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Federal Register / Vol. 77, No. 37 / Friday, February 24, 2012 / Notices
DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
Fiscal Service
Surety Companies Acceptable on
Federal Bonds—Name Change and
Change in State of Incorporation:
Nations Bonding Company
Financial Management Service,
Fiscal Service, Department of the
Treasury.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
This is Supplement No. 10 to
the Treasury Department Circular 570;
2011 Revision, published July 1, 2011,
at 76 FR 38892.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Surety Bond Branch at (202) 874–6850.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Nations
Bonding Company (NAIC #11595) has
formally changed its name to Merchants
National Bonding, Inc., and has
redomesticated from the state of Texas
to the state of Iowa, effective January 1,
2012. Federal bond-approving officers
should annotate their reference copies
of the Treasury Circular 570, 2011
Revision, to reflect this change.
The Circular may be viewed and
downloaded through the Internet at
https://www.fms.treas.gov/c570.
Questions concerning this notice may
be directed to the U.S. Department of
the Treasury, Financial Management
Service, Financial Accounting and
Services Division, Surety Bond Branch,
3700 East-West Highway, Room 6F01,
Hyattsville, MD 20782.
SUMMARY:
Dated: February 15, 2012.
Laura Carrico,
Director, Financial Accounting and Services
Division.
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DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS
AFFAIRS
Announcement of Competition Under
the America COMPETES
Reauthorization Act of 2011: Badges
for Veterans Contest
Department of Veterans Affairs.
Notice.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
To encourage creation of
systems which help good jobs find
Veterans and Veterans find good jobs,
the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA)
announces a prize contest under Section
105 of the America COMPETES
Reauthorization Act of 2011, Public Law
111–358 (2011) (the ‘‘Act’’).
DATES: Entries will be accepted until 5
p.m., Eastern Standard Time, February
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27, 2012. Winners will be announced on
or about March 1, 2012.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
James M. Speros, Special Assistant to
Chief Technology Officer, Office of the
Secretary, Department of Veterans
Affairs, 810 Vermont Avenue NW.,
Washington, DC 20420; (202) 461–7214.
(This is not a toll-free number.) Also, see
Section 6.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Veterans
rejoin the civilian community with upto-date, cutting edge job skills
developed during training and work
experience in their military service.
These job skills are highly valued and
desired by civilian employers. Veterans
report challenges in ‘‘translating’’
military job skills to their civilian
counterparts and in obtaining civilian
credit for military training. The easier
task is drawing direct linkages between
skills acquired in the military and the
duties performed in civilian jobs. More
challenging is obtaining civilian
recognition of military training when
formal education or other credential is
a prerequisite for employment, self
employment, or licensure leading to
employment.
Through the Badges for Vets Contest
(‘‘Vets Contest’’), VA and its
collaborators, the U.S. Departments of
Education, Labor, and Energy, seek an
easily understandable means to translate
military training and experience into
their civilian equivalents. The badges
created under this system will be
marketable credentials enabling
employers to quickly identify Veterans
as among the best qualified in any job
applicant pool, or which identify
Veterans as qualified to perform services
if self-employed.
Because a Veteran employed or selfemployed in a civilian occupation can
far more readily re-enter non-military
society, Veteran employment is an
objective of several programs
administered by VA and its Government
collaborators. The Badges for Vets
Contest will advance the mission of VA
by encouraging the development of
systems which help good jobs find
Veterans and Veterans find good jobs.
The Vets Contest will be conducted in
cooperation with the ‘‘Badges for
Lifelong Learning Competition’’
(‘‘Competition’’) administered by the
Humanities, Arts, Science, and
Technology Advanced Collaboratory
(HASTAC) Initiative with the support of
the Mozilla Foundation and the
McArthur Foundation, https://www.dml
competition.net/Competition/4/badgescompetition-cfp.php. The goal of the
Competition is support for the creation
of digital tools to identify, recognize,
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measure, and account for skills,
competencies, knowledge, and
achievements acquired during the
course of lifelong learning. The Mozilla
Open Badge Infrastructure, https://
openbadges.org, has been selected to
enable interoperability and seamless
collection of badges. The Vets Contest is
described generally at https://www.dml
competition.net/Competition/4/badgesprojects.php?id=2667.
VA does not anticipate that it will
issue badges or, except as an employer,
actively participate in the resulting
badges program. Instead, VA believes it
can serve Veterans and employers by
acting as a catalyst for the development
of meaningful badge systems for use by
Veterans and employers.
Contest Requirements and Rules
1. Subject of the Contest. The goal of
the Vets Contest is to support the
development of systems that deliver
real, substantial and sustainable benefits
to employers and to Veterans by
enabling employers to quickly identify
Veterans who have military education
and skills that meet requirements for
civilian jobs, or which help Veterans
who want to start their own business
demonstrate their qualifications to their
customers.
2. Amount of the prize. VA will award
up to $25,000 to as many as three
entrants. VA may elect to award two
additional prizes of up to $25,000 each.
3. Participation in the Contest will be
through the Badges for Lifelong
Learning Competition.
a. The Vets Contest will be
administered by VA according to the
rules and requirements posted on the
Competition Web site,
https://www.dmlcompetition.net/
Competition/4/badges-competitioncfp.php, including those on the ‘‘Terms
and Conditions’’ page, https://www.dml
competition.net/Competition/4/badgesterms-and-conditions.php#IP.
b. The rules in this Notice supplement
the rules on the Competition Web site.
If there is any conflict between any
requirement stated on the Competition
Web site and the provisions of this
Notice, the provisions of this Notice will
govern.
c. Important: Entries must be made
through the Competition Web site:
https://fastapps.dmlcompetition.net/
user/login?url=application
%2Fsubmit%2Fdmlc-4v. Before
submitting an entry, an entrant must
register for a FastApps account at https://
fastapps.dmlcompetition.net/user/
register. Registration for a FastApps
account constitutes ‘‘registration to
participate in the competition’’ required
by Section 105(g)(1) of the Act.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
Fiscal Service
Surety Companies Acceptable on Federal Bonds--Name Change and
Change in State of Incorporation: Nations Bonding Company
AGENCY: Financial Management Service, Fiscal Service, Department of the
Treasury.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: This is Supplement No. 10 to the Treasury Department Circular
570; 2011 Revision, published July 1, 2011, at 76 FR 38892.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Surety Bond Branch at (202) 874-6850.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Nations Bonding Company (NAIC
11595) has formally changed its name to Merchants National
Bonding, Inc., and has redomesticated from the state of Texas to the
state of Iowa, effective January 1, 2012. Federal bond-approving
officers should annotate their reference copies of the Treasury
Circular 570, 2011 Revision, to reflect this change.
The Circular may be viewed and downloaded through the Internet at
https://www.fms.treas.gov/c570.
Questions concerning this notice may be directed to the U.S.
Department of the Treasury, Financial Management Service, Financial
Accounting and Services Division, Surety Bond Branch, 3700 East-West
Highway, Room 6F01, Hyattsville, MD 20782.
Dated: February 15, 2012.
Laura Carrico,
Director, Financial Accounting and Services Division.
[FR Doc. 2012-4204 Filed 2-23-12; 8:45 am]
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