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Vol. 65, No. 16

Tuesday, January 25, 2000

AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL

DEVELOPMENT

Malaria Vaccine Development

Program, Federal Advisory Committee;

Notice of Meeting

Pursuant to the Federal Advisory

Committee Act, notice is hereby given of

a meeting of the USAID Malaria Vaccine

Development Program (MVDP) Federal

Advisory Committee. The meeting will

be held from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on

February 2, 2000 and from 9 a.m. to

noon on February 3, 2000 at the

Conference Room of the Environmental

Health Project located in Suite 300,

1611 North Kent Street in Arlington, VA

22209–2111.

The agenda will concentrate on the

activities of the MVDP over the past six

months and on future plans. The

meeting will be open to the public on

2 February unless it is necessary to

discuss procurement sensitive

information; should this be the case, it

will be announced and the meeting

closed at the appropriate time. Such

issues will be discussed on 3 February

on which date the meeting will be

closed. Any interested person may

attend the meeting, may file written

statements with the committee before or

after the meeting, or present any oral

statements in accordance with

procedures established by the

committee, to the extent that time

available for the meeting permits.

Those wishing to attend the meeting

or to obtain additional information

about the USAID MVDP should contact

Carter Diggs, the designated Federal

Officer for the USAID MVDP Federal

Advisory Committee at the Office of

Health and Nutrition, USAID/G/PHN/

HN/EH, Room 3.07–013, 3rd floor, RRB,

Washington, DC 20523–3700, telephone

(202) 712–5728, Fax (202) 216–3702,

cdiggs@usaid.gov.

Carter Diggs,

USAID Designated Federal Officer, Technical

Advisor, Malaria Vaccine, Development

Program.

[FR Doc. 00–1672 Filed 1–24–00; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6116–01–M

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Foreign Agricultural Service

Fiscal Year 2000 Emerging Markets

Program and Solicitation of Private

Sector Proposals

AGENCY: Foreign Agricultural Service,

USDA.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: The Foreign Agricultural

Service (FAS) invites proposals for

using technical assistance to promote

the export of, and improve the market

access for, U.S. agricultural products to

emerging markets in fiscal year (FY)

2000 under the Emerging Markets

Program (the Program).

DEADLINE: All proposals must be

received by 5:00 p.m. Eastern Standard

Time, March 13, 2000.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Requests for program guidelines and

additional information may be obtained

from, and proposals submitted to:

Emerging Markets Office, Foreign

Agricultural Service, Room 6506 South

Building, U.S. Department of

Agriculture, Washington, D.C. 20250–

1032, Fax: (202) 690–4369, E-mail:

emo@fas.usda.gov. It is strongly

recommended that any U.S.

organization considering applying to the

Program for FY 2000 funding assistance

first obtain a copy of the 2000 Emerging

Markets Program Guidelines. The

guidelines are also available on the FAS

Home Page on the Internet: http:/

www.fas.usda.gov/excredits/emmarkets/em-markets.html.

The FAS issued a Federal Register

notice on January 3, 2000, announcing

the availability of funding for the

Market Access Program (MAP) and the

Foreign Market Development (FMD)

(Cooperator) Program, and encouraging

applicants to these programs to use the

Unified Export Strategy (UES) format.

Some applicants may also wish to use

the UES format in order to apply to the

Emerging Markets Program.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Introduction

The Program is authorized by section

1542(d)(1)(D) of the Food, Agriculture,

Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990.

Up to $10 million is available to fund

the Program each fiscal year. The

purpose of the Program is to assist U.S.

organizations, public and private, to

improve market access and to develop

and promote U.S. agricultural products

or processes in low- to-middle-income

countries that offer promise of emerging

market opportunities in the near- to

medium-term. This is to be

accomplished by providing U.S.

technical assistance through projects

and activities in those emerging

markets.

The Act defines an emerging market

as any country that the Secretary of

Agriculture determines:

(1) Is taking steps toward a marketoriented economy through the food,

agriculture, or rural business sectors of

the economy of the country; and

(2) Has the potential to provide a

viable and significant market for United

States agricultural commodities or

products of United States agricultural

commodities.

Program Priorities

Because funds are limited and the

range of potential emerging market

countries is worldwide, proposals will

be considered which focus on those

countries which meet the above

definition and have (1) a per capita

income less than $9,360 (the ceiling on

upper middle income economies as

determined by the World Bank [World

Development Indicators 1999]; and (2) a

population greater than 1 million. These

categories may encompass suitable

regional groupings, e.g., the islands of

the Caribbean Basin. (Consult the 2000

Emerging Markets Program Guidelines

available from the contact and address

identified above for further

information.)

The underlying premise of the

Program is that there are distinctive

characteristics of emerging agricultural

markets that necessitate or benefit

significantly from technical assistance

through the public sector before the

private sector moves to develop these

markets through normal corporate or