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to any subsequent benefit or protection 

application, unless it has been revoked. 

This exercise of authority shall not be 

construed to prejudice, in any way, the 

ability of the U.S. Government to 

commence subsequent criminal or civil 

proceedings in accordance with U.S. 

law involving any beneficiary of this 

exercise of authority (or any other 

person). This exercise of authority is not 

intended to create any substantive or 

procedural right or benefit that is legally 

enforceable by any party against the 

United States or its agencies or officers 

or any other person. This exercise of 

authority does not affect the continued 

applicability of any other securityrelated ground of inadmissibility in 

section 212 of the Act, including 

subsections 212(a)(3)(B)(iv)(I) through 

(V), which continue to render 

inadmissible those who have engaged in 

terrorist activity as enumerated by those 

subsections. 

In accordance with Section 

212(d)(3)(B)(ii) of the Act, a report on 

the aliens to whom this exercise of 

authority is applied, on the basis of 

case-by-case decisions by the U.S. 

Department of Homeland Security shall 

be provided to the specified 

congressional committees not later than 

90 days after the end of the fiscal year. 

This determination is based on an 

assessment related to the national 

security and foreign policy interests of 

the United States as they apply to the 

particular aliens described herein and 

shall not have any application with 

respect to other persons or to other 

provisions of U.S. law. 

Dated: April 27, 2007. 

Michael Chertoff, 

Secretary of Homeland Security. 

[FR Doc. E7–8751 Filed 5–7–07; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND 

SECURITY 

Coast Guard 

[USCG–2007–27857] 

Recreational Boating Safety Projects, 

Programs and Activities Funded Under 

Provisions of the Transportation 

Equity Act for the 21st Century; 

Accounting of 

AGENCY: Coast Guard, DHS. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: For seven fiscal years starting 

in 1999, the Transportation Equity Act 

for the 21st Century has made $5 

million available to the Secretary of 

Homeland Security for payment of Coast 

Guard expenses for personnel and 

activities directly related to 

coordinating and carrying out the 

national recreational boating safety 

program. In 2005, the law was amended 

and the amount was increased to $5.5 

million. This notice is being published 

to satisfy a requirement of the Act that 

a detailed accounting of the projects, 

programs, and activities funded under 

the national recreational boating safety 

program provision of the Act be 

published annually in the Federal 

Register. In this notice we have 

specified the amount of monies the 

Coast Guard has committed, obligated or 

expended during fiscal year 2006, as of 

September 30, 2006. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jeff 

Ludwig, Regulations Development 

Manager, telephone 202–372–1062, fax 

202–372–1932. 

Background and Purpose: The 

Transportation Equity Act for the 21st 

Century became law on June 9, 1998 

(Pub. L. 105–178; 112 Stat. 107). The 

Act required that of the $5 million made 

available to carry out the national 

recreational boating safety program each 

year, $2 million shall be available only 

to ensure compliance with Chapter 43 of 

Title 46, U.S. Code—Recreational 

Vessels. On September 29, 2005, the 

Sportfishing and Recreational Boating 

Safety Amendments Act of 2005 was 

enacted (Pub. L. 109–74; 119 Stat. 2030). 

This Act increased the funds available 

to the national recreational boating 

safety program from $5 million to $5.5 

million annually, and stated that ‘‘not 

less than’’ $2 million shall be available 

only to ensure compliance with Chapter 

43 of Title 46, U.S. Code—Recreational 

Vessels. 

The responsibility to administer these 

funds was delegated to the Commandant 

of the United States Coast Guard. 

Subsection (c) of section 7405 of the Act 

directs that no funds available to the 

Secretary under this subsection may be 

used to replace funding traditionally 

provided through general 

appropriations, nor for any purposes 

except those purposes authorized; 

namely, for personnel and activities 

directly related to coordinating and 

carrying out the national recreational 

boating safety program. Amounts made 

available each fiscal year from 1999 

through 2006 shall remain available 

until expended. 

Use of these funds requires 

compliance with standard Federal 

contracting rules with associated lead 

and processing times resulting in a lag 

time between available funds and 

spending. The total amount of funding, 

transferred to the Coast Guard from the 

Sport Fish Restoration and Boating 

Trust Fund, committed, obligated, and/ 

or expended during fiscal year 2006 for 

each activity is shown below. 

Factory Visit Program: Funding was 

provided to continue the national 

recreational boat factory visit program, 

initiated in January 2001. The factory 

visit program currently allows 

contractor personnel, acting on behalf of 

the Coast Guard, to visit 2,000 

recreational boat manufacturers each 

year to inspect for compliance with 

federal regulations, communicate with 

the manufacturers as to why they need 

to comply with federal regulations, and 

educate them, as necessary, on how to 

comply with federal regulations. 

($2,105,905) 

Boat Compliance Testing: Funding 

was provided for expansion of the boat 

compliance testing program whereby 

new manually propelled and outboard 

recreational boats are purchased in the 

open market and tested for compliance 

with the Federal flotation standards. 

The expanded program includes 

inboard/sterndrive boats and used boats. 

($100,000) 

Associated Equipment Compliance 

Testing: A contract was awarded to buy 

recreational boat ‘‘associated 

equipment’’ (e.g., starters, alternators, 

fuel pumps, and bilge pumps) and test 

this equipment for compliance with 

federal safety regulations. This new 

initiative complements the boat 

compliance testing program. ($150,000) 

New Recreational Boating Safety 

Associated Travel: Travel by employees 

of the Office of Boating Safety was 

performed to carry out additional 

recreational boating safety actions and 

to gather background and planning 

information for new recreational boating 

safety initiatives. ($17,457) 

Carbon Monoxide Research: Under a 

Memorandum of Agreement between 

the Office of Boating Safety and the 

Department of Health and Human 

Services, U.S. Public Health Service, 

Federal Occupational Health Program, 

funding was provided to continue 

investigation into identifying and 

classifying additional recreational 

boating carbon monoxide hazards. 

($150,000) 

Boating Accident News Clipping 

Service: A contract was awarded to 

gather daily news stories of recreational 

boating accidents nationally for more 

real time accident information and to 

identify accidents that may involve 

regulatory non-compliances or safety 

defects. ($37,896) 

Accident Investigation Tiger Team: A 

contract was awarded to provide on-call 

expert accident investigative services for 

any boating accident that appeared to 


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involve a regulatory non-compliance or 

safety defect. ($56,575) 

Web-based Document Management 

System: A contract was awarded to 

provide web-based document 

management to better enable the 

handling of thousands of recreational 

boating recall cases and campaign 

reports. ($65,217) 

Safety Decals: Emergency Radio Call 

Procedures Decal used to promote 

proper emergency radio procedures for 

recreational vessels were produced and 

distributed. These are designed to be 

displayed immediately adjacent to the 

vessel’s VHF–FM marine radio and 

assist vessel operators in properly 

making emergency radio calls. ($25,810) 

Low Power Radio Transmitter System: 

The project funded a low power 

travelers information radio transmitter 

system in the 13th Coast Guard District 

for continual transmission of Bar 

conditions and restrictions as well as 

boating safety information to the boating 

public. ($28,471) 

Recreational Boating Safety (RBS) 

Outreach Program: Funding was 

provided for this program which 

provides full marketing, media, public 

information, and program strategy 

support to the nation-wide RBS effort. 

The goal is to coordinate the RBS 

outreach initiatives and campaigns 

some of which include: National 

Boating Under the Influence Campaign 

(BUI), ‘‘You’re in Command. Boat 

Responsibly!’’, PFD Wear, Vessel Safety 

Check Program (VSC), Boating Safety 

Education Courses, Propeller Strike 

Avoidance, Carbon Monoxide 

Poisoning, and other recreational 

boating safety issues on an as needed 

basis. ($1,032,258) 

Virtual Reality Personal Watercraft 

(PWC): A virtual reality PWC was 

developed under contract to provide a 

platform to gather objective data on 

operator reactions to various scenarios. 

This information would otherwise be 

unobtainable or would require more 

costly methods and sources, due to the 

risk of injury to the operator as well as 

due to the difficulty of accurately 

replicating conditions for all operators. 

The virtual reality PWC is being used in 

various test scenarios to collect human 

factors data including the measurement 

of reactive movements and reaction time 

that will assist in making decisions or 

taking action to improve personal 

watercraft safety. The data from this 

effort will give greater insight into the 

human-machine interface related to 

PWC operation and will assist in the 

effort to attempt to reduce PWC 

accidents. ($50,000) 

Boating Accident Report Database 

(BARD) Web System: BARD Web System 

funding enables reporting authorities in 

the 50 States, five U.S. Territories and 

the District of Columbia to manage their 

accident reports electronically over a 

secure Internet environment. The 

system also enables the user community 

to generate statistical reports that show 

the frequency, nature, and severity of 

boating accidents. FY 06 funds 

supported system maintenance, 

technical (hotline) support and formal 

classroom instruction for the entire user 

community. ($438,781) 

Personnel Support: Funding was 

provided for personnel to support the 

development of new regulations, to 

support new contracting activities 

associated with the additional funding, 

and to monitor and manage the 

contracts awarded. ($573,188) 

Propeller Injury Avoidance Working 

Group: Travel expenses were 

reimbursed for subject-matter experts to 

convene as a working group to explore 

ways that injuries associated with 

propeller strikes could be minimized. 

($12,505) 

National Recreational Boating Safety 

Program Strategic Planning: Meetings 

were conducted to continue strategic 

planning for the national recreational 

boating safety program. Funds were 

expended on meeting space, supplies, 

and travel expenses for members of the 

strategic planning panel. ($95,172) 

National Recreational Boating Survey: 

A national recreational boating survey 

was conducted to obtain up-to-date 

statistical estimates on recreational 

boating. Over 25,000 surveys were 

completed with individuals who boated 

between September 2001 and September 

2002. Survey findings were extrapolated 

to produce national, regional and State 

estimates of boat use as well as the 

characteristics of boat operators, 

passengers, boats, safety equipment, and 

the boating environment. ($118,056) 

A total of $26,365,949 of the 

$35,000,000 made available to the Coast 

Guard through annual transfers of $5 

million in fiscal years 1999, 2000, 2001, 

2002, 2003, 2004 and 2005 has been 

committed, obligated or expended as of 

September 30, 2005. Of the $5.5 million 

made available to the Coast Guard in 

fiscal year 2006, $2,711,375 has been 

committed, obligated or expended and 

an additional $2,345,916 of prior fiscal 

year funds has been committed, 

obligated or expended, as of September 

30, 2006. Therefore, a total of 

$31,423,240 of the $40,500,000 made 

available to the Coast Guard through 

annual transfers of $5 million in fiscal 

years 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 

2004, 2005 and $5.5 million in 2006 has 

been committed, obligated or expended 

as of September 30, 2006. Of the 

remaining funds that have not been 

committed, obligated or expended, $8.1 

million is being reserved for a multiyear national boating study. 

Dated: April 24, 2007. 

F.J. Sturm, 

Captain, U.S. Coast Guard, Acting Director 

of Inspections and Compliance. 

[FR Doc. E7–8738 Filed 5–7–07; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND 

SECURITY 

Federal Emergency Management 

Agency 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Proposed Collection; 

Comment Request 

AGENCY: Federal Emergency 

Management Agency, DHS. 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: The Federal Emergency 

Management Agency (FEMA), as part of 

its continuing effort to reduce 

paperwork and respondent burden, 

invites the general public and other 

Federal agencies to take this 

opportunity to comment on a proposed 

continuing information collection. In 

accordance with the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995, this notice seeks 

comments concerning temporary 

housing units for disaster victims of 

federally declared disasters. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Public 

Law 93–288, as amended by Public Law 

100–707, the Robert T. Stafford Disaster 

Relief and Emergency Assistance Act, 

section 408, authorizes FEMA to 

provide Temporary Housing Assistance. 

This type of assistance could be in form 

of mobile homes, travel trailers, or other 

readily fabricated dwellings. This 

assistance is used when required to 

provide disaster housing for victims of 

federally declared disasters. 

Accordingly the FEMA Form 90–1 is 

designed to ensure sites for temporary 

housing units that will accommodate 

the home and comply with local, State 

and Federal regulations regarding the 

placement of the temporary housing 

unit; FEMA Form 90–31, ensures that 

the landowner (if other than the 

recipient of the housing unit) will allow 

the temporary housing unit to be placed 

on the property; and ensure that routes 

on the ingress and egress to and from 

the property are maintained. 


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