Application for Grants Under English Language Acquisition and Language Enhancement: The Native American and Alaska Native Children in School program is authorized under Subpart 1, of Title III of the English Language Acquisition, Language Enhancement, and Academic Achievement Act, as amended by the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, Public Law 107-110 Section 3112. The purpose of the Native American and Alaska Native Children in School program is to provide grants to eligible entities that support language instruction educational projects for limited English proficient (LEP) children from Native American, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander background. Program Authority: 20 U.S.C. 6821(c)(1)(A) and 6822.
This information collection is a reinstatement with change of a previously approved collection. Revisions to the Group Application Certification, Eligibility Certification, and Student Data forms have been streamlined reducing annual burden from 8,200 to 2,000. Annual burden has been decreased by 6,200 annual hours. The original hour burden for each respondent was estimated to be 82 hours. With the revisions to the data instruments, the burden for each respondent is now estimated to be 40 minutes. After reviewing the number of respondents during the last grant, competition the Department has reduced the number of respondents from 100 to 50.
$31,728
No
No
No
Uncollected
No
Uncollected
Cynthia Ryan 2022457140
No
On behalf of this Federal agency, I certify that the collection of information encompassed by this request complies with 5 CFR 1320.9 and the related provisions of 5 CFR 1320.8(b)(3).
The following is a summary of the topics, regarding the proposed collection of information, that the certification covers:
(i) Why the information is being collected;
(ii) Use of information;
(iii) Burden estimate;
(iv) Nature of response (voluntary, required for a benefit, or mandatory);
(v) Nature and extent of confidentiality; and
(vi) Need to display currently valid OMB control number;
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