[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 181 (Wednesday, September 22, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 52659-52660]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-20438]


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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

[Docket No.: ED-2021-SCC-0137]


Agency Information Collection Activities; Comment Request; 
Project To Support America's Families and Educators (Project SAFE) 
Grant Application

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

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, ED is 
requesting the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to conduct an 
emergency review of a new information collection.

DATES: The Department requested emergency processing from OMB for this 
information collection request on September 16, 2021. As a result, the 
Department is providing the public with the opportunity to comment 
under the full comment period. Interested persons are invited to submit 
comments on or before November 22, 2021.

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-2021-SCC-0137. 
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. If the regulations.gov 
site is not available to the public for any reason, ED will temporarily 
accept comments at [email protected]. Please include the docket ID 
number and the title of the information collection request when 
requesting documents or submitting comments. 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 Strategic Collections and Clearance Governance and 
Strategy Division, U.S. Department of Education, 400 Maryland Ave. SW,

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LBJ, Room 6W208D, Washington, DC 20202-4537.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For specific questions related to 
collection activities, please contact Amy Banks, 202-453-6704.

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: Project to Support America's Families and 
Educators (Project SAFE) Grant Application.
    OMB Control Number: 1810-0763.
    Type of Review: A new information collection.
    Respondents/Affected Public: State, Local, and Tribal Governments.
    Total Estimated Number of Annual Responses: 13.
    Total Estimated Number of Annual Burden Hours: 26.
    Abstract: This is a request for emergency approval of a new 
information collection request so that the Department can collect 
applications for the Project to Support America's Families and 
Educators (Project SAFE) Grant Program. The Project SAFE grant program 
is intended to improve students' safety and well-being by providing 
resources to local educational agencies (LEAs) that adopt and implement 
strategies to prevent the spread of the Novel Coronavirus Disease 2019 
(COVID-19) consistent with guidance from the Centers for Disease 
Control and Prevention (CDC) and that are financially penalized for 
doing so by their State educational agency (SEA) or other State entity. 
Under the new Project SAFE grant program, applications will be 
submitted on a rolling basis before the end of fiscal year 2021 and 
throughout fiscal year 2022. Upon receipt of the applications, the 
intent is to quickly review and make approval decisions of awards as 
quickly as possible to make the award the funds before the end of this 
fiscal year.
    Additional Information: The Project SAFE grant program timeline is 
extremely short due to the Biden Administration's direction to the 
Department to create the program to address urgent needs. For these 
reasons, we are requesting emergency approval of the Project SAFE 
application so that LEAs can demonstrate their eligibility and need to 
implement the program as intended and receive funds to address the 
immediate needs of their students, staff, and schools.

    Dated: September 16, 2021.
Kate Mullan,
PRA Coordinator, Strategic Collections and Clearance Governance and 
Strategy Division, Office of Chief Data Officer, Office of Planning, 
Evaluation and Policy Development.
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