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3. Subaward: 

i. This term means a legal instrument to 

provide support for the performance of any 

portion of the substantive project or program 

for which you received this award and that 

you as the recipient award to an eligible 

subrecipient. 

ii. The term does not include your 

procurement of property and services needed 

to carry out the project or program (for 

further explanation, see Sec. 210 of the 

attachment to OMB Circular A–133, ‘‘Audits 

of States, Local Governments, and Non-Profit 

Organizations’’). 

iii. A subaward may be provided through 

any legal agreement, including an agreement 

that you or a subrecipient considers a 

contract. 

4. Subrecipient means an entity that: 

i. Receives a sub award from you (the 

recipient) under this award; and 

ii. Is accountable to you for the use of the 

Federal funds provided by the subaward. 

5. Total compensation means the cash and 

noncash dollar value earned by the executive 

during the recipient’s or subrecipient’s 

preceding fiscal year and includes the 

following (for more information see 17 CFR 

229.402(c)(2): 

i. Salary and bonus. 

ii. Awards of stock, stock options, and 

stock appreciation rights. Use the dollar 

amount recognized for financial statement 

reporting purposes with respect to the fiscal 

year in accordance with the Statement of 

Financial Accounting Standards No. 123 

(Revised 2004) (FAS 123R), Shared Based 

Payments. 

iii. Earnings for services under non-equity 

incentive plans. This does not include group 

life, health, hospitalization or medical 

reimbursement plans that do not 

discriminate in favor of executives, and are 

available generally to all salaried employees. 

iv. Change in pension value. This is the 

change in present value of defined benefit 

and actuarial pension plans. 

v. Above-market earnings on deferred 

compensation which is not tax-qualified. 

vi. Other compensation, if the aggregate 

value of all such other compensation (e.g. 

severance, termination payments, value of 

life insurance paid on behalf of the 

employee, perquisites or property) for the 

executive exceeds $10,000. 

Dated: Signed in Washington, DC, on April 

12, 2012. 

William J. Murphy, 

Manager, Federal Crop Insurance 

Corporation. 

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BILLING CODE 3410–08–P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

National Institute of Food and 

Agriculture 

Notice of Request for Applications for 

the Veterinary Medicine Loan 

Repayment Program 

AGENCY: National Institute of Food and 

Agriculture, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The National Institute of Food 

and Agriculture (NIFA) is announcing 

the release of the Veterinary Medicine 

Loan Repayment Program (VMLRP) 

Request for Applications (RFA) at 

www.nifa.usda.gov/vmlrp. 

DATES: The FY 2012 Veterinary 

Medicine Loan Repayment Program 

(VMLRP) application package will be 

available at www.nifa.usda.gov/vmlrp 

on Monday, April 16, 2012 and 

applications are due by Friday, June 15, 

2012. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Gary 

Sherman; National Program Leader, 

Veterinary Science; National Institute of 

Food and Agriculture; U.S. Department 

of Agriculture; STOP 2240; 1400 

Independence Avenue SW.; 

Washington, DC 20250–2240; Voice: 

202–401–4952; Fax: 202–401–6156; 

Email: gsherman@nifa.usda.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On 

October 1, 2009, the Cooperative State 

Research, Education, and Extension 

Service (CSREES) became the National 

Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) 

as mandated by the Food, Conservation, 

and Energy Act of 2008, section 7511(f) 

[Pub. L. 110–246]. Accordingly, the 

authority to administer the VMLRP 

transferred from CSREES to NIFA. 

Background and Purpose 

In January 2003, the National 

Veterinary Medical Service Act 

(NVMSA) was passed into law adding 

section 1415A to the National 

Agricultural Research, Extension, and 

Teaching Policy Act of 1997 

(NARETPA). This law established a new 

Veterinary Medicine Loan Repayment 

Program (7 U.S.C. 3151a) authorizing 

the Secretary of Agriculture to carry out 

a program of entering into agreements 

with veterinarians under which they 

agree to provide veterinary services in 

veterinarian shortage situations. In 

November 2005, the Agriculture, Rural 

Development, Food and Drug 

Administration, and Related Agencies 

Appropriations Act, 2006 (Pub. L. 109– 

97) appropriated $495,000 for CSREES 

to implement the VMLRP and 

represented the first time funds had 

been appropriated for this program. 

In February 2007, the Revised 

Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 

2007 (Pub. L. 110–5) appropriated an 

additional $495,000 to CSREES for 

support of the program, in December 

2007, the Consolidated Appropriations 

Act, 2008 appropriated an additional 

$868,875 to CSREES for support of this 

program, in March 2009, the Omnibus 

Appropriations Act, 2009 (Pub. L. 111– 

8) was enacted, providing an additional 

$2,950,000 for the VMLRP, in October 

2009, the Agriculture, Rural 

Development, Food and Drug 

Administration, and Related Agencies 

Appropriations Act of 2010 (Pub. L. 

111–80) appropriated an additional 

$4,800,000 for the VMLRP, and in April 

2011, the President signed into law, 

Public Law 112–10, Department of 

Defense and Full-Year Continuing 

Appropriations Act, 2011, which, after 

the .2% rescission, appropriated an 

additional $4,790,400 for the VMLRP. 

On November 18, 2011, the President 

signed into law the Consolidated and 

Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 

2012 (Pub. L. 112–55), which 

appropriated $4,790,000 for the VMLRP. 

Section 7105 of the Food, 

Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008, 

Public Law 110–246, (FCEA) amended 

section 1415A to revise the 

determination of veterinarian shortage 

situations to consider (1) geographical 

areas that the Secretary determines have 

a shortage of veterinarians; and (2) areas 

of veterinary practice that the Secretary 

determines have a shortage of 

veterinarians, such as food animal 

medicine, public health, epidemiology, 

and food safety. This section also added 

that priority should be given to 

agreements with veterinarians for the 

practice of food animal medicine in 

veterinarian shortage situations. 

NARETPA section 1415A requires the 

Secretary, when determining the 

amount of repayment for a year of 

service by a veterinarian to consider the 

ability of USDA to maximize the 

number of agreements from the amounts 

appropriated and to provide an 

incentive to serve in veterinary service 

shortage areas with the greatest need. 

This section also provides that loan 

repayments may consist of payments of 

the principal and interest on 

government and commercial loans 

received by the individual for the 

attendance of the individual at an 

accredited college of veterinary 

medicine resulting in a degree of Doctor 

of Veterinary Medicine or the 

equivalent. This program is not 

authorized to provide repayments for 

any government or commercial loans 

incurred during the pursuit of another 

degree, such as an associate or bachelor 

degree. Loans eligible for repayment 

include educational loans made for one 

or more of the following: Loans for 

tuition expenses; other reasonable 

educational expenses, including fees, 

books, and laboratory expenses, 

incurred by the individual; and 

reasonable living expenses as 

determined by the Secretary. In 

addition, the Secretary is directed to 

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make such additional payments to 

participants as the Secretary determines 

appropriate for the purpose of providing 

reimbursements to participants for 

individual tax liability resulting from 

participation in this program. Finally, 

this section requires USDA to 

promulgate regulations within 270 days 

of the enactment of FCEA (i.e., June 18, 

2008). The Secretary delegated the 

authority to carry out this program to 

NIFA. 

The final rule was published in the 

Federal Register on April 19, 2010 [75 

FR 20239–20248]. Based on comments 

received during the 60-day comment 

period upon publication of the interim 

rule [74 FR 32788–32798, July 9, 2009], 

NIFA reconsidered the policy regarding 

individuals who consolidated their 

veterinary school loans with other 

educational loans (e.g. undergraduate) 

and their eligibility to apply for the 

VMLRP. NIFA will allow these 

individuals to apply for and receive a 

VMLRP award; however, only the 

eligible portion of the consolidation will 

be repaid by the VMLRP. Furthermore, 

applicants with consolidated loans will 

be asked to provide a complete history 

of their student loans from the National 

Student Loan Database System (NSLDS), 

a central database for student aid 

operated by the U.S. Department of 

Education. The NSLDS Web site can be 

found at www.nslds.ed.gov. Individuals 

who consolidated their DVM loans with 

non-educational loans or loans 

belonging to an individual other than 

the applicant, such as a spouse or child, 

will continue to be ineligible for the 

VMLRP. 

In FY 2010, VMLRP announced its 

first funding opportunity and received 

260 applications from which NIFA 

issued 53 VMLRP awards totaling 

$5,186,000. In FY 2011, VMLRP 

announced its second funding 

opportunity and received 159 

applications from which NIFA issued 78 

VMLRP awards totaling $7,506,000. 

Consequently, up to $4,300,000 is 

available to support this program in FY 

2012. Funding for future years will be 

based on annual appropriations and 

balances, if any, remaining from prior 

years. 

The eligibility criteria for applicants 

and the application forms and 

associated instructions needed to apply 

for a VMLRP award can be viewed and 

downloaded from the VMLRP Web site 

at http://www.nifa.usda.gov/vmlrp. 

Done in Washington, DC, this 7th day of 

March, 2012. 

Chavonda Jacobs-Young, 

Acting Director, National Institute of Food 

and Agriculture. 

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BILLING CODE 3410–22–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request 

The Department of Commerce will 

submit to the Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB) for clearance the 

following proposal for collection of 

information under the provisions of the 

Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 

Chapter 35). 

Agency: National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). 

Title: Aleutian Islands Pollock Fishery 

Requirements. 

OMB Control Number: 0648–0513. 

Form Number(s): NA. 

Type of Request: Regular submission 

(revision and extension of a current 

information collection). 

Number of Respondents: 2. 

Average Hours per Response: Annual 

letter to NMFS, 16 hours; appeal, 20 

hours. 

Burden Hours: 36. 

Needs and Uses: This request is for 

revision and extension of a current 

information collection. 

The Consolidated Appropriations Act 

of 2004 (Public Law (Pub. L.) 108–199) 

was signed into law on January 23, 

2004. Section 803 of this law allocates 

the Aleutian Islands (AI) directed 

pollock fishery to the Aleut Corporation 

for economic development of Adak, 

Alaska. The statute permits the Aleut 

Corporation to authorize one or more 

agents for activities necessary for 

conducting the AI directed pollock 

fishery. Management provisions for the 

AI directed pollock fishery include: 

restrictions on the harvest specifications 

for the AI directed pollock fishery; 

provisions for fishery monitoring; 

reporting requirements; and an AI 

Chinook salmon prohibited species 

catch limit that, when reached, would 

close the existing Chinook salmon 

savings areas in the AI. 

Affected Public: Business or other forprofit organizations. 

Frequency: Annually. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Mandatory. 

OMB Desk Officer: 

OIRA_Submission@omb.eop.gov. 

Copies of the above information 

collection proposal can be obtained by 

calling or writing Jennifer Jessup, 

Departmental Paperwork Clearance 

Officer, (202) 482–0336, Department of 

Commerce, Room 6616, 14th and 

Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, 

DC 20230 (or via the Internet at 

JJessup@doc.gov). 

Written comments and 

recommendations for the proposed 

information collection should be sent 

within 30 days of publication of this 

notice to 

OIRA_Submission@omb.eop.gov. 

Dated: April 16, 2012. 

Gwellnar Banks, 

Management Analyst, Office of the Chief 

Information Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2012–9445 Filed 4–18–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–22–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Institute of Standards and 

Technology 

Proposed Information Collection; 

Comment Request; Manufacturing 

Extension Partnership (MEP) 

Management Information Reporting 

AGENCY: National Institute of Standards 

and Technology (NIST), Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Department of 

Commerce, as part of its continuing 

effort to reduce paperwork and 

respondent burden, invites the general 

public and other Federal agencies to 

take this opportunity to comment on 

proposed and/or continuing information 

collections, as required by the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. 

DATES: Written comments must be 

submitted on or before June 18, 2012. 

ADDRESSES: Direct all written comments 

to Jennifer Jessup, Departmental 

Paperwork Clearance Officer, 

Department of Commerce, Room 6616, 

14th and Constitution Avenue NW., 

Washington, DC 20230 (or via the 

Internet at jjessup@doc.gov). 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Requests for additional information or 

copies of the information collection 

instrument and instructions should be 

directed to Deirdre McMahon, National 

Institute of Standards and Technology— 

Manufacturing Extension Partnership, 

100 Bureau Drive, Stop 4800, 301–975– 

8328 (phone). In addition, written 

comments may be sent via email to 

Deirdre.mcmahon@nist.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Abstract 

Sponsored by NIST, the 

Manufacturing Extension Partnership 

(MEP) is a national network of locallymstockstill on DSK4VPTVN1PROD with NOTICES