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5 47 U.S.C. 1424(b). 

6 47 U.S.C. 1424(b)(2)(B). 

7 47 U.S.C. 1424(b)(2)(A). 

8 47 U.S.C. 1424(g). 

9See, Revised Guidance on Appointment of 

Lobbyists to Federal Advisory Committees, Boards, 

and Commissions, Office of Management and 

Budget, 79 FR 47482 (Aug. 13, 2014). 

10 Incumbent Board members whose terms expire 

in August 2015, and who wish to be considered for 

reappointment, do not need to submit an expression 

of interest in response to this Notice. 

and ensuring the success of the 

nationwide network. 

II. Structure 

The FirstNet Board is composed of 15 

voting members. The Act names the 

U.S. Attorney General, the Director of 

the Office of Management and Budget, 

and the Secretary of the Department of 

Homeland Security as permanent 

members of the Board. The Secretary of 

Commerce appoints the twelve nonpermanent members of the FirstNet 

Board.5 The Act requires each Board 

member to have experience or expertise 

in at least one of the following 

substantive areas: public safety, 

network, technical, and/or financial.6

Additionally, the composition of the 

FirstNet Board must satisfy the other 

requirements specified in the Act, 

including that: (i) at least three Board 

members have served as public safety 

professionals; (ii) at least three members 

represent the collective interests of 

states, localities, tribes, and territories; 

and (iii) its members reflect geographic 

and regional, as well as rural and urban, 

representation.7 An individual Board 

member may satisfy more than one of 

these requirements. The current nonpermanent FirstNet Board members are 

(noting length of term): 

• Barry Boniface, telecommunications 

executive and private equity investor 

(Term expires: August 2016) 

• Tim Bryan, CEO, National Rural 

Telecom Cooperative (Term expires: 

August 2015) 

• Chris Burbank, Chief, Salt Lake City 

Police Department (Term expires: 

August 2017) 

• James Douglas, Former Governor of 

Vermont (Term expires: August 2017) 

• Jeffrey Johnson (Vice Chair), Fire 

Chief (retired); CEO, Western Fire 

Chiefs Association; former Chair, 

Oregon State Interoperability Council 

(Term expires: August 2016) 

• Kevin McGinnis, Chief/Community 

Paramedicine, North East Mobile 

Health Services (Term expires: August 

2015) 

• Annise Parker, Mayor, City of 

Houston, Texas (Term expires: August 

2015) 

• Frank Plastina, telecommunications/

technology executive (Term expires: 

August 2015) 

• Ed Reynolds, telecommunications 

executive (retired) (Term expires: 

August 2017) 

• Richard Stanek, Sheriff of Hennepin 

County, Minnesota and National 

Sheriffs’ Association Executive 

Committee Member (Term expires: 

August 2017) 

• Susan Swenson (Chair), 

telecommunications/technology 

executive (Term expires: August 

2016) 

• Teri Takai, government information 

technology expert; former CIO, States 

of Michigan and California (Term 

expires: August 2016) 

More information about the FirstNet 

Board is available at www.firstnet.gov/

about/Board. Board members are 

appointed for a term of three years, and 

Board members may not serve more 

than two consecutive full three-year 

terms. 

III. Compensation and Status as 

Government Employees 

FirstNet Board members are 

appointed as special government 

employees. FirstNet Board members are 

compensated at the daily rate of basic 

pay for level IV of the Executive 

Schedule (approximately $155,000 per 

year).8 Each Board member must be a 

United States citizen, cannot be a 

registered lobbyist, and cannot be a 

registered agent of, employed by, or 

receive payments from a foreign 

government.9

IV. Financial Disclosure and Conflicts 

of Interest 

FirstNet Board members must comply 

with certain federal conflict of interest 

statutes and ethics regulations, 

including some financial disclosure 

requirements. A FirstNet Board member 

will generally be prohibited from 

participating on any particular matter 

that will have a direct and predictable 

effect on his or her personal financial 

interests or on the interests of the 

appointee’s spouse, minor children, or 

non-federal employer. 

V. Selection Process 

At the direction of the Secretary of 

Commerce, NTIA, in consultation with 

FirstNet, will conduct outreach to the 

public safety community, state and local 

organizations, and industry to solicit 

nominations for candidates to the Board 

who satisfy the statutory requirements 

for membership. In addition, by this 

Notice, the Secretary of Commerce, 

through NTIA, will accept expressions 

of interest until May 15, 2015 from any 

individual, or any organization that 

wishes to propose a candidate, who 

satisfies the statutory requirements for 

membership on the FirstNet Board.10

All parties wishing to be considered 

should submit their full name, address, 

telephone number, email address, a 

current resume, and a statement of 

qualifications that references how the 

candidate satisfies the Act’s expertise, 

representational, and geographic 

requirements for FirstNet Board 

membership, as described in this 

Notice, along with a statement 

describing why they want to serve on 

the FirstNet Board and affirming their 

ability to take a regular and active role 

in the Board’s work. 

The Secretary of Commerce will select 

FirstNet Board candidates based on the 

eligibility requirements in the Act and 

recommendations submitted by NTIA, 

in consultation with the FirstNet 

Board’s Governance and Personnel 

Committee. NTIA will recommend 

candidates based on an assessment of 

their qualifications as well as their 

demonstrated ability to work in a 

collaborative way to achieve the goals 

and objectives of FirstNet as set forth in 

the Act. Board candidates will be vetted 

through the Department of Commerce 

and are subject to an appropriate 

background check for security 

clearance. 

Dated: April 20, 2015. 

Lawrence E. Strickling, 

Assistant Secretary for Communications and 

Information. 

[FR Doc. 2015–09527 Filed 4–22–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–60–P 

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Office of the Secretary 

[Docket ID: DoD–2015–OS–0037] 

Proposed Collection; Comment 

Request 

AGENCY: Defense Technical Information 

Center (DTIC), DoD. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In compliance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the 

Defense Technical Information Center 

(DTIC), DoD 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 

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information shall have practical utility; 

(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 June 22, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, 

identified by docket number and title, 

by any of the following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:// 

www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

instructions for submitting comments. 

• Mail: Department of Defense, Office 

of the Deputy Chief Management 

Officer, Directorate of Oversight and 

Compliance, Regulatory and Audit 

Matters Office, 9010 Defense Pentagon, 

Washington, DC 20301–9010. 

Instructions: All submissions received 

must include the agency name, docket 

number and title for this Federal 

Register document. The general policy 

for comments and other submissions 

from members of the public is to make 

these submissions available for public 

viewing on the Internet at http://

www.regulations.gov as they are 

received without change, including any 

personal identifiers or contact 

information. 

Any associated form(s) for this 

collection may be located within this 

same electronic docket and downloaded 

for review/testing. Follow the 

instructions at http://

www.regulations.gov for submitting 

comments. Please submit comments on 

any given form identified by docket 

number, form number, and title. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To 

request more information on this 

proposed information collection or to 

obtain a copy of the proposal and 

associated collection instruments, 

please write to the Defense Technical 

Information Center (DTIC), 8725 John J. 

Kingman Road, ATTN: Ms. Angela 

Davis, Ft. Belvoir, VA 22060–6218, or 

call the DTIC Communications & 

Customer Access Division at 1–800– 

225–3842 (Option #3). 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Title; Associated Form; and OMB 

Number: Defense User Registration 

System (DURS) Records; DD Form 2345 

Militarily Critical Technical Data 

Agreement; OMB Control Number 

0704–XXXX. 

Needs and Uses: The information 

collection requirement is necessary to 

collect registration requests, validate 

eligibility, and maintain an official 

registry that identifies individuals who 

apply for, and are granted access 

privileges to DTIC owned or controlled 

computers, databases, products, 

services, and electronic information 

systems. Authority for maintenance of 

the system: E.O. 13526, Classified 

National Security Information; DoD 

Directive (DODD) 5105.73 Defense 

Technical Information Center (DTIC); 

DoDD 5230.25 Withholding of 

Unclassified Technical Data from Public 

Disclosure; DoD Instruction (DODI) 

3200.12 DoD Scientific and Technical 

Information (STI) Program (STIP); DoDI 

3200.14 Principles and Operational 

Parameters of the DoD Scientific and 

Technical Information Program; DoDI 

5230.24 Distribution Statements on 

Technical Documents; DoD Manual 

5200.01—Volume 3, DoD Information 

Security Program: Protection of 

Classified Information; and DoD 

Regulation 5200.2–R, Personnel 

Security Program. 

Affected Public: Business or other for 

profit; Not-for-profit institutions; 

Federal Government. 

Annual Burden Hours: 101. 

Number of Respondents: 605 (NonCAC Users who use DURS). 

Responses per Respondent: 1. 

Average Burden per Response: 10 

minutes. 

Frequency: On Occasion. 

Department of Defense (DoD) military 

and civilian personnel and other U.S. 

Federal Government personnel, their 

contractors and grantees, designated 

officials and employees of foreign 

embassies according to agreements with 

DoD who request access privileges to 

DTIC products, services and electronic 

information systems. 

Dated: April 17, 2015. 

Aaron Siegel, 

Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison 

Officer, Department of Defense. 

[FR Doc. 2015–09439 Filed 4–22–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 5001–06–P 

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Office of the Secretary 

[Docket ID DoD–2015–HA–0036] 

Proposed Collection; Comment 

Request 

AGENCY: Office of the Assistant 

Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs, 

DoD. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In compliance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the 

Office of the Assistant Secretary of 

Defense for Health Affairs 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 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 June 22, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, 

identified by docket number and title, 

by any of the following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:// 

www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

instructions for submitting comments. 

• Mail: Department of Defense, Office 

of the Deputy Chief Management 

Officer, Directorate of Oversight and 

Compliance, Regulatory and Audit 

Matters Office, 9010 Defense Pentagon, 

Washington, DC 20301–9010. 

Instructions: All submissions received 

must include the agency name, docket 

number and title for this Federal 

Register document. The general policy 

for comments and other submissions 

from members of the public is to make 

these submissions available for public 

viewing on the Internet at http://

www.regulations.gov as they are 

received without change, including any 

personal identifiers or contact 

information. 

Any associated form(s) for this 

collection may be located within this 

same electronic docket and downloaded 

for review/testing. Follow the 

instructions at http://

www.regulations.gov for submitting 

comments. Please submit comments on 

any given form identified by docket 

number, form number, and title. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To 

request more information on this 

proposed information collection or to 

obtain a copy of the proposal and 

associated collection instruments, 

please write to the Defense Health 

Agency, Office of General Counsel, 

61401 E. Centretech Parkway, ATTN: 

Bridget Ewings, Aurora, CO 80011, or 

call Defense Health Agency, Office of 

General Counsel, at (303) 676–3705. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Title; Associated Form; and OMB 

Number: Statement of Personal Injury— 

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