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experience with the program in the near 

future. 

Affected Public: Individuals or 

households. 

Annual Burden Hours: 50,000. 

Number of Respondents: 300,000. 

Responses per Respondent: 1. 

Annual Responses: 300,000. 

Average Burden per Response: 10 

minutes. 

Frequency: On occasion. 

Dated: September 21, 2023. 

Aaron T. Siegel, 

Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison 

Officer, Department of Defense. 

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BILLING CODE 5001–06–P 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

[Docket No.: Docket Search Results ED– 

2023–SCC–0170] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Comment Request; School 

Pulse Panel 2024–25 Preliminary Field 

Activities 

AGENCY: National Center for Education 

Statistics (NCES), Department of 

Education (ED). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 

1995, the Department is proposing a 

revision of a currently approved 

information collection request (ICR). 

DATES: Interested persons are invited to 

submit comments on or before 

November 27, 2023. 

ADDRESSES: To access and review all the 

documents related to the information 

collection listed in this notice, please 

use http://www.regulations.gov by 

searching the Docket ID number Docket 

Search Results ED–2023–SCC–0170. 

Comments submitted in response to this 

notice should be submitted 

electronically through the Federal 

eRulemaking Portal at http://

www.regulations.gov by selecting the 

Docket ID number or via postal mail, 

commercial delivery, or hand delivery. 

If the regulations.gov site is not 

available to the public for any reason, 

the Department will temporarily accept 

comments at ICDocketMgr@ed.gov. 

Please include the docket ID number 

and the title of the information 

collection request when requesting 

documents or submitting comments. 

Please note that comments submitted 

after the comment period will not be 

accepted. Written requests for 

information or comments submitted by 

postal mail or delivery should be 

addressed to the Manager of the 

Strategic Collections and Clearance 

Governance and Strategy Division, U.S. 

Department of Education, 400 Maryland 

Ave. SW, LBJ, Room 4C210, 

Washington, DC 20202–8240. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

specific questions related to collection 

activities, please contact Carrie Clarady, 

(202) 245–6347. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Department, 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. The 

Department is soliciting comments on 

the proposed information collection 

request (ICR) that is described below. 

The Department 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: School Pulse Panel 

2024–25 Preliminary Field Activities. 

OMB Control Number: 1850–0969. 

Type of Review: Revision of a 

currently approved ICR. 

Respondents/Affected Public: State, 

Local, and Tribal Governments. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Responses: 6,339. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Burden Hours: 2,551. 

Abstract: The School Pulse Panel 

(SPP) is a data collection originally 

designed to collect repeated voluntary 

responses from a nationally 

representative sample of public schools 

to better understand how schools, 

students, and educators are responding 

to the ongoing stressors of the 

coronavirus pandemic. The School 

Pulse Panel is conducted by the 

National Center for Education Statistics 

(NCES), part of the Institute of 

Education Sciences (IES), within the 

United States Department of Education. 

Due to the immediate need to collect 

information from schools during the 

pandemic to satisfy the requirement of 

Executive Order 14000, an emergency 

clearance was issued to develop and 

field the first several monthly 

collections of the SPP in 2021 and a full 

review of the SPP data collection was 

performed under the traditional 

clearance review process in 2022 

(OMB# 1850–0969). SPP’s innovative 

design and timely dissemination of 

findings have been used and cited 

frequently among Department of 

Education senior leadership, the White 

House Domestic Policy Counsel, the 

USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service, the 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention, Congressional deliberations, 

and the media. The ongoing interest by 

stakeholders has resulted in dedicated 

funding to continue the SPP as an 

ongoing, quick-turnaround data 

collection vehicle. 

For the 2024–25 school year, the 

survey may ask school staff about a 

wide range of topics, including but not 

limited to instructional mode offered; 

enrollment counts of subgroups of 

students for various subject interests; 

strategies to address learning recovery; 

safe and healthy school mitigation 

strategies; mental health services; use of 

technology; information on staffing, 

nutrition services, absenteeism, usage of 

federal funds, facilities, and overall 

principal experiences. It is planned that 

content will be rotated in and out 

monthly. This package includes 

preliminary activities, including a 

generic special district application and 

communication materials for district 

and school recruitment, that will be 

conducted to help with recruitment 

efforts for the 2024–25 sample. 

Roughly 8,000 public elementary, 

middle, high, and combined-grade 

schools will be randomly selected to 

participate in a panel. The goal will be 

national representation from 1,000 

responding schools in order to report 

out national estimates. School staff will 

be asked to provide requested data 

monthly during the 2024–25 school 

year. This approach provides the ability 

to collect detailed information on 

various topics while also assessing 

changes over time for items that are 

repeated from month to month. Given 

the high demand for data collection 

during this time, the content of the 

survey will change monthly. 

This request is to conduct the SPP 

2024–25 preliminary activities, 

including contacting and obtaining 

research approvals from public school 

districts with an established research 

approval process (‘‘special contact 


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districts’’), where applicable, notifying 

sampled schools of their selection for 

the survey and inviting them to 

complete short Screener Surveys to 

establish a point of contact at their 

school. Additional materials may be 

added to this package after the 60-day 

public comment period is complete, in 

time for the subsequent 30-day public 

comment period that will begin in 

December 2023/January 2024. In spring 

of 2024, a clearance for main study data 

collection activities with schools and 

districts, including instruments for the 

first quarter of monthly collections, will 

be submitted 60-day and 30-day public 

comment. Subsequent quarterly content 

submissions will be submitted for 30- 

day public comment. Because the 

School Pulse Panel Survey is designed 

to collect data on timely questions, 

materials for SPP are cleared under two 

OMB Number sequences. Materials for 

SPP 2022 were cleared under OMB# 

1850–0969, while 23–24 SPP were 

cleared primarily under OMB# 1850– 

0975. For 24–25 we return to OMB# 

1850–0969. 

Dated: September 21, 2023. 

Stephanie Valentine, 

PRA Coordinator, Strategic Collections and 

Clearance Governance and Strategy Division, 

Office of Chief Data Officer, Office of 

Planning, Evaluation and Policy 

Development. 

[FR Doc. 2023–20964 Filed 9–26–23; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

[Docket No.: ED–2023–SCC–0171] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Comment Request; Generic 

Application Package for Departmental 

Generic Grant Programs 

AGENCY: Office of Finance and 

Operations (OFO), Department of 

Education (ED). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 

1995, the Department is proposing an 

extension without change of a currently 

approved information collection request 

(ICR). 

DATES: Interested persons are invited to 

submit comments on or before 

November 27, 2023. 

ADDRESSES: To access and review all the 

documents related to the information 

collection listed in this notice, please 

use http://www.regulations.gov by 

searching the Docket ID number ED– 

2023–SCC–0171. Comments submitted 

in response to this notice should be 

submitted electronically through the 

Federal eRulemaking Portal at http://

www.regulations.gov by selecting the 

Docket ID number or via postal mail, 

commercial delivery, or hand delivery. 

If the regulations.gov site is not 

available to the public for any reason, 

the Department will temporarily accept 

comments at ICDocketMgr@ed.gov. 

Please include the docket ID number 

and the title of the information 

collection request when requesting 

documents or submitting comments. 

Please note that comments submitted 

after the comment period will not be 

accepted. Written requests for 

information or comments submitted by 

postal mail or delivery should be 

addressed to the Manager of the 

Strategic Collections and Clearance 

Governance and Strategy Division, U.S. 

Department of Education, 400 Maryland 

Ave. SW, LBJ, Room 4C210, 

Washington, DC 20202–8240. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

specific questions related to collection 

activities, please contact Cleveland 

Knight, (202) 987–0064. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Department, 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. The 

Department is soliciting comments on 

the proposed information collection 

request (ICR) that is described below. 

The Department 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: Generic 

Application Package for Departmental 

Generic Grant Programs. 

OMB Control Number: 1894–0006. 

Type of Review: Extension without 

change of a currently approved ICR. 

Respondents/Affected Public: State, 

Local, or Tribal Government. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Responses: 9,861. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Burden Hours: 447,089. 

Abstract: The Department is 

requesting an extension of the approval 

for the Generic Application Package that 

numerous ED discretionary grant 

programs use to provide to applicants 

the forms and information needed to 

apply for new grants under those grant 

program competitions. The Department 

will use this Generic Application 

package for discretionary grant 

programs that: (1) Use the standard ED 

or Federal-wide grant applications 

forms that have been cleared separately 

through OMB under the terms of this 

generic clearance as approved by OMB 

and (2) use selection criteria from the 

Education Department General 

Administrative Regulations (EDGAR); 

selection criteria that reflect statutory or 

regulatory provisions that have been 

developed under 34 CFR 75.209, or a 

combination of EDGAR, statutory or 

regulatory criteria or other provisions, 

as authorized under 34 CFR 75.200 and 

75.209. The use of the standard ED grant 

application forms and the use of EDGAR 

and/or criteria developed under 

§§ 75.200 and 75.209 promotes the 

standardization and streamlining of ED 

discretionary grant application 

packages. 

Dated: September 21, 2023. 

Stephanie Valentine, 

PRA Coordinator, Strategic Collections and 

Clearance, Governance and Strategy Division, 

Office of Chief Data Officer, Office of 

Planning, Evaluation and Policy 

Development. 

[FR Doc. 2023–20958 Filed 9–26–23; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

[Docket No.: ED–2023–SCC–0169] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Comment Request; 

Comprehensive Literacy State 

Development Annual Performance 

Report 

AGENCY: Office of Elementary and 

Secondary Education (OESE), 

Department of Education (ED). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 

1995, the Department is proposing a 

new information collection request 

(ICR). 


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