Federal Register / Vol. 85, No. 163 / Friday, August 21, 2020 / Notices 51685 collection listed in this notice, please response to this notice will be and Economic Security Act (CARES Act use http://www.regulations.gov by considered public records. or Act), Catalog of Federal Domestic searching the Docket ID number ED– Title of Collection: Formula Grant Assistance (CFDA) number 84.425P. 2020–SCC–0136. Comments submitted EASIE Electronic Application System This notice relates to the approved in response to this notice should be for Indian Education. information collection under OMB submitted electronically through the OMB Control Number: 1810–0021. control number 1840–0848. Federal eRulemaking Portal at http:// Type of Review: A revision of an DATES: www.regulations.gov by selecting the existing information collection. Applications Available: August 21, Docket ID number or via postal mail, Respondents/Affected Public: State, 2020. commercial delivery, or hand delivery. Local and Tribal Organizations. Deadline for Notice of Intent to Apply: If the regulations.gov site is not Total Estimated Number of Annual September 10, 2020. available to the public for any reason, Responses: 11,300. Deadline for Transmittal of ED will temporarily accept comments at Total Estimated Number of Annual Applications: October 20, 2020. [email protected]. Please include the Burden Hours: 7,050. Pre-Application Information: The docket ID number and the title of the Abstract: The Indian Education Department will post additional information collection request when Formula Grant (CFDA 84.060A) requires information for prospective applicants requesting documents or submitting the annual submission of the on the IREPO program website: https:// comments. Please note that comments application from the local educational www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ope/ submitted by fax or email and those agency and/or tribe. The amount of each heerfirepo.html. applicant’s award is determined by submitted after the comment period will ADDRESSES: For the addresses for not be accepted. Written requests for formula, based upon the reported number of American Indian/Alaska obtaining and submitting an information or comments submitted by application, please refer to our Common postal mail or delivery should be Native students identified in the application, the state per pupil Instructions for Applicants to addressed to the Director of the Strategic Department of Education Discretionary Collections and Clearance Governance expenditure, and the total appropriation available. Applicants provide the data Grant Programs, published in the and Strategy Division, U.S. Department Federal Register on February 13, 2019 of Education, 400 Maryland Ave. SW, required for funding electronically, and the Office of Indian Education (OIE) is (84 FR 3768) and available at LBJ, Room 6W208D, Washington, DC www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2019- 20202–4537. able to apply electronic tools to facilitate the review and analysis 02-13/pdf/2019-02206.pdf. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For leading to grant awards. This change FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: specific questions related to collection request will result in a reduction in Karen Epps, U.S. Department of activities, please contact Crystal Moore, burden of 1,950 hours and $39,000 for Education, 400 Maryland Avenue SW, 202–453–5593. the public. The change in burden is due 250–64, Washington, DC 20202. Telephone: (202) 453–6337. Email: SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The to technical changes in the forms that made them electronically fillable and a [email protected]. Department of Education (ED), in If you use a telecommunications accordance with the Paperwork reduction in the number of questions in the collection. device for the deaf (TDD) or a text Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA) (44 U.S.C. telephone (TTY), call the Federal Relay 3506(c)(2)(A)), provides the general Dated: August 18, 2020. Service (FRS), toll free, at 1–800–877– public and Federal agencies with an Kate Mullan, 8339. opportunity to comment on proposed, PRA Coordinator, Strategic Collections and revised, and continuing collections of Clearance, Governance and Strategy Division, SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: information. This helps the Department Office of Chief Data Officer, Office of Full Text of Announcement assess the impact of its information Planning, Evaluation and Policy collection requirements and minimize Development. I. Funding Opportunity Description the public’s reporting burden. It also [FR Doc. 2020–18421 Filed 8–20–20; 8:45 am] Purpose of Program: The purpose of helps the public understand the BILLING CODE 4000–01–P the IREPO Grants, offered under section Department’s information collection 18004(a)(3) of the CARES Act and the requirements and provide the requested Fund for the Improvement of data in the desired format. ED is DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION Postsecondary Education (FIPSE), is to soliciting comments on the proposed provide financial support to institutions Applications for New Awards; information collection request (ICR) that of higher education (IHEs) with the Institutional Resilience and Expanded is described below. The Department of greatest unmet needs related to Postsecondary Opportunity Grants Education is especially interested in coronavirus to enable them to resume Program public comment addressing the operations, serve the needs of students, following issues: (1) Is this collection AGENCY: Office of Postsecondary reduce disease transmission, and necessary to the proper functions of the Education, Department of Education. develop more resilient instructional Department; (2) will this information be ACTION: Notice. delivery models, such as distance processed and used in a timely manner; learning, to continue educating students (3) is the estimate of burden accurate; SUMMARY: The Department of Education who cannot or choose not to attend (4) how might the Department enhance (Department) is issuing a notice inviting classroom-based instruction due to the quality, utility, and clarity of the applications (NIA) from eligible coronavirus. information to be collected; and (5) how applicants for fiscal year (FY) 2020 for This program contains one absolute might the Department minimize the Institutional Resilience and Expanded priority. In addition, there are three burden of this collection on the Postsecondary Opportunity (IREPO) competitive preference priorities that respondents, including through the use Grants under section 18004(a)(3) of the allow for up to three points to be of information technology. Please note Higher Education Emergency Relief awarded for each of two competitive that written comments received in Fund of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, priorities and up to ten points for one VerDate Sep<11>2014 19:04 Aug 20, 2020 Jkt 250001 PO 00000 Frm 00012 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\21AUN1.SGM 21AUN1 jbell on DSKJLSW7X2PROD with NOTICES 51686 Federal Register / Vol. 85, No. 163 / Friday, August 21, 2020 / Notices competitive priority, for a cumulative range of uses for IREPO grants, by (b) The institution serves large total of up to sixteen competitive stating that they may be used ‘‘to defray numbers of part-time students and, as preference points. expenses (including lost revenue, such, received a reduced per-student Background: Section 18004(a)(3) of reimbursement for expenses already allocation under section 18004(a)(1) of the CARES Act directs the Secretary to incurred, technology costs associated the CARES Act relative to institutions of allocate 2.5 percent of the $14.2 billion with a transition to distance education, the same or similar total enrollment that Higher Education Emergency Relief faculty and staff trainings, payroll) serve mostly full-time students; and Fund (HEERF) funds appropriated by incurred by IHEs and for grants to (c) Had other unmet needs due to the the Act to provide grants to institutions students for any component of the novel coronavirus, as described by the under part B of title VII of the Higher student’s cost of attendance (as defined institution in its application. Education Act of 1965, as amended under section 472 of the Higher The Department will provide grants to (HEA), for institutions that the Education Act), including food, individual eligible institutions or Department has determined have the housing, course materials, technology, consortia of two or more eligible greatest unmet needs related to health care, and child care.’’ institutions. coronavirus. Part B of title VII of the To disburse the remainder of the Starting in March 2020, the novel HEA establishes the FIPSE. FIPSE $348.8 million set aside for section coronavirus forced nearly all the grants, including grants under this 18004(a)(3) awards, the Department Nation’s secondary and postsecondary program, are limited to institutions of believes it should run a grant institutions to expand their use of, or higher education, as defined in section competition that complies with the transition fully to, remote learning. 101 of the HEA. requirements of the FIPSE grant While some IHEs already had a FIPSE grants are required, by statute, program, in that the use of these funds significant online presence prior to the to support improvements in higher will result in improvements in COVID–19 national emergency, others education through reforms, postsecondary education and had little experience in delivering improvements, or innovations in opportunity, and that complies with the distance learning. For those institutions, postsecondary education programs, requirements