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name, company name (if any), and 

‘‘Information Collection 9000–0055, 

Freight Classification Description’’ on 

your attached document. 

• Fax: 202–501–4067. 

• Mail: General Services 

Administration, Regulatory Secretariat 

(MVCB), 1275 First Street NE., 

Washington, DC 20417. ATTN: Hada 

Flowers/IC 9000–0055, Freight 

Classification Description. 

Instructions: Please submit comments 

only and cite Information Collection 

9000–0055, Freight Classification 

Description, in all correspondence 

related to this collection. All comments 

received will be posted without change 

to http://www.regulations.gov, including 

any personal and/or business 

confidential information provided. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

Curtis Glover, Sr., Procurement Analyst, 

Office of Acquisition Policy, at (202) 

501–1448 or via email at 

Curtis.glover@gsa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

A. Purpose 

The Government is required to 

provide, in solicitations, a complete 

description of the commodity to be 

acquired and of packing requirements to 

determine transportation (freight rate) 

charges for the evaluation of offers. 

Generally, the freight rate for supplies is 

based on the ratings applicable to the 

freight classification description 

published in the National Motor Freight 

Classification (for carriers) and the 

Uniform Freight Classification (for rail) 

filed with Federal and State regulatory 

bodies. When the Government 

purchases supplies that are new to the 

supply system, nonstandard, or 

modifications of previously shipped 

items, and different freight 

classifications may apply, per FAR 

clause 52.247–53, offerors are requested 

to indicate the full Uniform Freight 

Classification or National Motor Freight 

Classification. The Government will use 

these descriptions as well as other 

information available to determine the 

classification description most 

appropriate and advantageous to the 

government. 

B. Annual Reporting Burden 

Respondents: 3,000. 

Responses per Respondent: 3. 

Annual Responses: 9,000. 

Hours per Response: .167. 

Total Burden Hours: 1,503. 

Obtaining Copies of Proposals: 

Requesters may obtain a copy of the 

information collection documents from 

the General Services Administration, 

Regulatory Secretariat (MVCB), 1275 

First Street NE., Washington, DC 20417, 

telephone (202) 501–4755. Please cite 

OMB Control No. 9000–0055, Freight 

Classification Description, in all 

correspondence. 

Dated: April 11, 2012. 

Laura Auletta, 

Director, Office of Governmentwide 

Acquisition Policy, Office of Acquisition 

Policy, Office of Governmentwide Policy. 

[FR Doc. 2012–9113 Filed 4–16–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6820–EP–P 

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Office of the Secretary 

Amendment to the Inland Waterways 

Users Board 

AGENCY: DoD. 

ACTION: Charter Amendment for Federal 

Advisory Committee. 

SUMMARY: Under the provisions of the 

Federal Advisory Committee Act of 

1972 (5 U.S.C. Appendix), the 

Government in the Sunshine Act of 

1976 (5 U.S.C. 552b), and 41 CFR 102– 

3.50(d), the Department of Defense gives 

notice that it is amending the charter for 

the Inland Waterways Users Board 

(hereafter referred to as ‘‘the Board’’). 

The Board is authorized by statute, and 

shall provide the Secretary of Defense, 

through the Secretary of the Army and 

the Assistant Secretary of the Army for 

Civil Works, independent advice and 

recommendations on matters relating to 

construction and rehabilitation 

priorities and spending levels on the 

commercial navigation features and 

components of the U.S. inland 

waterways and inland harbors as 

defined in Public Law 95–502 and 

amended by Public Law 99–662. 

According to 33 U.S.C. 2251b, the 

Board shall annually file their 

recommendations with the Secretary of 

the Army and with Congress. The 

Secretary of the Army, pursuant to DoD 

policy, may act upon the Board’s advice 

and recommendations. Board members, 

as determined by the Department of 

Defense, shall be representative 

members and, pursuant to 33 U.S.C. 

2251(a), the Board shall be composed of 

eleven members. 

Based upon the Secretary of the 

Army’s recommendation, the Secretary 

of Defense shall invite primary 

commercial users and shippers of the 

inland and intracoastal waterways to 

serve on the Board. Commercial users 

and shippers invited to serve on the 

Board shall designate an individual to 

represent the organization’s interests. 

The Department of Defense, when 

considering prospective users and 

shippers to be represented on the Board, 

shall ensure selections represent various 

regions of the country and a spectrum 

of the primary users and shippers 

utilizing the inland and intracoastal 

waterways for commercial purposes. 

Due consideration shall be given to 

assure a balance among the members 

based on the ton-mile shipments of the 

various categories of commodities 

shipped on inland and intracoastal 

waterways. 

A primary user or shipper may be 

represented on the Board, at the request 

of the Secretary of the Army and with 

the approval of the Secretary of Defense, 

for a two-year term of service with 

annual renewals. A user or shipper may 

be represented on the Board for no more 

than two terms of service (four years); a 

user or shipper may be subsequently 

represented on the Board, but only after 

being off the Board for at least two 

years. 

In addition to the primary users and 

shippers invited by the Secretary of 

Defense, the Secretary of the Army shall 

designate, and the Secretaries of 

Agriculture, Transportation and 

Commerce may each designate a 

representative to act as an observer of 

the Board. These observers, who have 

no voting rights, shall be full-time or 

permanent part-time employees of his or 

her respective agency. 

Pursuant to 33 U.S.C. 2251(a), the 

Secretary of the Army shall designate 

one Board member to serve as the 

Board’s Chairperson. With the exception 

of travel and per diem for official travel, 

all Board members shall serve without 

compensation. 

With DoD approval and according to 

DoD policies and procedures, the Board, 

consistent with its mission, is 

authorized to establish subcommittees, 

task groups, or working groups to 

support the Board. These 

subcommittees or working groups shall 

operate under the provisions of FACA, 

the Sunshine Act, and other governing 

Federal statutes and regulations, and 

governing DoD policies and procedures. 

Such subcommittees or task groups 

shall not work independently of the 

chartered Board, and shall report all 

their recommendations and advice to 

the Board for full deliberation and 

discussion. Subcommittees have no 

authority to make decisions on behalf of 

the chartered Board; nor can any 

subcommittee or its members update or 

report directly to the Department of 

Defense or any Federal officers or 

employees. 

All subcommittee members shall be 

appointed in the same manner as the 


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Board members; that is, the Secretary of 

Defense shall appoint subcommittee 

members even if the member in 

question is already a Board member. 

Subcommittee members, with the 

approval of the Secretary of Defense, 

may serve a term of service on the 

subcommittee of two years; however, no 

member shall serve more than two 

consecutive terms of service on the 

subcommittee. 

With the exception of travel and per 

diem for official travel, subcommittee 

members shall serve without 

compensation. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jim 

Freeman, Acting Advisory Committee 

Management Officer for the Department 

of Defense, 703–692–5952. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Board 

shall meet at the call of the Board’s 

Designated Federal Officer, in 

consultation with the Chairperson. The 

Board shall meet at least semi-annually. 

In addition, the Designated Federal 

Officer is required to be in attendance 

at all Board and subcommittee meetings 

for the entire duration of each and every 

meeting; however, in the absence of the 

Designated Federal Officer, the 

Alternate Designated Federal Officer 

shall attend the entire duration of the 

Board or subcommittee meeting. 

Pursuant to 41 CFR 102–3.105(j) and 

102–3.140, the public or interested 

organizations may submit written 

statements to the Inland Waterways 

Users Board membership about the 

Board’s mission and functions. Written 

statements may be submitted at any 

time or in response to the stated agenda 

of planned meeting of the Inland 

Waterways Users Board. 

All written statements shall be 

submitted to the Designated Federal 

Officer for the Inland Waterways Users 

Board, and this individual will ensure 

that the written statements are provided 

to the membership for their 

consideration. Contact information for 

the Inland Waterways Users Board’s 

Designated Federal Officer can be 

obtained from the GSA’s FACA 

Database—https://www.fido.gov/ 

facadatabase/public.asp. 

The Designated Federal Officer, 

pursuant to 41 CFR 102–3.150, will 

announce planned meetings of the 

Inland Waterways Users Board. The 

Designated Federal Officer, at that time, 

may provide additional guidance on the 

submission of written statements that 

are in response to the stated agenda for 

the planned meeting in question. 

Dated: April 12, 2012. 

Aaron Siegel, 

Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison 

Officer, Department of Defense. 

[FR Doc. 2012–9165 Filed 4–16–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 5001–06–P 

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Office of the Secretary 

Termination of Provider 

Reimbursement Demonstration Project 

for the State of Alaska 

AGENCY: Department of Defense (DoD). 

ACTION: Notice of demonstration 

termination. 

SUMMARY: This notice provides a 

termination of the demonstration project 

in the State of Alaska for individual 

provider payment rates. Under the 

demonstration, payment rates for 

physicians and other non-institutional 

individual professional providers in the 

State of Alaska have been set at a rate 

higher than the Medicare rate. The goal 

of the demonstration was to determine 

at what rate payment would need to be 

set in order to encourage higher 

participation in the TRICARE program 

by providers in Alaska. 

DATES: The demonstration regarding 

payment rates for physicians and other 

non-institutional providers is 

terminated effective May 17, 2012. 

ADDRESSES: TRICARE Management 

Activity (TMA), Medical Benefits and 

Reimbursement Branch, 16401 East 

Centretech Parkway, Aurora, CO 80011– 

9066. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Glenn J. Corn, TRICARE Management 

Activity, Medical Benefits and 

Reimbursement Branch, telephone (303) 

676–3566. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On 

November 20, 2006 (71 FR 67113), DoD 

published a Notice of a TRICARE 

demonstration project for the State of 

Alaska, with an effective date of January 

1, 2007. The demonstration set payment 

rates for physicians and other noninstitutional individual professional 

providers in the State of Alaska at a rate 

higher than the Medicare rate in order 

to determine if more individual 

providers would participate in the 

TRICARE program. The demonstration 

was effective January 1, 2007 for a 

period of three years, ending on 

December 31, 2009. The demonstration 

was extended twice. On December 18, 

2009 (74 FR 67179), DoD published a 

Notice of demonstration extension that 

extended the demonstration through 

December 31, 2010, and on July 8, 2010 

(75 FR 39213), DoD published a Notice 

of demonstration extension that 

extended the demonstration through 

December 31, 2012. 

An analysis of the effectiveness of the 

demonstration was conducted and it 

showed an increase in provider 

participation. This increased 

participation opened access to local 

specialty care that had previously been 

severely impaired, and it decreased the 

overall cost of health care by reducing 

the travel costs incurred by the 

Department for Prime beneficiaries who 

had been forced to travel long distances 

to receive care outside of Alaska. The 

demonstration also showed that each 

geographic area in Alaska had increased 

participation using the same 

‘‘multiplier’’ of the Medicare rate. Thus 

in order to preserve the successes made 

through the demonstration project in 

improving provider access and to keep 

the CHAMPUS Maximum Allowable 

Charge rates in relative proportion with 

the demonstration rates, the Department 

has determined that it can use its 

current authority under Title 10, United 

States Code, section 1079(h)(5) to 

provide a state-wide locality based 

reimbursement waiver without 

requesting additional statutory or 

regulatory authority for the State of 

Alaska. A state-wide locality based 

waiver was approved by the Director of 

TMA under current authority (Title 32, 

Code of Federal Regulations, section 

199.14(j)(1)(iv)(D)) on September 15, 

2011, and thus the need for this 

demonstration has ceased. This statewide locality based reimbursement 

waiver allows the higher individual 

provider payment rates associated with 

the demonstration project. 

Dated: March 30, 2012. 

Patricia Toppings, 

OSD Federal Register Liaison Officer, 

Department of Defense. 

[FR Doc. 2012–9146 Filed 4–16–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 5001–06–P 

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Department of the Air Force 

U.S. Air Force Scientific Advisory 

Board; Notice of Meeting 

AGENCY: Department of the Air Force, 

U.S. Air Force Scientific Advisory 

Board. 

ACTION: Meeting notice. 

SUMMARY: Due to difficulties, beyond the 

control of the U.S. Air Force Scientific 

Advisory Board or its Designated 

Federal Officer, the Board was unable to 

file a Federal Register notice for the 


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