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Responses per Respondent: 1.
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Responses Per Respondent: 1.
Average Burden Per Response: 45
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Frequency: every 3 years.
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Summary of Information Collection
Persons eligible to respond to this
survey are those civilians now separated
from military service who initially
enrolled, gave consent and participated
in the Millennium Cohort Study while
on active duty in the Army, Navy, Air
Force, Marine Corps or US Coast Guard
during the first, second, third, or fourth
panel enrollment periods in 2001–2003,
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respectively, as well as civilians that
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Cohort Family Study.
Dated: August 31, 2012.
Aaron Siegel,
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Officer, Department of Defense.
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tidal waters. The purpose of this notice
is to inform the public the comment
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October 23, 2012.
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(daniel.p.swenson@usace.army.mil),
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Angeles District, P.O. Box 532711, Los
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Deputy Chief, Regulatory Division, Corps of
Engineers.
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Notice Inviting Publishers To Submit
Tests for a Determination of Suitability
for Use in the National Reporting
System for Adult Education
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Office of Vocational and Adult
Education, Department of Education.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Department of the Army, Corps of
Engineers
DATES:
Intent to Prepare a Draft Environmental
Impact Statement/Environmental
Impact Report for the Proposed
Ballona Wetlands Restoration Project
at Ballona Creek Within the City and
County of Los Angeles, California
SUMMARY:
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers,
Department of the Army, DoD.
ACTION: Notice of Intent—Extension of
Comment Period for Scoping.
AGENCY:
The U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers (Corps) and the California
Department of Fish and Game (CDFG)
intend to jointly prepare a Draft
Environmental Impact Statement/
Environmental Impact Report (DEIS/
EIR) for the proposed Ballona Wetlands
Restoration Project. The proposed
project is intended to return the daily
ebb and flow of tidal waters, maintain
freshwater circulation, and augment the
physical and biological functions and
services in the project area. Restoring
the wetland functions and services
would allow native wetland vegetation
to be reestablished, providing important
habitat for a variety of wildlife species.
As a restored site, the Ballona Wetlands
would play an important role to provide
seasonal habitat for migratory birds. A
restored, optimally functioning wetland
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Deadline for transmittal of
applications: October 1, 2012.
The Secretary of Education (1)
invites publishers to submit tests for
review and approval for use in the
National Reporting System for Adult
Education (NRS); and (2) announces the
date by which publishers must submit
these tests.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John
LeMaster, U.S. Department of
Education, 400 Maryland Avenue SW.,
room 11159, Potomac Center Plaza,
Washington, DC 20202–7240.
Telephone: (202) 245–6218 or by email:
John.LeMaster@ed.gov.
If you use a telecommunications
device for the deaf (TDD) or a text
telephone (TTY), call the Federal Relay
Service (FRS), toll free, at 1–800–877–
8339.
The
Department’s regulations for Measuring
Educational Gain in the National
Reporting System for Adult Education,
34 CFR part 462 (NRS regulations),
include the procedures for determining
the suitability of tests for use in the
NRS.
Criteria the Secretary uses: In order
for the Secretary to consider a test
suitable for use in the NRS, the test
must meet the criteria and requirements
established in § 462.13.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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Submission Requirements:
(a) In preparing your application, you
must comply with the requirements in
§ 462.11.
(b) In accordance with § 462.10, the
deadline for transmittal of applications
is October 1.
(c) Whether you submit your
application by mail (through the U.S.
Postal Service or a commercial carrier)
or deliver your application by hand or
by courier service, you must mail or
deliver three copies of your application,
on or before the deadline date, to the
following address: NRS Assessment
Review, c/o American Institutes for
Research, 1000 Thomas Jefferson Street
NW., Washington, DC 20007.
(d) If you submit your application by
mail or commercial carrier, you must
show proof of mailing consisting of one
of the following:
(1) A legibly dated U.S. Postal Service
postmark.
(2) A legible mail receipt with the
date of mailing stamped by the U.S.
Postal Service.
(3) A dated shipping label, invoice, or
receipt from a commercial carrier.
(4) Any other proof of mailing
acceptable to the Secretary of the
Department of Education.
(e) If you mail your application
through the U.S. Postal Service, we do
not accept either of the following as
proof of mailing:
(1) A private metered postmark.
(2) A mail receipt that is not dated by
the U.S. Postal Service.
(f) If your application is postmarked
after the application deadline date, we
will not consider your
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Note: The U.S. Postal Service does not
uniformly provide a dated postmark. Before
relying on this method, you should check
with your local post office.
(g) If you submit your application by
hand delivery, you (or a courier service)
must deliver three copies of the
application by hand, on or before
4:30:00 p.m., Washington, DC time, on
the application deadline date.
Accessible Format: Individuals with
disabilities can obtain this document in
an accessible format (e.g., braille, large
print, audiotape, or compact disc) on
request to the contact person listed in
this notice.
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The official version of this document is
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Authority: 20 U.S.C. 9212
Dated: August 30, 2012.
Brenda Dann-Messier,
Assistant Secretary for Vocational and Adult
Education.
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ELECTION ASSISTANCE COMMISSION
Request for Substantive Comments on
the EAC’s Proposed Requirements for
Version 1.1 of the Voluntary Voting
System Guidelines (VVSG)
United States Election
Assistance Commission.
ACTION: Request for public comment on
proposed requirements for Version 1.1
of the Voluntary Voting System
Guidelines (VVSG).
AGENCY:
The Help America Vote Act of
2002 (HAVA) (Pub. L. 107–252; 42
U.S.C. 15301 et seq. (October 29, 2002))
established the U.S. Election Assistance
Commission (EAC). Section 202 of
HAVA directs the EAC to adopt
voluntary voting system guidelines
(VVSG) and to provide for the testing,
certification, decertification, and
recertification of voting system
hardware and software. The VVSG
provides specifications and standards
against which voting systems can be
tested to determine if they provide basic
functionality, accessibility, and security
capabilities. As required by Section 222
(d) of HAVA, the EAC is publishing a
set of proposed requirements (Voluntary
Voting System Guidelines, 1.1) for the
testing of voting systems for a 90 day
public comment period.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
SUMMARY:
Background
The EAC made the decision to update
and revise the 2005 VVSG (also known
as VVSG 1.0) as a result of feedback
received through its Voting System
Testing and Certification Program. As
the EAC has worked to test and certify
voting systems it observed and received
feedback from various sources that the
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standards being tested to were at times
ambiguous and difficult to apply in
testing. This ambiguity led to challenges
in making testing consistent both within
a test laboratory and across test
campaigns at different laboratories. The
EAC also received feedback from the
National Institute of Standards and
Technology (NIST) that the creation of
formalized test suites for the 2005 VVSG
would be aided by a clarification of
certain portions of document. This
information, combined with the EAC’s
issuance of thirty five interpretations of
the VVSG to clarify various standards,
led the EAC to propose improvements to
the 2005 VVSG. In addition, the EAC
determined to implement a number of
recommendations submitted by the
EAC’s Technical Guidelines
Development Committee (TGDC).
The TGDC held numerous public
meetings and subcommittee conference
calls to create a set of draft guidelines
for recommendation to the EAC (all
TGDC meeting materials can be found at
https://www.nist.gov/itl/vote/). On
August 17, 2007, the TGDC voted to
complete final edits of their
recommendations and submitted them
to the Executive Director of the EAC.
The EAC received the draft guidelines
from the TGDC on August 31, 2007.
After receipt of the TGDC’s
recommendations for the next iteration
(VVSG 2.0) of the VVSG the EAC
opened a one hundred and eighty day
public comment period. During this
comment period, which ran from
September 2007 to May 2008, the EAC
received comments praising many of the
proposed standards as being more
testable and less ambiguous than
previous versions of the standard. This
public comment period produced over
3000 comments on the
recommendations. In addition, during
the comment period the EAC conducted
a series of seven roundtable discussions
regarding the TGDC’s recommendations.
After the close of the public comment
period for the TGDC’s VVSG 2.0
recommendations and considering a
variety of relevant factors, the EAC
made the decision to first update and
revise the 2005 VVSG with portions of
the TGDC’s recommendations. This
serves as the basis for the creation of
VVSG 1.1.
As noted during the previous public
comment period for version VVSG 1.1,
by revising the guidelines now, the EAC
expects to improve the test process over
the short term for existing voting
systems while allowing additional time
to develop more complex revisions for
the requirements in VVSG 2.0 written
for the next generation of voting
systems. Topics currently undergoing
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Notice Inviting Publishers To Submit Tests for a Determination of
Suitability for Use in the National Reporting System for Adult
Education
AGENCY: Office of Vocational and Adult Education, Department of
Education.
ACTION: Notice.
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DATES: Deadline for transmittal of applications: October 1, 2012.
SUMMARY: The Secretary of Education (1) invites publishers to submit
tests for review and approval for use in the National Reporting System
for Adult Education (NRS); and (2) announces the date by which
publishers must submit these tests.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John LeMaster, U.S. Department of
Education, 400 Maryland Avenue SW., room 11159, Potomac Center Plaza,
Washington, DC 20202-7240. Telephone: (202) 245-6218 or by email:
John.LeMaster@ed.gov.
If you use a telecommunications device for the deaf (TDD) or a text
telephone (TTY), call the Federal Relay Service (FRS), toll free, at 1-
800-877-8339.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Department's regulations for Measuring
Educational Gain in the National Reporting System for Adult Education,
34 CFR part 462 (NRS regulations), include the procedures for
determining the suitability of tests for use in the NRS.
Criteria the Secretary uses: In order for the Secretary to consider
a test suitable for use in the NRS, the test must meet the criteria and
requirements established in Sec. 462.13.
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Submission Requirements:
(a) In preparing your application, you must comply with the
requirements in Sec. 462.11.
(b) In accordance with Sec. 462.10, the deadline for transmittal
of applications is October 1.
(c) Whether you submit your application by mail (through the U.S.
Postal Service or a commercial carrier) or deliver your application by
hand or by courier service, you must mail or deliver three copies of
your application, on or before the deadline date, to the following
address: NRS Assessment Review, c/o American Institutes for Research,
1000 Thomas Jefferson Street NW., Washington, DC 20007.
(d) If you submit your application by mail or commercial carrier,
you must show proof of mailing consisting of one of the following:
(1) A legibly dated U.S. Postal Service postmark.
(2) A legible mail receipt with the date of mailing stamped by the
U.S. Postal Service.
(3) A dated shipping label, invoice, or receipt from a commercial
carrier.
(4) Any other proof of mailing acceptable to the Secretary of the
Department of Education.
(e) If you mail your application through the U.S. Postal Service,
we do not accept either of the following as proof of mailing:
(1) A private metered postmark.
(2) A mail receipt that is not dated by the U.S. Postal Service.
(f) If your application is postmarked after the application
deadline date, we will not consider your
Note: The U.S. Postal Service does not uniformly provide a
dated postmark. Before relying on this method, you should check with
your local post office.
(g) If you submit your application by hand delivery, you (or a
courier service) must deliver three copies of the application by hand,
on or before 4:30:00 p.m., Washington, DC time, on the application
deadline date.
Accessible Format: Individuals with disabilities can obtain this
document in an accessible format (e.g., braille, large print,
audiotape, or compact disc) on request to the contact person listed in
this notice.
Electronic Access to This Document: The official version of this
document is the document published in the Federal Register. Free
Internet access to the official edition of the Federal Register and the
Code of Federal Regulations is available via the Federal Digital System
at: www.gpo.gov/fdsys. At this site you can view this document, as well
as all other documents of this Department published in the Federal
Register, in text or Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF). To use PDF
you must have Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is available free at the
site.
You may also access documents of the Department published in the
Federal Register by using the article search feature at:
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feature at this site, you can limit your search to documents published
by the Department.
Authority: 20 U.S.C. 9212
Dated: August 30, 2012.
Brenda Dann-Messier,
Assistant Secretary for Vocational and Adult Education.
[FR Doc. 2012-21866 Filed 9-5-12; 8:45 am]
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