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form serves as the means by which a 

FFEL, Perkins, or Direct Loan borrower 

requests a military service deferment 

and/or post-active duty student 

deferment and provides his or her loan 

holder with the information needed to 

determine whether the borrower meets 

the applicable deferment eligibility 

requirements. The form also serves as 

the means by which the U.S. 

Department of Education identifies 

Direct Loan borrowers who qualify for 

the Direct Loan Program’s no accrual of 

interest benefit for active duty service 

members. 

Requests for 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 4203. 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 when making your request. 

Comments regarding burden and/or 

the collection activity requirements 

should be electronically mailed to 

ICDocketMgr@ed.gov. Individuals who 

use a telecommunications device for the 

deaf (TDD) may call the Federal 

Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 

1–800–877–8339. 

[FR Doc. 2010–1458 Filed 1–25–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

Notice of Proposed Information 

Collection Requests 

AGENCY: Department of Education. 

SUMMARY: The Acting Director, 

Information Collection Clearance 

Division, Regulatory Information 

Management Services, Office of 

Management, invites comments on the 

proposed information collection 

requests as required by the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995. 

DATES: Interested persons are invited to 

submit comments on or before March 

29, 2010. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 

3506 of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 

1995 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35) requires 

that the Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB) provide interested 

Federal agencies and the public an early 

opportunity to comment on information 

collection requests. OMB may amend or 

waive the requirement for public 

consultation to the extent that public 

participation in the approval process 

would defeat the purpose of the 

information collection, violate State or 

Federal law, or substantially interfere 

with any agency’s ability to perform its 

statutory obligations. The Acting 

Director, Information Collection 

Clearance Division, Regulatory 

Information Management Services, 

Office of Management, publishes that 

notice containing proposed information 

collection requests prior to submission 

of these requests to OMB. Each 

proposed information collection, 

grouped by office, contains the 

following: (1) Type of review requested, 

e.g., new, revision, extension, existing 

or reinstatement; (2) Title; (3) Summary 

of the collection; (4) Description of the 

need for, and proposed use of, the 

information; (5) Respondents and 

frequency of collection; and (6) 

Reporting and/or Recordkeeping 

burden. OMB invites public comment. 

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. 

Dated: January 21, 2010. 

Kate Mullan, 

Acting Director, Information Collection 

Clearance Division, Regulatory Information 

Management Services, Office of Management. 

Institute of Education Sciences 

Type of Review: Revision. 

Title: Conversion Magnet Schools 

Evaluation Revision. 

Frequency: On occasion. 

Affected Public: Not-for-profit 

institutions. 

Reporting and Recordkeeping Hour 

Burden: 

Responses: 50. 

Burden Hours: 187. 

Abstract: The Conversion Magnet 

Schools Evaluation is being conducted 

to determine if effort to turn around 

low-performing schools through 

converting to a Magnet Schools 

Assistance Program (MSAP) supported 

magnet schools are associated with 

improved student achievement and the 

reduction in minority group isolation. 

The Institute of Education Sciences, in 

collaboration with the Office of 

Innovation and Improvement, initiated 

the study due to the popularity and 

persistence of magnet programs and the 

inconclusive research on the 

relationship of these programs to 

important student outcomes. The study 

will use quasi-experimental designs to 

explore the relationship between 

magnet programs and student 

achievement both for ‘‘resident’’ 

students who attend magnet schools as 

their neighborhood schools and, if 

possible, for non-resident students. Data 

collection includes student records data, 

principal surveys, and project director 

interviews. The U.S. Department of 

Education has commissioned American 

Institutes for Research to conduct this 

study. An OMB clearance request that 

(1) described the study design and full 

data collection activities and (2) 

requested approval for the burden 

associated with the first three years of 

data collection was approved in 2007. 

This revision requests approval for the 

last two years of data collection. 

Requests for 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 4205. 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 when making your request. 

Comments regarding burden and/or 

the collection activity requirements 

should be electronically mailed to 

ICDocketMgr@ed.gov. Individuals who 

use a telecommunications device for the 

deaf (TDD) may call the Federal 

Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 

1–800–877–8339. 

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BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

ELECTION ASSISTANCE COMMISSION 

Sunshine Act; Notice of Virtual Public 

Forum for EAC Standards Board; 

Notice of Virtual Public Forum for EAC 

Standards Board 

DATE & TIME: Monday, February 8, 2010, 

9 a.m. EST through Friday, February 19, 

2010, 9 p.m. EST. 

PLACE: EAC Standards Board Virtual 

Meeting Room at www.eac.gov. Once at 

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the main page of EAC’s Web site, 

viewers should click the link to the 

Standards Board Virtual Meeting Room. 

The virtual meeting room will open on 

Monday, February 8, 2010, at 9 a.m. EST 

and will close on Friday, February 19, 

2010, at 9 p.m. EST. The site will be 

available 24 hours per day during that 

12-day period. 

PURPOSE: The EAC Standards Board will 

review and provide comment on Phase 

II of the Election Operations 

Assessment. Phase II of the Election 

Operations Assessment contains threat 

trees for the seven types of voting types 

covered by the Election Operations 

Assessment. These threat trees are 

intended to capture risks to the various 

types of voting systems and the possible 

mitigations. These threat trees feed into 

the Risk Assessment tool that will be 

used by the EAC and NIST in their work 

with the Voluntary Voting System 

Guidelines. 

The EAC Standards Board Virtual 

Meeting Room was established to enable 

the Standards Board to conduct 

business in an efficient manner in a 

public forum, including being able to 

review and discuss draft documents, 

when it is not feasible for an in-person 

board meeting. The Standards Board 

will not take any votes or propose any 

resolutions during the 12-day forum of 

February 8–February 19, 2010. Members 

will post comments about Phase II of the 

Election Operations Assessment. 

This activity is open to the public. 

The public may view the proceedings of 

this special forum by visiting the EAC 

Standards Board virtual meeting room at 

http://www.eac.gov at any time between 

Monday, February 8, 2010, 9 a.m. EST 

and Friday, February 19, 2010, 9 p.m. 

EST. The public also may view Phase II 

of the Election Operations Assessment, 

which will be posted on EAC’s Web site 

beginning February 8, 2010. The public 

may file written statements to the EAC 

Standards Board at 

standardsboard@eac.gov. Data on EAC’s 

Web site is accessible to visitors with 

disabilities and meets the requirements 

of section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act. 

PERSON TO CONTACT FOR INFORMATION: 

Bryan Whitener, Telephone: (202) 566– 

3100. 

Alice Miller, 

Chief Operating Officer, U.S. Election 

Assistance Commission. 

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ELECTION ASSISTANCE COMMISSION 

Sunshine Act; Notice of Virtual Public 

Forum for EAC Board of Advisors 

DATE & TIME: Monday, February 8, 2010, 

9 a.m. EST through Friday, February 19, 

2010, 9 p.m. EST. 

PLACE: EAC Board of Advisors Virtual 

Meeting Room at http://www.eac.gov. 

Once at the main page of EAC’s Web 

site, viewers should click the link to the 

Board of Advisors Virtual Meeting 

Room. The virtual meeting room will 

open on Monday, February 8, 2010, at 

9 a.m. EST and will close on Friday, 

February 19, 2010, at 9 p.m. EST. The 

site will be available 24 hours per day 

during that 12-day period. 

PURPOSE: The EAC Board of Advisors 

will review and provide comment on 

Phase II of the Election Operations 

Assessment. Phase II of the Election 

Operations Assessment contains threat 

trees for the seven types of voting types 

covered by the Election Operations 

Assessment. These threat trees are 

intended to capture risks to the various 

types of voting systems and the possible 

mitigations. These threat trees feed into 

the Risk Assessment tool that will be 

used by the EAC and NIST in their work 

with the Voluntary Voting System 

Guidelines. 

The EAC Board of Advisors Virtual 

Meeting Room was established to enable 

the Board of Advisors to conduct 

business in an efficient manner in a 

public forum, including being able to 

review and discuss draft documents, 

when it is not feasible for an in-person 

board meeting. The Board of Advisors 

will not take any votes or propose any 

resolutions during the 12-day forum of 

February 8–February 19, 2010. Members 

will post comments about Phase II of the 

Election Operations Assessment. 

This activity is open to the public. 

The public may view the proceedings of 

this special forum by visiting the EAC 

Board of Advisors virtual meeting room 

at http://www.eac.gov at any time 

between Monday, February 8, 2010, 9 

a.m. EST and Friday, February 19, 2010, 

9 p.m. EST. The public also may view 

Phase II of the election operations 

assessment, which will be posted on 

EAC’s Web site beginning February 8, 

2010. The public may file written 

statements to the EAC Board of Advisors 

at boardofadvisors@eac.gov. Data on 

EAC’s Web site is accessible to visitors 

with disabilities and meets the 

requirements of section 508 of the 

Rehabilitation Act. 

PERSON TO CONTACT FOR INFORMATION: 

Bryan Whitener, Telephone: (202) 566– 

3100. 

Alice Miller, 

Chief Operating Officer, U.S. Election 

Assistance Commission. 

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BILLING CODE 6820–KF–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Agency Information Collection 

Extension 

AGENCY: Department of Energy. 

ACTION: Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Submission for Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) review; 

comment request. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Energy 

(DOE), pursuant to the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995, has obtained 

emergency approval of an information 

collection request with the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB). DOE is 

now is submitting a request to OMB for 

a three-year approval of that collection, 

OMB control no. 1910–5142. 

This request, the Recovery Act 

Reviewer Web site information 

collection request, covers information 

necessary to collect the biographical 

information, educational background, 

and area of specialty of potential 

reviewers of financial assistance 

proposals under the American Recovery 

and Reinvestment Act of 2009. DOE will 

then use the information to select 

proposal reviewers. 

DATES: Comments regarding this 

collection must be received on or before 

February 25, 2010. If you anticipate that 

you will be submitting comments, but 

find it difficult to do so within the 

period of time allowed by this notice, 

please advise the OMB Desk Officer of 

your intention to make a submission as 

soon as possible. The Desk Officer may 

be telephoned at (202) 395–4650. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments should 

be sent to the DOE Desk Officer, Office 

of Information and Regulatory Affairs, 

Office of Management and Budget, New 

Executive Office Building, Room 10102, 

735 17th Street, NW., Washington, DC 

20503. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Tony Johnson, Program Analyst, 

Department of Energy, 1000 

Independence Avenue, Washington, DC 

20585 or by fax at 202–586–0573 or by 

e-mail at Tony.Johnson@Hq.Doe.Gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

information collection request contains: 

(1) OMB No. 1910–5142; (2) Information 

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