Migrant Memorandum 10.25.06

MEMORANDUM

TO: Rachel Potter

OMB Education Desk Officer

SUBJECT: Revision to Currently Approved Collection: OMB No. 1810-0662

Attached for your review and clearance please find a paperwork package OMB 1810-0662-v.4. This package is a revision of a currently approved package (with an expiration date of 7/31/07).

We are submitting this revised package to reflect data burden associated with several new data collection requirements that we are proposing to mandate through new regulations. (Our draft notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) is also attached.). The package also reflects updated estimates of the continued data burden associated with existing regulations.

These new data regulatory requirements require an increased annual data burden of 511,164 hours – primarily to reflect the time associated with collecting, recording and analyzing data to determine and document the eligibility of children under the Title I, Part C Migrant Education Program (MEP). . The proposed new regulations – in proposed §200.89 -- would mandate and codify specific requirements and procedures for accurately determining and documenting MEP eligibility that were previously voluntary and only in non-regulatory guidance. As discussed at length in the preamble to the NPRM, it is necessary to issue these regulations to address quality control problems States have had within the last few years in properly identifying and documenting the eligibility of migrant children, and to ensure that only eligible migrant children are served with MEP funds.

Thank you in advance for all your assistance with reviewing and clearing this package.

If you or your colleagues have any questions/concerns about the paperwork package or the associated NPRM, please do not hesitate to contact me at 260-1394 or at james.english@ed.gov.

Sincerely,

James English

Program Analyst,

ED/Office of Migrant Education

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