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encompasses state, tribal, and federal 

agencies and/or programs). 

Applications for stakeholder 

membership may be obtained 

electronically at www.MRRIC.org. 

Applications may be emailed or mailed 

to the location listed (see ADDRESSES). In 

order to be considered, each application 

must include: 

1. The name of the applicant and the 

primary stakeholder interest category 

that person is qualified to represent; 

2. A written statement describing the 

applicant’s area of expertise and why 

the applicant believes he or she should 

be appointed to represent that area of 

expertise on the MRRIC; 

3. A written statement describing how 

the applicant’s participation as a 

Stakeholder Representative will fulfill 

the roles and responsibilities of MRRIC; 

4. A written description of the 

applicant’s past experience(s) working 

collaboratively with a group of 

individuals representing varied interests 

towards achieving a mutual goal, and 

the outcome of the effort(s); 

5. A written description of the 

communication network that the 

applicant plans to use to inform his or 

her constituents and to gather their 

feedback, and 

6. A written endorsement letter from 

an organization, local government body, 

or formal constituency, which 

demonstrates that the applicant 

represents an interest group(s) in the 

Missouri River basin. 

To be considered, the application 

must be complete and received by the 

close of business on July 9, 2021, at the 

location indicated (see ADDRESSES). 

Applications must include an 

endorsement letter to be considered 

complete. Full consideration will be 

given to all complete applications 

received by the specified due date. 

Application Review Process. 

Committee stakeholder applications will 

be forwarded to the current members of 

the MRRIC. The MRRIC will provide 

membership recommendations to the 

Corps as described in Attachment A of 

the Process for Filling MRRIC 

Stakeholder Vacancies document 

(www.MRRIC.org). The Corps is 

responsible for appointing stakeholder 

members. The Corps will consider 

applications using the following criteria: 

• Ability to commit the time required. 

• Commitment to make a good faith 

(as defined in the Charter) effort to seek 

balanced solutions that address multiple 

interests and concerns. 

• Agreement to support and adhere to 

the approved MRRIC Charter and 

Operating Procedures. 

• Demonstration of a formal 

designation or endorsement by an 

organization, local government, or 

constituency as its preferred 

representative. 

• Demonstration of an established 

communication network to keep 

constituents informed and efficiently 

seek their input when needed. 

• Agreement to participate in 

collaboration training as a condition of 

membership. 

All applicants will be notified in 

writing as to the final decision about 

their application. 

Certification. I hereby certify that the 

establishment of the MRRIC is necessary 

and in the public interest in connection 

with the performance of duties imposed 

on the Corps by the Endangered Species 

Act and other statutes. 

D. Peter Helmlinger, 

Brigadier General, U.S. Army, Division 

Commander. 

[FR Doc. 2021–11829 Filed 6–4–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3720–58–P 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

[Docket No. ED–2021–SCC–0053] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission to the Office of 

Management and Budget for Review 

and Approval; Comment Request; High 

School and Beyond 2022 (HS&B:22) 

Base-Year Full-Scale Study Data 

Collection and First Follow-Up Field 

Test Sampling, Tracking, and 

Recruitment 

AGENCY: Institute of Educational 

Sciences (IES), Department of Education 

(ED). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, ED is 

proposing an extension without change 

of a currently approved collection. 

DATES: Interested persons are invited to 

submit comments on or before July 7, 

2021. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments and 

recommendations for proposed 

information collection requests should 

be sent within 30 days of publication of 

this notice to follow/public/do/ 

PRAMain. Find this information 

collection request by selecting 

‘‘Department of Education’’ under 

‘‘Currently Under Review,’’ then check 

‘‘Only Show ICR for Public Comment’’ 

checkbox. Comments may also be sent 

to ICDocketmgr@ed.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

specific questions related to collection 

activities, please contact Carrie Clarady, 

202–245–6347. 

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: High School and 

Beyond 2022 (HS&B:22) Base-Year FullScale Study Data Collection and First 

Follow-up Field Test Sampling, 

Tracking, and Recruitment. 

OMB Control Number: 1850–0944. 

Type of Review: An extension without 

change of a currently approved 

collection. 

Respondents/Affected Public: 

Individuals and Households. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Responses: 128,478. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Burden Hours: 53,930. 

Abstract: The High School and 

Beyond 2022 study (HS&B:22) will be 

the sixth in a series of longitudinal 

studies at the high school level 

conducted by the National Center for 

Education Statistics (NCES), within the 

Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of 

the U.S. Department of Education. 

HS&B:22 will follow a nationally 

representative sample of ninth grade 

students from the start of high school in 

the fall of 2022 to the spring of 2026 

when most will be in twelfth grade. A 

field test was conducted in fall 2019. 

The study sample will be freshened in 

2026 to create a nationally 

representative sample of twelfth-grade 

students. A high school transcript 


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collection and additional follow-up data 

collections beyond high school are also 

planned. 

In preparation for the HS&B:22 BaseYear Full-Scale study (BYFS), 

scheduled to take place in the fall of 

2022, the Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB) approved (OMB# 1850– 

0944 v.1–5) a request to conduct the 

HS&B:22 Base-Year Field Test (BYFT) 

and the BYFS sampling and state, 

school district, school, and parent 

recruitment activities, both of which 

began in the fall of 2019. These 

activities include collecting student 

rosters and selecting the BYFS sample. 

BYFT activities ended in December 

2019. 

The study initially planned to 

conduct its BYFS data collection in the 

fall of 2020. Due to the COVID–19 

pandemic, it was decided to postpone 

this collection by two years. OMB 

provided approval to adjust the 

schedule in June 2020, October 2020, 

and January 2021 (OMB# 1850–0944 

v.6–8). The base year full-scale data 

collection will now take place in fall 

2022. This submission requests 

approval to (1) freshen the school 

sample to account for the two-year delay 

after the sample was drawn; (2) add 

survey items related to the COVID–19 

pandemic to the surveys; (3) track the 

field test sample; and (4) begin sampling 

and recruitment activities for the first 

follow-up field test. For the field test 

follow-up, students who participated in 

the base year field test will be tracked 

to inform the main study, but the field 

test follow-up data collection will occur 

one year later with a new sample of 

twelfth grade students. 

Part A of this submission presents 

information on the basic design of 

HS&B:22. Part B discusses the statistical 

methods employed. Part C presents 

justification for the questionnaire 

content. Appendix A provides the 

communication materials to be used 

during state, school district, school, and 

parent BYFS recruitment and data 

collection activities. Appendix B 

provides the full-scale data collection 

instruments. 

Dated: June 2, 2021. 

Juliana Pearson, 

PRA Coordinator, Strategic Collections and 

Clearance, Governance and Strategy Division, 

Office of Chief Data Officer, Office of 

Planning, Evaluation and Policy 

Development. 

[FR Doc. 2021–11860 Filed 6–4–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

Applications for New Awards; 

Education Innovation and Research 

(EIR) Program—Mid-Phase Grants 

AGENCY: Office of Elementary and 

Secondary Education, Department of 

Education. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Education 

(Department) is issuing a notice inviting 

applications for fiscal year (FY) 2021 for 

the EIR program—Mid-phase Grants, 

Assistance Listing Number 84.411B 

(Mid-phase Grants). This notice relates 

to the approved information collection 

under OMB control number 1894–0006. 

DATES: 

Applications Available: June 7, 2021. 

Deadline for Notice of Intent to Apply: 

June 28, 2021. 

Deadline for Transmittal of 

Applications: July 7, 2021. 

Deadline for Intergovernmental 

Review: September 7, 2021. 

Pre-Application Information: The 

Department will post additional 

competition information for prospective 

applicants on the EIR program website: 

https://oese.ed.gov/offices/office-ofdiscretionary-grants-support-services/ 

innovation-early-learning/educationinnovation-and-research-eir/fy-2021- 

competition/. 

ADDRESSES: For the addresses for 

obtaining and submitting an 

application, please refer to our Common 

Instructions for Applicants to 

Department of Education Discretionary 

Grant Programs, published in the 

Federal Register on February 13, 2019 

(84 FR 3768) and available at 

www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2019- 

02-13/pdf/2019-02206.pdf. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Yvonne Crockett, U.S. Department of 

Education, 400 Maryland Avenue SW, 

Room 3E344, Washington, DC 20202– 

5900. Telephone: (202) 453–7122. 

Email: eir@ed.gov. 

If you use a telecommunications 

device for the deaf (TDD) or a text 

telephone (TTY), call the Federal Relay 

Service (FRS), toll-free, at 1–800–877– 

8339. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Full Text of Announcement 

I. Funding Opportunity Description 

Purpose of Program: The EIR program, 

established under section 4611 of the 

Elementary and Secondary Education 

Act, as amended (ESEA), provides 

funding to create, develop, implement, 

replicate, or take to scale 

entrepreneurial, evidence-based, fieldinitiated innovations to improve student 

achievement and attainment for highneed students; and rigorously evaluate 

such innovations. The EIR program is 

designed to generate and validate 

solutions to persistent education 

challenges and to support the expansion 

of those solutions to serve substantially 

larger numbers of students. 

The central design element of the EIR 

program is its multi-tier structure that 

links the amount of funding an 

applicant may receive to the quality of 

the evidence supporting the efficacy of 

the proposed project, with the 

expectation that projects that build this 

evidence will advance through EIR’s 

grant tiers: ‘‘Early-phase,’’ ‘‘Mid-phase,’’ 

and ‘‘Expansion.’’ 

The Department awards three types of 

grants under this program: ‘‘Earlyphase’’ grants, ‘‘Mid-phase’’ grants, and 

‘‘Expansion’’ grants. These grants differ 

in terms of the level of prior evidence 

of effectiveness required for 

consideration for funding, the 

expectations regarding the kind of 

evidence and information funded 

projects should produce, the level of 

scale funded projects should reach, and, 

consequently, the amount of funding 

available to support each type of project. 

Mid-phase grants are supported by 

moderate evidence (as defined in this 

notice). The Department expects that 

Mid-phase grants will be used to fund 

implementation and a rigorous 

evaluation of a program that has been 

successfully implemented under an 

Early-phase grant or other effort meeting 

similar criteria, for the purpose of 

measuring the program’s impact and 

cost-effectiveness, if possible using 

existing administrative data. 

This notice invites applications for 

Mid-phase grants only. The notice 

inviting applications for Expansion 

grants is published elsewhere in this 

issue of the Federal Register. The notice 

inviting applications for Early-phase 

grants will be published in the Federal 

Register at a later date. 

Background: While this notice is for 

the Mid-phase tier only, the premise of 

the EIR program is that new and 

innovative programs and practices can 

help to solve the persistent problems in 

education that prevent students, 

particularly high-need students, from 

succeeding. These innovations need to 

be evaluated, and, if sufficient evidence 

of effectiveness can be demonstrated, 

the intent is for these innovations to be 

replicated and tested in new 

populations and settings. EIR is not 

intended to provide support for 

practices that are already commonly 

implemented by educators, unless 

significant adaptations of such practices 


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