Federal Register / Vol. 77, No. 10 / Tuesday, January 17, 2012 / Notices 2297 

Dated: January 10, 2012. 

John C. Thomas, 

Deputy Director, Office of Committee and 

Regulatory Management, Office of 

Governmentwide Policy, General Services 

Administration. 

[FR Doc. 2012–622 Filed 1–13–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6820–27–P 

GENERAL SERVICES 

ADMINISTRATION 

[Notice—FTR–2012–01; Docket number 

2012–0004; Sequence 1] 

Office of Asset and Transportation 

Management; Privately Owned Vehicle 

Mileage Reimbursement Rates 

AGENCY: Office of Governmentwide 

Policy (OGP), General Services 

Administration (GSA). 

ACTION: Notice of FTR Bulletin 12–02, 

Calendar Year (CY) 2012 Privately 

Owned Vehicle Mileage Reimbursement 

Rates. 

SUMMARY: The General Services 

Administration’s (GSA) annual privately 

owned vehicle (POV) mileage 

reimbursement rate review has resulted 

in no rate changes when employees use 

their privately owned automobile 

(POA), their POA when Government 

owned automobiles (GOA) are 

authorized, their privately owned 

airplane, and/or their privately owned 

motorcycle for official purposes. FTR 

Bulletin 12–02 indicates that there will 

be no POV rate changes beginning on 

January 1, 2012. This notice announcing 

FTR Bulletin 12–02 is the only 

notification of this decision. 

FTR Bulletin 12–02 and all other FTR 

Bulletins are posted at www.gsa.gov/

ftrbulletins. Any further bulletins posted 

due to adjustments will be announced 

in the Federal Register. The POV 

Mileage Reimbursement Rate Web site is 

www.gsa.gov/mileage. 

DATES: This notice is effective on 

January 17, 2012 and applies to travel 

performed on or after January 1, 2012, 

through December 31, 2012, unless 

changed by a subsequent bulletin. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

clarification of content, please contact 

Mr. Cy Greenidge, Office of 

Governmentwide Policy, Office of Asset 

and Transportation Management, at 

(202) 219–2349, or by email at travel

policy@gsa.gov. Please cite Notice of 

FTR Bulletin 12–02. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Change in Standard Procedure 

GSA’s annual privately owned vehicle 

(POV) mileage reimbursement rate 

review has resulted in no rate changes 

when employees use their privately 

owned automobile (POA), their POA 

when Government owned automobiles 

(GOA) are authorized, their privately 

owned airplane, and/or their privately 

owned motorcycle for official purposes. 

Historically, GSA has determined these 

rates by reviewing the annual standard 

automobile study conducted by the 

Internal Revenue Service, as well as 

conducting independent automobile, 

motorcycle, and aircraft studies, and/or 

by applying consumer price index data. 

GSA will continue to monitor these 

costs on a monthly basis and will adjust 

the rate if warranted. Any adjustments 

will be posted in the Federal Register 

and posted as a bulletin on GSA’s Web 

site (www.gsa.gov/ftrbulletins) and on 

our POV Mileage Reimbursement Rate 

Web site (www.gsa.gov/mileage). 

GSA posts the POV mileage 

reimbursement rates, formerly 

published in 41 CFR Chapter 301, solely 

on the Internet at www.gsa.gov/ftr. This 

process, implemented in FTR 

Amendment 2010–07 (75 FR 72965, 

Nov. 29, 2010), ensures more timely 

updates in mileage reimbursement rates 

by GSA for Federal employees on 

official travel. 

Notices published periodically in the 

Federal Register, such as this one, and 

the changes posted on the GSA Web 

site, now constitute the only notification 

of revisions to privately owned vehicle 

reimbursement rates for Federal 

agencies. 

Dated: January 6, 2012. 

Janet Dobbs, 

Deputy Associate Administrator. 

[FR Doc. 2012–623 Filed 1–13–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6820–14–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

[Document Identifier: OS–0990–new; 30-Day 

Notice] 

Agency Information Collection 

Request. 30-Day Public Comment 

Request 

AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, HHS. 

In compliance with the requirement 

of section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the 

Office of the Secretary (OS), Department 

of Health and Human Services, is 

publishing the following summary of a 

proposed collection for public 

comment. Interested persons are invited 

to send comments regarding this burden 

estimate or any other aspect of this 

collection of information, including any 

of the following subjects: (1) The 

necessity and utility of the proposed 

information collection for the proper 

performance of the agency’s functions; 

(2) the accuracy of the estimated 

burden; (3) ways to enhance the quality, 

utility, and clarity of the information to 

be collected; and (4) the use of 

automated collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology to 

minimize the information collection 

burden. 

To obtain copies of the supporting 

statement and any related forms for the 

proposed paperwork collections 

referenced above, email your request, 

including your address, phone number, 

OMB number, and OS document 

identifier, to Sherette.funncoleman@

hhs.gov, or call the Reports Clearance 

Office on (202) 690–5683. Send written 

comments and recommendations for the 

proposed information collections within 

30 days of this notice directly to the OS 

OMB Desk Officer; faxed to OMB at 

(202) 395–5806. 

Proposed Project: Evaluation of the 

effectiveness of an educational 

interactive video on research integrity— 

OMB No. 0990–New–Office of Research 

Integrity. 

Abstract: The Office of Research 

Integrity (ORI) proposes to conduct a 

nine-month evaluation study of the 

effectiveness of an educational 

interactive video on research integrity. 

The study seeks to answer two 

questions: (a) Objectively, is the 

Educational Interactive Video for 

Research Integrity (EIVRI) effective in 

achieving learning outcomes? (b) 

Subjectively, do learners and teachers 

perceive the video simulation as 

effective in helping them learn and 

teach research integrity? To answer the 

first question, a pretest-posttest control 

group experimental design is used to 

assess the effectiveness of individual 

learning of research integrity principles 

and concepts through the use of the 

video simulation. The video simulation 

instruction will be incorporated into an 

existing syllabus for a research integrity 

or research ethics course for the 

treatment group. The control group will 

use the existing syllabus with no video 

simulation in class. Participants will be 

graduate students enrolled in these 

ethics courses to learn and apply the 

responsible conduct of research at 

educational institutions. Participants 

will fill out a demographics form to 

discern if they have had prior training 

experience in research integrity. Those 

who have prior training experience and 

those who do not have prior training 

experience will be randomly assigned to 

either the treatment group or the control 

group. The random assignment will be 

done by picking the last digit of each 

individual’s social security number for 


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