Federal Register / Vol. 74, No. 116 / Thursday, June 18, 2009 / Notices 28913 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request 

AGENCY: Department of Education. 

SUMMARY: The Director, Information 

Collection Clearance Division, 

Regulatory Information Management 

Services, Office of Management invites 

comments on the submission for OMB 

review as required by the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995. 

DATES: Interested persons are invited to 

submit comments on or before July 20, 

2009. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments should 

be addressed to the Office of 

Information and Regulatory Affairs, 

Attention: Education Desk Officer, 

Office of Management and Budget, 725 

17th Street, NW., Room 10222, New 

Executive Office Building, Washington, 

DC 20503, be faxed to (202) 395–5806 or 

send e-mail to 

oira_submission@omb.eop.gov. 

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. 

Dated: June 15, 2009. 

Angela C. Arrington, 

Director, Information Collection Clearance 

Division, Regulatory Information 

Management Services, Office of Management. 

Federal Student Aid 

Type of Review: Extension. 

Title: Federal Perkins Loan Program/ 

National Direct Student Loan (NDSL) 

Assignment Form. 

Frequency: On occasion. 

Affected Public: Businesses or other 

for-profit; not-for-profit institutions. 

Reporting and Recordkeeping Hour 

Burden: 

Responses: 21,262. 

Burden Hours: 8,505. 

Abstract: The Federal Perkins Loan 

Program allows for assignment of 

certain defaulted loans from schools to 

the Department of Education for 

continued collection efforts when the 

school has exhausted all of its efforts in 

recovering an outstanding loan. The 

Perkins Assignment Form serves as the 

transmittal document in the assignment 

of such loans to the Federal 

Government. 

Requests for copies of the information 

collection submission for OMB review 

may be accessed from http:// 

edicsweb.ed.gov, by selecting the 

‘‘Browse Pending Collections’’ link and 

by clicking on link number 4009. 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 the Internet address 

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. E9–14318 Filed 6–17–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

Office of Postsecondary Education; 

Overview Information; Promoting 

Postbaccalaureate Opportunities for 

Hispanic Americans (PPOHA) 

Program; Notice Inviting Applications 

for New Awards for Fiscal Year (FY) 

2009 

Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance 

(CFDA) Number: 84.031M. 

Dates: 

Applications Available: June 18, 2009. 

Deadline for Transmittal of 

Applications: July 20, 2009. 

Deadline for Intergovernmental 

Review: September 16, 2009. 

Full Text of Announcement 

I. Funding Opportunity Description 

Purpose of Program: The Promoting 

Postbaccalaureate Opportunities for 

Hispanic Americans (PPOHA) Program 

provides grants to: (1) Expand 

postbaccalaureate educational 

opportunities for, and improve the 

academic attainment of, Hispanic 

students; and (2) expand the 

postbaccalaureate academic offerings as 

well as enhance the program quality in 

the institutions of higher education that 

are educating the majority of Hispanic 

college students and helping large 

numbers of Hispanic and low-income 

students complete postsecondary 

degrees. 

PPOHA Program Requirements 

Background: The PPOHA Program is 

a new program established under 

sections 511 through 514 of the Higher 

Education Act of 1965, as amended 

(HEA). The PPOHA Program supports 

Hispanic-serving institutions that offer a 

postbaccalaureate certificate or degree 

granting program. To define the term 

‘‘Hispanic-serving institution’’ for 

purposes of the PPOHA Program, 

Congress adopted the definition of that 

term in the existing Hispanic-Serving 

Institutions (HSI) Program authorized by 

sections 501 to 504 of the HEA. In 

addition, the PPOHA Program provides 

development grants like the HSI 

Program. Moreover, Congress also 

applied the general provisions of the 

HSI Program to the PPOHA Program. 

See Title V, Part C, sections 521–528, of 

the HEA. In light of the overlap of these 

definitions and requirements, the 

Secretary has determined that it is 

appropriate to adopt some of the 

requlatory requirements relating to 

eligibility criteria and tie-breaking 

factors from the HSI Program for use for 

the first grant competition in the 

PPOHA Program. 

Eligibility Criteria (Use of 34 CFR 

606.2(a) and (b), 606.3 through 606.5). 

For purposes of the PPOHA Program, an 

eligible institution is an institution of 

higher education that: (1) Is an 

Hispanic-serving institution as defined 

in section 502 of the HEA; and (2) offers 

a postbaccalaureate certificate or degree 

granting program. As noted earlier in 

this notice, the term ‘‘Hispanic-serving 

institution’’ under section 502 of the 

HEA has already been defined in the 

regulations for the HSI Program. For the 

competition announced in this notice, 

the Secretary has decided to use the 

specific eligibility criteria for Hispanicserving institution in 34 CFR 606.2(a) 

and (b) and 606.3, 606.4 and 606.5 of 

those regulations. The use of these