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Discussion of this information would be 

likely to significantly impede 

implementation of a proposed agency 

action if conducted in open session. 

Such matters are protected by 

exemption 9(B) of section 552b of Title 

5 U.S.C. 

On Friday, August 3, 2018 from 1:30 

p.m. to 2:30 p.m. the Board will meet in 

open session to receive an update on the 

NAEP Mathematics Framework 

followed by a full Board member 

discussion. From 2:30 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. 

Mr. Terry Mazany, Chair of the Ad Hoc 

Committee on Measures of 

Postsecondary Preparedness will 

provide an overview of the Ad Hoc 

Committee’s draft recommendations. 

Following this session, the Board will 

take a 15 minute break and reconvene 

in open session from 3:15 p.m. to 4:15 

p.m. in small groups to discuss draft the 

Ad Hoc Committee’s recommendations. 

Thereafter, the Board will recess for a 15 

minute break and convene at 4:30 p.m. 

to discuss takeaways from the small 

group discussions on the Ad Hoc 

Committee recommendations. The 

breakout sessions will conclude at 5:00 

p.m. 

The August 3, 2018 session of the 

Governing Board meeting will adjourn 

at 5:00 p.m. 

On Saturday, August 4, 2018, the 

Nominations Committee will meet in 

closed session from 7:30 a.m. to 8:15 

a.m. The Committee will provide 

updates on nominees for Governing 

Board vacancies for terms beginning 

October 1, 2018 and provide updates on 

plans to open the nominations cycle for 

Board vacancies for terms beginning 

October 1, 2019. The Nominations 

Committee’s discussions pertain solely 

to internal personnel rules and practices 

of an agency and information of a 

personal nature where disclosure would 

constitute a clearly unwarranted 

invasion of personal privacy. As such, 

the discussions are protected by 

exemptions 2 and 6 of § 552b(c) of Title 

5 of the United States Code. 

On August 4, 2018, the Governing 

Board will convene in closed session 

from 8:30 a.m. to 8:45 a.m. to receive a 

briefing from Terry Mazany, Chair of the 

Search Committee for the Executive 

Director on the status of the search 

process and make decisions on the next 

steps for the hiring process. These 

discussions pertain solely to internal 

personnel rules and practices of an 

agency and information of a personal 

nature where disclosure would 

constitute a clearly unwarranted 

invasion of personal privacy. As such, 

the discussions are protected by 

exemptions 2 and 6 of § 552b(c) of Title 

5 of the United States Code. 

Following the closed session, the 

Governing Board will meet in open 

session from 8:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. to 

receive a briefing on the NAEP 

Assessment Schedule with a focus on 

Social Studies. This briefing will be led 

by Sharyn Rosenberg, Governing Board 

staff and Eunice Greer, NCES staff. 

From 9:30 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. the Ad 

Hoc Committee Chair, Terry Mazany 

will provide additional reflections on 

the Ad Hoc Committee’s 

recommendations on Post-Secondary 

Preparedness. The Governing Board will 

then receive reports from its standing 

committees from 10:00 a.m. to 10:30 

a.m. Following a 15 minute break, the 

Board will receive a briefing and engage 

in discussion on the NAEP 

Achievement Levels Setting Policy led 

by Andrew Ho, COSDAM Chair. From 

11:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. retiring 

Governing Board’s Executive Director 

Bill Bushaw will provide remarks. 

The August 4, 2018 session of the 

board meeting will adjourn at 12:00 

p.m. 

Access to Records of the Meeting: 

Pursuant to FACA requirements, the 

public may also inspect the meeting 

materials at www.nagb.gov beginning on 

Thursday, August 2, 2018, by 10:00 a.m. 

EST. The official verbatim transcripts of 

the public meeting sessions will be 

available for public inspection no later 

than 30 calendar days following the 

meeting. 

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 no later than 

21 days prior to the meeting. 

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Authority: Pub. L. 107–279, Title III— 

National Assessment of Educational Progress 

§ 301. 

Dated: July 20, 2018. 

William Bushaw, 

Executive Director, National Assessment 

Governing Board (NAGB), U.S. Department 

of Education. 

[FR Doc. 2018–15887 Filed 7–24–18; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. CP18–522–000] 

El Paso Natural Gas Company, L.L.C.; 

Notice of Request Under Blanket 

Authorization 

Take notice that on July 12, 2018, El 

Paso Natural Gas Company, L.L.C. 

(EPNG), P.O. Box 1087, Colorado 

Springs, Colorado 80944, filed a prior 

notice request pursuant to sections 

157.205, 157.208, and 157.210 of the 

Commission’s regulations under the 

Natural Gas Act (NGA) requesting 

authorization to install or upgrade 

appurtenant facilities at various 

locations in Winkler and Yoakum 

Counties, Texas and in Eddy and Lea 

Counties, New Mexico. Additionally, 

EPNG proposes to increase the 

maximum allowable operating pressure 

for approximately 2,800 feet of its 20- 

inch-diameter Line No. 1115 in Ector 

County, Texas (collectively, Permian 

North Project). EPNG states that the 

Permian North Project will provide 

182,000 dekatherms per day of firm 

transportation service for six shippers. 

Specifically, EPNG proposes to install 

valves, actuators, station yard piping, 

and other auxiliary equipment at the 

Keystone, Pecos River Eunice B/C, and 

Plains Compressor Stations and the 

Ramsey North Meter Station. EPNG 

estimates the cost of the Permian North 

Project to be approximately $12 million, 

all as more fully set forth in the 

application which is on file with the 

Commission and open to public 

inspection. The filing may also be 

viewed on the web at http://

www.ferc.gov using the ‘‘eLibrary’’ link. 

Enter the docket number excluding the 

last three digits in the docket number 

field to access the document. For 

assistance, please contact FERC Online 

Support at FERCOnlineSupport@

ferc.gov or toll free at (866) 208–3676, or 

TTY, contact (202) 502–8659. 

Any questions concerning this 

application may be directed to 

Francisco Tarin, Director, Regulatory, El 


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1PURPA = Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act 

of 1979 (Pub. L. 95–617, 92 Stat. 3117), enacted 11/ 

9/1978. 

2Final Rule in Docket RM92–12–000, issued on 

1/13/1995. 

Paso Natural Gas Company, L.L.C., P.O. 

Box 1087, Colorado Springs, Colorado 

80944, by telephone at (719) 667–7517, 

or by fax at (719) 520–4697. 

Any person or the Commission’s staff 

may, within 60 days after issuance of 

the instant notice by the Commission, 

file pursuant to Rule 214 of the 

Commission’s Procedural Rules (18 CFR 

385.214) a motion to intervene or notice 

of intervention and pursuant to section 

157.205 of the regulations under the 

NGA (18 CFR 157.205), a protest to the 

request. If no protest is filed within the 

time allowed therefore, the proposed 

activity shall be deemed to be 

authorized effective the day after the 

time allowed for filing a protest. If a 

protest is filed and not withdrawn 

within 30 days after the allowed time 

for filing a protest, the instant request 

shall be treated as an application for 

authorization pursuant to section 7 of 

the NGA. 

Pursuant to section 157.9 of the 

Commission’s rules, 18 CFR 157.9, 

within 90 days of this Notice the 

Commission staff will either: Complete 

its environmental assessment (EA) and 

place it into the Commission’s public 

record (eLibrary) for this proceeding; or 

issue a Notice of Schedule for 

Environmental Review. If a Notice of 

Schedule for Environmental Review is 

issued, it will indicate, among other 

milestones, the anticipated date for the 

Commission staff’s issuance of the EA 

for this proposal. The filing of the EA 

in the Commission’s public record for 

this proceeding or the issuance of a 

Notice of Schedule for Environmental 

Review will serve to notify federal and 

state agencies of the timing for the 

completion of all necessary reviews, and 

the subsequent need to complete all 

federal authorizations within 90 days of 

the date of issuance of the Commission 

staff’s EA. 

Persons who wish to comment only 

on the environmental review of this 

project should submit an original and 

two copies of their comments to the 

Secretary of the Commission. 

Environmental commenter’s will be 

placed on the Commission’s 

environmental mailing list, will receive 

copies of the environmental documents, 

and will be notified of meetings 

associated with the Commission’s 

environmental review process. 

Environmental commenter’s will not be 

required to serve copies of filed 

documents on all other parties. 

However, the non-party commentary, 

will not receive copies of all documents 

filed by other parties or issued by the 

Commission (except for the mailing of 

environmental documents issued by the 

Commission) and will not have the right 

to seek court review of the 

Commission’s final order. 

The Commission strongly encourages 

electronic filings of comments, protests, 

and interventions in lieu of paper using 

the ‘‘eFiling’’ link at http://

www.ferc.gov. Persons unable to file 

electronically should submit an original 

and 7 copies of the protest or 

intervention to the Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street 

NE, Washington, DC 20426. 

Dated: July 18, 2018. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2018–15836 Filed 7–24–18; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. IC18–11–000] 

Commission Information Collection 

Activities (FERC–585); Comment 

Request; Extension 

AGENCY: Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission, DOE. 

ACTION: Notice of information collection 

and request for comments. 

SUMMARY: In compliance with the 

requirements of the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995, the Federal 

Energy Regulatory Commission 

(Commission or FERC) is submitting its 

information collection, FERC–585 

(Reporting of Electric Energy Shortages 

and Contingency Plans Under PURPA 

Section 206) to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for 

review of the information collection 

requirements. Any interested person 

may file comments directly with OMB 

and should address a copy of those 

comments to the Commission as 

explained below. The Commission 

previously issued a Notice in the 

Federal Register on April 12, 2018, 

requesting public comments. The 

Commission received no comments on 

the FERC–585 and is making this 

notation in its submittal to OMB. 

DATES: Comments on the collection of 

information are due August 24, 2018. 

ADDRESSES: Comments filed with OMB, 

identified by the OMB Control No. 

1902–0138, should be sent via email to 

the Office of Information and Regulatory 

Affairs: oira_submission@omb.gov. 

Attention: Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission Desk Officer. The Desk 

Officer may also be reached via 

telephone at 202–395–8528. 

A copy of the comments should also 

be sent to the Commission, in Docket 

No. IC18–11–000, by either of the 

following methods: 

• eFiling at Commission’s Website: 

http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/ 

efiling.asp. 

• Mail/Hand Delivery/Courier: 

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 

Secretary of the Commission, 888 First 

Street NE, Washington, DC 20426. 

Instructions: All submissions must be 

formatted and filed in accordance with 

submission guidelines at: http://

www.ferc.gov/help/submissionguide.asp. For user assistance contact 

FERC Online Support by email at 

ferconlinesupport@ferc.gov, or by phone 

at: (866) 208–3676 (toll-free), or (202) 

502–8659 for TTY. 

Docket: Users interested in receiving 

automatic notification of activity in this 

docket or in viewing/downloading 

comments and issuances in this docket 

may do so at http://www.ferc.gov/docsfiling/docs-filing.asp. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Ellen Brown may be reached by email 

at DataClearance@FERC.gov, telephone 

at (202) 502–8663, and fax at (202) 273– 

0873. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Title: FERC–585 (Reporting of Electric 

Energy Shortages and Contingency 

Plans Under PURPA 1 Section 206). 

OMB Control No.: 1902–0138. 

Type of Request: Three-year extension 

of the FERC–585 information collection 

requirements with no changes to the 

current reporting requirements. 

Abstract: The Commission uses the 

information collected under the 

requirements of FERC–585 to 

implement the statutory provisions of 

Section 206 of PURPA. Section 206 of 

PURPA amended the Federal Power Act 

(FPA) by adding a new subsection (g) to 

section 202, under which the 

Commission, by rule, was to require 

each public utility to report to the 

Commission and any appropriate state 

regulatory authority: 

• Any anticipated shortages of 

electric energy or capacity which would 

affect the utility’s capability to serve its 

wholesale customers; and 

• a contingency plan that would 

outline what circumstances might give 

rise to such occurrences. 

• In Order No. 575,2 the Commission 

modified the reporting requirements in 

18 CFR 294.101(b) to provide that, if a 

public utility includes in its rates 


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