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1See CSMAC, Framework for Work within 

CSMAC (May 30, 2012), available at http://

www.ntia.doc.gov/files/ntia/meetings/framework_

for_work_within_csmac_20120525.pdf. 

2Memorandum for Heads of Executive 

Departments and Agencies, Expanding America’s 

Leadership in Wireless Innovation (June 14, 2013), 

78 Fed. Reg. 37431, 37433 at § 2(a) (June 20, 2013), 

available at http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-pressoffice/2013/06/14/presidential-memorandumexpanding-americas-leadership-wireless-innovatio. 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Telecommunications and 

Information Administration 

Meeting To Discuss Lessons Learned 

From Commerce Spectrum 

Management Advisory Committee 

Working Group Process 

AGENCY: National Telecommunications 

and Information Administration, U.S. 

Department of Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice of open meeting. 

SUMMARY: The National 

Telecommunications and Information 

Administration (NTIA) will convene a 

meeting on December 13, 2013 to 

discuss ‘‘lessons learned’’ from NTIA’s 

Commerce Spectrum Management 

Advisory Committee (CSMAC or 

Committee) Working Group process. 

DATES: The meeting will be held on 

December 13, 2013, from 9:00 a.m. to 

11:00 a.m. Eastern Standard Time. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at 

the U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 

Constitution Avenue NW., Room 4830, 

Washington, DC 20230. Public input 

may be mailed to Commerce Spectrum 

Management Advisory Committee, 

National Telecommunications and 

Information Administration, 1401 

Constitution Avenue NW., Room 4099, 

Washington, DC 20230 or emailed to 

BWashington@ntia.doc.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Bruce M. Washington at (202) 482–6415 

or BWashington@ntia.doc.gov; and/or 

visit NTIA’s Web site at http://

www.ntia.doc.gov/category/csmac. 

Please direct media inquiries to NTIA’s 

Office of Public Affairs at (202) 482– 

7002. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background: In May 2012, the 

CSMAC created five (5) working groups 

to consider ways to facilitate the 

transition of the 1695–1710 MHz and 

1755–1850 MHz bands.1 The working 

groups were open to CSMAC members, 

federal agency representatives, and nonfederal stakeholders even if they were 

not affiliated with the members on the 

full Committee. Each working group 

was co-chaired by an industry and an 

agency participant and each group 

included one or more CSMAC member 

liaisons. Staff from NTIA and the 

Federal Communications Commission 

also participated as observers. 

The four working groups addressed 

the various federal operations within 

the two spectrum bands as follows: 

• Working Group 1—1695–1710 MHz 

Meteorological-Satellite 

• Working Group 2—Law Enforcement 

Video, Explosive Ordnance Disposal, 

and other short distance links; 

• Working Group 3—Satellite Control 

and Electronic Warfare; 

• Working Group 4—Tactical Radio 

Relay, Fixed Microwave, and groundbased software defined radios; and 

• Working Group 5—Airborne 

Operations (Air Combat Training 

Systems, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, 

Precision Guided Munitions, airborne 

software defined radios, and 

Aeronautical Telemetry) 

From May 2012 to August 2013, the 

working groups organized themselves 

and developed work plans, convened 

face-to-face and teleconference 

meetings, drafted and edited reports, 

provided updates to the full CSMAC 

through the member liaisons, and 

delivered final reports and 

recommendations for consideration by 

the Committee. In a recent executive 

memorandum, President Obama stated 

that these discussions between agencies 

and nonfederal entities have ‘‘produced 

an unprecedented level of informationsharing and collaboration to identify 

opportunities for agencies to relinquish 

or share spectrum.’’ 2

Matters To Be Considered: At this 

meeting, NTIA will facilitate a forum for 

the CSMAC Working Group participants 

to discuss lessons learned from the 

collaborative efforts within the five (5) 

working groups. NTIA will post an 

agenda for the meeting on its Web site, 

http://www.ntia.doc.gov/category/

csmac, prior to the meeting. To the 

extent that the meeting time and agenda 

permit, any member of the public may 

speak to or otherwise address the forum 

regarding the agenda items. Although 

some CSMAC members will be 

participating, this meeting is not a 

meeting of the Committee under the 

Federal Advisory Committee Act. The 

CSMAC’s next meeting will be held 

later the same day. 

Time and Date: The meeting will be 

held on December 13, 2013 from 9:00 

a.m. to 11:00 a.m., Eastern Standard 

Time. The times and the agenda topics 

are subject to change. The meeting will 

be available via two-way audio link. 

Please refer to NTIA’s Web site, http:// 

www.ntia.doc.gov/category/csmac, for 

the most up-to-date meeting agenda and 

access information. 

Place: The meeting will be held at the 

U.S. Department of Commerce, Herbert 

C. Hoover Building, 1401 Constitution 

Avenue NW., Room 4830, Washington, 

DC 20230. The meeting will be open to 

the public and press on a first-come, 

first-served basis. Space is limited. The 

public meeting is physically accessible 

to people with disabilities. Individuals 

requiring accommodations, such as sign 

language interpretation or other 

ancillary aids, are asked to notify Mr. 

Washington, at (202) 482–6415 or 

BWashington@ntia.doc.gov, at least five 

(5) business days before the meeting. 

Status: Interested parties are invited 

to attend and to submit written 

comments to Mr. Washington before or 

after the meeting, subject to the 

following deadlines. Parties wishing to 

submit written comments for 

consideration by NTIA and the other 

participants in advance of a meeting 

must send them to NTIA’s Washington, 

DC office at the above-listed address at 

least five (5) business days before the 

scheduled meeting date and will be 

posted on the NTIA Web site. The 

public comment period will end on 

December 16, 2013. It would be helpful 

if paper submissions also include a 

compact disc (CD) in Word or PDF 

format. CDs should be labeled with the 

name and organizational affiliation of 

the filer. Alternatively, comments may 

be submitted electronically to 

BWashington@ntia.doc.gov. Comments 

provided via electronic mail also may be 

submitted in the file formats specified 

above. 

Records: NTIA will maintain a record 

of all meeting proceedings. A written 

transcript will be available for public 

inspection at NTIA’s Washington, DC 

office at the address above or on NTIA’s 

Web site at http://www.ntia.doc.gov/

category/csmac. 

Dated: October 23, 2013. 

Kathy D. Smith, 

Chief Counsel, National Telecommunications 

and Information Administration. 

[FR Doc. 2013–25388 Filed 10–25–13; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–60–P 

COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING 

COMMISSION 

Quantitative Messaging Research 

AGENCY: Commodity Futures Trading 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Commodity Futures 

Trading Commission (‘‘CFTC’’ or 

‘‘Commission’’) is announcing an 

opportunity for public comment on a 

proposed collection of information by 


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1 17 CFR 145.9. 

2See Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and 

Consumer Protection Act, Public Law 111–203,124 

Stat. 1376 (2010). The text of the Dodd-Frank Act 

may be accessed at http://www.cftc.gov/Law

Regulation/DoddFrankAct/index.htm. 

3See 7 U.S.C. 26. 

4See 17 CFR 165.12. 

the agency. Under the Paperwork 

Reduction Act (‘‘PRA’’), 44 U.S.C. 3501 

et seq., Federal agencies are required to 

publish notice in the Federal Register 

concerning each proposed collection of 

information and to allow 30 days for 

public comment. The CFTC’s Office of 

Consumer Outreach (OCO) develops 

campaigns to change consumer 

behaviors so that consumers can better 

avoid fraud as defined under the 

Commodities Exchange Act. The CFTC 

is posing survey questions to the public. 

This survey will include screening 

questions to identify the correct 

respondents and questions to determine 

optimal messages to help consumers 

identify, avoid, and report financial 

fraud as part of a consumer-facing antifraud campaign. This survey will follow 

qualitative message testing research (for 

which CFTC received fast-track OMB 

approval) and is necessary to identify, 

with statistical validation, which of 

these messages most effectively help 

consumers to identify, avoid, and report 

financial fraud. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before November 27, 2013. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, 

regarding the burden estimated or any 

other aspect of the information 

collection, including suggestions for 

reducing the burden to the Office of 

Information and Regulatory Affairs, 

Office of Management and Budget, 

Attention: Desk Officer for CFTC, 725 

17th Street NW., Washington, DC 20503, 

and by any of the following methods: 

Agency Web site, via its Comments 

Online process: http:// 

comments.cftc.gov. Follow the 

instructions for submitting comments 

through the Web site. 

Mail: Send to Melissa D. Jurgens, 

Secretary of the Commission, 

Commodity Futures Trading 

Commission, 1155 21st Street NW., 

Washington, DC 20581. 

Hand delivery/Courier: Same as Mail 

above. 

Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:// 

www.regulations.gov/search/index.jsp. 

Follow the instructions for submitting 

comments. 

Please submit your comments using 

only one method and identify that it is 

for the ‘‘Quantitative Messaging 

Research.’’ 

All comments must be submitted in 

English, or if not, accompanied by an 

English translation. Comments will be 

posted as received to http:// 

www.cftc.gov. You should submit only 

information that you wish to make 

available publicly. If you wish the 

Commission to consider information 

that you believe is exempt from 

disclosure under the Freedom of 

Information Act, a petition for 

confidential treatment of the exempt 

information may be submitted according 

to the procedures established in § 145.9 

of the Commission’s regulations.1

The Commission reserves the right, 

but shall have no obligation, to review, 

pre-screen, filter, redact, refuse, or 

remove any or all of your submission 

from http://www.cftc.gov that it may 

deem to be inappropriate for 

publication, such as obscene language. 

All submissions that have been redacted 

or removed that contain comments on 

the merits of the rulemaking will be 

retained in the public comment file and 

will be considered as required under the 

Administrative Procedure Act and other 

applicable laws, and may be accessible 

under the Freedom of Information Act. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Nisha Smalls, Consumer Education & 

Outreach Specialist, 202–418–5000, 

consumers@cftc.gov, Office of Consumer 

Outreach, Commodity Futures Trading 

Commission, Three Lafayette Centre, 

1151 21st Street NW., Washington, DC 

20581. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the 

PRA, federal agencies must obtain 

approval from the Office of Management 

and Budget (‘‘OMB’’) for each collection 

of information they collect or sponsor. 

The collection of information is defined 

in 44 U.S.C. 3502(3) as the obtaining, 

causing to be obtained, soliciting of facts 

or opinions by or for an agency, 

regardless of form or format from ten or 

more persons. An agency may not 

conduct or sponsor, and a person is not 

required to respond to, a collection of 

information unless it displays a valid 

OMB control number. The Commission 

is submitting this collection of 

information to OMB for approval and 

assigning of a collection number, 

pursuant to 5 CFR 1320.10. 

Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the PRA, 44 

U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A), requires federal 

agencies to provide a 60-day notice in 

the Federal Register for each proposed 

collection of information before 

submitting the collection to OMB for 

approval. Under OMB regulations, 

which implement provisions of the 

PRA, certain facts or opinions submitted 

in response to general solicitations of 

comments from the public, published in 

the Federal Register or other 

publications, 5 CFR 1320.3(h)(4), or 

facts or opinions obtained or solicited at 

or in connection with public hearings or 

meetings, 5 CFR 1320.3(h)(8), are 

excluded from the OMB approval 

process. 

In 2010, the Dodd-Frank Act 2

expanded the Commission’s authority 

to, among other matters related to 

regulatory oversight, establish funding 

of consumer education initiatives under 

its new Whistleblower authority.3

Under this new authority, the 

Commission established an OCO to, 

among other efforts, survey the public 

regarding consumer education 

initiatives.4 This notice announces a 

public survey. The survey will include 

screening questions to identify the 

correct respondents and questions to 

determine optimal messages to help 

consumers identify, avoid, and report 

financial fraud as part of a consumerfacing anti-fraud campaign. This survey 

will follow qualitative message testing 

research (for which CFTC received fasttrack OMB approval) and is necessary to 

identify, with statistical validation, 

which of these messages most 

effectively help consumers to identify, 

avoid, and report financial fraud. 

The OCO will use the information 

collected in the survey to develop 

effective methods to inform the public 

on how best to detect and report 

financial fraud. This will be done by 

creating a final summary report that 

combines key findings from both the 

survey as well as other qualitative 

research. 

Findings from the summary report 

will be used to inform a directional 

document to be used by the OCO that 

will include recommendations on 

primary messages, support points, 

content, overall tone, phrasing and 

imagery of outreach efforts on financial 

fraud, as well as how to use these 

messages in various communications 

channels (e.g. online, print, radio, TV 

and collateral materials). 

The survey will be administered using 

an online survey tool. The online 

modality approach will allow 

presentation of test material to 

participants in a more convenient and 

time-efficient manner than other 

collection methods such as mall 

intercepts. The online method also 

allows for a quicker turnaround for data 

collection. No other collection methods 

will be used. 

The screening questions will take 

about 1 minute to complete. It is 

anticipated that 2,200 people will be 

screened. The survey will take 15 

minutes. 1,100 people will take the 15 

minute survey. Based on these 


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assumptions, the total burden hours will 

be 330 hours. This estimate includes the 

time to prepare the survey and transmit 

it to the Commission. The Commission 

estimates the average burden of this 

collection of information as follows: 

ESTIMATED ANNUAL REPORTING BURDEN HOURS

Annual Frequency Hours per Total 

17 C.F.R. ................................................................... 2,200 1 response per respondent.1 minute per response.2,200 36.7 hours—$96.36 

per burden hour. 

17 C.F.R. ................................................................... 1,100 1 response per respondent.15 minutes per response.1,100 293.3 hours—$96.36 

per burden hour. 

Issued in Washington, DC, on October 23, 

2013, by the Commission. 

Melissa D. Jurgens, 

Secretary of the Commission. 

[FR Doc. 2013–25335 Filed 10–25–13; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6351–01–P 

COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING 

COMMISSION 

Sunshine Act Meetings 

TIME AND DATE: 9:30 a.m., Wednesday, 

October 30, 2013. 

PLACE: CFTC Headquarters Conference 

Center, Three Lafayette Centre, 1155 

21st St. NW., Washington, DC. 

STATUS: Open. 

MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED: The 

Commission has scheduled this meeting 

to consider various rulemaking matters, 

including the approval of several final 

rules. The agenda for this meeting is 

available to the public and posted on 

the Commission’s Web site at http:// 

www.cftc.gov. In the event that the time, 

date, or place of the meeting changes, an 

announcement of the change, along with 

the new time, date, or place of the 

meeting, will be posted on the 

Commission’s Web site. 

CONTACT PERSON FOR MORE INFORMATION: 

Melissa D. Jurgens, Secretary of the 

Commission, 202–418–5516. 

Melissa D. Jurgens, 

Secretary of the Commission. 

[FR Doc. 2013–25402 Filed 10–24–13; 11:15 am] 

BILLING CODE 6351–01–P 

COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING 

COMMISSION 

Sunshine Act Meetings 

TIME AND DATE: 9:30 a.m., Tuesday, 

November 5, 2013. 

PLACE: CFTC Headquarters Conference 

Center, Three Lafayette Centre, 1155 

21st St. NW., Washington, DC. 

STATUS: Open. 

MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED: The 

Commission has scheduled this meeting 

to consider various rulemaking matters, 

including the issuance of several 

proposed rules. The agenda for this 

meeting is available to the public and 

posted on the Commission’s Web site at 

http://www.cftc.gov. In the event that 

the time, date, or place of the meeting 

changes, an announcement of the 

change, along with the new time, date, 

or place of the meeting, will be posted 

on the Commission’s Web site. 

CONTACT PERSON FOR MORE INFORMATION: 

Melissa D. Jurgens, Secretary of the 

Commission, 202–418–5516. 

Melissa D. Jurgens, 

Secretary of the Commission. 

[FR Doc. 2013–25410 Filed 10–24–13; 11:15 am] 

BILLING CODE 6351–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Office of the Secretary 

Science and Technology Reinvention 

Laboratory Personnel Management 

Demonstration Project, Department of 

Navy, Office of Naval Research (ONR); 

Amendment and Corrections 

AGENCY: Deputy Assistant Secretary of 

Defense for Civilian Personnel Policy, 

(DASD (CPP)), Department of Defense 

(DoD). 

ACTION: Notice of Amendment and 

Administrative Corrections to the ONR 

Personnel Management Demonstration 

Project (75 FR 77380–77447, December 

10, 2010). 

SUMMARY: On December 10, 2010 (75 FR 

77380–77447), DoD published a notice 

of approval of a personnel management 

demonstration project for eligible ONR 

employees. Within that notice, there 

were several typographical errors 

discovered. Additionally, after the 

publication of the notice and 

implementation of the demonstration 

project, ONR determined that for 

effective personnel management 

practices, amendments need to be made 

to provide better consistency in the use 

of the extended probationary periods for 

newly hired employees, and to more 

thoroughly cite the waivers to 

regulations required to apply these 

extended probationary periods. 

Amendments must also be made to 

better define minimally successful 

performance for assignments involving 

displacement, and to remove the 

requirement that advancements in 

certain Pay Bands need Executive 

Director’s approval. This notice 

provides the final amendment to the 

demonstration project plans. 

DATES: This amendment may be 

implemented beginning on the date of 

publication of this Federal Register 

notice. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Office of Naval Research: Ms. Margaret 

J. Mitchell, Director, Human 

Resources Office, Office of Naval 

Research, 875 North Randolph Street, 

Code 01HR, Arlington, VA 22203; 

email: Margaret.J.Mitchell@navy.mil. 

Department of Defense: Mr. Todd Cole, 

Defense Civilian Personnel Advisory 

Services, Non-Traditional Personnel 

Programs (DCPAS–NTPP), Suite 

05F16, 4800 Mark Center Drive, 

Alexandria, VA 22350–1100; email: 

william.cole@cpms.osd.mil. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On June 

10, 2013, a notice of proposed 

amendments and administrative 

corrections (78 FR 34655–34656) was 

published for a 30-day comment period. 

No comments were received on or 

before July 10, 2013. This notice makes 

the amendments and administrative 

corrections to the demonstration project. 

Modifications 

1. On page 77390, section III.F. 

Extended Probationary Period, replace 

the section with: All current laws and 

regulations for the current probationary 

period are retained with the exception 

of new employees hired under the 

demonstration. Candidates hired into 

the Administrative Support (NC) career 

track will serve a one year probationary 

period; candidates hired into the 

Administrative Specialist and 

Professional (NO) career track will serve 

a two year probationary period; and 

candidates hired into the Science and 

Engineering Professional (NP) career 

track will serve a three year 

probationary period. Employees with 


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