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PAPERWORK REDUCTION ACT

CHANGE WORKSHEET

Agency/Subagency       U.S. Department of Education/Office of Postsecondary Education/TRIO Programs		OMB Control Number 1840    -    0762
Enter only items that change Current Record New Record
Agency form number(s)	     	     
Annual reporting and record keeping hour burden
Number of respondents	     	     
Total annual responses	     	     
Percent of these responses collected electronically	     	     
Total annual hours	10,287     	     9,704
Difference		     583
Explanation of difference Program ChageChange		583     
Adjustment		     
Annual reporting and record keeping cost burden (in thousands of dollars)
Total annualized capital/startup costs	     	     
Total annual costs (O&M)	     	     
Total annualized cost requested	$370,333     	$293,048     
Difference		$21,557     
Explanation of difference Program Change		     
Adjustment		     
Other change** The Higher Education Opportunity Act, which the President signed on August 14, eliminated the Absolute Priority in regular Upward Bound (UB) that had specified the grade levels and level of risk for academic failure required of new participants admitted to the program. Four fields in the annual performance report (APR) for Upward Bound, Upward Bound Math-Science (UBMS), and Veterans Upward Bound (VUB) that OMB approved on 7/29/08 were designed to gather data essential to assessing whether grantees had met the Absolute Priority; with its elimination, TRIO no longer needs the fields. TRIO staff members have therefore deleted the four fields, renumbered the collection instrument, and made relevant changes in the instructions. Many UB grantees had objected to the Absolute Priority and requested its removal, so the program expects no complaint from the constituency about the change. The hourly burden for the 971 UB grantees changes slightly; there will be no change in burden for the 172 UBMS and VUB grantees to which the Absolute Priority did not apply. Overall burden for the Information Collection drops 583 hours, from 10,287 to 9,704. The Department considers it very important to post the revised version of the APR on ED's Web site as soon as possible so that grantees can begin to organize their data for the fall information collection. Moreover, at the request of the grantees' association (the Council for Opportunity in Education), TRIO staff members are to make a presentation on the APR to approximately 500 people at the association's annual convention in mid-September; the presentation will be far more helpful to the grantees if they are able to see the APR in its final form before the presentation. The attached version of the APR also includes a few minor, technical changes designed to clarify the form for the grantees; these changes do not increase the reporting burden at all and might even reduce it slightly by making the form easier to complete.      
Signature of Senior Officer or designee:      	Date:      	For OIRA Use            

**This form cannot be used to extend an expiration date

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