Memorandum

MEMORANDUM

TO: OMB Education Desk Officer

SUBJECT: Extension Without Change to Currently Approved Collection: OMB No. 1810-0662 –v.5

Attached for your review and clearance please find a paperwork package OMB 1810-0662-v.5. This package is essentially the same – with a slightly updated justification in Q/A 1 of the Supporting Statement --- of the currently approved package 1810-0662-v.3 (with an expiration date of 1/31/08).

This information collection package – requesting a continuation without change -- is necessary for ED to continue to have OMB authority after 1/31/08 to require SEAs to carry out existing regulatory data collection requirements for the Title I, Part C Migrant Education Program (MEP) while ED is in the process of completing a final regulatory notice (and associated information collection package 1810-0662-v.4) that would establish, by regulation, new data collection requirements on the SEAs in addition to the current requirements.

Without this continuation, ED and its SEA MEP grantees would lack OMB approval to continue to collect critical data necessary to carry out the grantees’ statutory responsibilities to: design and implement a statewide MEP that addresses the identified needs of migratory children in its State; evaluate or improve the delivery of program services statewide; and exclude "supplemental" State or local funds in determining compliance with the "comparability" and "supplement, not supplant" provisions of the statute.

Thank you in advance for all your assistance with reviewing and clearing this package.

If you or your colleagues have any questions/concerns about the paperwork package or the associated NPRM, please do not hesitate to contact me at 260-1394 or at [email protected].

Sincerely,

James English

Program Analyst,

ED/Office of Migrant Education

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