Federal Register / Vol. 83, No. 147 / Tuesday, July 31, 2018 / Notices 36885 

or other auxiliary aids to 

Lynne.Mersfelder@noaa.gov by August 

8, 2018. 

Dated: July 13, 2018. 

Kathryn Ries, 

Deputy Director, Office of Coast Survey, 

National Ocean Service, National Oceanic 

and Atmospheric Administration. 

[FR Doc. 2018–16285 Filed 7–30–18; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Department of the Army 

Inland Waterways Users Board; 

Request for Nominations 

AGENCY: Department of the Army, U.S. 

Army Corps of Engineers, DOD. 

ACTION: Notice of request for 

nominations. 

SUMMARY: The Department of the Army 

is publishing this notice to request 

nominations to serve as representatives 

on the Inland Waterways Users Board, 

sponsored by the U.S. Army Corps of 

Engineers. Section 302 of Public Law 

99–662 established the Inland 

Waterways Users Board. The Board is an 

independent Federal advisory 

committee. The Secretary of the Army 

appoints its 11 (eleven) representative 

organizations. This notice is to solicit 

nominations for seven (7) appointments 

for terms that will begin by May 28, 

2019. For additional information about 

the Board, please visit the committee’s 

website at http://

www.iwr.usace.army.mil/Missions/ 

Navigation/InlandWaterways

UsersBoard.aspx. 

ADDRESSES: Institute for Water 

Resources, U.S. Army Corps of 

Engineers, ATTN: Mr. Mark R. Pointon, 

Designated Federal Officer (DFO) for the 

Inland Waterways Users Board, CEIWR– 

GM, 7701 Telegraph Road, Casey 

Building, Alexandria, VA 22315–3868; 

by telephone at 703–428–6438; and by 

email at Mark.Pointon@usace.army.mil. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Alternatively, contact Mr. Kenneth E. 

Lichtman, the Alternate Designated 

Federal Officer (ADFO), in writing at the 

Institute for Water Resources, U.S. Army 

Corps of Engineers, ATTN: CEIWR–GW, 

7701 Telegraph Road, Casey Building, 

Alexandria, VA 22315–3868; by 

telephone at 703–428–8083; and by 

email at Kenneth.E.Lichtman@

usace.army.mil. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

selection, service, and appointment of 

representative organizations to the 

Board are covered by provisions of 

Section 302 of Public Law 99–662. The 

substance of those provisions is as 

follows: 

a. Selection. Representative 

organizations are to be selected from the 

spectrum of commercial carriers and 

shippers using the inland and 

intracoastal waterways, to represent 

geographical regions, and to be 

representative of waterborne commerce 

as determined by commodity ton-miles 

and tonnage statistics. 

b. Service. The Board is required to 

meet at least semi-annually to develop 

and make recommendations to the 

Secretary of the Army on waterways 

construction and major rehabilitation 

priorities and spending levels for 

commercial navigation improvements, 

and report its recommendations 

annually to the Secretary and Congress. 

c. Appointment. The operation of the 

Board and appointment of 

representative organizations are subject 

to the Federal Advisory Committee Act 

of 1972 (5 U.S.C., Appendix, as 

amended) and departmental 

implementing regulations. 

Representative organizations serve 

without compensation but their 

expenses due to Board activities are 

reimbursable. The considerations 

specified in Section 302 for the 

selection of representative organizations 

to the Board, and certain terms used 

therein, have been interpreted, 

supplemented, or otherwise clarified as 

follows: 

(1) Carriers and Shippers. The law 

uses the terms ‘‘primary users and 

shippers.’’ Primary users have been 

interpreted to mean the providers of 

transportation services on inland 

waterways such as barge or towboat 

operators. Shippers have been 

interpreted to mean the purchasers of 

such services for the movement of 

commodities they own or control. 

Representative companies are appointed 

to the Board, and they must be either a 

carrier or shipper or both. For that 

purpose a trade or regional association 

is neither a shipper nor primary user. 

(2) Geographical Representation. The 

law specifies ‘‘various’’ regions. For the 

purposes of the Board, the waterways 

subjected to fuel taxes and described in 

Public Law 95–502, as amended, have 

been aggregated into six regions. They 

are (1) the Upper Mississippi River and 

its tributaries above the mouth of the 

Ohio; (2) the Lower Mississippi River 

and its tributaries below the mouth of 

the Ohio and above Baton Rouge; (3) the 

Ohio River and its tributaries; (4) the 

Gulf Intracoastal Waterway in Louisiana 

and Texas; (5) the Gulf Intracoastal 

Waterway east of New Orleans and 

associated fuel-taxed waterways 

including the Tennessee-Tombigbee, 

plus the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway 

below Norfolk; and (6) the ColumbiaSnake Rivers System and Upper 

Willamette. The intent is that each 

region shall be represented by at least 

one representative organization, with 

that representation determined by the 

regional concentration of the firm’s 

traffic on the waterways. 

(3) Commodity Representation. 

Waterway commerce has been 

aggregated into six commodity 

categories based on ‘‘inland’’ ton-miles 

shown in Waterborne Commerce of the 

United States. These categories are (1) 

Farm and Food Products; (2) Coal and 

Coke; (3) Petroleum, Crude and 

Products; (4) Minerals, Ores, and 

Primary Metals and Mineral Products; 

(5) Chemicals and Allied Products; and 

(6) All Other. A consideration in the 

selection of representative organizations 

to the Board will be that the 

commodities carried or shipped by 

those firms will be reasonably 

representative of the above commodity 

categories. 

d. Nomination. Reflecting preceding 

selection criteria, the current 

representation by the seven (7) 

organizations whose terms expire 

includes Regions 1, 2, 4, 5 and 6, five 

carrier and two shipper representation 

and all commodity representation. 

Individuals, firms or associations may 

nominate representative organizations 

to serve on the Board. Nominations will: 

(1) Include the commercial operations 

of the carrier and/or shipper 

representative organization being 

nominated. This commercial operations 

information will show the actual or 

estimated ton-miles of each commodity 

carried or shipped on the inland 

waterways system in a recent year (or 

years), using the waterway regions and 

commodity categories previously listed. 

(2) State the region(s) to be 

represented. 

(3) State whether the nominated 

representative organization is a carrier, 

shipper or both. 

(4) Provide the name of an individual 

to be the principle person representing 

the organization and information 

pertaining to their personal 

qualifications, to include a current 

biography or resume. 

Previous nominations received in 

response to notices published in the 

Federal Register in prior years will not 

be retained for consideration. 

Renomination of representative 

organizations is required. 

e. Deadline for Nominations. All 

nominations must be received at the 


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36886 Federal Register / Vol. 83, No. 147 / Tuesday, July 31, 2018 / Notices 

address shown above no later than 

September 15, 2018. 

Brenda S. Bowen, 

Army Federal Register Liaison Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2018–16329 Filed 7–30–18; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3720–58–P 

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Office of the Secretary 

[Docket ID DOD–2018–OS–0048] 

Proposed Collection; Comment 

Request 

AGENCY: Office of the Under Secretary of 

Defense for Personnel and Readiness, 

DoD. 

ACTION: Information collection notice. 

SUMMARY: In compliance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the 

Office of the Under Secretary of Defense 

for Personnel and Readiness announces 

a proposed public information 

collection and seeks public comment on 

the provisions thereof. Comments are 

invited on: Whether the proposed 

collection of information is necessary 

for the proper performance of the 

functions of the agency, including 

whether the information shall have 

practical utility; the accuracy of the 

agency’s estimate of the burden of the 

proposed information collection; ways 

to enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and ways to minimize the 

burden of the information collection on 

respondents, including through the use 

of automated collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology. 

DATES: Consideration will be given to all 

comments received by October 1, 2018. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, 

identified by docket number and title, 

by any of the following methods: 

Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://

www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

instructions for submitting comments. 

Mail: Department of Defense, Office of 

the Chief Management Officer, 

Directorate for Oversight and 

Compliance, 4800 Mark Center Drive, 

Mailbox #24, Suite 08D09, Alexandria, 

VA 22350–1700. 

Instructions: All submissions received 

must include the agency name, docket 

number and title for this Federal 

Register document. The general policy 

for comments and other submissions 

from members of the public is to make 

these submissions available for public 

viewing on the internet at http://

www.regulations.gov as they are 

received without change, including any 

personal identifiers or contact 

information. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To 

request more information on this 

proposed information collection or to 

obtain a copy of the proposal and 

associated collection instruments, 

please write to OUSD (Personnel and 

Readiness) Office of Total Force 

Planning & Requirements, ATTN: Mr. 

Thomas Hessel, 4000 Pentagon, 

Washington, DC 20301, or call (703) 

697–3402. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Title; Associated Form; and OMB 

Number: DoD Enterprise-Wide 

Contractor Manpower Reporting 

Application (ECMRA); OMB Control 

Number 0704–0491. 

Needs and Uses: This information 

collection is necessary to achieve the 

collection of direct labor hours and 

associated costs in order to meet the 

requirements set for the DoD by section 

2330a of Title 10, United States Code. 

Furthermore, ECMRA collections enable 

DoD organizations to understand the 

extent of contracted support, the 

associated level of effort in achieving 

mission, the reliance on contracted 

services necessary to facilitate their 

workforce planning processes, and to 

support statutory requirements set forth 

in sections 115a, 129a, 235, 2461, and 

2463 of Title 10, United States Code. 

Affected Public: Businesses or Other 

For-Profit. 

Annual Burden Hours: 583.33 hours. 

Number of Respondents: 7,000. 

Responses per Respondent: 1. 

Annual Responses: 7,000. 

Average Burden per Response: 5 

minutes. 

Frequency: Annually. 

Dated: July 26, 2018. 

Shelly E. Finke, 

Alternate OSD Federal Register, Liaison 

Officer, Department of Defense. 

[FR Doc. 2018–16303 Filed 7–30–18; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Office of the Secretary 

[Transmittal No. 18–0A] 

Arms Sales Notification 

AGENCY: Defense Security Cooperation 

Agency, Department of Defense. 

ACTION: Arms sales notice. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Defense is 

publishing the unclassified text of an 

arms sales notification. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

DSCA at dsca.ncr.lmo.mbx.info@

mail.mil or (703) 697–9709. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

36(b)(5)(C) arms sales notification is 

published to fulfill the requirements of 

section 155 of Public Law 104–164 

dated July 21, 1996. The following is a 

copy of a letter to the Speaker of the 

House of Representatives, Transmittal 

18–0A. 

Dated: July 26, 2018. 

Shelly E. Finke, 

Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison 

Officer, Department of Defense. 

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