Federal Register / Vol. 66, No. 106 / Friday, June 1, 2001 / Notices 29785

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

Notice of Proposed Information

Collection Requests

AGENCY: Department of Education.

ACTION: Notice of proposed information

collection requests.

SUMMARY: The Leader, Regulatory

Information Management, Office of the

Chief Information Officer, invites

comments on the proposed information

collection requests as required by the

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.

DATES: An emergency review has been

requested in accordance with the Act

(44 U.S.C. Chapter 3507(j)), since public

harm is reasonably likely to result if

normal clearance procedures are

followed. Approval by the Office of

Management and Budget (OMB) has

been requested by July 3, 2001. A

regular clearance process is also

beginning. Interested persons are

invited to submit comments on or before

July 31, 2001.

ADDRESSES: Written comments

regarding the emergency review should

be addressed to the Office of

Information and Regulatory Affairs,

Attention: Lauren Wittenberg, Acting

Desk Officer: Department of Education,

Office of Management and Budget; 725

17th Street, NW., Room 10235, New

Executive Office Building, Washington,

DC 20503.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section

3506 of the Paperwork Reduction Act of

1995 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35) requires

that the Director of OMB provide

interested Federal agencies and the

public an early opportunity to comment

on information collection requests. The

Office of Management and Budget

(OMB) may amend or waive the

requirement for public consultation to

the extent that public participation in

the approval process would defeat the

purpose of the information collection,

violate State or Federal law, or

substantially interfere with any agency’s

ability to perform its statutory

obligations. The Leader, Regulatory

Information Management, Office of the

Chief Information Officer, publishes this

notice containing proposed information

collection requests at the beginning of

the Departmental review of the

information collection. Each proposed

information collection, grouped by

office, contains the following: (1) Type

of review requested, e.g. new, revision,

extension, existing or reinstatement; (2)

Title; (3) Summary of the collection; (4)

Description of the need for, and

proposed use of, the information; (5)

Respondents and frequency of

collection; and (6) reporting and/or

recordkeeping burden. ED invites public

comment. 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

respondents, including through the use

of information technology.

Dated: May 25, 2001.

John Tressler,

Leader, Regulatory Information Management,

Office of the Chief Information Officer.

Office of Student Financial Assistance

Programs

Type of Review: New.

Title: Child Care Provider Loan

Forgiveness Application and

Forgiveness Forbearance Forms.

Abstract: The Child Care Provider

Loan Forgiveness Application is used to

determine whether borrowers meet the

eligibility requirements for the Child

Care Provider Loan Forgiveness

Program. This is a demonstration

program administered on a first-come,

first-serve basis (subject to the

availability of funds). It is intended to

bring more highly trained individuals

into the early child care field for longer

periods. Under the program, individuals

who work full-time in certain child care

facilities that serve low-income families

and meet other qualifications may be

eligible to have up to 100% of their

Direct Loan and/or Federal Family

Education Loan (FFEL) program loan

forgiven. The Child Care Provider Loan

Forgiveness Forbearance Form is

required to comply with program

guidance that provides forbearance for

child care providers and to determine

the child care providers eligibility for

forbearance.

Additional Information:

Appropriations were only funded this

January for these benefits which are

meant to enhance the child care field.

Funds must be obligated by the end of

September, hence the need for this

emergency clearance time schedule.

Frequency: Annually.

Affected Public: Individuals or

household; Business or other for-profit;

Not-for-profit institutions; Federal

Government; State, Local, or Tribal

Gov’t, SEAs or LEAs.

Reporting and Recordkeeping Hour

Burden:

Responses: 1,790.

Burden Hours: 385.

Requests for copies of the proposed

information collection request should be

addressed to Vivian Reese, Department

of Education, 400 Maryland Avenue,

SW., Room 4050, Regional Office

Building 3, Washington, D.C. 20202–

4651, or should be electronically mailed

to the internet address

OCIO_IMG_Issues@ed.gov, or should be

faxed to 202–708–9346.

Comments regarding burden and/or

the collection activity requirements,

contact Joseph Schubart at (202) 708–

9266 or via his internet address

Joe.Schubart@ed.gov. Individuals who

use a telecommunications device for the

deaf (TDD) may call the Federal

Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 1–

800–877–8339.

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BILLING CODE 4000–01–U

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Golden Field Office; State Energy

Efficiency and Renewable Energy

Activities

AGENCY: U.S. Department of Energy.

ACTION: Notice of Solicitation for

Competitive Financial Assistance

Applications.

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of

Energy (DOE) is announcing a

competitive solicitation, DE–PS36–

01GO90012, for applications for

cooperative agreements with States to

pursue energy efficiency and renewable

energy activities which include, but are

not limited to conducting or managing:

(1) Resource, technology, and marketing

assessments, program evaluation and

management; (2) Equipment loan

programs; (3) Workshops, conferences,

or stakeholder meetings; (4) On-site

technology evaluations, economic and

feasibility studies for site specific

technologies, environmental analysis of

projects and actions to overcome

developmental barriers to Energy

Efficiency and Renewable Energy

(EERE) energy technologies; (5)

Brochures, manuals, publications, webbased outreach, video presentations, fact

sheets, press releases; (6) Media events,

marketing and promotional events,

exhibit booths, distribution of materials;

(7) Demonstration projects and statelevel stakeholder coordination.

DATES: The solicitation will be issued in

May 2001. The formal solicitation

document, which includes greater detail

on application instructions, due dates

and evaluation criteria, will be available

on the Golden Field Office website.