Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 21 / Monday, February 2, 2015 / Notices 5523 

Dated: January 28, 2015. 

Amy M. Guise, 

Chief, Planning Division, Baltimore District, 

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. 

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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

Privacy Act of 1974; System of 

Records—Study of Teacher 

Preparation Experiences and Early 

Teacher Effectiveness 

AGENCY: Institute of Education Sciences, 

Department of Education. 

ACTION: Notice of an altered system of 

records. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Privacy Act of 1974, as amended 

(Privacy Act), the Department of 

Education (Department) publishes this 

notice of an altered system of records 

entitled ‘‘Study of Teacher Preparation 

Experiences and Early Teacher 

Effectiveness’’ (18–13–29) (formerly, 

‘‘Study of Promising Features of Teacher 

Preparation Programs’’). The National 

Center for Education Evaluation and 

Regional Assistance at the Department’s 

Institute of Education Sciences (IES) 

awarded a contract in September 2011 

to Abt Associates to conduct a rigorous 

study of the effect on student learning 

of teachers who have various 

experiences in their teacher preparation 

programs (e.g., intensive clinical 

practice). The original system of records 

notice for this study was published in 

the Federal Register on June 28, 2012 

(77 FR 38611). This altered system of 

records notice reflects changes to the 

study’s design based on the infeasibility 

of efficiently identifying a sufficient 

number of teachers eligible for an 

impact study design. 

DATES: Submit your comments on this 

notice of an altered system of records or 

before March 4, 2015. 

The Department filed a report 

describing the altered system of records 

covered by this notice with the Chair of 

the Senate Committee on Homeland 

Security and Governmental Affairs, the 

Chair of the House Committee on 

Oversight and Government Reform, and 

the Administrator of the Office of 

Information and Regulatory Affairs, 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) on January 20, 2015. This altered 

system of records will become effective 

at the later date of: (1) The expiration of 

the 40-day period for OMB review on 

March 2, 2015, unless OMB waives 10 

days of the 40-day review period for 

compelling reasons shown by the 

Department, or (2) March 4, 2015, 

unless the system of records needs to be 

changed as a result of public comment 

or OMB review. The Department will 

publish any changes to the system of 

records or routine uses that result from 

public comment or OMB review. 

ADDRESSES: Address all comments about 

this notice of an altered system of 

records to Dr. Audrey Pendleton, 

Associate Commissioner, Evaluation 

Division, National Center for Education 

Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 

Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. 

Department of Education, 555 New 

Jersey Avenue NW., Room 502D, 

Washington, DC 20208–0001. 

Telephone: (202) 208–7078. If you 

prefer to send your comments through 

the Internet, use the following address: 

comments@ed.gov. 

You must include the phrase ‘‘Study 

of Teacher Preparation Experiences and 

Early Teacher Effectiveness’’ in the 

subject line of the electronic message. 

During and after the comment period, 

you may inspect all public comments 

about this notice at the Department in 

room 502D, 555 New Jersey Avenue 

NW., Washington, DC, between the 

hours of 8:00 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., 

Washington, DC time, Monday through 

Friday of each week except Federal 

holidays. 

Assistance to Individuals With 

Disabilities in Reviewing the 

Rulemaking Record 

On request we will provide an 

appropriate accommodation or auxiliary 

aid to an individual with a disability 

who needs assistance to review the 

comments or other documents in the 

public rulemaking record for this notice. 

If you want to schedule an appointment 

for this type of accommodation or aid, 

please contact the person listed under 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. 

Audrey Pendleton Associate 

Commissioner, Evaluation Division, 

National Center for Education 

Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 

Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. 

Department of Education, 555 New 

Jersey Avenue NW., Room 502D, 

Washington, DC 20208–0001. 

Telephone: (202) 208–7078. If you use a 

telecommunications device for the deaf 

(TDD) or a text telephone (TTY), call the 

Federal Relay Service (FRS), toll free, at 

1–800–877–8339. 

Individuals with disabilities can 

obtain this document in an accessible 

format (e.g., braille, large print, 

audiotape, or compact disc) on request 

to the contact person listed in this 

section. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Introduction 

The Privacy Act (5 U.S.C. 552a(e)(4) 

and (e)(11)) requires the Department to 

publish in the Federal Register this 

notice of an altered system of records 

maintained by the Department. The 

Department’s regulations implementing 

the Privacy Act are contained in part 5b 

of title 34 of the Code of Federal 

Regulations (CFR). 

The Privacy Act applies to records 

about individuals that contain 

individually identifying information 

and that are retrieved by a unique 

identifier associated with each 

individual, such as a name or Social 

Security number (SSN). The information 

about each individual is called a 

‘‘record,’’ and the system, whether 

manual or computer-based, is called a 

‘‘system of records.’’ 

The Privacy Act requires each agency 

to publish a notice of a system of 

records in the Federal Register and to 

prepare and send a report to OMB 

whenever the agency publishes a new 

system of records or makes a significant 

change to an established system of 

records. Each agency is also required to 

send copies of the report to the Chair of 

the Senate Committee on Homeland 

Security and Governmental Affairs and 

the Chair of the House Committee on 

Oversight and Government Reform. 

These reports are inc1uded to permit an 

evaluation of the probable effect of the 

proposal on the privacy rights of 

individuals. 

In response to expert feedback, this 

study will examine the relationship 

between student learning outcomes and 

teaching preparation experiences that 

vary in terms of type (e.g., coursework, 

fieldwork, and intensive feedback in the 

field) and content (e.g., classroom 

management and instructional 

strategies). District, teacher, and student 

sample sizes and teacher data elements 

have been revised to allow for this 

analysis. 

Accordingly, the Department has 

retitled the system of records (now 

‘‘Study of Teacher Preparation 

Experiences and Early Teacher 

Effectiveness,’’ instead of ‘‘Study of 

Promising Features of Teacher 

Preparation Programs’’) and updated the 

section of the system of records notice 

entitled ‘‘CATEGORIES OF 

INDIVIDUALS COVERED BY THE 

SYSTEM’’ to reflect that the system of 

records will contain records on 

approximately 1,518,950 students and 

8,000 novice teachers from up to 50 

school districts. The system of records 

will include personally identifying 

information on novice teachers of fourth 

through sixth grade students in study 

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districts and on students in those 

grades. The Department also has 

updated the section of the system of 

records notice entitled ‘‘CATEGORIES 

OF RECORDS IN THE SYSTEM.’’ For 

students, the information in the system 

of records will include school name; 

student identification number; birth 

date; demographic information such as 

race, ethnicity, and gender; and 

educational background, including 

individualized education program 

status, primary disability code (if 

applicable), English language learner 

status, and English language proficiency 

level (if applicable); whether enrolled in 

the National School Lunch Program; 

and scores on reading and mathematics 

achievement tests. For teachers, the 

system of records will include name and 

contact information; teacher 

identification number; Social Security 

number; demographic information such 

as race and ethnicity; information on 

postsecondary institution attended and 

teaching preparation experiences; and 

scores on postsecondary entrance 

exams. Additionally, the Department 

has updated the section of the system of 

records notice entitled ‘‘PURPOSE(S)’’ 

to reflect the changes to the study’s 

design and research questions. The 

Department has also updated the section 

of the notice entitled ‘‘ROUTINE USES 

OF RECORDS MAINTAINED IN THE 

SYSTEM, INCLUDING CATEGORIES 

OF USERS AND THE PURPOSES OF 

SUCH USES’’ to include disclosure to 

researchers. Finally, the Department has 

made minor updates to other sections of 

the system notice entitled ‘‘SYSTEM 

LOCATIONS,’’ ‘‘AUTHORITY FOR 

MAINTENANCE OF THE SYSTEM,’’ 

‘‘STORAGE,’’ and ‘‘RECORD SOURCE 

CATEGORIES.’’ 

Electronic Access to This Document: 

The official version of this document is 

the document published in the Federal 

Register. Free Internet access to the 

official edition of the Federal Register 

and the Code of Federal Regulations is 

available via the Federal Digital System 

at: www.gpo.gov/fdsys. 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 Adobe 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. 

Dated: January 28, 2015. 

Sue Betka, 

Acting Director, Institute of Education 

Sciences. 

For the reasons discussed in the 

preamble, the Director of the Institute of 

Education Sciences, U.S. Department of 

Education (Department) publishes a 

notice of an altered system of records to 

read as follows: 

SYSTEM NUMBER: 

18–13–29 

SYSTEM NAME: 

Study of Teacher Preparation 

Experiences and Early Teacher 

Effectiveness. 

SECURITY CLASSIFICATION: 

None. 

SYSTEM LOCATIONS: 

(1) Evaluation Division, National 

Center for Education Evaluation and 

Regional Assistance, Institute of 

Education Sciences (IES), U.S. 

Department of Education, 555 New 

Jersey Avenue NW., Room 502D, 

Washington, DC 20208–0001. 

(2) Abt Associates, 55 Wheeler Street, 

Cambridge, MA 02138–1168 

(contractor). 

(3) Education Analytics, 555 West 

Washington Avenue, Madison, WI 

53703–2615 (subcontractor). 

(4) Westat, 1600 Research Boulevard, 

Rockville, MD 20850–3129 

(subcontractor). 

CATEGORIES OF INDIVIDUALS COVERED BY THE

SYSTEM: 

The system will contain records on 

approximately 1,518,950 fourth through 

sixth grade students and 8,000 novice 

teachers from up to 50 school districts. 

CATEGORIES OF RECORDS IN THE SYSTEM: 

The system of records will include 

information about the students and 

teachers who participate in the study. 

For students, this information will 

include, but will not necessarily be 

limited to, school name; student 

identification number; birth date; 

enrolled grade; demographic 

information such as race, ethnicity, and 

gender; and educational background 

information, including individualized 

education program status, primary 

disability code (if applicable), English 

language learner status, and English 

language proficiency level (if 

applicable); whether enrolled in the 

National School Lunch Program; and 

scores on reading and mathematics 

achievement tests. For teachers, this 

information will include, but will not 

necessarily be limited to, name and 

contact information; teacher 

identification number; Social Security 

number; demographic information such 

as race and ethnicity; information on 

postsecondary institution attended and 

teaching preparation experiences; scores 

on postsecondary entrance exams. 

AUTHORITY FOR MAINTENANCE OF THE SYSTEM: 

The study is authorized under 

sections 171(b) and 173 of the Education 

Sciences Reform Act of 2002 (ESRA)(20 

U.S.C. 9561(b) and 9563) and section 

9601 of the Elementary and Secondary 

Education Act of 1965, as amended 

(ESEA)(20 U.S.C. 7941). 

PURPOSE(S): 

The information contained in the 

records maintained in this system will 

be used to conduct a rigorous study of 

the relationship between student 

learning outcomes and teachers’ 

preparation experiences. 

The study will address the following 

central research question: What are the 

relationships between teacher 

preparation experiences and teacher 

effectiveness? 

Secondary research questions for the 

study are: 

What are the relationships between 

teacher preparation experiences and 

teacher effectiveness with English 

learners? Do relationships between 

teachers’ preparation experiences and 

teacher effectiveness differ depending 

on teachers’ assessments of the 

usefulness of the preparation 

experiences? 

ROUTINE USES OF RECORDS MAINTAINED IN THE

SYSTEM, INCLUDING CATEGORIES OF USERS AND

THE PURPOSES OF SUCH USES: 

The Department may disclose 

information contained in a record in 

this system of records under the routine 

use listed here without the consent of 

the individual if the disclosure is 

compatible with the purposes for which 

the record was collected. The 

Department may make these disclosures 

on a case-by-case basis or, if the 

Department has complied with the 

computer matching requirements of the 

Privacy Act of 1974, as amended 

(Privacy Act) (5 U.S.C. 552a), under a 

computer matching agreement. Any 

disclosure of individually identifiable 

information from a record in this system 

must also comply with the requirements 

of section 183 of ESRA (20 U.S.C. 9573), 

which provides confidentiality 

standards that apply to all collection, 

reporting, and publication of data by 

IES. In disclosing personally identifiable 

information from students’ education 

records, the Department must also 

comply with the requirements of the 

Family Educational Rights and Privacy 

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Act (FERPA) (20 U.S.C. 1232g; 34 CFR 

part 99), which protects the privacy of 

students’ education records. 

1. Contract Disclosure. If the 

Department contracts with an entity to 

perform any function that requires 

disclosing records in this system to the 

contractor’s employees, the Department 

may disclose the records to those 

employees who have received the 

appropriate level of security clearance 

from the Department. Before entering 

into such a contract, the Department 

will require the contractor to establish 

and maintain the safeguards required 

under the Privacy Act (5 U.S.C. 

552a(m)) with respect to the records in 

the system. 

2. Research Disclosure. The Director 

of IES may license confidential 

information from this system of records 

to qualified external researchers solely 

for the purpose of carrying out specific 

research that is compatible with the 

purpose(s) of this system of records. The 

researcher must maintain, under the 

Privacy Act and section 183(c) of the 

ESRA, safeguards with respect to such 

records. 

DISCLOSURE TO CONSUMER REPORTING

AGENCIES: 

None. 

POLICIES AND PRACTICES FOR STORING, 

RETRIEVING, ACCESSING, RETAINING, AND

DISPOSING OF RECORDS IN THE SYSTEM: 

STORAGE: 

The Department maintains records on 

CD–ROM, and the contractor (Abt 

Associates Inc.) and sub-contractors 

(Education Analytics, Westat) maintain 

data for this system on computers and 

in hard copy. 

RETRIEVABILITY: 

Records in this system are indexed 

and retrieved by a unique number 

assigned to each individual that is crossreferenced by the individual’s name on 

a separate list. 

SAFEGUARDS: 

All physical access to the 

Department’s site and to the sites of the 

Department’s contractor and 

subcontractors, where this system of 

records is maintained, is controlled and 

monitored by security personnel. The 

computer system employed by the 

Department offers a high degree of 

resistance to tampering and 

circumvention. This security system 

limits data access to Department and 

contract staff on a need-to-know basis 

and controls individual users’ ability to 

access and alter records within the 

system. 

The contractor and subcontractors 

have established a similar set of 

procedures at their sites to ensure 

confidentiality of data. The contractor 

and subcontractors are required to 

ensure that print data identifying 

individuals are in files physically 

separated from other research data and 

electronic files identifying individuals 

are separated from other electronic 

research data files. The contractor and 

subcontractors maintain security of the 

complete set of all master data files and 

documentation. Access to individually 

identifiable data is strictly controlled. 

At each site, all hardcopy data are kept 

in locked file cabinets during 

nonworking hours and work on 

hardcopy data takes place in a single 

room, except for data entry. 

Physical security of electronic data is 

also maintained. Security features that 

protect project data include: Passwordprotected accounts that authorize users 

to use the contractor’s system but to 

access only specific network directories 

and network software; user rights and 

directory and file attributes that limit 

those who can use particular directories 

and files and determine how they can 

use them; and additional security 

features that the network administrators 

will establish for projects as needed. 

The Department’s, contractor’s, and 

subcontractors’ employees who 

‘‘maintain’’ (collect, maintain, use, or 

disseminate) data in this system must 

comply with the requirements of the 

Privacy Act, FERPA, and the 

confidentiality standards in section 183 

of the ESRA (20 U.S.C. 9573). 

RETENTION AND DISPOSAL: 

Records are maintained and disposed 

of in accordance with the Department’s 

Records Disposition Schedules (GRS 23, 

Item 8). 

SYSTEM MANAGER AND ADDRESS: 

Associate Commissioner, Evaluation 

Division, National Center for Education 

Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 

Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. 

Department of Education, 555 New 

Jersey Avenue NW., Room 502D, 

Washington, DC 20208–0001. 

NOTIFICATION PROCEDURE: 

If you wish to determine whether a 

record exists regarding you in the 

system of records, contact the system 

manager. Your request must meet the 

requirements of the Department’s 

Privacy Act regulations at 34 CFR 5b.5, 

including proof of identity. 

RECORD ACCESS PROCEDURE: 

If you wish to gain access to a record 

about you in this system of records, 

contact the system manager. Your 

request must meet the requirements of 

the Department’s Privacy Act 

regulations at 34 CFR 5b.5, including 

proof of identity. 

CONTESTING RECORD PROCEDURE: 

If you wish to contest the content of 

a record regarding you in the system of 

records, contact the system manager. 

Your request for access to a record must 

meet the requirements of the 

Department’s Privacy Act regulations at 

34 CFR 5b.7, including proof of identity. 

RECORD SOURCE CATEGORIES: 

This system will contain records on 

teachers, and students participating in a 

study of teaching preparation 

experiences and teacher effectiveness. 

Data will be obtained through human 

resource and student records 

maintained by the school districts and 

surveys of teachers. 

EXEMPTIONS CLAIMED FOR THE SYSTEM: 

None. 

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

[OE Docket No. EA–405] 

Application To Export Electric Energy; 

Del Norte Energy LLC 

AGENCY: Office of Electricity Delivery 

and Energy Reliability, DOE. 

ACTION: Notice of Application. 

SUMMARY: Del Norte Energy LLC (Del 

Norte or Applicant) has applied for 

authority to transmit electric energy 

from the United States to Mexico 

pursuant to section 202(e) of the Federal 

Power Act. 

DATES: Comments, protests, or motions 

to intervene must be submitted on or 

before March 4, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: Comments, protests, 

motions to intervene, or requests for 

more information should be addressed 

to: Office of Electricity Delivery and 

Energy Reliability, Mail Code: OE–20, 

U.S. Department of Energy, 1000 

Independence Avenue SW., 

Washington, DC 20585–0350. Because 

of delays in handling conventional mail, 

it is recommended that documents be 

transmitted by overnight mail, by 

electronic mail to Electricity.Exports@

hq.doe.gov, or by facsimile to 202–586– 

8008. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Exports of 

electricity from the United States to a 

foreign country are regulated by the 

Department of Energy (DOE) pursuant to 

sections 301(b) and 402(f) of the 

Department of Energy Organization Act 

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