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ensure that it meets core financial 

system requirements as defined in the 

Core Financial System Requirements 

document published by OFFM. The 

CFOC will coordinate the testing 

process and issue software 

certifications. Information on the details 

of the certification testing process and 

its results will be available to any 

interested Federal agency for any 

certified software package. 

• A new Section 8g is added and 

reads as follows: 

8g. Interface Requirements 

Management. Agencies operating or 

establishing contracts for financial 

reporting, transaction processing, or 

other services that are or will be 

interfaced to multiple agencies’

financial systems must coordinate with 

OFFM the deployment of these services 

and changes to them. OFFM will 

establish interface requirements for 

these services and incorporate them into 

the Core Financial System Requirements 

or other requirement documents, as 

appropriate. OFFM will consider 

efficiency and cost-effectiveness when 

establishing deployment dates for new 

interface requirements. 

• Section 9a(3) is deleted, section 

9a(4) is renumbered accordingly. 

• Section 9b is revised to read as 

follows: 

9b. GSA Responsibilities. GSA will 

make procurement vehicles available to 

agencies for acquiring software that has 

been certified according to the processes 

in Section 8d(2). 

• Section 9c is revised to read as 

follows: 

9c. CFOC Responsibilities. The CFOC 

will establish processes for testing ‘‘offthe-shelf’’ software supporting core 

financial system requirements that 

include: 

Æ Developing and administering the 

certification test, 

Æ Notifying GSA when a software 

package successfully completes the 

certification test, 

Æ Providing interested parties with 

information on the core financial system 

requirements and their related testing 

scenarios, and 

Æ Providing interested parties with 

details on the results of the certification 

tests for certified software packages. 

Æ A new Section 9d is added and 

reads as follows: 

9d. Transition. All software 

certifications previously issued by the 

Joint Financial Management 

Improvement Program (JFMIP) shall be 

deemed to have been issued by the 

CFOC. 

All financial management system 

requirements documents and other 

guidance issued by the JFMIP are 

transferred to OFFM and remains in 

effect until modified. OFFM will issue 

guidance memoranda as needed to 

clarify any transition issues. OFFM will 

issue guidance memoranda as needed to 

implement the requirements of this 

Circular. 

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BILLING CODE 3110–01–P

OVERSEAS PRIVATE INVESTMENT 

CORPORATION 

Submission for OMB Review; 

Comments Request

AGENCY: Overseas Private Investment 

Corporation (OPIC).

ACTION: Request for comments.

SUMMARY: Under the provisions of the 

Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 

Chapter 35), agencies are required to 

publish a Notice in the Federal Register

notifying the public that the Agency has 

prepared an information collection 

request for OMB review and approval 

and has requested public review and 

comment on the submission. Comments 

are being solicited on the need for the 

information; the accuracy of the 

Agency’s burden estimate; the quality, 

practical utility and clarity of the 

information to be collected; and on 

ways to minimize the reporting burden, 

including automated collection 

techniques and uses of other forms of 

technology. The proposed form under 

review, OMB control number 3420–

0015 is summarized below.

DATES: Comments must be received 

within 60-calendar days of publication 

of this Notice.

ADDRESSES: Copies of the subject form 

and the request for review prepared for 

submission to OMB may be obtained 

from the Agency Submitting Officer. 

Comments on the form should be 

submitted to the Agency Submitting 

Officer.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

OPIC Agency Submitting Officer: Bruce 

I. Campbell, Records Management 

Officer, Overseas Private Investment 

Corporation, 1100 New York Avenue, 

NW., Washington, DC 20527; 202/336–

8563. 

Summary of Form Under Review 

Type of Request: Revised Form. 

Title: Application for Financing. 

Form Number: OPIC–115. 

Frequency of Use: One per investor, 

per project. 

Type of Respondents: Business or 

other institutions (except farms); 

individuals. 

Description of Affected Public: U.S. 

companies or citizens investing 

overseas. 

Reporting Hours: 4.0 hours per 

project. 

Number of Responses: 300 per year. 

Federal Cost: $21,600 per year. 

Authority for Information Collection:

Sections 231 and 234(b) and (c) of the 

Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as 

amended. 

Abstract (Needs and Uses): The OPIC 

115 form is the principal document 

used by OPIC to determine the 

investor’s and the project’s eligibility for 

debt financing, assess the environmental 

impact and developmental effects of the 

project, measures the economic effects 

for the United States and the host 

country economy, and collect 

information for underwriting analysis.

Dated: December 8, 2004. 

Eli Landy, 

Senior Counsel, Administrative Affairs, 

Department of Legal Affairs.

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BILLING CODE 3210–01–M

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE 

COMMISSION 

Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request 

Upon Written Request, Copies Available 

From: Securities and Exchange 

Commission, Office of Filings and 

Information Services, Washington, DC 

20549.

Extension: 

Rule 54; SEC File No. 270–376; OMB 

Control No. 3235–0427.

Notice is hereby given that, pursuant 

to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 

(44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), the Securities 

and Exchange Commission 

(‘‘Commission’’) has submitted to the 

Office of Management and Budget 

requests for extension of the previously 

approved collections of information 

discussed below. 

Sections 32 and 33 of the Public 

Utility Holding Company Act of 1935, 

as amended (‘‘Act’’), and rules 53 and 

54 under the Act, permit, among other 

things, utility holding companies 

registered under the Act to make direct 

or indirect investments in exempt 

wholesale generators (‘‘EWGs’’) and 

foreign utility companies (‘‘FUCOs’’), as 

defined in sections 32 and 33 of the Act, 

respectively, without the prior approval 

of the Commission, if certain conditions 

are met. Rule 54 does not create a 

reporting burden for respondents. 

It is estimated that there will be no 

burden hours associated with rule 54.