[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 175 (Thursday, September 10, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 54517-54518]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-22812]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request
The Department of Commerce will submit to the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) for clearance the following proposal for collection of
information under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act (44
U.S.C. chapter 35).
Agency: U.S. Census Bureau.
Title: School District Review Program.
OMB Control Number: 0607-XXXX.
Form Number(s): N/A.
Type of Request: Regular Submission.
Number of Respondents: 102.
Average Hours per Response: 20.
Burden Hours: 2040.
Needs and Uses: The mission of the Geography Division (GEO) within
the U.S. Census Bureau is to plan, coordinate, and administer all
geographic and cartographic activities needed to facilitate Census
Bureau statistical programs throughout the United States and its
territories. GEO manages programs that continuously update features,
boundaries, addresses, and geographic entities in the Master Address
File/Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing (MAF/
TIGER) System. The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)
sponsors the School District Review Program, which enables the Census
Bureau to create special tabulations of Decennial Census data by school
district geography. The demographic data produced by the Census Bureau
for the NCES and related to each school district is of vital importance
for each state's allocation under Title I of the Elementary and
Secondary Education Act as amended by the No Child Left Behind Act of
2001. The NCES identifies a Title I Coordinator, and the Census Bureau
works with the NCES on assigning a Mapping Coordinator in each state to
work with the Census Bureau to implement this work. The respondents for
the SDRP are the Title I Coordinators and Mapping Coordinators from the
fifty states and the District of Columbia. The SDRP invites respondent
participation in two phases of the program: Annotation and
Verification. As part of the 2015-2016 SDRP Annotation phase, the
Mapping Coordinator in each state will receive a variety of materials
from the Census Bureau to use in their review and update of school
district boundaries, names, codes and geographic relationships. The
Mapping Coordinators will use the Census Bureau's MAF/TIGER Partnership
Software (MTPS) and Census supplied spatial data in digital shapefile
format to identify boundary changes for their school districts. As part
of the Verification phase of the SDRP, Mapping Coordinators will have
the opportunity to either use the MTPS with Census Bureau supplied
Verification shapefiles, or the Census Crowdsourcing Tool (CCT) to
review and verify that the Census Bureau correctly captured their
submitted information. If a respondent finds cases where the Census
Bureau did not incorporate their proposed submissions correctly, the
respondent can tag and comment the area of issue and that information
will become available to the Census Bureau for corrections. The Census
Bureau conducts the SDRP every two years under agreement from the NCES
of the U.S. Department of Education (ED). The Census Bureau invites
state education officials to participate in the review and update of
its national inventory of school district boundaries and district
information. State education officials collaborate with local
superintendents on their responses. The participants review and provide
updates and corrections to the elementary, secondary, and unified
school district names and Federal Local Education Agency (LEA)
identification numbers, school district boundaries, and the grade
ranges for which a school district is financially responsible. The
participants submit updated digital spatial files back to the Census
Bureau. The Census Bureau uses the updated school district information
along with the most current Census population and income data, current
population estimates, and tabulations of
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administrative records data, to form the Census Bureau's estimates of
the number of children aged five through seventeen in low-income
families for each school district. These estimates of the number of
children in low-income families residing within each school district
are the basis of the funding allocation for each school district under
Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act as amended by the
No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, Public Law (Pub. L.) 107-110.
Affected Public: All fifty states and the District of Columbia.
Frequency: Annually.
Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
Legal Authority: Title 13 U.S.C. Section 16, 141, and 193. Title I,
Part A of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.
This information collection request may be viewed at
www.reginfo.gov. Follow the instructions to view Department of Commerce
collections currently under review by OMB.
Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information
collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of this notice
to [email protected] or fax to (202) 395-5806.
Dated: September 4, 2015.
Glenna Mickelson,
Management Analyst, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2015-22812 Filed 9-9-15; 8:45 am]
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