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Title of Collection: Comprehensive 

Literacy Program Evaluation: Striving 

Readers Implementation Study. 

OMB Control Number: 1850–NEW. 

Type of Review: A new information 

collection. 

Respondents/Affected Public: 

Individuals or Households; State, Local, 

and Tribal Governments. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Responses: 4,824. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Burden Hours: 2,082. 

Abstract: The data collection 

described in this submission includes 

activities associated with the 

legislatively mandated evaluation of the 

Striving Readers Comprehensive 

Literacy (SRCL) program. The purpose 

of this evaluation is to provide 

information to policymakers, 

administrators, and educators regarding 

the implementation of the SRCL 

program, including grant award 

procedures, technical assistance, 

continuous improvement procedures, 

and literacy interventions at the school 

level. Data collection will include 

interviews with state-level grantees and 

district administrators; school 

principals, reading specialists, and 

teachers; and teacher surveys. In 

addition, the study team will conduct 

site visits to 50 schools and observe 

instruction in 100 classrooms using 

SRCL-funded literacy interventions, 

however the study team does not 

request clearance for these observations, 

which impose no burden. The study 

team also will collect and review 

grantee and subgrantee applications and 

comprehensive literacy plans. 

Dated: September 4, 2018. 

Stephanie Valentine, 

Acting Director, Information Collection 

Clearance Division, Office of the Chief Privacy 

Officer, Office of Management. 

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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

Draft Policy Statement on Developing 

Student Achievement Levels for the 

National Assessment of Educational 

Progress 

AGENCY: National Assessment 

Governing Board, U.S. Department of 

Education. 

ACTION: Notice of opportunity for public 

comment for policy statement on 

Student Achievement Levels for the 

National Assessment of Educational 

Progress (NAEP). 

SUMMARY: The National Assessment 

Governing Board (Governing Board) is 

soliciting public comment for guidance 

in finalizing a revised policy on 

Developing Student Achievement 

Levels for the National Assessment of 

Educational Progress (NAEP). 

The Governing Board is authorized to 

formulate policy guidelines for NAEP. 

The NAEP legislation specifies that the 

Governing Board is to develop 

appropriate student achievement levels 

for each subject and grade tested. Such 

levels are determined by identifying the 

knowledge and skills that can be 

measured and verified using widely 

accepted professional assessment 

standards. It is anticipated that the 

revised policy on Developing Student 

Achievement Levels for NAEP will be 

presented for approval at the National 

Assessment Governing Board quarterly 

meeting on November 15–17, 2018. 

Public and private parties and 

organizations are invited to provide 

written comments and 

recommendations. Voluntary 

participation by all interested parties is 

urged. This notice sets forth the review 

schedule and provides information for 

accessing additional materials that will 

be useful for this review. 

DATES: Comments must be received no 

later than September 30, 2018. 

ADDRESSES: Comments may be provided 

via email at NAEPALSpolicy@ed.gov 

and may also be mailed to the following 

address: NAEP Achievement Level 

Setting Policy, National Assessment 

Governing Board, 800 North Capitol 

Street NW, Suite 825, Washington, DC 

20002. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Sharyn Rosenberg, National Assessment 

Governing Board, 800 North Capitol 

Street NW, Suite 825, Washington, DC 

20002–4233, Telephone: (202) 357– 

6940. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: All 

responses will be taken into 

consideration before finalizing the 

updated policy on Developing 

Achievement levels for NAEP for Board 

adoption. Once adopted, the policy will 

be used in setting and reporting 

achievement levels for NAEP 

assessments. 

Additional information (including the 

materials referenced below) can be 

found on the Governing Board website 

at https://www.nagb.gov/news-andevents/calendar/public-comment-onals-policy.html. 

Proposed Revised Policy on Developing 

Student Achievement Levels for the 

National Assessment of Educational 

Progress 

The proposed revised policy can be 

downloaded from the Governing Board 

website. 

Existing Policy on Developing Student 

Performance Levels for the National 

Assessment of Educational Progress 

The existing policy (adopted in 1995) 

can be downloaded from the Governing 

Board website. 

Governing Board’s Formal Response to 

the Evaluation of NAEP Achievement 

Levels 

From 2014–2016, the National 

Academies of Sciences, Engineering, 

and Medicine conducted an 

independent evaluation of the NAEP 

achievement levels. The Governing 

Board’s formal response to the 

recommendations put forth in the 

evaluation noted that the revision of the 

Board policy on developing 

achievement levels for NAEP would 

specify a process and timeline for 

conducting regularly recurring reviews 

of the achievement level descriptions 

and would be explicit about the 

conditions that necessitate 

consideration of a new standard setting. 

More information about the evaluation 

and the Governing Board’s response can 

be found on the Governing Board 

website. A link to the final report from 

the evaluation can be found on the 

Governing Board website. 

Summary of Proposed Revisions 

Compared to the existing 1995 policy 

on Developing Student Performance 

Levels for NAEP, the proposed revised 

policy reflects: 

• Reorganization of principles, 

streamlining of language, 

minimization of redundancies 

• Minor (non-substantive) edits to the 

NAEP policy definitions for clarity 

• A change in terminology from 

Proficient to NAEP Proficient to better 

differentiate the NAEP achievement 

levels from other common uses of 

Basic, Proficient, Advanced 

• A new principle on periodic review of 

achievement level descriptions and 

cut scores, prompted by the Board’s 

response to the evaluation of NAEP 

achievement levels 

• A new principle to clarify 

participation of multiple stakeholders 

at various points throughout process 

• A new principle to summarize the 

role of the Board 

• Reference to an interpretative guide 

that would accompany the release of 


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NAEP results and explain how the 

achievement levels should (and 

should not) be used 

• Reference to multiple types of 

achievement level descriptions 

(ALDs), including reporting ALDs that 

would be created using empirical data 

and written in terms of what students 

do know and can do rather than what 

students should know and be able to 

do 

• Clarification on the standard setting 

participants, in particular the noneducator group 

• Additional details about the 

achievement level setting process, 

including some practices that have 

become institutionalized over time 

(e.g., the use of ‘‘impact data’’) 

• Removal of details on implementation 

directed to staff and contractors, 

which will instead be included in a 

‘‘procedures manual’’ 

Electronic Access to This Document: 

You may 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) on the internet at the 

following site: http://www.ed.gov/news/ 

fedregister/index.html. To use PDF you 

must have Adobe Acrobat Reader, 

which is available free at this site. If you 

have questions about using PDF, call the 

U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO), 

toll free at 1–888–293–6498; or in the 

Washington, DC, area at (202) 512–1530. 

Note: 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 on GPO 

Access at: www.gpoaccess.gov/nara/ 

index.html. 

Dated: September 5, 2018. 

Lisa Stooksberry, 

Deputy Executive Director, National 

Assessment Governing Board, U.S. 

Department of Education. 

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

International Energy Agency Meetings 

AGENCY: Department of Energy. 

ACTION: Notice of meetings. 

SUMMARY: The Industry Advisory Board 

(IAB) to the International Energy 

Agency (IEA) will meet on September 

18–19, 2018, at the Conference Centre of 

the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 

27, Rue de la Convention, 75015 Paris, 

France. 

DATES: September 18–19, 2018. 

ADDRESSES: 27, Rue de la Convention, 

75015 Paris, France. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Thomas Reilly, Assistant General 

Counsel for International and National 

Security Programs, Department of 

Energy, 1000 Independence Avenue 

SW, Washington, DC 20585, 202–586– 

5000. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In 

accordance with section 252(c)(1)(A)(i) 

of the Energy Policy and Conservation 

Act (42 U.S.C. 6272(c)(1)(A)(i)) (EPCA), 

the following notice of meetings is 

provided: 

A meeting involving members of the 

Industry Advisory Board (IAB) to the 

International Energy Agency (IEA) in 

connection with a workshop meeting of 

the IEA’s Standing Group on Emergency 

Questions (SEQ) will be held at the 

French Ministry of Foreign Affairs 

Building (Centre de Confe ́rence 

Ministe ́riel), 27 rue de la Convention, 

Paris 75015, France, on September 18– 

19, 2018. The purpose of the workshop 

is to discuss relevant key issues in order 

to establish a basis for drafting a 

proposal for possible improvements to 

the emergency oil stockholding 

requirement. The purpose of this notice 

is to permit attendance by 

representatives of U.S. company 

members of the IAB at a workshop 

meeting of the IEA’s Standing Group on 

Emergency Questions (SEQ). 

The agenda of the meeting is under 

the control of the IEA. It is expected that 

the IEA will adopt the following agenda: 

Draft Agenda of the IEA’s Workshop 

on the Review of the IEA Stockholding 

Requirement: 

—Introduction by the Chairman 

—Introduction by the IEA Secretariat 

—Roundtable discussions—4 sessions 

on centralized topics 

—Session 1—What to prepare for 

—Session 2—How to divide the level 

of stocks needed 

Session 3—What to count as stocks 

contributing to the obligation 

—Session 4—Flexibility to make this 

work 

—Wrap-up and conclusions 

Close 

As provided in section 252(c)(1)(A)(ii) 

of the Energy Policy and Conservation 

Act (42 U.S.C. 6272(c)(1)(A)(ii)), the 

meetings of the IAB are open to 

representatives of members of the IAB 

and their counsel; representatives of 

members of the IEA’s Standing 

Group on Emergency Questions and 

the IEA’s Group of Reporting 

Companies; representatives of the 

Departments of Energy, Justice, and 

State, the Federal Trade Commission, 

the General Accounting Office, 

Committees of Congress, the IEA, and 

the European Commission; and invitees 

of the IAB or the IEA. 

Issued in Washington, DC, September 5, 

2018. 

Thomas Reilly, 

Assistant General Counsel for International 

and National Security Programs. 

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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, 

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Commission, a copy of the 

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Prohibited communications are 

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the prohibited communication and any 

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