18580 Federal Register / Vol. 61, No. 82 / Friday, April 26, 1996 / Notices

[CFDA Nos. 84.036A and B]

Office of Educational Research and

Improvement—Library Education and

Human Resource Development

Program (Higher Education Act, Title

II–B, Institutes and Fellowships);

Notice Inviting Applications For New

Awards for Fiscal Year 1996

Purpose of Program: Promotes high

quality library and information science

education and provides fellowship and

institute grants to institutions of higher

education and library organizations or

agencies to recruit, educate, and train

persons, and to establish, develop, or

expand programs, through courses of

study or staff development in library

and information science.

Eligible Applicants: Eligible

applicants are institutions of higher

education, library organizations, and

library agencies.

For Fellowship Projects for FY 1996,

only new Master’s degree level

applications will be accepted.

Deadline for Transmittal of

Applications: 6/10/96.

Deadline for Intergovernmental

Review: 8/9/96.

Applications Available: 5/1/96.

Estimated Available Funds:

(a) Institute Projects (84.036A):

$1,000,000.

(b) Fellowship Projects (84.036B):

$1,000,000.

Note: Applicants should note that Congress

has not yet enacted final appropriations for

Department of Education programs for FY

1996. As a result of final action, funds

available for this competition could be

reduced or even eliminated.

Estimated Range of Awards:

(a) Institute Projects (84.036A):

$15,000–150,000.

(b) Fellowship Projects (84.036B):

$22,000–170,000.

Estimated Average Size of Awards:

(a) Institute Projects (84.036A):

$82,000.

(b) Fellowship Projects (84.036B):

$54,000.

Estimated Number of Awards:

(a) Institute Projects (84.036A): 12.

(b) Fellowship Projects (84.036B): 19.

Note: The Department is not bound by any

estimates in this notice.

Project Periods:

(a) Institute Grants. A long-term

institute project must provide at least

one academic year but no more than 12

months of training; a short-term

institute project must provide at least

one week but no more than six weeks

of training.

(b) Fellowship Grants. A new

fellowship grant at the master’s level

must be at least one academic year.

Applicable Regulations: (a) The

regulations for this program in 34 CFR

Part 776; and (b) The Education

Department General Administrative

Regulations (EDGAR) in 34 CFR Parts

74, 75, 77, 79, 82, 85, and 86.

Priorities: Under 34 CFR 75.105(c)(3)

and 34 CFR 776.5 the Secretary gives an

absolute preference to applications that

meet one or more of the following

priorities. The Secretary funds under

this competition only applications that

meet one or more of these absolute

priorities:

Institute Projects and Fellowship

Projects

Absolute Priority 1: To recruit,

educate, train, retrain and retain

minorities in library and information

sciences.

Absolute Priority 2: To educate, train,

or retrain library personnel in areas of

library specialization where there are

currently shortages, such as school

media, children’s services, young adult

services, science reference, cataloging,

and library service evaluation.

Absolute Priority 3: To educate, train,

or retrain library personnel in new

techniques of information acquisition,

transfer, and management of

communication technology.

Institute Projects Only

Absolute Priority 4: To educate, train,

or retrain library personnel to serve the

information needs of the elderly, the

illiterate, the disadvantaged, or

residents of rural America, including

Native Americans.

For Applications or Information

Contact: Neal Kaske, U.S. Department of

Education, 555 New Jersey Avenue,

N.W., Room 300, Washington, DC

20208–5571. Telephone (202) 219–1315.

Individuals who use a

telecommunications device for the deaf

(TDD) may call the Federal Information

Relay Service (FIRS) at 1–800–877–8339

between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m., Eastern time,

Monday through Friday.

For Electronic Access to Information:

Information about the Department’s

funding opportunities, including copies

of application notices for discretionary

grant competitions, can be viewed on

the Department’s electronic bulletin

board (ED Board), telephone (202) 260–

9950; or on the Internet Gopher Server

at GOPHER.ED.GOV (under

Announcements, Bulletins and Press

Releases) or the WWW server at http:/

/www.ed.gov/ (under Money Matters,

Funding Opportunities). However, the

official application notice for a

discretionary grant competition is the

notice published in the Federal

Register.

Program Authority: 20 U.S.C. 1021, 1032.

Dated: April 23, 1996.

Sharon P. Robinson,

Assistant Secretary for Educational Research

and Improvement.

[FR Doc. 96–10392 Filed 4–25–96; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P

National Assessment Governing

Board; Meeting

AGENCY: National Assessment

Governing Board; Education.

ACTION: Notice of Partially Closed

Meeting.

SUMMARY: This notice sets forth the

schedule and proposed agenda of a

forthcoming meeting of the National

Assessment Governing Board. This

notice also describes the functions of

the Board. Notice of this meeting is

required under Section 10(a)(2) of the

Federal Advisory Committee Act. This

document is intended to notify the

general public of their opportunity to

attend.

DATES: May 9–11, 1996.

TIME: May 9—Subject Area Committee

#2, 3:00–5:00 p.m. (open); Design and

Methodology Committee, 3:00–5:00 p.m.

(open); Executive Committee, 5:00–5:45

p.m. (closed), 5:45–7:00 p.m. (open).

May 10—Full Board, 8:00 a.m.–9:30

a.m. (open); Achievement Levels

Committee, 9:30–11:30 a.m. (closed);

Subject Area Committee #1, 9:30–11:30

a.m. (open); Reporting and

Dissemination Committee, 9:30–11:30

a.m. (open); Full Board, 11:30 a.m.–1:00

p.m. (closed), 1:00–5:00 p.m. (open).

May 11—Full Board, 8:30 a.m. until

adjournment, approximately 12:00 noon

(open).

LOCATION: The Madison Hotel, 15th and

M Streets, N.W., Washington, D.C.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Mary Ann Wilmer, Operations Officer,

National Assessment Government

Board, Suite 825, 800 North Capitol

Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20002–

4233, Telephone: (202) 357–6938.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The

National Assessment Governing Board

is established under section 412 of the

National Education Statistics Act of

1994 (Title IV of the Improving

America’s Schools Act of 1994) (Pub. L.

103–382).

The Board is established to formulate

policy guidelines for the National

Assessment of Educational Progress.

The Board is responsible for selecting

subject areas to be assessed, developing

assessment objectives, identifying

appropriate achievement goals for each

grade and subject tested, and

establishing standards and procedures

for interstate and national comparisons.
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On May 9, two committees will meet

in open session from 3:00–5:00 p.m.

Subject Area Committee #1 will meet to

review the status of the 1998 NAEP

Civics Item Development work, and will

review and discuss a draft framework

development policy. The Design and

Methodology Committee will meet to

hear an update on the Design/Feasibility

Team, and discuss the NAEP/State

linking project, and the NAEP validity

studies. Also, on May 9, the Executive

Committee will meet in closed session

from 5:00–5:45 p.m. The Committee will

meet to discuss the development of cost

estimates for NAEP and future contract

initiatives. Public disclosure of this

information would likely have an

adverse financial effect on the NAEP

program. The discussion of this

information would be likely to

significantly frustrate implementation of

a proposed agency action if conducted

in open session. Such matters are

protected by exemption 9(B) of Section

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

5:45 p.m., until adjournment, 7:00 p.m.,

the Executive Committee will meet in

open session to consider the selection of

subjects for the next framework

development.

On May 10, the full Board will

convene in open session at 8:30 a.m.

The agenda for this session of the full

Board meeting includes approval of the

agenda, the Executive Director’s Report,

and an update on the NAEP project.

Between 9:30 a.m. and 11:30 a.m., there

will be open meetings of the following

subcommittees: Subject Area Committee

#1, and Reporting and Dissemination.

Subject Area Committee #1 will review

the draft 1998 NAEP Writing

Specifications, prior to Board action on

May 11, and will review and discuss a

draft framework development policy.

Agenda items for the Reporting and

Dissemination Committee include

consideration of reporting schedules for

1994 and 1996 NAEP examinations;

catalogue of NAEP publications; and

market basket approach to NAEP

reporting.

Also, on May 1, the Achievement

Levels Committee will meet in closed

session between 9:30 a.m. and 11:30

a.m. to discuss the results of the pilot

test for the science assessment. The

discussions will include references to

specific items for the assessment, the

disclosure of which might significantly

frustrate implementation of the NAEP.

This meeting must be closed to the

public because reference may be made

to data which may be misinterpreted,

incorrect, or incomplete. Premature

disclosure of this data might

significantly frustrate implementation of

a proposed agency action. Such matters

are protected by exemption 9(B) of

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

The full Board will reconvene, in

closed session, from 11:30 a.m. to 1:00

p.m. During this session the Board will

hear a briefing on the 1994 Transcript

Study. The discussions will include

references to specific items from the

assessment, the disclosure of which

might significantly frustrate

implementation of the NAEP. This

meeting must be closed to the public

because reference may be made to data

which may be misinterpreted, incorrect,

or incomplete. Premature disclosure of

this data might significantly frustrate

implementation of a proposed agency

action. Such matters are protection by

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

Title 5 U.S.C.

Beginning at 1:00 P.M., the full Board

will convene in open session. Agenda

items for this portion of the meeting

include a briefing on National and

International Standards given by a

representative from the American

Federation of Teachers; a presentation

on the 1998 Writing Specifications

given by representatives from American

College Testing; and continued work on

NAGB’s planning initiative.

On May 11, beginning at 8:30 a.m. the

full Board will reconvene in open

session. Agenda items include a

presentation on the Colorado State

Assessment Program; a presentation on

the development of an NAGB homepage on the Internet; and reports from

the Board’s standing subcommittees—

Subject Area Committees #1 and #2,

Achievement Levels, Reporting and

Dissemination, Design and

Methodology, and Executive. The

meeting of the National Assessment

Governing Board will be adjourned at

approximately 12:00 Noon.

The public is being given less than

fifteen days notice of this meeting

because of the illness of key staff

persons.

A summary of the activities of the

closed and partially closed sessions and

other related matters, which are

informative to the public and consistent

with the policy of section 5 U.S.C. 552b,

will be available to the public within 14

days after 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, N.W.,

Washington, D.C., from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00

p.m.

Dated: April 23, 1996.

Roy Truby,

Executive Director, National Assessment

Governing Board.

[FR Doc. 96–10341 Filed 4–25–96; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 1400–01–M

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Bonneville Power Administration

Wapato Irrigation Fish Screening

Project

AGENCY: Bonneville Power

Administration (BPA), Department of

Energy (DOE).

ACTION: Notice of Floodplain and

Wetlands Involvement.

SUMMARY: This notice announces BPA’s

proposal to construct a new fish screen

and associated facilities in Yakima

County, Washington, for the Wapato

Irrigation Project. The action is being

undertaken to increase anadromous fish

runs and to compensate for fishery

losses attributable to mainstem

Columbia River hydropower facilities.

The action proposed within the

floodplain of Ahtanum Creek is to

construct, operate, and maintain the

new fish screen and a portion of a

bypass pipe. A bridge for the access

road to the site will also be moved and

rebuilt along with a short portion of the

existing access road. Wetlands may also

be present on the site. In accordance

with DOE regulations for compliance

with floodplain and wetlands

environmental review requirements (10

CFR Part 1022), BPA will prepare a

floodplain and wetlands assessment and

will perform this proposed action in a

manner so as to avoid or minimize

potential harm to or within the affected

floodplain and wetlands. After BPA

issues the assessment, a floodplain

statement of findings will be published

in the Federal Register.

DATES: Comments are due to the address

below no later than May 13, 1996.

ADDRESSES: Submit comments to the

Public Involvement Manager,

Bonneville Power Administration—

CKP, P.O. Box 12999, Portland, Oregon,

97212. Internet address:

comment@bpa.gov.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Yvonne E. Boss—ECN, Bonneville

Power Administration, P.O. Box 3621,

Portland, Oregon, 97208–3621, phone

number 503–230–3596, fax number

503–230–5699.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The

floodplain and wetlands involved are

located in section 13, T12N, R16E.,