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Industrial and Service Workers 

International Union, made a timely 

request pursuant to section 733(c)(1)(A) 

of the Act and 19 CFR 351.205(e) for a 

50-day postponement of the preliminary 

determinations. The petitioners 

requested postponement of the 

preliminary determinations in order to 

ensure that the Department has ample 

time to thoroughly analyze the complex 

issues involved in these investigations. 

Because there are no compelling 

reasons to deny the request, the 

Department is postponing the deadline 

for the preliminary determinations 

pursuant to section 733(c)(1)(A) of the 

Act to April 21, 2010, 190 days from the 

date of initiation. The deadline for the 

final determinations will continue to be 

75 days after the date of the preliminary 

determinations, unless postponed. 

This notice is issued and published 

pursuant to sections 733(c)(2) of the Act 

and 19 CFR 351.205(f)(1). 

Dated: February 4, 2010. 

Ronald K. Lorentzen, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import 

Administration. 

[FR Doc. 2010–3268 Filed 2–18–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

[Docket No. 100204077–0077–01] 

RIN 0648–ZC15 

Species Recovery Grants to Tribes 

Program 

AGENCY: Fisheries Protected Resources 

Program Office (PRPO), National Marine 

Fisheries Service (NMFS), National 

Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration (NOAA), Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice of funding availability. 

SUMMARY: The National Marine 

Fisheries Service publishes this notice 

to solicit proposals for the Species 

Recovery Grants to Tribes Program. The 

principal objective of the Program is to 

support recovery efforts that directly 

benefit threatened or endangered 

species, recently de-listed species, or 

candidate species. Recovery efforts may 

involve management, research, 

monitoring, and outreach activities or 

any combination thereof. For FY 2010, 

NOAA anticipates that approximately 

$1 million will be available for 

distribution under this program. Only 

federally recognized tribes are eligible to 

apply under this solicitation. 

DATES: Applications must be 

postmarked, provided to a delivery 

service, or received by www.grants.gov 

by 11:59 p.m. Eastern Standard Time 

[April 5, 2010]. Use of a delivery service 

other than U.S. mail must be 

documented with a receipt. Please Note: 

It may take Grants.gov up to two 

business days to validate or reject an 

application. 

ADDRESSES: The Federal funding 

announcement and application 

instructions for this grant program are 

available via the Grants.gov website at 

http://www.grants.gov. Applicants 

without internet access can obtain 

application instructions from Lisa 

Manning, NOAA/NMFS/Office of 

Protected Resources, 1315 East-West 

Highway, Silver Spring MD 20912, 

(phone) 301–713–1401, (email) 

Lisa.Manning@noaa.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: If 

you have any questions regarding this 

proposal solicitation, please contact Lisa 

Manning or Sean Ledwin at the NOAA/ 

NMFS/Office of Protected Resources, 

Endangered Species Division, 1315 EastWest Highway, Silver Spring, MD 

20910, by phone at 301–713–1401, or by 

email (Lisa.Manning@noaa.gov or 

Sean.Ledwin@noaa.gov). You may also 

contact one of the following people in 

your region for further guidance: Jessica 

Pruden, Northeast Regional Office 

(Jessica.Pruden@noaa.gov, 978–282– 

8482); Karla Reece, Southeast Regional 

Office (Karla.Reece@noaa.gov, 727– 

824–5348); Eric Murray, Northwest 

Regional Office (Eric.Murray@noaa.gov, 

503–231–2378); Susan Wang, Southwest 

Regional Office (Susan.Wang@noaa.gov, 

562–980–4199); Barbara Mahoney, 

Alaska Regional Office 

(Barbara.Mahoney@noaa.gov, 907–271– 

3448). 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Success in 

recovering protected species under 

National Marine Fisheries Service’s 

(NMFS) jurisdiction depends in large 

part on working cooperatively with 

other management partners, including 

tribes. NMFS recognizes the importance 

of many of these protected species to 

tribes and ongoing efforts by tribal 

nations to conserve and protect these 

species. NMFS is authorized under 16 

U.S.C. 661 et seq. to provide Federal 

assistance to federally recognized tribes 

to support conservation programs for 

marine and anadromous species under 

its jurisdiction. This assistance, 

provided in the form of grants, can be 

used to support conservation of 

endangered, threatened, and candidate 

or proposed species, as well as postdelisting monitoring of recovered 

species. 

Through this notice, NMFS 

announces the solicitation of proposals 

to support conservation programs for 

marine and anadromous species under 

its jurisdiction. Funded activities may 

include development and 

implementation of management plans, 

scientific research, and public education 

and outreach. Proposals should address 

priority actions identified in an 

Endangered Species Act (ESA) Recovery 

Plan where applicable. 

Successful applications will be those 

that demonstrate a direct conservation 

benefit to the species or its habitat. 

Proposals involving management 

activities should demonstrate a high 

probability of contributing to recovery 

of the species, especially through 

mitigation of existing threats or factors 

inhibiting recovery of the species. 

Proposals involving scientific research 

should demonstrate a high probability 

of providing information that can be 

used to recover, manage, or improve 

current management strategies for a 

given species. Proposals involving 

public education and outreach projects 

should demonstrate a high probability 

of improving or increasing public 

understanding and participation in 

conservation activities. 

Projects focusing on listed Pacific 

salmon or steelhead will not be 

considered under this grant program; 

conservation efforts for these species 

may be supported through the Pacific 

Coastal Salmon Recovery Fund. 

The full text of the Federal funding 

opportunity announcement for this 

program can be accessed via the 

Grants.gov web site at http:// 

www.grants.gov. The announcement 

will also be available by contacting the 

program officials identified under FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT. 

Applications must comply with all 

requirements contained in the Federal 

funding opportunity announcement. 

Statutory Authority 

16 U.S.C. 661 et seq. 

CFDA 

11.472, Unallied Science Program 

Funding Availability 

NOAA anticipates that approximately 

$1 million will be available for 

distribution under this program in FY 

2010. Awards are expected to range 

between $100,000 and $500,000 in 

federal funding per year, but proposals 

requesting less than $100,000 will still 

be considered. The exact amount of 

funds that may be awarded will be 

determined during pre-award 

negotiations between the applicant and 

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this notice does not oblige NOAA to 

award any specific grant proposal or to 

obligate any available funds. 

There is no limit on the number of 

applications that can be submitted by 

the same Principal Investigator or tribe. 

Multiple applications submitted by the 

same applicant must, however, clearly 

identify distinct projects. 

If an application for a financial 

assistance award is selected for funding, 

NOAA has no obligation to provide any 

additional funding in connection with 

that award in subsequent years. 

Notwithstanding verbal or written 

assurance that may have been received, 

pre-award costs are not allowed under 

the award unless approved by the 

Grants Officer in accordance with 2 CFR 

Part 225. 

Eligibility 

Eligible applicants are federally 

recognized tribes as defined under the 

Federally Recognized Indian Tribe List 

Act (Public Law 103–454) or 

Presidential Executive Order. Tribes 

may apply for funding to conduct work 

on federally listed species (except 

Pacific salmon and steelhead), recently 

de-listed species, and any species that 

has become a candidate or a proposed 

species by the grant application 

deadline. Eligible species are those 

under NMFS or joint NMFS-U.S. Fish 

and Wildlife Service jurisdiction. 

Current lists of candidate, proposed, 

and de-listed species are available at 

http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/species/ 

esa/other.htm; and a current list of 

threatened and endangered species is 

available at http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/ 

pr/pdfs/species/esaltable.pdf. 

Federal agencies or institutions are 

not eligible to receive Federal assistance 

under this notice. In addition, NOAA 

and NMFS employees shall not provide 

assistance in writing applications, write 

letters of support for any application, or 

otherwise confer any unfair advantage 

on a particular application. However, 

for activities involving collaboration 

with current NMFS programs, NMFS 

employees can write a letter verifying 

that they are collaborating with the 

project. 

Evaluation and Selection Procedures 

The general evaluation criteria and 

selection factors are summarized below. 

Further information about the 

evaluation criteria and selection factors 

can be found in the full funding 

opportunity announcement. 

Evaluation Criteria for Projects 

Proposals will be evaluated based on 

the following criteria (with their relative 

weights):(1) Importance/relevance and 

applicability of the proposal to the 

program goals (35 percent); (2) 

technical/ scientific merit (30 percent); 

(3) overall qualifications of the 

applicants (10 percent); (4) project costs 

(15 percent); and (5) outreach and 

education (10 percent). Detailed 

descriptions of these criteria are 

provided in the Federal funding 

opportunity announcement. 

Review and Selection Process 

Screening, review, and selection 

procedures will take place in three 

steps: initial evaluation, merit review, 

and final selection by the Selecting 

Official (i.e., the Assistant 

Administrator for NMFS). Initial 

screening and evaluation of applications 

will be conducted to ensure that 

application packages have all required 

forms and application elements, and 

meet all of the eligibility criteria. 

Applications meeting the 

requirements of this solicitation will 

then undergo merit review. Each 

application will be reviewed by a 

minimum of three reviewers, who will 

independently evaluate and score 

proposals using the evaluation criteria. 

Consensus advice will not be provided 

by the merit reviewers. Merit reviewers 

will be individuals with appropriate 

subject-matter expertise and may be 

from federal or state agencies, academic 

institutions, or non-profit organizations. 

The reviewers’ ratings will be used to 

produce a rank order of the proposals. 

After applications have undergone 

merit review, the Selecting Official will 

make the final decision regarding which 

applications will be funded based upon 

the numerical rankings and evaluations 

of the applications by the merit 

reviewers as well as the selection factors 

set forth in the Federal funding 

opportunity announcement and 

summarized below. 

Selection Factors for Projects 

The merit review ratings shall provide 

a rank order to the Selecting Official for 

final recommendation to the NOAA 

Grants Officer. The Selecting Official 

shall award in the rank order of the 

review ratings unless the proposal is 

justified to be selected out of rank order 

based upon the following factors, where 

applicable: 

a. Availability of funding; 

b. Balance/distribution of funds; 

i. Geographically; 

ii. By type of institutions; 

iii. By type of partners; 

iv. By research areas; 

v. By project types; 

c. Whether this project duplicates 

other projects funded or considered for 

funding by NOAA or other Federal 

agencies; 

d. Program priorities and policy 

factors as set out in the Program 

Objectives, Program Priorities, and 

Funding Availability sections of the 

Federal funding opportunity 

announcement; 

e. Applicant’s prior award 

performance; 

f. Partnerships with and/or 

participation of targeted groups; 

g. Adequacy of information necessary 

for NOAA staff to make a NEPA 

determination and draft necessary 

documentation before recommendations 

for funding are made to the Grants 

Officer. 

Intergovernmental Review 

Applications under this program are 

not subject to Executive Order 12372, 

‘‘Intergovernmental Review of Federal 

Programs.’’ 

Limitation of Liability 

In no event will NOAA or the 

Department of Commerce be responsible 

for proposal preparation costs if these 

programs fail to receive funding or are 

cancelled because of other agency 

priorities. Publication of this 

announcement does not oblige NOAA to 

award any specific project or to obligate 

any available funds. 

National Environmental Policy Act 

(NEPA) 

NOAA must analyze the potential 

environmental impacts, as required by 

the National Environmental Policy Act 

(NEPA), for applicant projects or 

proposals that are seeking NOAA 

federal funding opportunities. Detailed 

information on NOAA compliance with 

NEPA can be found at the following 

NOAA NEPA website: http:// 

www.nepa.noaa.gov/, including our 

NOAA Administrative Order 216–6 for 

NEPA, http://www.nepa.noaa.gov/ 

NAO216l6.pdf, and the Council on 

Environmental Quality implementation 

regulations, http://ceq.hss.doe.gov/ 

nepa/regs/ceq/toclceq.htm. 

Consequently, as part of an applicant’s 

package, and under their description of 

their program activities, applicants are 

required to provide detailed information 

on the activities to be conducted, 

locations, sites, species and habitat to be 

affected, possible construction 

activities, and any environmental 

concerns that may exist (e.g., the use 

and disposal of hazardous or toxic 

chemicals, introduction of nonindigenous species, impacts to 

endangered and threatened species, 

aquaculture projects, and impacts to 

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providing specific information that will 

serve as the basis for any required 

impact analyses, applicants will also be 

required to cooperate with NOAA in 

identifying feasible measures to reduce 

or avoid any identified adverse 

environmental impacts of their 

proposed project. The failure to do so 

shall be grounds for not selecting an 

application. In some cases if additional 

information is required after an 

application is selected, funds can be 

withheld by the Grants Officer under a 

special award condition requiring the 

recipient to submit additional 

environmental compliance information 

sufficient to enable NOAA to make an 

assessment on any impacts that a project 

may have on the environment. 

Department of Commerce Pre-Award 

Notification Requirements 

The Department of Commerce PreAward Notification Requirements for 

Grants and Cooperative Agreements 

contained in the Federal Register on 

February 11, 2008 (73 FR 7696), are 

applicable to this solicitation. 

Paperwork Reduction Act 

This document contains collection-ofinformation requirements subject to the 

Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA). The 

use of Standard Forms 424, 424A, 424B, 

and SF LLL and CD 346 has been 

approved by the Office of Management 

and Budget (OMB) under the respective 

control numbers 0648–0043, 0648–0044, 

0648–0040, and 0648–0046. 

Notwithstanding any other provision 

of law, no person is required to, nor 

shall a person be subject to a penalty for 

failure to comply with, a collection of 

information subject to the requirements 

of the PRA unless that collection of 

information displays a currently valid 

OMB control number. 

Executive Order 12866 

This notice has been determined to be 

not significant for purposes of Executive 

Order 12866. 

Executive Order 13132 (Federalism) 

It has been determined that this notice 

does not contain policies with 

Federalism implications as that term is 

defined in Executive Order 13132. 

Administrative Procedure Act and 

Regulatory Flexibility Act 

Prior notice and an opportunity for 

public comment are not required by the 

Administrative Procedure Act or any 

other law for rules concerning public 

property, loans, grants, benefits, and 

contracts (5 U.S.C. 553(a)(2)). Because 

notice and opportunity for comment are 

not required pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 553 or 

any other law, the analytical 

requirements for the Regulatory 

Flexibility Act (5 U.S.C. 601 et seq.) are 

inapplicable. Therefore, a regulatory 

flexibility analysis has not been 

prepared. 

Dated: February 12, 2010. 

John Oliver, 

Deputy Assistant Administrator for 

Operations, National Marine Fisheries 

Service. 

[FR Doc. 2010–3276 Filed 2–18–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–22–S 

COMMITTEE FOR PURCHASE FROM 

PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR 

SEVERELY DISABLED 

Procurement List: Proposed Addition 

and Deletion 

AGENCY: Committee for Purchase From 

People Who Are Blind or Severely 

Disabled. 

ACTION: Proposed addition to and 

deletion from Procurement List. 

SUMMARY: The Committee is proposing 

to add to the Procurement List a service 

to be furnished by a nonprofit agency 

employing persons who are blind or 

have other severe disabilities, and to 

delete a service previously furnished by 

such agency. 

Comments Must Be Received on or 

Before: March 22, 2010. 

ADDRESSES: Committee for Purchase 

From People Who Are Blind or Severely 

Disabled, Jefferson Plaza 2, Suite 10800, 

1421 Jefferson Davis Highway, 

Arlington, Virginia 22202–3259. 

For Further Information or to Submit 

Comments Contact: Barry S. Lineback, 

Telephone: (703) 603–7740, Fax: (703) 

603–0655, or e-mail 

CMTEFedReg@AbilityOne.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

notice is published pursuant to 41 U.S.C 

47(a)(2) and 41 CFR 51–2.3. Its purpose 

is to provide interested persons an 

opportunity to submit comments on the 

proposed actions. 

Addition 

If the Committee approves the 

proposed addition, the entity of the 

Federal Government identified in this 

notice will be required to furnish the 

service listed below from a nonprofit 

agency employing persons who are 

blind or have other severe disabilities. 

Regulatory Flexibility Act Certification 

I certify that the following action will 

not have a significant impact on a 

substantial number of small entities. 

The major factors considered for this 

certification were: 

1. If approved, the action will not 

result in any additional reporting, 

recordkeeping or other compliance 

requirements for small entities other 

than the small organization that will 

furnish the service to the Government. 

2. If approved, the action will result 

in authorizing small entities to furnish 

the service to the Government. 

3. There are no known regulatory 

alternatives which would accomplish 

the objectives of the Javits-WagnerO’Day Act (41 U.S.C. 46–48c) in 

connection with the service proposed 

for addition to the Procurement List. 

Comments on this certification are 

invited. Commenters should identify the 

statement(s) underlying the certification 

on which they are providing additional 

information. 

End of Certification 

The following service is proposed for 

addition to the Procurement List and is 

provided by the nonprofit agency listed: 

Service 

Service Type/Location: Document 

Management Services, Evans Army 

Community Hospital—Fort Carson, 1650 

Cochrane Circle, Fort Carson, CO. 

NPA: Goodwill Industrial Services 

Corporation, Colorado Springs, CO. 

Contracting Activity: DEPT OF THE ARMY, 

XR W6BA ACA, FT CARSON, 

COLORADO. 

Deletion 

Regulatory Flexibility Act Certification 

I certify that the following action will 

not have a significant impact on a 

substantial number of small entities. 

The major factors considered for this 

certification were: 

1. If approved, the action will not 

result in additional reporting, 

recordkeeping or other compliance 

requirements for small entities. 

2. If approved, the action may result 

in authorizing small entities to furnish 

the service to the Government. 

3. There are no known regulatory 

alternatives which would accomplish 

the objectives of the Javits-WagnerO’Day Act (41 U.S.C. 46–48c) in 

connection with the service proposed 

for deletion from the Procurement List. 

End of Certification 

The following service is proposed for 

deletion from the Procurement List: 

Service 

Service Type/Location: Janitorial/Custodial, 

Florida Air National Guard: Buildings 

874 and 877, 14300 Fang Drive, 

Homestead ARB, FL. 

NPA: Goodwill Industries of South Florida, 

Inc., Miami, FL. 


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