[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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