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Affected Public: Not-for-profit 

institutions; Federal Government; State, 

Local, or Tribal Gov’t, SEAs or LEAs. 

Reporting and Recordkeeping Hour 

Burden: 

Responses: 56. 

Burden Hours: 4,200. 

Abstract: Section 4 of the Assistive 

Technology Act of 1998, as amended, 

requires states to submit an application 

in order to receive funds under the state 

grant for the assistive technology 

program. This information collection 

will be used to meet their application 

requirements. The Rehabilitation 

Services Administration calls this 

application a State Plan for Assistive 

Technology. 

Requests for copies of the proposed 

information collection request may be 

accessed from http://edicsweb.ed.gov, 

by selecting the ‘‘Browse Pending 

Collections’’ link and by clicking on 

link number 3782. When you access the 

information collection, click on 

‘‘Download Attachments’’ to view. 

Written requests for information should 

be addressed to U.S. Department of 

Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, SW., 

LBJ, Washington, DC 20202–4537. 

Requests may also be electronically 

mailed to ICDocketMgr@ed.gov or faxed 

to 202–401–0920. Please specify the 

complete title of the information 

collection when making your request. 

Comments regarding burden and/or 

the collection activity requirements 

should be electronically mailed to 

ICDocketMgr@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. 

[FR Doc. E8–18711 Filed 8–12–08; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

Notice of Proposed Information 

Collection Requests 

AGENCY: Department of Education. 

SUMMARY: The IC Clearance Official, 

Regulatory Information Management 

Services, Office of Management, invites 

comments on the proposed information 

collection requests as required by the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. 

DATES: Interested persons are invited to 

submit comments on or before October 

14, 2008. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 

3506 of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 

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

that the Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB) provide interested 

Federal agencies and the public an early 

opportunity to comment on information 

collection requests. 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 IC Clearance 

Official, Regulatory Information 

Management Services, Office of 

Management, publishes that notice 

containing proposed information 

collection requests prior to submission 

of these requests to OMB. 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. OMB 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 the respondents, including 

through the use of information 

technology. 

Dated: August 8, 2008. 

Angela C. Arrington, 

IC Clearance Official, Regulatory Information 

Management Services, Office of Management. 

Office of Elementary and Secondary 

Education 

Type of Review: Extension. 

Title: State Educational Agency (SEA) 

Local Educational Agency (LEA), and 

School Data Collection and Reporting 

under ESEA, Title I, Part A. 

Frequency: As needed. 

Affected Public: State, Local, or Tribal 

Gov’t, SEAs or LEAs. 

Reporting and Recordkeeping Hour 

Burden: 

Responses: 25. 

Burden Hours: 200. 

Abstract: Title I, Part A of the 

Elementary and Secondary Education 

Act (ESEA) gives State educational 

agencies the flexibility to use an 

alternative method to distribute Title I, 

Part A Grants to Local Educational 

Agencies funds to small LEAs. 

Sections 1124(a)(2)(B), 

1124A(a)(4)(A), and 1125(d) of Title I, 

Part A of the Elementary and Secondary 

Education Act, as amended by the No 

Child Left Behind Act, authorize State 

educational agencies (SEAs) to use 

alternative poverty data to redistribute 

Title I Basic, Concentration, and 

Targeted Grant allocations determined 

by the Department of Education (ED) to 

‘‘small’’ local educational agencies 

(LEAs) with fewer than 20,000 total 

residents. Section 200.74 of the Title I 

regulations further clarifies this 

provision by extending this flexibility to 

Educational Finance Incentive Grants. 

The statute requires ED to obtain 

approval of any alternative poverty 

measure they choose to use for this 

purpose. 

Requests for copies of the proposed 

information collection request may be 

accessed from http://edicsweb.ed.gov, 

by selecting the ‘‘Browse Pending 

Collections’’ link and by clicking on 

link number 3783. When you access the 

information collection, click on 

‘‘Download Attachments’’ to view. 

Written requests for information should 

be addressed to U.S. Department of 

Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, SW., 

LBJ, Washington, DC 20202–4537. 

Requests may also be electronically 

mailed to ICDocketMgr@ed.gov or faxed 

to 202–401–0920. Please specify the 

complete title of the information 

collection when making your request. 

Comments regarding burden and/or 

the collection activity requirements 

should be electronically mailed to 

ICDocketMgr@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. 

[FR Doc. E8–18712 Filed 8–12–08; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

National Committee on Foreign 

Medical Education and Accreditation 

Meeting 

AGENCY: Department of Education. 

What Is the Purpose of This Notice? 

The purpose of this notice is to 

announce the upcoming meeting of the 

National Committee on Foreign Medical 

Education and Accreditation (the 

Committee). Parts of this meeting will 

be open to the public, and the public is 

invited to attend those portions. 


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When and Where Will the Meeting 

Take Place? 

We will hold the public meeting on 

September 15, 2008, from 8:00 a.m. 

until approximately 5:00 p.m. in Salon 

A at Washington Marriott, 1221 22nd 

Street, NW., Washington, DC 20037. 

You may call the hotel at 202–872–1500 

to inquire about room accommodations. 

What Assistance Will Be Provided to 

Individuals With Disabilities? 

The meeting site is accessible to 

individuals with disabilities. If you will 

need an auxiliary aid or service to 

participate in the meeting, e.g., 

interpreting service, assistive listening 

device, or materials in an alternate 

format, notify the contact person listed 

in this notice at least two weeks before 

the scheduled meeting date. Although 

we will attempt to meet a request 

received after that date, we may not be 

able to make available the requested 

auxiliary aid or service because of 

insufficient time to arrange it. 

Who Is the Contact Person for the 

Meeting? 

Please contact Ms. Melissa Lewis, the 

Executive Director for the National 

Committee on Foreign Medical 

Education and Accreditation, if you 

have questions about the meeting. You 

may contact her at the U.S. Department 

of Education, Room 7127, MS 7563, 

1990 K St., NW., Washington, DC 20006, 

telephone: (202) 219–7009, fax: (202) 

219–7008, e-mail: 

Melissa.Lewis@ed.gov. Individuals who 

use a telecommunications device for the 

deaf (TDD) may call the Federal 

Information Relay Service at 1–800–

877–8339. 

What Are the Functions of the 

Committee? 

The Committee was established by the 

Secretary of Education under Section 

102 of the Higher Education Act of 

1965, as amended. 

The Committee’s responsibilities are 

to: 

• On request of a foreign country, 

evaluate the standards of accreditation 

applied to medical schools in that 

country; and 

• Determine the comparability of 

those standards to standards for 

accreditation applied to United States 

medical schools. Comparability of the 

applicable accreditation standards is an 

eligibility requirement for foreign 

medical schools to participate in the 

Federal Family Education Loan 

program, 20 U.S.C. 1071 et seq. 

What Items Will Be on the Agenda for 

Discussion at the Meeting? 

The Committee will review the 

standards of accreditation applied to 

medical schools by several foreign 

countries to determine whether those 

standards are comparable to the 

standards of accreditation applied to 

medical schools in the United States. 

Discussions of the standards of 

accreditation will be held in sessions 

open to the public. Discussions 

resulting in specific determinations of 

comparability are closed to the public in 

order that each country may be properly 

notified of the decision. The countries 

tentatively scheduled to be discussed at 

the meeting include: Czech Republic, 

Dominican Republic, Israel, The 

Netherlands, and Taiwan. Beginning 

August 22, 2008, you may call the 

contact person listed above to obtain the 

final listing of the countries whose 

standards will be discussed during this 

meeting. The listing of countries will 

also be posted on the Department of 

Education’s Web site at the following 

address: http://www.ed.gov/about/ 

bdscomm/list/ncfmea.html. 

How May I Obtain Electronic Access to 

This Document? 

You may view this document, as well 

as all other Department of Education 

documents published in the Federal 

Register, in text or Adobe Portable 

Document Format (PDF), on the Internet 

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

legislation/FedRegister. 

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. 

Authority: 5 U.S.C. Appendix 2. 

Dated: August 8, 2008. 

Cheryl A. Oldham, 

Acting Assistant Secretary, Office of 

Postsecondary Education. 

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Office of Fossil Energy 

Methane Hydrate Advisory Committee 

AGENCY: Department of Energy. 

ACTION: Notice of open meeting. 

This notice announces a meeting of 

the Methane Hydrate Advisory 

Committee. Federal Advisory 

Committee Act (Pub. L. 92–463, 86 Stat. 

770) requires that notice of these 

meetings be announced in the Federal 

Register. 

DATES: Thursday, September 4, 2008, 3 

to 5 p.m. 

ADDRESSES: TMS, Inc., 955 L’Enfant 

Plaza North, SW., Suite 1500, 

Washington, DC 20024. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Edith Allison, U.S. Department of 

Energy, Office of Oil and Natural Gas, 

Washington, DC 20585. Phone: 202–

586–1023. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Purpose of the Committee: The 

purpose of the Methane Hydrate 

Advisory Committee is to provide 

advice on potential applications of 

methane hydrate to the Secretary of 

Energy, and assist in developing 

recommendations and priorities for the 

Department of Energy Methane Hydrate 

Research and Development Program. 

Tentative Agenda: 

• Discussion of information, 

including fact sheet and PowerPoint 

presentation, to be provided to the 

2008–2009 Executive Branch Transition 

teams. 

Public Participation: The meeting is 

open to the public. The Chairman of the 

Committee will conduct the meeting to 

facilitate the orderly conduct of 

business. If you would like to file a 

written statement with the Committee, 

you may do so either before or after the 

meeting. If you would like to make oral 

statements regarding any of the items on 

the agenda, you should contact Edith 

Allison at the address or telephone 

number listed above. You must make 

your request for an oral statement at 

least five business days prior to the 

meeting, and reasonable provisions will 

be made to include the presentation on 

the agenda. Public comment will follow 

the 10-minute rule. 

Minutes: The minutes of this meeting 

will be available for public review and 

copying within 60 days at the Freedom 

of Information Public Reading Room, 

Room 1G–033, Forrestal Building, 1000 

Independence Avenue, SW., 

Washington, DC, between 9 a.m. and 4 

p.m., Monday through Friday, except 

federal holidays. 


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