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[Federal Register: February 5, 2010 (Volume 75, Number 24)]
[Notices]               
[Page 5996]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Office of the Secretary

[Docket No. DoD-2009-OS-0088]

 
Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

ACTION: Notice.

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    The Department of Defense has submitted to OMB for clearance, the 
following proposal for collection of information under the provisions 
of the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35).

DATES: Consideration will be given to all comments received by March 8, 
2010.
    Title and OMB Number: Synchronized Predeployment and Operational 
Tracker (SPOT) System; OMB Control Number 0704-0460.
    Type of Request: Extension.
    Number of Respondents: 1,300 companies.
    Responses per Respondent: 1 to 32,000 employees (average 231).
    Annual Responses: 300,000.
    Average Burden per Response: 30 minutes.
    Annual Burden Hours: 150,000 hours (300,000 individual records x .5 
hrs).
    Needs and Uses: In accordance with section 861 of Public Law 110-
181 and DoD Instruction 3020.41, ``Contractor Personnel Authorized to 
Accompany the U.S. Armed Forces'' and other appropriate policy, 
Memoranda of Understanding, and regulations, the DoD Components, the 
Department of State (DoS), and the United States Agency for 
International Development (USAID) shall ensure that contractors enter 
data into the Synchronized Predeployment and Operational Tracker (SPOT) 
System before deployment outside the United States.
    Data collection on contractors is a condition of their contract 
when DFARS 252.225-7040 is incorporated and persons who choose not to 
have data collected will not be entitled to employment opportunities 
which require this data to be collected.
    Affected Public: Business or other for-profit.
    Frequency: On occasion.
    Respondent's Obligation: Required to obtain or retain benefits.
    OMB Desk Officer: Ms. Jasmeet Seehra.
    Written comments and recommendations on the proposed information 
collection should be sent to Ms. Seehra at the Office of Management and 
Budget, Desk Officer for DoD, Room 10236, New Executive Office 
Building, Washington, DC 20503.
    You may also submit comments, identified by docket number and 
title, by the following method:
     Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://www.regulations.gov. 
Follow the instructions for submitting comments.
    Instructions: All submissions received must include the agency 
name, docket number and title for this Federal Register document. The 
general policy for comments and other submissions from members of the 
public is to make these submissions available for public viewing on the 
Internet at http://www.regulations.gov as they are received without 
change, including any personal identifiers or contact information.
    DOD Clearance Officer: Ms. Patricia Toppings.
    Written requests for copies of the information collection proposal 
should be sent to Ms. Toppings at WHS/ESD/Information Management 
Division, 1777 North Kent Street, RPN, Suite 11000, Arlington, VA 
22209-2133.

    Dated: January 26, 2010.
Patricia L. Toppings,
OSD Federal Register Liaison Officer, Department of Defense.
[FR Doc. 2010-2452 Filed 2-4-10; 8:45 am]
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