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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Office of Workers’ Compensation 

Programs 

Proposed Extension of Existing 

Collection; Comment Request 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Labor, as 

part of its continuing effort to reduce 

paperwork and respondent burden, 

conducts a preclearance consultation 

program to provide the general public 

and Federal agencies with an 

opportunity to comment on proposed 

and/or continuing collections of 

information in accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 

(PRA95) [44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A)]. This 

program helps to ensure that requested 

data can be provided in the desired 

format, reporting burden (time and 

financial resources) is minimized, 

collection instruments are clearly 

understood, and the impact of collection 

requirements on respondents can be 

properly assessed. Currently, the Office 

of Workers’ Compensation Programs is 

soliciting comments concerning the 

proposed extension of the existing 

collection: Uniform Billing Form 

(OWCP–04). A copy of the proposed 

information collection request can be 

obtained by contacting the office listed 

below in the addresses section of this 

Notice. 

DATES: Written comments must be 

submitted to the office listed in the 

addresses section below on or before 

October 26, 2012. 

ADDRESSES: Ms Yoon Ferguson, U.S. 

Department of Labor, 200 Constitution 

Ave. NW., Room S–3201, Washington, 

DC 20210, telephone (202) 693–0701, 

fax (202) 693–2447, Email 

ferguson.yoon@dol.gov. Please use only 

one method of transmission for 

comments (mail, fax, or Email). 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

The Office of Workers’ Compensation 

Programs (OWCP) is the agency 

responsible for administration of the 

Federal Employees’ Compensation Act 

(FECA), 5 U.S.C. 8101 et seq., the Black 

Lung Benefits Act (BLBA), 30 U.S.C. 901 

et seq., and the Energy Employees 

Occupational Illness Compensation 

Program Act of 2000 (EEOICPA), 42 

U.S.C. 7384 et seq. All three of these 

statutes require that OWCP pay for 

medical treatment of beneficiaries; this 

medical treatment can include 

inpatient/outpatient hospital services, 

as well as services provided by nursing 

homes, skilled nursing facilities and 

home health aides in the home. In order 

to determine whether billed amounts 

are appropriate, OWCP needs to identify 

the patient, the specific services that 

were rendered and their relationship to 

the work-related injury or illness. The 

regulations implementing these statutes 

require the use of Form OWCP–04 or 

UB–04 for the submission of medical 

bills from institutional providers (20 

CFR 10.801, 30.701, 725.405, 725.406, 

725.701 and 725.704). The Uniform 

Billing form, known as the paper UB– 

04, has been approved by the American 

Hospital Association, the Centers for 

Medicare and Medicaid Services and 

the Civilian Health and Medical 

Program of Uniformed Services 

(CHAMPUS), by various other 

government health care providers, and 

the private sector to request payment to 

institutional providers of medical 

services. The paper UB–04 has been 

designed by the National Uniform 

Billing Committee and is neither a 

government-printed form nor 

distributed by OWCP. However, this 

collection includes the paper UB–04 as 

a collection instrument, with detailed 

instructions prepared by OWCP to 

ensure that it obtains only the 

information needed to consider requests 

for payment from institutional providers 

using this billing form. This information 

collection is currently approved for use 

through November 30, 2012. 

II. Review Focus 

The Department of Labor is 

particularly interested in comments 

which: 

• Evaluate whether the proposed 

collection of information is necessary 

for the proper performance of the 

functions of the agency, including 

whether the information will have 

practical utility; 

• Evaluate the accuracy of the 

agency’s estimate of the burden of the 

proposed collection of information, 

including the validity of the 

methodology and assumptions used; 

• Enhance the quality, utility and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and 

• Minimize the burden of the 

collection of information on those who 

are to respond, including through the 

use of appropriate automated, 

electronic, mechanical, or other 

technological collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology, 

e.g., permitting electronic submissions 

of responses. 

III. Current Actions 

The Department of Labor seeks the 

approval of the extension of this 

currently approved information 

collection in order to carry out its 

responsibility to provide payment for 

covered medical services to 

beneficiaries who are covered under 

FECA, BLBA and EEOICPA. 

Type of Review: Extension 

Agency: Office of Workers’ 

Compensation Programs 

Title: Uniform Billing Form 

OMB Number: 1240–0019 

Agency Number: OWCP–04 

Affected Public: Individuals or 

households; Businesses or other forprofit; Not-for-profit institutions 

Total Respondents: 6,947 

Total Responses: 230,997 

Time per Response: 1–7 minutes 

Estimated Total Burden Hours: 26,599 

Total Burden Cost (capital/startup): 

$0 

Total Burden Cost (operating/ 

maintenance): $0 

Comments submitted in response to 

this notice will be summarized and/or 

included in the request for Office of 

Management and Budget approval of the 

information collection request; they will 

also become a matter of public record. 

Dated: August 21, 2012. 

Yoon Ferguson, 

Agency Clearance Officer, Office of Workers’ 

Compensation Programs, U.S. Department of 

Labor. 

[FR Doc. 2012–20958 Filed 8–24–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4510–CR–P 

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 

Copyright Royalty Board 

Notice of Intent To Audit 

AGENCY: Copyright Royalty Board, 

Library of Congress. 

ACTION: Public notice. 

SUMMARY: The Copyright Royalty Judges 

are announcing receipt of two notices of 

intent to audit the 2009, 2010, and 2011 

statements of account submitted by 

DKCM, Inc. and Greater Media, Inc., 

concerning the royalty payments made 

by each pursuant to two statutory 

licenses. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

LaKeshia Keys, Program Specialist, by 

telephone at (202) 707–7658 or email at 

crb@loc.gov. 

SUMMARY INFORMATION: The Copyright 

Act, title 17 of the United States Code, 

grants to copyright owners of sound 

recordings the exclusive right to 

perform publicly sound recordings by 

means of certain digital audio 

transmissions, subject to certain 

limitations. Specifically, this right is 

limited to two statutory licenses. The 


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section 114 license allows the public 

performance of sound recordings by 

means of digital audio transmissions by 

nonexempt noninteractive digital 

subscription services and eligible 

nonsubscription services. 17 U.S.C. 

114(f). The second license allows a 

service to make any necessary 

ephemeral reproductions to facilitate 

the digital transmission of the sound 

recording. 17 U.S.C. 112(e). 

Licensees may operate under these 

licenses provided they pay the royalty 

fees and comply with the terms set by 

the Copyright Royalty Judges. The rates 

and terms for the section 112 and 114 

licenses are set forth in 37 CFR part 380. 

As part of the terms set for these 

licenses, the Judges designated 

SoundExchange, Inc., as the 

organization charged with collecting the 

royalty payments and statements of 

account submitted by eligible 

nonsubscription services such as, 

among others, Commercial Webcasters 

and Broadcasters, and distributing the 

royalties to the copyright owners and 

performers entitled to receive such 

royalties under the section 112 and 114 

licenses. 37 CFR 380.4(b)(1) 

(Commercial Webcasters), 380.13(b)(1) 

(Broadcasters). As the designated 

Collective, SoundExchange may 

conduct a single audit of a licensee for 

any calendar year for the purpose of 

verifying their royalty payments. 

SoundExchange must first file with the 

Judges a notice of intent to audit a 

licensee and serve the notice on the 

licensee to be audited. 37 CFR 380.6(c), 

380.15(c). 

On August 8, 2012, SoundExchange 

filed with the Judges separate notices of 

intent to audit DKCM, Inc., a 

Commercial Webcaster, and Greater 

Media, Inc., a Broadcaster, for the years 

2009, 2010, and 2011. Sections 380.6(c) 

and 380.15(c) require the Judges to 

publish a notice in the Federal Register 

within 30 days of receipt of the notice 

announcing the Collective’s intent to 

conduct an audit. 

In accordance with §§ 380.6(c) and 

380.15(c), the Copyright Royalty Judges 

are publishing today’s notice to fulfill 

this requirement with respect to 

SoundExchange’s respective notices of 

intent to audit DKCM, Inc., and Greater 

Media, Inc., each filed August 8, 2012. 

Dated: August 22, 2012. 

Suzanne M. Barnett, 

Chief Copyright Royalty Judge. 

[FR Doc. 2012–21049 Filed 8–24–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 1410–72–P 

OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND 

BUDGET 

OMB Sequestration Update Report to 

the President and Congress for Fiscal 

Year 2013 

AGENCY: Executive Office of the 

President, Office of Management and 

Budget. 

ACTION: Notice of availability of the 

OMB Sequestration Update Report to 

the President and Congress for FY 2013. 

SUMMARY: Public Law 112–25, the 

Budget Control Act of 2011 (BCA, ‘‘the 

Act’’) amended the Balanced Budget 

and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 

1985 (BBEDCA) by reinstating the 

discretionary spending limits that had 

expired after 2002. Section 254 of the 

BBEDCA requires the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) to issue 

a Sequestration Update Report on 

August 20th of each year on the overall 

status of discretionary legislation. This 

report provides OMB’s current estimates 

of the spending limits set in the Act and 

OMB’s scoring of pending 

appropriations legislation against those 

limits as of August 2012. As required, 

these estimates rely on the same 

economic and technical assumptions 

used in the President’s 2013 Budget, 

which the Administration transmitted to 

the Congress on February 13, 2012. 

DATES: Effective Date: Sec. 254(b). 

SUBMISSION AND AVAILABILITY OF 

REPORTS.—Each report required by 

this section shall be submitted, in the 

case of CBO, to the House of 

Representatives, the Senate and OMB 

and, in the case of OMB, to the House 

of Representatives, the Senate, and the 

President on the day it is issued. On the 

following day a notice of the report shall 

be printed in the Federal Register. 

ADDRESSES: The OMB Sequestration 

Reports to the President and Congress is 

available on-line on the OMB home 

page at: http://www.whitehouse.gov/ 

omb/legislative_reports/sequestration. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Thomas Tobasko, 6202 New Executive 

Office Building, Washington, DC 20503, 

Email address: tobasko@omb.eop.gov, 

telephone number: (202) 395–5745, FAX 

number: (202) 395–4768 or Jenny 

Winkler Murray, 6236 New Executive 

Office Building, Washington, DC 20503, 

Email address: jwinkler@omb.eop.gov, 

telephone number: (202) 395–7763, FAX 

number: (202) 395–4768. Because of 

delays in the receipt of regular mail 

related to security screening, 

respondents are encouraged to use 

electronic communications. 

Jeffrey D. Zients, 

Acting Director. 

[FR Doc. 2012–20939 Filed 8–24–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE P 

NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION 

Notice of Permit Applications 

Received; Under the Antarctic 

Conservation Act of 1978 

(Pub. L. 95–541) 

AGENCY: National Science Foundation. 

ACTION: Notice of Permit Applications 

Received under the Antarctic 

Conservation Act of 1978, Public Law 

95–541. 

SUMMARY: The National Science 

Foundation (NSF) is required to publish 

a notice of permit applications received 

to conduct activities regulated under the 

Antarctic Conservation Act of 1978. 

NSF has published regulations under 

the Antarctic Conservation Act at Title 

45 Part 670 of the Code of Federal 

Regulations. This is the required notice 

of permit applications received. 

DATES: Interested parties are invited to 

submit written data, comments, or 

views with respect to this permit 

application by September 26, 2012. This 

application may be inspected by 

interested parties at the Permit Office, 

address below. 

ADDRESSES: Comments should be 

addressed to Permit Office, Room 755, 

Office of Polar Programs, National 

Science Foundation, 4201 Wilson 

Boulevard, Arlington, Virginia 22230. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Polly A. Penhale at the above address or 

(703) 292–7420. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

National Science Foundation, as 

directed by the Antarctic Conservation 

Act of 1978 (Pub. L. 95–541), as 

amended by the Antarctic Science, 

Tourism and Conservation Act of 1996, 

has developed regulations for the 

establishment of a permit system for 

various activities in Antarctica and 

designation of certain animals and 

certain geographic areas requiring 

special protection. The regulations 

establish such a permit system to 

designate Antarctic Specially Protected 

Areas. 

The applications received are as 

follows: 

1. Applicant 

Philip R. Kyle, Department of Earth 

and Environmental Science, NM 


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