Federal Register / Vol. 79, No. 170 / Wednesday, September 3, 2014 / Notices 52309 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

[Docket No. ED–2014–ICCD–0101] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission to the Office of 

Management and Budget for Review 

and Approval; Comment Request; 

Progress in International Reading 

Literacy Study (PIRLS 2016) Field Test 

and Recruitment for Main Study 

AGENCY: Institute of Education Sciences, 

National Center for Education Statistics 

(IES–NCES), 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 reinstatement of a 

previously approved information 

collection. 

DATES: Interested persons are invited to 

submit comments on or before October 

3, 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–2014–ICCD–0101 

or via postal mail, commercial delivery, 

or hand delivery. If the regulations.gov 

site is not available to the public for any 

reason, ED will temporarily accept 

comments at ICDocketMgr@ed.gov. 

Please note that comments submitted by 

fax or email and those submitted after 

the comment period will not be 

accepted; ED will ONLY accept 

comments during the comment period 

in this mailbox when the regulations.gov 

site is not available. 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 

specific questions related to collection 

activities, please contact Kashka 

Kubdzela, 202–502–7411. 

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: Progress in 

International Reading Literacy Study 

(PIRLS 2016) Field Test and 

Recruitment for Main Study. 

OMB Control Number: 1850–0645. 

Type of Review: A reinstatement of a 

previously approved information 

collection. 

Respondents/Affected Public: 

Individuals or households. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Responses: 2,815. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Burden Hours: 5,694. 

Abstract: The Progress in 

International Reading Literacy Study 

(PIRLS) 2016 is coordinated by the 

International Association for the 

Evaluation of Educational Achievement 

(IEA) and in the U.S. administered by 

the National Center for Education 

Statistics (NCES). Since its inception in 

2001, PIRLS has continued to assess 

students every five years (2001, 2006, 

2011, 2016). It is typically administered 

in more than 40 countries and provides 

data for internationally benchmarking 

U.S. performance in fourth-grade 

reading. PIRLS also collects background 

information on students, parents, 

teachers, schools, curricula, and official 

education policies. Each successive 

round of participation in PIRLS 

provides trend information about U.S. 

4th-grade students’ knowledge and 

abilities in reading relative to other 

countries, and about the cultural 

environments, teaching practices, 

curriculum goals, and institutional 

arrangements that are associated with 

student achievement, and how these 

change over time in different countries. 

This submission describes the 

overarching plan for all phases of the 

data collection, including the field test 

and the main study. The field test will 

take place in March–April, 2015, and 

the main study in the spring of 2016. 

The purpose of the PIRLS field test is to 

evaluate new assessment items and 

background questions to ensure 

practices that promote low exclusion 

rates, and to ensure that classroom and 

student sampling procedures proposed 

for the main study are successful. This 

submission requests approval for 

recruiting for the 2015 field test and 

2016 main study; conducting the 2015 

field test data collection; and a 

description of the overarching plan for 

all of the phases of the data collection, 

including the 2016 main study. 

Dated: August 27, 2014. 

Stephanie Valentine, 

Acting Director, Information Collection 

Clearance Division, Privacy, Information and 

Records Management Services, Office of 

Management. 

[FR Doc. 2014–20801 Filed 9–2–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Fusion Energy Sciences Advisory 

Committee 

AGENCY: Office of Science, Department 

of Energy. 

ACTION: Notice of open meeting. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces a 

meeting of the Fusion Energy Sciences 

Advisory Committee (FESAC). The 

Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. 

L. 92–463, 86 Stat. 770) requires that 

public notice of these meetings be 

announced in the Federal Register. 

DATES: September 22, 2014; 8:30 a.m. to 

6:00 p.m. September 23, 2014; 8:30 a.m. 

to 12:00 noon 

ADDRESSES: Gaithersburg Marriott 

Washingtonian Center, 9751 

Washingtonian Boulevard, Gaithersburg, 

MD 20878. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Edmund J. Synakowski, Designated 

Federal Officer, Office of Fusion Energy 

Sciences; U.S. Department of Energy; 

1000 Independence Avenue SW., 

Washington, DC 20585–1290. 

Telephone: (301) 903–4941. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Purpose of 

the Meeting: To consider for approval 

the report of the FESAC Strategic Plan 

Subcommittee. The report was 

requested in a letter from the Acting 

Director of the Office of Science (SC), 

dated April 8, 2014, in response to the 

FY 2014 Omnibus Appropriations Act 

which requires the Department to 

submit a ten-year strategic plan for the 

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