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DEPARTMENT OF STATE 

[Delegation of Authority No. 321] 

Re-Delegation From the Deputy 

Secretary of State of Certain 

Authorities Vested in the Under 

Secretary for Arms Control and 

International Security 

By virtue of the authority vested in 

the Secretary of State by the laws of the 

United States, including the Foreign 

Assistance Act of 1961, the Arms Export 

Control Act, the Foreign Affairs Reform 

and Restructuring Act of 1998, and 

Section 1 of the State Department Basic 

Authorities Act (22 U.S.C. 2651a), and 

delegated to me by Delegation of 

Authority 245, dated April 23, 2001, I 

hereby delegate to Stephen D. Mull of 

the Office of the Under Secretary for 

Political Affairs, to the extent 

authorized by law, all authorities vested 

in the Under Secretary of State for Arms 

Control and International Security, 

including all authorities vested in the 

Secretary of State that have been or may 

be delegated or redelegated to that 

Under Secretary. 

Any authorities covered by this 

delegation are also hereby delegated to 

the Deputy Secretary for Management 

and Resources, the Under Secretary for 

Political Affairs and the Under Secretary 

for Management, and may also be 

exercised by the Secretary and the 

Deputy Secretary. Nothing in this 

delegation of authority shall be deemed 

to supersede any existing delegation of 

authority, which shall remain in full 

force and effect during and after this 

delegation. 

This delegation shall become effective 

at noon on January 20, 2009, and shall 

expire upon the appointment and entry 

upon duty of a subsequently appointed 

individual to serve as Under Secretary 

of State for Arms Control and 

International Security. 

This memorandum shall be published 

in the Federal Register. 

Dated: January 16, 2009. 

John D. Negroponte, 

Deputy Secretary of State. 

[FR Doc. E9–1935 Filed 1–28–09; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF STATE 

[Delegation of Authority No. 320] 

Re-Delegation From the Deputy 

Secretary of State of Certain 

Authorities Vested in the Under 

Secretary for Public Diplomacy and 

Public Affairs 

By virtue of the authority vested in 

the Secretary of State by the laws of the 

United States, including the Mutual 

Educational and Cultural Exchange Act 

of 1961, the United States Information 

and Educational Exchange Act of 1948, 

and the State Department Basic 

Authorities Act of 1956, and delegated 

to me by Delegation of Authority 245, 

dated April 23, 2001, I hereby delegate 

to the following officials to the extent 

authorized by law all authorities vested 

in the Under Secretary of State for 

Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs, 

including all authorities vested in the 

Secretary of State that have been or may 

be delegated or redelegated to that 

Under Secretary: 

(1) To the Deputy Spokesman, Bureau 

of Public Affairs, insofar as these 

authorities relate to the responsibilities 

of the Bureau of Public Affairs; 

(2) To the Principal Deputy Assistant 

Secretary of State for Educational and 

Cultural Affairs, insofar as these 

authorities relate to the responsibilities 

of the Bureau of Educational and 

Cultural Affairs, including 

responsibilities with respect to the John 

F. Kennedy Center for the Performing 

Arts and the President’s Committee on 

the Arts and the Humanities; and 

(3) To the Coordinator for 

International Information Programs, 

insofar as these authorities relate to the 

responsibilities of the Bureau of 

International Information Programs, 

including responsibilities with respect 

to the National Endowment for 

Democracy and the Broadcasting Board 

of Governors. 

Any authorities covered by this 

delegation are also hereby delegated to 

the Deputy Secretary for Management 

and Resources, the Under Secretary for 

Political Affairs and the Under Secretary 

for Management, and may also be 

exercised by the Secretary and the 

Deputy Secretary. Nothing in this 

delegation of authority shall be deemed 

to supersede any existing delegation of 

authority, which shall remain in full 

force and effect during and after this 

delegation. 

This delegation shall become effective 

at noon on January 20, 2009, and shall 

expire upon the appointment and entry 

upon duty of a subsequently appointed 

individual to serve as Under Secretary 

of State for Public Diplomacy and 

Public Affairs. 

This memorandum shall be published 

in the Federal Register. 

Dated: January 16, 2009. 

John D. Negroponte, 

Deputy Secretary of State. 

[FR Doc. E9–1941 Filed 1–28–09; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Motor Carrier Safety 

Administration 

[Docket No. FMCSA–2008–0354] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Revision of a CurrentlyApproved Information Collection 

Request: COMPASS Portal Customer 

Satisfaction Assessment 

AGENCY: Federal Motor Carrier Safety 

Administration (FMCSA), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 

FMCSA announces its plan to submit 

the Information Collection Request (ICR) 

described below to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for its 

review and approval and invites public 

comment. The collection involves the 

assessment of FMCSA’s strategic 

decision to integrate its Information 

Technology (IT) with its business 

processes using portal technology to 

consolidate its systems and databases 

through the FMCSA COMPASS 

modernization initiative. The 

information to be collected will be used 

to assess the satisfaction of Federal, 

State, and industry customers with the 

FMCSA COMPASS Portal. 

DATES: We must receive your comments 

on or before March 30, 2009. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

bearing the Federal Docket Management 

System (FDMS) Docket Number 

FMCSA–2008–0354 using any of the 

following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to 

http://www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

on-line instructions for submitting 

comments. 

• Mail: Docket Management Facility; 

U.S. Department of Transportation, 1200 

New Jersey Avenue, SE., West Building 

Ground Floor, Room W12–140, 

Washington, DC 20590–0001. 

• Hand Delivery: West Building 

Ground Floor, Room W12–140, 1200 

New Jersey Avenue, SE., Washington 

DC, 20590–0001 between 9 a.m. and 5 


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p.m., e.t., Monday through Friday, 

except Federal Holidays. 

• Fax: 1–202–493–2251. 

Each submission must include the 

Agency name and the docket number for 

this Notice. Note that DOT posts all 

comments received without change to 

http://www.regulations.gov, including 

any personal information included in a 

comment. Please see the Privacy Act 

heading below. 

Docket: For access to the docket to 

read background documents or 

comments, go to http:// 

www.regulations.gov at any time or 

Room W12–140 on the ground level of 

the West Building, 1200 New Jersey 

Avenue, SE., Washington, DC, 20590– 

0001 between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., 

Monday through Friday, except Federal 

holidays. The FDMS is available 24 

hours each day, 365 days each year. If 

you want acknowledgement that we 

received your comments, please include 

a self-addressed, stamped envelope or 

post card or print the acknowledgement 

page that appears after submitting online. 

Privacy Act: Anyone may search the 

electronic form of all comments 

received into any of our dockets by the 

name of the individual submitting the 

comment (or of the person signing the 

comment, if submitted on behalf of an 

association, business, labor union, etc.). 

You may review the DOT’s complete 

Privacy Act Statement in the Federal 

Register on April 11, 2000 (65 FR 

19476). This information is also 

available at http://docketsinfo.dot.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

Adam Schlicht, Department of 

Transportation, Federal Motor Carrier 

Safety Administration, West Building 

6th Floor, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE., 

Washington, DC 20590. Telephone: 

202–366–4441; e-mail: 

adam.schlicht@dot.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

Title II, section 207 of the EGovernment Act of 2002 requires 

Government agencies to improve the 

methods by which government 

information, including information on 

the Internet, is organized, preserved, 

and made accessible to the public. To 

meet this goal, FMCSA plans to provide 

a survey on the FMCSA Portal, allowing 

users to assess its functionality. This 

functionality includes the capability for 

Federal, State, and Industry users to 

access the Agency’s existing safety IT 

systems with a single set of credentials 

and have easy access to safety data 

about the companies that do business 

with FMCSA. The COMPASS program 

will also focus on improving the 

accuracy of data to help ensure 

information, such as carrier name and 

address, is valid and reliable. 

FMCSA’s legacy information systems 

are currently operational. However, 

having this many stand-alone systems 

has led to data quality concerns, a need 

for excessive IDs and passwords, and 

significant operational and maintenance 

costs. Integrating our information 

technologies with our business 

processes will, in turn, improve our 

operations considerably, particularly in 

terms of data quality, ease of use, and 

reduction of maintenance costs. 

In early 2007, FMCSA’ COMPASS 

program launched a series of releases of 

a new FMCSA Portal to its Federal, 

State and Industry customers. Over the 

coming years, more than 15 releases are 

planned. These releases will use portal 

technology to fuse and provide 

numerous services and functions via a 

single user interface and provide 

tailored services that seek to meet the 

needs of specific constituencies within 

our customer universe. 

The FMCSA COMPASS Portal will 

entail considerable expenditure of 

Federal Government dollars over the 

years and will fundamentally impact the 

nature of the relationship between the 

Agency and its Federal, State, and 

Industry customers. Consequently, the 

Agency intends to conduct regular and 

ongoing assessments of customer 

satisfaction with COMPASS. 

The primary purposes of this 

assessment are to: 

• Determine the extent to which the 

FMCSA Portal functionality continues 

to meet the needs of Agency customers; 

• Identify and prioritize additional 

modifications; 

• Determine the extent that the 

FMCSA Portal has impacted FMCSA’s 

relationships with its main customer 

groups. 

The assessment will address: 

• Overall customer satisfaction; 

• Customer satisfaction against 

specific items; 

• Performance of systems integrator 

against agreed objectives; 

• Desired adjustments and 

modifications to systems; 

• Demonstrated value of investment 

to FMCSA and DOT; 

• Items about the FMCSA Portal that 

customers like best; 

• Customer ideas for making the 

FMCSA Portal better. 

Title: COMPASS Portal Customer 

Satisfaction Assessment. 

OMB Control Number: 2126–0042. 

Type of Request: Revision of the 

currently-approved information 

collection request. 

Respondents: Federal, State, and 

Industry customers/users. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

100,422. 

Estimated Time per Response: Five (5) 

minutes. 

Expiration Date: 08/31/2009. 

Frequency of Response: 4 times per 

year. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden: 

34,474 hours [(5 minutes to complete 

survey x 4 times per year = 20 minutes/ 

60 minutes x 140,000 annual industry 

respondents x .70 (70%) response rate = 

32,667) + (5 minutes to complete survey 

x 4 times per year = 20 minutes/60 

minutes x 2,691 State government users 

x .90 (90%) response rate) = 807 burden 

hours]. 

Public Comments Invited: You are 

asked to comment on any aspect of this 

information collection, including: (1) 

Whether the proposed collection is 

necessary for FMCSA’s performance 

including its utility in fostering 

assessment of the Portal; (2) the 

accuracy of the estimated burden; (3) 

ways for the FMCSA to enhance the 

quality, usefulness, and clarity of the 

collected information; and (4) ways that 

the burden could be minimized without 

reducing the quality of the collected 

information. The Agency will 

summarize and/or include your 

comments in the request for OMB’s 

clearance of this information collection 

request. 

Issued on: January 12, 2009. 

Terry Shelton, 

Associate Administrator for Research and 

Information Technology. 

[FR Doc. E9–1870 Filed 1–28–09; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY 

Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request 

January 22, 2009. 

The Department of Treasury will 

submit the following public information 

collection requirement(s) to OMB for 

review and clearance under the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 

Public Law 104–13 after the date of 

publication of this notice. Copies of the 

submission(s) may be obtained by 

calling the Treasury Bureau Clearance 

Officer listed. Comments regarding this 

information collection should be 

addressed to the OMB reviewer listed 

and to the Treasury Department 

Clearance Officer, Department of the 

Treasury, Room 11020, 1750 

Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., 

Washington, DC 20220. 


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