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countries to determine whether those 

standards are comparable to the 

standards of accreditation applied to 

medical schools in the United States. 

Discussions of the standards of 

accreditation will be held in sessions 

open to the public. Discussions 

resulting in specific determinations of 

comparability are closed to the public in 

order that each country may be properly 

notified of the decision. The countries 

tentatively scheduled to be discussed at 

the meeting include: Australia/New 

Zealand, Costa Rica, Hungary, Ireland, 

Mexico, Poland, Saba, Slovakia, 

Sweden, and the United Kingdom. 

Beginning September 1, 2009, you may 

call the contact person listed above to 

obtain the final listing of the countries 

whose standards will be discussed 

during this meeting. The meeting 

agenda, as well as the staff analyses 

pertaining to this meeting, will be 

posted on the Department of 

Education’s Web site at the following 

address: http://www.ed.gov/about/ 

bdscomm/list/ncfmea.html. CDs 

containing PDF files of the staff reports 

will be available at the meeting at no 

charge to the attendees and otherwise 

upon request to the contact person 

listed above. 

How May I Obtain Electronic Access to 

This Document? 

You may view this document, as well 

as all other Department of Education 

documents published in the Federal 

Register, in text or Adobe Portable 

Document Format (PDF), on the Internet 

at the following site: http://www.ed.gov/ 

legislation/FedRegister. 

To use PDF, you must have Adobe 

Acrobat Reader, which is available free 

at this site. If you have questions about 

using PDF, call the U.S. Government 

Printing Office (GPO), toll free, at 

1–888–293–6498; or in the Washington, 

DC, area at (202) 512–1530. 

Note: The official version of this document 

is the document published in the Federal 

Register. Free Internet access to the official 

edition of the Federal Register and the Code 

of Federal Regulations is available on GPO 

Access at: http://www.gpoaccess.gov/nara/ 

index.html. 

Authority: 5 U.S.C. Appendix 2. 

Delegation of Authority: The Secretary 

of Education has delegated authority to 

Daniel T. Madzelan, Director, 

Forecasting and Policy Analysis for the 

Office of Postsecondary Education, to 

perform the functions of the Assistant 

Secretary for Postsecondary Education. 

Daniel T. Madzelan, 

Director, Forecasting and Policy Analysis. 

[FR Doc. E9–20396 Filed 8–24–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

ELECTION ASSISTANCE COMMISSION 

Sunshine Act Meeting Notice 

AGENCY: U.S. Election Assistance 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice of Virtual Public Forum 

for EAC Standards Board. 

DATE AND TIME: Wednesday, September 

9, 2009, 9 a.m. EDT through Friday, 

September 18, 2009, 9 p.m. EDT. 

PLACE: EAC Standards Board Virtual 

Meeting Room at http://www.eac.gov. 

Once at the main page of EAC’s Web 

site, viewers should click the link to the 

Standards Board Virtual Meeting Room. 

The virtual meeting room will open on 

Wednesday, September 9, 2009, at 9 

a.m. EDT and will close on Friday, 

September 18, 2009, at 9 p.m. EDT. The 

site will be available 24 hours per day 

during that 9-day period. 

PURPOSE: The EAC Standards Board will 

review and provide comment on five 

draft chapters of the Election 

Management Guidelines. The draft 

chapters contain best practices and 

recommendations regarding: Building 

Community Partnerships; Canvassing 

and Certifying an Election; 

Communicating with the Public; 

Conducting a Recount, and Provisional 

Ballots. 

The EAC Standards Board Virtual 

Meeting Room was established to enable 

the Standards Board to conduct 

business in an efficient manner in a 

public forum, including being able to 

review and discuss draft documents, 

when it is not feasible for an in-person 

board meeting. The Standards Board 

will not take any votes or propose any 

resolutions during the 9-day forum of 

September 9–September 18, 2009. 

Members will post comments about the 

five draft chapters of the Election 

Management Guidelines. 

This activity is open to the public. 

The public may view the proceedings of 

this special forum by visiting the EAC 

Standards Board Virtual Meeting Room 

at http://www.eac.gov at any time 

between Wednesday, September 9, 

2009, 9 a.m. EDT and Friday, September 

18, 2009, 9 p.m. EDT. The public also 

may view the five draft chapters of the 

Election Management Guidelines 

alternative, which will be posted on 

EAC’S Web site beginning September 9, 

2009. The public may file written 

statements to the EAC Standards Board 

at standardsboard@eac.gov. Data on 

EAC’s Web site is accessible to visitors 

with disabilities and meets the 

requirements of section 508 of the 

Rehabilitation Act. 

PERSON TO CONTACT FOR INFORMATION: 

Bryan Whitener, Telephone: (202) 566– 

3100. 

Alice Miller, 

Chief Operating Officer, U.S. Election 

Assistance Commission. 

[FR Doc. E9–20566 Filed 8–21–09; 4:15 pm] 

BILLING CODE 6820–KF–P 

ELECTION ASSISTANCE COMMISSION 

Sunshine Act Notice 

AGENCY: U.S. Election Assistance 

Commission. 

* * * * * 

ACTION: Notice of Virtual Public Forum 

for EAC Board of Advisors. 

DATE AND TIME: Wednesday, September 

9, 2009, 9 a.m. EDT through Friday, 

September 18, 2009, 9 p.m. EDT. 

PLACE: EAC Board of Advisors Virtual 

Meeting Room at http://www.eac.gov. 

Once at the main page of EAC’s 

website, viewers should click the link to 

the Board of Advisors Virtual Meeting 

Room. The virtual meeting room will 

open on Wednesday, September 9, 2009, 

at 9 a.m. EDT and will close on Friday, 

September 18, 2009, at 9 p.m. EDT. The 

site will be available 24 hours per day 

during that 9-day period. 

PURPOSE: The EAC Board of Advisors 

will review and provide comment on 

five draft chapters of the Election 

Management Guidelines. The draft 

chapters contain best practices and 

recommendations regarding: Building 

Community Partnerships; Canvassing 

and Certifying an Election; 

Communicating with the Public; 

Conducting a Recount, and Provisional 

Ballots. 

The EAC Board of Advisors Virtual 

Meeting Room was established to enable 

the Board of Advisors to conduct 

business in an efficient manner in a 

public forum, including being able to 

review and discuss draft documents, 

when it is not feasible for an in-person 

board meeting. The Board of Advisors 

will not take any votes or propose any 

resolutions during the 9-day forum of 

September 9–September 18, 2009. 

Members will post comments about the 

five draft chapters of the Election 

Management Guidelines. 

This activity is open to the public. 

The public may view the proceedings of 


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