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Information Collection Clearance 

Division, U.S. Department of Education, 

550 12th Street SW, PCP, Room 9088, 

Washington, DC 20202–0023. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

specific questions related to collection 

activities, please contact Lisa Gillette, 

202–260–1426. 

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: High School 

Equivalency Program (HEP) Annual 

Performance Report. 

OMB Control Number: 1810–0684. 

Type of Review: A revision of an 

existing information collection. 

Respondents/Affected Public: State, 

Local, and Tribal Governments. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Responses: 51. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Burden Hours: 1,173. 

Abstract: The High School 

Equivalency Program (HEP) office staff 

collects information for the HEP Annual 

Performance Report (APR) in 

compliance with Higher Education Act 

of 1965, as amended, Title IV, Sec. 

418A; 20 U.S.C. 1070d-2 (special 

programs for students whose families 

are engaged in migrant and seasonal 

farmwork), and the Code of Federal 

Regulations (CFR), 2 CFR 200.238. CFR 

states that recipients of multi-year 

discretionary grants must submit an 

APR demonstrating that that substantial 

progress has been made towards 

meeting the approved objectives. The 

HEP office staff requests to continue a 

customized APR that goes beyond the 

generic 524B APR to facilitate the 

collection of more standardized and 

comprehensive data to inform GPRA, to 

improve the overall quality of data 

collected, and to increase the quality of 

data that can be used to inform policy 

decisions. 

Dated: August 29, 2018. 

Stephanie Valentine, 

Acting Director, Information Collection 

Clearance Division, Office of the Chief Privacy 

Officer, Office of Management. 

[FR Doc. 2018–19075 Filed 8–31–18; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

Office of Postsecondary Education; 

Call for Written Third-Party Comments 

AGENCY: U.S. Department of Education, 

Accreditation Group, Office of 

Postsecondary Education. 

ACTION: Call for written third-party 

comments. 

SUMMARY: This notice provides 

information to members of the public on 

submitting written comments for 

accrediting agencies currently 

undergoing review for purposes of 

recognition by the U.S. Secretary of 

Education. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Herman Bounds, Director, Accreditation 

Group, Office of Postsecondary 

Education, U.S. Department of 

Education, 400 Maryland Avenue SW, 

Room 270–01, Washington, DC 20202, 

telephone: (202) 453–7615, or email: 

herman.bounds@ed.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

solicitation of third-party comments 

concerning the performance of 

accrediting agencies under review by 

the Secretary of Education is required 

by § 496(n)(1)(A) of the Higher 

Education Act (HEA) of 1965, as 

amended. These accrediting agencies 

will be on the agenda for the Winter 

2019 National Advisory Committee on 

Institutional Quality and Integrity 

meeting. The meeting date has not been 

determined, but will be announced in a 

separate Federal Register notice. 

Agencies Under Review and 

Evaluation: Below is a list of agencies 

currently undergoing review and 

evaluation by the Accreditation Group, 

including their current and requested 

scopes of recognition: 

Applications for Renewal of 

Recognition 

1. Accrediting Council for Continuing 

Education and Training. Scope of 

Recognition: The accreditation 

throughout the United States of 

institutions of higher education that 

offer continuing education and 

vocational programs that confer 

certificates or occupational associate 

degrees, including those programs 

offered via distance education. 

2. American Veterinary Medical 

Association, Council on Education. 

Scope of Recognition: The accreditation 

and preaccreditation (‘‘Provisional 

Accreditation’’) in the United States of 

programs leading to professional 

degrees (D.V.M. or D.M.D.) in veterinary 

medicine. 

3. Council on Education for Public 

Health. Scope of Recognition: The 

accreditation within the United States of 

schools of public health and public 

health programs outside schools of 

public health, at the baccalaureate and 

graduate degree levels, including those 

offered via distance education. 

4. Western Association of Schools and 

Colleges, Accrediting Commission for 

Community and Junior Colleges. Scope 

of Recognition: The accreditation and 

preaccreditation (‘‘Candidate for 

Accreditation’’) of community and other 

colleges with a primarily prebaccalaureate mission located in 

California, Hawaii, the United States 

territories of Guam and American 

Samoa, the Republic of Palau, the 

Federated States of Micronesia, the 

Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana 

Islands, and the Republic of the 

Marshall Islands, which offer 

certificates, associate degrees, and the 

first baccalaureate degree by means of a 

substantive change review offered by 

institutions that are already accredited 

by the agency, and such programs 

offered via distance education and 

correspondence education at these 

colleges. This recognition also extends 

to the Committee on Substantive Change 

of the Commission, for decisions on 

substantive changes, and the Appeals 

Panel. 

Compliance Report 

1. The Council on Chiropractic 

Education compliance report includes 

the following: finding identified in the 

May 25, 2017 letter from the senior 

Department official following the 

February 22, 2017 NACIQI meeting 

available at: https://opeweb.ed.gov/ 

aslweb/finalstaffreports.cfm, with 

respect to recognition requirements 

found at 34 CFR 602.20(a). Scope of 

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programs leading to the Doctor of 

Chiropractic degree and single-purpose 

institutions offering the Doctor of 

Chiropractic program. 

2. Commission on English Language 

Program Accreditation Compliance 

report includes the following: Finding 

identified in the May 25, 2017 letter 

from the senior Department official 

following the February 22, 2017 NACIQI 

meeting available at: https://

opeweb.ed.gov/aslweb/ 

finalstaffreports.cfm, with respect to 

recognition requirements found at 34 

CFR 602.20(b). Scope of Recognition: 

The accreditation of postsecondary, 

non-degree-granting English language 

programs and institutions in the United 

States. 

Application for an Expansion of Scope 

1. Western Association of Schools and 

Colleges, Accrediting Commission for 

Community and Junior Colleges. Scope 

of Recognition: The accreditation and 

preaccreditation (‘‘Candidate for 

Accreditation’’) of community and other 

colleges with a primarily prebaccalaureate mission located in 

California, Hawaii, the United States 

territories of Guam and American 

Samoa, the Republic of Palau, the 

Federated States of Micronesia, the 

Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana 

Islands, and the Republic of the 

Marshall Islands, which offer 

certificates, associate degrees, and the 

first baccalaureate degree by means of a 

substantive change review offered by 

institutions that are already accredited 

by the agency, and such programs 

offered via distance education and 

correspondence education at these 

colleges. This recognition also extends 

to the Committee on Substantive Change 

of the Commission, for decisions on 

substantive changes, and the Appeals 

Panel. 

Requested Scope of Recognition 

The accreditation and 

preaccreditation (‘‘Candidate for 

Accreditation’’) of community and other 

colleges in California, Hawaii, the 

United States territories of Guam and 

American Samoa, the Republic of Palau, 

the Federated States of Micronesia, the 

Commonwealth of the Northern 

Marianas, and the Republic of the 

Marshall Islands, which have as a 

primary mission the granting of 

associate degrees, but which may also 

award certificates and other credentials, 

including bachelor’s degrees, where the 

provision of such credentials is within 

the institution’s mission and, if 

applicable, is authorized by their 

governmental authorities, and the 

accreditation of such programs offered 

via distance education and 

correspondence education at these 

colleges. This recognition also extends 

to the Committee on Substantive Change 

of the Commission, for decisions on 

substantive changes. 

Submission of Written Comments 

Regarding a Specific Accrediting 

Agency or State Approval Agency 

Under Review 

Written comments about the 

recognition of a specific accrediting or 

State agency must be received by 

September 30, 2018, in the 

ThirdPartyComments@ed.gov mailbox 

and include the subject line ‘‘Written 

Comments: (Agency name).’’ The email 

must include the name(s), title, 

organization/affiliation, mailing 

address, email address, and telephone 

number of the person(s) making the 

comment. Comments should be 

submitted as a Microsoft Word 

document or in a medium compatible 

with Microsoft Word (not a PDF file) 

that is attached to an electronic mail 

message (email) or provided in the body 

of an email message. Comments about 

an agency that has submitted a 

compliance report scheduled for review 

by the Department must relate to the 

criteria for recognition cited in the 

senior Department official’s letter that 

requested the report, or in the 

Secretary’s appeal decision, if any. 

Comments about an agency that has 

submitted a petition for renewal of 

recognition must relate to the agency’s 

compliance with the Criteria for the 

Recognition of Accrediting Agencies, or 

the Criteria and Procedures for 

Recognition of State Agencies for 

Approval of Nurse Education as 

appropriate, which are available at 

http://www.ed.gov/admins/finaid/ 

accred/index.html. 

Only written material submitted by 

the deadline to the email address listed 

in this notice, and in accordance with 

these instructions, become part of the 

official record concerning agencies 

scheduled for review and are considered 

by the Department and NACIQI in their 

deliberations. 

A later Federal Register notice will 

describe how to register to provide oral 

comments at the meeting regarding the 

recognition of a specific accrediting 

agency or State approval agency. 

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. 

Lynn B. Mahaffie, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Planning, 

Policy, and Innovation. 

[FR Doc. 2018–19003 Filed 8–31–18; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

[Docket No. ED–2018–ICCD–0068] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission to the Office of 

Management and Budget for Review 

and Approval; Comment Request; The 

College Assistance Migrant Program 

(CAMP) Annual Performance Report 

(APR) 

AGENCY: Office of Elementary and 

Secondary Education (OESE), 

Department of Education (ED). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, ED is 

proposing a revision of an existing 

information collection. 

DATES: Interested persons are invited to 

submit comments on or before October 

4, 2018. 

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– 

2018–ICCD–0068. 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. 

Please note that comments submitted by 

fax or email and those 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 Director of the 

Information Collection Clearance 

Division, U.S. Department of Education, 

550 12th Street SW, PCP, Room 9088, 

Washington, DC 20202–0023. 


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