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(4) Other proof of mailing or delivery 

acceptable to the Secretary. 

If the paper documents are sent 

through the U.S. Postal Service, we do 

not accept either of the following as 

proof of mailing: (1) A private metered 

postmark, or (2) a mail receipt that is 

not dated by the U.S. Postal Service. An 

institution should note that the U.S. 

Postal Service does not uniformly 

provide a dated postmark. Before 

relying on this method, an institution 

should check with its local post office. 

All institutions are encouraged to use 

certified or at least first-class mail. 

The Department accepts hand 

deliveries from commercial couriers 

between 8:00 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., 

Eastern time, Monday through Friday 

except Federal holidays. 

Sources for Detailed Information on 

These Requests 

A more detailed discussion of each 

request for funds or waiver is provided 

in specific ‘‘Electronic Announcements,’’ 

which are posted on the Department’s 

IFAP Web site (http://www.ifap.ed.gov) 

at least 30 days before the established 

deadline date for the specific request. 

Information on these items is also found 

in the Federal Student Aid Handbook. 

Applicable Regulations: The 

following regulations apply to these 

programs: 

(1) Student Assistance General 

Provisions, 34 CFR part 668. 

(2) General Provisions for the Federal 

Perkins Loan Program, Federal WorkStudy Program, and Federal 

Supplemental Educational Opportunity 

Grant Program, 34 CFR part 673. 

(3) Federal Perkins Loan Program, 34 

CFR part 674. 

(4) Federal Work-Study Programs, 34 

CFR part 675. 

(5) Federal Supplemental Educational 

Opportunity Grant Program, 34 CFR part 

676. 

(6) Institutional Eligibility under the 

Higher Education Act of 1965, as 

amended, 34 CFR part 600. 

(7) New Restrictions on Lobbying, 34 

CFR part 82. 

(8) Governmentwide Requirements for 

Drug-Free Workplace (Financial 

Assistance), 34 CFR part 84. 

(9) Governmentwide Debarment and 

Suspension (Nonprocurement), 34 CFR 

part 85. 

(10) Drug and Alcohol Abuse 

Prevention, 34 CFR part 86. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Kathleen Wicks, Director of Grants & 

Campus-Based Division, U.S. 

Department of Education, Federal 

Student Aid, 830 First Street, NE., 

Union Center Plaza, Room 62E3, 

Washington, DC 20202–5453. 

Telephone: (202) 377–3110 or via the 

Internet: kathleen.wicks@ed.gov. 

If you use a telecommunications 

device for the deaf (TDD), call the 

Federal Relay Service (FRS), toll free, at 

1–800–877–8339. 

Individuals with disabilities can 

obtain this document in an accessible 

format (e.g. braille, large print, 

audiotape, or computer diskette) on 

request to the program contact person 

listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT. 

Electronic Access to This Document 

You can 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: http://www.ed.gov/ 

news/fedregister. To use PDF you must 

have Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is 

available free at this site. 

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: http://www.gpoaccess.gov/nara/ 

index.html. 

Program Authority: 20 U.S.C. 1087aa et 

seq.; 42 U.S.C. 2751 et seq.; and 20 U.S.C. 

1070b et seq. 

Dated: March 10, 2010. 

William J. Taggart, 

Chief Operating Officer, Federal Student Aid. 

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BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request 

AGENCY: Department of Education. 

SUMMARY: The Acting Director, 

Information Collection Clearance 

Division, Regulatory Information 

Management Services, Office of 

Management invites comments on the 

submission for OMB review as required 

by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 

1995. 

DATES: Interested persons are invited to 

submit comments on or before April 14, 

2010. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments should 

be addressed to the Office of 

Information and Regulatory Affairs, 

Attention: Education Desk Officer, 

Office of Management and Budget, 725 

17th Street, NW., Room 10222, New 

Executive Office Building, Washington, 

DC 20503, be faxed to (202) 395–5806 or 

e-mailed to 

oira_submission@omb.eop.gov with a 

cc: to ICDocketMgr@ed.gov. 

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. 

Dated: March 10, 2010. 

James Hyler, 

Acting Director, Information Collection 

Clearance Division, Regulatory Information 

Management Services, Office of Management. 

Office of Postsecondary Education 

Type of Review: New. 

Title: Application for Grants Under 

the Alaska Native and Native HawaiianServing Institutions Program. 

Frequency: Annually. 

Affected Public: Not for profit 

institutions. 

Reporting and Recordkeeping Hour 

Burden: 

Responses: 20. 

Burden Hours: 805. 

Abstract: The overall purpose of this 

program is to provide grants to eligible 

Alaska Native and native HawaiianServing institutions of higher education 

to enable them to improve their 

academic quality, institutional 

management, and fiscal stability in 

order to increase their self-sufficiency 

and strengthen their capacity to make a 

substantial contribution to higher 

education resources of the nation. It is 

required that we collect this data in 

order to hold a program competition 

and award funds for program recipients. 


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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. 

Requests for copies of the information 

collection submission for OMB review 

may be accessed from http:// 

edicsweb.ed.gov, by selecting the 

‘‘Browse Pending Collections’’ link and 

by clicking on link number 4208. 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 the Internet address 

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 directed 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. 2010–5577 Filed 3–12–10; 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 May 14, 

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: March 10, 2010. 

James Hyler, 

Acting Director, Information Collection 

Clearance Division, Regulatory Information 

Management Services, Office of Management. 

Office of Elementary and Secondary 

Education 

Type of Review: Revision. 

Title: School Improvement Grants. 

Frequency: Annually. 

Affected Public: State, Local, or Tribal 

Gov’t, SEAs or LEAs. 

Reporting and Recordkeeping Hour 

Burden: 

Responses: 3,102. 

Burden Hours: 229, 800. 

Abstract: On December 10, 2009, the 

U.S. Department of Education 

(Department) published final 

requirements and a State educational 

agency (SEA) application for School 

Improvement Grants (SIG) authorized 

under section 1003(g) of Title I of the 

Elementary and Secondary Education 

Act of 1965 (ESEA), as amended, and 

funded through the Department of 

Education Appropriations Act, 2009 (FY 

2009) and the American Recovery and 

Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA). On 

January 21, 2010, the Department 

published interim final requirements 

and a revised SEA application, which 

amended the final requirements and 

application issued in December. 

Together, these requirements are 

referred to in this document as ‘‘final 

requirements.’’ 

The final requirements define the 

criteria that an SEA must use to award 

ARRA and FY 2009 SIG funds to local 

educational agencies (LEAs). In 

awarding these funds, an SEA must give 

priority to the LEAs with the lowestachieving schools that demonstrate the 

greatest need for the funds and the 

strongest commitment to using the 

funds to provide adequate resources to 

their lowest-achieving schools eligible 

to receive services provided through SIG 

funds in order to raise substantially the 

achievement of the students attending 

those schools. 

The final requirements also include 

information collection activities covered 

under the Paperwork Reduction Act 

(PRA). The activities consist of: (1) A 

new application for an SEA to submit to 

the Department to apply for FY 2009 

and ARRA SIG funds; (2) the reporting 

of specific school-level data on the use 

of SIG funds and specific interventions 

implemented in LEAs receiving SIG 

funds that the Department currently 

does not collect through EDFacts; (3) an 

application for an LEA to submit to its 

SEA to receive SIG funds; and (4) the 

SEA posting its LEAs’ applications. 

The Department received emergency 

approval of the information collection 

activities through June 30, 2010 at the 

same time it issued the final 

requirements. The Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) also 

approved a change to the collection at 

the time the Department issued the 

interim requirements in January. These 

approvals permitted the SEA 

application process to begin so that 

students in the lowest-achieving schools 

will begin receiving the assistance they 

need as soon as possible. The 

information collection activities in the 

final requirements will continue past 

June 30th, however. Therefore, the 

Department is requesting regular 

approval of the information collection 

activities. 

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 4242. 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 


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