6270 Federal Register / Vol. 69, No. 27 / Tuesday, February 10, 2004 / Notices 

Karen Laney Cummings, Director, 

Technology Competitiveness, Office 

of Technology Policy, Technology 

Administration, Washington, DC 

20230, Appointment Expires: 12/31/

05. 

William F. Koch (C), Deputy Director, 

Chemical Science & Technology 

Laboratory, National Institute of 

Standards & Technology, 

Gaithersburg, MD 20899, 

Appointment Expires: 12/31/04.

Dated: January 28, 2004. 

Benjamin H. Wu, 

Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for 

Technology, Technology Administration, 

Department of Commerce.

[FR Doc. 04–2830 Filed 2–9–04; 8:45 am] 

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CORPORATION FOR NATIONAL AND 

COMMUNITY SERVICE 

Proposed Information Collection; 

Comment Request

AGENCY: Corporation for National and 

Community Service.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: The Corporation for National 

and Community Service (hereinafter the 

‘‘Corporation’’), as part of its continuing 

effort to reduce paperwork and 

respondent burden, conducts a preclearance consultation program to 

provide the general public and Federal 

agencies with an opportunity to 

comment on proposed and/or 

continuing collections of information in 

accordance with the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA95) (44 

U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A)). This program 

helps to ensure that requested data can 

be provided in the desired format, 

reporting burden (time and financial 

resources) is minimized, collection 

instruments are clearly understood, and 

the impact of collection requirement on 

respondents can be properly assessed. 

Currently, the Corporation is 

soliciting comments concerning the 

Financial Management Survey Form. 

Copies of the information collection 

request can be obtained by contacting 

the office listed below in the ADDRESSES

section of this notice.

DATES: Written comments must be 

submitted to the office listed in the 

ADDRESSES section by April 12, 2004.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, 

identified by the title of the information 

collection activity, by any of the 

following methods: 

(1) By mail sent to: Corporation for 

National and Community Service, Office 

of Grants Management; Attention Ms. 

Lois W. Paul, Grants Management 

Specialist; Room 9712–A, 1201 New 

York Avenue, NW, Washington, DC, 

20525. 

(2) By hand delivery or by courier to 

the Corporation’s mailroom at Room 

6010 at the mail address given in 

paragraph (1) above, between 9 a.m. and 

4 p.m. Monday through Friday, except 

Federal holidays. 

(3) By fax to: (202) 565–2850, 

Attention Ms. Lois W. Paul, Grants 

Management Specialist. 

(4) Electronically through the 

Corporation’s e-mail address system: 

lpaul@cns.gov.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Lois 

W. Paul, (202) 606–5000, ext. 200 or by 

e-mail at lpaul@cns.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

The Corporation is particularly 

interested in comments which: 

• Evaluate whether the proposed 

collection of information is necessary 

for the proper performance of the 

functions of the Corporation, including 

whether the information will have 

practical utility; 

• 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; 

• Enhance the quality, utility and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and, 

• 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. 

I. Background 

The Corporation developed the 

Financial Management Survey in 

fulfillment of its pre-award policy 

(CFO–029, effective 1/17/02) that 

provides reasonable assurance that 

federal grant funds will be expended in 

ways that meet program objectives, the 

award terms and conditions; and 

applicable federal statutes, regulations 

and guidelines. The Financial 

Management Survey will standardize 

the pre-award process and will ensure 

uniform consideration of the capacity of 

potential grantees of the Corporation to 

manage federal funds. 

The Financial Management Survey 

will be used for the following purposes: 

(1) As a pre-award assessment tool of 

the capacity of a potential grantee to 

manage federal funds in excess of 

$100,000; and 

(2) As part of the basis for 

determining the financial management 

areas in which a potential grantee, 

should it receive an award from the 

Corporation, may warrant technical 

assistance. 

II. Current Action 

The Corporation is seeking public 

comment for approval of the Financial 

Management Survey which will be used 

by Corporation Grants Management 

Specialists to assess the capacity of 

potential grantees to manage Federal 

funds. This assessment involves a 

review of the potential grantee’s 

responses to general questions about its 

organizational type, financial systems, 

how it manages funds, and the internal 

controls it has in place to segregate and 

report on Federal funds it might receive. 

The public affected will be grant 

applicants that have not previously 

received Federal funds through an 

award from the Corporation, or current 

grantees that are re-competing for 

funding at the beginning of a new 3-year 

grant cycle and have been identified as 

not meeting the exemption critical of 

the Corporation’s pre-award review 

policy. 

Should the entity become a grantee of 

the Corporation, the information 

gathered will be maintained in the new 

grantee’s official file and become part of 

the basis for determining specific areas 

of its financial management and systems 

that may benefit from technical 

assistance from the Corporation, its staff 

and Training and Technical Assistance 

(T/TA) providers. 

Type of Review: New information 

collection. 

Agency: Corporation for National and 

Community Service. 

Title: Financial Management Survey 

Form. 

OMB Number: None. 

Agency Number: None. 

Affected Public: First-time grant 

applicants or current grantees 

recompeting for funding. 

Total Respondents: 25–30 annually. 

Frequency: One (1) time. 

Average Time Per Response: 5 

minutes. 

Estimated Total Burden Hours: 21⁄2

hours. 

Total Burden Cost (capital/startup):

$648.90. 

Total Burden Cost (operating/

maintenance): None. 

Comments submitted in response to 

this notice will be summarized and/or 

included in the request for Office of 

Management and Budget approval of the 

information collection request; they will 

also become a matter of public record.

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Dated: February 4, 2004. 

Peg Rosenberry, 

Director, Office of Grants Management.

[FR Doc. 04–2798 Filed 2–9–04; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6050–$$–P

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Office of the Secretary 

Extension of a Currently Approved 

Collection; Comment Request

AGENCY: Office of the Secretary of 

Defense.

ACTION: Notice.

In compliance with Section 

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

Reduction Act of 1995, the Office of the 

Deputy Under Secretary of Defense 

(Installations and Environment), Office 

of Economic Adjustment announces the 

proposed extension of a 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; (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 April 12, 2004.

ADDRESSES: Written comments and 

recommendations on the proposed 

information collection should be sent to 

the Director, Office of Economic 

Adjustment, 400 Army Navy Drive, 

Suite 200, Arlington, VA 22202–4704.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To 

request more information on this 

proposed information collection or to 

obtain a copy of the proposal, please 

write to the above address, or call the 

Director, Office of Economic 

Adjustment at (703) 604–6020. 

Title and OMB Number: Revitalizing 

Base Closure Communities, Economic 

Development Conveyance Annual 

Financial Statement; OMB Number 

0790–0004. 

Needs and Uses: The information 

collection requirement is necessary to 

verify that Local Redevelopment 

Authority (LRA) recipients of no-cost 

Economic Development Conveyances 

(EDCs) are in compliance with the 

requirement that the LRA reinvest 

proceeds from the use of EDC property 

for seven years. 

Affected Public: State, Local or Tribal 

Governments; and Not-for-Profit 

Institutions. 

Annual Burden Hours: 3,160. 

Number of Respondents: 79. 

Responses Per Respondent: 1. 

Average Burden Per Response: 40 

hours. 

Frequency: Annual.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Summary of Information Collection 

Respondents are LRAs that have 

executed no-cost EDC agreements with 

a Military Department that transferred 

property from a closed military 

installation. As provided by Section 

2821(a)(3)(B)(i) of the National Defense 

Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2000 

(Pub. L. 106–65), such agreements 

require that the LRA reinvest the 

proceeds from any sale, lease or 

equivalent use of EDC property (or any 

portion thereof) during at least the first 

seven years after the date of the initial 

transfer of the property to support the 

economic redevelopment of, or related 

to, the installation. The Secretary of 

Defense may recoup from the LRA such 

portion of these proceeds not used to 

support the economic redevelopment of, 

or related to, the installation. LRA’s are 

subject to this same seven-year 

reinvestment requirement if their EDC 

agreement is modified to reduce the 

debt owed to the Federal Government. 

Military Departments monitor LRA 

compliance with this provision by 

requiring an annual financial statement 

certified by an independent Certified 

Public Accountant. No specific form is 

required.

Dated: February 4, 2004. 

L.M. Bynum, 

Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison 

Officer, Department of Defense.

[FR Doc. 04–2754 Filed 2–9–04; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 5001–06–M

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Office of the Secretary 

Threat Reduction Advisory Committee

AGENCY: Department of Defense, Office 

of the Under Secretary of Defense 

(Acquisition, Technology and Logistics).

ACTION: Notice of advisory committee 

meeting. 

SUMMARY: Threat Reduction Advisory 

Committee will meet in closed session 

on Thursday, April 1, 2004, at the 

Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA), 

and on Friday, April 2, 2004 in the 

Pentagon, Washington, DC. 

The mission of the Committee is to 

advise the Under Secretary of Defense 

(Acquisition, Technology and Logistics) 

on technology security, 

counterproliferation, chemical and 

biological defense, transformation of the 

nuclear weapons stockpile, and other 

matters related to the Defense Threat 

Reduction Agency’s mission. 

In accordance with Section 10(d) of 

the Federal Advisory Committee Act, 

Public Law 92–463, as amended (5 

U.S.C. Appendix II), it has been 

determined that this Committee meeting 

concerns matters listed in 5 U.S.C. 

552b(c)(1), and that accordingly the 

meeting will be closed to the public.

DATES: Thursday, April 1, 2004, (8 a.m. 

to 4 p.m) and Friday, April 2, 2004, (8 

a.m. to 9:30 a.m.)

ADDRESSES: Institute for Defense 

Analyses, Board Room, 4850 Mark 

Center Drive, Alexandria, Virginia and 

the USD (AT&L) Conference Room 

(3D1019), the Pentagon, Washington, 

DC.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Contact Lieutenant Colonel Don Culp, 

USAF, Defense Threat Reduction 

Agency/AST, 8725 John J. Kingman 

Road MS 6201, Fort Belvoir, VA 22060–

6201, Phone: (703) 767–5717.

Dated: February 4, 2004. 

L.M. Bynum, 

Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison 

Officer, Department of Defense.

[FR Doc. 04–2753 Filed 2–9–04; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 5001–06–M

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Department of the Army 

Proposed Collection; Comment 

Request

AGENCY: Department of the Army, DoD.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: In compliance with section 

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

Reduction Act of 1995, the Department 

of the Army 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