Federal Register / Vol. 77, No. 56 / Thursday, March 22, 2012 / Notices 16895 

Some members of the Committee may 

be required to adhere to the conflict of 

interest rules applicable to Special 

Government Employees, as such 

employees are defined in 18 U.S.C. 

202(a). These rules include relevant 

provisions in 18 U.S.C. related to 

criminal activity, Standards of Ethical 

Conduct for Employees of the Executive 

Branch (5 CFR part 2635), and Executive 

Order 12674 (as modified by Executive 

Order 12731). 

In accordance with Department of 

Treasury Directive 21–03, a clearance 

process includes fingerprints, tax 

checks, and a Federal Bureau of 

Investigation criminal check. 

Applications must state in their 

application that they agree to submit to 

these pre-appointment checks. 

The application period for interested 

candidates will extend to April 16, 

2012. Applications should be submitted 

in sufficient time to be received by the 

close of business on the closing date and 

should be sent to 

Andrea.Ianniello@treasury.gov or by 

mail to: Office of Financial Research, 

Department of the Treasury, Attention: 

Andrea Ianniello, 1500 Pennsylvania 

Avenue NW., MT–1330, Washington, 

DC 20220. 

Cyrus Amir-Mokri, 

Assistant Secretary for Financial Institutions. 

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DEPARTMENT OF TREASURY 

Internal Revenue Service 

Taxpayer Advocacy Panel Meeting 

Cancellation 

AGENCY: Internal Revenue Service (IRS), 

Treasury. 

ACTION: Notice of meeting cancellation. 

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given of the 

cancellation of the open meeting of the 

Taxpayer Advocacy Panel Taxpayer 

Burden Reduction Project Committee 

scheduled for Wednesday, March 21, 

2012 at 2:30 p.m. Eastern Time via 

teleconference, which was originally 

published in the Federal Register on 

February 14, 2012, (Volume 77, Number 

30, Page 8329). 

The meeting is cancelled pending 

renewal of the Taxpayer Advocacy 

Panel Charter. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Audrey Y. Jenkins at 1–888–912–1227 

or (718) 488–2085. 

Dated: March 14, 2012. 

Shawn Collins, 

Director, Taxpayer Advocacy Panel. 

[FR Doc. 2012–6750 Filed 3–21–12; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF TREASURY 

Internal Revenue Service 

Taxpayer Advocacy Panel Meeting 

Cancellation 

AGENCY: Internal Revenue Service (IRS) 

Treasury. 

ACTION: Notice of meeting cancellation 

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given of the 

cancellation of the open meeting of the 

Taxpayer Advocacy Panel Small 

Business/Self-Employed Decreasing 

Non-Filers Project Committee scheduled 

for Tuesday, March 20, 2012 at 10 a.m. 

Eastern Time via teleconference, which 

was originally published in the Federal 

Register on February 14, 2012, (Volume 

77, Number 30, Page 8329). 

The meeting is cancelled pending 

renewal of the Taxpayer Advocacy 

Panel Charter. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Patricia Robb at 1–888–912–1227 or 

(414) 231–2360. 

Dated: March 14, 2012. 

Shawn Collins, 

Director, Taxpayer Advocacy Panel. 

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DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS 

AFFAIRS 

Announcement of Competition Under 

the America COMPETES 

Reauthorization Act of 2011: Project 

REACH Homelessness Mobile App 

Contest 

AGENCY: Department of Veterans Affairs. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: To provide software which 

can operate on smart phones and tablet 

devices that can simplify access to 

resources available to the homeless and 

the caregivers and caseworkers who 

serve them, the Secretary of Veterans 

Affairs (VA) announces a prize 

competition under Section 105 of the 

America COMPETES Reauthorization 

Act of 2011, Public Law 111–358 (2011) 

(the ‘‘Act’’). 

DATES: Competition begins 12 p.m. 

March 22, 2012. Entries will be accepted 

until 11 p.m., Eastern Standard Time, 

July 27, 2012. The Grand Prize Winner 

will be announced on or before 

November 9, 2012, at 11 p.m. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Matthew Webb at the Office of the 

Secretary, Department of Veterans 

Affairs, 810 Vermont Avenue NW., 

Washington, DC 20420, at (202) 632– 

9550. (Note: This is not a toll-free 

number.) See also, Section 11, below. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

As a member of the White House 

Council for Community Solutions and 

founder of the non-profit Jon Bon Jovi 

(JBJ) Soul Foundation, Jon Bon Jovi 

approached the former White House 

Chief Technology Officer to ask about 

ways that volunteers could find shelters 

in the neighborhood of the JBJ Soul 

Kitchen, a community restaurant in 

Monmouth County, New Jersey that is 

sponsored by his foundation. He was 

subsequently referred to the VA Chief 

Technology Officer and the Director of 

the VA Innovation Initiative (VAi2), 

who began to explore solutions. They 

recognized that this was not just a local 

problem and that finding a solution that 

would allow service providers to refer 

their clients to other resources 

(including food, shelter, and clinical 

services) could substantially advance 

Secretary Eric K. Shinseki’s goal of 

ending Veteran homelessness by 2015. 

Because JBJ Soul Kitchen has been 

intimately involved in the development 

to the project, because they do not have 

any pecuniary interest whatsoever in 

the outcome, nor will they gain from 

this voluntary affiliation, and because 

they serve Veterans as part of their 

‘‘neighbor in need’’ population, we 

decided that it was an ideal venue for 

contestants to demonstrate their entries 

as a defined beta test site. VAi2 

recognized that working closely with 

this private organization, rather than 

solely focusing on VA facilities, would 

benefit Veterans because homeless 

Veterans do not and should not 

exclusively use VA facilities; 

encouraging JBJ Soul Kitchen’s close 

participation helps to emphasize the 

need to include private providers and 

would encourage software developers to 

include these organizations within their 

developed entries. 

The Project Real-time Electronic 

Access for Caregivers and the Homeless 

(REACH) contest is being sponsored by 

the Department of Veterans Affairs 

through the VA Innovation Initiative, in 

support of the Administration’s goal to 

end Veteran homelessness by 2015. This 

is an apps-development challenge to 

help the people who help the homeless 

more easily find essential services. It is 


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