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3384 Federal Register / Vol. 79, No. 13 / Tuesday, January 21, 2014 / Notices 

entrants to other public reporting 

positions in the executive branch, and 

Presidential and Vice-Presidential 

candidates. The financial information 

collected relates to: Assets and income; 

transactions; gifts, reimbursements and 

travel expenses; liabilities; agreements 

or arrangements; outside positions; and 

compensation over $5,000 paid by a 

source—all subject to various reporting 

thresholds and exclusions. The 

information is collected in accordance 

with section 102 of the Ethics in 

Government Act, 5 U.S.C. app. section 

102, as amended by the Stop Trading on 

Congressional Knowledge Act of 2012 

(Pub. L. 112–105) (STOCK Act), and 

OGE’s implementing financial 

disclosure regulations at 5 CFR part 

2634. OGE is proposing to make minor 

modifications to the paper version of the 

OGE Form 278 to update the Privacy 

Act Statement and the legal authorities 

under which the information is 

collected. OGE proposes to include in 

this renewal submission the new OGE 

Form 278e, an electronic version to be 

implemented later in 2014, pursuant to 

the e-filing system mandated under 

section 11(b) of the STOCK Act. 

(See Amendments to the STOCK Act 

Pub. L. 113–7 (April 15, 2013)). 

The OGE Form 278e will collect the 

same information that both the current 

paper version of the OGE Form 278 

collects, as well as the 14 e-filing 

systems that are currently in use in 

executive branch agencies. Although the 

OGE Form 278e will not collect any 

additional information, the application 

will produce a streamlined output 

report format that presents only the 

filer’s inputs in given categories, and 

that does not report other categories not 

selected by the filer. 

OGE published a first round notice of 

its intent to request paperwork 

clearance for a modified OGE Form 278 

Executive Branch Personnel Public 

Financial Disclosure Report. See 78 FR 

55079 (September 9, 2013). OGE 

received one response to that notice 

from an executive branch agency ethics 

official who requested that OGE modify 

the language of the filer’s certification. 

The current certification requires the 

filer to certify that statements made on 

the form and all attached schedules are 

true, complete, and correct to the best of 

the filer’s knowledge. The agency 

official commented that the certification 

should also include a statement that 

there are no potential conflicts or that 

conflicts have been identified. This 

agency submitted the same comment in 

response to OGE’s request for public 

comments about the proposed renewal 

under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 

an unmodified OGE Form 450, the 

confidential financial disclosure report 

for employees of the executive branch. 

The filer’s certification on the OGE 

Form 450 is very similar to the filer’s 

certification on the OGE Form 278. OGE 

declined to adopt this recommendation 

for the OGE Form 450 because OGE 

deemed the existing certification to be 

appropriate. 

OGE also declines to adopt this 

suggestion with regard to the OGE Form 

278. Neither the Ethics in Government 

Act, 5 U.S.C. app. sections 101–111, nor 

the financial disclosure regulation, 5 

CFR part 2634, requires the filer to 

certify that he or she has no conflicts of 

interest. A certification that is made 

once a year, such as the proposed one, 

is ineffective. The analysis of whether a 

filer has conflicts of interest must 

continue throughout a filer’s executive 

branch employment and is not limited 

to the date on which the filer signs a 

financial disclosure report. No conflicts 

may exist on the date that the filer signs 

the report. A conflict, however, may 

arise six months later if, for example, 

the filer is faced with participating in a 

particular matter that has a direct and 

predictable effect on one of the 

companies in which the filer owns 

stock. Once a conflict arises, it is the 

responsibility of the filer to seek the 

advice of an ethics counselor to 

determine the appropriate remedy for 

the conflict. 

Request for Comments: Agency and 

public comment is again invited 

specifically on the need for and 

practical utility of this information 

collection, the accuracy of OGE’s 

burden estimate, the enhancement of 

quality, utility and clarity of the 

information collected, and the 

minimization of burden (including the 

use of information technology). 

Comments received in response to this 

notice will be summarized for, and may 

be included with, the OGE request for 

extension of OMB paperwork approval. 

The comments will also become a 

matter of public record. 

Approved: January 14, 2014. 

Walter M. Shaub, Jr., 

Director, Office of Government Ethics. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Final Effect of Designation of a Class 

of Employees for Addition to the 

Special Exposure Cohort 

AGENCY: National Institute for 

Occupational Safety and Health 

(NIOSH), Centers for Disease Control 

and Prevention, Department of Health 

and Human Services (HHS). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: HHS gives notice concerning 

the final effect of the HHS decision to 

designate a class of employees from the 

Rocky Flats Plant in Golden, Colorado, 

as an addition to the Special Exposure 

Cohort (SEC) under the Energy 

Employees Occupational Illness 

Compensation Program Act of 2000. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Stuart L. Hinnefeld, Director, Division 

of Compensation Analysis and Support, 

NIOSH, 4676 Columbia Parkway, MS 

C–46, Cincinnati, OH 45226, Telephone 

877–222–7570. Information requests can 

also be submitted by email to 

DCAS@CDC.GOV. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Authority: 42 U.S.C. 7384q(b). 42 U.S.C. 

7384l(14)(C). 

On December 12, 2013, as provided 

for under the Secretary of HHS 

designated the following class of 

employees as an addition to the SEC: 

All employees of the Department of 

Energy, its predecessor agencies, and their 

contractors and subcontractors who worked 

at the Rocky Flats Plant in Golden, Colorado, 

from April 1, 1952, through December 31, 

1983, for a number of work days aggregating 

at least 250 work days, occurring either 

solely under this employment or in 

combination with work days within the 

parameters established for one or more other 

classes of employees included in the Special 

Exposure Cohort. 

This designation became effective on 

January 11, 2014. Hence, beginning on 

January 11, 2014, members of this class 

of employees, defined as reported in 

this notice, became members of the SEC. 

John Howard, 

Director, National Institute for Occupational 

Safety and Health. 

[FR Doc. 2014–00932 Filed 1–17–14; 8:45 am] 

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