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disclosure of proposed test items for the 

writing pilot would significantly 

impede implementation of the NAEP 

program, and is therefore protected by 

exemption 9(B) of section 552b(c) of 

Title 5 U.S.C. 

The Ad Hoc Committee on NAEP 

Testing and Reporting on Students with 

Disabilities and English Language 

Learners will meet in open session from 

2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Thereafter, the 

Executive Committee will meet in open 

session from 4:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. and in 

closed session from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. 

During the closed session the 

Executive Committee will receive a 

briefing from the National Center for 

Education Statistics (NCES) on options 

for NAEP contracts covering the 2008– 

2012 assessment years, based on 

funding for Fiscal Year 2009–2010. The 

discussion of contract options and costs 

will address the implications for 

congressionally mandated goals and 

adherence to Board policies on NAEP 

assessments. This part of the meeting 

must be conducted in closed session 

because public discussion of this 

information would disclose 

independent government cost estimates 

and contracting options, adversely 

impacting the confidentiality of the 

contracting process. Public disclosure of 

information discussed would 

significantly impede implementation of 

the NAEP contracts, and is therefore 

protected by exemption 9(B) of section 

552b(c) of Title 5 U.S.C. 

The second portion of the closed 

session of the Executive Committee is 

for discussion of staff appointments and 

actions. These discussions pertain 

solely to internal personnel rules and 

practices of an agency and will disclose 

information of a personal nature where 

disclosure would constitute an 

unwarranted invasion of personal 

privacy. As such, the discussions are 

protected by exemptions 2 and 6 of 

section 552b(c) of Title 5 U.S.C. 

On May 15, the full Board will meet 

in open session from 8:30 a.m. to 9:30 

a.m. The Board will review and approve 

the agenda and the March 2009 Board 

meeting minutes. Following these 

actions and following welcome remarks 

from Seattle hosts, the Governing Board 

will receive a report from the Interim 

Executive Director of the Governing 

Board, and hear an update on the work 

of NCES. 

On May 15, three of the Board’s 

standing committees—the Assessment 

Development Committee, the Reporting 

and Dissemination Committee, and the 

Committee on Standards, Design and 

Methodology will meet in open sessions 

from 9:45 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. 

On May 15 from 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 

p.m. the full Board will meet in closed 

session to receive a briefing on the 

NAEP 2008 Arts Report Card from the 

Associate Commissioner of NCES. The 

Governing Board will be provided with 

embargoed data on the Arts Report Card 

that cannot be discussed in an open 

meeting prior to their official release. 

From 1:30 p.m. to 2:45 p.m., the full 

Board will receive an update from NCES 

on NAEP participation and motivation 

issues on the 2009 Math, Reading, and 

Science assessments. The participation 

and motivation issues pertain to the 

assessment results and cannot be 

discussed in open session prior to their 

release. Both these sessions must 

therefore be conducted in closed session 

as premature disclosure of data would 

significantly impede implementation of 

the NAEP program, and is therefore 

protected by exemption 9(B) of section 

552b(c) of Title 5 U.S.C. 

From 3 p.m. to 3:45 p.m. the Board 

will receive a briefing on the Governing 

Board/Council of Chief State School 

Officers Policy Task Force from the Task 

Force Chair Joe Willhoft, and Assistant 

Superintendent of Washington Office of 

Public Instruction. From 3:45 p.m. to 

4:30 p.m. the Board will receive an 

update on the NAEP 2012 Technological 

Literacy Framework Project. The May 15 

session of the Board meeting is 

scheduled to adjourn at 4:30 p.m. 

On May 16, the Nominations 

Committee will meet in closed session 

from 7:45 a.m. to 8:15 a.m. to review 

and discuss confidential information 

regarding nominees received for Board 

vacancies for terms beginning on 

October 1, 2009. These discussions 

pertain solely to internal personnel 

rules and practices of an agency and 

will disclose information of a personal 

nature where disclosure would 

constitute an unwarranted invasion of 

personal privacy. As such, the 

discussions are protected by exemptions 

2 and 6 of section 552b(c) of Title 5 

U.S.C. 

The full Board will meet in open 

session on May 16 from 8:30 a.m. to 10 

a.m. to receive and take action on 

Committee reports. The May 16, 2009 

session of the Board meeting is 

scheduled to adjourn at 10 a.m. 

Detailed minutes of the meeting, 

including summaries of the activities of 

the closed sessions and related matters 

that are informative to the public and 

consistent with the policy of section 5 

U.S.C. 552b(c) will be available to the 

public within 14 days of the meeting. 

Records are kept of all Board 

proceedings and are available for public 

inspection at the U.S. Department of 

Education, National Assessment 

Governing Board, Suite #825, 800 North 

Capitol Street, NW., Washington, DC, 

from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Eastern Standard 

Time, Monday through Friday. 

Electronic Access to This Document: 

You may 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) on the Internet at the 

following site: http://www.ed.gov/news/ 

fedregister/index.html. To use PDF you 

must have Adobe Acrobat Reader, 

which is available free at this site. If you 

have questions about using PDF, call the 

U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO), 

toll free at 1–888–293–6498; or in the 

Washington, DC, area at (202) 512–1530. 

Note: 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 on GPO 

Access at: http://www.gpoaccess.gov/nara/ 

index.html. 

Dated: April 22, 2009. 

Mary Crovo, 

Interim Executive Director, National 

Assessment Governing Board, U.S. 

Department of Education. 

[FR Doc. E9–9596 Filed 4–27–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

Privacy Act of 1974; System of 

Records—Teacher Survey Response 

Incentive System 

AGENCY: Institute of Education Sciences, 

Department of Education. 

ACTION: Notice of a new 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 a new system of records 

entitled ‘‘Teacher Survey Response 

Incentive System’’ (18–13–22). 

The Teacher Survey Response 

Incentive System is used to mail 

incentive payments to respondents in a 

Teacher Survey being conducted by the 

National Study on Alternate 

Assessments and will include 

respondent teacher names and contact 

information. 

DATES: The Department seeks comment 

on the new system of records described 

in this notice, in accordance with the 

requirements of the Privacy Act. We 

must receive your comments about this 

new system of records on or before May 

28, 2009. 

The Department filed a report 

describing the new system of records 


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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 April 23, 2009. This system 

of records will become effective at the 

later date of—(1) the expiration of the 

40-day period for OMB review on June 

2, 2009; or (2) May 28, 2009, unless the 

system of records needs to be changed 

as a result of public comment or OMB 

review. 

ADDRESSES: Address all comments about 

this proposed system of records to 

Kristen Lauer, PhD, National Center for 

Special Education Research, Institute of 

Education Sciences, U.S. Department of 

Education, 555 New Jersey Avenue, 

NW., Room 508H, Washington, DC 

20208–5550. If you prefer to send 

comments through the Internet, use the 

following address: comments@ed.gov. 

You must include the term ‘‘Teacher 

Survey Response Incentive System’’ in 

the subject line of your electronic 

message. 

During and after the comment period, 

you may inspect all comments about 

this notice at the Department in room 

508H, 555 New Jersey Avenue, NW., 

Washington, DC, between the hours of 

8 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., Eastern time, 

Monday through Friday of each week 

except Federal holidays. 

Assistance to Individuals With 

Disabilities in Reviewing the 

Rulemaking Record 

On request, we will supply an 

appropriate aid, such as a reader or 

print magnifier, 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 

aid, please contact the person listed 

under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Kristen Lauer, National Center for 

Special Education Research, Institute of 

Education Sciences, U.S. Department of 

Education, 555 New Jersey Avenue, 

NW., Room 508H, Washington, DC 

20208–5550. Telephone: (202) 219– 

0377. If you use a telecommunications 

device for the deaf (TDD), call the 

Federal Relay Service (FRS), toll free, at 

1–800–877–8339. 

Individuals with disabilities can 

obtain this document in an alternative 

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

audiotape, or computer diskette) on 

request to the contact person listed in 

this section. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Introduction 

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

requires the Department to publish in 

the Federal Register this notice of a new 

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 a record 

about an individual that is maintained 

in a system of records from which 

individually identifying information is 

retrieved by a unique identifier 

associated with each individual, such as 

a name or social security number. 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 

submit, whenever the agency publishes 

a new system of records or makes a 

significant change to an established 

system of records, a report to the 

Administrator of the Office of 

Information and Regulatory Affairs, 

OMB. Each agency is also required to 

send copies of the report to the Chair of 

the Committee on Oversight and 

Government Reform of the House of 

Representatives, and to the Chair of the 

Committee on Homeland Security and 

Governmental Affairs of the Senate. 

These reports are intended to permit an 

evaluation of the probable effect of the 

proposal on the privacy rights of 

individuals. 

Electronic Access to This Document 

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) on the Internet 

at the following site: http://www.ed.gov/ 

news/fedregister/index.html. 

To use PDF you must have Adobe 

Acrobat Reader, which is available free 

at this site. If you have questions about 

using PDF, call the U.S. Government 

Printing Office (GPO), toll free, at 1– 

888–293–6498; or in the Washington, 

DC, area at (202) 512–1530. 

Note: 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 on GPO 

Access at: http://www.gpoaccess.gov/nara. 

Dated: April 23, 2009. 

Sue Betka, 

Acting Director, Institute of Education 

Sciences. 

For the reasons discussed in the 

preamble, the Acting Director of the 

Institute of Education Sciences (IES), 

U.S. Department of Education (the 

Department), publishes a notice of a 

new system of records to read as 

follows: 

SYSTEM NUMBER: 

18–13–22 

SYSTEM NAME: 

Teacher Survey Response Incentive 

System. 

SECURITY CLASSIFICATION: 

None. 

SYSTEM LOCATIONS: 

(1) National Center for Education 

Statistics, Institute of Education 

Sciences, 1990 K Street, NW., 

Washington, DC 20006–1103. 

(2) SRI International, 333 Ravenswood 

Ave., Menlo Park, CA 94025–3493 

(contractor). 

CATEGORIES OF INDIVIDUALS COVERED BY THE

SYSTEM: 

The Teacher Survey Response 

Incentive System contains records of 

respondents to the Teacher Survey 

being administered as part of the 

National Study on Alternate 

Assessments Teacher Survey. 

CATEGORIES OF RECORDS IN THE SYSTEM: 

The Teacher Survey Response 

Incentive System contains records, 

including name and contact 

information, necessary for mailing 

incentive checks to survey respondents. 

AUTHORITY FOR MAINTENANCE OF THE SYSTEM: 

The Teacher Survey is part of the 

National Study on Alternate 

Assessments, which is authorized by 

section 664(c) of the Individuals with 

Disabilities Education Act (20 U.S.C. 

1464(c)). This Study is also authorized 

under sections 171(b) and 173 of the 

Education Sciences Reform Act of 2002 

(ESRA) (20 U.S.C. 9561(b) and 9563). 

PURPOSE(S): 

The information contained in the 

records maintained in this system is 

used for the following purpose: To 

allow the Department’s contractor 

administering the National Study on 

Alternate Assessments (NSAA) Teacher 

Survey to mail response incentive 

checks to respondents who complete the 

survey. 


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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 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 Computer Matching 

and Privacy Protection Act of 1988, as 

amended, 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 the ESRA (20 U.S.C. 9573) 

providing for confidentiality standards 

that apply to all collections, reporting 

and publication of data by IES. 

Contract Disclosure. If the Department 

contracts with an entity to perform any 

function that requires disclosing records 

to the contractor’s employees, the 

Department may disclose the records to 

those employees. Before entering into 

such a contract, the Department shall 

require the contractor to maintain 

Privacy Act safeguards as required 

under 5 U.S.C. 552a(m) with respect to 

the records in the system. 

DISCLOSURE TO CONSUMER REPORTING

AGENCIES: 

Not applicable to this system of 

records notice. 

POLICIES AND PRACTICES FOR STORING, 

RETRIEVING, ACCESSING, RETAINING, AND

DISPOSING OF RECORDS IN THE SYSTEM: 

STORAGE: 

Records are maintained in a database 

on the Department’s and the contractor’s 

secure servers and in other electronic 

storage media. 

RETRIEVABILITY: 

Records are retrieved by respondent 

name. 

SAFEGUARDS: 

Access to the records is limited to 

authorized personnel only. All physical 

access to the Department’s site and to 

the site of the Department’s contractor 

where this system of records is 

maintained, is controlled and monitored 

by security personnel who check each 

individual entering the buildings for his 

or her employee or visitor badge. 

The computer system employed by 

the Department and by the Department’s 

contractor 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 an individual user’s ability 

to access and alter records within the 

system. 

RETENTION AND DISPOSAL: 

Source records for Teachers Survey 

Response Incentive System input are 

destroyed after the information has been 

entered into the system and verified, in 

accordance with the National Archives 

and Records Administration General 

Records Schedules (GRS) 20, Item 2a(4). 

System records are destroyed/deleted 

when 2 years old, in accordance with 

GRS 23, Item 8. 

SYSTEM MANAGER(S) AND ADDRESS: 

Contracting Officer’s Representative 

(COR), National Study on Alternate 

Assessments, National Center for 

Special Education Research, Institute of 

Education Sciences, U.S. Department of 

Education, 555 New Jersey Avenue, 

NW., Washington, DC 20208–5550. 

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 regulations in 34 CFR 

5b.5, including proof of identity. 

RECORD ACCESS PROCEDURE: 

If you wish to gain access to your 

record in the system of records, contact 

the system manager at the address listed 

under, SYSTEM MANAGER AND ADDRESS. 

Your request should contain your full 

name, address, and telephone number. 

Your request must meet the 

requirements of regulations in 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 must meet the 

requirements of the regulations in 34 

CFR 5b.7, including proof of identity. 

RECORD SOURCE CATEGORIES: 

Information, including name and 

contact information, maintained in this 

system of records is taken from teachers 

who respond to the Teacher Survey, 

which is being administered as part of 

the National Study on Alternate 

Assessments. 

EXEMPTIONS CLAIMED FOR THIS SYSTEM: 

None. 

[FR Doc. E9–9662 Filed 4–27–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. CP09–135–000] 

Equitrans, L.P.; Notice of Application 

April 21, 2009. 

Take notice that on April 9, 2009, 

Equitrans, L.P. (Equitrans), 225 North 

Shore Drive, Pittsburgh, PA 15212, filed 

in the above referenced docket an 

abbreviated application pursuant to 

section 7(b) of the Natural Gas Act 

(NGA), for an order approving the 

abandonment of certain equipment at 

Equitrans’ Rogersville Compressor 

Station located in Rogersville, Greene 

County, Pennsylvania, all as more fully 

set forth in the application which is on 

file with the Commission and open to 

public inspection. The filing is available 

for review at the Commission in the 

Public Reference Room or may be 

viewed on the Commission’s Web site 

Web at http://www.ferc.gov using the 

‘‘eLibrary’’ link. Enter the docket 

number excluding the last three digits in 

the docket number field to access the 

document. For assistance, contact FERC 

at FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or call 

toll-free, (886) 208–3676 or TTY, (202) 

502–8659. 

Specifically, Equitrans requests 

authority to abandon the compressors 

and the appurtenant buildings and 

associated piping. The compressor 

equipment is no longer required to 

support Equitrans’ jurisdictional 

transportation and storage services to its 

shippers and is no longer necessary to 

support Equitrans’ integrated 

operations. 

Any questions concerning this 

application may be directed to Joseph 

M. Dawley, Counsel, Environmental and 

Regulatory Law, EQT Corporation, 225 

North Shore Drive Pittsburgh, PA 15212, 

phone: (412) 553–7708, fax: (412) 553– 

7781, e-mail: jdawley@eqt.com or Robert 

F. Christin, Van Ness Feldman, P.C., 

1050 Thomas Jefferson Street, NW., 

Washington, DC 20007, phone: (202) 

298–1987, fax: (202) 338–2416, e-mail: 

rfc@vnf.com. 

Pursuant to Section 157.9 of the 

Commission’s rules, 18 CFR157.9, 

within 90 days of this Notice the 

Commission staff will either: Complete 

its environmental assessment (EA) and 

place it into the Commission’s public 

record (eLibrary) for this proceeding; or 

issue a Notice of Schedule for 

Environmental Review. If a Notice of 

Schedule for Environmental Review is 

issued, it will indicate, among other 

milestones, the anticipated date for the 

Commission staff’s issuance of the final 


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