22608 Federal Register / Vol. 76, No. 78 / Friday, April 22, 2011 / Rules and Regulations 

1The Commission voted 4–0–1 to publish this 

revision to the notice of requirements for clothing 

textiles. Commissioners Nancy A. Nord and Anne 

M. Northup each issued a statement, and the 

statements can be found at http://www.cpsc.gov/pr/ 

statements.html. 

may apply a geographic preference 

when procuring unprocessed locally 

grown or locally raised agricultural 

products. When utilizing the geographic 

preference to procure such products, the 

institution making the purchase has the 

discretion to determine the local area to 

which the geographic preference option 

will be applied; 

(2) For the purpose of applying the 

optional geographic preference in 

paragraph (n)(1) of this section, 

‘‘unprocessed locally grown or locally 

raised agricultural products’’ means only 

those agricultural products that retain 

their inherent character. The effects of 

the following food handling and 

preservation techniques shall not be 

considered as changing an agricultural 

product into a product of a different 

kind or character: Cooling; refrigerating; 

freezing; size adjustment made by 

peeling, slicing, dicing, cutting, 

chopping, shucking, and grinding; 

forming ground products into patties 

without any additives or fillers; drying/ 

dehydration; washing; packaging (such 

as placing eggs in cartons), vacuum 

packing and bagging (such as placing 

vegetables in bags or combining two or 

more types of vegetables or fruits in a 

single package); addition of ascorbic 

acid or other preservatives to prevent 

oxidation of produce; butchering 

livestock and poultry; cleaning fish; and 

the pasteurization of milk. 

Dated: April 18, 2011. 

Audrey Rowe, 

Administrator, Food and Nutrition Service. 

[FR Doc. 2011–9843 Filed 4–21–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–30–P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Rural Business-Cooperative Service 

7 CFR Part 4280 

Notice of a Public Meeting on the Rural 

Energy for America Program 

AGENCY: Rural Business-Cooperative 

Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice of public meeting. 

SUMMARY: The Rural BusinessCooperative Service (RBS) will hold two 

informational Webinars for the Rural 

Energy for America Program (REAP) 

associated with the recently published 

REAP interim rule and Notice of Funds 

Availability (NOFA). Participation will 

be limited for each Webinar to the first 

two hundred registrants. 

DATES: The Webinars will be held on 

Friday, April 29, 2011, and on Monday, 

May 2, 2011, from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. EDT 

both days. You must register, as 

described in the ADDRESSES section, by 

noon EDT April 27, 2011, for the April 

29, 2011, Webinar and by noon EDT 

April 28, 2011, for the May 2, 2011, 

Webinar. 

ADDRESSES: To participate in one of the 

Webinars, you must register for one of 

the Webinars by sending an e-mail to: 

energydivision@wdc.usda.gov. You must 

include in the SUBJECT line the date of 

the Webinar for which you wish to 

participate, and in the body of the 

e-mail, please provide the participant’s 

name, e-mail address, mailing address, 

and telephone number. You must 

submit your e-mail by the applicable 

deadline listed in the DATES section of 

this notice. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Donnetta Rigney, Rural BusinessCooperative Service, U.S. Department of 

Agriculture, Stop 3225, 1400 

Independence Avenue, SW., 

Washington, DC 20250–3221, 

Telephone: (202) 720–9812. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The REAP 

interim rule and the NOFA were 

published in the Federal Register on 

April 14, 2011. In order to familarize the 

public with the content of the REAP 

interim rule, representatives of the 

Department of Agriculture are 

conducting the two Webinars. The 

purpose of these Webinars is to provide 

information on the interim rule for the 

Rural Energy for America Program, 

focusing on the provisions associated 

with flexible fuel pumps and other 

significant changes being implemented 

through the interim rule. Participants 

will be afforded the opportunity to ask 

questions on the material included in 

the presentation. 

Please note that formal comments on 

the interim rule will not be accepted 

during the Webinar. Instead, the public 

has an opportunity to comment formally 

on the interim rule as provided in the 

interim rule published in the Federal 

Register on April 14, 2011 (76 FR 

21110). 

All prospective registrants will be 

notified by the Agency via e-mail if they 

are or are not among the first two 

hundred registrants for one of the two 

Webinars. 

Participants are responsible for 

ensuring their systems are compatible 

with the Webinar software. 

Dated: April 18, 2011. 

Judith A. Canales, 

Administrator, Rural Business-Cooperative 

Service. 

[FR Doc. 2011–9725 Filed 4–21–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–XY–P 

CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY 

COMMISSION 

16 CFR Part 1610 

[CPSC Docket No. CPSC–2010–0086] 

Third Party Testing for Certain 

Children’s Products; Clothing Textiles: 

Revisions to Terms of Acceptance of 

Children’s Product Certifications 

Based on Third Party Conformity 

Assessment Body Testing Prior to 

Commission’s Acceptance of 

Accreditation 

AGENCY: Consumer Product Safety 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice of requirements; revision 

of retrospective testing terms. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Consumer Product 

Safety Commission (‘‘CPSC,’’ 

‘‘Commission,’’ or ‘‘we’’) issues this 

notice amending the terms under which 

it will accept certifications for 

children’s products based on third party 

conformity assessment body (laboratory) 

testing to the flammability regulations at 

16 CFR part 1610 that occurred before 

the Commission’s acceptance of the 

accreditation of the third party 

conformity assessment body.1 We are 

taking this action in response to a 

request from certain members of the 

clothing textile industry to reduce 

unnecessary retesting of clothing 

textiles that have been tested already 

and found to be in compliance with 

CPSC regulations. 

DATES: Effective Date: The revision 

announced in this document is effective 

April 22, 2011. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Robert ‘‘Jay’’ Howell, Assistant Executive 

Director for the Office of Hazard 

Identification and Reduction, U.S. 

Consumer Product Safety Commission, 

4330 East West Highway, Bethesda, MD 

20814; e-mail: rhowell@cpsc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

Section 14(a)(3)(B)(vi) of the CPSA, as 

added by section 102(a)(2) of the 

Consumer Product Safety Improvement 

Act of 2008 (CPSIA), Public Law 110– 

314, directs the CPSC to publish a 

notice of requirements for accreditation 

of third party conformity assessment 

bodies to assess children’s products for 

conformity with ‘‘other children’s 

product safety rules.’’ Section 14(f)(1) of 


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