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42370 Federal Register / Vol. 85, No. 135 / Tuesday, July 14, 2020 / Notices applications, and the instructions for submitted electronically through the OMB Control Number: 1850–NEW. submitting applications. Federal eRulemaking Portal at http:// Type of Review: New information Accessible Format: Individuals with www.regulations.gov by selecting the collection. disabilities can obtain this document, Docket ID number or via postal mail, Respondents/Affected Public: State, the NIA, and a copy of the application commercial delivery, or hand delivery. Local and Tribal Governments. package in an accessible format (e.g., If the regulations.gov site is not Total Estimated Number of Annual braille, large print, audiotape, or available to the public for any reason, Responses: 60. compact disc) on request to the program ED will temporarily accept comments at Total Estimated Number of Annual contact person listed under FOR FURTHER [email protected]. Please include the Burden Hours: 120. Abstract: This study will meet the INFORMATION CONTACT. docket ID number and the title of the Electronic Access to This Document: information collection request when Congressional mandate to evaluate the The official version of this document is requesting documents or submitting Innovative Assessment Demonstration the document published in the Federal comments. Please note that comments Authority Pilot Program (IADA). The Register. You may access the official submitted by fax or email and those program (Title I, Section 1204 of the edition of the Federal Register and the submitted after the comment period will Every Student Succeeds Act, or ESSA) Code of Federal Regulations at not be accepted. Written requests for allows the U.S. Department of www.govinfo.gov. At this site you can information or comments submitted by Education to exempt a handful of states view this document, as well as all other postal mail or delivery should be from certain testing requirements if they documents of this Department addressed to the Director of the Strategic agree to pilot new types of assessments. published in the Federal Register, in Collections and Clearance Governance The study will produce a ‘‘Progress text or Portable Document Format and Strategy Division, U.S. Department Report’’ and a ‘‘Best Practices Report,’’ (PDF). To use PDF you must have of Education, 400 Maryland Ave. SW, as mandated by Congress. The Progress Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is LBJ, Room 6W208B, Washington, DC Report will be based on existing available free at the site. 20202–8240. documents from pilot states. The You may also access documents of the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For subsequent Best Practices Report will Department published in the Federal specific questions related to collection add, via surveys, the perspectives of Register by using the article search activities, please contact Thomas Wei, district leaders, principals, and teachers feature at www.federalregister.gov. (646) 428–3892. on the development, implementation, and outcomes of IADA assessments. Specifically, through the advanced SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The These reports will help the Department search feature at this site, you can limit Department of Education (ED), in appropriately target its technical your search to documents published by accordance with the Paperwork assistance to tackle the largest barriers the Department. Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA) (44 U.S.C. to adequate progress in pilot states, and 3506(c)(2)(A)), provides the general Mark Schultz, provide a valuable guide for other states public and Federal agencies with an Commissioner, Rehabilitation Services that may want to develop a new opportunity to comment on proposed, Administration, delegated the authority to assessment in the future. perform the functions and duties of the revised, and continuing collections of Assistant Secretary for the Office of Special information. This helps the Department Dated: July 9, 2020. Education and Rehabilitative Services. assess the impact of its information Stephanie Valentine, [FR Doc. 2020–15202 Filed 7–9–20; 4:15 pm] collection requirements and minimize PRA Coordinator, Strategic Collections and BILLING CODE 4000–01–P the public’s reporting burden. It also Clearance Governance and Strategy Division, helps the public understand the Office of Chief Data Officer, Office of Department’s information collection Planning, Evaluation and Policy DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION requirements and provide the requested Development. data in the desired format. ED is [FR Doc. 2020–15130 Filed 7–13–20; 8:45 am] [Docket No.: ED–2020–SCC–0112] soliciting comments on the proposed BILLING CODE 4000–01–P Agency Information Collection information collection request (ICR) that is described below. The Department of Activities; Comment Request; DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION Evaluation of the Innovative Education is especially interested in Assessment Demonstration Authority public comment addressing the Applications for New Awards; Indian Pilot Program-Preliminary Activities following issues: (1) Is this collection Education Discretionary Grants necessary to the proper functions of the Programs—Native American Language AGENCY: Institute for Education Sciences Department; (2) will this information be Program (IES), Department of Education (ED). processed and used in a timely manner; ACTION: Notice. (3) is the estimate of burden accurate; AGENCY: Office of Elementary and (4) how might the Department enhance Secondary Education, Department of SUMMARY: In accordance with the the quality, utility, and clarity of the Education. Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, ED is information to be collected; and (5) how ACTION: Notice. proposing a new information collection. might the Department minimize the DATES: Interested persons are invited to burden of this collection on the SUMMARY: The Department of Education submit comments on or before respondents, including through the use is issuing a notice inviting applications September 14, 2020. of information technology. Please note for new awards for fiscal year (FY) 2020 ADDRESSES: To access and review all the that written comments received in for Indian Education Discretionary documents related to the information response to this notice will be Grants Programs—Native American collection listed in this notice, please considered public records. Language (NAL@ED) program, Catalog use http://www.regulations.gov by Title of Collection: Evaluation of the of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) searching the Docket ID number ED– Innovative Assessment Demonstration number 84.415B. 2020–SCC–0112. Comments submitted Authority Pilot Program-Preliminary DATES: Applications Available: July 14, in response to this notice should be Activities. 2020. VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:58 Jul 13, 2020 Jkt 250001 PO 00000 Frm 00025 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\14JYN1.SGM 14JYN1 Federal Register / Vol. 85, No. 135 / Tuesday, July 14, 2020 / Notices 42371 Deadline for Notice of Intent to Apply: Third, in keeping with the congressional active within the last three years at the July 29, 2020. emphasis in the Explanatory Statement school(s) to be served. Date of Pre-Application Meeting: July accompanying the Department of Absolute Priority 2: Expand and 21, 2020. Education Appropriations Act, 2020, Improve Existing Native American Deadline for Transmittal of regarding the importance of Applications: August 28, 2020. geographical diversity in grantees under Language Programs ADDRESSES: For the addresses for this program, Program Requirement 3 To meet this priority, an applicant obtaining and submitting an ensures that, in any competition year, must propose to improve and expand a application, please refer to our Common the Department will not exclusively Native American language instructional Instructions for Applicants to fund applicants from a single State, program that— Department of Education Discretionary provided there are enough high-quality (a) Will improve and expand Native Grant Programs, published in the applications. Together, these American language education and Federal Register on February 13, 2019 approaches will broaden the impact of development for Native American (84 FR 3768) and available at the program by funding projects students, as well as provide professional www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2019- supporting a variety of Native development for teachers and, as 02-13/pdf/2019-02206.pdf. languages. appropriate, staff and administrators, to FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Priorities: This competition includes strengthen the overall language and Tanya Tullos, U.S. Department of two absolute priorities and two academic goals of the school or schools Education, 400 Maryland Avenue SW, competitive preference priorities. In that will be served by the project; Room 3W234, Washington, DC 20202– accordance with 34 CFR 75.105(b)(2)(ii), (b) Will continue to take place in a 6335. Telephone: (202) 453–6037. these priorities are from the notice of school; and Email: [email protected]. final priorities, requirements, (c) Within the past three years has If you use a telecommunications definitions, and selection criteria for been offered at the school(s) to be device for the deaf (TDD) or a text this program published elsewhere in served. telephone (TTY), call the Federal Relay this issue of the Federal Register (NFP). Competitive Preference Priorities: For Absolute Priorities: For FY 2020 and Service (FRS), toll free, at 1–800–877– FY 2020 and any subsequent year in any subsequent year in which we make 8339. which we make awards from the list