10082 Federal Register / Vol. 76, No. 36 / Wednesday, February 23, 2011 / Notices 

409 3rd Street, SW., Suite 6050, 

Washington, DC 20416. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The notice 

of the President’s major disaster 

declaration for Private Non-Profit 

organizations in the State of NEW 

JERSEY, dated 02/04/2011, is hereby 

amended to include the following areas 

as adversely affected by the disaster. 

Primary Counties: Atlantic, 

Cumberland. 

All other information in the original 

declaration remains unchanged. 

(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance 

Numbers 59002 and 59008) 

Roger B. Garland, 

Acting Associate Administrator for Disaster 

Assistance. 

[FR Doc. 2011–3949 Filed 2–22–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 8025–01–P 

SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 

Office of International Trade; State 

Trade and Export Promotion (STEP) 

Grant Program 

AGENCY: U.S. Small Business 

Administration (SBA). 

ACTION: Notice of grant opportunity to 

States. 

Eligible Applicants: Each of the 

several States, the District of Columbia, 

the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the 

U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, and 

American Samoa. 

SUMMARY: The SBA plans to issue 

Program Announcement No. OIT– 

STEP–2011–01 to invite the States, the 

District of Columbia and the U.S. 

Territories to apply for a STEP grant to 

carry out export promotion programs 

that assist eligible small business 

concerns to become exporters and 

increase the value of small business U.S. 

exports. STEP grants will be awarded on 

a competitive basis. The funding 

instrument is a cooperative agreement. 

A state may not submit more than 1 

application for a grant under the 

program. Awards will be made for a 

project period of 12 months from the 

date of award. A state may apply each 

Federal fiscal year that Congressional 

appropriations are made available 

throughout the 3-year term of the 

program. 

DATES: Program Announcement No. 

OIT–STEP–2011–01 will be posted on 

http://www.Grants.gov on March 1, 

2011. The application period will be 

March 1, 2011 through April 26, 2011. 

Awards for the first year of the grant 

program will be issued in the summer 

of 2011. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Small 

Business Jobs Act of 2010 authorizes the 

U.S. Small Business Administration to 

establish a 3-year pilot program, known 

as the State Trade and Export Promotion 

(STEP) Grant Program, to make grants to 

States to assist eligible small business 

concerns. The objective of the STEP 

Grant Program is to increase the number 

of small businesses that are exporting, 

and increase the value of exports by 

small businesses in the States. 

The applicants’ proposed activities for 

small businesses may include: 

• Participation in a foreign trade 

mission, 

• A foreign market sales trip, 

• A subscription to services provided 

by the Department of Commerce, 

• The payment of website foreign 

language translation fees, 

• The design of international 

marketing products or campaigns, 

• An export trade show exhibit, 

• Participation in training workshops, 

• Any other export initiative deemed 

appropriate by SBA’s Associate 

Administrator of the Office of 

International Trade (OIT) that does not 

duplicate the services of other SBA 

resource partners. These other export 

initiatives may include, but are not 

limited to, projects that increase direct 

and indirect supply chain exporting; 

export match-making events; formation 

of export outreach teams composed of 

State, local, Federal, etc. personnel; 

sector-specific projects unique to the 

State’s environment/geography/ 

international relationships; projects to 

develop and use technology for 

exporting; reverse trade missions; and 

projects to increase lender readiness for 

financing export trade. 

In making grants, SBA may give 

priority to an application that focuses 

on socially and economically 

disadvantaged small businesses, 

women-owned small businesses, 

veteran and service-connected disabled 

veteran-owned small businesses, or 

rural small businesses as part of an 

export promotion program. 

State recipients are encouraged to 

work collaboratively with the SBA 

District Offices, SBA regional managers 

at U.S. Export Assistance Centers 

(USEAC) and SBA resource partners 

(i.e., Women’s Business Centers (WBCs), 

Small Business Trade Development 

Centers (SBTDC), Small Business 

Development Centers (SBDC), Veterans 

Business Outreach Centers (VBOC) and 

SCORE) to coordinate their efforts to 

promote trade and avoid duplication. 

Also, the States are encouraged to fully 

utilize the resources of other Federal, 

state and local government agencies, 

academic and private-sector programs 

that aid small businesses in order to 

provide seamless, non-duplicative 

export promotion assistance. 

SBA expects to issue awards under 

this Program Announcement totaling 

the full FY 2011 appropriated amount of 

$30,000,000. Individual State project 

award amounts will vary based on the 

State’s proposed project plan and 

budget. The Federal share of project 

costs for grants to the 10 states with the 

highest number of exporters that are 

small business concerns will not exceed 

40% of the $30 million appropriation. 

The other 60% will be reserved for the 

remaining States. The States with the 

highest number of small business 

exporters will be determined based on 

the latest data available from the 

Department of Commerce. 

The Federal share of project cost for 

a State that has a high export volume 

will be 65%. The Federal share of 

project cost for a State that does not 

have a high export volume will be 75%. 

(The Associate Administrator for the 

SBA Office of International Trade will 

determine which States have high 

export volume). The State must match 

the remainder of project cost. The match 

must be comprised of not less than 50% 

cash and not more than 50% of indirect 

costs and in-kind contributions. 

Matching funds may not be derived 

from any Federal program. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Email questions about the STEP Grant 

Program to STEP@sba.gov. 

Dated: February 17, 2011. 

Luz Hopewell, 

Acting Associate Administrator, Office of 

International Trade. 

[FR Doc. 2011–4009 Filed 2–22–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 8025–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF STATE 

[Public Notice: 7344; OMB Control Number 

1405–0134] 

60-Day Notice of Proposed Information 

Collection: DS–157, Supplemental 

Nonimmigrant Visa Application 

ACTION: Notice of request for public 

comments. 

SUMMARY: The Department of State is 

seeking Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB) approval for the 

information collection described below. 

The purpose of this notice is to allow 60 

days for public comment in the Federal 

Register preceding submission to OMB. 

We are conducting this process in 

accordance with the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995. 

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