[Federal Register: June 10, 1999 (Volume 64, Number 111)]
[Notices]               
[Page 31320]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
[DOCID:fr10jn99-126]

=======================================================================
-----------------------------------------------------------------------

NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR LITERACY

 
Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

ACTION: Notice.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

    On May 28, 1999, the National Institute for Literacy (NIFL) 
published a notice requesting comments for the Office of Management and 
Budget's review of NIFL's Information Collection Request. In that 
notice, the title and abstract of the notice were inadvertently 
omitted. The correction should be inserted after DATES, as follows:
    Title: Equipped for the Future (EFF) Center for Training, Technical 
Assistance and Materials Development.
    Abstract: The National Institute For Literacy (NIFL) was created by 
the National Literacy Act of 1991 to provide a national focal point for 
literacy activities and to facilitate the pooling of ideas and 
expertise across a fragmented field. NIFL is authorized to carry out a 
wide range of activities that will improve and expand the system for 
delivery of adult literacy services nationwide.
    For the past four years, the NIFL has been working with a range of 
partners in states across the country to develop a customer-driven, 
standards-based, collaborative approach to adult literacy system 
reform. The EFF standards that have been developed through this effort 
define the critical skills and knowledge that enable adults to 
effectively carry out their responsibilities as workers, parents and 
family members, and citizens and community members. The standards have 
been developed and refined with the assistance of a broad cross section 
of literacy and basic skills programs, as well as with the advice and 
guidance of key stakeholders in the workforce development, family 
literacy, and civic participation movements in this country. By 
September of 1999 NIFL will have completed the major development work 
on the standards and will release a Users Guide designed to introduce 
key constituencies to the Standards and how they can be used for 
teaching and learning, program improvement, accountability, and system 
reform.
    The EFF Center for Training, Technical Assistance and Materials 
Development will work collaboratively and with National Institute for 
Literacy (NIFL) to assure the effective integration of EFF into on-
going adult education, family literacy, welfare-to-work, skill 
standards voluntary partnerships, and other workforce development 
systems.

    Dated: June 7, 1999.
Sharyn M. Abbott,
Executive Officer, NIFL.
[FR Doc. 99-14748 Filed 6-9-99; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 6055-01-M