54410 Federal Register / Vol. 70, No. 177 / Wednesday, September 14, 2005 / Notices 

• Evaluate whether the proposed 

collection of information is necessary 

for the proper performance of the 

functions of the agency, including 

whether the information will have 

practical utility; 

• Evaluate the accuracy of the 

agency’s estimate of the burden of the 

proposed collection of information, 

including the validity of the 

methodology and assumptions used; 

• Enhance the quality, utility and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and 

• Minimize the burden of the 

collection of information on those who 

are to respond, including through the 

use of appropriate automated, 

electronic, mechanical, or other 

technological collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology, 

e.g., permitting electronic submissions 

of responses. 

III. Current Actions 

The Department of Labor seeks the 

approval of the extension of this 

information collection in order to carry 

out its responsibility to notify OWCP 

district offices that payment of 

compensation benefits has been stopped 

or suspended in a case. The report is 

required by law. The report is necessary 

for OWCP to determine whether benefits 

have been suspended in a case and to 

effectively manage the case file and 

verify that the injured worker has 

received all benefits to which he/she is 

entitled to under the Act. 

Type of Review: Extension. 

Agency: Employment Standards 

Administration. 

Titles: Notice of Final Payment or 

Suspension of Compensation Benefits. 

OMB Number: 1215–0024. 

Agency Numbers: LS–208. 

Affected Public: Business or other forprofit. 

Total Respondents: 500. 

Total Annual Responses: 22,722. 

Estimated Total Burden Hours: 5,681. 

Estimated Time Per Response: 15 

minutes. 

Frequency: On Occasion. 

Total Burden Cost (Capital/Startup): 

$0. 

Total Burden Cost (Operating/ 

Maintenance): $16,353.00. 

Comments submitted in response to 

this notice will be summarized and/or 

included in the request for Office of 

Management and Budget approval of the 

information collection request; they will 

also become a matter of public record. 

Dated: September 8, 2005. 

Bruce Bohanon, 

Chief, Branch of Management Review and 

Internal Control, Division of Financial 

Management, Office of Management, 

Administration and Planning, Employment 

Standards Administration. 

[FR Doc. 05–18215 Filed 9–13–05; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4510–CF–P 

MERIT SYSTEMS PROTECTION 

BOARD 

Variation From Normal Procedures—

Effects of Hurricane Katrina 

AGENCY: Merit Systems Protection 

Board. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given of 

variations from the Board’s normal case 

processing procedures as a result of 

Hurricane Katrina and the related relief 

efforts in the gulf coast region of the 

United States. 

DATES: This rule is effective September 

14, 2005. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Bentley M. Roberts, Jr., Clerk of the 

Board, Merit Systems Protection Board, 

1615 M Street, NW., Washington, DC 

20419; (202) 653–7200; fax: (202) 653–

7130; or e-mail: mspb@mspb.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Merit 

Systems Protection Board is providing 

notice of variations in its normal case 

processing procedures that have been 

placed into effect as a result of 

Hurricane Katrina and the related relief 

efforts in the gulf coast region of the 

United States. 

The Board’s adjudicatory regulations 

contain time limits for filing documents 

in Federal employee appeals of agency 

personnel actions and other matters 

within the Board’s jurisdiction. In 

addition, MSPB judges issue various 

orders in the course of an adjudicatory 

proceeding that set time limits for 

responses by the parties. The Board’s 

regulations permit five methods of filing 

and serving documents—regular mail, 

commercial overnight delivery, 

facsimile, e-filing, and personal delivery 

to the appropriate MSPB office. The 

date of filing by regular mail is 

determined by the postmark date. For 

filing by commercial overnight delivery, 

it is the date the document is delivered 

to the commercial overnight delivery 

service. For filing by facsimile, it is the 

date recorded on the facsimile 

transmission. For filing electronically, it 

is the date of the electronic submission. 

For filing by personal delivery, it is the 

date the MSPB office receives the 

document. 

At the time of Hurricane Katrina and 

the related devastation, there were 

approximately 1,800 cases pending in 

MSPB regional and field offices and 

almost 800 cases pending at the Board’s 

headquarters in Washington. It is 

reasonable to assume, therefore, that a 

number of filings due to a MSPB office 

in early September 2005 could not be 

made in a timely manner. An unknown 

number of filings of new cases subject 

to filing deadlines falling in early 

September, 2005, also may have been 

affected by the events surrounding 

Hurricane Katrina. 

Several circumstances may have 

affected filings due in early September, 

2005 including the closing of Federal 

agencies and the displacement of 

Federal employees in the affected areas. 

Accordingly, the Board has placed 

into effect the following variations from 

its normal case processing procedures: 

1. In MSPB regional and field offices, 

judges will exercise discretion in 

accepting filings due in early 

September, 2005, and for the foreseeable 

future, that were filed (by any filing 

method) after the deadline, particularly 

from the gulf coast region of the United 

States. 

2. At Board headquarters, the Clerk of 

the Board will exercise discretion in 

accepting filings due in early 

September, 2005, and for the foreseeable 

future, that were filed after the deadline. 

Normally, a show cause order is issued 

when a late filing is received, but the 

Clerk of the Board may accept certain 

filings, particularly from the gulf coast 

region of the United States, without 

issuing a show cause order. 

3. Where MSPB case files or evidence 

were lost or destroyed as a result of 

devastation by Hurricane Katrina, MSPB 

judges may grant appropriate 

continuances until the case files or 

evidence can be reconstructed or 

dismiss cases without prejudice to their 

later re-filing. MSPB offices will also 

assist the parties in reconstructing case 

files. 

The Board and its employees 

throughout the country will 

accommodate parties to MSPB cases 

whose ability to pursue those cases was 

affected by Hurricane Katrina. Where 

the variations from normal case 

processing procedures set forth above 

do not adequately address the 

circumstances in an individual case, the 

individual circumstances, and 

appropriate solutions, will be 

considered on a case-by-case basis. The 

Board and MSPB judges may waive any 

Board regulation the application of 

which is not required by law. 

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Dated: September 9, 2005. 

Bentley M. Roberts, Jr., 

Clerk of the Board. 

[FR Doc. 05–18256 Filed 9–13–05; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7400–01–P 

NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND 

SPACE ADMINISTRATION 

[Notice (05–134)] 

Notice of Information Collection 

AGENCY: National Aeronautics and 

Space Administration (NASA). 

ACTION: Notice of information collection. 

SUMMARY: The National Aeronautics and 

Space Administration, as part of its 

continuing effort to reduce paperwork 

and respondent burden, invites the 

general public and other Federal 

agencies to take this opportunity to 

comment on proposed and/or 

continuing information collections, as 

required by the Paperwork Reduction 

Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104–13, 44 U.S.C. 

3506(c)(2)(A)). 

DATES: All comments should be 

submitted within 60 calendar days from 

the date of this publication. 

ADDRESSES: All comments should be 

addressed to Mr. Walter Kit, Office of 

the Chief Information Officer, Mail Suite 

6M70, National Aeronautics and Space 

Administration, Washington, DC 20546–

0001. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Requests for additional information or 

copies of the information collection 

instrument(s) and instructions should 

be directed to Mr. Walter Kit, Office of 

the Chief Information Officer, NASA 

Headquarters, 300 E Street SW., Mail 

Suite 6M70, Washington, DC 20546, 

(202) 358–1350, walter.kit-1@nasa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Abstract 

The information will be used by the 

Headquarters Office of Security and 

Program Protection (OSPP) to help 

fulfill its responsibilities for facilitating 

business visits and assignments that 

support U.S. national interests and 

NASA’s international program interests 

and operational requirements, and by 

the Office of External Relations for 

export control oversight. This 

information is collected and stored in 

the NASA Foreign National 

Management System (NFNMS) and will 

be used by OSPP to determine 

acceptability for a foreign national, or 

U.S. citizen representing a foreign 

entity, to access NASA installations or 

facilities for business or high level 

protocol visit purposes. 

II. Method of Collection 

Respondents provide unformatted 

information for specific data fields. Data 

are provided orally, via a hard copy, or 

e-mailed to a NASA representative who 

transfers the information into a database 

(attached is a printout of the NASA 

Foreign Nationals Management System 

data entry form). To ensure data 

security, access to the electronic data 

entry form is limited to approved NASA 

employees or contractors. Direct data 

entry by respondents is not permitted. 

III. Data 

Title: NASA Foreign National Access 

Information. 

OMB Number: 2700—XXXX. 

Type of Review: New collection. 

Affected Public: Foreign nationals and 

NASA contractors. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

9,900 annually. 

Estimated Time Per Response: 0.5 

hour. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 4,950. 

Estimated Total Annual Cost: $9,715/ 

year. 

IV. Request for Comments 

Comments are invited on: (1) Whether 

the proposed collection of information 

is necessary for the proper performance 

of the functions of NASA, including 

whether the information collected has 

practical utility; (2) the accuracy of 

NASA’s estimate of the burden 

(including hours and cost) of the 

proposed collection of information; (3) 

ways to enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and (4) ways to minimize the 

burden of the collection of information 

on respondents, including automated 

collection techniques or the use of other 

forms of information technology 

Dated: September 7, 2005. 

Patricia L. Dunnington, 

Chief Information Officer. 

[FR Doc. 05–18276 Filed 9–13–05; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7510–13–P 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Submission for the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) 

Review; Comment Request 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC). 

ACTION: Notice of the OMB review of 

information collection and solicitation 

of public comment. 

SUMMARY: The NRC has recently 

submitted to OMB for review the 

following proposal for the collection of 

information under the provisions of the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 

U.S.C. Chapter 35). The NRC hereby 

informs potential respondents that an 

agency may not conduct or sponsor, and 

that a person is not required to respond 

to, a collection of information unless it 

displays a currently valid OMB control 

number. 

1. Type of submission, new, revision, 

or extension: Extension. 

2. The title of the information 

collection: 10 CFR Part 9, Public 

Records. 

3. The form number if applicable: 

NRC–509 and NRC–509A. 

4. How often the collection is 

required: On occasion. 

5. Who will be required or asked to 

report: Individuals requesting access to 

records under the Freedom of 

Information or Privacy Acts, or to 

records that are already publicly 

available in the NRC’s Public Document 

Room. Submitters of information 

containing trade secrets or confidential 

commercial or financial information 

who have been notified that the NRC 

has made an initial determination that 

the information should be disclosed. 

6. An estimate of the number of 

annual responses: 7,987. 

7. The estimated number of annual 

respondents: 7,987. 

8. An estimate of the total number of 

hours needed annually to complete the 

requirement or request: 2,120 (.3 hours 

per response). 

9. An indication of whether Section 

3507(d), Public Law 104–13 applies: 

N/A. 

10. Abstract: 10 CFR part 9 establishes 

information collection requirements for 

individuals making requests for records 

under the Freedom of Information Act 

(FOIA) or Privacy Act (PA). It also 

contains requests to waive or reduce 

fees for searching for and reproducing 

records in response to FOIA requests; 

and requests for expedited processing of 

requests. The information required from 

the public is necessary to identify the 

records they are requesting; to justify 

requests for waivers or reductions in 

searching or copying fees; or to justify 

expedited processing. Section 9.28(b) 

provides that if the submitter of 

information designated to be trade 

secrets or confidential commercial or 

financial information objects to the 

disclosure, he must provide a written 

statement within 30 days that specifies 

all grounds why the information is a 

trade secret or commercial or financial 

information that is privileged or 

confidential.