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incapacitated must provide a current
certified medical report. When the
incapacity is not permanent a medical
certification must be received by DFAS
every two years in order for the child to
continue receiving annuity payments.
Dated: April 6, 2016.
Aaron Siegel,
Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison
Officer, Department of Defense.
[FR Doc. 2016–08206 Filed 4–8–16; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Office of the Secretary
Charter Renewal of Department of
Defense Federal Advisory Committees
Department of Defense.
Renewal of Federal Advisory
Committee.

AGENCY:
ACTION:

The Department of Defense
(DoD) is publishing this notice to
announce that it is renewing the charter
for the Ocean Research Advisory Panel
(‘‘the Panel’’).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jim
Freeman, Advisory Committee
Management Officer for the Department
of Defense, 703–692–5952.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This
committee’s charter is being established
in accordance with the Federal
Advisory Committee Act (FACA) of
1972 (5 U.S.C., Appendix, as amended)
and 41 CFR 102–3.50(d). The Panel’s
charter and contact information for the
Panel’s Designated Federal Officer
(DFO) can be obtained at http://
www.facadatabase.gov/. The Panel
provides independent scientific advice
and recommendations to the National
Ocean Research Leadership Council
(‘‘the Council’’). The Council operates as
the National Ocean Council (NOC) as
directed by Executive Order 13547. The
NOC Deputy-level Committee (‘‘the
Committee’’) has assumed the statutory
responsibilities of the Council. Pursuant
to 10 U.S.C. 7903(a), the Panel shall
consist of not less than 10 and not more
than 18 members, representing the
following: (a) One member who will
represent the National Academy of
Sciences; (b) One member who will
represent the National Academy of
Engineering; (c) One member who will
represent the Institute of Medicine; (d)
Members selected from among
individuals who will represent the
views on ocean industries, State
Governments, academia, and such other
views as the Chairs of the Committee
consider appropriate; (e) Members
selected from individuals who are

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eminent in the fields of marine science,
marine policy, or related fields.
Members who are not full-time or
permanent part-time Federal officers or
employees will be appointed as experts
or consultants pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 3109
to serve as special government
employee members. Members who are
full-time or permanent part-time Federal
officers or employees will be appointed
pursuant to 41 CFR 102–3.130(a) to
serve as regular government employee
members. All members are appointed to
provide advice on behalf of the
Government on the basis of their best
judgment without representing any
particular point of view and in a manner
that is free from conflict of interest.
Except for reimbursement of official
Panel-related travel and per diem,
members serve without compensation.
The DoD, as necessary and consistent
with the Panel’s mission and DoD
policies and procedures, may establish
subcommittees, task forces, or working
groups to support the Panel, and all
subcommittees must operate under the
provisions of FACA and the
Government in the Sunshine Act.
Subcommittees will not work
independently of the Panel and must
report all their recommendations and
advice solely to the Panel for full
deliberation and discussion.
Subcommittees, task forces, or working
groups have no authority to make
decisions and recommendations,
verbally or in writing, on behalf of the
Panel. No subcommittee or any of its
members can update or report, verbally
or in writing, directly to the DoD or any
Federal officers or employees. The
Panel’s DFO, pursuant to DoD policy,
must be a full-time or permanent parttime DoD employee, and must be in
attendance for the duration of each and
every Panel/subcommittee meeting. The
public or interested organizations may
submit written statements to the Panel
membership about the Panel’s mission
and functions. Written statements may
be submitted at any time or in response
to the stated agenda of planned meeting
of the Panel. All written statements
shall be submitted to the DFO for the
Panel, and this individual will ensure
that the written statements are provided
to the membership for their
consideration.
Dated: April 6, 2016.
Aaron Siegel,
Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison
Officer, Department of Defense.
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ELECTION ASSISTANCE COMMISSION
Sunshine Act Meeting
U.S. Election Assistance
Commission.
ACTION: Notice of Public Hearing
Agenda.
AGENCY:

Wednesday, April 27,
(10:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m.–EDT).
PLACE: Suffolk University Law School,
120 Tremont Street; Sergeant Function
Hall 1st Floor; Boston, MA 02108,
Phone: (617) 573–8000.
AGENDA: EAC will hold a public hearing
to receive testimony from election
administrators and voters with
disabilities about accessible voting and
the progress made since passage of the
Help America Vote Act of 2002 (HAVA).
The objective of the hearing is to hear
from voters with disabilities regarding
their voting experiences, highlight EAC
resources, and help election officials
prepare for the 2016 elections. The
hearing will include testimony from two
panels: (1) Election administrators, and
(2) advocates and voters with
disabilities.
PARTICIPATION: In advance of the
hearing, voters with disabilities are
encouraged to share their experiences
with accessible voting with the EAC.
You may submit your written testimony
to the EAC to be included as part of the
transcript. Please email: [email protected]
and place ‘‘testimony’’ in the subject
line.
DATE AND TIME:

THIS HEARING WILL BE OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
PERSON TO CONTACT FOR INFORMATION:

Bryan Whitener, Telephone: (301) 563–
3961.
Bryan Whitener,
Director of Communications and
Clearinghouse, U.S. Election Assistance
Commission.
[FR Doc. 2016–08398 Filed 4–7–16; 4:15 pm]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Office of Energy Efficiency and
Renewable Energy
Proposed Agency Information
Collection
Office of Energy Efficiency and
Renewable Energy, U.S. Department of
Energy.
ACTION: Notice and request for OMB
review and comment.
AGENCY:

The Department of Energy
(DOE) has submitted to the Office of

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Management and Budget (OMB) for
clearance a proposal for collection of
information under the provisions of the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. The
proposed collection in support of the
DOE’s Small Business Vouchers (SBV)
pilot will gather quantitative estimates
of the pilot’s impacts as well as capture
implementation lessons learned. The
information is needed to assess the
impacts of the SBV Pilot, documenting
that the investment is producing the
expected results, and to determine ways
to improve the pilot should it be
expanded in scope.
The SBV Pilot is a funding
mechanism structured to allow small
businesses engaged in the renewable
energy and energy efficiency sectors to
collaborate with researchers at the DOE
National Laboratories and to take
advantage of the resources at the Labs
that assist small businesses in
proceeding through commercialization
challenges. Respondents will include
small businesses participating in the
pilot as well a comparison group of
small businesses outside of the SBV
Pilot.
Comments regarding this
collection must be received on or before
May 11, 2016. If you anticipate that you
will be submitting comments, but find
it difficult to do so within the period of
time allowed by this notice, please
advise the DOE Desk Officer at OMB of
your intention to make a submission as
soon as possible. The Desk Officer may
be telephoned at 202–395–4718.
ADDRESSES: Written comments should
be sent to the
DOE Desk Officer, Office of Information
and Regulatory Affairs, Office of
Management and Budget, New
Executive Office Building, Room
10102, 735 17th Street NW.,
Washington, DC 20503.
And to
Jeff Dowd,
By email to: [email protected].
Or by mail to: Jeff Dowd, US
Department of Energy, EE–61P, 1000
Independence Ave. SW., Washington,
DC 20585.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jeff
Dowd, [email protected]. Requests
may also be mailed to Jeff Dowd, US
Department of Energy, EE–61P, 1000
Independence Ave. SW., Washington,
DC 20585. Calls may be directed to Jeff
Dowd at (202) 586–7258.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This
information collection request contains:
(1) OMB No. ‘‘New’’; (2) Information
Collection Request Title: Small Business
Vouchers: Web-survey of Participating
and Nonparticipating Small Businesses

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for DOE’s Small Business Vouchers
Pilot; (3) Type of Request: New
collection; (4) Purpose: To evaluate the
effectiveness and impacts of DOE’s
Small Business Vouchers (SBV) pilot
program, to capture lessons learned, and
make recommendations; The
information collection will be through a
web based survey, allowing
participating SBV firms and the
comparison firms to answer questions at
a time most convenient for them. The
web survey will consist of two fulllength surveys, the first conducted once
after the first year of vouchers has been
completed (i.e., the second year of the
pilot) and the second once five years
after the pilot began, and one
abbreviated survey administered twice
in the interim years (pilot years three
and four). The information collection
assumes there will be approximately
100 participating SBV firms in the first
year of the program (vouchers awarded
in 2016) and assumes there will be
comparable levels of funding and
participating SBV firms in 2017 and
2018. The first full-length survey (30
minutes in length for about 70 SBV
participants and about 70 comparison
firms) will stress questions about the
application, selection, work agreement
and completion processes and also ask
about commercialization progress and
other outcomes. The survey in year five
(30 minutes in length) will ask about
300 firms participating in SBV from
Years 1–3 and about 100 comparison
firms about interest in continuing to
engage with the national Laboratories,
but will concentrate on
commercialization and other outcomes
and how much the DOE program
contributed to the outcomes. The
abbreviated, interim-year surveys will
be 15 minutes in length and will
provide status updates on SBV pilot
impacts such as commercialization and
other outcomes. The purpose of also
surveying small business firms that have
an interest in working with the National
Laboratories but have not participated
in SBV is to investigate similarities and
differences in the two small business
groups. The data collected in the year
five survey will also be used to perform
a benefit-cost calculation and
benchmark comparison of voucher firms
to firms in the DOE Small Business
Innovation Research (SBIR) program,
based on existing SBIR data; (5) Annual
Estimated Number of Respondents: Pilot
Year 2 Survey: 140; Pilot Year 3 Survey:
200; Pilot Year 4 Survey: 300; Pilot Year
5 Survey: 400 ; (6) Annual Estimated
Number of Total Responses: Pilot Year
2 Survey: 140; Pilot Year 3 Survey: 200;
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Survey: 400; (7) Annual Estimated
Number of Burden Hours: Pilot Year 2
Survey: 70; Pilot Year 3 Survey: 50;
Pilot Year 4 Survey: 75; Pilot Year 5
Survey: 200; (8) Annual Estimated
Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost
Burden: Pilot Year 2 Survey: $0; Pilot
Year 5 Survey: $0; Pilot Year 3 and 4
Survey: $0.
Statutory Authority: DOE Org Act (42
U.S.C. 7101, et seq.) and 42 U.S.C. 16191
(AMO authority).
Issued in Washington, DC on April 5, 2016.
Jeff Dowd,
Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable
Energy, Department of Energy.
[FR Doc. 2016–08226 Filed 4–8–16; 8:45 am]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
AGENCY
[EPA–HQ–OW–2015–0828; FRL 9944–76–
OW]

Draft National Pollutant Discharge
Elimination System (NPDES) General
Permit for Stormwater Discharges
From Construction Activities
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice and request for public
comment.
AGENCY:

All 10 EPA Regions are
proposing for public comment on the
draft 2017 National Pollutant Discharge
Elimination System (NPDES) general
permit for stormwater discharges from
construction activities, also referred to
as the ‘‘2017 Construction General
Permit (CGP)’’ or the ‘‘draft permit.’’
The draft permit, once finalized, will
replace the existing general permit
covering stormwater discharges from
construction activities that will expire
on February 16, 2017. EPA proposes to
issue this permit for five (5) years, and
to provide permit coverage to eligible
operators in all areas of the country
where EPA is the NPDES permitting
authority, including Idaho,
Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and
New Mexico, Indian country lands,
Puerto Rico, the District of Columbia,
and most U.S. territories and
protectorates. EPA seeks comment on
the draft permit and on the
accompanying fact sheet, which
contains supporting documentation.
This Federal Register document
describes the draft permit in general and
also includes specific topics on which
the Agency is particularly seeking
comment. EPA encourages the public to
read the fact sheet to better understand
the draft permit. The fact sheet and draft

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