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of the individual discipline breakout 

sessions of the previous day and to 

continue with Committee business. 

The meetings are open to the public. 

Approximately 30 visitors can be 

accommodated on a first-come-firstserved basis at the plenary session. 

Authority: Federal Advisory Committee 

Act, P.L. 92–463, 5 U.S.C., Appendix I, and 

the Office of Management and Budget’s 

Circular A–63, Revised. 

Dated: April 26, 2007. 

Chris C. Oynes, 

Associate Director for Offshore Minerals 

Management. 

[FR Doc. E7–8331 Filed 5–1–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–MR–P 

INTERNATIONAL TRADE 

COMMISSION 

[Investigation No. TA–2104–025] 

U.S.–Panama Trade Promotion 

Agreement: Potential Economy-Wide 

and Selected Sectoral Effects 

AGENCY: International Trade 

Commission. 

ACTION: Institution of investigation and 

scheduling of public hearing. 

SUMMARY: Following receipt of a request 

from the United States Trade 

Representative (USTR) on March 30, 

2007, the Commission instituted 

investigation No. TA–2104–025, U.S.– 

Panama Trade Promotion Agreement: 

Potential Economy-wide and Selected 

Sectoral Effects, under § 2104(f) of the 

Trade Act of 2002 (19 U.S.C. 3804(f)), 

for the purpose of assessing the likely 

impact of the U.S.–Panama Trade 

Promotion Agreement (TPA) on the U.S. 

economy as a whole and on specific 

industry sectors and the interests of U.S. 

consumers. 

DATES: March 30, 2007: Receipt of 

request. 

May 7, 2007: Deadline for receipt of 

requests to appear at hearing. 

May 10, 2007: Deadline for filing prehearing briefs and statements. 

May 16, 2007, 9:30 a.m.: Public 

hearing. 

May 23, 2007: Deadline for filing posthearing briefs and statements and all 

other written submissions. 

September 12, 2007: Anticipated date 

for transmitting report to USTR and the 

Congress. 

ADDRESSES: All Commission offices, 

including the Commission’s hearing 

rooms, are located in the United States 

International Trade Commission 

Building, 500 E Street, SW., 

Washington, DC. All written 

submissions, including requests to 

appear at the hearing, statements, and 

briefs, should be addressed to the 

Secretary, United States International 

Trade Commission, 500 E Street, SW., 

Washington, DC 20436. The public 

record for this investigation may be 

viewed on the Commission’s electronic 

docket (EDIS) at http://edis.usitc.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Project Leader Jennifer Baumert, Office 

of Industries (202–205–3450; 

jennifer.baumert@usitc.gov) or Deputy 

Project Leader Alan Treat, Office of 

Industries (202–205–3426; 

alan.treat@usitc.gov]. For information 

on legal aspects, contact William 

Gearhart of the Office of the General 

Counsel (202–205–3091; 

william.gearhart@usitc.gov. The media 

should contact Margaret O’Laughlin, 

Office of External Relations at 202–205– 

1819 or margaret.olaughlin@usitc.gov. 

Hearing impaired individuals are 

advised that information on this matter 

can be obtained by contacting the TDD 

terminal on 202–205–1810. General 

information concerning the Commission 

may also be obtained by accessing its 

Internet server (http://www.usitc.gov). 

Persons with mobility impairments who 

will need special assistance in gaining 

access to the Commission should 

contact the Secretary at 202–205–2000. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: As 

requested by the USTR, the Commission 

will prepare a report as specified in §

2104(f)(2)–(3) of the Trade Act of 2002 

assessing the likely impact of the U.S.– 

Panama Trade Promotion Agreement on 

the U.S. economy as a whole and on 

specific industry sectors, including the 

impact the agreement will have on the 

gross domestic product, exports and 

imports; aggregate employment and 

employment opportunities; the 

production, employment, and 

competitive position of industries likely 

to be significantly affected by the 

agreement; and the interests of U.S. 

consumers. 

In preparing its assessment, the 

Commission will review available 

economic assessments regarding the 

agreement, including literature 

concerning any substantially equivalent 

proposed agreement, and will provide 

in its assessment a description of the 

analyses used and conclusions drawn in 

such literature, and a discussion of areas 

of consensus and divergence between 

the various analyses and conclusions, 

including those of the Commission 

regarding the agreement. 

Section 2104(f)(2) requires that the 

Commission submit its report to the 

President and the Congress not later 

than 90 days after the President enters 

into the agreement, which he can do 90 

days after he notifies the Congress of his 

intent to do so. On March 30, 2007, the 

President notified the Congress of his 

intent to enter into a TPA with Panama. 

The USTR requested that the 

Commission provide its report as soon 

as possible. 

Public Hearing: A public hearing in 

connection with the investigation will 

be held beginning at 9:30 a.m. on May 

16, 2007, at the U.S. International Trade 

Commission Building, 500 E Street, 

SW., Washington, DC. All persons will 

have the right to appear, by counsel or 

in person, to present information and to 

be heard. Requests to appear at the 

public hearing should be filed with the 

Secretary no later than 5:15 p.m., May 

7, 2007. Any pre-hearing briefs and 

statements should be filed no later than 

5:15 p.m., May 10, 2007, and any posthearing briefs and statements should be 

filed no later than 5:15 p.m., May 23, 

2007; all such briefs and statements 

must be submitted in accordance with 

the requirements below under ‘‘written 

submissions.’’ In the event that, as of the 

close of business on May 7, 2007, no 

witnesses are scheduled to appear at the 

hearing, the hearing will be canceled. 

Any person interested in attending the 

hearing as an observer or nonparticipant 

may call the Secretary to the 

Commission (202–205–2000) after May 

7, 2007, for information concerning 

whether the hearing will be held. 

Written Submissions: In lieu of or in 

addition to participating in the hearing, 

interested parties are invited to submit 

written statements concerning the 

matters to be addressed by the 

Commission in its report on this 

investigation. Submissions should be 

addressed to the Secretary. To be 

assured of consideration by the 

Commission, written statements related 

to the Commission’s report should be 

submitted to the Commission at the 

earliest practical date and should be 

received no later than 5:15 p.m., May 

23, 2007. 

All written submissions must conform 

with the provisions of § 201.8 of the 

Commission’s Rules of Practice and 

Procedure (19 CFR 201.8). Section 201.8 

of the rules requires that a signed 

original (or copy designated as an 

original) and fourteen (14) copies of 

each document be filed. In the event 

that confidential treatment of the 

document is requested, at least four (4) 

additional copies must be filed, in 

which the confidential business 

information must be deleted (see the 

following paragraph for further 

information regarding confidential 

business information). The 

Commission’s rules do not authorize 

filing submissions with the Secretary by 

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facsimile or electronic means, except to 

the extent permitted by § 201.8 of the 

rules (see Handbook for Electronic 

Filing Procedures, ftp://ftp.usitc.gov/ 

pub/reports/electronic—filing— 

handbook.pdf. Persons with questions 

regarding electronic filing should 

contact the Secretary (202–205–2000 or 

edis@usitc.gov. 

Any submissions that contain 

confidential business information must 

also conform with the requirements of §

201.6 of the Commission’s Rules of 

Practice and Procedure (19 CFR 201.6). 

Section 201.6 of the rules requires that 

the cover of the document and the 

individual pages be clearly marked as to 

whether they are the ‘‘confidential’’ or 

‘‘nonconfidential’’ version, and that the 

confidential business information be 

clearly identified by means of brackets. 

All written submissions, except for 

confidential business information, will 

be made available in the Office of the 

Secretary to the Commission for 

inspection by interested parties. 

The Commission intends to prepare 

only a public report in this 

investigation. The report that the 

Commission sends to the President and 

the Congress and makes available to the 

public will not contain confidential 

business information. Any confidential 

business information received by the 

Commission in this investigation and 

used in preparing the report will not be 

published in a manner that would 

reveal the operations of the firm 

supplying the information. 

By order of the Commission. 

Issued: April 26, 2007. 

Marilyn R. Abbott, 

Secretary to the Commission. 

[FR Doc. E7–8256 Filed 5–1–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7020–02–P 

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Employment and Training 

Administration 

Workforce Investment Act (WIA) 

Section 167—The National Farmworker 

Jobs Program (NFJP) 

AGENCY: Employment and Training 

Administration (ETA), Department of 

Labor. 

ACTION: Notice of formula allocations for 

the Program Year (PY) 2007 NFJP, 

request for comments. 

SUMMARY: Under Section 182(d) of the 

WIA of 1998, ETA is publishing the PY 

2007 allocations for the NFJP, 

authorized under Section 167 of the 

WIA. The allocations are distributed to 

the states by a formula that estimates, by 

state, the relative demand for NFJP 

services. The allocations in this notice 

apply to the PY beginning July 1, 2007. 

DATES: Comments must be submitted on 

or before May 29, 2007. 

ADDRESSES: Comments should be sent to 

Alina M. Walker, Program Manager, 

Division of Adult Services, Room S– 

4209, Employment and Training 

Administration, U.S. Department of 

Labor, 200 Constitution Avenue, NW., 

Washington, DC 20210, e-mail address: 

walker.alina@dol.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Alina M. Walker, Program Manager, 

Division of Adult Services, Room S– 

4209, Employment and Training 

Administration, U.S. Department of 

Labor, 200 Constitution Avenue, NW., 

Washington, DC 20210, telephone: (202) 

693–2706 (this is not a toll-free 

number). 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background. 

On May 19, 1999, ETA published a 

notice establishing new factors for the 

formula that allocates funds available 

for the NFJP in the Federal Register at 

64 FR 27390. This Federal Register 

notice is available at the following 

Internet address: http://www.doleta.gov/ 

MSFW/pdf/allocationtable.pdf 

The May 19, 1999, Federal Register 

may also be obtained by submitting a 

mail, e-mail or telephone request to 

Alina M. Walker, Program Manager, 

Division of Adult Services, Room S– 

4209, Employment and Training 

Administration, U.S. Department of 

Labor, 200 Constitution Avenue, NW., 

Washington, D.C. 20210, e-mail address: 

walker.alina@dol.gov, telephone 

number (202) 693–2706 (this is not a 

toll-free number). 

The May 19, 1999, notice explained 

the purpose of the formula, i.e., 

distributing funds geographically by 

state service area on the basis of each 

area’s relative share of farmworkers who 

are eligible for enrollment in the NFJP. 

The data used to run the formula is 

comprised of a combination of data sets 

that were selected to yield the relative 

share distribution across states of 

eligible farmworkers. The combineddata set driven formula is substantially 

more relevant to the purpose of aligning 

the allocations with the eligible 

population than the allocations 

determined by the prior formula. 

For PY 2007, the data factors used in 

the formula remain unchanged since 

they were first developed in 1999. The 

data sets used for determining each 

State’s relative share of eligible 

farmworkers for PY 2007 were last 

updated in PY 2005 with more recent 

data available from the 2000 Census, the 

2003 National Agricultural Workers 

Survey (NAWS), and the 2002 Census of 

Agriculture, and also remain 

unchanged. 

II. Limitations on Uses of Section 167 

Funds 

In appropriating the funds for PY 

2007, Congress provided in the Fiscal 

Year 2007 Continuing Appropriations 

Resolution (Pub. L. 110–5) $79,752,000 

for carrying out Section 167 of the 

Workforce Investment Act of 1998, 

including $74,302,000 for state service 

area grants, $4,950,000 for migrant and 

seasonal farmworker housing grants, 

and $500,000 for Section 167 training, 

technical assistance and related 

activities. Additional funding for 

migrant rest center activities is included 

in the $500,000 available for technical 

assistance and training. 

III. PY 2007 Allocation Formula 

The calculation of the PY 2007 

formula allocation distribution 

incorporates the state-by-state relative 

shares of eligible farmworkers 

developed for the PY 2005 formula 

allocations, using the updated data sets 

described above, with various 

adjustments applied since then. The PY 

2005 calculation adjusted those state-bystate relative shares of eligible 

farmworkers by ‘‘hold-harmless’’ and 

‘‘stop-loss’’/’’stop-gain’’ limits due to 

the introduction of the updated data. 

The following year, the PY 2006 formula 

allocations were proportionately based 

on the PY 2005 formula allocations and 

further adjusted by an additional $3.8 

million appropriated by Congress for 

states whose PY 2005 allocation had 

been reduced as a result of the updated 

data used for the PY 2005 allocation 

distribution. Detailed descriptions of the 

formula methodology for PY 2005 and 

2006 are provided in the applicable 

announcements. 

The PY 2007 appropriation for the 

WIA Section 167 program is 

$74,302,000, which is $470 less than the 

corresponding PY 2006 appropriation. 

To maintain stability of funding for the 

program and consistency with the PY 

2006 congressional directions to the 

Department, the Department will 

distribute the $74,302,000 of PY 2007 

formula funding among all states in the 

same proportion as the distribution of 

the PY 2006 formula allocations. 

IV. State Combinations 

We anticipate a single plan of service 

for operating the PY 2007 NFJP in the 

jurisdiction comprised of Delaware and 

Maryland and the jurisdiction 

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