool Special 

Education Practices, Phase I study is to 

assess the feasibility of conducting a 

large-scale randomized controlled trial 

(RCT) evaluation of one or more 

curricula or interventions that are used 

with preschool children with 

disabilities to promote their learning of 

language, literacy, social-emotional 

skills, and/or appropriate behavioral 

skills for school. The feasibility 

assessment will consider the core 

features of an evaluation design, 

including the following: (1) Curricula 

and/or interventions to be evaluated; (2) 

Study context and participants; and (3) 

Key design elements, such as the 

counterfactual condition, unit of 

assignment, target minimum detectable 

effects (MDEs), sample size, and data 

collection plans. 

Data to inform the feasibility 

assessment will be obtained through 

surveys of school district preschool 

special education coordinators and state 

Section 619 coordinators, the subject of 

the current submission. Preschool 

special education coordinators in school 

districts and state Section 619 

coordinators will provide information to 

address the study’s overarching research 

question—whether there are promising 

curricula and interventions for 

preschool children with disabilities for 

which a large-scale effectiveness trial 

would be feasible and add value to the 

field. The district survey will be 

administered in a nationally 

representative sample of 1,200 school 

districts serving preschool children with 

disabilities as a 30-minute web survey. 

The state survey will be administered in 

all 50 states and the District of Columbia 

as a 10-minute editable PDF survey. 

Data collection for each survey will 

begin in April 2015. 

The feasibility assessment will also be 

informed by use of extant data and 

conduct of an evidence review. In 

addition to collected survey data, extant 

data will provide information about 

preschool special education programs, 

the curricula and interventions that are 

available and supported by these 

programs, and the context in which 

curricula and interventions are 

delivered to inform decisions about key 

design elements. The evidence review 

will identify promising curricula and 

interventions for preschool children 

with disabilities and features about their 

implementation in schools. 

Information obtained as part of the 

data collection for Phase I will be used 

to develop a publicly available report to 

provide educators and policymakers 

with nationally representative 

descriptive information about current 

preschool special education programs. If 

the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) 

decides to sponsor an RCT following the 

feasibility assessment, separate OMB 

packages will be submitted that request 

clearance for recruitment and data 

collection activities for the RCT. 


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Dated: October 2, 2014. 

Stephanie Valentine, 

Acting Director, Information Collection 

Clearance Division, Privacy, Information and 

Records Management Services, Office of 

Management. 

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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

National Board for Education Sciences 

AGENCY: Institute of Education Sciences, 

U.S. Department of Education. 

ACTION: Announcement of an open 

meeting. 

SUMMARY: This notice sets forth the 

schedule and proposed agenda of an 

upcoming meeting of the National Board 

for Education Sciences (NBES). The 

notice also describes the functions of 

the Committee. Notice of this meeting is 

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

Federal Advisory Committee Act and is 

intended to notify the public of their 

opportunity to attend the meeting. 

DATES: The NBES meeting will be held 

on October 30, 2014, from 9:00 a.m. to 

3:30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. 

ADDRESSES: 80 F Street NW., Large 

Board Room, Washington, DC 20001 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ellie 

Pelaez, Designated Federal Official, 

NBES, U.S. Department of Education, 

555 New Jersey Avenue NW., Room 600 

E, Washington, DC 20208; phone: (202) 

219–0644; fax: (202) 219–1402; email: 

Ellie.Pelaez@ed.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: NBES’ 

Statutory Authority and Function: The 

National Board for Education Sciences 

is authorized by Section 116 of the 

Education Sciences Reform Act of 2002 

(ESRA), 20 U.S.C. 9516. The Board 

advises the Director of the Institute of 

Education Sciences (IES) on, among 

other things, the establishment of 

activities to be supported by the 

Institute and the funding for 

applications for grants, contracts, and 

cooperative agreements for research 

after the completion of peer review. The 

Board also reviews and evaluates the 

work of the Institute. 

Meeting Agenda: On October 30, 

2014, starting at 9:00 a.m., the Board 

meeting will commence and members 

will approve the agenda. From 9:05 to 

10:15 a.m., the Commissioners of IES’s 

national centers will give an overview of 

recent developments at IES. This 

session will be followed by a question 

and answer period regarding the 

Commissioners’ reports. A break will 

take place from 10:15 to 10:30 a.m. 

The Board meeting will resume from 

10:30 to 12:00 p.m. when the Board will 

discuss ‘‘Research on Educating African 

American Males.’’ NBES Chair David 

Chard and Thomas Brock, 

Commissioner of the National Center for 

Education Research (NCER), will 

provide the opening remarks, followed 

by a panel discussion with researchers 

studying specific interventions. 

Roundtable discussion by board 

members will take place after the panel 

discussion. The meeting will break for 

lunch from 12:00 to 1:00 p.m. 

From 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m., the 

Board will consider the topic, ‘‘Higher 

Education Rating System.’’ Following 

opening remarks by the Department of 

Education’s Under Secretary Ted 

Mitchell, a roundtable discussion of the 

topic will take place. 

Closing remarks from Sue Betka, 

Acting Director of IES, and David Chard, 

will take place from 3:00 p.m. to 3:30 

p.m., with adjournment scheduled for 

3:30 p.m. 

Submission of comments regarding 

the Board’s policy recommendations: 

There will not be an opportunity for 

public comment. However, members of 

the public are encouraged to submit 

written comments related to NBES to 

Ellie Pelaez (see contact information 

above). A final agenda is available from 

Ellie Pelaez (see contact information 

above) and is posted on the Board Web 

site http://ies.ed.gov/director/board/

agendas/index.asp. 

Access to Records of the Meeting: The 

Department will post the official report 

of the meeting on the NBES Web site no 

later than 90 days after the meeting. 

Pursuant to the FACA, the public may 

also inspect the materials at 555 New 

Jersey Avenue NW., 6th Floor, 

Washington, DC, by emailing 

Ellie.Pelaez@ed.gov or by calling (202) 

219–0644 to schedule an appointment. 

Reasonable Accommodations: 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 by or before 

October 23, 2014. Although we will 

attempt to meet a request received after 

October 23, 2014, we may not be able 

to make available the requested 

auxiliary aid or service because of 

insufficient time to arrange it. 

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 may also 

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: Section 116 of the Education 

Sciences Reform Act of 2002 (ESRA), 20 

U.S.C. 9516. 

Sue Betka, 

Acting Director, Institute of Education 

Science. 

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Senior Executive Service; Performance 

Review Board 

AGENCY: U.S. Department of Energy. 

ACTION: Designation of Performance 

Review Board Standing Register. 

SUMMARY: This notice provides the 

Performance Review Board Standing 

Register for the Department of Energy. 

This listing supersedes all previously 

published lists of PRB members. 

DATES: This appointment is effective as 

of September 30, 2014. 

Bremer, John 

Brown, Fred 

Buttress, Larry 

Cadieux, Gena 

Chalk, Steven 

Gamage, Sarah 

Geiser, David 

Jones, Wayne 

Lee, Terri 

Lenhard, Joseph 

Mefford, Penny 

O’Konski, Peter 

Stephenson, April 

Waisley, Sandra 

White, William I. 

Williams, Thomas D. 

Issued in Washington, DC, October 2, 2014. 

Tonya M. Mackey, 

Director, Office of Executive Resources, Office 

of the Chief Human Capital Officer. 

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