Federal Register / Vol. 78, No. 51 / Monday, March 17, 2014 / Notices 14681 

Dated: March 10, 2014. 

Tomakie Washington, 

Acting Director, Information Collection 

Clearance Division, Privacy, Information and 

Records Management Services, Office of 

Management. 

[FR Doc. 2014–05741 Filed 3–14–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

[Docket No.: ED–2013–ICCD–0095] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission to the Office of 

Management and Budget for Review 

and Approval; Comment Request; 

Veterans Upward Bound Annual 

Performance Report 

AGENCY: Office of Postsecondary 

Education (OPE), Department of 

Education (ED). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 

U.S.C. chapter 3501 et seq.), ED is 

proposing an extension of an existing 

information collection. 

DATES: Interested persons are invited to 

submit comments on or before April 16, 

2014. 

ADDRESSES: Comments submitted in 

response to this notice should be 

submitted electronically through the 

Federal eRulemaking Portal at http://

www.regulations.gov by selecting 

Docket ID number ED–2013–ICCD–0095 

or via postal mail, commercial delivery, 

or hand delivery. If the regulations.gov 

site is not available to the public for any 

reason, ED will temporarily accept 

comments at ICDocketMgr@ed.gov. 

Please note that comments submitted by 

fax or email and those submitted after 

the comment period will not be 

accepted; ED will only accept comments 

during the comment period in this 

mailbox when the regulations.gov site is 

not available. 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, 

400 Maryland Avenue SW., LBJ, 

Mailstop L–OM–2–2E319, Room 2E103, 

Washington, DC 20202. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

specific questions related to collection 

activities, please contact Rachael Couch, 

202–502–7655. 

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: Veterans Upward 

Bound Annual Performance Report. 

OMB Control Number: 1840—NEW. 

Type of Review: An extension of an 

existing information collection. 

Respondents/Affected Public: Private 

Sector, State, Local, or Tribal 

Governments. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Responses: 51. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Burden Hours: 867. 

Abstract: The U.S. Department of 

Education is requesting a new Annual 

Performance Report (APR) for grants 

under the Veterans Upward Bound 

(VUB) Program. The Department is 

requesting a new APR because of the 

implementation of the Higher Education 

Opportunity Act revisions to the Higher 

Education Act of 1965, as amended, the 

authorizing statute for the programs. 

The APRs are used to evaluate the 

performance of grantees prior to 

awarding continuation funding and to 

assess a grantee’s prior experience at the 

end of each budget period. 

Dated: March 12, 2014. 

Kate Mullan, 

Acting Director, Information Collection 

Clearance Division, Privacy, Information and 

Records Management Services, Office of 

Management. 

[FR Doc. 2014–05811 Filed 3–14–14; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

Application for New Awards; Training 

for Realtime Writers Program 

AGENCY: Office of Postsecondary 

Education, Department of Education. 

ACTION: Notice. 

Overview Information 

Training for Realtime Writers Program 

Notice inviting applications for new 

awards for fiscal year (FY) 2014. 

Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance 

(CFDA) Number: 84.116K. 

DATES: 

Applications Available: March 17, 

2014. 

Deadline for Transmittal of 

Applications: April 29, 2014. 

Deadline for Intergovernmental 

Review: June 30, 2014. 

Full Text of Announcement 

I. Funding Opportunity Description 

Purpose of Program: The objective of 

this program is to provide grants to 

institutions of higher education (IHEs) 

that meet certain qualifications, to 

promote training and placement of 

individuals, including individuals who 

have completed a court reporting 

training program, as realtime writers in 

order to meet the requirements for 

closed captioning of video programming 

set forth in section 713 of the 

Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 

613) and the regulations prescribed 

thereunder. 

Priorities: This notice contains one 

absolute priority and three competitive 

preference priorities. In accordance with 

34 CFR 75.105(b)(2)(iv), the absolute 

priority is from section 872(a)(3) of the 

Higher Education Act of 1965, as 

amended (HEA), (20 U.S.C. 1161s(a)(3)). 

The competitive preference priorities 

are from the notice of final 

supplemental priorities and definitions 

for discretionary grant programs 

published in the Federal Register on 

December 15, 2010 (75 FR 78486), and 

corrected on May 12, 2011 (76 FR 

27637). 

Absolute Priority: For FY 2014 and 

any subsequent year in which we make 

awards from the list of unfunded 

applicants from this competition, this 

priority is an absolute priority. Under 34 

CFR 75.105(c)(3), we consider only 

applications that meet this priority. 

This priority is: 

Applicants must: (1) Demonstrate 

they possess the most substantial 

capability to increase their capacity to 

train realtime writers; (2) demonstrate 

the most promising collaboration with 


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