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individuals with disabilities, private
and public sector employers, and
information technology professionals
and developers.
• Conducting trainings/webinars on
issues related to accessible technology
in the workplace, including use of
emerging technologies to facilitate
employment and creating accessible
human resource management systems
(e.g., accessible online job application
portals).
• Collecting, analyzing and
publicizing exemplary practices related
to accessible technology in the
workplace through collaboration with
public and private sector employers.
• Conducting outreach and
establishing and maintaining strategic
partnerships and effective working
collaborations with outside entities with
the goal of sharing knowledge and
promoting the adoption and
implementation of policies and effective
practices related to accessible
technology in the workplace.
Funding of $950,000 will be awarded
through a competitive process for a 12month period of performance, with the
possibility of up to four (4) option years
of funding depending on the availability
of funds and satisfactory performance.
This solicitation provides background
information, describes the application
submission requirements, outlines the
process that eligible entities must use to
apply for funds covered by this
solicitation, and outlines the evaluation
criteria used as a basis for selecting the
grantee.
The full Solicitation for Grant
Applications is posted on http://
www.grants.gov under U.S. Department
of Labor/ODEP. Applications submitted
through http://www.grants.gov or hard
copy will be accepted. If you need to
speak to a person concerning these
grants, you may telephone Cassandra
Mitchell at 202–693–4570 (not a tollfree number). If you have issues
regarding access to the http://
www.grants.gov Web site, you may
telephone the Contact Center Phone at
1–800–518–4726.
Signed in Washington, DC, this 2nd day of
August 2012.
Cassandra R. Mitchell,
Grant Officer.
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NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
Notice of Permit Application Received
Under the Antarctic Conservation Act
of 1978
AGENCY:

National Science Foundation.

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Notice of Permit Applications
Received Under the Antarctic
Conservation Act.

NUCLEAR REGULATORY
COMMISSION

Notice is hereby given that
the National Science Foundation (NSF)
has received a waste management
permit application for Dr. Harry
Anderson to conduct a flight from Punta
Arenas, Chile to the Chilean base
Lieutenant Rodolfo Marsh Martin
Aerodrome airport on King George
Island where he will land, refuel, and
take off for return to Punta Arenas. The
application by Dr. Harry Anderson of
Bainbridge Island, WA is submitted to
NSF pursuant to regulations issued
under the Antarctic Conservation Act of
1978.

Agency Information Collection
Activities: Submission for the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB)
Review; Comment Request

ACTION:

SUMMARY:

Interested parties are invited to
submit written data, comments, or
views with respect to this permit
application within September 7, 2012.
Permit applications may be inspected by
interested parties at the Permit Office,
address below.

DATES:

Comments should be
addressed to Permit Office, Room 755,
Office of Polar Programs, National
Science Foundation, 4201 Wilson
Boulevard, Arlington, Virginia 22230.

ADDRESSES:

Dr.
Polly A. Penhale at the above address or
(703) 292–8030.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

NSF’s
Antarctic Waste Regulation, 45 CFR part
671, requires all U.S. citizens and
entities to obtain a permit for the use or
release of a designated pollutant in
Antarctica, and for the release of waste
in Antarctica. NSF has received a permit
application under this Regulation for
conduct of a flight of a 2001 Lancair
Columbia 300 aircraft (N788W) from
Punta Arenas, Chile to the Chilean
aerodrome on King George Island.
Activities include refueling the aircraft,
possible generation of wastes.
Designated pollutants that would be
associated with the flight are typically
air emissions and waste water (urine
and human solid waste. All wastes
would be packaged and stored on the
aircraft for proper disposal in Chile
under approved guidelines after return
of the aircraft to Punta Arenas, Chile.
The permit applicant: Harry R.
Anderson, Ph.D., Bainbridge Island,
Permit application No. 2013 WM–003.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Nadene G. Kennedy,
Permit Officer.
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Nuclear Regulatory
Commission.
ACTION: Notice of the OMB review of
information collection and solicitation
of public comment.
AGENCY:

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission (NRC) has recently
submitted to OMB for review the
following proposal for the collection of
information under the provisions of the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44
U.S.C. Chapter 35). The NRC hereby
informs potential respondents that an
agency may not conduct or sponsor, and
that a person is not required to respond
to, a collection of information unless it
displays a currently valid OMB control
number. The NRC published a Federal
Register notice with a 60-day comment
period on this information collection on
May 18, 2012 (77 FR 29697).
1. Type of submission, new, revision,
or extension: Extension.
2. The title of the information
collection: Title 10 of the Code of
Federal Regulations (10 CFR) Part 51—
Environmental Protection Regulations
for Domestic Licensing and Related
Regulatory Functions.
3. Current OMB approval number:
3150–0021.
4. The form number if applicable: N/
A.
5. How often the collection is
required: Upon submittal of an
application for a construction permit,
operating license, operating license
renewal, early site review, design
certification review, decommissioning
or termination review, or manufacturing
license, or upon submittal of a petition
for rulemaking.
6. Who will be required or asked to
report: Licensees and applicants
requesting approvals for actions
proposed in accordance with the
provisions of 10 CFR Parts 30, 32, 33,
34, 35, 36, 39, 40, 50, 52, 54, 60, 61, 70,
and 72.
7. An estimate of the number of
annual responses: 48.31.
8. The estimated number of annual
respondents: 48.31.
9. An estimate of the total number of
hours needed annually to complete the
requirement or request: 100,783.
10. Abstract: The NRC’s regulations at
10 CFR Part 51 specifies information to
be provided by applicants and licensees

SUMMARY:

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so that the NRC can make
determinations necessary to adhere to
the policies, regulations, and public
laws of the United States, which are to
be interpreted and administered in
accordance with the policies set forth in
the National Environmental Policy Act
of 1969, as amended.
The public may examine and have
copied for a fee publicly available
documents, including the final
supporting statement, at the NRC’s
Public Document Room, Room O–1F21,
One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville
Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852. OMB
clearance requests are available at the
NRC’s Web site: http://www.nrc.gov/
public-involve/doc-comment/omb/
index.html. The document will be
available on the NRC home page site for
60 days after the signature date of this
notice.
Comments and questions should be
directed to the OMB reviewer listed
below by September 7, 2012. Comments
received after this date will be
considered if it is practical to do so, but
assurance of consideration cannot be
given to comments received after this
date.
Chad Whiteman, Desk Officer, Office of
Information and Regulatory Affairs
(3150–0021), NEOB–10202, Office of
Management and Budget,
Washington, DC 20503.
Comments can also be emailed to
[email protected] or
submitted by telephone at 202–395–
4718.
The NRC Clearance Officer is
Tremaine Donnell; telephone: 301–415–
6258.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 2nd day
of August 2012.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Tremaine Donnell,
NRC Clearance Officer, Office of Information
Services.
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BlackRock Preferred Partners LLC, et
al.; Notice of Application
August 2, 2012.

Securities and Exchange
Commission (‘‘Commission’’).
ACTION: Notice of an application under
section 6(c) of the Investment Company
Act of 1940 (the ‘‘Act’’) for an
exemption from sections 18(c) and 18(i)
AGENCY:

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limited liability company. The Adviser
is registered as an investment adviser
under the Investment Advisers Act of
1940 and serves as investment adviser
SUMMARY: Summary of Application:
to the Fund. The Distributor, a brokerApplicants request an order to permit
dealer registered under the Securities
certain registered closed-end
Exchange Act of 1934, acts as principal
management investment companies to
underwriter to the Fund. The
issue multiple classes of shares and to
Distributor is under common control
impose asset-based distribution and
with the Adviser and is an affiliated
service fees and contingent deferred
person, as defined in section 2(a)(3) of
sales loads (‘‘CDSCs’’).
the Act, of the Adviser.
Applicants: BlackRock Preferred
2. The Fund continuously offers its
Partners LLC (the ‘‘Fund’’), BlackRock
limited liability company interests
Advisors, LLC (the ‘‘Adviser’’) and
(‘‘Units’’) to the public pursuant to a
BlackRock Investments, LLC (the
registration statement under the
‘‘Distributor’’).
Securities Act of 1933. The Units of the
Fund are not listed on any securities
DATES: Filing Dates: The application
exchange and are not traded on an overwas filed on September 23, 2011, and
the-counter system such as NASDAQ.
amended on June 22, 2012.
Hearing or Notification of Hearing: An Applicants do not expect that any
order granting the requested relief will
secondary market will develop for the
be issued unless the Commission orders Units.
3. The Fund currently offers an initial
a hearing. Interested persons may
class of Units (‘‘Initial Class’’) at net
request a hearing by writing to the
asset value subject to a front-end sales
Commission’s Secretary and serving
load and an ongoing asset-based
applicants with a copy of the request,
distribution fee and proposes to offer
personally or by mail. Hearing requests
multiple classes of Units. The Fund
should be received by the Commission
would offer new Unit classes (‘‘New
by 5:30 p.m. on August 27, 2012, and
Class’’) at net asset value and may also
should be accompanied by proof of
service on the applicants, in the form of charge a front-end sales load and an
an affidavit, or, for lawyers, a certificate annual service and/or distribution fee.
of service. Hearing requests should state The Fund intends to continue to offer
Initial Class Units, subject to minimum
the nature of the writer’s interest, the
purchase requirements.
reason for the request, and the issues
4. In order to provide a degree of
contested. Persons who wish to be
liquidity to members (‘‘Members’’), the
notified of a hearing may request
Fund may from time to time offer to
notification by writing to the
repurchase Units at net asset value in
Commission’s Secretary.
accordance with rule 13e–4 under the
ADDRESSES: Secretary, U.S. Securities
and Exchange Commission, 100 F Street Exchange Act of 1934 Act, as amended
(the ‘‘1934 Act’’).1 A Fund will
NE., Washington, DC 20549–1090;
repurchase
Units at the times, in the
Applicants, c/o Janey Ahn, Esq.,
amounts and on the terms as may be
BlackRock Advisors, LLC, 55 East 52nd
determined by the Board of Directors
Street, New York, New York 10055.
(‘‘Board’’) of the Fund in its sole
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
discretion. The Adviser expects to
Emerson S. Davis, Senior Counsel, at
recommend ordinarily that the Board
(202) 551–6868 or Daniele Marchesani,
authorize each Fund to offer to
Branch Chief, at (202) 551–6821
repurchase Units from Members
(Division of Investment Management,
quarterly.
Office of Investment Company
5. Applicants request that the order
Regulation).
also apply to any other continuously
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
offered registered closed-end
following is a summary of the
management investment companies
application. The complete application
existing now or in the future for which
may be obtained via the Commission’s
Web site by searching for the file
1 For the Initial Class, a 2% early repurchase fee
number, or an applicant using the
will be charged to any Member that tenders its
Units to the Fund in connection with a tender offer
Company name box, at http://
with a valuation date that is prior to the business
www.sec.gov/search/search.htm or by
day immediately preceding the one-year
calling (202) 551–8090.
anniversary of the Member’s purchase of the
of the Act and for an order pursuant to
section 17(d) of the Act and rule 17d–
1 under the Act.

Applicants’ Representations
1. The Fund is a continuously offered
non-diversified closed-end management
investment company registered under
the Act and organized as a Delaware

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respective Units. Any early repurchase fee, and the
Fund’s waiver of, scheduled variation in, or
elimination of, such early repurchase fee, will
equally apply to all Members of the Fund, within
the applicable category of Members, regardless of
class, consistent with section 18 of the Act and rule
18f–3 thereunder.

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