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need for developing such an HostVector 1 system. 

Background information may be 

obtained by contacting NIH OBA via email at oba@od.nih.gov. Alternatively, 

information is available on the OBA 

Web site at http://oba.od.nih.gov/oba/ 

news_events_oba.html. 

Dated: November 3, 2010. 

Jacqueline Corrigan-Curay, 

Acting Director, Office of Biotechnology 

Activities, National Institutes of Health. 

[FR Doc. 2010–28698 Filed 11–12–10; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND 

SECURITY 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Various Contract Related 

Forms That Will Be Included in the 

Homeland Security Acquisition 

Regulation, DHS Form 0700–01, DHS 

Form 0700–02, DHS Form 0700–03, 

DHS FORM 0700–04 

AGENCY: Office of Chief Procurement 

Officer, Acquisition Policy and 

Legislation Office, DHS. 

ACTION: 60–Day Notice and request for 

comments; Extension without Change, 

1600–0002. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Homeland 

Security, Office of Chief Procurement 

Officer, Acquisition Policy and 

Legislation Office, will submit the 

following Information Collection 

Request (ICR) to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for 

review and clearance in accordance 

with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 

1995 (Pub. L. 104–13, 44 U.S.C. chapter 

35). 

DATES: Comments are encouraged and 

will be accepted until January 14, 2011. 

This process is conducted in accordance 

with 5 CFR 1320.1 

ADDRESSES: Written comments and 

questions about this Information 

Collection Request should be forwarded 

to the Office of Chief Procurement 

Officer, Acquisition Policy and 

Legislation Office, DHS Attn.: Camara 

Francis, Department of Homeland 

Security, Office of the Chief 

Procurement Officer, Room 3114, 

Washington, DC 20528, 

Camara.Francis@hq.dhs.gov, 202–447– 

5904. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

information collection under the HSAR 

is necessary in order to implement 

applicable parts of the FAR (48 CFR). 

The four forms under this collection of 

information request are used by offerors, 

contractors, and the general public to 

comply with requirements in contracts 

awarded by the Department of 

Homeland Security (DHS). The four 

forms are DHS Form 0700–01, 

Cumulative Claim and Reconciliation 

Statement; DHS Form 0700–02, 

Contractor’s Assignment of Refund, 

Rebates, Credits and Other Amounts; 

DHS Form 0700–03, Contractor’s 

Release; and DHS Form 0700–04, 

Employee Claim for Wage Restitution. 

These four forms will be used by 

contractors and/or contract employees 

during contract administration. 

The information will be used by DHS 

contracting officers to ensure 

compliance with terms and conditions 

of DHS contracts and to complete 

reports required by other Federal 

agencies such as the General Services 

Administration and the Department of 

Labor. If this information is not 

collected, the DHS could inadvertently 

violate statutory or regulatory 

requirements and the DHS’s interest 

concerning inventions and contractor’s 

claims would not be protected. 

There has been an increase in the 

estimated annual burden hours 

previously reported for this collection. 

An adjustment in annual burden is 

necessary at this time in the amount of 

1534 actions and hours. The initial 

annual burden was based on a lower 

number of contract actions which 

related to the fact that DHS was a new 

agency with consolidated acquisition 

procedures, processes, and policies. 

Although, there is an increase in the 

estimated burdened hours, there is no 

change in the information being 

collected. 

The Office of Management and Budget 

is particularly interested in comments 

which: 

1. Evaluate whether the proposed 

collection of information is necessary 

for the proper performance of the 

functions of the agency, including 

whether the information will have 

practical utility; 

2. 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; 

3. Enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and 

4. 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. 

Analysis 

Agency: Office of Chief Procurement 

Officer, Acquisition Policy and 

Legislation Office, DHS. 

Title: Various contract related forms 

that will be included in the Homeland 

Security Acquisition Regulation. 

OMB Number: 1600–0002. 

Frequency: On Occasion. 

Affected Public: Private Sector. 

Number of Respondents: 8,635. 

Estimated Time per Respondent: 1 

hour. 

Total Burden Hours: 8,635. 

Total Burden Cost (capital/startup): 

$236,253.60. 

Dated: November 2, 2010. 

Richard Spires, 

Chief Information Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2010–28575 Filed 11–12–10; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND 

SECURITY 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Regulation on Agency 

Protests 

AGENCY: Office of Chief Procurement 

Officer, Acquisition Policy and 

Legislation Office, DHS. 

ACTION: 60-Day Notice and request for 

comments; Extension without Change, 

1600–0004. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Homeland 

Security, Office of Chief Procurement 

Officer, Acquisition Policy and 

Legislation Office, will submit the 

following Information Collection 

Request (ICR) to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for 

review and clearance in accordance 

with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 

1995 (Pub. L. 104–13, 44 U.S.C. chapter 

35). 

DATES: Comments are encouraged and 

will be accepted until January 14, 2011. 

This process is conducted in accordance 

with 5 CFR 1320.1. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments and 

questions about this Information 

Collection Request should be forwarded 

to Office of Chief Procurement Officer, 

Acquisition Policy and Legislation 

Office, DHS Attn.: Camara Francis, 

Department of Homeland Security, 

Office of the Chief Procurement Officer, 

Room 3114, Washington, DC 20528, 

Camara.Francis@hq.dhs.gov, 202–447– 

5904. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR); 

48 CFR Chapter 1 provides general 

procedures on handling protests 

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agencies. This regulation provides 

detailed guidance for contractors doing 

business with acquisition offices within 

the Department of Homeland Security 

(DHS) to implement the FAR. FAR Part 

33.103, Protests, Disputes, and Appeals 

prescribe policies and procedures for 

filing protests and for processing 

contract disputes and appeals. DHS will 

not be asking for anything outside of 

what is already required in the FAR. 

Should anything outside the FAR arise, 

DHS will submit a request for Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) 

approval. The information being 

collected will be obtained from 

contractors as part of their submissions 

whenever they file a bid protest with the 

Department’s Components. The 

information will be used by DHS 

officials in deciding how the protest 

should be resolved. Failure to collect 

this information would result in delayed 

resolution of agency protests. 

According to FPDS, the number of 

protest has increased each year over the 

past two years in annual respondent and 

burden hours. This increase in current 

protest activity is not the result of a 

deliberate program change, but from a 

new estimate of actions that are not 

controllable by the Federal government. 

Although, the number of protest has 

increased, there has not been any 

change in the information being 

collected. 

The Office of Management and Budget 

is particularly interested in comments 

which: 

1. Evaluate whether the proposed 

collection of information is necessary 

for the proper performance of the 

functions of the agency, including 

whether the information will have 

practical utility; 

2. 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; 

3. Enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and 

4. 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. 

Analysis 

Agency: Office of Chief Procurement 

Officer, Acquisition Policy and 

Legislation Office, DHS. 

Title: Regulation on Agency Protests. 

OMB Number: 1600–0004. 

Frequency: Annually. 

Affected Public: Private Sector. 

Number of Respondents: 75. 

Estimated Time per Respondent: 2 

hours. 

Total Burden Hours: 150. 

Total Burden Cost (capital/startup): 

$4,104.00. 

Dated: November 2, 2010. 

Richard Spires, 

Chief Information Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2010–28574 Filed 11–12–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 9110–9B–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND 

SECURITY 

Office of the Secretary 

[Docket No. DHS–2010–0052] 

Privacy Act of 1974; Department of 

Homeland Security Office of 

Operations Coordination and 

Planning—003 Operations Collection, 

Planning, Coordination, Reporting, 

Analysis, and Fusion System of 

Records 

AGENCY: Privacy Office, DHS. 

ACTION: Notice of Privacy Act system of 

records. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Privacy Act of 1974, the Department of 

Homeland Security is giving notice that 

it proposes to establish a new 

Department of Homeland Security 

system of records titled, ‘‘Department of 

Homeland Security Office of Operations 

Coordination and Planning—003 

Operations Collection, Planning, 

Coordination, Reporting, Analysis, and 

Fusion System of Records.’’ This system 

of records will allow the Department of 

Homeland Security Office of Operations 

Coordination and Planning, including 

the National Operations Center, to 

collect, plan, coordinate, report, 

analyze, and fuse information related to 

all-threats and all-hazards, law 

enforcement activities, intelligence 

activities, man-made disasters and acts 

of terrorism, natural disasters, and other 

information collected or received from 

federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial 

agencies and organizations; foreign 

governments and international 

organizations; domestic security and 

emergency management officials; and 

private sector entities or individuals 

into the Department. 

Some of the records in this system are 

in part transferred from the Department 

of Homeland Security/Information 

Analysis and Infrastructure Protection— 

001 Homeland Security Operations 

Center Database system of records, April 

15, 2005, with the overall intent of 

narrowing the focus of these records to 

the specific purpose outlined in this 

system of records notice. It is the 

Department’s intent, after all records are 

transferred into this and other system of 

records, to retire the Department of 

Homeland Security/Information 

Analysis and Infrastructure Protection— 

001 Homeland Security Operations 

Center Database system of records. 

Additionally, the Department of 

Homeland Security is issuing a Notice 

of Proposed Rulemaking concurrent 

with this system of records elsewhere in 

the Federal Register. This newly 

established system will be included in 

the Department of Homeland Security’s 

inventory of record systems. 

DATES: Submit comments on or before 

December 15, 2010. This new system 

will be effective December 15, 2010. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, 

identified by docket number DHS– 

2010–0052 by one of the following 

methods: 

• Federal e-Rulemaking Portal: 

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

instructions for submitting comments. 

• Fax: 703–483–2999. 

• Mail: Mary Ellen Callahan, Chief 

Privacy Officer, Privacy Office, 

Department of Homeland Security, 

Washington, DC 20528. 

• Instructions: All submissions 

received must include the agency name 

and docket number for this rulemaking. 

All comments received will be posted 

without change to http:// 

www.regulations.gov, including any 

personal information provided. 

• Docket: For access to the docket to 

read background documents or 

comments received go to http:// 

www.regulations.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

general questions please contact: 

Michael Page (202–357–7626), Privacy 

Point of Contact, Office of Operations 

Coordination and Planning, Department 

of Homeland Security, Washington, DC 

20528. For privacy issues please 

contact: Mary Ellen Callahan (703–235– 

0780), Chief Privacy Officer, Privacy 

Office, Department of Homeland 

Security, Washington, DC 20528. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

In accordance with the Privacy Act of 

1974, 5 U.S.C. 552a, the Department of 

Homeland Security (DHS) Office of 

Operations Coordination and Planning 

(OPS), including the National 

Operations Center (NOC), proposes to 

establish a new DHS system of records 

titled, ‘‘DHS/OPS—003 Operations 

Collection, Planning, Coordination, 


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