Federal Register / Vol. 66, No. 247 / Wednesday, December 26, 2001 / Notices 66407

telecommunications device for the deaf

(TDD) may call the Federal Information

Relay Service (FIRS) at 1–800–877–

8339.

[FR Doc. 01–31610 Filed 12–21–01; 8:45 am]

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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

Submission for OMB Review;

Comment Request

AGENCY: Department of Education.

SUMMARY: The Leader, Regulatory

Information Management Group, Office

of the Chief Information Officer 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 January

25, 2002.

ADDRESSES: Written comments should

be addressed to the Office of

Information and Regulatory Affairs,

Attention: Lauren Wittenberg, Desk

Officer, Department of Education, Office

of Management and Budget, 725 17th

Street, N.W., Room 10202, New

Executive Office Building, Washington,

DC 20503 or should be electronically

mailed to the internet address

Lauren.Wittenberg@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 Leader,

Regulatory Information Management

Group, Office of the Chief Information

Officer, 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.

Office of Special Education and

Rehabilitative Services

Type of Review: New.

Title: An Evaluation of the State

Program Improvement Grant (SIG)

Program.

Frequency: Annually.

Affected Public: Not-for-profit

institutions.

Reporting and Recordkeeping Hour

Burden:

Responses: 135. Burden Hours: 306.

Abstract: The purpose of this data

collection is to obtain relevant and

credible information from an evaluation

of the State Improvement Grant Program

in order to (1) make mid-course

programmatic improvements to the

Program, and (2) describe the

implementation and progress of the

Program to Federal officials, Congress,

and other stakeholders. These data will

also inform the reauthorization of the

Individuals with Disabilities Education

Act (IDEA). Respondents will include

SIG Directors, SIG project evaluators,

State educational agencies (SEA)

policymakers, and SIG sub-grant

directors in each of the 36 states with

currently funded SIG projects.

Requests for copies of the proposed

information collection request may be

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

or should be addressed to Vivian Reese,

Department of Education, 400 Maryland

Avenue, SW, Room 4050, Regional

Office Building 3, Washington, DC

20202–4651. Requests may also be

electronically mailed to the internet

address OCIO.RIMG@ed.gov or faxed to

202–708–9346. Please specify the

complete title of the information

collection when making your request.

Comments regarding burden and/or

the collection activity requirements

should be directed to Sheila Carey at

(202) 708–6287 or via her internet

address Sheila.Carey@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.

Dated: December 19, 2001.

John Tressler,

Leader, Regulatory Information Management,

Office of the Chief Information Officer.

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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

[CFDA NO. 84.031H]

Strengthening Institutions (SIP),

American Indian Tribally Controlled

Colleges and Universities (TCCU),

Alaska Native and Native HawaiianServing Institutions (ANNH) and

Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSI)

Programs; Notice Inviting Applications

for Designation as Eligible Institutions

for Fiscal Year (FY) 2002

Purpose of Programs: Under the SIP,

TCCU, and ANNH Programs authorized

under Part A of Title III of the Higher

Education Act of 1965, as amended

(HEA), institutions of higher education

are eligible to apply for grants if they

meet specific statutory and regulatory

eligibility requirements. Similarly, HSIs

are eligible to apply for grants under the

HSI Program, authorized under Title V

of the HEA, if they meet specific

statutory and regulatory requirements.

In addition, an institution that is

designated as an eligible institution

under those programs may also receive

a waiver of certain non-Federal share

requirements under the Federal

Supplemental Educational Opportunity

Grant (FSEOG), the Federal Work Study

(FWS), the Student Support Services

(SSS) and the Undergraduate

International Studies and Foreign

Language (UISFL) Programs. These first

three programs are authorized under

Title IV of the HEA; the fourth program

is authorized under Title VI of the HEA.

Qualified institutions may receive these

waivers even if they are not recipients

of grant funds under the Title III Part A

or Title V programs.

Special Note: To become eligible, your

institution must satisfy a criterion related to

needy student enrollment and one related to

Educational and General (E&G) expenditures

for a particular base year.

Because we changed the collection

processes for determining the thresholds

for these criteria, we do not have base

year data beyond 1998–99. In order to

award FY 2002 grants in a timely

manner, we will use threshold data from

base year 1998–99 rather than a later

base year. In completing your eligibility

application, therefore, you are to use

data from the base year 1998–99.

Eligible Applicants: To qualify as an

eligible institution under any of the

programs included in this notice, an

accredited institution must, among

other requirements, have a high

enrollment of needy students, and its

E&G expenditures per full-time

equivalent (FTE) undergraduate student

must be low in comparison with the

average E&G expenditures per FTE

undergraduate student of institutions