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4009. The matters to be considered at 

the meeting are: 

Open Session 

A. Approval of Minutes 

• January 9, 2014. 

B. New Business 

• Farmer Mac Board Governance and 

Standards of Conduct—Advance Notice 

of Proposed Rulemaking. 

• Spring 2014 Abstract of the Unified 

Agenda of Federal Regulatory and 

Deregulatory Actions and Spring 2014 

Regulatory Projects Plan. 

Closed Session* 

• Office of Secondary Market 

Oversight Quarterly Report. 

*Session Closed-Exempt pursuant to 5 

U.S.C. 552b(c)(8) and (9). 

Dated: February 4, 2014. 

Dale L. Aultman, 

Secretary, Farm Credit Administration Board. 

[FR Doc. 2014–02698 Filed 2–4–14; 4:15 pm] 

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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS 

COMMISSION 

[MB Docket No. 97–80; DA 14–46] 

Media Bureau Seeks Comment on 

TiVo’s Request for Clarification or 

Waiver of the Audiovisual Output 

Requirement of Section 76.640(b)(4)(iii) 

AGENCY: Federal Communications 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In this document, the Media 

Bureau seeks comment on a petition for 

waiver or clarification filed by TiVo Inc. 

TiVo Inc.’s petition requests that the 

Bureau waive a rule that requires set-top 

boxes to have a certain audiovisual 

output, or clarify that the rule is not in 

effect. 

DATES: Submit comments on or before 

February 14, 2014. Submit reply 

comments on or before February 28, 

2014. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

additional information on this 

proceeding, contact Brendan Murray, 

Brendan.Murray@fcc.gov, of the Media 

Bureau, Policy Division, (202) 418– 

2120. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: TiVo Inc. 

(‘‘TiVo’’) has filed a petition for 

clarification or waiver of 47 CFR 

76.640(b)(4)(iii). Section 76.640(b)(4)(iii) 

requires that set-top boxes provided by 

cable operators include a digital 

interface to enable consumers to 

connect consumer electronics devices 

that they own to set-top boxes that they 

lease from their cable operators for 

whole-home viewing and recording. 

TiVo asserts that the ‘‘touchstone’’ 

solution for home networking has not 

been published publicly, and therefore 

requests that the Commission extend 

waiver until ‘‘compliance is achievable 

on an industry-wide basis that includes 

TiVo.’’ Alternatively, TiVo requests that 

we clarify whether the rule is still in 

effect in the wake of the D.C. Circuit’s 

decision in Echostar Satellite, LLC v. 

FCC. We seek comment on TiVo’s 

request. 

This proceeding will be treated as 

‘‘permit but disclose’’ for purposes of 

the Commission’s ex parte rules. As a 

result of the permit-but-disclose status 

of this proceeding, ex parte 

presentations will be governed by the 

procedures set forth in 47 CFR 1.1206. 

Comments and oppositions are due 

February 14, 2014. Petitioner’s reply is 

due February 28, 2014. All filings must 

be submitted in CS Docket No. 97–80. 

Pleadings sent via email to the 

Commission will be considered 

informal and will not be part of the 

official record. Interested parties will 

have access to comments online through 

the Commission’s Electronic Comment 

Filing System (ECFS), and therefore we 

waive the requirements of Sections 

76.7(b)(1) and 76.7(c)(1) that comments 

and oppositions be served on interested 

parties. 

Comments may be filed using: (1) 

(ECFS), (2) the Federal Government’s 

eRulemaking Portal, or (3) by filing 

paper copies. 

Electronic Filers: Comments may be 

filed electronically using the Internet by 

accessing the ECFS: http://www.fcc.gov/ 

cgb/ecfs or the Federal eRulemaking 

Portal: http://www.regulations.gov. 

Filers should follow the instructions 

provided on the Web site for submitting 

comments. 

For ECFS filers, in completing the 

transmittal screen, filers should include 

their full name, U.S. Postal service 

mailing address, and the applicable 

docket number: MB Docket No. 12–230. 

Parties may also submit an electronic 

comment by Internet email. To get filing 

instructions, filers should send an email 

to ecfs@fcc.gov, and include the 

following words in the body of the 

message: ‘‘get form’’. A sample form and 

instructions will be sent in response. 

Paper Filers: Parties who choose to 

file by paper must file an original and 

four copies of each filing. Filings can be 

sent by hand or messenger delivery, by 

commercial overnight courier, or by 

first-class or overnight U.S. Postal 

Service mail. All filings must be 

addressed to the Commission’s 

Secretary, Office of the Secretary, 

Federal Communications Commission. 

All hand-delivered or messengerdelivered paper filings for the 

Commission’s Secretary must be 

delivered to FCC Headquarters at 445 

12th St. SW., Room TW–A325, 

Washington, DC 20554. All hand 

deliveries must be held together with 

rubber bands or fasteners. Any 

envelopes must be disposed of before 

entering the building. The filing hours 

are 8:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. 

Commercial overnight mail (other 

than U.S. Postal Service Express Mail 

and Priority Mail) must be sent to 9300 

East Hampton Drive, Capitol Heights, 

MD 20743. 

U.S. Postal Service first-class, 

Express, and Priority mail must be 

addressed to 445 12th Street SW., 

Washington, DC 20554. 

One copy of each pleading must be 

sent to Brendan Murray, Media Bureau, 

Room 4–A726, 445 12th Street SW., 

Washington, DC 20554 or 

Brendan.Murray@fcc.gov. 

Copies of the Waiver Request and any 

subsequently filed documents in this 

matter are also available for inspection 

in the Commission’s Reference 

Information Center: 445 12th Street SW., 

Room CY–B402, Washington, DC 20554, 

(202) 418–0270. 

Alternate formats of this Public Notice 

(computer diskette, large print, audio 

recording, or Braille) are available to 

persons with disabilities by contacting 

the Consumer and Governmental Affairs 

Bureau at (202) 418–0530 or (202) 418– 

7365 (TTY). 

Federal Communications Commission. 

Thomas Horan, 

Chief of Staff, Media Bureau. 

[FR Doc. 2014–02443 Filed 2–5–14; 8:45 am] 

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FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION 

[Notice 2014–03] 

Price Index Adjustments for 

Expenditure Limitations and Lobbyist 

Bundling Disclosure Threshold 

AGENCY: Federal Election Commission. 

ACTION: Notice of adjustments to 

expenditure limitations and lobbyist 

bundling disclosure threshold. 

SUMMARY: As mandated by provisions of 

the Federal Election Campaign Act of 

1971, as amended (‘‘FECA’’ or ‘‘the 

Act’’), the Federal Election Commission 

(‘‘FEC’’ or ‘‘the Commission’’) is 

adjusting certain expenditure 

limitations and the lobbyist bundling 

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1Currently, these states are the District of 

Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and 

the territories of American Samoa, Guam, the 

United States Virgin Islands and the Northern 

Mariana Islands. See http://www.house.gov/house/

MemberWWW_by_State.shtml and http://

about.dc.gov/statehood.asp. 

2Currently, these states are: Alaska, Delaware, 

Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Vermont and 

Wyoming. See http://www.house.gov/

representatives/. 

disclosure threshold set forth in the Act, 

to index the amounts for inflation. 

Additional details appear in the 

supplemental information that follows. 

DATES: Effective Date: January 1, 2014. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. 

Elizabeth S. Kurland, Information 

Division, 999 E Street NW., Washington, 

DC 20463; (202) 694–1100 or (800) 424– 

9530. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the 

Federal Election Campaign Act, 2 U.S.C. 

431 et seq., coordinated party 

expenditure limits (2 U.S.C. 441a(d)(2) 

and (3)(A), (B)) and the disclosure 

threshold for contributions bundled by 

lobbyists (2 U.S.C. 434(i)(3)(A)) are 

adjusted periodically to reflect changes 

in the consumer price index. See 2 

U.S.C. 434(i)(3)(B) and 441a(c)(1), 11 

CFR 104.22(g), 11 CFR 109.32 and 

110.17(a), (f). The Commission is 

publishing this notice to announce the 

adjusted limits and disclosure 

threshold. 

Coordinated Party Expenditure Limits 

for 2014 

Under 2 U.S.C. 441a(c), the 

Commission must adjust the 

expenditure limitations established by 2 

U.S.C. 441a(d) (the limits on 

expenditures by national party 

committees, state party committees, or 

subordinate committees of state party 

committees in connection with the 

general election campaign of candidates 

for Federal office) annually to account 

for inflation. This expenditure 

limitation is increased by the percent 

difference between the price index, as 

certified to the Commission by the 

Secretary of Labor, for the 12 months 

preceding the beginning of the calendar 

year and the price index for the base 

period (calendar year 1974). 

1. Expenditure Limitation for House of 

Representatives in States With More 

Than One Congressional District 

Both the national and state party 

committees have an expenditure 

limitation for each general election held 

to fill a seat in the House of 

Representatives in states with more than 

one congressional district. This 

limitation also applies to those states 

and territories that elect individuals to 

the office of Delegate or Resident 

Commissioner.1 The formula used to 

calculate the expenditure limitation in 

such states multiplies the base figure of 

$10,000 by the difference in the price 

index (4.72469), rounding to the nearest 

$100. See 2 U.S.C. 441a(c)(1)(B) and 

441a(d)(3)(B), and 11 CFR 109.32(b) and 

110.17. Based upon this formula, the 

expenditure limitation for 2014 general 

elections for House candidates in these 

states is $47,200. 

2. Expenditure Limitation for Senate 

and for House of Representatives in 

States With Only One Congressional 

District 

Both the national and state party 

committees have an expenditure 

limitation for a general election held to 

fill a seat in the Senate or in the House 

of Representatives in states with only 

one congressional district. The formula 

used to calculate this expenditure 

limitation considers not only the price 

index but also the voting age population 

(‘‘VAP’’) of the state. The VAP of each 

state is published annually in the 

Federal Register by the Department of 

Commerce. 11 CFR 110.18. The general 

election expenditure limitation is the 

greater of: The base figure ($20,000) 

multiplied by the difference in the price 

index, 4.72469 (which totals $94,500); 

or $0.02 multiplied by the VAP of the 

state, multiplied by 4.72469. Amounts 

are rounded to the nearest $100. See 2 

U.S.C. 441a(c)(1)(B) and 441a(d)(3)(A), 

and 11 CFR 109.32(b) and 110.17. The 

chart below provides the state-by-state 

breakdown of the 2014 general election 

expenditure limitation for Senate 

elections. The expenditure limitation for 

2014 House elections in states with only 

one congressional district 2 is $94,500. 

SENATE GENERAL ELECTION EXPENDITURE LIMITS—2014 ELECTIONS

State 

Voting age 

population 

(VAP) 

VAP x .02 x the 

price index 

(4.72469) 

Senate expenditure limit (the 

greater of the 

amount in 

column 3 or 

$94,500) 

Alabama ........................................................................................................................... 3,722,241 $351,700 $351,700 

Alaska .............................................................................................................................. 547,000 51,700 94,500 

Arizona ............................................................................................................................. 5,009,810 473,400 473,400 

Arkansas .......................................................................................................................... 2,249,507 212,600 212,600 

California .......................................................................................................................... 29,157,644 2,755,200 2,755,200 

Colorado .......................................................................................................................... 4,030,435 380,900 380,900 

Connecticut ...................................................................................................................... 2,810,514 265,600 265,600 

Delaware .......................................................................................................................... 722,191 68,200 94,500 

Florida .............................................................................................................................. 15,526,186 1,467,100 1,467,100 

Georgia ............................................................................................................................ 7,502,458 708,900 708,900 

Hawaii .............................................................................................................................. 1,096,788 103,600 103,600 

Idaho ................................................................................................................................ 1,184,355 111,900 111,900 

Illinois ............................................................................................................................... 9,858,828 931,600 931,600 

Indiana ............................................................................................................................. 4,984,875 471,000 471,000 

Iowa ................................................................................................................................. 2,366,384 223,600 223,600 

Kansas ............................................................................................................................. 2,169,865 205,000 205,000 

Kentucky .......................................................................................................................... 3,381,291 319,500 319,500 

Louisiana .......................................................................................................................... 3,512,513 331,900 331,900 

Maine ............................................................................................................................... 1,067,026 100,800 100,800 

Maryland .......................................................................................................................... 4,584,292 433,200 433,200 

Massachusetts ................................................................................................................. 5,298,878 500,700 500,700 

Michigan ........................................................................................................................... 7,650,421 722,900 722,900 

Minnesota ........................................................................................................................ 4,141,269 391,300 391,300 

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SENATE GENERAL ELECTION EXPENDITURE LIMITS—2014 ELECTIONS—Continued 

State 

Voting age 

population 

(VAP) 

VAP x .02 x the 

price index 

(4.72469) 

Senate expenditure limit (the 

greater of the 

amount in 

column 3 or 

$94,500) 

Mississippi ........................................................................................................................ 2,253,775 213,000 213,000 

Missouri ............................................................................................................................ 4,646,486 439,100 439,100 

Montana ........................................................................................................................... 791,184 74,800 94,500 

Nebraska .......................................................................................................................... 1,404,168 132,700 132,700 

Nevada ............................................................................................................................. 2,128,531 201,100 201,100 

New Hampshire ............................................................................................................... 1,052,337 99,400 99,400 

New Jersey ...................................................................................................................... 6,877,222 649,900 649,900 

New Mexico ..................................................................................................................... 1,577,747 149,100 149,100 

New York ......................................................................................................................... 15,411,151 1,456,300 1,456,300 

North Carolina .................................................................................................................. 7,562,455 714,600 714,600 

North Dakota .................................................................................................................... 560,705 53,000 94,500 

Ohio ................................................................................................................................. 8,920,978 843,000 843,000 

Oklahoma ......................................................................................................................... 2,903,541 274,400 274,400 

Oregon ............................................................................................................................. 3,072,459 290,300 290,300 

Pennsylvania .................................................................................................................... 10,058,156 950,400 950,400 

Rhode Island .................................................................................................................... 837,524 79,100 94,500 

South Carolina ................................................................................................................. 3,695,041 349,200 349,200 

South Dakota ................................................................................................................... 636,918 60,200 94,500 

Tennessee ....................................................................................................................... 5,004,401 472,900 472,900 

Texas ............................................................................................................................... 19,406,207 1,833,800 1,833,800 

Utah ................................................................................................................................. 2,004,283 189,400 189,400 

Vermont ........................................................................................................................... 503,929 47,600 94,500 

Virginia ............................................................................................................................. 6,395,870 604,400 604,400 

Washington ...................................................................................................................... 5,375,611 508,000 508,000 

West Virginia .................................................................................................................... 1,472,626 139,200 139,200 

Wisconsin ......................................................................................................................... 4,434,937 419,100 419,100 

Wyoming .......................................................................................................................... 444,979 42,000 94,500 

Limitations on Contributions by 

Individuals, Non-Multicandidate 

Committees and Certain Political Party 

Committees Giving to U.S. Senate 

Candidates for the 2013–2014 Election 

Cycle 

For the convenience of the readers, 

the Commission is also republishing the 

contribution limitations for individuals, 

non-multicandidate committees and for 

certain political party committees giving 

to U.S. Senate candidates for the 2013– 

2014 election cycle: 

Statutory provision Statutory amount 2013–2014 Limit 

2 U.S.C. 441a(a)(1)(A) ....................................... $2,000 .............................................................. $2,600. 

2 U.S.C. 441a(a)(1)(B) ....................................... $25,000 ............................................................ $32,400. 

2 U.S.C. 441a(a)(3)(A) ....................................... $37,500 ............................................................ $48,600. 

2 U.S.C. 441a(a)(3)(B) ....................................... $57,500 (of which no more than $37,500 may 

be attributable to contributions to political 

committees that are not political committees 

of national political parties).

$74,600 (of which no more than $48,600 may 

be attributable to contributions to political 

committees that are not political committees 

of national political parties). 

2 U.S.C. 441a(h) ................................................ $35,000 ............................................................ $45,400. 

Lobbyist Bundling Disclosure 

Threshold for 2014 

The Act requires certain political 

committees to disclose contributions 

bundled by lobbyists/registrants and 

lobbyist/registrant political action 

committees once the contributions 

exceed a specified threshold amount. 

The Commission must adjust this 

threshold amount annually to account 

for inflation. The disclosure threshold is 

increased by multiplying the $15,000 

statutory disclosure threshold by 

1.15555, the difference between the 

price index, as certified to the 

Commission by the Secretary of Labor, 

for the 12 months preceding the 

beginning of the calendar year and the 

price index for the base period (calendar 

year 2006). The resulting amount is 

rounded to the nearest multiple of $100. 

See 2 U.S.C. 434(i)(3)(A) and (B), 

441a(c)(1)(B) and 11 CFR 104.22(g). 

Based upon this formula ($15,000 × 

1.15555), the lobbyist bundling 

disclosure threshold for calendar year 

2014 is $17,300. 

On behalf of the Commission. 

Dated: January 30, 2014. 

Lee E. Goodman, 

Chairman, Federal Election Commission. 

[FR Doc. 2014–02453 Filed 2–5–14; 8:45 am] 

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