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Headquarters Services, 1155 Defense 

Pentagon, Washington, DC 20301–1155. 

On September 13, 2010, DoD 

published a notice announcing its intent 

to delete a Privacy Act system of 

records: OSD Military Personnel Files 

(October 6, 2006; 71 FR 59092). 

Subsequent to the publication of that 

notice, DoD discovered that the system 

ID number and title listed for an Air 

Force system of records is incorrect. In 

one instance, the September 13 notice 

also contained a typographical error 

regarding the system ID number for the 

proposed deletion. This notice corrects 

that information. 

Corrections 

In the notice published on September 

13, 2010, in FR Doc. 2010–22755: 

1. On page 55576 in the second 

column, under the heading ‘‘REASON’’, 

in line 2, correct the parenthetical 

system ID number to read ‘‘DWHS P47’’. 

2. On page 55576 in the third column, 

in lines 6, 7, and 8, remove the 

following system ID number and title 

‘‘Air Force F036 AFPC C, Indebtedness, 

Nonsupport Paternity’’ and add in its 

place ‘‘Air Force F 036 AF PC C, 

Applications for Appointment and 

Extended Active Duty Files’’. 

Dated: September 20, 2010. 

Mitchell S. Bryman, 

Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison 

Officer, Department of Defense. 

[FR Doc. 2010–23791 Filed 9–22–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 5001–06–P 

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Department of the Navy 

Meeting of the Secretary of the Navy 

Advisory Panel 

AGENCY: Department of the Navy, DoD. 

ACTION: Notice of partially closed 

meeting. 

SUMMARY: The Secretary of the Navy 

Advisory Panel (SECNAV Advisory 

Panel) will deliberate the findings and 

recommendations for the Department of 

the Navy’s Energy program and Asia/ 

Pacific Engagement topic. 

DATES: The meeting will be held on 

October 13, 2010, from 8 a.m. to 4:30 

p.m. 

With the exception of the Chairman’s, 

Designated Federal Officer, Energy 

briefings, Public Comment, and the 

Energy Study deliberation (8 a.m.–12 

p.m.), all other meeting sessions will be 

closed. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at 

the Pentagon in the N89 Conference 

Room, located in room 4D447. 

Access: Public access is limited due to 

the Pentagon security requirements. 

Members of the public wishing to attend 

will need to contact Commander Cary 

Knox at 703–693–0463 or Commander 

Marc Gage at 703–695–3042 no later 

than October 6, 2010, and provide their 

name, date of birth and Social Security 

number. Public transportation is 

recommended as public parking is not 

available. Members of the public 

wishing to attend this event must enter 

through the Pentagon’s Metro Entrance 

between 7 a.m. and 7:30 a.m. where 

they will need two forms of 

identification in order to receive a 

visitors badge and meet their escort. 

Members will then be escorted to the 

N89 Conference Room to attend the 

open sessions of the SECNAV Advisory 

Panel. Members of the public shall 

remain with their designated escorts at 

all times while on the Pentagon 

Reservation. Members of the public will 

be escorted back to the Pentagon Metro 

Entrance at 12 p.m. unless prior 

coordination is made to leave earlier. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Captain Jon Kaufmann, Designated 

Federal Officer, SECNAV Advisory 

Panel, Office of Program Appraisal, 

1000 Navy Pentagon, Washington, DC 

20350, 703–695–3032. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant 

to the provisions of the Federal 

Advisory Committee Act (5 U.S.C. App. 

2), these matters constitute classified 

information that is specifically 

authorized by Executive Order to be 

kept secret in the interest of national 

defense and are, in fact, properly 

classified pursuant to such Executive 

Order. Accordingly, the SECNAV has 

determined in writing that the public 

interest requires that portions of this 

meeting be closed to the public because 

they will be concerned with matters 

listed in section 552b(c)(1), of title 5, 

United States Code. 

Individuals or interested groups may 

submit written statements for 

consideration by the SECNAV Advisory 

Panel at any time or in response to the 

agenda of a scheduled meeting. All 

requests must be submitted to the 

Designated Federal Officer at the 

address detailed below. 

If the written statement is in response 

to the agenda mentioned in this meeting 

notice then the statement, if it is to be 

considered by the SECNAV Advisory 

Panel for this meeting, must be received 

at least five days prior to the meeting in 

question. 

The Designated Federal Officer will 

review all timely submissions with the 

SECNAV Advisory Panel Chairperson, 

and ensure they are provided to 

members of the SECNAV Advisory 

Panel before the meeting that is the 

subject of this notice. 

To contact the Designated Federal 

Officer, write to: Designated Federal 

Officer, SECNAV Advisory Panel, Office 

of Program and Process Assessment 

1000 Navy Pentagon, Washington, DC 

20350, 703–697–9154. 

Dated: September 17, 2010. 

D. J. Werner, 

Lieutenant Commander, Office of the Judge 

Advocate General, U.S. Navy, Federal 

Register Liaison Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2010–23855 Filed 9–22–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3810–FF–P 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

[Docket ID ED–2010–OESE–0016] 

RIN 1810–AB08 

Teacher Incentive Fund 

ACTION: Interim final requirements; 

request for comments. 

SUMMARY: The Secretary of Education 

(Secretary) amends the final 

requirements for the Teacher Incentive 

Fund program to authorize the 

Department to select more than sixteen 

high-need schools per local educational 

agency (LEA) for participation in the 

Congressionally mandated TIF national 

evaluation. 

DATES: These interim final requirements 

are effective September 23, 2010. We 

must receive your comments by October 

25, 2010. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments 

through the Federal eRulemaking Portal 

or via postal mail, commercial delivery, 

or hand delivery. We will not accept 

comments by fax or by e-mail. Please 

submit your comments only one time, in 

order to ensure that we do not receive 

duplicate copies. In addition, please 

include the Docket ID at the top of your 

comments. 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to 

http://www.regulations.gov to submit 

your comments electronically. 

Information on using Regulations.gov, 

including instructions for accessing 

agency documents, submitting 

comments, and viewing the docket, is 

available on the site under ‘‘How To Use 

This Site.’’ 

• Postal Mail, Commercial Delivery, 

or Hand Delivery: If you mail or deliver 

your comments about these interim final 

requirements, address them to Office of 

Elementary and Secondary Education 

(Attention: Teacher Incentive Fund 

Comments), U.S. Department of 

Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, SW., 

room 3E120, Washington, DC 20202. 


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• Privacy Note: The Department’s 

policy for comments received from 

members of the public (including those 

comments submitted by mail, 

commercial delivery, or hand delivery) 

is to make these submissions available 

for public viewing in their entirety on 

the Federal eRulemaking Portal at 

http://www.regulations.gov. Therefore, 

commenters should be careful to 

include in their comments only 

information that they wish to make 

publicly available on the Internet. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

April Lee. Telephone: (202) 205–5224, 

or by e-mail: TIF@ed.gov. Note that we 

will not accept comments by e-mail. 

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 contact person listed 

under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Invitation To Comment 

We invite you to submit comments 

regarding these interim final 

requirements and to assist us in 

complying with the specific 

requirements of Executive Order 12866 

and its overall requirement of reducing 

regulatory burden that might result from 

these interim final requirements. 

During and after the comment period 

you may inspect all public comments 

about these interim final requirements 

by accessing http:// 

www.regulations.gov. You may also 

inspect the comments, in person, in 

room 3W100, 400 Maryland Avenue, 

SW., 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 and Summary of Interim 

Final Requirements: On May 21, 2010, 

the Secretary published a notice of final 

priorities, requirements, definitions, and 

selection criteria (NFP) for the TIF 

program in the Federal Register (75 FR 

28713). The purpose of the TIF program 

is to support projects that develop and 

implement performance-based 

compensation systems for teachers, 

principals, and other personnel in highneed schools in order to increase 

educator effectiveness and student 

achievement, measured in significant 

part by student growth. 

The NFP announced priorities, 

requirements, definitions, and selection 

criteria that would govern two separate 

TIF competitions, the Main TIF 

competition and the TIF Evaluation 

competition. In the same issue of the 

Federal Register, the Secretary also 

published a notice inviting applications 

(NIA) for both TIF competitions for FY 

2010 (75 FR 28740). 

The TIF Evaluation competition 

responds to a requirement in the 

American Recovery and Reinvestment 

Act of 2009, Division A, Title VIII, 

Public Law 111–5 (the ARRA), that the 

Secretary use a portion of the funds 

appropriated in the ARRA to conduct a 

national evaluation of the TIF program. 

Specifically, along with authorizing TIF 

funds to be used to support projects that 

implement performance-based 

compensation systems (PBCSs), the 

ARRA also requires the Department to 

use the appropriated funds to conduct a 

‘‘rigorous national evaluation . . . 

utilizing randomized controlled 

methodology to the extent feasible, that 

assesses the impact of performancebased teacher and principal 

compensation systems supported by the 

funds provided in this Act on teacher 

and principal recruitment and retention 

in high-need schools and subjects.’’ The 

ARRA thus requires the Department to 

conduct a national evaluation that will 

ensure adequate participation of both a 

treatment group and a control group. 

In response to Congress’ mandate, the 

Department developed a study 

methodology that relies on a sufficient 

number of high-need schools—both 

‘‘treatment schools’’ in which teachers 

would be eligible for performance-based 

compensation that is one element of the 

LEA’s PBCS, and ‘‘control schools’’ in 

which teachers would be part of the 

PBCS but would not be eligible to 

receive performance-based 

compensation that would be spread 

across a sufficient number of LEAs to 

yield sufficiently meaningful and 

generally applicable results. The 

Department announced in the NFP that 

each applicant for the TIF Evaluation 

competition had to identify eight or 

more high-need schools to be included 

in the TIF Evaluation. Based on our 

projections that 20 applicants would 

submit sufficiently high-quality 

applications for the TIF Evaluation 

competition, and the number of highneed schools that those applicants 

would propose to be included in the TIF 

Evaluation competition, the Department 

announced in the NFP that applicants 

could select up to 16 high-need schools 

per LEA to participate in the TIF 

Evaluation. See 75 FR 28735. 

As an incentive for applicants to 

identify high-need schools for inclusion 

in the TIF Evaluation, the Department 

also announced in the NFP (75 FR 

28734) that applicants whose schools 

were selected for inclusion in the 

evaluation would receive additional 

funding of up to $2 million to be used 

for TIF-related activities as specified in 

the NFP—$1 million for inclusion of up 

to eight high-need schools (four pairs), 

and an additional $250,000 for each 

additional pair of high-need schools up 

to a maximum of 16 schools. 

After non-Federal readers reviewed 

and scored applications for the TIF 

Evaluation competition, the Department 

determined that the number of 

applicants that submitted high-quality 

applications for the TIF Evaluation 

competition, and the number of highneed schools those applicants identified 

for inclusion in the evaluation, were 

lower than the Department wanted for a 

study that has the desired statistical 

power. Even after extending an 

opportunity to applicants that had 

submitted high-quality applications for 

the TIF Evaluation competition to 

identify additional schools, up to 16 per 

LEA, for inclusion in the national TIF 

Evaluation, the number of high-need 

schools identified for inclusion was still 

lower than the Department desired for 

its study sample size. 

The Department’s decision to cap at 

16 the number of an LEA’s high-need 

schools that could be included in the 

evaluation (and the number of highneed schools for which the Department 

would provide successful applicants 

with incentive funding under the TIF 

Evaluation competition) was intended 

to enable the evaluation to look at the 

impact of performance-based 

compensation in a substantial number 

of geographically diverse LEAs. And, at 

the time it adopted the requirement, the 

Department had every reason to believe 

that it would receive a sufficient 

number of high-quality applications 

such that a 16-school cap would not 

limit the effectiveness of the evaluation. 

However, based on the number of 

applications deemed of sufficiently high 

quality to warrant funding, the 

Department has determined that 

including more than 16 high-need 

schools per LEA in the evaluation is 


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necessary if the Department is to use a 

strong design to conduct the 

Congressionally mandated study. 

Accordingly, the Secretary has decided 

to revise the requirements announced in 

the NFP by removing the cap of 16 highneed schools per LEA that may be 

included in the TIF Evaluation, and by 

removing the cap of $2,000,000 on the 

incentive payments that may be 

provided to grantees identifying 

additional pairs of schools, beyond the 

minimum required four pairs of such 

schools. 

We recognize that implementation of 

this new requirement has budgetary 

implications for applicants that choose 

to offer more than 16 schools per LEA 

for inclusion in the evaluation. In 

addition to the additional incentive 

payments and funding for the other 

costs of implementing the PBCS, as 

stated in the NFP, the Department will 

provide to grantees with schools 

participating in the evaluation: (a) A 

one-percent across-the-board 

supplemental bonus payment for 

teachers, principals, and other 

personnel (at those sites in which the 

grantee has chosen to expand its PBCS 

to include these additional staff) in all 

control schools, and (b) funds necessary 

to meet the costs of implementing the 

supplemental differentiated 

effectiveness incentive component of 

the PBCS in all treatment schools. 

However, the Department has 

determined that, given the amount of 

available TIF funding and the limited 

number of high-quality applications, 

inclusion of additional schools beyond 

16 per LEA and the award of the 

additional funds for inclusion of such 

schools will have no adverse impact on 

the number of grantees or the size of the 

TIF award that any grantee—under 

either the Main TIF competition or the 

TIF Evaluation competition—would 

otherwise receive. 

Waiver of Rulemaking and Delayed 

Effective Date 

Under the Administrative Procedure 

Act (APA) (5 U.S.C. 553), the 

Department is generally required to 

publish a notice of proposed rulemaking 

and provide the public with an 

opportunity to comment on proposed 

regulations prior to establishing a final 

rule. However, we are waiving the 

notice-and-comment rulemaking 

requirements under the APA. Section 

553(b) of the APA provides that an 

agency is not required to conduct 

notice-and-comment rulemaking when 

the agency for good cause finds that 

notice and public procedure thereon are 

impracticable, unnecessary, or contrary 

to the public interest. Although these 

requirements are subject to the APA’s 

notice-and-comment requirements, the 

Secretary has determined that it would 

be impracticable and contrary to the 

public interest to conduct notice-andcomment rulemaking. 

As noted above, these interim final 

requirements are needed to permit the 

Department to include in the 

Congressionally mandated evaluation of 

the TIF program a sufficient number of 

high-need schools to yield study results 

in which one may have great 

confidence. The prior requirements, 

which limited the number of high-need 

schools to be included in the TIF 

Evaluation and the Department’s award 

of an incentive for inclusion of such 

schools, to 16 per LEA and $2,000,000 

in incentive payments, respectively, 

were based on our assumptions about 

numbers of high-quality applications 

the Department would receive, 

assumptions that were not correct. 

Additionally, we have determined that 

imposition of those prior requirements 

may prevent the TIF Evaluation from 

achieving its intended purpose. 

As also noted in the discussion in the 

preceding section, this change in the 

TIF Evaluation competition 

requirements will have no financial 

impact on any applicant. No applicant 

will be denied or receive decreased TIF 

funding because of a decision to permit 

other applicants to increase the number 

of high-need schools participating in the 

evaluation and to provide greater 

incentive payments to them for doing 

so. Moreover, the Department’s 

authority to make TIF awards under 

both the Main TIF competition and the 

TIF Evaluation competition expires on 

October 1, 2010. Waiver of rulemaking 

and the delayed effective date are 

needed to permit these requirements to 

become effective, and to make TIF 

awards by September 30, 2010. Even on 

the most expedited timeline, it would be 

impossible for the Department to 

conduct notice-and-comment 

rulemaking and then promulgate final 

requirements before the October 1, 2010 

deadline as this process normally takes 

six months. With the Department’s 

ability to conduct the required 

evaluation at stake, and with so much 

interest in the results of the study as 

they apply to performance-based 

compensation systems, it would be 

impracticable and contrary to the public 

interest for the Department to take this 

risk of not obligating funds available 

under the TIF Evaluation competition 

by September 30, 2010. 

Accordingly, and in order to make 

timely grant awards with ARRA funds, 

the Secretary is issuing these interim 

final requirements without first 

publishing proposed requirements for 

public comment. These interim final 

requirements govern only the selection 

of schools for the TIF Evaluation. 

Although the Department is adopting 

these requirements on an interim final 

basis, the Department requests public 

comment on the requirements. After 

consideration of public comments, the 

Secretary will publish final 

requirements. 

The APA also requires that a 

substantive rule be published at least 30 

days before its effective date, except as 

otherwise provided for good cause (5 

U.S.C. 553(d)(3)). For the reasons 

outlined in the preceding paragraphs, 

the Secretary has determined that a 

delayed effective date for these interim 

final requirements would be 

unnecessary and contrary to the public 

interest, and that good cause exists to 

waive the requirement for a delayed 

effective date. As such, these interim 

final requirements are effective on the 

date of publication. 

Interim Final Requirements 

For the reasons discussed previously, 

the Secretary amends the final 

priorities, requirements, definitions, and 

selection criteria for the TIF program, 

published in the Federal Register on 

May 21, 2010 (75 FR 28714), by 

revising— 

(a) The Budget Information section 

(75 FR 28734): 

Budget Information 

In paragraph one, the last sentence is 

revised to read as follows: ‘‘For each 

additional pair of schools participating 

in the evaluation, a successful applicant 

will receive an additional $250,000.’’ 

(b) The Scope of Schools section (75 

FR 28735–28736): 

Scope of Schools 

1. In paragraph one, the last sentence, 

‘‘In addition, no LEA will have more 

than 16 high-need schools (as defined in 

this notice) selected for the TIF 

Evaluation.’’, is removed. 

2. In paragraph two, the last sentence, 

‘‘The Department will use the number of 

eligible schools, up to 16 per LEA, that 

a successful applicant makes available 

for the TIF Evaluation.’’, is removed. 

Executive Order 12866 

Under Executive Order 12866, the 

Secretary must determine whether a 

regulatory action is ‘‘significant’’ and 

therefore subject to the requirements of 

the Executive order and subject to 

review by the Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB). Section 3(f) of Executive 

Order 12866 defines a ‘‘significant 

regulatory action’’ as an action likely to 


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result in a rule that may (1) Have an 

annual effect on the economy of $100 

million or more, or adversely affect a 

sector of the economy, productivity, 

competition, jobs, the environment, 

public health or safety, or State, local or 

Tribal governments or communities in a 

material way (also referred to as an 

‘‘economically significant’’ rule); (2) 

create serious inconsistency or 

otherwise interfere with an action taken 

or planned by another agency; (3) 

materially alter the budgetary impacts of 

entitlement grants, user fees, or local 

programs or the rights and obligations of 

recipients thereof; or (4) raise novel 

legal or policy issues arising out of legal 

mandates, the President’s priorities, or 

the principles set forth in the Executive 

order. The Secretary has determined 

that this regulatory action is significant 

under section 3(f) of the Executive 

order. 

Potential Costs and Benefits 

Under Executive Order 12866, we 

have assessed the potential costs and 

benefits of this regulatory action and 

have determined that these interim final 

requirements will not impose additional 

costs to grantees or the Federal 

government. The Department is 

regulating only to permit, at the 

discretion of each applicant that 

submits an application of sufficient 

quality, more schools per LEA to be 

included in the national evaluation. 

Additionally, the Department has 

determined that this regulatory action 

does not unduly interfere with State, 

local, and Tribal governments in the 

exercise of their governmental 

functions. 

Regulatory Flexibility Act Certification 

The small entities affected by this 

regulatory action are (1) small LEAs, 

and (2) nonprofit organizations applying 

for and receiving funds under this 

program in partnership with an LEA or 

a State educational agency (SEA). For 

the reasons stated in the NFP, 75 FR 

28738–28739, the Secretary certifies that 

this regulatory action will not have a 

significant economic impact on a 

substantial number of small entities. 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 

These interim final requirements 

contain no new information collection 

requirements that are subject to review 

by OMB under the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501– 

3520). 

Intergovernmental Review 

This program is subject to Executive 

Order 12372 and the regulations in 34 

CFR part 79. One of the objectives of the 

Executive Order is to foster an 

intergovernmental partnership and a 

strengthened federalism. The Executive 

Order relies on processes developed by 

State and local governments for 

coordination and review of proposed 

Federal financial assistance. 

This document provides notification 

of our specific plans regarding the TIF 

Evaluation competition for this 

program. 

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: 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. 

Dated: September 21, 2010. 

Thelma Mele ́ndez de Santa Ana, 

Assistant Secretary for Elementary and 

Secondary Education. 

[FR Doc. 2010–23922 Filed 9–22–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Proposed Agency Information 

Collection 

AGENCY: U.S. Department of Energy. 

ACTION: Notice and request for OMB 

review and comment. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Energy 

(DOE) has submitted to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for 

clearance, a proposal for collection of 

information under the provisions of the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. The 

proposed collection will collect data on 

the status of Weatherization Assistance 

Program (WAP), State Energy Program 

(SEP) and Energy Efficiency and 

Conservation Block Grant (EECBG) 

Program activities under the American 

Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 

to ensure that recipients are compliant 

with Section 106 of the National 

Historic Preservation Act (NHPA). 

Comments are invited on: (a) Whether 

the proposed collection of information 

is necessary for the proper performance 

of the functions of the agency, including 

whether the information shall have 

practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the 

agency’s estimate of the burden of the 

proposed collection of information, 

including the validity of the 

methodology and assumptions used; (c) 

ways to enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and (d) ways to minimize the 

burden of the collection of information 

on respondents, including through the 

use of automated collection techniques 

or other forms of information 

technology. 

DATES: Comments regarding this 

collection must be received on or before 

October 7, 2010. Comments should be 

specific in nature and indicate as 

precisely as possible the applicable 

guidance documents. If you anticipate 

difficulty in submitting comments 

within that period, contact the person 

listed below as soon as possible. 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 DOE Desk 

Officer at OMB of your intention to 

make a submission as soon as possible. 

The Desk Officer may be contacted 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; and to Christine Platt Patrick, 

EE–2K, U.S. Department of Energy, 1000 

Independence Ave., SW., Washington, 

DC 20585, Fax: (202) 586–1233, E-mail: 

Christine.Platt@ee.doe.gov (Preferred). 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Christine Platt Patrick, EE–2K, U.S. 

Department of Energy, 1000 

Independence Ave., SW., Washington, 

DC 20585, Fax: (202) 586–1233, E-mail: 

Christine.Platt@ee.doe.gov. 

Draft reporting guidance concerning 

the Historic Preservation reporting 

requirement for EECBG, WAP, and SEP 

will be available for review at the 

following Web site: http:// 

www1.eere.energy.gov/wip/ 

recovery_act_guidance.html. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

information collection request contains: 

OMB No: New; (2) Information 

Collection Request Title: Historic 

Preservation for Office of 

Weatherization and Intergovernmental 

Programs; (3) Type of Request: 

Emergency; (4) Purpose: To collect data 

on the status of Weatherization 

Assistance Program (WAP), State Energy 

Program (SEP) and Energy Efficiency 

and Conservation Block Grant (EECBG) 

Program activities to ensure compliance 

with Section 106 of the NHPA. (5) 


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