Federal Register / Vol. 77, No. 189 / Friday, September 28, 2012 / Notices 59701 

approval. In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 we 

are requesting comments on this 

collection from all interested 

individuals and organizations. The 

purpose of this Notice is to allow 30 

days for public comment. 

DATES: Submit comments directly to the 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) up to October 29, 2012. 

ADDRESSES: Direct comments to the 

Department of State Desk Officer in the 

Office of Information and Regulatory 

Affairs at the Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB). You may submit 

comments by the following methods: 

• Email: oira_submission@omb.eop.

gov. You must include the DS form 

number, information collection title, 

and the OMB control number in the 

subject line of your message. 

• Fax: 202–395–5806. Attention: Desk 

Officer for Department of State. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Direct requests for additional 

information regarding the collection 

listed in this notice, including requests 

for copies of the proposed collection 

instrument and supporting documents, 

to Derek A. Rivers, Bureau of Consular 

Affairs, Overseas Citizens Services (CA/ 

OCS/L), U.S. Department of State, SA– 

29, 4th Floor, Washington, DC 20520 or 

at CA-OCS-L@state.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

• Title of Information Collection: 

Request for Entry into Children’s 

Passport Issuance Alert Program. 

• OMB Control Number: 1405–0169. 

• Type of Request: Extension. 

• Originating Office: CA/OCS/L. 

• Form Number: DS–3077. 

• Respondents: Concerned parents or 

their agents, institutions, or courts. 

• Estimated Number of Respondents: 

8,000. 

• Estimated Number of Responses: 

8,000. 

• Average Hours per Response: 30 

minutes. 

• Total Estimated Burden: 4,000 hrs. 

• Frequency: On occasion. 

• Obligation to Respond: Voluntary. 

We are soliciting public comments to 

permit the Department to: 

• Evaluate whether the proposed 

information collection is necessary for 

the proper functions of the Department. 

• Evaluate the accuracy of our 

estimate of the time and cost burden for 

this proposed collection, including the 

validity of the methodology and 

assumptions used. 

• Enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected. 

• Minimize the reporting burden on 

those who are to respond, including the 

use of automated collection techniques 

or other forms of information 

technology. 

Please note that comments submitted 

in response to this Notice are public 

record. Before including any detailed 

personal information, you should be 

aware that your comments as submitted, 

including your personal information, 

will be available for public review. 

Abstract of proposed collection: The 

information requested will be used to 

support entry of the name of a minor (an 

unmarried person under 18) into the 

Children’s Passport Issuance Alert 

Program (CPIAP). CPIAP provides a 

mechanism for parents or other persons 

with legal custody of a minor to obtain 

information regarding whether the 

Department has received a passport 

application for the minor. This program 

was developed as a means to prevent 

international abduction of a minor or to 

help prevent other travel of a minor 

without the consent of a parent or legal 

guardian. If a minor’s name and other 

identifying information has been 

entered into the CPIAP, when the 

Department receives an application for 

a new, replacement, or renewed 

passport for the minor, the application 

will be placed on hold for up to 60 days 

and the Office of Children’s Issues will 

attempt to notify the requestor of receipt 

of the application. Form DS–3077 will 

be primarily submitted by a parent or 

legal guardian of a minor. 

Methodology: The completed form 

DS–3077 can be downloaded and filled 

out online or printed out from the 

computer and manually completed. The 

form must be manually signed and 

submitted to the Office of Children’s 

Issues by mail, or by fax. 

Dated: September 11, 2012. 

Michelle Bernier-Toth, 

Managing Director, Bureau of Consular 

Affairs, Overseas Citizen Services, 

Department of State. 

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DEPARTMENT OF STATE 

[Public Notice 8046] 

Culturally Significant Objects Imported 

for Exhibition Determinations: ‘‘Wari: 

Lords of the Ancient Andes’’ 

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given of the 

following determinations: Pursuant to 

the authority vested in me by the Act of 

October 19, 1965 (79 Stat. 985; 22 U.S.C. 

2459), Executive Order 12047 of March 

27, 1978, the Foreign Affairs Reform and 

Restructuring Act of 1998 (112 Stat. 

2681, et seq.; 22 U.S.C. 6501 note, et 

seq.), Delegation of Authority No. 234 of 

October 1, 1999, Delegation of Authority 

No. 236–3 of August 28, 2000 (and, as 

appropriate, Delegation of Authority No. 

257 of April 15, 2003), I hereby 

determine that the objects to be 

included in the exhibition ‘‘Wari: Lords 

of the Ancient Andes’’ imported from 

abroad for temporary exhibition within 

the United States, are of cultural 

significance. The objects are imported 

pursuant to loan agreements with the 

foreign owners or custodians. I also 

determine that the exhibition or display 

of the exhibit objects at The Cleveland 

Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, from on 

or about October 28, 2012, until on or 

about January 6, 2013; the Ft. 

Lauderdale Museum of Art, Ft. 

Lauderdale, FL, from on or about 

February 10, 2013, until on or about 

May 19, 2013; the Kimbell Art Museum, 

Ft. Worth, TX, from on or about June 16, 

2013, until on or about September 8, 

2013, and at possible additional 

exhibitions or venues yet to be 

determined, is in the national interest. 

I have ordered that Public Notice of 

these Determinations be published in 

the Federal Register. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

further information, including a list of 

the exhibit objects, contact Julie 

Simpson, Attorney-Adviser, Office of 

the Legal Adviser, U.S. Department of 

State (telephone: 202–632–6467). The 

mailing address is U.S. Department of 

State, SA–5, L/PD, Fifth Floor (Suite 

5H03), Washington, DC 20522–0505. 

Dated: September 24, 2012. 

J. Adam Ereli, 

Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau 

of Educational and Cultural Affairs, 

Department of State. 

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DEPARTMENT OF STATE 

[Public Notice 8045] 

Culturally Significant Objects Imported 

for Exhibition Determinations: 

‘‘Florence at the Dawn of Renaissance: 

Painting and Illumination’’ 

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given of the 

following determinations: Pursuant to 

the authority vested in me by the Act of 

October 19, 1965 (79 Stat. 985; 22 U.S.C. 

2459), Executive Order 12047 of March 

27, 1978, the Foreign Affairs Reform and 

Restructuring Act of 1998 (112 Stat. 

2681, et seq.; 22 U.S.C. 6501 note, et 

seq.), Delegation of Authority No. 234 of 

October 1, 1999, and Delegation of 

Authority No. 236–3 of August 28, 2000 

(and, as appropriate, Delegation of 


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Authority No. 257 of April 15, 2003), I 

hereby determine that the objects to be 

included in the exhibition ‘‘Florence at 

the Dawn of Renaissance: Painting and 

Illumination,’’ imported from abroad for 

temporary exhibition within the United 

States, are of cultural significance. The 

objects are imported pursuant to loan 

agreements with the foreign owners or 

custodians. I also determine that the 

exhibition or display of the exhibit 

objects at The J. Paul Getty Museum in 

Los Angeles, California from on or about 

November 13, 2012 until on or about 

February 10, 2013, and at possible 

additional exhibitions or venues yet to 

be determined, is in the national 

interest. I have ordered that Public 

Notice of these Determinations be 

published in the Federal Register. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

further information, including a list of 

the exhibit objects, contact Ona M. 

Hahs, Attorney-Adviser, Office of the 

Legal Adviser, U.S. Department of State 

(telephone: 202–632–6473). The mailing 

address is U.S. Department of State, SA– 

5, L/PD, Fifth Floor (Suite 5H03), 

Washington, DC 20522–0505. 

Dated: September 24, 2012. 

J. Adam Ereli, 

Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau 

of Educational and Cultural Affairs, 

Department of State. 

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TRADE REPRESENTATIVE 

Promoting U.S. EC Regulatory 

Compatibility 

AGENCY: Office of the United States 

Trade Representative. 

ACTION: Request for comments from the 

Public. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Government and 

European Commission (EC) share the 

goal of reducing excessive regulatory 

costs, unjustified regulatory differences, 

and unnecessary red tape while 

respecting each other’s right to protect 

public health, safety, welfare, and the 

environment. Promoting this goal will 

help businesses to grow, create jobs, and 

compete globally. Enhanced cooperation 

will also help the United States to 

achieve its regulatory objectives in a 

more effective and efficient manner. The 

United States and EC have agreed to 

solicit comments from the public on 

how to promote greater transatlantic 

regulatory compatibility generally. 

Concrete ideas on how greater 

compatibility could be achieved in a 

particular economic sector are also 

requested. 

DATES: In order to ensure timely 

consideration, written comments should 

be submitted no later than October 31, 

2012. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

David Weiner, Deputy Assistant U.S. 

Trade Representative for Europe, (202) 

395–9679, or Kate J. Kalutkiewicz, 

Director for European Affairs, (202) 

395–9460, Office of the United States 

Trade Representative, 600 17th Street 

NW., Washington, DC 20508. 

Background 

Transatlantic trade and investment 

constitute the largest economic 

relationship in the world, a relationship 

that is vital to the strength of our 

economies. The United States and the 

European Union (EU) are committed to 

identifying new ways to strengthen this 

vibrant economic partnership. During 

their November 28, 2011 Summit 

meeting, U.S. and EU leaders 

established the High Level Working 

Group on Jobs and Growth and tasked 

it to identify policies and measures to 

increase trade and investment to 

support mutually beneficial job 

creation, economic growth, and 

competitiveness, working closely with 

public and private sector stakeholder 

groups, and drawing on existing 

dialogues and mechanisms, as 

appropriate. The challenges posed by 

efforts to improve regulatory 

cooperation between the EU and the 

United States should not be 

underestimated. But there are reasons to 

be optimistic. Significant progress has 

been made in the HLRCF and also 

recently in the Transatlantic Economic 

Council (TEC), where the EU and the 

United States cooperate on future 

regulations affecting new and 

innovative growth markets and 

technologies. As we continue in the 

High Level Working Group on Jobs and 

Growth to examine the possibility of 

negotiations on horizontal and sectoral 

regulatory issues, we seek to continue to 

make progress through the HLRCF and 

the TEC with the help of additional 

information from the public. Your 

detailed input will b euseful when we 

define our priorities and explore next 

steps in the U.S.-EU High Level 

Regulatory Cooperation Forum (HLRCF) 

and contribute to the work of the U.S.- 

EU High Level Working Group on Jobs 

and Growth (HLWG). It will help us to 

identify both immediate and longerterm goals and mechanisms to 

accomplish them. We plan to explore 

these and other issues at a meeting in 

the fall involving EU and U.S. 

regulators, economic policy agencies, 

and stakeholders. 

In that regard, the U.S. Government 

and EC invite your views on how to 

promote greater transatlantic regulatory 

compatibility generally. We also invite 

you to share your concrete ideas on how 

greater compatibility could be achieved 

in a particular economic sector by 

providing detailed information for that 

sector, including: 

• Names of the relevant regulatory 

agencies in the EU and the United 

States; 

• Citations to the relevant regulatory 

and/or statutory provisions for each 

jurisdiction (this is not meant to exclude 

potential cooperation in areas where 

neither jurisdiction has yet adopted 

such provisions); 

• A description of the regulatory 

differences to be addressed (including 

any information on negative effects of 

these differences and on the entities or 

stakeholders affected by them); 

• Possible solutions for bridging these 

differences (including both the 

substance of the solution—please be as 

specific as possible—and the proposed 

procedure for reaching it); 

• Any steps that the EU and/or the 

United States should consider to 

address horizontal and/or sectoral 

differences between the two 

jurisdictions that may be impeding 

deeper regulatory compatibility in the 

sector—for example, differences with 

respect to technical regulations or in our 

respective approaches to standards; and 

• An assessment of the effects of 

enhanced regulatory compatibility 

(quantified benefits and costs, if 

possible, or else qualitative 

descriptions), the likelihood of these 

effects occurring, and the time period 

over which they would occur. 

We encourage trade association 

respondents, where possible, to submit 

views jointly with counterparts across 

the Atlantic. 

Submissions: To facilitate expeditious 

handling, the public is strongly 

encouraged to submit documents 

electronically via http:// 

www.regulations.gov, docket number 

USTR–2012–0028. Submissions should 

contain the term ‘‘U.S.-EU Regulatory 

Compatability’’ in the ‘‘Type comment & 

Upload file:’’ field on http:// 

www.regulations.gov. To find the 

docket, enter the docket number in the 

‘‘Enter Keyword or ID’’ window at the 

http://www.regulations.gov home page 

and click ‘‘Search.’’ The site will 

provide a search-results page listing all 

documents associated with this docket. 

Find a reference to this notice by 

selecting ‘‘Notices’’ under ‘‘Document 

Type’’ on the search-results page, and 

click on the link entitled ‘‘Submit a 

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