Federal Register / Vol. 75, No. 234 / Tuesday, December 7, 2010 / Notices 76079 

Issued in Washington, DC, on November 

24, 2010. 

Jeffrey D. Wiese, 

Associate Administrator for Pipeline Safety. 

[FR Doc. 2010–30605 Filed 12–6–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–60–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY 

Office of Thrift Supervision 

Sound Incentive Compensation 

Guidance 

AGENCY: Office of Thrift Supervision 

(OTS), Treasury. 

ACTION: Notice and request for comment. 

SUMMARY: The proposed information 

collection request (ICR) described below 

has been submitted to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for 

review and approval, as required by the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. OTS 

is soliciting public comments on the 

proposal. 

DATES: Submit written comments on or 

before January 6, 2011. A copy of this 

ICR, with applicable supporting 

documentation, can be obtained from 

RegInfo.gov at http://www.reginfo.gov/ 

public/do/PRAMain. 

ADDRESSES: Send comments, referring to 

the collection by title of the proposal or 

by OMB approval number, to OMB and 

OTS at these addresses: Office of 

Information and Regulatory Affairs, 

Attention: Desk Officer for OTS, U.S. 

Office of Management and Budget, 725 

17th Street, NW., Room 10235, 

Washington, DC 20503, or by fax to 

(202) 393–6974; and Information 

Collection Comments, Chief Counsel’s 

Office, Office of Thrift Supervision, 

1700 G Street, NW., Washington, DC 

20552, by fax to (202) 906–6518, or by 

e-mail to 

infocollection.comments@ots.treas.gov. 

OTS will post comments and the related 

index on the OTS Internet Site at 

http://www.ots.treas.gov. In addition, 

interested persons may inspect 

comments at the Public Reading Room, 

1700 G Street, NW., Washington, DC 

20552 by appointment. To make an 

appointment, call (202) 906–5922, send 

an e-mail to public.info@ots.treas.gov, or 

send a facsimile transmission to (202) 

906–7755. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

further information or to obtain a copy 

of the submission to OMB, please 

contact Ira L. Mills at, 

ira.mills@ots.treas.gov (202) 906–6531, 

or facsimile number (202) 906–6518, 

Regulations and Legislation Division, 

Chief Counsel’s Office, Office of Thrift 

Supervision, 1700 G Street, NW., 

Washington, DC 20552. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: OTS may 

not conduct or sponsor an information 

collection, and respondents are not 

required to respond to an information 

collection, unless the information 

collection displays a currently valid 

OMB control number. As part of the 

approval process, we invite comments 

on the following information collection. 

Title of Proposal: Sound Incentive 

Compensation Guidance. 

OMB Number: 1550–0129. 

Form Number: N/A. 

Description: The guidance is based on 

three key principles that are designed to 

ensure that incentive compensation 

arrangements at a financial institution 

do not encourage employees to take 

excessive risks. These principles 

provide that incentive compensation 

arrangements should: 

• Provide employees incentives that 

do not encourage excessive risk-taking 

beyond the organization’s ability to 

effectively identify and manage risk; 

• Be compatible with effective 

controls and risk management; and 

• Be supported by strong corporate 

governance, including active and 

effective oversight by the organization’s 

board of directors. 

These principles and the guidance are 

consistent with the Principles for Sound 

Compensation Practices adopted by the 

Financial Stability Board (FSB) in April 

2009, as well as the Implementation 

Standards for those principles issued by 

the FSB in September 2009. This 

guidance will promote the prompt 

improvement of incentive compensation 

practices in the banking industry by 

providing a common prudential 

foundation for incentive compensation 

arrangements across banking 

organizations and promoting the overall 

movement of the industry towards 

better practices. Supervisory action 

could play a critical role in addressing 

misaligned compensation incentives, 

especially where issues of competition 

may make it difficult for individual 

firms to act alone. Through their 

actions, supervisors could help to better 

align the interests of managers and other 

employees with organizations’ longterm health and reduce concerns that 

making prudent modifications to 

incentive compensation arrangements 

might have adverse competitive 

consequences. 

Type of Review: Extension of a 

currently approved collection. 

Affected Public: Business or other forprofit. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

757. 

Estimated Burden Hours per 

Response: 40 hours. 

Estimated Frequency of Response: On 

occasion. 

Estimated Total Burden: 30,280 

hours. 

Clearance Officer: Ira L. Mills, (202) 

906–6531, Office of Thrift Supervision, 

1700 G Street, NW., Washington, DC 

20552. 

Dated: December 1, 2010. 

Ira L. Mills, 

Paperwork Clearance Officer, Office of Chief 

Counsel, Office of Thrift Supervision. 

[FR Doc. 2010–30680 Filed 12–6–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6720–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY 

Office of Thrift Supervision 

Purchase of Branch Office(s) and/or 

Transfer of Assets/Liabilities 

AGENCY: Office of Thrift Supervision 

(OTS), Treasury. 

ACTION: Notice and request for comment. 

SUMMARY: The proposed information 

collection request (ICR) described below 

has been submitted to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for 

review and approval, as required by the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 44 

U.S.C. 3507. OTS is soliciting public 

comments on the proposal. 

DATES: Submit written comments on or 

before January 6, 2011. A copy of this 

ICR, with applicable supporting 

documentation, can be obtained from 

RegInfo.gov at http://www.reginfo.gov/ 

public/do/PRAMain. 

ADDRESSES: Send comments, referring to 

the collection by title of the proposal or 

by OMB approval number, to OMB and 

OTS at these addresses: Office of 

Information and Regulatory Affairs, 

Attention: Desk Officer for OTS, U.S. 

Office of Management and Budget, 725 

17th Street, NW., Room 10235, 

Washington, DC 20503, or by fax to 

(202) 393–6974; and Information 

Collection Comments, Chief Counsel’s 

Office, Office of Thrift Supervision, 

1700 G Street, NW., Washington, DC 

20552, by fax to (202) 906–6518, or by 

e-mail to 

infocollection.comments@ots.treas.gov. 

OTS will post comments and the related 

index on the OTS Internet Site at http:// 

www.ots.treas.gov. In addition, 

interested persons may inspect 

comments at the Public Reading Room, 

1700 G Street, NW., Washington, DC 

20552 by appointment. To make an 

appointment, call (202) 906–5922, send 

an e-mail to public.info@ots.treas.gov, or 


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send a facsimile transmission to (202) 

906–7755. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

further information or to obtain a copy 

of the submission to OMB, please 

contact Ira L. Mills at, 

ira.mills@ots.treas.gov, or on (202) 906– 

6531, or facsimile number (202) 906– 

6518, Regulations and Legislation 

Division, Chief Counsel’s Office, Office 

of Thrift Supervision, 1700 G Street, 

NW., Washington, DC 20552. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: OTS may 

not conduct or sponsor an information 

collection, and respondents are not 

required to respond to an information 

collection, unless the information 

collection displays a currently valid 

OMB control number. As part of the 

approval process, we invite comments 

on the following information collection. 

Title of Proposal: Purchase of Branch 

Office(s) and/or Transfer of Assets/ 

Liabilities. 

OMB Number: 1550–0025. 

Form Number: N/A. 

Description: The information for a 

Purchase of Branch Office(s) and/or 

Transfer of Assets/Liabilities 

application is to provide the OTS with 

the information necessary to determine 

if the request should be approved. It 

allows for OTS evaluation of 

supervisory, accounting, and legal 

issues related to these transaction types. 

If the information were not collected, 

OTS would not be able to properly 

evaluate whether the proposed 

transaction meets applicable criteria. 

Type of Review: Extension of a 

currently approved collection. 

Affected Public: Business or other forprofit. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

40. 

Estimated Frequency of Response: On 

occasion. 

Estimated Total Burden: 960 hours. 

Clearance Officer: Ira L. Mills, (202) 

906–6531, Office of Thrift Supervision, 

1700 G Street, NW., Washington, DC 

20552. 

Dated: December 1, 2010. 

Ira L. Mills, 

Paperwork Clearance Officer, Office of Chief 

Counsel, Office of Thrift Supervision. 

[FR Doc. 2010–30676 Filed 12–6–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6720–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS 

AFFAIRS 

[OMB Control No. 2900–0675] 

Agency Information Collection (VetBiz 

Vendor Information Pages Verification 

Program) Activity Under OMB Review 

AGENCY: Veterans Benefits 

Administration, Department of Veterans 

Affairs. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In compliance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995 

(44 U.S.C. 3501–21), this notice 

announces that the Veterans Office of 

Small and Disadvantaged Business 

Utilization (OSDBU), Department of 

Veterans Affairs, will submit the 

collection of information abstracted 

below to the Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB) for review and comment. 

The PRA submission describes the 

nature of the information collection and 

its expected cost and burden; it includes 

the actual data collection instrument. 

DATE: Comments must be submitted on 

or before January 6, 2011. 

ADDRESSES: Submit written comments 

on the collection of information through 

http://www.Regulations.gov; or to VA’s 

OMB Desk Officer, OMB Human 

Resources and Housing Branch, New 

Executive Office Building, Room 10235, 

Washington, DC 20503 (202) 395–7316. 

Please refer to ‘‘OMB Control No. 2900– 

0675’’ in any correspondence. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Denise McLamb, Enterprise Records 

Service (005R1B), Department of 

Veterans Affairs, 810 Vermont Avenue, 

NW., Washington, DC 20420, (202) 461– 

7485, FAX (202) 565–7870 or e-mail: 

denise.mclamb@va.gov. Please refer to 

‘‘OMB Control No. 2900–0675.’’ 

SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION: 

Title: VetBiz Vendor Information 

Pages Verification Program, VA Form 

0877. 

OMB Control Number: 2900–0675. 

Type of Review: Extension of a 

currently approved collection. 

Abstract: The Vendor Information 

Pages (VIP) will be used to assist federal 

agencies in identifying small businesses 

owned and controlled by veterans and 

service-connected disabled veterans. 

This information is necessary to ensure 

that veteran own businesses are given 

the opportunity to participate in Federal 

contracts and receive contract 

solicitations information automatically. 

VA will use the data collected on VA 

Form 0877 to verify small businesses as 

veteran-owned or service-disabled 

veteran-owned. 

An agency may not conduct or 

sponsor, and a person is not required to 

respond to a collection of information 

unless it displays a currently valid OMB 

control number. The Federal Register 

Notice with a 60-day comment period 

soliciting comments on this collection 

of information was published on 

September 29, 2010, at page 60169. 

Affected Public: Business or other forprofit. 

Estimated Annual Burden: 10,000 

hours. 

Estimated Average Burden per 

Respondent: 30 minutes. 

Frequency of Response: On occasion. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

20,000. 

Dated: December 1, 2010. 

By direction of the Secretary. 

Denise McLamb, 

Program Analyst, Enterprise Records Service. 

[FR Doc. 2010–30550 Filed 12–6–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 8320–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS 

AFFAIRS 

[OMB Control No. 2900–0080] 

Agency Information Collection (Claim 

for Payment of Cost of Unauthorized 

Medical Services) Activity Under OMB 

Review 

AGENCY: Veterans Health 

Administration, Department of Veterans 

Affairs. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In compliance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995 

(44 U.S.C. 3501–3521), this notice 

announces that the Veterans Health 

Administration (VHA), Department of 

Veterans Affairs, will submit the 

collection of information abstracted 

below to the Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB) for review and comment. 

The PRA submission describes the 

nature of the information collection and 

its expected cost and burden and 

includes the actual data collection 

instrument. 

DATE: Comments must be submitted on 

or before January 6, 2011. 

ADDRESSES: Submit written comments 

on the collection of information through 

http://www.Regulations.gov or to VA’s 

OMB Desk Officer, OMB Human 

Resources and Housing Branch, New 

Executive Office Building, Room 10235, 

Washington, DC 20503 (202) 395–7316. 

Please refer to ‘‘OMB Control No. 2900– 

0080’’ in any correspondence. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Denise McLamb, Enterprise Records 

Service (005R1B), Department of 

Veterans Affairs, 810 Vermont Avenue, 


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