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published in the Federal Register on
November 22, 2004 (69 FR 67950).

Act on December 22, 2006 (71 FR
77061)

Patricia A. Brink,
Deputy Director of Operations, Antitrust
Division.
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Patricia A. Brink,
Deputy Director of Operations, Antitrust
Division.
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Antitrust Division

Office of the Secretary

Notice Pursuant to the National
Cooperative Research and Production
Act of 1993—Tree Care Industry
Association

Submission for OMB Review:
Comment Request

Notice is hereby given that, on July
14, 2008, pursuant to Section 6(a) of the
National Cooperative Research and
Production Act of 1993, 15 U.S.C. 5
4301 et seq. (‘‘the Act’’), Tree Care
Industry Association (‘‘TCIA’’) has filed
written notifications simultaneously
with the Attorney General and the
Federal Trade Commission disclosing
additions or changes to its standards
development activities. The
notifications were filed for the purpose
of extending the Acts provisions
limiting the recovery of antitrust
plaintiffs to actual damages under
specified circumstances. Specifically,
TCIA recently finalized and adopted: (a)
ANSI A300 (Part 1)—2008 Pruning for
Tree Care Operations—Tree, Shrub, and
Other Woody Plant Management
Standard Practices (Pruning); (b) ANSI
A300 (Part 3)—2006 Supplemental
Support Systems for Tree Care
Operations—Tree, Shrub, and Other
Woody Plant Maintenance—Standard
Practices (Supplemental Support
Systems); (c) ANSI A300 (Part 4)—2008
Lightning Protection Systems for Tree
Care Operations—Tree, Shrub, and
Other Woody Plant Management—
Standard Practices (Lightning Protection
Systems); (d) Accreditation Standards
Draft 6 Version 2; (e) Green Industry
Standards Dictionary; and (f) CTSP
Policies and Procedures Draft 1 Version
2.
On September 8, 2004, TCIA filed its
original notification pursuant to Section
6(a) of the Act. The Department of
Justice published a notice in the Federal
Register pursuant to Section 6(b) of the
Act on October 4, 2004 (69 FR 59271).
The last notification was filed with
the Department on November 27, 2006.
A notice was published in the Federal
Register pursuant to Section 6(b) of the

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The Department of Labor (DOL)
hereby announces the submission of the
following public information collection
request (ICR) to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
review and approval in accordance with
the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
(Pub. L. 104–13, 44 U.S.C. chapter 35).
A copy of this ICR, with applicable
supporting documentation; including
among other things a description of the
likely respondents, proposed frequency
of response, and estimated total burden
may be obtained from the RegInfo.gov
Web site at http://www.reginfo.gov/
public/do/PRAMain or by contacting
Darrin King on 202–693–4129 (this is
not a toll-free number)/e-mail:
[email protected].
Interested parties are encouraged to
send comments to the Office of
Information and Regulatory Affairs,
Attn: OMB Desk Officer for the
Employment Standards Administration
(ESA), Office of Management and
Budget, Room 10235, Washington, DC
20503, Telephone: 202–395–7316/Fax:
202–395–6974 (these are not toll-free
numbers), E-mail:
[email protected] within
30 days from the date of this publication
in the Federal Register. In order to
ensure the appropriate consideration,
comments should reference the OMB
Control Number (see below).
The OMB is particularly interested in
comments which:
• Evaluate whether the proposed
collection of information is necessary
for the proper performance of the
functions of the agency, including
whether the information will have
practical utility;
• Evaluate the accuracy of the
agency’s estimate of the burden of the
proposed collection of information,
including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used;
• Enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and

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• Minimize the burden of the
collection of information on those who
are to respond, including through the
use of appropriate automated,
electronic, mechanical, or other
technological collection techniques or
other forms of information technology,
e.g., permitting electronic submission of
responses.
Agency: Employment Standards
Administration.
Type of Review: Extension without
change of an existing OMB Control
Number.
Title of Collection: OFCCP
Recordkeeping and Reporting
Requirements—Supply and Service.
OMB Control Number: 1215–0072.
Affected Public: Private Sector—
Business or other for-profits.
Total Estimated Number of
Respondents: 99,028.
Total Estimated Annual Burden
Hours: 10,045,984.
Total Estimated Annual Cost Burden:
$120,019.
Description: Recordkeeping and
reporting obligations incurred by
Federal contractors under Executive
Order 11246, Section 503 of the
Rehabilitation Act of 1973, and Section
4212 of the Vietnam Era Veterans’
Readjustment Assistance Act are
necessary to substantiate compliance
with nondiscrimination and affirmative
action requirements enforced by the
Office of Federal Contract Compliance
Programs. For additional information,
see related notice published at 73 FR
25032 on May 6, 2008.
Darrin A. King,
Departmental Clearance Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Employment and Training
Administration
Proposed Information Collection of the
Tax Performance System Handbook
ETA 407; Extension Without Change
Employment and Training
Administration, Department of Labor.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:

SUMMARY: The Department of Labor, as
part of its continuing effort to reduce
paperwork and respondent burden,
conducts a preclearance consultation
program to provide the general public
and Federal agencies with an
opportunity to comment on proposed
and/or continuing collections of
information in accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995

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(PRA95) (44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A)). This
program helps to ensure that requested
data can be provided in the desired
format, reporting burden (time and
financial resources) is minimized,
collection instruments are clearly
understood, and the impact of collection
requirements on respondents can be
properly assessed. Currently, the
Employment and Training
Administration (ETA) is soliciting
comments concerning the proposed
extension of the Tax Performance
System (TPS). A copy of the proposed
information collection request can be
obtained by contacting the employee
listed below in the contact section of
this notice or by accessing: http://
www.doleta.gov/OMBCN/
OMBControlNumber.cfm.
DATES: Written comments must be
submitted to the office listed in the
address below on or before October 17,
2008.
ADDRESSES: Send comments to Eve
MacDonald, U.S. Department of Labor,
Office of Workforce Security,
Employment and Training
Administration, Department of Labor,
Room S 4522, 200 Constitution Ave.,
NW., Washington, DC 20210; 202–693–
3210 (this is not a toll-free number).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

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I. Background
Since 1987, states have been required
by regulation at 20 CFR Part 602 to
operate a program to assess their
Unemployment Insurance (UI) tax and
benefit programs. TPS is designed to
assess the major internal UI tax
functions by utilizing several
methodologies: Computed Measures
which are indicators of timeliness and
completeness based on data
automatically generated via the existing
ETA 581, Contribution Operations
Report (Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) approval number 1205–
0178, expiring 10/31/2008); and
Program Reviews which assess accuracy
through a two-fold examination. This
examination involves: (a) ‘‘Systems
Reviews’’ which examine tax systems
for the existence of internal controls;
and (b) extraction of small samples of
those systems’ transactions which are
then examined to verify the
effectiveness of controls.
II. Desired Focus of Comments
Currently, the Employment and
Training Administration is soliciting
comments concerning the proposed
extension of TPS Handbook 407.
Comments are requested to:
• Evaluate whether the proposed
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for the proper performance of the
functions of the agency, including
whether the information will have
practical utility;
• Evaluate the accuracy of the
agency’s estimate of the burden of the
proposed collection of information,
including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used;
• Enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and
• Minimize the burden of the
collection of information on those who
are to respond, including through the
use of appropriate automated,
electronic, mechanical, or other
technological collection techniques or
other forms of information technology,
e.g., permitting electronic submission of
responses.
III. Current Actions
It is important that approval of the
TPS Handbook 407 be extended because
this report is the only vehicle for
collection of information on the quality
and timeliness of state UI tax
operations. If TPS Handbook 407 data
were not collected, there would be no
basis for determining and measuring
state UI tax performance and
effectiveness.
Type of Review: Extension without
change.
Agency: Employment and Training
Administration, Department of Labor.
Title: Tax Performance System
Handbook 407.
OMB Number: 1205–0332.
Agency Number: ETA Handbook 407.
Recordkeeping: Respondent is
expected to maintain data which
support the reported data for three
years.
Affected Public: State government.
Total Respondents: 52.
Frequency: Annually.
Total Responses: 52.
Average Time per Response: 1739
hours.
Estimated Total Burden Hours:
90,428.
Total Burden Cost (operating/
maintaining): $4,114,626.
Comments submitted in response to
this notice will be summarized and/or
included in the request for OMB
approval of the extension of the
information collection request; they will
also become a matter of public record.
Dated: August 6, 2008.
Cheryl Atkinson,
Administrator, Office of Workforce Security.
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NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND
SPACE ADMINISTRATION
[Notice: 08–055]

Notice of Centennial Challenges Lunar
Lander Challenge
National Aeronautics and
Space Administration (NASA).
ACTION: Notice of Centennial Challenges
Lunar Lander Challenge.
AGENCY:

SUMMARY: This notice is issued in
accordance with 42 U.S.C. 2451
(314)(d).
The Lunar Lander Challenge is now
scheduled and teams that wish to
compete may now register. The NASA
Centennial Challenges Program is a
program of prize contests to stimulate
innovation and competition in space
exploration and ongoing NASA mission
areas. The Lunar Lander Challenge is a
prize contest designed to accelerate
technology developments supporting
the commercial creation of a vehicle
capable of ferrying cargo or humans
back and forth between lunar orbit and
the lunar surface.
The Lunar Lander Challenge is being
administered for NASA by the X PRIZE
Foundation. Their Web site is: http://
www.xprize.org. The Centennial
Challenges Web site is http://
centennialchallenges.nasa.gov.
DATES: The Lunar Lander Challenge will
be held on October 24 and 25, 2008 and
will be continued on an annual basis
until all the purse money has been
awarded, or until October 2010,
whichever comes first. The first Lunar
Lander Challenge competition was held
on October 20–21, 2006.
ADDRESS: The Lunar Lander Challenge
will be held at Holloman Air Force
Base, Alamogordo, NM.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Requests for additional information
regarding the NASA Centennial
Challenges Program should be directed
to Mr. Andrew Petro, NASA
Headquarters, Suite 6J79, 300 E Street,
SW., Washington, DC 20546. To register
for and get additional information
regarding the Lunar Lander Challenge,
contact the X PRIZE Foundation,
William Pomerantz, (301) 395–5283,
[email protected] or visit the Web site at
http://space.xprize.org/ng-lunar-landerchallenge.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Summary
The purpose of the Lunar Lander
Challenge is to accelerate technology
developments supporting the
commercial creation of a vehicle
capable of ferrying cargo or humans

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