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employer(s), and their career and
educational paths with current and
returned Peace Corps Volunteers. These
individuals voluntarily provide this
information in assisting with
employment re-entry for Returned Peace
Corps Volunteers. This is a service
outreach part of transitioning from the
Peace Corps to the business world. The
individuals who provide the
information are offering to assist,
mentor or network for jobs.
3. OMB Control Number: 0420–0533.
Old Title: Peace Corps Crisis Corps
Application Form.
New Title: Peace Corps Response
Application Form.
Type of Review: Extension, with
change, of a currently approved
information collection. A section was
added to address specific qualifications
for which the applicant is applying:
‘‘Please explain how your skills and
experience will lead to the overall
success of this project.’’
Respondents Obligation to Reply:
Voluntary.
Burden to the Public:
a. Estimated annual number of
respondents: 1000.
b. Estimated average time to respond:
7 minutes.
c. Estimated total annual burden
hours: 117 hours.
d. Frequency of response: One time.
e. Estimated cost to respondents:
$0.00.
General description of collection:
Returned Volunteer Services needs this
information to update contact
information for individuals who
volunteer to share information about
their career field, their past or current
employer(s), and their career and
educational paths with current and
returned Peace Corps Volunteers. These
individuals voluntarily provide this
information in assisting with
employment re-entry for Returned Peace
Corps Volunteers. This is a service
outreach part of transitioning from the
Peace Corps to the business world. The
individuals who provide the
information are offering to assist,
mentor or network for jobs.
Dated: March 3, 2011.
Earl W. Yates,
Associate Director for Management.
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OFFICE OF PERSONNEL
MANAGEMENT
Submission for OMB Review;
Comment Request for Review of a
Revised Information Collection: (OMB
Control No. 3206–0187; RI 38–31)
Office of Personnel
Management.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:

In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub.
L. 104–13, May 22, 1995), this notice
announces that the Office of Personnel
Management (OPM) has submitted to
the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) a request for review of a revised
information collection. This information
collection, ‘‘Request for Information
About Your Missing Payment’’ (OMB
Control No. 3206–0187; RI 38–31), is
sent in response to a notification by an
individual of the loss or non-receipt of
a payment from the Civil Service
Retirement and Disability Fund. This
form requests the information needed to
enable OPM to trace and/or reissue
payment. Missing payments may also be
reported to OPM by a telephone call.
Approximately 8,000 reports of
missing payments are processed each
year. Of these, we estimate that 7,800
are reports of missing checks.
Approximately 200 reports of missing
checks are reported using RI 38–31 and
7,600 are reported by telephone. A
response time of ten minutes per form
reporting a missing check is estimated;
the same amount of time is needed to
report the missing checks or electronic
funds transfer (EFT) payments using the
telephone. The annual burden for
reporting missing checks is 1,300 hours.
The remaining 200 reports relate to EFT
payments. No missing EFT payments
are reported using RI 38–31. The annual
burden for reporting missing EFT
payments is 33 hours. The total burden
is 1,333 hours.
For copies of this proposal, contact
Cyrus S. Benson on (202) 606–4808,
FAX (202) 606–0910 or via e-mail to
[email protected]. Please include
a mailing address with your request.
DATES: Comments on this proposal
should be received within 30 calendar
days from the date of this publication.
ADDRESSES: Send or deliver comments
to— Linda Bradford (Acting), Deputy
Associate Director, Retirement
Operations, Retirement Services, U.S.
Office of Personnel Management, 1900 E
Street, NW., Room 3305, Washington,
DC 20415–3500, and OPM Desk Officer,
Office of Information & Regulatory
Affairs, Office of Management and
Budget, New Executive Office Building,
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725 17th Street, NW., Room 10235,
Washington, DC 20503.
For information regarding
administrative coordination contact:
Cyrus S. Benson, Team Leader,
Publications Team, RS/RM/
Administrative Services, U.S. Office of
Personnel Management, 1900 E Street,
NW., Room 4332, Washington, DC
20415, (202) 606–4808.
U.S. Office of Personnel Management.
John Berry,
Director.
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OFFICE OF PERSONNEL
MANAGEMENT
Submission for Review: Court Orders
Affecting Retirement Benefits
U.S. Office of Personnel
Management.
ACTION: 60-Day Notice and request for
comments.
AGENCY:

The Retirement Services,
Office of Personnel Management (OPM)
offers the general public and other
Federal agencies the opportunity to
comment on an existing information
collection request (ICR) 3206–0204,
Court Orders Affecting Retirement
Benefits. As required by the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104–13,
44 U.S.C. chapter 35) as amended by the
Clinger-Cohen Act (Pub. L. 104–106),
OPM is soliciting comments for this
collection. The Office of Management
and Budget is particularly interested in
comments that:
1. Evaluate whether the proposed
collection of information is necessary
for the proper performance of functions
of the agency, including whether the
information will have practical utility;
2. 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;
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 through the
use of appropriate automated,
electronic, mechanical, or other
technological collection techniques or
other forms of information technology,
e.g., permitting electronic submissions
of responses.
DATES: Comments are encouraged and
will be accepted until May 9, 2011. This
process is conducted in accordance with
5 CFR 1320.1.
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Interested persons are
invited to submit written comments on
the proposed information collection to
U.S. Office of Personnel Management,
Linda Bradford (Acting), Deputy
Associate Director, Retirement
Operations, Retirement Services, 1900 E
Street, NW., Room 3305, Washington,
DC 20415–3500 or send via electronic
mail to [email protected].
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: A
copy of this ICR, with applicable
supporting documentation, may be
obtained by contacting the Publications
Team, Office of Personnel Management,
1900 E Street, NW., Room 4332,
Washington, DC 20415, Attention: Cyrus
S. Benson, or sent via electronic mail to
[email protected] or faxed to
(202) 606–0910.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Court
Orders Affecting Retirement Benefits, 5
CFR 838.221, 838.421, and 838.721
describe how former spouses give us
written notice of a court order requiring
us to pay benefits to the former spouse.
Specific information is needed before
OPM can make court-ordered benefit
payments.
ADDRESSES:

Analysis
Agency: Retirement Operations,
Retirement Services, Office of Personnel
Management.
Title: Court Orders Affecting
Retirement Benefits, 5 CFR 838.221,
838.421, and 838.721.
OMB Number: 3206–0204.
Frequency: On occasion.
Affected Public: Individuals or
Households.
Number of Respondents: 19,000.
Estimated Time Per Respondent: 30
minutes.
Total Burden Hours: 9,500.
U.S. Office of Personnel Management.
John Berry,
Director.
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POSTAL SERVICE
Transfer of Commercial First-Class
Mail Parcels to Competitive Product
List
Postal Service.TM
ACTION: Notice.
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AGENCY:

The Postal Service hereby
provides notice that it has filed a
request with the Postal Regulatory
Commission to transfer commercial
First-Class Mail Parcels from the Mail
Classification Schedule’s MarketDominant Product List to its
Competitive Product List.

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DATES:

March 9, 2011.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Nabeel Cheema, 202–268–7178.
On
February 24, 2011, the United States
Postal Service® filed with the Postal
Regulatory Commission a Request of the
United States Postal Service to transfer
commercial First-Class Mail Parcels
from the Mail Classification Schedule’s
Market-Dominant Product List to its
Competitive Product List, pursuant to
39 U.S.C. 3642. The transfer would take
place in two steps: First, commercial
First-Class Mail Parcels would be
removed from the market-dominant
product list; then, a new product,
provisionally titled Lightweight
Commercial Parcels, would be added to
the competitive product list.
Lightweight Commercial Parcels would
be identical to commercial First-Class
Mail Parcels, except that Lightweight
Commercial Parcels would have a
content restriction prohibiting the
inclusion of any item classified as a
‘‘letter’’ under the Private Express
Statutes. Documents pertinent to this
request are available at http://
www.prc.gov, Docket No. MC2011–22.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Neva R. Watson,
Attorney, Legislative.
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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE
COMMISSION
Proposed Collection; Comment
Request
Upon Written Request, Copies Available
From: U.S. Securities and Exchange
Commission, Office of Investor
Education and Advocacy,
Washington, DC 20549–0213.
Extension:
Rule 17a–13; SEC File No. 270–27; OMB
Control No. 3235–0035.

Notice is hereby given that, pursuant
to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
(44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), the Securities
and Exchange Commission
(‘‘Commission’’) is soliciting comments
on the collection of information
provided for in the following rule: Rule
17a–13 (17 CFR 240.17a–13) under the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (15
U.S.C. 78 et seq.). The Commission
plans to submit a request for approval
of extension of the existing collection of
information to the Office of
Management and Budget.
Rule 17a–13(b) (17 CFR 17a–13(b))
generally requires that at least once each
calendar quarter, all registered brokers
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count all securities held and account for
all other securities not in their
possession, but subject to the brokerdealer’s control or direction. Any
discrepancies between the brokerdealer’s securities count and the firm’s
records must be noted and, within seven
days, the unaccounted for difference
must be recorded in the firm’s records.
Rule 17a–13(c) (17 CFR 17a–13(c))
provides that under specified
conditions, the securities counts,
examination, and verification of the
broker-dealer’s entire list of securities
may be conducted on a cyclical basis
rather than on a certain date. Although
Rule 17a–13 does not require filing a
report with the Commission,
discrepancies between a broker-dealer’s
records and the securities counts may be
required to be reported, for example, as
a loss on Form X–17a–5 (17 CFR
248.617), which must be filed with the
Commission under Rule 17a–5 (17 CFR
17a–5). Rule 17a–13 exempts brokerdealers that limit their business to the
sale and redemption of securities of
registered investment companies and
interests or participation in an
insurance company separate account
and those who solicit accounts for
federally insured savings and loan
associations, provided that such persons
promptly transmit all funds and
securities and hold no customer funds
and securities. The Rule also does not
apply to certain broker-dealers required
to register only because they effect
transactions in securities futures
products.
The information obtained from Rule
17a–13 is used as an inventory control
device to monitor a broker-dealer’s
ability to account for all securities held,
in transfer, in transit, pledged, loaned,
borrowed, deposited, or otherwise
subject to the firm’s control or direction.
Discrepancies between the securities
counts and the broker-dealer’s records
alert the Commission and the Self
Regulatory Organizations (‘‘SROs’’) to
those firms having problems in their
back offices.
Currently, there are approximately
5,030 broker-dealers registered with the
Commission. However, given the
variability in their businesses, it is
difficult to quantify how many hours
per year each broker-dealer spends
complying with the Rule. As noted, the
Rule requires a respondent to account
for all securities in its possession. Many
respondents hold few, if any, securities;
while others hold large quantities.
Therefore, the time burden of complying
with the Rule will depend on
respondent-specific factors, including
size, number of customers, and

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