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surveys; U.S. Government and 

contractor engineering, technical, and 

logistics support services; and other 

related elements of logistical and 

program support. 

(iv) Military Department: Air Force 

(TW–D–QBF) 

(v) Prior Related Cases, if any: TW–D– 

SAD 

(vi) Sales Commission, Fee, etc., Paid, 

Offered, or Agreed to be Paid: None 

known at this time 

(vii) Sensitivity of Technology 

Contained in the Defense Article or 

Defense Services Proposed to be Sold: 

See Attached Annex 

(viii) Date Report Delivered to 

Congress: August 23, 2023 

* As defined in Section 47(6) of the 

Arms Export Control Act. 

POLICY JUSTIFICATION 

Taipei Economic and Cultural 

Representative Office in the United 

States—F–16 IRST Systems 

The Taipei Economic and Cultural 

Representative Office in the United 

States (TECRO) has requested to buy F– 

16 Infrared Search and Track (IRST) 

systems; integration and test support 

and equipment; aircraft and munitions 

support and support equipment; 

software delivery and support; spare 

parts, consumables and accessories, and 

repair and return support; publications 

and technical documentation; personnel 

training and training equipment; studies 

and surveys; U.S. Government and 

contractor engineering, technical, and 

logistics support services; and other 

related elements of logistical and 

program support. There is no Major 

Defense Equipment (MDE). The 

estimated total cost is $500 million. 

This proposed sale is consistent with 

U.S. law and policy as expressed in 

Public Law 96–8. 

This proposed sale serves U.S. 

national, economic, and security 

interests by supporting the recipient’s 

continuing efforts to modernize its 

armed forces and to maintain a credible 

defensive capability. The proposed sale 

will help improve the security of the 

recipient and assist in maintaining 

political stability, military balance, and 

economic progress in the region. 

The proposed sale will improve the 

recipient’s capability to meet current 

and future threats by contributing to the 

recipient’s abilities to defend its 

airspace, provide regional security, and 

increase interoperability with the 

United States through its F–16 program. 

The recipient will have no difficulty 

absorbing this equipment into its armed 

forces. 

The proposed sale of this equipment 

and support will not alter the basic 

military balance in the region. 

The principal contractors will be 

Lockheed Martin Corporation, St. Louis, 

MO. There are no known offset 

agreements proposed in connection 

with this potential sale. The purchaser 

typically requests offsets. Any offset 

agreement would be defined in 

negotiations between the purchaser and 

the contractor(s). 

Implementation of this proposed sale 

will not require the assignment of any 

additional U.S. Government or 

contractor representatives. 

There will be no adverse impact on 

U.S. defense readiness as a result of this 

proposed sale. 

Transmittal No. 23–25 

Notice of Proposed Issuance of Letter of 

Offer Pursuant to Section 36(b)(1) of the 

Arms Export Control Act 

Annex 

Item No. vii 

(vii) Sensitivity of Technology: 

1. The Infrared Search and Track 

System (IRST) is a high resolution, 

passive, infrared sensor system that 

searches for, detects, and tracks threats 

with infrared signatures at long ranges 

within its field of regard. It functions 

without emitting any radiation of its 

own and enables aircrews to detect 

adversaries before those adversaries see 

or sense them. 

2. The highest level of classification of 

defense articles, components, and 

services included in this potential sale 

is SECRET. 

3. If a technologically advanced 

adversary were to obtain knowledge of 

the specific hardware and software 

elements, the information could be used 

to develop countermeasures that might 

reduce weapon system effectiveness or 

be used in the development of a system 

with similar or advanced capabilities. 

4. A determination has been made 

that the recipient can provide 

substantially the same degree of 

protection for the sensitive technology 

being released as the U.S. Government. 

This sale is necessary in furtherance of 

the U.S. foreign policy and national 

security objectives outlined in the 

Policy Justification. 

5. All defense articles and services 

listed in this transmittal have been 

authorized for release and export to the 

recipient. 

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BILLING CODE 6001–FR–P 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

[Docket No.: ED–2024–SCC–0132] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Comment Request; National 

Evaluation of the Pathways to 

Partnerships Program (84.421E) 

AGENCY: Office of Special Education and 

Rehabilitative Services (OSERS), 

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 30, 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–0132. 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 Diandrea 

Bailey, (202) 987–0126. 

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 


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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: National 

Evaluation of the Pathways to 

Partnerships Program (84.421E). 

OMB Control Number: 1820–NEW. 

Type of Review: New ICR. 

Respondents/Affected Public: 

Individuals or Households. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Responses: 17,137. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Burden Hours: 4,760. 

Abstract: The U.S. Department of 

Education’s Rehabilitation Services 

Administration (RSA) requests 

clearance for new data collection 

activities to support the evaluation of 

the 84.421E Federal fiscal year (FFY) 

2023 Disability Innovation Fund (DIF), 

Pathways to Partnerships Innovative 

Model Demonstration Project. The 

purpose of the DIF, as provided by the 

Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2022 

(Pub. L. 117–103), is to support 

innovative activities aimed at increasing 

competitive integrated employment as 

defined in section 7 of the 

Rehabilitation Act of 1973 

(Rehabilitation Act) (29 U.S.C. 705(5)) 

for children, youth, and other 

individuals with disabilities. The 

program aims to create systematic and 

seamless approaches to offering 

transition services to children with 

disabilities, ages 10–13 and youth with 

disabilities ages 14 to 24 through 

collaborations among State vocational 

rehabilitation (VR) agencies, State 

education agencies (SEAs), local 

education agencies (LEAs), Federally 

funded Centers for Independent Living 

(CILs), and other organizations offering 

services to this population. RSA is 

investing a total of $198,975,322 in 

grant funding to the 20 States through 

the FFY 2023 DIF. 

This request covers primary data 

collection activities for the National 

Evaluation of the Pathways to 

Partnerships Program. These activities 

include the following: 

Æ Surveys and interviews with program 

participants or their parent or 

guardian 

Æ Surveys with State VR, SEA, and CIL 

directors 

Æ Surveys and interviews with project 

staff 

Æ Collecting project administrative data 

(staff rosters, cost worksheets, and 

web analytics) from project directors 

In September 2023, RSA awarded 

five-year cooperative agreements for the 

84.421E FFY 2023 DIF model 

demonstration projects. The awards 

provide 20 State VR agencies or SEAs 

with funding to implement Pathways to 

Partnerships model demonstration 

projects. The Pathways to Partnerships 

models vary across the 20 projects, but 

the projects’ purpose is to create and 

implement systematic approaches to 

delivering transition services to children 

and youth with disabilities. The 

approaches must entail establishing 

close partnerships across key agencies 

to deliver these services in ways likely 

to improve the education and 

employment outcomes of children and 

youth with disabilities. 

Dated: October 23, 2024. 

Juliana Pearson, 

PRA Coordinator, Strategic Collections and 

Clearance, Governance and Strategy Division, 

Office of Chief Data Officer, Office of 

Planning, Evaluation and Policy 

Development. 

[FR Doc. 2024–25047 Filed 10–28–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY 

COMMISSION 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Extension Without Change 

of an Existing Collection; Comment 

Request 

AGENCY: Equal Employment 

Opportunity Commission. 

ACTION: Notice of information collection; 

extension without change. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the 

Equal Employment Opportunity 

Commission (EEOC or Commission) 

announces that it intends to submit to 

the Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) a request for a three-year 

extension without change of the 

information collection described below. 

DATES: Written comments on this notice 

must be submitted on or before 

December 30, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

by any of the following methods; please 

use only one method: 

Federal eRulemaking Portal: https://

www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

instructions on the website for 

submitting comments. 

Mail: Comments may be submitted by 

mail to Raymond Windmiller, Executive 

Officer, Executive Secretariat, Equal 

Employment Opportunity Commission, 

131 M Street NE, Washington, DC 

20507. 

Fax: Comments totaling six or fewer 

pages may be sent by fax machine to 

(202) 663–4114. Receipt of fax 

transmittals will not be acknowledged, 

except that the sender may request 

confirmation of receipt by calling the 

Executive Secretariat staff at (202) 921– 

2815 (voice), (800) 669–6820 (TTY), or 

(844) 234–5122 (ASL Video Phone). 

Instructions: All comments received 

will be posted without change to 

https://www.regulations.gov, including 

any personal information you provide. 

However, the EEOC reserves the right to 

refrain from posting libelous or 

otherwise inappropriate comments, 

including those that contain obscene, 

indecent, or profane language; that 

contain threats or defamatory 

statements; that contain hate speech 

directed at race, color, sex, national 

origin, age, religion, disability, or 

genetic information; or that promote or 

endorse services or products. 

To read the public comments received 

by the EEOC, go to https://

www.regulations.gov and search for this 

item. There may be a few days’ delay 

between submission of a comment and 

public posting on this docket. The 

received comments also will be 

available for review on a computer in 

the Commission’s Headquarters library, 

131 M Street NE, Suite 4NW08R, 

Washington, DC 20507, between the 

hours of 9:00 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. on days 

the Commission is open for business. 

You must make an appointment with 

library staff to review the comments in 

the Commission’s library by contacting 

202–921–3119. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Kathleen Oram, Assistant Legal 

Counsel, at (202) 921–2665 or 

Kathleen.Oram@eeoc.gov. Requests for 

this notice in an alternative format 

should be made to the Office of 

Communications and Legislative Affairs 

at (202) 921–3191 (voice), (800) 669– 

6820 (TTY), or (844) 234–5122 (ASL 

Video Phone). 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 


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