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Dated: November 6, 2013.
Michelle Trout,
Program Analyst, Office of Federal Advisory
Committee Policy.

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES

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National Institute of Diabetes and
Digestive and Kidney and Diseases;
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Pursuant to section 10(d) of the
Federal Advisory Committee Act, as
amended (5 U.S.C. App.), notice is
hereby given of the following meeting.
The meeting will be closed to the
public in accordance with the
provisions set forth in sections
552b(c)(4) and 552b(c)(6), Title 5 U.S.C.,
as amended. The grant applications and
the discussions could disclose
confidential trade secrets or commercial
property such as patentable material,
and personal information concerning
individuals associated with the grant
applications, the disclosure of which
would constitute a clearly unwarranted
invasion of personal privacy.
Name of Committee: National Institute of
Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
Special Emphasis Panel; RFA–DK–13–008
USRDS Special Study Centers (U01).
Date: December 19, 2013.
Time: 1 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Agenda: To review and evaluate grant
applications.
Place: National Institutes of Health, Two
Democracy Plaza, 6707 Democracy
Boulevard, Bethesda, MD 20892, (Telephone
Conference Call).
Contact Person: Ann A Jerkins, Ph.D.,
Scientific Review Officer, Review Branch,
DEA, NIDDK, National Institutes of Health,
Room 759, 6707 Democracy Boulevard,
Bethesda, MD 20892–5452, 301–594–2242,
[email protected].
(Catalogue of Federal Domestic Assistance
Program Nos. 93.847, Diabetes,
Endocrinology and Metabolic Research;
93.848, Digestive Diseases and Nutrition
Research; 93.849, Kidney Diseases, Urology
and Hematology Research, National Institutes
of Health, HHS)
Dated: November 6, 2013.
David Clary,
Program Analyst, Office of Federal Advisory
Committee Policy.
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Name of Committee: National Heart, Lung,
and Blood Institute Special Emphasis Panel;
SBIR Phase II Contract Review—Powering
Ventricular Assist Devices.
Date: January 14, 2014.
Time: 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Agenda: To review and evaluate contract
proposals.
Place: National Institutes of Health, Room
7184, 6701 Rockledge Drive Bethesda, MD
20892, (Telephone Conference Call).
Contact Person: YingYing Li-Smerin,
Ph.D., MD Scientific Review Officer, Office of
Scientific Review/DERA National Heart,
Lung, and Blood Institute, 6701 Rockledge
Drive, Room 7184, Bethesda, MD 20892–
7924, 301–435–0276, [email protected].
(Catalogue of Federal Domestic Assistance
Program Nos. 93.233, National Center for
Sleep Disorders Research; 93.837, Heart and
Vascular Diseases Research; 93.838, Lung
Diseases Research; 93.839, Blood Diseases
and Resources Research, National Institutes
of Health, HHS)
Dated: December 13, 2013.
Michelle Trout,
Program Analyst, Office of Federal Advisory
Committee Policy.
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND
SECURITY
[Docket No. DHS–2013–0032]

Agency Information Collection
Activities: Proposed Collection;
Comment Request; Generic Clearance
for the Collection of Qualitative
Feedback on Agency Service Delivery
National Protection and
Programs Directorate, DHS.

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60-day notice and request for
comments; New Information Collection
Request: 1670–NEW.

ACTION:

As part of a Federal
Government-wide effort to streamline
the process to seek feedback from the
public on service delivery, the
Department of Homeland Security
(DHS), National Protection and
Programs Directorate (NPPD), Office of
the Chief Information Office (OCIO) has
submitted a Generic Information
Collection Request (ICR): ‘‘Generic
Clearance for the Collection of
Qualitative Feedback on Agency Service
Delivery’’ to the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) for review and
clearance in accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995
(Pub. L. 104–13, 44 U.S.C. Chapter 35).
DATES: Comments are encouraged and
will be accepted until February 18,
2014. This process is conducted in
accordance with 5 CFR 1320.1.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and
questions about this Generic
Information Collection Request should
be forwarded to DHS/NPPD/OCIO, 245
Murray Lane, Mail Stop 0380,
Arlington, VA 20598–0380. Emailed
requests should go to Evette MaynardNoel, NPPD’s PRA Coordinator at [email protected]. Written comments
should reach the contact person listed
no later than February 18, 2014.
Comments must be identified by ‘‘DHS–
2013–0032’’ and may be submitted by
one of the following methods:
• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://
www.regulations.gov.
• Email: Include the docket number
in the subject line of the message.
Instructions: All submissions received
must include the words ‘‘Department of
Homeland Security’’ and the docket
number for this action. Comments
received will be posted without
alteration at http://www.regulations.gov,
including any personal information
provided.
Comments submitted in response to
this notice may be made available to the
public through relevant Web sites. 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 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
SUMMARY:

Pursuant to section 10(d) of the
Federal Advisory Committee Act, as
amended (5 U.S.C. App.), notice is
hereby given of the following meeting.
The meeting will be closed to the
public in accordance with the
provisions set forth in sections
552b(c)(4) and 552b(c)(6), Title 5 U.S.C.,
as amended. The contract proposals and
the discussions could disclose
confidential trade secrets or commercial
property such as patentable material,
and personal information concerning
individuals associated with the contract
proposals, the disclosure of which
would constitute a clearly unwarranted
invasion of personal privacy.

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notwithstanding the inclusion of the
routine notice.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 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. NPPD is planning to submit
this collection to OMB for approval.
By qualitative feedback we mean
information that provides useful
insights on perceptions and opinions,
but are not statistical surveys that yield
quantitative results that can be
generalized to the population of study.
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 or changes in
operations might improve delivery of
products or services. These collections
will allow for ongoing, collaborative and
actionable communications between
NPPD and its customers and
stakeholders. It will also allow feedback
to contribute directly to the
improvement of program management.
The solicitation of feedback will target
areas such as: timeliness,
appropriateness, accuracy of
information, courtesy, efficiency of
service delivery, and resolution of
issues with service delivery. Responses
will be assessed to plan and inform
efforts to improve or maintain the
quality of service offered to the public.
If this information is not collected, vital
feedback from customers and
stakeholders on the Directorate’s
services will be unavailable.
NPPD will only submit a collection
for approval under this generic
clearance if it meets the following
conditions:
1. The collections are voluntary;
2. The collections are low-burden for
respondents (based on considerations of
total burden hours, total number of
respondents, or burden-hours per
respondent) and are low-cost for both
the respondents and the Federal
Government;
3. The collections are noncontroversial and do not raise issues of
concern to other Federal agencies;
4. Any collection is targeted to the
solicitation of opinions from
respondents who have experience with
the program or may have experience
with the program in the near future;
5. Personally identifiable information
(PII) is collected only to the extent
necessary and is not retained;
6. Information gathered is intended to
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service improvement and program
management purposes and is not
intended for release outside of the NPPD
(if released, NPPD must indicate the
qualitative nature of the information);
7. Information gathered will not be
used for the purpose of substantially
informing influential policy decisions;
and
8. Information gathered will yield
qualitative information; the collections
will not be designed or expected to
yield statistically reliable results or used
as though the results are generalizable to
the population of study.
Feedback collected under this generic
clearance will provide useful
information, but it will not yield data
that can be generalized to the overall
population. This type of generic
clearance for qualitative information
will not be used for quantitative
information collections that are
designed to yield reliably actionable
results, such as monitoring trends over
time or documenting program
performance. Such data uses require
more rigorous designs that address: the
target population to which
generalizations will be made, the
sampling frame, the sample design
(including stratification and clustering),
the precision requirements or power
calculations that justify the proposed
sample size, the expected response rate,
methods for assessing potential nonresponse bias, the protocols for data
collection, and any testing procedures
that were or will be undertaken prior
fielding the study. Depending on the
degree of influence the results are likely
to have, such collections may still be
eligible for submission for other generic
mechanisms that are designed to yield
quantitative results.
As a general matter, information
collections will not result in any new
system of records containing personal
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.
Comments are invited on:
1. Whether the collection of
information is necessary for the proper
performance of the functions of NPPD,
including whether the information shall
have practical utility;
2. The accuracy of the NPPD estimate
of the burden of the collection of
information;
3. Ways to enhance the quality,
utility, and clarity of the information to
be collected;
4. Ways to minimize the burden of the
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of automated collection techniques or
other forms of information technology;
and
5. 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
collecting, validating and verifying
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.
OMB is particularly interested in
comments that:
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.
NPPD may not conduct or sponsor, and
a person is not required to respond to,
a collection of information unless it
displays a currently valid OMB control
number.
Analysis
Agency: Department of Homeland
Security, National Protection and
Programs Directorate, Office of the Chief
Information Officer.
Title: Generic Clearance for the
Collection of Qualitative Feedback on
Agency Service Delivery.
OMB Number: 1 670–NEW.
Frequency of Response: On occasion.
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Organizations, State, Local or Tribal
Government.
Number of Respondents: 14080. This
estimate is based on a review of past
behavior of NPPD with an average of 15
activities expected annual with an
average of 939 respondents per activity.
Estimated Time per Respondent: 34
minutes.
Total Burden Hours: 7920.3 annual
burden hours.
Total Burden Cost (capital/startup):
$0.
Total Burden Costs (operating/
maintain): $0.
Dated: December 12, 2013.
Scott Libby,
Deputy Chief Information Officer, National
Protection and Programs Directorate,
Department of Homeland Security.
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND
SECURITY
U.S. Customs and Border Protection
Agency Information Collection
Activities: BP Regulations Pertaining
to Customs Brokers
U.S. Customs and Border
Protection (CBP), Department of
Homeland Security.
ACTION: 60-day notice and request for
comments; extension of an existing
collection of information: 1651–0034.
AGENCY:

As part of its continuing effort
to reduce paperwork and respondent
burden, CBP invites the general public
and other Federal agencies to comment
on an information collection
requirement concerning the CBP
Regulations Pertaining to Customs
Brokers (19 CFR Part 111). This request
for comment is being made pursuant to
the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
(Pub. L. 104–13; 44 U.S.C. 3507).
DATES: Written comments should be
received on or before February 18, 2014,
to be assured of consideration.
ADDRESS: Direct all written comments to
U.S. Customs and Border Protection,
Attn: Tracey Denning, Regulations and
Rulings, Office of International Trade,
90 K Street NE., 10th Floor, Washington,
DC 20229–1177.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Requests for additional information
should be directed to Tracey Denning,
U.S. Customs and Border Protection,
Regulations and Rulings, Office of
International Trade, 90 K Street NE.,
10th Floor, Washington, DC 20229–
1177, at 202–325–0265.

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CBP
invites the general public and other
Federal agencies to comment on
proposed and/or continuing information
collections pursuant to the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104–13;
44 U.S.C. 3507). The comments should
address: (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
estimates of the burden of the collection
of information; (c) ways to enhance the
quality, utility, and clarity of the
information to be collected; (d) ways to
minimize the burden including the use
of automated collection techniques or
the use of other forms of information
technology; and (e) the annual costs
burden to respondents or record keepers
from the collection of information (a
total capital/startup costs and
operations and maintenance costs). The
comments that are submitted will be
summarized and included in the CBP
request for Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) approval. All comments
will become a matter of public record.
In this document CBP is soliciting
comments concerning the following
information collection:
Title: CBP Regulations Pertaining to
Customs Brokers (19 CFR Part 111).
OMB Number: 1651–0034.
Form Numbers: CBP Forms 3124 and
3124E.
Abstract: The information contained
in Part 111 of the CBP regulations
governs the licensing and conduct of
customs brokers. Specifically, an
individual who wishes to take the
broker exam must complete CBP Form
3124E, ‘‘Application for Customs Broker
License Exam,’’ or to apply for a broker
license, CBP Form 3124, ‘‘Application
for Customs Broker License.’’ The
procedures to request a local or national
broker permit can be found in 19 CFR
111.19, and a triennial report is required
under 19 CFR 111.30. This information
collected from customs brokers is
provided for by 19 U.S.C. 1641. CBP
Forms 3124 and 3124E may be found at
http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/toolbox/
forms/. Further information about the
customs broker exam and how to apply
for it may be found at http://
www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/trade/trade_
programs/broker/broker_exam/.
Current Actions: This submission is
being made to extend the expiration
date with no change to the burden hours
or to this collection of information.
Type of Review: Extension (without
change).
Affected Public: Businesses,
Individuals.

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CBP Form 3124E, ‘‘Application for
Customs Broker License Exam’’
Estimated Number of Respondents:
2,300.
Total Number of Estimated Annual
Responses: 2,300.
Estimated Time per Response: 1 hour.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 2,300.
Estimated Total Annual Cost to the
Public: $460,000.
CBP Form 3124, ‘‘Application for
Customs Broker License’’
Estimated Number of Respondents:
300.
Total Number of Estimated Annual
Responses: 300.
Estimated Time per Response: 1 hour.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 300.
Estimated Total Annual Cost to the
Public: $6,000.
Triennial Report (19 CFR 111.30)
Estimated Number of Respondents:
3,833.
Total Number of Estimated Annual
Responses: 3,833.
Estimated Time per Response: .5
hours.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 1,917.
Estimated Total Annual Cost to the
Public: $383,300.
National Broker Permit Application
(19 CFR 111.19)
Estimated Number of Respondents:
500.
Total Number of Estimated Annual
Responses: 500.
Estimated Time per Response: 1 hour.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 500.
Estimated Total Annual Cost to the
Public: $112,500.
Dated: December 16, 2013.
Tracey Denning,
Agency Clearance Officer, U.S. Customs and
Border Protection.
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Protection (CBP), Department of
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