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(b) Resources available for supporting 

the non-Federal party contributions 

described; and 

(c) Technical expertise/understanding 

of Maritime Domain Awareness, 

maritime common operational picture, 

USCG port operations, and industry best 

practices in situational display 

technologies. 

This is a technology transfer/

development effort. So far, the Coast 

Guard has no forecast to procure the 

technology. Proposals should clearly 

discuss how the concepts and 

technologies, e.g., for two-dimensional, 

GIS-based display of maritime system 

risks and organizational readiness, 

could improve existing USCG 

capabilities and aid the USCG in 

visualizing its future ‘‘world of work.’’

Special consideration will be given to 

small business firms/consortia, and 

preference will be given to business 

units located in the U.S. which agree 

that products embodying inventions 

made under the CRADA or produced 

through the use of such inventions will 

be manufactured substantially in the 

U.S.

Dated: January 29, 2004. 

F.A. Dutch, 

Capt USCG, Commanding Officer, R&D 

Center.

[FR Doc. 04–2510 Filed 2–4–04; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–15–P

DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND 

SECURITY 

Coast Guard 

[USCG–2003–16297] 

National Preparedness for Response 

Exercise Program (PREP)

AGENCY: Coast Guard, DHS.

ACTION: Notice; revision to PREP 

triennial exercise schedule for 2004, 

2005, and 2006; request for public 

comment; correction to prior notice. 

SUMMARY: On October 16, 2003, the 

Coast Guard—on behalf of the Coast 

Guard, the Research and Special 

Programs Administration, the 

Environmental Protection Agency and 

the Minerals Management Service—

published the Preparedness for 

Response Exercise Program (PREP) 

triennial exercise schedule for 2004 

through 2006. This notice revises that 

schedule based on internal agency 

input, requests comments from the 

public, and requests industry 

participants to volunteer for scheduled 

PREP Area exercises.

DATES: Comments and related material 

must reach the Docket Management 

Facility on or before March 8, 2004.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

identified by Coast Guard docket 

number USCG–2003–16297 to the 

Docket Management Facility at the U.S. 

Department of Transportation. To avoid 

duplication, please use only one of the 

following methods: 

(1) Web Site: http://dms.dot.gov.

(2) Mail: Docket Management Facility, 

U.S. Department of Transportation, 400 

Seventh Street SW., Washington, DC 

20590–0001. 

(3) Fax: 202–493–2251. 

(4) Delivery: Room PL–401 on the 

Plaza level of the Nassif Building, 400 

Seventh Street SW., Washington, DC, 

between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday 

through Friday, except Federal holidays. 

The telephone number is 202–366–

9329.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: If 

you have questions on this notice, or 

need general information regarding the 

PREP Program and the schedule, contact 

Mr. Robert Pond, Office of Response, 

Plans and Preparedness Division (GMOR–2), U.S. Coast Guard 

Headquarters, telephone 202–267–6603, 

fax 202–267–4065 or e-mail 

rpond@comdt.uscg.mil. If you have 

questions on viewing or submitting 

material to the docket, call Ms. Andrea 

M. Jenkins, Program Manager, Docket 

Operations, telephone 202–366–0271.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Preparedness for Response Exercise 

Program (PREP) Area exercise schedule 

and exercise design manuals are 

available on the Internet at http://

www.uscg.mil/hq/nsfweb/nsfcc/prep/

index.html. To obtain a hard copy of the 

exercise design manual, contact Ms. 

Melanie Barber at the Research and 

Special Programs Administration, Office 

of Pipeline Safety, at 202–366–4560. 

The 2002 PREP Guidelines booklet is 

available at no cost on the Internet at 

http://www.uscg.mil/hq/nsfweb/nsfcc/

prep/index.html or by writing or faxing 

the TASC DEPT Warehouse, 33141Q 

75th Avenue, Landover, MD 20785, 

facsimile: 301–386–5394. The stock 

number of the manual is USCG–X0241. 

Please indicate the quantity when 

ordering. Quantities are limited to 10 

per order. 

Public Participation and Request for 

Comments 

We encourage you to respond to this 

notice by submitting comments and 

related materials. All comments 

received will be posted, without change, 

to http://dms.dot.gov and will include 

any personal information you have 

provided. We have an agreement with 

the Department of Transportation (DOT) 

to use the Docket Management Facility. 

Please see DOT’s ‘‘Privacy Act’’ three 

paragraphs below. 

Submitting comments: If you submit a 

comment, please include your name and 

address, identify the docket number for 

this notice (USCG–2003–16297), 

indicate the specific section of this 

document to which each comment 

applies, and give the reason for each 

comment. You may submit your 

comments and material by electronic 

means, mail, fax, or delivery to the 

Docket Management Facility at the 

address under ADDRESSES; but please 

submit your comments and material by 

only one means. If you submit them by 

mail or delivery, submit them in an 

unbound format, no larger than 81⁄2 by 

11 inches, suitable for copying and 

electronic filing. If you submit them by 

mail and would like to know that they 

reached the Facility, please enclose a 

stamped, self-addressed postcard or 

envelope. We will consider all 

comments and material received during 

the comment period. We may change 

this triennial exercise schedule in view 

of them. 

Viewing comments and documents:

To view comments, as well as 

documents mentioned in this preamble 

as being available in the docket, go to 

http://dms.dot.gov at any time and 

conduct a simple search using the 

docket number. You may also visit the 

Docket Management Facility in room 

PL–401 on the Plaza level of the Nassif 

Building, 400 Seventh Street SW., 

Washington, DC, between 9 a.m. and 5 

p.m., Monday through Friday, except 

Federal holidays. 

Privacy Act: Anyone can search the 

electronic form of all comments 

received into any of our dockets by the 

name of the individual submitting the 

comment (or signing the comment, if 

submitted on behalf of an association, 

business, labor union, etc.). You may 

review the Department of 

Transportation’s Privacy Act Statement 

in the Federal Register published on 

April 11, 2000 (65 FR 19477), or you 

may visit http://dms.dot.gov.

Revisions to the October 2003 Notice 

On October 16, 2003, the Coast Guard 

published a notice in the Federal 

Register (68 FR 59627) announcing the 

PREP triennial exercise schedule for 

2004, 2005, and 2006. We are making 

several revisions to the triennial 

exercise schedule in that notice based 

on internal agency input. A summary of 

the changes follows— 

For Government-Led Area Exercises 

for Calendar Year 2004, we changed 

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Guam from 1st to 4th Quarter, changed 

Prince William Sound from 4th to 3rd 

Quarter, and added EPA Region I to 4th 

Quarter. For Industry-Led Area 

Exercises for Calendar Year 2004, we 

changed Maryland Coastal from 2nd to 

4th Quarter, and added a footnote for 

Charleston, SC, and Duluth-Superior to 

indicate ‘‘credit for response in lieu of 

exercise.’’

This notice announces the revised 

triennial schedule of Area exercises. If 

a company wants to volunteer for an 

Area exercise, a company representative 

may call either the Coast Guard or EPA 

On-Scene Coordinator (OSC) where the 

exercise is scheduled. 

The table below is the revised PREP 

schedule for the calendar years 2004, 

2005, and 2006.

TABLE—PREP SCHEDULE—GOVERNMENT-LED AREA EXERCISES

Area Agency Qtr 1 Participant 

CALENDAR YEAR 2004

Los Angeles/Long Beach South (Marine Safety Office (MSO) LA/LB), SONS2 .............................................. CG 2

San Diego (MSO San Diego), SONS2 .............................................................................................................. CG 2

Prince William Sound (MSO Valdez) ................................................................................................................. CG 3

Guam (MSO Guam) ........................................................................................................................................... CG 4

Region I Regional Contingency Plan (RCP) (EPA Region I) ............................................................................ EPA 4

CALENDAR YEAR 2005

Houston-Galveston (MSO Houston) .................................................................................................................. CG 1

Virginia Coastal (MSO Hampton Road) ............................................................................................................ CG 1

Alabama-Mississippi (MSO Mobile) ................................................................................................................... CG 2

Providence (MSO Providence) .......................................................................................................................... CG 3

Western Alaska (MSO Anchorage) ................................................................................................................... CG 3

Region V RCP (EPA Region V) ........................................................................................................................ EPA 4

CALENDAR YEAR 2006

Cleveland, OH (MSO Cleveland) ....................................................................................................................... CG 1

Jacksonville, FL (MSO Jacksonville) ................................................................................................................. CG 2

To Be Determined .............................................................................................................................................. CG 2

Northwest Area-Portland (MSO Portland) ......................................................................................................... CG 3

Region IX RCP or Oceania (EPA Region IX) ................................................................................................... EPA 3

New Orleans, LA (MSO New Orleans) .............................................................................................................. CG 4

PREP SCHEDULE—INDUSTRY-LED AREA EXERCISES

Area Qtr 1 Participant 

CALENDAR YEAR 2004

Chicago, IL (MSO Chicago) ................................................................................................................................................... 2

Long Island Sound (MSO Long Island) ................................................................................................................................. 2

San Francisco Bay (MSO San Francisco) ............................................................................................................................. 2

South Texas Coast (MSO Corpus Christi) ............................................................................................................................ 2

Charleston, SC (MSO Charleston) ........................................................................................................................................ 3 3

Morgan City, LA (MSO Morgan City) ..................................................................................................................................... 3

New York, NY (Activities NY) ................................................................................................................................................ 3

Savannah, GA (MSO Savannah) ........................................................................................................................................... 3

Duluth-Superior (MSO Duluth) ............................................................................................................................................... 3 4

Maryland Coastal (MSO Baltimore) ....................................................................................................................................... 4

Eastern Wisconsin (MSO Milwaukee) ................................................................................................................................... 4

Northwest-Puget Sound (MSO Puget Sound) ....................................................................................................................... 4

Region VII RCP (EPA Region VII) ......................................................................................................................................... 4

CALENDAR YEAR 2005

Detroit, MI (MSO Detroit) ....................................................................................................................................................... 1

Region VIII (EPA Region VIII) ............................................................................................................................................... 1

Boston (MSO Boston) ............................................................................................................................................................ 2

Hawaiian Islands (MSO Honolulu) ......................................................................................................................................... 2

South Florida (MSO Miami) ................................................................................................................................................... 2

South Los Angeles/Long Beach, CA (MSO LA/LB) .............................................................................................................. 2

S. North Carolina (MSO Wilmington) ..................................................................................................................................... 3

SW La./SE Texas (MSO Port Arthur) .................................................................................................................................... 3

Tampa, FL (MSO Tampa) ...................................................................................................................................................... 3

Region X or EPA Alaska RCP (EPA Region X) .................................................................................................................... 4

Sault Ste. Marie, MI (MSO Sault Ste. Marie) ........................................................................................................................ 4

CALENDAR YEAR 2006

Florida Panhandle (MSO Mobile) .......................................................................................................................................... 1

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PREP SCHEDULE—INDUSTRY-LED AREA EXERCISES—Continued

Area Qtr 1 Participant 

SE Alaska (MSO Juneau) ...................................................................................................................................................... 1

Buffalo (MSO Buffalo) ............................................................................................................................................................ 2

Maine-New Hampshire (MSO Portland, ME) ......................................................................................................................... 2

Philadelphia, PA (MSO Philadelphia) .................................................................................................................................... 2

Region II RCP or Caribbean (EPA Region II) ....................................................................................................................... 2

North Coast (CA) Area (MSO San Francisco) ...................................................................................................................... 3

Region III RCP (EPA Region III) ........................................................................................................................................... 3

Region VI RCP (EPA Region VI) ........................................................................................................................................... 3

Caribbean Area (MSO San Juan) .......................................................................................................................................... 4

Northern Marianas (MSO Guam) ........................................................................................................................................... 4

Western Lake Erie (MSO Toledo) ......................................................................................................................................... 4

1Quarters: 1 (January-March); 2 (April-June); 3 (July-September); 4 (October-December). 

2SONS: 2004 Spill of National Significance Exercise. 

3 Note: Credit for response in lieu of exercise. 

In the first paragraph of the 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of 

the October 16, 2003 notice, we 

erroneously referred to the 2003 PREP 

Guidelines booklet. The latest edition 

available is the 2002 PREP Guidelines 

booklet. 

Correction 

In the Federal Register of October 16, 

2003, in FR Doc. 03–26129, on page 

59628, in the first sentence of the 

second column, correct ‘‘2003’’ to read 

‘‘2002’’.

Dated: January 30, 2004. 

Joseph J. Angelo, 

Director of Standards, Marine Safety, Security 

& Environmental Protection.

[FR Doc. 04–2507 Filed 2–4–04; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–15–P

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND 

URBAN DEVELOPMENT 

[Docket No.FR–4903–N–04] 

Notice of Submission of Proposed 

Information Collection to 

OMB:Request Voucher for Grant 

Payment and LOCCS Voice Response 

System Access Authorization

AGENCY: Office of the Chief Information 

Officer, HUD.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: The proposed information 

collection requirement described below 

has been submitted to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for 

review, as required by the Paperwork 

Reduction Act. The Department is 

soliciting public comments on the 

subject proposal. 

This is a request to extend approval 

for the request for grant payment 

vouchers used to prepare automated 

phone request for distribution of grant 

funds using the automated Voice 

Response System (VRS). The 

authorization form is submitted to 

establish access to the voice activated 

payment system.

DATES: Comments Due Date: March 8, 

2004.

ADDRESSES: Interested persons are 

invited to submit comments regarding 

this proposal. Comments should refer to 

the proposal by name and OMB 

approval number (2535–0102) and 

should be sent to: Melanie Kadlic, OMB 

Desk Officer, Office of Management and 

Budget, Room 10235, New Executive 

Office Building, Washington, DC 20503; 

Fax number (202) 395–6974; E-mail 

Melanie_Kadlic@omb.eop.gov.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Wayne Eddins, Reports Management 

Officer, AYO, Department of Housing 

and Urban Development, 451 Seventh 

Street, Southwest, Washington, DC 

20410; e-mail Wayne_Eddins@HUD.gov; 

telephone (202) 708–2374. This is not a 

toll-free number. Copies of the proposed 

forms and other available documents 

submitted to OMB may be obtained 

from Mr. Eddins or on HUD’s Web site 

at http://www5.hud.gov:63001/po/i/

icbts/collectionsearch.cfm.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Department has submitted the proposal 

for the collection of information, as 

described below, to OMB for review, as 

required by the Paperwork Reduction 

Act (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35). The notice 

lists the following information: (1) The 

title of the information collection 

proposal; (2) the office of the agency to 

collect the information; (3) the OMB 

approval number, if applicable; (4) the 

description of the need for the 

information and its proposed use; (5) 

the agency form number, if applicable; 

(6) what members of the public will be 

affected by the proposal; (7) how 

frequently information submissions will 

be required; (8) an estimate of the total 

number of hours needed to prepare the 

information submission including 

number of respondents, frequency of 

response, and hours of response; (9) 

whether the proposal is new, an 

extension, reinstatement, or revision of 

an information collection requirement; 

and (10) the name and telephone 

number of an agency official familiar 

with the proposal and of the OMB Desk 

Officer for the Department. 

This notice also lists the following 

information: 

Title of Proposal: Request Voucher for 

Grant Payment and LOCCS Voice 

Response System Access Authorization. 

OMB Approval Number: 2535–0102. 

Form Numbers: HUD 27053, HUD 

27054. 

Description of the Need for the 

Information and Its Proposed Use: This 

is a request to extend approval for the 

request for grant payment vouchers used 

to prepare automated phone request for 

distribution of grant funds using the 

automated Voice Response System 

(VRS). The authorization form is 

submitted to establish access to the 

voice activated payment system. 

Respondents: Not-for-profit 

institutions, State, local or tribal 

government. 

Frequency of Submission: On 

occasion. 

Reporting Burden:

Number of respondents Annual responses × Hours per 

response = Burden hours 

2,200 ......................................................................................................................................... 116 0.17 43,384