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Vol. 77, No. 128 

Tuesday, July 3, 2012 

AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT 

FOUNDATION 

Board of Directors Meeting 

Meeting: African Development 

Foundation, Board of Directors Meeting. 

Time: Tuesday, July 17, 2012, 8:45 

a.m. to 1:00 p.m. 

Place: African Development 

Foundation, Conference Room, 1400 I 

Street NW., Suite 1000, Washington, DC 

20005. 

Date: Tuesday, July 17, 2012. 

Status: 

1. Open session, Tuesday, July 17, 2012, 

8:45 a.m. to 11:45 a.m.; and 

2. Closed session, Tuesday, July 17, 

2012, 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. 

Due to security requirements and 

limited seating, all individuals wishing 

to attend the open session of the 

meeting must notify Sarah Conway at 

(202) 233–8811 or sconway@usadf.gov 

of your request to attend by 5:00 p.m. 

on Thursday, July 12, 2012. 

Lloyd O. Pierson, 

President & CEO, USADF. 

[FR Doc. 2012–16200 Filed 7–2–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request 

The Department of Commerce will 

submit to the Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB) for clearance the 

following proposal for collection of 

information under the provisions of the 

Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 

Chapter 35). 

Agency: National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). 

Title: Application and Reports for 

Scientific Research and Enhancement 

Permits Under the Endangered Species 

Act. 

OMB Control Number: 0648–0402. 

Form Number(s): NA. 

Type of Request: Regular submission 

(extension of a current information 

collection). 

Number of Respondents: 115. 

Average Hours per Response: 

Applications, 12 hours; modification 

requests, 6 hours; annual and final 

reports, 2 hours. 

Burden Hours: 840. 

Needs and Uses: This request is for an 

extension of a currently approved 

information collection. 

The Endangered Species Act of 1973 

(ESA; 16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.) imposed 

prohibitions against the taking of 

endangered species. Section 10 of the 

ESA allows permits authorizing the 

taking of endangered species for 

research/enhancement purposes. The 

corresponding regulations established 

procedures for persons to apply for such 

permits. In addition, the regulations set 

forth specific reporting requirements for 

such permit holders. The regulations 

contain two sets of information 

collections: (1) Applications for 

research/enhancement permits, and (2) 

reporting requirements for permits 

issued. 

The required information is used to 

evaluate the impacts of the proposed 

activity on endangered species, to make 

the determinations required by the ESA 

prior to issuing a permit, and to 

establish appropriate permit conditions. 

To issue permits under ESA Section 

10(a)(1)(A), the National Marine 

Fisheries Service (NMFS) must 

determine that (1) such exceptions were 

applied for in good faith, (2) if granted 

and exercised, will not operate to the 

disadvantage of such endangered 

species, and (3) will be consistent with 

the purposes and policy set forth in 

Section 2 of the ESA. 

The currently approved application 

and reporting requirements apply to 

Pacific marine and anadromous fish 

species; requirements regarding other 

species are being addressed in a 

separate information collection. 

Affected Public: Business or other forprofit organizations. 

Frequency: Annually and on occasion. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Mandatory. 

OMB Desk Officer: 

OIRA_Submission@omb.eop.gov. 

Copies of the above information 

collection proposal can be obtained by 

calling or writing Jennifer Jessup, 

Departmental Paperwork Clearance 

Officer, (202) 482–0336, Department of 

Commerce, Room 6616, 14th and 

Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, 

DC 20230 (or via the Internet at 

JJessup@doc.gov). 

Written comments and 

recommendations for the proposed 

information collection should be sent 

within 30 days of publication of this 

notice to 

OIRA_Submission@omb.eop.gov. 

Dated: June 27, 2012. 

Gwellnar Banks, 

Management Analyst, Office of the Chief 

Information Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2012–16210 Filed 7–2–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–22–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request 

The Department of Commerce will 

submit to the Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB) for clearance of the 

following proposal for collection of 

information under the provisions of the 

Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 

Chapter 35). 

Agency: National 

Telecommunications and Information 

Administration (NTIA). 

Title: State Broadband Data and 

Development (SDBB) Grant Program 

Progress Report. 

OMB Control Number: 0660–0034. 

Form Number(s): None. 

Type of Request: Regular submission 

(revision of a currently approved 

information collection). 

Number of Respondents: 56. 

Average Hours per Response: 4 hours. 

Burden Hours: 896. 

Needs and Uses: The American 

Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 

(Recovery Act), Public Law 111–5 

(2009), required the Assistant Secretary 

of Commerce for Communications and 

Information to develop and maintain a 

comprehensive, interactive, and 

searchable nationwide inventory map of 

existing broadband service capability 

and availability in the United States that 

depicts the geographic extent to which 

broadband service capability is 

deployed and available from a 

commercial or public provider 

throughout each state. 

NTIA developed the State Broadband 

Data and Development (SBDD) Grant 

Program (74 FR 32545), a competitive, 


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