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data processing/information services for 

designated populations for purposes of 

protecting U.S./Coalition/allied 

government/national security areas of 

responsibility and information; to issue 

badges, replace lost badges and retrieve 

passes upon separation; to maintain 

visitor statistics; collect information to 

adjudicate access to facility; and track 

the entry/exit of personnel. 

Affected Public: General Public; 

Business or other for profit; Not-forprofit institutions. 

Annual Burden Hours: 327,289. 

Number of Respondents: 1,963,733. 

Responses per Respondent: 1. 

Average Burden per Response: 10 

minutes. 

Frequency: Annually. 

Respondents are members of the 

general public, businesses or other for 

profit and not-for-profit institutions who 

are seeking to access DOD, DON or U.S. 

Marine Corps Installations/Bases, 

installations, facilities, or areas over 

which DOD, DON or U.S. Marine Corps 

has security responsibilities. The 

Department of the Navy Local 

Population Access Registration Form, 

MC–XXX records the personal 

identifiable information that is used at 

the time of registration for I–9 Identity 

proofing and to perform background 

checks to determine the fitness of 

personnel entering military 

installations. The completed form is 

used by the Marine Corps Installation 

Provost Marshal’s Office/Police 

Departments to enter the records into 

the Installation’s/Base’s Physical Access 

Control System and the DOD’s 

authoritative data source for the purpose 

of issuing a Installation Access Pass/

Badge/ID and for the purpose of 

performing background checks. 

Respondents who provide their personal 

identifiable information are consenting 

to collection of information by their 

action of voluntarily offering their I–9 

documents, or fingerprints, irises, and 

facial profiles for biometric collection. 

Failure to provide requested 

information may result in denial of 

access to DOD installations, facilities, 

and buildings. 

Dated: September 3, 2013. 

Aaron Siegel, 

Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison 

Officer, Department of Defense. 

[FR Doc. 2013–21754 Filed 9–6–13; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 5001–06–P 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

[Docket ID ED–2013–OELA–0117] 

Request for Information To Inform the 

Title III Evaluation and Research 

Studies Agenda 

AGENCY: Office of English Language 

Acquisition, Language Enhancement, 

and Academic Achievement for Limited 

English Proficient Students, Department 

of Education. 

ACTION: Request for information. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of 

Education (Department) requests 

information on priorities for future 

evaluation and research studies needed 

to inform effective instruction, 

assessment, and professional 

development that is responsive to the 

needs of English learners (ELs). 

DATES: Written submissions must be 

received by the Department by October 

9, 2013. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments 

through the Federal eRulemaking Portal 

or via postal mail, commercial delivery, 

or hand delivery. We will not accept 

comments by fax or by email. To ensure 

that we do not receive duplicate copies, 

please submit your comments only 

once. In addition, please include the 

Docket ID and the term ‘‘Evaluation 

Studies’’ at the top of your comments. 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to 

www.regulations.gov to submit your 

comments electronically. Information 

on using Regulations.gov, including 

instructions for accessing agency 

documents, submitting comments, and 

viewing the docket, is available on the 

site under ‘‘Are you new to this site?’’ 

• Postal Mail, Commercial Delivery, 

or Hand Delivery: If you mail or deliver 

your comments, address them to 

Elizabeth Judd, Office of English 

Language Acquisition, Attention: 

Evaluation RFI, U.S. Department of 

Education, 400 Maryland Avenue SW., 

Room 5C126, Washington, DC 20202– 

6132. 

• Privacy Note: The Department’s 

policy for comments received from 

members of the public (including 

comments submitted by mail, 

commercial delivery, or hand delivery) 

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 comments only 

information that they wish to make 

publicly available on the Internet. 

Submission of Proprietary 

Information: Given the subject matter, 

some comments may include 

proprietary information as it relates to 

confidential commercial information. 

The Freedom of Information Act defines 

‘‘confidential commercial information’’ 

as information the disclosure of which 

could reasonably be expected to cause 

substantial competitive harm. You may 

wish to request that we not disclose 

what you regard as confidential 

commercial information. 

To assist us in making a 

determination on your request, we 

encourage you to identify any specific 

information in your comments that you 

consider confidential commercial 

information. Please list the information 

by page and paragraph numbers. 

This Request for Information (RFI) is 

issued solely for information and 

planning purposes and is not a request 

for proposals (RFP), a notice inviting 

applications (NIA), or a promise to issue 

an RFP or NIA. This RFI does not 

commit the Department to contract for 

any supply or service whatsoever. 

Further, the Department is not now 

seeking proposals and will not accept 

unsolicited proposals. The Department 

will not pay for any information or 

administrative costs that you may incur 

in responding to this RFI. 

If you do not respond to this RFI, you 

may still apply for future contracts and 

grants. The Department posts RFPs on 

the Federal Business Opportunities Web 

site (www.fbo.gov). The Department 

announces grant competitions in the 

Federal Register (www.gpo.gov/fdsys). It 

is your responsibility to monitor these 

sites to determine whether the 

Department issues an RFP or NIA after 

considering the information received in 

response to this RFI. 

The documents and information 

submitted in response to this RFI 

become the property of the U.S. 

Government and will not be returned. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Elizabeth Judd, U.S. Department of 

Education, 400 Maryland Avenue SW., 

Room 5C126, Washington, DC 20202– 

6132 or by phone at 202–401–1407. 

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. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Introduction 

The Elementary and Secondary 

Education Act (ESEA) of 1965, as 

amended, holds States accountable for 

closing achievement gaps and ensuring 

that all children, including children 

with limited English proficiency, meet 

the same challenging academic and 

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expected to meet. To this end, Title III 

of the ESEA requires States to develop 

English language proficiency (ELP) 

standards that are aligned with 

challenging State academic content and 

student academic achievement 

standards. States must also develop and 

administer ELP assessments that are 

aligned with those standards, and must 

develop annual measurable 

achievement objectives (AMAOs) for 

English language proficiency. 

To support EL student achievement, 

States, school districts and schools need 

information on effective EL instruction, 

assessment, and professional 

development practices that is informed 

by data from current research. With this 

RFI we seek to gather information on the 

evaluation and research studies needs of 

the field, which may include the needs 

of administrators, teachers, teacher 

trainers, researchers, and other members 

of the English learner community. The 

Department anticipates making use of 

this information to inform the 

development of our evaluation and 

research agenda in the coming years and 

to guide future evaluation and research 

studies addressing the needs of ELs. 

Information on Department studies 

related to the needs of English learners 

is posted on the following Web site: 

http://www.ncela.gwu.edu/edpubs/. 

Once we receive responses to this RFI, 

the Department will summarize the 

recommendations made by the public 

and post that summary on the Office of 

English language Acquisition, Language 

Enhancement, and Academic 

Achievement for Limited English 

Proficient Students (OELA) and the 

National Clearinghouse for English 

Language Acquisition (NCELA) Web 

sites for viewing. We will use the 

information received through this RFI to 

develop an agenda for evaluation and 

research studies that we will also 

publish on the OELA and NCELA Web 

sites. 

Context for Responses 

The primary goal of this RFI is to 

gather information that will help shape 

the Department’s evaluation and 

research studies agenda. 

We have developed a question with 

topic areas. We request information 

about evaluation and research studies 

that would be most helpful in shaping 

the Department’s evaluation and 

research agenda. You do not have to 

respond to each topic area included in 

the question; however, it would be 

helpful if you would elaborate on each 

topic you choose to address. You may 

provide comments in any convenient 

format, and you may also provide 

relevant information that is not directly 

responsive to a particular topic but may, 

nevertheless, be helpful. 

General Question Regarding potential 

evaluation and research studies. 

In which of the following areas should 

the Department conduct new studies or 

conduct a review of the literature on 

existing studies? 

a. Identification, screening, and 

assessment practices of ELs in general, 

or in particular, who are (1) Early 

learners, (2) students with disabilities, 

(3)secondary students, (4) students with 

interrupted formal education, or (5) 

other category of ELs. 

b. Strategies for data collection, data 

analysis, and data-based decisionmaking with respect to EL assessment 

data. 

c. The alignment of ELP standards 

with college- and career-ready standards 

and the alignment of ELP assessments 

with ELP standards, including 

assessments that are accessible to, and 

usable with, ELs with disabilities. 

d. Key features of instruction for ELs 

that promote language acquisition, 

including academic language, social 

language, and content knowledge in 

various educational programs that 

provide instruction in English or in 

English and another language. 

e. Technology-based instructional 

strategies that promote EL achievement. 

f. Characteristics of professional 

development that prepares prospective 

teachers or currently practicing teachers 

who are language development 

specialists or content teachers of ELs to 

design and deliver instruction that 

promotes language acquisition and 

content knowledge. 

Accessible Format: Individuals with 

disabilities can obtain this document in 

an accessible format (e.g., braille, large 

print, audiotape, or compact disc) upon 

request to the program contact person 

listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT. 

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. 

Program Authority: 20 U.S.C. 6801–7014. 

Dated: September 3, 2013. 

Joseph C. Conaty, 

Acting Director, Office of English Language 

Acquisition, Language Enhancement, and 

Academic Achievement for Limited English 

Proficient Students. 

[FR Doc. 2013–21767 Filed 9–6–13; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Project No. 14383–005] 

Whitewater Green Energy, LLC; Notice 

of Intent to File License Application, 

Filing of Pre-Application Document 

(Pad), Commencement of Pre-Filing 

Process, and Scoping; Request for 

Comments on the Pad and Scoping 

Document, and Identification of Issues 

and Associated Study Requests 

a. Type of Filing: Notice of Intent to 

File License Application for an Original 

License and Commencing Pre-filing 

Process. 

b. Project No.: 14383–005. 

c. Dated Filed: July 8, 2013. 

d. Submitted By: Whitewater Green 

Energy, LLC. 

e. Name of Project: Whitewater Creek 

Hydroelectric Project. 

f. Location: On Whitewater and 

Russell creeks near Detroit, in Marion 

and Linn counties, Oregon. The project 

would be located entirely on federal 

lands administered by the U.S. Forest 

Service. 

g. Filed Pursuant to: 18 CFR Part 5 of 

the Commission’s Regulations. 

h. Applicant Contact: David Harmon, 

Project Manager, Whitewater Green 

Energy, LLC, 601 7th Ave., Sweet Home, 

OR; Telephone: (541) 405–5236. 

i. FERC Contact: Aaron Liberty at 

(202) 502–6862 or email at 

aaron.liberty@ferc.gov. 

j. Cooperating agencies: Federal, state, 

local, and tribal agencies with 

jurisdiction and/or special expertise 

with respect to environmental issues 

that wish to cooperate in the 

preparation of the environmental 

document should follow the 

instructions for filing such requests 

described in item n below. Cooperating 

agencies should note the Commission’s 

policy that agencies that cooperate in 

the preparation of the environmental 

document cannot also intervene. See 94 

FERC ¶ 61,076 (2001). 


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