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1 33 U.S.C. 1321(j)(6) and (7). 

Bethesda, MD 20892–6200, 301–594–6904, 

horowitr@mail.nih.gov. 

(Catalogue of Federal Domestic Assistance 

Program Nos. 93.375, Minority Biomedical 

Research Support; 93.821, Cell Biology and 

Biophysics Research; 93.859, Pharmacology, 

Physiology, and Biological Chemistry 

Research; 93.862, Genetics and 

Developmental Biology Research; 93.88, 

Minority Access to Research Careers; 93.96, 

Special Minority Initiatives, National 

Institutes of Health, HHS) 

Dated: February 14, 2012. 

Jennifer Spaeth, 

Director, Office of Federal Advisory 

Committee Policy. 

[FR Doc. 2012–4097 Filed 2–21–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4140–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND 

SECURITY 

Coast Guard 

[Docket No. USCG–2011–1178] 

Revision of the National Preparedness 

for Response Exercise Program 

(PREP) Guidelines 

AGENCY: Coast Guard, DHS. 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: The National Preparedness for 

Response Exercise Program (PREP) is 

designed to facilitate the periodic 

testing of oil spill response plans of 

certain vessels and facilities. The Coast 

Guard, Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA), Department of 

Transportation’s Pipeline and 

Hazardous Materials Safety 

Administration (PHMSA), and 

Department of the Interior’s Bureau of 

Safety and Environmental Enforcement 

(BSEE) are working to revise the PREP 

Guidelines to reflect changes to 

regulations, agency reorganizations, and 

lessons learned from past preparedness 

activities and recent response activities. 

The PREP Guidelines were last revised 

in 2002. This notice solicits comments 

and suggestions for updating the PREP 

Guidelines. 

DATES: Comments and related material 

must either be submitted to our online 

docket via http://www.regulations.gov 

on or before April 23, 2012 or reach the 

Docket Management Facility by that 

date. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

identified by docket number USCG– 

2011–1178 using any one of the 

following methods: 

(1) Federal eRulemaking Portal: 

http://www.regulations.gov. 

(2) Fax: 202–493–2251. 

(3) Mail: Docket Management Facility 

(M–30), U.S. Department of 

Transportation, West Building Ground 

Floor, Room W12–140, 1200 New Jersey 

Avenue SE., Washington, DC 20590– 

0001. 

(4) Hand delivery: Same as mail 

address above, between 9 a.m. and 5 

p.m., Monday through Friday, except 

Federal holidays. The telephone number 

is 202–366–9329. 

To avoid duplication, please use only 

one of these four methods. See the 

‘‘Public Participation and Request for 

Comments’’ portion of the 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section 

below for instructions on submitting 

comments. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: If 

you have questions on this notice, call 

or email LTJG Nicole Tourot, Office of 

Incident Management and Preparedness, 

Oil and Hazardous Substances Division 

(CG–5332), U.S. Coast Guard 

Headquarters; telephone 202–372–2230, 

email Nicole.J.Tourot@uscg.mil. If you 

have questions on viewing or submitting 

material to the docket, call Renee V. 

Wright, Program Manager, Docket 

Operations, telephone 202–366–9826. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Public Participation and Request for 

Comments 

We encourage you to participate in 

the revision of the PREP Guidelines by 

submitting comments and related 

materials. All comments received will 

be posted without change to http:// 

www.regulations.gov and will include 

any personal information you have 

provided. 

Submitting comments: If you submit a 

comment, please include the docket 

number (USCG–2011–1178), indicate 

the specific section of the PREP 

Guidelines to which each comment 

applies, and provide a reason for each 

suggestion or recommendation. You 

may submit your comments and 

material online or by fax, mail, or hand 

delivery, but please use only one of 

these means. We recommend that you 

include your name and a mailing 

address, an email address, or a phone 

number in the body of your document 

so that we can contact you if we have 

questions regarding your submission. 

To submit your comment online, go to 

http://www.regulations.gov, click on the 

‘‘submit a comment’’ box, which will 

then become highlighted in blue. Insert 

‘‘USCG–2011–1178’’ in the ‘‘Keyword’’ 

box, click ‘‘Search,’’ and then click on 

the balloon shape in the ‘‘Actions’’ 

column. If you submit your comments 

by mail or hand delivery, submit them 

in an unbound format, no larger than 8c 

by 11 inches, suitable for copying and 

electronic filing. If you submit 

comments by mail and would like to 

know that they reached the Facility, 

please enclose a stamped, self-addressed 

postcard or envelope. We will consider 

all comments and material received 

during the comment period. 

Viewing comments and documents: 

To view comments as well as 

documents mentioned in this notice as 

being available in the docket, go to 

http://www.regulations.gov, type 

‘‘USCG–2011–1178’’ and click 

‘‘Search.’’ Click the ‘‘Open Docket 

Folder’’ in the ‘‘Actions’’ column. If you 

do not have access to the Internet, you 

may view the docket online by visiting 

the Docket Management Facility in 

Room W12–140 on the ground floor of 

the Department of Transportation West 

Building, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., 

Washington, DC 20590, between 9 a.m. 

and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, 

except Federal holidays. We have an 

agreement with the Department of 

Transportation to use the Docket 

Management Facility. 

Privacy Act: Anyone can search the 

electronic form of comments received 

into any of our dockets by the name of 

the individual submitting the comment 

(or signing the comment, if submitted 

on behalf of an association, business, 

labor union, etc.). You may review a 

Privacy Act and system of records 

notice regarding our public dockets in 

the January 17, 2008, issue of the 

Federal Register (73 FR 3316). 

Public meeting: After considering 

public comments and developing a 

revised draft of the PREP Guidelines, we 

may hold one or more public meetings 

to discuss the draft. We will announce 

the time and place of any meetings by 

a later notice in the Federal Register. 

Basis and Purpose 

The Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (OPA 

90) requires, among other things, that 

periodic exercises take place to test oil 

spill removal capabilities in certain 

areas designated in the statute.1 The 

National Preparedness for Response 

Exercise Program (PREP) was developed 

to establish a workable exercise program 

consistent with this statutory 

requirement. The PREP is a voluntary 

program developed to provide a 

mechanism for compliance with the 

exercise requirements, while being 

economically feasible for the 

government and oil industry to adopt 

and sustain. The PREP is a unified 

Federal effort and satisfies the exercise 

requirements of the Coast Guard 

(USCG), the Environmental Protection 


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Agency (EPA), the Pipeline and 

Hazardous Materials Safety 

Administration (PHMSA) and the 

Bureau of Safety and Environmental 

Enforcement (BSEE). Completion of the 

PREP exercises will satisfy all OPA 90 

mandated Federal oil pollution response 

exercise requirements. 

The four Federal agencies referenced 

above published the PREP Guidelines in 

1994 and revised them in 2002. The 

2002 edition is available in the docket 

as described in the ADDRESSES section 

above. The agencies are now 

considering revising the PREP 

Guidelines again in order to reflect 

agency reorganizations, preparedness 

and response lessons learned, and new 

regulations, including the Coast Guard’s 

Salvage and Marine Firefighting 

regulations. We invite public comment 

on what changes, if any, should be made 

to update or improve the PREP 

Guidelines. 

This notice is part of a two-stage 

public comment process. The comments 

received from the public on what, if 

any, suggested changes would be 

appropriate to the current version of the 

PREP Guidelines will be used to inform 

the revision process. After considering 

all of the comments, we anticipate 

making a revised draft of the PREP 

Guidelines available for public review 

and comment in the future. 

This notice is issued under authority 

of 33 U.S.C. 1321(j), 5 U.S.C. 552(a), and 

33 CFR 1.05–1. 

Dated: February 9, 2012. 

J.G. Lantz, 

Director, Commercial Regulations and 

Standards U.S. Coast Guard. 

[FR Doc. 2012–4021 Filed 2–21–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 9110–04–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND 

URBAN DEVELOPMENT 

[Docket No. FR–5509–FA–01] 

Announcement of Funding Awards for 

the Capacity Building for Sustainable 

Communities Program for Fiscal Year 

2011 

AGENCY: Office of Sustainable Housing 

and Communities, HUD. 

ACTION: Announcement of funding 

awards. 

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 

Fiscal Year 2011 (FY 2011) Notice of 

Funding Availability (NOFA) for the 

Community Challenge Planning Grant 

Program (Challenge Grants). This 

announcement contains the 

consolidated names and addresses of 

this year’s award recipients. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Dwayne S. Marsh, Office of Sustainable 

Housing and Communities, U.S. 

Department of Housing and Urban 

Development, 451 Seventh Street SW., 

Washington, DC 20410–4500, telephone 

(202) 402–6316. Hearing or speechimpaired individuals may access this 

number via TTY by calling the toll-free 

Federal Information Service at (800) 

877–8339. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Capacity Building for Sustainable 

Communities Program identifies 

intermediary organizations that can 

provide capacity building support for 

communities engaged in planning 

efforts that support community 

involvement and integrate housing, land 

use, land cleanup and preparation for 

reuse, economic and workforce 

development, transportation, and 

infrastructure investments. 

The first purpose of the Program is to 

assemble a collection of capacity 

building service providers to work 

directly with the FY2010 and FY2011 

HUD Sustainable Communities Regional 

Planning and Community Challenge 

grant recipients, HUD Preferred 

Sustainability Status Communities, and 

EPA Sustainable Community Technical 

Assistance recipients and Brownfield 

Area Wide Planning grant recipients 

(collectively—Sustainable Communities 

GranteesÕ), and enable them to fulfill 

their anticipated outcomes. HUD and 

other Partnership agencies will work 

regularly with all selected intermediary 

service providers to maintain a 

coordinated and leveraged delivery 

approach that ensures the maximum 

benefit to local governments, regions, 

and planning entities and partners 

engaged in the prescribed activities. 

The second purpose of the Program is 

to build a national coalition and 

leadership network of the Sustainable 

Communities Grantees. The purpose of 

the network is to facilitate the exchange 

of successful strategies, lessons learned, 

emerging tools and public engagement 

strategies, and approaches for avoiding 

or minimizing pitfalls. HUD will work 

with the selected intermediaries to 

develop a robust evaluation component 

for the network. 

The FY 2011 awards announced in 

this Notice were selected for funding in 

a competition posted on Grants.gov and 

HUD’s Web site on June 7, 2011. 

Applications were scored and selected 

for funding based on the selection 

criteria in that NOFA. This notice 

announces the allocation total of $5.65 

million for Capacity Building for 

Sustainable Communities grants, of 

which $650,000 was provided by the 

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. 

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 names, 

addresses, and amounts of the 10 

awards made under the competition in 

Appendix A to this document. 

Dated: December 22, 2011. 

Shelley Poticha, 

Director, Office of Sustainable Housing and 

Communities. 

Appendix A—Capacity Building for 

Sustainable Communities Grant 

Program Grant Awards from FY 2011 

Notice of Funding Availability 

Reconnecting America, 1707 L 

Street NW., Washington, DC $900,000 

NADO Research Foundation, 

400 N. Capitol Street NW., 

Washington, DC .................... 900,000 

Coalition for Utah’s Future/ 

Project 2000, dba Envision 

Utah, 254 South 600 East, 

Salt Lake City, UT ................. 600,000 

Institute for Sustainable Communities, 535 Stone Cutters 

Way, Montpelier, VT ............. 1,000,000 

Minnesota Housing Partnership, 2446 University Avenue 

West, Saint Paul, MN ........... 550,000 

PolicyLink, 1438 Webster 

Street, Oakland, CA .............. 900.000 

PlaceMatters, Inc., 1536 

Wynkoop Street, Denver, CO 400,000 

University of Louisville Research Foundation, Inc., Stevenson Hall Room, 521 

Sponsored Programs Grants 

Administration, Louisville, KY 400,000 

Total ................................... 5,650,000 

[FR Doc. 2012–3943 Filed 2–21–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4210–67–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Office of the Secretary 

[FF09D00000–123–FXGO1664091HCC05d] 

Wildlife and Hunting Heritage 

Conservation Council Charter 

AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of renewal. 

SUMMARY: Under the Federal Advisory 

Committee Act (FACA), following 

consultation with the General Services 

Administration, the Secretary of the 


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