[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 248 (Thursday, December 26, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 78343-78344]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-30755]


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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

[Docket No. ED-2013-ICCD-0114]


Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the 
Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Comment 
Request; State Educational Agency Local Educational Agency, and School 
Data Collection and Reporting under ESEA, Title I, Part A

AGENCY: Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, Department of 
Education (ED).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 
U.S.C. chapter 3501 et seq.), ED is proposing a revision of an existing 
collection of information.

DATES: Interested persons are invited to submit comments on or before 
January 27, 2014.

ADDRESSES: Comments submitted in response to this notice should be 
submitted electronically through the Federal eRulemaking Portal at 
http://www.regulations.gov by selecting Docket ID number ED-2013-ICCD-
0114 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 2E115, Washington, DC 20202-4537.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For questions related to collection 
activities or burden, please call Tomakie Washington, 202-401-1097 or 
electronically mail [email protected]. Please do not send comments 
here. We will ONLY accept comments in this mailbox when the 
regulations.gov site is not available to the public for any reason.

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: State Educational Agency Local Educational 
Agency, and School Data Collection and Reporting under ESEA, Title I, 
Part A.
    OMB Control Number: 1810-0581.
    Type of Review: Revision of an existing collection of information.
    Respondents/Affected Public: State, Local, or Tribal Governments.
    Total Estimated Number of Annual Responses: 53,198.
    Total Estimated Number of Annual Burden Hours: 4,702,675.
    Abstract: Title I, Part A (Title I) of the Elementary and Secondary 
Education Act of 1965 (ESEA), as amended, and its regulations contain 
several existing provisions that require State educational agencies 
(SEAs), local educational agencies (LEAs), and schools to collect and 
disseminate information. The Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) covers these 
activities, which are currently approved by OMB under control number 
1810-0581 through March 2014. In addition, in 2011, ED invited each SEA 
to request flexibility on behalf of itself, its LEAs, and schools, in 
order to better focus on improving student academic achievement and 
increasing the quality of instruction (ESEA flexibility). The 
opportunity for SEAs to request ESEA flexibility also included 
activities covered by the PRA. Those information collection activities 
consisted of the information an SEA must develop and submit to ED to 
request this flexibility, information that an SEA provided in an 
Accountability Addendum, and the information an SEA that receives ESEA 
flexibility must annually report to ED. Approvals of ESEA flexibility 
requests have occurred in several iterations: Window 1, for which SEAs 
submitted requests in November 2011; Window 2, for which SEAs submitted 
requests in February 2012; Window 3, for which SEAs

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submitted requests in September 2012; and Window 4, for which SEAs 
submitted requests in spring 2013. Generally, ED approved the requests 
of SEAs that requested ESEA flexibility in Windows 1 and 2 through the 
end of the 20132014 school year. ED is now inviting the 35 Window 1 and 
Window 2 SEAs to request a one-year extension of the waivers granted 
through ESEA flexibility, which would generally last through the 
20142015 school year.

    Dated: December 19, 2013.
Tomakie Washington,
Acting Director Information Collection Clearance Division, Privacy, 
Information and Records Management Services, Office of Management.
[FR Doc. 2013-30755 Filed 12-24-13; 8:45 am]
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