[Federal Register: May 7, 2007 (Volume 72, Number 87)]
[Notices]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Proposed Information Collection Under the Paperwork Reduction
Act; Comment Request
AGENCY: Bureau of Indian Education, Interior.
ACTION: Notice of proposed renewal of information collection.
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SUMMARY: The Bureau of Indian Education (BIE), in accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act, is planning to renew the No Child Left Behind
Regulations, 25 CFR parts 36 and 47, OMB Control Number 1076-0164.
DATES: Submit comments on or before July 6, 2007 for best
consideration.
ADDRESSES: Please send comments to Mr. Thomas M. Dowd, Director, Bureau
of Indian Education, 1849 C Street, NW., Mail Stop 3609-MIB,
Washington, DC 20240, facsimile number (202) 208-3312.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. James Martin, Chief, Division of
Planning and Research, Bureau of Indian Education, 1849 C Street, NW.,
Mail Stop 3609-MIB, Washington, DC 20240, Telephone: (202) 208-6123,
Facsimile: (202) 208-3312 or by e-mail at jmartin1@bia.edu.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Public Law 107-110, the No Child Left Behind
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(NCLB) Act of January 8, 2001, requires all schools, including BIE-
funded boarding/residential schools, to ensure that all children have a
fair, equal, and significant opportunity to obtain a high-quality
education and reach, at a minimum, proficiency on challenging academic
achievement standards and assessments. In addition, the BIE is required
by NCLB to implement national standards for home-living situations in
all BIE-funded residential schools. The BIE is required to assess each
residential school and submit a plan to the Congress, Tribes and
schools which will bring all BIE-funded residential schools up to the
national standards. Information from all BIE-funded residential schools
must be collected in order to assess each school's progress in meeting
the national standards. Finally, the BIE is required to monitor
programs, gather data, and complete reports for the U.S. Department of
Education. To achieve these results, residential schools must prepare
reports, develop curriculum, prepare financial planning documents, and
establish standards to measure student progress. The BIE uses the
Annual Report to the Department of Education and three other
information collections for the BIE to collect data, measuring each
school's performance. When there is a lack of progress, the residential
schools must show that they have developed school improvement,
corrective action, or restructuring plans to address the problems of
all students. Additional information collection requirements have been
developed to implement the No Child Left Behind Act.
Request for Comments
The Bureau of Indian Education requests your comments on this
collection concerning:
(a) The necessity of this information collection for the proper
performance of the functions of the agency, including whether the
information will have practical utility;
(b) the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden (hours and
cost) of the collection of information, including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used;
(c) ways we could enhance the quality, utility and clarity of the
information to be collected; and
(d) ways we could minimize the burden of the collection of the
information on the respondents, such as through the use of automated
collection techniques or other forms of information technology.
Please note that an agency may not sponsor or request and an
individual need not respond to a collection of information unless it
has a valid OMB Control Number. It is our policy to make all comments
available to the public for review at the location listed in the
ADDRESSES section, room 3609, during the hours of 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. EST,
Monday through Friday, except legal holidays. If you wish to have your
name and/or address withheld, you must state this prominently at the
beginning of your comments. We will honor your request according to the
requirements of the law. All comments from organizations or
representatives will be available for review. We may withhold comments
from review for other reasons.
OMB Control Number: 1076-0164.
Type of Review: Renewal.
Title: No Child Left Behind Regulations, 25 CFR parts 36 and 47.
Brief Description of Collection: This collection is mandatory
according to statutory regulations, and the benefit to the respondents
is continued supplementary program funding.
Respondents: Bureau-funded schools with residential programs,
tribal governing bodies and school boards are the respondents, and
submission is mandatory.
Number of Respondents: There are 66 schools with residential
programs, of which 28 are Bureau-operated and 38 are tribally operated.
Thus, the collection of information is necessary from 38 of the 66
residential schools.
Estimated Time per Response: The range of time can vary from .02
hour to an average of 20 hours per 1 item.
Frequency of Response: Annually and sometimes daily.
Total Annual Burden to Respondents: It is estimated that 20,793
(number of responses) x 20 (hourly burden per response) = 415,860 total
annual hours of burden.
Dated: April 27, 2007.
Carl J. Artman,
Assistant Secretary--Indian Affairs.
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