Federal Register / Vol. 75, No. 194 / Thursday, October 7, 2010 / Notices 62097 

addressed to: The Office of Negotiations 

and Agreements, Foreign Agricultural 

Service (FAS), USDA, Stop 1040, 1400 

Independence Ave., SW., Washington, 

DC 20250, or by fax to (202) 720–0340. 

The Office of Negotiations and 

Agreements may be reached by 

telephone at (202) 720–6219, with 

inquiries directed to Lorie Fitzsimmons 

and Steffon Brown. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Introduction 

The ATACs are authorized by sections 

135(c)(1) and (2) of the Trade Act of 

1974, as amended (Pub. L. 93–618, 19 

U.S.C. 2155). The purpose of these 

committees is to advise the Secretary 

and the USTR concerning agricultural 

trade policy. The committees are 

intended to ensure that representative 

elements of the private sector have an 

opportunity to express their views to the 

U.S. government. 

Proposed Committee Changes 

Pursuant to the Federal Advisory 

Committee Act (5 U.S.C. App. II), FAS 

gives notice that the Secretary and 

USTR are considering removing 

representation of the planting seeds 

industry from the Tobacco, Cotton, 

Peanuts and Planting Seeds (TCPPS) 

ATAC and adding representation of the 

planting seeds sector to the Grains, Feed 

and Oilseeds (GFO) ATAC. The 

justification for this structural change is 

that many of the issues that the GFO 

committee addresses, such as 

genetically modified organisms, new 

technologies and international 

negotiations, are common within the 

U.S. planting seeds industry. The 

proposed changes will result in the 

Tobacco, Cotton and Peanuts (TCP) 

ATAC and the Grains, Feed, Oilseeds, 

and Planting Seeds (GFOPS) ATAC. 

Background 

In 1974, Congress established a 

private sector advisory committee 

system to ensure that U.S. trade policy 

and negotiating objectives adequately 

reflect U.S. commercial and economic 

interests. The private sector advisory 

committee system currently consists of 

three tiers: 

• The President’s Advisory 

Committee on Trade and Policy 

Negotiations; 

• Five general policy advisory 

committees, including the Agricultural 

Policy Advisory Committee; and, 

• Twenty-eight technical advisory 

committees, including the ATACs. 

As to the technical advisory 

committees, Section 135(c)(2) of the 

Trade Act (19 U.S.C. 215) provides that: 

The President shall establish such 

sectoral or functional advisory 

committees as may be appropriate. Such 

committees shall, insofar as is 

practicable, be representative of all 

industry, labor, agricultural, or service 

interests (including small business 

interests) in the sector or functional 

areas concerned. In organizing such 

committees, USTR and the Secretaries 

of Commerce, Labor, Agriculture, the 

Treasury, or other executive 

departments, as appropriate, shall— 

(A) Consult with interested private 

organizations; and 

(B) take into account such factors as— 

(i) patterns of actual and potential 

competition between United States 

industry and agriculture and foreign 

enterprise in international trade, 

(ii) the character of the nontariff 

barriers and other distortions affecting 

such competition, 

(iii) the necessity for reasonable limits 

on the number of such advisory 

committees, 

(iv) the necessity that each committee 

be reasonably limited in size, and 

(v) in the case of each sectoral 

committee, that the product lines 

covered by each committee be 

reasonably related. 

USTR and USDA are seeking 

comments regarding whether all 

appropriate interest in the sectors 

represented by the ATACs are being 

represented by the current membership 

of the ATACs, and if not, what 

additional interest should be 

represented. 

Requirements for Submission: Public 

comments via e-mail should be 

addressed to 

Lorie.Fitsimmons@fas.usda.gov and 

Steffon.Brown@fas.usda.gov. Comments 

submitted via U.S. mail should be 

addressed to: The Office of Negotiations 

and Agreements, FAS, USDA, Stop 

1040, 1400 Independence Ave., SW., 

Washington, DC 20250. 

Dated: September 28, 2010. 

Suzanne Hale, 

Administrator, Foreign Agricultural Service. 

[FR Doc. 2010–25240 Filed 10–6–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–10–P 

BROADCASTING BOARD OF 

GOVERNORS 

Sunshine Act Meeting 

DATE AND TIME: Wednesday, October 13, 

2010, 9:30 a.m. (local time), 3:30 a.m. 

(EDT). 

PLACE: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty 

Headquarters, Editorial Room 4–34, 

Vinohradska 159A, 100 00 Prague 10, 

Czech Republic. 

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. The BBG 

will be considering Board By-Laws, a 

Calendar Year 2011 meeting schedule, 

Strategy and Budget Committee 

recommendations, and a Governor’s trip 

report. The meeting is open to the 

public—but due to space limitations via 

Webcast only—and will be streamed on 

the BBG’s Web site at http:// 

www.bbg.gov. The meeting will also be 

made available on the BBG’s Web site 

for on-demand viewing by 9:30 a.m. 

EDT. 

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. 2010–25473 Filed 10–5–10; 4:15 pm] 

BILLING CODE 8610–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request 

The Department of Commerce will 

submit to the Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB) for clearance the 

following proposal for collection of 

information under the provisions of the 

Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 

chapter 35). 

Agency: National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). 

Title: Drivers’ Awareness of and 

Response to Significant Weather Events 

and the Correlation of Weather to Road 

Impacts. 

OMB Control Number: None. 

Form Number(s): N/A. 

Type of Request: Regular submission 

(request for approval of a new 

information collection). 

Number of Respondents: 1,200. 

Average Hours per Response: 6 

minutes. 

Burden Hours: 120. 

Needs and Uses: This project is a joint 

effort of the University of Utah (U of U), 

NOAA’s National Weather Service 

(NWS), the Utah Department of 

Transportation (UDOT), and NorthWest 

Weathernet (NWN) to investigate and 

understand the relationship between 

meteorological phenomena and road 

conditions, as well as public 

understanding and response to available 

forecast information. The events which 

impact the Salt Lake City metro area 

during the winter of 2010– 2011 will be 

examined. Through the administration 


jdjones on DSK8KYBLC1PROD with NOTICES