72654 Federal Register / Vol. 79, No. 235 / Monday, December 8, 2014 / Notices 

Highway, Bethesda, MD 20814, (301) 

504–7923. 

Dated: December 4, 2014. 

Alberta E. Mills, 

Acting Secretary. 

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BILLING CODE 6355–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Office of the Secretary 

[Docket ID DoD–2014–OS–0156] 

Proposed Collection; Comment 

Request 

AGENCY: Office of the Under Secretary of 

Defense for Personnel & Readiness, DoD. 

ACTION: Notice. 

In compliance with the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995, the Office of the 

Under Secretary of Defense for 

Personnel & Readiness announces a 

proposed public information collection 

and seeks public comment on the 

provisions thereof. Comments are 

invited on: (a) Whether the proposed 

collection of information is necessary 

for the proper performance of the 

functions of the agency, including 

whether the information shall have 

practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the 

agency’s estimate of the burden of the 

proposed information collection; (c) 

ways to enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and (d) ways to minimize the 

burden of the information collection on 

respondents, including through the use 

of automated collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology. 

DATES: Consideration will be given to all 

comments received by February 6, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, 

identified by docket number and title, 

by any of the following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:// 

www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

instructions for submitting comments. 

• Mail: Federal Docket Management 

System Office, 4800 Mark Center Drive, 

East Tower, Suite 02G09, Alexandria, 

VA 22350–3100. 

Instructions: All submissions received 

must include the agency name, docket 

number and title for this Federal 

Register document. The general policy 

for comments and other submissions 

from members of the public is to make 

these submissions available for public 

viewing on the Internet at http://

www.regulations.gov as they are 

received without change, including any 

personal identifiers or contact 

information. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To 

request more information on this 

proposed information collection or to 

obtain a copy of the proposal and 

associated collection instruments, 

please write to Program Manager, 

Spouse Education & Career 

Opportunities Program, Office of Family 

Policy/Children and Youth, Military 

Community and Family Policy, 4800 

Mark Center Drive Suite 03G15, 

Alexandria, VA 22350–2300 ATTN: Mr. 

Eddy Mentzer, or 571–372–0857. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Title; Associated Form; and OMB 

Number: Military Spouse Career 

Advancement Accounts Scholarship 

(MyCAA); OMB Control Number 0704– 

XXXX. 

Needs and Uses: This information 

collection requirement is necessary to 

allow eligible spouses to submit 

information for approval of financial 

scholarships to pursue portable careers. 

Affected Public: Military spouse users 

of MyCAA Portal. 

Annual Burden Hours: 262,500. 

Number of Respondents: 350,000. 

Responses per Respondent: 1. 

Average Burden per Response: 45 

minutes. 

Frequency: On occasion. 

The Military Spouse Career 

Advancement Accounts Scholarship 

(MyCAA) is a career development and 

employment assistance program 

sponsored by the DoD to help military 

spouses and same-sex domestic partners 

pursue licenses, certificates, 

certifications or associate’s degrees 

(excluding associate’s degrees in general 

studies, liberal arts, and 

interdisciplinary studies that do not 

have a concentration) necessary for 

gainful employment in high demand, 

high growth portable career fields and 

occupations; to provide a record of 

educational endeavors and progress of 

military spouses and same-sex domestic 

partners participating in education 

services; and to manage the tuition 

assistance scholarship, track 

enrollments and funding and to 

facilitate communication with 

participants via email. Records may also 

be used as a management tool for 

statistical analysis, tracking, reporting, 

evaluating program effectiveness and 

conducting research. 

Dated: December 2, 2014. 

Aaron Siegel, 

Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison 

Officer, Department of Defense. 

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BILLING CODE 5001–06–P 

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Office of the Secretary 

[Docket ID: DoD–2013–OS–0227] 

Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Defense 

has submitted to OMB for clearance, the 

following proposal for collection of 

information under the provisions of the 

Paperwork Reduction Act. 

DATES: Consideration will be given to all 

comments received by January 7, 2015. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Fred 

Licari, 571–372–0493. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Title, Associated Form and OMB 

Number: Personnel Security 

Investigation Projection for Industry 

Survey; OMB Control Number 0704– 

0417. 

Type of Request: Reinstatement. 

Number of Respondents: 13,137. 

Responses per Respondent: 1. 

Annual Responses: 13,137. 

Average Burden per Response: 95 

minutes total: 80 minutes (Industry 

Survey); 15 minutes (Contact Validation 

Test). 

Annual Burden Hours: 20,800 hours 

Needs and Uses: Executive order 

(E.O.) 12829, ‘‘National Industrial 

Security Program (NISP),’’ stipulates 

that the Secretary of Defense shall serve 

as the Executive Agent for inspecting 

and monitoring the contractors, 

licensees, and grantees who require or 

will require access to classified 

information; and for determining the 

eligibility for access to classified 

information of contractors, licensees, 

and grantees and their respective 

employees. The Under Secretary of 

Defense for Intelligence assigned 

Defense Security Service (DSS) the 

responsibility for central operational 

management of DoD personnel security 

investigation (PSI) workload 

projections, and for monitoring of PSI 

funding and investigation quality issues 

for DoD components. This responsibility 

includes managing workload 

projections, along with funding and 

quality oversight matters related to PSIs 

conducted for employees and 

consultants of contractors cleared under 

the NISP. Prior to 2001, DSS compared 

historical PSI data for budget 

formulation. Since 2001, DSS conducted 

an annual survey of cleared contractors 

to more accurately assess personnel 

security and trustworthiness 

investigation requirements. In this 

annual collection of information, DSS 

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asks the Facility Security Officers of 

cleared contractor entities to provide for 

each of three fiscal years (e.g., 2015, 

2016, 2017): Projections of the numbers 

and types of personnel security 

investigations (PSIs) required; a 

description of methodology used for the 

projections; and estimates of the 

numbers and types of cleared 

contractor’s PSI projections that are 

separately attributable to DoD contracts 

and the contracts of non-DoD agencies. 

The data will be incorporated into DSS’s 

budget submissions and will be used to 

track against cleared contractors’ actual 

PSI submissions. The Office of 

Personnel Management (OPM) has 

responsibility for conducting PSIs and 

the subsequent periodic reinvestigations 

(PRs) in accordance with the Code of 

Federal Regulations, Title 5, Part 736. 

Cleared contractors, representatives of 

various industry associations, the 

National Industrial Security Program 

Policy Advisory Committee (NISPPAC), 

various components of the department 

of Defense (including the Military 

Departments) and other Federal 

Government agencies are familiar with 

the annual survey. 

Affected Public: Business or other forprofit; Not-for-profit institutions under 

Department of Defense Security 

Cognizance. 

Frequency: Annually. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary. 

OMB Desk Officer: Ms. Jasmeet 

Seehra. 

Written comments and 

recommendations on the proposed 

information collection should be sent to 

Ms. Jasmeet Seehra at the Office of 

Management and Budget, Desk Officer 

for DoD, Room 10236, New Executive 

Office Building, Washington, DC 20503. 

You may also submit comments, 

identified by docket number and title, 

by the following method: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:// 

www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

instructions for submitting comments. 

Instructions: All submissions received 

must include the agency name, docket 

number and title for this Federal 

Register document. The general policy 

for comments and other submissions 

from members of the public is to make 

these submissions available for public 

viewing on the Internet at http://

www.regulations.gov as they are 

received without change, including any 

personal identifiers or contact 

information. 

DOD Clearance Officer: Mr. Frederick 

Licari. 

Written requests for copies of the 

information collection proposal should 

be sent to Mr. Licari at WHS/ESD 

Directives Division, 4800 Mark Center 

Drive, East Tower, Suite 02G09, 

Alexandria, VA 22350–3100. 

Dated: December 3, 2014. 

Aaron Siegel, 

Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison 

Officer, Department of Defense. 

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BILLING CODE 5001–06–P 

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Office of the Secretary 

Renewal of Department of Defense 

Federal Advisory Committees 

AGENCY: DoD. 

ACTION: Renewal of Federal Advisory 

Committee. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Defense is 

publishing this notice to announce that 

it is renewing the charter for the 

Independent Review Panel on Military 

Medical Construction Standards (‘‘the 

Panel’’). 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jim 

Freeman, Advisory Committee 

Management Officer for the Department 

of Defense, 703–692–5952. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

committee’s charter is being renewed 

pursuant to Section 2852(b) of Public 

Law 111–383, and in accordance with 

the Federal Advisory Committee Act 

(FACA) of 1972 (5 U.S.C., Appendix, as 

amended) and 41 CFR 102–3.50(a), 

established the Panel. 

The Panel is a statutory Federal 

advisory committee that provides 

independent advice and 

recommendations to the Secretary of 

Defense regarding a unified construction 

standard for military medical centers 

that provides a single standard of care. 

The Panel shall perform the following 

tasks, as outlined in Section 2852(b)(1) 

of Public Law 111–383: 

a. Review the unified military medical 

construction standards, established by 

the Secretary of Defense pursuant to 

Section 2852(a) of Public Law 111–382, 

to determine the standards consistency 

with industry practices and benchmarks 

for world class medical construction. 

b. Review ongoing construction 

programs within the Department of 

Defense (DoD) to ensure medical 

construction standards are uniformly 

applied across applicable military 

medical centers. 

c. Assess the approach of the DoD to 

planning and programming facility 

improvements with specific emphasis 

on (i) facility selection criteria and the 

proportional assessment system and (ii) 

facility programming responsibilities 

between the Assistant Secretary of 

Defense for Health Affairs and the 

Secretaries of the Military Departments. 

d. Assess whether the Comprehensive 

Master Plan for the National Capital 

Region Medical (‘‘the Master Plan’’), 

dated April 2010, adequately fulfills 

statutory requirements, as required by 

Section 2714 of the Military 

Construction Authorization Act for 

Fiscal Year 2010 (division B of Public 

Law 111–84; 123 Stat. 2656), to ensure 

that the facilities and organizational 

structure described in the Master Plan 

result in world class military medical 

centers in the National Capital Region. 

e. Make recommendations regarding 

any adjustments of the Master Plan that 

are needed to ensure the provision of 

world class military medical centers and 

delivery system in the National Capital 

Region. 

The Panel, not later than 120 days 

after its first meeting, shall submit, to 

the Secretary of Defense, a written 

report containing an assessment of the 

adequacy of the Master Plan to address 

the above items relating to the purpose 

of the Panel and the recommendations 

of the Panel to improve the Master Plan. 

Additional Reports—Each year, until 

the Panel terminates, it shall submit, no 

later than February 1, an annual report 

to the Secretary of Defense on the 

Panel’s findings and recommendations 

to address any identified deficiencies. 

The Panel or its members, with the 

Department’s approval, may visit 

military health treatment centers and 

military headquarters in connection 

with the official duties of the Panel. 

Such visits shall be undertaken through 

the Under Secretary of Defense for 

Personnel and Readiness (USD(P&R)) 

and in coordination with the Secretaries 

of the Military Departments and the 

Chiefs of the Military Services, as 

appropriate. Visits to any U.S. military 

installations or headquarters under the 

operational control of a U.S. Combatant 

Commander will be done in 

consultation with the Director of the 

Joint Staff and the appropriate 

Combatant Commander. 

The Panel is not established to 

provide advice on individual DoD 

procurements. No matter shall be 

assigned to the Panel for its 

consideration that would require any 

member of the Panel to participate 

personally and substantially in the 

conduct of any specific procurement or 

place him or her in the positions of 

acting as a contracting or procurement 

official. 

The Panel reports to the Secretary of 

Defense. The USD(P&R), pursuant to 

DoD policy, may act upon the Panel’s 

advice and recommendations. 

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