Federal Register / Vol. 74, No. 37 / Thursday, February 26, 2009 / Notices 8819 

development and evolution of the 

digital library will be informed by the 

research communities that NSF 

supports, and it will serve as a living 

resource of multimedia materials that 

may be used to train current and future 

generations of scientists and engineers 

in the responsible and ethical conduct 

of research. 

Invitation to Comment: The 

Foundation welcomes public comment 

on any aspect of the proposed 

Implementation Plan. Issues that 

responders may wish to address 

include, but are not limited to, the 

following: 

• What challenges do institutions face 

in meeting the new RCR requirement? 

• What role should Principal 

Investigators play in meeting NSF’s RCR 

requirement? 

• There are likely to be differences in 

the RCR plans that institutions develop 

to respond to this new requirement. 

What are the pros and cons of exploring 

a diversity of approaches? 

• How might online resources be 

most effective in assisting with training 

students and postdocs in the 

responsible and ethical conduct of 

research? 

• Discuss possible approaches to 

verifying that the requisite RCR training 

has been provided. 

Comments: Comments regarding 

NSF’s proposed implementation should 

be e-mailed to RCRinput@nsf.gov by 

March 31, 2009. Please include your 

comments in the body of the e-mail and 

in an attachment. Include your name, 

title, organization, postal address, 

telephone number, and e-mail address 

in your message. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

information on the NSF’s 

implementation of the America 

COMPETES Act, contact Jean Feldman; 

Head, Policy Office, Division of 

Institution & Award Support; National 

Science Foundation; 4201 Wilson Blvd.; 

Arlington, VA 22230; e-mail: 

jfeldman@nsf.gov; telephone: (703) 292– 

8243; fax: (703) 292–9171. 

Dated: February 23, 2009. 

Suzanne H. Plimpton, 

Reports Clearance Officer, National Science 

Foundation. 

[FR Doc. E9–4100 Filed 2–25–09; 8:45 am] 

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OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND 

BUDGET 

Federal Regulatory Review 

AGENCY: Office of Management and 

Budget, Executive Office of the 

President. 

ACTION: Request for comments. 

SUMMARY: The Director of the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) is 

developing a set of recommendations to 

the President for a new Executive Order 

on Federal Regulatory Review, and 

invites public comments on how to 

improve the process and principles 

governing regulation. 

DATES: Comments must be in writing 

and received by March 16, 2009. 

ADDRESSES: Submit comments by one of 

the following methods: 

• E-mail: 

oira_submission@omb.eop.gov. 

• Fax: (202) 395–7245. 

• Mail: Office of Information and 

Regulatory Affairs, Records 

Management Center, Office of 

Management and Budget, Attn: Mabel 

Echols, Room 10102, NEOB, 725 17th 

Street, NW.,Washington, DC 20503. We 

are still experiencing delays in the 

regular mail, including first class and 

express mail. To ensure that your 

comments are received on time, we 

recommend that comments be 

electronically submitted. 

All comments submitted in response 

to this notice will be made available to 

the public on OMB’s Web site. For this 

reason, please do not include in your 

comments information of a confidential 

nature, such as sensitive personal 

information or proprietary information. 

If you send an e-mail comment directly 

to OMB, your e-mail address will be 

automatically captured and included as 

part of the comment that is placed in the 

public docket and made available on the 

Internet. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Mabel Echols, Office of Information and 

Regulatory Affairs, Records 

Management Center, Office of 

Management and Budget, Room 10102, 

NEOB, 725 17th Street, NW., 

Washington, DC 20503. Telephone: 

(202) 395–6880. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: For well 

over two decades, the Office of 

Information and Regulatory Affairs 

(OIRA) at OMB has reviewed Federal 

regulations. The purposes of such 

review have been to ensure consistency 

with Presidential priorities, to 

coordinate regulatory policy, and to 

offer a dispassionate and analytical 

’’second opinion’’ on agency actions. 

In a recent Memorandum for the 

Heads of Executive Departments and 

Agencies, published in the Federal 

Register [74 FR 5977], the President 

directed the Director of OMB to produce 

a set of recommendations for a new 

Executive Order on Federal regulatory 

review. Among other things, he stated 

that the recommendations should offer 

suggestions for the following: 

• The relationship between OIRA and 

the agencies; 

• Disclosure and transparency; 

• Encouraging public participation in 

agency regulatory processes; 

• The role of cost-benefit analysis; 

• The role of distributional 

considerations, fairness, and concern for 

the interests of future generations; 

• Methods of ensuring that regulatory 

review does not produce undue delay; 

• The role of the behavioral sciences 

in formulating regulatory policy; and 

• The best tools for achieving public 

goals through the regulatory process. 

Executive Orders are not subject to 

notice and comment procedures, and as 

a general rule, public comment is not 

formally sought before they are issued. 

In this case, however, there has been an 

unusually high level of public interest, 

and because of the evident importance 

and fundamental nature of the relevant 

issues, the Director of OMB invites 

public comments on the principles and 

procedures governing regulatory review. 

These comments will be read and 

considered seriously even though no 

responses will be given. 

This public process is not intended to, 

and does not, create any right or benefit, 

substantive or procedural, enforceable at 

law or in equity by any party against the 

United States, its departments, agencies, 

or entities, its officers, employees, or 

agents, or any other person. 

Kevin F. Neyland, 

Acting Administrator, Office of Information 

and Regulatory Affairs. 

[FR Doc. E9–4080 Filed 2–25–09; 8:45 am] 

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OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES 

TRADE REPRESENTATIVE 

Notice of Meeting of the Industry Trade 

Advisory Committee on Small and 

Minority Business (ITAC–11) 

AGENCY: Office of the United States 

Trade Representative. 

ACTION: Notice of a partially opened 

meeting. 

SUMMARY: The Industry Trade Advisory 

Committee on Small and Minority 

Business (ITAC–11) will hold a meeting 

on Monday, March 23, 2009, from 9 a.m. 

to 3:30 p.m. The meeting will be closed 

to the public from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. 

and opened to the public from 1 p.m. to 

3:30 p.m. 

DATES: The meeting is scheduled for 

March 23, 2009, unless otherwise 

notified.