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the risks of introducing or disseminating 

plant pests or noxious weeds via the 

importation of fresh strawberries from 

Jordan. We are making the pest risk 

analysis available to the public for 

review and comment. 

DATES: We will consider all comments 

that we receive on or before December 

13, 2010. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

by either of the following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to 

http://www.regulations.gov/fdmspublic/

component/main?main=DocketDetail&

d=APHIS–2010–0096 to submit or view 

comments and to view supporting and 

related materials available 

electronically. 

• Postal Mail/Commercial Delivery: 

Please send one copy of your comment 

to Docket No. APHIS–2010–0096, 

Regulatory Analysis and Development, 

PPD, APHIS, Station 3A–03.8, 4700 

River Road Unit 118, Riverdale, MD 

20737–1238. Please state that your 

comment refers to Docket No. APHIS– 

2010–0096. 

Reading Room: You may read any 

comments that we receive on this 

docket in our reading room. The reading 

room is located in room 1141 of the 

USDA South Building, 14th Street and 

Independence Avenue, SW., 

Washington, DC. Normal reading room 

hours are 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday 

through Friday, except holidays. To be 

sure someone is there to help you, 

please call (202) 690–2817 before 

coming. 

Other Information: Additional 

information about APHIS and its 

programs is available on the Internet at 

http://www.aphis.usda.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. 

Donna L. West, Senior Import 

Specialist, RPM, PHP, PPQ, APHIS, 

4700 River Road Unit, 133, Riverdale, 

MD 20737; (301) 734–0627. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

Under the regulations in ‘‘Subpart— 

Fruits and Vegetables’’ (7 CFR 319.56–1 

through 319.56–50, referred to below as 

the regulations), the Animal and Plant 

Health Inspection Service (APHIS) of 

the U.S. Department of Agriculture 

prohibits or restricts the importation of 

fruits and vegetables into the United 

States from certain parts of the world to 

prevent plant pests from being 

introduced into and spread within the 

United States. 

Section 319.56–4 contains a 

performance-based process for 

approving the importation of 

commodities that, based on the findings 

of a pest-risk analysis, can be safely 

imported subject to one or more of the 

designated phytosanitary measures 

listed in paragraph (b) of that section. 

These measures are: 

• The fruits or vegetables are subject 

to inspection upon arrival in the United 

States and comply with all applicable 

provisions of § 319.56–3; 

• The fruits or vegetables are 

imported from a pest-free area in the 

country of origin that meets the 

requirements of § 319.56–5 for freedom 

from that pest and are accompanied by 

a phytosanitary certificate stating that 

the fruits or vegetables originated in a 

pest-free area in the country of origin; 

• The fruits or vegetables are treated 

in accordance with 7 CFR part 305; 

• The fruits or vegetables are 

inspected in the country of origin by an 

inspector or an official of the national 

plant protection organization of the 

exporting country, and have been found 

free of one or more specific quarantine 

pests identified by the risk assessment 

as likely to follow the import pathway; 

and/or 

• The fruits or vegetables are a 

commercial consignment. 

APHIS received a request from the 

Kingdom of Jordan to allow the 

importation of fresh strawberries from 

Jordan into the continental United 

States. We have completed a pest risk 

assessment for this commodity to 

identify pests of quarantine significance 

that could follow the pathway of 

importation into the United States and, 

based on this assessment, have prepared 

a risk management document to identify 

phytosanitary measures that could be 

applied to fresh strawberries from 

Jordan to mitigate the pest risk. We have 

concluded that fresh strawberries can be 

safely imported into the continental 

United States from Jordan using one or 

more of the five designated 

phytosanitary measures listed in 

§ 319.56–4(b). Therefore, in accordance 

with § 319.56–4(c), we are announcing 

the availability of our pest risk analysis 

for public review and comment. The 

pest risk analysis may be viewed on the 

Regulations.gov Web site or in our 

reading room (see ADDRESSES above for 

a link to Regulations.gov and 

information on the location and hours of 

the reading room). You may request 

paper copies of the pest risk analysis by 

calling or writing to the person listed 

under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT. Please refer to the subject of 

the pest risk analysis you wish to review 

when requesting copies. 

After reviewing any comments we 

receive, we will announce our decision 

regarding the import status of fresh 

strawberries from Jordan in a 

subsequent notice. If the overall 

conclusions of the analysis and the 

Administrator’s determination of risk 

remain unchanged following our 

consideration of the comments, then we 

will begin issuing permits for the 

importation of fresh strawberries from 

Jordan into the continental United 

States subject to the requirements 

specified in the risk management 

document. 

Authority: 7 U.S.C. 450, 7701–7772, and 

7781–7786; 21 U.S.C. 136 and 136a; 7 CFR 

2.22, 2.80, and 371.3. 

Done in Washington, DC, this 5th day of 

October 2010. 

Gregory Parham, 

Acting Administrator, Animal and Plant 

Health Inspection Service. 

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AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL 

DEVELOPMENT 

Senior Executive Service Performance 

Review Board: Update 

AGENCY: U.S. Agency For International 

Development, Office Of Inspector 

General. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This notice is hereby given of 

the appointment of members of the 

updated U.S. Agency for International 

Development, Office of Inspector 

General’s Senior Executive Service 

Performance Review Board. 

DATES: September 27, 2010. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Robert S. Ross, Assistant Inspector 

General for Management, Office of 

Inspector General (OIG), U.S. Agency for 

International Development (USAID), 

1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Room 

8.08–029, Washington, DC 20523–8700; 

telephone 202–712–0010; FAX 202– 

216–3392; Internet e-mail address: 

rross@usaid.gov (for e-mail messages, 

the subject line should include the 

following reference—USAID OIG Senior 

Executive Service (SES) Performance 

Review Board). 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 5 U.S.C. 

4314(b)(c) requires each agency to 

establish, in accordance with 

regulations prescribed by the Office of 

Personnel Management at 5 CFR part 

430, subpart C and § 430.307 thereof in 

particular, one or more Senior Executive 

Service Performance Review Boards. 

The board shall review and evaluate the 

initial appraisal of each USAID OIG 

senior executive’s performance by his or 

her supervisor, along with any 

recommendations to the appointing 

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the senior executive. This notice 

updates the membership of the USAID 

OIG’s SES Performance Review Board as 

it was last published on September 22, 

2009. 

Approved: September 27, 2010. 

The following have been selected as 

regular members of the SES 

Performance Review Board of the 

USAID OIG: 

Michael G. Carroll, Deputy Inspector 

General 

Howard Hendershot, Assistant Inspector 

General for Investigations 

Robert S. Ross, Assistant Inspector 

General for Management 

Lisa S. Goldfluss, Legal Counsel to the 

Inspector General 

Alvin A. Brown, Assistant Inspector 

General, Millennium Challenge 

Corporation 

Melinda Dempsey, Deputy Assistant 

Inspector General for Audit 

Winona Varnon, Principal Deputy 

Assistant Secretary, Office of 

Management, Department of 

Education 

Mark Bialek, Counsel to the Inspector 

General, Environmental Protection 

Agency 

Richard Clark, Deputy Assistant 

Inspector General, Investigations, 

Department of Labor 

Robert Peterson, Assistant Inspector 

General for Inspections, Department 

of State 

Dated: September 28, 2010. 

Donald A. Gambatesa, 

Inspector General. 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

Proposed Information Collection; 

Comment Request; Information for 

Self-Certification Under FAQ 6 of the 

United States—European Union Safe 

Harbor Privacy Framework 

AGENCY: International Trade 

Administration. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Department of 

Commerce, as part of its continuing 

effort to reduce paperwork and 

respondent burden, invites the general 

public and other Federal agencies to 

take this opportunity to comment on 

proposed and/or continuing information 

collections, as required by the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. 

DATES: Written comments must be 

submitted on or before December 13, 

2010. 

ADDRESSES: Direct all written comments 

to Diana Hynek, Departmental 

Paperwork Clearance Officer, 

Department of Commerce, Room 6616, 

14th and Constitution Avenue, NW., 

Washington, DC 20230 (or via the 

Internet at dHynek@doc.gov). 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Requests for additional information or 

copies of the information collection 

instrument and instructions should be 

directed to: Damon Greer, U.S. 

Department of Commerce, International 

Trade Administration, Room 2003, 1401 

Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, 

DC 20230; Phone number: (202) 482– 

5023 and fax number: (202) 482–5522. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Abstract 

In response to the European Union 

Directive on Data Protection that 

restricts transfers of personal 

information from Europe to countries 

whose privacy practices are not deemed 

‘‘adequate,’’ the U.S. Department of 

Commerce has developed a ‘‘Safe 

Harbor’’ framework that will allow U.S. 

organizations to satisfy the European 

Directive’s requirements and ensure that 

personal data flows to the United States 

are not interrupted. In this process, the 

Department of Commerce (DOC) 

repeatedly consulted with U.S. 

organizations affected by the European 

Directive and interested nongovernment organizations. On July 26, 

2000, the European Commission issued 

its decision in accordance with Article 

25.6 of the Directive that the Safe 

Harbor Privacy Principles provide 

adequate privacy protection. The Safe 

Harbor framework bridges the 

differences between the European 

Union (EU) and U.S. approaches to 

privacy protection. The complete set of 

Safe Harbor documents and additional 

guidance materials may be found at 

http://export.gov/safeharbor. 

Once the Safe Harbor was deemed 

‘‘adequate’’ by the European 

Commission on July 26, 2000, the DOC 

began working on the requirements that 

are necessary to put this accord into 

effect. The European Member States 

implemented the decision made by the 

Commission within 90 days. Therefore, 

the Safe Harbor became operational on 

November 1, 2000. The Department of 

Commerce created a list for U.S. 

organizations to sign up to the Safe 

Harbor and provided guidance on the 

mechanics of signing up to this list. As 

of May 12, 2010, 2,200 U.S. 

organizations have been placed on the 

Safe Harbor List, located at http:// 

export.gov/safeharbor. 

Organizations that have signed up to 

this list are deemed ‘‘adequate’’ under 

the Directive and do not have to provide 

further documentation to European 

officials. This list will be used by EU 

citizens and organizations to determine 

whether further information and 

contracts will be needed for a U.S. 

organization to receive personally 

identifiable information. This list is 

necessary to make the Safe Harbor 

accord operational, and was a key 

demand of the Europeans in agreeing 

that the Principles were providing 

‘‘adequate’’ privacy protection. 

The Safe Harbor provides a number of 

important benefits to U.S. firms. Most 

importantly, it provides predictability 

and continuity for U.S. organizations 

that receive personal information from 

the EU. Personally identifiable 

information is defined as any 

information that can be identified to a 

specific person, for example an 

employee’s name and extension would 

be considered personally identifiable 

information. All 27 member countries 

are bound by the European 

Commission’s finding of ‘‘adequacy’’. 

The Safe Harbor also eliminates the 

need for prior approval to begin data 

transfers, or makes approval from the 

appropriate EU member countries 

automatic. The Safe Harbor principles 

offer a simpler and cheaper means of 

complying with the adequacy 

requirements of the Directive, which 

should particularly benefit small and 

medium enterprises. 

The decision to enter the Safe Harbor 

is entirely voluntary. Organizations that 

decide to participate in the Safe Harbor 

must comply with the safe harbor’s 

requirements and publicly declare that 

they do so. To be assured of Safe Harbor 

benefits, an organization needs to 

reaffirm its self-certification annually 

(Form ITA–4149P) to the DOC that it 

agrees to adhere to the safe harbor’s 

requirements, which includes elements 

such as notice, choice, access, data 

integrity, security and enforcement. 

This list will be most regularly used 

by EU organizations to determine 

whether further information and 

contracts will be needed by a U.S. 

organization to receive personally 

identifiable information. It will be used 

by the European Data Protection 

Authorities to determine whether a 

company is providing ‘‘adequate’’ 

protection, and whether a company has 

requested to cooperate with the Data 

Protection Authority. This list will be 

accessed when there is a complaint 

logged in the EU against a U.S. 

organization. This will be on a monthly 

basis. It will be used by the Federal 

Trade Commission and the Department 


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