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election is not submitted within the one 

year period described in the previous 

paragraph and the member fails to elect 

former spouse SBP coverage, no former 

spouse coverage will be provided. 

The DD Form 2656–10, ‘‘Survivor 

Benefit Plan (SBP)/Reserve Component 

(RC) SBP Request for Deemed Election,’’ 

is currently the prescribed form 

required for submitting such request. 

Dated: May 22, 2014. 

Aaron Siegel, 

Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison 

Officer, Department of Defense. 

[FR Doc. 2014–12391 Filed 5–28–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 5001–06–P 

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Office of the Secretary 

[Docket ID DoD–2014–OS–0078] 

Proposed Collection; Comment 

Request 

AGENCY: Office of the Under Secretary of 

Defense for Personnel and Readiness 

(Military Personnel Policy), DoD. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In compliance with Section 

3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995, the Office of the 

Under Secretary of Defense (Personnel 

and Readiness) (Military Personnel 

Policy), announces a proposed public 

information collection and seeks public 

comment on the provisions thereof. 

Comments are invited on: (a) Whether 

the proposed collection of information 

is necessary for the proper performance 

of the functions of the agency, including 

whether the information shall have 

practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the 

agency’s estimate of the burden of the 

proposed information collection; (c) 

ways to enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and (d) ways to minimize the 

burden of the information collection on 

respondents, including through the use 

of automated collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology. 

DATES: Consideration will be given to all 

comments received by July 28, 2014. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, 

identified by docket number and title, 

by any of the following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:// 

www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

instructions for submitting comments. 

• Mail: Federal Docket Management 

System Office, 4800 Mark Center Drive, 

East Tower, Suite 02G09, Alexandria, 

VA 22350–3100. 

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. 

Any associated form(s) for this 

collection may be located within this 

same electronic docket and downloaded 

for review/testing. Follow the 

instructions at http://

www.regulations.gov for submitting 

comments. Please submit comments on 

any given form identified by docket 

number, form number, and title. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To 

request more information on this 

proposed information collection or to 

obtain a copy of the proposal and 

associated collection instruments, 

please write to Office of the Under 

Secretary of Defense (Personnel and 

Readiness) (Military Personnel Policy), 

ATTN: MAJ Justin DeVantier, 4000 

Defense Pentagon, Washington, DC 

20301–4000 or call at 703–695–5527. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Title; Associated Form; and OMB 

Number: Request for Reference; DD 

Form 370; OMB Control Number 0704– 

0167. 

Needs and Uses: This information 

collection requirement is necessary to 

obtain personal reference data, in order 

to request a waiver, on a military 

applicant who has committed a civil or 

criminal offense and would otherwise 

be disqualified for entry into the Armed 

Forces of the United States. The DD 

Form 370 is used to obtain references 

information evaluating the character, 

work habits, and attitudes of an 

applicant from a person of authority or 

standing within the community. 

Affected Public: Individuals or 

Households; Business or other ForProfit; Not-for-Profit institutions; State, 

Local, or Tribal government. Normally, 

this form would be completed by 

responsible community leaders such as 

school officials, ministers and law 

enforcement officials. 

Annual Burden Hours: 1,083 hours. 

Number of Respondents: 6,500. 

Responses per Respondent: 1. 

Total Annual Responses: 6,500. 

Average Burden per Response: 10 

minutes. 

Frequency: On Occasion. 

This information is collected to 

provide Armed Services with specific 

background information on an 

applicant. History of criminal activity, 

arrests, or confinement is disqualifying 

for military service. An applicant, with 

such a disqualifier, is required to submit 

references from community leaders who 

will attest to his or her character, 

attitudes or work habits. The DD Form 

370 is the method of information 

collection which requests an evaluation 

and reference from a specific individual, 

within the community, who has the 

knowledge of the applicant’s habits, 

behavior, personality, and character. 

The information will be used to 

determine suitability of the applicant for 

military service and the issuance of a 

waiver for acceptance. 

Dated: May 22, 2014. 

Aaron Siegel, 

Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison 

Officer, Department of Defense. 

[FR Doc. 2014–12389 Filed 5–28–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 5001–06–P 

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Office of the Secretary 

[Docket ID: DoD–2013–OS–0223] 

Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: 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 June 30, 2014. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Fred 

Licari, 571–372–0493. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Title, Associated Form and OMB 

Number: Assessing Options for CONUS 

Domestic Dependents Elementary and 

Secondary Schools (DDESS); OMB 

Control Number 0704–TBD. 

Type of Request: New. 

Number of Respondents: 28. 

Responses per Respondent: 1. 

Annual Responses: 28. 

Average Burden per Response: 120 

minutes. 

Annual Burden Hours: 56. 

Needs and Uses: The objective of this 

project is to recommend options that 

most effectively balance cost and quality 

considerations for primary and 

secondary schooling of military 

dependents on each of the 15 

continental United States (CONUS) 

installations where the Department of 

Defense currently operates Domestic 

Dependents Elementary and Secondary 

Schools (DDESS) or contracts with local 

educational agencies (LEAs) to operate 


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schools on the installation. As part of 

the study, we will interview 

superintendents of LEAs that are in 

close proximity to installations that 

have DDESS schools (excluding those 

installations that only have special 

arrangement schools). The interviews 

will capture information on the 

approach the LEAs will adopt if they 

were given the responsibility to educate 

DDESS students, as well as identify 

factors that might facilitate or hinder 

LEAs taking the responsibility of 

educating DDESS students. This 

information is critical as it will identify 

whether transferring DDESS schools to 

LEAs is even a feasible option that 

could be plausibly considered for the 

governance of the current CONUS 

DDESS schools. 

Affected Public: Individuals or 

households. 

Frequency: Once. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary. 

OMB Desk Officer: Ms. Jasmeet 

Seehra. 

Written comments and 

recommendations on the proposed 

information collection should be sent to 

Ms. Jasmeet 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, 4800 

Mark Center Drive, East Tower, Suite 

02G09, Alexandria, VA 22350–3100. 

Dated: May 23, 2014. 

Aaron Siegel, 

Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison 

Officer, Department of Defense. 

[FR Doc. 2014–12453 Filed 5–28–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 5001–06–P 

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Office of the Secretary 

Renewal of Department of Defense 

Federal Advisory Committees 

AGENCY: DoD. 

ACTION: Renewal of Federal Advisory 

Committee. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Defense is 

publishing this notice to announce that 

it is renewing the charter for the Threat 

Reduction Advisory Committee (‘‘the 

Committee’’). 

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 renewed 

under the provisions of the Federal 

Advisory Committee Act of 1972 (5 

U.S.C. Appendix, as amended), the 

Government in the Sunshine Act of 

1976 (5 U.S.C. 552b) (‘‘the Sunshine 

Act’’), and 41 CFR 102–3.50(d). 

The Committee is a discretionary 

Federal advisory committee that shall 

provide the Secretary of Defense, 

through the Under Secretary of Defense 

for Acquisition, Technology and 

Logistics (USD(AT&L)) and the 

Assistant Secretary of Defense for 

Nuclear, Chemical, and Biological 

Defense Programs (ASD(NCB)), 

independent advice and 

recommendations on: 

a. Reducing the threat to the United 

States, its military forces, and its allies 

and partners posed by nuclear, 

biological, chemical, conventional, and 

special weapons. 

b. Combating WMD to include nonproliferation, counterproliferation, and 

consequence management. 

c. Nuclear deterrence transformation, 

nuclear material lockdown and 

accountability. 

d. Nuclear weapons effects; 

e. The nexus of counterproliferation 

and counter WMD terrorism. 

f. Other AT&L; NCB; and Defense 

Threat Reduction Agency missionrelated matters, as requested by the 

USD(AT&L). 

The Committee shall report to the 

Secretary of Defense through the 

USD(AT&L). 

The Department of Defense (DoD), 

through the Office of the USD(AT&L), 

the Office of the ASD(NCB) Defense 

Programs, and the Defense Threat 

Reduction Agency, shall provide 

support, as deemed necessary, for the 

Committee’s performance, and shall 

ensure compliance with the 

requirements of the FACA, the Sunshine 

Act, governing Federal statutes and 

regulations, and established DoD 

policies and procedures. 

The Committee shall be composed of 

no more than 20 members who are 

eminent authorities in the fields of 

national defense, geopolitical and 

national security affairs, WMD, nuclear 

physics, chemistry, and biology. 

The Committee members are 

appointed by the Secretary of Defense or 

the Deputy Secretary of Defense and 

their appointments will be renewed on 

an annual basis in accordance with DoD 

policies and procedures. Those 

members, who are not full-time or 

permanent part-time federal officers or 

employees, shall be appointed as 

experts and consultants under the 

authority of 5 U.S.C. 3109 to serve as 

special government employee (SGE) 

members, with annual renewals. 

Committee members who are full-time 

or permanent part-time Federal 

employees will serve as regular 

government employee (RGE) members. 

Committee members shall, with the 

exception of travel and per diem for 

official travel, serve without 

compensation, unless otherwise 

authorized by the Secretary of Defense. 

The Secretary of Defense, in 

consultation with USD(AT&L) and the 

ASD(NCB), shall select the Committee’s 

Chair and Vice Chair from among the 

membership approved by the Secretary 

of Defense or Deputy Secretary of 

Defense. 

The Secretary of Defense or Deputy 

Secretary of Defense may approve the 

appointment of Committee members for 

one-to-four year terms of service; 

however, no member, unless authorized 

by the Secretary of Defense or Deputy 

Secretary of Defense, may serve more 

than two consecutive terms of service, 

to include its subcommittees, or serve 

on more than two DoD Federal advisory 

committees at one time. 

Each Committee member is appointed 

to provide advice on behalf of the 

government on the basis of his or her 

best judgment without representing any 

particular point of view and in a manner 

that is free from conflict of interest. 

The DoD, when necessary and 

consistent with the Committee’s mission 

and DoD policies, may establish 

subcommittees, task forces, or working 

groups to support the Committee. 

Establishment of subcommittees will be 

based upon written determination, to 

include terms of reference, by the 

Secretary of Defense, the Deputy 

Secretary of Defense, or the USD(AT&L), 

as the Committee’s sponsor. 

Such subcommittees shall not work 

independently of the chartered 

Committee, and shall report their 


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