Agencies and Commissions July 26, 2005 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, invites the general public and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment on proposed and/or continuing information collections, as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104-13, 44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A)).

This final rule will amend the Privacy Act regulations at 45 CFR 613.5, Exemptions, by adding a new subsection (g), Statistical records. The amendment exempts three systems of NSF statistical records, ``Doctorate Records Files,'' ``Doctorate Work History Files'' and ``National Survey of Recent College Graduates & Follow-up Files'' from the application of 5 U.S.C. 552a(c)(3), (d), (e)(1), (e)(4)(G), (H), and (I), and (f) pursuant to Privacy Act exemption (k)(4), 5 U.S.C. 552a(k)(4). Exemption (k)(4) permits exemption if the system of records is ``required by statute to be maintained and used solely as statistical records.'' The three named NSF/Science Resource Studies systems of records contain statistical data required by subsection 14(i) of the NSF Act of 1950, as amended, and Title V of the Confidential Information Protection and Statistical Efficiency Act of 2002 (CIPSEA), to be used for statistical purposes only, and thus meet the requirements of exemption (k)(4).

Under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35), agencies are required to submit proposed reporting and recordkeeping requirements to OMB for review and approval, and to publish a notice in the Federal Register notifying the public that the agency has made such a submission.

In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this notice announces the Small Business Administration's intentions to request approval on a new and/or currently approved information collection.

The Civilian Agency Acquisition Council and the Defense Acquisition Regulations Council (Councils) are proposing to amend the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) to provide language that is consistent with OMB Circular A-76 (Revised), Performance of Commercial Activities, dated May 29, 2003.