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laws of a given State, the maximum 

interest rate will be the rate permitted 

by the constitution or laws of the given 

State. 

Richard C. Blewett, 

Acting Director, Office of Financial 

Assistance. 

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DEPARTMENT OF STATE 

[Public Notice Number: 7005] 

U.S. Advisory Commission on Public 

Diplomacy; Notice of Meeting 

The U.S. Advisory Commission on 

Public Diplomacy will hold a public 

meeting on July 20, 2010 from 9 a.m. to 

11 a.m. in the conference room of the 

International Foundation for Electoral 

Systems (IFES) located at 1850 K Street, 

NW., Fifth Floor, Washington, DC 

20006. 

The Commissioners will discuss 

public diplomacy issues, including 

measurement of U.S. government public 

diplomacy efforts. 

The Advisory Commission was 

originally established under Section 604 

of the United States Information and 

Exchange Act of 1948, as amended (22 

U.S.C. 1469) and Section 8 of 

Reorganization Plan Numbered 2 of 

1977. It was reauthorized pursuant to 

Public Law 11–70 (2009), 22 U.S.C. 

6553. 

The Advisory Commission is a 

bipartisan panel created by Congress to 

assess public diplomacy policies and 

programs of the U.S. government and 

publicly funded nongovernmental 

organizations. The Commission reports 

its findings and recommendations to the 

President, the Congress and the 

Secretary of State and the American 

people. Current Commission members 

include William Hybl of Colorado, who 

serves as Chairman; Jay Snyder of New 

York; Penne Korth Peacock of Texas; 

Lyndon Olson of Texas; John Osborn of 

Pennsylvania; and Lezlee Westine of 

Virginia. 

The public may attend this meeting as 

seating capacity allows. To attend this 

meeting and for further information, 

please contact Gerald McLoughlin at 

(202) 632–6570, e-mail: 

acpdmeeting@state.gov. Any member of 

the public requesting reasonable 

accommodation at this meeting should 

contact Mr. McLoughlin prior to July 

15th. Requests received after that date 

will be considered, but might not be 

possible to fulfill. 

Dated: June 24, 2010. 

Carl Chan, 

Executive Director, ACPD. 

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Office of the Secretary of 

Transportation 

[Docket No. DOT–OST–2010–0076] 

Notice of Funding Availability for the 

Department of Transportation’s 

National Infrastructure Investments 

Under the Transportation, Housing and 

Urban Development, and Related 

Agencies Appropriations Act for 2010 

AGENCY: Office of the Secretary of 

Transportation, DOT. 

ACTION: Notice of extension of deadline 

to submit pre-applications. 

SUMMARY: On June 1, 2010, DOT 

published a notice (75 FR 30461) 

announcing the availability of funding 

and requesting proposals for DOT’s 

National Infrastructure Investments 

grant program under the FY 2010 

Appropriations Act. The DOT is 

referring to the grants for National 

Infrastructure Investments as ‘‘TIGER II 

Discretionary Grants.’’ Through this 

notice, DOT is extending the deadline to 

submit pre-applications for TIGER II 

Discretionary Grants from July 16, 2010, 

at 5 p.m. EDT to July 26, 2010, at 5 p.m. 

EDT. The deadline for submitting final 

applications is not being extended, and 

remains August 23, 2010, at 5 p.m. EDT. 

DATES: Pre-applications must be 

submitted by July 26, 2010, at 5 p.m. 

EDT (the ‘‘Pre-Application Deadline’’). 

Final applications must be submitted 

through Grants.gov by August 23, 2010, 

at 5 p.m. EDT (the ‘‘Application 

Deadline’’). The DOT pre-application 

system opened on June 23, 2010 to 

allow prospective applicants to submit 

pre-applications. Subsequently, the 

Grants.gov ‘‘Apply’’ function will open 

on July 30, 2010, allowing applicants to 

submit applications. While applicants 

are encouraged to submit preapplications in advance of the PreApplication Deadline, pre-applications 

will not be reviewed until after the PreApplication Deadline. Similarly, while 

applicants are encouraged to submit 

applications in advance of the 

Application Deadline, applications will 

not be evaluated, and awards will not be 

made, until after the Application 

Deadline. Pursuant to the FY 2010 

Appropriations Act, the DOT will 

evaluate all applications and announce 

the projects that have been selected to 

receive TIGER II Discretionary Grants no 

sooner than September 15, 2010. 

ADDRESSES: Pre-applications must be 

submitted electronically to DOT, and 

applications must be submitted 

electronically through Grants.gov. Only 

pre-applications received by DOT and 

applications received through 

Grants.gov will be deemed properly 

filed. Instructions for submitting preapplications to DOT and applications 

through Grants.gov are included in 

Section VIII (Pre-Application and 

Application Cycle) of the June 1 notice 

of funding availability (75 FR 30461). 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

further information concerning this 

notice, please contact the TIGER II 

Discretionary Grant program manager 

via e-mail at TIGERIIGrants@dot.gov, or 

call Robert Mariner at 202–366–8914. A 

TDD is available for individuals who are 

hearing impaired at 202–366–3993. In 

addition, DOT will regularly post 

answers to questions and requests for 

clarifications on DOT’s Web site at 

http://www.dot.gov/recovery/ost/ 

TIGERII. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On April 

26, 2010, DOT published an interim 

notice (75 FR 21695) announcing the 

availability of funding and requesting 

proposals for the Department of 

Transportation’s National Infrastructure 

Investments program under the 

Transportation, Housing and Urban 

Development, and Related Agencies 

Appropriations Act for 2010 (Div. A of 

the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 

2010 (Pub. L. 111–117, Dec. 16, 2009)) 

(the ‘‘FY 2010 Appropriations Act’’). The 

DOT is referring to the grants for 

National Infrastructure Investments 

under the FY 2010 Appropriations Act 

as ‘‘TIGER II Discretionary Grants.’’ 

Because this is a new program, the 

interim notice also requested comments 

on the proposed selection criteria and 

guidance for awarding TIGER II 

Discretionary Grants. The DOT 

considered the comments that were 

submitted in accordance with the 

interim notice and published an 

additional notice revising some 

elements of the interim notice on June 

1, 2010 (75 FR 30461). This notice 

makes one additional revision to the 

notice published on June 1, 2010. This 

notice extends the deadline for 

submitting pre-applications from July 

16, 2010, at 5 p.m. EDT to July 26, 2010, 

at 5 p.m. EDT. The deadline for 

submitting final applications is not 

being extended, and remains August 23, 

2010, at 5 p.m. EDT. 

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