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the Administrator of the U.S. Small 

Business Administration. 

The purpose of this meeting is to 

focus on ‘‘Business Counseling and 

Training’’ as well as welcoming new 

members, strategic planning, updates on 

past and current events and the 

ACVBA’s objectives for 2011. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: The 

meeting is open to the public; however, 

advance notice of attendance is 

requested. Anyone wishing to attend 

and/or make a presentation to the 

Advisory Committee on Veterans 

Business Affairs must contact Cheryl 

Simms, Program Liaison, by February 

14, 2011 by fax or e-mail in order to be 

placed on the agenda. Cheryl Simms, 

Program Liaison, U.S. Small Business 

Administration, Office of Veterans 

Business Development, 409 3rd Street, 

SW., Washington, DC 20416, Telephone 

number: (202) 619–1697, Fax number: 

202–481–6085, e-mail address: 

cheryl.simms@sba.gov. 

Additionally, if you need 

accommodations because of a disability 

or require additional information, please 

contact Cheryl Simms, Program Liaison 

at (202) 619–1697; e-mail address: 

cheryl.simms@sba.gov, SBA, Office of 

Veterans Business Development, 409 

3rd Street, SW., Washington, DC 20416. 

For more information, please visit our 

Web site at http://www.sba.gov/vets. 

Dated: January 21, 2011. 

Dan S. Jones, 

SBA Committee Management Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2011–2174 Filed 2–2–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 8025–01–M 

DEPARTMENT OF STATE 

[Public Notice 7239] 

U.S. Department of State Advisory 

Committee on Private International 

Law (ACPIL): Public Meeting on Family 

Law 

The Department of State, Office of 

Legal Adviser, Office of Private 

International Law would like to give 

notice of a public meeting to discuss 

preparations for the upcoming Special 

Commission of the Hague Conference on 

Private International Law on the 1980 

Hague Child Abduction Convention and 

the 1996 Hague Child Protection 

Convention. The Special Commission 

will be held in two sessions: June 2011 

and January 2012. The public meeting 

will focus on the desirability and 

feasibility of a protocol to the 1980 

Hague Child Abduction Convention. In 

that regard, the Permanent Bureau of the 

Hague Conference has circulated to 

member States a questionnaire (which 

may be found at: http://www.hcch.net/ 

upload/wop/sc2011pd02e.DOC). The 

questionnaire asks whether member 

States believe that the a protocol to the 

Abduction Convention should be 

negotiated and, if so, whether any such 

protocol should address: (1) Mediation, 

conciliation, and other similar means to 

promote the amicable resolution of 

cases under the Abduction Convention; 

(2) direct judicial communications; (3) 

expeditious procedures; (4) the safe 

return of the child; (5) allegations of 

domestic violence; (6) the views of the 

child; (7) enforcement of return orders; 

(8) access and contact; (9) definitions; 

(10) international relocation of a child; 

(11) reviewing the operation of the 

Abduction Convention; or (12) other 

matters. Responses from member States 

are due March 15, 2011. 

Time and Place: The public meeting 

will take place on Friday, March 4, 

2011, from 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. EST 

in Room 1107 in the Department of 

State’s Harry S Truman Building, 2201 

C Street, NW., Washington, DC 20520. If 

you are unable to attend the public 

meeting and would like to participate 

from a remote location, teleconferencing 

will be available. 

Public Participation: This meeting is 

open to the public, subject to the 

capacity of the meeting room. Access to 

the meeting building is controlled. 

Persons wishing to attend in person or 

telephonically should contact Trisha 

Smeltzer (SmeltzerTK@state.gov) or 

Niesha Toms (TomsNN@state.gov) of 

the Office of Private International Law. 

If you would like to participate in 

person or telephonically, please provide 

your name, affiliation, e-mail address, 

and mailing address. If you would like 

to participate in person, please also 

provide your date of birth, citizenship, 

and driver’s license or passport number 

for entry in the Harry S Truman 

building. Members of the public who 

are not precleared might encounter 

delays with security procedures. Data 

from the public is requested pursuant to 

Public Law 99–399 (Omnibus 

Diplomatic Security and Antiterrorism 

Act of 1986), as amended; Public Law 

107–56 (USA PATRIOT Act); and 

Executive Order 13356. The purpose of 

the collection is to validate the identity 

of individuals who enter Department 

facilities. The data will be entered into 

the Visitor Access Control System 

(VACS–D) database. Please see the 

Privacy Impact Assessment for VACS–D 

at http://www.state.gov/documents/ 

organization/100305.pdf for additional 

information. A member of the public 

needing reasonable accommodation 

should advise either of the 

aforementioned contacts not later than 

February 23, 2011. Requests made after 

that date will be considered, but might 

not be able to be fulfilled. If you would 

like to comment on any of the 12 

matters identified above, please identify 

those matters so that an agenda, with 

appropriate allocations of time, may be 

developed. 

Dated: January 26, 2011. 

Michael S. Coffee, 

Attorney-Adviser, Office of Private 

International Law, Washington, DC. 

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BILLING CODE 4710–08–P 

DEPARTMENT OF STATE 

[Public Notice 7007] 

Notice of Closed Meeting of the 

Cultural Property Advisory Committee 

There will be a closed meeting of the 

Cultural Property Advisory Committee 

on Wednesday, February 23, 2011, from 

approximately 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; 

Thursday, February 24, 2011, from 

approximately 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; and 

Friday, February 25, 2010, from 

approximately 9 a.m. to 12 noon at the 

Department of State, Annex 5, 2200 C 

Street, NW., Washington, DC. 

During its meeting, the Committee 

will review the cultural property request 

from the Government of the Hellenic 

Republic seeking import restrictions on 

archaeological and ethnological 

material. An open session to receive oral 

public comment on this request was 

held on October 12, 2010; therefore, no 

open session is scheduled for this 

meeting. At that time, outside interested 

parties submitted written comments for 

the Committee’s consideration. A Public 

Summary of the request from Greece is 

available at http://exchanges.state.gov/ 

culprop. 

The Committee’s responsibilities are 

carried out in accordance with 

provisions of the Convention on 

Cultural Property Implementation Act 

(19 U.S.C. 2601 et seq.). The text of the 

Act and related information may be 

found at http://exchanges.state.gov/ 

culprop. 

The meeting will be closed pursuant 

to 5 U.S.C. 552b(c)(9)(B) and 19 U.S.C. 

2605(h), the latter of which stipulates 

that ‘‘The provisions of the Federal 

Advisory Committee Act shall apply to 

the Cultural Property Advisory 

Committee except that the requirements 

of subsections (a) and (b) of section 10 

and 11 of such Act (relating to open 

meetings, public notice, public 

participation, and public availability of 

documents) shall not apply to the 

Committee, whenever and to the extent 


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it is determined by the President or his 

designee that the disclosure of matters 

involved in the Committee’s 

proceedings would compromise the 

Government’s negotiation objectives or 

bargaining positions on the negotiations 

of any agreement authorized by this 

title.’’ 

Dated: January 28, 2011. 

Ann Stock, 

Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Educational 

and Cultural Affairs, Department of State. 

[FR Doc. 2011–2397 Filed 2–2–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4710–05–P 

DEPARTMENT OF STATE 

[Public Notice: 7316] 

Bureau of Educational and Cultural 

Affairs (ECA) Request for Grant 

Proposals: Summer Institutes for 

European Student Leaders 

Announcement Type: New 

Cooperative Agreement. 

Funding Opportunity Number: ECA/ 

A/E/EUR–11–07. 

Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance 

Number: 19.009. 

Key Dates 

Application Deadline: March 15, 

2011. 

Executive Summary: The Europe/ 

Eurasia Branch of the Office of 

Academic Exchange Programs, Bureau 

of Educational and Cultural Affairs, 

invites proposal submissions for the 

design and implementation of two 

Summer Institutes for European Student 

Leaders. The Institutes will take place 

over the course of five weeks, beginning 

mid-July 2011. 

The Institutes should take place at 

U.S. academic institutions and provide 

groups of highly motivated 

undergraduate students or recent high 

school graduates from Denmark, France, 

Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, 

Portugal, Spain, Sweden, and the 

United Kingdom with in-depth seminars 

on the topics detailed in the following 

section. Each Institute should conclude 

with a two- or three-day session in 

Washington, DC. 

ECA welcomes applications from 

accredited post-secondary education 

institutions in the United States. The 

awarding of one or more Cooperative 

Agreements for this program is 

contingent upon the availability of FY 

2011 funds. 

I. Funding Opportunity Description 

Authority 

Overall grant making authority for 

this program is contained in the Mutual 

Educational and Cultural Exchange Act 

of 1961, Public Law 87–256, as 

amended, also known as the FulbrightHays Act. The purpose of the Act is ‘‘to 

enable the Government of the United 

States to increase mutual understanding 

between the people of the United States 

and the people of other countries * * *; 

to strengthen the ties which unite us 

with other nations by demonstrating the 

educational and cultural interests, 

developments, and achievements of the 

people of the United States and other 

nations * * * and thus to assist in the 

development of friendly, sympathetic 

and peaceful relations between the 

United States and the other countries of 

the world.’’ The funding authority for 

the program above is provided through 

legislation. 

Purpose 

The Summer Institutes for European 

Student Leaders are intensive academic 

programs whose purpose is to provide 

groups of undergraduate leaders an 

introduction to a specific field of study, 

while also heightening their awareness 

of the history and evolution of U.S. 

society, culture, values, and institutions, 

broadly defined. In this context, the 

Institutes should incorporate a focus on 

contemporary American life, as it is 

shaped by historical and/or current 

political, social, and economic issues 

and debates. The role and influence of 

principles and values such as 

democracy, the rule of law, individual 

rights, freedom of expression, equality, 

and diversity and tolerance should be 

addressed. 

In addition to promoting a better 

understanding of a specific field of 

study and the United States, an 

important objective of the Institutes is to 

develop the participants’ leadership 

skills. In this context, the academic 

program should include group 

discussions, trainings, and exercises 

that focus on topics such as leadership, 

teambuilding, collective problemsolving skills, effective communication, 

and management skills for diverse 

organizational settings. Institutes should 

include a community service 

component in which the students 

experience firsthand how not-for-profit 

organizations and volunteerism play a 

key role in American civil society. 

Local site visits should provide 

opportunities to observe varied aspects 

of American life and to discuss lessons 

learned in the academic program. The 

program should also include 

opportunities for participants to meet 

American citizens from a variety of 

backgrounds, to interact with their 

American peers, and to speak to 

appropriate student and civic groups 

about their experiences and life in their 

home countries. 

Overview 

Summer Institutes will provide an in 

depth study of one of the themes 

outlined below. Participants should gain 

both theoretical knowledge and 

practical skills that will allow them to 

excel in their disciplines. In addition to 

thematic teaching, all institutes should 

explore American history, government, 

society, and culture through the lens of 

its particular theme. All Institutes 

should include opportunities for 

leadership development, specifically as 

it relates to each field. Institutes should 

also expose participants to community 

organizations that provide advocacy or 

other services relevant to the particular 

theme. 

Institute Themes 

(a) The Summer Institute on 

Environmental Stewardship should use 

experiential learning techniques to 

expose participants to current themes in 

studies of the environment, including 

natural resource management, 

sustainable development/sustainable 

agricultural practices, food security, 

ecotourism, energy generation (new and 

traditional forms), and water 

management and treatment. The issues 

should be explored from numerous 

angles: local grassroots activism and 

civic initiatives, market-oriented 

approaches, and Federal government 

policies and regulation. The Institute 

might also examine the relationship 

between environmental security and 

national security. Finally, the Institute 

should explore environmental issues in 

the context of a globalized society, and 

draw comparisons between the United 

States and the participants’ home 

countries. 

The Institute should also provide 

opportunities for participants to engage 

with policy makers, individuals in 

technical positions, community 

representatives, indigenous leaders, and 

other key actors committed to the 

protection and management of the 

environment. 

The Summer Institute on 

Environmental Stewardship will host 

approximately 18 undergraduate 

students. Student participants are 

expected to be conversant in English; 

however, the host campus should be 

prepared to offer English language 

support, such as individual tutoring or 

small-group classes, if necessary. 

(b) The Summer Institute on 

Innovation and Economics should 

provide participants with an overview 

of entrepreneurship, including ways of 

employing entrepreneurial skills to 


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