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trip ticket program issued by the NMFS 

or through a NMFS approved 

proprietary mechanism. 

III. Data 

OMB Control Number: 0648–0229. 

Form Number: None. 

Type of Review: Regular submission 

(extension of a current information 

collection). 

Affected Public: Business or other forprofit organizations, individuals or 

households. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

657. 

Estimated Time per Response: 4 

minutes. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 33,430. 

Estimated Total Annual Cost to 

Public: $25,071. 

IV. Request for Comments 

Comments are invited on: (a) Whether 

the proposed collection of information 

is necessary for the proper performance 

of the functions of the agency, including 

whether the information shall have 

practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the 

agency’s estimate of the burden 

(including hours and cost) of the 

proposed collection of information; (c) 

ways to enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and (d) ways to minimize the 

burden of the collection of information 

on respondents, including through the 

use of automated collection techniques 

or other forms of information 

technology. 

Comments submitted in response to 

this notice will be summarized and/or 

included in the request for OMB 

approval of this information collection; 

they also will become a matter of public 

record. 

Dated: April 17, 2014. 

Gwellnar Banks, 

Management Analyst, Office of the Chief 

Information Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2014–09214 Filed 4–22–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–22–P 

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Office of the Secretary 

[Docket ID DoD–2013–OS–0088] 

Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request 

AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, 

Department of Defense (DoD). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Defense 

has submitted to OMB for clearance, the 

following proposal for collection of 

information under the provisions of the 

Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 

Chapter 35). 

DATES: Consideration will be given to all 

comments received by May 23, 2014. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Fred 

Licari, 571–372–0493. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Title, Associated Form and OMB 

Number: 2014 Ethnographies and Focus 

Groups; OMB Control Number 0704– 

TBD. 

Type of Request: New. 

Number of Respondents: 475. 

Responses Per Respondent: 1. 

Annual Responses: 475. 

Average Burden per Response: 2 

hours per ethnography; 2–2.25 hours 

per in-person focus group (depending 

on specific population); 1.5 hours per 

on-line focus group. 

Annual Burden Hours: 298 hours 

total. 

Needs and Uses: The primary 

objective of the set of information 

collections referred to as the 2014 

Ethnographies and Focus Groups, 

conducted on behalf of the Federal 

Voting Assistance Program (FVAP), an 

agency of the Department of Defense, is 

to examine the attitudes, experiences, 

and behaviors of a number of actors 

involved in the absentee voting process 

as it pertains to CONUS and OCONUS 

military voters and overseas voters 

covered under the Uniformed and 

Overseas Civilian Absentee Voting Act 

(UOCAVA). This research will explore 

potential deficiencies, risks, and pitfalls 

which serve as barriers to voting success 

among these UOCAVA voters. The data 

obtained through this study will provide 

an assessment of potential changes to 

address current barriers to UOCAVA 

voting. 

Affected Public: Non-military 

UOCAVA voters; Local Election 

Officials, and Individuals or 

Households. 

Frequency: On occasion. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary. 

OMB Desk Officer: Ms. Jasmeet 

Seehra. 

Written comments and 

recommendations on the proposed 

information collection should be sent to 

Ms. Jasmeet Seehra at the Office of 

Management and Budget, Desk Officer 

for DoD, Room 10236, New Executive 

Office Building, Washington, DC 20503. 

You may also submit comments, 

identified by docket number and title, 

by the following method: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:// 

www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

instructions for submitting comments. 

Instructions: All submissions received 

must include the agency name, docket 

number and title for this Federal 

Register document. The general policy 

for comments and other submissions 

from members of the public is to make 

these submissions available for public 

viewing on the Internet at http://

www.regulations.gov as they are 

received without change, including any 

personal identifiers or contact 

information. 

DoD Clearance Officer: Ms. Patricia 

Toppings. 

Written requests for copies of the 

information collection proposal should 

be sent to Ms. Toppings at WHS/ESD 

Information Management Division, 4800 

Mark Center Drive, East Tower, Suite 

02G09, Alexandria, VA 22350–3100. 

Dated: April 18, 2014. 

Aaron Siegel, 

Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison 

Officer, Department of Defense. 

[FR Doc. 2014–09217 Filed 4–22–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 5001–06–P 

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Office of the Secretary 

[Docket ID DoD–2014–OS–0054] 

Proposed Collection; Comment 

Request 

AGENCY: Pentagon Force Protection 

Agency, DoD. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In compliance with Section 

3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995, the Pentagon 

Force Protection Agency announces a 

proposed public information collection 

and seeks public comment on the 

provisions thereof. Comments are 

invited on: (a) Whether the proposed 

collection of information is necessary 

for the proper performance of the 

functions of the agency, including 

whether the information shall have 

practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the 

agency’s estimate of the burden of the 

proposed information collection; (c) 

ways to enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and (d) ways to minimize the 

burden of the information collection on 

respondents, including through the use 

of automated collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology. 

DATES: Consideration will be given to all 

comments received by June 23, 2014. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, 

identified by docket number and title, 

by any of the following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: 

http://www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

instructions for submitting comments. 


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• Mail: Federal Docket Management 

System Office, 4800 Mark Center Drive, 

East Tower, Suite 02G09, Alexandria, 

VA 22350–3100. 

Instructions: All submissions received 

must include the agency name, docket 

number and title for this Federal 

Register document. The general policy 

for comments and other submissions 

from members of the public is to make 

these submissions available for public 

viewing on the Internet at http://

www.regulations.gov as they are 

received without change, including any 

personal identifiers or contact 

information. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To 

request more information on this 

proposed information collection or to 

obtain a copy of the proposal and 

associated collection instruments, 

please write to the Pentagon Force 

Protection Agency Project Integration 

Directorate (PFPA\PID), 9000 Defense 

Pentagon, Washington, DC 20301–9000, 

ATTN: PID, or email at PFPAHSPD-12@

pfpa.mil. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Title; Associated Form; and OMB 

Number: Privilege Management Program 

(PMP); DD Form 2249; OMB Control 

Number 0704–TBD. 

Needs and Uses: The information 

collection requirement is necessary to 

facilitate background investigations and 

properly assign privileges to the 

customers utilized within the Pentagon 

Reservation and National Capital Region 

(NCR). The form is evidence the 

customer has been properly vetted and 

has provided justification for access to 

the locations needed to perform their 

occupational duties. 

Affected Public: Individuals and 

Households 

Annual Burden Hours: 3,332 

Number of Respondents: 31,989 

Responses per Respondent: 1.25 

Total Annual Responses: 39,986 

Average Burden per Response: 5 

minutes 

Frequency: On occasion 

Respondents are tenants and visitors 

who are provided identification badges, 

submit biometric attributes for 

collection, and/or have access privileges 

assigned. The PMP collects data which 

is stored in the PMP database at the time 

of enrollment. Having qualified agents 

provide credentialing and enrollment 

services is essential to maintaining daily 

operations and access rights to various 

installations throughout the NCR. 

Dated: April 18, 2014. 

Aaron Siegel, 

Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison 

Officer, Department of Defense. 

[FR Doc. 2014–09229 Filed 4–22–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 5001–06–P 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

Applications for New Awards; 

Investing in Innovation Fund—ScaleUp Grants 

AGENCY: Office of Innovation and 

Improvement, Department of Education. 

ACTION: Notice. 

Overview Information 

Investing in Innovation Fund—Scaleup grants Notice inviting applications 

for new awards for fiscal year (FY) 2014. 

Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance 

(CFDA) Number: 84.411A (Scale-up grants). 

DATES: 

Applications Available: April 25, 

2014. 

Deadline for Notice of Intent to Apply: 

May 13, 2014. 

Deadline for Transmittal of 

Applications: June 24, 2014. 

Deadline for Intergovernmental 

Review: August 21, 2014. 

Full Text of Announcement 

I. Funding Opportunity Description 

Purpose of Program: The Investing in 

Innovation Fund (i3), established under 

section 14007 of the American Recovery 

and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), 

provides funding to support (1) local 

educational agencies (LEAs), and (2) 

nonprofit organizations in partnership 

with (a) one or more LEAs or (b) a 

consortium of schools. The i3 program 

is designed to generate and validate 

solutions to persistent educational 

challenges and to support the expansion 

of effective solutions to serve 

substantially larger numbers of students. 

The central design element of the i3 

program is its multi-tier structure that 

links the amount of funding that an 

applicant may receive to the quality of 

the evidence supporting the efficacy of 

the proposed project. Applicants 

proposing practices supported by 

limited evidence can receive relatively 

small grants that support the 

development and initial evaluation of 

promising practices and help to identify 

new solutions to pressing challenges; 

applicants proposing practices 

supported by evidence from rigorous 

evaluations, such as large randomized 

controlled trials, can receive sizable 

grants to support expansion across the 

country. This structure provides 

incentives for applicants to build 

evidence of effectiveness of their 

proposed projects and to address the 

barriers to serving more students across 

schools, districts, and States so that 

applicants can compete for more 

sizeable grants. 

As importantly, all i3 projects are 

required to generate additional evidence 

of effectiveness. All i3 grantees must use 

part of their budgets to conduct 

independent evaluations (as defined in 

this notice) of their projects. This 

ensures that projects funded under the 

i3 program contribute significantly to 

improving the information available to 

practitioners and policymakers about 

which practices work, for which types 

of students, and in what contexts. 

The Department awards three types of 

grants under this program: 

‘‘Development’’ grants, ‘‘Validation’’ 

grants, and ‘‘Scale-up’’ grants. These 

grants differ in terms of the level of 

prior evidence of effectiveness required 

for consideration of funding, the level of 

scale the funded project should reach, 

and, consequently, the amount of 

funding available to support the project. 

This notice invites applications for 

Scale-up grants only. The notice 

inviting applications for Validation 

grants is published elsewhere in this 

issue of the Federal Register. The notice 

inviting applications for Development 

grants was published in the Federal 

Register on March 14, 2014 (79 FR 

14486) and is available at http://

www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2014-03-14/

pdf/2014-05706.pdf. 

Scale-up grants provide funding to 

support expansion of projects supported 

by strong evidence of effectiveness (as 

defined in this notice) to the national 

level (as defined in this notice). In 

addition to improving outcomes for an 

increasing number of high-need 

students, Scale-up grants will generate 

information about the students and 

contexts for which a practice is most 

effective. We expect that Scale-up grants 

will increase practitioners’ and 

policymakers’ understanding of 

strategies that allow organizations or 

practices to expand quickly and 

efficiently while maintaining their 

effectiveness. 

All Scale-up grantees must evaluate 

the effectiveness of the i3-supported 

practice that the project implements and 

expands. This is particularly important 

in instances in which the proposed 

project includes changing the i3- 

supported practice in order to more 

efficiently reach the proposed level of 

scale (for example, by developing 

technology-enabled training tools). The 

evaluation of a Scale-up grant must 


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