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61378 

Vol. 77, No. 195 

Tuesday, October 9, 2012 

AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL 

DEVELOPMENT 

Board for International Food and 

Agricultural Development; Notice of 

Meeting 

Pursuant to the Federal Advisory 

Committee Act, notice is hereby given of 

the public meeting of the Board for 

International Food and Agricultural 

Development (BIFAD). The meeting will 

be held from 8:45 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on 

Tuesday, October 16, 2012 at the 

Downtown Des Moines Marriott located 

at 700 Grand Avenue, Des Moines, Iowa. 

The central theme of this year’s meeting 

will be ‘‘The Nexus of Agriculture, 

Nutrition and Human Health’’. 

Dr. Brady Deaton, BIFAD Chair and 

Chancellor of the University of Missouri 

at Columbia, will preside over the 

meeting. 

The public meeting will begin 

promptly at 8:45 a.m. with opening 

remarks by BIFAD Chair Brady Deaton. 

The Board will address both old and 

new business during this time and hear 

from USAID and the university 

community on progress and 

mechanisms for advancing 

programming in agriculture, with a 

focus on health and nutrition. There 

will be two panels on this topic, one in 

the morning and the other in the 

afternoon. Two board members will 

provide comments on a recent visit to 

Haiti to assess the impact of their 

recommendations to strengthen 

agricultural research and capacity 

building. The Board will also hear 

updates on Feed the Future and the G8 

New Alliance for Food Security and 

Nutrition and will present their findings 

from a review of the Collaborative 

Research Support Program (CRSP) 

model, with a USAID response. Time 

will then be allowed for public 

comment. 

In the afternoon, the BIFAD chair will 

present the reinstituted ‘BIFAD Award 

for Scientific Excellence in a USAID 

Collaborative Research Support 

Program.’ Additional time for public 

comment will be allowed in the 

afternoon. At 3:30 p.m., the public 

meeting of the BIFAD will adjourn. 

Those wishing to attend the meeting 

or obtain additional information about 

BIFAD should contact Susan Owens, 

Executive Director and Designated 

Federal Officer for BIFAD. Interested 

persons may write to her in care of the 

U.S. Agency for International 

Development, Ronald Reagan Building, 

Bureau for Food Security, 1300 

Pennsylvania Avenue NW., Room 2.12– 

001, Washington, DC 20523–2110 or 

telephone her at (202) 712–0218. 

Dated: September 20, 2012. 

Susan Owens, 

USAID Designated Federal Officer, BIFAD. 

[FR Doc. 2012–24711 Filed 10–5–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE P 

BROADCASTING BOARD OF 

GOVERNORS 

Government in the Sunshine Act 

Meeting Notice 

DATE AND TIME: Thursday, October 11, 

2012, 1:15 p.m. EDT. 

PLACE: Cohen Building, Room 3321, 330 

Independence Ave. SW., Washington, 

DC 20237. 

SUBJECT: Notice of Meeting of the 

Broadcasting Board of Governors. 

SUMMARY: The Broadcasting Board of 

Governors (BBG) will be meeting at the 

time and location listed above. At the 

meeting, the BBG will recognize the 

David Burke Distinguished Journalism 

Awards winners. The BBG will receive 

and consider proposed BBG meeting 

dates in 2013 and consider a resolution 

honoring an employee for his service. 

The BBG will recognize the 

anniversaries of Agency language 

services, receive a Middle East trip 

report, receive a distribution/technology 

initiatives update, receive a budget 

update, and receive reports from the 

International Broadcasting Bureau 

Director, the Technology, Services and 

Innovation Director, the 

Communications and External Affairs 

Director, the VOA Director, the Office of 

Cuba Broadcasting Director, and the 

Presidents of Radio Free Europe/Radio 

Liberty, Radio Free Asia, and the 

Middle East Broadcasting Networks. 

The public may attend this meeting in 

person at BBG headquarters in DC as 

seating capacity allows. Member of the 

public seeking to attend the meeting in 

person must register at http:// 

bbgboardmeetingoct2012.eventbrite.com 

by 12 p.m. (EDT) on October 10. For 

more information, please contact BBG 

Public Affairs at (202) 203–4400 or by 

email at pubaff@bbg.gov. This meeting 

will also be available for public 

observation via streamed webcast, both 

live and on-demand, on the BBG’s 

public Web site at www.bbg.gov. The 

public is advised to check the Web site 

for updated information on the starting 

time of the meeting. 

CONTACT PERSON FOR MORE INFORMATION: 

Persons interested in obtaining more 

information should contact Paul 

Kollmer-Dorsey at (202) 203–4545. 

Paul Kollmer-Dorsey, 

Deputy General Counsel. 

[FR Doc. 2012–24909 Filed 10–4–12; 4:15 pm] 

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following proposal for collection of 

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Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 

Chapter 35). 

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Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). 

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