4556 Federal Register / Vol. 77, No. 19 / Monday, January 30, 2012 / Notices 

Through this notice, the Department 

announces the availability of its 

inventory on the following Web site: 

http://www2.ed.gov/fund/data/report/ 

contracts/ 

servicecontractinventoryappendix/ 

servicecontractinventory.html. The 

point of contact for the inventory is 

provided under the FOR INFORMATION

CONTACT section in this notice. 

Accessible Format: Individuals with 

disabilities can obtain this document in 

an accessible format (e.g., Braille, large 

print, or audiotape) on request to the 

program contact person listed under FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT. 

Electronic Access to This Document: 

You can view this document, as well as 

all other documents of this Department 

published in the Federal Register, in 

text or Adobe Portable Document 

Format (PDF) on the Internet at the 

following site: www.ed.gov/news/ 

fedregister. To use PDF you must have 

Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is 

available free at this site. 

Note: The official version of this document 

is the document published in the Federal 

Register. Free Internet access to the official 

edition of the Federal Register and the Code 

of Federal Regulations is available on GPO 

Access at: http://www.gpoaccess.gov/nara/

index.html. 

Program Authority: Section 743 of 

Division C of the Consolidated 

Appropriations Act of 2010, Pub. L. 111–117. 

Dated: January 26, 2012. 

Hugh J. Hurwitz, 

Deputy Chief Financial Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2012–2032 Filed 1–27–12; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Proposed Agency Information 

Collection 

AGENCY: U.S. Department of Energy. 

ACTION: Notice and request for OMB 

review and comment. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Energy 

(DOE) has submitted to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for 

clearance, a proposal for collection of 

information under the provisions of the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. The 

proposed collection, titled the Small 

Business Innovation Research (SBIR) 

and Small Business Technology 

Transfer (STTR) Commercialization 

Survey will satisfy the program 

requirements of the Small Business Act, 

including requirements established in 

the SBIR program reauthorization 

legislation, Public Law 106–554 and 

Public Law 107–50. DOE will collect the 

survey data via web-enabled software 

and provide it to the Small Business 

Administration (SBA) to maintain 

information about the DOE SBIR/STTR 

awards issued through the two 

programs. This data will be provided by 

DOE based on information collected 

from SBIR/STTR awardees. This data 

will be used by DOE, SBA, and Congress 

to assess the commercial impact of these 

two programs. If you anticipate that you 

will be submitting comments, but find 

it difficult to do so within the period of 

time allowed by this notice, please 

advise the DOE Desk Officer at OMB of 

your intention to make a submission as 

soon as possible. The Desk Officer may 

be telephoned at (202) 395–4560. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments should 

be sent to the DOE Desk Officer, Office 

of Information and Regulatory Affairs, 

Office of Management and Budget, New 

Executive Office Building, Room 10102, 

735 17th Street NW., Washington, DC 

20503. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Requests for additional information or 

copies of the information collection 

instrument and instructions should be 

directed to Chris O’Gwin by email at 

chris.ogwin@science.doe.gov or by fax at 

(301) 903–5488. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

information collection request contains: 

(1) OMB No. New; (2) Information 

Collection Request Title: Small Business 

Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small 

Business Technology Transfer (STTR) 

Commercialization Survey; (3) Type of 

Request: New; (4) Purpose: The DOE 

needs this information to satisfy the 

program requirements of the Small 

Business Act, including requirements 

established in the SBIR program 

reauthorization legislation, Public Law 

106–554 and Public Law 107–50. This 

data will be collected by the DOE and 

provided to the Small Business 

Administration (SBA) to maintain 

information about SBIR/STTR awards 

issued through the two programs. This 

data will be provided by DOE based on 

information collected from SBIR/STTR 

awardees. This data will be used by 

DOE, SBA, and Congress to assess the 

commercial impact of these two 

programs; (5) Annual Estimated Number 

of Respondents: 2,500; (6) Annual 

Estimated Number of Total Responses: 

2,500; (7) Annual Estimated Number of 

Burden Hours: 2,500; (8) Annual 

Estimated Reporting and Recordkeeping 

Cost Burden: 0. 

Statutory Authority: Section 9 of the Small 

Business Act, as amended, codified at 

15 U.S.C. 638(g). 

Issued in Washington, DC, on January 20, 

2012. 

Manny Oliver, 

SBIR/STTR Programs Director, Office of 

Science, U.S. Department of Energy. 

[FR Doc. 2012–1910 Filed 1–27–12; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Environmental Management Advisory 

Board 

AGENCY: Office of Environmental 

Management, Department of Energy. 

ACTION: Notice of renewal. 

SUMMARY: Pursuant to Section 

14(a)(2)(A) of the Federal Advisory 

Committee Act (Pub. L. 92–463), and in 

accordance with Title 41, Code of 

Federal Regulations, Section 102– 

3.65(a), and following consultation with 

the Committee Management Secretariat, 

General Services Administration, notice 

is hereby given that the Environmental 

Management Advisory Board will be 

renewed for a two-year period beginning 

January 23, 2012. 

The Board provides advice and 

recommendations to the Assistant 

Secretary for Environmental 

Management (EM) on a broad range of 

corporate issues affecting the EM 

program. These issues include, but are 

not limited to, project management and 

oversight activities, cost/benefit 

analyses, program performance, human 

capital development, and contracts and 

acquisition strategies. 

Recommendations to EM on the 

programmatic resolution of numerous 

difficult issues will help achieve EM’s 

objective of the safe and efficient 

cleanup of its contaminated sites. 

Additionally, the renewal of the 

Environmental Management Advisory 

Board has been determined to be 

essential to the conduct of the 

Department’s mission and to be in the 

public interest in connection with the 

performance of duties imposed the 

Department of Energy by law and 

agreement. The Board will operate in 

accordance with the provisions of the 

Federal Advisory Committee Act, and 

rules and regulations issued in 

implementation of that Act. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. 

Kristen G. Ellis, Designated Federal 

Officer, by telephone at (202) 586–5810 

or by email at: kristen.ellis@em.doe.gov. 

Issued at Washington, DC, on January 23, 

2012. 

Carol A. Matthews, 

Committee Management Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2012–1911 Filed 1–27–12; 8:45 am] 

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