Federal Register / Vol. 90, No. 10 / Thursday, January 16, 2025 / Notices 4727 

Dated January 6, 2025, in Washington, DC. 

Zakiya N. Walters, 

Administrative Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2025–00418 Filed 1–14–25; 11:15 am] 

BILLING CODE 6330–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

[Docket No.: ED–2024–SCC–0128] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission to the Office of 

Management and Budget for Review 

and Approval; Comment Request; 

Mandatory Civil Rights Data Collection 

AGENCY: Office for Civil Rights (OCR), 

Department of Education (ED). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 

1995, the Department is proposing a 

revision of a currently approved 

information collection request (ICR). 

DATES: Interested persons are invited to 

submit comments on or before February 

18, 2025. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments and 

recommendations for proposed 

information collection requests should 

be submitted within 30 days of 

publication of this notice. Click on this 

link www.reginfo.gov/public/do/ 

PRAMain to access the site. Find this 

information collection request (ICR) by 

selecting ‘‘Department of Education’’ 

under ‘‘Currently Under Review,’’ then 

check the ‘‘Only Show ICR for Public 

Comment’’ checkbox. Reginfo.gov 

provides two links to view documents 

related to this information collection 

request. Information collection forms 

and instructions may be found by 

clicking on the ‘‘View Information 

Collection (IC) List’’ link. Supporting 

statements and other supporting 

documentation may be found by 

clicking on the ‘‘View Supporting 

Statement and Other Documents’’ link. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

specific questions related to collection 

activities, please contact Sala Green at 

Sala.Green@ed.gov, (202) 900–8558. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Department 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: Mandatory Civil 

Rights Data Collection. 

OMB Control Number: 1870–0504. 

Type of Review: A revision of an 

existing information collection request. 

Respondents/Affected Public: State, 

Local, and Tribal Governments. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Responses: 17,717. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Burden Hours: 2,378,410. 

Abstract: The collection, use, and 

reporting of education data is an integral 

component of the mission of the U.S. 

Department of Education (Department). 

The Department has collected civil 

rights data about the nation’s public 

schools via the Civil Rights Data 

Collection (CRDC) since 1968. As with 

previous CRDC collections, the purpose 

of the 2025–26 and 2027–28 CRDCs is 

to obtain vital data related to the civil 

rights laws’ requirement that public 

local educational agencies (LEA) and 

elementary and secondary schools 

provide equal educational opportunity. 

The Department has analyzed the uses 

of many data elements collected in the 

2020–21 CRDC and sought advice from 

experts across the Department to refine, 

improve, and where appropriate, add or 

remove data elements from the 

collection. CRDC data definitions and 

metrics are consistent with other 

mandatory collections across the 

Department wherever possible. The 

Department seeks the Office of 

Management and Budget’s approval 

under the Paperwork Reduction Act to 

collect from LEAs the elementary and 

secondary education data described in 

the sections of Attachment A. The 

Department requests that LEAs and 

other stakeholders review and comment 

on the proposed changes (detailed in 

Supporting Statement A, Attachments 

A–1, A–2, A–3, and A–4, and 

Attachment B). 

Dated: January 13, 2025. 

Stephanie Valentine, 

PRA Coordinator, Strategic Collections and 

Clearance, Governance and Strategy Division, 

Office of Chief Data Officer, Office of 

Planning, Evaluation and Policy 

Development. 

[FR Doc. 2025–01058 Filed 1–15–25; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

Application of the Revised Version of 

the Uniform Guidance to Department 

Grants 

AGENCY: Office of Planning, Evaluation 

and Policy Development, Department of 

Education. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Secretary announces 

updates to awardees’ Grant Award 

Notices (GANs) to apply the 2024 

revision of the Uniform Administrative 

Requirements, Cost Principles, And 

Audit Requirements for Federal Awards 

the Uniform Guidance to all Department 

grants that are subject to the Uniform 

Guidance. 

DATES: This change is effective January 

16, 2025. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On April 

22, 2024, the Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB) published a final rule in 

the Federal Register that revised the 

Uniform Guidance (89 FR 30046). This 

final rule, effective as of October 1, 

2024, provided new flexibilities and due 

process protections to grantees, and also 

clarified several grant requirements. In 

order to ensure that the new flexibilities 

and due process protections for grantees 

set out in that revised 2024 guidance 

apply uniformly to Department grantees, 

we have updated the terms and 

conditions of Department grants to 

clarify that the revised Uniform 

Guidance (89 FR 30136, April 22, 2024) 

is the version that applies to all 

Department grants that are subject to the 

Uniform Guidance. 

Specifically, the Department is adding 

the following condition to Box 10 of its 

Grant Award Notifications (GANs): 

By the drawdown of funds under this 

GAN, the grantee accepts that this award is 

subject to the requirements of the Uniform 

Administrative Requirements, Cost 

Principles and Audit Requirements for 

Federal Awards; Title 2 CFR part 200 as 

revised at 89 FR 30136–30208 (April 22, 

2024). 

While grantees will not automatically 

receive a new printed GAN, the updated 

Box 10 and this notice supersede any 

previous GAN or notice that applied an 

earlier version of the Uniform Guidance. 

Grantees are not required to take any 

action other than continuing to draw 

down funds to take advantage of this 

change but are encouraged to maintain 

a copy of this notice within their grant 

files as documentation for grant 

management and auditing purposes. 

Electronic Access to This Document: 

The official version of this document is 

the document published in the Federal 

Register. You may access the official 


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edition of the Federal Register and the 

Code of Federal Regulations at 

www.govinfo.gov. At this site, you can 

view this document, as well as all other 

Department documents published in the 

Federal Register, in text or Portable 

Document Format (PDF). To use PDF, 

you must have Adobe Acrobat Reader, 

which is available free at this site. 

You may also access Department 

documents 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: 2 CFR part 200 as 

adopted at 89 FR 30046 (April 22, 2024); 

2 CFR 3474. 

Roberto Rodriguez, 

Assistant Secretary of Planning, Evaluation 

and Policy Development. 

[FR Doc. 2025–01050 Filed 1–14–25; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Request for Information Regarding 

Treatment and Disposal of Elemental 

Mercury 

AGENCY: Office of Environmental 

Management, U.S. Department of 

Energy. 

ACTION: Request for information (RFI). 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of 

Energy’s (DOE) Environmental 

Management Consolidated Business 

Center and Office of Environmental 

Management are currently in the 

acquisition planning and regulatory 

planning stages for a potential future 

treatment and disposal (T&D) 

acquisition activity and fee rulemaking 

activities for elemental mercury waste. 

This planning supports DOE’s efforts to 

implement the requirements of the 

Mercury Export Ban Act of 2008, as 

amended by the Frank R. Lautenberg 

Chemical Safety for the 21st Century 

Act. DOE’s Office of Environmental 

Management is issuing this RFI for the 

purpose of conducting market research 

in accordance with the Federal 

Acquisition Regulation (FAR). This RFI 

is also being issued to potentially 

support a future rulemaking action that 

would establish a fee to provide longterm management and storage of 

elemental mercury. No contract 

solicitation is available through this RFI. 

DATES: Written comments and 

information are requested on or before 

March 3, 2025. 

ADDRESSES: Interested parties may 

submit comments via any of the 

following methods: 

Email: mercury.mgt.fee@em.doe.gov. 

Please include ‘‘Treatment and Disposal 

of Elemental Mercury RFI’’ in the 

subject line, and submit comments in 

Microsoft Word, or PDF file format, and 

avoid the use of encryption. 

Postal Mail: Timothy Herald, U.S. 

Department of Energy, Office of 

Environmental Management, Office of 

Waste Disposal (EM–4.22), 1000 

Independence Avenue SW, Washington, 

DC 20585. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Timothy Herald, U.S. Department of 

Energy, Office of Environmental 

Management, Office of Waste Disposal 

(EM–4.22), 1000 Independence Avenue 

SW, Washington, DC 20585, Telephone: 

(240) 243–8753, Email: 

mercury.mgt.fee@em.doe.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Purpose and Introduction 

The purpose of this RFI is to identify 

entities capable of providing (1) 

infrastructure, capabilities, and 

capacities for the treatment and/or 

disposal of elemental mercury, (2) 

documentation of permits held, or 

viable strategies for obtaining permits 

and regulatory approval for the T&D 

methods identified, and (3) physical and 

administrative methods to segregate and 

control the elemental mercury 

considered under this RFI separately 

from other hazardous wastes managed at 

the facility or facilities. 

To that end, this RFI solicits input via 

capability statements from interested 

parties with the specialized capabilities 

necessary to meet all, or part of, the 

major elements of scope for the T&D of 

elemental mercury. Within these 

capability statements, DOE is seeking 

feedback from contractors, small 

business concerns, and other interested 

parties regarding options for innovative 

approaches to perform the work scope 

elements of this RFI. This feedback will 

assist DOE with identifying interested 

and capable sources, and with 

advancing development of DOE’s 

acquisition strategy and future 

rulemaking action. 

This RFI is issued as part of DOE’s 

implementation of the requirements of 

the Mercury Export Ban Act of 2008 

(Pub. L. 110–414), as amended by the 

Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for 

the 21st Century Act (Pub. L. 114–182) 

(collectively identified herein as 

MEBA). Within MEBA, DOE interprets 

‘‘long-term management’’ to include 

T&D. Elemental mercury managed 

under MEBA is a hazardous waste and 

thus must be treated and disposed of in 

accordance with applicable statutory 

and regulatory requirements. 

DOE is aware that Land Disposal 

Restrictions (LDRs) described in the 

Resource Conservation and Recovery 

Act of 1976 (42 U.S.C. 6901 et seq.) 

(RCRA) at 40 CFR part 268, subpart D— 

Treatment Standards, do not currently 

include an approved treatment standard 

for non-radioactively contaminated 

elemental mercury waste that provides 

an LDR-compliant waste form 

acceptable for shallow land disposal. 

However, a treatment and land disposal 

path for non-radioactively contaminated 

elemental mercury would be available if 

the U.S. Environmental Protection 

Agency promulgated a new rulemaking 

(per 40 CFR 260.20) or approved a sitespecific No Migration Variance (NMV) 

(per 40 CFR 268.6) or a site-specific 

Determination of Equivalent Treatment 

(DET) (per 40 CFR 268.42(b)). Recently, 

DOE received information that could 

provide other potential T&D options 

(e.g., deep well injection) to disposition 

elemental mercury. Also, RCRA may 

allow for intermediary treatment 

methods that convert elemental mercury 

to a more stable form (e.g., cinnabar/ 

mercury sulfide) suitable for longer 

duration storage pending disposal 

availability. DOE therefore encourages 

all interested parties to identify their 

T&D methods for DOE consideration. 

II. Performance Work Statement 

DOE requires services for the T&D of 

elemental mercury conveyed to DOE 

pursuant to MEBA. DOE may initially 

seek T&D services for up to 120 metric 

tons (MT) of elemental mercury to 

which DOE holds title as established in 

an August 2020 settlement agreement 

with Nevada Gold Mines, LLC (NGM), 

whereby DOE agreed to accept title to 

and all further responsibility for 112 MT 

of elemental mercury that was in 

temporary storage at certain NGM 

facilities as of December 31, 2019. 

DOE is considering additional 

contract options that could increase the 

quantity of elemental mercury T&D 

capacity over a 5-year contract period of 

performance. The potential need for 

additional T&D capacity is based on the 

expectation that additional quantities of 

elemental mercury would be conveyed 

to DOE, and such options would afford 

DOE the capability to disposition a 

much larger volume of elemental 

mercury waste. Interested parties’ 

responses to this RFI should address 

their capabilities and capacities to treat 

and/or dispose of the following three 

volumes of elemental mercury waste 

during a base period of performance 


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