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rdna_rac/rac_meetings.html for more
information.
Place: Hilton Washington/Rockville, 1750
Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD 20852.
Time: September 14, 2011, 8:30 a.m. to
1:15 p.m.
Agenda: The NIH Recombinant DNA
Advisory Committee (RAC) will discuss
selected human gene transfer protocols,
including a study using a modified
Bifidobacterium longum for targeting of
chemotherapy for advanced cancer. The RAC
will also hear a presentation of the results of
a Phase 1/2 trial using a modified AAV1
virus that expresses the sarcoplasmic
reticulum Ca2∂–ATPase in subjects with
advanced heart failure. Please view the
meeting agenda at http://oba.od.nih.gov/
rdna_rac/rac_meetings.html for more
information.
Place: Hilton Washington/Rockville, 1750
Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD 20852.
Contact Person: Chezelle George, Office of
Biotechnology Activities, Office of Science
Policy/OD, National Institutes of Health,
6705 Rockledge Drive, Room 750, Bethesda,
MD 20892, 301–496–9838,
[email protected].
Any interested person may file written
comments with the committee by forwarding
the statement to the Contact Person listed on
this notice. The statement should include the
name, address, telephone number and when
applicable, the business or professional
affiliation of the interested person.
Information is also available on the
Institute’s/Center’s home page: http://
oba.od.nih.gov/rdna/rdna.html, where an
agenda and any additional information for
the meeting will be posted when available.
OMB’s ‘‘Mandatory Information
Requirements for Federal Assistance Program
Announcements’’ (45 FR 39592, June 11,
1980) requires a statement concerning the
official government programs contained in
the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance.
Normally NIH lists in its announcements the
number and title of affected individual
programs for the guidance of the public.
Because the guidance in this notice covers
virtually every NIH and Federal research
program in which DNA recombinant
molecule techniques could be used, it has
been determined not to be cost effective or
in the public interest to attempt to list these
programs. Such a list would likely require
several additional pages. In addition, NIH
could not be certain that every Federal
program would be included as many Federal
agencies, as well as private organizations,
both national and international, have elected
to follow the NIH Guidelines. In lieu of the
individual program listing, NIH invites
readers to direct questions to the information
address above about whether individual
programs listed in the Catalog of Federal
Domestic Assistance are affected.
(Catalogue of Federal Domestic Assistance
Program Nos. 93.14, Intramural Research
Training Award; 93.22, Clinical Research
Loan Repayment Program for Individuals
from Disadvantaged Backgrounds; 93.232,
Loan Repayment Program for Research
Generally; 93.39, Academic Research
Enhancement Award; 93.936, NIH Acquired
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Repayment Program; 93.187, Undergraduate
Scholarship Program for Individuals from
Disadvantaged Backgrounds, National
Institutes of Health, HHS)
Dated: August 22, 2011.
Jennifer S. Spaeth,
Director, Office of Federal Advisory
Committee Policy.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
National Institutes of Health
Center for Scientific Review; Amended
Notice of Meeting
Notice is hereby given of a change in
the meeting of the Instrumentation and
Systems Development Study Section,
September 22, 2011, 8 a.m. to
September 23, 2011, 5 p.m., Courtyard
by Marriott, 5520 Wisconsin Avenue,
Chevy Chase, MD, 20815 which was
published in the Federal Register on
August 11, 2011, 76 FR 49779–49780.
The meeting will be held September
21, 2011, 7 p.m. to September 23, 2011,
5 p.m. The meeting location remains the
same. The meeting is closed to the
public.
Dated: August 22, 2011.
Jennifer S. Spaeth,
Director, Office of Federal Advisory
Committee Policy.
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND
SECURITY
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Post-Award Contract
Information
AGENCY: Office of Chief Procurement
Officer, DHS.
ACTION: 60-Day notice and request for
comments; Extension without change.
SUMMARY: The Department of Homeland
Security, Office of Chief Procurement
Officer, will submit the following
Information Collection Request (ICR) to
the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) for review and clearance in
accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104–13,
44 U.S.C. Chapter 35).
DATES: Comments are encouraged and
will be accepted until October 31, 2011.
This process is conducted in accordance
with 5 CFR 1320.1.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and
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Collection Request should be forwarded
to the Office of Chief Procurement
Officer, Acquisition Policy and
Legislation Office, DHS Attn.: Camara
Francis, Department of Homeland
Security, Office of the Chief
Procurement Officer, Room 3114,
Washington, DC 20528,
[email protected], 202–447–
5904.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
Department of Homeland Security
(DHS) Components and the Office of the
Chief Procurement Officer collect
information, when necessary in
administering public contracts for
supplies and services. The information
is used to determine compliance with
contract terms placed in the contract as
authorized by the Federal Property and
Administrative Services Act (41 U.S.C.
251 et seq.) and the Federal Acquisition
Regulation (FAR) (48 CFR Chapter 1).
Source selection documentation,
Government estimate of contract price,
contract modifications, Small Business
Administration Certificate of
Competency, Justification and
approvals, determination and finding
are examples of the kinds of post-award
contract information that is collected are
identified in pertinent sections of FAR
4.803, Contents of contract files. The
complete FAR can be viewed on the
Internet at http://www.arnet.gov.
The information requested is used by
the Government’s contracting officers
and other acquisition personnel,
including technical and legal staffs to
determine contractor’s technical and
management progress and controls of
the firms holding public contracts to
determine if the firms are making
appropriate progress in work agreed to
and are otherwise performing in the
Government’s best interest. Payment of
a firm’s invoices (or non-payment) and/
or corrective action may result from
such reviews. If this information were
not collected, the Government would
jeopardize its operations by failing to
exercise its responsibility for a major
internal control in its contracts’ postaward phase. Many sources of the
requested information use automated
word processing systems, databases,
spreadsheets, project management and
other commercial software to facilitate
preparation of material to be submitted,
particularly in the submission of
periodic (e.g., monthly) reports that
describe contractor performance and
progress of work . With
Governmentwide implementation of eGovernment initiatives, it is
commonplace within many of DHS’s
Components for submissions to be
electronic.

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According to Federal Procurement
Data System-Next Generation (FPDS–
NG) the number of Post-Contract award
information has increased each year
over the past two years in annual
respondent and burden hours. This
increase is the result of a new estimate
of awards, which contributes to the
Post-Award information that is
collected. This collection was
previously approved by OMB on
January 26, 2009. This collection will be
submitted to OMB for review to request
approval to extend the collection past
the current expiration date of January
31, 2011. There are no proposed
changes to the information being
collected, instructions, frequency of the
collection or the use of the information
being collected.
The Office of Management and Budget
is particularly interested in comments
which:
1. 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;
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.

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Agency: Office of Chief Procurement
Officer, DHS.
Title: Post-Award Contract
Information.
OMB Number: 1600–0003.
Frequency: On occasion.
Affected Public: Private sector.
Number of Respondents: 8,000.
Estimated Time per Respondent: 14
hours.
Total Burden Hours: 336,000.
Dated: August 22, 2011.
Richard Spires,
Chief Information Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND
SECURITY
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Solicitation of Proposal
Information for Award of Public
Contracts
AGENCY: Office of the Chief Procurement
Officer, DHS.
ACTION: 60-Day Notice and request for
comments; Extension without change of
a currently approved collection.
SUMMARY: The Department of Homeland
Security, Office of the Chief
Procurement Officer, will submit the
following Information Collection
Request (ICR) to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
review and clearance in accordance
with the Paperwork Reduction Act of
1995 (Pub. L. 104–13, 44 U.S.C. chapter
35).
DATES: Comments are encouraged and
will be accepted until October 31, 2011.
This process is conducted in accordance
with 5 CFR 1320.1.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and
questions about this Information
Collection Request should be forwarded
to the Office of Chief Procurement
Officer, Acquisition Policy and
Legislation Office, DHS Attn.: Camara
Francis, Department of Homeland
Security, Office of the Chief
Procurement Officer, Room 3114,
Washington, DC 20528,
[email protected], 202–447–
5904.

The
Department of Homeland Security
(DHS) and the Office of the Chief
Procurement Officer (OCPO) collect
information when inviting firms to
submit bids, proposals, and offers for
public contracts for supplies and
services. The information collection is
necessary for compliance with the
Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR);
48 CFR chapter 1, the Federal Property
and Administrative Services Act
(Division C of Title 41), under the Small
Business Innovative Research (SBIR)
and Small Business Technology
Transfer (STTR) programs 15 U.S.C.
628.
For solicitations to contract made
through a variety of means, whether
conducted orally or in writing,
contracting officers normally request
information from prospective offerors
such as pricing information, delivery
schedule compliance, and whether the
offeror has the resources (both human
and financial) to accomplish
requirements. Examples of the kinds of
information collected can be found in

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13.302–1, –3, –5, subpart 13.5, subpart
14.2, subpart 15.2, subpart 6.1, and
subpart 35.
Examples where collections of
information occur in soliciting for
supplies/services include the issuance
of draft Requests for Proposal (RFP),
Requests for Information (RFI), and
Broad Agency Announcements (BAA).
The Government generally issues an
RFP using the uniform contract format
(FAR 15.204–1) with the intent of
awarding a contract to one or more
prospective offerors. The RFP can
require those interested in making an
offer to provide information in the
following areas: schedule (FAR 15.204–
2); contract clauses (FAR 15.204–3); list
of documents, exhibits and other
attachments (FAR 15.204–4) or
representations and instructions
(15.204–5).
FAR 15.201(e) authorizes agencies to
issue RFIs when an agency ‘‘does not
presently intend to award a contract, but
wants to obtain price, delivery, other
market information, or capabilities for
planning purposes’’. RFIs solicit
responses from the public. Similarly,
FAR 35.106 authorizes Federal agencies
to use BAAs to ‘‘fulfill their
requirements for scientific study and
experimentation directed toward
advancing the state-of-the-art or
increasing knowledge or understanding
rather than focusing on a specific
system or hardware solution.’’
The DHS Science and Technology
(S&T) Directorate issues BAAs soliciting
white papers and proposals from the
public. DHS S&T evaluates white papers
and proposals received from the public
in response to a DHS S&T BAA using
the evaluation criteria specified in the
BAA through a peer or scientific review
process in accordance with FAR
35.016(d). White paper evaluation
determines those research ideas that
merit submission of a full proposal and
proposal evaluation determines those
proposals that merit selection for
contract award. Unclassified white
papers and proposals are typically
collected via the DHS S&T BAA secure
Web site, while classified white papers
and proposals must be submitted via
proper classified courier or proper
classified mailing procedures as
described in the National Industrial
Security Program Operating Manual
(NSPOM).
Federal agencies with an annual
extramural research and development
(R&D) budget exceeding $100 million
are required to participate in the SBIR
Program. Similarly, Federal agencies
with an extramural R&D budget

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