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7 15 U.S.C. 78s(b)(3)(A)(i). 

8 17 CFR 240.19b–4(f)(1). 

9See Section 19(b)(3)(C) of the Act, 15 U.S.C. 

78s(b)(3)(C). 10 17 CFR 200.30–3(a)(12). 

experience, competence, and such other 

qualifications as the Board finds 

necessary or appropriate in the public 

interest or for the protection of investors 

and municipal entities or obligated 

persons. Section 15B(b)(2)(A) of the Act 

also provides that the Board may 

appropriately classify municipal 

securities brokers, municipal securities 

dealers, and municipal advisors, and 

persons associated with municipal 

securities brokers, municipal securities 

dealers, and municipal advisors and 

require persons in any such class to pass 

tests prescribed by the Board. 

The MSRB believes that the proposed 

revisions to the Series 52 examination 

program are consistent with the 

provisions of Section 15B(b)(2)(A) of the 

Act in that the revisions will provide 

more updated material covered on the 

examination as well as ensure that 

certain key concepts or rules are tested 

on each administration of the 

examination in order to test the 

competency of individuals seeking to 

qualify as municipal securities 

representatives with respect to their 

knowledge about MSRB rules and the 

municipal securities market. 

B. Self-Regulatory Organization’s 

Statement on Burden on Competition 

The MSRB does not believe that the 

proposed rule change will impose any 

burden on competition not necessary or 

appropriate in furtherance of the 

purposes of the Act, as amended. 

C. Self-Regulatory Organization’s 

Statement on Comments on the 

Proposed Rule Change Received From 

Members, Participants, or Others 

Written comments were neither 

solicited nor received on the proposed 

rule change. 

III. Date of Effectiveness of the 

Proposed Rule Change and Timing for 

Commission Action 

The proposed rule change has become 

effective pursuant to Section 

19(b)(3)(A)(i) of the Act 7 and Rule 19b– 

4(f)(1) 8 thereunder, in that the proposed 

rule change constitutes a stated policy, 

practice, or interpretation with respect 

to the meaning, administration, or 

enforcement of an existing rule of the 

self-regulatory organization. The MSRB 

proposes to implement the revised 

Series 52 examination program on 

January 3, 2011. At any time within 60 

days of the filing of the proposed rule 

change, the Commission summarily may 

temporarily suspend such rule change if 

it appears to the Commission that such 

action is necessary or appropriate in the 

public interest, for the protection of 

investors, or otherwise in furtherance of 

the purposes of the Act.9

IV. Solicitation of Comments 

Interested persons are invited to 

submit written data, views, and 

arguments concerning the foregoing, 

including whether the proposed rule 

change is consistent with the Act. 

Comments may be submitted by any of 

the following methods: 

Electronic Comments 

• Use the Commission’s Internet 

comment form (http://www.sec.gov/ 

rules/sro.shtml); or 

• Send an e-mail to rulecomments@sec.gov. Please include File 

Number SR–MSRB–2010–12 on the 

subject line. 

Paper Comments 

• Send paper comments in triplicate 

to Elizabeth M. Murphy, Secretary, 

Securities and Exchange Commission, 

100 F Street, NE., Washington, DC 

20549–1090. 

All submissions should refer to File 

Number SR–MSRB–2010–12. This file 

number should be included on the 

subject line if e-mail is used. To help the 

Commission process and review your 

comments more efficiently, please use 

only one method. The Commission will 

post all comments on the Commission’s 

Web site (http://www.sec.gov/rules/ 

sro.shtml). Copies of the submission, all 

subsequent amendments, all written 

statements with respect to the proposed 

rule change that are filed with the 

Commission, and all written 

communications relating to the 

proposed rule change between the 

Commission and any person, other than 

those that may be withheld from the 

public in accordance with the 

provisions of 5 U.S.C. 552, will be 

available for Web site viewing and 

printing in the Commission’s Public 

Reference Room, 100 F Street, NE., 

Washington, DC 20549, on official 

business days between the hours of 10 

a.m. and 3 p.m. Copies of such filing 

also will be available for inspection and 

copying at the MSRB’s offices. All 

comments received will be posted 

without change; the Commission does 

not edit personal identifying 

information from submissions. You 

should submit only information that 

you wish to make available publicly. All 

submissions should refer to File 

Number SR–MSRB–2010–12 and should 

be submitted on or before December 9, 

2010. 

For the Commission, by the Division of 

Trading and Markets, pursuant to delegated 

authority.10

Florence E. Harmon, 

Deputy Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2010–29078 Filed 11–17–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 8011–01–P 

SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 

[Disaster Declaration #12377 and #12378] 

Texas Disaster #TX–00363 

AGENCY: U.S. Small Business 

Administration. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This is a notice of an 

Administrative declaration of a disaster 

for the State of Texas dated 11/09/2010. 

Incident: Tropical Storm Hermine. 

Incident Period: 09/06/2010 through 

09/10/2010. 

Effective Date: 11/09/2010. 

Physical Loan Application Deadline 

Date: 01/10/2011. 

Economic Injury (EIDL) Loan 

Application Deadline Date: 08/09/2011. 

ADDRESSES: Submit completed loan 

applications to: U.S. Small Business 

Administration, Processing and 

Disbursement Center, 14925 Kingsport 

Road, Fort Worth, TX 76155. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: A. 

Escobar, Office of Disaster Assistance, 

U.S. Small Business Administration, 

409 3rd Street, SW., Suite 6050, 

Washington, DC 20416. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is 

hereby given that as a result of the 

Administrator’s disaster declaration, 

applications for disaster loans may be 

filed at the address listed above or other 

locally announced locations. 

The following areas have been 

determined to be adversely affected by 

the disaster: 

Primary Counties: Bell, Tarrant, 

Williamson. 

Contiguous Counties: 

Texas: Bastrop, Burnet, Coryell, 

Dallas, Denton, Ellis, Falls, Johnson, 

Lampasas, Lee, Mclennan, Milam, 

Parker, Travis, Wise. 

The Interest Rates are: 

Percent 

For Physical Damage: 

Homeowners with Credit Available Elsewhere ........................ 5.000 

Homeowners without Credit 

Available Elsewhere ................ 2.500 

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Businesses with Credit Available 

Elsewhere ................................ 6.000 

Businesses without Credit Available Elsewhere ........................ 4.000 

Non-Profit Organizations with 

Credit Available Elsewhere ..... 3.625 

Non-Profit Organizations without 

Credit Available Elsewhere ..... 3.000 

For Economic Injury: 

Businesses & Small Agricultural 

Cooperatives without Credit 

Available Elsewhere ................ 4.000 

Non-Profit Organizations without 

Credit Available Elsewhere ..... 3.000 

The number assigned to this disaster 

for physical damage is 12377 B and for 

economic injury is 12378 0. 

The State which received an EIDL 

Declaration # is Texas. 

(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance 

Numbers 59002 and 59008) 

Dated: November 9, 2010. 

Karen G. Mills, 

Administrator. 

[FR Doc. 2010–29135 Filed 11–17–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 8025–01–P 

SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 

Small Business Information Security 

Task Force 

AGENCY: U.S. Small Business 

Administration. 

ACTION: Notice of meeting minutes. 

SUMMARY: The SBA is issuing this notice 

to publish meeting minutes for the 

Small Business Information Security 

Task Force Meeting. 

DATES: 1 p.m., Wednesday, October 13, 

2010. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting was held via 

teleconference. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant 

to section 507(i)(4)(A) of the Credit Card 

Accountability Responsibility and 

Disclosure Act of 2009, SBA submits the 

meeting minutes for the first meeting of 

the Small Business Information Security 

Task Force. Chairman, Rusty Pickens, 

called the meeting to order on October 

13, 2010 at 1 p.m. Roll call was taken 

and a quorum was established. Mr. 

Pickens thanked the Task Force 

members for agreeing to serve and for 

making themselves available for the 

meeting, noting that the group 

represented a powerhouse of expertise 

in information security matters. After 

covering the general expectations for 

Task Force meetings, most of which will 

be conducted by teleconference, Mr. 

Pickens proposed that one in-person 

meeting be attempted in the spring of 

2011. 

Mr. Pickens set forth the ground rules 

for Task Force operations. Noting that 

the Task Force is chartered through 

2013, he expressed the expectation that 

its work might be accomplished sooner, 

proposing a target deadline for the end 

of 2011 for completion of the Task Force 

Report to Congress. Mr. Pickens advised 

the group that as Chair, he will be 

responsible for providing regular 

updates on the work of the Task Force 

to the SBA Administrator. He concluded 

his introduction by encouraging all 

members to participate as fully as 

possible in all discussions to maximize 

the value of their expertise to the Task 

Force. He then introduced Frances 

Henderson of the Council of Better 

Business Bureaus as Vice-Chair of the 

Task Force. 

Ms. Henderson welcomed the other 

members to the Task Force and 

expressed the Council of Better Business 

Bureau’s appreciation for the 

opportunity to work with the SBA and 

a distinguished panel of experts on this 

important topic. She noted that while 

much valuable work has already been 

done in both the public and private 

sectors to disseminate information 

security standards, guidance and 

resources to the business community as 

a whole, there is evidence that these 

resources have not fully trickled down 

to, or are not being well utilized by 

many small businesses, including those 

in greatest need of help with their 

information security needs. She 

expressed the hope that the Task Force 

could identify the gaps in the 

information security resources available 

to small businesses and propose 

solutions that would benefit both small 

businesses and consumers. 

The other Task Force members each 

briefly introduced themselves and their 

organizations, identifying their specific 

interests and expertise in the work of 

the Task Force. 

The remainder of the meeting was 

devoted to an open discussion on the 

focus of the Task Force’s work, 

including the development of a skeleton 

work plan to be circulated in advance of 

the next meeting. 

The members agreed that meeting 

frequency should be monthly and that 

the next meeting date would be 

November 10, 2010. No other decisions 

were reached. 

In closing, Mr. Pickens introduced 

Jackie Woodward and Kristi Harmel as 

support personnel assigned to the 

Chairperson and the Task Force, and 

encouraged members to reach out to 

them with questions. 

The meeting was adjourned at 2 p.m. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Rusty Pickens, Special Consultant to the 

Office of the CIO, U.S. Small Business 

Administration, Rusty.Pickens@sba.gov. 

Paul T. Christy, 

SBA Chief Information Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2010–29136 Filed 11–17–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 8025–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF STATE 

[Public Notice: 7230] 

Bureau of Educational and Cultural 

Affairs (ECA) Request for Grant 

Proposals: Study of the U.S. Institutes 

for Student Leaders on New Media in 

Journalism 

Announcement Type: New 

Cooperative Agreements. 

Funding Opportunity Number: ECA/ 

A/E/USS–11–11. 

Catalog of Federal Domestic 

Assistance Number: 19.009. 

Key Dates: May to August, 2011. 

Application Deadline: January 10, 

2011. 

Executive Summary: The Branch for 

the Study of the United States, Office of 

Academic Exchange Programs, Bureau 

of Educational and Cultural Affairs, 

invites proposal submissions for the 

design and implementation of two (2) 

Study of the United States Institutes for 

Student Leaders on New Media in 

Journalism. Each taking place over the 

course of five weeks, the Institutes will 

be scheduled in summer 2011. 

Both Institutes should take place at 

U.S. academic institutions and provide 

groups of highly motivated 

undergraduate students from the 

countries and regions noted below with 

in-depth seminars on New Media and 

Journalism. Each Institute should 

include four weeks of academic 

residency followed by a one-week 

integrated educational travel tour that 

will expose participants to a different 

region of the United States. The oneweek educational study tour should 

conclude with a three day session in 

Washington, DC. 

Each Institute will host up to 20 

participants, for a total of approximately 

40 students. ECA plans to provide one 

to two awards for the administration of 

the two Study of the U.S. Institutes and 

welcomes applications from accredited 

post-secondary education institutions in 

the United States and public and private 

non-profit organizations (see Eligibility 

Information, section III). The awarding 

of Cooperative Agreements for this 

program is contingent upon the 

availability of FY 2011 funds. 

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