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Vol. 76, No. 216 

Tuesday, November 8, 2011 

CHEMICAL SAFETY AND HAZARD 

INVESTIGATION BOARD 

Sunshine Act Meeting 

In connection with its investigation 

into three iron dust flash fires at the 

Hoeganaes facility in Gallatin, TN., the 

U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard 

Investigation Board (CSB) announces 

that it will hold a public meeting on 

November 16, 2011, in Gallatin to 

collect additional information to aide in 

its ongoing investigation of the 

incidents. Two workers were killed in 

the first iron dust incident on January 

31, 2011, and the second iron dust 

incident on March 29, 2011 injured 

another employee. The third incident, a 

hydrogen explosion and resulting iron 

dust flash fires, claimed three lives and 

injured two others on May 27, 2011. The 

meeting will begin at 6 p.m. at the EPIC 

Event Center, 392 and 394 West Main 

St., Gallatin, TN 37066. 

The meeting is free and open to the 

public. Pre-registration is not required, 

but to assure adequate seating, attendees 

are encouraged to pre-register by 

emailing their names and affiliations to 

publicmeeting@csb.gov by November 

10, 2011. 

At the meeting, CSB staff will discuss 

with the Board the results of their 

investigation to date into these 

incidents. In addition, a panel of outside 

experts and others will be invited to 

speak on a number of issues related to 

the investigation. 

All staff presentations are preliminary 

and are intended solely to allow the 

Board to consider in a public forum 

various issues and factors involved in 

this case. No factual analyses, 

conclusions or findings presented by 

staff should be considered final. 

After the conclusion of Hoeganaes 

case study discussion, the Board will 

conclude the public meeting by 

considering certain board business 

matters that have been calendared 

during board votes during FY 2011. 

Such matters involve the resolution of 

proposed status changes to 

recommendations made in the Imperial 

Sugar investigation, other board affairs 

issues, and consideration and vote on 

the CSB Human Capital Plan. 

Please notify CSB if a translator or 

interpreter is needed, at least 5 business 

days prior to the public meeting. For 

more information, please contact the 

Chemical Safety and Hazard 

Investigation Board at (202) 261–7600, 

or visit our Web site at: http:// 

www.csb.gov. 

Dated: November 3, 2011. 

John Lau, 

Acting Managing Director. 

[FR Doc. 2011–29092 Filed 11–4–11; 4:15 pm] 

BILLING CODE 6350–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request 

The Department of Commerce has 

submitted to the Office of Management 

and Budget (OMB) for clearance the 

following proposal for collection of 

information under the emergency 

provisions of the Paperwork Reduction 

Act (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35). 

Agency: National 

Telecommunications and Information 

Administration (NTIA). 

Title: Broadband Technology 

Opportunities Program (BTOP) 

Quarterly and Annual Performance 

Progress Reports. 

OMB Control Number: 0660–0037. 

Form Number(s): None. 

Type of Request: Emergency 

submission (revision to a currently 

approved information collection). 

Number of Respondents: 121. 

Average Hours per Response: 5.94. 

Burden Hours: 727. 

Needs and Uses: The American 

Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 

(Recovery Act) appropriated funds for 

BTOP to support the deployment of 

broadband infrastructure, enhance and 

expand public computer centers, 

encourage sustainable adoption of 

broadband service, and develop and 

maintain a nationwide public map of 

broadband service capability and 

availability. 

The Recovery Act mandates that 

funds distributed under its authority be 

subject to an unprecedented level of 

transparency and accountability. This 

includes an increased level of 

monitoring and oversight to ensure that 

Recovery Act funds are used for their 

authorized purposes; steps are in place 

to prevent waste, fraud or abuse; and 

BTOP projects avoid unnecessary delay 

and cost-overruns and meet targets and 

goals. In addition to increased levels of 

monitoring and oversight, BTOP 

projects must adhere to mandatory 

timelines requiring them to demonstrate 

that each project will be substantially 

completed within two years of the 

grant’s issuance date. To enable NTIA to 

properly achieve these objectives and 

verify that BTOP projects are meeting 

established targets and goals within the 

mandated timeframes, NTIA has 

developed and utilized Performance 

Progress Reports (PPRs) to capture 

quarterly and annual reports for each 

project type (Infrastructure, Public 

Computer Center, and Sustainable 

Broadband Adoption). Each PPR 

provides updates on fundamental 

project milestones and key performance 

indicators that allow NTIA to measure 

project progress and ensure proper 

monitoring and compliance with 

program rules. 

NTIA reviewed PPRs, submitted on 

September 30, 2011, and assessed the 

individual responses provided by BTOP 

grant recipients and concluded that 

several key questions on the existing 

annual Infrastructure PPR need to be 

clarified if NTIA is to receive the 

appropriate level of detail necessary to 

ensure BTOP projects are meeting 

established targets and goals within 

mandated timeframes. NTIA is also 

requesting updated mapping 

information in order to better monitor 

the current status and impact of 

broadband deployment in each of the 

funded project areas. The annual 

Infrastructure PPR will be revised to 

capture more detailed information 

related to: Community Anchor 

Institutions; Points of Presence; and 

Network Maps. 

Affected Public: Business or other forprofit organizations. 

Frequency: Annually. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Mandatory. 

OMB Desk Officer: Nicholas Fraser, 

(202) 395–5887. 

Copies of the above information 

collection proposal can be obtained by 

calling or writing Diana Hynek, 

Departmental Paperwork Clearance 

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