Federal Register / Vol. 79, No. 23 / Tuesday, February 4, 2014 / Notices 6577 

These are known as the 704 Report Part 

I and the 704 Report Part II, 

respectively. These reports are required 

by sections 704(m)(4)(D), 706(d), 

721(b)(3) and 725(c) of the 

Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended 

(the Act) and the corresponding 

regulations in 34 CFR parts 364, 365, 

and 366. Approval of grantees’ annual 

performance reports (704 Report) is a 

prerequisite for the Rehabilitation 

Services Administration (RSA) approval 

of the annual SILS grant awards (part B 

funds) and CILs continuation grant 

awards (part C funds). 

Dated: January 29, 2014. 

Tomakie Washington, 

Acting Director, Information Collection 

Clearance Division, Privacy, Information and 

Records Management Services, Office of 

Management. 

[FR Doc. 2014–02215 Filed 2–3–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

[Docket No. ED–2013–ICCD–0142] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission to the Office of 

Management and Budget for Review 

and Approval; Comment Request; 

Implementation Study of the Ramp Up 

to Readiness Program 

AGENCY: Institute of Education Sciences/ 

National Center for Education Statistics 

(IES), 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 a new information collection. 

DATES: Interested persons are invited to 

submit comments on or before March 6, 

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–0142 

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, 

400 Maryland Avenue SW., LBJ, 

Mailstop L–OM–2–2E319, Room 

2E105,Washington, DC 20202. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

questions related to collection activities 

or burden, please call Katrina Ingalls, 

703–620–3655 or electronically mail 

ICDocketMgr@ed.gov. Please do not 

send comments here. We will ONLY 

accept comments in this mailbox when 

the regulations.gov site is not available 

to the public for any reason. 

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: Implementation 

Study of the Ramp Up to Readiness 

Program. 

OMB Control Number: 1850–NEW. 

Type of Review: A new information 

collection. 

Respondents/Affected Public: 

Individuals or households. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Responses: 6,086. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Burden Hours: 1,212. 

Abstract: This study will examine the 

implementation of Ramp-Up to 

Readiness, a schoolwide guidance 

intervention aimed at increasing the 

college readiness of students. The 

intervention is at present being 

implemented in 34 high schools in 

Minnesota, and the developers intend to 

make the intervention available to a 

much larger set of Minnesota schools. 

No independently gathered high-quality 

evidence exists, however, on whether 

schools are able to implement this 

comprehensive intervention as intended 

or how its core components compare to 

the college-readiness supports in other 

high schools. The project for which 

OMB clearance is requested will attempt 

to gather such evidence from 22 public 

Minnesota high schools through the 

least burdensome means. The schoollevel implementation study will focus 

on assessing whether Ramp-Up school 

staff implement the program as 

intended, on identifying the extent to 

which the Ramp-Up program differs 

from the college-readiness supports 

offered in schools without Ramp-Up, 

and on the validity of a measure of 

personal college readiness, which the 

developers hypothesize is a key 

mechanism through which the program 

impacts later outcomes. The study will 

collect data from school staff in the 

following activities: Administrative data 

collection, focus groups in January and 

June, extant document collection, 

instructional logs, student and staff 

surveys, and student personal readiness 

assessment. The findings produced 

through analysis of these data will help 

(1) state education agencies seeking 

strategies and programs to endorse as a 

potential means of improving students 

college readiness and college 

enrollment, (2) local education agencies 

that are considering the challenges of 

implementing Ramp-Up, (3) the 

developer of this intervention (the 

College Readiness Consortium at the 

University of Minnesota) and 

developers of other college readiness 

interventions who continually seek to 

improve their programs by using 

information from studies like this, and 

(4) a group of education stakeholders in 

the Midwest interested in considering 

whether to conduct a study of the 

impacts of the Ramp-Up intervention on 

student outcomes. 

Dated: January 29, 2014. 

Stephanie Valentine, 

Acting Director, Information Collection 

Clearance Division, Privacy, Information and 

Records Management Services, Office of 

Management. 

[FR Doc. 2014–02254 Filed 2–3–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

President’s Board of Advisors on 

Historically Black Colleges and 

Universities 

AGENCY: U.S. Department of Education, 

President’s Board of Advisors on 

Historically Black Colleges and 

Universities (Board). 

ACTION: Notice of an open meeting. 

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