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2000, H.R. 5667’’ enacted on December 

21, 2000. 

DATES: Interested persons are invited to 

submit comments on or before May 18, 

2012. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments 

regarding burden and/or the collection 

activity requirements should be 

electronically mailed to 

ICDocketMgr@ed.gov or mailed to U.S. 

Department of Education, 400 Maryland 

Avenue SW., LBJ, Washington, DC 

20202–4537. Copies of the proposed 

information collection request may be 

accessed from http://edicsweb.ed.gov, 

by selecting the ‘‘Browse Pending 

Collections’’ link and by clicking on 

link number 04809. When you access 

the information collection, click on 

‘‘Download Attachments’’ to view. 

Written requests for information should 

be addressed to U.S. Department of 

Education, 400 Maryland Avenue SW., 

LBJ, Washington, DC 20202–4537. 

Requests may also be electronically 

mailed to ICDocketMgr@ed.gov or faxed 

to 202–401–0920. Please specify the 

complete title of the information 

collection and OMB Control Number 

when making your request. 

Individuals who use a 

telecommunications device for the deaf 

(TDD) may call the Federal Information 

Relay Service (FIRS) at 1–800–877– 

8339. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 

3506 of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 

1995 (44 U.S.C. chapter 35) requires that 

Federal agencies provide interested 

parties an early opportunity to comment 

on information collection requests. The 

Acting Director, Information Collection 

Clearance Division, Privacy, Information 

and Records Management Services, 

Office of Management, publishes this 

notice containing proposed information 

collection requests at the beginning of 

the Departmental review of the 

information collection. 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: Small Business 

Innovation Research (SBIR) Program— 

Phase I—Grant Application Package. 

OMB Control Number: 1820–0684. 

Type of Review: Extension. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Responses: 200. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Burden Hours: 9,000. 

Abstract: The Small Business 

Reauthorization Act of 2000, H.R. 5667 

requires certain agencies, including the 

U.S. Department of Education to 

establish a SBIR program by reserving a 

statutory percentage of their extramural 

research and development budgets to be 

awarded to small business concerns for 

research or research and development 

through a uniform, highly competitive, 

three-phase process each fiscal year. 

This information collection is being 

submitted under the Streamlined 

Clearance Process for Discretionary 

Grant Information Collections (1894– 

0001). Therefore, the 30-day public 

comment period notice will be the only 

public comment notice published for 

this information collection. 

Dated: April 13, 2012. 

Tomakie Washington, 

Acting Director, Information Collection 

Clearance Division, Privacy, Information and 

Records Management Services, Office of 

Management. 

[FR Doc. 2012–9309 Filed 4–17–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

National Advisory Council on Indian 

Education (NACIE) 

AGENCY: U.S. Department of Education. 

ACTION: Notice of an open meeting. 

SUMMARY: This notice sets forth the 

schedule for the upcoming public 

meeting of the National Advisory 

Council on Indian Education (the 

Council) and is intended to notify the 

general public of the meeting. This 

notice also describes the functions of 

the Council. Notice of the Council’s 

meetings is required under Section 

10(a)(2) of the Federal Advisory 

Committee Act. 

Date and Time: May 2–3, 2012; 

May 2, 2012—8 a.m.–5 p.m. Eastern 

Daylight Savings Time. 

May 3, 2012—8 a.m.–5 p.m. Eastern 

Daylight Savings Time. 

Location: 

Washington, DC—Details about the 

meeting location will be posted on the 

Committee Web site on April 30, 2012. 

Web site: www.NACIE-ED.org (To 

RSVP, and for NACIE Meeting Updates, 

and Final Agenda). 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

National Advisory Council on Indian 

Education is authorized by Section 7141 

of the Elementary and Secondary 

Education Act. The Council is 

established within the Department of 

Education to advise the Secretary of 

Education on the funding and 

administration (including the 

development of regulations, and 

administrative policies and practices) of 

any program over which the Secretary 

has jurisdiction and includes Indian 

children or adults as participants or 

programs that may benefit Indian 

children or adults, including any 

program established under Title VII, 

Part A of the Elementary and Secondary 

Education Act. The Council submits to 

the Congress, not later than June 30 of 

each year, a report on the activities of 

the Council that includes 

recommendations the Council considers 

appropriate for the improvement of 

Federal education programs that include 

Indian children or adults as participants 

or that may benefit Indian children or 

adults, and recommendations 

concerning the funding of any such 

program. 

One of the Council’s responsibilities 

is to develop and provide 

recommendations to the Secretary of 

Education on the funding and 

administration (including the 

development of regulations, and 

administrative policies and practices) of 

any program over which the Secretary 

has jurisdiction that can benefit Indian 

children or adults participating in any 

program which could benefit Indian 

children. The purpose of this meeting is 

to convene the Council to continue its 

responsibilities for developing 

recommendations to the Secretary of 

Education on the funding and 

administration (including the 

development of regulations, and 

administrative policies and practices) of 

any program over which the Secretary 

has jurisdiction and includes Indian 

children or adults as participants or 

programs that may benefit Indian 

children or adults, including any 

program established under Title VII, 

Part A of the Elementary and Secondary 

Education Act, and conduct discussions 

on the development of the report to 

Congress that should be submitted no 

later than June 30, 2012. 

There will be an opportunity for 

public comment during this meeting on 

May 3 from 1:30 p.m.–3 p.m. Comments 

should pertain to the work of NACIE 

and/or the Office of Indian Education. 

Speakers will be allowed to comment 

for 3–5 minutes. 

Individuals who will need 

accommodations for a disability in order 

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to attend the meeting (e.g., interpreting 

services, assistive listening devices, or 

material in alternative format) should 

notify Jenelle Leonard at (202) 401– 

3641, no later than Friday, April 27, 

2012. We will attempt to meet requests 

for accommodations after this date but 

cannot guarantee their availability. The 

meeting site is accessible to individuals 

with disabilities. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Jenelle Leonard, Designated Federal 

Official, Office of Indian Education, U.S. 

Department of Education, 400 Maryland 

Avenue SW., Washington, DC 20202. 

Telephone: 202–205–2161. Fax: 202– 

205–5870. 

A report of the activities of the 

meeting and related matters that are 

informative to the public and consistent 

with the policy of section 5 U.S.C. 

552b(c) will be available to the public 

within 21 days of the meeting. Records 

are kept of all Council proceedings and 

are available for public inspection at the 

Office of Indian Education, United 

States Department of Education, 400 

Maryland Avenue SW., Washington, DC 

20202. Monday–Friday, 8:30 a.m.– 

5 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time. 

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: 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 1–866– 

512–1830; or in the Washington, DC, 

area at (202) 512–0000. 

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. 

Michael Yudin, 

Acting Assistant Secretary, Office of 

Elementary and Secondary Education. 

[FR Doc. 2012–9378 Filed 4–17–12; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

National Institute on Disability and 

Rehabilitation Research; Notice of 

Proposed Long-Range Plan for Fiscal 

Years 2013–2017 

AGENCY: Office of Special Education and 

Rehabilitative Services, Department of 

Education. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Assistant Secretary for 

Special Education and Rehabilitative 

Services proposes the National Institute 

on Disability and Rehabilitation 

Research’s (NIDRR’s) Long-Range Plan 

(Plan) for fiscal years (FYs) 2013 

through 2017. Pursuant to the 

Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended, 

the Department is required to develop a 

plan for NIDRR that outlines NIDRR’s 

priorities for rehabilitation research, 

demonstration projects, training, and 

related activities, and explains the basis 

for these priorities. 

DATES: We must receive your comments 

on or before June 18, 2012. 

ADDRESSES: Address all comments about 

the proposed Plan to Lynn Medley, U.S. 

Department of Education, 400 Maryland 

Avenue SW., Room 5140, Potomac 

Center Plaza, Washington, DC 20202– 

2700. 

If you prefer to send your comments 

by email, use the following address: 

NIDRR-mailbox@ed.gov. You must 

include the term ‘‘Long-Range Plan’’ in 

the subject line of your electronic 

message. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Lynn Medley. Telephone: (202) 245– 

7338 or by email: Lynn.Medley@ed.gov. 

If you use a telecommunications 

device for the deaf (TDD) or a text 

telephone (TTY), call the Federal Relay 

Service (FRS), toll free, at 1–800–877– 

8339. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Invitation to Comment: We invite you 

to submit comments regarding the 

proposed Plan. To ensure that your 

comments have maximum effect in 

developing the final Plan, we urge you 

to identify clearly the specific area of 

the Plan that each comment addresses 

and to arrange your comments in the 

same order as the proposed Plan. We are 

particularly interested in comments on 

the establishment of the Rehabilitation 

Research Advisory Council (RRAC) 

described in the Introduction of the 

Plan. 

During and after the comment period, 

you may inspect all public comments 

about the proposed Plan in Room 5140, 

550 12th Street SW., Potomac Center 

Plaza (PCP), Washington, DC, between 

the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 4 p.m., 

Washington, DC time, Monday through 

Friday of each week except Federal 

holidays. 

Assistance to Individuals with 

Disabilities in Reviewing the 

Rulemaking Record: On request we will 

provide an appropriate accommodation 

or auxiliary aid to an individual with a 

disability who needs assistance to 

review the comments or other 

documents in the public rulemaking 

record for this notice. If you want to 

schedule an appointment for this type of 

accommodation or auxiliary aid, please 

contact the person listed under FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT. 

Background: In developing the 

research agenda in the proposed Plan, 

NIDRR considered: the legislative 

mandate for the Plan; stakeholder 

suggestions and public input received 

via email and the Internet in response 

to the notice of proposed Long Range 

Plan published in the Federal Register 

on January 15, 2009 (Vol. 74, No. 10); 

public responses to a January 15, 2009, 

email solicitation to NIDRR grantees, 

past grant applicants, disability 

organizations, and other interested 

parties inviting comment on the January 

15, 2009, Federal Register notice of 

proposed Long Range Plan; research and 

program recommendations from NIDRR 

grantee state of the science conferences; 

an assessment and related 

recommendations by the National 

Academy of Sciences (NAS), National 

Research Council, of NIDRR’s prioritysetting, peer review, and grant 

mechanisms; and a review by NAS of 

the products of a sample of 30 NIDRR 

grantees (National Academy of Sciences 

(2012), Review of Disability and 

Rehabilitation Research: NIDRR 

Grantmaking Processes and Products, 

Washington, DC: National Academies 

Press). 

The purposes of the proposed Plan 

are: 

(1) To describe the broad general 

principles that will guide NIDRR’s 

policies and use of resources; 

(2) To establish objectives for research 

and related activities from which annual 

research priorities can be formulated; 

and 

(3) To describe how NIDRR will 

implement the Plan, i.e., the process by 

which NIDRR establishes annual 

priorities. 

The authority for the Secretary to 

establish the Plan is contained in 

section 202(h) of the Rehabilitation Act 

of 1973, as amended (29 U.S.C. 762(h)). 

The proposed Plan is published as an 

attachment to this notice. 

Accessible Format: Individuals with 

disabilities can obtain this document in 

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

print, audiotape, or compact disc) by 

contacting the Grants and Contracts 

Services Team, U.S. Department of 

Education, 400 Maryland Avenue SW., 

Room 5075, PCP, Washington, DC 

20202–2550. Telephone: (202) 245– 

7363. If you use a TDD or a TTY, call 

the FRS, toll free, at 1–800–877–8339. 

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