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Justice Assistance, Office of Justice 

Programs, 810 Seventh Street, 

Washington, DC 20531; Phone: (202) 

616–0532 [Note: this is not a toll-free 

number]; Email: 

James.P.McCreary@usdoj.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

meeting is open to the public. Due to 

security measures, however, members of 

the public who wish to attend this 

meeting must register with Mr. J. Patrick 

McCreary at the above address at least 

(7) days in advance of the meeting. 

Registrations will be accepted on a 

space available basis. Access to the 

meeting will not be allowed without 

registration. All attendees will be 

required to sign in at the meeting 

registration desk. Please bring photo 

identification and allow extra time prior 

to the meeting. 

Anyone requiring special 

accommodations should notify Mr. 

McCreary at least seven (7) days in 

advance of the meeting. 

Purpose 

The GAC will act as the focal point for 

justice information systems integration 

activities to help facilitate development 

and coordination of national policy, 

practices, and technical solutions in 

support of the Administration’s justice 

priorities. 

The GAC will guide and monitor the 

development of the Global information 

sharing concept. It will advise the 

Assistant Attorney General, OJP; the 

Attorney General; the President 

(through the Attorney General); and 

local, state, tribal, and federal 

policymakers. The GAC will also 

advocate for strategies for 

accomplishing a Global information 

sharing capability. 

Interested persons whose registrations 

have been accepted may be permitted to 

participate in the discussions at the 

discretion of the meeting chairman and 

with approval of the DFE. 

J. Patrick McCreary, 

Global DFE, Bureau of Justice Assistance, 

Office of Justice Programs. 

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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Employment and Training 

Administration 

Comment Request for Extension of 

Information Collection With Revisions: 

Foreign Labor Certification Quarterly 

Activity Report 

AGENCY: Employment and Training 

Administration, Labor. 

ACTION: 60-Day notice of information 

collection under review: ETA Form 

9127, Foreign Labor Certification 

Quarterly Activity Report; OMB Control 

Number 1205–0457. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Labor 

(Department), as part of its continuing 

effort to reduce paperwork and 

respondent burden, conducts a preclearance consultation to provide the 

public and Federal agencies with an 

opportunity to comment on proposed 

and/or continuing collections of 

information in accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 

(PRA), 44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A). The 

Department undertakes this 

consultation to ensure that requested 

data can be provided in the desired 

format, reporting burden (time and 

financial resources) is minimized, 

collection instruments are clearly 

understood, and the impact of collection 

requirements on respondents can be 

properly assessed. Through this notice, 

the Employment and Training 

Administration (ETA) is soliciting 

comments concerning the revision of 

the approved information collection, 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) Control Number 1205–0457, 

containing ETA Form 9127—Foreign 

Labor Certification Quarterly Activity 

Report and instructions. The ETA Form 

9127 solicits information from State 

Workforce Agencies (SWAs) who are 

recipients of foreign labor certification 

grants about program-related activities 

performed by SWA staff in accordance 

with the specific fiscal year annual 

plans. This information collection is set 

to expire on May 31, 2012. 

DATES: Please submit written comments 

to the office listed in the addresses 

section below on or before May 29, 

2012. 

ADDRESSES: William L. Carlson, Ph.D., 

Administrator, Office of Foreign Labor 

Certification, U.S. Department of Labor, 

Room C–4312, 200 Constitution Ave. 

NW., Washington, DC 20210. Comments 

may also be submitted by fax at (202) 

693–2768; or by email to 

ETA.OFLC.Forms@dol.gov, subject line: 

Revised ETA Form 9127. 

A copy of the proposed information 

collection request (ICR) can be obtained 

by contacting the office listed above by 

phone at (202) 693–3010 (this is not a 

toll-free number). Individuals with 

hearing or speech impairments may 

access the telephone number above via 

TTY by calling the toll-free Federal 

Information Relay Service at 1–877– 

889–5627 (TTY/TDD) or by sending an 

email to ETA.OFLC.Forms@dol.gov, 

subject line: ETA Form 9127 ICR copy. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

Under the foreign labor certification 

programs administered by ETA, SWAs 

are funded through annual reimbursable 

grants to conduct certain activities 

which support the processing of 

applications for temporary labor 

certification filed by United States (U.S.) 

employers seeking to hire foreign 

workers in the H–2B or H–2A visa 

categories to perform agricultural or 

nonagricultural services or labor. These 

activities include reviewing and 

transmitting through the intrastate and 

interstate job clearance systems job 

orders submitted by employers to 

recruit U.S. workers, conducting H–2A 

prevailing wage and prevailing practice 

surveys, and performing H–2A related 

housing inspections of facilities offered 

to agricultural workers. 

The information pertaining to the 

performance of these functions by the 

SWAs is currently collected on the OMB 

approved ETA Form 9127 and is used 

by Department staff to monitor foreign 

labor certification activities performed 

by SWAs. The Department is seeking to 

revise the current information collection 

related to the ETA Form 9127 to cover 

information collected by SWAs to 

determine prevailing, normal, accepted 

or common employment practices for a 

specific occupational classification by 

either formally surveying employers’ 

prevailing practices or by conducting 

‘‘ad hoc’’ surveys. 20 CFR part 655, 

Subpart B. The SWA survey information 

is used by the Department to ensure that 

an H–2A employer’s job qualifications 

and requirements are consistent with 

the normal and accepted job 

qualifications required by employers 

who do not use H–2A workers in same 

or comparable occupations and crops, 

and that the H–2A employer’s 

employment practices reflect the 

prevailing employment practices in the 

area of intended employment. 

This extension of the ETA Form 9127 

also includes revisions to SWA 

reporting requirements which 

correspond to recent changes in the 

distribution of foreign labor certification 

activities between ETA and SWAs. 

Upon the approval of the extension 

and revisions of this currently approved 

information collection, the Department 

will continue to use the data collected 

to: (1) Monitor the number of job orders 

processed; and (2) Track the number of 

agricultural prevailing wage and 

practice surveys conducted and housing 

inspections made. This information is 

used for formulating budget estimates 

for both State and Federal workloads, 

and for monitoring a State’s 

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performance against the grants and State 

annual plans. 

II. Review Process 

The Department is particularly 

interested in comments which: 

• Evaluate whether the proposed 

collection of information is necessary 

for the proper performance of the 

functions of the agency, including 

whether the information will have 

practical utility; 

• Evaluate the accuracy of the 

agency’s estimate of the burden of the 

proposed collection of information, 

including the validity of the 

methodology and assumptions used; 

• Enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and 

• Minimize the burden of the 

collection of information on those who 

are to respond, including through the 

use of appropriate automated, 

electronic, mechanical, or other 

technological collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology, 

e.g., permitting electronic submissions 

of responses. 

III. Current Actions 

Type of Review: Revision of a 

Currently Approved Information 

Collection. 

Title: Foreign Labor Certification 

Quarterly Activity Report. 

OMB Number: 1205–0457. 

Affected Public: State, local or tribal 

governments and private sector— 

business or other for-profits. 

Form(s): ETA Form 9127; 

Employment Practice Surveys. 

Total Annual Respondents: 11,054. 

Annual Frequency: Quarterly (ETA 

Form 9127); Annual and Ad Hoc 

(Employment Practice Surveys). 

Total Annual Responses: 11,216. 

Average Time per Response: 2 hours 

(ETA Form 9127); 30 minutes 

(Employment Practice Surveys). 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 432 hours (ETA Form 9127); 

5,738 hours (Employment Practice 

Surveys). 

Total Annual Burden Cost for 

Respondents: $12,960 (ETA Form 9127); 

$172,125 (Employment Practice 

Surveys). 

Comments submitted in response to 

this comment request will be 

summarized and/or included in the 

request for OMB approval of the ICR; 

they will also become a matter of public 

record. 

Signed in Washington, DC, this 21st day of 

March 2012. 

Jane Oates, 

Assistant Secretary, Employment and 

Training Administration. 

[FR Doc. 2012–7288 Filed 3–26–12; 8:45 am] 

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NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION 

Notice of Permit Modification Issued 

Under the Antarctic Conservation Act 

of 1978 

AGENCY: National Science Foundation. 

ACTION: Notice of permit modification 

issued under the Antarctic Conservation 

of 1978, Public Law 95–541. 

SUMMARY: The National Science 

Foundation (NSF) is required to publish 

notice of permits issued under the 

Antarctic Conservation Act of 1978. 

This is the required notice. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Nadene G. Kennedy, Permit Officer, 

Office of Polar Programs, Rm. 755, 

National Science Foundation, 4201 

Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, VA 22230. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On March 

12, 2012, notice was published in the 

Federal Register of a request for 

modification to permit 2010 WM–04 

(RPSC) for waste management activities 

at all U.S. Antarctic Program facilities in 

Antarctica. The requested modification 

transfers responsibility for waste 

management activities from the 

incumbent support contractor, Raytheon 

Polar Services Company, to Lockheed 

Martin Corporation. The transfer 

modified the permit to change the 

permit holder from Raytheon Polar 

Services Company to Lockheed Martin 

Corporation, who is the sole holder of 

the permit. All special conditions of the 

original permit remain the same except 

for the change in name of the permit 

holder. All references to Raytheon Polar 

Services Company now apply to 

Lockheed Martine Corporation. 

Nadene G. Kennedy, 

Permit Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2012–7293 Filed 3–26–12; 8:45 am] 

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NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION 

Proposal Review Panel for Engineering 

Education and Centers; Notice of 

Meeting 

In accordance with the Federal 

Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92– 

463, as amended), the National Science 

Foundation announces the following 

meeting: 

Name: Proposal Review Panel for 

Engineering Education and Centers (#173). 

Date and Time: March 27, 2012 7 p.m.–10 

p.m. March 28, 2012 8 a.m.–5 p.m. March 29, 

2012 8 a.m.–5 p.m. March 30, 2012 8 a.m.– 

4:30 p.m. 

Place: University of California—Berkeley, 

Berkeley, CA 94720. 

To view the open session, attendees will 

need to go to the UC Berkeley campus, 

Stanley Hall, Room 106, 8–9 a.m. Pacific. 

Please contact Kevin Costa for the Close 

Circuit TV broadcast at kcosta@berkeley.edu 

or (510) 486–7568. 

Type of Meeting: Part-Open. 

Contact: Theresa Good, Program Director, 

National Science Foundation, Stafford I 

Room 585 Arlington, Virginia 22230 (703) 

292–8380. 

Purpose of Meeting: NSF site visit to 

conduct a renewal review during year 6 of 

the award period as stipulated in the 

cooperative agreement. 

Agenda 

Tuesday, March 27, 2012 

7 p.m.–10 p.m. Closed—Executive 

Session—Site Visit Team Meeting 

Wednesday, March 28, 2012 

8 a.m.–9 a.m. Open via Close Circuit TV— 

(POC for broadcast is: Kevin Costa 

kcosta@berkeley.edu) Welcome, 

introductions and Overview of Center 

9 a.m.–3:30 p.m. Closed—ERC Research 

Program 

3:30 p.m.—7:30 p.m. Closed—ERC 

Education Program 

Thursday, March 29, 2012 

8 a.m.–9 a.m. Closed—Executive Session on 

Infrastructure 

9 a.m.–3:30 p.m. Closed—ERC Testbeds 

3:30 a.m.–4 p.m. Closed—ERC 

Infrastructure 

4 p.m.–5:30 p.m. Closed—ERC Industry 

Friday, March 30, 2012 

8 a.m.–9 a.m. Closed—Executive Session, 

Review 

9 a.m.–4:30 p.m. Closed—Executive 

Session, review and drafting site visit 

report 

Reason for Late Notice: The meeting had 

been announced earlier on NSF’s Web site. 

The Agency has since determined that a 

portion of this meeting should be open. 

Reason for Closing: Topics to be discussed 

and evaluation during the site review will 

include information of a proprietary of 

confidential nature, including technical 

information; and information on personnel. 

These matters are exempt under 5 U.S.C. 

552b(c)(4) and (6) of the Government 

Sunshine Act. 

Dated: March 21, 2012. 

Susanne E. Bolton, 

Committee Management Officer. 

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