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Form Number of 

respondents 

Frequency of 

response 

Average burden 

per response 

(minutes) 

Estimated total 

annual burden 

(hours) 

SSA–1026–OCR–MS–SCE ............................................................. 11,400 1 18 3,420 

SSA–1026–OCR–SM–REDE .......................................................... 225,000 1 18 67,500 

Total .......................................................................................... 236,400 ............................ ............................ 70,920 

II. SSA submitted the information 

collection below to OMB for clearance. 

Your comments regarding the 

information collection would be most 

useful if OMB and SSA receive them 

within 30 days from the date of this 

publication. To be sure we consider 

your comments, we must receive them 

no later than October 24, 2011. 

Individuals can obtain copies of the 

OMB clearance package by calling the 

SSA Reports Clearance Officer at 410– 

965–8783 or by writing to the above email address. 

Statement of Claimant or Other 

Person—Medical Resident FICA Refund 

Claims—20 CFR 404.702 and 416.570— 

0960–0786. The Internal Revenue 

Service (IRS) is contacting medical 

residents (and their employers) who 

filed Federal Insurance Contributions 

Act (FICA) refund claims from 1993 

through 2005. Those medical residents 

who claimed their residencies were 

actually training, not employment, 

should not have been subject to FICA 

tax. The IRS made a decision to honor 

these claims and issue a full refund of 

FICA tax, plus statutory interest, to 

those who wish to participate in the 

refund resolution. SSA will remove 

wages from the participating residents’ 

earnings records for the period of the 

refund requests, which will cause the 

residents’ recorded earnings to decrease. 

This not only affects earnings for future 

retirement benefits, but also could 

adversely affect those residents (or their 

beneficiaries) who are currently 

receiving Social Security benefits. 

To ensure they understand the 

potential impact on their benefits, SSA 

will call those residents who will be 

adversely affected and explain the effect 

on their Social Security benefits if they 

accept the IRS FICA refund. If SSA 

cannot reach the resident by phone, we 

will send a contact letter and the SSA– 

795–OP2 to the resident to complete 

and return to SSA to document the 

decision. Once we have the information, 

we will forward the signed forms to the 

IRS for the residents who no longer 

want the FICA refund. 

Type of Request: Revision of an OMBapproved information collection. 

Number of Respondents: 496. 

Frequency of Response: 1. 

Average Burden per Response: 

4 minutes. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden: 

33 hours. 

Dated: September 20, 2011. 

Faye Lipsky, 

Reports Clearance Officer, Center for Reports 

Clearance, Social Security Administration. 

[FR Doc. 2011–24437 Filed 9–22–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4191–02–P 

DEPARTMENT OF STATE 

[Public Notice: 7610] 

Culturally Significant Objects Imported 

for Exhibition Determinations: 

‘‘Impressionism: Masterworks on 

Paper’’ 

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given of the 

following determinations: Pursuant to 

the authority vested in me by the Act of 

October 19, 1965 (79 Stat. 985; 22 U.S.C. 

2459), Executive Order 12047 of March 

27, 1978, the Foreign Affairs Reform and 

Restructuring Act of 1998 (112 Stat. 

2681, et seq.; 22 U.S.C. 6501 note, et 

seq.), Delegation of Authority No. 234 of 

October 1, 1999, Delegation of Authority 

No. 236–3 of August 28, 2000 (and, as 

appropriate, Delegation of Authority No. 

257 of April 15, 2003), I hereby 

determine that the objects to be 

included in the exhibition 

‘‘Impressionism: Masterworks on Paper’’ 

imported from abroad for temporary 

exhibition within the United States, are 

of cultural significance. The objects are 

imported pursuant to loan agreements 

with the foreign owners or custodians. 

I also determine that the exhibition or 

display of the exhibit objects at the 

Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, 

WI, from on or about October 15, 2011, 

until on or about January 8, 2012, and 

at possible additional exhibitions or 

venues yet to be determined, is in the 

national interest. I have ordered that 

Public Notice of these Determinations 

be published in the Federal Register. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

further information, including a list of 

the exhibit objects, contact Julie 

Simpson, Attorney-Adviser, Office of 

the Legal Adviser, U.S. Department of 

State (telephone: 202–632–6467). The 

mailing address is U.S. Department of 

State, SA–5, L/PD, Fifth Floor (Suite 

5H03), Washington, DC 20522–0505. 

Dated: September 19, 2011. 

J. Adam Ereli, 

Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau 

of Educational and Cultural Affairs, 

Department of State. 

[FR Doc. 2011–24540 Filed 9–22–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4710–05–P 

DEPARTMENT OF STATE 

[Public Notice: 7609] 

Bureau of Educational and Cultural 

Affairs; Exchange Visitor Program; 

Summer Work Travel Program 

Sponsor On-Site Reviews 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: Pursuant to the Mutual 

Educational and Cultural Exchange Act 

of 1961 (the ‘‘Act’’), the Department of 

State (Department) is authorized to 

facilitate and direct educational and 

cultural exchange activities in order to 

develop and promote mutual 

understanding between the people of 

the United States and the people of 

other countries by means of educational 

and cultural exchanges. These 

exchanges, conducted by Departmentdesignated sponsors assist the 

Department in furthering the foreign 

policy objectives of the United States. 

By this Notice, and in order to enhance 

its continued oversight and monitoring 

of designated sponsors, the Department 

announces its intent to conduct on-site 

reviews of sponsors in the Summer 

Work Travel Program to evaluate 

regulatory compliance with Program 

regulations set forth at 22 CFR Part 62. 

The Summer Work Travel Program 

provides foreign college and university 

students the opportunity to work and 

travel in the United States during their 

extended academic break (i.e., summer 

vacation) for a period not to exceed four 

months. On April 26, 2011, the 

Department published in the Federal 

Register, an Interim Final Rule 

governing the Summer Work Travel 

category of the Exchange Visitor 

Program. In that rulemaking, the 

Department explained its three-step 

approach to addressing a number of 

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administration of this program. Step one 

occurred in January 2011 when the 

Department adopted a pilot program to 

enhance protections for foreign 

nationals from Belarus, Bulgaria, 

Moldova, Romania, Russia, and the 

Ukraine (‘‘Pilot Program’’). Step two was 

the Interim Final Rule, which 

incorporated many of the concepts of 

the Pilot Program into the overall 

Summer Work Travel program 

regulations. Now, as step three, the 

Department intends to conduct on-site 

reviews of the largest Summer Work 

Travel program sponsors to monitor 

sponsor performance, ‘‘to assess 

category-wide regulatory compliance 

and to consult with sponsors about 

implementation of the Interim Final 

Rule.’’ The Department’s close 

monitoring of Summer Work Travel 

sponsors during the summer of 2011 has 

resulted in a modification to its plans 

for on-site reviews. Specifically, the 

Department evaluated all Summer Work 

Travel sponsors’ compliance with 

program regulations regarding the 

maintenance of current and accurate 

records in the Student and Exchange 

Visitor Information System (SEVIS) for 

the period September 1, 2009 through 

August 30, 2010. It also reviewed 

Summer Work Travel-related 

complaints for the 2011 summer season 

and monitored the media for additional 

reports of program problems. As a result 

of these efforts, the Department has 

determined that it will not visit 

sponsors based solely on their size, but 

instead will conduct compliance 

reviews of those designated sponsors 

whose compliance with the relevant 

Exchange Visitor Program regulations 

deserve closer examination by the 

Department. 

Currently there are 51 designated 

exchange sponsor entities in the 

Summer Work Travel category. Of those, 

the Department has identified 14 

sponsors that will be part of in the 

upcoming compliance review. Although 

the Department may later decide to 

evaluate additional sponsors, at this 

time, it intends to visit these 14 

sponsors (which together sponsor 

approximately 65% of all Summer Work 

Travel participants) sometime between 

October and December 2011. On 

average, it is expected that each on-site 

review will take two full business days 

and will be preceded ten work days’ in 

advance by written notice and a request 

for certain specified documents. 

As noted above, these on-site reviews 

will focus on evaluating the overall 

program administration and the 

effectiveness of the modifications to 

sponsors’ program administration 

resulting from implementation of the 

Interim Final Rule and the Pilot 

Program. A primary goal of these 

reviews is to assess whether the 

sponsors have been able ‘‘to comply and 

remain in continual compliance with all 

provisions of Part 62’’ (22 CFR 

62.3(b)(1)). To this end, the reviews will 

focus on sponsor compliance with the 

Pilot Program guidelines and participant 

monitoring requirements, maintenance 

of accurate SEVIS records, and 

sponsors’ relationships with third 

parties they have engaged to assist in 

carrying out the core programmatic 

functions inherent in the administration 

of exchange visitor programs, as set 

forth in the regulations in Part 62 (i.e., 

screening, selection, orientation, 

placement, monitoring, and the 

promotion of mutual understanding). 

Other areas of interest may include 

sponsors’ roles in assisting participants 

in finding suitable housing; decisionmaking processes (including the 

numbers of participants accepted); selfimposed compliance mechanisms; 

procedures for handling student 

participant problems (including finding 

new jobs for those whose pre-arranged 

placements were unsatisfactory); and 

policies for refunding deposits or 

payments to student participants. 

Finally, the Department intends to use 

these reviews as an opportunity for 

sponsors to provide feedback on the 

Pilot Program and the Interim Final 

Rule in general, and more specifically, 

sponsors’ experience with the relevant 

new regulatory provisions during the 

summer season of 2011. Feedback will 

be used to assist in issuing the Final 

Rule. Best practices will be collected 

from the on-site reviews and shared 

with the wider sponsor community. 

Sponsors who are not included in these 

reviews and wish to comment should 

address their comments and concerns to 

the Department at JVisas@State.gov. 

The Department believes these 

compliance reviews are one of many 

critical steps that can help ensure the 

Summer Work Travel program meets the 

underlying goals of the Act while also 

allowing participants to enjoy safe and 

successful exchange program 

experiences conducted within the 

parameters of the Exchange Visitor 

Program regulations. 

Dated: September 16, 2011. 

Rick A. Ruth, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Private Sector 

Exchange, Acting, Bureau of Educational and 

Cultural Affairs, Department of State. 

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BILLING CODE 4710–05–P 

TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY 

Meeting of the Regional Resource 

Stewardship Council 

AGENCY: Tennessee Valley Authority 

(TVA). 

ACTION: Notice of meeting. 

SUMMARY: The TVA Regional Resource 

Stewardship Council (RRSC) will hold a 

meeting on October 13 and October 14, 

2011, to obtain views and advice on the 

topic of the regulation of non-navigable 

floating structures on TVA reservoirs. 

The RRSC was established to advise 

TVA on its natural resource stewardship 

activities. Notice of this meeting is given 

under the Federal Advisory Committee 

Act (FACA), 5 U.S.C. App. 2. 

The meeting agenda includes the 

following: 

1. Introductions. 

2. TVA Updates: Feedback from the 

TVA Board of Directors on the Council’s 

previous advice, a summary of the 

Natural Resource Plan implementation 

plan for fiscal year 2012, and 

information about TVA’s Recreation 

Program under the Natural Resource 

Plan. 

3. Presentation(s) concerning the 

issues surrounding the regulation of 

non-navigable floating structures on 

TVA reservoirs. 

4. Public Comments. 

5. Council Discussion and Advice. 

The RRSC will hear opinions and 

views of citizens by providing a public 

comment session. The public comment 

session will be held at 10 a.m., EDT, on 

Friday, October 14. Persons wishing to 

speak are requested to register at the 

door by 9 a.m., EDT, on Friday, October 

14 and will be called on during the 

public comment period. Handout 

materials should be limited to one 

printed page. Written comments are also 

invited and may be mailed to the 

Regional Resource Stewardship Council, 

Tennessee Valley Authority, 400 West 

Summit Hill Drive, WT 11B, Knoxville, 

Tennessee 37902. 

DATES: The meeting will be held on 

Thursday, October 13, 2011, from 8 a.m. 

to 10 a.m., EDT, and on Friday, October 

14, 2011, from 8 a.m. to Noon, EDT. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held in 

the Auditorium of the TVA 

Headquarters at, 400 West Summit Hill 

Drive, Knoxville, TN 37902, and will be 

open to the public. Anyone needing 

special access or accommodations 

should let the contact below know at 

least a week in advance. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Beth 

Keel, 400 West Summit Hill Drive, WT 

11B, Knoxville, Tennessee 37902, (865) 

632–6113. 


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