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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: State Lead Agency 

Record Keeping and Reporting 

Requirements under Part C of the 

Individuals with Disabilities Education 

Act (IDEA). 

OMB Control Number: 1820–0682. 

Type of Review: An extension of an 

existing information collection. 

Respondents/Affected Public: State, 

Local, and Tribal Governments. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Responses: 56. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Burden Hours: 4,268. 

Abstract: OMB Information Collection 

1820–0682 was created to reflect the 

requirements in Part C of the IDEA in 20 

U.S.C.1431–1443 and the final Part C 

regulations. These regulations require 

the 56 State lead agencies (LAs) that 

receive Part C funds to collect and 

maintain information or data and, in 

some cases, report information or data 

to other public agencies or to the public. 

These record-keeping requirements are 

not new and do not require reporting to 

the Secretary. This Information 

Collection was created to ensure that all 

Part C information responsibilities are 

documented and have been submitted 

for OMB review. The following table 

describes the information under Part C 

to be collected or maintained and 

identifies the legal requirement for each 

collection. These required listed 

collections are consolidated into 1820– 

0682. 

Dated: September 22, 2017. 

Tomakie Washington, 

Acting Director, Information Collection 

Clearance Division, Office of the Chief Privacy 

Officer, Office of Management. 

[FR Doc. 2017–20658 Filed 9–26–17; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

[Docket No. ED–2017–ICCD–0122] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Comment Request; Survey 

on the Use of Funds Under Title II, Part 

A: Improving Teacher Quality State 

Grants—State-Level Activity Funds 

AGENCY: Office of Elementary and 

Secondary Education (OESE), 

Department of Education (ED). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, ED is 

proposing a revision of an existing 

information collection. 

DATES: Interested persons are invited to 

submit comments on or before 

November 27, 2017. 

ADDRESSES: To access and review all the 

documents related to the information 

collection listed in this notice, please 

use http://www.regulations.gov by 

searching the Docket ID number ED– 

2017–ICCD–0122. Comments submitted 

in response to this notice should be 

submitted electronically through the 

Federal eRulemaking Portal at http://

www.regulations.gov by selecting the 

Docket ID number or via postal mail, 

commercial delivery, or hand delivery. 

Please note that comments submitted by 

fax or email and those submitted after 

the comment period will not be 

accepted. Written requests for 

information or comments submitted by 

postal mail or delivery should be 

addressed to the Director of the 

Information Collection Clearance 

Division, U.S. Department of Education, 

400 Maryland Avenue SW., LBJ, Room 

216–44, Washington, DC 20202–4537. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

specific questions related to collection 

activities, please contact Tawanda 

Avery, 202–453–6471. 

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: Survey on the Use 

of Funds Under Title II, Part A: 

Improving Teacher Quality State 

Grants—State-Level Activity Funds. 

OMB Control Number: 1810–0711. 

Type of Review: A revision of an 

existing information collection. 

Respondents/Affected Public: State, 

Local, and Tribal Governments. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Responses: 52. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Burden Hours: 520. 

Abstract: Survey on the Use of Funds 

Under Title II, Part A: Improving 

Teacher Quality State Grants—StateLevel Activity Funds. The Elementary 

and Secondary Education Act of 1965, 

as reauthorized by the Every Student 

Succeeds Act of 2015 (ESSA), provides 

funds to States to prepare, train, and 

recruit high-quality teachers, principals, 

and other school leaders. These funds 

are provided to districts through Title II, 

Part A (Supporting Effective Instruction 

Grants). The purpose of these surveys is 

to provide the U.S. Department of 

Education with a better understanding 

of how State Educational Agencies 

(SEAs) utilize these funds. This survey 

also collects data on teacher, principal, 

and other school leader effectiveness 

and retention for States to meet new 

reporting requirements. 

Similar data have been collected 

under the Survey on the Use of Funds 

Under Title II, Part A prior to 

reauthorization of ESEA. This OMB 

clearance request is to continue these 

types of analyses, but using new data 

collection instruments updated to 

reflect changes due to the 

reauthorization of ESEA by the ESSA. 

The request is to begin data collection 

and analyses for the 2018–19 school 

year and subsequent years. 


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Dated: September 22, 2017. 

Tomakie Washington, 

Acting Director, Information Collection 

Clearance Division, Office of the Chief Privacy 

Officer, Office of Management. 

[FR Doc. 2017–20713 Filed 9–26–17; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

Extension of the Application Deadline 

Date for Certain Fiscal Year 2018 

Education Research and Special 

Education Research Grant Programs 

AGENCY: Institute of Education Sciences, 

Department of Education. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Institute of Education 

Sciences extends, for certain 

prospective eligible applicants 

described elsewhere in this notice, the 

deadline date for transmittal of 

applications for new awards for fiscal 

year (FY) 2018 under the Education 

Research and Development Centers 

competition and the Research Networks 

Focused on Critical Problems of Policy 

and Practice in Special Education 

competition, Catalog of Federal 

Domestic Assistance (CFDA) numbers 

84.305C and 84.324N. The Institute 

takes this action to allow more time for 

the preparation and submission of 

applications by prospective eligible 

applicants affected by Hurricanes 

Harvey and Irma. 

The extension of the application 

deadline date for this competition is 

intended to help eligible applicants that 

are located in a Federally declared 

disaster area, as determined by the 

Federal Emergency Management Agency 

(FEMA), in Texas and Florida to 

compete fairly with other eligible 

applicants under these competitions. 

DATES: Deadline for Transmittal of 

Applications: October 26, 2017. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

the Education Research and 

Development Centers competition, 

Corinne Alfeld at Corinne.Alfeld@

ed.gov or (202) 245–8203. For the 

Research Networks Focused on Critical 

Problems of Policy and Practice in 

Special Education competition, Amy 

Sussman at Amy.Sussman@ed.gov or 

(202) 245–7424. 

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: On May 

30, 2017, we published in the Federal 

Register (82 FR 24695) a notice inviting 

applications (NIA) for new awards for 

FY 2018 for Education Research and 

Development Centers and Research 

Networks Focused on Critical Problems 

of Policy and Practice in Special 

Education. The application deadline in 

the NIA was September 21, 2017. We 

are extending the application deadline 

for this competition for applicants in 

affected areas in Texas and Florida in 

order to allow applicants more time to 

prepare and submit their applications. 

Eligibility: The extension of the 

application deadline date in this notice 

applies to eligible applicants under the 

Education Research and Development 

Centers competition and the Research 

Networks Focused on Critical Problems 

of Policy and Practice in Special 

Education competition, CFDA numbers 

84.305C and 84.324N, that are located in 

a Federally declared disaster area, as 

determined by the Federal Emergency 

Management Agency (FEMA) (see 

www.fema.gov/news/disasters.fema), in 

the State of Texas in the counties of 

Aransas, Bee, Bexar, Brazoria, Calhoun, 

Chambers, Dallas, Fort Bend, Galveston, 

Goliad, Harris, Jackson, Kleberg, Liberty, 

Matagorda, Nueces, Refugio, San 

Patricio, Tarrant, Travis, Victoria, and 

Wharton. 

The extension of the application 

deadline date in this notice also applies 

to eligible applicants that are located in 

a Federally declared disaster area, as 

determined by the Federal Emergency 

Management Agency (FEMA) (see 

http://www.fema.gov/news/ 

disasters.fema), in the State of Florida, 

which includes all counties in that 

State. 

In accordance with the NIA, eligible 

applicants for these competitions have 

the ability and capacity to conduct 

scientifically valid research. Eligible 

applicants include, but are not limited 

to, nonprofit and for-profit organizations 

and public and private agencies and 

institutions, such as colleges and 

universities. 

Note: All information in the NIA published 

on May 30, 2017 (82 FR 24695), for these 

competitions remains the same, except for 

the deadline date. 

Program Authority: 20 U.S.C. 9501 et 

seq. 

Accessible Format: Individuals with 

disabilities can obtain this document 

and a copy of the application package in 

an accessible format (e.g., braille, large 

print, audiotape, or compact disc) on 

request to either of the program contact 

persons listed under FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT. 

Electronic Access to This Document: 

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 via the Federal Digital System 

at: www.gpo.gov/fdsys. At this site you 

can view this document, as well as all 

other documents of this Department 

published in the Federal Register, in 

text or Portable Document Format 

(PDF). To use PDF you must have 

Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is 

available free at the site. 

You may also access documents of the 

Department published in the Federal 

Register by using the article search 

feature at: www.federalregister.gov. 

Specifically, through the advanced 

search feature at this site, you can limit 

your search to documents published by 

the Department. 

Dated: September 22, 2017. 

Thomas Brock, 

Commissioner for Education Research, 

Delegated the Duties of the Director of the 

Institute of Education Sciences. 

[FR Doc. 2017–20684 Filed 9–22–17; 4:15 pm] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

[Docket No. ED–2017–ICCD–0099] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission to the Office of 

Management and Budget for Review 

and Approval; Comment Request; 

Annual State Application Under Part C 

of the Individuals With Disabilities 

Education Act as Amended in 2004 

AGENCY: Office of Special Education and 

Rehabilitative Services (OSERS), 

Department of Education (ED). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, ED is 

proposing an extension of an existing 

information collection. 

DATES: Interested persons are invited to 

submit comments on or before October 

27, 2017. 

ADDRESSES: To access and review all the 

documents related to the information 

collection listed in this notice, please 

use http://www.regulations.gov by 

searching the Docket ID number ED– 

2017–ICCD–0099. Comments submitted 

in response to this notice should be 

submitted electronically through the 

Federal eRulemaking Portal at http://

www.regulations.gov by selecting the 

Docket ID number or via postal mail, 

commercial delivery, or hand delivery. 

Please note that comments submitted by 

fax or email and those submitted after 

the comment period will not be 

accepted. Written requests for 

information or comments submitted by 


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