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hundred seven (5407) responded 

electronically at 1 hour a response, for 

nine thousand one hundred sixty-one 

(9161) annual responses. 

(6) An estimate of the total public 

burden (in hours) associated with the 

collection: It is estimated that there are 

9161 annual burden hours associated 

with this collection. 

If additional information is required 

contact: Lynn Bryant, Department 

Clearance Officer, United States 

Department of Justice, Justice 

Management Division, Policy and 

Planning Staff, Patrick Henry Building, 

Suite 1600, 601 D Street, NW., 

Washington, DC 20530. 

Dated: April 12, 2010. 

Lynn Bryant, 

Department Clearance Officer, PRA, U.S. 

Department of Justice. 

[FR Doc. 2010–8633 Filed 4–14–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4410–09–P 

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE 

Office of Justice Programs 

[OMB Number 1121–NEW] 

Bureau of Justice Assistance; Agency 

Information Collection Activities: 

Proposed Collection; Comments 

Requested 

ACTION: 60-Day Notice of Information 

Collection Under Review: New 

Collection Bureau of Justice Assistance 

Application Form: Federal Law 

Enforcement Officers Congressional 

Badge of Bravery. 

The Department of Justice, Office of 

Justice Programs, Bureau of Justice 

Assistance, will be submitting the 

following information collection request 

to the Office of Management and Budget 

for review and clearance in accordance 

with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 

1995. This proposed information 

collection is published to obtain 

comments from the public and affected 

agencies. Comments are encouraged and 

will be accepted for ‘‘sixty days’’ until 

June 14, 2010. If you have additional 

comments, suggestions, or need a copy 

of the proposed information collection 

instrument with instructions or 

additional information, please contact 

M. Berry at 202–616–6500/1–866–268– 

0079, Bureau of Justice Assistance, 

Office of Justice Programs, U.S. 

Department of Justice, 810 7th Street, 

NW., Washington, DC 20531 via 

facsimile at 202–305–1367 or by e-mail 

at M.A.Berry@ojp.usdoj.gov. 

Written comments and suggestions 

from the public and affected agencies 

concerning the proposed collection of 

information are encouraged. Your 

comments should address one or more 

of the following four points: 

—Evaluate whether the proposed 

collection of information is necessary 

for the proper performance of the 

functions of the agency, including 

whether the information will have 

practical utility; 

—Evaluate the accuracy of the agency’s 

estimate of the burden of the proposed 

collection of information, including the 

validity of the methodology and 

assumptions used; 

—Enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and 

—Minimize the burden of the collection 

of information on those who are to 

respond, including through the use of 

appropriate automated, electronic, 

mechanical, or other technological 

collection techniques or other forms of 

information technology, e.g., permitting 

electronic submission of responses. 

Overview of This Information 

Collection 

(1) Type of information collection: 

New collection. 

(2) The title of the form/collection: 

Federal Law Enforcement Officers 

Congressional Badge of Bravery. 

(3) The agency form number, if any, 

and the applicable component of the 

Department sponsoring the collection: 

None. Bureau of Justice Assistance, 

Office of Justice Programs, United States 

Department of Justice. 

(4) Affected public who will be asked 

or required to respond, as well as a brief 

abstract: 

Primary: Law Enforcement officials. 

Abstract: The information collected 

on this application will provide for the 

nomination of law enforcement officers 

for the Federal, and the State and Local 

Congressional Badge of Bravery awards. 

The awards will recognize law 

enforcement officers who (1) were 

injured while engaged in lawful duties 

and performing an act of bravery that 

put such officer at personal risk; or (2) 

though not injured; performed an act of 

bravery that placed such officer at risk 

of serious physical injury or death. 

Others: None. 

(5) An estimate of the total number of 

respondents and the amount of time 

needed for an average respondent to 

respond is as follows: An estimated 200 

applications/nominations for each 

Board has been adopted from a similar 

awards program and will be used for the 

Federal Law Enforcement Officers 

Congressional Badge of Bravery. The 

applicant should take approximately 25 

minutes to gather the required 

information and complete the form. 

Actual preparation time is dependent on 

the number of nominees per 

application. 

(5) An estimate of the total public 

burden (in hours) associated with the 

collection is 83 hours. 

Total Annual Reporting Burden: 200 × 

25 minutes = 5,000 minutes/60 = 83.33 

hours for each award category. 

If additional information is required, 

please contact, Clearance Officer, 

United States Department of Justice, 

Justice Management Division, Policy 

and Planning Staff, Patrick Henry 

Building, Suite 1600, 601 D Street, NW., 

Washington, DC 20530. 

Dated: April 12, 2010. 

Lynn Bryant, 

Department Clearance Officer, PRA, United 

States Department of Justice. 

[FR Doc. 2010–8635 Filed 4–14–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4410–18–P 

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Office of the Secretary of Labor 

Request for Information on Business 

Practices To Reduce the Likelihood of 

Forced Labor or Child Labor in the 

Production of Goods 

AGENCY: Bureau of International Labor 

Affairs, Labor. 

ACTION: Request for information. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Labor 

(DOL) is seeking information on current 

practices of firms, business associations, 

and other private sector groups to 

reduce the likelihood of child labor and 

forced labor in the production of goods. 

This information will aid DOL in 

fulfilling its mandate under the 

Trafficking Victims Protection 

Reauthorization Act of 2005 to work 

with persons who are involved in the 

production of goods made with forced 

labor or child labor to create a standard 

set of practices that will reduce the 

likelihood that such persons will 

produce goods using such labor. 

DATES: Information should be submitted 

to the Office of Child Labor, Forced 

Labor and Human Trafficking (OCFT) 

within the Bureau of International Labor 

Affairs (ILAB) via one of the methods 

described below by 5 p.m., on June 14, 

2010. 

To Submit Information, or for Further 

Information, Contact: ILAB/OCFT, U.S. 

Department of Labor, at (202) 693–4843 

(this is not a toll free number). 

Comments, identified as ‘‘Docket No. 

DOL–2010–0002,’’ may be submitted by 

any of the following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:// 

www.regulations.gov. The portal 

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includes instructions for submitting 

comments. Parties submitting responses 

electronically are encouraged not to 

submit paper copies. 

• Facsimile (fax): OCFT at 202–693– 

4830. 

• Mail, Express Delivery, Hand 

Delivery, and Messenger Service (2 

copies): Charita Castro or Rachel Rigby 

at U.S. Department of Labor, ILAB/ 

OCFT, 200 Constitution Avenue, NW., 

Room S–5317, Washington, DC 20210. 

Note that security-related screening may 

result in significant delays in receiving 

materials by regular mail. 

• E-mail: ilab-tvpra@dol.gov. 

All submissions should clearly 

identify the person and/or organization 

filing the submission and should be 

signed and dated. 

In addition to these formal 

submission methods, the public will be 

able to view this notice via DOL’s 

Facebook page at http:// 

www.facebook.com/departmentoflabor 

and Twitter account at http:// 

twitter.com/usdol. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

Section 105(b)(1) of the Trafficking 

Victims Protection Reauthorization Act 

of 2005 (‘‘TVPRA of 2005’’), Public Law 

109–164 (2006), directed the Secretary 

of Labor, acting through the Bureau of 

International Labor Affairs, to ‘‘carry out 

additional activities to monitor and 

combat forced labor and child labor in 

foreign countries.’’ Section 105(b)(2) of 

the TVPRA of 2005, 22 U.S.C. 

7112(b)(2), listed these activities as: 

(A) Monitor the use of forced labor 

and child labor in violation of 

international standards; 

(B) Provide information regarding 

trafficking in persons for the purpose of 

forced labor to the Office to Monitor and 

Combat Trafficking of the Department of 

State for inclusion in [the] trafficking in 

persons report required by section 

110(b) of the Trafficking Victims 

Protection Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 

7107(b)); 

(C) Develop and make available to the 

public a list of goods from countries that 

the Bureau of International Labor Affairs 

has reason to believe are produced by 

forced labor or child labor in violation 

of international standards; 

(D) Work with persons who are 

involved in the production of goods on 

the list described in subparagraph (C) to 

create a standard set of practices that 

will reduce the likelihood that such 

persons will produce goods using the 

labor described in such subparagraph; 

and 

(E) Consult with other departments 

and agencies of the United States 

Government to reduce forced and child 

labor internationally and ensure that 

products made by forced labor and child 

labor in violation of international 

standards are not imported into the 

United States. 

Pursuant to part (D) of the TVPRA of 

2005 mandate, ILAB is seeking 

information on current practices of 

firms, business associations, and other 

private sector groups to reduce the 

likelihood of child labor and forced 

labor in the production of goods. Many 

firms have policies, activities and/or 

systems in place to monitor labor rights 

in their supply chains and remediate 

violations. Such policies, activities and 

systems vary depending on location, 

industry, and many other factors. ILAB 

seeks to identify practices that have 

been effective in specific contexts, 

analyze their replicability, and 

disseminate those that have potential to 

be effective on a broader scale. For 

further details see the ‘‘Information 

Requested’’ section of this notice. 

II. Definitions of Forced Labor and 

Child Labor 

‘‘Child Labor’’—‘‘Child labor’’ under 

international standards means all work 

performed by a person below the age of 

15. It also includes all work performed 

by a person below the age of 18 in the 

following practices: 

(A) All forms of slavery or practices 

similar to slavery, such as the sale or 

trafficking of children, debt bondage 

and serfdom, or forced or compulsory 

labor, including forced or compulsory 

recruitment of children for use in armed 

conflict; 

(B) The use, procuring, or offering of 

a child for prostitution, for the 

production of pornography or for 

pornographic purposes; 

(C) The use, procuring, or offering of 

a child for illicit activities in particular 

for the production and trafficking of 

drugs; and 

(D) Work which, by its nature or the 

circumstances in which it is carried out, 

is likely to harm the health, safety, or 

morals of children. The work referred to 

in subparagraph (D) is determined by 

the laws, regulations, or competent 

authority of the country involved, after 

consultation with the organizations of 

employers and workers concerned, and 

taking into consideration relevant 

international standards. This definition 

will not apply to work specifically 

authorized by national laws, including 

work done by children in schools for 

general, vocational or technical 

education or in other training 

institutions, where such work is carried 

out in accordance with international 

standards under conditions prescribed 

by the competent authority, and does 

not prejudice children’s attendance in 

school or their capacity to benefit from 

the instruction received. 

‘‘Forced Labor’’—‘‘Forced labor’’ under 

international standards means all work 

or service which is exacted from any 

person under the menace of any penalty 

for its nonperformance and for which 

the worker does not offer himself 

voluntarily, and includes indentured 

labor. ‘‘Forced labor’’ includes work 

provided or obtained by force, fraud, or 

coercion, including: 

(1) By threats of serious harm to, or 

physical restraint against any person; 

(2) By means of any scheme, plan, or 

pattern intended to cause the person to 

believe that, if the person did not 

perform such labor or services, that 

person or another person would suffer 

serious harm or physical restraint; or 

(3) By means of the abuse or 

threatened abuse of law or the legal 

process. For purposes of this definition, 

forced labor does not include work 

specifically authorized by national laws 

where such work is carried out in 

accordance with conditions prescribed 

by the competent authority, including: 

any work or service required by 

compulsory military service laws for 

work of a purely military character; 

work or service which forms part of the 

normal civic obligations of the citizens 

of a fully self-governing country; work 

or service exacted from any person as a 

consequence of a conviction in a court 

of law, provided that the said work or 

service is carried out under the 

supervision and control of a public 

authority and that the said person is not 

hired to or placed at the disposal of 

private individuals, companies or 

associations; work or service required in 

cases of emergency, such as in the event 

of war or of a calamity or threatened 

calamity, fire, flood, famine, earthquake, 

violent epidemic or epizootic diseases, 

invasion by animal, insect or vegetable 

pests, and in general any circumstance 

that would endanger the existence or 

the well-being of the whole or part of 

the population; and minor communal 

services of a kind which, being 

performed by the members of the 

community in the direct interest of the 

said community, can therefore be 

considered as normal civic obligations 

incumbent upon the members of the 

community, provided that the members 

of the community or their direct 

representatives have the right to be 

consulted in regard to the need for such 

services. 

III. Information Requested 

ILAB is seeking general information 

on the practices of business entities to 

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reduce the likelihood of child labor and 

forced labor in the production of goods. 

ILAB welcomes any and all information, 

which could include, e.g., codes of 

conduct, standards used to implement 

such codes of conduct, auditing/ 

monitoring systems, supply-chain 

management practices designed to 

monitor informal workplaces, 

homework, and other challenging work 

environments, training modules, 

reporting practices, collaborative 

practices and strategies, grassroots 

projects, or other relevant information. 

ILAB is also seeking information on 

government practices to collaborate 

with private sector entities to reduce 

child labor and forced labor in the 

production of goods. Submissions may 

include documents in various formats, 

such as policy statements, reports, and 

case studies. However, the specific 

format of any submission is not 

important provided that the document 

presents and/or evaluates practices 

implemented by business entities, or 

governments in partnership with 

business entities, to reduce the 

likelihood of child labor and forced 

labor in the production of goods. 

Information should be submitted to 

the addresses and within the time 

period set forth above. DOL seeks 

information that can be used to inform 

the development of tools and resources 

to be disseminated publicly on the DOL 

Web site and/or in other publications. 

Internal documents or confidential 

documents that cannot be shared with 

the public will not be used. 

Submissions containing confidential or 

personal information may be redacted 

by DOL before being made available to 

the public, in accordance with 

applicable laws and regulations. DOL 

does not intend to respond directly to a 

submission or to return a submission to 

a submitter, but DOL may communicate 

with the submitter regarding any 

matters relating to the submission. 

DOL will compile and analyze 

submissions pursuant to this Notice, 

and of many other practices as 

described above, in coordination with a 

contractor, the Center for Reflection, 

Education, and Action (CREA). For 

more information about CREA’s contract 

with DOL, or to discuss relevant 

practices directly with CREA, please 

contact Project Director Ruth 

Rosenbaum at ruth_rosenbaum@creainc.org. 

Signed at Washington, DC this 12th day of 

April, 2010. 

Sandra Polaski, 

Deputy Undersecretary, Bureau of 

International Labor Affairs. 

[FR Doc. 2010–8642 Filed 4–14–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4510–28–P 

OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND 

BUDGET 

Determination of Benchmark 

Compensation Amount for Certain 

Executives 

AGENCY: Office of Federal Procurement 

Policy, OMB. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Office of Management 

and Budget is publishing the attached 

memorandum to the Heads of Executive 

Departments and Agencies concerning 

the determination of the benchmark 

compensation amount for certain 

executives that will be allowable under 

Government contracts during 

contractors’ Fiscal Year 2010— 

$693,951. This determination is 

required under Section 39 of the Office 

of Federal Procurement Policy Act, 41 

U.S.C. 435, as amended. The benchmark 

compensation amount applies equally to 

both defense and civilian procurement 

agencies. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Raymond Wong, Office of Federal 

Procurement Policy, Office of 

Management and Budget, telephone at 

202–395–6805 and e-mail: 

rwong@omb.eop.gov. 

Daniel I. Gordon, 

Administrator, Office of Federal Procurement 

Policy. 

Memorandum for the Heads of 

Executive Departments and Agencies 

From: Daniel I. Gordon, 

Administrator, Office of Federal 

Procurement Policy. 

Subject: Determination of Benchmark 

Compensation Amount for Certain 

Executives, Pursuant to Section 39 of 

the Office of Federal Procurement 

Policy Act, 41 U.S.C. 435, as amended. 

This memorandum sets forth the 

benchmark compensation amount for 

certain executives as required by 

Section 39 of the Office of Federal 

Procurement Policy (OFPP) Act, as 

amended. Under Section 39, the 

benchmark compensation amount for 

certain executives is the median amount 

of the compensation provided for all 

senior executives of all benchmark 

corporations for the most recent year for 

which data is available. The benchmark 

compensation benchmark amount for 

certain executives established by 

Section 39 limits the allowability of 

compensation costs under Government 

contracts as implemented at FAR 

31.205–6(p), limiting the amount of 

reimbursable executive compensation. 

The benchmark compensation amount 

for certain executives does not limit the 

compensation that an executive may 

otherwise receive. This amount is based 

upon a review of commercially available 

surveys of executive compensation that 

analyze the relevant data made available 

by the Securities and Exchange 

Commission. More specifically, as 

required by Section 39 of the OFPP Act, 

the determination is made on the 

median (50th percentile) amount of 

compensation over a recent 12-month 

period for the five most highly 

compensated employees in management 

positions at each home office and each 

segment of all publicly-owned 

companies with annual sales over $50 

million. Compensation for the fiscal 

year means the total amount of wages, 

salary, bonuses and deferred 

compensation for the year, whether 

paid, earned, or otherwise accruing, as 

recorded in the employer’s cost 

accounting records for the year. After 

consultation with the Director of the 

Defense Contract Audit Agency, we 

have determined pursuant to the 

requirements of Section 39 that the 

benchmark compensation amount for 

certain executives for the contractors’ 

Fiscal Year (FY) 2010 is $693,951. This 

amount is for contractors’ FY 2010 and 

subsequent contractor fiscal years, 

unless and until revised by OFPP. The 

benchmark compensation amount for 

certain executives applies to contract 

costs incurred after January 1, 2010, 

under covered contracts of both the 

defense and civilian procurement 

agencies as specified in Section 39 of 

the OFPP Act, 41 U.S.C. 435, as 

amended. 

Questions concerning this 

memorandum may be addressed to 

Raymond Wong, OFPP, at 202–395– 

6805. 

[FR Doc. 2010–8641 Filed 4–14–10; 8:45 am] 

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NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND 

SPACE ADMINISTRATION 

[Notice (10–044)] 

NASA Advisory Council; Science 

Committee; Planetary Protection 

Subcommittee; Meeting 

AGENCY: National Aeronautics and 

Space Administration. 

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