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8 15 U.S.C. 78s(b)(1). 9 17 CFR 200.30–3(a)(12). 

B. Self-Regulatory Organization’s 

Statement on Burden on Competition 

OneChicago does not believe that the 

proposed rule change will have an 

impact on competition. 

C. Self-Regulatory Organization’s 

Statement on Comments on the 

Proposed Rule Change Received From 

Members, Participants, or Others 

Comments on the OneChicago 

proposed rule change have not been 

solicited and none have been received. 

III. Date of Effectiveness of the 

Proposed Rule Change and Timing for 

Commission Action 

The proposed rule change will 

become effective on December 23, 2009. 

Within 60 days of the date of 

effectiveness of the proposed rule 

change, the Commission, after 

consultation with the CFTC, may 

summarily abrogate the proposed rule 

change and require that the proposed 

rule change be refiled in accordance 

with the provisions of Section 19(b)(1) 

of the Act.8

IV. Solicitation of Comments 

Interested persons are invited to 

submit written data, views, and 

arguments concerning the foregoing, 

including whether the proposed rule 

change, as amended, is consistent with 

the Act. Comments may be submitted by 

any of the following methods: 

Electronic Comments 

• Use the Commission’s Internet 

comment form (http://www.sec.gov/ 

rules/sro.shtml); or 

• Send an e-mail to rulecomments@sec.gov. Please include File 

Number SR–OC–2009–04 on the subject 

line. 

Paper Comments 

• Send paper comments in triplicate 

to Elizabeth M. Murphy, Secretary, 

Securities and Exchange Commission, 

100 F Street, NE., Washington, DC 

20549–1090. 

All submissions should refer to File 

Number SR–OC–2009–04. This file 

number should be included on the 

subject line if e-mail is used. To help the 

Commission process and review your 

comments more efficiently, please use 

only one method. The Commission will 

post all comments on the Commission’s 

Internet Web site (http://www.sec.gov/ 

rules/sro.shtml). Copies of the 

submission, all subsequent 

amendments, all written statements 

with respect to the proposed rule 

change that are filed with the 

Commission, and all written 

communications relating to the 

proposed rule change between the 

Commission and any person, other than 

those that may be withheld from the 

public in accordance with the 

provisions of 5 U.S.C. 552, will be 

available for inspection and copying in 

the Commission’s Public Reference 

Room, 100 F Street, NE., Washington, 

DC 20549, on official business days 

between the hours of 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. 

Copies of the filing also will be available 

for inspection and copying at the 

principal office of the Exchange. All 

comments received will be posted 

without change; the Commission does 

not edit personal identifying 

information from submissions. You 

should submit only information that 

you wish to make available publicly. All 

submissions should refer to File 

Number SR–OC–2009–04 and should be 

submitted on or before February 11, 

2010. 

For the Commission, by the Division of 

Trading and Markets, pursuant to delegated 

authority.9

Florence E. Harmon, 

Deputy Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2010–1016 Filed 1–20–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 8011–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF STATE 

[Public Notice: 6877] 

Invitation for Recommendations for 

U.S. Authors and Reviewers to the 

Fifth Assessment Report of the 

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate 

Change (IPCC) 

ACTION: Invitation for recommendations 

for U.S. authors and reviewers to the 

Fifth Assessment Report of the 

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate 

Change (IPCC). 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of State 

invites recommendations for qualified 

U.S. experts to serve as authors or 

reviewers of the Fifth Assessment 

Report of the Intergovernmental Panel 

on Climate Change (IPCC), which will 

be developed and finalized over the 

coming four years. 

DATES: Qualified U.S. experts wishing to 

be considered for nomination should 

submit an electronic application and 

supporting material conforming to the 

information specified at http:// 

www.globalchange.gov by February 

15th, 2010. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The IPCC 

is an intergovernmental body that 

oversees the development of 

assessments on the state of knowledge 

on climate change by scientific and 

technical experts. In order to fulfill this 

role, the IPCC produces comprehensive 

assessment reports at regular intervals 

on major aspects of climate change and 

responses to it. These reports have been 

widely used as key references for the 

state of knowledge on climate change, 

including in international climate 

discussions under the United Nations 

Framework Convention on Climate 

Change (UNFCCC). The United States 

has played a leading role in the IPCC 

since its inception, through official 

contributions and key leadership 

positions in IPCC report development, 

as well as through the contributions of 

many U.S. scientist and experts to the 

reports themselves. The Fourth 

Assessment Report was completed in 

November 2007. 

Over 100 governments and 

organizations participate in the IPCC 

process that oversees the development 

of the comprehensive assessments. 

Governments develop and approve 

plans for reports, and nominate experts 

as lead authors and reviewers. Draft 

reports go through reviews by experts 

and governments, and IPCC member 

governments accept each final report, 

and approve their executive summaries 

(known as a ‘‘summary for policy 

makers’’) in a formal session of the IPCC. 

Three volumes are prepared under the 

auspices of three working groups. 

Working Group I assesses the scientific 

aspects of the climate system and 

climate change; Working Group II 

assesses the vulnerability of socioeconomic and natural systems to 

climate change, negative and positive 

consequences of climate change, and 

options for adapting to it; and Working 

Group III assesses options for limiting 

greenhouse gas emissions and otherwise 

mitigating climate change. A fourth, 

shorter volume synthesizes the material 

found in the three working group 

volumes. IPCC reports are prepared by 

author teams consisting of scientists and 

technical experts according to agreed 

principles and procedures, which 

specify the responsibilities of authors 

and reviewers in the development of 

IPCC reports. Copies of completed 

reports, as well as the IPCC’s principles 

and procedures and related information, 

can be found at http://www.ipcc.ch. 

At the 31st session of the IPCC (Bali— 

26–29 October, 2009), delegates 

accepted the overall outline and the 

work program for the Fifth Assessment 

Report. Volumes of the report will be 

finalized in 2013 and 2014. The IPCC 

has formally requested that governments 

and participating organizations 


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nominate experts to serve as lead 

authors and reviewers of the various 

chapters of the report. To respond to 

this request, the U.S. Government is 

soliciting recommendations from any 

interested Federal, academic, nongovernmental, or private sector entity. 

The U.S. government will review 

proposed nominations and develop a 

slate of nominees for forwarding to 

IPCC. Given the large number of 

individuals that are typically nominated 

by different member countries of the 

IPCC, selection as a U.S. nomination 

does not guarantee selection as an IPCC 

author. 

Further information, including the 

IPCC request for nominations, the 

approved outlines of the three IPCC 

working groups for the AR5, a 

description of the roles and 

responsibilities associated with them, 

and a nomination form that must be 

completed for each nominee, may be 

found at either the IPCC Secretariat 

Web site (http://www.ipcc.ch) 

or USGCRP Web site (http:// 

www.globalchange.gov/) 

Dated: January 15, 2010. 

Trigg Talley, 

Director, Office of Global Change, Department 

of State. 

[FR Doc. 2010–1098 Filed 1–20–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4710–09–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Office of the Secretary 

Notice of Funding Availability for the 

Small Business Transportation 

Resource Center Program 

AGENCY: Office of the Secretary of 

Transportation (OST), Office of Small 

and Disadvantaged Business Utilization 

(OSDBU), Department of Transportation 

(DOT). 

ACTION: Notice of Funding Availability. 

SUMMARY: The Department of 

Transportation (DOT), Office of the 

Secretary (OST), Office of Small and 

Disadvantaged Business Utilization 

(OSDBU) announces the opportunity 

for; (1) Business centered communitybased organizations; (2) transportationrelated trade associations; (3) colleges 

and universities; (4) community colleges 

or; (5) chambers of commerce, registered 

with the Internal Revenue Service as 

501C(6) or 501C(3) tax-exempt 

organizations, to compete for 

participation in OSDBU’s Small 

Business Transportation Resource 

Center (SBTRC) program in the 

Southwest Region, the South Atlantic 

Region, and the Mid-South Atlantic 

Region. The Central, Great Lakes, Gulf, 

Mid Atlantic, Northeast, Northwest, and 

Southeast Regions will be competed at 

a later date as their cooperative 

agreements expire. A new West Central 

Region will also be competed at that 

time. 

OSDBU will enter into Cooperative 

Agreements with these organizations to 

outreach to the small business 

community in their designated region 

and provide financial and technical 

assistance, business training programs, 

such as, business assessment, 

management training, counseling, 

technical assistance, marketing and 

outreach, and the dissemination of 

information, to encourage and assist 

small businesses to become better 

prepared to compete for, obtain, and 

manage DOT funded transportationrelated contracts and subcontracts at the 

federal, state and local levels. 

Throughout this notice, the term ‘‘small 

business’’ will refer to: 8(a), 

Disadvantaged business enterprises 

(DBE), women owned small business 

(WOB), HubZone, service disabled 

veteran owned business (SDVOB), and 

veteran owned small business (VOSB). 

Throughout this notice, ‘‘transportationrelated’’ is defined as the maintenance, 

rehabilitation, restructuring, 

improvement, or revitalization of any of 

the nation’s modes of transportation. 

Catalog of Federal Domestic 

Assistance (CFDA) Number: 20.910 

Assistance to small and disadvantaged 

businesses. 

Type of Award: Cooperative 

Agreement Grant. 

Award Ceiling: $138,000. 

Award Floor: $128,000. 

Program Authority: DOT is authorized 

under 49 U.S.C. 332(b)(4), (5) & (7) to 

design and carry out programs to assist 

small disadvantaged businesses in 

getting transportation-related contracts 

and subcontracts; develop support 

mechanisms, including management 

and technical services, that will enable 

small disadvantaged businesses to take 

advantage of those business 

opportunities; and to make 

arrangements to carry out the above 

purposes. 

DATES: Complete Proposals must be 

electronically submitted to OSDBU via 

email on or before February 16, 2010, 5 

p.m. Eastern Standard Time. Proposals 

received after the deadline will be 

considered non-responsive and will not 

be reviewed. The applicant is advised to 

turn on request delivery receipt 

notification for email submissions. DOT 

plans to give notice of awards for the 

competed regions on or before the 

following dates: 

Southwest Region February 28, 2010 

South Atlantic Region March 31, 2010 

Mid-South Atlantic Region March 31, 

2010 

ADDRESSES: Applications must be 

electronically submitted to OSDBU via 

e-mail at SBTRC@dot.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: For further 

information concerning this notice, 

contact Mr. Arthur D. Jackson, U.S. 

Department of Transportation, Office of 

Small and Disadvantaged Business 

Utilization, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, 

SE., W56–462, Washington, DC 20590. 

Telephone: 1–800–532–1169. E-mail: 

art.jackson@dot.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Table of Contents 

1. Introduction 

1.1 Background 

1.2 Program Description and Goals 

1.3 Description of Competition 

1.4 Duration of Agreements 

1.5 Authority 

1.6 Eligibility Requirements 

2. Program Requirements 

2.1 Recipient Responsibilities 

2.2 Office of Small and Disadvantaged 

Business Utilization Responsibilities 

3. Submission of Proposals 

3.1 Format for Proposals 

3.2 Address, Number of Copies, Deadline 

for Submission 

4. Selection Criteria 

4.1 General Criteria 

4.2 Scoring of Applications 

4.3 Conflicts of Interest 

Format for Proposals—Appendix A 

Assurances Signature Form—Attachment 1 

Certification Signature Form—Attachment 2 

Standard Form 424—Attachment 3 

Full Text of Announcement 

1. Introduction 

1.1 Background 

The United States Department of 

Transportation (DOT) established the 

Office of Small and Disadvantaged 

Business Utilization (OSDBU) in 

accordance with Public Law 95–507, an 

amendment to the Small Business Act 

and the Small Business Investment Act 

of 1958. 

The mission of OSDBU at DOT is to 

ensure that the small and disadvantaged 

business policies and goals of the 

Secretary of Transportation are 

developed and implemented in a fair, 

efficient and effective manner to serve 

small and disadvantaged businesses 

throughout the country. The OSDBU 

also administers the provisions of Title 

49, Section 332, the Minority Resource 

Center (MRC) which includes the duties 

of advocacy, outreach and financial 

services on behalf of small and 

disadvantaged business and those 

certified under CFR 49 parts 23 and or 


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