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secret in the interest of foreign policy 

under the appropriate executive order (5 

U.S.C. 552b(c)(1)) or would disclose 

information the premature disclosure of 

which would be likely to significantly 

frustrate implementation of a proposed 

agency action. (5 U.S.C. 552b(c)(9)(B)) In 

addition, part of the discussion will 

relate solely to the internal personnel 

and organizational issues of the BBG or 

the International Broadcasting Bureau. 

(5 U.S.C. 552b(c)(2) and (6)). 

CONTACT PERSON FOR MORE INFORMATION: 

Persons interested in obtaining more 

information should contact Paul 

Kollmer-Dorsey at (202) 203–4545. 

Paul Kollmer-Dorsey, 

Deputy General Counsel. 

[FR Doc. 2010–5410 Filed 3–9–10; 11:15 am] 

BILLING CODE 8610–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Foreign–Trade Zones Board 

[Docket 12–2010] 

Foreign–Trade Zone 170 - 

Jeffersonville, Indiana, Application for 

Reorganization/Expansion Under 

Alternative Site Framework 

An application has been submitted to 

the Foreign–Trade Zones (FTZ) Board 

(the Board) by the Ports of Indiana, 

grantee of Foreign–Trade Zone 170, 

requesting authority to reorganize the 

zone under the alternative site 

framework (ASF) adopted by the Board 

(74 FR 1170, 1/12/09; correction 74 FR 

3987, 1/22/09). The ASF is an option for 

grantees for the establishment or 

reorganization of general–purpose zones 

and can permit significantly greater 

flexibility in the designation of new 

‘‘usage–driven’’ FTZ sites for operators/ 

users located within a grantee’s ‘‘service 

area’’ in the context of the Board’s 

standard 2,000–acre activation limit for 

a general–purpose zone project. The 

application was submitted pursuant to 

the Foreign–Trade Zones Act, as 

amended (19 U.S.C. 81a–81u) and the 

regulations of the Board (15 CFR part 

400). It was formally filed on February 

22, 2010. 

FTZ 170 was approved by the Board 

on December 27, 1990 (Board Order 495, 

56 FR 673, 1/8/91) and expanded on 

July 23, 1997 (Board Order 907, 62 FR 

40796, 7/30/97) and September 24, 2004 

(Board Order 1355, 69 FR 58884, 10/1/ 

04). The general–purpose zone currently 

consists of the following sites: Site 1: 

(993 acres) - Clark Maritime Center 

Complex on Utica Pike at Port Road, 

Jeffersonville; Site 2: (22 acres) - Clark 

County Airport between State Route 31 

and the airport terminal, Sellersburg; 

and, Site 3: (2,000 acres) - within the 

10,000 acre former Indiana Army 

Ammunition Plant at 11452 State Road 

62, Charlestown, Clark County, Indiana. 

The grantee’s proposed service area 

under the ASF would be Jackson, 

Washington, Harrison, Floyd, Clark and 

Scott Counties. If approved, the grantee 

would be able to serve sites throughout 

the service area based on companies’ 

needs for FTZ designation. The 

proposed service area is within and 

adjacent to the Louisville Customs and 

Border Protection port of entry. 

The applicant is requesting authority 

to reorganize its existing zone project to 

include all of its sites as ‘‘magnet sites’’ 

and proposes that Site 1 be exempt from 

sunset time limits that otherwise apply 

to sites under the ASF. No usage–driven 

sites are being proposed at this time. In 

accordance with the Board’s regulations, 

Claudia Hausler of the FTZ Staff is 

designated examiner to evaluate and 

analyze the facts and information 

presented in the application and case 

record and to report findings and 

recommendations to the Board. 

Public comment is invited from 

interested parties. Submissions (original 

and 3 copies) shall be addressed to the 

Board’s Executive Secretary at the 

address below. The closing period for 

their receipt is May 10, 2010. Rebuttal 

comments in response to material 

submitted during the foregoing period 

may be submitted during the subsequent 

15-day period to May 25, 2010. 

A copy of the application will be 

available for public inspection at the 

Office of the Executive Secretary, 

Foreign–Trade Zones Board, Room 

2111, U.S. Department of Commerce, 

1401 Constitution Avenue, NW, 

Washington, DC 20230–0002, and in the 

‘‘Reading Room’’ section of the Board’s 

website, which is accessible via 

www.trade.gov/ftz. For further 

information, contact Claudia Hausler at 

Claudia.Hausler@trade.gov or (202)482– 

1379. 

Dated:February 22, 2010 

Andrew McGilvray, 

Executive Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2010–5293 Filed 3–10–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–DS–S 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Foreign–Trade Zones Board 

[Docket 14–2010] 

Foreign–Trade Zone 70 - Detroit, 

Michigan, Application for Expansion 

An application has been submitted to 

the Foreign–Trade Zones Board (the 

Board) by the Greater Detroit Foreign 

Trade Zone, Inc., grantee of FTZ 70, 

requesting authority to expand FTZ 70 

to include two new sites in Wayne 

County, Michigan, within the Detroit 

Michigan Customs and Border 

Protection Port of Entry. The application 

was submitted pursuant to the 

provisions of the Foreign–Trade Zones 

Act, as amended (19 U.S.C. 81a–81u), 

and the regulations of the Board (15 CFR 

part 400). It was formally filed on 

February 24, 2010. 

FTZ 70 was approved on July 21, 

1981 (Board Order 176, 46 F.R. 38941, 

7/30/81), reorganized on April 15, 1985 

(Board Order 299, 50 FR 16119, 4/24/85) 

and expanded on November 27, 1989 

(Board Order 453, 54 FR 50258, 12/5/ 

89), April 20, 1990 (Board Order 471, 55 

F.R. 17775, 4/27/90), February 20, 1996 

(Board Order 802, 61 FR 7237, 2/27/96), 

August 26, 1996, (Board Order 843, 61 

FR 46763, 9/5/96), April 5, 2001 (Board 

Order 1162, 66 FR 19423, 4/16/01), May 

23, 2005, (Board Order 1395, 70 FR 

32570, 6/3/05) and June 22, 2007 (Board 

Order 1515, 72 FR 35968, 7/2/07). The 

general–purpose zone currently consists 

of 33 sites in the Detroit, Michigan area 

The applicant is requesting authority 

to expand the zone to include two new 

sites in Wayne County, Michigan as 

follows: Proposed Site 34 (33 acres) 

located at 6837 Wyoming Street, 

Dearborn, and Proposed Site 35 (39 

acres) located at 9400 McGraw Street, 

Detroit, Michigan Both sites will be 

operated by Dearborn Steel Center, Inc. 

No specific manufacturing authority is 

being requested at this time. Such 

requests would be made to the Board on 

a case–by-case basis. 

In accordance with the Board’s 

regulations, Claudia Hausler of the FTZ 

Staff is designated examiner to evaluate 

and analyze the facts and information 

presented in the application and case 

record and to report findings and 

recommendations to the Board. 

Public comment is invited from 

interested parties. Submissions (original 

and 3 copies) shall be addressed to the 

Board’s Executive Secretary at the 

address below. The closing period for 

their receipt is May 10, 2010. Rebuttal 

comments in response to material 

submitted during the foregoing period 

may be submitted during the subsequent 

15-day period to May 25, 2010. 

A copy of the application will be 

available for public inspection at the 

Office of the Executive Secretary, 

Foreign–Trade Zones Board, Room 

2111, U.S. Department of Commerce, 

1401 Constitution Avenue, NW, 

Washington, DC 20230–0002, and in the 

‘‘Reading Room’’ section of the Board’s 


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website, which is accessible via 

www.trade.gov/ftz. 

For further information, contact 

Claudia Hausler at 

Claudia.Hausler@trade.gov or (202) 

482–1379. 

Dated: February 24, 2010. 

Andrew McGilvray, 

Executive Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2010–5281 Filed 3–10–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–DS–S 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

RIN 0648–XU32 

Fisheries Off West Coast States and in 

the Western Pacific; Pacific Coast 

Groundfish Fishery; Application for an 

Exempted Fishing Permit 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice; intent to issue exempted 

fishing permits, request for comment. 

SUMMARY: NMFS announces the intent 

to issue exempted fishing permits 

(EFPs) to Pacific whiting shoreside 

vessels and first receivers that 

participate in a maximized retention 

and monitor program for the 2010 

Pacific whiting shoreside fishery. EFPs 

are needed to allow vessels to retain 

catch in excess of the cumulative limits 

and to retain prohibited species until 

offloading. EFPs are also needed to 

allow first receivers to possess Pacific 

whiting deliveries with prohibited 

species, to possess catch that is in 

excess of cumulative limits, and to use 

hopper type scales to derive accurate 

catch weights prior to sorting. Issuance 

of the EFPs would allow NMFS to 

collect catch data on incidentally caught 

species, including salmonids listed 

under the Endangered Species Act, and 

would allow new components of an 

overall monitoring program to continue 

to be investigated before 

implementation of a regulatory program. 

DATES: Comments must be received by 

March 26, 2010. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, 

identified by RIN 0648–XU32, by any 

one of the following methods: 

• E-mail: whitingEFP@noaa.gov. 

Include 0648–XU32 in the subject line 

of the message. 

• Fax: 206–526–6736, Attn: Becky 

Renko 

• Mail: Barry A. Thom, Acting 

Regional Administrator, Northwest 

Region, NMFS, 7600 Sand Point Way 

NE, Seattle, WA 98115–0070, Attn: 

Becky Renko. 

Instructions: Attachments to e-mail 

comments will be accepted in Microsoft 

Word, Excel, WordPerfect, or Adobe 

PDF file formats only. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Becky Renko or Kevin Duffy at (206) 

526–6140. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

action is authorized by the Magnuson 

Stevens Fishery Conservation and 

Management Act provisions at 50 CFR 

600.745 which states that EFPs may be 

used to authorize fishing activities that 

would otherwise be prohibited in order 

to collect data among other activities. 

NMFS Northwest Region sent a letter to 

the Pacific Fishery Management Council 

(Council) that included a proposal for 

issuance of EFPs to vessels and first 

receivers participating in the 2010 

Pacific whiting shoreside fishery. The 

Council considered the EFP activity at 

their November 2009 meeting. If issued, 

the EFPs would provide for a 

maximized retention and monitoring 

program for the Pacific whiting 

shoreside fishery. The maximized 

retention and monitoring program 

requirements specified in the EFP are 

intended to allow for the Pacific whiting 

shoreside fishery to be efficiently 

prosecuted while providing accurate 

catch data such that the Endangered 

Species Act and Magnuson-Stevens 

Fishery Conservation and Management 

Act requirements for this fishery are 

adequately met. 

The issuance of EFPs would allow 

approximately 40 vessels to delay 

sorting of groundfish catch and to retain 

catch in excess of cumulative trip limits 

and prohibited species catch until 

offloading. These activities are 

otherwise prohibited by regulations at 

50 CFR 660.306(a)(10) and 50 CFR 

660.306(a)(2) respectively. 

Additionally, issuance of the EFPs to 

approximately 15 first receivers 

(generally land-based processing 

facilities) would allow first receivers to 

possess more than a single cumulative 

limit of a particular species, per vessel, 

per applicable cumulative limit period. 

The possession of catch in excess of the 

cumulative limits is otherwise 

prohibited by regulations at 50 CFR 

660.306(a)(10). In addition, the EFPs 

would include an allowance for first 

receivers to use hopper type scales to 

derive an accurate total catch weight 

prior to sorting. Regulations pertaining 

to sorting at § 660.370(h)(6) and 

prohibitions at § 660.306(a)(7) require 

vessels to sort the catch before 

weighing. 

Issuance of the EFPs would allow for 

the collection of information on the 

catch of salmon, non-whiting 

groundfish, and other non-groundfish 

species incidentally taken with Pacific 

whiting. These data are needed to 

monitor the attainment of the shore 

based whiting allocation while assuring 

that the fishery specifications (bycatch 

limits, species allocations, OYs, and 

biological opinion thresholds) are not 

exceeded. Because whiting flesh 

deteriorates rapidly once the fish are 

caught, whiting must be minimally 

handled and immediately chilled to 

maintain the flesh quality. Allowing 

Pacific whiting shoreside vessels to 

retain unsorted catch will also enable 

whiting quality to be maintained. 

At the June 2007 Pacific Fishery 

Management Council (PFMC) meeting, 

the PFMC recommended that NMFS 

implement a maximized retention 

program in Federal regulations that 

would allow full retention of Pacific 

whiting catch by the vessels, that is 

delivered to first receivers on shore. The 

terms and conditions of the EFPs used 

in 2008 and 2009 were consistent with 

the Council’s June 2007 

recommendation for implementing the 

provisions of Amendment 10 to the 

Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery 

Management Plan (FMP), which allows 

implementation of this program. 

Although it was expected that a 

regulatory program would be in place at 

this time, it has not yet been 

implemented. At the June 2009 meeting 

the Council recommended a preferred 

alternative for implementation of a trawl 

rationalization program under 

Amendment 20 to the FMP that would 

change the future management and 

monitoring needs for the Pacific whiting 

shoreside fishery. EFPs will continue to 

be used until regulations implementing 

Amendment 10 to the groundfish FMP 

are implemented, or until tracking and 

monitoring regulations implementing 

the trawl rationalization program under 

Amendment 20 are effective. Additional 

information collected under this EFP 

program will benefit the development 

tracking and monitoring provisions of 

Amendment 20 to the groundfish FMP. 

The vessel EFPs would require Pacific 

whiting shoreside vessels to dump 

unsorted catch directly below deck and 

would allow unsorted catch to be 

landed, providing that an electronic 

monitoring system (EMS) is used on all 

fishing trips to verify retention of catch 

at sea. The EMS has shown to be an 

effective tool for accurately monitoring 

catch retention and identifying the time 

and location of discard events. The EFPs 

would include provisions for EMS, paid 

for by the vessels, similar to the 2009 


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