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Federal Register / Vol. 71, No. 50 / Wednesday, March 15, 2006 / Notices
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
[I.D. 030906D]
Marine Fisheries Advisory Committee;
Charter Renewal
National Marine Fisheries
Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of renewed charter.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given of the
two year renewed charter for the Marine
Fisheries Advisory Committee
(MAFAC), signed on February 3, 2006.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Laurel Bryant, MAFAC Executive
Director; telephone: (301) 713–2379
x171.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: As
required by section 10(a)(2) of the
Federal Advisory Committee Act, 5
U.S.C. App. (1982), notice is hereby
given of the renewed charter for
MAFAC. MAFAC was established by
the Secretary of Commerce (Secretary)
on February 17, 1972, to advise the
Secretary on all living marine resource
matters that are the responsibility of the
Department of Commerce. This
Committee advises and reviews the
adequacy of living marine resource
policies and programs to meet the needs
of commercial and recreational
fisheries, and environmental, state,
consumer, academic, tribal, and other
national interests. The Committee’s
charter must be renewed every two
years from the date of the last renewal.
The charter can be accessed on line at
www.nmfs.noaa.gov/ocs/mafac.
Dated: March 9, 2006.
Gordon J. Helm,
Acting Director, Office of Constituent
Services, National Marine Fisheries Service.
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Notice of Indirect Cost Rates for the
Damage Assessment and Restoration
Program for Fiscal Year 2004
National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of indirect cost rates for
the Damage Assessment and Restoration
Program for Fiscal Year 2004.
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SUMMARY: The National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration’s
(NOAA’s) Damage and Restoration
Program (DARP) is announcing new
indirect cost rates on the recovery of
indirect costs for its component
organizations involved in natural
resource damage assessment and
restoration activities for fiscal year (FY)
2004. The indirect cost rates for this
fiscal year and dates of implementation
are provided in this notice. More
information on these rates and the
DARP policy can be found at the DARP
Web site at https://www.darp.noaa.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Brian Julius at 301–713–3038, ext. 199,
by fax at 301–713–4387, or e-mail at
Brian.Julius@noaa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
mission of the DARP is to restore
natural resource injuries caused by
releases of hazardous substances or oil
under the Comprehensive
Environmental Response,
Compensation, and Liability Act
(CERCLA) (42 U.S.C. 96012 et seq.), the
Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (OPA) (33
U.S.C. 2701 et seq.), and support
restoration of physical injuries to
National Marine Sanctuary resources
under the National Marine Sanctuaries
Act (NMSA) (16 U.S.C. 1431 et seq.).
The DARP consists of three component
organizations: the Damage Assessment
Center (DAC) within the National Ocean
Service; the Restoration Center within
the National Marine Fisheries Service;
and the Office of the General Counsel
for Natural Resources (GCNR). The
DARP conducts Natural Resource
Damage Assessments (NRDAs) as a basis
for recovering damages from responsible
parties, and uses the funds recovered to
restore injured natural resources. During
FY 2005, the DARP expanded to include
a fourth component organization, the
Coastal Protection and Restoration
Division (CPRD) within the National
Ocean Service. With this addition,
DARP changed its name to the Damage
Assessment, Remediation, and
Restoration Program (DARRP). Since
this notice announces the indirect cost
rates for FY 2004, which is prior to
DARP’s expansion, the acronym
‘‘DARP’’ will be used throughout.
Consistent with Federal accounting
requirements, the DARP is required to
account for and report the full costs of
its programs and activities. Further, the
DARP is authorized by law to recover
reasonable costs of damage assessment
and restoration activities under
CERCLA, OPA, and the NMSA. Within
the constraints of these legal provisions
and their regulatory applications, the
DARP has the discretion to develop
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indirect cost rates for its component
organizations and formulate policies on
the recovery of indirect cost rates
subject to its requirements.
The DARP’s Indirect Cost Effort
In December 1998, the DARP hired
the public accounting firm Rubino &
McGeehin, Chartered (R&M) to: evaluate
cost accounting system and allocation
practices; recommend the appropriate
indirect cost allocation methodology;
and determine the indirect cost rates for
the three organizations that comprise
the DARP. A Federal Register notice on
R&M’s effort, their assessment of the
DARP’s cost accounting system and
practice, and their determination
regarding the most appropriate indirect
cost methodology and rates for FYs 1993
through 1999 was published on
December 7, 2000 (65 FR 76611). The
notice and report by R&M can also be
found on the DARP Web site at https://
www.darp.noaa.gov.
R&M continued its assessment of
DARP’s indirect cost rate system and
structure for FYs 2000 and 2001. A
second Federal notice specifying the
DARP indirect rates for FYs 2000 and
2001 was published on December 2,
2002 (67 FR 71537).
In October 2002, DARP hired the
accounting firm of Cotton and Company
LLP (Cotton) to review and certify DARP
costs incurred on cases for purposes of
cost recovery and to develop indirect
rates for FY 2002 and subsequent years.
As in the prior years, Cotton concluded
that the cost accounting system and
allocation practices of the DARP
component organizations are consistent
with Federal accounting requirements.
Consistent with R&M’s previous
analyses, Cotton also determined that
the most appropriate indirect allocation
method continues to be the Direct Labor
Cost Base for all three DARP component
organizations. The Direct Labor Cost
Base is computed by allocating total
indirect cost over the us of direct labor
dollars plus the application of NOAA’s
leave surcharge and benefits rates to
direct labor. Direct labor costs for
contractors from the Oak Ridge Institute
for Science and Education (ORISE) and
I.M. Systems Group (IMSG) also were
included in the direct labor base
because Cotton determined that these
costs have the same relationship to the
indirect cost pool as NOAA direct labor
costs. ORISE and IMSG provide on-site
support to the DARP in the areas of
injury assessment, natural resource
economics, restoration planning and
implementation, and policy analysis. A
third Federal notice specifying the
DARP indirect rates for FY 2002 was
published on October 6, 2003 (68 FR
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
[I.D. 030906D]
Marine Fisheries Advisory Committee; Charter Renewal
AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of renewed charter.
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SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given of the two year renewed charter for the
Marine Fisheries Advisory Committee (MAFAC), signed on February 3,
2006.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Laurel Bryant, MAFAC Executive
Director; telephone: (301) 713-2379 x171.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: As required by section 10(a)(2) of the
Federal Advisory Committee Act, 5 U.S.C. App. (1982), notice is hereby
given of the renewed charter for MAFAC. MAFAC was established by the
Secretary of Commerce (Secretary) on February 17, 1972, to advise the
Secretary on all living marine resource matters that are the
responsibility of the Department of Commerce. This Committee advises
and reviews the adequacy of living marine resource policies and
programs to meet the needs of commercial and recreational fisheries,
and environmental, state, consumer, academic, tribal, and other
national interests. The Committee's charter must be renewed every two
years from the date of the last renewal. The charter can be accessed on
line at www.nmfs.noaa.gov/ocs/mafac.
Dated: March 9, 2006.
Gordon J. Helm,
Acting Director, Office of Constituent Services, National Marine
Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. E6-3751 Filed 3-14-06; 8:45 am]
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