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the unauthorized use or disclosure by
USDA NIFA or NSF of the intellectual
property, trade secrets, or confidential
business information of the Participant.
The Released Parties are not
responsible for: (1) Any incorrect or
inaccurate information, whether caused
by Teams, printing errors, or by any of
the equipment or programming
associated with or used in the
Competition; (2) technical failures of
any kind, including, but not limited to,
malfunctions, interruptions, or
disconnections in phone lines or
network hardware or software; (3)
unauthorized human intervention in
any part of the entry process for the
Competition; (4) technical or human
error that may occur in the
administration of the Competition or the
processing of entries; or (5) any injury
or damage to persons or property that
may be caused, directly or indirectly, in
whole or in part, from Team’s
participation in the Competition or
receipt or use or misuse of the Prize
Purse. If for any reason a Team’s entry
is confirmed to have been deleted
erroneously, lost, or otherwise
destroyed or corrupted, Team’s sole
remedy is to submit another entry in the
Competition.
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C. Termination and Disqualification
USDA NIFA reserves the authority to
cancel, suspend, and/or modify the
Competition, or any part of it, if any
fraud, technical failures, or any other
factor beyond USDA NIFA’s reasonable
control impairs the integrity or proper
functioning of the Competition, as
determined by USDA NIFA in its sole
discretion.
USDA NIFA reserves the right to
disqualify any Team it believes to be
tampering with the entry process or the
operation of the Competition or to be
acting in violation of any applicable rule
or condition.
Any attempt by any person to
undermine the legitimate operation of
the Competition may be a violation of
criminal and civil law, and, should such
an attempt be made, USDA NIFA
reserves the authority to seek damages
from any such person to the fullest
extent permitted by law.
D. Verification of Potential Winner(s)
All potential Competition winners are
subject to verification by USDA NIFA
whose decisions are final and binding in
all matters related to the Competition.
Potential winner(s) must continue to
comply with all terms and conditions of
the Competition rules, and winning is
contingent upon fulfilling all
requirements. The potential winner(s)
will be notified by email and/or
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telephone. If a potential winner cannot
be contacted, or if the notification is
returned as undeliverable, the potential
winner forfeits. In the event that a
potential winner, or an announced
winner, is found to be ineligible or is
disqualified for any reason, USDA NIFA
may make award, instead, to the next
runner up, as previously determined by
the Judging Panel.
Prior to awarding the Prize Purse,
USDA NIFA will verify that the
potential winner(s) is/are not
suspended, debarred, or otherwise
excluded from doing business with the
U.S. Federal Government. Suspended,
debarred, or otherwise excluded parties
will not be eligible to win the
Competition.
E. Intellectual Property
By entering the Competition, each
Team warrants that it is the author and/
or authorized owner of its entry, and
that the entry is wholly original with the
Team (or is an improved version of an
existing project plan the Team is legally
authorized to enter into the
Competition), and that the submitted
entry does not infringe on any
copyright, patent, or any other rights of
any third party. Each Team agrees to
hold the Released Parties harmless for
any infringement of copyright,
trademark, patent, and/or other real or
intellectual property right that may be
caused, directly or indirectly, in whole
or in part, from Team’s participation in
the Competition.
All legal rights in any materials
produced or submitted in entering the
Competition are retained by the Team
and/or the legal holder of those rights.
Entry into the Competition constitutes
express authorization for USDA NIFA,
NSF, and the Judging Panel to review
and analyze any and all aspects of
submitted entries, including any trade
secret or proprietary information
contained in or evident from review of
the submitted entries.
F. Privacy & Disclosure Under FOIA
Personal and contact information is
not collected for commercial or
marketing purposes. Information
submitted throughout the Competition
will be used only to communicate with
Teams regarding entries and/or the
Competition.
Teams’ entries to the Competition
may be subject to disclosure under the
Freedom of Information Act (‘‘FOIA’’). If
a Team believes that all or part of its
Competition entry is protected from
release under FOIA (e.g., if the
information falls under FOIA exemption
#4 for ‘‘trade secrets and commercial or
financial information obtained from a
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person [that is] privileged or
confidential’’) the Team will be
responsible for clearly marking the
page(s)/section(s) of information it
believes are protected.
Done at Washington, DC, this 18th day of
May, 2016.
Kim L. Hicks,
Branch Chief, Grants and Agreements
Management Branch, USDA, ARS, FMAD.
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Rural Utilities Service
Information Collection Activity;
Comment Request
Rural Utilities Service, USDA.
Notice and request for
comments.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44
U.S.C. chapter 35, as amended), the
Rural Utilities Service (RUS) invites
comments on this information
collection for which approval from the
Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) will be requested.
DATES: Comments on this notice must be
received by July 25, 2016.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Thomas P. Dickson, Acting Director,
Program Development and Regulatory
Analysis, Rural Utilities Service, 1400
Independence Ave. SW., STOP 1522,
Room 5159, South Building,
Washington, DC 20250–1522.
Telephone: (202) 690–4492. Email:
thomas.dickson@wdc.usda.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Office
of Management and Budget’s (OMB)
regulation (5 CFR part 1320)
implementing provisions of the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub.
L. 104–13) requires that interested
members of the public and affected
agencies have an opportunity to
comment on information collection and
recordkeeping activities (see 5 CFR
1320.8(d)). This notice identifies an
information collection that the Agency
is submitting to OMB for extension.
Comments are invited on: (a) Whether
the proposed collection of information
is necessary for the proper performance
of the functions of the Agency,
including whether the information will
have practical utility; (b) the accuracy of
the Agency’s estimate of the burden of
the proposed collection of information
including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used; (c)
ways to enhance the quality, utility and
clarity of the information to be
SUMMARY:
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collected; and (d) ways to minimize the
burden of the collection of information
on those who are to respond, including
through the use of appropriate
automated, electronic, mechanical, or
other technological collection
techniques or other forms of information
technology. Comments may be sent to:
Thomas P. Dickson, Acting Director,
Program Development and Regulatory
Analysis, Rural Utilities Service, U.S.
Department of Agriculture, STOP 1522,
South Building, 1400 Independence
Ave. SW., Washington, DC 20250–1522.
Title: Broadband Grant Program.
OMB Control Number: 0572–0127.
Type of Request: Extension of a
currently approved information
collection.
Abstract: The provision of broadband
transmission service is vital to the
economic development, education,
health, and safety of rural Americans.
To further this objective, RUS provides
financial assistance in the form of grant
to eligible entities that propose, on a
‘‘community-oriented connectivity’’
basis, to provide broadband
transmission service that fosters
economic growth and delivers enhanced
educational, health care, and public
safety services to extremely rural, lower
income communities. The Agency gives
priority to rural areas that it believes
have the greatest need for broadband
transmission services. Grant authority is
utilized to deploy broadband
infrastructure to extremely rural, lower
income communities on a ‘‘communityoriented connectivity’’ basis. The
‘‘community-oriented connectivity’’
concept integrates the deployment of
broadband infrastructure with the
practical, everyday uses and
applications of the facilities. This
broadband access is intended to
promote economic development and
provide enhanced educational and
health care opportunities. The Agency
provides financial assistance to eligible
entities that are proposing to deploy
broadband transmission service in rural
communities where such service does
not currently exist and who will
connect the critical community facilities
including the local schools, libraries,
hospitals, police, fire and rescue
services and who will operate a
community center that provides free
and open access to residents.
Estimate of Burden: Public reporting
burden for this collection of information
is estimated to average 130.11 hours per
response.
Respondents: Public bodies,
commercial companies, cooperatives,
nonprofits, Indian tribes, and limited
dividend or mutual associations and
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must be incorporated or a limited
liability company.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
90.
Estimated Number of Responses per
Respondent: 111.
Estimated Total Annual Burden on
Respondents: 14,442.
Copies of this information collection
can be obtained from Thomas P.
Dickson, Program Development and
Regulatory Analysis, Rural Utilities
Service at (202) 690–4492.
All responses to this notice will be
summarized and included in the request
for OMB approval. All comments will
also become a matter of public record.
Dated: May 18, 2016
Brandon McBride,
Administrator, Rural Utilities Service.
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Bureau of Industry and Security
Regulations and Procedures Technical
Advisory Committee; Notice of
Partially Closed Meeting
The Regulations and Procedures
Technical Advisory Committee (RPTAC)
will meet June 14, 2016, 9:00 a.m.,
Room 3884, in the Herbert C. Hoover
Building, 14th Street between
Constitution and Pennsylvania Avenues
NW., Washington, DC. The Committee
advises the Office of the Assistant
Secretary for Export Administration on
implementation of the Export
Administration Regulations (EAR) and
provides for continuing review to
update the EAR as needed.
Agenda
Public Session
1. Opening remarks by the Chairman
2. Opening remarks by the Bureau of
Industry and Security
3. Presentation of papers or comments
by the Public
4. Export Enforcement update
5. Regulations update
6. Working group reports
7. Automated Export System update
Closed Session
8. Discussion of matters determined to
be exempt from the provisions
relating to public meetings found in
5 U.S.C. app. 2 §§ 10(a)(1) and
10(a)(3)
The open session will be accessible
via teleconference to 25 participants on
a first come, first serve basis. To join the
conference, submit inquiries to Ms.
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bis.doc.gov no later than June 7, 2016.
A limited number of seats will be
available for the public session.
Reservations are not accepted. To the
extent that time permits, members of the
public may present oral statements to
the Committee. The public may submit
written statements at any time before or
after the meeting. However, to facilitate
the distribution of public presentation
materials to the Committee members,
the Committee suggests that presenters
forward the public presentation
materials prior to the meeting to Ms.
Springer via email.
The Assistant Secretary for
Administration, with the concurrence of
the delegate of the General Counsel,
formally determined on March 9, 2016,
pursuant to Section 10(d) of the Federal
Advisory Committee Act, as amended (5
U.S.C. app. 2 § 10(d)), that the portion
of the meeting dealing with predecisional changes to the Commerce
Control List and the U.S. export control
policies shall be exempt from the
provisions relating to public meetings
found in 5 U.S.C. app. 2 § § 10(a)(1) and
10(a)(3). The remaining portions of the
meeting will be open to the public.
For more information, call Yvette
Springer at (202) 482–2813.
Dated: May 19, 2016.
Yvette Springer,
Committee Liaison Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Bureau of Industry and Security
Emerging Technology and Research
Advisory Committee; Notice of
Partially Closed Meeting
The Emerging Technology and
Research Advisory Committee (ETRAC)
will meet on June 9, 2016, 8:30 a.m.,
Room 3884, at the Herbert C. Hoover
Building, 14th Street between
Pennsylvania and Constitution Avenues
NW., Washington, DC. The Committee
advises the Office of the Assistant
Secretary for Export Administration on
emerging technology and research
activities, including those related to
deemed exports.
Agenda
Open Session
1. Welcome and Opening Remarks
2. Issues for Discussion: Atom-based
sensing; International Summit on
Human Gene Editing; Nanotechnology;
Advanced Materials-Graphene CenterChina; EAR–4E001.e; Sanctions and the
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Rural Utilities Service
Information Collection Activity; Comment Request
AGENCY: Rural Utilities Service, USDA.
ACTION: Notice and request for comments.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44
U.S.C. chapter 35, as amended), the Rural Utilities Service (RUS)
invites comments on this information collection for which approval from
the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) will be requested.
DATES: Comments on this notice must be received by July 25, 2016.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Thomas P. Dickson, Acting Director,
Program Development and Regulatory Analysis, Rural Utilities Service,
1400 Independence Ave. SW., STOP 1522, Room 5159, South Building,
Washington, DC 20250-1522. Telephone: (202) 690-4492. Email:
thomas.dickson@wdc.usda.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Office of Management and Budget's (OMB)
regulation (5 CFR part 1320) implementing provisions of the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104-13) requires that interested members
of the public and affected agencies have an opportunity to comment on
information collection and recordkeeping activities (see 5 CFR
1320.8(d)). This notice identifies an information collection that the
Agency is submitting to OMB for extension.
Comments are invited on: (a) Whether the proposed collection of
information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of
the Agency, including whether the information will have practical
utility; (b) the accuracy of the Agency's estimate of the burden of the
proposed collection of information including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used; (c) ways to enhance the quality,
utility and clarity of the information to be
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collected; and (d) ways to minimize the burden of the collection of
information on those who are to respond, including through the use of
appropriate automated, electronic, mechanical, or other technological
collection techniques or other forms of information technology.
Comments may be sent to: Thomas P. Dickson, Acting Director, Program
Development and Regulatory Analysis, Rural Utilities Service, U.S.
Department of Agriculture, STOP 1522, South Building, 1400 Independence
Ave. SW., Washington, DC 20250-1522.
Title: Broadband Grant Program.
OMB Control Number: 0572-0127.
Type of Request: Extension of a currently approved information
collection.
Abstract: The provision of broadband transmission service is vital
to the economic development, education, health, and safety of rural
Americans. To further this objective, RUS provides financial assistance
in the form of grant to eligible entities that propose, on a
``community-oriented connectivity'' basis, to provide broadband
transmission service that fosters economic growth and delivers enhanced
educational, health care, and public safety services to extremely
rural, lower income communities. The Agency gives priority to rural
areas that it believes have the greatest need for broadband
transmission services. Grant authority is utilized to deploy broadband
infrastructure to extremely rural, lower income communities on a
``community-oriented connectivity'' basis. The ``community-oriented
connectivity'' concept integrates the deployment of broadband
infrastructure with the practical, everyday uses and applications of
the facilities. This broadband access is intended to promote economic
development and provide enhanced educational and health care
opportunities. The Agency provides financial assistance to eligible
entities that are proposing to deploy broadband transmission service in
rural communities where such service does not currently exist and who
will connect the critical community facilities including the local
schools, libraries, hospitals, police, fire and rescue services and who
will operate a community center that provides free and open access to
residents.
Estimate of Burden: Public reporting burden for this collection of
information is estimated to average 130.11 hours per response.
Respondents: Public bodies, commercial companies, cooperatives,
nonprofits, Indian tribes, and limited dividend or mutual associations
and must be incorporated or a limited liability company.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 90.
Estimated Number of Responses per Respondent: 111.
Estimated Total Annual Burden on Respondents: 14,442.
Copies of this information collection can be obtained from Thomas
P. Dickson, Program Development and Regulatory Analysis, Rural
Utilities Service at (202) 690-4492.
All responses to this notice will be summarized and included in the
request for OMB approval. All comments will also become a matter of
public record.
Dated: May 18, 2016
Brandon McBride,
Administrator, Rural Utilities Service.
[FR Doc. 2016-12266 Filed 5-24-16; 8:45 am]
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