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are due 7 days after any such motion is 

filed. See 39 CFR 3001.21. 

It is ordered: 

1. The Postal Service shall file the 

administrative record in this appeal, or 

otherwise file a responsive pleading to 

the appeal, by December 21, 2010. 

2. The answer to the request for 

suspension is due December 16, 2010. 

3. The procedural schedule listed 

below is hereby adopted. 

4. Pursuant to 39 U.S.C. 505, 

Cassandra L. Hicks is designated officer 

of the Commission (Public 

Representative) to represent the 

interests of the general public. 

5. The Secretary shall arrange for 

publication of this notice and order and 

Procedural Schedule in the Federal 

Register. 

PROCEDURAL SCHEDULE

December 6, 2010 ............... Filing of Appeal. 

December 16, 2010 ............. Deadline for the Postal Service to answer application for suspension of the determination (see 39 CFR 

3001.1114(a) and (b)). 

December 21, 2010 ............. Deadline for Postal Service to file administrative record in this appeal or responsive pleading. 

January 4, 2011 ................... Deadline for notices to intervene (see 39 CFR 3001.111(b)). 

January 10, 2010 ................. Deadline for Petitioner’s Form 61 or initial brief in support of petition (see 39 CFR 3001.115(a) and (b)). 

January 31, 2011 ................. Deadline for answering brief in support of Postal Service (see 39 CFR 3001.115(c)). 

February 15, 2011 ................ Deadline for reply briefs in response to answering briefs (see 39 CFR 3001.115(d)). 

February 22, 2011 ................ Deadline for motions by any party requesting oral argument; the Commission will schedule oral argument only 

when it is a necessary addition to the written filings (see 39 CFR 3001.116). 

March 31, 2011 .................... Expiration of the Commission’s 120-day decisional schedule (see 39 U.S.C. 404(d)(5)). 

By the Commission. 

Shoshana M. Grove, 

Secretary. 

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BILLING CODE 7710–FW–P 

POSTAL REGULATORY COMMISSION 

[Docket No. A2011–6; Order No. 605] 

Post Office Closing 

AGENCY: Postal Regulatory Commission. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This document informs the 

public that an appeal of the closing of 

the Holmes Mill (Kentucky) Post Office 

has been filed. It identifies preliminary 

steps and provides a procedural 

schedule. Publication of this document 

will allow the Postal Service, petitioner, 

and others to take appropriate action. 

DATES: Administrative record due (from 

Postal Service): December 22, 2010; 

deadline for notices to intervene: 

January 4, 2011; and deadline for 

petitioner’s Form 61 or initial brief: 

January 11, 2011 See the Procedural 

Schedule in the SUPPLEMENTARY

INFORMATION section for other dates of 

interest. 

ADDRESSES: Submit comments 

electronically via the Commission’s 

Filing Online system at http:// 

www.prc.gov. Those who cannot submit 

comments electronically should contact 

the person identified in the FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT section by 

telephone for advice on filing 

alternatives. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Stephen L. Sharfman, General Counsel, 

at stephen.sharfman@prc.gov or 202– 

789–6820. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is 

hereby given that, pursuant to 39 U.S.C. 

404(d), on December 7, 2010, the 

Commission received a petition for 

review of the closing of the Holmes Mill 

Post Office in Holmes Mill, Kentucky. 

The petition, which was filed by Dovie 

Hamblin (Petitioner), is postmarked 

December 2, 2010, and was posted on 

the Commission’s Web site December 8, 

2010. The Commission hereby institutes 

a proceeding under 39 U.S.C. 404(d)(5) 

and designates the case as Docket No. 

A2011–6 to consider the Petitioner’s 

appeal. If the Petitioner would like to 

further explain his or her position with 

supplemental information or facts, the 

Petitioner may either file a Participant 

Statement on PRC Form 61 or file a brief 

with the Commission by no later than 

January 11, 2011. 

Categories of issues apparently raised. 

The categories of issues raised include: 

Failure to consider the effect on the 

community. See 39 U.S.C. 

404(d)(2)(A)(i). 

After the Postal Service files the 

administrative record and the 

Commission reviews it, the Commission 

may find that there are more legal issues 

than the one set forth above, or that the 

Postal Service’s determination disposes 

of one or more of those issues. The 

deadline for the Postal Service to file the 

administrative record with the 

Commission is December 22, 2010. 39 

CFR 3001.113. 

Availability; Web site posting. The 

Commission has posted the appeal and 

supporting material on its Web site at 

http://www.prc.gov. Additional filings 

in this case and participants’ 

submissions also will be posted on the 

Web site, if provided in electronic 

format or amenable to conversion, and 

not subject to a valid protective order. 

Information on how to use the 

Commission’s Web site is available 

online or by contacting the 

Commission’s webmaster via telephone 

at 202–789–6873 or via electronic mail 

at prc-webmaster@prc.gov. 

The appeal and all related documents 

are also available for public inspection 

in the Commission’s docket section. 

Docket section hours are 8 a.m. to 4:30 

p.m., Monday through Friday, except on 

Federal government holidays. Docket 

section personnel may be contacted via 

electronic mail at prc-dockets@prc.gov 

or via telephone at 202–789–6846. 

Filing of documents. All filings of 

documents in this case shall be made 

using the Internet (Filing Online) 

pursuant to Commission rules 9(a) and 

10(a) at the Commission’s Web site, 

http://www.prc.gov, unless a waiver is 

obtained. 39 CFR 3001.9(a) and 10(a). 

Instructions for obtaining an account to 

file documents online may be found on 

the Commission’s Web site, http:// 

www.prc.gov, or by contacting the 

Commission’s docket section at prcdockets@prc.gov or via telephone at 

202–789–6846. 

Intervention. Those, other than the 

Petitioner and respondent, wishing to be 

heard in this matter are directed to file 

a notice of intervention. See 39 CFR 

3001.111. Notices of intervention in this 

case are to be filed on or before January 

4, 2011. A notice of intervention shall 

be filed using the Internet (Filing 

Online) at the Commission’s Web site, 

http://www.prc.gov, unless a waiver is 

obtained for hardcopy filing. See 39 CFR 

3001.9(a) and 10(a). 

Further procedures. By statute, the 

Commission is required to issue its 

decision within 120 days from the date 

it receives the appeal. See 39 U.S.C. 

404(d)(5). A procedural schedule has 

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1 17 U.S.C. 7202 et seq. 

2 17 CFR 202.190. See Release No. 33–8724 (July 

18, 2006) [71 FR 41998 (July 24, 2006)]. 

3See Release No. 34–61212 (Dec. 22, 2009). 

4Public Law 111–203, 124 Stat. 1376 (July 21, 

2010). 

5 15 U.S.C. 78a et seq. 

6See 17 CFR 240.190(b)(10). 

7 17 CFR 202.190(f). 

statutory deadline. In the interest of 

expedition, in light of the 120-day 

decision schedule, the Commission may 

request the Postal Service or other 

participants to submit information or 

memoranda of law on any appropriate 

issue. As required by the Commission 

rules, if any motions are filed, responses 

are due 7 days after any such motion is 

filed. See 39 CFR 3001.21. 

It is ordered: 

1. The Postal Service shall file the 

administrative record in this appeal, or 

otherwise file a responsive pleading to 

the appeal, by December 22, 2010. 

2. The procedural schedule listed 

below is hereby adopted. 

3. Pursuant to 39 U.S.C. 505, Katrina 

Martinez is designated officer of the 

Commission (Public Representative) to 

represent the interests of the general 

public. 

4. The Secretary shall arrange for 

publication of this Notice and Order and 

Procedural Schedule in the Federal 

Register. 

PROCEDURAL SCHEDULE

December 7, 2010 .............................................. Filing of Appeal. 

December 22, 2010 ............................................. Deadline for Postal Service to file administrative record in this appeal or responsive pleading. 

January 4, 2011 .................................................. Deadline for notices to intervene (see 39 CFR 3001.111(b)). 

January 11, 2010 ................................................ Deadline for Petitioner’s Form 61 or initial brief in support of petition (see 39 CFR 3001.115(a) 

and (b)). 

January 31, 2011 ................................................ Deadline for answering brief in support of Postal Service (see 39 CFR 3001.115(c)). 

February 15, 2011 ............................................... Deadline for reply briefs in response to answering briefs (see 39 CFR 3001.115(d)). 

February 22, 2011 ............................................... Deadline for motions by any party requesting oral argument; the Commission will schedule 

oral argument only when it is a necessary addition to the written filings (see 39 CFR 

3001.116). 

April 1, 2011 ........................................................ Expiration of the Commission’s 120-day decisional schedule (see 39 U.S.C. 404(d)(5)). 

By the Commission. 

Shoshana M. Grove, 

Secretary. 

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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE 

COMMISSION 

[Securities Act of 1933 Release No. 9162/ 

December 10, 2010; Securities Exchange 

Act of 1934 Release No. 63526/December 

10, 2010] 

Order Approving Public Company 

Accounting Oversight Board 

Supplemental Budget Request To 

Establish an Office of Outreach and 

Small Business Liaison in 2010 

The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 1 (the 

‘‘Sarbanes-Oxley Act’’) established the 

Public Company Accounting Oversight 

Board (the ‘‘PCAOB’’) to oversee the 

audits of companies and related matters, 

to protect investors, and to further the 

public interest in the preparation of 

informative, accurate and independent 

audit reports. The PCAOB is to 

accomplish these goals through 

registration of public accounting firms 

and standard setting, inspection, and 

disciplinary programs. Section 109 of 

the Sarbanes-Oxley Act directs the 

PCAOB to establish a budget for each 

fiscal year in accordance with the 

PCAOB’s internal procedures, subject to 

approval by the Securities and Exchange 

Commission (the ‘‘Commission’’). 

The Commission’s Rules of Practice 

related to its Informal and Other 

Procedures includes a rule to facilitate 

the Commission’s review and approval 

of PCAOB budgets.2 This budget rule 

provides, among other things, a 

timetable for the preparation and 

submission of the PCAOB budget, limits 

on the PCAOB’s ability to incur 

expenses and obligations except as 

provided in the approved budget, and 

procedures relating to supplemental 

budget requests. In accordance with the 

Commission’s budget rule, the PCAOB 

submitted to the Commission a budget 

for calendar year 2010 that was 

approved by the Commission on 

December 22, 2009.3

Effective July 21, 2010, Section 982 of 

the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and 

Consumer Protection Act 4 (the ‘‘DoddFrank Act’’) amended the SarbanesOxley Act to authorize the PCAOB, 

among other things, to establish, subject 

to approval by the Commission, 

auditing and related attestation, quality 

control, ethics, and independence 

standards to be used by registered 

public accounting firms with respect to 

the preparation and issuance of audit 

reports to be included in broker-dealer 

filings with the Commission.5 In light of 

this new authority, the PCAOB 

reassessed its communications and 

outreach strategy. 

As a result of this reassessment, the 

PCAOB intends to enhance its outreach 

function by establishing a new Office of 

Outreach and Small Business Liaison 

(‘‘Office of Outreach’’) to act as a liaison 

between the PCAOB and any PCAOBregistered public accounting firm, or 

any other person affected by the Board’s 

regulatory activities, including in 

particular, entities in the small business 

community, such as the auditors of 

broker-dealers. In order to establish this 

office in 2010, the PCAOB is required 

under the budget rule to submit a 

supplemental budget request for 

Commission approval.6 Pursuant to the 

procedures set forth in the budget rule, 

on October 28, 2010, the PCAOB 

submitted to the Commission a 

supplemental budget request seeking 

approval to establish the Office of 

Outreach in 2010.7

The Board believes that the creation 

of the Office of Outreach would not 

result in a net cost increase in 2010. To 

the extent that any unanticipated costs 

emerge, the PCAOB proposes to 

accommodate them from within 

available funds currently budgeted for 

the Office of Communications in 2010. 

Costs associated with the Office of 

Outreach in future years will be 

considered by the Commission as part of 

its review of the PCAOB budgets for 

those years. 

Staff from the Commission’s Offices of 

the Chief Accountant and Executive 

Director reviewed and analyzed the 

PCAOB’s supplemental budget request 

and did not identify any matters that are 

inconsistent with Section 109 of the 

Sarbanes-Oxley Act or the 

Commission’s budget rule. Upon 

considering the staff’s review and 

analysis, the Commission has 

determined that the PCAOB’s request to 

create the Office of Outreach in 2010 is 

consistent with Section 109 of the 


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