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Written comments or requests for a 

public hearing on this application 

should be mailed to the Chief, Permits, 

Conservation and Education Division, 

F/PR1, Office of Protected Resources, 

NMFS, 1315 East-West Highway, Room 

13705, Silver Spring, MD 20910. Those 

individuals requesting a hearing should 

set forth the specific reasons why a 

hearing on this particular request would 

be appropriate. 

Comments may also be submitted by 

facsimile at (301)427–2521, provided 

the facsimile is confirmed by hard copy 

submitted by mail and postmarked no 

later than the closing date of the 

comment period. 

Comments may also be submitted by 

e-mail. The mailbox address for 

providing e-mail comments is 

NMFS.Pr1Comments@noaa.gov. Include 

in the subject line of the e-mail 

comment the following document 

identifier: File No. 814–1899. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Jennifer Skidmore or Amy Sloan, 

(301)713–2289. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

subject permit is requested under the 

authority of the Marine Mammal 

Protection Act of 1972, as amended 

(MMPA; 16 U.S.C. 1361 et seq.), the 

regulations governing the taking and 

importing of marine mammals (50 CFR 

part 216), the Endangered Species Act of 

1973, as amended (ESA; 16 U.S.C. 1531 

et seq.), and the regulations governing 

the taking, importing, and exporting of 

endangered and threatened species (50 

CFR 222–226). 

The North Slope Borough Department 

of Wildlife Management is requesting 

authorization to collect and transport 

tissues from subsistence-collected and/ 

or stranded (dead) marine mammals of 

the following species: bearded seal 

(Erignathus barbatus), ringed seal 

(Phoca hispida), spotted seal (Phoca 

larga), and ribbon seal (Phoca fasciata), 

bowhead whale (Balaena mysticetus), 

beluga whale (Delphinapterus leucas), 

minke whale (Balaenoptera 

acutorostrata), and grey whale 

(Eschrichtius robustus). These collected 

tissues would be used to perform a 

variety of health-related analyses, 

including (but not limited to): tissue 

histology, contaminants analyses 

(elemental analyses, PAH/ 

organochlorine analyses etc.), infectious 

disease research (culture, PCR analyses), 

parasitology studies and stable isotope 

work. Additionally, tissues will be 

collected to augment the Alaskan 

Marine Mammal Tissue Archival Project 

(AMMTAP). No animals will be killed 

for the purpose of providing samples 

under this permit.. Locations of 

collections will be from the Northwest 

Arctic Borough (St. Lawrence Island, 

Diomede, Wales and Kivalina) and the 

North Slope Borough, Alaska. This 

effort will provide critical baseline data 

and will be part of a long-term 

monitoring project being undertaken by 

the North Slope Borough Department of 

Wildlife Management in response to 

public concerns about the safety and 

health of their subsistence species. This 

permit is requested for five years. 

Concurrent with the publication of 

this notice in the Federal Register, 

NMFS is forwarding copies of this 

application to the Marine Mammal 

Commission and its Committee of 

Scientific Advisors. 

Dated: April 24, 2007. 

P. Michael Payne, 

Chief, Permits, Conservation and Education 

Division, Office of Protected Resources, 

National Marine Fisheries Service. 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Telecommunications and 

Information Administration 

[Docket No. 070419094–7096–01] 

Pan-Pacific Education and 

Communications Experiments by 

Satellite (PEACESAT): Closing Date 

AGENCY: National Telecommunications 

and Information Administration (NTIA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice of availability of funds. 

SUMMARY: Pursuant to Revised 

Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 

2007, Pub. L. 110–5, the National 

Telecommunications and Information 

Administration (NTIA), U.S. 

Department of Commerce, announces 

the solicitation of applications for a 

grant for the Pan-Pacific Education and 

Communications Experiments by 

Satellite (PEACESAT) Program. Projects 

funded pursuant to this Notice are 

intended to support the PEACESAT 

Program’s acquisition of satellite 

communications to service Pacific Basin 

communities and to manage the 

operations of this network. Applications 

for the PEACESAT Program grant will 

compete for funds from the Public 

Broadcasting, Facilities, Planning and 

Construction Funds account. 

DATES: Applications must be received 

on or before 5 p.m. Eastern Standard 

Time, May 29, 2007. Applications 

submitted by facsimile are not 

acceptable. NTIA will not accept 

applications received after the deadline. 

However, if an application is received 

after the Closing Date due to (1) carrier 

error, when the carrier accepted the 

package with a guarantee for delivery by 

the Closing Date and Time, or (2) 

significant weather delays or natural 

disasters, NTIA will, upon receipt of 

proper documentation, consider the 

application as having been received by 

the deadline. 

ADDRESSES: To obtain a printed 

application package, submit completed 

applications, or send any other 

correspondence, write to: NTIA/PTFP, 

Room H-4812, U.S. Department of 

Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue, 

NW., Washington, DC 20230. 

Application materials may be obtained 

electronically via the Internet at 

www.Grants.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

William Cooperman, Director, Public 

Broadcasting Division, telephone: (202) 

482–5802; fax: (202) 482–2156. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Electronic Access 

The full funding opportunity 

announcement for the PEACESAT 

Fiscal Year (FY) 2007 grant cycle is 

available through www.Grants.gov or by 

contacting the PTFP office at the 

address noted above. Application 

materials may be obtained electronically 

via the Internet www.grants.gov. 

Funding Availability 

Funding for the PEACESAT Program 

is provided pursuant to Revised 

Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 

2007, Public Law 110–5, and Public 

Law 106–113, ‘‘The Consolidated 

Appropriations Act, Fiscal Year 2000.’’

Public Law 106–113 provides ‘‘That, 

hereafter, notwithstanding any other 

provision of law, the Pan-Pacific 

Education and Communications 

Experiments by Satellite (PEACESAT) 

Program is eligible to compete for Public 

Broadcasting Facilities, Planning and 

Construction funds.’’

The Congress has appropriated $20 

million for FY 2007 Public 

Telecommunications Facilities Program 

(PTFP) and PEACESAT awards. Of this 

amount, NTIA anticipates making a 

single award for approximately 

$500,000 for the PEACESAT Program in 

FY 2007. For FY 2006, NTIA issued one 

award for the PEACESAT project in the 

amount of $499,440. 

Statutory and Regulatory Authority 

The PEACESAT Program was 

authorized under Public Law 100–584 

(102 Stat. 2970) and also Public Law 

101–555 (104 Stat. 2758) to acquire 

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provide educational, medical, and 

cultural needs of Pacific Basin 

communities. The PEACESAT Program 

has been operational since 1971 and has 

received funding from NTIA for support 

of the project since 1988. 

Applications submitted in response to 

this solicitation for PEACESAT 

applications are exempt from the PTFP 

regulations at 15 CFR part 2301. 

Catalog of Federal Domestic 

Assistance: N/A. 

Eligibility 

Eligible applicants will include any 

for-profit or non-profit organization, 

public or private entity, other than an 

agency or division of the Federal 

government. Individuals are not eligible 

to apply for the PEACESAT Program 

funds. 

Evaluation and Selection Process 

Each eligible application is evaluated 

by three independent reviewers who 

have demonstrated expertise in the 

programmatic and technological aspects 

of the application. The reviewers will 

evaluate applications according to the 

criteria in the following section and 

provide individual written ratings of 

each application. No consensus advice 

will be provided by the reviewers. 

State Single Point of Contact (SPOC) 

offices, per Executive Order 12372, may 

provide recommendations on 

applications under consideration. 

The Public Broadcasting Division 

(PBD) administers the PEACESAT 

Program and places a summary of 

applications received on the Internet. 

Listing an application merely 

acknowledges receipt of an application 

to compete for funding with other 

applications. Listing does not preclude 

subsequent return of the application or 

disapproval of the application, nor does 

it assure that the application will be 

funded. The listing will also include a 

request for comments on the 

applications from any interested party. 

The reviewer’s ratings are provided to 

the PBD staff and a rank order is 

prepared according to score. The PBD 

program staff prepares summary 

recommendations for the Director of the 

Public Broadcasting Division. These 

recommendations incorporate the 

outside reviewers’ ratings and 

incorporate analysis based on the degree 

to which a proposed project meets the 

PEACESAT Program purposes and cost 

eligibility. Staff recommendations also 

consider (1) project impact, (2) the cost/ 

benefit of a project, and (3) whether the 

reviewers consistently applied the 

evaluation criteria. The analysis by 

program staff is provided to the Director 

of the Public Broadcasting Division in 

writing. 

The Director considers the summary 

recommendations prepared by program 

staff in accord with the funding 

priorities and selection factors 

referenced in the next section and 

recommends the funding order of the 

applications for the PEACESAT 

Programs in three categories: 

‘‘Recommended for Funding,’’

‘‘Recommended for Funding If Funds 

Are Available,’’ and ‘‘Not 

Recommended for Funding.’’ The 

Director presents recommendations to 

the Associate Administrator, Office of 

Telecommunications and Information 

Applications (OTIA), for review and 

approval. 

Upon review and approval based on 

the funding priorities and selection 

factors referenced in the next section by 

the Associate Administrator of the 

Office of Telecommunications and 

Information Applications (OTIA), the 

Associate Administrator’s and the 

Director’s recommendations are 

presented to the Selecting Official, the 

Assistant Secretary for Communications 

and Information, who is the NTIA 

Administrator. The NTIA Administrator 

selects the applications to be negotiated 

for possible grant award, taking into 

consideration the outside reviewers’

ratings, the Director’s recommendations, 

and the degree to which the slate of 

applications, taken as a whole, satisfies 

the PEACESAT Programs’ stated 

purposes. 

The selected applications are 

negotiated between NTIA staff and the 

applicant. The negotiations are intended 

to resolve whatever differences might 

exist between the applicant’s original 

request and what NTIA is considering 

funding. Negotiation does not ensure 

that an award will be made. When the 

negotiations are completed, the Director 

recommends final selections to the 

NTIA Administrator, applying the same 

selection factors described above. The 

Administrator then makes the final 

award selections from the negotiated 

applications taking into consideration 

the Director’s recommendations and the 

degree to which the slate of 

applications, taken as a whole, satisfies 

the stated purposes for the PEACESAT 

Program. 

Funding Priorities and Selection 

Factors 

The PBD Director will consider the 

summary evaluations prepared by 

program staff, rank the applications, and 

present recommendations to the OTIA 

Associate Administrator for review and 

approval. The Director’s 

recommendations and the OTIA 

Associate Administrator’s review and 

approval will take into account the 

following selection factors: 

(1) The program staff evaluations, 

including the outside reviewers. 

(2) Whether the applicant has any 

current NTIA grants. 

(3) The geographic distribution of the 

proposed grant awards. 

(4) The availability of funds. 

Upon approval by the OTIA Associate 

Administrator, the Director’s 

recommendations will then be 

presented to the Selecting Official, the 

NTIA Administrator. 

The Administrator makes final award 

selections taking into consideration the 

Director’s recommendations and the 

degree to which the slate of 

applications, taken as a whole, satisfies 

the program’s stated purposes. 

No grant will be awarded until 

confirmation has been received from the 

FCC that any necessary authorization 

will be issued. 

After final award selections have been 

made, the Agency will notify the 

applicant of one of the following 

actions: 

(1) Selection of the application for 

funding, in whole or in part; 

(2) Deferral of the application for 

subsequent consideration; or 

(3) Rejection of the application with 

an explanation and the reason, if an 

applicant is not eligible or if the 

proposed project does not fall within 

the purposes of the PEACESAT 

program. 

Evaluation Criteria 

Each eligible application that is 

timely received, is materially complete, 

and proposes an eligible project will be 

considered under the evaluation criteria 

described here. The first three criteria—

1. Meeting the Purposes of the 

PEACESAT Program, 2. Extent of Need 

for the Project, and 3. Plan of Operation 

for the Project—are each worth 25 

points. Criterion 4, Budget and Cost 

Effectiveness, is worth 20 points. 

Criterion 5, Quality of Key Personnel, is 

worth 5 points. 

Criterion 1. Meeting the Purposes of 

the PEACESAT Program, including (i) 

how well the proposal meets the 

objectives of the PEACESAT Program 

and (ii) how the objectives of the 

proposal further the purposes of the 

PEACESAT Program. 

Criterion 2. Extent of Need for the 

Project. The extent to which the project 

meets the needs of the PEACESAT 

Program, including consideration of: (i) 

The needs addressed by the project; (ii) 

how the applicant identifies those 

needs; (iii) how those needs will be met 


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by the project; and (iv) the benefits to be 

gained by meeting those needs. 

Criterion 3. Plan of Operation for the 

Project, including (i) the quality of the 

design of the project; (ii) the extent to 

which the plan of management is 

effective and ensures proper and 

efficient administration of the project; 

(iii) how well the objectives of the 

project relate to the purposes of the 

PEACESAT Program; (iv) the quality of 

the applicant’s plan to use its resources 

and personnel to achieve each objective; 

and (v) how the applicant will ensure 

that project participants who are 

otherwise eligible to participate are 

selected without regard to race, color, 

national origin, gender, age, or 

handicapped condition. 

Criterion 4. Budget and Cost 

Effectiveness. The extent to which (i) 

the budget is adequate to support the 

project; and (ii) costs are reasonable in 

relation to the objectives of the project. 

Criterion 5. Quality of Key Personnel 

the applicant plans to use on the 

project, including (i) the qualifications 

of the project director if one is to be 

used; (ii) the qualifications of each of 

the other key personnel to be used in 

the project; (iii) the time that each 

person will commit to the project; and 

(iv) how the applicant, as part of its 

nondiscriminatory employment 

practices, will ensure that its personnel 

are selected for employment without 

regard to race, color, national origin, 

gender, age, or handicapped condition. 

In this section, ‘‘qualifications’’ refers to 

experience and training in fields related 

to the objectives of the project, and any 

other qualifications that pertain to the 

quality of the project. 

Cost Sharing Requirements 

Grant recipients under this program 

will not be required to provide matching 

funds toward the total project cost. 

The costs allowable under this Notice 

are not subject to the limitation on costs 

contained in the March, 7, 2007 Notice 

regarding the PTFP Program. 

Intergovernmental Review 

PEACESAT applications are subject to 

Executive Order 12372, 

‘‘Intergovernmental Review of Federal 

Programs,’’ if the state in which the 

applicant organization is located 

participates in the process. Usually 

submission to the State Single Point of 

Contact (SPOC) needs to be only the 

first two pages of the Application Form, 

but applicants should contact their own 

SPOC offices to find out about and 

comply with its requirements. The 

names and addresses of the SPOC 

offices are listed on the PTFP Web site 

and at the Office of Management and 

Budget’s home page at http:// 

www.whitehouse.gov/omb/grants/ 

spoc.html. 

Universal Identifier 

All applicants (nonprofit, state, local 

government, universities, and tribal 

organizations) will be required to 

provide a Dun and Bradstreet Data 

Universal Numbering System (DUNS) 

number during the application process. 

See the October 30, 2002 (67 FR 66177) 

and April 8, 2003 (68 FR 17000) Federal 

Register notices for additional 

information. Organizations can receive a 

DUNS number at no cost by calling the 

dedicated toll-free DUNS Number 

request line 1–866–705–5711 or via the 

Internet (www.dunandbradstreet.com). 

The Department of Commerce PreAward Notification Requirements for 

Grants and Cooperative Agreements 

The Department of Commerce PreAward Notification of Requirements for 

Grants and Cooperative Agreements 

contained in the Federal Register notice 

of December 30, 2004 (69 FR 78389) is 

applicable to this solicitation. 

Limitation of Liability 

In no event will the Department of 

Commerce be responsible for proposal 

preparation costs if this program fails to 

receive funding or is cancelled because 

of other agency priorities. Publication of 

this announcement does not oblige the 

agency to award any specific project or 

to obligate any available funds. 

Paperwork Reduction Act 

Notwithstanding any other provision 

of the law, no person is required to 

respond to, nor shall any person be 

subject to a penalty for failure to comply 

with, a collection of information subject 

to the requirements of the Paperwork 

Reduction Act (PRA), unless that 

collection displays a currently valid 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) control number. The PEACESAT 

application package requires the use of 

the following forms: SF–424, SF–424A, 

SF–424B, SF–LLL, CD–346,and CD–511. 

These forms have been approved under 

OMB Control Nos. 4040–0004, 0348–

044, 4040–007, 0348–0046, and 0605–

0001. 

Executive Order 13132 

It has been determined that this notice 

does not contain policies with 

Federalism implications as that term is 

defined in Executive Order 13132. 

Administrative Procedure Act/ 

Regulatory Flexibility Act 

Prior notice and opportunity for 

public comment are not required by the 

Administrative Procedure Act or any 

other law for rules concerning grants, 

benefits, and contracts (5 U.S.C. 553(a)). 

Because notice and opportunity for 

comment are not required pursuant to 5 

U.S.C. 553 or any other law, the 

analytical requirements of the 

Regulatory Flexibility Act (5 U.S.C. 601 

et seq.) are inapplicable. Therefore, a 

regulatory flexibility analysis has not 

been prepared. 

Bernadette McGuire-Rivera, 

Associate Administrator, Office of 

Telecommunications and Information 

Applications. 

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Office of the Secretary 

Meeting of the President’s 

Commission on Care for America’s 

Returning Wounded Warriors 

AGENCY: Department of Defense. 

ACTION: Federal Advisory Committee 

Meeting Notice. 

SUMMARY: Pursuant to the Federal 

Advisory Committee Act of 1972 (5 

U.S.C., Appendix, as amended), the 

Sunshine in the Government Act of 

1976 (5 U.S.C. 552b, as amended) and 

41 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) 

102–3.140 through 160, the Department 

of Defense announces the forthcoming 

public meeting: 

Name of Committee: President’s 

Commission on Care for America’s Returning 

Wounded Warriors (hereafter referred to as 

the Commission). 

Date of Meeting: May 14, 2007. 

Time of Meeting: 10 a.m. to (To Be 

Determined). 

Place of Meeting: Main Conference Center, 

National Transportation Safety Board, 429 

L’Enfant Plaza, SW., Washington, DC 20594. 

Purpose of Meeting: To obtain, review, and 

evaluate information related to the 

Commission’s mission to examine the care 

provided to wounded service members. The 

Commission will receive briefings on topics 

relating to the care and rehabilitation of 

wounded service members. 

Agenda: 

9 a.m. to 9:45 a.m. Administrative Work 

Meeting (Not Open to the Public). 

10 a.m.—(Public Session). 

Presentations (May Vary), DC—Veteran 

Administration System, System Issues, 

Public Comment. 

The Commission’s May 14, 2007 meeting at 

the Main Conference Center, National 

Transportation Safety Board, 429 L’Enfant 

Plaza, SW., Washington, DC 20594 subject to 

the availability of seating, is open to the 

public. 

Interested persons or organizations may 

submit written statements for consideration 


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