Federal Register / Vol. 70, No. 211 / Wednesday, November 2, 2005 / Notices 66453 

DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND 

SECURITY 

Coast Guard 

[USCG–2005–22821] 

National Boating Safety Activities: 

Funding for National Nonprofit Public 

Service Organizations 

AGENCY: Coast Guard, DHS. 

ACTION: Notice of funds availability. 

SUMMARY: The Coast Guard seeks 

applications for fiscal year 2006 grants 

and cooperative agreements from 

national, nongovernmental, nonprofit 

public service organizations. The 

Boating Safety Financial Assistance 

Program is listed in section 97.012 of 

the Catalog of Federal Domestic 

Assistance. These grants and 

cooperative agreements would be used 

to fund projects on various subjects 

promoting recreational boating safety on 

the national level. This notice provides 

information about the grant and 

cooperative agreement application 

process and some of the subjects of 

particular interest to the Coast Guard. 

DATES: Application packages may be 

obtained on or after November 1, 2005. 

Proposals for the fiscal year 2006 grant 

cycle must be received before 3 p.m. 

Eastern time, January 23, 2006. 

ADDRESSES: Application packages may 

be obtained by calling the Coast Guard 

Infoline at 800–368–5647. Submit 

proposals to: Commandant (G-OPB–1), 

U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters, 2100 

Second Street SW., Room 3100, 

Washington, DC 20593–0001. This 

notice is available from the Coast Guard 

Infoline and on the Internet at http:// 

dms.dot.gov in docket USCG–2005–

22821 or at the Web site for the Office 

of Boating Safety at http:// 

www.uscgboating.org. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. 

Vickie Hartberger, Office of Boating 

Safety, U.S. Coast Guard (G-OPB–1/ 

Room 3100), 2100 Second Street, SW., 

Washington, DC 20593–0001; 202–267–

0974. The points of contact for the seven 

project areas of particular interest are 

listed at the end of the description of 

each project area. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Title 46, 

United States Code, Section 13103, 

allocates funds available from the 

Aquatic Resources Trust Fund for 

boating safety grants. The majority of 

funds are allocated to the States, and up 

to 5 percent of these funds may be 

distributed by the Coast Guard for grants 

and cooperative agreements for national 

recreational boating safety activities of 

national nonprofit public service 

organizations. It is anticipated that 

approximately $4,750,000 will be made 

available for fiscal year 2006. Thirty-one 

awards totaling $2,950,000 were made 

in fiscal year 2005 ranging from $7,000 

to $495,000. Nothing in this 

announcement should be construed as 

committing the Coast Guard to dividing 

available funds among qualified 

applicants or awarding any specified 

amount. 

It is anticipated that several awards 

will be made by the U.S. Coast Guard. 

Applicants must be national, 

nongovernmental, nonprofit public 

service organizations and must establish 

that their activities are, in fact, national 

in scope. An application package may 

be obtained by writing or calling the 

point of contact listed in ADDRESSES on 

or after November 1, 2005. The 

application package contains all 

necessary forms, an explanation of how 

the grant program is administered, and 

a checklist for submitting a grant 

application. Specific information on 

organization eligibility, proposal 

requirements, award procedures, and 

financial administration procedures 

may be obtained by contacting the 

person listed in FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT. 

Prospective grantees may propose up 

to a 5-year grant with 12-month (fiscal 

year) increments. In effect, an award 

would be made for the first year and 

thereafter renewal is optional. Each 

annual increment would not be 

guaranteed. Under a continuation 

(multi-year) type of award, the Coast 

Guard agrees to support a grant project 

at a specific level of effort for a specified 

period of time, with a statement of 

intention to provide additional future 

support, provided funds are available, 

the project continues to support the 

needs of the government, and the 

achieved results warrant further 

support. Award of continuation grants 

will be made on a strict case-by-case 

basis to assist planning in certain largescale projects and ensure continuity. 

Procedures also provide for awarding 

noncompetitive grants or cooperative 

agreements on a case-by-case basis. This 

authority is judiciously used to fund 

recurring annual projects or events 

which can only be carried out by one 

organization, and projects that present 

targets of opportunity for timely action 

on new or emerging program 

requirements or issues. 

The following list includes items of 

specific interest to the Coast Guard; 

however, potential applicants should 

not be constrained by the list. We 

welcome any initiative that supports the 

organizational objectives of the 

Recreational Boating Safety Program to 

save lives, reduce the number of boating 

accidents, injuries and property damage, 

and lower associated health care costs. 

Some project areas of continuing and 

particular interest for grant funding 

include the following: 

1. Develop and Conduct a National 

Annual Safe Boating Campaign. The 

Coast Guard seeks a grantee to develop 

and conduct the 2007 National Annual 

Safe Boating Campaign that targets 

specific boater market segments and 

recreational boating safety topics. This 

year-round campaign must support the 

organizational objectives of the National 

Recreational Boating Safety Program 

and the nationwide grassroots activities 

of the many volunteer groups who 

coordinate local media events, 

education programs, and public 

awareness activities, as well as 

complement the Coast Guard ‘‘You’re In 

Command. Boat Responsibly!’’

campaign. The major focus of the 

campaign will be to affect the behavior 

of all boaters with special focus on boat 

operators being responsible for their 

own safety as well as the safety of their 

passengers. A significant emphasis 

should be placed on life jacket wear, 

boater education, safety and security 

issues, propeller injury prevention, and 

the dangers of carbon monoxide, as well 

as boating under the influence of 

alcohol or drugs. Efforts will also be 

coordinated, year-round, with other 

national safety activities and special 

media events. Point of Contact: Ms. Jo 

Calkin, 202–267–0994. 

2. Develop and Conduct a National 

Recreational Boating Safety Outreach 

and Awareness Conference. The Coast 

Guard seeks a grantee to plan, 

implement, oversee, and conduct a 

National Recreational Boating Safety 

Outreach and Awareness Conference 

that supports the organizational 

objectives of the National Recreational 

Boating Safety Program. The overall 

conference focus should have 

promotional strategies with special 

focus on boat operators being 

responsible for their own safety as well 

as the safety of their passengers. 

Significant emphasis should be placed 

on offering multiple subjects that afford 

the participants professional 

development opportunities and 

educational enhancement. Subjects 

should focus on, but not be limited to: 

life jacket wear, safety and security 

issues, propeller injury prevention, the 

dangers of carbon monoxide, boater 

education, vessel safety, outreach and 

awareness efforts, as well as boating 

under the influence of alcohol or drugs. 

Point of Contact: Ms. Jo Calkin, 202–

267–0994. 

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3. Federal/State Cooperative 

Partnering Efforts. The Coast Guard 

seeks a grantee to provide programs to 

encourage greater participation and 

uniformity in State boating safety 

efforts. Applicants would provide a 

forum to encourage greater uniformity of 

boating laws and regulations, 

reciprocity among jurisdictions, and 

closer cooperation and assistance in 

developing, administering, and 

enforcing Federal and State laws and 

regulations pertaining to boating safety. 

Point of Contact: Ms. Audrey Pickup, 

202–267–0872. 

4. Develop and Conduct Boating 

Accident Investigation Seminars. The 

Coast Guard seeks a grantee to develop, 

provide instructional material, and 

conduct training courses nationwide for 

boating accident investigators, including 

three courses at the U.S. Coast Guard’s 

Maritime Law Enforcement Academy in 

Charleston, South Carolina. Point of 

Contact: Mr. Rick Gipe, 202–267–0985. 

5. National Estimate of Personal 

Flotation Devices (PFDs) Wear Rate. The 

Coast Guard seeks a grantee to develop 

a statistically valid national estimate 

and evaluation of wear rates of PFDs by 

recreational boaters. Wear rates should 

be determined by actual observation of 

boaters. Point of Contact: Mr. Bruce 

Schmidt, 202–267–0955. 

6. Develop New National Boating 

Survey Instrument and Methodology. 

The Coast Guard seeks a grantee to 

develop, in liaison with multiple 

recreational boating interests, a new 

national boating survey instrument and 

methodology. This instrument and 

methodology are to be developed in 

consensus with various boating safety, 

boating industry and boating user 

groups, as well as Federal agencies and 

academia. In November 2004, a 

collective group met in East Lansing, 

Michigan to discuss boating research, 

and to recommend the highest priority 

actions that need to take place in the 

area of recreational boating research. 

This grant project is to respond to the 

recommendations provided by the 

November 2004 meeting by developing 

a survey instrument and methodology 

that will be implemented by the Coast 

Guard at a later date. Boating safety will 

be considered the main topic for the 

survey. The survey may include 

research on other recreational boating 

topics supported by other survey 

partners. Point of Contact: Mr. Barry 

Nobles, 202–267–0986. 

7. Voluntary Standards Development 

Support. The Coast Guard seeks a 

grantee to carry out a program to 

encourage active participation by 

members of the public and other 

qualified persons in the development of 

technically sound voluntary safety 

standards for boats and associated 

equipment. Point of Contact: Mr. Rick 

Gipe, 202–267–0985. 

We encourage proposals addressing 

other boating safety concerns. 

Potential grantees should focus on 

partnership, e.g., exploring other 

sources, linkages, in-kind contributions, 

cost sharing, and partnering with other 

organizations or corporations. The 

primary goal of the National 

Recreational Boating Safety Program is 

to reduce fatalities to specific levels for 

each upcoming year. With your 

application, we encourage you to list 

and describe the tools you will use to 

measure your grant’s performance 

toward achieving this goal or toward 

achieving a specific objective that will 

result in the achievement of this goal. 

For some examples of tools, we invite 

you to explore this CDC Web site: 

http://www.cdc.gov/ncipe/pub-res/ 

demonstr.htm. 

Please note: We published a Notice of 

availability for FY05 funds on October 

6, 2004, 69 FR 59943. In that Notice, we 

stated that it would be the final year that 

our office would publish a notice of 

availability of funding for national 

nonprofit public service organizations 

in the Federal Register. We stated that, 

under Department of Homeland 

Security policy, we would announce 

future availability of funding 

electronically, at the Web site: 

www.grants.gov. Because the FY06 

Notice of Funds Availability is not yet 

available on that website, we are 

publishing the information in the 

Federal Register again this year to 

provide information to the public in a 

timely manner. 

Dated: October 27, 2005. 

Gary T. Blore, 

Rear Admiral, U.S. Coast Guard, Director of 

Operations Policy. 

[FR Doc. 05–21857 Filed 11–1–05; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–15–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND 

SECURITY 

Transportation Security Administration 

Intent to Request Renewal From OMB 

of One Current Public Collection of 

Information: Corporate Security 

Review (CSR) 

AGENCY: Transportation Security 

Administration (TSA), DHS. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: TSA invites public comment 

on one currently approved information 

collection requirement abstracted below 

that we will submit to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for 

renewal in compliance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act. 

DATES: Send your comments by January 

3, 2006. 

ADDRESSES: Katrina Wawer, Information 

Collection Specialist, Office of 

Transportation Security Policy, TSA–9, 

Transportation Security Administration, 

601 South 12th Street, Arlington, VA 

22202–4220. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Katrina Wawer at the above address or 

by telephone (571) 227–1995 or 

facsimile (571) 227–2594. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Comments Invited 

In accordance with the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995, (44 U.S.C. 3501 

et seq.), an agency may not conduct or 

sponsor, and a person is not required to 

respond to a collection of information, 

unless it displays a valid OMB control 

number. Therefore, in preparation for 

OMB review and approval of the 

following information collection, TSA is 

soliciting comments to—

(1) Evaluate whether the proposed 

information requirement is necessary for 

the proper performance of the functions 

of the agency, including whether the 

information will have practical utility; 

(2) Evaluate the accuracy of the 

agency’s estimate of the burden; 

(3) Enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and 

(4) Minimize the burden of the 

collection of information on those who 

are to respond, including using 

appropriate automated, electronic, 

mechanical, or other technological 

collection techniques or other forms of 

information technology. 

Information Collection Requirement 

Title: Corporate Security Review 

(CSR). 

Type of Request: Renewal of one 

current public collection. 

OMB Control Number: 1652–0036. 

Forms(s): Corporate Security Review 

Form. 

Affected Public: Surface 

Transportation System Owners and 

Operators. 

Abstract: The Aviation and 

Transportation Security Act of 2001 

(ATSA) (Public Law 107–71) requires 

TSA to oversee the security of the 

nation’s surface transportation system. 

Specifically, ATSA grants TSA 

authority to execute its responsibilities 

for: 

• Enhancing security in all modes of 

transportation;