Federal Register / Vol. 77, No. 75 / Wednesday, April 18, 2012 / Notices 23293 

Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A). 

Dated: April 12, 2012. 

George F. Triebsch, 

Certifying Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2012–9245 Filed 4–17–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4510–43–P 

NATIONAL FOUNDATION ON THE 

ARTS AND THE HUMANITIES 

National Endowment for the Arts 

Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request 

The National Endowment for the Arts 

(NEA) has submitted revisions to the 

following public information collection 

request (ICR) to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for 

review and approval in accordance with 

the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995: 

Blanket Justification for NEA Funding 

Application Guidelines and Reporting 

Requirements. Copies of this ICR, with 

applicable supporting documentation, 

may be obtained by visiting 

www.Reginfo.gov. 

Comments should be sent to the 

Office of Information and Regulatory 

Affairs, Attn: OMB Desk Officer for the 

National Endowment for the Arts, Office 

of Management and Budget, Room 

10235, Washington, DC 20503 202/395– 

7316, within 30 days from the date of 

this publication in the Federal Register. 

The Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) 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 

• Could help minimize the burden of 

the collection of information on those 

who are to respond, including through 

the use of electronic submission of 

responses through Grants.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Endowment requests the review of 

revisions to two of its grantee reporting 

requirements. This entry is issued by 

the Endowment and contains the 

following information: (1) The title of 

the form; (2) how often the required 

information that is being revised must 

be reported; (3) who will be required or 

asked to report on the revised 

information; (4) what the revised forms 

will be used for; (5) an estimate of the 

number of responses to the revised 

forms; (6) the average burden hours per 

response for the revised forms; (7) an 

estimate of the total number of hours 

needed to prepare the revised forms. 

This entry is not subject to 44 U.S.C. 

3504(h). 

Agency: National Endowment for the 

Arts. 

Title: Blanket Justification for NEA 

Funding Application Guidelines and 

Reporting Requirements. 

OMB Number: 3135–0112. 

Frequency: Annually. 

Affected Public: Nonprofit 

organizations, government agencies, and 

individuals. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

64. 

Estimated Time Per Respondent: 8 

hours. 

Total Burden Hours: 512. 

Total Annualized Capital/Startup 

Costs: 0. 

Total Annual Costs (Operating/ 

Maintaining Systems or Purchasing 

Services): 0. 

Description: According to OMB 

Circulars A–102 and A–110, recipients 

of federal funds are required to report 

on project activities and expenditures. 

Reporting requirements are necessary to 

ascertain that grant projects have been 

completed, and that all terms and 

conditions have been fulfilled. This 

information collection revision serves to 

update only the portion of the blanket 

clearance of all NEA guidelines, 

applications, and reporting 

requirements that refer to the agency’s 

state arts agency (SAA) and regional arts 

organization (RAO) grantees. 

Kathleen Edwards, 

Director, Administrative Services, National 

Endowment for the Arts. 

[FR Doc. 2012–9328 Filed 4–17–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7537–01–P 

OFFICE OF SPECIAL COUNSEL 

Service Contract Inventory for Fiscal 

Year (FY) 2011 

AGENCY: Office of Special Counsel. 

ACTION: Notice of availability—FY 2011 

Service Contract Inventory. 

SUMMARY: Through this notice, the 

Special Counsel announces the 

availability of the Office of Special 

Counsel’s service contract inventory on 

its Web site, at http://www.osc.gov/ 

RR_OSCReportsAndInformation.htm. A 

service contract inventory is a tool for 

assisting an agency in better 

understanding how contracted services 

are being used to support mission and 

operations and whether the contractors’ 

skills are being utilized in an 

appropriate manner. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Karl 

Kammann, Director of Finance, at 

kkammann@osc.gov; 1730 M Street 

NW., Suite 218, Washington, DC 20036– 

4505, or by facsimile at (202) 254–3711. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 

743 of Division C of the Consolidated 

Appropriations Act of 2010, Public Law 

111–117, requires civilian agencies, 

other than the Department of Defense, 

that are required to submit an inventory 

in accordance with the Federal 

Activities Inventory Reform Act of 1998 

(Pub. L. 105–270, 31 U.S.C. 501 note) to 

submit their inventories to the Office of 

Federal Procurement Policy (OFPP) in 

the Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) by December 30, 2011. In 

addition, section 743 requires these 

agencies, which include the U.S. Office 

of Special Counsel, to (1) make the 

inventory available to the public by 

posting the inventory on its agency 

homepage, (2) provide OFPP with the 

Web site address (URL) on which the 

inventory is being posted so that the 

inventory can be linked to a central 

OMB Web page, and (3) publish in the 

Federal Register a notice announcing 

that the inventory is available to the 

public along with the name, telephone 

number, and email address of an agency 

point of contact. Through this notice, 

the Office of Special Counsel announces 

the availability of its inventory on the 

following Web site: http://www.osc.gov/ 

RR_OSCReportsAndInformation.htm. 

The point of contact for the inventory is 

provided under the FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT section in this 

notice. 

Dated: April 12, 2012. 

Carolyn N. Lerner, 

Special Counsel. 

[FR Doc. 2012–9262 Filed 4–17–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7405–01–P 

POSTAL REGULATORY COMMISSION 

Sunshine Act Meetings 

TIME AND DATE: Wednesday, May 2, 

2012, at 11 a.m. 

PLACE: Commission Hearing Room, 901 

New York Avenue NW., Suite 200, 

Washington, DC 20268–0001. 

STATUS: Part of this meeting will be 

open to the public. The rest of the 

meeting will be closed to the public. 

The open session will be audiocast. The 

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