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administrative and national policy 

requirements in the application package 

and reference these and other 

requirements in the Applicable 

Regulations section of this notice. 

We reference the regulations outlining 

the terms and conditions of an award in 

the Applicable Regulations section of 

this notice and include these and other 

specific conditions in the GAN. The 

GAN also incorporates your approved 

application as part of your binding 

commitments under the grant. 

3. Reporting: (a) If you apply for a 

grant under this competition, you must 

ensure that you have in place the 

necessary processes and systems to 

comply with the reporting requirements 

in 2 CFR part 170 and section 1704(f) of 

the ESEA should you receive funding 

under the competition. The reporting 

requirements in 2 CFR part 170 do not 

apply if you have an exception under 2 

CFR 170.110(b). 

(b) At the end of your project period, 

you must submit a final performance 

report, including financial information, 

as directed by the Secretary. The 

Secretary may also require more 

frequent performance reports under 34 

CFR 75.720(c). For specific 

requirements on reporting, please go to 

www.ed.gov/fund/grant/apply/ 

appforms/appforms.html. 

4. Performance Measures: Under the 

Government Performance and Results 

Act of 1993 (GPRA), the Department has 

developed five performance measures to 

evaluate the overall effectiveness of the 

AP Test Fee program: (1) The number of 

advanced placement tests taken by lowincome public school students 

nationally; (2) The number of advanced 

placement tests taken by minority 

(Hispanic, Black, Native American) 

public school students nationally; (3) 

The percentage of advanced placement 

tests passed (for AP exams, scores of 3– 

5) by low-income public school students 

nationally; (4) The number of advanced 

placement tests passed (for AP exams, 

scores of 3–5) by low-income public 

school students nationally; and (5) The 

cost per passage of an advanced 

placement test taken by a low-income 

public school student. The information 

provided by grantees in their final 

performance reports will be one of the 

sources of data for the measures. Other 

sources of data include the College 

Board, IB Americas, and University of 

Cambridge International Examinations. 

VII. Agency Contact 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Francisco Ramirez, U.S. Department of 

Education, 400 Maryland Avenue SW., 

room 3E224, Washington, DC 20202– 

6200. Telephone: (202) 260–1541 or by 

email: francisco.ramirez@ed.gov. 

If you use a TDD or a TTY, call the 

FRS, toll free, at 1–800–877–8339. 

VIII. Other Information 

Accessible Format: Individuals with 

disabilities can obtain this document 

and a copy of the application package in 

an accessible format (e.g., braille, large 

print, audiotape, or compact disc) on 

request to the program contact person 

listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT in section VII of this notice. 

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. 

Dated: February 10, 2012. 

Michael Yudin, 

Acting Assistant Secretary for Elementary and 

Secondary Education. 

[FR Doc. 2012–3560 Filed 2–14–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Office of Energy Efficiency and 

Renewable Energy 

Proposed Agency Information 

Collection 

AGENCY: Office of Energy Efficiency and 

Renewable Energy, U.S. Department of 

Energy. 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Energy 

(DOE) invites public comment on a 

proposed collection of information for a 

National Evaluation of the Energy 

Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant 

Program (EECBG) that DOE is 

developing for submission to the Office 

of Management and Budget (OMB) 

pursuant to the Paperwork Reduction 

Act of 1995. Comments are invited on: 

(a) Whether the proposed collection of 

information is necessary for the proper 

performance of the functions of the 

agency, including whether the 

information shall have practical utility; 

(b) the accuracy of the agency’s estimate 

of the burden of the proposed collection 

of information, including the validity of 

the methodology and assumptions used; 

(c) ways to enhance the quality, utility, 

and clarity of the information to be 

collected; and (d) ways to minimize the 

burden of the collection of information 

on respondents, including the use of 

automated collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology. 

Information about the outcomes of the 

program, including energy and cost 

savings, the net number of jobs created 

or retained, and gross reductions in 

carbon emissions, is needed for a 

comprehensive evaluation of the 

program. 

DATES: Comments regarding this 

proposed information collection must 

be received on or before April 16, 2012. 

If you anticipate difficulty in submitting 

comments within that period, contact 

the person listed in ADDRESSES as soon 

as possible. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments may be 

sent to Colleen Rizy, Environmental 

Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National 

Laboratory, P.O. Box 2008, MS–6036, 

Oak Ridge, TN 37831–6036; 

rizycg@ornl.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Requests for additional information 

should be directed to: Colleen Rizy, 

Environmental Sciences Division, Oak 

Ridge National Laboratory, P.O. Box 

2008, MS–6036, Oak Ridge, TN 37831– 

6036; rizycg@ornl.gov 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

information collection request contains: 

(1) OMB No. New. 

(2) Information Collection Request 

Title: National Evaluation of the United 

States Department of Energy’s Energy 

Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant 

Program. 

(3) Type of Request: New. 

(4) Purpose: DOE is conducting an 

evaluation of EECBG, a national 

program providing over $2.7 billion in 

grants to approximately 2,350 cities, 

counties, States, territories, and Indian 

Tribes. Grants could be used for energy 

efficiency and conservation efforts, 

building code support, renewable 

energy installations, distributed energy 

technologies, transportation activities, 

recycling and waste management efforts, 

and other activities approved by DOE. 

The EECBG Program, authorized in 

Title V, Subtitle E of the Energy 

Independence and Security Act (EISA) 


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and signed into law on December 19, 

2007, was funded, for the first time, by 

the American Recovery and 

Reinvestment Act of 2009. The Funding 

Opportunity Announcement (FOA) for 

Formula Grants was issued on June 25, 

2009 and closed on June 25, 2010. 

The scope of the National Evaluation 

of EECBG involves a combination of 

careful reviews of grant status reports 

and applications (‘‘engineering desk 

reviews’’), conversations with DOE 

project officers, and in-depth interviews 

with grant managers to assemble critical 

data for answering the three questions of 

interest: 

1. What is the total magnitude of 

energy and cost savings, and other key 

outcomes, such as gross carbon 

emissions reduction and the net number 

of jobs created or retained, achieved in 

Broad Program Areas that cumulatively 

account for approximately 80 percent of 

total Formula Grant expenditures in the 

2009–2011 program years? 

2. What is the magnitude of outcomes 

achieved by each of the most heavilyfunded Broad Program Areas within the 

EECBG portfolio? 

3. What are the key factors 

influencing the magnitude of EECBG 

outcomes? 

These questions will be answered by 

evaluating a sample of 350 grant activity 

examples from a pool of direct grants 

and State sub-grants, all issued as part 

of the EECBG program. 

Scale of the Information Collection 

The DOE Formula grants are welldefined and have been further 

scrutinized by Oak Ridge National 

Laboratory (ORNL)/DOE and its 

contractors for categorization into Broad 

Program Areas and activities. The 

evaluation team will complete the 

process of counting and categorizing the 

State sub-grants. From these combined 

lists of grants, sorted by Broad Program 

Area, sub-area, and activity, and from a 

set of criteria developed by ORNL/DOE 

and its contractors, a sampling approach 

will be applied to select 350 grants for 

study. That random sample of projects 

will be taken from the six Broad 

Program Areas that, in combination, 

account for over 80 percent of total 

EECBG Formula Grant expenditures, 

which will allow valid inferences to be 

drawn for each Broad Program Area 

examined. 

Data collection will begin with a 

combination of careful reviews of DOE 

program databases, grant status reports 

and applications (‘‘engineering desk 

reviews’’), and conversations with DOE 

project officers and Regional and State 

Coordinators. After this extensive 

preliminary data collection effort, 

interviews will be conducted with grant 

program managers and grant project 

managers for each sample point. The 

two survey instruments proposed are: 

1. Grant Activity-Level Contact 

Survey: Verifies activities performed, 

measures installed, measure level data, 

and other relevant project information 

necessary to calculate program impacts 

and other metrics. 

There will be 2 versions of this survey 

instrument: One for grant activities 

targeted to residential dwellings, and 

one for non-residential buildings. 

2. Performance Indicators Survey: 

Collects information regarding 

operational success factors to be 

combined with grant data and 

secondary data on economic and other 

external factors for determining what 

conditions and elements are necessary 

for a successful project. 

Together, these surveys will involve 

700 respondents and entail a total 

burden of 642 hours. This calculation is 

based on the assumption that the 

telephone surveys used in this study 

will require an average of 55 minutes, 

depending on the individual survey 

instrument. 

This evaluation approach will not 

include any data collection from 

individual service recipients to estimate 

savings or outcomes. This study will use 

data from the above-mentioned 

interviews plus additional information 

that can be obtained from program 

records and secondary sources, as well 

as engineering-based analytical 

methods, to produce energy savings and 

outcome estimates. 

The above-described data collection 

instruments will be supplemented by 

additional records research and 

database review activities provided by 

the Grant Program Managers and Local 

Grant Activity Managers. These general 

recordkeeping activities will require an 

estimated 487 hours. Combining the 

burden hours associated with telephone 

surveys (642 hours) with the burden 

hours associated with general records 

review (487 hours) produces a total 

estimated burden of 1,129 hours. 

Two key steps are being taken to 

avoid duplicating the efforts of any 

concurrent evaluations of EECBG 

activities: (1) Identifying results from 

any EECBG grant evaluation efforts 

taking place at the State level; and (2) 

coordinating with the Better Buildings 

Program evaluation concerning any data 

collection already taking place during 

the same time period that addresses 

EECBG grant activities. 

The sample selection of Broad 

Program Areas and specific 

programmatic activities within each 

Broad Program Area is scheduled to be 

completed by June 2012. Data collection 

and calculation of outcomes are 

scheduled to be completed by October 

2012. 

The detailed study design and work 

plan for the EECBG evaluation has been 

available for public review since 

January 2012 at http:// 

weatherization.ornl.gov/eecbg.shtml. 

(5) Annual Estimated Number of 

Respondents: 700. 

(6) Annual Estimated Number of 

Total Responses: 700. 

(7) Annual Estimated Total Number 

of Burden Hours (Interview and Record 

Review): 1,129. 

Statutory Authority: Title V, Subtitle E of 

the Energy Independence and Security Act of 

2007, codified at 42 U.S.C. 17151–17158. 

Issued in Washington, DC on February 1, 

2012. 

Henry C. Kelly, 

Acting Assistant Secretary, Energy Efficiency 

and Renewable Energy. 

[FR Doc. 2012–3535 Filed 2–14–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

Sunshine Act Meeting Notice 

The following notice of meeting is 

published pursuant to section 3(a) of the 

government in the Sunshine Act (Pub. 

L. 94–409), 5 U.S.C. 552b: 

AGENCY HOLDING MEETING: Federal 

Energy Regulatory Commission. 

DATE AND TIME: February 16, 2012, 10 

a.m. 

PLACE: Room 2C, 888 First Street NE., 

Washington, DC 20426. 

STATUS: Open. 

MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED: Agenda. 

* Note—Items listed on the agenda 

may be deleted without further notice. 

CONTACT PERSON FOR MORE INFORMATION: 

Kimberly D. Bose, Secretary, Telephone 

(202) 502–8400. 

For a recorded message listing items 

struck from or added to the meeting, call 

(202) 502–8627. 

This is a list of matters to be 

considered by the Commission. It does 

not include a listing of all documents 

relevant to the items on the agenda. All 

public documents, however, may be 

viewed on line at the Commission’s 

Web site at http://www.ferc.gov using 

the eLibrary link, or may be examined 

in the Commission’s Public Reference 

Room. 

978th—Meeting 

Regular Meeting 

February 16, 2012, 10 a.m. 


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