Sunshine Act Meetings
| Published date | 04 October 2021 |
| Citation | 86 FR 54685 |
| Record Number | 2021-21691 |
| Section | Notices |
| Court | Election Assistance Commission |
54685
Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 189 / Monday, October 4, 2021 / Notices
Abstract: The Promise Neighborhoods
program aims to build on existing
community services and strengths to
provide a comprehensive and
coordinated pipeline of educational and
developmental services from ‘‘cradle to
career’’ to benefit children and families
in the country’s most distressed
neighborhoods. Congress has invested
$506 million in Promise Neighborhoods
grants and mandated an evaluation of
the program.
This package requests approval to
conduct a survey of Promise
Neighborhoods grantees and to collect
multiple years of administrative school
records from districts. These data will
be used to study the implementation
and outcomes of the Promise
Neighborhoods program.
Dated: September 28, 2021
Juliana Pearson,
PRA Coordinator, Strategic Collections and
Clearance Governance and Strategy Division,
Office of Chief Data Officer, Office of
Planning, Evaluation and Policy
Development.
[FR Doc. 2021–21499 Filed 10–1–21; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4000–01–P
ELECTION ASSISTANCE COMMISSION
Sunshine Act Meetings
AGENCY
: U.S. Election Assistance
Commission.
ACTION
: Sunshine Act notice; notice of
public meeting agenda
SUMMARY
: Public Meeting: U.S. Election
Assistance Commission Technical
Guidelines Development Committee.
DATES
: October 13, 2021 1:00 p.m.–4:00
p.m. Eastern.
ADDRESSES
:
Virtual via Zoom:
The meeting is open to the public and
will be livestreamed on the U.S.
Election Assistance Commission
YouTube Channel: https://
www.youtube.com/channel/
UCpN6i0g2rlF4ITWhwvBwwZw.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT
:
Jonathon Panek, Telephone: (202) 805–
4613, Email: jpanek@eac.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION
:
Purpose: In accordance with the
Government in the Sunshine Act
(Sunshine Act), Public Law 94–409, as
amended (5 U.S.C. 552b), the U.S.
Election Assistance Commission (EAC)
will conduct a virtual meeting of the
EAC Technical Guidelines Development
Committee (TGDC) to assist the
Executive Director of the Commission in
the development of the Voluntary
Voting System Guidelines (VVSG), with
technical support provided from the
National Institute of Standards and
Technology (NIST), including
intramural research and development in
areas to support the development of the
voluntary voting system guidelines,
pursuant to Title 1, Part 3, Section 221
of the Help America Vote Act (HAVA).
Agenda: The EAC and TGDC
members will hold a virtual meeting to
discuss a few specific topics related to
implementation of the VVSG 2.0
standard; the VVSG Lifecycle policy and
a process to evaluate and approve
protocols for End-to-End (E2E) verifiable
voting systems. The agenda also
includes an overview of items beyond
VVSG such as the e-pollbook pilot
program, election support technology,
and voter registration infrastructure.
There will also be an update on
promoting access to voting and the
status and timeline on executive order
14019 from NIST.
Background: On February 10th, 2021
the EAC Commissioners unanimously
voted to adopt VVSG 2.0. This vote
represents the official approval of years
of work by EAC staff in conjunction
with the NIST, the EAC’s advisory
boards, VVSG working groups, and
input from the public on the content in
the latest iteration of the VVSG.
To help facilitate migration to the new
VVSG 2.0 standard, the EAC is currently
drafting a VVSG Lifecycle policy. This
policy will provide guidance on
deprecation of obsolete VVSG
standards, establishing a periodic
review and update timeline for new
standards going forward, and versioning
of future standards. The EAC will be
requesting feedback from the TGDC on
the parameters of the policy.
The EAC and NIST are working in
collaboration to establish a process to
evaluate and approve protocols for End-
to-End (E2E) verifiable voting systems.
This is a key element in conformance to
VVSG 2.0 requirements for software
independence. Currently, few examples
of this type of protocol exist. Guidance
on establishing this process will be
discussed.
The EAC will discuss recent work on
developing standards for an e-pollbook
evaluation pilot program and will
request feedback on the feasibility of
similar efforts for other types of election
support technology.
NIST will present on election
infrastructure work for voter registration
cyber security framework profiles.
Finally, NIST will give a presentation
on the status of their response to the
Executive Order on Promoting Access to
Voting, Section 7: Ensuring Equal
Access for Voters with Disabilities.
The full agenda will be posted in
advance on the EAC website: https://
www.eac.gov.
Status: This meeting will be open to
the public.
Nichelle Williams,
Director of Research, U.S. Election Assistance
Commission.
[FR Doc. 2021–21691 Filed 9–30–21; 4:15 pm]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
[Docket No. OR21–11–000]
Fundare Resources Operating
Company, LLC; Notice of Request for
Temporary Waiver
Take notice that on September 23,
2021, Fundare Resources Operating
Company, LLC filed a petition seeking
a temporary waiver of the tariff filing
and reporting requirements of sections 6
and 20 of the Interstate Commerce Act
and parts 341 and 357 of the Federal
Energy Regulatory Commission’s
regulations (Commission), all as more
fully explained in the petition.
Any person desiring to intervene or to
protest this filing must file in
accordance with Rules 211 and 214 of
the Commission’s Rules of Practice and
Procedure (18 CFR 385.211 and
385.214). Protests will be considered by
the Commission in determining the
appropriate action to be taken, but will
not serve to make protestants parties to
the proceeding. Any person wishing to
become a party must file a notice of
intervention or motion to intervene, as
appropriate. Such notices, motions, or
protests must be filed on or before the
comment date. Anyone filing a motion
to intervene or protest must serve a copy
of that document on the Petitioner.
In addition to publishing the full text
of this document in the Federal
Register, the Commission provides all
interested persons an opportunity to
view and/or print the contents of this
document via the internet through the
Commission’s Home Page (http://
ferc.gov) using the ‘‘eLibrary’’ link.
Enter the docket number excluding the
last three digits in the docket number
field to access the document. At this
time, the Commission has suspended
access to the Commission’s Public
Reference Room, due to the
proclamation declaring a National
Emergency concerning the Novel
Coronavirus Disease (COVID–19), issued
by the President on March 13, 2020. For
assistance, contact FERC at
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