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NATIONAL FOUNDATION ON THE 

ARTS AND THE HUMANITIES 

Meeting of National Council on the 

Humanities 

AGENCY: National Endowment for the 

Humanities, National Foundation on the 

Arts and Humanities. 

ACTION: Notice of meeting. 

SUMMARY: Pursuant to the Federal 

Advisory Committee Act, notice is 

hereby given that the National Council 

on the Humanities will meet to advise 

the Chairman of the National 

Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) 

with respect to policies, programs and 

procedures for carrying out his 

functions; to review applications for 

financial assistance under the National 

Foundation on the Arts and Humanities 

Act of 1965 and make recommendations 

thereon to the Chairman; and to 

consider gifts offered to NEH and make 

recommendations thereon to the 

Chairman. 

DATES: The meeting will be held on 

Thursday, July 12, 2018, from 9:00 a.m. 

until 12:00 p.m., and Friday, July 13, 

2018, from 9:00 a.m. until adjourned. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at 

Constitution Center, 400 7th Street SW, 

Washington, DC 20506. See 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION for room 

numbers. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Elizabeth Voyatzis, Committee 

Management Officer, 400 7th Street SW, 

4th Floor, Washington, DC 20506; (202) 

606–8322; evoyatzis@neh.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

National Council on the Humanities is 

meeting pursuant to the National 

Foundation on the Arts and Humanities 

Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 951–960, as 

amended). The Committee meetings of 

the National Council on the Humanities 

will be held on July 12, 2018, as follows: 

The policy discussion session (open to 

the public) will convene at 9:00 a.m. 

until approximately 10:30 a.m., 

followed by the discussion of specific 

grant applications and programs before 

the Council (closed to the public) from 

10:30 a.m. until 12:00 p.m. 

All Committee meetings will take 

place at Constitution Center. For 

specific room numbers, contact Caitlin 

Cater at (202) 606–8322 or gencounsel@

neh.gov. 

The plenary session of the National 

Council on the Humanities will convene 

on July 13, 2018, at 9:00 a.m. in the 

Conference Center at Constitution 

Center. The agenda for the morning 

session (open to the public) will be as 

follows: 

A. Minutes of the Previous Meeting 

B. Reports 

1. Chairman’s Remarks 

2. Senior Deputy Chairman’s Remarks 

3. Presentation by guest speaker Lori 

Foley, Federal Emergency 

Management Agency 

4. Congressional Affairs and Budget 

Reports 

5. Office of Communications Report 

on New NEH Website 

6. Reports on Policy and General 

Matters 

a. Digital Humanities 

b. Education Programs 

c. Federal/State Partnership 

d. Preservation and Access 

e. Challenge Grants 

f. Public Programs 

g. Research Programs 

The remainder of the plenary session 

will be for consideration of specific 

applications and therefore will be 

closed to the public. 

As identified above, portions of the 

meeting of the National Council on the 

Humanities will be closed to the public 

pursuant to sections 552b(c)(4), 

552b(c)(6), and 552b(c)(9)(B) of Title 5 

U.S.C., as amended. The closed sessions 

will include review of personal and/or 

proprietary financial and commercial 

information given in confidence to the 

agency by grant applicants, and 

discussion of certain information, the 

premature disclosure of which could 

significantly frustrate implementation of 

proposed agency action. I have made 

this determination pursuant to the 

authority granted me by the Chairman’s 

Delegation of Authority to Close 

Advisory Committee Meetings dated 

April 15, 2016. 

Please note that individuals planning 

to attend the public sessions of the 

meeting are subject to security screening 

procedures. If you wish to attend any of 

the public sessions, please inform NEH 

as soon as possible by contacting Caitlin 

Cater at (202) 606–8322 or gencounsel@

neh.gov. Please also provide advance 

notice of any special needs or 

accommodations, including for a sign 

language interpreter. 

Dated: June 6, 2018. 

Elizabeth Voyatzis, 

Committee Management Officer. 

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mechanical, or other technological 

collection techniques or other forms of 

information technology. 

Title of Collection: Grantee Reporting 

Requirements for the Engineering 

Research Centers (ERCs). 

OMB Number: 3145–0220. 

Type of Request: Intent to seek 

approval to renew an information 

collection. 

Abstract: 

Proposed Project: The Engineering 

Research Centers (ERC) program 

supports an integrated, interdisciplinary 

research environment to advance 

fundamental engineering knowledge 

and engineered systems; educate a 

globally competitive and diverse 

engineering workforce from K–12 on; 

and join academe and industry in 

partnership to achieve these goals. ERCs 

conduct world-class research through 

partnerships of academic institutions, 

national laboratories, industrial 

organizations, and/or other public/ 

private entities. New knowledge thus 

created is meaningfully linked to 

society. 

ERCs conduct world-class research 

with an engineered systems perspective 

that integrates materials, devices, 

processes, components, control 

algorithms and/or other enabling 

elements to perform a well-defined 

function. These systems provide a 

unique academic research and 

education experience that involves 

integrative complexity and 

technological realization. The 

complexity of the systems perspective 

includes the factors associated with its 

use in industry, society/environment, or 

the human body. 

ERCs enable and foster excellent 

education, integrate research and 

education, speed knowledge/technology 

transfer through partnerships between 

academe and industry, and prepare a 

more competitive future workforce. 

ERCs capitalize on diversity through 

participation in center activities and 

demonstrate leadership in the 

involvement of groups 

underrepresented in science and 

engineering. 

Centers are required to submit annual 

reports on progress and plans, which 

will be used as a basis for performance 

review and determining the level of 

continued funding. To support this 

review and the management of a Center, 

ERCs also are required to submit 

management and performance 

indicators annually to NSF via a data 

collection website that is managed by a 

technical assistance contractor. These 

indicators are both quantitative and 

descriptive and may include, for 

example, the characteristics of center 

personnel and students; sources of cash 

and in-kind support; expenditures by 

operational component; characteristics 

of industrial and/or other sector 

participation; research activities; 

education activities; knowledge transfer 

activities; patents, licenses; 

publications; degrees granted to 

students involved in Center activities; 

descriptions of significant advances and 

other outcomes of the ERC effort. Such 

reporting requirements will be included 

in the cooperative agreement which is 

binding between the academic 

institution and the NSF. 

Each Center’s annual report will 

address the following categories of 

activities: (1) Vision and impact, (2) 

strategic plan, (3) research program, (4) 

innovation ecosystem and industrial 

collaboration, (5) education, (6) 

infrastructure (leadership, management, 

facilities, diversity) and (7) budget 

issues. 

For each of the categories the report 

will describe overall objectives for the 

year, progress toward center goals, 

problems the Center has encountered in 

making progress towards goals and how 

they were overcome, plans for the future 

and anticipated research and other 

barriers to overcome in the following 

year, and specific outputs and 

outcomes. 

Use of the Information: The data 

collected will be used for NSF internal 

reports, historical data, performance 

review by peer site visit teams, program 

level studies and evaluations, and for 

securing future funding for continued 

ERC program maintenance and growth. 

Estimate of Burden: 150 hours per 

center for 17 centers for a total of 2,550 

hours. 

Respondents: Academic institutions. 

Estimated Number of Responses per 

Report: One from each of the 17 ERCs. 

Dated: June 19, 2018. 

Suzanne H. Plimpton, 

Reports Clearance Officer, National Science 

Foundation. 

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