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Vol. 77, No. 102 

Friday, May 25, 2012 

ADMINISTRATIVE CONFERENCE OF 

THE UNITED STATES 

Notice of Public Meeting of the 

Assembly of the Administrative 

Conference of the United States 

AGENCY: Administrative Conference of 

the United States. 

ACTION: Notice of Public Meeting. 

SUMMARY: Pursuant to the Federal 

Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92– 

463), notice is hereby given of a meeting 

of the Assembly of the Administrative 

Conference of the United States to 

consider proposed recommendations 

which deal with: (1) Regulatory analysis 

requirements, (2) midnight rules, (3) 

immigration removal adjudication, (4) 

the Paperwork Reduction Act, and (5) 

improving coordination of related 

agency responsibilities. To facilitate 

public participation, the Conference is 

inviting public comment on the 

recommendations that will be 

considered at the meeting. 

DATES: Meeting dates are Thursday, June 

14, 2012, 1:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.; and 

Friday, June 15, 2012, 9:00 a.m. to 12:30 

p.m. Comments on the 

recommendations must be received by 

noon, Friday, June 8, 2012. 

ADDRESSES: The Public Meeting will be 

held at the Commodity Futures Trading 

Commission, Three Lafayette Centre, 

1155 21st Street NW., Washington, DC 

20581 (Main Conference Room). 

Submit comments to either of the 

following: Email comments@acus.gov, 

with ‘‘June 2012 Plenary Session 

Comments’’ in the subject line; or mail 

to June 2012 Plenary Session 

Comments, Administrative Conference 

of the United States, Suite 706 South, 

1120 20th Street NW., Washington, DC 

20036. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Shawne McGibbon, General Counsel 

(the Designated Federal Officer), 

Administrative Conference of the 

United States, Suite 706 South, 1120 

20th Street NW., Washington, DC 20036; 

Telephone 202–480–2088. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Administrative Conference of the 

United States makes recommendations 

to administrative agencies, the 

President, Congress, and the Judicial 

Conference of the United States 

regarding the improvement of Federal 

administrative procedures (5 U.S.C. 

594). The objectives of these 

recommendations are to ensure that 

private rights may be fully protected 

and regulatory activities and other 

Federal responsibilities may be carried 

out expeditiously in the public interest, 

to promote more effective public 

participation and efficiency in the 

rulemaking process, reduce unnecessary 

litigation in the regulatory process, 

improve the use of science in the 

regulatory process, and improve the 

effectiveness of laws applicable to the 

regulatory process (5 U.S.C. 591). 

The membership of the Conference 

meeting in plenary session constitutes 

the Assembly of the Conference (5 

U.S.C. 595). The Assembly will meet in 

plenary session to consider five 

proposed recommendations: 

(1) The recommendation ‘‘Regulatory 

Analysis Requirements’’ addresses the 

issue of agencies having to comply with 

numerous regulatory analysis 

requirements created by statute and 

executive orders. The recommendation 

is supported by an extensive report 

which includes an appendix charting all 

of the regulatory analysis requirements 

of the 100 significant rules subject to 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) review in 2010. The goal of the 

recommendation is to ensure agencies 

fulfill the regulatory analysis 

requirements efficiently, and to enhance 

the transparency of the process. 

Agencies, the Congress, the President 

and the Office of Information and 

Regulatory Affairs at OMB are all 

encouraged to play a role in achieving 

this goal. 

(2) The recommendation ‘‘Midnight 

Rules’’ addresses several issues raised 

by the publication of rules in the final 

months of a presidential administration 

and offers proposals for limiting the 

practice by incumbent administrations 

and enhancing the powers of incoming 

administrations to review midnight 

rules. 

(3) The recommendation 

‘‘Immigration Removal Adjudication’’ 

addresses the problem of case backlogs 

in immigration removals, and offers 

nearly 40 suggestions on ways to 

enhance efficiency and fairness in these 

cases. 

(4) The recommendation ‘‘Paperwork 

Reduction Act’’ (PRA or the Act) 

addresses a variety of issues that have 

arisen since the Act was last revised in 

1995. For instance, despite OMB 

guidance on the application of the PRA 

to social media, the Act does not yet 

account for new technologies. The 

proposal offers suggestions for 

improving public engagement in the 

review of information collection 

requests and for making the process 

more efficient for the agencies and 

OMB. 

(5) The recommendation ‘‘Improving 

Coordination of Related Agency 

Responsibilities’’ addresses the problem 

of overlapping and fragmented 

procedures associated with assigning 

multiple agencies similar or related 

functions, or dividing authority among 

agencies. The underlying report was 

based on a 2012 Harvard Law Review 

article titled, ‘‘Agency Coordination in 

Shared Regulatory Space’’ (125 Harv. L. 

Rev. 1131). The recommendation 

proposes some reforms aimed at 

improving coordination of agency 

policymaking, including joint 

rulemaking, interagency agreements, 

and agency consultation provisions. 

This meeting will be open to the 

public and may end prior to the 

designated end time if business is 

concluded earlier. Members of the 

public are invited to attend the meeting 

in person, subject to space limitations. 

The Conference will provide live, 

remote public access to the meeting via 

webcast at www.acus.gov. The webcast 

will also be viewable via the agency’s 

Web site subsequent to the meeting. 

Anyone who wishes to attend the 

meeting in person is asked to RSVP to 

comments@acus.gov, no later than June 

12, 2012, in order to facilitate entry. 

Members of the public who attend the 

meetings of the full Assembly may be 

permitted to speak only with the 

consent of the Chairman and the 

unanimous approval of the members. 

The Conference welcomes the 

attendance of the public and will make 

every effort to accommodate persons 

with physical disabilities or special 

needs. If you need special 

accommodations due to disability, 

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please inform the contact person noted 

above no later than 7 days in advance 

of the meeting. 

Members of the public may submit 

written comments on any or all of the 

recommendations to either of the 

addresses listed above no later than 

noon, June 8, 2012. Copies of the 

proposed recommendations, 

accompanying research reports and 

information on remote access will be 

available at www.acus.gov. Comments 

relating to the individual proposed 

recommendations will be delivered to 

the Designated Federal Officer listed on 

this notice and will be posted on the 

Conference’s Web site. Comments 

received at this stage will be available 

to the full Assembly prior to their 

consideration of the final 

recommendations. 

Dated: May 22, 2012. 

David Pritzker, 

Deputy General Counsel. 

[FR Doc. 2012–12787 Filed 5–24–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6110–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request 

May 22, 2012. 

The Department of Agriculture has 

submitted the following information 

collection requirement(s) to OMB for 

review and clearance under the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 

Public Law 104–13. Comments 

regarding (a) whether the collection of 

information is necessary for the proper 

performance of the functions of the 

agency, including whether the 

information will have practical utility; 

(b) the accuracy of the agency’s estimate 

of burden including the validity of the 

methodology and assumptions used; (c) 

ways to enhance the quality, utility and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; (d) ways to 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 should be addressed to: Desk 

Officer for Agriculture, Office of 

Information and Regulatory Affairs, 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB), 

OIRA_Submission@OMB.EOP.GOV or 

fax (202) 395–5806 and to Departmental 

Clearance Office, USDA, OCIO, Mail 

Stop 7602, Washington, DC 20250– 

7602. Comments regarding these 

information collections are best assured 

of having their full effect if received 

within 30 days of this notification. 

Copies of the submission(s) may be 

obtained by calling (202) 720–8958. 

An agency may not conduct or 

sponsor a collection of information 

unless the collection of information 

displays a currently valid OMB control 

number and the agency informs 

potential persons who are to respond to 

the collection of information that such 

persons are not required to respond to 

the collection of information unless it 

displays a currently valid OMB control 

number. 

Food and Nutrition Service 

Title: 7 CFR Part 215—Special Milk 

Program for Children. 

OMB Control Number: 0584–0005. 

Summary of Collection: Section 3 of 

the Child Nutrition Act (CNA) of 1966 

(Pub. L. 89–642, as amended; 42 U.S.C. 

1772) authorizes the Special Milk 

Program (SMP) for Children. It provides 

for appropriation of such sums as may 

be necessary to enable the Secretary of 

Agriculture under such rules and 

regulations as the Secretary may deem 

in the public interest, to encourage 

consumption of fluid milk by children 

in the United States in (1) nonprofit 

schools of high school grades and 

under, and (2) nonprofit nursery 

schools, child care centers, settlement 

houses, summer camps, and similar 

nonprofit institutions devoted to the 

care and training of children, which do 

not participate in a food service program 

authorized under the CNA or the 

National School Lunch Act. 

Need and Use of the Information: The 

Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) will 

collect information to compute the 

amount of Federal SMP funds due the 

SA under the performance-funding 

formula; analyze and evaluate the 

results of program operation within 

each state and nationwide; respond to 

data requests from the Congress, OMB, 

and advocacy groups and the general 

public; develop budget projections of 

the amount of Federal funds needed to 

pay SMP program benefits; and regulate 

the flow of Federal funds to SA. 

Without this information FNS would 

not be able to evaluate program 

operations. 

Description of Respondents: State, 

Local, and Tribal Government; Business 

or other for-profit; Not-for-profit 

institutions; 

Number of Respondents: 5,569. 

Frequency of Responses: 

Recordkeeping; Reporting: Monthly. 

Total Burden Hours: 21,246. 

Food and Nutrition Service 

Title: National School Lunch Program. 

OMB Control Number: 0584–0006. 

Summary of Collection: The Richard 

B. Russell School Lunch Act (NSLA), as 

amended, authorizes the National 

School Lunch Program (NSLP) to 

safeguard the health and well-being of 

the nation’s children and provide low 

cost or free school lunch meals to 

qualified students through subsidies to 

schools. The United States Department 

of Agriculture (USDA) provides States 

with general and special cash assistance 

and donations of foods to assist schools 

in serving nutritious lunches to children 

each school day. Participating schools 

must serve lunches that are nutritionally 

adequate, and maintain menu and 

production records to demonstrate 

compliance with the meal requirements. 

Section 10 of the Child Nutrition Act of 

1966 (42 U.S.C. 1779) requires the 

Secretary of Agriculture to prescribe 

such regulations as deemed necessary to 

carry out this Act and the NSLA (42 

U.S.C. et seq.). 

Need and Use of the Information: The 

information collection is required to 

administer and operate the program in 

accordance with the NSLA. The 

Program is administered at the Sate and 

school food authority levels and the 

operations include the submission and 

approval of applications, execution of 

agreements, submission of claims, 

payment of claims, providing 

monitoring and technical assistance. 

If the data is not collected, FNS would 

not be able to properly monitor program 

funding and program trends. 

Description of Respondents: State, 

Local, or Tribal Government, 

Individuals or household, Business or 

other for-profit, Not-for-profit 

institutions, Federal Government. 

Number of Respondents: 122,661. 

Frequency of Responses: 

Recordkeeping; Reporting: On occasion; 

Quarterly; Monthly; Annually. 

Total Burden Hours: 12,205,890. 

Food and Nutrition Service 

Title: 7 CFR Part 220, School 

Breakfast Program. 

OMB Control Number: 0584–0012. 

Summary of Collection: Section 4 of 

the Child Nutrition Act (CNA) of 1966, 

as amended, authorizes the School 

Breakfast Program (SBP). It provides for 

the appropriation of ‘‘such sums as are 

necessary to enable the Secretary to 

carry out a program to assist the States 

and the Department of Defense through 

grants-in-aid and other means to 

initiate, maintain, or expand nonprofit 

breakfast programs in all schools which 

make application for assistance and 

agree to carry out a nonprofit breakfast 

program in accordance with the Act.’’ 

The Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) 

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