17424 Federal Register / Vol. 76, No. 60 / Tuesday, March 29, 2011 / Notices 

DATES: Written comments on the 

adoption and implementation of the 

eighth edition of the Guide must be 

received by NIH on or before April 24, 

2011 in order to be considered. 

ADDRESSES: Public comments may be 

entered at: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/ 

olaw/2011guidecomments/add.htm. 

Comments will be made publicly 

available. Personally identifiable 

information (except organizational 

affiliations) will be removed prior to 

making comments publicly available. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare, 

Office of Extramural Research, NIH, 

RKL1, Suite 360, 6705 Rockledge Drive, 

Bethesda, MD 20892–7982; telephone 

301–496–7163. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

The Guide, first published in 1963, is 

a widely accepted primary reference on 

animal care and use. Recommendations 

in the Guide are based on published 

data, scientific principles, expert 

opinion, and experience with methods 

and practices that are determined to be 

consistent with high quality, humane 

animal care and use. The eighth edition 

of the Guide was published in January 

2011 following a study by the Institute 

for Laboratory Animal Research of the 

National Academy of Sciences (NAS). 

The NAS study process began in 2008 

and followed the requirements of 

Section 15 of the Federal Advisory 

Committee Act. The NAS study process 

is described at the NAS Web site: 

http://www.nationalacademies.org/ 

studyprocess/index.html. 

Since 1985, the PHS Policy on 

Humane Care and Use of Laboratory 

Animals, authorized by Public Law 99– 

158, 42 U.S.C. 289d, and incorporated 

by reference at 42 CFR 52.8 and 42 CFR 

52a.8, has required that institutions 

receiving PHS support for animal 

activities base their animal care and use 

programs on the current edition of the 

Guide and comply, as applicable, with 

the Animal Welfare Act and other 

Federal statutes and regulations relating 

to animal activities. The PHS Policy is 

applicable to all PHS-conducted or 

-supported activities (including 

research, research training, 

experimentation or biological testing, or 

related purposes) involving live 

vertebrate animals. 

The eighth edition of the Guide 

contains substantive changes and 

additions from the previous edition. To 

gain insight from institutions on the 

impact of changes to the Guide on their 

animal care and use programs, NIH 

seeks comments on whether it should 

adopt the eighth edition of the Guide. 

NIH simultaneously proposes an 

implementation plan for the eighth 

edition of the Guide and seeks 

comments on the proposed plan. 

The implementation plan proposed by 

NIH would require institutions to 

complete at least one semiannual 

program and facility evaluation, using 

the eighth edition of the Guide as the 

basis for evaluation, by March 31, 2012. 

For such an evaluation to be considered 

complete by NIH, it would need to 

include reasonable and specific plans 

and schedules for corrections of 

deficiencies where appropriate. 

II. Electronic Access 

The eighth edition of the Guide is 

available on the NIH Office of 

Laboratory Animal Welfare Web site at 

http://olaw.nih.gov. 

Dated: March 23, 2011. 

Francis S. Collins, 

Director, National Institutes of Health. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND 

SECURITY 

[Docket No. DHS–2011–0009] 

President’s National Security 

Telecommunications Advisory 

Committee 

AGENCY: National Protection and 

Programs Directorate, DHS. 

ACTION: Committee Management; Notice 

of an open Federal Advisory Committee 

Meeting. 

SUMMARY: The President’s National 

Security Telecommunications Advisory 

Committee (NSTAC) will meet on 

Tuesday, April 19, 2011, via a 

conference call. The meeting will be 

open to the public. 

DATES: The NSTAC will meet Tuesday, 

April 19, 2011, from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. 

Please note that the meeting may close 

early if the committee has completed its 

business. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held 

via a conference call. For access to the 

conference bridge, contact Ms. Sue 

Daage at (703) 235–4964 or by e-mail at 

sue.daage@dhs.gov by 5:00 p.m. April 

12, 2011. 

To facilitate public participation, we 

are inviting public comment on the 

issues to be considered by the 

committee as listed in the ‘‘Summary’’ 

section below. Associated briefing 

materials that will be discussed on the 

conference call will be available at 

http://www.ncs.gov/nstac for review as 

of April 8, 2011. Written comments 

must be received by the Deputy 

Manager no later than April 12, 2011, 

identified by Federal Register Docket 

Number DHS–2011–0009 and may be 

submitted by any one of the following 

methods: 

• ;Federal eRulemaking Portal: 

http://www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

instructions for submitting written 

comments. 

• E-mail: NSTAC@hq.dhs.gov. 

Include the docket number in the 

subject line of the email message. 

• Fax: (703) 235–4981. 

• Mail: Deputy Manager, National 

Communications System, National 

Protection and Programs Directorate, 

Department of Homeland Security, 245 

Murray Lane, Mail Stop 0615, 

Arlington, VA 20598–0615. 

Instructions: All written submissions 

received must include the words 

‘‘Department of Homeland Security’’ and 

the docket number for this action. 

Written comments received will be 

posted without alteration at http:// 

www.regulations.gov, including any 

personal information provided. 

Docket: For access to the docket, 

background documents or comments 

received by the NSTAC, go to http:// 

www.regulations.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

James Madon, NSTAC Designated 

Federal Officer, Department of 

Homeland Security, telephone (703) 

235–4900. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice of 

this meeting is given under the Federal 

Advisory Committee Act (FACA), 5 

U.S.C. App. (Pub. L. 92–463). The 

NSTAC advises the President on matters 

related to national security and 

emergency preparedness 

telecommunications policy. 

The NSTAC Chair, Mr. James Crowe, 

will call the meeting to order and 

provide opening remarks. The NSTAC 

members will discuss and vote on the 

Communications Resiliency Report and 

receive an update on the cloud 

computing scoping effort. 

Meeting Agenda: 

I. Opening Remarks and Introductions 

II. Discussion and Vote on the 

Communications Resiliency Report 

III. Update on the Cloud Computing 

Scoping Effort 

IV. Closing Remarks 

Dated: March 18, 2011. 

James Madon, 

Designated Federal Officer for the NSTAC. 

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