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use of automated collection techniques
or other forms of information
technology.
Please note that comments submitted
in response to this Notice are public
record. Before including any detailed
personal information, you should be
aware that your comments as submitted,
including your personal information,
will be available for public review.
Abstract of Proposed Collection:
DS–1884 solicits information from
petitioners claiming employment-based
immigrant visa preference under section
203(b)(4) of the Immigration and
Nationality Act on the basis of
qualification as a special immigrant
described in INA section 101(a)(27)(D).
A petitioner may file the DS–1884
petition within one year of notification
by the Department of State that the
Secretary has approved a
recommendation that such special
immigrant status be accorded to the
alien. DS–1884 solicits information that
will assist the consular officer in
ensuring that the petitioner is statutorily
qualified to receive such status,
including meeting the years of service
and exceptional service requirements.
Methodology:
The form can be obtained from posts
abroad or through the Department’s
eForms intranet site. The application
available through eForms allows the
applicant to complete the application
online and then print the application.
Most applicants are current federal
government employees abroad and have
access to the internet system. Once the
form is printed, it is submitted to post.
Dated: October 16, 2015.
Ed Ramotowski,
Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of
Consular Affairs, Department of State.

DEPARTMENT OF STATE

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration
[Docket No. FMCSA–2015–0332]

Agency Information Collection
Activities; Extension of a CurrentlyApproved Information Collection
Request: Information Technology
Services Survey Portal Customer
Satisfaction Assessment (Formerly
COMPASS Portal Consumer
Satisfaction Assessment)

In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995,
FMCSA announces its plan to submit
the Information Collection Request (ICR)
described below to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for its
review and approval and invites public
comment. The collection involves an
extension to a currently-approved ICR,
and includes the assessment of
FMCSA’s strategic decision to integrate
its Information Technology (IT) with its
business processes using portal
technology to consolidate its systems
and databases through the FMCSA
Information Technology Services
Survey modernization initiative. The

SUMMARY:

[Public Notice: 9323]

Foreign Affairs Policy Board Meeting
Notice

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Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration (FMCSA), DOT.
ACTION: Notice and request for
comments.

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Closed Meeting
In accordance with the Federal
Advisory Committee Act, 5 U.S.C. App.,
the Department of State announces a
meeting of the Foreign Affairs Policy
Board to take place on October 28, 2015,
at the Department of State, Washington,
DC.
The Foreign Affairs Policy Board
reviews and assesses: (1) Global threats
and opportunities; (2) trends that

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Dated: October 16, 2015.
Adam Lusin,
Designated Federal Officer.

AGENCY:

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implicate core national security
interests; (3) tools and capacities of the
civilian foreign affairs agencies; and (4)
priorities and strategic frameworks for
U.S. foreign policy. Pursuant to section
10(d) of the Federal Advisory
Committee Act, 5 U.S.C. App § 10(d),
and 5 U.S.C. 552b(c)(1), it has been
determined that this meeting will be
closed to the public as the Board will be
reviewing and discussing matters
properly classified in accordance with
Executive Order 13526.
This Notice will publish with less
than 15 calendar days’ notice. The
Department of State finds exceptional
circumstances, in that the Secretary of
State must address this meeting of the
Foreign Affairs Policy Board and his
schedule, including his travel schedule,
does not permit rescheduling this
meeting to a later date.
For more information, contact Gloria
Lee at (202) 647–1965.

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information to be collected will be used
to assess the satisfaction of Federal,
State, and industry customers with the
FMCSA Information Technology
Services Survey Portal. The name of the
‘‘COMPASS Portal Customer
Satisfaction Assessment,’’ ICR was
previously changed to ‘‘Information
Technology Services Survey Portal
Customer Satisfaction Assessment,’’ to
reflect the need for a broader term than
‘‘COMPASS’’ for the portal.
DATES: We must receive your comments
on or before December 28, 2015.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
identified by Federal Docket
Management System (FDMS) Docket
Number FMCSA–2015–0332 using any
of the following methods:
• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://
www.regulations.gov. Follow the online
instructions for submitting comments.
• Fax: 1–202–493–2251.
• Mail: Docket Management Facility;
U.S. Department of Transportation, 1200
New Jersey Avenue SE., West Building,
Ground Floor, Room W12–140, 20590–
0001.
• Hand Delivery or Courier: West
Building, Ground Floor, Room W12–
140, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE.,
Washington, DC, between 9 a.m. and 5
p.m. e.t., Monday through Friday,
except Federal holidays.
Instructions: All submissions must
include the Agency name and docket
number. For detailed instructions on
submitting comments and additional
information on the exemption process,
see the Public Participation heading
below. Note that all comments received
will be posted without change to
http://www.regulations.gov, including
any personal information provided.
Please see the Privacy Act heading
below.
Docket: For access to the docket to
read background documents or
comments received, go to http://
www.regulations.gov, and follow the
online instructions for accessing the
dockets, or go to the street address listed
above.
Privacy Act: Anyone is able to search
the electronic form of all comments
received into any of our dockets by the
name of the individual submitting the
comment (or signing the comment, if
submitted on behalf of an association,
business, labor union, etc.). You may
review DOT’s complete Privacy Act
Statement for the Federal Docket
Management System published in the
Federal Register on January 17, 2008
(73 FR 3316), or you may visit http://
edocket.access.gpo.gov/2008/pdfE8794.pdf.
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hours each day, 365 days each year. You
can obtain electronic submission and
retrieval help and guidelines under the
‘‘help’’ section of the Federal
eRulemaking Portal Web site. If you
want us to notify you that we received
your comments, please include a selfaddressed, stamped envelope or
postcard, or print the acknowledgement
page that appears after submitting
comments online. Comments received
after the comment closing date will be
included in the docket and will be
considered to the extent practicable.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms.
Katherine Cooper, Department of
Transportation, Federal Motor Carrier
Safety Administration, West Building
6th Floor, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE.,
Washington, DC 20590. Telephone:
202–366–3843 email:
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
Title II, section 207 of the EGovernment Act of 2002 requires
Government agencies to improve the
methods by which government
information, including information on
the Internet, is organized, preserved,
and made accessible to the public. To
meet this goal, FMCSA plans to provide
a survey on the FMCSA Portal, allowing
users to assess its functionality. This
functionality includes the capability for
Federal, State, and industry users to
access the Agency’s existing safety IT
systems with a single set of credentials
and have easy access to safety data
about the companies that do business
with FMCSA. The Information
Technology program will also focus on
improving the accuracy of data to help
ensure information, such as carrier
name and address, is valid and reliable.
FMCSA’s legacy information systems
are currently operational. However,
having this many stand-alone systems
has led to data quality concerns, a need
for excessive IDs and passwords, and
significant operational and maintenance
costs. Integrating our information
technologies with our business
processes will, in turn, improve our
operations considerably, particularly in
terms of data quality, ease of use, and
reduction of maintenance costs.
In early 2007, FMCSA’s Information
Technology program launched a series
of releases of a new FMCSA Portal to its
Federal, State and industry customers.
Over the coming years, more than 15
releases are planned. These releases will
use portal technology to fuse and
provide numerous services and
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meet the needs of specific
constituencies within our customer
universe.
The FMCSA Information Technology
Services Survey Portal will entail
considerable expenditure of Federal
Government dollars over the years and
will fundamentally impact the nature of
the relationship between the Agency
and its Federal, State, and industry
customers. Consequently, the Agency
intends to conduct regular and ongoing
assessments of customer satisfaction
with the Information Technology
Services Survey.
The primary purposes of this
assessment are to:
• Determine the extent to which the
FMCSA Portal functionality continues
to meet the needs of Agency customers;
• Identify and prioritize additional
modifications; and
• Determine the extent that the
FMCSA Portal has impacted FMCSA’s
relationships with its main customer
groups.
The assessment will address:
• Overall customer satisfaction;
• Customer satisfaction against
specific items;
• Performance of systems integrator
against agreed objectives;
• Desired adjustments and
modifications to systems;
• Demonstrated value of investment
to FMCSA and DOT;
• Items about the FMCSA Portal that
customers like best; and
• Customer ideas for making the
FMCSA Portal better.
Title: Information Technology
Services Survey Portal Customer
Satisfaction Assessment.
OMB Control Number: 2126–0042.
Type of Request: Extension of the
currently-approved information
collection request.
Respondents: Federal, State, and
industry customers/users.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
3,392.
Estimated Time per Response: Five (5)
minutes.
Expiration Date: 05/31/2016.
Frequency of Response: 4 times per
year.
Estimated Total Annual Burden: 283
hours [91 hours (273 industry user
respondents × 5 minutes/60 minutes to
complete survey × 4 times per year) +
192 hours (575 Federal and State
government respondents × 5 minutes/60
minutes to complete survey × 4 times
per year) = 283].
Public Comments Invited: You are
asked to comment on any aspect of this
information collection, including: (1)
Whether the proposed collection is
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mission; (2) the accuracy of the
estimated burden; (3) ways for the
FMCSA to enhance the quality,
usefulness, and clarity of the collected
information; and (4) ways that the
burden could be minimized without
reducing the quality of the collected
information. The agency will summarize
or include your comments in the request
for OMB’s clearance of this information
collection.
Issued under the authority of 49 CFR 1.87
on: October 20, 2015.
G. Kelly Regal,
Associate Administrator for Office of
Research and Information Technology.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Railroad Administration
[Docket No. FRA–2015–0007–N–27]

Proposed Agency Information
Collection Activities; Comment
Request
Federal Railroad
Administration (FRA), Department of
Transportation (DOT).
ACTION: Notice and request for
comments.
AGENCY:

In compliance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this
notice announces that the renewal
Information Collection Request (ICR)
abstracted below is being forwarded to
the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) for review and comment. The
ICR describes the nature of the
information collection and its expected
burden. The Federal Register notice
with a 60-day comment period soliciting
comments on the following collections
of information was published on August
5, 2015.
DATES: Comments must be submitted on
or before November 27, 2015.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr.
Robert Brogan, Safety Regulatory
Analysis Division, RRS–21, Federal
Railroad Administration, 1200 New
Jersey Ave. SE., Mail Stop 25,
Washington, DC 20590 (Telephone:
(202) 493–6292), or Ms. Kimberly
Toone, Office of Information
Technology, RAD–20, Federal Railroad
Administration, 1200 New Jersey Ave.
SE., Mail Stop 35, Washington, DC
20590 (Telephone: (202) 493–6132).
(These telephone numbers are not tollfree.)
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
(PRA), Public Law 104–13, sec. 2, 109
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