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The Council is intended to facilitate 

the exchange of information and 

encourage bilateral discussions of 

business and economic issues, 

including promoting bilateral trade and 

investment and improving the business 

climate in each country. The Council 

brings together the respective business 

communities of the United States and 

Turkey to discuss such issues of mutual 

interest and to communicate their joint 

recommendations to the U.S. and 

Turkish Governments. The Council 

consists of the U.S. and Turkish cochairs and a Committee comprised of 

private sector members. The Committee 

is composed of two Sections of private 

sector members, a U.S. Section and a 

Turkish Section, each consisting of 

approximately ten to twelve members, 

representing the views and interests of 

their respective private sector business 

communities. Each government will 

appoint the members to its respective 

Section. The Committee will provide 

joint recommendations to the two 

governments that reflect private sector 

views, needs, and concerns regarding 

creation of an environment in which the 

private sectors of both countries can 

partner, thrive, and enhance bilateral 

commercial ties that could form the 

basis for expanded trade and investment 

between the United States and Turkey. 

The Department of Commerce is 

currently seeking applicants for 

membership on the U.S. Section of the 

Committee. Each applicant must be a 

senior-level executive of a U.S.-owned 

or controlled company that is 

incorporated in and has its main 

headquarters located in the United 

States and that is currently doing 

business in Turkey. Each applicant also 

must be a U.S. citizen, or otherwise 

legally authorized to work in the United 

States, and be able to travel to Turkey 

and locations in the United States to 

attend official Council meetings, as well 

as U.S. Section and Committee 

meetings. In addition, the applicant may 

not be a registered foreign agent under 

the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 

1938, as amended. Applicants may not 

be federally-registered lobbyists, and, if 

appointed, will not be allowed to 

continue to serve as members of the U.S. 

Section of the Committee if the member 

becomes a federally-registered lobbyist. 

Evaluation of applications for 

membership in the U.S. Section by 

eligible individuals will be based on the 

following criteria: 

—A demonstrated commitment by the 

applicant’s company to the Turkish 

market either through exports or 

investment. 

—A demonstrated strong interest by the 

applicant’s company in Turkey and 

its economic development. 

—The ability by the applicant to offer a 

broad perspective on the business 

environment in Turkey, including 

cross-cutting issues that affect the 

entire business community. 

—The ability by the applicant to initiate 

and be responsible for activities in 

which the Council will be active. 

Members will be selected on the basis 

of who will best carry out the objectives 

of the Council as stated in the Terms of 

Reference establishing the U.S.-Turkey 

Business Council. In selecting members 

of the U.S. Section, the Department of 

Commerce will also seek to ensure that 

the Section represents a diversity of 

business sectors and geographical 

locations, as well as a cross-section of 

small, medium, and large-sized firms. 

U.S. members will receive no 

compensation for their participation in 

Council-related activities. They shall 

not be considered as special government 

employees. Individual private sector 

members will be responsible for all 

travel and related expenses associated 

with their participation in the Council, 

including attendance at Committee and 

Section meetings. Only appointed 

members may participate in official 

Council meetings; substitutes and 

alternates may not be designated. 

Members will normally serve for twoyear terms, but may be reappointed. 

To apply for membership, please 

submit the following information as 

instructed in the ADDRESSES and DATES

captions above: 

1. Name(s) and title(s) of the 

applicant(s); 

2. Name and address of the 

headquarters of the applicant’s 

company; 

3. Location of incorporation of the 

applicant’s company; 

4. Percentage share of U.S. citizen 

ownership in the company; 

5. Size of the company in terms of 

number of employees; 

6. Dollar amount of the company’s 

export trade to Turkey; 

7. Dollar amount of the company’s 

investments in Turkey; 

8. Nature of the company’s 

investments, operations or interest in 

Turkey; 

9. An affirmative statement that the 

applicant is a U.S. citizen or otherwise 

legally authorized to work in the United 

States; 

10. An affirmative statement that the 

applicant is neither registered nor 

required to register as a foreign agent 

under the Foreign Agents Registration 

Act of 1938, as amended; 

11. An affirmative statement that the 

applicant is not a federally-registered 

lobbyist, and that the applicant 

understands that if appointed, the 

applicant will not be allowed to 

continue to serve as a member of the 

U.S. Section of the Council if the 

applicant becomes a federally registered 

lobbyist; 

12. An affirmative statement that the 

applicant meets all other eligibility 

requirements; 

13. A brief statement of why the 

applicant should be considered; 

14. A brief statement of how the 

applicant meets the four listed criteria, 

including information about the 

candidate’s ability to initiate and be 

responsible for activities in which the 

Council will be active. 

Applications will be considered as 

they are received. All candidates will be 

notified of whether they have been 

selected. 

Dated: January 28, 2015. 

Jay A. Burgess, 

Director of the Office of European Country 

Affairs (OECA). 

[FR Doc. 2015–01936 Filed 1–30–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–DA–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Institute of Standards and 

Technology 

[Docket No.: 141231999–4999–01] 

National Cybersecurity Center of 

Excellence (NCCoE) Situational 

Awareness Use Case for the Energy 

Sector 

AGENCY: National Institute of Standards 

and Technology, Department of 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The National Institute of 

Standards and Technology (NIST) 

invites organizations to provide 

products and technical expertise to 

support and demonstrate security 

platforms for situational awareness for 

the energy sector. This notice is the 

initial step for the National 

Cybersecurity Center of Excellence 

(NCCoE) in collaborating with 

technology companies to address 

cybersecurity challenges identified 

under the Energy sector program. 

Participation in the use case is open to 

all interested organizations. 

DATES: Interested parties must contact 

NIST to request a letter of interest. 

Letters of interest will be accepted on a 

rolling basis. Collaborative activities 

will commence as soon as enough 

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completed and signed letters of interest 

have been returned to address all the 

necessary components and capabilities, 

but no earlier than March 4, 2015. When 

the use case has been completed, NIST 

will post a notice on the NCCoE energy 

sector program Web site at http://nccoe.

nist.gov/energy announcing the 

completion of the use case and 

informing the public that it will no 

longer accept letters of interest for this 

use case. 

ADDRESSES: The NCCoE is located at 

9600 Gudelsky Drive, Rockville, MD 

20850. Letters of interest must be 

submitted to Energy_NCCoE@nist.gov or 

via hardcopy to National Institute of 

Standards and Technology, NCCoE; 

9600 Gudelsky Drive; Rockville, MD 

20850. Organizations whose letters of 

interest are accepted in accordance with 

the Process set forth in the 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of 

this notice will be asked to sign a 

Cooperative Research and Development 

Agreement (CRADA) with NIST. A 

CRADA template can be found at: 

http://nccoe.nist.gov/node/138. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jim 

McCarthy via email at Energy_NCCoE@

nist.gov; or telephone 240–314–6816; 

National Institute of Standards and 

Technology, NCCoE; 9600 Gudelsky 

Drive; Rockville, MD 20850. Additional 

details about the Energy Sector program 

are available at http://nccoe.nist.gov/

energy. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background: The NCCoE, part of NIST, 

is a public-private collaboration for 

accelerating the widespread adoption of 

integrated cybersecurity tools and 

technologies. The NCCoE brings 

together experts from industry, 

government, and academia under one 

roof to develop practical, interoperable 

cybersecurity approaches that address 

the real-world needs of complex 

Information Technology (IT) systems. 

By accelerating dissemination and use 

of these integrated tools and 

technologies for protecting IT assets, the 

NCCoE will enhance trust in U.S. IT 

communications, data, and storage 

systems; reduce risk for companies and 

individuals using IT systems; and 

encourage development of innovative, 

job-creating cybersecurity products and 

services. 

Process: NIST is soliciting responses 

from all sources of relevant security 

capabilities (see below) to enter into a 

Cooperative Research and Development 

Agreement (CRADA) to provide 

products and technical expertise to 

support and demonstrate security 

platforms for the Situational Awareness 

use case for the Energy Sector. The full 

use case can be viewed at: http://nccoe.

nist.gov/sites/default/files/nccoe/

NCCoE_ES_Situational_Awareness.pdf 

Interested parties should contact NIST 

using the information provided in the 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT

section of this notice. NIST will then 

provide each interested party with a 

letter of interest, which the party must 

complete, certify that it is accurate, and 

submit to NIST. NIST will contact 

interested parties if there are questions 

regarding the responsiveness of the 

letters of interest to the use case 

objective or requirements identified 

below. NIST will select participants 

who have submitted complete letters of 

interest on a first come, first served 

basis within each category of product 

components or capabilities listed below 

up to the number of participants in each 

category necessary to carry out this use 

case. However, there may be continuing 

opportunity to participate even after 

initial activity commences. Selected 

participants will be required to enter 

into a consortium CRADA with NIST. 

NIST published a notice in the Federal 

Register on October 19, 2012 (77 FR 

64314) inviting U.S. companies to enter 

into National Cybersecurity Excellence 

Partnerships; (NCEPs) in furtherance of 

the NCCoE. For this demonstration 

project, NCEP partners will not be given 

priority for participation. 

Use Case Objective: To improve the 

security of operational technology, 

energy companies need mechanisms to 

capture, transmit, analyze and store 

real-time or near-real-time data from 

industrial control systems (ICS) and 

related networking equipment. With 

such mechanisms in place, energy 

sector providers, owners and operators 

can more readily detect anomalous 

conditions, take appropriate actions to 

remediate them, investigate the chain of 

events that led to the anomalies and 

share findings with other energy 

companies. Obtaining real-time and 

near-real-time data from networks also 

has the benefit of helping to 

demonstrate compliance with 

information security standards. 

Requirements: Each responding 

organization’s letter of interest should 

identify which security platform 

components or capabilities it is offering. 

Components are listed in section five 

(for reference, please see link in 

PROCESS section above) of the 

Situational Awareness for the Energy 

Sector use case and include, but are not 

limited to: 

1. Security incident and event 

management (SIEM) or log analysis 

software 

2. ICS equipment, such as remote 

terminal units (RTUs), programmable 

logic controllers (PLCs), and relays, 

along with associated software and 

communications equipment (e.g., 

radios, encryptors) 

3. ‘‘Bump-in-the-wire’’ devices for 

augmenting operational technology (OT) 

with encrypted communication and 

logging capabilities 

4. Software for collecting, analyzing, 

visualizing and storing operational 

control data (e.g., historians, outage 

management systems, distribution 

management systems, human-machine 

interfaces) 

5. Products that ensure the integrity 

and accuracy of data collected from 

remote facilities 

Each responding organization’s letter 

of interest should identify how their 

products address one or more of the 

following desired solution 

characteristics in section two (for 

reference, please see link in PROCESS 

section above) of the Situational 

Awareness for the Energy Sector use 

case: 

1. Data visualization and analysis 

capabilities that help dispatchers and 

security analysts view control system 

behavior, network security events, and 

physical security events as a cohesive 

whole 

2. Analysis and correlation 

capabilities that help dispatchers and 

security analysts understand and 

identify security events and predict how 

those events might affect control system 

operation 

3. Scalability sufficient to meet the 

needs of a large metropolitan utility 

4. Mechanisms that ensure the 

accuracy and integrity of data collected 

from remote facilities 

5. Ability to collect logs, traffic, and 

operational data from a variety of 

sources, including servers, ICS 

equipment, networking equipment, 

security appliances, issue tracking 

systems, and mobile devices 

6. Ability to allow dispatchers and 

security analysts to easily automate 

common, repetitive investigative tasks 

7. Built-in information sharing 

capabilities that allow dispatchers and 

security analysts to easily share and 

acquire new threat indicators, 

correlation rules, mitigations, and 

investigative techniques 

8. Customizable interfaces that allow 

users to tailor the system to meet 

specific business needs 

9. Automated report generation to aid 

utilities in demonstrating compliance 

with relevant standards 

10. Intuitive user interfaces that are 

appropriate for utility dispatchers with 

limited network security expertise or 

security analysts with limited expertise 

in electric power 

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Responding organizations need to 

understand and, in their letters of 

interest, commit to provide: 

1. Access for all participants’ project 

teams to component interfaces and the 

organization’s experts necessary to make 

functional connections among security 

platform components 

2. Support for development and 

demonstration of the Situational 

Awareness use case for the Energy 

Sector in NCCoE facilities which will be 

conducted in a manner consistent with 

Federal requirements (e.g., FIPS 200, 

FIPS 201, SP 800–53, and SP 800–63) 

Additional details about the Situational 

Awareness for the Energy sector use 

case are available at: http://nccoe.nist.

gov/sites/default/files/nccoe/NCCoE_

ES_Situational_Awareness.pdf. NIST 

cannot guarantee that all of the products 

proposed by respondents will be used in 

the demonstration. Each prospective 

participant will be expected to work 

collaboratively with NIST staff and 

other project participants under the 

terms of the consortium agreement in 

the development of the Situational 

Awareness for the Energy sector 

capability. Prospective participants’ 

contribution to the collaborative effort 

will include assistance in establishing 

the necessary interface functionality, 

connection and set-up capabilities and 

procedures, demonstration harnesses, 

environmental and safety conditions for 

use, integrated platform user 

instructions, and demonstration plans 

and scripts necessary to demonstrate the 

desired capabilities. Each prospective 

participant will train NIST personnel as 

necessary, to operate its product in 

capability demonstrations to the energy 

community. Following successful 

demonstrations, NIST will publish a 

description of the security platform and 

its performance characteristics sufficient 

to permit other organizations to develop 

and deploy security platforms that meet 

the security objectives of the Situational 

Awareness for the Energy sector use 

case. These descriptions will be public 

information. 

Under the terms of the consortium 

agreement, NIST will support 

development of interfaces among 

participants’ products by providing IT 

infrastructure, laboratory facilities, 

office facilities, collaboration facilities, 

and staff support to component 

composition, security platform 

documentation, and demonstration 

activities. The dates of the 

demonstration of the Situational 

Awareness for the Energy sector 

capability will be announced on the 

NCCoE Web site at least two weeks in 

advance at http://nccoe.nist.gov/. The 

expected outcome of the demonstration 

is to improve situational awareness 

across an entire energy sector enterprise. 

Participating organizations will gain 

from the knowledge that their products 

are interoperable with other 

participants’ offerings. 

For additional information on the 

NCCoE governance, business processes, 

and NCCoE operational structure, visit 

the NCCoE Web site http://

nccoe.nist.gov/. 

Kevin A. Kimball, 

NIST Chief of Staff. 

[FR Doc. 2015–01844 Filed 1–30–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–13–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

Proposed Information Collection; 

Comment Request; Permitting, Vessel 

Identification, and Vessel Monitoring 

System Requirements for the 

Commercial Bottomfish Fishery in the 

Commonwealth of the Northern 

Mariana Islands 

AGENCY: National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Department of 

Commerce, as part of its continuing 

effort to reduce paperwork and 

respondent burden, invites the general 

public and other Federal agencies to 

take this opportunity to comment on 

proposed and/or continuing information 

collections, as required by the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. 

DATES: Written comments must be 

submitted on or before April 3, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: Direct all written comments 

to Jennifer Jessup, Departmental 

Paperwork Clearance Officer, 

Department of Commerce, Room 6616, 

14th and Constitution Avenue NW., 

Washington, DC 20230 (or via the 

Internet at JJessup@doc.gov). 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Requests for additional information or 

copies of the information collection 

instrument and instructions should be 

directed to Walter Ikehara, (808) 725– 

5175 or Walter.Ikehara@noaa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Abstract 

This request is for extension of a 

currently approved information 

collection. As part of a fishery 

ecosystem plan, developed by the 

Western Pacific Fishery Management 

Council under the authorization of the 

Magnuson-Stevens Fishery 

Conservation and Management Act, 

NMFS requires that owners of 

commercial fishing vessels in the 

bottomfish fishery in the 

Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana 

Islands (CNMI) obtain a federal 

bottomfish permit. If their vessels are 

over 40 ft. (12.2 m) long, they must also 

mark their vessels in compliance with 

federal identification requirements and 

carry and maintain a satellite-based 

vessel monitoring system (VMS). These 

requirements are set out in 50 CFR Part 

665, subpart D. This collection of 

information is needed for permit 

issuance, to identify actual or potential 

participants in the fishery, and aid in 

enforcement of regulations and area 

closures. 

II. Method of Collection 

Respondents have a choice of either 

electronic or paper forms. Methods of 

submittal include email of electronic 

forms, and mail and facsimile 

transmission of paper forms. VMS data 

are collected electronically and 

automatically. 

III. Data 

OMB Control Number: 0648–0584. 

Form Number(s): None. 

Type of Review: Regular (extension of 

a currently approved information 

collection). 

Affected Public: Not-for profit 

institutions; state, local or tribal 

governments; business or other forprofit organizations. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 50 

total; including 6 medium-large vessels 

(over 40 ft.). 

Estimated Time per Response: Permit 

applications and renewals, 30 minutes; 

vessel identification, 45 minutes; initial 

VMS installation and annual 

maintenance, 24 hours; VMS 

maintenance, 12 hours annually. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 174. 

Estimated Total Annual Cost to 

Public: $2,760 in recordkeeping and 

reporting costs and permit fees. 

IV. Request for Comments 

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 

(including hours and cost) of the 

proposed collection of information; (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 

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