### 26277 Federal Register / Vol. 77, No. 86 / Thursday, May 3, 2012 / Notices

SW., Washington, DC 20585; (202) 586– 1476; Email: Elliott.Levine@ee.doe.gov

. **SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION :**  Purpose of Meeting: To provide advice and guidance that promotes research and development leading to the production of biobased fuels and biobased products.

Tentative Agenda: Agenda will include the following:

• Update on USDA Biomass R&D

Activities

• Update on DOE Biomass R&D

Activities

• Presentations on Biomass related

research in the Northwest

• Update on the Biomass Research and

Development Initiative Public Participation: In keeping with procedures, members of the public are welcome to observe the business of the Biomass Research and Development Technical Advisory Committee. To attend the meeting and/or to make oral statements regarding any of the items on the agenda, you must contact Elliott Levine at 202–586–1476; Email: Elliott.Levine@ee.doe.gov or Roy Tiley at (410) 997–7778 ext. 220; Email: rtiley@bcs-hq.com at least 5 business days prior to the meeting. Members of the public will be heard in the order in which they sign up at the beginning of the meeting. Reasonable provision will be made to include the scheduled oral statements on the agenda. The Co-chairs of the Committee will make every effort to hear the views of all interested parties. If you would like to file a written statement with the Committee, you may do so either before or after the meeting. The Co-chairs will conduct the meeting to facilitate the orderly conduct of business.

Minutes: The minutes of the meeting will be available for public review and copying at the following Web site: http://biomassboard.gov/committee/ meetings.html

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Issued at Washington, DC, on April 27,
2012. LaTanya R. Butler, Acting Deputy Committee Management Officer.
[FR Doc. 2012–10670 Filed 5–2–12; 8:45 am]

**BILLING CODE 6450–01–P**

**EXPORT-IMPORT BANK OF THE U.S.**

**[Public Notice 2012–0088]**

**Agency Information Collection Activities: Final Collection; Comment**  **Request**

**AGENCY :**  Export-Import Bank of the U.S.

**ACTION :**  Submission for OMB Review and Comments Request. Form Title: EIB 99–14 Export Import Bank Trade Reference form.

**SUMMARY :**  The Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im Bank), as a part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, invites the general public and other Federal Agencies to comment on the proposed information collection, as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.

Ex-Im Bank is requesting an emergency approval of Ex-Im Bank form EIB 99–14 Export Import Bank Trade Reference form. Export-Import (Ex-Im) Bank is requesting an emergency approval of form EIB 99–14, Trade Reference Form. This form providesessential credit information used by ExIm Bank credit officers when analyzing requests for export credit insurance/ financing support, both short-term (360 days & less) & medium-term (longer than 360 days), for the export of their US goods and services. Additionally,this form is an integral part of the shortterm Multi-Buyer export credit insurance policy for those policyholders granted foreign buyer discretionarycredit limit authority (DCL). MultiBuyer policy holders given DCL authority may use this form as the sole source or one piece among several sources of credit information for their internal foreign buyer credit decision in which, in turn, commits Ex-Im’s guarantee.

Lack of an emergency approval of this form would greatly restrict our ability to support many of the export sales made by U.S. businesses. Ex-Im Bank and its Multi-Buyer policyholders use the Trade Reference Form approximately 6,500 times annually. Thus the Trade Reference Form is critical to Ex-Im Bankand in particular to over 2,300 MultiBuyer policyholders during their foreign buyer credit review process. This would adversely impact Ex-Im Bank’s ability to finance small business exporters and its overall mission to support U.S. exports and maintain U.S. jobs. Accordingly, Ex-Im Bank requests emergency approval of EIB 99–14 in order to continue operation of this important export program.

The form can be viewed at www.exim.gov/pub/pending/eib99- 14.pdf.

**DATES :**  Comments should be received on or before July 2, 2012 to be assured of consideration.

**ADDRESSES :**  Comments may be submitted electronically on www.regulations.gov or by mail to Jean Fitzgibbon, Export Import Bank of the United States, 811 Vermont Ave. NW., Washington, DC 20571. **SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION :**  Titles and Form Number: EIB 99–14 Export Import Bank Trade Reference form.

OMB Number: 3048–xxx. Type of Review: Emergency Clearance. Need and Use: This form providesessential credit information used by ExIm Bank credit officers when analyzing requests for export credit insurance/ financing support, both short-term (360 days & less) & medium-term (longer than 360 days), for the export of their US goods and services. Additionally,this form is an integral part of the shortterm Multi-Buyer export credit insurance policy for those policyholders granted foreign buyer discretionarycredit limit authority (DCL). MultiBuyer policy holders given DCL authority may use this form as the sole source or one piece among several sources of credit information for their internal foreign buyer credit decision in which, in turn, commits Ex-Im’s guarantee.

Affected Public: This form affects entities involved in the export of U.S goods and services.

Annual Number of Respondents: 6,500.

Estimated Time per Respondent: 15 minutes.

Government Annual Burden Hours: 1,625 hours.

Frequency of Reporting or Use: As needed.

Sharon A. Whitt, Agency Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 2012–10662 Filed 5–2–12; 8:45 am]

**BILLING CODE 6690–01–P**

**EXPORT-IMPORT BANK OF THE UNITED STATES** 

**Economic Impact Policy**

This notice is to inform the public that the Export-Import Bank of the United States has received an application for a $35 million transaction specific working capital guarantee to support the export of approximately $63.5 million worth of sulphur purification equipment and services to Iraq. The repayment term of the working capital guarantee is 24 months. The U.S. exports will enable the Iraqi mining company to establish a maximum production capacity of 500,000 metric tons of sulphur per year. Available information indicates that all of the Iraqi sulphur production will be sold domestically in Iraq. Interested parties may submit comments on this transaction by email to economic.impact@exim.gov or by mail to 811 Vermont Avenue NW., Room


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947, Washington, DC 20571, within 14 days of the date this notice appears in the Federal Register

. Angela Mariana Freyre,
Senior Vice President and General Counsel.
[FR Doc. 2012–10664 Filed 5–2–12; 8:45 am]

**BILLING CODE 6690–01–P**

**FEDERAL ACCOUNTING STANDARDS ADVISORY BOARD** 

**Notice of Issuance of Statement of Federal Financial Accounting Standard**  **42**

**AGENCY :**  Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board.

**ACTION :**  Notice.

Board Action: Pursuant to 31 U.S.C. 3511(d), the Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92–463), as amended, and the FASAB Rules of Procedure, as amended in October, 2010, notice is hereby given that the Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board (FASAB) has issued Statement of Federal Financial Accounting Standard 42, Deferred Maintenance and Repairs, Amending Statements of Federal Financial Accounting Standards 6, 14, 29 and 32.

The Standard is available on the FASAB home page http:// www.fasab.gov/standards.html

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Copies can be obtained by contacting FASAB at (202) 512–7350.

**FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT :**  Wendy Payne, Executive Director, at (202) 512–7350.

Authority: Federal Advisory Committee Act, Pub. L. 92–463.

Dated: April 27, 2012. Charles Jackson, Federal Register Liaison Officer.
[FR Doc. 2012–10610 Filed 5–2–12; 8:45 am]

**BILLING CODE 1610–02–P**

**FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION** 

**Information Collection Being Reviewed by the Federal Communications**  **Commission**

**AGENCY :**  Federal Communications Commission.

**ACTION :**  Notice and request for
comments.

**SUMMARY :**  As part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork burden and as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501– 3520), the Federal Communications Commission invites the general public and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment on the following information collection(s). Comments are requested concerning: (a) Whether the proposed collection of information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of the Commission, including whether the information shall have practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the Commission’s burden estimate; (c) ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information collected; (d) ways to minimize the burden of the collection of information on the respondents, including the use of automated collection techniques or other forms of information technology; and (e) ways to further reduce the information burden for small business concerns with fewer than 25 employees.

The FCC may not conduct or sponsor a collection of information unless it displays a currently valid OMB control number. No person shall be subject to any penalty for failing to comply with a collection of information subject to the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) that does not display a valid OMB control number.

**DATES :**  Written Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) comments should be submitted on or before July 2, 2012. If you anticipate that you will be submitting PRA comments, but find it difficult to do so within the period of time allowed by this notice, you should advise the FCC contact listed below as soon as possible.

**ADDRESSES :**  Submit your PRA comments to Judith B. Herman, Federal Communications Commission, via the Internet at Judith-b.herman@fcc.gov. To submit your PRA comments by email send them to: PRA@fcc.gov.

**FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT :**  Judith B. Herman, Office of Managing Director, (202) 418–0214.

**SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION :** 

OMB Control Number: 3060–0484. Title: Sections 4.1 and 4.2, Part 4 of the Commission’s Rules Concerning Disruptions to Communications (NORS).

Form Number: N/A. Type of Review: Revision of a currently approved collection.

Respondents: Business or other forprofit entities and Not-for-profit Institutions.

Number of Respondents: 118 respondents; 15,444 responses.

Estimated Time per Response: .25 hours to 2 hours.

Frequency of Response: On occasion and annual reporting requirements.

Obligation to Respond: Mandatory. Statutory authority for this collection of information is contained in 47 U.S.C. sections 151, 152, 154(i)–(k), 154(o), 218, 219, 230, 256, 301, 302(a), 303(f), 303(g), 303(j), 303(r), 403, 615a–l, 621(b)(3), 621(d), 1302(a) and 1302(b) of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended; and Section 1704 of the Omnibus Consolidated and Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act of 1998, 44 U.S.C. section 3504.

Total Annual Burden: 29,647 hours. Total Annual Cost: N/A. Privacy Impact Assessment: N/A. Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: Outage reports filed pursuant to Part 4 of the Commission’s rules are presumed confidential. The information in the filings may be shared with the Department of Homeland Security only under appropriate confidential disclosure provisions. Other persons seeking disclosure must follow the procedures delineated in 47 CFR sections 0.457 and 0.459 of the Commission’s rules for requests for and disclosure of information.

Needs and Uses: The Commission is seeking OMB approval for a revision of this information collection in order to obtain the full three year approval from OMB. The Commission is reporting a 9,909 hours program change increase in the Commission’s previous burden estimates. The increase in the burden estimates is due to adoption of FCC 12– 22, Report and Order, extending the Part 4 outage reporting requirements to interconnected Voice over Internet Providers (VoIP) which are new respondents subject to the requirements of this information collection.

Specifically, the Commission extended mandatory outage reportingrules to facilities-based and nonfacilities-based interconnected VoIP service providers and applied the current Part 4 definition of ‘‘outage’’ to outages of interconnected VoIP service, covering the complete loss of service and/or connectivity to customers at least 30 minutes duration that potentially affects at least 900,000 user minutes of interconnected VoIP services and results in complete loss of service; or potentially affects any special offices and facilities such as a 911 facility.

Collecting data on significant outages of interconnected VoIP services will help the Commission to monitor compliance with the statutory 911 obligations of interconnected VoIP service providers, as well as help ensure the Nation’s current and future 911 systems are as reliable and resilient as possible both on a day-to-day basis and in times of a major emergency. The Commission recognizes that consumers are increasingly relying on Internet Protocol (IP)-based technologies as