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you have questions on viewing or 

submitting material to the docket, call 

Ms. Renee V. Wright, Program Manager, 

Docket Operations, telephone 202–366–

9826. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION

Public Participation and Request for 

Comments 

We encourage you to respond to this 

notice by submitting comments and 

related materials. All comments 

received will be posted, without change, 

to http://www.regulations.gov and will 

include any personal information you 

provide. We have an agreement with the 

Department of Transportation to use 

their Docket Management Facility. 

Submitting Comments 

If you submit a comment, please 

include the docket number for this 

notice (USCG–2008–0521), indicate the 

specific section of this document to 

which each comment applies, and give 

the reason for each comment. We 

recommend that you include your name 

and a mailing address, an e-mail 

address, or a phone number in the body 

of your document so that we can contact 

you if we have questions regarding your 

submission. You may submit your 

comments and material by electronic 

means, mail, fax, or delivery to the 

Docket Management Facility at the 

address under ADDRESSES; but please 

submit your comments and material by 

only one means. If you submit them by 

mail or delivery, submit them in an 

unbound format, no larger than 81⁄2 by 

11 inches, suitable for copying and 

electronic filing. If you submit them by 

mail and would like to know that they 

reached the Facility, please enclose a 

stamped, self-addressed postcard or 

envelope. We will consider all 

comments and material received during 

the comment period. We may change 

this 5-year exercise schedule, as well as 

other elements of the PREP, in light of 

your comments. 

Viewing Comments and Documents 

To view comments, as well as 

documents mentioned in this preamble 

as being available in the docket, go to 

http://www.regulations.gov at any time. 

Enter the docket number for this notice 

(USCG–2008–0521) in the Search box, 

and click ‘‘Go>>.’’ If you do not have 

access to the Internet, you may view the 

docket online by visiting the Docket 

Management Facility in Room W12–140 

on the ground floor of the Department 

of Transportation West Building, 1200 

New Jersey Avenue, SE., Washington, 

DC 20590, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., 

Monday through Friday, except Federal 

holidays. 

Privacy Act 

Anyone can search the electronic 

form of all comments received into any 

of our dockets by the name of the 

individual submitting the comment (or 

signing the comment, if submitted on 

behalf of an association, business, labor 

union, etc.). You may review a Privacy 

Act, system of records notice regarding 

our public dockets in the January 17, 

2008 issue of the Federal Register (73 

FR 3316). 

Background and Purpose 

In 1994, the United States Coast 

Guard (USCG), the Research and Special 

Programs Administration (RSPA) of the 

Department of Transportation, the U.S. 

Environmental Protection Agency 

(EPA), and the Minerals Management 

Service (MMS) of the Department of the 

Interior, coordinated the development of 

the National Preparedness for Response 

Exercise Program (PREP) Guidelines to 

ensure compliance with the Oil 

Pollution Act of 1990 (OPA 90) 

pollution response exercise 

requirements (33 U.S.C. 1321(j)). The 

guiding principles of PREP distinguish 

between internal and external exercises. 

Internal exercises are conducted within 

the planholder’s organization. External 

exercises extend beyond the 

planholder’s organization to involve 

other members of the response 

community. External exercises are 

separated into two categories: Area 

exercises, and Government-initiated, 

unannounced exercises. External 

exercises are designed to evaluate the 

entire pollution response mechanism in 

a given geographic Area to ensure 

adequate response preparedness. 

Area exercises involve the entire 

response community including Federal, 

State, local, tribal, and non-government 

organizations, and industry participants; 

therefore, these Area exercises require 

more extensive planning than other oil 

spill response exercises. The PREP 

Guidelines describe all of these 

exercises in more detail. 

A National Schedule Coordination 

Committee (NSCC) was established for 

scheduling Area exercises. The NSCC is 

comprised of personnel representing the 

four Federal regulating agencies—the 

USCG, EPA, MMS, and the Pipeline and 

Hazardous Materials Safety 

Administration’s (PHMSA) Office of 

Pipeline Safety (OPS). Since 1994, the 

NSCC published a triennial schedule of 

Area exercises. Starting in 2008, NSCC 

will publish a schedule of Area 

exercises every 5 years. 

Source for PREP Documents 

The PREP Area exercise schedule and 

exercise design manuals are available on 

the Internet at http://homeport.uscg.mil/ 

exercises. To obtain a hard copy of the 

exercise design manual, contact Ms. 

Melanie Barber at PHMSA, Office of 

Pipeline Safety at 202–366–4560. 

PREP Schedule 

This notice announces the next 5-year 

schedule of the Area exercises. The 

PREP schedule for calendar years 2009 

through 2013 for Government-led and 

Industry-led Area exercises is available 

on the Internet in the docket for this 

notice at http://www.regulations.gov 

and at http://homeport.uscg.mil/ 

exercises under Port Level Exercises. 

Any revisions to the schedule will 

appear on the http://homeport.uscg.mil 

Web site. We have include a table listing 

the dates and Federal Register cites of 

past PREP exercise notices in our online 

docket for those who wish to compare 

this 2009–2013 schedule with past 

schedules. 

If a company wants to volunteer for 

an Area exercise, a company 

representative may call either the Coast 

Guard or EPA on-scene coordinator for 

times and locations. If you have 

concerns or recommended 

improvements to the Government-led 

PREP exercises, please submit those 

using the procedures described under 

the ADDRESSES section of this notice. 

Dated: July 24, 2008. 

Joseph R. Castillo, 

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

Response Policy. 

[FR Doc. E8–17755 Filed 8–1–08; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–15–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND 

SECURITY 

Transportation Security Administration 

New Agency Information Collection 

Activity Under OMB Review: Critical 

Facility Information of the Top 100 

Most Critical Pipelines 

AGENCY: Transportation Security 

Administration, DHS. 

ACTION: 30-day Notice. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces that 

the Transportation Security 

Administration (TSA) has forwarded the 

new Information Collection Request 

(ICR) abstracted below to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for 

review and approval under the 

Paperwork Reduction Act. The ICR 

describes the nature of the information 

collection and its expected burden. TSA 

published a Federal Register notice, 

with a 60-day comment period soliciting 

comments, of the following collection of 


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information on April 16, 2008, 73 FR 

20700. This collection provides TSA 

critical facility and annual product 

through-put information from owners/ 

operators of the nation’s largest 

pipelines, and is necessitated by the 

requirements set forth in the 

Implementing the Recommendations of 

the 9/11 Commission Act of 2007. 

DATES: Send your comments by 

September 3, 2008. A comment to OMB 

is most effective if OMB receives it 

within 30 days of publication. 

ADDRESSES: Interested persons are 

invited to submit written comments on 

the proposed information collection to 

the Office of Information and Regulatory 

Affairs, Office of Management and 

Budget. Comments should be addressed 

to Desk Officer, Department of 

Homeland Security/TSA, and sent via 

electronic mail to 

oira_submission@omb.eop.gov or faxed 

to (202) 395–6974. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Joanna Johnson, Communications 

Branch, Business Management Office, 

Operational Process and Technology, 

TSA–32, Transportation Security 

Administration, 601 South 12th Street, 

Arlington, VA 22202–4220; telephone 

(571) 227–3651; facsimile (703) 603–

0822. 

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. The ICR documentation is 

available at www.reginfo.gov. 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: Critical Facility Information of 

the Top 100 Most Critical Pipelines. 

Type of Request: New collection. 

OMB Control Number: Not yet 

assigned. 

Form(s): NA. 

Affected Public: Pipeline Companies. 

Abstract: Sec. 1557(b) of the 

Implementing Recommendations of the 

9/11 Commission Act of 2007 (Pub. L. 

110–53, 121 Stat. 266, 475, 08/03/2007) 

(9/11 Act), specifically tasks TSA to 

develop and implement a plan for 

inspecting critical facilities at the 100 

most critical pipeline systems. To meet 

the 9/11 Act’s requirement, TSA will 

request a report of annual product 

through-put and a listing of critical 

facilities from the top 125 pipeline 

systems in terms of annual through-put, 

as reported in pipeline trade journals 

and other sources. 

TSA uses system annual through-put 

as a primary factor in determining 

pipeline system criticality. This figure is 

based on the amount of hazardous 

liquid or natural gas product 

transported through a pipeline in one 

year (i.e., annual through-put). TSA will 

request the information from the top 125 

pipeline systems in terms of annual 

through-put, and out of these, TSA will 

make a determination of the top 100 

most critical pipeline systems. The 

request for information will be 

transmitted by TSA via e-mail to the 125 

respondents. TSA will ask the 

respondents to provide the information 

to TSA via e-mail. To the extent the 

information transmitted is Sensitive 

Security Information; TSA will 

safeguard the information in accordance 

with 49 CFR parts 15 and 1520. TSA 

will use the information to develop and 

implement a plan for inspecting critical 

facilities at the 100 most critical 

pipeline systems. 

Number of Respondents: 125. 

Estimated Annual Burden Hours: An 

estimated 500 hours annually. 

Issued in Arlington, Virginia, on July 29, 

2008. 

Kriste Jordan, 

Program Manager, Business Improvements 

and Communications, Office of Information 

Technology. 

[FR Doc. E8–17720 Filed 8–1–08; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 9110–05–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND 

URBAN DEVELOPMENT 

[Docket No. FR–5187–N–49] 

Notice of Proposed Information 

Collection: Comment Request; 

Customer Satisfaction Surveys 

AGENCY: Office of the Chief Information 

Officer, HUD. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The proposed information 

collection requirement described below 

will be submitted to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for 

review, as required by the Paperwork 

Reduction Act. The Department is 

soliciting public comments on the 

subject proposal. 

Executive Order 12862, ‘‘Setting 

Customer Service Standards ‘‘requires 

that Federal agencies provide the 

highest quality service to our customers 

by identifying them and determining 

what they think about our services. The 

surveys covered in the request for a 

generic clearance will provide HUD a 

means to gather this data directly from 

our customers. HUD will conduct 

various customer satisfaction surveys to 

gather feedback and data directly from 

our customers to determine the kind 

and quality of services and products 

they want and expect to receive. 

DATES: Comments due: October 3, 2008. 

ADDRESSES: Interested persons are 

invited to submit comments regarding 

this proposal. Comments should refer to 

the proposal by name and/or OMB 

Control Number (2535–0116) and 

should be sent to: HUD Desk Officer, 

Office of Management and Budget, New 

Executive Office Building, Washington, 

DC 20503; 202–395–6974. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Lillian L. Deitzer, Departmental Reports 

Management Officer, QDAM, 

Department or Housing and Urban 

Development, 451 Seventh Street, SW., 

Room 4176, Washington, DC 20410; 

telephone: 202–708–2374, (this is not a 

toll-free number) or e-mail Ms. Deitzer 

at Lillian_L._Deitzer@HUD.gov for a 

copy of the proposed form and other 

available information. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Department will submit the proposed 

information collection to OMB for 

review, as required by the Paperwork 

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

Chapter 35, as amended). 

This Notice is soliciting comments 

from members of the public and 

affecting agencies concerning the 

proposed collection of information to: 

(1) Evaluate whether the proposed 

collection of information is necessary 


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