Federal Register / Vol. 74, No. 97 / Thursday, May 21, 2009 / Notices 23901 

Texas: Brazoria, Chambers, Fort Bend, 

Galveston, Liberty, Montgomery, 

Waller. 

The Interest Rates are: 

Percent 

Homeowners With Credit Available Elsewhere ......................... 4.875 

Homeowners Without Credit 

Available Elsewhere .................. 2.437 

Businesses With Credit Available 

Elsewhere ................................. 6.000 

Businesses & Small Agricultural 

Cooperatives Without Credit 

Available Elsewhere .................. 4.000 

Other (Including Non-Profit Organizations) With Credit Available 

Elsewhere ................................. 4.500 

Businesses and Non-Profit Organizations Without Credit Available Elsewhere ......................... 4.000 

The number assigned to this disaster 

for physical damage is 11748 6 and for 

economic injury is 11749 0. 

The State which received an EIDL 

Declaration # is Texas. 

(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance 

Numbers 59002 and 59008) 

Dated: May 15, 2009. 

Karen G. Mills, 

Administrator. 

[FR Doc. E9–11883 Filed 5–20–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 8025–01–P 

SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 

[Disaster Declaration #11694 and #11695] 

North Dakota Disaster Number ND– 

00015 

AGENCY: U.S. Small Business 

Administration. 

ACTION: Amendment 2. 

SUMMARY: This is an amendment of the 

Presidential declaration of a major 

disaster for Public Assistance Only for 

the State of North Dakota (FEMA–1829– 

DR), dated 03/24/2009. 

Incident: Severe Storms and Flooding. 

Incident Period: 03/13/2009 and 

continuing. 

Effective Date: 05/13/2009. 

Physical Loan Application Deadline 

Date: 05/26/2009. 

Economic Injury (EIDL) Loan 

Application Deadline Date: 12/24/2009. 

ADDRESSES: Submit completed loan 

applications to: U.S. Small Business 

Administration, Processing and 

Disbursement Center, 14925 Kingsport 

Road, Fort Worth, TX 76155. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: A. 

Escobar, Office of Disaster Assistance, 

U.S. Small Business Administration, 

409 3rd Street, SW., Suite 6050, 

Washington, DC 20416. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The notice 

of the President’s major disaster 

declaration for Private Non-Profit 

organizations in the State of North 

Dakota, dated 03/24/2009, is hereby 

amended to include the following areas 

as adversely affected by the disaster. 

Primary Counties: Rolette, Sheridan, 

The Turtle Mountain Band of 

Chippewa Indian Reservation. 

All other information in the original 

declaration remains unchanged. 

(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance 

Numbers 59002 and 59008) 

James E. Rivera, 

Acting Associate Administrator for Disaster 

Assistance. 

[FR Doc. E9–11881 Filed 5–20–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 8025–01–P 

OFFICE OF SCIENCE AND 

TECHNOLOGY POLICY 

Executive Office of the President; 

Transparency and Open Government 

SUMMARY: The President’s January 21, 

2009, memorandum entitled, 

Transparency and Open Government, 

directed the Chief Technology Officer, 

in coordination with the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) and the 

General Services Administration (GSA), 

to develop a set of recommendations 

that will inform an Open Government 

Directive. This directive will be issued 

by OMB and will instruct executive 

departments and agencies on specific 

actions to implement the principles set 

forth in the President’s memorandum. 

Members of the public are invited to 

participate in the process of developing 

recommendations via email or the 

White House Web site at http:// 

www.whitehouse.gov/open offering 

comments, ideas, and proposals about 

possible initiatives and about how to 

increase openness and transparency in 

government. 

DATES: Comments must be received by 

June 19, 2009. 

ADDRESSES: Submit comments by one of 

the following methods: 

• http://www.whitehouse.gov/open. 

• E-mail: opengov@ostp.gov. 

• Mail: Office of Science and 

Technology Policy, Attn: Open 

Government Recommendations, 725 

17th Street, Washington, DC 20502. 

Comments submitted in response to 

this notice could be made available to 

the public online or by alternative 

means. For this reason, please do not 

include in your comments information 

of a confidential nature, such as 

sensitive personal information or 

proprietary information. If you submit 

an e-mail comment, your e-mail address 

will be captured automatically and 

included as part of the comment that is 

placed in the public docket and made 

available on the Internet. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Office of Science and Technology 

Policy, Attn: Open Government, 725 

17th Street, NW., Washington, DC 

20502. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In his 

January 21, 2009, Presidential 

Memorandum to the Heads of Executive 

Departments and Agencies, published in 

the Federal Register [74 FR 4685, 

January 26, 2009], the President 

outlined three principles for promoting 

a transparent and open government: 

• Transparency promotes 

accountability and provides information 

to citizens about what their Government 

is doing; 

• Participation enhances the 

Government’s effectiveness and 

improves the quality of its decisions by 

tapping knowledge that is widely 

dispersed in society; and 

• Collaboration harnesses innovative 

tools, methods, and systems to promote 

cooperation across all levels of 

Government and with the private sector. 

The Presidential Memorandum requests 

recommendations to inform an OMB 

Directive that will instruct executive 

departments and agencies on specific 

actions to implement the three 

principles of transparency, 

participation, and collaboration. 

The purpose of this Federal Register 

notice is to solicit public participation 

in the development of those 

recommendations. There is a great deal 

of dispersed information among the 

nation’s citizens. With twenty-first 

century tools, the United States is in a 

unique position to take advantage of 

that dispersed information to inform the 

policymaking process. Our goal is to use 

the principles of open government to 

obtain fresh ideas about open 

government itself. 

Comments on open government may 

relate to government-wide or agencyspecific policy, project ideas, and 

relevant examples. Comments may 

address law, policy, technology, culture, 

and practice on issues such as: 

• What government information 

should be more readily available on-line 

or more easily searched? 

• How might the operations of 

government be made more transparent 

and accountable? 

• How might federal advisory 

committees, rulemaking, or electronic 


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