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functions and to increase the assessment 

rate. 

This action would increase the 

assessment obligation imposed on 

handlers. While the increase would 

impose some additional costs on 

handlers, the costs are minimal and 

uniform on all handlers. Additionally, 

these costs would be offset by the 

benefits derived from the operation of 

the order. 

Like all Committee meetings, the May 

13, 2013, meeting was a public meeting 

and all entities, both large and small, 

were able to express their views on this 

issue. The Committee’s meeting was 

widely publicized throughout the 

Washington apricot industry and all 

interested persons were invited to 

attend and participate in the 

Committee’s deliberations. Finally, 

interested persons are invited to submit 

comments on this proposed rule, 

including the regulatory and 

informational impacts of this action on 

small businesses. 

In accordance with the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995, (44 U.S.C. 

Chapter 35), the order’s information 

collection requirements have been 

previously approved by the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) and 

assigned OMB No. 0581–0189. No 

changes in those requirements as a 

result of this action are necessary. 

Should any changes become necessary, 

they would be submitted to OMB for 

approval. 

This proposed rule would not impose 

any additional reporting or 

recordkeeping requirements on either 

small or large Washington apricot 

handlers. As with all Federal marketing 

order programs, reports and forms are 

periodically reviewed to reduce 

information requirements and 

duplication by industry and public 

sector agencies. 

AMS is committed to complying with 

the E-Government Act, to promote the 

use of the internet and other 

information technologies to provide 

increased opportunities for citizen 

access to Government information and 

services, and for other purposes. 

USDA has not identified any relevant 

Federal rules that duplicate, overlap or 

conflict with this action. 

A small business guide on complying 

with fruit, vegetable, and specialty crop 

marketing agreements and orders may 

be viewed at: www.ams.usda.gov/

MarketingOrdersSmallBusinessGuide. 

Any questions about the compliance 

guide should be sent to Jeffrey Smutny 

at the previously mentioned address in 

the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT

section. 

A 15-day comment period is provided 

to allow interested persons to respond 

to this proposed rule. Fifteen days is 

deemed appropriate because: (1) The 

2013–2014 fiscal period began on April 

1, 2013, and the order requires that the 

assessment rate for each fiscal period 

apply to all assessable Washington 

apricots handled during such fiscal 

period; (2) the Committee needs to have 

sufficient funds to pay its expenses, 

which are incurred on a continuous 

basis; (3) handlers are already shipping 

Washington apricots from the 2013 

crop; and (4) handlers are aware of this 

action, which was unanimously 

recommended by the Committee at a 

public meeting, and is similar to other 

assessment rate actions issued in past 

years. 

List of Subjects in 7 CFR Part 922 

Apricots, Marketing agreements, 

Reporting and recordkeeping 

requirements. 

For the reasons set forth in the 

preamble, 7 CFR part 922 is proposed to 

be amended as follows: 

PART 922—APRICOTS GROWN IN 

DESIGNATED COUNTIES IN 

WASHINGTON 

■ 1. The authority citation for 7 CFR 

Part 922 continues to read as follows: 

Authority: 7 U.S.C. 601–674. 

■ 2. Section 922.235 is revised to read 

as follows: 

§ 922.235 Assessment rate. 

On or after April 1, 2013, an 

assessment rate of $1.50 per ton is 

established for Washington apricots 

handled in the production area. 

Dated: August 14, 2013. 

Rex A. Barnes, 

Associate Administrator, Agricultural 

Marketing Service. 

[FR Doc. 2013–20264 Filed 8–19–13; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–02–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

10 CFR Part 429 

[Docket No. EERE–2013–BT–NOC–0023] 

Appliance Standards and Rulemaking 

Federal Advisory Committee: Notice of 

Open Teleconference/Webinar 

AGENCY: Office of Energy Efficiency and 

Renewable Energy, Department of 

Energy. 

ACTION: Notice of open Teleconference/ 

Webinar. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces a 

meeting of the Appliance Standards and 

Rulemaking Federal Advisory 

Committee (ASRAC). The Federal 

Advisory Committee Act, requires that 

agencies publish notice of an advisory 

committee meeting in the Federal 

Register. 

DATES: Thursday, September 12, 2013 at 

1:00 p.m.–5:00 p.m. (EDT). 

ADDRESSES: Webinar Only, you may 

register at https://

www1.gotomeeting.com/register/

304561617. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John 

Cymbalsky, ASRAC Designated Federal 

Officer, Program Manager for Appliance 

Standards and Building Codes, U.S. 

Department of Energy (DOE), Office of 

Energy Efficiency and Renewable 

Energy, 950 L’Enfant Plaza SW., 

Washington, DC 20024. Email: asrac@

ee.doe.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Purpose of Meeting: To provide 

advice and recommendations to the 

Energy Department on the development 

of standards and test procedures for 

residential appliances and commercial 

equipment, certification and 

enforcement of standards, and product 

labeling. 

Tentative Agenda: (Subject to change; 

final agenda will be posted at http://

www1.eere.energy.gov/buildings/

appliance_standards/asrac.html: 

• Update on Commercial HVAC, 

Water Heating, and Refrigeration 

Certification Working Group efforts. 

Æ Openly review and deliberate on 

working group’s formed 

recommendations. 

• Discussion regarding commercial/

industrial pumps working group. 

• Any new business as discussed by 

the ASRAC committee members. 

Public Participation: Members of the 

public are welcome to observe the 

business of the meeting and, if time 

allows, may make oral statements 

during the specified period for public 

comment. To attend the meeting and/or 

to make oral statements regarding any of 

the items on the agenda, email asrac@

ee.doe.gov. In the email, please indicate 

your name, organization (if appropriate), 

citizenship, and contact information. 

Please note that foreign nationals 

visiting DOE Headquarters are subject to 

advance security screening procedures. 

Members of the public will be heard 

in the order in which they sign up for 

the Public Comment Period. Time 

allotted per speaker will depend on the 

number of individuals who wish to 

speak but will not exceed five minutes. 

Reasonable provision will be made to 

include the scheduled oral statements 

on the agenda. The co-chairs of the 


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Committee will make every effort to 

hear the views of all interested parties 

and to facilitate the orderly conduct of 

business. 

Participation in the meeting is not a 

prerequisite for submission of written 

comments. ASRAC invites written 

comments from all interested parties. 

Any comments submitted must identify 

the ASRAC, and provide docket number 

EERE–2013–BT–NOC–0005. Comments 

may be submitted using any of the 

following methods: 

1. Federal eRulemaking Portal: 

www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

instructions for submitting comments. 

2. Email: ASRAC@ee.doe.gov. Include 

docket number EERE–2013–BT–NOC– 

0005 in the subject line of the message. 

3. Mail: Ms. Brenda Edwards, U.S. 

Department of Energy, Building 

Technologies Program, Mailstop EE–2J, 

1000 Independence Avenue SW., 

Washington, DC 20585–0121. If 

possible, please submit all items on a 

compact disc (CD), in which case it is 

not necessary to include printed copies. 

4. Hand Delivery/Courier: Ms. Brenda 

Edwards, U.S. Department of Energy, 

Building Technologies Program, 950 

L’Enfant Plaza SW., Suite 600, 

Washington, DC 20024. Telephone: 

(202) 586–2945. If possible, please 

submit all items on a CD, in which case 

it is not necessary to include printed 

copies. 

No telefacsimilies (faxes) will be 

accepted. 

Docket: The docket is available for 

review at www.regulations.gov, 

including Federal Register notices, 

public meeting attendee lists and 

transcripts, comments, and other 

supporting documents/materials. All 

documents in the docket are listed in 

the www.regulations.gov index. 

However, not all documents listed in 

the index may be publicly available, 

such as information that is exempt from 

public disclosure. 

The Secretary of Energy has approved 

publication of today’s notice of 

proposed rulemaking. 

Issued in Washington, DC, on August 13, 

2013. 

Kathleen B. Hogan, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Energy 

Efficiency, Energy Efficiency and Renewable 

Energy. 

[FR Doc. 2013–20273 Filed 8–19–13; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TREASURY 

Office of the Comptroller of the 

Currency 

12 CFR Parts 6 

[Docket ID OCC–2013–0008] 

RIN 1557–AD69 

FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM 

12 CFR Parts 208 and 217 

[Regulation H and Q; Docket No. R–1460] 

RIN 7100–AD 99 

FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE 

CORPORATION 

12 CFR Part 324 

RIN 3064–AE01 

Regulatory Capital Rules: Regulatory 

Capital, Enhanced Supplementary 

Leverage Ratio Standards for Certain 

Bank Holding Companies and Their 

Subsidiary Insured Depository 

Institutions 

AGENCY: Office of the Comptroller of the 

Currency, Treasury; the Board of 

Governors of the Federal Reserve 

System; and the Federal Deposit 

Insurance Corporation. 

ACTION: Joint notice of proposed 

rulemaking. 

SUMMARY: The Office of the Comptroller 

of the Currency (OCC), the Board of 

Governors of the Federal Reserve 

System (Board), and the Federal Deposit 

Insurance Corporation (FDIC) 

(collectively, the agencies) are seeking 

comment on a proposal that would 

strengthen the agencies’ leverage ratio 

standards for large, interconnected U.S. 

banking organizations. The proposal 

would apply to any U.S. top-tier bank 

holding company (BHC) with at least 

$700 billion in total consolidated assets 

or at least $10 trillion in assets under 

custody (covered BHC) and any insured 

depository institution (IDI) subsidiary of 

these BHCs. In the revised capital 

approaches adopted by the agencies in 

July, 2013 (2013 revised capital 

approaches), the agencies established a 

minimum supplementary leverage ratio 

of 3 percent (supplementary leverage 

ratio), consistent with the minimum 

leverage ratio adopted by the Basel 

Committee on Banking Supervision 

(BCBS), for banking organizations 

subject to the advanced approaches riskbased capital rules. In this notice of 

proposed rulemaking (proposal or 

proposed rule), the agencies are 

proposing to establish a ‘‘well 

capitalized’’ threshold of 6 percent for 

the supplementary leverage ratio for any 

IDI that is a subsidiary of a covered 

BHC, under the agencies’ prompt 

corrective action (PCA) framework. The 

Board also proposes to establish a new 

leverage buffer for covered BHCs above 

the minimum supplementary leverage 

ratio requirement of 3 percent (leverage 

buffer). The leverage buffer would 

function like the capital conservation 

buffer for the risk-based capital ratios in 

the 2013 revised capital approaches. A 

covered BHC that maintains a leverage 

buffer of tier 1 capital in an amount 

greater than 2 percent of its total 

leverage exposure would not be subject 

to limitations on distributions and 

discretionary bonus payments. The 

proposal would take effect beginning on 

January 1, 2018. The agencies seek 

comment on all aspects of this proposal. 

DATES: Comments must be received by 

October 21, 2013. 

ADDRESSES: Comments should be 

directed to: 

OCC: Because paper mail in the 

Washington, DC area and at the OCC is 

subject to delay, commenters are 

encouraged to submit comments by the 

Federal eRulemaking Portal or email, if 

possible. Please use the title ‘‘Regulatory 

Capital Rules: Regulatory Capital, 

Enhanced Supplementary Leverage 

Ratio Standards for Certain Bank 

Holding Companies and Their 

Subsidiary Insured Depository 

Institutions’’ to facilitate the 

organization and distribution of the 

comments. You may submit comments 

by any of the following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal— 

‘‘regulations.gov’’: Go to http://

www.regulations.gov. Enter ‘‘Docket ID 

OCC–2013–0008’’ in the Search Box and 

click ‘‘Search’’. Results can be filtered 

using the filtering tools on the left side 

of the screen. Click on ‘‘Comment Now’’ 

to submit public comments. 

• Click on the ‘‘Help’’ tab on the 

Regulations.gov home page to get 

information on using Regulations.gov, 

including instructions for submitting 

public comments. 

• Email: regs.comments@

occ.treas.gov. 

• Mail: Legislative and Regulatory 

Activities Division, Office of the 

Comptroller of the Currency, 400 7th 

Street SW., Suite 3E–218, Mail Stop 

9W–11, Washington, DC 20219. 

• Hand Delivery/Courier: 400 7th 

Street SW., Suite 3E–218, Mail Stop 

9W–11, Washington, DC 20219. 

• Fax: (571) 465–4326. 

Instructions: You must include 

‘‘OCC’’ as the agency name and ‘‘Docket 

ID OCC–2013–0008’’ in your comment. 


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