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Incorporated; LabOne, Inc.; Center for 

Laboratory Services, a Division of 

LabOne, Inc.,). 

Maxxam Analytics*, 6740 Campobello 

Road, Mississauga, ON, Canada L5N 

2L8, (905) 817–5700, (Formerly: 

Maxxam Analytics Inc., NOVAMANN 

(Ontario), Inc.). 

MedTox Laboratories, Inc., 402 W. 

County Road D, St. Paul, MN 55112, 

(651) 636–7466/(800) 832–3244. 

MetroLab-Legacy Laboratory Services, 

1225 NE 2nd Ave., Portland, OR 

97232, (503) 413–5295/(800) 950– 

5295. 

Minneapolis Veterans Affairs Medical 

Center, Forensic Toxicology 

Laboratory, 1 Veterans Drive, 

Minneapolis, MN 55417, (612) 725– 

2088. 

National Toxicology Laboratories, Inc., 

1100 California Ave., Bakersfield, CA 

93304, (661) 322–4250/(800) 350– 

3515. 

One Source Toxicology Laboratory, Inc., 

1213 Genoa-Red Bluff, Pasadena, TX 

77504, (888) 747–3774, (Formerly: 

University of Texas Medical Branch, 

Clinical Chemistry Division; UTMB 

Pathology-Toxicology Laboratory). 

Pacific Toxicology Laboratories, 9348 

DeSoto Ave., Chatsworth, CA 91311, 

(800) 328–6942, (Formerly: Centinela 

Hospital Airport Toxicology 

Laboratory). 

Pathology Associates Medical 

Laboratories, 110 West Cliff Dr., 

Spokane, WA 99204, (509) 755–8991/ 

(800) 541–7891 x7. 

Phamatech, Inc., 10151 Barnes Canyon 

Road, San Diego, CA 92121, (858) 

643–5555. 

Quest Diagnostics Incorporated, 1777 

Montreal Circle, Tucker, GA 30084, 

(800) 729–6432, (Formerly: 

SmithKline Beecham Clinical 

Laboratories; SmithKline Bio-Science 

Laboratories). 

Quest Diagnostics Incorporated, 400 

Egypt Road, Norristown, PA 19403, 

(610) 631–4600/(877) 642–2216, 

(Formerly: SmithKline Beecham 

Clinical Laboratories; SmithKline BioScience Laboratories). 

Quest Diagnostics Incorporated, 8401 

Fallbrook Ave., West Hills, CA 91304, 

(800) 877–2520, (Formerly: 

SmithKline Beecham Clinical 

Laboratories). 

S.E.D. Medical Laboratories, 5601 Office 

Blvd., Albuquerque, NM 87109, (505) 

727–6300/(800) 999–5227. 

South Bend Medical Foundation, Inc., 

530 N. Lafayette Blvd., South Bend, 

IN 46601, (574) 234–4176 x1276. 

Southwest Laboratories, 4625 E. Cotton 

Center Boulevard, Suite 177, Phoenix, 

AZ 85040, (602) 438–8507/(800) 279– 

0027. 

St. Anthony Hospital Toxicology 

Laboratory, 1000 N. Lee St., 

Oklahoma City, OK 73101, (405) 272– 

7052. 

STERLING Reference Laboratories, 2617 

East L Street, Tacoma, WA 98421, 

(800) 442–0438. 

Toxicology & Drug Monitoring 

Laboratory, University of Missouri 

Hospital & Clinics, 301 Business Loop 

70 West, Suite 208, Columbia, MO 

65203, (573) 882–1273. 

Toxicology Testing Service, Inc., 5426 

NW. 79th Ave., Miami, FL 33166, 

(305) 593–2260. 

U.S. Army Forensic Toxicology Drug 

Testing Laboratory, 2490 Wilson St., 

Fort George G. Meade, MD 20755– 

5235, (301) 677–7085. 

*The Standards Council of Canada (SCC) 

voted to end its Laboratory Accreditation 

Program for Substance Abuse (LAPSA) 

effective May 12, 1998. Laboratories certified 

through that program were accredited to 

conduct forensic urine drug testing as 

required by U.S. Department of 

Transportation (DOT) regulations. As of that 

date, the certification of those accredited 

Canadian laboratories will continue under 

DOT authority. The responsibility for 

conducting quarterly performance testing 

plus periodic on-site inspections of those 

LAPSA-accredited laboratories was 

transferred to the U.S. HHS, with the HHS’ 

NLCP contractor continuing to have an active 

role in the performance testing and 

laboratory inspection processes. Other 

Canadian laboratories wishing to be 

considered for the NLCP may apply directly 

to the NLCP contractor just as U.S. 

laboratories do. 

Upon finding a Canadian laboratory to be 

qualified, HHS will recommend that DOT 

certify the laboratory (Federal Register, July 

16, 1996) as meeting the minimum standards 

of the Mandatory Guidelines published in the 

Federal Register on April 30, 2010 (75 FR 

22809). After receiving DOT certification, the 

laboratory will be included in the monthly 

list of HHS-certified laboratories and 

participate in the NLCP certification 

maintenance program. 

Janine Denis Cook, 

Chemist, Division of Workplace Programs, 

Center for Substance Abuse Prevention, 

CAMHSA. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND 

SECURITY 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Solicitation of Proposal 

Information for Award of Public 

Contracts 

AGENCY: Office of the Chief Procurement 

Officer, DHS. 

ACTION: 30-Day Notice and request for 

comments; Extension without change of 

a currently approved collection, 1600– 

0005. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Homeland 

Security, Office of the Chief 

Procurement Officer, will submit the 

following information collection request 

(ICR) to the Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB) for review and clearance 

in accordance with the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995 (P.L. 104–13, 44 

U.S.C. Chapter 35). DHS previously 

published this information collection 

request (ICR) in the Federal Register on 

August 31, 2011 at 76 FR 54243, for a 

60-day public comment period. No 

comments were received by DHS. The 

purpose of this notice is to allow 

additional 30-days for public comments. 

DATES: Comments are encouraged and 

will be accepted until January 4, 2012. 

This process is conducted in accordance 

with 5 CFR 1320.10. 

ADDRESSES: Interested persons are 

invited to submit written comments on 

the proposed information collection to 

the Office of Information and Regulatory 

Affairs, Office of Management and 

Budget. Comments should be addressed 

to OMB Desk Officer, Department of 

Homeland Security and sent via 

electronic mail to 

oira_submission@omb.eop.gov or faxed 

to (202) 395–5806. 

The Office of Management and Budget 

is particularly interested in comments 

which: 

1. 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; 

2. 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; 

3. Enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and 

4. 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. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: If 

additional information is required 

contact: The Department of Homeland 

Security (DHS), Office of Chief 

Procurement Officer, Acquisition Policy 

and Legislation Office, DHS Attn.: 

Camara Francis, Department of 

Homeland Security, Office of the Chief 


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Procurement Officer, Room 3114, 

Washington, DC 20528, 

Camara.Francis@hq.dhs.gov, (202) 447– 

5904. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Department of Homeland Security 

(DHS) and the Office of the Chief 

Procurement Officer (OCPO) collect 

information when inviting firms to 

submit bids, proposals, and offers for 

public contracts for supplies and 

services. The information collection is 

necessary for compliance with the 

Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR); 

48 CFR Chapter 1, the Federal Property 

and Administrative Services Act 

(Division C of Title 41), under the Small 

Business Innovative Research (SBIR) 

and Small Business Technology 

Transfer (STTR) programs 15 U.S.C. 

628. 

For solicitations to contract made 

through a variety of means, whether 

conducted orally or in writing, 

contracting officers normally request 

information from prospective offerors 

such as pricing information, delivery 

schedule compliance, and whether the 

offeror has the resources (both human 

and financial) to accomplish 

requirements. Examples of the kinds of 

information collected can be found in 

the FAR at FAR 13.106–1, 13.106–3, 

13.302–1, –3, –5, subpart 13.5, subpart 

14.2, subpart 15.2, subpart 6.1, and 

subpart 35. 

Examples where collections of 

information occur in soliciting for 

supplies/services include the issuance 

of draft Requests for Proposal (RFP), 

Requests for Information (RFI), and 

Broad Agency Announcements (BAA). 

The Government generally issues an 

RFP using the uniform contract format 

(FAR 15.204–1) with the intent of 

awarding a contract to one or more 

prospective offerors. The RFP can 

require those interested in making an 

offer to provide information in the 

following areas: schedule (FAR 15.204– 

2); contract clauses (FAR 15.204–3); list 

of documents, exhibits and other 

attachments (FAR 15.204–4) or 

representations and instructions 

(15.204–5). 

FAR 15.201(e) authorizes agencies to 

issue RFIs when an agency ‘‘does not 

presently intend to award a contract, but 

wants to obtain price, delivery, other 

market information, or capabilities for 

planning purposes’’. RFIs solicit 

responses from the public. Similarly, 

FAR 35.106 authorizes Federal agencies 

to use BAAs to ‘‘fulfill their 

requirements for scientific study and 

experimentation directed toward 

advancing the state-of-the-art or 

increasing knowledge or understanding 

rather than focusing on a specific 

system or hardware solution.’’ 

The DHS Science and Technology 

(S&T) Directorate issues BAAs soliciting 

white papers and proposals from the 

public. DHS S&T evaluates white papers 

and proposals received from the public 

in response to a DHS S&T BAA using 

the evaluation criteria specified in the 

BAA through a peer or scientific review 

process in accordance with FAR 

35.016(d). White paper evaluation 

determines those research ideas that 

merit submission of a full proposal and 

proposal evaluation determines those 

proposals that merit selection for 

contract award. Unclassified white 

papers and proposals are typically 

collected via the DHS S&T BAA secure 

Web site, while classified white papers 

and proposals must be submitted via 

proper classified courier or proper 

classified mailing procedures as 

described in the National Industrial 

Security Program Operating Manual 

(NSPOM). 

Federal agencies with an annual 

extramural research and development 

(R&D) budget exceeding $100 million 

are required to participate in the SBIR 

Program. Similarly, Federal agencies 

with an extramural R&D budget 

exceeding $1 billion are required to 

participate in the STTR Program. 

Federal agencies who participate in 

the SBIR and STTR programs must 

collect information from the public to: 

(1) Meet their reporting requirements 

under 15 U.S.C. 638 (b)(7), (g)(8), (i), 

(j)(1)(E), (j)(3)(C), (l), (o)(10), and (v); 

(2)Meet the requirement to maintain 

both a publicly accessible database of 

SBIR/STTR award information and a 

government database of SBIR/STTR 

award information for SBIR and STTR 

program evaluation under 15 U.S.C. 

638(g)(10), (k), (o)(9), and (o)(15); and 

(3) Meet requirements for public 

outreach under 15 U.S.C. 638 (j)(2)(F), 

(o)(14), and (s). 

DHS is not asking for anything 

outside of what is already required in 

the FAR. Should anything outside the 

FAR arise, DHS will submit a request for 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) approval. The prior information 

collect request for OMB No. 1600–005 

was approved through October 31, 2011 

by OMB in a Notice of OMB Action. 

The information being collected is 

used by the Government’s contracting 

officers and other acquisition personnel, 

including technical and legal staffs to 

determine adequacy of technical and 

management approach, experience, 

responsibility, responsiveness, expertise 

of the firms submitting offers, 

identification of members of the public 

(i.e., small businesses) who qualify for, 

and are interested in participating in, 

the DHS SBIR Program, facilitate SBIR 

outreach to the public, and provide the 

DHS SBIR Program Office necessary and 

sufficient information to determine that 

proposals submitted by the public to the 

DHS SBIR Program meet criteria for 

consideration under the program. 

Failure to collect this information 

would adversely affect the quality of 

products and services DHS receives 

from contractors. Potentially, contracts 

would be awarded to firms without 

sufficient experience and expertise, 

thereby placing the Department’s 

operations in jeopardy. Defective and 

inadequate contractor deliverables 

would adversely affect DHS’s 

fulfillment of the mission requirements 

in all areas. Additionally, the 

Department would be unsuccessful in 

identifying small businesses with 

research and development (R&D) 

capabilities, which would adversely 

affect the mission requirements in this 

area. 

Many sources of the requested 

information use automated word 

processing systems, databases, emails, 

and, in some cases, web portals to 

facilitate preparation of material to be 

submitted and to post and collect 

information. It is common place within 

many of DHS’s Components for 

submissions to be electronic as a result 

of implementation of e-Government 

initiatives. 

DHS S&T uses information technology 

(i.e., electronic web portals) in the 

collection of information to reduce the 

data gathering and records management 

burden. DHS S&T uses a secure Web site 

which the public can propose SBIR 

research topics and submit proposals in 

response to SBIR solicitations. In 

addition, DHS uses a web portal to 

review RFIs and register to submit a 

white paper or proposal in response to 

a specific BAA. The data collection 

forms standardize the collection of 

information that is necessary and 

sufficient for the DHS SBIR Program 

Office to meet its requirements under 15 

U.S.C. 638. 

According to Federal Procurement 

Data System (FPDS) and Federal 

Business Opportunities (FedBizOpps), 

the number of competitive solicitations 

and award actions has increased each 

over the past three years, thereby 

increasing the universe of possible 

respondents to DHS and its 

Components’ solicitations. However, an 

increase in the information collection 

burden associated with the gathering of 

additional information to support the 

evaluation of solicitation responses has 

been offset, by the use of electronic web 

portals, such as CCR, FAPIIS, those used 


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to submit SBIR research topics and 

submit response to DHS SBIR 

solicitations. Additionally, electronic 

web portals are used to collect 

unclassified white papers and proposals 

to reduce the data gathering and records 

management burden for BAAs. 

In addition to issuance of solicitations 

over the Internet or electronic systems; 

increased use of oral presentations in 

lieu of written proposals, permitted 

under FAR 15.102; and increased use of 

combined contract action notices/ 

requests for proposals, as encouraged by 

FAR 12.603, are contributing to the 

relative stability of DHS’s information 

collection burden to the public. There is 

no change in the information being 

collected. 

The Office of Management and Budget 

is particularly interested in comments 

which: 

1. 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; 

2. 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; 

3. Enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and 

4. 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. 

Analysis 

Agency: Office of the Chief 

Procurement Officer, DHS. 

Title: Solicitation of Proposal 

Information for Award of Public 

Contracts. 

OMB Number: 1600–0005. 

Frequency: On Occasion. 

Affected Public: Private Sector. 

Number of Respondents: 17,180. 

Estimated Time per Respondent: 13 

hours. 

Total Burden Hours: 721,560. 

Dated: November 28, 2011. 

Margaret H. Graves, 

Deputy Chief Information Officer. 

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BILLING CODE 9110–9B–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND 

SECURITY 

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration 

Services 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Form I–690; Revision of an 

Existing Information Collection; 

Comment Request 

ACTION: 30-Day Notice of Information 

Collection Under Review: Form I–690, 

Application for Waiver of Grounds of 

Excludability; OMB Control Number 

1615–0032. 

The Department of Homeland 

Security, U.S. Citizenship and 

Immigration Services (USCIS) will be 

submitting the following information 

collection request to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for 

review and clearance in accordance 

with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 

1995. An information collection notice 

was previously published in the Federal 

Register on August 19, 2011, at 76 FR 

51996, allowing for a 60-day public 

comment period. USCIS did not receive 

any comments in connection with that 

notice. 

The purpose of this notice is to allow 

an additional 30 days for public 

comments. Comments are encouraged 

and will be accepted until January 4, 

2012. This process is conducted in 

accordance with 5 CFR 1320.10. 

Written comments and/or suggestions 

regarding the item(s) contained in this 

notice, especially regarding the 

estimated public burden and associated 

response time, should be directed to the 

Department of Homeland Security 

(DHS), and to the Office of Management 

and Budget (OMB), USCIS Desk Officer. 

Comments may be submitted to: USCIS, 

Chief, Regulatory Products Division, 20 

Massachusetts Avenue, Washington, DC 

20529–2020. Comments may also be 

submitted to DHS via facsimile to (202) 

272–0997 or via email at 

uscisfrcomment@dhs.gov, and to the 

OMB USCIS Desk Officer via facsimile 

at (202) 395–5806 or via email at 

oira_submission@omb.eop.gov. 

When submitting comments by email, 

please make sure to add OMB Control 

No. 1615–0032 in the subject box. 

Written comments and suggestions from 

the public and affected agencies should 

address one or more of the following 

four points: 

(1) 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; 

(2) Evaluate the accuracy of the 

agencies estimate of the burden of the 

proposed collection of information, 

including the validity of the 

methodology and assumptions used; 

(3) Enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and 

(4) 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 submission of 

responses. 

Overview of This Information 

Collection 

(1) Type of Information Collection: 

Revision of a currently approved 

information collection. 

(2) Title of the Form/Collection: 

Application for Waiver of Grounds of 

Excludability. 

(3) Agency form number, if any, and 

the applicable component of the 

Department of Homeland Security 

sponsoring the collection: Form I–690. 

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration 

Services (USCIS). 

(4) Affected public who will be asked 

or required to respond, as well as a brief 

abstract: Primary: Individuals or 

Households. USCIS will use this form to 

determine whether applicants are 

eligible for admission to the United 

States under sections 210 and 245A of 

the Immigration and Nationality Act. 

(5) An estimate of the total number of 

respondents and the amount of time 

estimated for an average respondent to 

respond: 74 responses at .25 hours (15 

minutes) per response. 

(6) An estimate of the total public 

burden (in hours) associated with the 

collection: 19 annual burden hours. 

If you need a copy of the information 

collection instrument, please visit the 

Web site at: http://www.regulations. 

gov/. 

We may also be contacted at: USCIS, 

Regulatory Products Division, 20 

Massachusetts Avenue NW., 

Washington, DC 20529–2020, 

Telephone number (202) 272–8377. 

Dated: November 29, 2011. 

Sunday Aigbe, 

Chief, Regulatory Products Division, Office 

of the Executive Secretariat, U.S. Citizenship 

and Immigration Services, Department of 

Homeland Security. 

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