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Dana Gioia,
Chairman, National Endowment for the Arts.
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NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
Notice of Intent to Seek Approval to
Extend without Revision a Current
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AGENCY:
ACTION:
SUMMARY: The National Science
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to request renewal of this collection. In
accordance with the requirement of
section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104–13),
we are providing opportunity for public
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and considering public comment, NSF
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collection for no longer than 3 years.
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assured of consideration. Comments
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Title of
Collection: Fellowship Applications and
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2005.
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Dated: April 17, 2005.
Suzanne H. Plimpton,
Reports Clearance Officer, National Science
Foundation.
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OFFICE OF PERSONNEL
MANAGEMENT
Federal Prevailing Rate Advisory
Committee; Open Committee Meetings
According to the provisions of section
10 of the Federal Advisory Committee
Act (Pub. L. 92–463), notice is hereby
given that meetings of the Federal
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Prevailing Rate Advisory Committee
will be held on—
Thursday, May 5, 2005;
Thursday, May 26, 2005;
Thursday, June 9, 2005;
Thursday, June 23, 2005;
Thursday, July 14, 2005;
Thursday, July 28, 2005.
The meetings will start at 10 a.m. and
will be held in Room 5A06A, Office of
Personnel Management Building, 1900 E
Street, NW., Washington, DC.
The Federal Prevailing Rate Advisory
Committee is composed of a Chair, five
representatives from labor unions
holding exclusive bargaining rights for
Federal blue-collar employees, and five
representatives from Federal agencies.
Entitlement to membership on the
Committee is provided for in 5 U.S.C.
5347.
The Committee’s primary
responsibility is to review the Prevailing
Rate System and other matters pertinent
to establishing prevailing rates under
subchapter IV, chapter 53, 5 U.S.C., as
amended, and from time to time advise
the Office of Personnel Management.
These scheduled meetings will start
in open session with both labor and
management representatives attending.
During the meetings either the labor
members or the management members
may caucus separately with the Chair to
devise strategy and formulate positions.
Premature disclosure of the matters
discussed in these caucuses would
unacceptably impair the ability of the
Committee to reach a consensus on the
matters being considered and would
disrupt substantially the disposition of
its business. Therefore, these caucuses
will be closed to the public because of
a determination made by the Director of
the Office of Personnel Management
under the provisions of section 10(d) of
the Federal Advisory Committee Act
(Pub. L. 92–463) and 5 U.S.C.
552b(c)(9)(B). These caucuses may,
depending on the issues involved,
constitute a substantial portion of a
meeting.
Annually, the Chair compiles a report
of pay issues discussed and concluded
recommendations. These reports are
available to the public, upon written
request to the Committee’s Secretary.
The public is invited to submit
material in writing to the Chair on
Federal Wage System pay matters felt to
be deserving of the Committee’s
attention. Additional information on
these meetings may be obtained by
contacting the Committee’s Secretary,
Office of Personnel Management,
Federal Prevailing Rate Advisory
Committee, Room 5538, 1900 E Street,
NW., Washington, DC 20415 (202) 606–
1500.
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Dated: April 5, 2005.
Mary M. Rose,
Chairperson, Federal Prevailing Rate
Advisory Committee.
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20549.
Extension: Complaint & Question Forms;
SEC File No. 270–485; OMB Control No.
3235–0547.
Notice is hereby given that pursuant
to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
(44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.) the Securities
and Exchange Commission
(‘‘Commission’’) has submitted to the
Office of Management and Budget a
request for extension of the previously
approved collection of information
discussed below. The titles of the forms
are: Enforcement Complaint Form;
Investor Complaint Form; Financial
Privacy Notice Complaint Form; and
Questions and Feedback Form.
Each year, the SEC receives more than
250,000 contacts from investors who
have complaints or questions on a wide
range of investment-related issues.
These contacts generally fall into the
following three categories:
(a) Complaints against SEC-regulated
individuals or entities;
(b) Questions concerning the federal
securities laws, companies or firms that
the SEC regulates, or other investmentrelated questions; and
(c) Tips concerning potential
violations of the federal securities laws.
Investors who submit complaints, ask
questions, or provide tips do so
voluntarily. To make it easier for
investors to contact the agency
electronically, the SEC created a series
of investor complaint and question Web
forms. Investors can access these forms
through the SEC Center for Complaints
and Enforcement Tips at https://
www.sec.gov/complaint.shtml.
Although the SEC’s complaint and
question forms provide a structured
format for incoming investor
correspondence, the SEC does not
require that investors use any particular
form or format when contacting the
agency. To the contrary, investors may
submit complaints, questions, and tips
through a variety of other means,
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including telephone, letter, facsimile, or
e-mail. Approximately 20,000 investors
each year voluntarily choose to use the
complaint and question forms, and
approximately 98 percent of those
investors submit the forms
electronically through the Internet (as
opposed to printing and mailing or
faxing the forms).
Investors who choose not to use the
complaint and question forms receive
the same level of service as those who
do. The dual purpose of the forms is to
make it easier for the public to contact
the agency with complaints, questions,
tips, or other feedback and to streamline
the workflow of the SEC staff who
handle those contacts.
The SEC has used—and will continue
to use—the information that investors
supply on the complaint and question
forms to review and process the contact
(which may, in turn, involve responding
to questions, processing complaints, or,
as appropriate, initiating enforcement
investigations), to maintain a record of
contacts, to track the volume of investor
complaints, and to analyze trends.
The complaint forms ask investors to
provide information concerning, among
other things, their names, how they can
be reached, the names of the individuals
or entities involved, the nature of their
complaint or tip, what documents they
can provide, and what, if any, legal
actions they have taken. The question
form asks investors to provide their
names, e-mail addresses, and questions.
The SEC’s online complaint and
question forms automatically route the
investor’s complaint, question, or tip to
the appropriate division or office—
specifically, to either the Division of
Enforcement or the Office of Investor
Education and Assistance. Many
questions on the online complaint and
questions forms appear in multiplechoice format or employ drop-down
boxes so that the investor can provide
information by simply checking a box or
selecting a pre-loaded option. Moreover,
three of the four forms—specially the
Investor Complaint Form, the Financial
Privacy Notice Complaint Form, and the
Questions and Feedback Form—map
directly to the correspondence
management system that the Office of
Investor Education and Assistance uses,
thus significantly reducing the need for
SEC staff to enter manually the data that
the investor already provided. Investors
who use the Enforcement Complaint
Form receive an automatic response
from the Division of Enforcement. In
addition, investors who use the Investor
Complaint Form, the Financial Privacy
Notice Complaint Form, and the
Questions and Feedback Form not only
receive an immediate, online
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OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT
Federal Prevailing Rate Advisory Committee; Open Committee
Meetings
According to the provisions of section 10 of the Federal Advisory
Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463), notice is hereby given that meetings of
the Federal
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Prevailing Rate Advisory Committee will be held on--
Thursday, May 5, 2005;
Thursday, May 26, 2005;
Thursday, June 9, 2005;
Thursday, June 23, 2005;
Thursday, July 14, 2005;
Thursday, July 28, 2005.
The meetings will start at 10 a.m. and will be held in Room 5A06A,
Office of Personnel Management Building, 1900 E Street, NW.,
Washington, DC.
The Federal Prevailing Rate Advisory Committee is composed of a
Chair, five representatives from labor unions holding exclusive
bargaining rights for Federal blue-collar employees, and five
representatives from Federal agencies. Entitlement to membership on the
Committee is provided for in 5 U.S.C. 5347.
The Committee's primary responsibility is to review the Prevailing
Rate System and other matters pertinent to establishing prevailing
rates under subchapter IV, chapter 53, 5 U.S.C., as amended, and from
time to time advise the Office of Personnel Management.
These scheduled meetings will start in open session with both labor
and management representatives attending. During the meetings either
the labor members or the management members may caucus separately with
the Chair to devise strategy and formulate positions. Premature
disclosure of the matters discussed in these caucuses would
unacceptably impair the ability of the Committee to reach a consensus
on the matters being considered and would disrupt substantially the
disposition of its business. Therefore, these caucuses will be closed
to the public because of a determination made by the Director of the
Office of Personnel Management under the provisions of section 10(d) of
the Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463) and 5 U.S.C.
552b(c)(9)(B). These caucuses may, depending on the issues involved,
constitute a substantial portion of a meeting.
Annually, the Chair compiles a report of pay issues discussed and
concluded recommendations. These reports are available to the public,
upon written request to the Committee's Secretary.
The public is invited to submit material in writing to the Chair on
Federal Wage System pay matters felt to be deserving of the Committee's
attention. Additional information on these meetings may be obtained by
contacting the Committee's Secretary, Office of Personnel Management,
Federal Prevailing Rate Advisory Committee, Room 5538, 1900 E Street,
NW., Washington, DC 20415 (202) 606-1500.
Dated: April 5, 2005.
Mary M. Rose,
Chairperson, Federal Prevailing Rate Advisory Committee.
[FR Doc. 05-7400 Filed 4-12-05; 8:45 am]
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