Public Information Collection Requirement Submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Review

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Office of the Secretary

Public Information Collection Requirement Submitted to the Office

of Management and Budget (OMB) for Review

ACTION: Notice.

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The Department of Defense has submitted to OMB for clearance, the

following proposal for collection of information under the provisions

of the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35).

Title, Applicable Forms, and OMB Control Number: Validation of

Public or Community Service Employment Performed by Retired Personnel

Retired Under the Temporary Early Retirement Authority for Increased

Retirement

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Compensation, DD Form 2767, 0704-0357.

Type of Request: Reinstatement, with change.

Number of Respondents: 4,800.

Responses per Respondent: 1

Annual Responses: 4,800.

Average Burden per Response: 10 minutes.

Annual Burden Hours: 800.

Needs and Uses: Public Law 102-484, Section 4464, required the

Department of Defense to develop policy and procedures to validate and

credit increased compensation for qualifying public and community

service employment performed by retired personnel of the Armed Forces

under the ``Temporary Early Retirement Authority Program.'' Public Law

103-337, Section 542, extended this program to the Coast Guard. This

information collection, which uses the DD Form 2676, ``Validation of

Public or Community Service Employment,'' will allow DoD and Coast

Guard to collect necessary information to recompute retired pay when

the participating member qualifies under this program. Respondents to

this program will be public or community service employers. The data

are submitted by the Defense Manpower Data Center to either the Defense

Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS) or the Coast Guard Finance Center

for update of final pay information files. When a member reaches age

62, the Finance Centers will recompute retirement pay, adding whatever

public or community service employment was validated during the

enhanced retirement qualification period.

Affected Public: Not-for-profit institutions; Federal Government;

State, local, or tribal government.

Frequency: On occasion and annually.

Respondent's Obligation: Required to obtain or retain benefits.

OMB Desk Officer: Mr. Edward C. Springer.

Written comments and recommendations on the proposed information

collection should be sent to Mr. Springer at the Office of Management

and Budget, Desk Officer for DoD, Room 10236, New Executive Office

Building, Washington, DC 20503.

DOD Clearance Officer: Mr. William Pearce.

Written requests for copies of the information collection proposal

should be sent to Mr. Pearce, WHS/DIOR, 1215 Jefferson Davis Highway,

Suite 1204, Arlington, VA 22202-4302.

Dated: September 17, 1996.

Patricia L. Toppings,

Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison Officer, Department of Defense.

[FR Doc. 96-24222 Filed 9-20-96; 8:45 am]

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