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Leidos facility phone number: 1–310– 

416–8300 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Timothy Johnson, 

timothy.johnson.91.ctr@us.af.mil, 

(310) 416–8476 

Or 

Captain Frank Clark, 

SMCGPER@us.af.mil, 

(310) 653–2041. 

Henry Williams, 

Acting Air Force Federal Liaison Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2014–15911 Filed 7–8–14; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

[Docket No. ED–2014–ICCD–0103] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Comment Request; Early 

Childhood Longitudinal Study 

Kindergarten Class of 2010–11 (ECLS– 

K:2011) Spring 4th Grade Data 

Collection & Recruitment for 5th Grade 

AGENCY: Institute of Education Sciences 

(IES)/National Center for Education 

Statistics (NCES), 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 [insert one of the following: 

A revision of an existing information 

collection. 

DATES: Interested persons are invited to 

submit comments on or before 

September 8, 2014. 

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–2014–ICCD–0103 

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 2E105, 

Washington, DC 20202. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

specific questions related to collection 

activities, please contact Kasha 

Kubdzela, 202–502–7411. 

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: Early Childhood 

Longitudinal Study Kindergarten Class 

of 2010–11 (ECLS–K:2011) Spring 4th 

Grade Data Collection & Recruitment for 

5th Grade. 

OMB Control Number: 1850–0750. 

Type of Review: A revision of an 

existing information collection. 

Respondents/Affected Public: State or 

Local governments. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Responses: 140,208. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Burden Hours: 49,507. 

Abstract: The Early Childhood 

Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class 

of 2010–11 (ECLS–K:2011), sponsored 

by the National Center for Education 

Statistics (NCES) within the Institute of 

Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. 

Department of Education (ED), is a 

survey that focuses on children’s early 

school experiences beginning with 

kindergarten and continuing through 

the fifth grade. It includes the collection 

of data from parents, teachers, school 

administrators, and nonparental care 

providers, as well as direct child 

assessments. Like its sister study, the 

Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, 

Kindergarten Class of 1998–99 (ECLS– 

K), the ECLS–K:2011 is exceptionally 

broad in its scope and coverage of child 

development, early learning, and school 

progress, drawing together information 

from multiple sources to provide rich 

data about the population of children 

who were kindergartners in the 2010–11 

school year. This submission requests 

OMBs clearance for (1) a spring 2015 

fourth-grade national data collection 

and (2) recruitment for the spring 2016 

fifth-grade data collection. 

Dated: July 2, 2014. 

Stephanie Valentine, 

Acting Director, Information Collection 

Clearance Division, Privacy, Information and 

Records Management Services, Office of 

Management. 

[FR Doc. 2014–15945 Filed 7–8–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

[Docket No. ED–2014–ICCD–0071] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission to the Office of 

Management and Budget for Review 

and approval; Comment Request; 2015 

National Household Education Survey 

(NHES 2015) Full Scale Data Collection 

AGENCY: Institute of Education Sciences/ 

National Center for Education Statistics 

(NCES), 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 revision of an existing 

information collection. 

DATES: Interested persons are invited to 

submit comments on or before August 8, 

2014. 

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–2014–ICCD–0071 

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 


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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 2E105, 

Washington, DC 20202. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

specific questions related to collection 

activities, please contact Kashka 

Kubdzela, 202–502–7411. 

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: 2015 National 

Household Education Survey (NHES 

2015) Full Scale Data Collection. 

OMB Control Number: 1850–0768. 

Type of Review: A revision of an 

existing information collection. 

Respondents/Affected Public: 

Individuals or households. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Responses: 198,736. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Burden Hours: 32,240. 

Abstract: The National Household 

Education Surveys Program (NHES) is 

conducted by the National Center for 

Education Statistics (NCES). NHES is 

NCESs principal mechanism for 

addressing education topics appropriate 

for households rather than 

establishments. Such topics cover a 

wide range of issues, including early 

childhood care and education, 

children’s readiness for school, parent 

perceptions of school safety and 

discipline, before- and after-school 

activities of school-age children, 

participation in adult education and 

training, parent involvement in 

education, school choice, 

homeschooling, and civic involvement. 

The NHES consists of a series of rotating 

surveys using a two-stage design in 

which a household screener collects 

household membership and key 

characteristics for sampling and then 

appropriate topical survey(s) are mailed 

to sample members. Data from the 

NHES are used to provide national 

cross-sectional estimates on populations 

of special interest to education 

researchers and policymakers. For 

surveys about children, the population 

of interest is defined by age or grade in 

school, or both, depending on the 

particular survey topic and research 

questions. For surveys of adults, the 

population of interest is those aged 16 

to 65 who are not enrolled in grade 12 

or below, excluding those on active duty 

military service and those who are 

institutionalized. The NHES targets 

these populations using specific 

screening and sampling procedures. The 

NHES design also yields estimates for 

subgroups of interest for each child and 

adult survey. In addition to providing 

cross-sectional estimates, the NHES is 

designed to produce estimates from 

repeated cross sections to measure 

changes in key statistics. NHES surveys 

were conducted approximately every 

other year from 1991 through 2007 

using random digit dial (RDD) 

methodology; beginning in 2012 NHES 

began collecting data by mail to improve 

response rates. This submission seeks 

clearance to repeat the child topical 

surveys conducted in 2012, Parent and 

Family Involvement in Education (PFI) 

and Early Childhood Program 

Participation (ECPP), to begin to 

measure changes over time with the 

new methodology. It also seeks 

clearance to conduct the first adult 

topical survey in NHES since 2005, the 

Credentials for Work Survey (CWS), and 

to pilot an adult topical survey for 

NHES:2017, the Training for Work 

Survey (TWS). The adult surveys were 

developed in conjunction with the 

Interagency Working Group on 

Expanded Measures of Enrollment and 

Attainment (GEMEnA) and the CWS 

was pilot tested in the 2014 NHES 

Feasibility Study. Data collection 

approaches that were most successful at 

balancing the need to limit overall bias, 

respondent burden, and cost in the 

Feasibility Study will be used for the 

2015 data collection. 

Dated: July 2, 2014. 

Stephanie Valentine, 

Acting Director, Information Collection 

Clearance Division, Privacy, Information and 

Records Management Services, Office of 

Management. 

[FR Doc. 2014–15935 Filed 7–8–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

Applications for New Awards; National 

Institute on Disability and 

Rehabilitation Research— 

Rehabilitation Engineering Research 

Centers 

AGENCY: Office of Special Education and 

Rehabilitative Services, Department of 

Education. 

ACTION: Notice. 

Overview Information: 

National Institute on Disability and 

Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR)— 

Disability and Rehabilitation Research 

Projects and Centers Program— 

Rehabilitation Engineering Research 

Centers (RERCs)—Improving the 

Accessibility, Usability, and 

Performance of Technology for 

Individuals who are Deaf or Hard of 

Hearing Notice inviting applications for 

new awards for fiscal year (FY) 2014. 

Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance 

(CFDA) Number: 84.133E–4. 

DATES: 

Applications Available: July 9, 2014. 

Deadline for Letter of Intent to Apply: 

August 13, 2014. 

Date of Pre-Application Meeting: July 

30, 2014. 

Deadline for Transmittal of 

Applications: September 8, 2014. 

Full Text of Announcement 

I. Funding Opportunity Description 

Purpose of Program: The purpose of 

the Disability and Rehabilitation 

Research Projects and Centers Program 

is to plan and conduct research, 

demonstration projects, training, and 

related activities, including 

international activities, to develop 

methods, procedures, and rehabilitation 

technology that maximize the full 

inclusion and integration into society, 

employment, independent living, family 

support, and economic and social selfsufficiency of individuals with 

disabilities, especially individuals with 

the most severe disabilities. The 

program is also intended to improve the 

effectiveness of services authorized 

under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as 

amended (Rehabilitation Act). 


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