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• Appeals Council. 

EXEMPTIONS CLAIMED FOR THE SYSTEM: 

None. 

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DEPARTMENT OF STATE 

[Public Notice Number: 6372] 

U.S. Advisory Commission on Public 

Diplomacy; Notice of Meeting 

The U.S. Advisory Commission on 

Public Diplomacy has rescheduled its 

public meeting to March 15, 2010 from 

9 a.m. to 11 a.m. in the conference room 

of the International Foundation for 

Electoral Systems (IFES) located at 1850 

K Street, NW., Fifth Floor, Washington, 

DC 20006. This will replace the 

previously scheduled February 11 

meeting (canceled due to inclement 

weather) at the same location. 

The Commissioners will discuss 

public diplomacy issues, including 

interagency collaboration in advancing 

U.S. government public diplomacy 

efforts. 

The Commission is a bipartisan panel 

created by Congress in 1948 to assess 

public diplomacy policies and programs 

of the U.S. government and of publicly 

funded nongovernmental organizations. 

The Commission reports its findings 

and recommendations to the President, 

the Congress, the Secretary of State, and 

the American people. 

The public may attend this meeting as 

seating capacity allows. To attend this 

meeting and for further information, 

please contact Carl Chan at (202) 632– 

2823; e-mail: chanck@state.gov. Any 

member of the public requesting 

reasonable accommodation at this 

meeting should contact Mr. Chan prior 

to March 8th. Requests received after 

that date will be considered, but might 

not be possible to fulfill. 

Dated: February 16, 2010. 

Carl Chan, 

Executive Director, ACPD. 

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DEPARTMENT OF STATE 

[Public Notice 6879] 

Shipping Coordinating Committee; 

Notice of Committee Meeting 

The Shipping Coordinating 

Committee (SHC) will conduct an open 

meeting at 9:30 a.m. on Tuesday March 

9th, 2010, in Room 2415 of the United 

States Coast Guard Headquarters 

Building, 2100 Second Street, SW., 

Washington, DC 20593–0001. The 

primary purpose of the meeting is to 

prepare for the sixtieth Session of the 

International Maritime Organization 

(IMO) Marine Environmental Protection 

Committee to be held at the IMO 

headquarters in London, United 

Kingdom, from March 22 to March 26th, 

2010. 

The primary matters to be considered 

include: 

—Harmful aquatic organisms in ballast 

water 

—Recycling of ships 

—Prevention of air pollution from ships 

—Consideration and adoption of 

amendments to mandatory 

instruments 

—Interpretations of and amendments to 

MARPOL and related instruments 

—Implementation of the International 

Convention on Oil Pollution 

Preparedness, Response and 

Cooperation (OPRC) and the OPRCHazardous and Noxious Substances 

Protocol and relevant conference 

resolutions 

—Identification and protection of 

Special Areas and Particularly 

Sensitive Sea Areas 

—Inadequacy of reception facilities 

—Reports of sub-committees 

—Work of other bodies 

—Status of conventions 

—Harmful anti-fouling systems for ships 

—Promotion of implementation and 

enforcement of MARPOL and related 

instruments 

—Technical Cooperation Sub-program 

for the Protection of the Marine 

Environment 

—Role of the human element 

—Formal safety assessment 

—Noise from commercial shipping and 

its adverse impacts on marine life 

—Work program of the Committee and 

subsidiary bodies 

—Application of the Committees’ 

Guidelines 

—Consideration of the report of the 

Committee 

Members of the public may attend 

this meeting up to the seating capacity 

of the room. To facilitate the building 

security process, those who plan to 

attend should contact the meeting 

coordinator, LCDR Brian Moore, by email at brian.e.moore@uscg.mil, by 

phone at (202) 372–1434, by fax at (202) 

372–1925, or in writing at Commandant 

(CG–5224), U.S. Coast Guard, 2100 2nd 

Street, SW., Stop 7126, Washington, DC 

20593–7126 not later than March 2nd, 

2010, 7 days prior to the meeting. A 

member of the public requesting 

reasonable accommodation should also 

make such request prior to March 2nd, 

2010. Requests made after March 2nd, 

2010 might not be able to be 

accommodated. Please note that due to 

security considerations, two valid, 

government issued photo identifications 

must be presented to gain entrance to 

the Headquarters building. The 

Headquarters building is accessible by 

taxi and privately owned conveyance 

(public transportation is not generally 

available). 

However, parking in the vicinity of 

the building is extremely limited. 

Additional information regarding this 

and other IMO SHC public meetings 

may be found at: http://www.uscg.mil/ 

imo. 

Dated: February 12, 2010. 

Jon Trent Warner, 

Executive Secretary, Shipping Coordinating 

Committee, Department of State. 

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DEPARTMENT OF STATE 

[Public Notice 6880] 

Advisory Committee on Historical 

Diplomatic Documentation; Notice of 

Meeting 

Summary: The Advisory Committee 

on Historical Diplomatic Documentation 

will meet on March 1 and March 2 at 

the Department of State, 2201 ‘‘C’’ Street 

NW., Washington, DC. 

Prior notification and a valid 

government-issued photo ID (such as 

driver’s license, passport, U. S. 

government or military ID) are required 

for entrance into the building. Members 

of the public planning to attend must 

notify Margaret Morrissey, Office of the 

Historian (202–663–3529) no later than 

February 25, 2010 to provide date of 

birth, valid government-issued photo 

identification number and type (such as 

driver’s license number/State, passport 

number/country, or US government ID 

number/agency or military ID number/ 

branch), and relevant telephone 

numbers. If you cannot provide one of 

the specified forms of ID, please consult 

with Margaret Morrissey for acceptable 

alternative forms of picture 

identification. In addition, any requests 

for reasonable accommodation should 

be made No later than February 23, 

2010. Requests for reasonable 

accommodation received after that time 

will be considered, but might be 

impossible to fulfill. 

The Committee will meet in open 

session from 1:30 p.m. through 2:30 

p.m. on Monday, March 1, 2010, in the 

Department of State, 2201 ‘‘C’’ Street 

NW., Washington, DC, in Conference 

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Room 1205, to discuss declassification 

and transfer of Department of State 

records to the National Archives and 

Records Administration and the status 

of the Foreign Relations series. The 

remainder of the Committee’s sessions 

from 2:45 p.m. until 5 p.m. on Monday, 

March 1, 2010 and 9 a.m. until 12 p.m. 

on Tuesday, March 2, 2010, will be 

closed in accordance with Section 10(d) 

of the Federal Advisory Committee Act 

(Pub. L. 92–463). The agenda calls for 

discussions of agency declassification 

decisions concerning the Foreign 

Relations series and other 

declassification issues. These are 

matters properly classified and not 

subject to public disclosure under 5 

U.S.C. 552b(c)(1) and the public interest 

requires that such activities be withheld 

from disclosure. Questions concerning 

the meeting should be directed to 

Ambassador Edward Brynn, Executive 

Secretary, Advisory Committee on 

Historical Diplomatic Documentation, 

Department of State, Office of the 

Historian, Washington, DC, 20520, 

telephone (202) 663–1123, (e-mail 

history@state.gov). 

In accordance with 41 CFR 102– 

3.150(b), the Department finds 

exceptional circumstances for giving 

less than 15 calendar days notice. The 

meeting must be held on March 1–2 due 

to the availability of the members of the 

Advisory Committee; however, 

publication of the notice was delayed 

because of unforeseen and exceptional 

weather emergencies that necessitated 

closing Federal offices or curtailing 

government activities for a significant 

period of time in Washington DC, 

including at the Department of State and 

the Office of the Federal Register. 

Dated: February 16, 2010. 

Edward Brynn, 

Executive Secretary, Department of State. 

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OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES 

TRADE REPRESENTATIVE 

[Docket No. WTO/DS404] 

WTO Dispute Settlement Proceeding 

Regarding United States—AntiDumping Measures on Certain Shrimp 

From Viet Nam 

AGENCY: Office of the United States 

Trade Representative. 

ACTION: Notice; request for comments. 

SUMMARY: The Office of the United 

States Trade Representative (‘‘USTR’’) is 

providing notice that on February 1, 

2010, the Socialist Republic of Vietnam 

(‘‘Vietnam’’) requested consultations 

with the United States under the 

Marrakesh Agreement Establishing the 

World Trade Organization (‘‘WTO 

Agreement’’) concerning a number of 

antidumping administrative reviews 

and new shipper reviews conducted by 

the Department of Commerce on 

imports of certain frozen warmwater 

shrimp from Vietnam (Investigation A– 

552–801), and various U.S. laws, 

regulations, administrative procedures, 

practices, and methodologies. That 

request may be found at http:// 

www.wto.org contained in a document 

designated as WT/DS404/1. USTR 

invites written comments from the 

public concerning the issues raised in 

this dispute. 

DATES: Although USTR will accept any 

comments received during the course of 

the dispute settlement proceedings, 

comments should be submitted on or 

before March 15, 2010 to be assured of 

timely consideration by USTR. 

ADDRESSES: Public comments should be 

submitted electronically to http:// 

www.regulations.gov, docket number 

USTR–2010–0008. If you are unable to 

submit comments using http:// 

www.regulations.gov, please contact 

Sandy McKinzy at (202) 395–9483 to 

arrange for an alternative method of 

transmission. If (as explained below) the 

comments contain confidential 

information, then the comments should 

be submitted by fax only to Sandy 

McKinzy at (202) 395–3640. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: J. 

Daniel Stirk, Associate General Counsel, 

Office of the United States Trade 

Representative, 600 17th Street, NW., 

Washington, DC 20508, (202) 395–9617. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: USTR is 

providing notice that consultations have 

been requested pursuant to the WTO 

Understanding on Rules and Procedures 

Governing the Settlement of Disputes 

(‘‘DSU’’). If such consultations should 

fail to resolve the matter and a dispute 

settlement panel is established pursuant 

to the DSU, such panel, which would 

hold its meetings in Geneva, 

Switzerland, would be expected to issue 

a report on its findings and 

recommendations within nine months 

after it is established. 

Major Issues Raised by Vietnam 

On February 1, 2010, Vietnam 

requested consultations regarding a 

number of antidumping administrative 

reviews and new shipper reviews 

conducted by the Department of 

Commerce on certain frozen warmwater 

shrimp from Vietnam, referring in 

particular to the use of what it describes 

as ‘‘zeroing’’ in those reviews. Vietnam 

challenges the determinations by the 

Department of Commerce in (1) Certain 

Frozen Warmwater Shrimp From the 

Socialist Republic of Vietnam: Final 

Results of the First Antidumping Duty 

Administrative Review, 72 FR 52,052 

(September 12, 2007), as well as any 

assessment instructions and cash 

deposit requirements issued pursuant 

thereto; (2) Certain Frozen Warmwater 

Shrimp From the Socialist Republic of 

Vietnam: Final Results and Final Partial 

Recission of Antidumping Duty 

Administrative Review, 73 FR 52,273 

(September 9, 2008), as well as any 

assessment instructions and cash 

deposit requirements issued pursuant 

thereto; (3) Certain Frozen Warmwater 

Shrimp From the Socialist Republic of 

Vietnam: Final Results of the Second 

New Shipper Review, 74 FR 24,796 (May 

26, 2009), as well as any assessment 

instructions and cash deposit 

requirements issued pursuant thereto; 

(4) Certain Frozen Warmwater Shrimp 

From the Socialist Republic of Vietnam: 

Final Results and Final Partial Recission 

of Antidumping Duty Administrative 

Review, 74 FR 47,191 (September 15, 

2009), as well as any assessment 

instructions and cash deposit 

requirements issued pursuant thereto; 

(5) preliminary and final results of any 

administrative reviews or other reviews 

of Certain Frozen Warmwater Shrimp 

from the Socialist Republic of Vietnam 

published in the Federal Register after 

the date of the request for consultations, 

including reviews under Section 751(c) 

of the Tariff Act of 1930, as well as any 

assessment instructions and cash 

deposit requirements issued pursuant 

thereto; (6) any changes in the final 

results of any administrative review of 

Certain Frozen Warmwater Shrimp 

From the Socialist Republic of Vietnam 

issued pursuant to a remand from the 

U.S. Court of International Trade, as 

well as any opinion of the Court related 

to the remand results, and any 

assessment instructions and cash 

deposit requirements issued pursuant 

thereto; and (7) any actions taken by 

U.S. Customs and Border Protection to 

collect definitive antidumping duties at 

duty assessment rates established in the 

administrative reviews identified above, 

including through the issuance of 

liquidation instructions and notices. 

Vietnam also challenges various U.S. 

laws, regulations, administrative 

procedures, practices, and 

methodologies, including (1) the Tariff 

Act of 1930, as amended, in particular 

sections 736, 751, 771(35)(A) and (B), 

and 777A(c) and (d) (19 U.S.C. 1673e, 

1675, 1677(35)(A) and (B), and 1677f(c) 

and (d)); (2) the Statement of 

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