[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 199 (Friday, October 14, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 71088-71089]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-24891]


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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

[Docket No.: ED-2016-ICCD-0111]


Agency Information Collection Activities; Comment Request; NPEFS 
2016-2018: Common Core of Data (CCD) National Public Education 
Financial Survey

AGENCY: Department of Education (ED), National Center for Education 
Statistics (NCES)

ACTION: Notice

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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 
December 13, 2016.

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-2016-ICCD-
0111. 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,

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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 2E-347, 
Washington, DC 20202-4537.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For specific questions related to 
collection activities, please contact NCES Information Collections at 
[email protected].

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: NPEFS 2016-2018: Common Core of Data (CCD) 
National Public Education Financial Survey.
    OMB Control Number: 1850-0067.
    Type of Review: A revision 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: 5,334.
    Abstract: The National Public Education Financial Survey (NPEFS) is 
an annual collection of state-level finance data that has been included 
in the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) since FY 1982 (school year 1981-
82). NPEFS provides function expenditures by salaries, benefits, 
purchased services, and supplies, and includes federal, state, and 
local revenues by source. The NPEFS collection includes data on all 
state-run schools from the 50 states, the District of Columbia, 
American Samoa, the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, Puerto Rico, and 
the Virgin Islands. NPEFS data are used for a wide variety of purposes, 
including to calculate federal program allocations such as states' 
``average per-pupil expenditure'' (SPPE) for elementary and secondary 
education, certain formula grant programs (e.g. Title I, Part A of the 
Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) as amended, 
Impact Aid, and Indian Education programs). Furthermore, other federal 
programs, such as the Educational Technology State Grants program 
(Title II Part D of the ESEA), the Education for Homeless Children and 
Youth Program under Title VII of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance 
Act, and the Teacher Quality State Grants program (Title II Part A of 
the ESEA) make use of SPPE data indirectly because their formulas are 
based, in whole or in part, on State Title I Part A allocations. On 
December 10, 2015, an amendment to ESEA, the Every Student Succeeds Act 
(ESSA), was signed into law. This request is to add two new items to 
the NPEFS data collection (to report current expenditures disaggregated 
by source of funds and to align with the State and LEA report cards 
required by ESSA) and to conduct the annual NPEFS collection of state-
level finance data for FY 2016-2018.

    Dated: October 11, 2016.
Kate Mullan,
Acting Director, Information Collection Clearance Division, Office of 
the Chief Privacy Officer, Office of Management.
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