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CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY
COMMISSION
[Docket No. CPSC 2011–0081]

Request for Information Regarding
Third Party Testing for Lead Content,
Phthalate Content, and the Solubility of
the Eight Elements Listed in ASTM
F963–11
Correction
In notice document 2013–8858
appearing on pages 22518–22520 in the
issue of Tuesday, April 16, 2013, make
the following correction:
On page 22518, in the second column,
in the ADDRESSES section, in the second
and third lines, ‘‘CPSC 2010–0037’’
should read ‘‘CPSC 2011–0081’’.
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COURT SERVICES AND OFFENDER
SUPERVISION AGENCY FOR THE
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Proposed Collection;
Submission to OMB for Review and
Approval for Collection of Qualitative
Feedback on Agency Service Delivery;
Public Comment Request
Pretrial Services Agency for the
District of Columbia (PSA), CSOSA.
ACTION: Notice and request for
comments.
AGENCY:

This notice announces the
intention of the Pretrial Services Agency
for the District of Columbia, an
independent entity within the Court
Services and Offender Supervision
Agency (CSOSA) to request that the
Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) approve the proposed
information collection project: ‘‘Pretrial
Services Agency for the District of
Columbia 2013 Judicial Survey.’’ In
accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act, 44 U.S.C. 3501–3521,
this notice announces PSA’s intent to
submit this collection to OMB for
approval. PSA invites the public to
comment on this proposed information
collection.
DATES: Consideration will be given to all
comments received by June 24, 2013.
ADDRESSES: You may submit written
comments, identified by ‘‘Collection of
Qualitative Feedback on Agency Service
Delivery’’ to: Rorey Smith, Deputy
General Counsel and Chief Privacy
Officer, Office of General Counsel, Court
Services and Offender Supervision
Agency, 633 Indiana Avenue NW.,
Room 1380, Washington, DC 20004 or to
[email protected].

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Comments submitted in response to
this notice may be made available to the
public. For this reason, please do not
include in your comments information
of a confidential nature, such as
sensitive personal information or
proprietary information. If you send an
email comment, your email address will
be automatically captured and included
as part of the comment that is placed in
the public docket and may be made
available on the Internet. Please note
that responses to this public comment
request containing any routine notice
about the confidentiality of the
communication will be treated as public
comments that may be made available to
the public notwithstanding the
inclusion of the routine notice.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Rorey Smith, Deputy General Counsel
and Chief Privacy Officer, Office of
General Counsel, Court Services and
Offender Supervision Agency, 633
Indiana Avenue NW., Room 1890,
Washington, DC 20004, (202) 220–5797
or to [email protected]. For
content support: Diane Bradley,
Assistant General Counsel, Office of
General Counsel, Court Services and
Offender Supervision Agency, 633
Indiana Avenue NW., Room 1375,
Washington, DC 20004, (202) 220–5364
or to [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: Pretrial Services Agency for the
District of Columbia 2013 Judicial
Survey.
Abstract: Under the PRA (44 U.S.C.
3501–3520), federal agencies must
obtain approval from the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for each
collection of information they collect or
sponsor. Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the
PRA (944 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A)) requires
federal agencies to provide a 60-day
notice in the Federal Register
concerning each proposed collection of
information, including each proposed
extension of an existing collection of
information, before submitting the
collection of information to OMB for
approval. To comply with this
requirement, PSA is publishing notice
of the proposed collection of
information set forth in this document.
The proposed information collection
activity provides a means to garner
qualitative customer and stakeholder
feedback in an efficient, timely manner,
in accordance with the Administration’s
commitment to improving service
delivery. This feedback will provide
insights into customer or stakeholder
perceptions, experiences and
expectations, provide an early warning
of issues with service, or focus attention
on areas where communication, training

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or changes in operations might improve
delivery of products or services. These
collections will allow for ongoing,
collaborative and actionable
communications between the Agency
and its customers and stakeholders. It
will also allow feedback to contribute
directly to the improvement of program
management.
The judicial officers at the District of
Columbia Superior and District Courts
are one of PSA’s critical customers. The
Agency’s mission statement notes that
‘‘assistance to the courts’’ is critical to
promoting pretrial justice and
community safety. The proposed survey
will assess judicial satisfaction with
PSA’s responsiveness, staff
professionalism, the quality and benefit
of PSA reports, PSA’s supervision of
higher risk defendants (including those
with mental health and substance
dependence issues), and the provision
of treatment services. The judicial
survey will represent the only
qualitative or quantitative measure of
this important metric. PSA will use the
collected information to support several
organizational improvements including:
Enhancements to PSA’s supervision of
medium to higher-risk pretrial
defendants; improve communications
with the Court regarding defendant
compliance and noncompliance with
supervision requirements; provide
better performance ratings of Senior
Executive Services staff; and creation of
a qualitative performance measure to
gauge overall judicial satisfaction under
PSA’s ‘‘partnerships’’ strategic objective.
This type of collection for qualitative
information will be used for quantitative
information collections that are
designed to yield reliable actionable
results, such as monitoring trends over
time or documenting program
performance.
As a general matter, information
collections will not result in any new
system of records containing privacy
information and will not ask questions
of a sensitive nature, such as sexual
behavior and attitudes, religious beliefs,
and other matters that are commonly
considered private.
This evaluation study addresses
PSA’s need for a report to inform
strategic planning for dissemination and
program activities to targeted 60 DC
Superior Court and District Court
judicial officers as survey participants—
the universe of judicial officers hearing
criminal matters in both courts and
those with bail setting duties.
The survey is intended to assess
judicial officers’ perceptions and
attitudes through a structured survey to
measure judicial perceptions and
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Agency performance. Given the
qualitative nature of these data, PSA
will use a customer satisfaction rank
order response of customer satisfaction
questionnaire format for its survey.
These customer satisfaction
questionnaires are a proven method to
solicit and record critical input from
primary customers and partner agencies
for PSA to address customer-related
issues more competently and resolve
issues more quickly.
The outcome will best provide a
detailed analysis of customer feedback
and may also provide ‘‘customer
intelligence’’ that can be used as a
roadmap to spur innovation efforts,
research and development and new
programs and initiatives. The outcome
will also include a recommendation for
strategic planning for future efforts
which will engage and develop
information and programming for DC
judicial official audience. Survey results
will not be published independently,
but will be part of PSA’s Performance
Budget submitted to the United States
Congress every February and used as a
metric for performance appraisals for
Senior Executive Staff, submitted in
September of each year.

Method of Collection
This survey will be conducted by PSA
through its Office of Strategic
Development. To achieve the goals that
PSA hopes to obtain through its judicial
survey, the following data collections
will be implemented:
(1) On-line instrument: All responses
to the survey will be solicited, collected
and recorded via a web-based survey
instrument. This method will increase
participants’ ease in completing the
survey and returning results to PSA.
Automatically-logged results also ensure
greater quality control of entered data
and easier recording and analysis of
results.
(2) Rank-ordered responses: Most
survey questions ask respondents to
rank-order responses on a standard fiveitem Likert-scale, for example, ‘‘Very
Dissatisfied’’ to ‘‘Very Satisfied.’’ The
remaining questions are value neutral
and open ended and allow respondents
to give opinions on how PSA can
improve specific functions.
(3) Limited question set: The survey
consists of 15 questions, making it
relatively easy to understand, navigate
and complete.
(4) Anonymity: Survey results are
anonymous, although respondents have
the choice to identify themselves.

Since the survey targets all judicial
officers that have direct exposure and
knowledge of PSA services and
supervision, there are no anticipated
issues with sample selection,
stratification or estimation procedures.
Estimated Annual Respondent Burden
Exhibit 1 shows the estimated
annualized burden hours for the
respondents’ time to participate in this
research. The judicial surveys will be
conducted with 60 judicial officers and
will take approximately 10–15 minutes
to complete. The total burden is
estimated to be 15 hours. Exhibit 2
shows the estimated annualized cost
burden associated with the respondents’
time to participate in this research. The
total cost burden is estimated to be
$1,200 annually. Exhibit 3 shows the
total and annualized cost to the federal
government for conducting this
research. The total cost to the federal
government is $150.00. The total
annualized cost is estimated to be
approximately $150.00. The total annual
cost includes the questionnaire
development, administration, analysis,
and study management.

EXHIBIT 1—ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Number of
respondents

Survey form
DC Superior Court Judicial Survey ..................................................................
DC District Court Judicial Survey ....................................................................

Number of
responses per
respondent

40
20

15
15

Minutes per
response

Total burden
hours

10–15
10–15

10
5

EXHIBIT 2—ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED COST BURDEN
Number of
respondents

Form name

Average cost
per survey

Total cost
burden

DC Superior Court Judicial Survey
DC District Court Survey .................................................................................

40
20

10
5

$20.00
20.00

$800.00
400.00

Total ..........................................................................................................

60

15

20.00

1,200.00

EXHIBIT 3—ESTIMATED TOTAL AND
ANNUALIZED COST
Cost component

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Total burden

Total cost

Annualized
cost

Project Development.
Data Collection
Activities.
Project Management.
Overhead ..........

N/A

N/A

$150.00

$150.00

N/A
N/A

N/A
N/A

Total ...........

150.00

150.00

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Request for Comments: Comments
submitted in response to this notice will
be summarized and/or included in the
request for OMB approval. Comments
are invited on: (a) Whether the
collection of information is necessary
for the proper performance of the
functions of the agency, including
whether the information shall have
practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the
agency’s estimate of the burden of the
collection of information; (c) ways to
enhance the quality, utility, and clarity
of the information to be collected; (d)
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respondents, including through the use
of automated collection techniques or
other forms of information technology;
and (e) estimates of capital or start-up
costs and costs of operation,
maintenance, and purchase of services
to provide information. Burden means
the total time, effort, or financial
resources expended by persons to
generate, maintain, retain, disclose or
provide information to or for a Federal
agency. This includes the time needed
to review instructions; to develop,
acquire, install and utilize technology
and systems for the purpose of
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information, processing and
maintaining information, and disclosing
and providing information; to train
personnel and to be able to respond to
a collection of information, to search
data sources, to complete and review
the collection of information; and to
transmit or otherwise disclose the
information.
Dated: April 18, 2013.
Rorey Smith,
Deputy General Counsel, Court Services and
Offender Supervision Agency.
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Department of the Navy
Notice of Extension of Public
Comment Period for the Notice of
Intent To Prepare the Commonwealth
of the Northern Mariana Islands Joint
Military Training Environmental Impact
Statement/Overseas Environmental
Impact Statement
Department of the Navy, DoD.
Notice.

AGENCY:
ACTION:

Marine Corps Forces, Pacific
(MARFORPAC), as the Executive Agent
designated by the United States (U.S.)
Pacific Command (PACOM), is
extending the public scoping comment
period for the Commonwealth of the
Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) Joint
Military Training Environmental Impact
Statement (EIS)/Overseas EIS (OEIS)
until May 13, 2013. A Notice of Intent
(NOI) was published in the Federal
Register on Thursday, March 14, 2013
(Vol. 78, No. 50, Pages 16257–16259).
The Notice announced the initial public
scoping comment period, including
three public scoping meetings that took
place on Wednesday, April 10, 2013;
Thursday, April 11, 2013 and Friday,
April 12, 2013. The public scoping
meetings provided an opportunity for
the public to obtain additional
information and provide comments on
the proposed action. The NOI requested
the submission of all public scoping
comments to MARFORPAC by April 29,
2013 Chamorro Standard Time (ChST).
With this Notice, MARFORPAC is
extending the public scoping comment
period until May 13, 2013 (ChST).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Please visit the project Web site or
contact the CNMI Joint Military
Training EIS/OEIS Project Manager by
telephone at 808–472–1253 or by email
via the project Web site
(www.cnmijointmilitarytrainingeis.com).

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Pursuant
to section (102)(2)(c) of the National
Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of
1969, as implemented by the Council on
Environmental Quality Regulations (40
Code of Federal Regulations parts 1500–
1508), and Executive Order 12114, and
United States Marine Corps NEPA
implementing regulations in Marine
Corps Order P5090.2A, MARFORPAC,
as the Executive Agent designated by
PACOM, announces its intent to prepare
an EIS/OEIS to evaluate the potential
impacts associated with preliminary
alternatives for meeting PACOM Service
Components’ unfilled unit level and
combined level military training
requirements in the Western Pacific.
The proposed action is to establish a
series of live-fire and maneuver Ranges
and Training Areas (RTAs) within the
CNMI to meet this purpose.
Existing Department of Defense RTAs
and support facilities in the Western
Pacific, particularly those in the
Mariana Islands, are insufficient to
support PACOM Service Components’
U.S. Code (U.S.C.) Title 10 training
requirements for the region. The
expansion of existing RTAs and
construction of new RTAs will satisfy
identified training deficiencies for
PACOM forces that are based in or
regularly train in the Mariana Islands.
These RTAs will be available to U.S.
forces and their allies on a continuous
and uninterrupted schedule. These
RTAs are needed to support ongoing
operational requirements, changes to
U.S. force structure and geographic
positioning of forces, and U.S. training
relationships with allied nations.
MARFORPAC, as the Executive
Agent, has invited the Federal Aviation
Administration; International
Broadcasting Bureau; U.S. Army Corps
of Engineers; National Marine Fisheries
Service; U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service;
and U.S. Department of Interior, Office
of Insular Affairs, to participate as
cooperating agencies in the preparation
of the EIS/OEIS. MARFORPAC has also
developed a Memorandum of
Understanding with the military
services regarding their support and
engagement in the development of the
EIS/OEIS.
More information on the proposed
action can be found on the previously
published NOI (see Federal Register on
March 14, 2013 (Vol. 78, No. 50, Pages
16257–16259)). Federal, State, and local
agencies, elected officials, and other
interested parties and individuals, are
invited and encouraged to review and
comment on proposed action.
Comments on the proposed action can
be submitted via the project Web site
(www.cnmijointmilitarytrainingeis.com)

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

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or submitted in writing to: Naval
Facilities Engineering Command,
Pacific, Attn: EV21, CNMI Joint Military
Training EIS/OEIS Project Manager, 258
Makalapa Drive, Suite 100, JBPHH, HI
96860–3134.
All comments must be postmarked or
electronically dated on or before May
13, 2013 (ChST).
C.K. Chiappetta,
Lieutenant Commander, Office of the Judge
Advocate General, U.S. Navy. Federal
Register Liaison Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Application for New Awards;
Education Research and Special
Education Research Grant Programs
Institute of Education Sciences,
Department of Education.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:

Overview Information: Education
Research and Special Education
Research Grants Notice inviting
applications for new awards for fiscal
year (FY) 2014.
Catalog of Federal Domestic
Assistance (CFDA) Numbers: 84.305A,
84.305B, 84.305C, 84.305D, and
84.305H.
SUMMARY: The Director of the Institute of
Education Sciences (Institute)
announces the Institute’s FY 2014
competitions for grants to support
education research and special
education research. The Director takes
this action under the Education
Sciences Reform Act of 2002. The
Institute’s purpose in awarding these
grants is to provide national leadership
in expanding fundamental knowledge
and understanding of developmental
and school readiness outcomes for
infants and toddlers with or at risk for
disability, and of education outcomes
for all students from early childhood
education through postsecondary and
adult education.
DATES: The dates when applications are
available and the deadlines for
transmittal of applications invited under
this notice are indicated in the chart at
the end of this notice.
Full Text of Announcement
I. Funding Opportunity Description
Purpose of Program: The central
purpose of the Institute’s research grant
programs is to provide parents,
educators, students, researchers,
policymakers, and the general public
with reliable and valid information

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