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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: William D. Ford 

Federal Direct Loan Program Deferment 

Request Forms. 

OMB Control Number: 1845–0011. 

Type of Review: A revision of an 

existing information collection. 

Respondents/Affected Public: 

Individuals or Households. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Responses: 3,127,832. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Burden Hours: 500,453. 

Abstract: These forms serve as the 

means by which borrowers in the 

William D. Ford Federal Direct Loan 

(Direct Loan) and Federal Family 

Education Loan (FFEL) Programs may 

request deferment of repayment on their 

loans if they meet certain statutory and 

regulatory criteria. The U.S. Department 

of Education and other loan holders 

uses the information collected on these 

forms to determine whether a borrower 

meets the eligibility requirements for 

the specific deferment type being 

submitted. 

Dated: March 10, 2015. 

Kate Mullan, 

Acting Director, Information Collection 

Clearance Division, Privacy, Information and 

Records Management Services, Office of 

Management. 

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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

[Docket No.: ED–2015–ICCD–0027] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Comment Request; Student 

Messaging in GEAR UP Demonstration 

AGENCY: Institute of Education Sciences/ 

National Center for Education Statistics 

(IES), 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 new information collection. 

DATES: Interested persons are invited to 

submit comments on or before May 12, 

2015. 

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–2015–ICCD–0027 

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 2E103, 

Washington, DC 20202. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

specific questions related to collection 

activities, please contact Marsha 

Silverberg, (202) 208–7178. 

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: Student Messaging 

in GEAR UP Demonstration. 

OMB Control Number: 1850–NEW. 

Type of Review: A new information 

collection. 

Respondents/Affected Public: 

Individuals or households. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Responses: 16,080. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Burden Hours: 4,160. 

Abstract: The Student Messaging in 

GEAR UP Demonstration, sponsored by 

the Institute of Education Sciences 

(IES), U.S. Department of Education 

(ED), is being conducted to test the 

effectiveness of a promising strategy to 

improve college-related outcomes in the 

federal college access program Gaining 

Early Awareness and Readiness for 

Undergraduate Programs (GEAR UP). 

The demonstration will use a 

randomized controlled trial (RCT) 

design to test the effectiveness of 

sending customized messaging to 

students, first during the summer after 

high school graduation, and then in the 

fall and spring of their expected first 

year of college. Students within high 

schools that volunteer for the 

demonstration will be randomly 

assigned to either receive the messages 

or not. This ICR requests clearance for 

the collection of GEAR UP student 

rosters and administration of a baseline 

survey. In addition to the baseline 

survey data that will be collected from 

students, college-related outcome data 

will be extracted from national datasets 

(National Student Clearinghouse Data 

(NSC) and the Federal Student Aid 

(FSA) database). Impact and descriptive 

analyses will be conducted to answer 

the study research questions. The 

evaluation plans call for two reports. 

The first, published in summer 2018, 

will be based on data collected through 

2017 that will look at college advising 

received in high school and early 

college-related outcomes (i.e., college 

enrollment and FAFSA completion). 

The second report will be available in 

early 2020, and will investigate college 

persistence. 

Dated: March 10, 2015. 

Kate Mullan, 

Acting Director, Information Collection 

Clearance Division, Privacy, Information and 

Records Management Services, Office of 

Management. 

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