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strangulation hazards; expanded 

guidance on merry-go-rounds and other 

spinning equipment, consistent with 

requirements in ASTM F1487; and 

several other minor revisions and 

corrections. 

The draft Handbook is intended to 

provide guidance to childcare 

personnel, school officials, parks and 

recreation personnel, equipment 

purchasers and installers, playground 

designers, and any other members of the 

general public (e.g., parents and school 

groups) concerned with playground 

safety and interested in evaluating their 

respective playgrounds. The draft 

Handbook also includes references to 

voluntary standards that contain 

technical requirements that are 

primarily intended for use by 

equipment designers and 

manufacturers, architects, and any 

others requiring more technical 

information. The draft Handbook is a 

guidance document; it is not a rule and 

does not establish legally enforceable 

responsibilities. 

The draft Handbook is available on 

the Commission’s website at: https://

cpsc.gov/s3fs-public/BallotVote-PublicPlayground-Handbook-Update-2.pdf? 

and from the Commission’s Office of the 

Secretary at the location listed in the 

ADDRESSES section of this notice. 

The Commission invites comment on 

the document, ‘‘Public Playground 

Safety Handbook.’’ Comments should be 

submitted by December 2, 2024. 

Information on how to submit 

comments can be found in the 

ADDRESSES section of this notice. 

Alberta E. Mills, 

Secretary, Consumer Product Safety 

Commission. 

[FR Doc. 2024–22433 Filed 9–30–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6355–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

[Docket ID ED–2024–IES–0116] 

Request for Information for 

Recommendations on Improving Data 

User Experiences Through a National 

Center for Education Statistics’ 2025 

Data Users Conference 

AGENCY: Institute of Education Sciences, 

Department of Education. 

ACTION: Request for information. 

SUMMARY: The National Center for 

Education Statistics (NCES), the 

statistical center within the U.S. 

Department of Education’s Institute of 

Education Sciences (IES), is soliciting 

public input on the framework for an 

inaugural Data Users Conference. The 

event will bring together a diverse set of 

NCES data users, including researchers, 

practitioners, parents/guardians, 

students, academic and commercial 

leaders in their fields, and 

policymakers. Their input will be used 

to refine NCES’s approach to meeting 

the needs of its data users. 

DATES: We must receive your comments 

by October 31, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: Recommendations must be 

submitted via the Federal eRulemaking 

Portal at regulations.gov. However, if 

you require an accommodation or 

cannot otherwise submit your 

recommendations via regulations.gov, 

please contact the program contact 

person listed under FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT. The Department 

will not accept recommendations by 

email or by fax. To ensure that the 

Department does not receive duplicate 

copies, please submit your 

recommendations only once. 

Additionally, please include the Docket 

ID at the top of your comments. 

Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to 

www.regulations.gov to submit your 

recommendations electronically. 

Information on using Regulations.gov, 

including instructions for accessing 

agency documents, submitting 

comments, and viewing the docket, is 

available on the site under the ‘‘FAQ’’ 

tab. 

Privacy Note: The Department’s 

policy for comments received from 

members of the public is to make these 

submissions available for public 

viewing in their entirety on the Federal 

eRulemaking Portal at 

www.regulations.gov. Therefore, 

commenters should be careful to 

include in their recommendations only 

information that they wish to make 

publicly available. We encourage, but 

do not require, that each respondent 

include their name, title, institution or 

affiliation, and the name, title, mailing 

and email addresses, and telephone 

number of a contact person for the 

institution or affiliation, if any. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Eunice Greer, U.S. Department of 

Education, 400 Maryland Avenue SW, 

Room PCP–4101, Washington, DC 

20202. Telephone: (202) 320–7356. 

Email: Eunice.Greer@ed.gov. 

As stated above, recommendations 

must be submitted via the Federal 

eRulemaking Portal at regulations.gov. 

However, if you require an 

accommodation or cannot otherwise 

submit your recommendations via 

regulations.gov, please contact the 

program contact person listed above. 

If you are deaf, hard of hearing, or 

have a speech disability and wish to 

access telecommunications relay 

services, please dial 7–1–1. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background: NCES has a legal 

mandate to collect, collate, analyze, and 

report complete statistics on the 

condition of American education; 

conduct and publish reports; and review 

and report on education activities 

internationally. 20 U.S.C. 9541 et seq. 

Additionally, the Center is authorized to 

establish one or more national 

cooperative education statistics systems 

to produce and maintain, with the 

cooperation of the States, comparable 

and uniform information and data on 

early childhood education, elementary 

and secondary education, postsecondary 

education, adult education, and libraries 

that are useful for policymaking at the 

Federal, State, and local levels. 20 

U.S.C. 9547. Additional information 

about NCES is available here: https://

nces.ed.gov/. 

NCES is convening data users in 

response to recommendations from the 

National Academies of Science, 

Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) 

detailed in their 2022 report, A Vision 

and Roadmap for Education Statistics. 

This report was prepared at the request 

of NCES. NASEM recommends that 

NCES: 

—Adapt to the changing world of 

education by increasing diversity and 

awareness of equity issues; 

—Expand data-acquisition strategies to 

gain new insights; 

—Prioritize topics, data content, and 

statistical information to increase 

relevance; and 

—Expand engagement and 

dissemination for greater mission 

impact. 

The Data Users Conference will draw 

heavily on NCES data and invite 

presentations from external experts 

working with broader sources of data. 

Facilitated discussions will explore 

opportunities for expanding NCES data 

collection, application, and reporting. 

The Conference’s centerpiece will be a 

three-day series of seminars that will 

focus on three themes: 

(1) Identifying and closing learning 

and achievement gaps; 

(2) Identifying and explaining ways 

that Pre-K, K–12, and postsecondary 

landscapes are changing; and 

(3) Expanding awareness and use of 

socio-spatial data, data for rural areas, 

and blended data to improve 

understanding of underrepresented 

groups. 

External experts will join NCES 

researchers in a series of presentations 

to address each theme in new and 

powerful ways. Within each theme, 


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participants will work together to 

articulate expanded strategies for 

gathering, analyzing, visualizing, and 

reporting data. In addition to providing 

a venue for data users to share novel 

uses of NCES data, NCES will also use 

the conference to share product and 

process updates. These may include 

updates to NCES data tools, reporting 

programs, and training opportunities. 

Please note that this RFI is only a 

request for recommendations and not a 

request for proposals (RFP), or a 

promise to issue an RFP, or a notice 

inviting applications (NIA). This RFI 

does not commit the Department to take 

any future administrative, contractual, 

regulatory, or other action. A Request 

for Proposals is forthcoming. The 

Department will not pay for any 

information or administrative costs that 

you may incur in responding to this RFI. 

Any supporting documents and 

information submitted in response to 

this RFI will not be returned. 

We will review each 

recommendation, and the information 

submitted in response to this RFI will be 

publicly available on the Federal 

eRulemaking Portal at 

www.regulations.gov. Please note that 

IES will not directly respond to 

comments. 

Solicitation of Recommendations: We 

encourage the public, particularly those 

who are aware of key research questions 

and policy activity in one or more of the 

three theme areas, to address the 

following questions in their 

recommendations: 

(1) What are existing or emerging 

issues for data users that you consider 

critical for each of the three conference 

themes? Please provide citations and 

links to any noteworthy research 

publications and products that support 

these existing or emerging issues. 

(2) How can conference organizers 

best identify and convene a broad and 

diverse array of attendees? 

Recommended methods should promote 

inclusive approaches. Our goal is to 

convene organizations and/or 

individuals who are engaged in work 

related to one or more of the conference 

themes, including early career 

researchers, data users from smaller 

institutions, and non-traditional data 

users. 

(3) What NCES-affiliated products and 

processes are of greatest interest to data 

users? Are there any specific updates or 

modifications that would be helpful to 

data users? 

Accessible Format: By request to the 

program contact person listed under FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT, 

individuals with disabilities can obtain 

this document in an accessible format. 

The Department will provide the 

requestor with an accessible format that 

may include Rich Text Format (RTF) or 

text format (txt), a thumb drive, an MP3 

file, braille, large print, audiotape, or 

compact disc, or another accessible 

format. 

Electronic Access to This Document: 

The official version of this document is 

the document published in the Federal 

Register. You may access the official 

edition of the Federal Register and the 

Code of Federal Regulations at 

www.govinfo.gov. At this site you can 

view this document, as well as all other 

documents of this Department 

published in the Federal Register, in 

text or Portable Document Format 

(PDF). To use PDF, you must have 

Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is 

available free at the site. 

You may also access documents of the 

Department published in the Federal 

Register by using the article search 

feature at www.federalregister.gov. 

Specifically, through the advanced 

search feature at this site, you can limit 

your search to documents published by 

the Department. 

Matthew Soldner, 

Acting Director, Institute of Education 

Sciences. 

[FR Doc. 2024–22490 Filed 9–30–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

[Docket No.: ED–2024–SCC–0122] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Comment Request; 

Monitoring of Section 8546 Prohibition 

on Aiding and Abetting Sexual Abuse 

State Educational Agency SelfAssessment 

AGENCY: Office of Elementary and 

Secondary Education (OESE), 

Department of Education (ED). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 

1995, the Department is proposing a 

new information collection request 

(ICR). 

DATES: Interested persons are invited to 

submit comments on or before 

December 2, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: To access and review all the 

documents related to the information 

collection listed in this notice, please 

use http://www.regulations.gov by 

searching the Docket ID number ED– 

2024–SCC–0122. Comments submitted 

in response to this notice should be 

submitted electronically through the 

Federal eRulemaking Portal at http://

www.regulations.gov by selecting the 

Docket ID number or via postal mail, 

commercial delivery, or hand delivery. 

If the regulations.gov site is not 

available to the public for any reason, 

the Department will temporarily accept 

comments at ICDocketMgr@ed.gov. 

Please include the docket ID number 

and the title of the information 

collection request when requesting 

documents or submitting comments. 

Please note that comments submitted 

after the comment period will not be 

accepted. Written requests for 

information or comments submitted by 

postal mail or delivery should be 

addressed to the Manager of the 

Strategic Collections and Clearance 

Governance and Strategy Division, U.S. 

Department of Education, 400 Maryland 

Ave. SW, LBJ, Room 4C210, 

Washington, DC 20202–1200. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

specific questions related to collection 

activities, please contact Marcos 

Cerdeira, 202–453–5819. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Department, 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. The 

Department is soliciting comments on 

the proposed information collection 

request (ICR) that is described below. 

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: Monitoring of 

Section 8546 Prohibition on Aiding and 

Abetting Sexual Abuse State 

Educational Agency Self-Assessment. 

OMB Control Number: 1810–NEW. 

Type of Review: A new ICR. 


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