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Administration’s Notice of Proposed
Rule Making in regards to the ‘‘Flight
Simulation Training Device
Qualification Standards for Extended
Envelope and Adverse Weather Event
Training Tasks.’’
Response: The respondent’s
comments are outside the scope of this
information collection.
Comment: The respondent
commented that the Agency’s estimate
of two hours per response
underestimates the hours it takes for
contractors to respond to source
selection requirements related to past
performance.
Response: Two hours is the average
amount of time to read and prepare
information on a company’s past
performance for source selection
purposes. The estimate considered the
amount of time a simple or standard
disclosure might require in response to
non-complex solicitations, in some
cases by businesses with limited
experience, as well as the time that
might be required for a very complex
disclosure by a major corporation. In
addition, the estimated burden hours
include only projected hours for those
actions which a company would not
undertake in the normal course of
business. Maintaining information and
references on work they have performed
in the past are considered actions
undertaken in the normal course of
business.
Comment: The respondent
commented that the Agency’s
methodology for preparing burden
estimates is faulty resulting in
unrealistically low estimates, which sets
unreasonable expectations for
turnaround time and disguises the true
cost of the responses.
Response: The burden estimate is
prepared taking into consideration the
necessary criteria in OMB guidance for
estimating the paperwork burden put on
the entity submitting the information.
For example, consideration is given to
an entity reviewing instructions; using
technology to collect, process, and
disclose information; adjusting existing
practices to comply with requirements;
searching data sources; completing and
reviewing the response; and
transmitting or disclosing information.
Careful consideration went into
assessing the estimated burden hours for
this collection, and the collection
requirements at FAR 15.304 and 42.15
remains the same. There is no change to
the estimated number of hours per
response associated with this request for
extension; rather, the estimated number
of responses was reduced based on data
available FPDS and CPARS regarding
awards in FY 2014.
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Comment: In the past, including in
connection with FAR Case 2007–006,
the Agency both acknowledged that the
initial estimate was unrealistically low
while also defending the methodology
that it used to develop the unrealistic
estimate.
Response: Serious consideration is
given, during the open comment period,
to all comments received and
adjustments are made to the paperwork
burden estimate based on reasonable
considerations provide by the public.
This is evidenced, as the respondent
notes, in FAR Case 2007–006 where an
adjustment was made from the total
preparation hours from three to sixty.
This change was made considering
particularly the hours that would be
required for review within the company,
prior to release to the Government.
Comment: The respondent
commented that granting the extension
would violate at least the spirit of the
Paperwork Reduction Act.
Response: The Paperwork Reduction
Act (PRA) was designed to improve the
quality and use of Federal information
to strengthen decision-making,
accountability, and openness in
government and society. Central to this
process is the solicitation of comments
from the public. This process
incorporates an enumerated
specification of targeted information
and provides interested parties a
meaningful opportunity for comment on
the relevant compliance cost. This
process has led to decreases in the
overall collective burden of compliance
for the information collection
requirement in regards to the public.
Based on OMB estimates, in FY 2010,
the public spent 8.8 billion hours
responding to information collections.
This was a decrease of one billion
hours, or ten percent from the previous
FY. In effect, the collective burden of
compliance for the public is going down
as the Government publishes rules that
make the process less complex, more
transparent, and reduce the cost of
Federal regulations.
C. Annual Reporting Burden
a. Responses during Source Selection.
Respondents: 27,734.
Responses per Respondent: 4.
Annual Responses: 110,936.
Hours per Response: 2.
Total Burden Hours: 221,872.
b. Responses in CPARS.
Respondents: 177,396.
Responses per Respondent: 1.
Annual Responses: 177,396.
Hours per Response: 2.
Total Burden Hours: 354,792.
c. Total annual burden: 576,664
Hours.
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D. Public Comments
Public comments are particularly
invited on: Whether this collection of
information is necessary for the proper
performance of functions of the FAR,
and whether it will have practical
utility; whether our estimate of the
public burden of this collection of
information is accurate, and based on
valid assumptions and methodology;
ways to enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and ways in which we can
minimize the burden of the collection of
information on those who are to
respond, through the use of appropriate
technological collection techniques or
other forms of information technology.
E. Obtaining Copies of Proposals
Requesters may obtain a copy of the
information collection documents from
the 1800 F Street NW., Washington, DC
20405, telephone 202–501–4755.
Please cite OMB Control No. 9000–
0142, Past Performance Information, in
all correspondence.
Dated: March 4, 2015.
Edward Loeb,
Acting Director, Office of Government-wide
Acquisition Policy, Office of Acquisition
Policy, Office of Government-wide Policy.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
National Institutes of Health
National Cancer Institute Amended;
Notice of Meeting
Notice is hereby given of a change in
the meeting of the National Cancer
Institute Special Emphasis Panel, March
11, 2015 02:00 p.m. to March 11, 2015,
04:00 p.m., National Cancer Institute
Shady Grove, 9609 Medical Center
Drive, Rockville, MD, 20850 which was
published in the Federal Register on
December 16, 2014, 79 FR 74734.
The meeting notice is amended to
change the meeting date from March 11,
2015 to April 08, 2015, and the Contact
Person from Dr. Robert Bird to Dr.
Sergei Radaev, Telephone Number: 240–
276–6466. The location remains the
same; however, the room has changed to
7W114. The meeting is closed to the
public.
Dated: March 6, 2015.
Melanie J. Gray,
Program Analyst, Office of Federal Advisory
Committee Policy.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
National Institutes of Health
National Cancer Institute Amended; Notice of Meeting
Notice is hereby given of a change in the meeting of the National
Cancer Institute Special Emphasis Panel, March 11, 2015 02:00 p.m. to
March 11, 2015, 04:00 p.m., National Cancer Institute Shady Grove, 9609
Medical Center Drive, Rockville, MD, 20850 which was published in the
Federal Register on December 16, 2014, 79 FR 74734.
The meeting notice is amended to change the meeting date from March
11, 2015 to April 08, 2015, and the Contact Person from Dr. Robert Bird
to Dr. Sergei Radaev, Telephone Number: 240-276-6466. The location
remains the same; however, the room has changed to 7W114. The meeting
is closed to the public.
Dated: March 6, 2015.
Melanie J. Gray,
Program Analyst, Office of Federal Advisory Committee Policy.
[FR Doc. 2015-05567 Filed 3-11-15; 8:45 am]
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