Inland Waterways Users Board; Request for Nominations
| Published date | 02 November 2020 |
| Citation | 85 FR 69323 |
| Record Number | 2020-24197 |
| Section | Notices |
| Court | Army, Corps Of Engineers Department |
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Committee Act (FACA) of 1972 (5
U.S.C., Appendix, as amended), the
Government in the Sunshine Act of
1976 (5 U.S.C. 552b, as amended), and
41 CFR 102–3.140 and 102–3.150.
Purpose of the Meeting: The mission
of the Board is to examine and advise
the Secretary of Defense on overall DoD
management and governance. The Board
provides independent advice reflecting
an outside private sector perspective on
proven and effective best business
practices that can be applied to DoD.
Agenda: The Board will receive
presentations for deliberation, comment,
and vote on two task group studies:
‘‘Audit/Performance Data Usage in
Private Industry,’’ chaired by Dr.
Christopher Gopal, and ‘‘Defense
Logistics Agency/Defense Information
Systems Agency Charter Review,’’
chaired by VADM David Venlet, USN
(Ret). The final agenda will be available
prior to the meeting on the Board’s
website at: https://dbb.defense.gov/
Meetings/Meeting-November-2020/.
Meeting Accessibility: Pursuant to
Federal Advisory Committee Act and 41
CFR 102–3.140, this meeting is open to
the public. Persons desiring to
participate in the meeting are required
to register. Attendance will be by virtual
or teleconference only. To attend the
meeting submit your name, affiliation/
organization, telephone number, and
email contact information to the Board
at osd.pentagon.odam.mbx.defense-
business-board@mail.mil. Requests to
attend the meeting must be received not
later than 4:00 p.m. Eastern Standard
Time, on Friday, October 30, 2020.
Upon receipt of this information, a link
will be sent to the email address
provided which will allow virtual/
teleconference attendance to the event.
(The DBB will be unable to provide
technical assistance to any user
experiencing technical difficulties
during the meeting.)
Written Statements: Pursuant to 41
CFR 102–3.105(j) and 102–3.140 and
section 10(a)(3) of the Federal Advisory
Committee Act, the public or interested
organizations may submit written
comments or statements to the Board in
response to the stated agenda of the
open meeting or in regard to the Board’s
mission in general. Written comments
or statements should be submitted to
Ms. Jennifer Hill, the Designated Federal
Officer, via electronic mail, the
preferred mode of submission, at the
address listed in the
FOR FURTHER
INFORMATION CONTACT
section. Each page
of the comment or statement must
include the author’s name, title or
affiliation, address, and daytime phone
number. Written comments or
statements being submitted in response
to the agenda set forth in this notice
must be received by the Designated
Federal Officer at least seven (7)
business days prior to the meeting to be
considered by the Board. The
Designated Federal Officer will review
all timely submitted written comments
or statements with the Board Chair, and
ensure the comments are provided to all
members of the Board before the
meeting. Written comments or
statements received after this date may
not be provided to the Board until its
next meeting. Pursuant to 41 CFR 102–
3.140d, the Board is not obligated to
allow any member of the public to speak
or otherwise address the Board during
the meeting. Members of the public will
be permitted to make verbal comments
during the meeting only at the time and
in the manner described below. If a
member of the public is interested in
making a verbal comment at the open
meeting, that individual must submit a
request, with a brief statement of the
subject matter to be addressed by the
comment, at least three (3) business
days in advance to the Designated
Federal Officer, via electronic mail, the
preferred mode of submission, at the
addresses listed in the
FOR FURTHER
INFORMATION CONTACT
section. The
Designated Federal Officer will log each
request, in the order received, and in
consultation with the Board Chair
determine whether the subject matter of
each comment is relevant to the Board’s
mission and/or the topics to be
addressed in the public meeting.
Members of the public who have
requested to make a comment and
whose comments have been deemed
relevant under the process described
above will be invited to speak in the
order in which the Designated Federal
Officer received their requests. The
Board Chair may allot a specific amount
of time for comments. Please note that
all submitted comments and statements
will be treated as public documents and
will be made available for public
inspection, including, but not limited
to, being posted on the Board’s website.
Dated: October 27, 2020.
Aaron T. Siegel,
Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison
Officer, Department of Defense.
[FR Doc. 2020–24192 Filed 10–30–20; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Department of the Army, Corps of
Engineers
Inland Waterways Users Board;
Request for Nominations
AGENCY
: Department of the Army, U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers, DOD.
ACTION
: Notice of request for
nominations.
SUMMARY
: The Department of the Army
is publishing this notice to request
nominations to serve as representatives
on the Inland Waterways Users Board,
sponsored by the U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers. Section 302 of Public Law
99–662 established the Inland
Waterways Users Board. The Board is an
independent Federal advisory
committee. The Secretary of the Army
appoints its 11 (eleven) representative
organizations. This notice is to solicit
nominations for five (5) appointments
for terms that will begin by May 28,
2021. For additional information about
the Board, please visit the committee’s
website at http://
www.iwr.usace.army.mil/Missions/
Navigation/Inland-Waterways-Users-
Board/.
ADDRESSES
: Institute for Water
Resources, U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers, ATTN: Mr. Mark R. Pointon,
Designated Federal Officer (DFO) for the
Inland Waterways Users Board, CEIWR–
GN, 7701 Telegraph Road, Casey
Building, Alexandria, Virginia 22315–
3868; by telephone at 703–428–6438;
and by email at Mark.Pointon@
usace.army.mil.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT
:
Alternatively, contact Mr. Steven D.
Riley, the Alternate Designated Federal
Officer (ADFO), in writing at the
Institute for Water Resources, U.S. Army
Corps of Engineers, ATTN: CEIWR–GW,
7701 Telegraph Road, Casey Building,
Alexandria, VA 22315–3868; by
telephone at 703–659–3097; and by
email at Steven.D.Riley@usace.army.mil.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION
: The
selection, service, and appointment of
representative organizations to the
Board are covered by provisions of
Section 302 of Public Law 99–662. The
substance of those provisions is as
follows:
a. Selection. Representative
organizations are to be selected from the
spectrum of commercial carriers and
shippers using the inland and
intracoastal waterways, to represent
geographical regions, and to be
representative of waterborne commerce
as determined by commodity ton-miles
and tonnage statistics.
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b. Service. The Board is required to
meet at least semi-annually to develop
and make recommendations to the
Secretary of the Army on waterways
construction and major rehabilitation
priorities and spending levels for
commercial navigation improvements,
and report its recommendations
annually to the Secretary and Congress.
c. Appointment. The operation of the
Board and appointment of
representative organizations are subject
to the Federal Advisory Committee Act
of 1972 (5 U.S.C., Appendix, as
amended) and departmental
implementing regulations.
Representative organizations serve
without compensation but their
expenses due to Board activities are
reimbursable. The considerations
specified in Section 302 for the
selection of representative organizations
to the Board, and certain terms used
therein, have been interpreted,
supplemented, or otherwise clarified as
follows:
(1) Carriers and Shippers. The law
uses the terms ‘‘primary users and
shippers.’’ Primary users have been
interpreted to mean the providers of
transportation services on inland
waterways such as barge or towboat
operators. Shippers have been
interpreted to mean the purchasers of
such services for the movement of
commodities they own or control.
Representative companies are appointed
to the Board, and they must be either a
carrier or shipper or both. For that
purpose a trade or regional association
is neither a shipper nor primary user.
(2) Geographical Representation. The
law specifies ‘‘various’’ regions. For the
purposes of the Board, the waterways
subjected to fuel taxes and described in
Public Law 95–502, as amended, have
been aggregated into six regions. They
are (1) the Upper Mississippi River and
its tributaries above the mouth of the
Ohio; (2) the Lower Mississippi River
and its tributaries below the mouth of
the Ohio and above Baton Rouge; (3) the
Ohio River and its tributaries; (4) the
Gulf Intracoastal Waterway in Louisiana
and Texas; (5) the Gulf Intracoastal
Waterway east of New Orleans and
associated fuel-taxed waterways
including the Tennessee-Tombigbee,
plus the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway
below Norfolk; and (6) the Columbia-
Snake Rivers System and Upper
Willamette. The intent is that each
region shall be represented by at least
one representative organization, with
that representation determined by the
regional concentration of the firm’s
traffic on the waterways.
(3) Commodity Representation.
Waterway commerce has been
aggregated into six commodity
categories based on ‘‘inland’’ ton-miles
shown in Waterborne Commerce of the
United States. These categories are (1)
Farm and Food Products; (2) Coal and
Coke; (3) Petroleum, Crude and
Products; (4) Minerals, Ores, and
Primary Metals and Mineral Products;
(5) Chemicals and Allied Products; and
(6) All Other. A consideration in the
selection of representative organizations
to the Board will be that the
commodities carried or shipped by
those firms will be reasonably
representative of the above commodity
categories.
d. Nomination. Reflecting preceding
selection criteria, the current
representation by the five (5)
organizations whose terms expire
includes Regions 1, 3 and 4,
representation of two carriers, two
shippers and one of both, and
commodity representation of Coal and
Coke; Petroleum, Crude and Products;
Chemicals and Allied Products; and
Other.
Individuals, firms or associations may
nominate representative organizations
to serve on the Board. Nominations will:
(1) Include the commercial operations
of the carrier and/or shipper
representative organization being
nominated. This commercial operations
information will show the actual or
estimated ton-miles of each commodity
carried or shipped on the inland
waterways system in the most recent
year (or years), using the waterway
regions and commodity categories
previously listed.
(2) State the region(s) to be
represented.
(3) State whether the nominated
representative organization is a carrier,
shipper or both.
(4) Provide the name of an individual
to be the principle person representing
the organization and information
pertaining to their personal
qualifications, to include a current
biography or resume.
Previous nominations received in
response to notices published in the
Federal Register in prior years will not
be retained for consideration. Re-
nomination of representative
organizations is required.
e. Deadline for Nominations. All
nominations must be received at the
address shown above no later than
December 1, 2020.
Thomas P. Smith,
Chief, Operations and Regulatory Division,
Directorate of Civil Works, U.S. Army Corp
of Engineers.
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
[Docket No.: ED–2020–SCC–0122]
Agency Information Collection
Activities; Submission to the Office of
Management and Budget for Review
and Approval; Comment Request;
Higher Education Emergency Relief
Fund (HEERF) Data Collection Form
AGENCY
: Office of Postsecondary
Education, Department of Education
(ED).
ACTION
: Notice.
SUMMARY
: In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, ED is
proposing a new collection.
DATES
: Interested persons are invited to
submit comments on or before
December 2, 2020.
ADDRESSES
: Written comments and
recommendations for proposed
information collection requests should
be sent within 30 days of publication of
this notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/
do/PRAMain. Find this particular
information collection request by
selecting ‘‘Department of Education’’
under ‘‘Currently Under Review,’’ then
check ‘‘Only Show ICR for Public
Comment’’ checkbox.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT
: For
specific questions related to collection
activities, please contact Karen Epps,
202–453–6337.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION
: The
Department of Education (ED), in
accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA) (44 U.S.C.
3506(c)(2)(A)), provides the general
public and Federal agencies with an
opportunity to comment on proposed,
revised, and continuing collections of
information. This helps the Department
assess the impact of its information
collection requirements and minimize
the public’s reporting burden. It also
helps the public understand the
Department’s information collection
requirements and provide the requested
data in the desired format. ED is
soliciting comments on the proposed
information collection request (ICR) that
is described below. The Department of
Education is especially interested in
public comment addressing the
following issues: (1) Is this collection
necessary to the proper functions of the
Department; (2) will this information be
processed and used in a timely manner;
(3) is the estimate of burden accurate;
(4) how might the Department enhance
the quality, utility, and clarity of the
information to be collected; and (5) how
might the Department minimize the
burden of this collection on the
respondents, including through the use
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