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Federal Register / Vol. 77, No. 64 / Tuesday, April 3, 2012 / Notices
The Financial Management
Service, 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 a
continuing information collection. By
this notice, the Financial Management
Service solicits comments concerning
the form ‘‘Voucher for Payment of
Awards.’’
DATES: Written comments should be
received on or before June 4, 2012.
ADDRESSES: Direct all written comments
to Financial Management Service, 3700
East-West Highway, Records and
Information Management Program Staff,
Room 135, Hyattsville, Maryland 20782.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Requests for additional information
should be directed to Kevin McIntyre,
Manager, Judgment Fund Branch, 3700
East-West Highway, Room 630F,
Hyattsville, MD 20782, (202) 874–1130.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant
to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995,
(44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A)), the Financial
Management Service solicits comments
on the collection of information
described below:
Title: Voucher for Payment of Awards.
OMB Number: 1510–0037.
Form Number: TFS 5135.
Abstract: Awards certificate to
Treasury are paid annually as funds are
received from foreign governments.
Vouchers are mailed to award holders
showing payments due. Award holders
sign vouchers certifying that he/she is
entitled to payment. Executed vouchers
are used as a basis for payment.
Current Actions: Extension of
currently approved collection.
Type of Review: Regular.
Affected Public: Individuals or
households.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
1,400.
Estimated Time per Respondent: 30
minutes.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 700.
Comments: Comments submitted in
response to this notice will be
summarized and/or included in the
request for Office of Management and
Budget approval. All comments will
become a matter of public record.
Comments are invited on: (a) Whether
the collection of information is
necessary for the proper performance of
the functions of the agency, including
whether the information shall have
practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the
agency’s estimate of the burden of the
collection of information; (c) ways to
enhance the quality, utility, and clarity
of the information to be collected; (d)
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ways to minimize the burden of the
collection of information on
respondents, including through the use
of automated collection techniques or
other forms of information technology;
and (e) estimates of capital or start-up
costs and costs of operation,
maintenance and purchase of services to
provide information.
Dated: March 21, 2012.
Patricia M. Greiner,
Assistant Commissioner, Management, CFO.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
Fiscal Service
Proposed Collection of Information:
Claims Against the United States for
Amounts Due in the Case of a
Deceased Creditor
Financial Management Service,
Fiscal Service, Treasury.
ACTION: Notice and request for
comments.
AGENCY:
The Financial Management
Service, 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 a
continuing information collection. By
this notice, the Financial Management
Service solicits comments concerning
‘‘Claims Against the United States for
Amounts Due in the Case of a Deceased
Creditor’’.
DATES: Written comments should be
received on or before June 4, 2012.
ADDRESSES: Direct all written comments
to Financial Management Service, 3700
East West Highway, Records and
Information Management Branch Staff,
Room 135, Hyattsville, Maryland 20782.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Requests for additional information
should be directed to Kevin McIntyre,
Judgment Fund Branch, 3700 East West
Highway, Room 630F, Hyattsville, MD
20782, (202) 874–1130.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant
to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995,
(44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A)), the Financial
Management Service solicits comments
on the collection of information
described below:
Title: Claim Against the United States
for Amounts Due in the Case of a
Deceased Creditor.
OMB Number: 1510–0042.
Form Number: SF–1055.
Abstract: This form is required to
determine who is entitled to the funds
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of a deceased Postal Savings depositor
or deceased award holder. The form,
with supporting documentation, enables
the government to decide who is legally
entitled to payment.
Current Actions: Extension of
currently approved collection.
Type of Review: Regular.
Affected Public: Individuals or
households.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
400.
Estimated Time per Respondent: 1
hour.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 400.
Comments: Comments submitted in
response to this notice will be
summarized and/or included in the
request for Office of Management and
Budget approval. All comments will
become a matter of public record.
Comments are invited on: (a) Whether
the collection of information is
necessary for the proper performance of
the functions of the agency, including
whether the information shall have
practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the
agency’s estimate of the burden of the
collection of information; (c) ways to
enhance the quality, utility, and clarity
of the information to be collected; (d)
ways to minimize the burden of the
collection of information on
respondents, including through the use
of automated collection techniques or
other forms of information technology;
and (e) estimates of capital or start-up
costs and costs of operation,
maintenance and purchase of services to
provide information.
Dated: March 21, 2012.
Patricia M. Greiner,
Assistant Commissioner, Management, CFO.
[FR Doc. 2012–7877 Filed 4–2–12; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
Fiscal Service
Fee Change for Paying Agents
Redeeming Definitive Savings Bonds
and Savings Notes
Bureau of the Public Debt,
Fiscal Service, Treasury.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
Effective April 11, 2012, the
Department of the Treasury will no
longer pay fees to paying agents for
redeeming definitive savings bonds and
savings notes. The purpose of this
change is to reduce Treasury’s program
costs.
DATES: Effective Date: April 11, 2012.
SUMMARY:
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A copy of this Notice is
available at https://www.gpoaccess.gov/
fr.
DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Designation of 4 Individuals and 2
Entities Pursuant to Executive Order
13224 of September 23, 2001,
‘‘Blocking Property and Prohibiting
Transactions With Persons Who
Commit, Threaten To Commit, or
Support Terrorism’’
ADDRESSES:
D. Michael Linder, Director, Division of
Program Administration, Office of
Retail Securities, Bureau of the Public
Debt, at (304) 480–6319 or
<mike.linder@bpd.treas.gov>.
Ann Fowler, Attorney-Adviser, Brian
Metz, Attorney-Adviser, Dean Adams,
Assistant Chief Counsel, or Edward
Gronseth, Deputy Chief Counsel,
Office of the Chief Counsel, Bureau of
the Public Debt, at (304) 480–8692 or
<ann.fowler@bpd.treas.gov>.
Beginning
October 1, 1988, Treasury permitted
paying agents to transmit and receive
settlement for redeemed definitive
savings bonds and savings notes
through the EZ CLEAR system. The EZ
CLEAR system required paying agents to
manually sort and mail definitive
savings bonds and savings notes to the
appropriate Federal Reserve Bank or
Branch. Treasury paid paying agents a
30-cent fee for each redeemed definitive
savings bond or savings note presented
through the EZ CLEAR system.
Effective April 11, 2012, paying
agents will begin to transition the
submission of redeemed definitive
savings bonds and savings notes from
the EZ CLEAR process to an existing
image-based process through the
Federal Reserve. This simple and
modern process allows paying agents to
electronically transmit images of
redeemed definitive savings bonds and
savings notes to a Federal Reserve
Processing Site for payment. Because
the new process removes the manual
sorting and mailing required by the
former process, Treasury is eliminating
the fee that it paid to paying agents for
submitting redeemed definitive savings
bonds and notes. The elimination of
paying agent fees will result in
significant program savings.
This fee change is consistent with 31
CFR 321.23, which makes discretionary
Treasury’s payment of fees to paying
agents for the processing of redeemed
definitive savings bonds and savings
notes. Therefore, notice is hereby given
that, effective April 11, 2012, Treasury
will no longer pay fees to paying agents
for the redemption of definitive savings
bonds and savings notes.
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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Richard L. Gregg,
Fiscal Assistant Secretary.
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Office of Foreign Assets Control
Office of Foreign Assets
Control, Treasury.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
The Treasury Department’s
Office of Foreign Assets Control
(‘‘OFAC’’) is publishing the names of
four individuals and two entities whose
property and interests in property are
blocked pursuant to Executive Order
13224 of September 23, 2001, ‘‘Blocking
Property and Prohibiting Transactions
With Persons Who Commit, Threaten To
Commit, or Support Terrorism.’’
DATES: The designations by the Director
of OFAC of the 4 individual(s) and 2
entit(ies) in this notice, pursuant to
Executive Order 13224, are effective on
March 27, 2012.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Assistant Director, Compliance
Outreach & Implementation, Office of
Foreign Assets Control, Department of
the Treasury, Washington, DC 20220,
tel.: 202/622–2490.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
SUMMARY:
Electronic and Facsimile Availability
This document and additional
information concerning OFAC are
available from OFAC’s Web site
(www.treas.gov/ofac) or via facsimile
through a 24-hour fax-on-demand
service, tel.: 202/622–0077.
Background
On September 23, 2001, the President
issued Executive Order 13224 (the
‘‘Order’’) pursuant to the International
Emergency Economic Powers Act, 50
U.S.C. 1701–1706, and the United
Nations Participation Act of 1945, 22
U.S.C. 287c. In the Order, the President
declared a national emergency to
address grave acts of terrorism and
threats of terrorism committed by
foreign terrorists, including the
September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in
New York, Pennsylvania, and at the
Pentagon. The Order imposes economic
sanctions on persons who have
committed, pose a significant risk of
committing, or support acts of terrorism.
The President identified in the Annex to
the Order, as amended by Executive
Order 13268 of July 2, 2002, 13
individuals and 16 entities as subject to
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the economic sanctions. The Order was
further amended by Executive Order
13284 of January 23, 2003, to reflect the
creation of the Department of Homeland
Security.
Section 1 of the Order blocks, with
certain exceptions, all property and
interests in property that are in or
hereafter come within the United States
or the possession or control of United
States persons, of: (1) Foreign persons
listed in the Annex to the Order; (2)
foreign persons determined by the
Secretary of State, in consultation with
the Secretary of the Treasury, the
Secretary of the Department of
Homeland Security and the Attorney
General, to have committed, or to pose
a significant risk of committing, acts of
terrorism that threaten the security of
U.S. nationals or the national security,
foreign policy, or economy of the United
States; (3) persons determined by the
Director of OFAC, in consultation with
the Departments of State, Homeland
Security and Justice, to be owned or
controlled by, or to act for or on behalf
of those persons listed in the Annex to
the Order or those persons determined
to be subject to subsection 1(b), 1(c), or
1(d)(i) of the Order; and (4) except as
provided in section 5 of the Order and
after such consultation, if any, with
foreign authorities as the Secretary of
State, in consultation with the Secretary
of the Treasury, the Secretary of the
Department of Homeland Security and
the Attorney General, deems
appropriate in the exercise of his
discretion, persons determined by the
Director of OFAC, in consultation with
the Departments of State, Homeland
Security and Justice, to assist in,
sponsor, or provide financial, material,
or technological support for, or financial
or other services to or in support of,
such acts of terrorism or those persons
listed in the Annex to the Order or
determined to be subject to the Order or
to be otherwise associated with those
persons listed in the Annex to the Order
or those persons determined to be
subject to subsection 1(b), 1(c), or 1(d)(i)
of the Order.
On March 27, 2012 the Director of
OFAC, in consultation with the
Departments of State, Homeland
Security, Justice and other relevant
agencies, designated, pursuant to one or
more of the criteria set forth in
subsections 1(b), 1(c) or 1(d) of the
Order, four individuals and two entities
whose property and interests in
property are blocked pursuant to
Executive Order 13224.
The listings for these individuals and
entities on OFAC’s list of Specially
Designated Nationals and Blocked
Persons appear as follows:
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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
Fiscal Service
Fee Change for Paying Agents Redeeming Definitive Savings Bonds
and Savings Notes
AGENCY: Bureau of the Public Debt, Fiscal Service, Treasury.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: Effective April 11, 2012, the Department of the Treasury will
no longer pay fees to paying agents for redeeming definitive savings
bonds and savings notes. The purpose of this change is to reduce
Treasury's program costs.
DATES: Effective Date: April 11, 2012.
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ADDRESSES: A copy of this Notice is available at https://www.gpoaccess.gov/fr.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
D. Michael Linder, Director, Division of Program Administration, Office
of Retail Securities, Bureau of the Public Debt, at (304) 480-6319 or
<mike.linder@bpd.treas.gov>.
Ann Fowler, Attorney-Adviser, Brian Metz, Attorney-Adviser, Dean Adams,
Assistant Chief Counsel, or Edward Gronseth, Deputy Chief Counsel,
Office of the Chief Counsel, Bureau of the Public Debt, at (304) 480-
8692 or <ann.fowler@bpd.treas.gov>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Beginning October 1, 1988, Treasury
permitted paying agents to transmit and receive settlement for redeemed
definitive savings bonds and savings notes through the EZ CLEAR system.
The EZ CLEAR system required paying agents to manually sort and mail
definitive savings bonds and savings notes to the appropriate Federal
Reserve Bank or Branch. Treasury paid paying agents a 30-cent fee for
each redeemed definitive savings bond or savings note presented through
the EZ CLEAR system.
Effective April 11, 2012, paying agents will begin to transition
the submission of redeemed definitive savings bonds and savings notes
from the EZ CLEAR process to an existing image-based process through
the Federal Reserve. This simple and modern process allows paying
agents to electronically transmit images of redeemed definitive savings
bonds and savings notes to a Federal Reserve Processing Site for
payment. Because the new process removes the manual sorting and mailing
required by the former process, Treasury is eliminating the fee that it
paid to paying agents for submitting redeemed definitive savings bonds
and notes. The elimination of paying agent fees will result in
significant program savings.
This fee change is consistent with 31 CFR 321.23, which makes
discretionary Treasury's payment of fees to paying agents for the
processing of redeemed definitive savings bonds and savings notes.
Therefore, notice is hereby given that, effective April 11, 2012,
Treasury will no longer pay fees to paying agents for the redemption of
definitive savings bonds and savings notes.
Richard L. Gregg,
Fiscal Assistant Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2012-7951 Filed 4-2-12; 8:45 am]
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