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• If the adjudicator determines the 

initial medical cessation determination 

was correct, he or she will then 

determine whether the beneficiary has 

again become disabled at any time 

through the date of his or her 

determination or decision because of a 

worsening of an existing impairment or 

the onset of a new impairment, if all 

other requirements for establishing a 

period of disability, including the 

duration and insured status 

requirements are met. 

• If the adjudicator determines that 

the initial disability cessation 

determination was not correct, he or she 

will determine if the evidence 

establishes medical improvement as a 

basis for cessation of disability at any 

time through the date of final 

determination or decision. 

• In every case where we find that 

that the beneficiary was not 

continuously disabled through the date 

of the appeal determination or decision, 

the adjudicator must fully explain the 

basis for the conclusion reached in the 

determination or decision. The 

adjudicator will state the month the 

beneficiary’s disability ended, and, if 

applicable, the month in which a new 

period of disability began and any 

intervening months during which there 

was no disability. 

• If the beneficiary’s disability has 

medically ceased, the determination or 

decision must specifically address the 

initial cessation determination and the 

beneficiary’s eligibility (or ineligibility) 

for a new a period of disability through 

the date on which the appeal 

determination or decision is being 

made, or, if earlier, through the date last 

insured. 

Effective Date: This Ruling is effective 

upon publication in the Federal 

Register. 

[FR Doc. 2013–03914 Filed 2–20–13; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4191–02–P 

DEPARTMENT OF STATE 

[Public Notice 8189] 

60-Day Notice of Proposed Information 

Collection: Electronic Diversity Visa 

Entry Form 

ACTION: Notice of request for public 

comment. 

SUMMARY: The Department of State is 

seeking Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB) approval for the 

information collection described below. 

In accordance with the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995, we are 

requesting comments on this collection 

from all interested individuals and 

organizations. The purpose of this 

notice is to allow 60 days for public 

comment preceding submission of the 

collection to OMB. 

DATES: The Department will accept 

comments from the public up to April 

22, 2013. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

by any of the following methods: 

• Web: Persons with access to the 

Internet may use the Federal Docket 

Management System (FDMS) to 

comment on this notice by going to 

www.Regulations.gov. You can search 

for the document by entering ‘‘Public 

Notice ####’’ in the Search bar. If 

necessary, use the Narrow by Agency 

filter option on the Results page. 

• Email: 

PRA_BurdenComments@state.gov. 

• Mail: Chief, Legislation and 

Regulations Division, Visa Services— 

DSP–0122, 2401 E Street NW., 

Washington DC 20520–30106. 

You must include the DS form 

number (if applicable), information 

collection title, and the OMB control 

number in any correspondence. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Direct requests for additional 

information regarding the collection 

listed in this notice, including requests 

for copies of the proposed collection 

instrument and supporting documents, 

to Sydney Taylor, Visa Services, U.S. 

Department of State, 2401 E Street NW., 

L–603, Washington, DC 20522, who may 

be reached at 

PRA_BurdenComments@state.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

• Title of Information Collection: 

Electronic Diversity Visa Entry Form. 

• OMB Control Number: 1405–0153. 

• Type of Request: Extension of 

Currently Approved Collection. 

• Originating Office: Bureau of 

Consular Affairs, Office of Visa Services 

(CA/VO). 

• Form Number: DS–5501. 

• Respondents: Aliens entering the 

Diversity Visa Lottery. 

• Estimated Number of Respondents: 

6 million per year. 

• Estimated Number of Responses: 6 

million per year. 

• Average Time per Response: 30 

minutes. 

• Total Estimated Burden Time: 3 

million hours per year. 

• Frequency: Once per entry. 

• Obligation to Respond: Required to 

Obtain Benefits. 

We are soliciting public comments to 

permit the Department to: 

• Evaluate whether the proposed 

information collection is necessary for 

the proper functions of the Department. 

• Evaluate the accuracy of our 

estimate of the time and cost burden for 

this proposed collection, including the 

validity of the methodology and 

assumptions used. 

• Enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected. 

• Minimize the reporting burden on 

those who are to respond, including the 

use of automated collection techniques 

or other forms of information 

technology. 

Please note that comments submitted 

in response to this Notice are public 

records. Before including any detailed 

personal information, you should be 

aware that your comments as submitted, 

including your personal information, 

will be available for public review. 

Abstract of Proposed Collection 

The Department of State utilizes the 

Electronic Diversity Visa Lottery (EDV) 

Entry Form to elicit information 

necessary to ascertain the applicability 

of the legal provisions of the diversity 

program. Primary requirements are that 

the applicant is from a low admission 

country, is a high school graduate, or 

has two years of experience in a job that 

requires two years of training. The 

foreign nationals complete the 

electronic entry forms and then 

applications are randomly selected for 

participation in the program. 

Department of State regulations 

pertaining to diversity immigrant visas 

under the INA are published in 22 CFR 

42.33. 

Methodology 

The EDV Entry Form is available 

online at www.dvlottery.state.gov and 

can only be submitted electronically 

during the annual registration period. 

Dated: February 7, 2013. 

Edward J. Ramotowski, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of 

Consular Affairs, Department of State. 

[FR Doc. 2013–04029 Filed 2–20–13; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4710–06–P 

DEPARTMENT OF STATE 

[Public Notice 8191] 

30-Day Notice of Proposed Information 

Collection: Reporting Requirements on 

Responsible Investment in Burma 

ACTION: Notice of request for public 

comment and submission to OMB of 

proposed collection of information. 

SUMMARY: The Department of State has 

submitted the information collection 

described below to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for 


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approval. In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 we 

are requesting comments on this 

collection from all interested 

individuals and organizations. The 

purpose of this Notice is to allow 30 

days for public comment. 

DATES: Submit comments directly to the 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) up to March 25, 2013. 

ADDRESSES: Direct comments to the 

Department of State Desk Officer in the 

Office of Information and Regulatory 

Affairs at the Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB). You may submit 

comments by the following methods: 

• Email: oira_submission@omb. 

eop.gov. You must include the DS form 

number, information collection title, 

and the OMB control number in the 

subject line of your message. 

• Fax: 202–395–5806. Attention: Desk 

Officer for Department of State. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Direct requests for additional 

information regarding the collection 

listed in this notice, including requests 

for copies of the proposed collection 

instrument and supporting documents, 

to Stacey May, U.S. Department of State, 

DRL/EAP Suite 7817, 2201 C St. NW., 

Washington, DC 20520, who may be 

reached on 202–647–8260 or at 

maysa2@state.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

• Title of Information Collection: 

Reporting Requirements on Responsible 

Investment in Burma. 

• OMB Control Number: None. 

• Type of Request: New Collection. 

• Originating Office: U.S. Department 

of State, DRL/EAP. 

• Form Number: None. 

• Respondents: U.S. persons and 

entities engaged in new investment in 

Burma in an amount over $500,000 in 

aggregate, per OFAC General License 17, 

which authorizes new investment in 

Burma. 

• Estimated Number of Respondents: 

150. 

• Estimated Number of Responses: 

150. 

• Average Hours Per Response: 21 

hours. 

• Total Estimated Burden: 3,150 

hours. 

• Frequency: Within 180 days of new 

investment in Burma over $500,000, 

annually thereafter. 

• I Mandatory. 

We are soliciting public comments to 

permit the Department to: 

• Evaluate whether the proposed 

information collection is necessary for 

the proper functions of the Department. 

• Evaluate the accuracy of our 

estimate of the time and cost burden for 

this proposed collection, including the 

validity of the methodology and 

assumptions used. 

• Enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected. 

• Minimize the reporting burden on 

those who are to respond, including the 

use of automated collection techniques 

or other forms of information 

technology. 

Please note that comments submitted 

in response to this Notice are public 

record. Before including any detailed 

personal information, you should be 

aware that your comments as submitted, 

including your personal information, 

will be available for public review. 

Abstract of Proposed Collection 

Section 203(a)(1)(B) of the 

International Emergency Economic 

Powers Act (IEEPA) grants the President 

authority to, inter alia, prevent or 

prohibit any acquisition or transaction 

involving any property, in which a 

foreign country or a national thereof has 

any interest, by any person, or with 

respect to any property, subject to the 

jurisdiction of the United States, if the 

President declares a national emergency 

with respect to any unusual and 

extraordinary threat, which has its 

source in whole or substantial part 

outside the United States, to the 

national security, foreign policy, or 

economy of the United States. See 50 

U.S.C. 1701 et seq. 

In Executive Order 13047 of May 20, 

1997, the President determined that the 

actions and policies of the Government 

of Burma, including its large-scale 

repression of the democratic opposition 

in Burma, constituted an unusual and 

extraordinary threat to the national 

security and foreign policy of the United 

States, declared a national emergency to 

deal with that threat, and prohibited 

new investment in Burma. In 

subsequent Executive Orders, the 

President modified the scope of the 

national emergency to address 

additional concerns with the actions 

and policies of the Government of 

Burma. In Executive Order 13448 of 

October 18, 2007, the President 

modified the emergency to address the 

continued repression of the democratic 

opposition in Burma, manifested in part 

through the commission of human 

rights abuses and pervasive public 

corruption. In Executive Order 13619 of 

July 11, 2012, the President further 

modified the emergency to address, 

inter alia, human rights abuses 

particularly in ethnic areas. 

In response to several political 

reforms by the Government of Burma 

and pursuant to authority granted by 

IEEPA, the Department of the Treasury’s 

Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) 

issued a general license (GL 17) on July 

11, 2012 authorizing new investment in 

Burma, subject to certain restrictions 

and conditions. 

In order to support the Department of 

State’s efforts to assess the extent to 

which new U.S. investment authorized 

by GL 17 furthers U.S. foreign policy 

goals of improving human rights 

protections and facilitating political 

reform in Burma, GL 17 requires U.S. 

persons engaging in new investment in 

Burma to report to the Department of 

State information related to such 

investment, as laid out in the 

‘‘Reporting Requirements on 

Responsible Investment in Burma,’’ 

(hereafter referred to as the 

‘‘collection’’). This collection is 

authorized by section 203(a)(2) of 

IEEPA, which grants the President 

authority to keep a full record of, and 

to furnish under oath, in the form of 

reports or otherwise, complete 

information relative to any act or 

transaction referred to in section 

203(a)(1) of IEEPA. 

Methodology 

The Department of State will collect 

the information requested via electronic 

submission. 

Additional Information 

It is the overarching policy goal of the 

U.S. Government to support political 

reform in Burma towards the 

establishment of a peaceful, prosperous, 

and democratic state that respects 

human rights and the rule of law. In the 

past, some foreign investment in Burma 

has been linked to human rights abuses, 

particularly in the area of natural 

resource development in ethnic 

minority regions. For example, some 

foreign investments have entailed 

acquisition and control of land in 

disputed ethnic minority territories 

exacerbating or contributing to both 

social unrest and armed conflict and 

leading to adverse community and/or 

environmental impacts. Increased 

military/security presence, particularly 

in disputed ethnic minority areas, to 

provide security for foreign investment 

projects is reported to have led to 

seizures of farm land, involuntary 

relocations, forced labor, torture, 

summary execution, and sexual 

violence. 

The collection will help the 

Department of State, in consultation 

with other relevant government 

agencies, to evaluate whether easing the 

ban on investment by U.S. persons 

advances U.S. foreign policy goals to 

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respect to Burma. In addition, the 

Department of State will use the 

collection as a basis to conduct 

informed consultations with U.S. 

businesses to encourage and assist such 

businesses to develop robust policies 

and procedures to address any potential 

adverse human rights, worker rights, 

anti-corruption, environmental, or other 

impacts resulting from their investments 

and operations in Burma. The 

Department of State will use the 

collection of information about new 

investment with the Myanmar Oil and 

Gas Enterprise (MOGE) to track 

investment that involves MOGE and to 

identify investors with whom it may be 

beneficial to have targeted consultation 

on anti-corruption and human rights 

policies. The public, including civil 

society actors in Burma, may use 

publicly available information resulting 

from the collection to engage U.S. 

businesses on their responsible 

investment policies and procedures and 

to monitor the Burmese government’s 

management of revenues from 

investment. 

U.S. persons to whom this 

requirement applies will be required to 

submit a version of the report to the U.S. 

Government for public release, from 

which information considered in good 

faith to be exempt from disclosure 

under FOIA Exemption 4—i.e. trade 

secrets or commercial or financial 

information that is privileged or 

confidential—may be withheld. The 

Department of State will make this 

version of the report publically available 

in order to promote transparency with 

respect to new U.S. investments in 

Burma. In the past, the absence of 

transparency or publicly available 

information with respect to foreign 

investment activities in Burma has 

contributed to corruption and misuse of 

public funds, the erosion of public trust, 

and social unrest in ethnic minority 

areas and has led to further human 

rights abuses and repression by the 

government and military. Public 

disclosure of certain aspects of the 

collection therefore will promote the 

policy of transparency through new U.S. 

investment, a key U.S. foreign policy 

objective in Burma. 

Burmese civil society groups, 

particularly those representing ethnic 

minority communities, have requested 

that the Department of State make 

public certain information obtained 

through the collection on investments 

purportedly made for the benefit of the 

Burmese people, as a means of holding 

their own government accountable. 

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San 

Suu Kyi, leader of Burma’s democratic 

opposition party and recently elected to 

a seat in Burma’s parliament, also 

underscored the importance of 

transparency in her recent remarks in 

Bangkok, noting that she did not want 

‘‘more investment to mean more 

possibilities for corruption.’’ This was 

among the most specific of the 

recommendations she made to the 

international community, stressing that 

‘‘Transparency is very important if we 

are going to avoid problems in the 

future* * * So whatever investments, 

governmental agreements, whatever aid 

might be proposed, please make sure 

that it is transparent, that the people of 

Burma are in a position to understand 

what has been done, and how and for 

whom the benefits are intended.’’ 

Therefore public release of portions of 

this collection is aimed at providing 

civil society this type of information to 

both ensure the transparency of U.S. 

investment in Burma and to encourage 

civil society to partner with their 

government and U.S. companies 

towards building responsible 

investment, which ultimately promotes 

U.S. foreign policy goals. 

Dated: February 11, 2013. 

Daniel Baer, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary, Department of 

State. 

[FR Doc. 2013–04032 Filed 2–20–13; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4710–18–P 

DEPARTMENT OF STATE 

[Public Notice 8192] 

Advisory Committee on Historical 

Diplomatic Documentation; Notice of 

Charter Renewal 

The Advisory Committee on 

Historical Diplomatic Documentation is 

renewing its charter for a period of two 

years. This Advisory Committee will 

continue to make recommendations to 

the Historian and the Department of 

State on all aspects of the Department’s 

program to publish the Foreign 

Relations of the United States series as 

well as on the Department’s 

responsibility under statute (22 U.S.C. 

4351, et seq.) to open its 30-year old and 

older records for public review at the 

National Archives and Records 

Administration. The Committee consists 

of nine members drawn from among 

historians, political scientists, 

archivists, international lawyers, and 

other social scientists who are 

distinguished in the field of U.S. foreign 

relations. 

Questions concerning the Committee 

and the renewal of its Charter should be 

directed to Stephen P. Randolph, 

Executive Secretary, Advisory 

Committee on Historical Diplomatic 

Documentation, Department of State, 

Office of the Historian, Washington, DC, 

20520, telephone (202) 663–1123 (email 

history@state.gov). 

Dated: February 14, 2013. 

Colby Prevost, 

Designated Federal Officer, Advisory 

Committee on Historical Diplomatic 

Documentation, Department of State. 

[FR Doc. 2013–04009 Filed 2–20–13; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4710–11–P 

DEPARTMENT OF STATE 

[Public Notice 8194] 

Culturally Significant Objects Imported 

for Exhibition Determinations: ‘‘Temple 

and Tomb: Prehistoric Malta’’ 

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given of the 

following determinations: Pursuant to 

the authority vested in me by the Act of 

October 19, 1965 (79 Stat. 985; 22 U.S.C. 

2459), Executive Order 12047 of March 

27, 1978, the Foreign Affairs Reform and 

Restructuring Act of 1998 (112 Stat. 

2681, et seq.; 22 U.S.C. 6501 note, et 

seq.), Delegation of Authority No. 234 of 

October 1, 1999, Delegation of Authority 

No. 236–3 of August 28, 2000 (and, as 

appropriate, Delegation of Authority No. 

257 of April 15, 2003), I hereby 

determine that the objects to be 

included in the exhibition ‘‘Temple and 

Tomb: Prehistoric Malta,’’ imported 

from abroad for temporary exhibition 

within the United States, are of cultural 

significance. The objects are imported 

pursuant to a loan agreement with the 

foreign owner or custodian. I also 

determine that the exhibition or display 

of the exhibit objects at the Institute for 

the Study of the Ancient World, New 

York University, New York, NY, from 

on or about March 20, 2013, until on or 

about July 7, 2013, and at possible 

additional exhibitions or venues yet to 

be determined, is in the national 

interest. I have ordered that Public 

Notice of these Determinations be 

published in the Federal Register. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

further information, including a list of 

the exhibit objects, contact Julie 

Simpson, Attorney-Adviser, Office of 

the Legal Adviser, U.S. Department of 

State (telephone: 202–632–6467). The 

mailing address is U.S. Department of 

State, SA–5, L/PD, Fifth Floor (Suite 

5H03), Washington, DC 20522–0505. 


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