10766 Federal Register / Vol. 77, No. 36 / Thursday, February 23, 2012 / Notices 

Total Estimated Burden Hours: 

53,784. 

Status: Extension without change of a 

curtly approved collection. 

Authority: Section 3507 of the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C. 35, as 

amended. 

Dated: February 15, 2012. 

Colette Pollard, 

Departmental Reports Management Officer, 

Office of the Chief Information Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2012–4145 Filed 2–22–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4210–67–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND 

URBAN DEVELOPMENT 

[Docket No. FR–5500–FA–29] 

Announcement of Funding Awards for 

the McKinney-Vento HMIS Technical 

Assistance (HMIS TA) Fiscal Year 2011 

AGENCY: Office of the Assistant 

Secretary for Community Planning and 

Development, HUD. 

ACTION: Notice of funding awards for 

HUD’S Fiscal Year 2011 McKinneyVento HMIS Technical Assistance 

(HMIS–TA). 

SUMMARY: In accordance with section 

102(a)(4)(C) of the Department of 

Housing and Urban Development 

Reform Act of 1989, this announcement 

notifies the public of funding decisions 

made by the Department in a 

competition for funding under the 

Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA) 

for the McKinney-Vento HMIS 

Technical Assistance program. This 

announcement contains the names of 

the awardees and amounts of the awards 

made available by HUD. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Julie 

Hovden, Director, Technical Assistance 

Division, Office of Community Planning 

and Development, 451 Seventh Street 

SW., Room 7218, Washington, DC 

20410–7000; telephone (202) 402–4496 

(this is not a toll-free number). Persons 

with speech or hearing impairments 

may access this telephone number via 

TTY by calling the toll-free Federal 

Information Relay Service during 

working hours at 800–877–8339. For 

general information on this and other 

HUD programs, visit HUD’s 

Homelessness Resource Exchange at 

www.hudhre.info, HUD’s Web site at 

www.hud.gov, or call Community 

Connections at 1–800–998–9999. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Fiscal 

Year 2011 McKinney-Vento HMIS 

Technical Assistance program was 

designed to provide technical assistance 

to communities on the implementation 

and operation of homeless management 

information systems, including data 

collection and analysis and performance 

reporting through the selection of 

technical assistance (TA) providers for 

this program. 

The competition was announced in 

the HMIS–TA NOFA published October 

17, 2011 (FR–5500–N–29) and closed on 

November 15, 2011. The NOFA allowed 

for up to $7 million for Homeless 

Management Information System 

(HMIS) data collection, reporting and 

research, including the Annual 

Homeless Assessment Report (AHAR) 

TA activities. Applications were rated 

and selected for funding on the basis of 

selection criteria contained in the 

Notice. For the Fiscal Year 2011 

competition, 4 awards totaling 

$6,809,000 were awarded to 4 distinct 

technical assistance providers 

nationwide. 

In accordance with section 

102(a)(4)(C) of the Department of 

Housing and Urban Development 

Reform Act of 1989 (103 Stat. 1987, 42 

U.S.C. 3545), the Department is 

publishing the grantees and the amounts 

of the awards in Appendix A to this 

document. 

Dated: February 15, 2012. 

Clifford D. Taffet, 

General Deputy Assistant Secretary for 

Community Planning and Development. 

Appendix A 

Recipient State Amount 

Abt Associates ......................................................................................................................................... MA .................................. $2,436,500 

Cloudburst Consulting Group .................................................................................................................. MD ................................. 1,584,000 

ICF International ...................................................................................................................................... VA .................................. 1,644,500 

National Center on Family Homelessness .............................................................................................. MA .................................. 1,144,000 

Total ................................................................................................................................................. ........................................ 6,809,000 

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BILLING CODE 4210–67–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Fish and Wildlife Service 

[FWS–R8–FHC–2012–N039; 

FXFR1334088TWG0W4–123–FF08EACT00] 

Trinity Adaptive Management Working 

Group 

AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of meeting. 

SUMMARY: The Trinity Adaptive 

Management Working Group (TAMWG) 

affords stakeholders the opportunity to 

give policy, management, and technical 

input concerning Trinity River 

(California) restoration efforts to the 

Trinity Management Council (TMC). 

The TMC interprets and recommends 

policy, coordinates and reviews 

management actions, and provides 

organizational budget oversight. This 

notice announces a TAMWG meeting, 

which is open to the public. 

DATES: TAMWG will meet from 10 a.m. 

to 4 p.m. on Thursday, March 22, 2012. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at 

the Weaverville Victorian Inn, 2051 

Main Street, Weaverville, CA 96093. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Meeting Information: Nancy J. Finley, 

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 1655 

Heindon Road, Arcata, CA 95521; 

telephone: (707) 822–7201. Trinity River 

Restoration Program (TRRP) 

Information: Robin Schrock, Executive 

Director, Trinity River Restoration 

Program, P.O. Box 1300, 1313 South 

Main Street, Weaverville, CA 96093; 

telephone: (530) 623–1800; email: 

rschrock@usbr.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under 

section 10(a)(2) of the Federal Advisory 

Committee Act (5 U.S.C. App.), this 

notice announces a meeting of the 

TAMWG. The meeting will include 

discussion of the following topics: 

• Designated Federal Officer (DFO) 

updates, 

• Election new chair and vice chair, 

• FACA 101, 

• Executive Director’s report, 

• TMC chair report, 

• Flow scheduling. 

Completion of the agenda is 

dependent on the amount of time each 

item takes. The meeting could end early 

if the agenda has been completed. 

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Federal Register / Vol. 77, No. 36 / Thursday, February 23, 2012 / Notices 10767 

Dated: February 16, 2012. 

Nancy Finley, 

Field Supervisor, Arcata Fish and Wildlife 

Office, Arcata, CA. 

[FR Doc. 2012–4169 Filed 2–22–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–55–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Indian Affairs 

Rate Adjustments for Indian Irrigation 

Projects 

AGENCY: Bureau of Indian Affairs, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of rate adjustments. 

SUMMARY: The Bureau of Indian Affairs 

(BIA) owns, or has an interest in, 

irrigation projects located on or 

associated with various Indian 

reservations throughout the United 

States. We are required to establish 

irrigation assessment rates to recover the 

costs to administer, operate, maintain, 

and rehabilitate these projects. We are 

notifying you that we have adjusted the 

irrigation assessment rates at several of 

our irrigation projects and facilities to 

reflect current costs of administration, 

operation, maintenance, and 

rehabilitation. 

DATES: Effective Date: The irrigation 

assessment rates shown in the tables as 

final are effective as of January 1, 2012. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

details about a particular BIA irrigation 

project or facility, please use the tables 

in the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION

section to contact the regional or local 

office where the project or facility is 

located. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: A Notice 

of Proposed Rate Adjustment was 

published in the Federal Register on 

September 20, 2011 (76 FR 58293) to 

propose adjustments to the irrigation 

assessment rates at several BIA 

irrigation projects. The public and 

interested parties were provided an 

opportunity to submit written 

comments during the 60-day period that 

ended November 21, 2011. 

Did the BIA defer or change any 

proposed rate increases? 

No. 

Did the BIA receive any comments on 

the proposed irrigation assessment rate 

adjustments? 

Written comments were received 

related to the proposed rate adjustment 

for the San Carlos Irrigation Project for 

2013. 

What issues were of concern to the 

commenter? 

The commenter raised concerns 

specific to the San Carlos Irrigation 

Project on the proposed rates about the 

following issues: (1) The methodology 

for O&M rate setting; and (2) the 

appropriateness of specific O&M budget 

items relating to obligated cash, staffing 

levels, encroachment permit fees, resurvey of the reservoir area/capacity 

table, emergency reserves, cylinder gate 

replacement at Coolidge Dam, and 

periodic adjustments in Project budgets. 

The Following Comments Are Specific 

to the San Carlos Irrigation Project 

Written comments relating to the 

proposed rate adjustment for the San 

Carlos Irrigation Project-Joint Works 

(Project) were received by letters dated 

July 15, 2011, August 26, 2011, and 

November 21, 2011, from the San Carlos 

Irrigation and Drainage District 

(District). The District raised several 

issues in its letters. The BIA’s summary 

of the District’s issues and the BIA’s 

responses are provided below. 

Comment: The BIA’s methodology for 

setting the 2013 O&M assessment rate 

was unreasonable. 

Response: The methodology used by 

the BIA to determine the 2013 O&M 

assessment rate was reasonable. Based 

on a review of historical income and 

expenditures, a budget of projected 

income and expenditures is developed 

approximately two years before the 

O&M assessments are collected and 

expenses incurred. The BIA relies on 

financial reports generated by the 

Federal Financial System for reviewing 

past expenditures and projecting a 

future budget and expenditures. 

Procurement files and records 

maintained by the Project are also 

reviewed and considered. For example, 

with regard to development of the 2013 

budget, the BIA reviewed: (1) The yearend reconciled income and expenditure 

information for 2010; (2) available 

income and expenditure information for 

2011; (3) previous budget projections for 

2013; and (4) other information relevant 

to potential future Project expenses, 

such as cost information for 

replacement of Coolidge Dam cylinder 

gates. 

The BIA provided the District with 

draft budget and supporting information 

and held budget fact-finding meetings 

on November 22, 2010, January 14, 

2011, February 22, 2011, and March 23, 

2011. The Project received feedback 

from the District and other water users 

during these meetings, and the Project 

finalized its recommendation to the 

Western Regional Director for the 2013 

O&M assessment rate on May 5, 2011. 

In addition, in accordance with BIA 

policy, the BIA held meetings with 

Project water users (including the 

District) to discuss O&M rates and 

maintenance needs. 

Issue: The BIA does not manage 

obligated cash properly, specifically 

with regard to the Transcon Contract. 

Response: The Transcon Contract 

ended on September 30, 2011, and the 

Project de-obligated $56,335.15 of 

unexpended funds in the contract. 

These funds will be carried over as 

available cash for Project use in FY 

2012. 

Issue: The District objects to current 

and future staffing levels for the 

Project’s Irrigation System Operators. 

Response: The Project has been 

discussing the Irrigation System 

Operator (ISO) staffing levels with the 

water users, including the District, in 

recent years in response to the 

accidental deaths of two Project ISOs in 

2006 and 2010. At the end of the Project 

fact finding process for 2010, the Project 

re-evaluated the ISO staffing levels, 

reduced the number of positions from 

four to three, and established the 

positions at GS 04/05 levels. The 

discussion with the water users on this 

matter, including the District, helped 

the Project to re-evaluate and implement 

appropriate measures for ISO staffing. 

The Project is in the process of 

recruiting the vacant ISO positions. The 

Project anticipates an annual savings of 

approximately $80,000 from this change 

in ISO staffing levels. The proposed 

O&M budget for 2013 reflects three ISO 

positions at the Project. The BIA 

understands that the ISO staffing levels 

may need to be re-evaluated in 3–5 

years when rehabilitation of the Project 

Joint Works is completed by the District 

and the Gila River Indian Community 

pursuant to section 203(d) of the 

Arizona Water Settlements Act (Pub. L. 

108–451). 

Issue: The BIA should not use O&M 

collections to defray the Project costs for 

reviewing encroachment permit 

requests. 

Response: Environmental compliance 

activities associated with the Project 

O&M responsibilities, such as 

encroachment permit requests, are 

funded through O&M assessments and 

collections from the District and from 

Federal appropriations on behalf of the 

Indian Works. The BIA is legally 

obligated to perform these compliance 

activities and they benefit Project water 

users by ensuring that the 

environmental effects of Project 

activities, are understood. The Project 

will continue to use either contracts or 

staff for Federal environmental 

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