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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: Annual Protection 

and Advocacy of Individual Rights 

(PAIR) Program Assurances. 

OMB Control Number: 1820–0625. 

Type of Review: An extension of an 

existing information collection. 

Respondents/Affected Public: Private 

Sector. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Responses: 57. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Burden Hours: 9. 

Abstract: Section 509 of the 

Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended 

(act), and its implementing Federal 

Regulations at 34 CFR Part 381, require 

the Protection and Advocacy of 

Individual Rights (PAIR) grantees to 

submit an application to the 

Rehabilitation Services Administration 

(RSA) Commissioner in order to receive 

assistance under Section 509 of the act. 

The act requires that the application 

contain Assurances to which the grantee 

must comply. Section 509(f) of the act 

specifies the Assurances. There are 57 

PAIR grantees. All 57 grantees are 

required to be part of the protection and 

advocacy system in each State 

established under the Developmental 

Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights 

Act of 2000 (42 USC 6041 et seq.). 

Dated: September 11, 2014. 

Tomakie Washington, 

Acting Director, Information Collection 

Clearance Division, Privacy, Information and 

Records Management Services, Office of 

Management. 

[FR Doc. 2014–22026 Filed 9–15–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

[Docket No. ED–2014–ICCD–0102] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission to the Office of 

Management and Budget for Review 

and approval; Comment Request; 

Generic Application Package for 

Departmental Generic Grant Programs 

AGENCY: Office of the Secretary/Office of 

the Deputy Secretary (OS), 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 an extension of an existing 

information collection. 

DATES: Interested persons are invited to 

submit comments on or before October 

16, 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–0102 

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 Alfreida 

Pettiford, 202–245–6110. 

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: Generic 

Application Package for Departmental 

Generic Grant Programs. 

OMB Control Number: 1894–0006. 

Type of Review: An extension of an 

existing information collection. 

Respondents/Affected Public: 

Individuals or households. 

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 

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and/or criteria developed under 

§§ 75.200 and 75.209 promotes the 

standardization and streamlining of ED 

discretionary grant application 

packages. 

Dated: September 11, 2014. 

Stephanie Valentine, 

Acting Director, Information Collection 

Clearance Division, Privacy, Information and 

Records Management Services, Office of 

Management. 

[FR Doc. 2014–22042 Filed 9–15–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

President’s Advisory Commission on 

Educational Excellence for African 

Americans 

AGENCY: President’s Advisory 

Commission on Educational Excellence 

for African Americans, U.S. Department 

of Education (PACEEAA). 

ACTION: Notice of an open meeting. 

SUMMARY: This notice sets forth the 

schedule and agenda of the meeting of 

the President’s Advisory Commission 

on Educational Excellence for African 

Americans. The notice also describes 

the functions of the Commission. Notice 

of the meeting is required by section 

10(a)(2) of the Federal Advisory 

Committee Act and intended to notify 

the public of its opportunity to attend. 

Due to unexpected complications in 

delivering this notice to the Federal 

Register coupled with the requirement 

that the Commission hold two meetings 

per year and this is the only time a 

second meeting could be scheduled, this 

notice is being published late. 

DATES: The PACEAA will be held on 

Monday, September 22, 2014 at 9:00 

a.m.–4:00 p.m. (EDT). 

ADDRESSES: Wardman Park Marriott 

Hotel, Wilson Room, 2660 Woodley Rd. 

NW., Washington, DC 20008, (202) 328– 

2000. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Kimberly Watkins-Foote, Acting Deputy 

Director, White House Initiative on 

Educational Excellence for African 

Americans, 400 Maryland Avenue SW., 

Washington, DC 20202; email: 

Kimberly.Watkins-Foote@ed.gov; 

telephone: (202) 260–8197, fax: (202) 

401–1971. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

President’s Advisory Commission on 

Educational Excellence for African 

Americans is established by Executive 

Order 13621 (July 26, 2012). The 

Commission is governed by the 

provisions of the Federal Advisory 

Committee Act (FACA), (Pub. L. 92–463; 

as amended, 5 U.S.C.A., Appendix 2) 

which sets forth standards for the 

formation and use of advisory 

committees. The purpose of the 

Commission is to advise the President 

and the Secretary of Education on 

matters pertaining to the educational 

attainment of the African American 

community, including: (1) The 

development, implementation, and 

coordination of educational programs 

and initiatives at the Department and 

other agencies to improve educational 

opportunities and outcomes for African 

Americans of all ages; (2) efforts to 

increase the participation of the African 

American community and institutions 

that serve the African American 

community in the Department’s 

programs and in education programs at 

other agencies; (3) efforts to engage the 

philanthropic, business, nonprofit, and 

education communities in a national 

dialogue on the mission and objectives 

of this order; and (4) the establishment 

of partnerships with public, private, 

philanthropic, and nonprofit 

stakeholders to meet the mission and 

policy objectives of its Executive Order. 

Meeting Agenda 

The purpose of this meeting is to 

discuss current and future endeavors of 

the White House Initiative on 

Educational Excellence for African 

Americans through strategic planning to 

help facilitate and focus its work; 

review the work of the White House 

Initiative on Educational Excellence for 

African Americans; and determine key 

strategies to help meet the 

Commission’s charge as outlined in 

Executive Order 13621. 

Individuals interested in attending the 

meeting must register by Tuesday, 

September 16, 2014 because seating is 

limited. Please contact Kimberly 

Watkins-Foote at (202) 260–8197 or by 

email at Kimberly.Watkins-Foote@

ed.gov. 

An opportunity for public comment is 

available on Monday, September, 22, 

2014, from 3:30 p.m.–4:00 p.m. 

Individuals who wish to provide 

comments will be allowed three to five 

minutes to speak. Those members of the 

public interested in submitting written 

comments may do so by submitting 

them to the attention of Kimberly 

Watkins-Foote, White House Initiative 

on Educational Excellence for African 

Americans, U.S. Department of 

Education, 400 Maryland Avenue SW., 

Washington, DC 20202, by Tuesday, 

September 16, 2014. 

Access to Records of the Meeting: 

Records are kept of all Commission 

proceedings and are available for public 

inspection at the office of the White 

House Initiative on Educational 

Excellence for African Americans, U.S. 

Department of Education, 400 Maryland 

Avenue SW., Washington, DC 20202, 

Monday through Friday (excluding 

federal holidays) during the hours of 

9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. 

Reasonable Accommodations 

Individuals needing accommodations 

for a disability in order to attend the 

meeting (e.g., interpreting services, 

assistive listening devices, or material in 

alternative format) should notify 

Kimberly Watkins-Foote, White House 

Initiative on Educational Excellence on 

African Americans, at (202) 260–8197, 

no later than Tuesday, September 16, 

2014. We will attempt to meet requests 

for such accommodations after this date, 

but cannot guarantee their availability. 

The meeting site is accessible to 

individuals with disabilities. 

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: 20 U.S.C. 1011c. 

Ted Mitchell, 

Under Secretary, U.S. Department of 

Education. 

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BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

Privacy Act of 1974; Computer 

Matching Program Between the U.S. 

Department of Education and the 

Department of Homeland Security, U.S. 

Citizenship and Immigration Services 

AGENCY: Department of Education. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This document provides 

notice of the continuation of a computer 

matching program between the 

Department of Education and the 


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