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for the determination. The DoD uses 

voluntary mediation to resolve most 

complaints. However, if a case is fully 

investigated and results in a finding of 

noncompliance, DoD must inform the 

recipient of the noncompliance through 

a Letter of Findings that sets out the 

areas of noncompliance and the steps 

that must be taken to correct the 

noncompliance. It must attempt to 

secure voluntary compliance through 

informal means. If the matter cannot be 

resolved informally, DoD must secure 

compliance through the termination of 

Federal assistance after the DoD 

recipient has been given an opportunity 

for an administrative hearing and/or by 

referring the matter to a DOJ litigation 

section to seek injunctive relief or 

pursue other enforcement proceedings. 

The DoD engages in voluntary 

compliance efforts and provides 

technical assistance to recipients at all 

stages of an investigation. During these 

efforts, DoD proposes reasonable 

timetables for achieving compliance and 

consults with and assists recipients in 

exploring cost-effective ways of coming 

into compliance. In determining a 

recipient’s compliance with the Title VI 

regulations, the DoD’s primary concern 

is to ensure that the recipient’s policies 

and procedures provide meaningful 

access for LEP persons to the recipient’s 

programs and activities. 

While all recipients must work 

toward building systems that will 

ensure access for LEP individuals, DoD 

acknowledges that the implementation 

of a comprehensive system to serve LEP 

individuals is a process and that a 

system will evolve over time as it is 

implemented and periodically 

reevaluated. As recipients take 

reasonable steps to provide meaningful 

access to federally assisted programs 

and activities for LEP persons, DoD will 

look favorably on intermediate steps 

recipients take that are consistent with 

this Guidance, and that, as part of a 

broader implementation plan or 

schedule, move their service delivery 

system toward providing full access to 

LEP persons. This does not excuse 

noncompliance but instead recognizes 

that full compliance in all areas of a 

recipient’s activities and for all potential 

language minority groups may 

reasonably require a series of 

implementing actions over a period of 

time. However, in developing any 

phased implementation schedule, DoD 

recipients should ensure that the 

provision of appropriate assistance for 

significant LEP populations or with 

respect to activities having a significant 

impact on the health, safety, legal rights, 

education, economic status, or 

livelihood of beneficiaries is addressed 

first. Recipients are encouraged to 

document their efforts to provide LEP 

persons with meaningful access to 

federally assisted programs and 

activities. 

[FR Doc. 2012–3523 Filed 2–14–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 5001–06–P 

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Office of the Secretary 

Publication of Housing Price Inflation 

Adjustment Under 50 U.S.C. App. § 531 

AGENCY: Office of the Under Secretary 

for Personnel and Readiness, DoD. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Servicemembers Civil 

Relief Act, as codified at 50 U.S.C. App. 

§ 531, prohibits a landlord from evicting 

a Service member (or the Service 

member’s family) from a residence 

during a period of military service 

except by court order. The law as 

originally passed by Congress applied to 

dwellings with monthly rents of $2400 

or less. The law requires the Department 

of Defense to adjust this amount 

annually to reflect inflation and to 

publish the new amount in the Federal 

Register. We have applied the inflation 

index required by the statute. The 

maximum monthly rental amount for 50 

U.S.C. App. § 531 (a)(1)(A)(ii) as of 

January 1, 2012, will be $3,047.45. 

DATES: Effective Date: January 1, 2011. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Major Shawn McKelvy, Office of the 

Under Secretary of Defense for 

Personnel and Readiness, (703) 697– 

3387. 

Patricia Toppings, 

OSD Federal Register Liaison Officer, 

Department of Defense. 

[FR Doc. 2012–3524 Filed 2–14–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 5001–06–P 

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Office of the Secretary 

Termination of the Department of 

Defense Web-Based TRICARE 

Assistance Program Demonstration 

AGENCY: Department of Defense, DoD. 

ACTION: Notice of demonstration 

termination. 

SUMMARY: This notice is to advise 

interested parties of the termination of 

the Military Health System (MHS) 

demonstration project, under authority 

of Title 10, U.S. Code, Section 1092, 

entitled Web-Based TRICARE 

Assistance Program (TRIAP). The 

demonstration project uses existing 

health care support contracts (HCSC) to 

allow web-based behavioral health and 

related services including non-medical 

counseling and advice services to active 

duty service members (ADSM), their 

families and members and their 

dependents enrolled in TRICARE 

Reserve Select, and those eligible for the 

Transition Assistance Management 

Program (TAMP) who reside in the 

continental United States. 

DATES: The demonstration will 

terminate on March 31, 2012. 

ADDRESSES: TRICARE Management 

Activity (TMA), Health Plan Operations, 

5111 Leesburg Pike, Suite 810, Falls 

Church, VA 22041. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

questions pertaining to this 

demonstration project, please contact 

Mr. Richard Hart at (703) 681–0047. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

demonstration was effective August 1, 

2009, as referenced in the original 

Federal Register Notice, 74 FR 36676, 

July 24, 2009. The demonstration was 

extended to March 31, 2011, as 

referenced by Federal Register Notice, 

75 FR 15693, March 30, 2010 and again 

extended to March 31, 2012 as 

referenced by Federal Register Notice, 

76 FR 12073, March 4, 2011. The 

demonstration provides capability for 

short-term, problem solving counseling 

between eligible beneficiaries and 

licensed counselors utilizing video 

technology and software such as Skype 

or iChat. TRIAP services are available 

24/7 and ADSMs, their spouses of any 

age, and other family members 18 years 

of age or older who reside in the United 

States are eligible to participate. 

Enrollees in TRICARE Reserve Select 

and the Transitional Assistance 

Management Program may also use the 

program. TRIAP is based on commercial 

employee assistance models and 

provides counseling in a virtual face-toface environment. There is no diagnosis 

made, there are no limits to usage, and 

no notification about those seeking 

counseling are made to their primary 

care managers or others, unless required 

by the counselor’s licensure (e.g., 

spouse abuse). Participant 

confidentiality is protected, as no 

medical record entry is made. 

Monthly measures of Web-based 

behavioral health care access were 

collected and analyzed from each 

TRICARE region with the intent to 

inform Department leaders whether this 

type of program is a valid mechanism to 

improve access. Only 5109 calls were 

recorded in the two-year period from 


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