Federal Register: November 3, 2009 (Volume 74, Number 211)
DOCID: fr03no09-45 FR Doc E9-26430
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Education Department
NOTICE: NOTICES
DOCID: fr03no09-45
DOCUMENT ACTION: Notice of a new system of records.
SUBJECT CATEGORY:
Privacy Act of 1974; System of Records--National Longitudinal Transition Study-2 (NLTS2)
DATES: The Department seeks comment on the new system of records described in this notice, in accordance with the requirements of the Privacy Act. We must receive your comments on the proposed routine uses for the system of records referenced in this notice on or before December 3, 2009.
The Department filed a report describing the new system of records covered by this notice with the Chair of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, the Chair of the House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and the Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget (OMB) on October 29, 2009. This system of records will become effective at the later date of(1) the expiration of the 40day period for OMB review on December 8, 2009, unless OMB waives 10 days of the 40day review period for compelling reasons shown by the Department, or (2) December 3, 2009, unless the system of records needs to be changed as a result of public comment or OMB review.
DOCUMENT SUMMARY:
In accordance with the Privacy Act of 1974, as amended (Privacy Act), the U.S. Department of Education (Department) publishes this notice of a new system of records entitled ``National Longitudinal Transition Study2 (NLTS2)'' (181323).
In 2001, the Department funded the NLTS2 to provide a national picture of the characteristics, experiences, and outcomes of secondary school students with disabilities as they complete secondary school and transition to young adulthood. NLTS2 includes the study of a sample of more than 11,000 youth from the population of 13 through 16 year olds receiving special education services in seventh grade or above in December of 2000. The sample is nationally representative of the types of disabilities, as defined by the 12 Federal special education disability categories, in this population.
SUMMARY:
Privacy Act; Systems of Records
SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION
Introduction
The Privacy Act (5 U.S.C. 552a(e)(4)) requires the Department to publish in the Federal Register this notice of a new system of records maintained by the Department. The Department's regulations implementing the Privacy Act are contained in the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) in part 5b of title 34.
The Privacy Act applies to information about an individual that is maintained in a system of records from which individually identifying information is retrieved by a unique identifier associated with each individual, such as a name or social security number. The information about each individual is called a ``record,'' and the system, whether manual or computerbased, is called a ``system of records.''
The Privacy Act requires each agency to publish a system of records notice in the Federal Register and to submit, whenever the agency publishes a new system of records or makes a significant change to an established system of records, a report to the Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, OMB. Each agency is also required to send copies of the report to the Chair of the House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and the Chair of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
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Dated: October 29, 2009.
John Q. Easton,
Director, Institute of Education Sciences.
For the reasons discussed in the preamble, the Director of the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education (Department) publishes a notice of a new system of records to read as follows:
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