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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 39 / Tuesday, March 2, 2021 / Notices
checkbox. Comments may also be sent to ICDocketmgr@ed.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For specific questions related to collection activities, please contact Aba Kumi, 2024011767.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Department of Education ED, in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 PRA 44 U.S.C.
3506c2A, provides the general public and Federal agencies with an opportunity to comment on proposed, revised, and continuing collections of information. This helps the Department assess the impact of its information collection requirements and minimize the publics reporting burden. It also helps the public understand the Departments information collection requirements and provide the requested data in the desired format. ED is soliciting comments on the proposed information collection request ICR that is described below. The Department of Education is especially interested in public comment addressing the following issues: 1 Is this collection necessary to the proper functions of the Department; 2 will this information be processed and used in a timely manner;
3 is the estimate of burden accurate;
4 how might the Department enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; and 5 how might the Department minimize the burden of this collection on the respondents, including through the use of information technology. Please note that written comments received in response to this notice will be considered public records.
Title of Collection: National Blue Ribbon Schools Program.
OMB Control Number: 18600506.
Type of Review: An extension of a currently approved information collection.
Respondents/Affected Public: State, Local, and Tribal Governments.
Total Estimated Number of Annual Responses: 420.
Total Estimated Number of Annual Burden Hours: 16,695.
Abstract: Each year since 1982, the U.S. Department of Educations National Blue Ribbon Schools Program has sought out and celebrated great American schools; schools that are demonstrating that all students can achieve to high levels. The purpose of the Program is to honor public and private elementary, middle and high schools based on their overall academic excellence or their progress in closing achievement gaps among different groups of students. The Program is part of a larger U.S. Department of Education
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effort to identify and disseminate knowledge about best school leadership and teaching practices.
Dated: February 24, 2021.
Stephanie Valentine, PRA Coordinator, Strategic Collections and Clearance, Governance and Strategy Division, Office of Chief Data Officer, Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development.
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Applications for New Awards;
Research Networks Focused on Critical Problems of Education Policy and Practice, and the Transformative Research in the Education Sciences Grant Programs; Reopening Institute of Education Sciences, Department of Education.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:

On November 20, 2020, we published in the Federal Register a notice inviting applications NIA for the fiscal year FY 2021 Research Networks Focused on Critical Problems of Education Policy and Practice and the Transformative Research in the Education Sciences Grant Programs competitions, Assistance Listing Numbers 84.305N and 84.305T. The NIA established a deadline date of February 25, 2021, for the transmittal of applications. For certain potential eligible applicants described elsewhere in this notice, we are reopening these competitions until March 11, 2021.
DATES: Deadline for Transmittal of Applications for Applicants Meeting the Eligibility Criteria in this Notice: March 11, 2021.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For the Research Networks Focused on Critical Problems of Education Policy and Practice competition 84.305N:
Meredith Larson. Telephone: 202 245
7037. Email: Meredith.Larson@ed.gov.
For the Transformative Research in the Education Sciences competition 84.305T: Erin Higgins. Telephone:
202 7068509. Email: Erin.Higgins@
ed.gov.
If you use a telecommunications device for the deaf TDD or a text telephone TTY, call the Federal Relay Service FRS, toll free, at 1800877
8339.
SUMMARY:

On November 20, 2020, we published in the Federal Register 85 FR 74328 an NIA
for the FY 2021 Research Networks Focused on Critical Problems of
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Education Policy and Practice and the Transformative Research in the Education Sciences Grant Programs. The application deadline in the NIA was February 25, 2021. We are reopening these competitions for potential applicants that meet the eligibility criteria set out below and applicants that do not meet that eligibility criteria but have planned subawardees and contractors identified in their application that meet that criteria. The eligibility criteria are as follows:
Eligibility: The reopening of the competitions in this notice applies to eligible applicants under Research Networks Focused on Critical Problems of Education Policy and Practice and the Transformative Research in the Education Sciences Grant Programs, Assistance Listing Numbers 84.305N
and 84.305T, that are located in an area for which the President has issued an emergency declaration see www.fema.gov/disasters/, in Louisiana FEMA Disaster designation 3556, in Oklahoma FEMA Disaster designation 3555, and Texas FEMA Disaster designation 3554.
The reopening of these competitions also applies to applicants that are not located in one of these areas but have planned subawardees and contractors identified in their application that are located in one of these areas.
Note: All information in the NIA for this competition remains the same, except for the deadline for the transmittal of applications for these three States.
Applicants that have already timely submitted applications under the FY
2021 Networks Focused on Critical Problems of Education Policy and Practice and the Transformative Research in the Education Sciences Grant Programs competitions may resubmit applications but are not required to do so. If a new application is not submitted, the Department will use the application that was submitted by the original deadline. If a new application is submitted, the Department will consider the application that is last submitted and timely received. Applications that did not meet the original deadline must be resubmitted to be considered for review.
Program Authority: 20 U.S.C. 9501 et seq.
Accessible Format: On request to one of the program contact persons listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
CONTACT, individuals with disabilities can obtain this document and a copy of the application package in an accessible format. The Department will provide the requestor with an accessible format that may include Rich Text Format RTF or
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