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Proview Technology, Suzhou, and Top 

Victory Investments; and (3) a 

Commission investigative attorney to be 

designated by the Director, Office of 

Unfair Import Investigations. 

The authority for the Commission’s 

determination is contained in section 

337 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as 

amended (19 U.S.C. 1337), and in 

section 210.75 of the Commission’s 

Rules of Practice and Procedure (19 CFR 

210.75). 

By order of the Commission. 

Issued: September 4, 2009. 

Marilyn R. Abbott, 

Secretary to the Commission. 

[FR Doc. E9–21901 Filed 9–10–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7020–02–P 

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE 

Notice of Lodging of Consent Decree 

Under the Clean Water Act 

Notice is hereby given that on August 

28, 2009, a proposed Consent Decree 

(‘‘Decree’’) in United States v. 

Charleswood, Inc., Civil Action No. 

3:09–CV–00080 (RRE–KKK), was lodged 

with the United States District Court for 

the District of North Dakota, 

Southeastern Division. The case was 

brought under Section 402 of the Clean 

Water Act (‘‘CWA’’), 33 U.S.C. 1342, 

and involves the applicable permits 

governing discharge of storm water from 

the Charleswood Development in West 

Fargo, North Dakota. 

The Consent Decree requires that 

Charleswood (1) achieve and maintain 

compliance with the CWA and its 

implementing regulations, including 

applicable permits; (2) pay a civil 

penalty of $37,500 to redress the 

company’s past violations of the CWA 

and its implementing regulations, 

including applicable permits; and (3) 

establish a compliance and oversight 

program that must be implemented by 

the company to reduce the discharge of 

storm water from the Charleswood 

Development. 

The United States filed a Complaint 

with the Consent Decree which alleges 

that Charleswood failed to comply with 

the conditions of two general permits 

issued to it under Section 402 of the 

Act, 33 U.S.C. 1342, relating to the 

Charleswood Development. The 

Consent Decree would resolve the 

claims against Charleswood as 

described in the Complaint. The 

ultimate entry of the Consent Decree by 

the District Court of North Dakota 

would end this litigation. 

The Department of Justice will receive 

for a period of thirty (30) days from the 

date of this publication comments 

relating to the Decree. Comments should 

be addressed to the Assistant Attorney 

General, Environment and Natural 

Resources Division, and either e-mailed 

to pubcomment-ees.enrd@usdoj.gov or 

mailed to P.O. Box 7611, U.S. 

Department of Justice, Washington, DC 

20044–7611, and should refer to Civil 

Action No. 3:09–CV–00080 (RRE–KKK), 

D.J. Ref. No. 90–5–1–1–08299. 

The Decree may be examined at the 

Office of the United States Attorney, 

District of North Dakota, 655 1 Ave. N., 

Suite 250, Fargo, North Dakota 58102. It 

also may be examined at the offices of 

U.S. EPA Region 8, 1595 Wynkoop 

Street, Denver, Colorado 80202. During 

the public comment period, the Decree 

may be examined on the following 

Department of Justice Web site, http:// 

www.usdoj.gov/enrd/ 

Consent_Decrees.html. 

A copy of the Decree may be obtained 

by mail from the Consent Decree 

Library, P.O. Box 7611, U.S. Department 

of Justice, Washington, DC 20044–7611 

or by faxing or e-mailing a request to 

Tonia Fleetwood 

(tonia.fleetwood@usdoj.gov), fax no. 

(202) 514–0097, phone confirmation 

number (202) 514–1547. In requesting a 

copy from the Consent Decree Library, 

please enclose a check in the amount of 

$13.00 (25 cents per page reproduction 

cost) payable to the U.S. Treasury or, if 

by e-mail or fax, forward a check in that 

amount to the Consent Decree Library at 

the stated address. 

Maureen Katz, 

Assistant Section Chief, Environmental 

Enforcement Section, Environment and 

Natural Resources Division. 

[FR Doc. E9–21907 Filed 9–10–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4410–15–P 

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Office of the Secretary 

Notice of Initial Determination 

Updating the List of Products 

Requiring Federal Contractor 

Certification as to Forced/Indentured 

Child Labor Pursuant to Executive 

Order 13126 

AGENCY: Bureau of International Labor 

Affairs, Labor. 

ACTION: Request for comments. 

SUMMARY: This initial determination 

proposes to update the list required by 

Executive Order No. 13126 

(‘‘Prohibition of Acquisition of Products 

Produced by Forced or Indentured Child 

Labor’’), in accordance with the 

‘‘Procedural Guidelines for the 

Maintenance of the List of Products 

Requiring Federal Contractor 

Certification as to Forced or Indentured 

Child Labor.’’ This notice sets forth an 

updated list of products, by country of 

origin, which the Department of Labor 

preliminarily believes might have been 

mined, produced, or manufactured by 

forced or indentured child labor. The 

Department of Labor invites public 

comment on its initial determination as 

to products that appear on the updated 

list set forth in this notice. The 

Department will consider all public 

comments prior to publishing a final 

determination updating the list of 

products, made in consultation and 

cooperation with the Department of 

State, and the Department of Homeland 

Security. 

DATES: Information should be submitted 

to the Office of Child Labor, Forced 

Labor and Human Trafficking (OCFT) 

via one of the methods described below 

by 5 p.m., December 10, 2009. 

To Submit Information, or for Further 

Information, Contact: OCFT, Bureau of 

International Labor Affairs, U.S. 

Department of Labor at (202) 693–4843 

(this is not a toll free number). 

Comments, identified as ‘‘Docket No. 

DOL–2009–0002,’’ may be submitted by 

any of the following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:// 

www.regulations.gov. The portal 

includes instructions for submitting 

comments. Parties submitting responses 

electronically are encouraged not to 

submit paper copies. 

• Facsimile (fax): OCFT at 202–693– 

4830. 

• Mail, Express Delivery, Hand 

Delivery, and Messenger Service (2 

copies): Charita Castro or Rachel Rigby 

at U.S. Department of Labor, OCFT, 

Bureau of International Labor Affairs, 

200 Constitution Avenue, NW., Room 

S–5317, Washington, DC 20210. 

• E-mail: EO13126@dol.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

Executive Order No. 13126 (EO 

13126), which was published in the 

Federal Register on June 16, 1999 (64 

FR 32383), declared that it was ‘‘the 

policy of the United States Government 

* * * that the executive agencies shall 

take appropriate actions to enforce the 

laws prohibiting the manufacture or 

importation of good, wares, articles, and 

merchandise mined, produced or 

manufactured wholly or in part by 

forced or indentured child labor.’’ 

Pursuant to the EO 13126, and following 

public notice and comment, the 

Department of Labor published in the 

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final list of products (the ‘‘List’’), 

identified by their country of origin, that 

the Department, in consultation and 

cooperation with the Departments of 

State and Treasury [relevant 

responsibilities now within the 

Department of Homeland Security], had 

a reasonable basis to believe might have 

been mined, produced or manufactured 

with forced or indentured child labor 

(66 FR 5353). In addition to the List, the 

Department also published on January 

18, 2001, ‘‘Procedural Guidelines for 

Maintenance of the List of Products 

Requiring Federal Contractor 

Certification as to Forced or Indentured 

Child Labor’’ (Procedural Guidelines), 

which provide for maintaining, 

reviewing, and, as appropriate, revising 

the List (66 FR 5351). The current List 

and the Procedural Guidelines can be 

accessed on the Internet at http:// 

www.dol.gov/ILAB/regs/eo13126/ 

main.htm or can be obtained from: 

OCFT, Bureau of International Labor 

Affairs, Room S–5317, U.S. Department 

of Labor, 200 Constitution Avenue, 

NW., Washington, DC 20210; telephone: 

(202) 693–4843; fax (202) 693–4830. 

Pursuant to Section 3 of the Executive 

Order, the Federal Acquisition 

Regulatory Councils published a final 

rule in the Federal Register on January 

18, 2001, providing, amongst other 

requirements, that Federal contractors 

who supply products that appear on the 

List issued by the Department of Labor 

must certify to the contracting officer 

that the contractor, or, in the case of an 

incorporated contractor, a responsible 

official of the contractor, has made a 

good faith effort to determine whether 

forced or indentured child labor was 

used to mine, produce or manufacture 

any product furnished under the 

contract and that, on the basis of those 

efforts, the contractor is unaware of any 

such use of child labor. See 48 CFR 

Subpart 22.15. 

II. Update to EO 13126 List 

Pursuant to Sections D through G of 

the Procedural Guidelines, the EO 

13126 List may be updated through 

considerations of submissions by 

individuals or through OCFT’s own 

initiative. When updating the List on its 

own initiative, the Department of Labor 

must publish in the Federal Register a 

notice of initial determination, which 

includes any proposed alteration to the 

List. The Department will consider all 

public comments prior to the 

publication of a final determination of 

an updated list, which is made in 

consultation and cooperation with the 

Departments of State and Homeland 

Security. 

III. Definition of Forced/Indentured 

Child Labor 

Under Section 6(c) of EO 13126: 

‘‘Forced or indentured child labor’’ 

means all work or service— 

(1) Exacted from any person under the 

age of 18 under the menace of any 

penalty for its nonperformance and for 

which the worker does not offer himself 

voluntarily; or 

(2) Performed by any person under 

the age of 18 pursuant to a contract the 

enforcement of which can be 

accomplished by process or penalties. 

Information Sought 

The Department is requesting public 

comment on the proposed updated EO 

13126 List (see list of products and 

countries below), the inclusion of 

certain products on the List, the 

exclusion of other products from the 

List, and any other issue related to the 

fair and effective implementation of this 

aspect of EO 13126. This notice is a 

general solicitation of comments from 

the public. All submitted comments will 

be made a part of the record of the 

review referred to above and will be 

made available for public inspection. 

In preparing the initial determination 

updating the List, the Department of 

Labor considered the products and 

countries mentioned in its child labor 

reports. It also considered the 

testimony, written submissions, and 

other information presented to the 

Department, as well as research on 77 

countries carried out by the Department, 

in connection with its mandates under 

the 2005 Trafficking Victims Protection 

Reauthorization Act (TVPRA) to 

produce a ‘‘List of Goods from Countries 

that the Bureau of International Labor 

Affairs has Reason to Believe are 

Produced by Forced Labor or Child 

Labor in Violation of International 

Standards.’’ The TVPRA list 

encompassed both goods made with 

forced labor and child labor, whereas 

the EO 13126 List only includes 

products made with forced or 

indentured child labor. Information on 

the TVPRA can be found at http:// 

www.dol.gov/ILAB/programs/ocft/ 

tvpra.htm. Finally, the Department 

considered information provided in two 

public submissions alleging forced or 

indentured child labor. The first was a 

public submission by Free the Slaves 

alleging forced child labor in the cocoa 

industry in Cote d’Ivoire, which was 

accepted for review by the Department 

on March 20, 2001. The second was a 

public submission accepted for review 

on October 1, 2007 by State Department 

Watch alleging the use of forced child 

labor in the production of bricks, coal, 

foundry products, chemicals, cotton, 

grape products, toys, and fireworks in 

China. The Department has consulted 

and cooperated with the Departments of 

State and Homeland Security in the 

initial determination of the updated list 

of products. 

In developing the updated list of 

products, our review focused on 

available information concerning the 

use of forced or indentured child labor. 

The lack of available information does 

not, by itself, establish that, in any 

particular country, or for any particular 

product, forced or indentured child 

labor is not being used. Government 

resources for acquiring information are 

limited. In addition, information about 

actual working conditions in some 

countries is difficult or impossible to 

obtain, for a variety of reasons. For 

example, governments may be unable or 

unwilling to cooperate with 

international efforts, or the efforts of 

non-governmental organizations, to 

uncover and address abuses. Institutions 

or organizations that might uncover 

such information, such as free and 

independent news media, trade unions, 

and non-governmental organizations 

may not exist. In short, the list of 

products should not be taken as 

presenting a complete picture of the use 

of forced or indentured child labor 

around the world. 

As outlined in the Procedural 

Guidelines, several factors were 

weighed in determining whether or not 

a product should be placed on the 

updated list: the nature of the 

information describing the use of forced 

or indentured child labor; the source of 

the information; the date of the 

information; the extent of corroboration 

of the information by appropriate 

sources; whether the information 

involved more than an isolated incident; 

and whether recent and credible efforts 

are being made to address forced or 

indentured child labor in a particular 

country and industry. 

Based on recent, credible, and 

appropriately corroborated information 

from various sources, the Departments 

of Labor, State, and Homeland Security 

have preliminarily concluded that there 

is a reasonable basis to believe that the 

following products, identified by their 

country of origin, might have been 

mined, produced, or manufactured by 

forced or indentured child labor. The 

below list of products, by country of 

origin, constitutes the initial 

determination updating the EO 13126 

list issued January 18, 2001. 

Product Countries 

Bamboo .................... Burma 


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Product Countries 

Beans (green, soy, 

yellow).

Burma 

Brazil Nuts/Chestnuts Bolivia 

Bricks ........................ Burma, China, India, 

Nepal, Pakistan 

Carpets ..................... India, Nepal, Pakistan 

Charcoal ................... Brazil 

Coal .......................... Pakistan 

Coca (stimulant plant) Colombia 

Cocoa ....................... Cote d’Ivoire, Nigeria 

Coffee ....................... Cote d’Ivoire 

Cotton ....................... Benin, Burkina Faso, 

China, Tajikistan, 

Uzbekistan 

Cottonseed (hybrid) .. India 

Diamonds .................. Sierra Leone 

Electronics ................ China 

Embroidered Textiles 

(zari).

India, Nepal 

Garments .................. Argentina, India, Thailand 

Gold .......................... Burkina Faso 

Granite ...................... Nigeria 

Gravel (crushed 

stones).

Nigeria 

Pornography ............. Russia 

Rice ........................... Burma, India, Mali 

Rubber ...................... Burma 

Shrimp ...................... Thailand 

Stones ....................... India, Nepal 

Sugarcane ................ Bolivia, Burma 

Teak .......................... Burma 

Tilapia (fish) .............. Ghana 

Tobacco .................... Malawi 

Toys .......................... China 

The Department of Labor invites 

public comment on whether these 

products (and/or other products, 

regardless of whether they are 

mentioned in this Notice) should be 

included on the updated List of 

products requiring Federal contractor 

certification as to the use of forced or 

indentured child labor. To the extent 

possible, comments provided should 

address the Procedural Guideline factors 

discussed above. The Department is also 

interested in public comments relating 

to whether products initially 

determined to be on the List are 

designated with appropriate specificity 

and what, if any, alternative 

designations would better serve the 

purposes of EO 13126. 

The bibliographies providing the 

preliminary basis for including each 

product on the list are available on the 

Internet at http://www.dol.gov/ILAB/ 

regs/eo13126/main.htm. 

As explained, following receipt and 

consideration of comments on the 

updated List set out above, the 

Department of Labor, in consultation 

and cooperation with the Departments 

of State Homeland Security, will issue 

a final determination in the Federal 

Register providing a final list of 

products. The Department of Labor 

intends to continue to revise the List 

periodically, to add and/or delete 

products, as justified by new 

information. 

Signed at Washington, DC, this 2nd day of 

September 2009. 

Sandra Polaski, 

Deputy Undersecretary, Bureau of 

International Labor Affairs. 

[FR Doc. E9–21507 Filed 9–10–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4510–28–P 

OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND 

BUDGET 

Compliance Assistance Resources and 

Points of Contact Available to Small 

Businesses 

AGENCY: Office of Management and 

Budget, Executive Office of the 

President. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the Small 

Business Paperwork Relief Act of 2002 

(44 U.S.C. 3520), the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) is 

publishing a ‘‘list of the compliance 

assistance resources available to small 

businesses’’ and a list of the points of 

contacts in agencies ‘‘to act as a liaison 

between the agency and small business 

concerns’’ with respect to the collection 

of information and the control of 

paperwork. This information is posted 

on the following Web site: http:// 

www.business.gov/business-law/ 

contacts/federal/. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Wendy Liberante, Office of Information 

and Regulatory Affairs, Office of 

Management and Budget, E-mail: 

wliberante@omb.eop.gov, Telephone: 

(202) 395–3647. Inquiries may be 

submitted by facsimile to (202) 395– 

5167. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Small 

Business Paperwork Relief Act of 2002 

(Pub. L. 107–198) requires OMB to 

‘‘publish in the Federal Register and 

make available on the Internet (in 

consultation with the Small Business 

Administration) on an annual basis a 

list of the compliance assistance 

resources available to small businesses’’ 

(44 U.S.C. 3504(c)(6)). OMB has, with 

the active assistance and support of the 

Small Business Administration (SBA) 

and the Business Gateway Program, 

assembled a list of the compliance 

assistance resources available to small 

businesses. This list is available today 

on the following Web site: http:// 

www.business.gov/business-law/ 

contacts/federal/. There is also a link to 

this information on the OMB Web site. 

In addition, under another provision of 

this Act, ‘‘each agency shall, with 

respect to the collection of information 

and the control of paperwork, establish 

1 point of contact in the agency to act 

as a liaison between the agency and 

small business concerns’’ (44 U.S.C. 

3506(i)(1)). These contacts are also 

available at http://www.business.gov/ 

business-law/contacts/federal/. OMB 

and SBA have chosen to discharge this 

statutory responsibility by publishing 

agency compliance contact information 

on the business.gov Web site. 

Business.gov delivers compliance 

information to the public more 

effectively than having businesses go to 

individual agency Web sites, thereby 

improving the probability of success for 

business owners and agency regulatory 

programs. The public is not only able to 

find agency points of contact for 

compliance under the ‘‘contacts and 

help’’ tab on Business.gov, but when 

users look for information in the ‘‘small 

business guides’’ on particular topics, 

the relevant agency points of contact 

automatically appear as part of the 

guide. 

Kevin Neyland, 

Acting Administrator, Office of Information 

and Regulatory Affairs. 

[FR Doc. E9–21965 Filed 9–10–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3110–01–P 

NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION 

Notice of Permit Application Received 

Under the Antarctic Conservation Act 

of 1978 

AGENCY: National Science Foundation. 

ACTION: Notice of permit applications 

received under the Antarctic 

Conservation Act. 

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that 

the National Science Foundation (NSF) 

has received a waste management 

permit application for operation of a 

remote field support and emergency 

provisions for the Expedition Vessel, 

Kapitan Khlebnikov for the 2009–2010 

season and two following austral 

summers. The application is submitted 

to NSF pursuant to regulations issued 

under the Antarctic Conservation Act of 

1978. 

DATES: Interested parties are invited to 

submit written data, comments, or 

views with respect to this permit 

application within October 13, 2009. 

Permit applications may be inspected by 

interested parties at the Permit Office, 

address below. 

ADDRESSES: Comments should be 

addressed to Permit Office, Room 755, 

Office of Polar Programs, National 


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