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schedule and locations of the scoping 

meetings are as follows: January 31, 

2006: 6:30 p.m.–8:30 p.m., Sunrise 

Library, 5400 Harris Avenue, Las Vegas, 

Nevada and February 1, 2006: 6:30 

p.m.–8:30 p.m., Indian Springs 

Community Center, 719 West Gretta 

Lane, Indian Springs, Nevada. 

The Air Force will accept comments 

at any time during the scoping period. 

However, to ensure the Air Force 

considers relevant scoping issues in a 

timely fashion, all comments should be 

forwarded to the address below no later 

than March 1, 2006. If during the 

preparation of the EA, the Air Force 

concludes an Environmental Impact 

Statement (EIS) is warranted, comments 

received during this scoping period will 

be considered in the preparation of the 

EIS. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Mike Estrada, Nellis Air Force Base 

Office of Public Affairs, 4430 Grissom 

Avenue, Ste 107, Nellis AFB, NV 89191, 

(702) 652–2750. 

Lawrence Shade, 

Acting Air Force Federal Register Liaison 

Officer. 

[FR Doc. E6–794 Filed 1–23–06; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

GENERAL SERVICES 

ADMINISTRATION 

NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND 

SPACE ADMINISTRATION 

[OMB Control No. 9000–0130] 

Federal Acquisition Regulation; 

Information Collection; Buy American 

Act—Free Trade Agreements—Israeli 

Trade Act Certificate 

AGENCIES: Department of Defense (DOD), 

General Services Administration (GSA), 

and National Aeronautics and Space 

Administration (NASA). 

ACTION: Notice of request for an 

extension to an existing OMB clearance 

(9000–0130). 

SUMMARY: Under the provisions of the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 

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

Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 

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 Buy American Act—Free 

Trade Agreements—Israeli Trade Act 

Certificate. The clearance currently 

expires on April 30, 2006. 

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 

March 27, 2006. 

ADDRESSES: Submit comments regarding 

this burden estimate or any other aspect 

of the collection of information, 

including suggestions for reducing this 

burden to the General Services 

Administration, Regulatory Secretariat 

(VIR), 1800 F Street, NW, Room 4035, 

Washington, DC 20405. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT Ms. 

Kimberly Marshall, Contract Policy 

Division, GSA, (202) 219–0986. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

A. Purpose 

Under the Free Trade Agreements 

Acts of 1979, unless specifically 

exempted by statute or regulation, 

agencies are required to evaluate offers 

over a certain dollar limitation to supply 

an eligible product without regard to the 

restrictions of the Buy American Act or 

the Balance of Payments program. 

Offerors identify excluded end products 

and FTA end products on this 

certificate. 

The contracting officer uses the 

information to identify the offered items 

which are domestic and FTA country 

end products so as to give these 

products a preference during the 

evaluation of offers. Items having 

components of unknown origin are 

considered to have been mined, 

produced, or manufactured outside the 

United States. 

B. Annual Reporting Burden 

Respondents: 1,140. 

Responses Per Respondent: 5. 

Annual Responses: 5,700. 

Hours Per Response: .167. 

Total Burden Hours: 666. 

Obtaining Copies of Proposals: 

Requesters may obtain a copy of the 

information collection documents from 

the General Services Administration, 

Regulatory Secretariat (VIR), Room 

4035, Washington, DC 20405, telephone 

(202) 501–4755. Please cite OMB 

Control No. 9000–0130, Buy American 

Act—Free Trade Agreements—Israeli 

Trade Act Certificate, in all 

correspondence. 

Dated: January 13, 2006. 

Gerald Zaffos, 

Director, Contract Policy Division. 

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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request 

AGENCY: Department of Education 

SUMMARY: The IC Clearance Official, 

Regulatory Information Management 

Services, Office of the Chief Information 

Officer invites comments on the 

submission for OMB review as required 

by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 

1995. 

DATES: Interested persons are invited to 

submit comments on or before February 

23, 2006. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments should 

be addressed to the Office of 

Information and Regulatory Affairs, 

Attention: Rachel Potter, Desk Officer, 

Department of Education, Office of 

Management and Budget, 725 17th 

Street, NW., Room 10222, New 

Executive Office Building, Washington, 

DC 20503 or faxed to (202) 395–6974. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 

3506 of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 

1995 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35) requires 

that the Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB) provide interested 

Federal agencies and the public an early 

opportunity to comment on information 

collection requests. OMB may amend or 

waive the requirement for public 

consultation to the extent that public 

participation in the approval process 

would defeat the purpose of the 

information collection, violate State or 

Federal law, or substantially interfere 

with any agency’s ability to perform its 

statutory obligations. The IC Clearance 

Official, Regulatory Information 

Management Services, Office of the 

Chief Information Officer, publishes that 

notice containing proposed information 

collection requests prior to submission 

of these requests to OMB. Each 

proposed information collection, 

grouped by office, contains the 

following: (1) Type of review requested, 

e.g. new, revision, extension, existing or 

reinstatement; (2) Title; (3) Summary of 

the collection; (4) Description of the 

need for, and proposed use of, the 

information; (5) Respondents and 

frequency of collection; and (6) 


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