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part 515, effective on the corresponding 

date shown below: 

License Number: 3007F. 

Name: Berardino & Associates 

Incorporated. 

Address: 188 Industrial Drive, Suite 

427, Elmhurst, IL 60126. 

Date Revoked: November 9, 2010. 

Reason: Surrendered license 

voluntarily. 

License Number: 022766N. 

Name: Atlantic Integrated Freight Inc. 

Address: 19 Princeton Drive, Dix 

Hills, NY 11746. 

Date Revoked: November 5, 2010. 

Reason: Surrendered license 

voluntarily. 

Sandra L. Kusumoto, 

Director, Bureau of Certification and 

Licensing. 

[FR Doc. 2010–30878 Filed 12–7–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6730–01–P 

FEDERAL RETIREMENT THRIFT 

INVESTMENT BOARD 

Sunshine Act Meeting Notice 

TIME AND DATE: 10 a.m. (Eastern Time); 

December 13, 2010. 

PLACE: 4th Floor Conference Room, 

1250 H Street, NW., Washington, DC 

20005. 

STATUS: Open to the public. 

Matters To Be Considered 

1. Approval of the minutes of the 

November 16, 2010 Board member 

meeting. 

2. Thrift Savings Plan activity report 

by the Executive Director. 

a. Monthly Participant Activity 

Report. 

b. Monthly Investment Performance 

Report. 

c. Legislative Report. 

CONTACT PERSON FOR MORE INFORMATION: 

Thomas J. Trabucco, Director, Office of 

External Affairs, (202) 942–1640. 

Dated: December 6, 2010. 

Thomas K. Emswiler, 

Secretary, Federal Retirement Thrift 

Investment Board. 

[FR Doc. 2010–30969 Filed 12–6–10; 4:15 pm] 

BILLING CODE 6760–01–P 

GENERAL SERVICES 

ADMINISTRATION 

[Docket 2010–0005; Sequence 14] 

Draft Concept for Government-Wide 

‘‘ExpertNet’’ Platform and Process To 

Elicit Expert Public Participation in 

Response to Government Questions 

AGENCY: U.S. General Services 

Administration. 

ACTION: Notice; request for public 

comment. 

SUMMARY: With this notice, the U.S. 

General Services Administration (GSA) 

requests input, comment, and ideas 

from the public on a draft concept for 

next-generation citizen consultation, 

namely a government-wide software 

tool and process to elicit expert public 

participation (working title 

‘‘ExpertNet’’). ExpertNet would tap the 

expertise of the public in a manageable 

and structured format. The goal of 

ExpertNet is to enable government 

officials to search for and communicate 

with citizens who have expertise on a 

topic, giving them the opportunity to 

participate in a public consultation 

relevant to their areas of interest and 

know-how, and pose questions to and 

interact with the public to receive 

useful, relevant, and manageable 

feedback. This Request for Information 

(RFI) will be active from December 8, 

2010 to January 7, 2011. Respondents 

are invited to provide comments about 

or edits directly to the draft of the 

concept paper via an online discussion 

forum and wiki hosted by the White 

House Open Government Initiative and 

GSA and located at http:// 

expertnet.wikispaces.com (the ‘‘Wiki’’). 

In addition, respondents who cannot 

access the Wiki are welcome to 

download a copy of the concept paper 

at http://www.whitehouse.gov/open and 

e-mail comments to expertnet@ostp.gov. 

DATES: Comments must be posted at 

http://expertnet.wikispaces.com or 

received via e-mail by January 7, 2011. 

Comments submitted in response to 

this notice whether via the Wiki or 

e-mail will be available to the public 

online. For this reason, please do not 

include in your comments information 

of a confidential nature, such as 

sensitive personal information or 

proprietary information. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

expertnet@ostp.gov. This inbox will 

close on January 8, 2011. 

Background: On his first full day in 

office, President Obama issued the 

Memorandum on Transparency and 

Open Government in which he declared: 

‘‘Knowledge is widely dispersed in 

society, and public officials benefit from 

having access to that dispersed 

knowledge.’’ Upon signing the 

Memorandum, the President explained 

the Administration’s commitment to 

creating opportunities for Americans to 

participate in government: 

Our commitment to openness means more 

than simply informing the American people 

about how decisions are made. It means 

recognizing that government does not have 

all the answers and that public officials need 

to draw on what citizens know. 

Invitation To Comment 

To that end, GSA is soliciting your 

feedback on a draft concept for a 

consultation platform to obtain timely, 

manageable, and relevant information 

for making decisions. The explanation 

of this concept (also known as a ‘‘use 

case’’) states in broad terms how the 

envisioned software platform and 

process for soliciting public expertise 

would work to: 

• Enable government officials to 

circulate notice of opportunities for the 

public to share its expertise on a topic. 

• Provide the public with a 

mechanism to provide useful, relevant, 

and manageable feedback to government 

officials. 

The proposed platform is intended to 

be complementary to two of the ways 

the Federal government currently 

obtains expertise to inform decisionmaking, namely by convening Federal 

Advisory Committees and announcing 

public comment opportunities in the 

Federal Register. 

We are looking for respondents to 

read the concept paper and provide: 

1. Any refinements or suggestions to 

improve the process as described. 

2. Any issues (legal, policy, technical) 

raised by the features described. 

3. Information about any tools that 

perform the process described in that 

step. 

4. Pointers to organizations (public or 

private) that have a similar platform in 

place. 

To be clear, there is currently no 

funding identified for building this 

platform nor is it clear if future funding 

will be available. Hence, respondents 

should be sure that feedback, when 

possible, addresses opportunities for 

implementing solutions at little to no 

cost, including multi-sector 

partnerships. 

Æ There are three ways to provide 

feedback: 

Æ Respondents may make edits 

directly to the use case via the Wiki. 

Æ Alternatively, respondents may 

review each section of the use case and 

provide comments via an online 

discussion forum on the Wiki. 


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Æ In the event respondents cannot 

access the Wiki, they may e-mail 

comments to expertnet@ostp.gov. 

Dated: December 3, 2010. 

Keith D. Thurston, 

Assistant Associate Administrator, Citizen 

Services and Innovative Technologies. 

[FR Doc. 2010–30861 Filed 12–7–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE P 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

[Document Identifier OS–0990–New] 

Agency Information Collection 

Request; 30-Day Public Comment 

Request 

Agency: Office of the Secretary, Office 

of the National Coordinator for Health 

Information Technology (ONC), HHS. 

In compliance with the requirement 

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

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the 

Office of the Secretary (OS), Department 

of Health and Human Services, is 

publishing the following summary of a 

proposed information collection request 

for public comment. Interested persons 

are invited to send comments regarding 

this burden estimate or any other aspect 

of this collection of information, 

including any of the following subjects: 

(1) The necessity and utility of the 

proposed information collection for the 

proper performance of the agency’s 

functions; (2) the accuracy of the 

estimated burden; (3) ways to enhance 

the quality, utility, and clarity of the 

information to be collected; and (4) the 

use of automated collection techniques 

or other forms of information 

technology to minimize the information 

collection burden. To obtain copies of 

the supporting statement and any 

related forms for the proposed 

paperwork collections referenced above, 

e-mail your request, including your 

address, phone number, OMB number, 

and OS document identifier, to 

Sherette.funncoleman@hhs.gov, or call 

the Reports Clearance Office on (202) 

690–6162. Written comments and 

recommendations for the proposed 

information collections must be directed 

to the OS Paperwork Clearance Officer 

at the above e-mail address within 30- 

days. 

Proposed Project: Evaluation of the IT 

Professionals in Health Care—OMB No. 

0090–NEW—Office of the National 

Coordinator for Health Information 

Technology’s (ONC). 

Abstract: Currently, the Office of the 

National Coordinator for Health 

Information Technology’s (ONC) Office 

of the Chief Scientist is soliciting 

comments on a series of data collection 

efforts for the evaluation of the IT 

Professionals in Health Care 

(‘‘Workforce’’) Program. The Workforce 

Program, created under Section 3016 of 

the Public Health Service Act (PHSA), 

as added by Title XIII in Division A of 

the American Recovery and 

Reinvestment Act of 2009, directed the 

Secretary of Health and Human Services 

to provide ‘‘assistance to institutions of 

higher education (or consortia thereof) 

to establish or expand medical health 

informatics education programs, 

including certification, undergraduate, 

and masters degree programs, for both 

health care and information technology 

students to ensure the rapid and 

effective utilization and development of 

health information technologies.’’ 

The evaluation of the Workforce 

Program is a new information collection 

activity which will explore program 

challenges, provide critical formative 

feedback to the Workforce grantee 

institutions on their activities, and 

determine whether the Workforce 

Program overall was successful in 

helping to build a skilled workforce 

equipped to meet the heightened 

demands of the current environment. 

The data collection efforts include: A 

Web-based baseline survey of 

community college students; course 

evaluation forms; focus groups with 

students, faculty members, and 

competency exam takers; and a Webbased survey of community college 

faculty. 

ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN TABLE

Forms Type of respondent Number of 

respondents 

Number of 

responses per 

respondent 

Average 

burden hours 

per response 

(in hours) 

Total burden 

hours 

Web-based Student Baseline 

Survey.

Students enrolled in Workforce program .. 1,233 1 20/60 411 

Focus groups with students ..... Students enrolled in Workforce program .. 256 1 1.5 384 

Focus groups with faculty ........ Instructors from Workforce program ......... 50 1 1.5 75 

Focus groups with Exam takers Competency exam takers not enrolled in 

Workforce program.

32 1 1.5 48 

Web-based Faculty Survey ...... Instructors from Workforce program ......... 300 1 10/60 50 

Total .................................. ................................................................... ........................ ........................ ........................ 968 

Seleda Perryman, 

Office of the Secretary, Paperwork Reduction 

Act Reports Clearance Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2010–30869 Filed 12–7–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4150–45–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Office of the Assistant Secretary for 

Planning and Evaluation; Medicare 

Program; Meeting of the Technical 

Advisory Panel on Medicare Trustee 

Reports 

AGENCY: Assistant Secretary for 

Planning and Evaluation, HHS. 

ACTION: Notice of meeting. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces a 

public meeting of the Technical 

Advisory Panel on Medicare Trustee 

Reports (Panel). Notice of this meeting 

is given under the Federal Advisory 

Committee Act (5 U.S.C. App. 2, section 

10(a)(1) and (a)(2)). The Panel will 

discuss the long-term rate of change in 

health spending and may make 

recommendations to the Medicare 

Trustees on how the Trustees might 

more accurately estimate health 

spending in the long run. The Panel’s 

discussion is expected to be very 

technical in nature and will focus on the 

actuarial and economic assumptions 

and methods by which Trustees might 


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