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and state laws. The Trustee agencies, 

including NOAA, are leading efforts to 

assess and restore affected resources. 

These resources include ecologically, 

recreationally, and commercially 

important species and their habitats in 

the Gulf of Mexico and along the coastal 

areas of Louisiana, Mississippi, 

Alabama, Texas, and Florida, as well as 

human uses of these resources. 

Natural Resource Damage Assessment 

(NRDA) is the process established under 

OPA to evaluate the impacts to natural 

resources and lost human uses of those 

resources. Information continues to be 

collected on pre-oiled and oiled areas to 

assess potential impacts to natural 

resources, including: fish, shellfish, 

marine mammals, turtles, birds, and 

other sensitive resources and their 

habitats, including; wetlands, beaches, 

mudflats, bottom sediments, corals, and 

the water column. Losses of commercial 

and recreational human uses such as 

fishing, hunting, boating, and beach 

enjoyment are also being assessed. 

OPA authorizes certain federal and 

state agencies and Indian tribes to be 

designated as Trustees for affected 

natural resources. Under OPA, these 

agencies and tribes are authorized to 

assess natural resource injuries and to 

seek compensation from RPs, including 

the costs of performing the damage 

assessment. The Trustees are required to 

use recovered damages only to restore, 

replace or acquire the equivalent of 

injured or lost resources and the human 

use of those resources. Toward that end, 

the PEIS will identify types of 

restoration that could be used to 

compensate the public for lost resources 

and their services, as well as a 

framework and procedures for the 

selection and implementation of 

restoration projects that will 

compensate the public for the natural 

resource damages caused by the Oil 

Spill. 

The National Environmental Policy 

Act (NEPA), 42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq., and 

the Council on Environmental Quality 

regulations implementing NEPA under 

40 CFR Chapter V apply to restoration 

actions by federal trustees. The federal 

and state Trustees will be developing a 

PEIS to help guide restoration actions 

associated with the NRDA for the Oil 

Spill. The PEIS will assess the 

environmental, social, and economic 

attributes of the affected environment 

and the potential consequences of 

alternative actions to restore, 

rehabilitate, replace, or acquire the 

equivalent of natural resources and 

services potentially injured by the spill. 

A PEIS may be prepared to evaluate 

actions that encompass a large 

geographic scale. Tiered analyses 

considering particular restoration 

actions may be required in the future as 

specific plans for implementing 

particular alternatives are established. 

The purpose of the scoping process is 

to identify the concerns of the affected 

public and federal agencies, states, and 

Indian tribes, involve the public early in 

the decision making process, facilitate 

an efficient PEIS preparation process, 

define the issues and alternatives that 

will be examined in detail, and save 

time by ensuring that draft documents 

adequately address relevant issues. The 

scoping process reduces paperwork and 

delay by ensuring that important issues 

are addressed early. Following the 

scoping process, the Trustees will 

prepare a draft PEIS, at which time the 

public will be encouraged to comment 

on the document. Similar to the scoping 

process, public comment meetings will 

be held at that time to gather oral and 

written public input on the draft PEIS. 

In compliance with 15 CFR 990.45, 

the Trustees will prepare an 

Administrative Record (Record). The 

Record will include documents that the 

Trustees relied on during the 

development of the PEIS. After 

preparation, the Record will be on file 

at the NOAA Restoration Center in 

Silver Spring, MD, and duplicate copies 

will be maintained at the following Web 

site: http://www.darrp.noaa.gov/. The 

specific web page will be provided in 

the next public notice. 

The draft PEIS document is intended 

to be released for public comment by 

Fall/Winter, 2011. Specific dates and 

times for future events will be 

publicized when scheduled. 

Dated: February 11, 2011. 

Patricia A. Montanio, 

Director, Office of Habitat Conservation, 

National Marine Fisheries Service. 

[FR Doc. 2011–3634 Filed 2–16–11; 8:45 am] 

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COMMISSION OF FINE ARTS 

Notice of Meeting 

The next meeting of the U.S. 

Commission of Fine Arts is scheduled 

for 17 February 2011, at 10 a.m. in the 

Commission offices at the National 

Building Museum, Suite 312, Judiciary 

Square, 401 F Street, NW., Washington, 

DC 20001–2728. Items of discussion 

may include buildings, parks and 

memorials. 

Draft agendas and additional 

information regarding the Commission 

are available on our Web site: http:// 

www.cfa.gov. Inquiries regarding the 

agenda and requests to submit written 

or oral statements should be addressed 

to Thomas Luebke, Secretary, U.S. 

Commission of Fine Arts, at the above 

address; by e-mailing staff@cfa.gov; or 

by calling 202–504–2200. Individuals 

requiring sign language interpretation 

for the hearing impaired should contact 

the Secretary at least 10 days before the 

meeting date. 

Dated February 8, 2011 in Washington, DC. 

Thomas Luebke, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2011–3563 Filed 2–16–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6330–01–M 

CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY 

COMMISSION 

Public Availability of Consumer 

Product Safety Commission FY 2010 

Service Contract Inventory 

AGENCY: Consumer Product Safety 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Consumer Product Safety 

Commission (‘‘CPSC’’ or ‘‘we’’), in 

accordance with section 743(c) of 

Division C of the Consolidated 

Appropriations Act, 2010 (Pub. L. 111– 

117, 123 Stat. 3034, 3216), is 

announcing the availability of its service 

contract inventory for fiscal year (‘‘FY’’) 

2010. This inventory provides 

information on service contract actions 

over $25,000 that we made in FY 2010. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Donna Hutton, Director, Division of 

Procurement Services, U.S. Consumer 

Product Safety Commission, 4330 East 

West Highway, Bethesda, Maryland 

20814. Telephone: 301–504–7009; email dhutton@cpsc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On 

December 16, 2009, the Consolidated 

Appropriations Act, 2010 ‘‘Consolidated 

Appropriations Act’’), Public Law 111– 

117, became law. Section 743(a) of the 

Consolidated Appropriations Act, titled 

‘‘Service Contract Inventory 

Requirement,’’ requires agencies to 

submit to the Office of Management and 

Budget (‘‘OMB’’) an annual inventory of 

service contracts awarded or extended 

through the exercise of an option on or 

after April 1, 2010 and describes the 

contents of the inventory. The contents 

of the inventory include: 

(A) A description of the services 

purchased by the executive agency and 

the role the services played in achieving 

agency objectives, regardless of whether 

such a purchase was made through a 

contract or task order; 

(B) The organizational component of 

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contract, and the organizational 

component of the agency whose 

requirements are being met through 

contractor performance of the service; 

(C) The total dollar amount obligated 

for services under the contract and the 

funding source for the contract; 

(D) The total dollar amount invoiced 

for services under the contract; 

(E) The contract type and date of 

award; 

(F) The name of the contractor and 

place of performance; 

(G) The number and work location of 

contractor and subcontractor employees, 

expressed as full-time equivalents for 

direct labor, compensated under the 

contract; 

(H) Whether the contract is a personal 

services contract; and 

(I) Whether the contract was awarded 

on a noncompetitive basis, regardless of 

date of award. 

Section 743(a)(3)(A) through (I) of the 

Consolidated Appropriations Act. 

Section 743(c) of the Consolidated 

Appropriations Act requires agencies to 

‘‘publish in the Federal Register a notice 

that the inventory is available to the 

public.’’ 

Consequently, through this notice, we 

are announcing that the CPSC’s service 

contract inventory for FY 2010 is 

available to the public. The inventory 

provides information on service contract 

actions over $25,000 that we made in 

FY 2010. The information is organized 

by function to show how contracted 

resources are distributed throughout the 

CPSC. We developed the inventory in 

accordance with guidance issued on 

November 5, 2010 by the OMB. (The 

OMB guidance is available at http:// 

www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/ 

omb/procurement/memo/servicecontract-inventories-guidance11052010.pdf.) The CPSC’s Division of 

Procurement Services has posted its 

inventory, and a summary of the 

inventory can be found at our homepage 

at the following link: http:// 

www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/pubs/reports/ 

2010inventories.pdf. 

Dated: February 14, 2011. 

Todd A. Stevenson, 

Secretary, Consumer Product Safety 

Commission. 

[FR Doc. 2011–3609 Filed 2–16–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6355–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Efficiency Initiative Effort To Reduce 

Non-Value-Added Costs Imposed on 

Industry by Department of Defense 

Acquisition Practices 

AGENCY: Department of Defense (DoD). 

ACTION: Request for public comments. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Defense 

understands that some of its mandates, 

reporting requirements, and other 

acquisition practices encourage industry 

to adopt processes and make 

investments that increase costs, 

especially overhead costs, but do not 

contribute to value added in systems 

and services delivered to the 

Department. To implement the 

memorandum from Under Secretary of 

Defense (Acquisition, Technology, and 

Logistics) Dr. Ashton Carter, dated 

September 14, 2010, Memorandum to 

Acquisition Professionals, DoD is 

requesting information from the 

industrial base to identify the sources of 

these costs, backed by specific, credible, 

convincing data. DoD’s goal is to 

develop a fact-based program to reform 

cost-inflating practices. 

DATES: Submit written comments to the 

address shown below on or before 

March 31, 2011. 

ADDRESSES: Submit comments to: 

Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense 

for Industrial Policy, 3330 Defense 

Pentagon, Washington, DC 20301; or email to efficiency.ip@osd.mil. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. 

Eugene Gholz, telephone 571–256–2974, 

or e-mail Eugene.Gholz@osd.mil. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: During the 

summer of 2010, industry voluntarily 

furnished nearly 500 suggestions to the 

Department of Defense as part of the 

first stage of Undersecretary Carter’s 

Better Buying Power Initiative. Many of 

these suggestions were incorporated 

into the September 14, 2010, 

memorandum; others involved changes 

that can only be made over the longer 

term or require additional follow-up 

data before they are ready for possible 

action. DoD hopes that the current 

request for comments will yield the 

additional data that it needs along with 

information about some additional areas 

of non-value-added cost. 

Submissions should specifically 

identify policies and practices that 

increase industry’s non-value-added 

costs. They should draw on a reasonable 

definition of ‘‘non-value-added,’’ 

understanding that statutes and defense 

policies reflect persistent American 

values, including but not limited to, a 

clear focus on warfighting performance. 

It is not reasonable to count all costs 

associated with core laws governing 

defense acquisition as non-value added, 

but data on the costs of technical and 

administrative decisions within the 

statutory framework and on particular 

aspects of the laws would help the 

Efficiency Initiative move forward. As 

an example, earlier industry comments 

on the potential effects of adjusting 

thresholds in the Truth in Negotiations 

Act (TINA) for inflation seem to be at an 

appropriate level of analysis. 

The supporting data should give a 

clear indication of the magnitude of the 

cost, so that DoD can evaluate and 

prioritize the information. Submissions 

should also explain how the data were 

collected and the relevant costs were 

counted or estimated. DoD is looking for 

the sort of data used in the 1994 Defense 

Science Board study, The DoD 

Regulatory Cost Premium: A 

Quantitative Assessment. DoD is 

particularly interested in data that 

would allow it to follow up on earlier 

industry submissions about the effects 

of particular TINA provisions, particular 

audit practices, and particular barriers 

to right-sizing industry capacity for 

current and projected future levels of 

demand. 

DoD will use these submissions as 

part of its internal deliberations on the 

Better Buying Power Initiative. We 

expect to seek further industry comment 

at a public meeting where we hope that 

industry experts in contract 

management and finance will offer 

comments on the topic areas raised 

through this request for comments, 

ensuring that the results of this 

submission process are not idiosyncratic 

or overly influenced by particular 

companies’ cost structures. Any 

information from this request shared at 

that future meeting will be entirely 

sanitized. 

Submissions are likely to rely on 

business confidential data. Any 

business confidential data should be 

clearly labeled. The information will 

only be used by individuals in the 

Department of Defense who need it for 

purposes of policy development as part 

of Undersecretary Carter’s Efficiency 

Initiative. Trade secrets and commercial 

or financial information considered by 

the submitter to be privileged or 

confidential, and marked accordingly by 

the submitter, will be treated as exempt 

from public disclosure as provided for 

by 5 U.S.C. 522(b)(4) (Freedom of 

Information Act rules). 

Ynette R. Shelkin, 

Editor, Defense Acquisition Regulations 

System. 

[FR Doc. 2011–3600 Filed 2–16–11; 8:45 am] 

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