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Public comments are particularly 

invited on: Whether this collection of 

information is necessary for the proper 

performance of functions of the FAR, 

and whether it will have practical 

utility; whether our estimate of the 

public burden of this collection of 

information is accurate, and based on 

valid assumptions and methodology; 

ways to enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and ways in which we can 

minimize the burden of the collection of 

information on those who are to 

respond, through the use of appropriate 

technological collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology. 

DATES: Submit comments on or before 

November 13, 2009. 

ADDRESSES: Submit comments regarding 

this burden estimate or any other aspect 

of this collection of information, 

including suggestions for reducing this 

burden to: FAR Desk Officer, OMB, 

Room 10102, NEOB, Washington, DC 

20503, and a copy to the General 

Services Administration, Regulatory 

Secretariat (MVPR), 1800 F Street, NW., 

Room 4041, Washington, DC 20405. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Rhonda Cundiff, Contract Policy 

Division, GSA, (202) 501–0044 or e-mail 

Rhonda.cundiff@gsa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

A. Purpose 

This FAR requirement concerning 

small disadvantaged procurement credit 

programs implements the Department of 

Justice proposal to reform affirmative 

action in Federal procurement, which 

was designed to ensure compliance with 

the constitutional standards established 

by the Supreme Court. The credits 

include price evaluation factor targets 

and certifications. 

B. Annual Reporting Burden 

Number of Respondents: 1,500. 

Responses per Respondent: 2. 

Total Responses: 3,000. 

Average Burden Hours per Response: 

5. 

Total Burden Hours: 15,000. 

Obtaining Copies of Proposals: 

Requesters may obtain a copy of the 

information collection documents from 

the General Services Administration, 

Regulatory Secretariat (MVPR), 1800 F 

Street, NW., Room 4041, Washington, 

DC 20405, telephone (202) 501–4755. 

Please cite OMB Control Number 9000– 

0150, Small Disadvantaged Business 

Procurement Credit Programs, in all 

correspondence. 

Dated: October 6, 2009. 

Al Matera, 

Director, Office of Acquisition Policy. 

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

GENERAL SERVICES 

ADMINISTRATION 

NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND 

SPACE ADMINISTRATION 

[OMB Control No. 9000–0069] 

Federal Acquisition Regulation; 

Submission for OMB Review; 

Information Collection; Indirect Cost 

Rates 

AGENCY: Department of Defense (DOD), 

General Services Administration (GSA), 

and National Aeronautics and Space 

Administration (NASA). 

ACTION: Notice of request for comments 

regarding a renewal to an existing OMB 

clearance. 

SUMMARY: Under the provisions of the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 

U.S.C. Chapter 35), the Federal 

Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 

Regulatory Secretariat will be 

submitting to the Office of Management 

and Budget (OMB) a request to review 

and approve an extension of a currently 

approved information collection 

requirement concerning Indirect Cost 

Rates. 

Public comments are particularly 

invited on: Whether this collection of 

information is necessary; whether it will 

have practical utility; whether our 

estimate of the public burden of this 

collection of information is accurate, 

and based on valid assumptions and 

methodology; ways to enhance the 

quality, utility, and clarity of the 

information to be collected; and ways in 

which we can minimize the burden of 

the collection of information on those 

who are to respond, through the use of 

appropriate technological collection 

techniques or other forms of information 

technology. 

DATES: Submit comments on or before 

November 13, 2009. 

ADDRESSES: Submit comments regarding 

this burden estimate or any other aspect 

of this collection of information, 

including suggestions for reducing this 

burden to: FAR Desk Officer, OMB, 

Room 10102, NEOB, Washington, DC 

20503, and a copy to the General 

Services Administration, Regulatory 

Secretariat (MVPR), 1800 F Street, NW., 

Room 4041, Washington, DC 20405. 

Please cite OMB Control No. 9000–0069, 

Indirect Cost Rates, in all 

correspondence. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. 

Beverly Cromer, Procurement Analyst, 

Contract Policy Division, GSA, (202) 

501–1448. 

A. Purpose 

The contractor’s proposal of final 

indirect cost rates is necessary for the 

establishment of rates used to reimburse 

the contractor for the costs of 

performing under the contract. The 

supporting cost data are the cost 

accounting information normally 

prepared by organizations under sound 

management and accounting practices. 

The proposal and supporting data is 

used by the contracting official and 

auditor to verify and analyze the 

indirect costs and to determine the final 

indirect cost rates or to prepare the 

Government negotiating position if 

negotiation of the rates is required 

under the contract terms. 

B. Annual Reporting Burden 

Respondents: 3,000. 

Responses per Respondent: 1. 

Annual Responses: 3,000. 

Hours per Response: 2,188. 

Total Burden Hours: 6,564,000. 

Obtaining Copies of Proposals: 

Requesters may obtain a copy of the 

information collection documents from 

the General Services Administration, 

Regulatory Secretariat (MVPR), 1800 F 

Street, NW., Room 4041, Washington, 

DC 20405, telephone (202) 501–4755. 

Please cite OMB Control No. 9000–0069, 

Indirect Cost Rates, in all 

correspondence. 

Dated: October 6, 2009. 

Al Matera, 

Director, Acquisition Policy Division. 

[FR Doc. E9–24664 Filed 10–13–09; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Health Resources and Services 

Administration 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Proposed Collection: 

Comment Request 

In compliance with the requirement 

for opportunity for public comment on 

proposed data collection projects 

(section 3506(c)(2)(A) of Title 44, United 

States Code, as amended by the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, Pub. 

L. 104–13), the Health Resources and 

Services Administration (HRSA) 

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publishes periodic summaries of 

proposed projects being developed for 

submission to the Office of Management 

and Budget (OMB) under the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995. To request more 

information on the proposed project or 

to obtain a copy of the data collection 

plans and draft instruments, e-mail 

paperwork@hrsa.gov or call the HRSA 

Reports Clearance Officer on (301) 443– 

1129. 

Comments are invited on: (a) The 

proposed collection of information for 

the proper performance of the functions 

of the agency; (b) the accuracy of the 

agency’s estimate of the burden of the 

proposed collection of information; (c) 

ways to enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and (d) ways to minimize the 

burden of the collection of information 

on respondents, including through the 

use of automated collection techniques 

or other forms of information 

technology. 

Proposed Project: Children’s Hospitals 

Graduate Medical Education Payment 

Program (CHGME PP) (OMB No. 0915– 

0247)—Extension 

The CHGME PP was enacted by 

Public Law 106–129 and reauthorized 

by Public Law 109–307 to provide 

Federal support for graduate medical 

education (GME) to freestanding 

children’s hospitals. This legislation 

attempts to provide support for GME 

comparable to the level of Medicare 

GME support received by other, nonchildren’s hospitals. The legislation 

indicates that eligible children’s 

hospitals will receive payments for both 

direct and indirect medical education. 

Direct payments are designed to offset 

the expenses associated with operating 

approved graduate medical residency 

training programs and indirect 

payments are designed to compensate 

hospitals for expenses associated with 

the treatment of more severely ill 

patients and the additional costs 

relating to teaching residents in such 

programs. 

Data are collected on the number of 

full-time equivalent residents in 

applicant children’s hospitals’ training 

programs to determine the amount of 

direct and indirect medical education 

payments to be distributed to 

participating children’s hospitals. 

Indirect medical education payments 

will also be derived from a formula that 

requires the reporting of discharges, 

beds, and case mix index information 

from participating children’s hospitals. 

Hospitals will be requested to submit 

such information in an annual 

application. Hospitals will also be 

requested to submit data on the number 

of full-time equivalent residents a 

second time during the Federal fiscal 

year to participate in the reconciliation 

payment process. 

The estimated annual burden is as 

follows: 

Form Number of 

respondents 

Responses 

per 

respondent 

Total number 

of responses 

Hours per 

response 

Total burden 

hours 

HRSA 99–1 (Initial Application) ........................................... 60 1 60 26 1,560 

HRSA 99–1 (Reconciliation Application) ............................. 60 1 60 8 480 

HRSA 99–2 (Initial Application) ........................................... 60 1 60 15 900 

HRSA 99–2 (Reconciliation Application) ............................. 60 1 60 5 300 

HRSA 99–3 (Initial Application) ........................................... 60 1 60 .25 15 

HRSA 99–3 (Reconciliation Application) ............................. 60 1 60 .25 15 

HRSA 99–4 (Reconciliation Application) ............................. 60 1 60 14 840 

HRSA 99–5 (Initial Application) ........................................... 60 1 60 .25 15 

HRSA 99–5 (Reconciliation Application) ............................. 60 1 60 .25 15 

Total ..................................................................................... 60 ........................ 60 ........................ 4,140 

E-mail comments to 

paperwork@hrsa.gov or mail the HRSA 

Reports Clearance Officer, Room 10–33, 

Parklawn Building, 5600 Fishers Lane, 

Rockville, MD 20857. Written comments 

should be received within 60 days of 

this notice. 

Dated: October 6, 2009. 

Alexandra Huttinger, 

Director, Division of Policy Review and 

Coordination. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention 

Board of Scientific Counselors (BSC), 

National Center for Environmental 

Health/Agency for Toxic Substances 

and Disease Registry (NCEH/ATSDR) 

In accordance with section 10(a)(2) of 

the Federal Advisory Committee Act 

(Pub. L. 92–463), CDC and NCEH/ 

ATSDR announces the following 

meeting of the aforementioned 

committee: 

Times and Dates: 8:30 a.m.–5 p.m., 

October 29, 2009. 

8 a.m.–12:30 p.m., October 30, 2009. 

Place: Sheraton Atlanta Hotel, 165 

Courtland Street, NE., Atlanta, Georgia 

30341. 

Status: Open to the public, limited only by 

the space available. The meeting room 

accommodates approximately 75 people. 

Purpose: The Secretary, Department of 

Health and Human Services (HHS) and by 

delegation, the Director, CDC and 

Administrator, NCEH/ATSDR, are authorized 

under Section 301 (42 U.S.C. 241) and 

Section 311 (42 U.S.C. 243) of the Public 

Health Service Act, as amended, to: (1) 

Conduct, encourage, cooperate with, and 

assist other appropriate public authorities, 

scientific institutions, and scientists in the 

conduct of research, investigations, 

experiments, demonstrations, and studies 

relating to the causes, diagnosis, treatment, 

control, and prevention of physical and 

mental diseases and other impairments; (2) 

assist states and their political subdivisions 

in the prevention of infectious diseases and 

other preventable conditions and in the 

promotion of health and well being; and (3) 

train state and local personnel in health 

work. The BSC, NCEH/ATSDR provides 

advice and guidance to the Secretary, HHS; 

the Director, CDC and Administrator, 

ATSDR; and the Director, NCEH/ATSDR, 

regarding program goals, objectives, 

strategies, and priorities in fulfillment of the 

agency’s mission to protect and promote 

people’s health. The board provides advice 

and guidance that will assist NCEH/ATSDR 

in ensuring scientific quality, timeliness, 

utility, and dissemination of results. The 

board also provides guidance to help NCEH/ 

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