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and nine purposively-selected former 

grantees. The case study sites will be 

selected from among the grantees in the 

2007 cohort (‘‘current grantees’’) and 

those in the 2002 and 2004 cohorts 

(‘‘former grantees’’), and will provide 

information on some of the pre-service 

and in-service teacher training models 

and approaches that current grantees are 

using, as well as strategies that former 

grantees have used to track newlyminted teachers after program 

completion and to plan for continuing 

program services after the federal grant 

period. 

The study will collect data from the 

current grantees through site visits and 

from the former grantees through 

telephone interviews. 

Dated: March 15, 2012. 

Darrin A. King, 

Director, Information Collection Clearance 

Division, Privacy, Information and Records 

Management Services, Office of Management. 

[FR Doc. 2012–6793 Filed 3–20–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

President’s Advisory Commission on 

Educational Excellence for Hispanics 

AGENCY: U.S. Department of Education, 

White House Initiative on Educational 

Excellence for Hispanics. 

ACTION: Notice of an open meeting. 

SUMMARY: This notice sets forth the 

schedule and agenda of the fourth 

meeting of the President’s Advisory 

Commission on Educational Excellence 

for Hispanics. The notice also describes 

the functions of the Commission. Notice 

of the meeting is required by section 

10(a)(2) of the Federal Advisory 

Committee Act and intended to notify 

the public of its opportunity to attend. 

DATES: Tuesday, April 3, 2012. 

Time: 9 a.m.–5 p.m. Pacific Daylight 

Time. 

ADDRESSES: Loker Student Union 

Ballroom, California State University, 

Dominguez Hills, 1000 E. Victoria St., 

Carson, CA 90747, Tel: 310–243–3303. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Glorimar Maldonado, Chief of Staff, 

White House Initiative on Educational 

Excellence for Hispanics, 400 Maryland 

Ave. SW., Room 4W110, Washington, 

DC 20202; telephone: 202–401–1411, 

202–401–0078, or 202–870–1227. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

President’s Advisory Commission on 

Educational Excellence for Hispanics 

(the Commission) is established by 

Executive Order 13555 (Oct. 19, 2010). 

The Commission is governed by the 

provisions of the Federal Advisory 

Committee Act (FACA), (Pub. L. 92–463; 

as amended, 5 U.S.C.A., Appendix 2) 

which sets forth standards for the 

formation and use of advisory 

committees. The purpose of the 

Commission is to advise the President 

and the Secretary of Education 

(Secretary) on all matters pertaining to 

the education attainment of the 

Hispanic community. 

The Commission shall advise the 

President and the Secretary in the 

following areas: (i) Developing, 

implementing, and coordinating 

educational programs and initiatives at 

the Department and other agencies to 

improve educational opportunities and 

outcomes for Hispanics of all ages; (ii) 

increasing the participation of the 

Hispanic community and HispanicServing Institutions in the Department’s 

programs and in education programs at 

other agencies; (iii) engaging the 

philanthropic, business, nonprofit, and 

education communities in a national 

dialogue regarding the mission and 

objectives of this order; (iv) establishing 

partnerships with public, private, 

philanthropic, and nonprofit 

stakeholders to meet the mission and 

policy objectives of this order. 

Agenda 

The Commission will discuss and 

finalize its 2012 strategic work plan 

drafted during its Feb. 8, 2012 

conference call meeting and have 

breakout sessions with the established 

subcommittees. 

Individuals who will need 

accommodations in order to attend the 

meeting (e.g., interpreting services, 

assistive listening devices, or material in 

alternative format) should notify 

Glorimar Maldonado, Chief of Staff, 

White House Initiative on Educational 

Excellence for Hispanics at 202–401– 

1411 or 202–401–0078, no later than 

Wednesday, March 28, 2012. We will 

attempt to meet requests for such 

accommodations after this date, but 

cannot guarantee their availability. The 

meeting site is accessible to individuals 

with disabilities. 

Individuals who wish to attend the 

Commission meetings must RSVP by 

noon EDT, Wednesday, March 28, 2012, 

to WhiteHouseforHispanicEducation@

ed.gov. Members of the public must 

RSVP by the due date. 

An opportunity for public comment is 

available throughout the day on 

Tuesday, April 3, 2012, from 9 a.m. to 

5 p.m., PDT. Individuals who wish to 

provide comments will be allowed three 

minutes to speak. Those members of the 

public interested in submitting written 

comments may do so by submitting 

written comments to the attention of 

Glorimar Maldonado, White House 

Initiative on Educational Excellence for 

Hispanics, U.S. Department of 

Education, 400 Maryland Ave. SW., 

Room 4W110, Washington, DC 20202, 

by Wednesday, March 28, 2012. The 

meeting proceedings will be webcast at 

http://ustream.tv/channel/csudhtv. 

Records are kept of all Commission 

proceedings and are available for public 

inspection at the office of the White 

House Initiative on Educational 

Excellence for Hispanics, U.S. 

Department of Education, 400 Maryland 

Ave. SW., Room 4W108, Washington, 

DC, 20202, Monday through Friday 

(excluding federal holidays) during the 

hours of 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. 

Electronic Access to the 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: 

www.ed.gov/fedregister/index.html. To 

use PDF, you must have Adobe Acrobat 

Reader, which is available free at this 

site. For questions about using PDF, call 

the U.S. Government Printing Office 

(GPO), toll free at 1–866–512–1830; or 

in the Washington, DC, area at 202–512– 

0000. 

Martha Kanter, 

Under Secretary, Department of Education. 

[FR Doc. 2012–6735 Filed 3–20–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Environmental Management SiteSpecific Advisory Board, Hanford 

AGENCY: Department of Energy. 

ACTION: Notice of Open Meeting. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces a 

meeting of the Environmental 

Management Site-Specific Advisory 

Board (EM SSAB), Hanford. The Federal 

Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92– 

463, 86 Stat. 770) requires that public 

notice of this meeting be announced in 

the Federal Register. 

DATES: Thursday, April 12, 2012, 

9 a.m.–5 p.m. 

Friday, April 13, 2012, 8:30 a.m.–3 

p.m. 

ADDRESSES: Red Lion Hotel, 1101 North 

Columbia Center Boulevard., 

Kennewick, WA 99336. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Tifany Nguyen, Federal Coordinator, 

Department of Energy Richland 

Operations Office, 825 Jadwin Avenue, 

P.O. Box 550, A7–75, Richland, WA 


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