27634 Federal Register / Vol. 66, No. 97 / Friday, May 18, 2001 / Notices

maximum extent practicable with E.O.

12906, Coordinating Geographic Data

Acquisition and Access, The National

Spatial Data Infrastructure, 59 FR 17671

(April 11, 1994). The award recipient

shall document all new geospatial data

collected or produced using the

standard developed by the Federal

Geographic Data Center, and make that

standardized documentation

electronically accessible. The standard

can be found at the following Internet

website: (http://www.fgdc.gov/

standards/standards/html).

Classification

Prior notice and an opportunity for

public comments are not required by the

Administrative Procedure Act or any

other law for this notice concerning

grants, benefits, and contracts.

Therefore, a regulatory flexibility

analysis is not required for purposes of

the Regulatory Flexibility Act.

This action has been determined to be

not significant for purposes of E.O.

12866.

This notice contains collection of

information requirements subject to the

Paperwork Reduction Act. Standard

Forms 424, 424A, and 424B have been

approved under control numbers 0348–

0043, 0348–0044, and 0348–0040.

Notwithstanding any other provision of

the law, no person is required to

respond to, nor shall any person be

subject to a penalty for failure to comply

with, a collection of information subject

to the requirements of the Paperwork

Reduction Act, unless that collection of

information displays a currently valid

OMB Control Number.

Dated: May 15, 2001.

Louisa Koch,

Chair, NOAA Minority Serving Institutions

Council.

[FR Doc. 01–12607 Filed 5–17–01; 8:45 am]

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Office of the Secretary

Proposed Collection; Comment

Request

AGENCY: Federal Voting Assistance

Program (FVAP), DoD.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: In compliance with Section

3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork

Reduction Act of 1995, the Washington

Headquarters Services announces the

proposed extension of a public

information collection and seeks public

comment on the provisions thereof.

Comments are invited on: (a) Whether

the proposed collection of information

is necessary for the proper performance

of the functions of the agency, including

whether the information shall have

practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the

agency’s estimate of the burden of the

proposed information collection; (c)

ways to enhance the quality, utility, and

clarity of the information to be

collected; and (d) ways to minimize the

burden of the information collection on

respondents, including through the use

of automated collection techniques or

other forms of information technology.

DATES: Consideration will be given to all

comments received by July 17, 2001.

ADDRESSES: Written comments and

recommendations on the proposed

information collection should be sent to

the Department of Defense, Washington

Headquarters Services, Federal Voting

Assistance Program, 1155 Defense

Pentagon, Washington, DC 20301–1155,

ATTN: Ms. Elaine Perna.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To

request more information on this

proposed information collection or to

obtain a copy of the proposal and

associated collection instruments,

please write to the above address, or call

the Federal Voting Assistance Program

at (703) 588–1584 or 1–(800) 438–8683.

Title and OMB Number: Post-election

Voting Survey of Overseas Citizens and

Post-election Voting Survey of Local

Election Officials; OMB Number 0704–

0125.

Needs and Uses: The information

collection requirement is necessary to

meet a requirement of the Uniformed

and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting

Act (UOCAVA) of 1986 (42 U.S.C.

1973ff). UOCAVA requires a report to

the President and Congress on the

effectiveness of assistance under the

Act, a statistical analysis of voter

participation, and a description of StateFederal cooperation.

Affected Public: Individuals or

Households: State or Local Government.

Annual Burden Hours: 401.

Number of Respondents: 2,403.

Responses Per Respondent: 1.

Average Burden Per Response: 10

minutes.

Frequency: Quadrennially.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Summary of Information

UOCAVA requires the states to allow

Uniformed Services personnel, their

family members, and overseas citizens

to use absentee registration procedures

and to vote by absentee ballot in

general, special, primary, and runoff

elections for Federal offices. The Act

covers members of the Uniformed

Services and the merchant marine to

include the commissioned corps of the

National Oceanic and Atmospheric

Administration and Public Health

Service, and their eligible dependents,

Federal civilian employees overseas,

and overseas U.S. citizens not affiliated

with the Federal Government. FVAP

conducts the post-election survey on a

statistically random basis to determine

participation rates that are

representative of all citizens covered by

the Act, measure State-Federal

cooperation, and evaluate the

effectiveness of the overall absentee

voting program. The information

collected is used for overall program

evaluation, management and

improvement, and to compile the

congressionally mandated reported to

the President and Congress.

Dated: May 10, 2001.

Patricia L. Toppings,

Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison

Officer, Department of Defense.

[FR Doc. 01–12559 Filed 5–17–01; 8:45 am]

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Office of the Secretary

Defense Intelligence Agency, Science

and Technology Advisory Board

Closed Panel Meeting

AGENCY: Department of Defense, Defense

Intelligence Agency.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: Pursuant to the provisions of

Subsection (d) of Section 10 Public Law

92–463, as amended by Section 5 of

Public Law 94–409, notice is hereby

given that a closed meeting of the DIA

Science and Technology Advisory

Board has been scheduled as follows:

DATES: 31 May 2001 (830 am to 1600

pm).

ADDRESSES: The Defense Intelligence

Agency, 200 MacDill Blvd, Washington,

DC 20340.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Victoria J. Prescott, Executive Secretary,

DIA Science and Technology Advisory

Board, Washington, DC 20340–1328

(202) 231–4930.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The entire

meeting is devoted to the discussion of

classified information as defined in

section 552b(c)(I), Title 5 of the U.S.

Code, and therefore will be closed to the

public. The Board will receive briefings

on and discuss several current critical

intelligence issues and advise the

Director, DIA, on related scientific and

technical matters.