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of Energy and Environmental 

Technologies Industries (OEEI), 

International Trade Administration, 

Room 4053; 1401 Constitution Avenue 

NW., Washington, DC 20230. To be 

considered during the meeting, 

comments must be received no later 

than 5:00 p.m. EDT on Monday, January 

20, 2014, to ensure transmission to the 

Committee prior to the meeting. 

Comments received after that date will 

be distributed to the members, but may 

not be considered at the meeting. 

Copies of RE&EEAC meeting minutes 

will be available within 30 days of the 

meeting. 

Edward A. O’Malley, 

Director, Office of Energy and Environmental 

Industries. 

[FR Doc. 2013–30725 Filed 12–24–13; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

United States Patent and Trademark 

Office 

National Telecommunications and 

Information Administration 

[Docket No.: 130927852–3852–01] 

Extension of Comment Period for 

Public Comments on Department of 

Commerce Green Paper, Copyright 

Policy, Creativity, and Innovation in the 

Digital Economy 

AGENCY: United States Patent and 

Trademark Office, U.S. Department of 

Commerce; National 

Telecommunications and Information 

Administration, U.S. Department of 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice of Extension of Public 

Comment Period. 

SUMMARY: On October 3, 2013, the 

Department of Commerce’s Internet 

Policy Task Force (Task Force) 

published a notice of public meeting 

and a request for public comments on 

five separate copyright policy issues 

critical to economic growth, job 

creation, and cultural development that 

were identified in the Department’s 

Green Paper on Copyright Policy, 

Creativity, and Innovation in the Digital 

Economy (Green Paper). The purpose of 

this notice is to announce an extension 

of the period for filing post-meeting 

comments. 

DATES: To be ensured of consideration, 

post-meeting comments are due on or 

before January 17, 2014. The filing of 

pre-meeting comments is not a 

prerequisite for filing post-meeting 

comments. 

ADDRESSES: Interested parties are 

encouraged to file comments 

electronically by email to: Copyright

Comments2013@uspto.gov. Comments 

submitted by email should be machinesearchable and should not be copyprotected. Written comments also may 

be submitted by mail to Office of Policy 

and International Affairs, United States 

Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), 

Mail Stop External Affairs, P.O. Box 

1450, Alexandria, VA 22313–1450. 

Responders should include the name of 

the person or organization filing the 

comment, as well as a page number, on 

each page of their submissions. Paper 

submissions should also include a CD or 

DVD containing the submission in 

Word, WordPerfect, or .pdf format. CDs 

or DVDs should be labeled with the 

name and organizational affiliation of 

the filer, and the name of the word 

processing program used to create the 

document. All comments received are a 

part of the public record and will be 

made available to the public at http:// 

www.ntia.doc.gov/internetpolicy

taskforce and http://www.uspto.gov/ip/ 

global/copyrights/index.jsp without 

change. All personally identifiable 

information (for example, name, 

address) voluntarily submitted by the 

commenter may be publicly accessible. 

Do not submit confidential business 

information or otherwise sensitive or 

protected information. The Task Force 

will accept anonymous comments (enter 

‘‘N/A’’ in the required fields if you wish 

to remain anonymous). 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

further information regarding the public 

comments, contact Garrett Levin or Ben 

Golant, Office of Policy and 

International Affairs, United States 

Patent and Trademark Office, Madison 

Building, 600 Dulany Street, 

Alexandria, VA 22314; telephone (571) 

272–9300; email garrett.levin@uspto.gov 

or benjamin.golant@uspto.gov. Please 

direct all media inquiries to the Office 

of the Chief Communications Officer, 

USPTO, at (571) 272–8400. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On 

October 3, 2013, the Task Force 

published a notice of public meeting 

and a request for public comments on 

five separate copyright policy issues 

critical to economic growth, job 

creation, and cultural development that 

were identified in the Department’s 

Green Paper. The deadline for filing premeeting comments was November 13, 

2013. See Request for Public Comments 

and Notice of Public Meeting, 78 Fed. 

Reg. 61337 (Oct. 3, 2013), available at 

http://www.ntia.doc.gov/files/ntia/

publications/ntia_pto_

rfc_10032013.pdf. The public meeting 

was held on December 12, 2013. 

Pursuant to a Federal Register Notice 

published on November 5, 2013, the 

deadline for filing post-meeting 

comments was set for January 10, 2014. 

See Notice of Change in Public Meeting 

Date and Change in Public Comment 

Periods, 78 Fed. Reg. 66337 (Nov. 5, 

2013), available at http:// 

www.ntia.doc.gov/files/ntia/ 

publications/copyright_green_

paper_public_meeting.pdf. 

The Task Force is now extending the 

period for submission of public postmeeting comments until January 17, 

2014. Archived recordings of the public 

meeting are available at http:// 

new.livestream.com/uspto/copyright. 

Dated: December 19, 2013. 

Lawrence E. Strickling, 

Assistant Secretary of Commerce for 

Communications and Information. 

Margaret A. Focarino, 

Commissioner for Patents, Performing the 

functions and duties of the Under Secretary 

of Commerce for Intellectual Property and 

Director of the United States Patent and 

Trademark Office. 

[FR Doc. 2013–30690 Filed 12–24–13; 8:45 am] 

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BUREAU OF CONSUMER FINANCIAL 

PROTECTION 

[Docket No: CFPB–2013–0037] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Submission for OMB 

Review; Comment Request 

AGENCY: Bureau of Consumer Financial 

Protection. 

ACTION: Notice and request for comment. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 

(PRA), the Consumer Financial 

Protection Bureau (Bureau) is proposing 

a new information collection titled, 

‘‘Development of Metrics to Measure 

Financial Well-being of Working-age 

and Older American Consumers.’’ 

DATES: Written comments are 

encouraged and must be received on or 

before January 27, 2014 to be assured of 

consideration. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, 

identified by the title of the information 

collection, OMB Control Number (see 

below), and docket number (see above), 

by any of the following methods: 

• Electronic: http://

www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

instructions for submitting comments. 

• Mail/Hand Delivery/Courier: 

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau 

(Attention: PRA Office), 1700 G Street 

NW., Washington, DC 20552. 


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Please note that comments submitted 

by fax or email and those submitted 

after the comment period will not be 

accepted. In general, all comments 

received will be posted without change 

to regulations.gov, including any 

personal information provided. 

Sensitive personal information, such as 

account numbers or social security 

numbers, should not be included. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Documentation prepared in support of 

this information collection request is 

available at www.reginfo.gov. Requests 

for additional information should be 

directed to the Consumer Financial 

Protection Bureau, (Attention: PRA 

Office), 1700 G Street NW., Washington, 

DC 20552, (202) 435–9575, or email: 

PRA@cfpb.gov. Please do not submit 

comments to this email box. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Title of Collection: Development of 

Metrics to Measure Financial Well-being 

of Working-age and Older American 

Consumers. 

OMB Control Number: 3170–XXXX. 

Type of Review: New collection 

(request for a new OMB control 

number). 

Affected Public: Individuals or 

households. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

16,500. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 4,625. 

Abstract: Under the Dodd-Frank Wall 

Street Reform and Consumer Protection 

Act, Public Law No. 111–203, the 

Bureau’s Office of Financial Education 

is responsible for developing and 

implementing a strategy to improve the 

financial literacy of consumers that 

includes measurable goals and 

initiatives, in consultation with the 

Financial Literacy and Education 

Commission, consistent with the 

National Strategy for Financial Literacy. 

In addition, the Office of Financial 

Protection for Older Americans within 

the Bureau is charged with conducting 

research to identify methods and 

strategies to educate and counsel 

seniors, and developing goals for 

programs that provide seniors with 

financial literacy and counseling. 

The Bureau intends to collect 

quantitative data through surveys with 

working-age (age 18–61) and older 

American (age 62 and older) consumers 

in order to develop and refine survey 

instruments that will enable the Bureau 

to reliably and accurately measure adult 

consumers’ financial well-being. The 

primary anticipated data collection 

strategy is through internet-based 

surveys. The core objective of the data 

collection is to iteratively test, refine, 

and produce valid and reliable measures 

of consumer financial well-being that 

will create a strong, standardized basis 

for setting measurable goals, and 

evaluating financial education strategies 

and programs. 

Request for Comments: The Bureau 

issued a 60-day Federal Register notice 

on August 8, 2013, (78 FR 48422). 

Comments were solicited and continue 

to be invited on: (a) Whether the 

collection of information is necessary 

for the proper performance of the 

functions of the Bureau, including 

whether the information will have 

practical utility; (b) The accuracy of the 

Bureau’s estimate of the burden of the 

collection of information, including the 

validity of the methods and the 

assumptions used; (c) Ways to enhance 

the quality, utility, and clarity of the 

information to be collected; and (d) 

Ways to minimize the burden of the 

collection of information on 

respondents, including through the use 

of automated collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology. 

Comments submitted in response to this 

notice will be summarized and/or 

included in the request for Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) 

approval. All comments will become a 

matter of public record. 

Dated: December 19, 2013. 

Ashwin Vasan, 

Chief Information Officer, Bureau of 

Consumer Financial Protection. 

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Office of the Secretary 

Extension of Autism Services 

Demonstration Project for TRICARE 

Beneficiaries Under the Extended Care 

Health Option 

AGENCY: Department of Defense. 

ACTION: Notice of demonstration. 

SUMMARY: This notice provides a 1-year 

extension of the Department of Defense 

(the Department) Enhanced Access to 

Autism Services Demonstration Project 

(Autism Demonstration) under the 

Extended Care Health Option (ECHO) 

for beneficiaries diagnosed with an 

Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). 

Under the demonstration, the 

Department implemented a provider 

model that allows reimbursement for 

Applied Behavior Analysis rendered by 

providers who are not otherwise eligible 

for reimbursement. 

DATES: The demonstration will continue 

through March 14, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: Defense Health Agency, 

Health Plan Operations, 7700 Arlington 

Boulevard, Suite 5101, Falls Church, 

Virginia 22042. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

questions pertaining to this 

demonstration project, please contact 

Mr. Richard Hart at (703) 681–0047. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

On December 4, 2007, the Department 

of Defense published a notice in the 

Federal Register (FR) (72 FR 68130– 

68132) of a TRICARE demonstration to 

increase access to ABA services. The 

purpose of the demonstration is to allow 

the Department to determine whether 

such a provider model increases access 

to services, the services are reaching 

those most likely to benefit from them, 

the quality of the services rendered 

meets the standard of care currently 

accepted by the community of 

providers, and whether State 

requirements for licensure or 

certification of providers of ABA 

services, where such exists, are being 

met. The effective date was 60 days 

following publication of the notice, and 

the demonstration was implemented on 

March 15, 2008, for a period of 2 years. 

Recognizing that the subject of ASDs 

is complex, in particular, with respect to 

the number of individuals diagnosed 

with ASD, the treatment of ASD that 

generally includes several years of 

behavior modification through 

educational services, and the ability of 

the provider community to increase the 

number of qualified providers, the 

Department published a notice in the FR 

(75 FR 8927–8928) on February 26, 

2010, that extended the Demonstration 

through March 14, 2012, and again on 

December 27, 2011 (76 FR 80903) 

through March 14, 2014. 

Based on the favorable subjective 

response from parents of TRICARE 

beneficiaries who participated in the 

ABA tiered delivery model under the 

ECHO Autism Demonstration and 

responded to TRICARE Management 

Activity satisfaction surveys, the 

Department published a Proposed Rule 

on December 29, 2011 (76 FR 81897– 

81899) that would add coverage of the 

ABA tiered delivery model under ECHO 

for ASD as a non-medical ‘‘Other 

service,’’ as that term is used in Title 10, 

U.S.C., Section 1079(e). However, the 

publication of a final rule and transition 

of the Autism Demonstration to a 

permanent benefit under ECHO was 

placed on-hold due to pending 

resolution of the ongoing litigation and 

separate legislative efforts addressing 

coverage of autism-related services 

under TRICARE, and the interim 


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