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13705, Silver Spring, MD 20910; phone 

(301) 427–8401; fax (301) 713–0376. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Malcolm Mohead, (301) 427–8401. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Permit No. 

16436 was issued April 6, 2012 (77 FR 

21754) to the Permit Holder to capture 

Atlantic sturgeon life stages in the 

Hudson River estuary to assess juvenile 

abundance, characterize the adult 

spawning stock, and generate 

population estimates. Atlantic sturgeon 

were authorized captured with gill nets, 

trammel nets, and trawls; measured, 

weighed, tissue sampled, fin clipped for 

aging, PIT tagged and Floy tagged, 

internally and externally acoustic 

tagged, anesthetized with 150 ppm MS– 

222, and gastric lavaged. 

The permit modification (Permit No. 

16436–01) now consolidates takes of 

shortnose sturgeon issued in Permit No 

16439 with those Atlantic sturgeon 

authorized in Permit No. 16436. Permit 

No. 16439 was terminated upon 

issuance of the modification. The takes 

of both Atlantic and shortnose sturgeon 

were increased in the modification to 

meet further objectives, including 

understanding impacts on each species 

from (1) construction of the Tappan Zee 

Bridge; (2) laying high voltage cable in 

the Hudson River; and (3) measuring 

contaminants levels in the Hudson 

River. New methods authorized in the 

modification include contaminant 

research sampling by performing 

laparoscopic liver biopsy, and 

anesthetizing animals with 250 mg/l 

MS–222 and electro-narcosis. A total of 

three incidental mortalities of shortnose 

and Atlantic sturgeon are now 

authorized annually as a result of 

increased research activity. The 

modification would be valid through the 

original expiration date of Permit No. 

16436 on April 5, 2017. 

Issuance of this permit modification, 

as required by the ESA, was based on 

a finding that such permit (1) was 

applied for in good faith; (2) will not 

operate to the disadvantage of such 

endangered or threatened species; and 

(3) is consistent with the purposes and 

policies set forth in section 2 of the 

ESA. 

Dated: July 30, 2014. 

Julia Harrison, 

Chief, Permits and Conservation Division, 

Office of Protected Resources, National 

Marine Fisheries Service. 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Telecommunications and 

Information Administration 

Community Broadband Workshop 

AGENCY: National Telecommunications 

and Information Administration, U.S. 

Department of Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice of open meeting. 

SUMMARY: The National 

Telecommunications and Information 

Administration (NTIA) will hold a oneday regional workshop, ‘‘Building a 

Community Broadband Roadmap: 

Lessons in Implementation,’’ to share 

information to help communities build 

their broadband capacity and 

utilization. The workshop will present 

best practices and lessons learned from 

network infrastructure build-outs and 

digital inclusion programs from 

Minnesota and surrounding states, 

including broadband projects funded by 

NTIA. It will also explore effective 

business and partnership models and 

will include access to regional 

policymakers, federal funders and 

industry providers. 

DATES: The Community Broadband 

Workshop will be held on September 4, 

2014, from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., 

Central Time. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held in 

the Hyatt Regency Minneapolis 

Northstar Ballroom at 1300 Nicollet 

Mall, Minneapolis, MN 55403. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Karen Hanson, National 

Telecommunications and Information 

Administration, U.S. Department of 

Commerce, Room 4628, 1401 

Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, 

DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482–0213; 

email: khanson@ntia.doc.gov. Please 

direct media inquiries to NTIA’s Office 

of Public Affairs, (202) 482–7002. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Community Broadband Workshop— 

Building a Community Broadband 

Roadmap: Lessons in Implementation— 

will include an NTIA presentation that 

discusses lessons learned through 

implementation of its broadband grants, 

and a panel that will explore key 

elements required for successful 

broadband projects using a mix of 

regional examples. Topics will include 

marketing/demand aggregation, 

outreach, coordination with government 

agencies, partnership strategies, 

construction and oversight. Another 

panel will examine business model 

options, including private networks, 

public/private partnerships, co-ops and 

municipal systems. The workshop will 

also include a panel discussion with 

federal and private funding entities that 

support investments in broadband 

infrastructure and adoption. NTIA will 

provide tips to communities on how to 

research funding options, make a 

compelling case to funders and leverage 

multiple federal and state funding 

streams. 

The workshop will be open to the 

public and press. Pre-registration is 

required, and space is limited. 

Information on how to pre-register for 

the meeting will be available on NTIA’s 

Web site: www.ntia.doc.gov/workshop. 

NTIA will ask registrants to provide 

their first and last names and email 

addresses for both registration purposes 

and to receive any updates on the 

workshop. If capacity for the meeting is 

reached, NTIA will maintain a waiting 

list and will inform those on the waiting 

list if space becomes available. 

The public meeting is physically 

accessible to people with disabilities. 

Individuals requiring accommodations, 

such as language interpretation or other 

ancillary aids, are asked to notify the 

NTIA contact listed above at least five 

(5) business days before the meeting. 

Meeting updates and relevant 

documents will be also available on 

NTIA’s Web site at www.ntia.doc.gov/

workshop. 

Dated: July 30, 2014. 

Kathy D. Smith, 

Chief Counsel, National Telecommunications 

and Information Administration. 

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BUREAU OF CONSUMER FINANCIAL 

PROTECTION 

[Docket No. CFPB–2014–0016] 

Disclosure of Consumer Complaint 

Narrative Data 

AGENCY: Bureau of Consumer Financial 

Protection. 

ACTION: Proposed policy statement; 

extension of comment period. 

SUMMARY: The Bureau of Consumer 

Financial Protection (Bureau) currently 

discloses certain complaint data it 

receives regarding consumer financial 

products and services via its web-based, 

public-facing database (Consumer 

Complaint Database). On July 23, 2014, 

the Bureau published in the Federal 

Register a Notice of Proposed Policy 

Statement with Request for Public 

Comment (Proposed Policy Statement) 

proposing to expand its disclosure to 

include unstructured consumer 

complaint narrative data (narratives). 

The Proposed Policy Statement 


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4 78 FR 21218, April 10, 2013. 

provided a 30-day comment period that 

will end on August 22, 2014. To allow 

interested persons additional time to 

consider and submit their responses, the 

Bureau has determined that an 

extension of the comment period until 

September 22, 2014, is appropriate. 

DATES: The comment period for the 

Disclosure of Consumer Complaint 

Narrative Data Proposed Policy 

Statement published July 23, 2014, at 79 

FR 42765, is extended. Responses must 

now be received on or before September 

22, 2014. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, 

identified by Docket No. CFPB–2014– 

0016, by any of the following methods: 

• Electronic: http://

www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

instructions for submitting comments. 

• Mail: Monica Jackson, Office of the 

Executive Secretary, Consumer 

Financial Protection Bureau, 1700 G 

Street NW., Washington DC 20552. 

• Hand Delivery/Courier: Monica 

Jackson, Office of the Executive 

Secretary, Consumer Financial 

Protection Bureau, 1275 First Street NE., 

Washington DC 20002. 

Instructions: All submissions should 

include the agency name and docket 

number for this proposal. Because paper 

mail in the Washington, DC area and at 

the Bureau is subject to delay, 

commenters are encouraged to submit 

comments electronically. In general, all 

comments received will be posted 

without change to http://

www.regulations.gov. In addition, 

comments will be available for public 

inspection and copying at 1275 First 

Street NE., Washington DC 20002, on 

official business days between the hours 

of 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. eastern standard 

time. You can make an appointment to 

inspect the documents by telephoning 

(202) 435–7275. 

All comments, including attachments 

and other supporting materials, will 

become part of the public record and 

subject to public disclosure. Sensitive 

personal information, such as account 

numbers or social security numbers, 

should not be included. Comments 

generally will not be edited to remove 

any identifying or contact information. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

general inquiries, submission process 

questions, or any additional 

information, please contact Monica 

Jackson, Office of the Executive 

Secretary, 202–435–7275. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On July 

17, 2014, the Bureau issued the 

Proposed Policy Statement. The 

Proposed Policy Statement was 

published in the Federal Register on 

July 23, 2014. The Proposed Policy 

Statement seeks comment, data and 

information from the public on the 

Bureau’s proposal to include narratives 

in the Consumer Complaint Database. 

On December 8, 2011, the Bureau 

published in the Federal Register a 

proposed policy statement describing its 

plans to disclose certain data about the 

credit card complaints that consumers 

submit to the Bureau (December 2011 

Proposed Policy Statement).1 After 

receiving and considering a number of 

comments, the Bureau finalized its 

plans for publically disclosing data from 

consumer credit card complaints and 

published the final policy statement on 

June 22, 2012 (June 2012 Policy 

Statement).2

Also on June 22, 2012, the Bureau 

concurrently published in the Federal 

Register a proposed policy statement 

describing its plans to disclose data 

from consumer complaints about 

financial products and services other 

than credit cards (June 2012 Proposed 

Policy Statement).3 After receiving and 

considering a number of comments, the 

Bureau published the final policy 

statement on March 25, 2013 (March 

2013 Policy Statement).4 In the June 

2012 Proposed Policy Statement, the 

Bureau did not propose including 

narratives in the Consumer Complaint 

Database. 

Notwithstanding this, the Bureau 

received a significant number of 

comments specific to narrative 

disclosure. Consumer, civil rights, and 

open government groups supported 

disclosure on the grounds that 

disclosing narratives would provide 

consumers with more useful 

information on which to base financial 

decisions and would allow reviewers to 

assess the validity of the complaints. 

Two privacy groups, while 

acknowledging privacy risk stemming 

from publication of ‘‘non-identifiable’’ 

data and calling for further study, 

supported disclosure on an opt-in basis. 

Trade groups and industry commenters 

nearly uniformly opposed disclosure of 

consumer complaint narratives. 

The Bureau believes that the utility of 

the overall Consumer Complaint 

Database would greatly increase with 

the inclusion of narratives. This could 

lead to increased use by advocates, 

academics, the press, and entrepreneurs, 

which itself would lead to increased 

consumer contacts with the Bureau. 

The Bureau believes that the 

aforementioned increase in benefits and 

utility would lead to an increase in 

consumer contacts, which would have a 

positive effect on Bureau operations. As 

a critical mass of complaint data is 

achieved and exceeded, the 

representativeness of Bureau complaint 

data increases. Thus, narratives would 

not only enhance the above consumer 

benefits but also the many Bureau 

functions that rely, in part, on 

complaint data to perform their 

respective missions including the 

Offices of Supervision, Enforcement, 

and Fair Lending, Consumer Education 

and Engagement, and Research, 

Markets, and Rulemaking. 

The Bureau balances interested 

parties’ desire to have additional time to 

consider the issues raised in the 

Proposed Policy Statement, gather data, 

and prepare their responses, with the 

need to proceed expeditiously to 

consider comments and determine 

whether to issue a final policy 

statement. The Bureau believes that a 

60-day extension is appropriate. The 

comment period therefore will close on 

September 22, 2014. 

Dated: July 29, 2014. 

Elizabeth A. Corbett, 

Deputy Chief of Staff, Bureau of Consumer 

Financial Protection. 

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CORPORATION FOR NATIONAL AND 

COMMUNITY SERVICE 

Proposed Information Collection; 

Comment Request 

AGENCY: Corporation for National and 

Community Service. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Corporation for National 

and Community Service (CNCS), as part 

of its continuing effort to reduce 

paperwork and respondent burden, 

conducts a pre-clearance consultation 

program to provide the general public 

and federal agencies with an 

opportunity to comment on proposed 

and/or continuing collections of 

information in accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 

(PRA95) (44 U.S.C. Sec. 3506(c)(2)(A)). 

This program helps to ensure that 

requested data can be provided in the 

desired format, reporting burden (time 

and financial resources) is minimized, 

collection instruments are clearly 

understood, and the impact of collection 

requirement on respondents can be 

properly assessed. 

Currently, CNCS is soliciting 

comments concerning its proposed 

Commission Support Grant Grantee 

Progress Report (GPR). All State 


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