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process for developing or updating a 

strategic plan includes consultation 

with Congress and other interested and 

potentially affected parties. 

The structure of the draft strategic 

plan has changed from that of the 

previous plan, and incorporates the 

structure of the Department’s new 

balanced scorecard. A balanced 

scorecard ‘‘balances’’ or equally 

emphasizes programmatic and 

management objectives, and contains 

measures that are tracked by senior 

leaders to support their day-to-day 

management activities. During the 

spring of 2010, Secretary Locke engaged 

with a broad cross-section of the 

Department’s senior leadership to 

develop a balanced scorecard to deploy 

and execute this Strategic Plan. The 

Secretary directed a balanced scorecard 

approach to establish and maintain 

focus on the Department’s top priorities, 

to institutionalize quarterly data-driven 

reviews with heads of operating units to 

monitor and ensure attainment of these 

priorities, and to emphasize that 

Customer Service, Organizational 

Excellence, and Workforce Excellence 

are prerequisites to the short and longterm achievement of the Department’s 

programmatic goals. 

The balanced scorecard approach 

monitors the Department’s internal 

management processes and focuses its 

operating programs on priorities. This 

approach recognizes that follow-up and 

follow-through are critical to both the 

short and long-term success and 

sustainability of high-performing 

programs. 

The Department’s balanced scorecard 

and Strategic Plan are structured around 

three programmatic themes (Economic 

Growth, Science and Information, and 

Environmental Stewardship) and three 

management themes (Customer Service, 

Organizational Excellence, and 

Workforce Excellence). The Economic 

Growth theme is further subdivided into 

three goals (Innovation and 

Entrepreneurship, Market Development 

and Commercialization, and Trade 

Promotion and Compliance). 

These themes and goals are further 

subdivided into 27 strategic objectives, 

which frame all of the Department’s 

programs and supporting activities. 

Each objective narrative addresses the 

Department’s strategies to achieve the 

objective, key challenges, external 

factors, contributing programs, and 

program evaluations. Narratives for the 

18 programmatic objectives also include 

performance measures (i.e., GPRA 

measures) for tracking attainment. 

The Department’s Strategic Plan is 

implemented on an annual basis 

through the Annual Performance Plan 

for each operating unit. Results are 

published in the Department’s annual 

Performance and Accountability Report. 

Copies of the Department’s Annual 

Performance Plans and Performance and 

Accountability Reports are posted at 

http://www.osec.doc.gov/bmi/budget/. 

Dated: March 4, 2011. 

Scott Quehl, 

Chief Financial Officer and Assistant 

Secretary for Administration. 

[FR Doc. 2011–5563 Filed 3–10–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–GA–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Foreign-Trade Zones Board 

[Docket 16–2011] 

Foreign-Trade Zone 229—Charleston, 

WV; Application for Subzone; Cabela’s 

Inc.; (Hunting, Fishing, Camping and 

Related Outdoor Merchandise) 

Triadelphia, WV 

An application has been submitted to 

the Foreign-Trade Zones Board (the 

Board) by the West Virginia Economic 

Development Authority, grantee of FTZ 

229, requesting special-purpose subzone 

status for the warehousing and 

distribution facility of Cabela’s Inc. 

(Cabela’s), located in Triadelphia, West 

Virginia. The application was submitted 

pursuant to the provisions of the 

Foreign-Trade Zones Act, as amended 

(19 U.S.C. 81a–81u), and the regulations 

of the Board (15 CFR part 400). It was 

formally filed on March 7, 2011. 

The Cabela’s facility (510 employees, 

60 acres) is located at One Distribution 

Road, Triadelphia, West Virginia. The 

facility is used for the storage and 

distribution of outdoor merchandise, 

clothing and footwear, including optics, 

electronics, hunting, archery, shooting, 

fishing, boating, camping, pet and 

related products (duty rate ranges from 

duty-free to 48%). 

FTZ procedures could exempt 

Cabela’s from customs duty payments 

on foreign products that will be reexported (approximately 1% of 

shipments). On its domestic sales, the 

company would be able to defer duty 

payments until merchandise is shipped 

from the plant and entered for 

consumption. FTZ designation would 

further allow Cabela’s to realize 

logistical benefits through the use of 

weekly customs entry procedures. The 

request indicates that the savings from 

FTZ procedures would help improve 

the facility’s international 

competitiveness. 

In accordance with the Board’s 

regulations, Elizabeth Whiteman of the 

FTZ Staff is designated examiner to 

evaluate and analyze the facts and 

information presented in the application 

and case record and to report findings 

and recommendations to the Board. 

Public comment is invited from 

interested parties. Submissions (original 

and 3 copies) shall be addressed to the 

Board’s Executive Secretary at the 

address below. The closing period for 

their receipt is May 10, 2011. Rebuttal 

comments in response to material 

submitted during the foregoing period 

may be submitted during the subsequent 

15-day period to May 25, 2011. 

A copy of the application will be 

available for public inspection at the 

Office of the Executive Secretary, 

Foreign-Trade Zones Board, Room 2111, 

U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 

Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, 

DC 20230–0002, and in the ‘‘Reading 

Room’’ section of the Board’s Web site, 

which is accessible via http:// 

www.trade.gov/ftz. 

For further information, contact 

Elizabeth Whiteman at 

Elizabeth.Whiteman@trade.gov or (202) 

482–0473. 

Dated: March 7, 2011. 

Andrew McGilvray, 

Executive Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2011–5695 Filed 3–10–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Foreign-Trade Zones Board 

[Docket 17–2011] 

Foreign-Trade Zone 266—Dane 

County, WI; Application for Subzone, 

Cabela’s Inc. (Hunting, Fishing, 

Camping and Related Outdoor 

Merchandise), Prairie du Chien, WI 

An application has been submitted to 

the Foreign-Trade Zones Board (the 

Board) by Dane County, Wisconsin, 

grantee of FTZ 266, requesting specialpurpose subzone status for the 

warehousing and distribution facility of 

Cabela’s Inc. (Cabela’s), located in 

Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin. The 

application was submitted pursuant to 

the provisions of the Foreign-Trade 

Zones Act, as amended (19 U.S.C. 81a– 

81u), and the regulations of the Board 

(15 CFR part 400). It was formally filed 

on March 7, 2011. 

The Cabela’s facility (685 employees, 

56 acres) is located at 501 Cliffhaven 

Road, Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin. The 

facility is used for the storage and 

distribution of outdoor merchandise, 

clothing and footwear, including optics, 

electronics, hunting, archery, shooting, 


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