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you have questions on viewing or
submitting material to the docket, call
Ms. Renee V. Wright, Program Manager,
Docket Operations, telephone 202–366–
9826.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION

Public Participation and Request for
Comments
We encourage you to respond to this
notice by submitting comments and
related materials. All comments
received will be posted, without change,
to http://www.regulations.gov and will
include any personal information you
provide. We have an agreement with the
Department of Transportation to use
their Docket Management Facility.

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Submitting Comments
If you submit a comment, please
include the docket number for this
notice (USCG–2008–0521), indicate the
specific section of this document to
which each comment applies, and give
the reason for each comment. We
recommend that you include your name
and a mailing address, an e-mail
address, or a phone number in the body
of your document so that we can contact
you if we have questions regarding your
submission. You may submit your
comments and material by electronic
means, mail, fax, or delivery to the
Docket Management Facility at the
address under ADDRESSES; but please
submit your comments and material by
only one means. If you submit them by
mail or delivery, submit them in an
unbound format, no larger than 81⁄2 by
11 inches, suitable for copying and
electronic filing. If you submit them by
mail and would like to know that they
reached the Facility, please enclose a
stamped, self-addressed postcard or
envelope. We will consider all
comments and material received during
the comment period. We may change
this 5-year exercise schedule, as well as
other elements of the PREP, in light of
your comments.
Viewing Comments and Documents
To view comments, as well as
documents mentioned in this preamble
as being available in the docket, go to
http://www.regulations.gov at any time.
Enter the docket number for this notice
(USCG–2008–0521) in the Search box,
and click ‘‘Go>>.’’ If you do not have
access to the Internet, you may view the
docket online by visiting the Docket
Management Facility in Room W12–140
on the ground floor of the Department
of Transportation West Building, 1200
New Jersey Avenue, SE., Washington,
DC 20590, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m.,
Monday through Friday, except Federal
holidays.

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Privacy Act
Anyone can search the electronic
form of all comments received into any
of our dockets by the name of the
individual submitting the comment (or
signing the comment, if submitted on
behalf of an association, business, labor
union, etc.). You may review a Privacy
Act, system of records notice regarding
our public dockets in the January 17,
2008 issue of the Federal Register (73
FR 3316).
Background and Purpose
In 1994, the United States Coast
Guard (USCG), the Research and Special
Programs Administration (RSPA) of the
Department of Transportation, the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA), and the Minerals Management
Service (MMS) of the Department of the
Interior, coordinated the development of
the National Preparedness for Response
Exercise Program (PREP) Guidelines to
ensure compliance with the Oil
Pollution Act of 1990 (OPA 90)
pollution response exercise
requirements (33 U.S.C. 1321(j)). The
guiding principles of PREP distinguish
between internal and external exercises.
Internal exercises are conducted within
the planholder’s organization. External
exercises extend beyond the
planholder’s organization to involve
other members of the response
community. External exercises are
separated into two categories: Area
exercises, and Government-initiated,
unannounced exercises. External
exercises are designed to evaluate the
entire pollution response mechanism in
a given geographic Area to ensure
adequate response preparedness.
Area exercises involve the entire
response community including Federal,
State, local, tribal, and non-government
organizations, and industry participants;
therefore, these Area exercises require
more extensive planning than other oil
spill response exercises. The PREP
Guidelines describe all of these
exercises in more detail.
A National Schedule Coordination
Committee (NSCC) was established for
scheduling Area exercises. The NSCC is
comprised of personnel representing the
four Federal regulating agencies—the
USCG, EPA, MMS, and the Pipeline and
Hazardous Materials Safety
Administration’s (PHMSA) Office of
Pipeline Safety (OPS). Since 1994, the
NSCC published a triennial schedule of
Area exercises. Starting in 2008, NSCC
will publish a schedule of Area
exercises every 5 years.
Source for PREP Documents
The PREP Area exercise schedule and
exercise design manuals are available on

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the Internet at http://homeport.uscg.mil/
exercises. To obtain a hard copy of the
exercise design manual, contact Ms.
Melanie Barber at PHMSA, Office of
Pipeline Safety at 202–366–4560.
PREP Schedule
This notice announces the next 5-year
schedule of the Area exercises. The
PREP schedule for calendar years 2009
through 2013 for Government-led and
Industry-led Area exercises is available
on the Internet in the docket for this
notice at http://www.regulations.gov
and at http://homeport.uscg.mil/
exercises under Port Level Exercises.
Any revisions to the schedule will
appear on the http://homeport.uscg.mil
Web site. We have include a table listing
the dates and Federal Register cites of
past PREP exercise notices in our online
docket for those who wish to compare
this 2009–2013 schedule with past
schedules.
If a company wants to volunteer for
an Area exercise, a company
representative may call either the Coast
Guard or EPA on-scene coordinator for
times and locations. If you have
concerns or recommended
improvements to the Government-led
PREP exercises, please submit those
using the procedures described under
the ADDRESSES section of this notice.
Dated: July 24, 2008.
Joseph R. Castillo,
Rear Admiral, U.S. Coast Guard, Director of
Response Policy.
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND
SECURITY
Transportation Security Administration
New Agency Information Collection
Activity Under OMB Review: Critical
Facility Information of the Top 100
Most Critical Pipelines
Transportation Security
Administration, DHS.
ACTION: 30-day Notice.
AGENCY:

SUMMARY: This notice announces that
the Transportation Security
Administration (TSA) has forwarded the
new Information Collection Request
(ICR) abstracted below to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
review and approval under the
Paperwork Reduction Act. The ICR
describes the nature of the information
collection and its expected burden. TSA
published a Federal Register notice,
with a 60-day comment period soliciting
comments, of the following collection of

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information on April 16, 2008, 73 FR
20700. This collection provides TSA
critical facility and annual product
through-put information from owners/
operators of the nation’s largest
pipelines, and is necessitated by the
requirements set forth in the
Implementing the Recommendations of
the 9/11 Commission Act of 2007.
Send your comments by
September 3, 2008. A comment to OMB
is most effective if OMB receives it
within 30 days of publication.

DATES:

Interested persons are
invited to submit written comments on
the proposed information collection to
the Office of Information and Regulatory
Affairs, Office of Management and
Budget. Comments should be addressed
to Desk Officer, Department of
Homeland Security/TSA, and sent via
electronic mail to
[email protected] or faxed
to (202) 395–6974.

ADDRESSES:

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Joanna Johnson, Communications
Branch, Business Management Office,
Operational Process and Technology,
TSA–32, Transportation Security
Administration, 601 South 12th Street,
Arlington, VA 22202–4220; telephone
(571) 227–3651; facsimile (703) 603–
0822.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

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Comments Invited
In accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501
et seq.), an agency may not conduct or
sponsor, and a person is not required to
respond to, a collection of information
unless it displays a valid OMB control
number. The ICR documentation is
available at www.reginfo.gov. Therefore,
in preparation for OMB review and
approval of the following information
collection, TSA is soliciting comments
to—
(1) Evaluate whether the proposed
information requirement is necessary for
the proper performance of the functions
of the agency, including whether the
information will have practical utility;
(2) Evaluate the accuracy of the
agency’s estimate of the burden;
(3) Enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and
(4) Minimize the burden of the
collection of information on those who
are to respond, including using
appropriate automated, electronic,
mechanical, or other technological
collection techniques or other forms of
information technology.

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Information Collection Requirement
Title: Critical Facility Information of
the Top 100 Most Critical Pipelines.
Type of Request: New collection.
OMB Control Number: Not yet
assigned.
Form(s): NA.
Affected Public: Pipeline Companies.
Abstract: Sec. 1557(b) of the
Implementing Recommendations of the
9/11 Commission Act of 2007 (Pub. L.
110–53, 121 Stat. 266, 475, 08/03/2007)
(9/11 Act), specifically tasks TSA to
develop and implement a plan for
inspecting critical facilities at the 100
most critical pipeline systems. To meet
the 9/11 Act’s requirement, TSA will
request a report of annual product
through-put and a listing of critical
facilities from the top 125 pipeline
systems in terms of annual through-put,
as reported in pipeline trade journals
and other sources.
TSA uses system annual through-put
as a primary factor in determining
pipeline system criticality. This figure is
based on the amount of hazardous
liquid or natural gas product
transported through a pipeline in one
year (i.e., annual through-put). TSA will
request the information from the top 125
pipeline systems in terms of annual
through-put, and out of these, TSA will
make a determination of the top 100
most critical pipeline systems. The
request for information will be
transmitted by TSA via e-mail to the 125
respondents. TSA will ask the
respondents to provide the information
to TSA via e-mail. To the extent the
information transmitted is Sensitive
Security Information; TSA will
safeguard the information in accordance
with 49 CFR parts 15 and 1520. TSA
will use the information to develop and
implement a plan for inspecting critical
facilities at the 100 most critical
pipeline systems.
Number of Respondents: 125.
Estimated Annual Burden Hours: An
estimated 500 hours annually.
Issued in Arlington, Virginia, on July 29,
2008.
Kriste Jordan,
Program Manager, Business Improvements
and Communications, Office of Information
Technology.
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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND
URBAN DEVELOPMENT
[Docket No. FR–5187–N–49]

Notice of Proposed Information
Collection: Comment Request;
Customer Satisfaction Surveys
Office of the Chief Information
Officer, HUD.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:

SUMMARY: The proposed information
collection requirement described below
will be submitted to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
review, as required by the Paperwork
Reduction Act. The Department is
soliciting public comments on the
subject proposal.
Executive Order 12862, ‘‘Setting
Customer Service Standards ‘‘requires
that Federal agencies provide the
highest quality service to our customers
by identifying them and determining
what they think about our services. The
surveys covered in the request for a
generic clearance will provide HUD a
means to gather this data directly from
our customers. HUD will conduct
various customer satisfaction surveys to
gather feedback and data directly from
our customers to determine the kind
and quality of services and products
they want and expect to receive.
DATES: Comments due: October 3, 2008.
ADDRESSES: Interested persons are
invited to submit comments regarding
this proposal. Comments should refer to
the proposal by name and/or OMB
Control Number (2535–0116) and
should be sent to: HUD Desk Officer,
Office of Management and Budget, New
Executive Office Building, Washington,
DC 20503; 202–395–6974.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Lillian L. Deitzer, Departmental Reports
Management Officer, QDAM,
Department or Housing and Urban
Development, 451 Seventh Street, SW.,
Room 4176, Washington, DC 20410;
telephone: 202–708–2374, (this is not a
toll-free number) or e-mail Ms. Deitzer
at [email protected] for a
copy of the proposed form and other
available information.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
Department will submit the proposed
information collection to OMB for
review, as required by the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C.
Chapter 35, as amended).
This Notice is soliciting comments
from members of the public and
affecting agencies concerning the
proposed collection of information to:
(1) Evaluate whether the proposed
collection of information is necessary

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