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Total Respondents: 7. 

Estimated Total Burden Hours: 21. 

Total Burden Cost (capital/startup): 0. 

Total Burden Cost (operating/ 

maintaining): 0. 

The Department will summarize and 

include (or both) comments submitted 

in response to this comment request in 

its request for Office of Management and 

Budget approval of the information 

collection. The comments will also 

become a matter of public record. 

Signed in Washington, DC, this 2nd day of 

May 2011. 

Jane Oates, 

Assistant Secretary, Employment and 

Training Administration. 

[FR Doc. 2011–11192 Filed 5–9–11; 8:45 am] 

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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 

Copyright Office 

[Docket No. RM 2010–10] 

Section 302 Report 

AGENCY: Copyright Office, Library of 

Congress. 

ACTION: Announcement of public 

hearing. 

SUMMARY: In Section 302 of the Satellite 

Television Extension and Localism Act, 

Congress directed the Copyright Office 

(‘‘Office’’) to prepare a report addressing 

possible mechanisms, methods, and 

recommendations for phasing out the 

statutory licensing requirements set 

forth in Sections 111, 119, and 122 of 

the Copyright Act. The Office published 

a Notice of Inquiry (‘‘NOI’’) in the 

Federal Register, seeking comments on 

issues related to Section 302. 76 FR 

11816 (March 3, 2011). The Office 

announces that it will hold a public 

hearing on the issues raised by the NOI 

on June 10, 2011. 

DATES: A public hearing regarding 

marketplace alternatives to statutory 

licensing schemes under Sections 111, 

119, and 122 of the Copyright Act will 

be held on Friday, June 10, 2011. 

Notices of intention to testify must be 

received by the Office by 5 p.m. E.D.T. 

on Friday, May 27, 2011. Written 

testimony and written questions are due 

by noon E.D.T, on Wednesday, June 8, 

2011. 

ADDRESSES: The hearing will be held in 

the Copyright Hearing Room, LM–408, 

Madison Building, The Library of 

Congress, 101 Independence Avenue, 

SE., Washington, DC 20540. All 

submissions shall be submitted 

electronically. A page pertaining to the 

hearing will be posted on the Copyright 

Office Web site at http:// 

www.copyright.gov/docs/section302. 

Interested parties will be able to submit 

(1) notices of intent to participate in the 

hearing; (2) suggested questions for the 

Copyright Office to ask at the hearing; 

and (3) written testimony electronically. 

The Web site interface permits 

interested parties to complete a form 

specifying name and organization, as 

applicable, and to upload documents as 

attachments via a browser button. To 

meet accessibility standards, all 

submissions must be uploaded in either 

the Adobe Portable Document File 

(PDF) format that contains searchable, 

accessible text (not an image); Microsoft 

Word; WordPerfect; Rich Text Format 

(RTF); or ASCII text file format (not a 

scanned document). The name of the 

submitter and organization should 

appear on both the form and the face of 

all the submissions. All submissions 

will be posted publicly on the Copyright 

Office Web site exactly as they are 

received, along with names and 

organizations. Persons who are unable 

to make their submissions electronically 

should contact Ben Golant, Assistant 

General Counsel, at 202–707–9127. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ben 

Golant, Assistant General Counsel, and 

Tanya M. Sandros, Deputy General 

Counsel, Copyright GC/I&R, P.O. Box 

70400, Southwest Station, Washington, 

DC 20024. Telephone: (202) 707–8380. 

Telefax: (202) 707–8366. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

On May 27, 2010, the President 

signed the Satellite Television 

Extension and Localism Act of 2010. 

(‘‘STELA’’). See Public Law 111–175, 

124 Stat. 1218 (2010). The legislation 

extended the term of the Section 119 

license for another five years, updated 

the statutory license structures to 

account for changes resulting from the 

nationwide transition to digital 

television, and revised the Section 111 

and Section 122 licenses in several 

other respects. In addition, STELA 

instructed the Copyright Office, the 

Government Accountability Office and 

the FCC to conduct studies and report 

findings to Congress on different 

structural and regulatory aspects of the 

broadcast signal carriage marketplace in 

the United States. Section 302 of 

STELA, entitled ‘‘Report on Market 

Based Alternatives to Statutory 

Licensing,’’ charges the Copyright Office 

with the following: 

Not later than 18 months after the date of 

the enactment of this Act, and after 

consultation with the Federal 

Communications Commission, the Register of 

Copyrights shall submit to the appropriate 

Congressional committees a report 

containing: 

(1) Proposed mechanisms, methods, and 

recommendations on how to implement a 

phase-out of the statutory licensing 

requirements set forth in sections 111, 119, 

and 122 of title 17, United States Code, by 

making such sections inapplicable to the 

secondary transmission of a performance or 

display of a work embodied in a primary 

transmission of a broadcast station that is 

authorized to license the same secondary 

transmission directly with respect to all of 

the performances and displays embodied in 

such primary transmission; 

(2) any recommendations for alternative 

means to implement a timely and effective 

phase-out of the statutory licensing 

requirements set forth in sections 111, 119, 

and 122 of title 17, United States Code; and 

(3) any recommendations for legislative or 

administrative actions as may be appropriate 

to achieve such a phase-out. 

In response to these directives, the 

Office published a Notice of Inquiry in 

the Federal Register, 76 FR 11816 

(March 3, 2011), seeking comments and 

information from the public on several 

issues that are central to the scope and 

operation of Section 302 and critical to 

the Office’s analysis of the legal and 

business landscapes pertaining to video 

programming. 

II. Notice of Public Hearing 

The Office finds that public input on 

marketplace alternatives to the statutory 

licenses from interested parties is 

critical to a balanced and 

comprehensive report to Congress. 

Consequently, the Office has 

determined that a process involving 

both written comments and an open 

hearing is needed to gather the 

necessary information. The Office is 

therefore announcing the scheduling of 

a public hearing on the issues raised in 

the Section 302 NOI to complement the 

comments and reply comments 

submitted in this proceeding. 

The Office will conduct its hearing 

with interested parties in the Copyright 

Office Hearing Room, LM–408, at the 

Madison Building of the Library of 

Congress on June 10, 2011. The format 

for these hearings will resemble the 

traditional Congressional hearing model 

in that there will be panels of witnesses 

presenting testimony to a panel of 

Copyright Office staff. Each participant 

will have a limited time to present his 

or her testimony. The Office will 

determine time limits for the witnesses 

once it receives all requests to testify. 

After the oral statements, the Office staff 

will ask questions of the various persons 

who testify, and interested parties may 

submit written questions to the Office 

by June 8, 2011, which may be 

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witnesses as a whole, at the discretion 

of the Office. 

The public hearings are open to the 

general public. However, in order to 

testify, interested persons must inform 

the Office of their intention to testify no 

later than the close of business on May 

27, 2011. Notification of intention to 

testify must be in written form and 

include the following information for 

each participant: Name, organization, 

title, postal mailing address, telephone, 

telefax, an e-mail address, and indicate 

if there is a need for audiovisual 

equipment to make a presentation. 

Notices of intention may be filed 

electronically according to the 

instructions noted above. Notifications 

received after the May 27, 2011 deadline 

will not be accepted, and such person 

or persons will not be allowed to testify. 

Following receipt of the requests to 

testify, the Copyright Office will prepare 

an agenda of the hearing which will be 

posted on the Copyright Office Web site 

at: http://www.copyright.gov/docs/ 

section302/ and will also be sent to all 

persons who have submitted requests to 

testify. 

The public hearing will begin at 9:30 

a.m. and will continue until 5 p.m., 

unless otherwise directed. The Office 

will notify each witness who has filed 

a timely notice of intention to testify of 

the time he/she is expected to appear 

and offer testimony. The Office will also 

notify each witness of the other 

witnesses who will appear on his/her 

panel and post a list of the panels and 

witnesses on the Web site. 

Transcription services of the public 

hearings will be provided by the Office. 

Those parties interested in obtaining 

transcripts of the hearings will need to 

purchase them from the transcription 

service. 

Testimony. All persons who notify the 

Office of their intention to testify may 

submit a copy of their testimony by the 

June 8, 2011, deadline. In addition, and 

as noted above, interested parties may 

also submit by noon on June 8, 2011, 

suggested written questions, for possible 

use by panel members of the Copyright 

Office during the course of the hearings. 

Because of time limitations, the Office 

requests parties submitting testimony to 

file their statements to the Office 

electronically following the instructions 

noted above for submissions on or 

before the deadline. 

Scope of the Proceeding. The 

Copyright Office stresses that factual 

arguments are at least as important as 

legal arguments and encourages persons 

who wish to testify to provide 

demonstrative evidence to supplement 

their testimony. While testimony from 

attorneys who can articulate legal 

arguments in support of particular for 

marketplace alternatives is useful, 

testimony from witnesses who can 

provide an economic analysis of the 

issues at hand is strongly encouraged. 

The Office also stresses that the 

Congressional mandate for this study is 

to come up with ‘‘[p]roposed 

mechanisms, methods, and 

recommendations on how to implement 

a phase-out of the statutory 

requirements’’ of sections 111, 119, and 

122 (emphasis added), and not to 

recommend whether to phase out the 

existing statutory licenses. 

III. Summary 

The Office announces a formal 

hearing to be held on June 10, 2011, 

with relevant filing dates and 

instructions noted above. 

Dated: May 4, 2011. 

Maria A. Pallante, 

Acting Register of Copyrights. 

[FR Doc. 2011–11226 Filed 5–9–11; 8:45 am] 

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NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS 

ADMINISTRATION 

Nixon Presidential Historical Materials: 

Opening of Materials 

AGENCY: National Archives and Records 

Administration. 

ACTION: Notice of opening of additional 

materials. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces the 

opening of additional Nixon 

Presidential Historical Materials by the 

Richard Nixon Presidential Library and 

Museum, a division of the National 

Archives and Records Administration. 

Notice is hereby given that, in 

accordance with section 104 of Title I of 

the Presidential Recordings and 

Materials Preservation Act (PRMPA, 44 

U.S.C. 2111 note) and 1275.42(b) of the 

PRMPA Regulations implementing the 

Act (36 CFR part 1275), the Agency has 

identified, inventoried, and prepared for 

public access the Vietnam Task Force 

study, United States -Vietnam Relations 

1945–1967, informally known as ‘‘the 

Pentagon Papers.’’ 

DATES: The Richard Nixon Presidential 

Library and Museum intends to make 

the materials described in this notice 

available to the public on Monday, June 

13, 2011, at the Richard Nixon 

Presidential Library and Museum’s 

primary location in Yorba Linda, CA, 

beginning at 9 a.m. (PDT). In accordance 

with 36 CFR 1275.44, any person who 

believes it necessary to file a claim of 

legal right or privilege concerning 

access to these materials must notify the 

Archivist of the United States in writing 

of the claimed right, privilege, or 

defense within 30 days of the 

publication of this notice. These claims 

should be sent to the Office of the 

Archivist of the United States, National 

Archives at College Park, 8601 Adelphi 

Road, College Park, MD 20740–6001. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Timothy Naftali, Director, Richard 

Nixon Presidential Library and 

Museum, 714–983–9120 . 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

following materials will be made 

available in accordance with this notice: 

Previously restricted textual 

materials. Volume: 3.7 cubic feet. A 

number of textual materials previously 

withheld from public access have been 

reviewed for release and/or declassified 

under the systematic declassification 

review provisions and under the 

mandatory review provisions of 

Executive Order 13526, or in accordance 

with 36 CFR 1275.56 (Public Access 

regulations). The materials are from 

National Security Council (NSC Files), 

Presidential Acquisition Files, Pentagon 

Papers. 

Dated: May 4, 2011. 

David Ferriero, 

Archivist of the United States. 

[FR Doc. 2011–11533 Filed 5–9–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7515–01–P 

NATIONAL FOUNDATION ON THE 

ARTS AND THE HUMANITIES 

Public Availability of the National 

Endowment for the Humanities FY 

2010 Service Contract Inventory 

AGENCY: National Endowment for the 

Humanities. 

ACTION: Notice of Public Availability of 

FY 2010 Service Contract Inventories. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with Section 

743 of Division C of the Consolidated 

Appropriations Act of 2010 (Pub. L. 

111–117), the National Endowment for 

the Humanities (NEH) is publishing this 

notice to advise the public of the 

availability of the FY 2010 Service 

Contract inventory. This inventory 

provides information on service contract 

actions over $25,000 that were made in 

FY 2010. The information is organized 

by function to show how contracted 

resources are distributed throughout the 

agency. The inventory has been 

developed in accordance with guidance 

issued on November 5, 2010 by the 

Office of Management and Budget’s 

Office of Federal Procurement Policy 

(OFPP). OFPP’s guidance is available at 


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