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Guerrero at Julian.Guerrero@ed.gov. 

Written comments related to the 

October 23–24, 2024, NACIE meeting 

should be submitted no later than 11:59 

p.m. Eastern Time (ET) on October 16, 

2024. Members of the public may also 

make oral comment during the open 

meeting on October 24, 2024. Requests 

to make oral comment will be accepted 

on a first requested, first served basis. 

Each commenter must use the ‘‘raise 

your hand’’ feature and enter ‘‘I request 

to make an oral comment’’ into the 

meeting chat. Each commenter will have 

a maximum of three minutes to state his 

or her comment and/or question. Please 

note that written comments and oral 

comments made during the open 

meeting should pertain to the work of 

NACIE. 

Reasonable Accommodations: The 

virtual meeting is accessible to 

individuals with disabilities. If you will 

need an auxiliary aid or service for the 

meeting (e.g., interpreting service, 

assistive listening device, or materials in 

an alternate format), notify the contact 

person listed in this notice no later than 

October 16, 2024. Although we will 

attempt to meet a request received after 

that date, we may not be able to make 

available the requested auxiliary aid or 

service because of insufficient time to 

arrange it. 

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Department will post the official 

minutes of this meeting on the OESE 

website, https://ed.gov/, within 90 days 

after the meeting. Pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 

1009(b), the public may also inspect 

NACIE records at the Office of Indian 

Education, U.S. Department of 

Education, 400 Maryland Avenue SW, 

Washington, DC 20202, Monday–Friday, 

8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. ET. Please email 

Julian Guerrero at Julian.Guerrero@

ed.gov to schedule an appointment. 

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Authority: Section 6141 of the ESEA, 

as amended (20 U.S.C. 7471). 

Adam Schott, 

Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for 

Policy and Programs, Delegated the Authority 

to Perform the Functions and Duties of the 

Assistant Secretary Office of Elementary and 

Secondary Education. 

[FR Doc. 2024–22807 Filed 10–2–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

[Docket No.: ED–2024–SCC–0121] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission to the Office of 

Management and Budget for Review 

and Approval; Comment Request; 

Application for Grants Under the 

Upward Bound Program (1894–0001) 

AGENCY: Office of Postsecondary 

Education (OPE), Department of 

Education (ED). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 

1995, the Department is proposing an 

extension without change of a currently 

approved information collection request 

(ICR). 

DATES: Interested persons are invited to 

submit comments on or before 

November 4, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments and 

recommendations for proposed 

information collection requests should 

be submitted within 30 days of 

publication of this notice. Click on this 

link www.reginfo.gov/public/do/ 

PRAMain to access the site. Find this 

information collection request (ICR) by 

selecting ‘‘Department of Education’’ 

under ‘‘Currently Under Review,’’ then 

check the ‘‘Only Show ICR for Public 

Comment’’ checkbox. Reginfo.gov 

provides two links to view documents 

related to this information collection 

request. Information collection forms 

and instructions may be found by 

clicking on the ‘‘View Information 

Collection (IC) List’’ link. Supporting 

statements and other supporting 

documentation may be found by 

clicking on the ‘‘View Supporting 

Statement and Other Documents’’ link. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

specific questions related to collection 

activities, please contact Sharon 

Easterling, (202) 453–7425. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Department 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: Application for 

Grants under the Upward Bound 

Program (1894–0001). 

OMB Control Number: 1840–0550. 

Type of Review: Extension without 

change of a currently approved ICR. 

Respondents/Affected Public: Private 

Sector; State, Local, and Tribal 

Governments. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Responses: 1,540. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Burden Hours: 51,080. 

Abstract: The Department is 

requesting an extension of the 

application used to make new grants 

under the Upward Bound (UB) Program. 

This application will be used to conduct 

the Fiscal Year (FY) 2027 competition 

for new awards and collect data under 

the UB Program. The UB Program 

provides grants to institutions of higher 

education, public and private agencies 

and organizations, community-based 

organizations with experience in serving 

disadvantaged youth, combinations of 

such institutions, agencies and 

organizations, and secondary schools. 

Upward Bound provides fundamental 

support to participants in their 

preparation for college entrance. The 

program provides opportunities for 

participants to succeed in their 

precollege performance and ultimately 

in their higher education pursuits. 

Upward Bound serves: high school 

students from low-income families; and 

high school students from families in 

which neither parent holds a bachelor’s 

degree. The goal of Upward Bound is to 

increase the rate at which participants 

complete secondary education and 

enroll in and graduate from institutions 

of postsecondary education. 

This discretionary grant falls under 

the streamlined grant process, 1894– 

0001, which waives the 60-day 

comment period (Pub. L. 104–13, sec. 

3505(a)(2)). 

This collection is being submitted 

under the Streamlined Clearance 

Process for Discretionary Grant 

Information Collections (1894–0001). 

Therefore, the 30-day public comment 


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1Qualifying Facility Rates & Requirements; 

Implementation Issues Under the Pub. Util. Regul. 

Policies Act of 1978, Order No. 872, 172 FERC 

¶ 61,041, order on reh’g, Order No. 872–A, 173 

FERC ¶ 61,158 (2020), aff’d in part and remanded 

in part sub nom. Solar Energy Indus. Ass’n v. FERC, 

80 F.4th 956 (9th Cir. 2023) (Solar Energy). 

2 16 U.S.C. 796(17)–(18), 824a–3. 

3 42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.; see also 18 CFR pt. 380 

(2023) (Commission’s regulations implementing 

NEPA). 

4Solar Energy, 80 F.4th at 996–97. 

period notice will be the only public 

comment notice published for this 

information collection. 

Dated: September 30, 2024. 

Kun Mullan, 

PRA Coordinator, Strategic Collections and 

Clearance, Governance and Strategy Division, 

Office of Chief Data Officer, Office of 

Planning, Evaluation and Policy 

Development. 

[FR Doc. 2024–22792 Filed 10–2–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Project No. 15360–000] 

Low Head Hydro M 11, LLC; Notice of 

Preliminary Permit Application 

Accepted for Filing and Soliciting 

Comments, Motions To Intervene, and 

Competing Applications 

On June 4, 2024, Low Head Hydro M 

11, LLC filed an application for a 

preliminary permit, pursuant to section 

4(f) of the Federal Power Act (FPA), 

proposing to study the feasibility of the 

proposed Mississippi Locks and Dam 11 

Hydroelectric Project, a hydropower 

project proposed to be located at the 

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ (Corps) 

Mississippi Lock and Dam located on 

the Mississippi River, near Dubuque, 

Iowa. The sole purpose of a preliminary 

permit, if issued, is to grant the permit 

holder priority to file a license 

application during the permit term. A 

preliminary permit does not authorize 

the permit holder to perform any landdisturbing activities or otherwise enter 

upon lands or waters owned by others 

without the owners’ express permission. 

The proposed Mississippi Locks and 

Dam 11 Hydroelectric Project would 

consist of the following: (1) an 

impoundment approximately 19,613 

acres with a storage capacity of 170,000 

acre-feet; (2) a 200-foot-long and 300- 

foot-wide intake area located upstream 

of the powerhouse; (3) a 120-foot long 

and 276-foot-wide powerhouse located 

adjacent to the left bank of the existing 

Corps’ dam; (4) nine vertical Kaplan 

turbine-generators rated at 1.57 

megawatt (MW) each installed in the 

new powerhouse, for a total installed 

capacity of 14.13 MW; (5) a 13- 

megavolt-ampere, 4.16/69-kilovolt (kV) 

three-phase step-up transformer located 

adjacent to the powerhouse in a new, 

50-foot-wide by 60-foot-long substation; 

(6) a 1.52-mile-long, single overhead 

three-phase 69-kV line extending from 

the substation to the interconnection 

point; (7) new concrete guide walls 

constructed upstream and downstream 

of the powerhouse; (8) a 276-foot-wide 

and 400-foot-long unlined earthen 

excavation tailrace area having stone 

riprap placed in the areas of higher 

velocity; and (9) appurtenant facilities. 

The proposed project would have an 

estimated annual generation of 91 

gigawatt-hours. 

Applicant Contact: Allen W. Skelly, 

Low Head Hydro M 11, LLC, 127 

Longwood Blvd., Mount Orab, Ohio 

45154; phone: (937) 802–8866. 

FERC Contact: Shivani Khetani; 

phone: (212) 273–5917, or by email at 

shivani.khetani@ferc.gov. 

Deadline for filing comments, motions 

to intervene, competing applications 

(without notices of intent), or notices of 

intent to file competing applications: 60 

days from the issuance of this notice. 

Competing applications and notices of 

intent must meet the requirements of 18 

CFR 4.36. 

The Commission’s Office of Public 

Participation (OPP) supports meaningful 

public engagement and participation in 

Commission proceedings. OPP can help 

members of the public, including 

landowners, environmental justice 

communities, Tribal members and 

others, access publicly available 

information and navigate Commission 

processes. For public inquiries and 

assistance with making filings such as 

interventions, comments, or requests for 

rehearing, the public is encouraged to 

contact OPP at (202) 502–6595 or OPP@

ferc.gov. 

The Commission strongly encourages 

electronic filing. Please file comments, 

motions to intervene, notices of intent, 

and competing applications using the 

Commission’s eFiling system at https:// 

ferconline.ferc.gov/eFiling.aspx. 

Commenters can submit brief comments 

up to 6,000 characters, without prior 

registration, using the eComment system 

at https://ferconline.ferc.gov/ 

QuickComment.aspx. You must include 

your name and contact information at 

the end of your comments. For 

assistance, please contact FERC Online 

Support at FERCOnlineSupport@

ferc.gov, (866) 208–3676 (toll free), or 

(202) 502–8659 (TTY). In lieu of 

electronic filing, you may submit a 

paper copy. Submissions sent via the 

U.S. Postal Service must be addressed 

to: Debbie-Anne A. Reese, Acting 

Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission, 888 First Street NE, Room 

1A, Washington, DC 20426. 

Submissions sent via any other carrier 

must be addressed to: Debbie-Anne A. 

Reese, Acting Secretary, Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission, 12225 Wilkins 

Avenue, Rockville, Maryland 20852. 

The first page of any filing should 

include docket number P–15360–000. 

More information about this project, 

including a copy of the application, can 

be viewed or printed on the ‘‘eLibrary’’ 

link of the Commission’s website at 

https://elibrary.ferc.gov/eLibrary/search. 

Enter the docket number (P–15360) in 

the docket number field to access the 

document. For assistance, contact FERC 

Online Support. 

Dated: September 27, 2024. 

Debbie-Anne A. Reese, 

Acting Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2024–22848 Filed 10–2–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket Nos. RM19–15–002; AD16–16–002] 

Qualifying Facility Rates and 

Requirements Implementation Issues 

Under the Public Utility Regulatory 

Policies Act of 1978; Notice of 

Schedule for the Preparation of an 

Environmental Assessment for 

Qualifying Facility Rates and 

Requirements Implementation Issues 

Under the Public Utility Regulatory 

Policies Act of 1978 

On July 16, 2020, the Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission (Commission) 

issued Order No. 872,1 approving 

certain revisions to its regulations 

implementing sections 201 and 210 of 

the Public Utility Regulatory Policies 

Act of 1978 (PURPA).2 On September 5, 

2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 

Ninth Circuit (Ninth Circuit) remanded 

Order No. 872, without vacatur, based 

on its finding that, pursuant to the 

National Environmental Policy Act 

(NEPA),3 the Commission must prepare 

an environmental assessment (EA) 

analyzing the potential impacts of the 

rule on climate change and air quality.4

This notice identifies Commission 

staff’s intention to prepare an EA for 

Order No. 872 and sets forth the 


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