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fee within 90 days of the due date, we 

will withdraw its accreditation. 

Dated: August 23, 2017. 

Anna K. Abram, 

Deputy Commissioner for Policy, Planning, 

Legislation, and Analysis. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

National Institutes of Health 

Office of the Director, National 

Institutes of Health: Notice of Closed 

Meeting 

Pursuant to section 10(d) of the 

Federal Advisory Committee Act, as 

amended, notice is hereby given of a 

meeting of the Advisory Committee to 

the Director, National Institutes of 

Health. 

The meeting will be closed to the 

public in accordance with the 

provisions set forth in sections 

552b(c)(4) and 552b(c)(6), Title 5 U.S.C., 

as amended. The grant applications and 

the discussions could disclose 

confidential trade secrets or commercial 

property such as patentable material, 

and personal information concerning 

individuals associated with the grant 

applications, the disclosure of which 

would constitute a clearly unwarranted 

invasion of personal privacy. 

Name of Committee: Advisory Committee 

to the Director, National Institutes of Health. 

Date: September 14, 2017. 

Time: 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. 

Agenda: To review and evaluate grant 

applications. 

Place: National Institutes of Health, 

Building 1, One Center Drive, Bethesda, MD 

20892 (Telephone Conference Call). 

Contact Person: Gretchen Wood, Staff 

Assistant, National Institutes of Health, 

Office of the Director, One Center Drive, 

Building 1, Room 126, Bethesda, MD 20892, 

301–496–4272, Woodgs@od.nih.gov. 

(Catalogue of Federal Domestic Assistance 

Program Nos. 93.14, Intramural Research 

Training Award; 93.22, Clinical Research 

Loan Repayment Program for Individuals 

from Disadvantaged Backgrounds; 93.232, 

Loan Repayment Program for Research 

Generally; 93.39, Academic Research 

Enhancement Award; 93.936, NIH Acquired 

Immunodeficiency Syndrome Research Loan 

Repayment Program; 93.187, Undergraduate 

Scholarship Program for Individuals from 

Disadvantaged Backgrounds, National 

Institutes of Health, HHS) 

Dated: August 24, 2017. 

Anna Snouffer, 

Deputy Director, Office of Federal Advisory 

Committee Policy. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

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National Institutes of Health 

National Cancer Institute; Notice of 

Meeting 

Pursuant to section 10(d) of the 

Federal Advisory Committee Act, as 

amended, notice is hereby given of a 

meeting of the National Cancer Institute 

Council of Research Advocates. 

The meeting will be open to the 

public, with attendance limited to space 

available. Individuals who plan to 

attend and need special assistance, such 

as sign language interpretation or other 

reasonable accommodations, should 

notify the Contact Person listed below 

in advance of the meeting. The open 

session will be videocast and can be 

accessed from the NIH Videocasting and 

Podcasting Web site (http://

videocast.nih.gov). 

Name of Committee: National Cancer 

Institute Council of Research Advocates. 

Date: September 25, 2017. 

Time: 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. 

Agenda: Welcome and Chairman’s 

Remarks, NCI Updates and Legislative 

Update. 

Place: National Institutes of Health, 40 

Convent Drive, Building 40, Conference 

Rooms 1201/1203, Bethesda, MD 20892. 

Contact Person: Amy Williams, NCI Office 

of Advocacy Relations National Cancer 

Institute, NIH, 31 Center Drive, Building 31, 

Room 10A28, Bethesda, MD 20892, 240–781– 

3406 williaam@mail.nih.gov. 

Any interested person may file written 

comments with the committee by forwarding 

the statement to the Contact Person listed on 

this notice. The statement should include the 

name, address, telephone number and when 

applicable, the business or professional 

affiliation of the interested person. 

In the interest of security, NIH has 

instituted stringent procedures for entrance 

onto the NIH campus. All visitor vehicles, 

including taxicabs, hotel, and airport shuttles 

will be inspected before being allowed on 

campus. Visitors will be asked to show one 

form of identification (for example, a 

government-issued photo ID, driver’s license, 

or passport) and to state the purpose of their 

visit. Information is also available on the 

Institute’s/Center’s home page: NCRA: http:// 

deainfo.nci.nih.gov/advisory/ncra/ncra.htm, 

where an agenda and any additional 

information for the meeting will be posted 

when available. 

(Catalogue of Federal Domestic Assistance 

Program Nos. 93.392, Cancer Construction; 

93.393, Cancer Cause and Prevention 

Research; 93.394, Cancer Detection and 

Diagnosis Research; 93.395, Cancer 

Treatment Research; 93.396, Cancer Biology 

Research; 93.397, Cancer Centers Support; 

93.398, Cancer Research Manpower; 93.399, 

Cancer Control, National Institutes of Health, 

HHS) 

Dated: August 24, 2017. 

Melanie J. Pantoja, 

Program Analyst, Office of Federal Advisory 

Committee Policy. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND 

SECURITY 

Coast Guard 

[Docket No. USCG–2017–0690] 

Cooperative Research and 

Development Agreement: 

Environmentally Friendly Buoy 

Mooring System 

AGENCY: Coast Guard, DHS. 

ACTION: Notice of intent; request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: The Coast Guard is 

announcing its intent to enter into a 

Cooperative Research and Development 

Agreement (CRADA) with American 

Underwater Contractors, Inc. (AUC) to 

develop, demonstrate, evaluate and 

document the use of environmentally 

friendly buoy mooring systems (line and 

anchor) attached to a navigational buoy 

to determine the feasibility and 

practicality of the Coast Guard using 

both helix (screw) anchors and elastic 

mooring lines in environmentally 

sensitive areas. While the Coast Guard 

is currently considering partnering with 

AUC, we are soliciting public comment 

on the possible nature of and 

participation of other parties in the 

proposed CRADA. In addition, the Coast 

Guard also invites other potential nonFederal participants, who have the 

interest and capability to bring similar 

contributions to this type of research, to 

consider submitting proposals for 

consideration in similar CRADAs. 

DATES: Comments must be submitted to 

the online docket via http://

www.regulations.gov, or reach the 

Docket Management Facility, on or 

before September 27, 2017. 

Synopses of proposals regarding 

future CRADAs must reach the Coast 

Guard (see FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT) on or before September 27, 

2017. 

ADDRESSES: Submit comments online at 

http://www.regulations.gov following 

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1The statute confers this authority on the head of 

each Federal agency. The Secretary of DHS’s 

authority is delegated to the Coast Guard and other 

DHS organizational elements by DHS Delegation 

No. 0160.1, para. II.B.34. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: If 

you have questions on this notice or 

wish to submit proposals for future 

CRADAs, contact Ms. Danielle Elam, 

Project Official, Environment and 

Waterways Branch, U.S. Coast Guard 

Research and Development Center, 1 

Chelsea Street, New London, CT 06320, 

telephone 860–271–2693, email 

Danielle.L.Elam@uscg.mil. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Public Participation and Request for 

Comments 

We request public comments on this 

notice. Although we do not plan to 

respond to comments in the Federal 

Register, we will respond directly to 

commenters and may modify our 

proposal in light of comments. 

Comments should be marked with 

docket number USCG–2017–0690 and 

should provide a reason for each 

suggestion or recommendation. You 

should provide personal contact 

information so that we can contact you 

if we have questions regarding your 

comments; but please note that all 

comments will be posted to the online 

docket without change and that any 

personal information you include can be 

searchable online (see the Federal 

Register Privacy Act notice regarding 

our public dockets, 73 FR 3316, Jan. 17, 

2008). We also accept anonymous 

comments. 

We encourage you to submit 

comments through the Federal 

eRulemaking Portal at http://

www.regulations.gov. If your material 

cannot be submitted using http://

www.regulations.gov, contact the Coast 

Guard (see FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT). Documents mentioned in this 

notice, and all public comments, are in 

our online docket at http://

www.regulations.gov and can be viewed 

by following that Web site’s 

instructions. Additionally, if you go to 

the online docket and sign up for email 

alerts, you will be notified when 

comments are posted or a final rule is 

published. 

Do not submit detailed proposals for 

future CRADAs to the Docket 

Management Facility. Instead, submit 

them directly to the Coast Guard (see 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT). 

Discussion 

CRADAs are authorized under 15 

U.S.C. 3710(a).1 A CRADA promotes the 

transfer of technology to the private 

sector for commercial use, as well as 

specified research or development 

efforts that are consistent with the 

mission of the Federal parties to the 

CRADA. The Federal party or parties 

agree with one or more non-Federal 

parties to share research resources, but 

the Federal party does not contribute 

funding. 

CRADAs are not procurement 

contracts. Care is taken to ensure that 

CRADAs are not used to circumvent the 

contracting process. CRADAs have a 

specific purpose and should not be 

confused with procurement contracts, 

grants, and other type of agreements. 

Under the proposed CRADA, the R&D 

Center will collaborate with one nonFederal participant. Together, the R&D 

Center and the non-Federal participant 

will collect information/data for 

performance, reliability, maintenance, 

and environmental impact of the 

embedment anchor and elastic mooring 

line. The embedment anchor and elastic 

mooring line will be placed in Mullet 

Key Channel for a period of two years, 

where it will be visually inspected insitu quarterly. 

Once the two years are complete, the 

embedment anchor and elastic mooring 

line will be removed from the water, 

inspected and then go through 

destructive testing. 

We anticipate that the Coast Guard’s 

contributions under the proposed 

CRADA will include the following: 

(1) Provide appropriate staff with 

pertinent expertise to take the lead in 

accomplishing the required tasks; 

(2) Draft the demonstration plan; 

(3) Provide all support resources, 

including travel for Coast Guard staff 

that supports this CRADA; 

(4) Obtain, transport and provide 

divers for the installation of the mooring 

system; 

(5) Provide a Coast Guard boat 

platform and qualified Coast Guard 

operators for the installation and 

retrieval of the buoys; 

(6) Provide all the resources required 

(except the mooring line, helical anchor 

and required components provided by 

the non-Federal participant) for the 

conduct of the demonstration; 

(7) Collect and analyze data in 

accordance with the CRADA 

demonstration plan; and 

(8) Work with non-Federal participant 

to develop a Final Report, which will 

document the methodologies, findings, 

conclusions, and recommendations of 

this CRADA work. 

We anticipate that the non-Federal 

participants’ contributions under the 

proposed CRADA will include the 

following: 

(1) Provide the technical data package 

for all equipments, including 

dimensions, weight, power 

requirements, and other technical 

considerations for additional 

components to be utilized under this 

CRADA; 

(2) Provide for shipment, and delivery 

of the mooring system required under 

this CRADA; 

(3) Provide/pay for travel and other 

associated personnel costs and other 

required expenses. 

The Coast Guard reserves the right to 

select for CRADA participants all, some, 

or no proposals submitted for this 

CRADA. The Coast Guard will provide 

no funding for reimbursement of 

proposal development costs. Proposals 

and any other material submitted in 

response to this notice will not be 

returned. Proposals submitted are 

expected to be unclassified and have not 

more than five single-sided (excluding 

cover page, DD 1494, JF–12, etc.). The 

Coast Guard will select proposals at its 

sole discretion on the basis of: 

(1) How well they communicate an 

understanding, of and ability to meet, 

the proposed CRADA’s goal; and 

(2) How well they address the 

following criteria: 

(a) Technical capability to support the 

non-Federal party contributions 

described, and 

(b) Resources available for supporting 

the non-Federal party contributions 

described. 

Currently, the Coast Guard is 

considering AUC for participation in 

this CRADA. This consideration is 

based on the fact that AUC has 

demonstrated its technical ability as a 

U.S. Distributor of embedment anchors 

and elastic mooring lines. However, we 

do not wish to exclude other viable 

participants from this or future similar 

CRADAs. 

This is a technology assessment effort. 

The goal of the Coast Guard for this 

CRADA is to better understand the 

advantages, disadvantages, required 

technology enhancements, performance, 

costs, and other issues associated with 

environmentally friendly mooring 

systems. Special consideration will be 

given to small business firms/consortia, 

and preference will be given to business 

units located in the U.S. This notice is 

issued under the authority of 5 U.S.C. 

552(a). 

Dated: 7 August 2017. 

Bert Macesker, 

Executive Director, Acting Commanding 

Officer, U.S. Coast Guard Research and 

Development Center. 

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