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iron, steel, and manufactured goods
used in the project are produced in the
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section 1605(b)(1) and (2) of the
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energy on an annual basis.
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review of the market place and various
vendors’ product availability, NIST
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NIST has determined that the required
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Dated: February 13, 2012.
Willie E. May,
Associate Director for Laboratory Programs.
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Recommendations for Establishing an
Identity Ecosystem Governance
Structure for the National Strategy for
Trusted Identities in Cyberspace
National Institute of Standards
and Technology, Department of
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
The National Institute of
Standards and Technology announces
the release of a paper entitled
Recommendations for Establishing an
Identity Ecosystem Governance
Structure on Tuesday, February 7, 2012.
This paper supports the implementation
of the National Strategy for Trusted
Identities in Cyberspace and responds to
comments received in response to the
related Notice of Inquiry published in
the Federal Register on June 14, 2011.
DATES: The Recommendations for
Establishing an Identity Ecosystem
Governance Structure paper was made
available on February 7, 2012.
ADDRESSES: The Recommendations for
Establishing an Identity Ecosystem
Governance Structure paper is available
at www.nist.gov/nstic/2012-nsticgovernance-recs.pdf. The NIST Web site
for the NSTIC and its implementation is
www.nstic.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
questions about this request contact:
Annie Sokol, Information Technology
Laboratory, National Institute of
Standards and Technology, U.S.
Department of Commerce, 100 Bureau
Drive, Mailstop 8930, Gaithersburg, MD
20899, telephone (301) 975–2006; email
nsticgovernance@nist.gov. Please direct
media inquiries to the Director of NIST’s
Office of Public Affairs,
gail.porter@nist.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The paper
entitled Recommendations for
Establishing an Identity Ecosystem
Governance Structure was written in
support of the implementation of the
National Strategy for Trusted Identities
in Cyberspace (NSTIC). On June 14,
2011, NIST published a Notice of
Inquiry in the Federal Register (76 FR
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34650), requesting input from the public
regarding Models for a Governance
Structure for the National Strategy for
Trusted Identities in Cyberspace. On
August 16, 2011, NIST published a
Notice in the Federal Register (76 FR
50719), extending the deadline for
comments. The paper summarizes the
comments received in response to the
NOI and provides recommendations and
intended government actions to serve as
a catalyst for establishing such a
governance structure. The
recommendations result from comments
and suggestions received from the NOI
respondents as well as best practices
and lessons learned from similarly
scoped governance efforts. To accelerate
the launch of the Steering Group, the
paper integrates the recommendations
into a proposed Steering Group charter.
Dated: February 13, 2012.
Patrick Gallagher,
Under Secretary of Commerce for Standards
and Technology.
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Technology
Presentation of Final Conventional
Conformance Test Criteria and
Common Air Interface (CAI) Features/
Functionalities Under Test in the
Project 25 Compliance Assessment
Program and Meeting To Seek
Comment on Conventional
Conformance Tests for Inclusion in the
Program
National Institute of Standards
and Technology (NIST), Department of
Commerce.
AGENCY:
Notice of Public Meeting and
Request for Comments.
ACTION:
The U.S. Department of
Commerce’s (DOC) National Institute of
Standards and Technology (NIST), Law
Enforcement Standards Office (OLES),
in partnership with the U.S. Department
of Homeland Security (DHS) Office for
Interoperability and Compatibility
(OIC), will hold a public meeting on
Thursday, March 15, 2012 at 1 p.m.
Mountain Time, via teleconference. The
purpose of the meeting is to present the
final criteria for assessing the suitability
of P25 Compliance Assessment Program
(CAP) conventional conformance tests,
as well as the final, prioritized list of
features and functionalities that will
require conformance testing in the P25
CAP.
SUMMARY:
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The meeting will be held via
teleconference from 1 p.m.–3 p.m.
Mountain Time on Thursday, March 15,
2012. Members of the public wishing to
attend the meeting must register by 5
p.m. Mountain Time on Monday, March
12, 2012. Please see registration
instructions in the ADDRESSES section
below. In addition, comments regarding
the topics and material covered during
the meeting will be accepted until 5
p.m. Mountain Time on Monday, April
30, 2012.
ADDRESSES: Members of the public
wishing to attend the meeting must
register by 5 p.m. Mountain Time on
Monday, March 12, 2012 by sending an
email request to Dereck Orr at
dereck.orr@nist.gov or via phone at 303–
497–5400. To present comments orally
at the meeting and to submit written
comments, please see instructions in the
DATES:
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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION SECTION
below. The draft conformance tests to be
discussed at the meeting may be found
at: https://www.pscr.gov/outreach/
safecom/p25_cap/downloads/
downloads.php.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Dereck Orr, Department of Commerce,
NIST, 300 Broadway St., Boulder, CO
80305. Telephone: (303) 497–5400.
Email: dereck.orr@nist.gov. More
information about DHS/OIC can be
found at https://
www.safecomprogram.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Emergency responders—emergency
medical technicians, fire personnel, and
law enforcement officers—need to
seamlessly exchange communications
across disciplines and jurisdictions in
order to successfully respond to day-today incidents and large-scale
emergencies. P25 focuses on developing
standards that allow radios and other
components to interoperate, regardless
of the manufacturer. In turn, these
standards enable emergency responders
to seamlessly exchange critical
communications with other disciplines
and jurisdictions.
An initial goal of P25 is to specify
formal standards for interfaces between
the components of a land mobile radio
(LMR) system. LMR systems are
commonly used by emergency
responders in portable handheld and
mobile vehicle-mounted devices.
Although formal standards are being
developed, no process is currently in
place to confirm that LMR equipment
advertised as P25-compliant meets all
aspects of P25 standards.
To address discrepancies between P25
standards and industry equipment, DHS
and NIST established the P25 CAP. The
P25 CAP is a partnership between the
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DHS/OIC, NIST, industry, and the
emergency response community.
The P25 CAP provides an
independent process for evaluating P25
equipment for standards compliance
and interoperability across
manufacturers. By providing
manufacturers with a method to
consistently test their equipment for
compliance with P25 standards and
consistently report the results of such
testing, the P25 CAP provides
emergency response officials with
increased confidence that their land
mobile radio equipment adheres to the
P25 standards.
The P25 CAP requires test laboratories
to demonstrate their competence
through a rigorous and objective
assessment process. Such a process
promotes the user community’s
confidence in, and acceptance of, test
results from DHS-recognized
laboratories. All equipment suppliers
that participate in the P25 CAP must use
recognized laboratories to conduct
performance, conformance, and
interoperability tests on their products.
P25 equipment suppliers voluntarily
participating in the P25 CAP will
release Summary Test Reports and
Suppliers’ Declarations of Compliance
based on testing from laboratories
recognized by DHS.
Created by DHS/OIC, Compliance
Assessment Bulletins (CABs) describe
how the P25 CAP operates and address
issues related to the program. The scope
of a CAB can range from policy to
guidance, covering issues such as
specific test standards to be used for a
particular P25 interface, or P25 LMR
Request for Proposal guidance.
The purpose of this notice and related
meeting is to present the final
requirements for CAI conventional
conformance tests for inclusion in the
P25 CAP.
The final list of criteria to be used for
assessing a CAI conventional
conformance test’s suitability for
inclusion in the P25 CAP is below:
• Conformance tests should limit
devices in the test environment to the
device under test and appropriate,
validated test equipment (i.e., nonproducts);
• All packet types should be tested
that are relevant to the functionality
under test;
• All call/message types tested
should be relevant to the functionality
under test;
• Packet/message order should be
checked relevant to the functionality
under test;
• All information and reserved fields
should be tested within message packets
relevant to the functionality under test;
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• For all information fields relevant
to the feature under test, there should be
a linearly independent set of values
used across the entire allowable range
including special meaning or reserved
values;
• Where behavior of a product is
specified for parameter values outside of
the normal or permissible range, those
values should be tested. Where behavior
is not specified, explicit pass/fail
criteria should be included;
• Timing between subsequent packets
should be identified in cases where, if
not within defined parameters, the test
or the anticipated response would result
in inconsistent or erroneous test results;
• All of the different combinations of
status bits should be tested where
relevant to a feature under test;
• The test should define the detailed
procedural steps and expected results
necessary for a test operator to perform
the test consistently across multiple
laboratories;
• The test procedure should
accommodate evaluation of a test
article’s behavior where multiple
defined responses are possible;
• If capable, each unit under test
should perform the roles of both
transmitter and receiver during the test;
• The test should provide definitive
predictive outcomes (behaviors) for all
articles under test.
Through this notice, NIST is also
presenting this prioritized list of
features and functionalities that will
require testing conformance in the P25
CAP:
1. Conventional Squelch*
2. Emergency alarm
3. Emergency group voice call
4. Group voice call
5. Radio unit monitoring
6. Transport of Talking Party
Identification*
7. Late Entry
8. Location Services
9. Radio unit inhibit/uninhibit
10. Unaddressed voice call
11. Encryption
12. Over The Air Rekeying (OTAR)
13. Emergency Cancel
14. All Call
* Note that Conventional Squelch and
Transport of Talking Party Identification
tests, included in the original list of features
and functionalities, have been rolled into
other tests as appropriate.
At the meeting on Thursday, March
15, 2012, NIST will solicit input on the
two draft conformance tests it has
developed for inclusion in the P25 CAP.
NIST has developed tests for Group
Voice Call and Radio Unit Monitoring.
These tests can be found at: https://
www.pscr.gov/outreach/safecom/
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p25_cap/downloads/downloads.php.
NIST will hear comment on these tests
at the March 15 meeting and will
continue to receive written comments
until 5 p.m. Mountain Time on Monday,
April 30, 2012.
In addition to the two tests already
developed, NIST is in the process of
developing conformance tests for the
following features and functionalities:
• Emergency Alarm
• Emergency Group Voice Call
• Unaddressed Voice Call
• Emergency Cancel
• All Call
NIST is also seeking comments,
suggestions, example tests that can be
leveraged or new tests for the following
list of features:
• Late Entry
• Location Services
• Radio Unit Inhibit/Uninhibit
• Encryption
• Over the Air Rekeying (OTAR)
More information about the P25 CAP
is available at https://
www.safecomprogram.gov. More
information about NIST/OLES can be
found at https://www.nist.gov/oles/.
Registration: Members of the public
wishing to attend the meeting must
register by 5 p.m. Mountain Time on
Monday, March 12, 2012 by sending an
email request to Dereck Orr at
dereck.orr@nist.gov or via phone at 303–
497–5400.
Oral Comments: There will be 40
minutes set aside for public comment.
Members of the public wishing to
provide oral comments during the
meeting on Thursday, March 15, 2012
will be provided up to a total of 8
minutes each (dependent on the number
of commenters), and the order of
commenters will be based on the order
in which the request to provide
comments was received. Requests to
make oral comments should be
submitted to Dereck Orr by 5 p.m.
Mountain Time on Monday, March 12,
2012 via email at dereck.orr@nist.gov or
via phone at 303–497–5400.
Written Comments: Comments also
will be accepted electronically and may
be emailed to dereck.orr@nist.gov. Hard
copies of comments may be mailed to
Dereck Orr, Department of Commerce,
NIST, Building 1, Room 2209, 300
Broadway St., Boulder, CO 80305.
Dated: February 13, 2012.
Willie E. May,
Associate Director for Laboratory Programs.
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[File No. 17086]
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National Marine Fisheries
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ACTION: Notice; receipt of application.
AGENCY:
Notice is hereby given that
Robin Baird, Ph.D., Cascadia Research,
2181⁄2 W. 4th Avenue, Olympia, WA
98501, has applied in due form for a
permit to take marine mammals in the
Atlantic Ocean for the purposes of
scientific research.
DATES: Written, telefaxed, or email
comments must be received on or before
March 19, 2012.
ADDRESSES: The application and related
documents are available for review by
selecting ‘‘Records Open for Public
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Species (APPS) home page, https://
apps.nmfs.noaa.gov, and then selecting
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These documents are also available
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Written comments on this application
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Laura Morse or Carrie Hubard, (301)
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subject permit is requested under the
authority of the Marine Mammal
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(MMPA; 16 U.S.C. 1361 et seq.), and the
regulations governing the taking and
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Dr. Baird proposes to conduct
research on 27 species of cetaceans
including unidentified beaked whales in
U.S. and international waters of the
Atlantic Ocean from Virginia to
Southern Florida. None of the species
are listed as threatened or endangered
under the Endangered Species Act. The
purposes of the proposed research are to
study: (1) Population size and structure,
(2) range and movement patterns, (3)
diving and night-time behavior, (4)
social organization, (5) feeding ecology,
and (6) disease monitoring of the
targeted species. Harassment of all
species may occur during vessel
approach for dart and suction-cup
tagging, sighting surveys, photographic
identification, behavioral research,
passive acoustic recording, underwater
observation with a pole cam, and
opportunistic sampling (sloughed skin
and fecal material). Import and export of
sloughed skin, prey remains, and fecal
samples obtained is requested for
research purposes. Research would
occur over a five-year period.
In compliance with the National
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U.S.C. 4321 et seq.), an initial
determination has been made that the
activity proposed is categorically
excluded from the requirement to
prepare an environmental assessment or
environmental impact statement.
Concurrent with the publication of
this notice in the Federal Register,
NMFS is forwarding copies of the
application to the Marine Mammal
Commission and its Committee of
Scientific Advisors.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Dated: February 10, 2012.
Tammy C. Adams,
Acting Chief, Permits and Conservation
Division, Office of Protected Resources,
National Marine Fisheries Service.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Presentation of Final Conventional Conformance Test Criteria and
Common Air Interface (CAI) Features/Functionalities Under Test in the
Project 25 Compliance Assessment Program and Meeting To Seek Comment on
Conventional Conformance Tests for Inclusion in the Program
AGENCY: National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST),
Department of Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of Public Meeting and Request for Comments.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of Commerce's (DOC) National Institute of
Standards and Technology (NIST), Law Enforcement Standards Office
(OLES), in partnership with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security
(DHS) Office for Interoperability and Compatibility (OIC), will hold a
public meeting on Thursday, March 15, 2012 at 1 p.m. Mountain Time, via
teleconference. The purpose of the meeting is to present the final
criteria for assessing the suitability of P25 Compliance Assessment
Program (CAP) conventional conformance tests, as well as the final,
prioritized list of features and functionalities that will require
conformance testing in the P25 CAP.
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DATES: The meeting will be held via teleconference from 1 p.m.-3 p.m.
Mountain Time on Thursday, March 15, 2012. Members of the public
wishing to attend the meeting must register by 5 p.m. Mountain Time on
Monday, March 12, 2012. Please see registration instructions in the
ADDRESSES section below. In addition, comments regarding the topics and
material covered during the meeting will be accepted until 5 p.m.
Mountain Time on Monday, April 30, 2012.
ADDRESSES: Members of the public wishing to attend the meeting must
register by 5 p.m. Mountain Time on Monday, March 12, 2012 by sending
an email request to Dereck Orr at dereck.orr@nist.gov or via phone at
303-497-5400. To present comments orally at the meeting and to submit
written comments, please see instructions in the SUPPLEMENTARY
INFORMATION SECTION below. The draft conformance tests to be discussed
at the meeting may be found at: https://www.pscr.gov/outreach/safecom/p25_cap/downloads/downloads.php.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dereck Orr, Department of Commerce,
NIST, 300 Broadway St., Boulder, CO 80305. Telephone: (303) 497-5400.
Email: dereck.orr@nist.gov. More information about DHS/OIC can be found
at https://www.safecomprogram.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Emergency responders--emergency medical
technicians, fire personnel, and law enforcement officers--need to
seamlessly exchange communications across disciplines and jurisdictions
in order to successfully respond to day-to-day incidents and large-
scale emergencies. P25 focuses on developing standards that allow
radios and other components to interoperate, regardless of the
manufacturer. In turn, these standards enable emergency responders to
seamlessly exchange critical communications with other disciplines and
jurisdictions.
An initial goal of P25 is to specify formal standards for
interfaces between the components of a land mobile radio (LMR) system.
LMR systems are commonly used by emergency responders in portable
handheld and mobile vehicle-mounted devices. Although formal standards
are being developed, no process is currently in place to confirm that
LMR equipment advertised as P25-compliant meets all aspects of P25
standards.
To address discrepancies between P25 standards and industry
equipment, DHS and NIST established the P25 CAP. The P25 CAP is a
partnership between the DHS/OIC, NIST, industry, and the emergency
response community.
The P25 CAP provides an independent process for evaluating P25
equipment for standards compliance and interoperability across
manufacturers. By providing manufacturers with a method to consistently
test their equipment for compliance with P25 standards and consistently
report the results of such testing, the P25 CAP provides emergency
response officials with increased confidence that their land mobile
radio equipment adheres to the P25 standards.
The P25 CAP requires test laboratories to demonstrate their
competence through a rigorous and objective assessment process. Such a
process promotes the user community's confidence in, and acceptance of,
test results from DHS-recognized laboratories. All equipment suppliers
that participate in the P25 CAP must use recognized laboratories to
conduct performance, conformance, and interoperability tests on their
products. P25 equipment suppliers voluntarily participating in the P25
CAP will release Summary Test Reports and Suppliers' Declarations of
Compliance based on testing from laboratories recognized by DHS.
Created by DHS/OIC, Compliance Assessment Bulletins (CABs) describe
how the P25 CAP operates and address issues related to the program. The
scope of a CAB can range from policy to guidance, covering issues such
as specific test standards to be used for a particular P25 interface,
or P25 LMR Request for Proposal guidance.
The purpose of this notice and related meeting is to present the
final requirements for CAI conventional conformance tests for inclusion
in the P25 CAP.
The final list of criteria to be used for assessing a CAI
conventional conformance test's suitability for inclusion in the P25
CAP is below:
Conformance tests should limit devices in the test
environment to the device under test and appropriate, validated test
equipment (i.e., non-products);
All packet types should be tested that are relevant to the
functionality under test;
All call/message types tested should be relevant to the
functionality under test;
Packet/message order should be checked relevant to the
functionality under test;
All information and reserved fields should be tested
within message packets relevant to the functionality under test;
For all information fields relevant to the feature under
test, there should be a linearly independent set of values used across
the entire allowable range including special meaning or reserved
values;
Where behavior of a product is specified for parameter
values outside of the normal or permissible range, those values should
be tested. Where behavior is not specified, explicit pass/fail criteria
should be included;
Timing between subsequent packets should be identified in
cases where, if not within defined parameters, the test or the
anticipated response would result in inconsistent or erroneous test
results;
All of the different combinations of status bits should be
tested where relevant to a feature under test;
The test should define the detailed procedural steps and
expected results necessary for a test operator to perform the test
consistently across multiple laboratories;
The test procedure should accommodate evaluation of a test
article's behavior where multiple defined responses are possible;
If capable, each unit under test should perform the roles
of both transmitter and receiver during the test;
The test should provide definitive predictive outcomes
(behaviors) for all articles under test.
Through this notice, NIST is also presenting this prioritized list
of features and functionalities that will require testing conformance
in the P25 CAP:
1. Conventional Squelch*
2. Emergency alarm
3. Emergency group voice call
4. Group voice call
5. Radio unit monitoring
6. Transport of Talking Party Identification*
7. Late Entry
8. Location Services
9. Radio unit inhibit/uninhibit
10. Unaddressed voice call
11. Encryption
12. Over The Air Rekeying (OTAR)
13. Emergency Cancel
14. All Call
* Note that Conventional Squelch and Transport of Talking Party
Identification tests, included in the original list of features and
functionalities, have been rolled into other tests as appropriate.
At the meeting on Thursday, March 15, 2012, NIST will solicit input
on the two draft conformance tests it has developed for inclusion in
the P25 CAP. NIST has developed tests for Group Voice Call and Radio
Unit Monitoring. These tests can be found at: https://www.pscr.gov/
outreach/safecom/
[[Page 9627]]
p25--cap/downloads/downloads.php. NIST will hear comment on these tests
at the March 15 meeting and will continue to receive written comments
until 5 p.m. Mountain Time on Monday, April 30, 2012.
In addition to the two tests already developed, NIST is in the
process of developing conformance tests for the following features and
functionalities:
Emergency Alarm
Emergency Group Voice Call
Unaddressed Voice Call
Emergency Cancel
All Call
NIST is also seeking comments, suggestions, example tests that can
be leveraged or new tests for the following list of features:
Late Entry
Location Services
Radio Unit Inhibit/Uninhibit
Encryption
Over the Air Rekeying (OTAR)
More information about the P25 CAP is available at https://www.safecomprogram.gov. More information about NIST/OLES can be found
at https://www.nist.gov/oles/.
Registration: Members of the public wishing to attend the meeting
must register by 5 p.m. Mountain Time on Monday, March 12, 2012 by
sending an email request to Dereck Orr at dereck.orr@nist.gov or via
phone at 303-497-5400.
Oral Comments: There will be 40 minutes set aside for public
comment. Members of the public wishing to provide oral comments during
the meeting on Thursday, March 15, 2012 will be provided up to a total
of 8 minutes each (dependent on the number of commenters), and the
order of commenters will be based on the order in which the request to
provide comments was received. Requests to make oral comments should be
submitted to Dereck Orr by 5 p.m. Mountain Time on Monday, March 12,
2012 via email at dereck.orr@nist.gov or via phone at 303-497-5400.
Written Comments: Comments also will be accepted electronically and
may be emailed to dereck.orr@nist.gov. Hard copies of comments may be
mailed to Dereck Orr, Department of Commerce, NIST, Building 1, Room
2209, 300 Broadway St., Boulder, CO 80305.
Dated: February 13, 2012.
Willie E. May,
Associate Director for Laboratory Programs.
[FR Doc. 2012-3839 Filed 2-16-12; 8:45 am]
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