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(PRA95) (44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A)). This 

program helps to ensure that requested 

data can be provided in the desired 

format, reporting burden (time and 

financial resources) is minimized, 

collection instruments are clearly 

understood, and the impact of collection 

requirements on respondents can be 

properly assessed. Currently, the 

Employment and Training 

Administration (ETA) is soliciting 

comments concerning the proposed 

extension of the Tax Performance 

System (TPS). A copy of the proposed 

information collection request can be 

obtained by contacting the employee 

listed below in the contact section of 

this notice or by accessing: http:// 

www.doleta.gov/OMBCN/ 

OMBControlNumber.cfm. 

DATES: Written comments must be 

submitted to the office listed in the 

address below on or before October 17, 

2008. 

ADDRESSES: Send comments to Eve 

MacDonald, U.S. Department of Labor, 

Office of Workforce Security, 

Employment and Training 

Administration, Department of Labor, 

Room S 4522, 200 Constitution Ave., 

NW., Washington, DC 20210; 202–693–

3210 (this is not a toll-free number). 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

Since 1987, states have been required 

by regulation at 20 CFR Part 602 to 

operate a program to assess their 

Unemployment Insurance (UI) tax and 

benefit programs. TPS is designed to 

assess the major internal UI tax 

functions by utilizing several 

methodologies: Computed Measures 

which are indicators of timeliness and 

completeness based on data 

automatically generated via the existing 

ETA 581, Contribution Operations 

Report (Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB) approval number 1205–

0178, expiring 10/31/2008); and 

Program Reviews which assess accuracy 

through a two-fold examination. This 

examination involves: (a) ‘‘Systems 

Reviews’’ which examine tax systems 

for the existence of internal controls; 

and (b) extraction of small samples of 

those systems’ transactions which are 

then examined to verify the 

effectiveness of controls. 

II. Desired Focus of Comments 

Currently, the Employment and 

Training Administration is soliciting 

comments concerning the proposed 

extension of TPS Handbook 407. 

Comments are requested to: 

• 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 submission of 

responses. 

III. Current Actions 

It is important that approval of the 

TPS Handbook 407 be extended because 

this report is the only vehicle for 

collection of information on the quality 

and timeliness of state UI tax 

operations. If TPS Handbook 407 data 

were not collected, there would be no 

basis for determining and measuring 

state UI tax performance and 

effectiveness. 

Type of Review: Extension without 

change. 

Agency: Employment and Training 

Administration, Department of Labor. 

Title: Tax Performance System 

Handbook 407. 

OMB Number: 1205–0332. 

Agency Number: ETA Handbook 407. 

Recordkeeping: Respondent is 

expected to maintain data which 

support the reported data for three 

years. 

Affected Public: State government. 

Total Respondents: 52. 

Frequency: Annually. 

Total Responses: 52. 

Average Time per Response: 1739 

hours. 

Estimated Total Burden Hours: 

90,428. 

Total Burden Cost (operating/ 

maintaining): $4,114,626. 

Comments submitted in response to 

this notice will be summarized and/or 

included in the request for OMB 

approval of the extension of the 

information collection request; they will 

also become a matter of public record. 

Dated: August 6, 2008. 

Cheryl Atkinson, 

Administrator, Office of Workforce Security. 

[FR Doc. E8–19038 Filed 8–15–08; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4510–FW–P 

NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND 

SPACE ADMINISTRATION 

[Notice: 08–055] 

Notice of Centennial Challenges Lunar 

Lander Challenge 

AGENCY: National Aeronautics and 

Space Administration (NASA). 

ACTION: Notice of Centennial Challenges 

Lunar Lander Challenge. 

SUMMARY: This notice is issued in 

accordance with 42 U.S.C. 2451 

(314)(d). 

The Lunar Lander Challenge is now 

scheduled and teams that wish to 

compete may now register. The NASA 

Centennial Challenges Program is a 

program of prize contests to stimulate 

innovation and competition in space 

exploration and ongoing NASA mission 

areas. The Lunar Lander Challenge is a 

prize contest designed to accelerate 

technology developments supporting 

the commercial creation of a vehicle 

capable of ferrying cargo or humans 

back and forth between lunar orbit and 

the lunar surface. 

The Lunar Lander Challenge is being 

administered for NASA by the X PRIZE 

Foundation. Their Web site is: http:// 

www.xprize.org. The Centennial 

Challenges Web site is http:// 

centennialchallenges.nasa.gov. 

DATES: The Lunar Lander Challenge will 

be held on October 24 and 25, 2008 and 

will be continued on an annual basis 

until all the purse money has been 

awarded, or until October 2010, 

whichever comes first. The first Lunar 

Lander Challenge competition was held 

on October 20–21, 2006. 

ADDRESS: The Lunar Lander Challenge 

will be held at Holloman Air Force 

Base, Alamogordo, NM. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Requests for additional information 

regarding the NASA Centennial 

Challenges Program should be directed 

to Mr. Andrew Petro, NASA 

Headquarters, Suite 6J79, 300 E Street, 

SW., Washington, DC 20546. To register 

for and get additional information 

regarding the Lunar Lander Challenge, 

contact the X PRIZE Foundation, 

William Pomerantz, (301) 395–5283, 

Will@xprize.org or visit the Web site at 

http://space.xprize.org/ng-lunar-landerchallenge. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Summary 

The purpose of the Lunar Lander 

Challenge is to accelerate technology 

developments supporting the 

commercial creation of a vehicle 

capable of ferrying cargo or humans 


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back and forth between lunar orbit and 

the lunar surface. Such a vehicle would 

have direct application to NASA’s space 

exploration goals as well as the personal 

spaceflight industry. Additionally, the 

prize will help industry build new 

vehicles and develop the operational 

capacity to operate quick turnaround 

vertical take-off, vertical landing 

vehicles that will be of significant use 

in many facets of the commercial launch 

procurement market. 

II. Challenge Basis and Prize Amount 

To win the $2,000,000 purse, a rocketpropelled vehicle with an assigned 

payload must take-off vertically, climb 

to a defined altitude, fly for a predetermined amount of time, then land 

vertically on a target that is a fixed 

distance from the take-off point. After 

remaining at this location for a period 

of time, the vehicle must take-off, fly for 

the same amount of time, and land again 

on its original launch pad. 

III. Eligibility 

The Centennial Challenges Program 

has established the following language, 

including definitions, governing 

eligibility. Challenge is the Lunar 

Lander Challenge. 

A Team is an individual or private 

entity, or a group of individuals or 

private entities that register to 

participate in Challenge. A Team is 

comprised of a Team Leader and Team 

Members. A Team Leader is, by 

definition, also a Team Member. 

Team Members are participants on the 

Team that are not the Team Leader. To 

be eligible to win the Challenge prize, 

an individual or entity, (a) in the case 

of a private entity, shall be incorporated 

in and maintain a primary place of 

business in the United States, and (b) in 

the case of an individual, whether 

participating individually or as a 

member of a group, shall be a citizen or 

permanent resident of the United States. 

A Team Leader is a single private 

entity or individual which is the sole 

agent representing TEAM regarding its 

participation in Challenge. In the case of 

the Team Leader that is a private entity, 

it must appoint an individual who is an 

officer of the private entity to represent 

the Team Leader. 

All Team Members will apply to 

register for the Challenge through Team 

Leader and must receive written 

concurrence by XPF. 

All Team Members must execute an 

‘‘Adoption of Agreement’’ committing to 

all terms of this Agreement. By signing 

the Agreement, Team Leader represents 

that all Team Members have executed 

the Adoption of Agreement and that no 

one else will become a member of the 

Team or participate in the Challenge 

until such new Team Member has 

signed the Agreement. XPF may 

disqualify any TEAM if it discovers that 

a person is acting as a Team Member 

who has not signed this Agreement. 

Team Leader will provide XPF with a 

copy of the ‘‘Adoption of Agreement’’

signed by each team member. Any U.S. 

Government organization or 

organization principally or substantially 

funded by the Federal Government, 

including Federally Funded Research 

and Development Centers, Governmentowned, contractor operated (GOCO) 

facilities, University Affiliated Research 

Centers, and any employee of such an 

organization acting within the scope of 

his or her employment, are ineligible to 

be a Team Leader or Team Member. 

Team Members may participate in 

Challenge on more than one Team. 

IV. Rules 

The rules for the Lunar Lander 

Challenge can be found at: http:// 

space.xprize.org/ng-lunar-landerchallenge. 

Dated: August 11, 2008. 

Doug Comstock, 

Director, Innovative Partnerships Program 

Office. 

[FR Doc. E8–19095 Filed 8–15–08; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7510–13–P 

NATIONAL FOUNDATION ON THE 

ARTS AND THE HUMANITIES 

National Endowment for the Arts; Arts 

Advisory Panel 

Pursuant to section 10(a)(2) of the 

Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. 

L. 92–463), as amended, notice is hereby 

given that a meeting of the Arts 

Advisory Panel to the National Council 

on the Arts will be held by 

teleconference from the Nancy Hanks 

Center, 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, 

NW., Washington, DC 20506 as follows 

(ending time is approximate): 

Literature (application review): 

August 27, 2008. This meeting, from 2 

p.m. to 4 p.m. DST, will be closed. This 

meeting has been scheduled on an 

emergency basis to address time 

sensitive issues. 

The closed portions of meetings are 

for the purpose of Panel review, 

discussion, evaluation, and 

recommendations on financial 

assistance under the National 

Foundation on the Arts and the 

Humanities Act of 1965, as amended, 

including information given in 

confidence to the agency. In accordance 

with the determination of the Chairman 

of February 21, 2007, these sessions will 

be closed to the public pursuant to 

subsection (c)(6) of section 552b of Title 

5, United States Code. 

Further information with reference to 

these meetings can be obtained from Ms. 

Kathy Plowitz-Worden, Office of 

Guidelines & Panel Operations, National 

Endowment for the Arts, Washington, 

DC 20506, or call 202/682–5691. 

Dated: August 13, 2008. 

Kathy Plowitz-Worden, 

Panel Coordinator, Panel Operations, 

National Endowment for the Arts. 

[FR Doc. E8–19069 Filed 8–15–08; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7537–01–P 

THE NATIONAL FOUNDATION ON THE 

ARTS AND THE HUMANITIES 

Meetings of Humanities Panel 

AGENCY: The National Endowment for 

the Humanities. 

ACTION: Notice of meetings. 

SUMMARY: Pursuant to the provisions of 

the Federal Advisory Committee Act 

(Pub. L. 92–463, as amended), notice is 

hereby given that the following 

meetings of Humanities Panels will be 

held at the Old Post Office, 1100 

Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., 

Washington, DC 20506. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Michael P. McDonald, Advisory 

Committee Management Officer, 

National Endowment for the 

Humanities, Washington, DC 20506; 

telephone (202) 606–8322. Hearingimpaired individuals are advised that 

information on this matter may be 

obtained by contacting the 

Endowment’s TDD terminal on (202) 

606–8282. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

proposed meetings are for the purpose 

of panel review, discussion, evaluation 

and recommendation on applications 

for financial assistance under the 

National Foundation on the Arts and the 

Humanities Act of 1965, as amended, 

including discussion of information 

given in confidence to the agency by the 

grant applicants. Because the proposed 

meetings will consider information that 

is likely to disclose trade secrets and 

commercial or financial information 

obtained from a person and privileged 

or confidential and/or information of a 

personal nature the disclosure of which 

would constitute a clearly unwarranted 

invasion of personal privacy, pursuant 

to authority granted me by the 

Chairman’s Delegation of Authority to 

Close Advisory Committee meetings, 

dated July 19, 1993, I have determined 

that these meetings will be closed to the 

public pursuant to subsections (c)(4), 


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