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Evaluation Office (CEO) sponsored
information collection request (ICR)
proposal titled, ‘‘Evaluation of Employer
Performance Measurement
Approaches,’’ to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
review and approval for use in
accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995. Public
comments on the ICR are invited.
DATES: The OMB will consider all
written comments that agency receives
on or before October 23, 2019.
ADDRESSES: A copy of this ICR with
applicable supporting documentation;
including a description of the likely
respondents, proposed frequency of
response, and estimated total burden
may be obtained free of charge from the
RegInfo.gov website at https://
www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAView
ICR?ref_nbr=201901-1290-001 (this link
will only become active on the day
following publication of this notice) or
by contacting Frederick Licari by
telephone at 202–693–8073, TTY 202–
693–8064, (this is not a toll-free
number) or by email at DOL_PRA_
PUBLIC@dol.gov.
Submit comments about this request
by mail to the Office of Information and
Regulatory Affairs, Attn: OMB Desk
Officer for DOL–CEO, Office of
Management and Budget, Room 10235,
725 17th Street NW, Washington, DC
20503; by Fax: 202–395–5806 (this is
not a toll-free number); or by email:
OIRA_submission@omb.eop.gov.
Commenters are encouraged, but not
required, to send a courtesy copy of any
comments by mail or courier to the U.S.
Department of Labor—OASAM, Office
of the Chief Information Officer, Attn:
Departmental Information Compliance
Management Program, Room N1301,
200 Constitution Avenue NW,
Washington, DC 20210; or by email:
DOL_PRA_PUBLIC@dol.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Frederick Licari by telephone at 202–
693–8073, TTY 202–693–8064, (these
are not toll-free numbers) or by email at
DOL_PRA_PUBLIC@dol.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This ICR
seeks PRA authority for the Evaluation
of Employer Performance Measurement
Approaches information collection. The
U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) Chief
Evaluation Office (CEO) is seeking
Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) approval to collect information
from State and local public workforce
system employees and partners, and to
gather feedback from a group of U.S.
employers, to inform the Analysis of
Employer Performance Measurement
Approaches study. The purpose of the
study is to conduct a 36-month analysis
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of employer services measurement
approaches and metrics, as well as their
cross-State and cross-program
applicability, with a goal of
understanding and implementing a final
indicator of performance. The study will
explore and establish an understanding
of employer services measurement and
supplement the start-up of reporting by
the States on the National Pilot
measures. The Workforce Innovation
and Opportunity Act authorizes this
information collection.
This proposed information collection
is subject to the PRA. A Federal agency
generally cannot conduct or sponsor a
collection of information, and the public
is generally not required to respond to
an information collection, unless the
OMB, under the PRA, approves it and
displays a currently valid OMB Control
Number. In addition, notwithstanding
any other provisions of law, no person
shall generally be subject to penalty for
failing to comply with a collection of
information if the collection of
information does not display a valid
Control Number. See 5 CFR 1320.5(a)
and 1320.6. For additional information,
see the related notice published in the
Federal Register on March 6, 2018 (83
FR 9548).
Interested parties are encouraged to
send comments to the OMB, Office of
Information and Regulatory Affairs at
the address shown in the ADDRESSES
section within thirty-(30) days of
publication of this notice in the Federal
Register. In order to help ensure
appropriate consideration, comments
should mention OMB ICR Reference
Number 201901–1290–001. The OMB is
particularly interested in comments
that:
• Evaluate 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;
• Evaluate 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;
• Enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and
• 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,
e.g., permitting electronic submission of
responses.
Agency: DOL–CEO.
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Title of Collection: Evaluation of
Employer Performance Measurement
Approaches.
OMB ICR Reference Number: 201901–
1290–001.
Affected Public: State, Local, and
Tribal Governments; Individuals or
Households; Private Sector—Businesses
or other for-profits.
Total Estimated Number of
Respondents: 603.
Total Estimated Number of
Responses: 603.
Total Estimated Annual Time Burden:
204 hours.
Total Estimated Annual Other Costs
Burden: $0.
Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3507(a)(1)(D).
Dated: September 16, 2019.
Frederick Licari,
Departmental Clearance Officer.
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OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND
BUDGET
Senior Executive Service Performance
Review Board Membership
Office of Management and
Budget.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
The Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) publishes the names
of the members selected to serve on its
Senior Executive Service (SES)
Performance Review Board (PRB). This
notice supersedes all previous notices of
the PRB membership.
DATES: Applicable: August 12, 2019.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Sarah Whittle Spooner, Assistant
Director for Management and
Operations, Office of Management and
Budget, 725 17th Street NW,
Washington, DC 20503, 202–395–7402.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section
4314(c) of Title 5, U.S.C. requires each
agency to establish, in accordance with
regulations prescribed by the Office of
Personnel Management, one or more
PRBs. The PRB shall review and
evaluate the initial appraisal of a senior
executive’s performance by the
supervisor, along with any response by
the senior executive, and make
recommendations to the final rating
authority relative to the performance of
the senior executive.
The persons named below have been
selected to serve on OMB’s PRB.
SUMMARY:
Kelly T. Colyar, Chief, Water and Power
Branch
Jennifer L. Hanson, Chief, Income
Maintenance Branch
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Michelle Marston, Chief of Staff
Kirsten J. Moncada, Chief, Privacy Branch
Robert J. Nassif, Chief, Force Structure and
Investment Branch
Sarah Whittle Spooner, Assistant Director for
Management and Operations
Sarah Whittle Spooner,
Assistant Director for Management and
Operations.
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Notice of Centennial Challenges CO2
Conversion Challenge
National Aeronautics and
Space Administration (NASA).
ACTION: Notice of Centennial Challenges
CO2 Conversion Challenge.
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AGENCY:
SUMMARY: Phase 2 of the CO2
Conversion Challenge is open, and
teams that wish to compete may now
register. Centennial Challenges is a
program of prize competitions to
stimulate innovation in technologies of
interest and value to NASA and the
nation. This competition has two phases
with a total prize purse of up to $1
million. Phase 1 (completed in April
2019) was the Concept Phase with a
prize purse of $250,000 awarded
equality among the top five scoring
teams. Teams were asked to
demonstrate capabilities to develop
technologies to manufacture ‘‘food’’ for
microbial bioreactors from CO2 and
hydrogen molecules, with the ultimate
goal of producing glucose. Phase 2 is a
Demonstration Challenge with a prize
purse of up to $750,000. NASA is
providing the prize purse, and NASA
Centennial Challenges will be managing
the Challenge with support from The
Common Pool.
DATES: Challenge registration for Phase
2 opens September 19, 2019, and will
remain open until 6:00 p.m. Eastern
Time on November 30, 2019. Teams
must submit their application by June 5,
2020. The competition will conclude in
September.
Other important dates:
March 1–31, 2020—Optional Challenge
Mid-Point Progress Updates Due
June 5, 2020—Application Deadline
September 2020—Winners Announced
ADDRESSES: The CO2 Conversion
Challenge Phase 2 competitors will
initially register and submit an
application explaining components of
their system and its operation virtually
via electronic submissions. Upon review
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of a team’s registration and eligibility, a
judge will schedule a site visit to the
team’s laboratory to observe the
successful operation of the system and
collect a sample. The sample will then
be collected and sent to an independent
laboratory for analysis. Phase 2 will be
executed at the participants’ facility or
lab.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To
register for or get additional information
regarding the CO2 Conversion Challenge
please visit: https://www.co2conversion
challenge.org/. For general information
on the NASA Centennial Challenges
Program please visit: https://
www.nasa.gov/challenges. General
questions and comments regarding the
program should be addressed to Monsi
Roman, Centennial Challenges Program,
NASA Marshall Space Flight Center,
Huntsville, AL 35812. Email address:
hq-stmd-centennialchallenges@
mail.nasa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Summary
Competitors are required to build,
demonstrate and produce a product
from a system that manufactures simple
sugars for microbial bioreactors from
CO2 and hydrogen molecules, with the
ultimate goal of producing glucose.
Future planetary habitats on Mars will
require a high degree of self-sufficiency.
This requires a concerted effort to both
effectively recycle supplies brought
from Earth and use local resources such
as CO2, water and regolith to
manufacture mission-relevant products.
Human life support and habitation
systems will treat wastewater to make
drinking water, recover oxygen from
CO2, convert solid wastes to useable
products, grow food, and specially
design equipment and develop
equipment packaging to allow reuse in
alternate forms. In addition, In-Situ
resource utilization (ISRU) techniques
will use available local materials to
generate substantial quantities of
products to supply life support needs,
propellants and building materials, and
support other In-Space manufacturing
(ISM) activities.
Many of these required mission
products such as food, nutrients,
medicines, plastics, fuels, and adhesives
are organic, and are comprised mostly of
carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen
molecules. These molecules are readily
available within the Martian atmosphere
(CO2, N2) and surface water (H2O), and
could be used as the feedstock to
produce an array of desired products.
While some products will be most
efficiently made using physicochemical
methods or photosynthetic organisms
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such as plants and algae, many products
may best be produced using
heterotrophic (organic substrate
utilizing) microbial production systems.
Terrestrially, commercial heterotrophic
bioreactor systems utilize fast growing
microbes combined with high
concentrations of readily metabolized
organic substrates, such as sugars, to
enable very rapid rates of bio-product
generation.
The type of organic substrate used
strongly affects the efficiency of the
microbial system. For example, while an
organism may be able to use simple
organic compounds such as formate (1carbon) and acetate (2-carbon), these
‘‘low-energy’’ substrates will typically
result in poor growth. In order to
maximize the rate of growth and reduce
system size and mass, organic substrates
that are rich in energy and carbon, such
as sugars, are needed. Sugars such as
D-Glucose, a six-carbon sugar that is
used by a wide variety of model
heterotrophic microbes, is typically the
preferred organic substrate for
commercial terrestrial microbial
production systems and
experimentation. There are a wide range
of other compounds, such as less
complex sugars and glycerol that could
also support relatively rapid rates of
growth.
To effectively employ microbial biomanufacturing platforms on planetary
bodies such as Mars, it is vital that the
carbon substrates be made on-site using
local materials. However, generating
complex compounds like glucose on
Mars presents an array of challenges.
While sugar-based substrates are
inexpensively made in bulk on Earth
from plant biomass, this approach is
currently not feasible in space.
Alternatively, current physicochemical
processes such as photo/electrochemical
and thermal catalytic systems are able to
make smaller organic compounds such
as methane, formate, acetate and some
alcohols from CO2; however, these
systems have not been developed to
make more complex organic molecules,
such as sugars, primarily because of
difficult technical challenges combined
with the low cost of obtaining sugars
from alternate methods on Earth. Novel
research and development is required to
create the physicochemical systems
required to directly make more complex
molecules from CO2 in space
environments. It is hoped that
advancements in the generation of
suitable microbial substrates will spur
interest in making complex organic
compounds from CO2 that could also
serve as feedstock molecules in
traditional terrestrial chemical synthesis
and manufacturing operations.
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OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET
Senior Executive Service Performance Review Board Membership
AGENCY: Office of Management and Budget.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) publishes the names
of the members selected to serve on its Senior Executive Service (SES)
Performance Review Board (PRB). This notice supersedes all previous
notices of the PRB membership.
DATES: Applicable: August 12, 2019.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Sarah Whittle Spooner, Assistant
Director for Management and Operations, Office of Management and
Budget, 725 17th Street NW, Washington, DC 20503, 202-395-7402.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 4314(c) of Title 5, U.S.C. requires
each agency to establish, in accordance with regulations prescribed by
the Office of Personnel Management, one or more PRBs. The PRB shall
review and evaluate the initial appraisal of a senior executive's
performance by the supervisor, along with any response by the senior
executive, and make recommendations to the final rating authority
relative to the performance of the senior executive.
The persons named below have been selected to serve on OMB's PRB.
Kelly T. Colyar, Chief, Water and Power Branch
Jennifer L. Hanson, Chief, Income Maintenance Branch
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Michelle Marston, Chief of Staff
Kirsten J. Moncada, Chief, Privacy Branch
Robert J. Nassif, Chief, Force Structure and Investment Branch
Sarah Whittle Spooner, Assistant Director for Management and
Operations
Sarah Whittle Spooner,
Assistant Director for Management and Operations.
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