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Name of Committee: Center for Scientific 

Review Special Emphasis Panel; Member 

Conflict: Risk Prevention and Health 

Behavior. 

Date: February 2, 2011. 

Time: 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. 

Agenda: To review and evaluate grant 

applications. 

Place: National Institutes of Health, 6701 

Rockledge Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892. 

(Telephone Conference Call.) 

Contact Person: Claire E. Gutkin, PhD, 

MPH, Scientific Review Officer, Center for 

Scientific Review, National Institutes of 

Health, 6701 Rockledge Drive, Room 3106, 

MSC 7808, Bethesda, MD 20892, 301–594– 

3139, gutkincl@csr.nih.gov. 

This notice is being published less than 15 

days prior to the meeting due to the timing 

limitations imposed by the review and 

funding cycle. 

Name of Committee: Molecular, Cellular 

and Developmental Neuroscience Integrated 

Review Group; Molecular 

Neuropharmacology and Signaling Study 

Section. 

Date: February 7–8, 2011. 

Time: 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. 

Agenda: To review and evaluate grant 

applications. 

Place: Embassy Suites at the Chevy Chase 

Pavilion, 4300 Military Road, NW., 

Washington, DC 20015. 

Contact Person: Deborah L. Lewis, PhD, 

Scientific Review Officer, Center for 

Scientific Review, National Institutes of 

Health, 6701 Rockledge Drive, Room 4183, 

MSC 7850, Bethesda, MD 20892, 301–408– 

9129, lewisdeb@csr.nih.gov. 

Name of Committee: Musculoskeletal, Oral 

and Skin Sciences Integrated Review Group; 

Skeletal Biology Development and Disease 

Study Section. 

Date: February 9–10, 2011. 

Time: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. 

Agenda: To review and evaluate grant 

applications. 

Place: Sheraton Delfina, 530 West Pico 

Boulevard, Santa Monica, CA 90405. 

Contact Person: Priscilla B. Chen, PhD, 

Scientific Review Officer, Center for 

Scientific Review, National Institutes of 

Health, 6701 Rockledge Drive, Room 4104, 

MSC 7814, Bethesda, MD 20892, (301) 435– 

1787. chenp@csr.nih.gov. 

Name of Committee: Molecular, Cellular 

and Developmental Neuroscience Integrated 

Review Group; Cellular and Molecular 

Biology of Neurodegeneration Study Section. 

Date: February 9–10, 2011. 

Time: 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. 

Agenda: To review and evaluate grant 

applications. 

Place: Hotel Monaco, 501 Geary Street, San 

Francisco, CA 94102. 

Contact Person: Laurent Taupenot, PhD, 

Scientific Review Officer, Center for 

Scientific Review, National Institutes of 

Health, 6701 Rockledge Drive, Room 4183, 

MSC 7850, Bethesda, MD 20892, 301–435– 

1203. taupenol@csr.nih.gov. 

Name of Committee: Immunology 

Integrated Review Group; Innate Immunity 

and Inflammation Study Section. 

Date: February 10–11, 2011. 

Time: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. 

Agenda: To review and evaluate grant 

applications. 

Place: Doubletree Guest Suites Santa 

Monica Hotel, 1707 Fourth Street, Santa 

Monica, CA 90401. 

Contact Person: Tina McIntyre, PhD, 

Scientific Review Officer, Center for 

Scientific Review, National Institutes of 

Health, 6701 Rockledge Drive, Room 4202, 

MSC 7812, Bethesda, MD 20892. 301–594– 

6375. mcintyrt@csr.nih.gov. 

Name of Committee: Infectious Diseases 

and Microbiology Integrated Review Group; 

Host Interactions with Bacterial Pathogens 

Study Section. 

Date: February 11, 2011. 

Time: 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. 

Agenda: To review and evaluate grant 

applications. 

Place: Marina del Rey Hotel, 13534 Bali 

Way, Marina del Rey, CA 90292. 

Contact Person: Fouad A El-Zaatari, PhD, 

Scientific Review Officer, Center for 

Scientific Review, National Institutes of 

Health, 6701 Rockledge Drive, Room 3186, 

MSC 7808, Bethesda, MD 20892. (301) 435– 

1149. elzaataf@csr.nih.gov. 

Name of Committee: Center for Scientific 

Review Special Emphasis Panel; PAR08–130: 

International Research in Infectious Diseases 

including AIDS (IRIDA). 

Date: February 11, 2011. 

Time: 1 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. 

Agenda: To review and evaluate grant 

applications. 

Place: Marina del Rey Hotel, 1354 Bali 

Way, Marina del Rey, CA 90292. 

Contact Person: Soheyla Saadi, PhD, 

Scientific Review Officer, Center for 

Scientific Review, National Institutes of 

Health, 6701 Rockledge Drive, Room 3211, 

MSC 7808, Bethesda, MD 20892. 301–435– 

0903. saadisoh@csr.nih.gov. 

Name of Committee: Center for Scientific 

Review Special Emphasis Panel; 

Collaborative: Cardiovascular Disease and 

Epidemiology. 

Date: February 11, 2011. 

Time: 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. 

Agenda: To review and evaluate grant 

applications. 

Place: Bethesda Marriott, 5151 Pooks Hill 

Road, Bethesda, MD 20814. 

Contact Person: J Scott Osborne, PhD, 

Scientific Review Officer, Center for 

Scientific Review, National Institutes of 

Health, 6701 Rockledge Drive, Room 4114, 

MSC 7816, Bethesda, MD 20892. (301) 435– 

1782. osbornes@csr.nih.gov. 

(Catalogue of Federal Domestic Assistance 

Program Nos. 93.306, Comparative Medicine; 

93.333, Clinical Research, 93.306, 93.333, 

93.337, 93.393–93.396, 93.837–93.844, 

93.846–93.878, 93.892, 93.893, National 

Institutes of Health, HHS) 

Dated: January 11, 2011. 

Jennifer S. Spaeth, 

Director, Office of Federal Advisory 

Committee Policy. 

[FR Doc. 2011–871 Filed 1–14–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4140–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND 

SECURITY 

[Docket No. DHS–2010–0087] 

RIN 1601–ZA09 

Identification of Foreign Countries 

Whose Nationals Are Eligible To 

Participate in the H–2A and H–2B 

Nonimmigrant Worker Programs 

AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, DHS. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: Under Department of 

Homeland Security (DHS) regulations, 

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration 

Services (USCIS) may approve petitions 

for H–2A and H–2B nonimmigrant 

status only for nationals of countries 

that the Secretary of Homeland Security, 

with the concurrence of the Secretary of 

State, has designated by notice 

published in the Federal Register. That 

notice must be renewed each year. This 

notice announces that the Secretary of 

Homeland Security, in consultation 

with the Secretary of State, is 

identifying 53 countries whose 

nationals are eligible to participate in 

the H–2A and H–2B programs for the 

coming year. 

DATES: Effective Date: This notice is 

effective January 18, 2011, and shall be 

without effect at the end of one year 

after January 18, 2011. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Alexander Hartman, Office of Policy, 

Department of Homeland Security, 

Washington, DC 20528, (202) 282–9820. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background: USCIS generally may 

approve H–2A and H–2B petitions only 

for nationals of countries that the 

Secretary of Homeland Security, with 

the concurrence of the Secretary of 

State, has designated as participating 

countries. Such designation must be 

published as a notice in the Federal 

Register and expires after one year. 

USCIS may, however, allow a national 

from a country not on the list to be 

named as a beneficiary of an H–2A or 

H–2B petition based on a determination 

that such participation is in the U.S. 

interest. See 8 CFR 214.2(h)(5)(i)(F) and 

8 CFR 214.2(h)(6)(i)(E). 

In designating countries to include on 

the list, the Secretary of Homeland 

Security, with the concurrence of the 

Secretary of State, will take into account 

factors including, but not limited to: (1) 

The country’s cooperation with respect 

to issuance of travel documents for 

citizens, subjects, nationals, and 

residents of that country who are subject 

to a final order of removal; (2) the 

number of final and unexecuted orders 

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of removal against citizens, subjects, 

nationals, and residents of that country; 

(3) the number of orders of removal 

executed against citizens, subjects, 

nationals, and residents of that country; 

and (4) such other factors as may serve 

the U.S. interest. See 8 CFR 

214.2(h)(5)(i)(F)(1)(i) and 8 CFR 

214.2(h)(6)(i)(E)(1). 

In December 2008, DHS published in 

the Federal Register two notices, 

‘‘Identification of Foreign Countries 

Whose Nationals Are Eligible To 

Participate in the H–2A Visa Program,’’ 

and ‘‘Identification of Foreign Countries 

Whose Nationals Are Eligible To 

Participate in the H–2B Visa Program,’’ 

which designated 28 countries whose 

nationals are eligible to participate in 

the H–2A and H–2B programs. See 73 

FR 77043 (Dec. 18, 2008); 73 FR 77729 

(Dec. 19, 2008). The notices ceased to 

have effect on January 17, 2010 and 

January 18, 2010, respectively. See 8 

CFR 214.2(h)(5)(i)(F)(2) and 8 CFR 

214.2(h)(6)(i)(E)(3). 

To allow for the continued operation 

of the H–2A and H–2B programs, the 

Secretary of Homeland Security 

published, with the concurrence of the 

Secretary of State, a notice in the 

Federal Register on January 19, 2010, 

‘‘Identification of Foreign Countries 

Whose Nationals Are Eligible To 

Participate in the H–2A and H–2B 

Programs.’’ The notice provided for the 

continued eligibility of the 28 countries 

initially listed in the Federal Register 

notices of January 17 and January 18, 

2009, and added 11 additional 

countries. See 75 FR 2879 (Jan. 19, 

2010). 

The Secretary of Homeland Security 

has determined, with the concurrence of 

the Secretary of State, that 38 countries 

previously designated in the January 19, 

2010 notice continue to meet the 

standards identified in that notice for 

eligible countries and therefore should 

remain designated as countries whose 

nationals are eligible to participate in 

the H–2A and H–2B programs. The 

Secretary of Homeland Security has 

determined, however, with the 

concurrence of the Secretary of State, 

that Indonesia should no longer 

continue to be designated as an eligible 

country because Indonesia is not 

meeting the standards set out in the 

regulation. See 8 CFR 

214.2(h)(5)(i)(F)(1)(i) and 8 CFR 

214.2(h)(6)(i)(E)(1). Accordingly, DHS 

has removed Indonesia from the list of 

eligible countries. 

Further, the Secretary of Homeland 

Security, with the concurrence of the 

Secretary of State, has determined that 

it is now appropriate to add 15 

additional countries to the list of 

countries whose nationals are eligible to 

participate in the H–2A and H–2B 

programs. This determination is made 

taking into account the four factors 

identified above. The Secretary of 

Homeland Security considered other 

pertinent factors including, but not 

limited to, evidence of past usage of the 

H–2A and H–2B programs by nationals 

of the countries to be added, as well as 

evidence relating to the economic 

impact on particular U.S. industries or 

regions resulting from the addition or 

continued non-inclusion of specific 

countries. In consideration of all of the 

above, this notice designates for the first 

time Barbados, Estonia, Fiji, Hungary, 

Kiribati, Latvia, Macedonia, Nauru, 

Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Slovenia, 

Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, and 

Vanuatu as countries whose nationals 

are eligible to participate in the H–2A 

and H–2B programs. 

Designation of Countries Whose 

Nationals Are Eligible To Participate in 

the H–2A and H–2B Nonimmigrant 

Worker Programs 

Pursuant to the authority provided to 

the Secretary of Homeland Security 

under sections 214(a)(1), and 215(a)(1) 

and 241 of the Immigration and 

Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1184(a)(1), 

1185(a)(1), and 1231), I have designated, 

with the concurrence of the Secretary of 

State, that nationals from the following 

countries are eligible to participate in 

the H–2A and H–2B nonimmigrant 

worker programs: 

Argentina 

Australia 

Barbados 

Belize 

Brazil 

Bulgaria 

Canada 

Chile 

Costa Rica 

Croatia 

Dominican Republic 

Ecuador 

El Salvador 

Estonia 

Ethiopia 

Fiji 

Guatemala 

Honduras 

Hungary 

Ireland 

Israel 

Jamaica 

Japan 

Kiribati 

Latvia 

Lithuania 

Macedonia 

Mexico 

Moldova 

Nauru 

The Netherlands 

Nicaragua 

New Zealand 

Norway 

Papua New Guinea 

Peru 

Philippines 

Poland 

Romania 

Samoa 

Serbia 

Slovakia 

Slovenia 

Solomon Islands 

South Africa 

South Korea 

Tonga 

Turkey 

Tuvalu 

Ukraine 

United Kingdom 

Uruguay 

Vanuatu 

This notice does not affect the status 

of aliens who currently hold valid H–2A 

or H–2B nonimmigrant status. 

Nothing in this notice limits the 

authority of the Secretary of Homeland 

Security or her designee or any other 

Federal agency to invoke against any 

foreign country or its nationals any 

other remedy, penalty, or enforcement 

action available by law. 

Janet Napolitano, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2011–646 Filed 1–14–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE P 

DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND 

SECURITY 

Coast Guard 

[USCG–2010–1116] 

Houston/Galveston Navigation Safety 

Advisory Committee; Meetings 

AGENCY: Coast Guard, DHS. 

ACTION: Notice of Meetings. 

SUMMARY: The Houston/Galveston 

Navigation Safety Advisory Committee 

(‘‘HOGANSAC’’ or ‘‘the Committee’’) and 

its working groups will meet in Texas 

City, Texas and Houston, Texas to 

discuss waterway improvements, aids to 

navigation, area projects impacting 

safety on the Houston Ship Channel, 

and various other navigation safety 

matters in the Galveston Bay area. These 

meetings will be open to the public. 

DATES: The Committee will meet on 

Thursday February 3, 2011 from 9 a.m. 

to noon. The Committee’s working 

groups will meet on Thursday January 

20, 2011 from 9 a.m. to noon. These 

meetings may close early if all business 

is finished. Written material and 

requests to make oral presentations 

should reach the Coast Guard on or 

before January 19, 2011. Requests to 

have a copy of your material distributed 

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