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# Notices Federal Register 

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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]

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**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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**DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE**

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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).

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