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Assistance, and enter into a cooperative 

agreement with AMS for allocation of 

funds. 

DATES: Completed applications for 

Federal assistance along with signed 

cooperative agreements must be 

received by close of business, 

September 24, 2010. 

ADDRESSES: Applications for Federal 

assistance and cooperative agreements 

shall be submitted to: Betsy Rakola, 

Grants Management Specialist, National 

Organic Program, USDA/AMS/TMP/ 

NOP, Room 2640–South, Ag Stop 0268, 

1400 Independence Avenue, SW., 

Washington, DC 20250–0264; 

Telephone: (202) 720–3252. Additional 

information can be found under 

‘‘Organic Cost Share Program’’ on the 

National Organic Program’s homepage 

at http://www.ams.usda.gov/nop. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Betsy Rakola, Grants Management 

Specialist, National Organic Program, 

USDA/AMS/TM/NOP, Room 2640– 

South, Ag Stop 0268, 1400 

Independence Avenue, SW., 

Washington, DC 20250–0268; 

Telephone: (202) 720–3252. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

Organic Certification Cost-Share 

Program is part of the Agricultural 

Management Assistance (AMA) Program 

authorized under the Federal Crop 

Insurance Act (FCIA), as amended, (7 

U.S.C. 1524). Under the applicable FCIA 

provisions, the Department is 

authorized to provide cost-share 

assistance to organic producers in the 

States of Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, 

Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, 

Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, 

New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, 

Utah, Vermont, West Virginia, and 

Wyoming. The AMS has allocated 

$1.495 million for this organic 

certification cost-share program in 

Fiscal Year 2010. This organic 

certification cost-share program 

provides financial assistance to organic 

producers certified to the NOP 

authorized under the Organic Foods 

Production Act of 1990, as amended (7 

U.S.C. 6501 et seq.). This program is in 

addition to and separate from the 

National Organic Certification CostShare Program which is also 

administered by AMS and is open to all 

States and U.S. Territories. 

To participate in the program, eligible 

States, through their State Department 

of Agriculture, must complete an 

Application for Federal Assistance 

(Standard Form 424) and enter into a 

written cooperative agreement with 

AMS. State Department of Agriculture 

refers to agencies, commissions, or 

departments of State government 

responsible for implementing 

regulation, policy or programs on 

agriculture within their State. The 

program will provide cost-share 

assistance, through participating States, 

to organic crop and livestock producers 

receiving certification or continuation of 

certification by a USDA accredited 

certifying agent commencing October 1, 

2010, through September 30, 2011. The 

Department has determined that 

payments will be limited to 75 percent 

of an individual producer’s certification 

costs up to a maximum of $750.00. 

To receive cost-share assistance, 

organic producers must submit an 

application to the representative Agency 

of the State in which their farm/ 

operation is located. This application 

must include: (1) Proof of NOP 

certification issued or continued within 

the cost-share qualifying period, 

October 1, 2010, through September 30, 

2011, and (2) an itemized invoice 

demonstrating costs incurred for NOP 

certification. Costs incurred for noncertification activities, such as, 

membership associations or farm/ 

operation inputs are not eligible for 

assistance through this program. 

Assistance provided to eligible 

producers under this cost-share program 

is included under the Agricultural 

Management Assistance (AMA) 

Program. Total amount of cost-share 

payments provided to any eligible 

producer under all AMA programs 

cannot exceed $50,000. 

How To Submit Applications: To 

receive fund allocations to provide costshare assistance, a State Department of 

Agriculture must complete an 

Application for Federal Assistance 

(Standard Form 424), and enter into a 

written cooperative agreement with 

AMS. AMS encourages interested States 

to submit the Application for Federal 

Assistance, (Standard Form 424) 

electronically via Grants.gov, the 

Federal grants Web site, http:// 

www.grants.gov. Applications submitted 

electronically via Grants.gov must be 

filed by September 24, 2010. A 

hardcopy of Standard Form 424 bearing 

an original signature is not required 

when applying through http:// 

www.grants.gov. However, the 

cooperative agreement must have the 

original signature of the official who has 

authority to apply for Federal 

assistance. The signed cooperative 

agreement must be sent by express mail 

or courier service and received at the 

above address by September 24, 2010. 

States considering submitting electronic 

application forms should become 

familiar with the Grants.Gov Web site 

and begin the application process well 

in advance of the application deadline. 

For information on how to apply 

electronically, please consult http:// 

www.grants.gov/GetRegistered. 

State Agencies submitting hard copy 

applications should submit a signed 

copy of Standard Form 424 and a signed 

copy of the cooperative agreement to 

AMS at the address listed above. The 

Standard Form 424 and the cooperative 

agreement must have the original 

signature of the official who has 

authority to apply for Federal 

assistance. Hard copy applications 

should be sent only via express mail or 

courier service and must be received at 

the above address by September 24, 

2010. 

The AMA Organic Certification CostShare Program is listed in the ‘‘Catalog 

of Federal Domestic Assistance’’ under 

number 10.163 and subject agencies 

must adhere to Title VI of the Civil 

Rights Act of 1964, which bars 

discrimination in all Federally assisted 

programs. Additional information on 

the AMA Organic Certification CostShare Program can be found under 

‘‘Organic Cost Share Program’’ on the 

NOP’s homepage at http:// 

www.ams.usda.gov/nop. 

Authority: 7 U.S.C. 1524. 

Dated: September 1, 2010. 

Rayne Pegg, 

Administrator, Agricultural Marketing 

Service. 

[FR Doc. 2010–22244 Filed 9–7–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–02–P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Animal and Plant Health Inspection 

Service 

[Docket No. APHIS–2010–0076] 

Pale Cyst Nematode; Update of 

Quarantined Areas 

AGENCY: Animal and Plant Health 

Inspection Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice of changes to 

quarantined area. 

SUMMARY: We are advising the public 

that we have made changes to the area 

in the State of Idaho that is quarantined 

to prevent the spread of pale cyst 

nematode. The description of the 

quarantined area was updated on April 

26, 2010. As a result of these changes, 

209 acres have been removed from the 

quarantined area. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

Jonathan M. Jones, National Program 

Manager, Emergency and Domestic 

Programs, PPQ, 4700 River Road Unit 

160, Riverdale, MD 20737; (301) 734- 

5038. 


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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

The pale cyst nematode (PCN, 

Globodera pallida) is a major pest of 

potato crops in cool-temperature areas. 

Other solanaceous hosts include 

tomatoes, eggplants, peppers, tomatillos, 

and some weeds. The PCN is thought to 

have originated in Peru and is now 

widely distributed in many potatogrowing regions of the world. PCN 

infestations may be expressed as 

patches of poor growth. Affected potato 

plants may exhibit yellowing, wilting, 

or death of foliage. Even with only 

minor symptoms on the foliage, potato 

tuber size can be affected. Unmanaged 

infestations can cause potato yield loss 

ranging from 20 to 70 percent. The 

spread of this pest in the United States 

could result in a loss of domestic or 

foreign markets for U.S. potatoes and 

other commodities. 

In 7 CFR part 301, the PCN quarantine 

regulations (§§ 301.86 through 301.86-9, 

referred to below as the regulations) set 

out procedures for determining the areas 

quarantined for PCN and impose 

restrictions on the interstate movement 

of regulated articles from quarantined 

areas. 

Section 301.86-3 of the regulations 

sets out the procedures for determining 

the areas quarantined for PCN. 

Paragraph (a) of § 301.86-3 states that, in 

accordance with the criteria listed in 

§ 301.86-3(c), the Administrator will 

designate as a quarantined area each 

field that has been found to be infested 

with PCN, each field that has been 

found to be associated with an infested 

field, and any area that the 

Administrator considers necessary to 

quarantine because of its inseparability 

for quarantine enforcement purposes 

from infested or associated fields. 

Paragraph (d) provides for the 

removal of fields from quarantine. An 

infested field will be removed from 

quarantine when a protocol approved by 

the Administrator as sufficient to 

support the removal of infested fields 

from quarantine has been completed 

and the field has been found to be free 

of PCN. An associated field will be 

removed from quarantine when the field 

has been found to be free of PCN 

according to a protocol approved by the 

Administrator as sufficient to support 

removal of associated fields from 

quarantine. Any area other than infested 

or associated fields that has been 

quarantined by the Administrator 

because of its inseparability for 

quarantine enforcement purposes from 

infested or associated fields will be 

removed from quarantine when the 

relevant infested or associated fields are 

removed from quarantine. 

Paragraph (a) of § 301.86-3 further 

provides that the Administrator will 

publish a description of the quarantined 

area on the Plant Protection and 

Quarantine (PPQ) Web site, (http:// 

www.aphis.usda.gov/plant_health/ 

plant_pest_info/potato/pcn.shtml). The 

description of the quarantined area will 

include the date the description was last 

updated and a description of the 

changes that have been made to the 

quarantined area. The description of the 

quarantined area may also be obtained 

by request from any local office of PPQ; 

local offices are listed in telephone 

directories. Finally, paragraph (a) 

establishes that, after a change is made 

to the quarantined area, we will publish 

a notice in the Federal Register 

informing the public that the change has 

occurred and describing the change to 

the quarantined area. 

Therefore, we are publishing this 

notice to inform the public of changes 

to the PCN quarantined area in the State 

of Idaho. The changes are as follows: 

∑ On April 26, 2010, we updated the 

quarantined area to remove 149.56 

acres from Bingham County and 59.48 

acres from Bonneville County. 

This acreage consisted of associated 

fields that were found to be free of PCN 

according to a survey protocol approved 

by the Administrator in accordance with 

§ 301.86-3 as sufficient to support 

removal of associated fields from 

quarantine. 

The current map of the quarantined 

area can be viewed on the PPQ Web site 

at (http://www.aphis.usda.gov/plant_

health/plant_pest_info/potato/

pcn.shtml). 

Authority: 7 U.S.C. 7701-7772 and 7781- 

7786; 7 CFR 2.22, 2.80, and 371.3. 

Done in Washington, DC, this 1st day 

of September 2010. 

Gregory Parham, 

Acting Administrator, Animal and Plant 

Health Inspection Service. 

[FR Doc. 2010–22364 Filed 9–7–10: 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–34–S 

COMMISSION ON CIVIL RIGHTS 

Agenda and Notice of Public Meeting 

of the Hawaii Advisory Committee 

Notice is hereby given, pursuant to 

the provisions of the rules and 

regulations of the U.S. Commission on 

Civil Rights (Commission) and the 

Federal Advisory Committee Act that a 

briefing before the Hawaii Advisory 

Committee (Committee) will convene on 

Monday, September 20, 2010. The 

meeting will convene at 10:30 a.m. and 

adjourn at approximately 4 p.m. The 

meeting will be held at the Liliha Public 

Library, 1515 Liliha Street, Honolulu, 

HI. The purpose of the briefing is for the 

Committee to learn about possible 

disparities in the administration of 

justice. 

Members of the public are entitled to 

submit written comments; the 

comments must be received in the 

regional office by October 30, 2010. 

Written comments may be mailed to the 

Western Regional Office, U.S. 

Commission on Civil Rights, 300 N. Los 

Angeles St., Suite 2010, Los Angeles, 

CA, 90012. They may also be faxed to 

the Commission at (213) 894–0507 or emailed to the Commission at 

atrevino@usccr.gov. Persons who desire 

additional information may contact the 

Western Regional Office at (213) 894– 

3437. 

Hearing-impaired persons who will 

attend the meeting and require the 

services of a sign language interpreter 

should contact the Western Regional 

Office at least ten (10) working days 

before the scheduled date of the 

meeting. 

Records generated from this meeting 

may be inspected and reproduced at the 

Western Regional Office, as they become 

available, both before and after the 

meeting. Persons interested in the work 

of this Committee are directed to the 

Commission’s Web site, http:// 

www.usccr.gov, or may contact the 

Western Regional Office at the above email or street address. 

The meeting will be conducted 

pursuant to the rules and regulations of 

the Commission and FACA. 

Dated in Washington, DC, September 2, 

2010. 

Peter Minarik, 

Acting Chief, Regional Programs 

Coordination Unit. 

[FR Doc. 2010–22283 Filed 9–7–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6335–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Foreign-Trade Zones Board 

[Docket 52–2010] 

Foreign-Trade Zone 272—Lehigh 

Valley, Pennsylvania, Application for 

Subzone, Piramal Critical Care, Inc. 

(Inhalation Anesthetics Manufacturing 

and Distribution), Bethlehem, 

Pennsylvania 

An application has been submitted to 

the Foreign–Trade Zones Board (the 

Board) by the Lehigh Valley Economic 


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