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DEPARTMENT OF STATE

DEPARTMENT OF STATE
[Delegation of Authority No. 320]

[Delegation of Authority No. 321]

Re-Delegation From the Deputy
Secretary of State of Certain
Authorities Vested in the Under
Secretary for Public Diplomacy and
Public Affairs

Re-Delegation From the Deputy
Secretary of State of Certain
Authorities Vested in the Under
Secretary for Arms Control and
International Security
By virtue of the authority vested in
the Secretary of State by the laws of the
United States, including the Foreign
Assistance Act of 1961, the Arms Export
Control Act, the Foreign Affairs Reform
and Restructuring Act of 1998, and
Section 1 of the State Department Basic
Authorities Act (22 U.S.C. 2651a), and
delegated to me by Delegation of
Authority 245, dated April 23, 2001, I
hereby delegate to Stephen D. Mull of
the Office of the Under Secretary for
Political Affairs, to the extent
authorized by law, all authorities vested
in the Under Secretary of State for Arms
Control and International Security,
including all authorities vested in the
Secretary of State that have been or may
be delegated or redelegated to that
Under Secretary.
Any authorities covered by this
delegation are also hereby delegated to
the Deputy Secretary for Management
and Resources, the Under Secretary for
Political Affairs and the Under Secretary
for Management, and may also be
exercised by the Secretary and the
Deputy Secretary. Nothing in this
delegation of authority shall be deemed
to supersede any existing delegation of
authority, which shall remain in full
force and effect during and after this
delegation.
This delegation shall become effective
at noon on January 20, 2009, and shall
expire upon the appointment and entry
upon duty of a subsequently appointed
individual to serve as Under Secretary
of State for Arms Control and
International Security.
This memorandum shall be published
in the Federal Register.
Dated: January 16, 2009.
John D. Negroponte,
Deputy Secretary of State.
[FR Doc. E9–1935 Filed 1–28–09; 8:45 am]

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By virtue of the authority vested in
the Secretary of State by the laws of the
United States, including the Mutual
Educational and Cultural Exchange Act
of 1961, the United States Information
and Educational Exchange Act of 1948,
and the State Department Basic
Authorities Act of 1956, and delegated
to me by Delegation of Authority 245,
dated April 23, 2001, I hereby delegate
to the following officials to the extent
authorized by law all authorities vested
in the Under Secretary of State for
Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs,
including all authorities vested in the
Secretary of State that have been or may
be delegated or redelegated to that
Under Secretary:
(1) To the Deputy Spokesman, Bureau
of Public Affairs, insofar as these
authorities relate to the responsibilities
of the Bureau of Public Affairs;
(2) To the Principal Deputy Assistant
Secretary of State for Educational and
Cultural Affairs, insofar as these
authorities relate to the responsibilities
of the Bureau of Educational and
Cultural Affairs, including
responsibilities with respect to the John
F. Kennedy Center for the Performing
Arts and the President’s Committee on
the Arts and the Humanities; and
(3) To the Coordinator for
International Information Programs,
insofar as these authorities relate to the
responsibilities of the Bureau of
International Information Programs,
including responsibilities with respect
to the National Endowment for
Democracy and the Broadcasting Board
of Governors.
Any authorities covered by this
delegation are also hereby delegated to
the Deputy Secretary for Management
and Resources, the Under Secretary for
Political Affairs and the Under Secretary
for Management, and may also be
exercised by the Secretary and the
Deputy Secretary. Nothing in this
delegation of authority shall be deemed
to supersede any existing delegation of
authority, which shall remain in full
force and effect during and after this
delegation.
This delegation shall become effective
at noon on January 20, 2009, and shall
expire upon the appointment and entry
upon duty of a subsequently appointed
individual to serve as Under Secretary

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of State for Public Diplomacy and
Public Affairs.
This memorandum shall be published
in the Federal Register.
Dated: January 16, 2009.
John D. Negroponte,
Deputy Secretary of State.
[FR Doc. E9–1941 Filed 1–28–09; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration
[Docket No. FMCSA–2008–0354]

Agency Information Collection
Activities; Revision of a CurrentlyApproved Information Collection
Request: COMPASS Portal Customer
Satisfaction Assessment
AGENCY: Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration (FMCSA), DOT.
ACTION: Notice and request for
comments.
SUMMARY: In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995,
FMCSA announces its plan to submit
the Information Collection Request (ICR)
described below to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for its
review and approval and invites public
comment. The collection involves the
assessment of FMCSA’s strategic
decision to integrate its Information
Technology (IT) with its business
processes using portal technology to
consolidate its systems and databases
through the FMCSA COMPASS
modernization initiative. The
information to be collected will be used
to assess the satisfaction of Federal,
State, and industry customers with the
FMCSA COMPASS Portal.
DATES: We must receive your comments
on or before March 30, 2009.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
bearing the Federal Docket Management
System (FDMS) Docket Number
FMCSA–2008–0354 using any of the
following methods:
• Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to
http://www.regulations.gov. Follow the
on-line instructions for submitting
comments.
• Mail: Docket Management Facility;
U.S. Department of Transportation, 1200
New Jersey Avenue, SE., West Building
Ground Floor, Room W12–140,
Washington, DC 20590–0001.
• Hand Delivery: West Building
Ground Floor, Room W12–140, 1200
New Jersey Avenue, SE., Washington
DC, 20590–0001 between 9 a.m. and 5

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p.m., e.t., Monday through Friday,
except Federal Holidays.
• Fax: 1–202–493–2251.
Each submission must include the
Agency name and the docket number for
this Notice. Note that DOT posts all
comments received without change to
http://www.regulations.gov, including
any personal information included in a
comment. Please see the Privacy Act
heading below.
Docket: For access to the docket to
read background documents or
comments, go to http://
www.regulations.gov at any time or
Room W12–140 on the ground level of
the West Building, 1200 New Jersey
Avenue, SE., Washington, DC, 20590–
0001 between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m.,
Monday through Friday, except Federal
holidays. The FDMS is available 24
hours each day, 365 days each year. If
you want acknowledgement that we
received your comments, please include
a self-addressed, stamped envelope or
post card or print the acknowledgement
page that appears after submitting online.
Privacy Act: Anyone may search the
electronic form of all comments
received into any of our dockets by the
name of the individual submitting the
comment (or of the person signing the
comment, if submitted on behalf of an
association, business, labor union, etc.).
You may review the DOT’s complete
Privacy Act Statement in the Federal
Register on April 11, 2000 (65 FR
19476). This information is also
available at http://docketsinfo.dot.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr.
Adam Schlicht, Department of
Transportation, Federal Motor Carrier
Safety Administration, West Building
6th Floor, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE.,
Washington, DC 20590. Telephone:
202–366–4441; e-mail:
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

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Background
Title II, section 207 of the EGovernment Act of 2002 requires
Government agencies to improve the
methods by which government
information, including information on
the Internet, is organized, preserved,
and made accessible to the public. To
meet this goal, FMCSA plans to provide
a survey on the FMCSA Portal, allowing
users to assess its functionality. This
functionality includes the capability for
Federal, State, and Industry users to
access the Agency’s existing safety IT
systems with a single set of credentials
and have easy access to safety data
about the companies that do business
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will also focus on improving the
accuracy of data to help ensure
information, such as carrier name and
address, is valid and reliable.
FMCSA’s legacy information systems
are currently operational. However,
having this many stand-alone systems
has led to data quality concerns, a need
for excessive IDs and passwords, and
significant operational and maintenance
costs. Integrating our information
technologies with our business
processes will, in turn, improve our
operations considerably, particularly in
terms of data quality, ease of use, and
reduction of maintenance costs.
In early 2007, FMCSA’ COMPASS
program launched a series of releases of
a new FMCSA Portal to its Federal,
State and Industry customers. Over the
coming years, more than 15 releases are
planned. These releases will use portal
technology to fuse and provide
numerous services and functions via a
single user interface and provide
tailored services that seek to meet the
needs of specific constituencies within
our customer universe.
The FMCSA COMPASS Portal will
entail considerable expenditure of
Federal Government dollars over the
years and will fundamentally impact the
nature of the relationship between the
Agency and its Federal, State, and
Industry customers. Consequently, the
Agency intends to conduct regular and
ongoing assessments of customer
satisfaction with COMPASS.
The primary purposes of this
assessment are to:
• Determine the extent to which the
FMCSA Portal functionality continues
to meet the needs of Agency customers;
• Identify and prioritize additional
modifications;
• Determine the extent that the
FMCSA Portal has impacted FMCSA’s
relationships with its main customer
groups.
The assessment will address:
• Overall customer satisfaction;
• Customer satisfaction against
specific items;
• Performance of systems integrator
against agreed objectives;
• Desired adjustments and
modifications to systems;
• Demonstrated value of investment
to FMCSA and DOT;
• Items about the FMCSA Portal that
customers like best;
• Customer ideas for making the
FMCSA Portal better.
Title: COMPASS Portal Customer
Satisfaction Assessment.
OMB Control Number: 2126–0042.
Type of Request: Revision of the
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Respondents: Federal, State, and
Industry customers/users.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
100,422.
Estimated Time per Response: Five (5)
minutes.
Expiration Date: 08/31/2009.
Frequency of Response: 4 times per
year.
Estimated Total Annual Burden:
34,474 hours [(5 minutes to complete
survey x 4 times per year = 20 minutes/
60 minutes x 140,000 annual industry
respondents x .70 (70%) response rate =
32,667) + (5 minutes to complete survey
x 4 times per year = 20 minutes/60
minutes x 2,691 State government users
x .90 (90%) response rate) = 807 burden
hours].
Public Comments Invited: You are
asked to comment on any aspect of this
information collection, including: (1)
Whether the proposed collection is
necessary for FMCSA’s performance
including its utility in fostering
assessment of the Portal; (2) the
accuracy of the estimated burden; (3)
ways for the FMCSA to enhance the
quality, usefulness, and clarity of the
collected information; and (4) ways that
the burden could be minimized without
reducing the quality of the collected
information. The Agency will
summarize and/or include your
comments in the request for OMB’s
clearance of this information collection
request.
Issued on: January 12, 2009.
Terry Shelton,
Associate Administrator for Research and
Information Technology.
[FR Doc. E9–1870 Filed 1–28–09; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
Submission for OMB Review;
Comment Request
January 22, 2009.

The Department of Treasury will
submit the following public information
collection requirement(s) to OMB for
review and clearance under the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995,
Public Law 104–13 after the date of
publication of this notice. Copies of the
submission(s) may be obtained by
calling the Treasury Bureau Clearance
Officer listed. Comments regarding this
information collection should be
addressed to the OMB reviewer listed
and to the Treasury Department
Clearance Officer, Department of the
Treasury, Room 11020, 1750
Pennsylvania Avenue, NW.,
Washington, DC 20220.

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