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DC, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday 

through Friday, except Federal holidays. 

Privacy Act: Anyone can search the 

electronic form of all comments 

received into any of our dockets by the 

name of the individual submitting the 

comment (or signing the comment, if 

submitted on behalf of an association, 

business, labor union, etc.). You may 

review the Department of 

Transportation’s Privacy Act Statement 

in the Federal Register published on 

April 11, 2000 (65 FR 19477), or you 

may visit http://dms.dot.gov. 

Background and Questions for 

Comment 

The National Maritime Security 

Advisory Council (NMSAC) was created 

pursuant to the Federal Advisory 

Committee Act, 5 U.S.C., App. 2 (FACA) 

in 2003. The membership of NMSAC, 

which includes 21 voting members, was 

selected to represent all viewpoints 

regarding maritime security challenges 

and to inform the Coast Guard of 

relevant maritime security issues. At the 

regular NMSAC meeting of November 

14, 2006, the Coast Guard and the 

Transportation Security Administration 

(TSA) asked NMSAC to develop a 

contactless biometric specification for 

TWIC by February 28, 2007, applying 

expertise from the biometric 

credentialing industry and maritime 

industry TWIC stakeholders. The 

specification was required to: 

a. Be non-proprietary; 

b. Incorporate appropriate security 

and privacy controls; 

c. Be consistent with FIPS 201–1 

credential specifications; 

d. Be capable of serving as a platform 

for future capabilities; 

e. Be capable of supporting maritime 

operations; and 

f. Be easily manufactured. 

TSA and Coast Guard recommended 

that the task be addressed by dividing 

responsibilities to construct operational 

maritime requirements and technology 

specifications. We recommended that 

operational maritime requirements be 

developed by members of maritime 

industry and that they address 

credential authentication (e.g. 

authentication time and process, and 

alternate authentication procedures); 

durability requirements; and credential 

management procedures, including key 

management. We recommended that the 

technology specifications be developed 

with the technical expertise of biometric 

credentialing experts and address smart 

card, reader, and keying specification. 

The formal request from the TWIC 

program to NMSAC is available at the 

following URL: http:// 

homeport.uscg.mil under Missions > 

Maritime Security > Maritime 

Transportation Security Act (MTSA) > 

National Maritime Security Advisory 

Committee (NMSAC) > TWIC 

Contactless Specification Development 

Working Group, and in the docket for 

this notice. 

On March 1, 2007, the Coast Guard 

received NMSAC’s report, entitled 

‘‘Recommendations on Developing a 

Contactless Biometric Specification for 

the TWIC.’’ The report includes two 

recommended specifications. NMSAC 

expressed a strong preference for the 

first recommended specification, which 

does not require encryption of the 

cardholder’s fingerprint template; this 

would permit the template to be read by 

a reader when the card is energized by 

a contactless reader. The second 

recommended specification provides for 

encryption of the fingerprint template, 

which protects the template from being 

read contactlessly unless information on 

the card’s magnetic stripe is read by the 

reader and authorizes the release of the 

template. Encryption protects the 

template from being read covertly. 

However, if a TWIC is stolen or is in the 

hands of an unauthorized holder, 

encryption does not prevent the transfer 

of the template to a TWIC reader. 

Both sets of recommended 

specifications are available at the 

following URL: http:// 

homeport.uscg.mil under Missions > 

Maritime Security > Maritime 

Transportation Security Act (MTSA) > 

National Maritime Security Advisory 

Committee (NMSAC) > TWIC 

Contactless Specification Development 

Working Group. They are also available 

in the docket for this notice. 

We invite comment on all aspects of 

the NMSAC recommended 

specifications, and in particular those 

that address the following questions: 

1. Should additional security 

measures be included in the 

specifications, such as the use of a PIN, 

to further minimize the chance that a 

fingerprint template from a lost or stolen 

credential could be obtained by an 

unauthorized individual? If so, would 

the addition of a PIN or other security 

measure adversely impact operations? 

Does the length of the PIN affect adverse 

impacts in any measurable way? 

2. What, if any, privacy concerns exist 

if the fingerprint template is obtained by 

an unauthorized individual? 

3. How would the recommended 

specifications impact facility and vessel 

security and operations? 

4. How would the recommended 

specifications impact existing physical 

access control systems? 

5. Are there alternative designs we 

should consider, and if so, what are the 

advantages and disadvantages of the 

alternative designs? 

6. How would the recommended 

specifications impact product, system, 

and operational costs? 

7. How quickly could the 

recommended specifications be 

incorporated into the design and 

manufacture of access control 

equipment? 

8. Should there be a process for 

identifying a Qualified Products List 

(QPL) or other equivalent regime? If so, 

what is the most efficient and effective 

way of creating a QPL? 

The Coast Guard and TSA will 

examine all comments received 

concerning NMSAC’s recommended 

specifications and the questions above. 

We will issue a Notice in the Federal 

Register to explain and announce the 

selected technology specification as we 

proceed with the TWIC program, in 

particular, the upcoming pilot programs 

in which we will field test the use of 

TWIC in biometric readers in the 

maritime environment. 

Dated: March 13, 2007. 

J.G. Lantz, 

Director of National and International 

Standards, Assistant Commandant for 

Prevention. 

[FR Doc. 07–1305 Filed 3–13–07; 3:40 pm] 

BILLING CODE 4910–15–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND 

URBAN DEVELOPMENT 

[Docket No. FR–5125–N–11] 

Federal Property Suitable as Facilities 

To Assist the Homeless 

AGENCY: Office of the Assistant 

Secretary for Community Planning and 

Development, HUD. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This Notice identifies 

unutilized, underutilized, excess, and 

surplus Federal property reviewed by 

HUD for suitability for possible use to 

assist the homeless. 

EFFECTIVE DATE: March 16, 2007. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Kathy Ezzell, Department of Housing 

and Urban Development, Room 7262, 

451 Seventh Street SW., Washington, 

DC 20410; telephone (202) 708–1234; 

TTY number for the hearing- and 

speech-impaired (202) 708-2565, (these 

telephone numbers are not toll-free), or 

call the toll-free Title V information line 

at 1–800–927–7588. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In 

accordance with the December 12, 1988 

court order in National Coalition for the 

Homeless v. Veterans Administration, 


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No. 88–2503–OG (D.D.C.), HUD 

publishes a Notice, on a weekly basis, 

identifying unutilized, underutilized, 

excess and surplus Federal buildings 

and real property that HUD has 

reviewed for suitability for use to assist 

the homeless. Today’s Notice is for the 

purpose of announcing that no 

additional properties have been 

determined suitable or unsuitable this 

week. 

Dated: March 8, 2007. 

Mark R. Johnston, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Special Needs. 

[FR Doc. 07–1173 Filed 3–15–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4210–67–M 

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND 

URBAN DEVELOPMENT 

[Docket No. FR–4878–N–06] 

Final Guidance to Federal Financial 

Assistance Recipients Regarding Title 

VI Prohibition Against National Origin 

Discrimination Affecting Limited 

English Proficient Persons: Update of 

Web Site Reference 

AGENCY: Office of the Assistant 

Secretary for Fair Housing and Equal 

Opportunity, HUD. 

ACTION: Notice: Update of Web site 

reference. 

SUMMARY: This notice updates an 

obsolete Web site reference that was 

included in HUD’s final ‘‘Guidance to 

Federal Financial Assistance Recipients 

Regarding Title VI Prohibition Against 

National Origin Discrimination 

Affecting Limited English Proficient 

(LEP) Persons,’’ as required by 

Executive Order (EO) 13166, published 

in the Federal Register on January 22, 

2007, and which became effective on 

March 7, 2007. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Pamela D. Walsh, Director, Program 

Standards and Compliance Division, 

Office of Fair Housing and Equal 

Opportunity, Department of Housing 

and Urban Development, 451 Seventh 

Street, SW., Room 5226, Washington, 

DC 20410, telephone: (202) 708–2904 

(this is not a toll-free number). Persons 

with hearing or speech impairments 

may access this number via TTY by 

calling the toll-free Federal Information 

Relay Service at (800) 877–8339. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On 

January 22, 2007, HUD published in the 

Federal Register (72 FR 2732) final 

guidance to help recipients of federal 

financial assistance take reasonable 

steps to meet their regulatory and 

statutory obligations to ensure that LEP 

persons have meaningful access to HUD 

programs and activities (LEP Final 

Guidance). Under Title VI of the Civil 

Rights Act of 1964 (Title VI) and its 

implementing regulations, recipients of 

federal financial assistance have a 

responsibility to ensure meaningful 

access to programs and activities by LEP 

persons. 

In the preamble to the Final 

Guidance, which provided responses to 

public comments received on the 

proposed guidance, HUD provided the 

Web site to demographic information 

based on 2000 Census or other data (see 

page 2736, third column and continuing 

on page 2737, first column). Since 

publication of the Final Guidance, HUD 

has been advised that the Web site 

provided in the Final Guidance is no 

longer active. This notice provides the 

updated Web site. The demographic 

information based on 2000 Census or 

other data can be found at the following 

Web site: http://www.census.gov/cac/ 

www/007578.html. 

In addition to this correction, on 

February 14, 2007, the Office of the 

Federal Register (OFR) published in the 

Federal Register a correction to HUD’s 

Final Guidance that corrected a printing 

error made by the OFR in publishing 

HUD’s Final Guidance on January 22, 

2007 (See 72 FR 7134.) On February 16, 

2007, HUD published a notice that 

moved the effective of the Final 

Guidance from February 21, 2007, to 

March 7, 2007. 

HUD’s Final Guidance, which 

incorporates these corrections, can be 

found at: http://www.hud.gov/offices/ 

fheo/promotingfh/lep.cfm. 

Dated: March 7, 2007. 

Kim Kendrick, 

Assistant Secretary for Fair Housing and 

Equal Opportunity. 

[FR Doc. E7–4794 Filed 3–15–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4210–67–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Fish and Wildlife Service 

Proposed Information Collection; OMB 

Control Number 1018-0015; Migratory 

Bird Surveys 

AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice; request for comments. 

SUMMARY: We (Fish and Wildlife 

Service) will ask the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) to 

approve the information collection (IC) 

described below. As required by the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 and 

as part of our continuing efforts to 

reduce paperwork and respondent 

burden, we invite the general public and 

other Federal agencies to take this 

opportunity to comment on this IC. We 

may not conduct or sponsor and a 

person is not required to respond to a 

collection of information unless it 

displays a currently valid OMB control 

number. 

DATES: You must submit comments on 

or before May 15, 2007. 

ADDRESSES: Send your comments on the 

IC to Hope Grey, Information Collection 

Clearance Officer, Fish and Wildlife 

Service, MS 222–ARLSQ, 4401 North 

Fairfax Drive, Arlington, VA 22203 

(mail); hope_grey@fws.gov (e-mail); or 

(703) 358–2269 (fax). 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To 

request additional information about 

this IC, contact Hope Grey by mail, fax, 

or e-mail (see ADDRESSES) or by 

telephone at (703) 358–2482. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Abstract 

The Migratory Bird Treaty Act (16 

U.S.C. 703-711) and the Fish and 

Wildlife Act of 1956 (16 U.S.C. 742d) 

designate the Department of the Interior 

as the key agency responsible for (1) the 

wise management of migratory bird 

populations frequenting the United 

States, and (2) setting hunting 

regulations that allow appropriate 

harvests that are within the guidelines 

that will allow for those populations’

well-being. These responsibilities 

dictate that we gather accurate data on 

various characteristics of migratory bird 

harvest. We use the knowledge attained 

by determining harvests and harvest 

rates of migratory game birds to regulate 

populations (by promulgating hunting 

regulations) and to encourage hunting 

opportunity, especially where crop 

depredations are chronic and/or lightlyharvested populations occur. Based on 

information from harvest surveys, we 

can adjust hunting regulations as 

needed to optimize harvests at levels 

that provide a maximum of hunting 

recreation while keeping populations at 

desired levels. 

Under the Migratory Bird Harvest 

Program, State licensing authorities 

collect the name and address 

information needed to provide a sample 

frame of all licensed migratory bird 

hunters. Since Federal regulations 

require that the States collect this 

information, we are including the 

associated burden in our approval 

request to OMB. We propose to combine 

three surveys in this IC because the 

surveys are interrelated and/or 

dependent upon each other: 

(1) Migratory Bird Hunter Surveys, 

currently approved under OMB Control 


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