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Estimated Number of Respondents: 

142. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 23,000. 

Abstract: The Truth in Savings Act 

(TISA), 12 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. was 

enacted to enhance economic stability, 

improve competition between 

depository institutions, and strengthen 

consumer ability to make informed 

decisions regarding deposit accounts by 

requiring uniformity in the disclosure of 

interest rates and fees. Consumers rely 

on the disclosures required by TISA and 

Regulation DD to facilitate informed 

decision making regarding deposit 

accounts offered at depository 

institutions. Without this information, 

consumers would be severely hindered 

in their ability to assess the true costs 

and terms of the deposit accounts 

offered. Federal agencies and private 

litigants use the records to ascertain 

whether accurate and complete 

disclosures of depository accounts have 

been provided to consumers. This 

information also provides the primary 

evidence of law violations in TISA 

enforcement actions brought by the 

CFPB. Without the Regulation DD 

recordkeeping requirement, the CFPB’s 

ability to enforce TISA would be 

significantly impaired. 

Request for Comments: The Bureau 

issued a 60-day Federal Register notice 

on May 14, 2013 (78 FR 28204). 

Comments were solicited and continue 

to be invited on: (a) Whether the 

collection of information is necessary 

for the proper performance of the 

functions of the Bureau, including 

whether the information will have 

practical utility; (b) The accuracy of the 

Bureau’s estimate of the burden of the 

collection of information, including the 

validity of the methods and the 

assumptions used; (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. 

Comments submitted in response to this 

notice will be summarized and/or 

included in the request for Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) 

approval. All comments will become a 

matter of public record. 

Dated: July 26th, 2013. 

Nellisha Ramdass, 

Deputy Acting Chief Information Officer, 

Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection. 

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Office of the Secretary 

[Docket ID DoD–2013–OS–0059] 

Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request 

ACTION: Notice. 

The Department of Defense has 

submitted to OMB for clearance, the 

following proposal for collection of 

information under the provisions of the 

Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 

Chapter 35). 

DATES: Consideration will be given to all 

comments received by August 30, 2013. 

Title, Associated Form and OMB 

Number: Qualification to Possess 

Firearms or Ammunition; OMB Control 

Number 0704–0461. 

Type of Request: Extension 

Number of Respondents: 50 

Responses per Respondent: 300 

Annual Responses: 15000 

Average Burden per Response: 15 

minutes 

Annual Burden Hours: 3,750 

Needs and Uses: In accordance with 

DoD Instruction 3020.50, ‘‘Private 

Security Contractors Operating in 

Contingency Operations’’ written 

acknowledgement by the contract 

company and its individual Private 

Security Contractor (PSC) Personnel, 

after investigation of background of PSC 

personnel by the contractor, shall be 

provided verifying such personnel are 

not prohibited under 922(g) of title 18, 

United States Code to possess firearms 

or ammunition. 

Affected Public: Business or other forprofit. 

Frequency: On occasion. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Required to 

obtain or retain benefits. 

OMB Desk Officer: Ms. Jasmeet 

Seehra. 

Written comments and 

recommendations on the proposed 

information collection should be sent to 

Ms. Jasmeet Seehra at the Office of 

Management and Budget, Desk Officer 

for DoD, Room 10236, New Executive 

Office Building, Washington, DC 20503. 

You may also submit comments, 

identified by docket number and title, 

by the following method: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:// 

www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

instructions for submitting comments. 

Instructions: All submissions received 

must include the agency name, docket 

number and title for this Federal 

Register document. The general policy 

for comments and other submissions 

from members of the public is to make 

these submissions available for public 

viewing on the Internet at http:// 

www.regulations.gov as they are 

received without change, including any 

personal identifiers or contact 

information. 

DOD Clearance Officer: Ms. Patricia 

Toppings. 

Written requests for copies of the 

information collection proposal should 

be sent to Ms. Toppings at WHS/ESD 

Information Management Division, 4800 

Mark Center Drive, East Tower, Suite 

02G09, Alexandria, VA 22350–3100. 

Dated: July 26, 2013. 

Aaron Siegel, 

Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison 

Officer, Department of Defense. 

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Office of the Secretary 

[Docket ID DoD–2013–OS–0169] 

Proposed Collection: Comment 

Request 

AGENCY: Office of the Assistant 

Secretary of Defense for Research and 

Engineering, DoD. 

ACTION: Notice. 

In compliance with Section 

3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995, the Office of the 

Assistant Secretary of Defense for 

Research and Engineering announces a 

proposed public information collection 

and seeks public comment on the 

provisions thereof. Comments are 

invited on: (a) Whether the proposed 

collection of information is necessary 

for the proper performance of the 

functions of the agency, including 

whether the information shall have 

practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the 

agency’s estimate of the burden of the 

proposed information collection; (c) 

ways to enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and (d) ways to minimize the 

burden of the information collection on 

respondents, including through the use 

of automated collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology. 

DATES: Consideration will be given to all 

comments received by September 30, 

2013. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, 

identified by docket number and title, 

by any of the following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:// 

www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

instructions for submitting comments. 

• Mail: Federal Docket Management 

System Office, 4800 Mark Center Drive, 

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East Tower, Suite 02G09, Alexandria, 

VA 22350–3100. 

Instructions: All submissions received 

must include the agency name, docket 

number and title for this Federal 

Register document. The general policy 

for comments and other submissions 

from members of the public is to make 

these submissions available for public 

viewing on the Internet at http:// 

www.regulations.gov as they are 

received without change, including any 

personal identifiers or contact 

information. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To 

request more information on this 

proposed information collection or to 

obtain a copy of the proposal and 

associated collection instruments, 

please write to the Office of the 

Assistant Secretary of Defense (Research 

and Engineering), Basic Research Office, 

Mark Center 17C08, 4800 Mark Center 

Dr., Alexandria, VA 22311–1882, ATTN: 

Dr. Mark Herbst, or call 571–372–6547. 

Title; Associated Form; and OMB 

Number: Title: Research Performance 

Progress Report (RPPR). OMB Control 

Number: 0704–TBD. 

Needs and Uses: DoD research grants 

and cooperative agreements require 

recipients to periodically report on 

progress made towards achieving the 

objectives of their awards, and to 

document accomplishments and 

identify reasons for failure to meet 

planned objectives. This periodic 

reporting is required by section 32.51 of 

32 CFR part 32, the DoD 

implementation of OMB Circular A– 

110. In April 2010, the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) and 

Office of Science and Technology 

(OSTP) issued a policy memorandum to 

the heads of Executive Departments and 

Agencies on usage of a new format—the 

Research Performance Progress Report 

(RPPR)—for doing interim progress 

reporting (e.g., annual reports during the 

award performance period, other than 

the final report that is due after the end 

of that period). The information 

collection requirement under this 

Notice is part of the Department’s 

implementation of the RPPR, usage of 

which will consolidate interim progress 

reporting requirements of the multiple 

DoD offices that award research grants 

and cooperative agreements. DoD’s 

implementation of the RPPR will: 

• Make DoD research offices’ 

requirements for grants and cooperative 

agreements more uniform with each 

other, as each office has historically 

specified its reporting requirements 

separately from other awarding offices. 

• Make DoD offices’ reporting 

requirements more common with those 

of other Federal agencies that make 

research awards, as each of them 

implements the guidance from OMB 

and OSTP. 

• Enable broadening of RPPR usage to 

basic research contracts awarded by 

DoD offices, any of which may adopt the 

RPPR format for basic research contract 

progress reporting in lieu of their 

existing basic research contract 

reporting requirements. This will 

benefit entities having both research 

grant and contract awards, and is 

consistent with the joint OMB and 

OSTP policy memorandum. 

Affected Public: Colleges and 

universities, nonprofit organizations, 

business and industry. 

Annual Burden Hours: 72,000. 

Number of Respondents: 2,000. 

Responses per Respondent: 6. 

Average Burden per Response: 6 

hours. 

Frequency: On occasion. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Summary of Information Collection 

The RPPR is a uniform format for use 

by federal agencies to obtain interim 

progress reports from recipients of 

research and research training grants 

and cooperative agreements. DoD 

intends to adopt the RPPR in lieu of 

existing progress reports for interim 

progress reporting on its research grants 

and cooperative agreements, and, for 

some DoD awarding offices, interim 

progress reporting on basic research 

contracts. Background information on 

the RPPR may be found at the National 

Science Foundation Web site http:// 

www.nsf.gov/bfa/dias/policy/rppr/. 

The RPPR consists of a required 

‘‘Cover Page’’ and multiple optional 

components. For DoD, the ‘‘Cover Page’’ 

and ‘‘Accomplishments’’ component 

will be mandatory, however DoD 

awarding offices may require recipients 

to complete fields in one or more of the 

optional RPPR reporting components, as 

specified in the terms and conditions of 

their awards. DoD awarding offices will 

implement the RPPR through means 

such as web portals or fillable electronic 

forms. 

Some DoD awarding offices have 

identified supplemental reporting 

elements for use within the Cover Page 

and other RPPR components in addition 

to the standard RPPR elements. DoD 

awarding offices will individually 

determine which optional RPPR fields 

will be requested from recipients. 

Therefore, not all of the DoD 

supplemental data elements will be 

required for all DoD awards using the 

RPPR. The following are the 

supplemental reporting elements that 

some DoD awarding offices may require 

for their interim reporting purposes, 

listed under the applicable RPPR 

reporting component. 

Cover Page—Report Information 

• Distribution Statement. A onecharacter code that indicates what type 

of limitations there are, if any, on the 

release of the report to the general 

public. Required by DoD Instruction 

5230.24 ‘‘Distribution Statements on 

Technical Documents’’, dated 23 August 

2012. 

Accomplishments 

• Honors and Awards. A text field 

where the recipient describes any 

project-related honors and awards that 

were received during the reporting 

period. Project-related honors and 

awards are often used as markers or 

indicators of the significance of the 

research. They are a natural extension of 

the list of accomplishments that funded 

research may yield but should be 

reported separate from the actual 

research accomplishments. 

• Regulatory Protocol and Activity 

Status. A text field for use in awards 

involving human and/or animal subjects 

to describe changes in research protocol 

or problems. This information is 

required by DoD Instruction 3216.01, 

Use of Animals in DoD Programs, or 

DoD Instruction 3216.02, Protection of 

Human Subjects and Adherence to 

Ethical Standards in DoD-Supported 

Research, so that changes can be 

reviewed and approved by a DoD 

Animal Care and Use Review Official or 

a DoD Human Research Protection 

Official. 

Products—Publications: Journal Articles 

• Keywords. A text field to provide 

keywords related to each publication. 

Awarding offices will provide public 

access to these publications by means 

such as posting on agency Web sites, 

providing links to other Web sites 

containing the publications, and/or 

providing these publications to the 

Defense Technical Information Center. 

The use of keywords for categorizing the 

content of the publication assists 

members of the public in searching for 

and finding the document, and relating 

it to the original research, which helps 

to ensure the best cross-discipline use of 

the science. 

• Abstract. A text field that 

summarizes the journal article. 

Awarding offices will provide public 

access to these publications by means 

such as posting on agency Web sites, 

providing links to other Web sites 

containing the publications, and/or 

providing these publications to the 

Defense Technical Information Center. 

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An abstract of the article helps members 

of the public find articles of interest, 

which helps to ensure the best crossdiscipline use of the science. 

• Distribution Statement. A text field 

that describes how distribution of the 

article should be restricted, if 

applicable. Required by DoD Instruction 

5230.24 dated August 23, 2012. 

• Submitted Date. A date field that 

indicates when the author submitted the 

article for publication, whether or not 

publication actually took place. Funded 

research yields products of many forms. 

Some are submitted for publication but 

may not be published. Unpublished 

articles may be available from the DoD 

awarding office. The submitted date 

provides a useful time context for the 

unpublished research when members of 

the public are searching for research on 

DoD public-facing web portals. 

Products—Publications: Conference 

Papers and Presentations 

• Publication Date. A date field 

indicating the publication date of the 

conference proceedings. If a conference 

is funded, the proceedings and resulting 

published records may have dates that 

are subsequent to the conference. For 

the fullest use of the funded research, 

the publication date provides timeframe 

context for application of the science in 

the future. 

Intellectual Property—Inventions 

The following three fields supplement 

the existing RPPR data fields on 

invention reporting and will be used 

only if the awarding office elects to use 

the RPPR for interim contract reporting. 

These fields support certain invention 

reporting requirements for contracts 

awarded under Federal Acquisition 

Regulation (FAR) Part 27, Patents, Data, 

and Copyrights, and Defense FAR 

Supplement Part 227, Patents, Data, and 

Copyrights. The RPPR may be used to 

collect these data fields in lieu of 

collecting them on other existing 

reporting mechanisms used for 

contracts, such as the DD Form 882, 

Report of Inventions and Subcontracts. 

• Name of Employer. A text field 

indicating the name of the inventor’s 

employer. 

• Address of Employer. A text field 

indicating the address of the inventor’s 

employer. 

• Confirmatory Instrument. A Yes/No 

field indicating if a confirmatory 

instrument or assignment was 

forwarded to the DoD Contracting 

Officer. 

Participants 

• National Academy Member. A Yes/ 

No field to indicate if a participant on 

the project is, or became, a National 

Academy of Science member during the 

reporting period. This data is used for 

statistical purposes to determine the 

number of National Academy members 

participating in the funded research. 

Special Reporting Requirements 

• Clinical trial(s) issues. A text field 

for use in awards involving clinical 

trials to describe any enrollment issues, 

retention problems, and adverse event/ 

unanticipated problems involving risks 

to subjects or others, and actions or 

plans for mitigation. DoD Instruction 

3216.02, Protection of Human Subjects 

and Adherence to Ethical Standards in 

DoD-Supported Research, requires that 

any changes to previously-approved 

clinical trials be reported for review by 

the DoD Human Research Protection 

Official. 

The following two fields are for 

awards to Historically Black Colleges 

and Universities and Minority-Serving 

Institutions (HBCU/MI), to help evaluate 

the outcomes of HBCU/MI investments: 

• Number of undergraduate and 

graduate student Science, Technology, 

Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) 

participants. A numeric field to indicate 

the number of student participants 

enrolled in STEM disciplines during the 

reporting period. This data will be 

useful in assessing the impact of DoD 

funding on STEM education at HBCU/ 

MI. 

• Number of student participants that 

received a STEM degree. A numeric 

field to indicate the number of student 

participants that received a STEM 

degree during the reporting period. This 

data will be useful in assessing the 

impact of DoD funding on STEM 

education at HBCU/MI. 

Dated: July 26, 2013. 

Aaron Siegel, 

Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison 

Officer, Department of Defense. 

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Office of the Secretary 

[Docket ID: DoD–2013–HA–0084] 

Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request 

ACTION: Notice. 

The Department of Defense has 

submitted to OMB for clearance, the 

following proposal for collection of 

information under the provisions of the 

Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 

Chapter 35). 

DATES: Consideration will be given to all 

comments received by August 30, 2013. 

Title, Associated Form and OMB 

Number: Women, Infants, and Children 

Overseas Program Eligibility 

Determination; OMB Control Number 

0720–0030. 

Type of Request: Extension 

Number of Respondents: 15,836 

Responses per Respondent: 2 

Annual Responses: 31,672 

Average Burden per Response: 15 

minutes 

Annual Burden Hours: 7,918 

Needs and Uses: The information 

collection requirement is necessary for 

individuals to apply for certification 

and periodic recertification to received 

WIC Overseas benefits. 

Affected Public: Individuals or 

households. 

Frequency: On occasion, semiannually 

Respondent’s Obligation: Required to 

obtain or retain benefits. 

OMB Desk Officer: Mr. John Kraemer. 

Written comments and 

recommendations on the proposed 

information collection should be sent to 

Mr. Kraemer at the Office of 

Management and Budget, Desk Officer 

for DoD, Room 10236, New Executive 

Office Building, Washington, DC 20503. 

You may also submit comments, 

identified by docket number and title, 

by the following method: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:// 

www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

instructions for submitting comments. 

Instructions: All submissions received 

must include the agency name, docket 

number and title for this Federal 

Register document. The general policy 

for comments and other submissions 

from members of the public is to make 

these submissions available for public 

viewing on the Internet at http:// 

www.regulations.gov as they are 

received without change, including any 

personal identifiers or contact 

information. 

DOD Clearance Officer: Ms. Patricia 

Toppings. 

Written requests for copies of the 

information collection proposal should 

be sent to Ms. Toppings at WHS/ESD 

Information Management Division, 4800 

Mark Center Drive, East Tower, Suite 

02G09, Alexandria, VA 22350–3100. 

Dated: July 26, 2013. 

Aaron Siegel, 

Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison 

Officer, Department of Defense. 

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