Federal Register / Vol. 75, No. 208 / Thursday, October 28, 2010 / Notices 66413 

DEPARTMENT OF STATE 

[Public Notice 7218] 

30-Day Notice of Proposed Information 

Collection: Exchange Programs 

Alumni Web Site Registration, DS– 

7006 

ACTION: Notice of request for public 

comment and submission to OMB of 

proposed collection of information. 

SUMMARY: The Department of State has 

submitted the following information 

collection request to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for 

approval in accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. 

• Title of Information Collection: 

Exchange Programs Alumni Website 

Registration. 

• OMB Control Number: None. 

• Type of Request: Existing collection 

in use without OMB control number. 

• Originating Office: Bureau of 

Educational and Cultural Affairs, ECA– 

IIP/EX. 

• Form Number: DS–7006. 

• Respondents: Exchange program 

alumni and current participants of U.S. 

government-sponsored exchange 

programs, Americans who hosted or 

programmed an exchange participant, or 

employees of a program agency 

administering an exchange program. 

• Estimated Number of Respondents: 

15,000. 

• Estimated Number of Responses: 

15,000. 

• Average Hours per Response: 10 

minutes. 

• Total Estimated Burden: 2,500 

hours. 

• Frequency: One-time per registrant. 

• Obligation to Respond: Required to 

Obtain or Retain a Benefit. 

DATES: Submit comments to the Office 

of Management and Budget (OMB) for 

up to 30 days from October 28, 2010. 

ADDRESSES: Direct comments to the 

Department of State Desk Officer in the 

Office of Information and Regulatory 

Affairs at the Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB). You may submit 

comments by the following methods: 

• E-mail: 

oira_submission@omb.eop.gov. You 

must include the DS form number, 

information collection title, and OMB 

control number in the subject line of 

your message. 

• Fax: 202–395–5806. Attention: Desk 

Officer for Department of State. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: You 

may obtain copies of the proposed 

information collection and supporting 

documents from Michael Quizon, 

Program Analyst, ECA–IIP/EX; State 

Department; SA–5, Room 4–V01; 

Washington, DC 20522–0504, who may 

be reached on 202–632–3357 or at 

quizonmd@state.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

We are soliciting public comments to 

permit the Department to: 

• Evaluate whether the proposed 

information collection is necessary to 

properly perform our functions. 

• Evaluate the accuracy of our 

estimate of the burden of the proposed 

collection, including the validity of the 

methodology and assumptions used. 

• Enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected. 

• Minimize the reporting burden on 

those who are to respond. 

Abstract of Proposed Collection 

The Exchange Programs Alumni Web 

site requires information to process 

users’ voluntary requests for 

participation in the Web site. Other than 

contact information, which is required 

for website registration, all other 

information is provided on a voluntary 

basis. Participants also have the option 

of restricting access to their information. 

Respondents to this registration form 

include: U.S. government-sponsored 

exchange program participants and 

alumni, hosts, and guests. Alumni 

Affairs collects data from users to not 

only verify their status or participation 

in a program, but to also connect alumni 

with other alumni and aid embassy staff 

in their alumni outreach. 

Methodology 

Information provided for registration 

is collected electronically via the 

Alumni website, alumni.state.gov. 

Additional Information 

The registration form is dynamic, 

presenting certain questions according 

to the user type. The Exchange Programs 

Alumni Web site is also secure and 

encrypted. 

Dated: October 21, 2010. 

Julianne Paunescu, 

Acting Director, Office of Policy and 

Evaluation, Bureau of Educational and 

Cultural Affairs, Department of State. 

[FR Doc. 2010–27299 Filed 10–27–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4710–05–P 

DEPARTMENT OF STATE 

[Public Notice 7214] 

Bureau of Educational and Cultural 

Affairs (ECA) Request for Grant 

Proposals: FY 2012 Fulbright Scholar 

Program 

Announcement Type: New 

Cooperative Agreement. 

Funding Opportunity Number: ECA/ 

A/E–12–01. 

Catalog of Federal Domestic 

Assistance Number: 19.401. 

Key Dates: 

Application Deadline: February 18, 

2011. 

Executive Summary: The Office of 

Academic Programs, Bureau of 

Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA), 

U.S. Department of State announces an 

open competition for a cooperative 

agreement to assist in the FY 2012 

administration of the worldwide 

Fulbright Scholar Program. The 

Fulbright Scholar Program is a major 

component of the overall Fulbright 

Program, which also includes the 

Fulbright Student Program. 

For more than 60 years, the Fulbright 

Scholar Program has offered awards for 

college and university faculty, as well as 

for non-academic professionals (such as 

lawyers, artists, and journalists) and 

independent scholars, to lecture and 

conduct research abroad. Tens of 

thousands of U.S. and non-U.S. scholars 

and professionals have participated in 

these exchanges since the Fulbright 

Program’s inception in 1946. 

The Fulbright Scholar Program 

currently sends approximately 1,300 

qualified U.S. scholars and 

professionals abroad to lecture, conduct 

research, and provide academic 

consulting at overseas institutions for 

long- and short-term programs. 

Conversely, the program brings 

approximately 900 visiting (non-U.S.) 

participants from approximately 150 

countries to the United States for similar 

activities. 

Responsibility for the management of 

the Fulbright Scholar Program is shared 

between the U.S. Department of State in 

Washington, DC, fifty bilateral Fulbright 

commissions, approximately 100 U.S. 

embassies overseas, and a private sector, 

cooperating agency in the United States. 

Overall policy guidelines for the 

Fulbright Scholar Program are 

determined by the Presidentially 

appointed J. William Fulbright Foreign 

Scholarship Board (FSB). 

The organization that is awarded the 

cooperative agreement under this 

competition will be responsible for 

recruitment, selection, placement, 

facilitation of enrichment activities for 


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