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specifically apply to Federally 

registered lobbyists appointed by agency 

or department heads, it sets forth the 

Administration’s general policy of 

decreasing the influence of special 

interests in the Federal Government). 

Procedures and Guidelines of the 

Patent and Trademark Public Advisory 

Committees 

Each newly appointed member of the 

Patent and Trademark Public Advisory 

Committees will serve for a term of 

three years beginning at the expiration 

of his or her predecessor’s term. As 

required by the Act, members of the 

Patent and Trademark Public Advisory 

Committees will receive compensation 

for each day while the member is 

attending meetings or engaged in the 

business of that Advisory Committee. 

The enabling statute states that members 

are to be compensated at the daily 

equivalent of the annual rate of basic 

pay in effect for level III of the Executive 

Schedule under section 5314 of Title 5, 

United States Code. Committee 

members are compensated on an hourly 

basis, calculated at the daily rate. While 

away from home or regular place of 

business, each member will be allowed 

travel expenses, including per diem in 

lieu of subsistence, as authorized by 

Section 5703 of Title 5, United States 

Code. The USPTO will provide clerical 

and other support services for the 

Committees as the Director may 

determine to be necessary and proper. 

Applicability of Certain Ethics Laws 

Members of each Public Advisory 

Committee shall be Special Government 

Employees within the meaning of 

Section 202 of Title 18, United States 

Code. The following additional 

information includes several, but not 

all, of the ethics rules that apply to 

members, and assumes that members 

are not engaged in Public Advisory 

Committee business more than sixty 

days during any period of 365 

consecutive days. 

• Each member will be required to 

file a confidential financial disclosure 

form within thirty (30) days of 

appointment. 5 CFR 2634.202(c), 

2634.204, 2634.903, and 2634.904(b). 

• Each member will be subject to 

many of the public integrity laws, 

including criminal bars against 

representing a party, 18 U.S.C. 205(c), in 

a particular matter that came before the 

member’s committee and that involved 

at least one specific party. See also 18 

U.S.C. 207 for post-membership bars. A 

member also must not act on a matter 

in which the member (or any of certain 

closely related entities) has a financial 

interest (18 U.S.C. 208). 

• Representation of foreign interests 

may also raise issues (35 U.S.C. 5(a)(1) 

and 18 U.S.C. 219). 

Meetings of the Patent and Trademark 

Public Advisory Committees 

Meetings of each Advisory Committee 

will take place at the call of the 

respective Committee Chair to consider 

an agenda set by that Chair. Meetings 

may be conducted in person, 

electronically through the Internet, or by 

other appropriate means. The meetings 

of each Advisory Committee will be 

open to the public except each Advisory 

Committee may, by majority vote, meet 

in confidential executive sessions when 

considering personnel, privileged, or 

other confidential matters. Nominees 

must have the ability to participate in 

Committee business through the 

Internet. 

Procedures for Submitting Nominations 

Submit resume ́s for nomination for 

the Patent Public Advisory Committee 

and the Trademark Public Advisory 

Committee to: Chief of Staff to the 

Under Secretary of Commerce for 

Intellectual Property and Director of the 

United States Patent and Trademark 

Office, utilizing the addresses provided 

above. 

Dated: April 8, 2011. 

David J. Kappos, 

Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual 

Property and Director of the United States 

Patent and Trademark Office. 

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CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY 

COMMISSION 

Sunshine Act Meeting Notice 

TIME AND DATE: Wednesday, April 20, 

2011; 10 a.m.—11 a.m. 

PLACE: Room 410, Bethesda Towers, 

4330 East West Highway, Bethesda, 

Maryland. 

STATUS: Closed to the public. 

MATTER TO BE CONSIDERED: 

Compliance Status Report 

The Commission staff will brief the 

Commission on the status of compliance 

matters. 

For a recorded message containing the 

latest agenda information, call (301) 

504–7948. 

CONTACT PERSON FOR MORE INFORMATION: 

Todd A. Stevenson, Office of the 

Secretary, U.S. Consumer Product 

Safety Commission, 4330 East West 

Highway, Bethesda, MD 20814, (301) 

504–7923. 

Dated: April 12, 2011. 

Todd A Stevenson, 

Secretary. 

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BILLING CODE 6355–01–P 

CORPORATION FOR NATIONAL AND 

COMMUNITY SERVICE 

Information Collection; Submission for 

OMB Review, Comment Request 

AGENCY: Corporation for National and 

Community Service. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Corporation for National 

and Community Service (hereinafter the 

‘‘Corporation’’), has submitted a public 

information collection request (ICR) 

entitled Assessment of the National 

Conference on Volunteering and Service 

(formerly known as National Conference 

Surveys), for review and approval in 

accordance with the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995, Public Law 104– 

13, (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35). Copies of 

this ICR, with applicable supporting 

documentation, may be obtained by 

calling the Corporation for National and 

Community Service, Nathan Dietz, at 

(202) 606–6633 or e-mail to 

ndietz@cns.gov. Individuals who use a 

telecommunications device for the deaf 

(TTY–TDD) may call (202) 606–3472 

between 8:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. Eastern 

Time, Monday through Friday. 

ADDRESSES: Comments may be 

submitted, identified by the title of the 

information collection activity, to the 

Office of Information and Regulatory 

Affairs, Attn: Ms. Sharon Mar, OMB 

Desk Officer for the Corporation for 

National and Community Service, by 

any of the following two methods 

within 30 days from the date of 

publication in the Federal Register: 

(1) By fax to: (202) 395–6974, 

Attention: Ms. Sharon Mar, OMB Desk 

Officer for the Corporation for National 

and Community Service; and 

(2) Electronically by e-mail to 

smar@omb.eop.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The OMB 

is particularly interested in comments 

which: 

• Evaluate whether the proposed 

collection of information is necessary 

for the proper performance of the 

functions of the Corporation, including 

whether the information will have 

practical utility; 

• 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; 

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• Propose ways to enhance the 

quality, utility, and clarity of the 

information to be collected; and 

• Propose ways to 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. 

Comments 

A 60-day public comment Notice was 

published in the Federal Register on 

December 16, 2010. This comment 

period ended February 16, 2011. No 

public comments were received from 

this Notice. 

Description: The Corporation is 

seeking approval of the Assessment of 

the National Conference on 

Volunteering and Service (formerly 

known as the Conference Surveys) 

which is completed by the conference’s 

attendees to assess the satisfaction of 

participants with the conference‘s 

activities, and gather feedback about the 

informational and other needs of 

conference attendees. Data are collected 

using the following surveying methods 

as described below. 

• NCVS Registration Survey Form— 

data collected via the Conference 

registration system that provides 

demographic data on registered 

attendees, expectations and previous 

experiences. 

• Workshop Survey Form—onsite 

and online surveys administered in all 

Conference sessions to learn about the 

workshop/session experience from the 

perspective of attendees. 

• Post-Conference Online Survey—an 

online survey administered to registered 

attendees (excluding Conference 

exhibitors) to gather information about 

participation, quality and satisfaction. 

• Follow-up Survey—an online 

survey administered to registered 

attendees (excluding Conference 

exhibitors) to gather information about 

participants’ utilization of knowledge 

and resources gained during the 

Conference. 

Type of Review: Renewal. 

Agency: Corporation for National and 

Community Service. 

Title: Assessment of the National 

Conference on Volunteering and Service 

(formerly known as National Conference 

Surveys). 

OMB Number: #6045–0128. 

Agency Number: None. 

Affected Public: Individuals and 

households, community and faith-based 

organizations, non-profits, state and 

local government and educational 

institutions and businesses. 

Total Respondents: 5,000. 

Frequency: Annual. 

Average Time per Response: Fifteen 

minutes per survey. 

Estimated Total Burden Hours: 6,667 

hours. 

Total Burden Cost (capital/startup): 

None. 

Total Burden Cost (operating/ 

maintenance): None. 

Dated: April 8, 2011. 

Heather Peeler, 

Chief Strategy Officer, Strategy Office. 

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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

Applications for New Awards; Native 

American-Serving Nontribal 

Institutions Part F Program 

AGENCY: Office of Postsecondary 

Education, Department of Education. 

ACTION: Notice. 

Overview Information: 

Native American-Serving Nontribal 

Institutions (NASNTI) Part F Program. 

Notice inviting applications for new 

awards using fiscal year (FY) 2010 

funds. 

Catalog of Federal Domestic 

Assistance (CFDA) Number: 84.382C. 

DATES: Applications Available: April 14, 

2011. 

Deadline for Transmittal of 

Applications: May 31, 2011. 

Deadline for Intergovernmental 

Review: July 28, 2011. 

Full Text of Announcement 

I. Funding Opportunity Description 

Purpose of Program: The NASNTI 

Part F Program provides grants and 

related assistance to Native AmericanServing Nontribal Institutions to enable 

these institutions to improve and 

expand their capacity to serve Native 

Americans and low-income individuals 

by increasing their self-sufficiency in 

improving academic programs, 

institutional management, and fiscal 

stability. To qualify for funds under the 

NASNTI Program, an institution of 

higher education (IHE) must; have an 

enrollment of undergraduate students 

that is at least 10 percent Native 

American at the time of application for 

a grant; and not be a Tribal College or 

University under section 316 of the 

HEA. 

Waiver of Proposed Rulemaking: 

Under the Administrative Procedure Act 

(5 U.S.C. 553) the Department generally 

offers interested parties the opportunity 

to comment on proposed program 

requirements. Section 437(d)(1) of the 

General Education Provisions Act 

(GEPA), however, allows the Secretary 

to exempt from rulemaking 

requirements, regulations governing the 

first grant competition under a new or 

substantially revised program authority. 

The Health Care and Education 

Reconciliation Act of 2010 (Pub. L. 111– 

152) (Reconciliation Act) provided new 

authority to implement the NASNTI 

Part F Program authorized under section 

371 of the HEA. This is the first grant 

competition for this program since the 

Reconciliation Act; therefore, this 

competition qualifies for the exemption. 

Under section 437(d)(1) of GEPA, in 

order to ensure timely grant awards, the 

Secretary has decided to forego public 

comment on the following requirements 

for this competition: the requirements 

established in Notes 1 and 2 in the 

Relationship between the Title III, Part 

F Programs section of this notice. 

Priorities: These priorities are from 

the notice of supplemental priorities 

and definitions for discretionary grant 

programs, published in the Federal 

Register on December 15, 2010 (75 FR 

78486). 

Competitive Preference Priorities: For 

FY 2011, these priorities are competitive 

preference priorities. Under 34 CFR 

75.105(c)(2)(i), we award an additional 

two and one-half points to an 

application that meets one of the 

priorities, or an additional five points to 

an application that meets both of these 

priorities. 

These priorities are: 

Priority I—Increasing Postsecondary 

Success 

Increasing the number and proportion 

of high-need students (as defined in this 

notice) who persist in and complete 

college or other postsecondary 

education and training; and, 

Priority II—Enabling More Data-Based 

Decision-Making 

Projects that are designed to collect 

(or obtain), analyze, and use highquality and timely data, including data 

on program participant outcomes, in 

accordance with privacy requirements 

(as defined in this notice), in the 

following priority area: 

Improving postsecondary student 

outcomes relating to enrollment, 

persistence, and completion and leading 

to career success. 

Definitions: These definitions are 

from the notice of final supplemental 

priorities and definitions for 

discretionary grant programs, published 

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