[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 18 (Thursday, January 27, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 4873-4874]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-1791]


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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION


Notice of Submission for OMB Review

AGENCY: Department of Education.

ACTION: Comment request.

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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 (Pub. L. 104-13).

DATES: Interested persons are invited to submit comments on or before 
February 28, 2011.

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 e-mailed to [email protected] with a cc: to 
[email protected]. Please note that written comments received in 
response to this notice will be considered public records.

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. The 
OMB is particularly interested in comments which: (1) Evaluate whether 
the proposed collection of information is necessary for the proper 
performance of the functions of the agency, including whether the 
information will have practical utility; (2) evaluate the accuracy of 
the agency's estimate of the burden of the proposed collection of 
information, including the validity of the methodology and assumptions 
used; (3) enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information 
to be collected; and (4) minimize the burden of the collection of 
information on those who are to respond, including through the use of 
appropriate automated, electronic, mechanical, or other technological 
collection techniques or other forms of information technology.

    Dated: January 24, 2011.
Darrin A. King,
Director, Information Collection Clearance Division, Regulatory 
Information Management Services, Office of Management.

Office of Elementary and Secondary Education

    Type of Review: New.
    Title of Collection: Striving Readers Comprehensive Literacy 
Discretionary Grants.
    OMB Control Number: Pending.
    Agency Form Number(s): N/A.
    Frequency of Responses: Once.
    Affected Public: State, Local, or Tribal Government, State 
Educational Agencies or Local Educational Agencies.
    Total Estimated Number of Annual Responses: 48.
    Total Estimated Annual Burden Hours: 9,600.
    Abstract: The Striving Readers Comprehensive Literacy program is 
authorized as part of the FY 2010 Consolidated Appropriations Act (Pub. 
L. 111-117) under the Title I demonstration authority (Part E, Section 
1502 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA)). The FY 2010 
Appropriations Act provides $200 million for a comprehensive literacy 
development and education program to advance literacy skills for 
students from birth through grade 12. The Act reserves eighty-nine 
percent of the funds

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($178,000,000) for discretionary grants made to State educational 
agencies for the purpose of the States making subgrants to Local 
educational agencies or other nonprofit providers of early childhood 
education. Priority shall be given to agencies or other entities 
serving greater numbers or percentages of disadvantaged children. The 
legislation aims to advance the literacy skills, including pre-literacy 
skills, reading, and writing, for children from birth through grade 12 
including limited-English-proficient students and students with 
disabilities. States must ensure that the funding is divided with at 
least fifteen percent of the subgranted funds serving children from 
birth through age five, forty percent of the funds used to serve 
students in kindergarten through grade five, and forty percent of the 
funds used to serve students in grades six through twelve including an 
equitable distribution of funds between middle and high schools.
    This request includes information collection activities covered 
under the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA). The data collected will be 
used by application reviewers to determine the State's proposed quality 
of State-level activities, the proposed quality of the State subgrant 
competition, the proposed project management, and the adequacy of the 
proposed resources requested in the application.
    This information collection is being submitted under the 
Streamlined Clearance Process for Discretionary Grant Information 
Collections (1894-0001). Therefore, the 30-day public comment period 
notice will be the only public comment notice published for this 
information collection.
    Requests for copies of the information collection submission for 
OMB review may be accessed from the RegInfo.gov Web site at http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain or from the Department's Web site at 
http://edicsweb.ed.gov, by selecting the ``Browse Pending Collections'' 
link and by clicking on link number 4486. 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 
[email protected] or faxed to 202-401-0920. Please specify the 
complete title of the information collection and OMB Control Number 
when making your request.
    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. 2011-1791 Filed 1-26-11; 8:45 am]
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