Federal Register / Vol. 62, No. 24 / Wednesday, February 5, 1997 / Notices 5387

PLACE: 1155 21st St., NW., Washington,

DC, 9th Fl. Conference Room.

STATUS: Closed.

MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED:

Adjudicatory Matters.

CONTACT PERSON FOR MORE INFORMATION:

Jean A. Webb, 202–418–5100.

Jean A. Webb,

Secretary of the Commission.

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Sunshine Act; Meeting

AGENCY HOLDING THE MEETING:

Commodity Futures Trading

Commission.

TIME AND DATE: 2:00 p.m., Wednesday,

February 19, 1997.

PLACE: 1155 21st St., NW., Washington,

DC, 9th Fl. Conference Room.

STATUS: Closed.

MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED:

Adjudicatory Matters.

CONTACT PERSON FOR MORE INFORMATION:

Jean A. Webb, 202–418–5100.

Jean A. Webb,

Secretary of the Commission.

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Office of the Secretary

Meeting of the Military Health Care

Advisory Committee

AGENCY: Department of Defense,

Military Health Care Advisory

Committee.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: On January 28, 1997 (62 FR

4036), the Department of Defense

published a notice announcing a

meeting of the Military Health Care

Advisory Committee. This meeting has

been POSTPONED until mid-March,

due to scheduling conflicts which have

not permitted full attendance by

Committee members. All other

information remains unchanged.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr.

Gary A. Christopherson, Senior Advisor,

or Commander Sidney Rodgers, Special

Assistant to PDASD, Office of the

Assistant Secretary of Defense (Health

Affairs), 1200 Defense Pentagon, Room

3E346, Washington, DC 20301–1200;

telephone (703) 697–2111.

Dated: January 29, 1997.

L.M. Bynum,

Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison

Officer, Department of Defense.

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Defense Advisory Committee on

Military Personnel Testing

ACTION: Notice.

Pursuant to Public Law 92–463,

notice is hereby given that a meeting of

the Defense Advisory Committee on

Military Personnel Testing is scheduled

to be held from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

on March 10, 1997 and from 8:30 a.m.

to 4:30 p.m. on March 11, 1997. The

meeting will be held at The Sea Turtle

Inn, One Ocean Boulevard, Atlantic

Beach, Florida 32233. The purpose of

the meeting is to review planned

changes and progress in developing

paper-and-pencil and computerized

enlistment tests and renorming of the

tests. Persons desiring to make oral

presentations or submit written

statement for consideration at the

Committee meeting must contact Dr.

Jane M. Arabian, Assistant Director,

Accession Policy, Office of the Assistant

Secretary of Defense (Force Management

Policy), Room 2B271, The Pentagon,

Washington, DC 20301–4000, telephone

(703) 697–9271, no later than February

21, 1997.

Dated: January 30, 1997.

L.M. Bynum,

Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison

Officer, Department of Defense.

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Organizations, Functions, and

Authority Delegations

AGENCY: Department of Defense, Defense

Office of Hearings and Appeals.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: The General Accounting

Office Act of 1996 transferred to the

Director of the Office of Management

and Budget (OMB) the Comptroller

General’s authority to waive debts

arising out of the erroneous payment of

pay and allowances. The OMB Director

subsequently delegated the authorities

listed below to the Department of

Defense (DOD). The Secretary of

Defense further delegated this authority

to the Defense Office of Hearings and

Appeals (DOHA). This notice

announces DOHA’s intent to issue

regulations implementing this new

authority in the near future and that, in

the meantime, DOHA will use the

procedures and practices applicable to

the waiver of debts before the effective

date of the transfer of authority,

December 18, 1996, which are

published in title 4, Code of Federal

Regulations, Chapter 1, Subchapter G.

EFFECTIVE DATE: February 5, 1997.

ADDRESSES: Comments may be mailed to

the Defense Legal Services Agency,

Defense Office of Hearings and Appeals,

Chairman, Claims Appeals Board, P.O.

Box 3656, Arlington, VA 22303.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Michael Hipple, Chairman, Claims

Appeals Board, 703–696–8524, ext. 150.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant

to the General Accounting Office Act of

1996, some functions of the Comptroller

General were transferred to the Director

of OMB. See Sec. 101, Pub. L. 104–316,

110 Stat. 3826. Subsequently, in a

determination order dated December 17,

1996, the Director delegated authority to

approve the waiver of debts arising from

the erroneous payment of pay and

allowances to various components

within the Executive branch. This order

delegated to the Department of Defense

the authority to:

a. Waive erroneous payments of

Department of Defense civilian

employees described at section 103(d);

b. Waive recovery of erroneous

overpayments described at section

105(b);

c. Waive recovery of erroneous

overpayments described at section 116;

Before the effective date of the transfer,

these claims were subject to the

procedures prescribed by the

Comptroller General at 4 CFR Chapter 1,

Subchapter G (1996). Until DOHA

issues its own regulations implementing

its new claims authority, DOHA’s policy

will be to apply these procedures and

the U.S. General Accounting Office’s

practices to claims submitted to DOHA

for settlement. As an exception, the

authority to issue decisions in review of

settlements will be exercised by a

Claims Appeals Board on behalf of the

Secretary of Defense.

For each application for waiver of a

debt exceeding $1,500, or for an appeal

of an Agency’s decision on a waiver

under that amount, the claimant should

submit the application to the agency out

of whose activity the claim arose, and it

is the agency’s responsibility to forward

the claim to DOHA with its comments.

Claimants may submit their applications

directly to DOHA. However, claimants

are advised that submitting their

applications directly to DOHA may

delay consideration of their applications

because DOHA will not settle a claim

without first notifying the agency of the