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§ 102–34.320 What Government-issued 

charge cards may I use to purchase fuel 

and motor vehicle related services? 

(a) You may use a fleet charge card 

specifically issued for this purpose. 

These cards are designed to collect 

motor vehicle data at the time of 

purchase. Where appropriate, State sales 

and motor fuel taxes may be deducted 

from fuel purchases by the fleet charge 

card services contractor before your 

agency is billed; otherwise you may 

need to request reimbursement from 

each State to which taxes were paid. 

The GSA contractor issued fleet charge 

card is the only Government-issued 

charge card that may be used for GSA 

Fleet motor vehicles. For further 

information on acquiring these fleet 

charge cards and their use, contact the: 

General Services Administration, 

ATTN: GSA SmartPay® (QMB), 2200 

Crystal Drive, Arlington, VA 22202. 

(b) You may use a Government 

purchase card if you do not have a fleet 

charge card or if the use of such a 

Government purchase card is required 

by your agency mission. However, the 

Government purchase card does not 

collect motor vehicle data nor does it 

deduct State sales and motor fuel taxes. 

Note to § 102–34.320: OMB Circular A– 

123, Appendix B, contains additional 

specific guidance on the management, 

issuance, and usage of Government charge 

cards. The Appendix B guidance 

consolidates and updates current 

Governmentwide charge card program 

requirements and guidance issued by the 

Office of Management and Budget, GSA, 

Department of the Treasury, and other 

Federal agencies. Appendix B provides a 

single document to incorporate changes, new 

guidance, or amendments to existing 

guidance, and establishes minimum 

requirements and suggested best practices for 

Government charge card programs that may 

be supplemented by individual agency policy 

procedures. 

§ 102–34.325 What type of fuel do I use in 

Government motor vehicles? 

(a) Use the minimum grade (octane 

rating) of fuel recommended by the 

motor vehicle manufacturer when 

fueling Government motor vehicles, 

unless a higher grade of fuel is all that 

is available locally. 

(b) Use unleaded gasoline in all 

foreign fleet motor vehicles designed to 

operate on gasoline unless: 

(1) Such use would be in conflict with 

country-to-country or multi-national 

logistics agreements; or 

(2) Such gasoline is not available 

locally. 

(c) You must use alternative fuels in 

alternative fuel motor vehicles to the 

fullest extent possible as directed by 

regulations issued by the Department of 

Energy implementing the Energy Policy 

Act and related Executive Orders. 

Subpart J—Federal Fleet Report 

§ 102–34.330 What is the Federal Fleet 

Report? 

The Federal Fleet Report (FFR) is an 

annual summary of Federal fleet 

statistics based upon fleet composition 

at the end of each fiscal year and vehicle 

use and cost during the fiscal year. The 

FFR is compiled by GSA from 

information submitted by Federal 

agencies. The FFR is designed to 

provide essential statistical data for 

worldwide Federal motor vehicle fleet 

operations. Review of the report assists 

Government agencies, including GSA, 

in evaluating the effectiveness of the 

operation and management of 

individual fleets to determine whether 

vehicles are being utilized properly and 

to identify high cost areas where fleet 

expenses can be reduced. The FFR is 

posted on GSA’s Motor Vehicle 

Management Policy Internet Web site 

(http://www.gsa.gov/vehiclepolicy). 

§ 102–34.335 How do I submit information 

to the General Services Administration 

(GSA) for the Federal Fleet Report (FFR)? 

(a) Annually, agencies must submit to 

GSA the information needed to produce 

the FFR through the Federal Automotive 

Statistical Tool (FAST), an Internetbased reporting tool. To find out how to 

submit motor vehicle data to GSA 

through FAST, consult the instructions 

from your agency fleet manager and 

read the documentation at http:// 

fastweb.inel.gov/. 

(b) Specific reporting categories, by 

agency, included in the FFR are— 

(1) Inventory; 

(2) Acquisitions; 

(3) Operating costs; 

(4) Miles traveled; and 

(5) Fuel used. 

Note to § 102–34.335: The FAST system is 

also used by agency Fleet Managers to 

provide the Department of Energy with 

information required by the Energy Policy 

Act and related Executive Orders. In 

addition, the Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB) requires agency Fleet 

Managers and budget officers to submit 

annual agency motor vehicle budgeting 

information to OMB through FAST (see OMB 

Circular A–11, Preparation, Submission, and 

Execution of the Budget). 

§ 102–34.340 Do we need a fleet 

management information system? 

Yes, you must have a fleet 

management information system at the 

department or agency level that — 

(a) Identifies and collects accurate 

inventory, cost, and use data that covers 

the complete lifecycle of each motor 

vehicle (acquisition, operation, 

maintenance, and disposal); and 

(b) Provides the information necessary 

to satisfy both internal and external 

reporting requirements, including: 

(1) Cost per mile; 

(2) Fuel costs for each motor vehicle; 

and 

(3) Data required for FAST (see § 102– 

34.335). 

§ 102–34.345 What records do we need to 

keep? 

You are responsible for developing 

and keeping adequate accounting and 

reporting procedures for Government 

motor vehicles. These will ensure 

accurate recording of inventory, cost, 

and operational data needed to manage 

and control motor vehicles, and will 

satisfy reporting requirements. You 

must also comply with the General 

Records Schedules issued by the 

National Archives and Records 

Administration (http:// 

www.archives.gov). 

Subpart K—Forms 

§ 102–34.350 How do we obtain the forms 

prescribed in this part? 

See § 102–2.135 of this chapter for 

how to obtain forms prescribed in this 

part. 

[FR Doc. E9–6152 Filed 3–19–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6820–14–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Administration for Children and 

Families 

Office of Child Support Enforcement 

45 CFR Parts 302, 303 and 307 

RIN 0970–AC01 

State Parent Locator Service; 

Safeguarding Child Support 

Information 

AGENCY: Office of Child Support 

Enforcement (OCSE), Administration for 

Children and Families (ACF), 

Department of Health and Human 

Services. 

ACTION: Delay of effective date. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

memorandum of January 20, 2009, from 

the Assistant to the President and Chief 

of Staff, entitled ‘‘Regulatory Review,’’ 

this action temporarily delays until May 

22, 2009, the effective date of the final 

rule entitled ‘‘State Parent Locator 

Service; Safeguarding Child Support 

Information,’’ published in the Federal 

11880 Federal Register / Vol. 74, No. 53 / Friday, March 20, 2009 / Rules and Regulations 

Register on September 26, 2008 [73 FR 

56422]. The temporary delay in effective 

date is necessary to give Department 

officials the opportunity for further 

review of the issues of law and policy 

raised by this rule. 

DATES: The effective date of the rule 

amending 45 CFR parts 302, 303, and 

307, published in the September 26, 

2008 Federal Register [73 FR 56422] is 

delayed until May 22, 2009. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Yvette Riddick, Office of Child Support 

Enforcement, Division of Policy, (202) 

401–4885. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

On September 26, 2008, we published 

a final rule following notice and 

comment period entitled ‘‘State Parent 

Locator Service; Safeguarding Child 

Support Information’’ in the Federal 

Register to address requirements for 

State Parent Locator Service responses 

to authorized location requests, State 

IV–D program safeguarding of 

confidential information, authorized 

disclosures of this information, and 

restrictions on the use of confidential 

data and information for child support 

purposes with exceptions for certain 

disclosures permitted by statute. The 

effective date given for the final rule 

was March 23, 2009. 

In the March 3, 2009 Federal Register 

[74 FR 9171], we published a notice 

with comment period entitled, ‘‘State 

Parent Locator Service; Safeguarding 

Child Support Information: Proposed 

Delay of Effective Date.’’ That notice 

solicited public comments on a 

contemplated 60-day delay in the 

effective date of the September 26, 2008 

final rule. 

II. Provisions of This Action 

This action delays the effective date of 

the September 26, 2008 final rule. The 

effective date of the September 26, 2008 

final rule, which would have been 

March 23, 2009, is now May 22, 2009. 

The delay in the effective date is 

necessary to give Department officials 

the opportunity for further review of the 

issues of law and policy raised by the 

rule. 

III. Comments Received in Response to 

the March 3, 2009 Notice 

We received fifteen comments in 

response to the March 3, 2009 notice 

with comment period on the 

contemplated 60-day delay in effective 

date of the ‘‘State Parent Locator 

Service; Safeguarding Child Support 

Information’’ final rule. Although the 

March 3, 2009 notice invited comments 

generally on whether a delay in effective 

date was needed ‘‘to allow Department 

officials the opportunity for further 

review and consideration,’’ it also 

generated focused comments 

recommending changes to several 

particular substantive areas of the final 

rule. The commenters generally 

supported delaying the effective date, 

and as a result, we are delaying the 

effective date to May 22, 2009, to allow 

sufficient time for Department officials 

to review issues of law and policy raised 

by the rule. 

A summary of the comments received 

follows. 

Comments: Three commenters 

supported delaying the implementation 

date of the final rule. Two of the 

commenters stated that the delay was 

necessary to allow additional time to 

implement the new requirements and 

the other commenter supported a delay 

in the effective date of the rule to allow 

an additional 60 days for review. One 

State submitted a comment indicating 

that it did not need an extension of the 

effective date in order to implement the 

regulation. 

Several comments addressed the 

substance of the rule rather than the 

effective date. One commenter indicated 

that the final rule appeared to prohibit 

the State IV–D agency from disclosing 

confidential information, such as child 

support payment records, to other State 

agencies, including the State food 

assistance (Food Stamps) program and 

the State revenue (Tax) program. 

Another commenter stated that a delay 

in the effective date would give the 

Administration an opportunity to 

conduct a review of the child welfare 

data exchange provisions of the rule to 

ensure that the provisions of the rule 

conform with The Fostering 

Connections to Success and Increasing 

Adoptions Act (Pub. L. 110–351), signed 

into law on October 7, 2008, after the 

rule was finalized. 

Several commenters raised specific 

policy objections to the September 26, 

2008 final rule. Two commenters raised 

concerns about the rules for disclosure 

of confidential location information. 

Another commenter stated that the 

regulations need to be reviewed and 

revised to assure significantly greater 

protection of that information from use 

for non-child support purposes. 

Additionally, a number of 

commenters focused on the disclosure 

of information to an ‘‘agent of a child’’ 

and raised concerns that some private 

collection agencies may not actually 

serve the child’s best interests and 

raised concerns that these private 

entities are not subject to ethics and 

confidentiality rules, such as those 

governing State agencies and attorneys, 

and there may be unintended adverse 

consequences of such disclosures. 

Response: The Department believes 

that the comments received on the 

notice published in the Federal Register 

on March 3, 2009 [74 FR 9171] soliciting 

comments on the temporary delay in the 

effective date of the rule generally 

support a 60-day delay until May 22, 

2009. Thus the Department is delaying 

the effective date of the final rule 60 

days to allow sufficient time for 

Department officials to review issues of 

law and policy raised by the rule. 

(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance 

Program No. 93.563, Child Support 

Enforcement) 

Dated: March 17, 2009. 

Charles E. Johnson, 

Acting Secretary. 

[FR Doc. E9–6165 Filed 3–19–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4194–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

50 CFR Part 660 

[Docket No. 071003556–81194–02] 

RIN 0648–AW08 

Fisheries Off West Coast States; 

Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery; 

Amendment 15; Correction 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Final rule; correction. 

SUMMARY: NMFS is correcting a final 

regulation that appeared in the Federal 

Register on March 10, 2009. The 

document contained the final 

regulations for a vessel license 

limitation program for the non-tribal 

sectors of the Pacific whiting fishery. 

The document was published with some 

errors, including errors in the final date 

of the application period, the final date 

of appeals period, and the effective date 

for the Pacific whiting vessel license 

requirement. This document corrects 

those errors. 

DATES: These corrections are effective 

on April 9, 2009. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Becky Renko, phone: 206–526–6110, 

fax: 206–526–6736, or e-mail: 

becky.renko@noaa.gov, or for permitting 

information, Kevin Ford, phone: 206– 

526–6115, fax: 206–526–6736, or e-mail: 

kevin.ford@noaa.gov.