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foregoing is true and correct. Executed 

on (date). (Signature)’. 

If executed within the United States, 

its territories, possessions, or 

commonwealths: ‘I declare (or certify, 

verify, or state) under penalty of perjury 

that the foregoing is true and correct. 

Executed on (date). (Signature)’. 

CONTESTING RECORD PROCEDURES: 

The Army’s rules for accessing 

records, and for contesting contents and 

appealing initial agency determinations 

are published in the Army Regulation 

340–21; 32 CFR part 505; or may be 

obtained from the system manager. 

RECORD SOURCE CATEGORIES: 

From the individual and Defense 

Enrollment Eligibility Reporting System 

(DEERS) database. 

EXEMPTIONS CLAIMED FOR THE SYSTEM: 

None. 

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BILLING CODE 5001–06–P 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

Equity and Excellence Commission 

AGENCY: Office for Civil Rights, U.S. 

Department of Education. 

ACTION: Notice of an open meeting. 

SUMMARY: This notice sets forth the 

schedule and proposed agenda of an upcoming meeting of the Equity and 

Excellence Commission (Commission). 

The notice also describes the functions 

of the Commission. Notice of this 

meeting is required by section 10(a)(2) 

of the Federal Advisory Committee Act 

(FACA) and is intended to notify the 

public of their opportunity to attend. 

DATES: September 23, 2011. Time: 9 a.m. 

to 5:30 p.m. 

ADDRESSES: The Commission will meet 

in Washington, DC at United States 

Department of Education at 400 

Maryland Avenue, SW., Washington, 

DC 20202, in the Barnard Auditorium. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jim 

Eichner, Designated Federal Official, 

Equity and Excellence Commission, 

U.S. Department of Education, 400 

Maryland Avenue, SW., Washington, 

DC 20202. E-mail: 

equitycommission@ed.gov. Telephone: 

(202) 453–5945. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On 

September 23rd, 2011 from 9 a.m. to 

5:30 p.m., the Equity and Excellence 

Commission will hold an open meeting 

in Washington, DC in Barnard 

Auditorium at the U.S. Department of 

Education’s main building at 400 

Maryland Avenue, SW., Washington, 

DC 20202. 

The purpose of the Commission is to 

collect information, analyze issues, and 

obtain broad public input regarding how 

the Federal government can increase 

educational opportunity by improving 

school funding equity. The Commission 

will also make recommendations for 

restructuring school finance systems to 

achieve equity in the distribution of 

educational resources and further 

student performance, especially for the 

students at the lower end of the 

achievement gap. The Commission will 

examine the disparities in meaningful 

educational opportunities that give rise 

to the achievement gap, with a focus on 

systems of finance, and recommend 

appropriate ways in which Federal 

policies could address such disparities. 

The agenda for the Commission’s 

September 23 meeting will include 

finalizing the outline of the report, 

discussion of particular language for 

certain portions of the report and 

reaching consensus on particular 

recommendations. Due to time 

constraints, there will not be a public 

comment period, but, individuals 

wishing to provide comments may 

contact the Equity Commission via 

e-mail at equitycommission@ed.gov. 

Individuals interested in attending the 

meeting must register in advance 

because seating may be limited. Please 

contact Kimberly Watkins-Foote at (202) 

260–8197 or by e-mail at 

equitycommission@ed.gov. Individuals 

who will need accommodations for a 

disability in order to attend the meeting 

(e.g., interpreting services, assistive 

listening devices, or materials in 

alternative format) should notify 

Watkins-Foote at (202) 260–8197 no 

later than September 16, 2011. We will 

attempt to meet requests for 

accommodations after this date but 

cannot guarantee their availability. The 

meeting site is accessible to individuals 

with disabilities. 

Records are kept of all Commission 

proceedings and are available for public 

inspection at the Department of 

Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, SW., 

Washington, DC 20202 from the hours 

of 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. E.S.T. 

Sandra Battle, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Enforcement, 

Office for Civil Rights. 

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Energy Information Administration 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Submission for OMB 

Review; Comment Request 

AGENCY: Energy Information 

Administration (EIA), Department of 

Energy (DOE). 

ACTION: Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request. 

SUMMARY: The EIA has submitted the 

Energy Information Administration’s 

Natural Gas Data Collection Program 

Package collections to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for 

revision and a three-year extension 

under section 3507(h)(1) of the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. 

L. 104–13) (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq). 

DATES: Comments must be filed by 

October 6, 2011. If you anticipate that 

you will be submitting comments but 

find it difficult to do so within that 

period, you should contact the OMB 

Desk Officer for DOE listed below as 

soon as possible. 

ADDRESSES: Send comments to OMB 

Desk Officer for DOE, Office of 

Information and Regulatory Affairs, 

Office of Management and Budget. To 

ensure receipt of the comments by the 

due date, submission by Fax at 202– 

395–7285 or e-mail to 

Chad_S_Whiteman@omb.eop.gov is 

recommended. The mailing address is 

725 17th Street, NW., Washington, DC 

20503. The OMB DOE Desk Officer may 

be telephoned at (202) 395–4718. (A 

copy of your comments should also be 

provided to EIA’s Statistics and 

Methods Group at the address below.) 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Requests for additional information 

should be directed to Amy Sweeney. To 

ensure receipt of the comments by the 

due date, submission by FAX (202–586– 

4420) or e-mail 

(amy.sweeney@eia.doe.gov) is also 

recommended. The mailing address is 

Ms. Amy Sweeney, Energy Information 

Administration, Department of Energy, 

1000 Independence Avenue, SW., EI– 

24, Washington, DC 20585–0670. Ms. 

Sweeney may be contacted by telephone 

at (202) 586–2627. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

section contains the following 

information about the energy 

information collections submitted to 

OMB for review: (1) The collection 

numbers and title; (2) the sponsor (i.e., 

the Department of Energy component); 

(3) the current OMB docket number (if 

applicable); (4) the type of request (i.e, 

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new, revision, extension, or 

reinstatement); (5) response obligation 

(i.e., mandatory, voluntary, or required 

to obtain or retain benefits); (6) a 

description of the need for and 

proposed use of the information; (7) a 

categorical description of the likely 

respondents; (8) estimated number of 

respondents annually; (9) an estimate of 

the total annual reporting burden in 

hours (i.e., the estimated number of 

likely respondents times the proposed 

frequency of response per year times the 

average hours per response); and (10) an 

estimate of the total annual reporting 

and recordkeeping cost burden (in 

thousands of dollars). 

1. EIA–176, EIA–191, EIA–757, EIA– 

857, EIA–895, EIA–910, and EIA–912. 

2. U.S. Energy Information 

Administration. 

3. OMB Number 1905–0175. 

4. Revision and three-year extension. 

5. All forms are mandatory except 

EIA–895, which is voluntary. 

6. The purpose of the Natural Gas 

Data Collection Program Package is to 

collect basic and detailed data to meet 

the EIA’s mandates and energy data 

users’ needs. Adequate evaluation of the 

natural gas industry requires collection 

and processing of data related to natural 

gas production, processing, 

transmission, distribution, storage, 

marketing, and consumption. The data 

that the EIA collects are used to address 

significant energy industry issues. In 

line with its mandated responsibility to 

collect data that adequately describe the 

natural gas marketplace, the EIA 

evaluates the lifecycle of natural gas 

from its reserves and production to 

consumption and prices throughout the 

upstream and downstream markets. The 

data collected by the Natural Gas Data 

Collection Program Package surveys are 

among those that are required to address 

the status and future of the role of 

natural gas in the energy mix and 

overall economy. Among the data series 

resulting from the information collected 

in these surveys is the rate, location, 

and source of natural gas produced and 

entering the market, the quantities being 

stored and the location of the storage, 

and the quantities being delivered to 

various consuming sectors. Prices are 

also reported on at various points in the 

production and distribution stream. 

7. Business or other for-profit. 

8. 3218 Respondents. 

9. Annual total of 50,131 hours, and 

respondent frequency is as follows: 

Forms EIA–176 and EIA–757 Schedule 

B are collected annually; forms EIA– 

191, EIA–857, and EIA–910 are 

collected monthly; EIA–757 Schedule A 

is collected once every three years; and 

Form EIA–912 is collected weekly. 

10. Annual total of $0. 

Please refer to the supporting 

statement as well as the proposed forms 

and instructions for more information 

about the purpose, who must report, 

when to report, where to submit, the 

elements to be reported, detailed 

instructions, provisions for 

confidentiality, and uses (including 

possible nonstatistical uses) of the 

information. For instructions on 

obtaining materials, see the FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT section. 

Statutory Authority: Section 13(b) of the 

Federal Energy Administration Act of 1974, 

P.L. 93–275, codified at 15 U.S.C. 772(b). 

Issued in Washington, DC, August 30, 

2011. 

Stephanie Brown, 

Director, Office of Survey Development and 

Statistical Integration, Energy Information 

Administration. 

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BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–9459–7] 

Aquatic Ecosystems, Water Quality, 

and Global Change: Challenges of 

Conducting Multi-Stressor 

Vulnerability Assessments—Release 

of Final Report 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of Availability. 

SUMMARY: EPA is releasing a final report 

entitled, Aquatic Ecosystems, Water 

Quality, and Global Change: Challenges 

of Conducting Multi-stressor 

Vulnerability Assessments, (EPA/600/ 

R–11/011F). The document was 

prepared by the National Center for 

Environmental Assessment (NCEA) 

within EPA’s Office of Research and 

Development. 

This report investigates the issues and 

challenges associated with identifying, 

calculating, and mapping indicators of 

the relative vulnerability of water 

quality and aquatic ecosystems across 

the United States to the potential 

impacts of global change. Using a large 

set of environmental indicators drawn 

from scientific literature and data, this 

final report explores the conceptual and 

practical challenges associated with 

using such indicators to assess the 

resilience of ecosystems and human 

systems to a variety of existing stresses 

and mal-adaptations. 

DATES: The report was posted publicly 

on August 26, 2011. 

ADDRESSES: The report, Aquatic 

Ecosystems, Water Quality, and Global 

Change: Challenges of Conducting 

Multi-stressor Vulnerability 

Assessments, is available primarily via 

the Internet on the National Center for 

Environmental Assessment’s home page 

under the Recent Additions and the 

Data and Publications menus at http:// 

www.epa.gov/ncea. A limited number of 

paper copies are available from the 

Information Management Team, NCEA; 

telephone: 703–347–8561; facsimile: 

703–347–8691. If you are requesting a 

paper copy, please provide your name, 

mailing address, and the document title. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

additional information, contact the 

National Center for Environmental 

Assessment; Chris Weaver; telephone: 

703–347–8621; facsimile: 703–347– 

8694; or e-mail: weaver.chris@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Information About the Project/ 

Document 

This report investigates the issues and 

challenges associated with identifying, 

calculating, and mapping indicators of 

relative vulnerability of water quality 

and aquatic ecosystems across the 

United States to the potential adverse 

impacts of external forces, such as longterm climate and land-use change. 

The report does not directly evaluate 

the potential impacts of global change 

on ecosystems and watersheds. Rather, 

it explores the assumption that the 

impacts of existing stressors will be a 

key input to any comprehensive global 

change vulnerability assessment, and 

the impacts of global change will be 

expressed via interactions with these 

stressors. To date, there has been 

relatively little exploration of the 

assumption that the practical challenges 

associated with assessing the resilience 

of ecosystems and human systems might 

vary as a result of existing global change 

stresses and mal-adaptations. The work 

described in this report is a preliminary 

attempt at such an exploration. 

This report uses more than 600 

indicators of water quality and aquatic 

ecosystem conditions drawn from 

numerous scientific literature and 

datasets from within EPA, additional 

Federal agencies, and other 

organizations. The report serves as a 

starting point for identifying challenges 

in calculating and mapping national 

vulnerabilities. The challenges 

identified include gaps in ideas, 

methods, data, and tools. Some of those 

specific challenges are: 

• Identifying those indicators that 

speak specifically to ‘‘vulnerability’’ as 

opposed to those reflecting simply a 

state or condition; 

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