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electronic mail, the preferred mode of 

submission, at the address listed in the 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT

section. Each page of the comment or 

statement must include the author’s 

name, title or affiliation, address, and 

daytime phone number. Written 

comments or statements being 

submitted in response to the agenda set 

forth in this notice must be received by 

the Designated Federal Officer at least 

seven business days prior to the meeting 

to be considered by the Committee. The 

Designated Federal Officer will review 

all timely submitted written comments 

or statements with the Committee 

Chairperson, and ensure the comments 

are provided to all members of the 

Committee before the meeting. Written 

comments or statements received after 

this date may not be provided to the 

Committee until its next meeting. 

Pursuant to 41 CFR 102–3.140d, the 

Committee is not obligated to allow a 

member of the public to speak or 

otherwise address the Committee during 

the meeting. Members of the public will 

be permitted to make verbal comments 

during the Committee meeting only at 

the time and in the manner described 

below. If a member of the public is 

interested in making a verbal comment 

at the open meeting, that individual 

must submit a request, with a brief 

statement of the subject matter to be 

addressed by the comment, at least three 

(3) days in advance to the Committee’s 

Designated Federal Official, via 

electronic mail, the preferred mode of 

submission, at the addresses listed in 

the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT

section. The Designated Federal Official 

will log each request, in the order 

received, and in consultation with the 

Committee Chair determine whether the 

subject matter of each comment is 

relevant to the Committee’s mission 

and/or the topics to be addressed in this 

public meeting. A 15-minute period 

near the end of meeting will be available 

for verbal public comments. Members of 

the public who have requested to make 

a verbal comment and whose comments 

have been deemed relevant under the 

process described above, will be allotted 

no more than three (3) minutes during 

this period, and will be invited to speak 

in the order in which their requests 

were received by the Designated Federal 

Official. 

Brenda S. Bowen, 

Army Federal Register Liaison Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2015–06610 Filed 3–23–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3710–08–P 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

[Docket No.: ED–2015–ICCD–0031] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Comment Request; Formula 

Grant EASIE 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 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 May 26, 

2015. 

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–2015–ICCD–0031 

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 2E115, 

Washington, DC 20202. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

specific questions related to collection 

activities, please contact Kimberly 

Smith, 202–453–6459. 

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: Formula Grant 

EASIE Annual Performance Report. 

OMB Control Number: 1810–NEW. 

Type of Review: A new information 

collection. 

Respondents/Affected Public: State, 

Local and Tribal Governments. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Responses: 1,300. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Burden Hours: 20,800. 

Abstract: The purpose of Indian 

Education Formula Grant to Local 

Agencies, as authorized under title VII, 

part A, subpart 1 of the Elementary and 

Secondary Education Act (ESEA), as 

amended sections 7111–7119, 20 U.S.C. 

7421–7429 is to assist applicants to 

provide Indian students with the 

opportunity to meet the same 

challenging state standards as all other 

students and meet the unique 

educational and culturally related 

academic needs of American Indian and 

Alaska Native students. The Indian 

Education Formula Grant (CFDA 

84.060A) is not competitive or 

discretionary and requires the annual 

submission of the application from 

either a local education agency (LEA) 

and/or tribe. The amount of the award 

for each applicant is determined by a 

formula based on the reported number 

of American Indian/Alaska Native 

students identified in the application, 

the state per pupil expenditure, and the 

total appropriation available. The 524B 

Annual Performance Report (APR) was 

designed for discretionary grants, 

however the title VII program is a 

formula grant program. Therefore, the 

EASIE APR goes beyond the generic 

524B APR and facilitates the collection 

of more specific and comprehensive 

data due to grantees entering project 

specific data into an online database. 

This will allow for a comparison of 

LEAs across objectives. By entering 

information into the EASIE APR 

database, data will be able to be 

generated quickly and uniformly to 

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facilitate data collection, as required 

under 34 CFR 75.720, and 2 CFR part 

200.301. This APR will improve the 

quality of data collected that can be 

used for evaluation and to help make 

policy decisions, reduce burden on the 

grantees, and allow ED to inform 

Congress on the outcomes of this grant 

program. 

Dated: March 16, 2015. 

Tomakie Washington, 

Acting Director, Information Collection 

Clearance Division, Privacy, Information and 

Records Management Services, Office of 

Management. 

[FR Doc. 2015–06379 Filed 3–23–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

[Docket No. ED–2015–ICCD–0033] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Comment Request; 

Transition to Teaching Survey 

AGENCY: Office of Innovation and 

Improvement (OII), 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 May 26, 

2015. 

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–2015–ICCD–0033 

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 2E103, 

Washington, DC 20202. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

specific questions related to collection 

activities, please contact Tyra Stewart, 

202–260–1847. 

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: Transition to 

Teaching Survey. 

OMB Control Number: 1855–0018. 

Type of Review: An extension of an 

existing information collection. 

Respondents/Affected Public: State, 

Local and Tribal Governments. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Responses: 144. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Burden Hours: 42. 

Abstract: This is a request for 

approval to collect information from 

Transition to Teaching (TTT) grantees 

that will be used to describe the extent 

to which local education agencies that 

received TTT grant funds have met the 

goals relating to teacher recruitment and 

retention described in their application. 

TTT grantees are funded for a period of 

five years. Currently, grantees are 

required by statute to submit an interim 

project evaluation to the Department of 

Education (ED) at the end of the third 

project year and a final project 

evaluation at the project’s end. In turn, 

the TTT program is required to prepare 

and submit to the Secretary and to 

Congress interim and final program 

evaluations containing the results of 

these grantee project evaluation reports. 

An analysis of these reports has 

provided some data on grantee 

activities, prior to the usage of the TTT 

survey, missing or incomplete data 

made it difficult to aggregate data across 

grantees in order to accurately describe 

to Congress the extent of program 

implementation. This data collection 

allows ED to gather data on a common 

set of indicators across grantees in order 

to describe and improve program 

implementation with the end goal of 

improving program performance. 

Dated: March 18, 2015. 

Tomakie Washington, 

Acting Director, Information Collection 

Clearance Division, Privacy, Information and 

Records Management Services, Office of 

Management. 

[FR Doc. 2015–06625 Filed 3–23–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. RM98–1–000] 

Records Governing Off-the-Record 

Communications 

Public Notice 

This constitutes notice, in accordance 

with 18 CFR 385.2201(b), of the receipt 

of prohibited and exempt off-the-record 

communications. 

Order No. 607 (64 FR 51222, 

September 22, 1999) requires 

Commission decisional employees, who 

make or receive a prohibited or exempt 

off-the-record communication relevant 

to the merits of a contested proceeding, 

to deliver to the Secretary of the 

Commission, a copy of the 

communication, if written, or a 

summary of the substance of any oral 

communication. 

Prohibited communications are 

included in a public, non-decisional file 

associated with, but not a part of, the 

decisional record of the proceeding. 

Unless the Commission determines that 

the prohibited communication and any 

responses thereto should become a part 

of the decisional record, the prohibited 

off-the-record communication will not 

be considered by the Commission in 

reaching its decision. Parties to a 

proceeding may seek the opportunity to 

respond to any facts or contentions 

made in a prohibited off-the-record 

communication, and may request that 

the Commission place the prohibited 

communication and responses thereto 

in the decisional record. The 

Commission will grant such a request 

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