Renewal of Department of Defense Federal Advisory Committees, 49996-49997 [2015-20293]
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Office of the Secretary
Renewal of Department of Defense
Federal Advisory Committees
Department of Defense.
Renewal of Federal Advisory
Committee.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
The Department of Defense
(DoD) is publishing this notice to
announce that it is renewing the charter
for the Defense Policy Board (‘‘the
Board’’).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jim
Freeman, Advisory Committee
Management Officer for the Department
of Defense, 703–692–5952.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This
committee’s charter is being renewed in
accordance with the Federal Advisory
Committee Act (FACA) of 1972 (5
U.S.C., Appendix, as amended) and 41
CFR 102–3.50(a).
The Board is a discretionary Federal
advisory committee that, through the
Under Secretary of Defense for Policy
(USD(P)), provides the Secretary of
Defense and the Deputy Secretary of
Defense, independent, informed advice
and opinions concerning matters of
defense policy in response to specific
tasks from the Secretary of Defense, the
Deputy Secretary of Defense, or the
USD(P). Specifically, the Board focuses
on issues central to strategic DoD
planning; policy implications of U.S.
force structure and force modernization
on DoD’s ability to execute U.S. defense
strategy; U.S. regional defense policies;
and any other topics raised by the
Secretary of Defense, the Deputy
Secretary of Defense, or the USD(P).
The DoD, through the Office of the
USD(P), shall provide support for the
Board’s performance and shall ensure
compliance with the requirements of the
FACA, the Government in the Sunshine
Act of 1976 (‘‘the Sunshine Act’’) (5
U.S.C. 552b, as amended), governing
Federal statutes and regulations, and
established DoD policies and
procedures.
The Board shall be composed of no
more than 35 members who have
distinguished backgrounds in defense
and national security affairs.
Board members appointed by the
Secretary of Defense or the Deputy
Secretary of Defense, who are not fulltime or permanent part-time Federal
employees, shall be appointed as
experts or consultants pursuant to 5
U.S.C. 3109 to serve as special
government employee (SGE) members.
Board members who are full-time or
permanent part-time Federal officers or
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employees will be appointed pursuant
to 41 CFR 102–3.130(a) to serve as
regular government employee (RGE)
members. Board members shall serve a
term of service of one-to-four years on
the Board, subject to annual renewals.
No member may serve more than two
consecutive terms of service without
Secretary of Defense or Deputy
Secretary of Defense approval.
The Secretary of Defense has
approved the appointment of the Chairs
of the Defense Business Board and the
Defense Science Board to serve as nonvoting ex-officio members of the Board,
whose appointments shall not count
toward the Board’s total membership.
The Chair will be appointed by the
Secretary of Defense or in accordance
with DoD policy from among those
Board members previously appointed by
the Secretary of Defense and permitted
to vote.
With the exception of reimbursement
of official Board-related travel and per
diem, members of the Board serve
without compensation.
The USD(P), pursuant to DoD policies
and procedures and as deemed
necessary, may appoint, non-voting
subject matter experts (SMEs) to assist
the Board or its subcommittees on an ad
hoc basis. These non-voting SMEs are
not members of the Board or its
subcommittees and will not engage or
participate in any deliberations by the
Board or its subcommittees. These nonvoting SMEs, if not full-time or
permanent part-time Federal officers or
employees, will be appointed as experts
or consultants pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 3109
to serve on an intermittent basis to
address specific issues under
consideration by the Board.
DoD, when necessary and consistent
with the Board’s mission and DoD
policies and procedures, may establish
subcommittees, task forces, or working
groups to support the Board.
Establishment of subcommittees will be
based upon a written determination, to
include terms of reference, by the
Secretary of Defense, the Deputy
Secretary of Defense, or the USD(P), as
the DoD Sponsor.
Such subcommittees shall not work
independently of the Board and shall
report all of their recommendations and
advice solely to the Board for full and
open deliberation and discussion.
Subcommittees, task forces, or working
groups have no authority to make
decisions and recommendations,
verbally or in writing, on behalf of the
Board. No subcommittee or any of its
members can update or report, verbally
or in writing, on behalf of the Board,
directly to the DoD or any Federal
officer or employee.
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Each subcommittee member, based
upon his or her individual professional
experience, provides his or her best
judgment on the matters before the
Board, and he or she does so in a
manner that is free from conflict of
interest. All subcommittee members
will be appointed by the Secretary of
Defense or the Deputy Secretary of
Defense for a term of service of one-tofour years, with annual renewals, even
if the individual in question is already
a member of the Board. Subcommittee
members will not serve more than two
consecutive terms of service, unless
authorized by the Secretary of Defense
or the Deputy Secretary of Defense.
Subcommittee members who are not
full-time or permanent part-time Federal
officers or employees will be appointed
as experts or consultants pursuant to 5
U.S.C. 3109 to serve as SGE members.
Subcommittee members who are fulltime or permanent part-time Federal
officers or employees will be appointed
pursuant to 41 CFR 102–3.130(a) to
serve as RGE members. With the
exception of reimbursement of official
travel and per diem related to the Board
or its subcommittees, subcommittee
members will serve without
compensation.
All subcommittees operate under the
provisions of FACA, the Sunshine Act,
governing Federal statutes and
regulations, and established DoD
policies and procedures.
The Board’s Designated Federal
Officer (DFO) must be a full-time or
permanent part-time DoD officer or
employee, appointed in accordance
with established DoD policies and
procedures. The Board’s DFO is
required to attend at all meetings of the
Board and its subcommittees for the
entire duration of each and every
meeting. However, in the absence of the
Board’s DFO, a properly approved
Alternate DFO, duly appointed to the
Board according to established DoD
policies and procedures, must attend
the entire duration of all meetings of the
Board and its subcommittees.
The DFO, or the Alternate DFO, calls
all meetings of the Board and its
subcommittees; prepares and approves
all meeting agendas; and adjourns any
meeting when the DFO, or the Alternate
DFO, determines adjournment to be in
the public interest or required by
governing regulations or DoD policies
and procedures.
Pursuant to 41 CFR 102–3.105(j) and
102–3.140, the public or interested
organizations may submit written
statements to Board membership about
the Board’s mission and functions.
Written statements may be submitted at
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any time or in response to the stated
agenda of planned meeting of the Board.
All written statements shall be
submitted to the DFO for the Board, and
this individual will ensure that the
written statements are provided to the
membership for their consideration.
Contact information for the Board’s DFO
can be obtained from the GSA’s FACA
Database—https://
www.facadatabase.gov/.
The DFO, pursuant to 41 CFR 102–
3.150, will announce planned meetings
of the Board. The DFO, at that time, may
provide additional guidance on the
submission of written statements that
are in response to the stated agenda for
the planned meeting in question.
Dated: August 12, 2015.
Aaron Siegel,
Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison
Officer, Department of Defense.
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Department of the Navy
Meeting of the U.S. Naval Academy
Board of Visitors
Department of the Navy, DoD.
Notice of Partially Closed
Meeting.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
The U.S. Naval Academy
Board of Visitors will meet to make such
inquiry, as the Board shall deem
necessary, into the state of morale and
discipline, the curriculum, instruction,
physical equipment, fiscal affairs, and
academic methods of the Naval
Academy. The executive session of this
meeting from 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
on September 28, 2015, will include
discussions of new and pending
administrative/minor disciplinary
infractions and non-judicial punishment
proceedings involving Midshipmen
attending the Naval Academy to include
but not limited to individual honor/
conduct violations within the Brigade;
the disclosure of which would
constitute a clearly unwarranted
invasion of personal privacy. For this
reason, the executive session of this
meeting will be closed to the public.
DATES: The open session of the meeting
will be held on September 28, 2015,
from 8:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. The
executive session held from 11:00 a.m.
to 12:00 p.m. will be the closed portion
of the meeting.
ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at
the Library of Congress in Washington,
DC. The meeting will be handicap
accessible.
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Lieutenant Commander Eric Madonia,
USN, Executive Secretary to the Board
of Visitors, Office of the Superintendent,
U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD
21402–5000, (410) 293–1503.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This
notice of meeting is provided per the
Federal Advisory Committee Act, as
amended (5 U.S.C. App.). The executive
session of the meeting from 11:00 a.m.
to 12:00 p.m. on September 28, 2015,
will consist of discussions of new and
pending administrative/minor
disciplinary infractions and non-judicial
punishments involving midshipmen
attending the Naval Academy to include
but not limited to, individual honor/
conduct violations within the Brigade.
The discussion of such information
cannot be adequately segregated from
other topics, which precludes opening
the executive session of this meeting to
the public. Accordingly, the Department
of the Navy/Assistant for
Administration has determined in
writing that the meeting shall be
partially closed to the public because
the discussions during the executive
session from 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
will be concerned with matters
protected under sections 552b(c) (5), (6),
and (7) of title 5, United States Code.
Authority: 5 U.S.C. 552b.
Dated: July 11, 2015.
N.A. Hagerty-Ford
Commander, Judge Advocate General’s Corps,
U.S. Navy, Federal Register Liaison Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Office of Science; Department of
Energy; Notice of Renewal of the High
Energy Physics Advisory Panel
Pursuant to Section 14(a)(2)(A) of the
Federal Advisory Committee Act, App.
2, and section 102–3.65, title 41, Code
of Federal Regulations and following
consultation with the Committee
Management Secretariat, General
Services Administration, notice is
hereby given that the High Energy
Physics Advisory Panel has been
renewed for a two-year period.
The Panel will provide advice to the
Director, Office of Science (DOE), and
the Assistant Director, Mathematical &
Physical Sciences Directorate (NSF), on
long-range planning and priorities in the
national high-energy physics program.
The Secretary of Energy has determined
that renewal of the Panel is essential to
conduct business of the Department of
Energy and the National Science
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Foundation and is in the public interest
in connection with the performance of
duties imposed by law upon the
Department of Energy.
The Panel will continue to operate in
accordance with the provisions of the
Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub.
L. 92–463), the General Services
Administration Final Rule on Federal
Advisory Committee Management, and
other directives and instructions issued
in implementation of those acts.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John
Kogut at (301) 903–1298.
Issued in Washington DC on August 12,
2015.
Erica De Vos,
Acting Committee Management Officer.
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
AGENCY
[EPA–HQ–OPPT–2014–0068, 2014–0730,
2015–0081, 2015–0491; FRL–9929–31]
Availability of Work Plan Chemical
Problem Formulation and Initial
Assessment and Data Needs
Assessment Documents for Flame
Retardant Clusters; Notice and Public
Comment Periods
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
EPA is announcing the
availability and opening of a 60-day
public comment period for TSCA Work
Plan Chemical problem formulation and
initial assessment documents for three
flame retardant clusters. EPA is also
making available and opening a 120-day
public comment period for the TSCA
Work Plan Chemical data needs
assessment document for the
Brominated Phthalates flame retardant
cluster. Based on experience in
conducting TSCA Work Plan Chemical
assessments and public input, starting
in 2015 EPA will publish a problem
formulation and initial assessment, or a
data needs assessment, for each TSCA
Work Plan assessment as a stand-alone
document to facilitate public input prior
to conducting further risk analysis. EPA
believes publishing problem
formulation and initial assessment
documents for TSCA Work Plan
assessments will increase transparency
about EPA’s thinking and analysis
process, provide opportunity for the
public to comment on EPA’s approach,
and give EPA the opportunity to receive
additional information/data prior to
EPA conducting detailed risk analysis
SUMMARY:
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Office of the Secretary
Renewal of Department of Defense Federal Advisory Committees
AGENCY: Department of Defense.
ACTION: Renewal of Federal Advisory Committee.
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SUMMARY: The Department of Defense (DoD) is publishing this notice to
announce that it is renewing the charter for the Defense Policy Board
(``the Board'').
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jim Freeman, Advisory Committee
Management Officer for the Department of Defense, 703-692-5952.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This committee's charter is being renewed in
accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA) of 1972 (5
U.S.C., Appendix, as amended) and 41 CFR 102-3.50(a).
The Board is a discretionary Federal advisory committee that,
through the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy (USD(P)), provides
the Secretary of Defense and the Deputy Secretary of Defense,
independent, informed advice and opinions concerning matters of defense
policy in response to specific tasks from the Secretary of Defense, the
Deputy Secretary of Defense, or the USD(P). Specifically, the Board
focuses on issues central to strategic DoD planning; policy
implications of U.S. force structure and force modernization on DoD's
ability to execute U.S. defense strategy; U.S. regional defense
policies; and any other topics raised by the Secretary of Defense, the
Deputy Secretary of Defense, or the USD(P).
The DoD, through the Office of the USD(P), shall provide support
for the Board's performance and shall ensure compliance with the
requirements of the FACA, the Government in the Sunshine Act of 1976
(``the Sunshine Act'') (5 U.S.C. 552b, as amended), governing Federal
statutes and regulations, and established DoD policies and procedures.
The Board shall be composed of no more than 35 members who have
distinguished backgrounds in defense and national security affairs.
Board members appointed by the Secretary of Defense or the Deputy
Secretary of Defense, who are not full-time or permanent part-time
Federal employees, shall be appointed as experts or consultants
pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 3109 to serve as special government employee (SGE)
members. Board members who are full-time or permanent part-time Federal
officers or employees will be appointed pursuant to 41 CFR 102-3.130(a)
to serve as regular government employee (RGE) members. Board members
shall serve a term of service of one-to-four years on the Board,
subject to annual renewals. No member may serve more than two
consecutive terms of service without Secretary of Defense or Deputy
Secretary of Defense approval.
The Secretary of Defense has approved the appointment of the Chairs
of the Defense Business Board and the Defense Science Board to serve as
non-voting ex-officio members of the Board, whose appointments shall
not count toward the Board's total membership.
The Chair will be appointed by the Secretary of Defense or in
accordance with DoD policy from among those Board members previously
appointed by the Secretary of Defense and permitted to vote.
With the exception of reimbursement of official Board-related
travel and per diem, members of the Board serve without compensation.
The USD(P), pursuant to DoD policies and procedures and as deemed
necessary, may appoint, non-voting subject matter experts (SMEs) to
assist the Board or its subcommittees on an ad hoc basis. These non-
voting SMEs are not members of the Board or its subcommittees and will
not engage or participate in any deliberations by the Board or its
subcommittees. These non-voting SMEs, if not full-time or permanent
part-time Federal officers or employees, will be appointed as experts
or consultants pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 3109 to serve on an intermittent
basis to address specific issues under consideration by the Board.
DoD, when necessary and consistent with the Board's mission and DoD
policies and procedures, may establish subcommittees, task forces, or
working groups to support the Board. Establishment of subcommittees
will be based upon a written determination, to include terms of
reference, by the Secretary of Defense, the Deputy Secretary of
Defense, or the USD(P), as the DoD Sponsor.
Such subcommittees shall not work independently of the Board and
shall report all of their recommendations and advice solely to the
Board for full and open deliberation and discussion. Subcommittees,
task forces, or working groups have no authority to make decisions and
recommendations, verbally or in writing, on behalf of the Board. No
subcommittee or any of its members can update or report, verbally or in
writing, on behalf of the Board, directly to the DoD or any Federal
officer or employee.
Each subcommittee member, based upon his or her individual
professional experience, provides his or her best judgment on the
matters before the Board, and he or she does so in a manner that is
free from conflict of interest. All subcommittee members will be
appointed by the Secretary of Defense or the Deputy Secretary of
Defense for a term of service of one-to-four years, with annual
renewals, even if the individual in question is already a member of the
Board. Subcommittee members will not serve more than two consecutive
terms of service, unless authorized by the Secretary of Defense or the
Deputy Secretary of Defense.
Subcommittee members who are not full-time or permanent part-time
Federal officers or employees will be appointed as experts or
consultants pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 3109 to serve as SGE members.
Subcommittee members who are full-time or permanent part-time Federal
officers or employees will be appointed pursuant to 41 CFR 102-3.130(a)
to serve as RGE members. With the exception of reimbursement of
official travel and per diem related to the Board or its subcommittees,
subcommittee members will serve without compensation.
All subcommittees operate under the provisions of FACA, the
Sunshine Act, governing Federal statutes and regulations, and
established DoD policies and procedures.
The Board's Designated Federal Officer (DFO) must be a full-time or
permanent part-time DoD officer or employee, appointed in accordance
with established DoD policies and procedures. The Board's DFO is
required to attend at all meetings of the Board and its subcommittees
for the entire duration of each and every meeting. However, in the
absence of the Board's DFO, a properly approved Alternate DFO, duly
appointed to the Board according to established DoD policies and
procedures, must attend the entire duration of all meetings of the
Board and its subcommittees.
The DFO, or the Alternate DFO, calls all meetings of the Board and
its subcommittees; prepares and approves all meeting agendas; and
adjourns any meeting when the DFO, or the Alternate DFO, determines
adjournment to be in the public interest or required by governing
regulations or DoD policies and procedures.
Pursuant to 41 CFR 102-3.105(j) and 102-3.140, the public or
interested organizations may submit written statements to Board
membership about the Board's mission and functions. Written statements
may be submitted at
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any time or in response to the stated agenda of planned meeting of the
Board.
All written statements shall be submitted to the DFO for the Board,
and this individual will ensure that the written statements are
provided to the membership for their consideration. Contact information
for the Board's DFO can be obtained from the GSA's FACA Database--
https://www.facadatabase.gov/.
The DFO, pursuant to 41 CFR 102-3.150, will announce planned
meetings of the Board. The DFO, at that time, may provide additional
guidance on the submission of written statements that are in response
to the stated agenda for the planned meeting in question.
Dated: August 12, 2015.
Aaron Siegel,
Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison Officer, Department of Defense.
[FR Doc. 2015-20293 Filed 8-17-15; 8:45 am]
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