Msix Mde Frn

33246

Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 101 / Wednesday, May 25, 2016 / Notices

a verbal comment and whose comments
have been deemed relevant under the
process described above, will be allotted
no more than three (3) minutes during
this period, and will be invited to speak
in the order in which their requests
were received by the DFO and ADFO.
Brenda S. Bowen,
Army Federal Register Liaison Officer.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

[FR Doc. 2016–12267 Filed 5–24–16; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 3720–58–P

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
[Docket Id ED–2016–OESE–0060]

Improving the Academic Achievement
of the Disadvantaged (Migrant
Education Program)
Office of Elementary and
Secondary Education, Department of
Education.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:

Under section 1308(b)(2)(B) of
the Elementary and Secondary
Education Act of 1965, as amended by
the No Child Left Behind Act (Pub. L.
107–110) (ESEA, as amended), the
Secretary is required to provide notice
and seek public comment on the
addition of any new proposed Minimum
Data Elements (MDEs) for the Migrant
Education Program (MEP). The
Secretary proposes to add four new
MDEs, and solicits public comments
accordingly.

SUMMARY:

We must receive your comments
on or before June 9, 2016.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments
through the Federal eRulemaking Portal
or via postal mail, commercial delivery,
or hand delivery. We will not accept
comments submitted by fax or by email
or those submitted after the comment
period. To ensure that we do not receive
duplicate copies, please submit your
comments only once. In addition, please
include the Docket ID at the top of your
comments.
• Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to
www.regulations.gov to submit your
comments electronically. Information
on using Regulations.gov, including
instructions for accessing agency
documents, submitting comments, and
viewing the docket, is available on the
site under ‘‘Help.’’
• Postal Mail, Commercial Delivery,
or Hand Delivery: If you mail or deliver
your comments about the proposed
MDEs, address them to Patricia
Meyertholen, U.S. Department of
Education, 400 Maryland Avenue SW.,
Room 3E315, Washington, DC 20202–
6135. Telephone: (202) 260–1394.

mstockstill on DSK3G9T082PROD with NOTICES

DATES:

VerDate Sep<11>2014

20:19 May 24, 2016

Jkt 238001

Privacy Note: The U.S. Department of
Education’s (Department’s) policy is to make
all comments received from members of the
public available for public viewing in their
entirety on the Federal eRulemaking Portal at
www.regulations.gov. Therefore, commenters
should be careful to include in their
comments only information that they wish to
make publicly available.

Patricia Meyertholen, Office of
Elementary and Secondary Education,
U.S. Department of Education, 400
Maryland Avenue SW., Room 3E315,
Washington, DC 20202–6132.
Telephone: (202) 260–1394 or by email:
[email protected].
If you use a telecommunications
device for the deaf or a text telephone,
call the Federal Relay Service, toll free,
at 1–800–877–8339.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under
section 1308(b)(1) of the ESEA, as
amended, the Secretary is required to
assist States in the electronic transfer of
student records. The Secretary assists
States with this transfer through the
Migrant Student Information Exchange
(MSIX) system, which links State
migratory student databases to support
records transfer. Under section
1308(b)(2)(A) of the ESEA, as amended,
the Secretary is further required to
determine the health and education
information that States must exchange
regarding migratory students. MSIX
supports the exchange of this
information in the form of required
MDEs.
When the Secretary proposes to add
new MDEs, section 1308(b)(2)(B) of the
ESEA, as amended, requires the
Secretary to consult with States and
publish a notice in the Federal Register
seeking public comment on proposed
new MDEs. The Department has
previously sought public input on the
collection of 72 MDEs (78 FR 79222,
Dec. 27, 2013), and in this notice now
proposes to add four new MDEs:
Residency Verification Date;
Graduation/High School Equivalency
(HSE) Indicator; Graduation/HSE Date;
and Algebra I Flag.
We have already held multiple
consultations with States regarding the
addition of these four MDEs, and no
State official or staff expressed
opposition during these various
consultations. First, we vetted the MDEs
with the MSIX State User Group for
Analysis and Recommendations over
the course of several years, from 2012
through the present. Second, on October
1, 2012, and November 5, 2014, the
Department conducted webinars with
the MEP Coordination Workgroup,
which is comprised of MEP State
Directors from the nine MEP regions

PO 00000

Frm 00049

Fmt 4703

Sfmt 4703

throughout the Nation. The MEP
Coordination Workgroup supported the
addition of the four MDEs and
corresponding definitions. Third, we
presented these MDEs to all of the MEP
State Directors on February 11, 2014,
during the Annual Directors’ Meeting in
Washington, DC. The MEP State
Directors did not express any opposition
to the addition of these MDEs since
States already collect this information,
in some form or another, in their
migrant-specific databases. Finally, we
have worked with 22 States on an MSIX
Data Quality Initiative (DQI). Through
the DQI process, we discussed the need
for and use of these new MDEs in
greater detail with MEP State Directors
and their staff in these 22 States. Once
again, no State official or staff expressed
opposition to the addition of these four
new MDEs.
Overall, MEP State Directors agreed
that the inclusion of the first three
MDEs—Residency Verification Date,
and Graduation/HSE Indicator and
Date—would support MSIX’s ability to
provide a more consistent accounting of
children eligible to receive MEP
services. Our conversations with State
officials and staff indicate that the States
collect these data in their migrantspecific databases to assist in
determining eligibility for the MEP. The
addition of these three MDEs would
allow MSIX, like the State migratory
student-specific databases, to more
accurately determine who is eligible for
the MEP, which in turn would improve
the accuracy of information in MSIX
reports related to enrollment,
placement, and credit accrual that States
use on a daily basis. These three new
MDEs would also enable MSIX to
account for eligible migratory children
not enrolled in school and for migratory
children who have graduated or
obtained their high school equivalency
diplomas.
The fourth proposed MSIX MDE
would allow schools to better target
math courses for newly arrived
migratory students by taking course
information that States already collect
and highlighting it in MSIX. Inclusion
of this MDE would promote better
education for migratory students.
The Department now seeks additional
public comment on the following four
proposed MDEs:
• Residency Verification Date: This
element would reflect the month, day,
and year in which a school or MEP
project confirms a migratory student’s
residency. States or local operating
agencies (LOAs) currently collect this
information once during the September
1–August 31 performance period to
verify student eligibility for MEP

E:\FR\FM\25MYN1.SGM

25MYN1

mstockstill on DSK3G9T082PROD with NOTICES

Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 101 / Wednesday, May 25, 2016 / Notices
services. Including this information in
MSIX would help State grantees quickly
verify a student’s eligibility to receive
services under the program.
• Graduation/HSE Indicator and
Graduation/HSE Date: These two
elements would indicate whether a
student has graduated from high school
or received an HSE diploma, and the
date when that event occurred. Grantees
use the MSIX system to determine
proper enrollment, placement, and
credit accrual for migratory students.
Including this information in MSIX
would help ensure that LOA and local
educational agency staff have timely
and accurate information about whether
and when a migratory student has
graduated from high school or received
an HSE diploma, thereby allowing much
faster determinations about who may
continue to receive MEP educational
services because they have not
graduated or received an HSE diploma,
and who may not receive these services
because they already have done so.
• Algebra I Flag: This element would
reflect whether the student has received
full credit in Algebra I or an equivalent
mathematics course. As reported in
National Migrant Education Secondary
Credit Accrual Workshops and Focus
Groups throughout the years, many
States use different course names to
reference this mathematics course, and
completing the material is essential for
both enrollment in higher-level
mathematics courses and high school
graduation. The Algebra I flag would
quickly communicate whether a student
has obtained credit for this gatekeeper
course, which would enable counselors
and other school staff to more quickly
enroll and place migratory students in
the appropriate mathematics course.
Accessible Format: Individuals with
disabilities may obtain this notice in an
accessible format (e.g., braille, large
print, audiotape, or compact disc) on
request to the contact person listed
under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
CONTACT.
Electronic Access to this Document:
The official version of this document is
the document published in the Federal
Register. Free Internet access to the
official edition of the Federal Register
and the Code of Federal Regulations is
available via the Federal Digital System
at: www.gpo.gov/fdsys. At this site you
can view this document, as well as all
other documents of this Department
published in the Federal Register, in
text or Portable Document Format
(PDF). To use PDF you must have
Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is
available free at the site.
You may also access documents of the
Department published in the Federal

VerDate Sep<11>2014

20:19 May 24, 2016

Jkt 238001

Register by using the article search
feature at: www.federalregister.gov.
Specifically, through the advanced
search feature at this site, you can limit
your search to documents published by
the Department.
Dated: May 19, 2016.
Ann Whalen,
Senior Advisor to the Secretary Delegated
the Duties of Assistant Secretary for
Elementary and Secondary Education.
[FR Doc. 2016–12251 Filed 5–24–16; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4000–01–P

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Environmental Management SiteSpecific Advisory Board, Paducah
Department of Energy (DOE).
Notice of Open Meeting.

AGENCY:
ACTION:

This notice announces a
meeting of the Environmental
Management Site-Specific Advisory
Board (EM SSAB), Paducah. The
Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub.
L. 92–463, 86 Stat. 770) requires that
public notice of this meeting be
announced in the Federal Register.
DATES: Thursday, June 16, 2016, 6:00
p.m.
SUMMARY:

Barkley Centre, 111
Memorial Drive, Paducah, Kentucky
42001.

ADDRESSES:

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Jennifer Woodard, Deputy Designated
Federal Officer, Department of Energy
Paducah Site Office, Post Office Box
1410, MS–103, Paducah, Kentucky
42001, (270) 441–6825.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Purpose of the Board: The purpose of
the Board is to make recommendations
to DOE–EM and site management in the
areas of environmental restoration,
waste management and related
activities.
Tentative Agenda
• Call to Order, Introductions, Review
of Agenda
• Administrative Issues
• Public Comments (15 minutes)
• Adjourn
Breaks Taken As Appropriate
Public Participation: The EM SSAB,
Paducah, welcomes the attendance of
the public at its advisory committee
meetings and will make every effort to
accommodate persons with physical
disabilities or special needs. If you
require special accommodations due to
a disability, please contact Jennifer
Woodard as soon as possible in advance
of the meeting at the telephone number

PO 00000

Frm 00050

Fmt 4703

Sfmt 4703

33247

listed above. Written statements may be
filed with the Board either before or
after the meeting. Individuals who wish
to make oral statements pertaining to
agenda items should contact Jennifer
Woodard at the telephone number listed
above. Requests must be received as
soon as possible prior to the meeting
and reasonable provision will be made
to include the presentation in the
agenda. The Deputy Designated Federal
Officer is empowered to conduct the
meeting in a fashion that will facilitate
the orderly conduct of business.
Individuals wishing to make public
comments will be provided a maximum
of five minutes to present their
comments. The EM SSAB, Paducah,
will hear public comments pertaining to
its scope (clean-up standards and
environmental restoration; waste
management and disposition;
stabilization and disposition of nonstockpile nuclear materials; excess
facilities; future land use and long-term
stewardship; risk assessment and
management; and clean-up science and
technology activities). Comments
outside of the scope may be submitted
via written statement as directed above.
Minutes: Minutes will be available by
writing or calling Jennifer Woodard at
the address and phone number listed
above. Minutes will also be available at
the following Web site: http://
www.pgdpcab.energy.gov/2016_
meetings.htm.
Issued at Washington, DC, on May 19,
2016.
LaTanya R. Butler,
Deputy Committee Management Officer.
[FR Doc. 2016–12317 Filed 5–24–16; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 6450–01–P

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Biomass Research and Development
Technical Advisory Committee
Energy Efficiency and
Renewable Energy, Department of
Energy.
ACTION: Notice of Open Meeting.
AGENCY:

This notice announces an
open meeting of the Biomass Research
and Development Technical Advisory
Committee, under Section 9008(d) of the
Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of
2008 amended by the Agricultural Act
of 2014. The Federal Advisory
Committee Act (Pub. L. 92–463, 86 Stat.
770) requires that agencies publish these
notices in the Federal Register to allow
for public participation.
DATES: June 13, 2016, 8:30 a.m.–6:00
p.m.; June 14, 2016, 8:30 a.m.–12:30
p.m.
SUMMARY:

E:\FR\FM\25MYN1.SGM

25MYN1