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BILLING CODE 7590-01-P OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT Excepted Service AGENCY: Office of Personnel Management (OPM). ACTION: Notice. SUMMARY: This gives notice of OPM decisions granting authority to make appointments under Schedules A, B, and C in the excepted service as required by 5 CFR 6.6 and 213.103. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: David Guilford, Center for Leadership and Executive Resources Policy, Division for Strategic Human Resources Policy, 202-606-1391. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Appearing in the listing below are the individual authorities established under Schedules A, B, and C between July 1, 2006, and July 31, 2006. Future notices will be published on the fourth Tuesday of each month, or as soon as possible thereafter. A consolidated listing of all authorities as of June 30 is published each year. Schedule A 213.3206 Department of Defense
(k)Business Transformation Agency.
(1)Fifty temporary or time-limited (not to exceed four years) positions, at grades GS-11-15. The authority will be used to appoint persons in the following series: Management and Program Analysis, GS-343; Logistics Management, GS-346; Financial Management and Programs, GS-501; Accounting, GS-510; Computer Engineering, GS-854; Business and Industry, GS-1101; Operations Research, GS-1515; Computer Science, GS-1550; General Supply, GS-2001; Supply Program Management, GS-2003; Inventory Management, GS-2010; and Information Technology, GS-2210. Effective July 14, 2006. Schedule B No Schedule B appointments were approved for July 2006. Schedule C The following Schedule C appointments were approved during July 2006: Section 213.3303 Executive Office of the President Office of Management and Budget BOGS60159 Special Assistant to the Director, Office of Management and Budget. Effective July 05, 2006. BOGS60158 Special Assistant to the Director, Office of Management and Budget. Effective July 21, 2006. BOGS60160 Special Assistant and Portfolio Manager to the Administrator, E-Government and Information Technology. Effective July 24, 2006. BOGS60026 Confidential Assistant to the Associate Director for General Government Programs. Effective July 31, 2006. Office of National Drug Control Policy QQGS60092 Special Assistant to the Deputy Director, Office of Demand Reduction to the Special Assistant to the Director. Effective July 7, 2006. QQGS60093 Special Assistant to the Associate Director for Legislative Affairs. Effective July 20, 2006. QQGS60094 Policy Analyst to the Associate Deputy Director, State and Local Affairs. Effective July 21, 2006. QQGS60095 Confidential Assistant to the Associate Director Office of Legislative Affairs. Effective July 27, 2006. Section 213.3304 Department of State DSGS61097 Foreign Affairs Officer (Ceremonials) to the Chief of Protocol. Effective July 17, 2006. DSGS61101 Deputy Assistant Secretary (Principal) to the Assistant Secretary. Effective July 17, 2006. DSGS61102 Special Assistant to the Senior Advisor to the Secretary and White House Liaison. Effective July 17, 2006. DSGS61103 Staff Assistant to the Under Secretary for Arms Control and Security Affairs. Effective July 17, 2006. DSGS61105 Senior Advisor to the Ambassador-At-Large (War Crimes). Effective July 20, 2006. DSGS61099 Special Assistant to the Chief of Staff. Effective July 21, 2006. DSGS61106 Staff Assistant to the Assistant Secretary for Economic and Business Affairs. Effective July 21, 2006. DSGS61055 Protocol Officer (Visits) to the Chief of Protocol. Effective July 24, 2006. Section 213.3305 Department of the Treasury DYGS00429 Executive Assistant to the Secretary. Effective July 6, 2006. DYGS00474 Scheduler to the Chief of Staff. Effective July 6, 2006. DYGS60277 Speechwriter to the Assistant Secretary (Public Affairs). Effective July 6, 2006. DYGS00402 Deputy Chief of Staff to the Chief of Staff. Effective July 7, 2006. DYGS00473 Director of Protocol to the Assistant Secretary (Management) and Chief Financial Officer. Effective July 14, 2006. DYGS00407 Senior Advisor to the Assistant Secretary for Financial Markets. Effective July 17, 2006. Section 213.3306 Office of the Secretary of Defense DDGS1694 Defense Fellow to the Special Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for White House Liaison. Effective July 7, 2006. DDGS16955 Special Assistant to the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (Budget and Appropriations Affairs). Effective July 7, 2006. DDGS16958 Confidential Assistant to the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs. Effective July 7, 2006. DDGS16961 Research Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs. Effective July 7, 2006. DDGS16963 Protocol Specialist to the Special Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Protocol. Effective July 7, 2006. DDGS16957 Executive Assistant to the Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of Defense. Effective July 7, 2006. DDGS16939 Director of Communications to the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (Legal Affairs). Effective July 17, 2006. DDGS16968 Special Assistant to the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Business Transformation. Effective July 28, 2006. DDGS16972 Staff Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Special Operations/Low Intensity Conflict). Effective July 28, 2006. DDGS16973 Special Advisor to the Special Assistant to the Secretary and Deputy Secretary of Defense. Effective July 28, 2006. Section 213.3307 Department of the Army DWGS60020 Personal and Confidential Assistant to the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army (Acquisition, Logistics and Technology) and Director for Iraq Reconstruction and Program Management. Effective July 5, 2006. Section 213.3308 Department of the Navy DNGS60074 Confidential Staff Assistant to the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Financial Management and Comptroller). Effective July 21, 2006. Section 213.3309 Department of the Air Force DFGS60019 Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary (Installations, Environment and Logistics). Effective July 05, 2006. DFGS60019 Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary (Installations, Environment and Logistics). Effective July 21, 2006. Section 213.3310 Department of Justice DJGS00043 Confidential Assistant to the Assistant Attorney General (Legislative Affairs). Effective July 19, 2006. DJGS00114 Special Assistant to the Attorney General. Effective July 20, 2006. DJGS00046 Research Assistant to the Director. Effective July 21, 2006. DJGS00121 Senior Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General. Effective July 21, 2006. DJGS00252 Director of Advance to the Attorney General. Effective July 21, 2006. DJGS00120 Deputy Chief of Staff to the Assistant Attorney General. Effective July 25, 2006. Section 213.3311 Department of Homeland Security DMGS00540 Policy Analyst to the Assistant Secretary for International Affairs. Effective July 02, 2006. DMGS00538 Scheduler and Protocol Coordinator to the Director of Scheduling and Advance. Effective July 17, 2006. DMGS00544 Advance Representative to the Director of Scheduling and Advance. Effective July 17, 2006. DMGS00547 Coordinator for State Affairs to the Chief of Staff. Effective July 19, 2006. DMGS00539 Assistant Director of Legislative Affairs for Mass Transit and Immigration to the Assistant Secretary for Congressional and Intergovernmental Affairs. Effective July 20, 2006. DMGS00543 Advance Representative to the Director of Scheduling and Advance. Effective July 20, 2006. DMGS00545 Special Assistant to the Executive Director, Homeland Security Advisory Committees. Effective July 21, 2006. DMGS00548 Special Assistant for Faith-Based and Community Initiatives to the Director of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives. Effective July 21, 2006. DMGS00549 Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary for Infrastructure Protection. Effective July 21, 2006. DMGS00550 Confidential Assistant to the Deputy Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. Effective July 21, 2006. DMGS00551 Confidential Assistant to the Chief of Staff. Effective July 21, 2006. DMGS00552 Confidential Assistant to the General Counsel. Effective July 24, 2006. DMGS00554 Special Assistant to the Chief of Staff. Effective July 24, 2006. Section 213.3312 Department of the Interior DIGS01073 Associate Director for Programs to the Director, Take Pride In America. Effective July 21, 2006. Section 213.3313 Department of Agriculture DAGS00852 Special Assistant to the Under Secretary for Rural Development. Effective July 21, 2006. DAGS00856 Confidential Assistant to the Chief, Natural Research Conservation Service. Effective July 24, 2006. DAGS00858 Staff Assistant to the Administrator, Farm Service Agency. Effective July 28, 2006. Section 213.3314 Department of Commerce DCGS00398 Special Assistant to the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Domestic Operations. Effective July 17, 2006. DCGS60312 Senior Advisor to the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Domestic Operations. Effective July 21, 2006. Section 213.3315 Department of Labor DLGS60199 Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs. Effective July 5, 2006. DLGS60160 Speechwriter to the Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs. Effective July 7, 2006. DLGS60116 Special Assistant to the Chief Financial Officer. Effective July 21, 2006. DLGS60153 Special Assistant to the Deputy Under Secretary for International Affairs. Effective July 21, 2006. DLGS60176 Special Assistant to the Associate Deputy Secretary for Communications. Effective July 21, 2006. DLGS60195 Senior Advisor to the Assistant Secretary for Employment Standards. Effective July 21, 2006. Section 213.3316 Department of Health and Human Services DHGS60018 Deputy Director for Advance to the Director of Scheduling. Effective July 07, 2006. DHGS60036 Confidential Assistant to the Director of Intergovernmental Affairs. Effective July 19, 2006. DHGS60016 Confidential Assistant to the Director, Center for Faith Based and Community Initiatives. Effective July 24, 2006. DHGS60015 Deputy Director, Center for Faith-Based and Community Initiatives to the Director, Center for Faith-Based and Community Initiatives. Effective July 28, 2006. DHGS60037 Director, Trafficking Program to the Director, Office of Refugee Resettlement. Effective July 28, 2006. DHGS60336 Confidential Assistant to the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Legislation (Human Services). Effective July 28, 2006. Section 213.3317 Department of Education DBGS00546 Special Assistant to the Director, Scheduling and Advance Staff. Effective July 6, 2006. DBGS00547 Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights. Effective July 6, 2006. DBGS00550 Confidential Assistant to the Director, White House Liaison. Effective July 6, 2006. DBGS00551 Confidential Assistant to the Senior Policy Advisor to the Deputy Secretary. Effective July 6, 2006. DBGS00552 Confidential Assistant to the Assistant Deputy Secretary for Safe and Drug-Free Schools. Effective July 6, 2006. DBGS00549 Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary for Special Education and Rehabilitative Services. Effective July 7, 2006. DBGS00553 Deputy Secretary's Regional Representative, Region 9 to the Assistant Secretary, Office of Communications and Outreach. Effective July 19, 2006. DBGS00554 Confidential Assistant to the Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy and Programs. Effective July 21, 2006. DBGS00555 Confidential Assistant to the Assistant Secretary for Management. Effective July 24, 2006. DBGS00556 Confidential Assistant to the Chief of Staff to the Deputy Secretary. Effective July 25, 2006. Section 213.3323 Overseas Private Investment Corporation PQGS06002 Confidential Assistant to the President and CEO. Effective July 17, 2006. Section 213.3331 Department of Energy DEGS00528 Special Assistant to the Senior Advisor. Effective July 7, 2006. DEGS00529 Special Assistant to the Senior Advisor. Effective July 7, 2006. DEGS00531 Senior Advisor to the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary. Effective July 21, 2006. DEGS00532 Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary for Congressional and Intergovernmental Affairs. Effective July 21, 2006. DEGS00530 Policy Advisor to the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary. Effective July 25, 2006. DEGS00533 Senior Policy Advisor to the Assistant Secretary for Environment, Safety and Health. Effective July 27, 2006. Section 213.3332 Small Business Administration SBGS60153 Deputy Associate Administrator for Intergovernmental Affairs to the Associate Administrator for Field Operations. Effective July 7, 2006. SBGS00601 Associate Administrator for Field Operations to the Administrator. Effective July 28, 2006. Section 213.3339 United States International Trade Commission TCGS60030 Confidential Assistant to a Commissioner. Effective July 24, 2006. Section 213.3343 Farm Credit Administration FLOT60013 Executive Assistant to a Member, Farm Credit Administration Board. Effective July 18, 2006. Section 213.3344 Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission SHGS00004 Confidential Assistant to a Commission Member. Effective July 19, 2006. Section 213.3351 Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission FRGS60017 Confidential Assistant to the Chairman. Effective July 7, 2006. Section 213.3360 Consumer Product Safety Commission PSGS60064 Special Assistant (Legal) to a Commissioner. Effective July 25, 2006. Section 213.3373 Trade and Development Agency TDGS60002 Congressional Liaison to the Director. Effective July 5, 2006. Section 213.3384 Department of Housing and Urban Development DUGS60330 Special Policy Advisor to the Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development. Effective July 13, 2006. DUGS60293 Staff Assistant to the President, Government National Mortgage Association. Effective July 17, 2006. DUGS60502 Special Policy Advisor to the Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian Housing. Effective July 17, 2006. DUGS60213 Staff Assistant to the Assistant Secretary for Policy Development and Research. Effective July 20, 2006. Section 213.3394 Department of Transportation DTGS60372 Deputy Assistant Secretary for Governmental Affairs to the Assistant Secretary for Governmental Affairs. Effective July 17, 2006. Section 213.3371 Office of Government Ethics GGGS02900 Confidential Assistant to the Director. Effective July 21, 2006. Authority: 5 U.S.C. 3301 and 3302; E.O. 10577, 3 CFR 1954-1958 Comp., p. 218. Office of Personnel Management. Dan G. Blair, Deputy Director. [FR Doc. E6-14490 Filed 8-30-06; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 6325-39-P SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Proposed Collection; Comment Request Upon Written Request, Copies Available From: Securities and Exchange Commission, Office of Filings and Information Services, Washington, DC 20549. Extension: Rule 15a-5; SEC File No. 270-527; OMB Control No. 3235-0587. Notice is hereby given that pursuant to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501 *et seq.* ), the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) is soliciting comments on the collections of information summarized below. The Commission plans to submit these existing collections of information to the Office of Management and Budget (“OMB”) for extension and approval. Section 15(a) of the Investment Company Act of 1940 (15 U.S.C. 80a-15(a)) (the “Investment Company Act” or “Act”) prohibits any person from serving as an investment adviser (or a subadviser) to a fund except under a written contract that the fund's shareholders have approved. The Commission has granted exemptive relief, by order, to a number of registered open-end management investment companies (“funds”) whose investment advisers do not directly manage a portfolio of securities, but instead supervise one or more subadvisers, which are themselves responsible for the day-to-day management of the funds' portfolios (“manager of managers funds”). 1 Sponsors have analogized subadvisers in a manager of managers arrangement to portfolio managers employed by a fund adviser who may be hired and fired without the consent of shareholders. 1 In this notice, we use the term “subadviser” to mean a party that contracts with a fund's principal adviser to provide investment advisory services to the fund, and the term “principal adviser” to mean a party that contracts directly with a fund to provide investment advisory services to the fund. Proposed Rule 15a-5 (17 CFR 270.15a-5) and amendments to Form N-1A (17 CFR 239.15A, 17 CFR 274.11A) together would codify the orders we have issued for manager of managers funds, including many of their conditions, allowing any fund that satisfies the conditions to enter into or materially amend a subadvisory contract without shareholder approval. To provide for the protection of fund shareholders, a fund that relied on the proposed rule would have to satisfy a number of conditions, some of which would result in information collection requirements. For example, any fund that relied on the proposed rule would have to include certain provisions in all its advisory and subadvisory contracts. Specifically, all the fund's subadvisory contracts for which shareholder approval is not sought would have to provide the principal adviser with the authority to terminate the subadvisory contract at any time, on no more than 60 days written notice, without payment of penalty. 2 In addition, the advisory contract between each principal adviser and the fund would have to require that the principal adviser supervise the activities of its subadvisers. These provisions are intended to ensure that only manager of managers funds (in which subadvisers resemble and perform the duties of a portfolio manager in a typical fund) are eligible for relief under the proposed rule and to allow the principal adviser to carry out its principal duties to the fund, the selection and monitoring of subadvisers, in an efficient manner. 2 Most subadvisory contracts already contain terms that allow the principal adviser to terminate the contract at any time. We therefore estimate there would be no burden hours or costs imposed on funds by this requirement. During the first year after adoption of the rule, Commission staff estimates that each fund relying on the rule would incur an initial one-time burden to modify its existing contract with the principal adviser to require the principal adviser to supervise the activities of its subadvisers. Staff estimates this burden would be 5 hours per fund (4 hours by in-house counsel, 0.5 hours by fund directors, 0.5 hours by support staff). 3 Commission staff estimates that 149 funds would have to modify their advisory contracts with their principal advisers to comply with the proposed rule, which would result in an estimated total of 745 burden hours and 149 responses. 4 3 These estimates are based on discussions with fund representatives. 4 These 149 funds include 125 funds that currently rely on exemptive orders, 14 funds that have filed an application for an exemptive order and, as explained infra note 5, 10 additional funds that we estimate would choose to rely on the proposed rule during the first year. Commission staff estimates that after the first year, approximately 10 funds 5 would spend, on average, 5 hours annually (4 hours by in-house counsel, 0.5 hours by fund directors, 0.5 hours by support staff) to modify their advisory contracts with their principal advisers to comply with the proposed rule. Thus, the Commission estimates these modifications would result in a total of 50 burden hours and 10 responses. 5 Based on the number of manager of managers applications submitted since 1995, the staff estimates that 20 additional funds would seek to rely on the proposed rule each year. Approximately 10 of those funds would be funds whose securities have already been publicly offered, and therefore would need to modify their advisory contracts with principal advisers. We estimate that the 10 new funds that would rely on the proposed rule would incur no additional burden or costs to include these provisions in the initial advisory contract. The proposed rule also would require funds to provide shareholders (and file with the Commission) an information statement within 90 days after entry into the subadvisory contract or after making a material change to a wholly-owned subsidiary's existing subadvisory contract. The information statement must describe the agreement and contain all of the information that shareholders would have received in a proxy statement had a shareholder vote been held. This information collection is needed to ensure that shareholders are aware of the identity of the subadvisers that would be making investment decisions for the fund and the terms of each subadvisory contract. During the first 3 years after adoption of the proposed rule, Commission staff estimates that 179 funds 6 would each spend 20 hours 7 annually in preparing and distributing information statements. The total annual estimate for complying with the third party disclosure requirement of rule 15a-5 would be 3580 burden hours and 358 responses. 6 Commission staff estimates that 159 funds (including 125 funds that currently rely on exemptive orders, 14 funds that have filed an application for an exemptive order, and 20 additional funds that would have filed for exemptive relief during the first year after the rule's adoption) would rely on the proposed rule during the first year after its adoption. After the first year, the staff estimates that each year 20 additional funds would rely on the proposed rule. 7 Based on discussions with fund representatives, the Commission estimates that on average each fund would hire 2 new subadvisers per year. Therefore, funds would be required to send to shareholders 2 information statements per year. Based on discussions with fund representatives, the Commission estimates that each fund would spend 10 hours to prepare and mail each information statement. To arrive at the total information collection burden, staff has calculated a weighted average of the first year burden and the annual burden thereafter. Using a three-year period, the estimated weighted annual average information collection burden is 3862 hours 8 and 414 responses. 9 8 This estimate is based on the following calculation: (4325 hours (year 1) + 3630 hours (year 2) + 3630 hours (year 3)) ÷ 3 = 3861.6 hours. 9 This estimate is based on the following calculation: (507 responses (year 1) + 368 responses (year 2) + 368 responses (year 3)) ÷ 3 = 414.3 responses. The collections of information required by proposed rule 15a-5 would be voluntary because rule 15a-5 is an exemptive rule and, therefore, funds may choose not to rely on the proposed rule. The filings with the Commission required under the proposed rule would be available to the public. An agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to a collection of information unless it displays a currently valid control number. Written 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 collection of information;
(c)ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information collected; and
(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. Consideration will be given to comments and suggestions submitted in writing within 60 days of this publication. Please direct your written comments to R. Corey Booth, Director/Chief Information Officer, Securities and Exchange Commission, C/O Shirley Martinson, 6432 General Green Way, Alexandria, Virginia 22312 or send am e-mail to: *PRA_Mailbox@sec.gov.* Dated: August 23, 2006. Jill M. Peterson, Assistant Secretary. [FR Doc. 06-7300 Filed 8-30-06; 8:45 am]
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