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Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, have 

been added as parties to this venture. 

Also, International Business Machines 

Corporation, Yorktown Heights, NY; 

Quadlogic Controls Corp., Long Island 

City, NY; UCA International Users 

Group, Raleigh, NC; Amzur 

Technologies, Inc., Tampa, FL; Pacific 

Data Bank Security, Delta, British 

Columbia, Canada; Kkrish Energy LLC, 

Colorado Springs, CO; Analysis Group, 

Inc., Boston, MA; and Inman 

Technology, Cambridge, MA, have 

withdrawn as parties to this venture. 

No other changes have been made in 

either the membership or planned 

activity of the group research project. 

Membership in this group research 

project remains open, and MSGIP 2.0 

intends to file additional written 

notifications disclosing all changes in 

membership. 

On February 5, 2013, MSGIP 2.0 filed 

its original notification pursuant to 

Section 6(a) of the Act. The Department 

of Justice published a notice in the 

Federal Register pursuant to Section 

6(b) of the Act on March 7, 2013 (78 FR 

14836). 

The last notification was filed with 

the Department on August 4, 2014. A 

notice was published in the Federal 

Register pursuant to Section 6(b) of the 

Act on September 3, 2014 (79 FR 

52363). 

Patricia A. Brink, 

Director of Civil Enforcement, Antitrust 

Division. 

[FR Doc. 2014–28367 Filed 12–1–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE P 

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE 

Parole Commission 

Sunshine Act Meeting 

Record of Vote of Meeting Closure 

(Pub. L. 94–409) (5 U.S.C. Sec. 552b) 

I, Isaac Fulwood, of the United States 

Parole Commission, was present at a 

meeting of said Commission, which 

started at approximately 10:30 a.m., on 

Friday, November 21, 2014 at the U.S. 

Parole Commission, 90 K Street NE., 

Third Floor, Washington, DC 20530. 

The purpose of the meeting was to 

discuss seven original jurisdiction cases 

pursuant to 28 CFR 2.27. Four 

Commissioners were present, 

constituting a quorum when the vote to 

close the meeting was submitted. 

Public announcement further 

describing the subject matter of the 

meeting and certifications of the Acting 

General Counsel that this meeting may 

be closed by votes of the Commissioners 

present were submitted to the 

Commissioners prior to the conduct of 

any other business. Upon motion duly 

made, seconded, and carried, the 

following Commissioners voted that the 

meeting be closed: Isaac Fulwood, 

Cranston, Mitchell, J. Patricia Wilson 

Smoot and Charles T. Massarone. 

In witness whereof, I make this official 

record of the vote taken to close this 

meeting and authorize this record to be 

made available to the public. 

Dated: November 24, 2014. 

Isaac Fulwood, 

Chairman, U.S. Parole Commission. 

[FR Doc. 2014–28204 Filed 11–28–14; 4:15 pm] 

BILLING CODE 4410–31–P 

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Notice of Initial Determination Revising 

the List of Products Requiring Federal 

Contractor Certification as to Forced 

or Indentured Child Labor Pursuant to 

Executive Order 13126 

AGENCY: Bureau of International Labor 

Affairs (ILAB), Department of Labor. 

ACTION: Request for comments. 

SUMMARY: This initial determination 

proposes to revise the list (EO List) 

required by Executive Order No. 13126 

(‘‘Prohibition of Acquisition of Products 

Produced by Forced or Indentured Child 

Labor’’) in accordance with the 

Department of Labor’s ‘‘Procedural 

Guidelines for the Maintenance of the 

List of Products Requiring Federal 

Contractor Certification as to Forced or 

Indentured Child Labor’’ (the 

Procedural Guidelines). The EO List 

identifies products, by their country of 

origin, that the Department of Labor 

(DOL), in consultation and cooperation 

with the Departments of State and 

Homeland Security (the three 

Departments), has a reasonable basis to 

believe might have been mined, 

produced, or manufactured by forced or 

indentured child labor. This notice 

proposes to add one new line item 

(carpets from India) to the EO List. DOL 

invites public comment on this initial 

determination. The three Departments 

will consider all public comments prior 

to publishing a final determination 

revising the EO List. 

DATES: Information should be submitted 

to the Office of Child Labor, Forced 

Labor, and Human Trafficking (OCFT) 

via one of the methods described below 

by no later than 5 p.m., January 30, 

2015. 

To Submit Information, or For Further 

Information, Contact: 

Information submitted to DOL should 

be submitted directly to OCFT, Bureau 

of International Labor Affairs, U.S. 

Department of Labor, at (202) 693–4843 

(this is not a toll free number). 

Comments, identified as ‘‘Docket No. 

DOL–2014–0004,’’ may be submitted by 

any of the following methods: 

Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://

www.regulations.gov. The portal 

includes instructions for submitting 

comments. Parties submitting responses 

electronically are encouraged not to 

submit paper copies. 

Facsimile (fax): OCFT, at 202–693– 

4830. 

Mail, Express Delivery, Hand Delivery, 

and Messenger Service (2 copies): 

Rachel Rigby/Charita Castro, at U.S. 

Department of Labor, OCFT, Bureau of 

International Labor Affairs, 200 

Constitution Avenue NW., Room 

S–5317, Washington, DC 20210. 

Email: EO13126@dol.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Information Sought 

DOL is requesting public comment on 

the revisions to the list proposed below, 

as well as any other issue related to the 

fair and effective implementation of 

Executive Order (EO) 13126. This notice 

is a general solicitation of comments 

from the public. All submitted 

comments will be made a part of the 

public record and will be available for 

inspection on http://

www.regulations.gov. 

In conducting research for this initial 

determination, DOL considered a wide 

variety of materials based on its own 

research and originating from other U.S. 

Government agencies, foreign 

governments, international 

organizations, non-governmental 

organizations, U.S. Government-funded 

technical assistance and field research 

projects, academic and other 

independent research, media, and other 

sources. The Department of State and 

U.S. embassies and consulates abroad 

also provide important information by 

gathering data from contacts, 

conducting site visits and reviewing 

local media sources. In developing the 

proposed revision to the EO List, DOL’s 

review focused on information 

concerning the use of forced or 

indentured child labor that was 

available from the above sources. 

As outlined in the Procedural 

Guidelines, several factors were 

weighed in determining whether or not 

a product should be placed on the 

revised EO List: The nature of the 

information describing the use of forced 

or indentured child labor; the source of 

the information; the date of the 

information; the extent of corroboration 

of the information by other sources; 

whether the information involved more 


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than an isolated incident; and whether 

recent and credible efforts are being 

made to address forced or indentured 

child labor in a particular country or 

industry (66 FR 5351). 

This notice constitutes the initial 

determination to revise the EO List 

issued July 23, 2013. 

Based on recent, credible and 

appropriately corroborated information 

from various sources, DOL preliminarily 

concludes that there is a reasonable 

basis to believe that the following 

product, identified by the country of 

origin, might have been mined, 

produced, or manufactured by forced or 

indentured child labor: 

Product Country 

Carpets ............................................. India. 

DOL invites public comment on 

whether this product (and/or other 

products, regardless of whether they are 

mentioned in this Notice) should be 

included in or removed from the revised 

EO List. To the extent possible, 

comments provided should address the 

criteria for inclusion of a product on the 

EO List contained in the Procedural 

Guidelines discussed above. 

A bibliography providing the 

preliminary basis for adding this good to 

the EO List are available on the Internet 

at http://www.dol.gov/ilab/reports/

child-labor/list-of-products/. 

Following receipt and consideration 

of comments on the addition to the EO 

List set out above, DOL, in consultation 

and cooperation with the Departments 

of State and Homeland Security, will 

issue a final determination in the 

Federal Register.The three Departments 

intend to continue to revise the EO List 

periodically to add and/or remove 

products as warranted by the receipt of 

new and credible information. 

II. Background 

On June 12, 1999 President Clinton 

signed EO 13126, which was published 

in the Federal Register on June 16, 1999 

(64 FR 32383). EO 13126 declared that 

it was ‘‘the policy of the United States 

Government . . . that executive 

agencies shall take appropriate actions 

to enforce the laws prohibiting the 

manufacture or importation of goods, 

wares, articles, and merchandise mined, 

produced or manufactured wholly or in 

part by forced or indentured child 

labor.’’ Pursuant to EO 13126, and 

following public notice and comment, 

DOL published in the January 18, 2001 

Federal Register the first EO List of 

products, along with their respective 

countries of origin, that DOL, in 

consultation and cooperation with the 

Departments of State and Treasury 

(whose relevant responsibilities are now 

within the Department of Homeland 

Security), had a reasonable basis to 

believe might have been mined, 

produced or manufactured with forced 

or indentured child labor (66 FR 5353). 

The Procedural Guidelines provide 

that the EO List may be revised through 

consideration of submissions by 

individuals and on DOL’s own 

initiative. When proposing a revision to 

the EO List, DOL must publish in the 

Federal Register a notice of initial 

determination, which includes any 

proposed alteration to the EO List. DOL 

will consider all public comments prior 

to the publication of a final 

determination of a revised EO List, 

which is made in consultation and 

cooperation with the Departments of 

State and Homeland Security. 

On January 18, 2001, pursuant to 

Section 3 of EO 13126, the Federal 

Acquisition Regulatory Council 

published a final rule to implement 

specific provisions of EO 13126 that 

requires, among other things, that 

federal contractors who supply products 

that appear on the EO List certify to the 

contracting officer that the contractor, 

or, in the case of an incorporated 

contractor, a responsible official of the 

contractor, has made a good faith effort 

to determine whether forced or 

indentured child labor was used to 

mine, produce, or manufacture any 

product furnished under the contract 

and that, on the basis of those efforts, 

the contractor is unaware of any such 

use of forced or indentured child labor. 

See 48 CFR Subpart 22.15. 

On September 11, 2009, DOL 

published an initial determination in 

the Federal Register proposing to revise 

the EO List to include 29 products from 

21 countries. The Notice requested 

public comments for a period of 90 

days. Public comments were received 

and reviewed by all relevant agencies 

and a final determination was issued on 

July 20, 2010. Following the same 

process, the EO List was revised again 

in 2011, 2012, and 2013. The most 

recent EO List, finalized on July 23, 

2013, includes 34 products from 26 

countries. 

The current EO List and the 

Procedural Guidelines can be accessed 

on the Internet at http://www.dol.gov/

ilab/reports/child-labor/list-of-products/ 

or can be obtained from: OCFT, Bureau 

of International Labor Affairs, Room 

S–5317, U.S. Department of Labor, 200 

Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, 

DC 20210; telephone: (202) 693–4843; 

fax (202) 693–4830. 

III. Definitions 

Under Section 6(c) of EO 13126: 

‘‘Forced or indentured child labor’’ 

means all work or service— 

(1) Exacted from any person under the 

age of 18 under the menace of any 

penalty for its nonperformance and for 

which the worker does not offer himself 

voluntarily; or 

(2) Performed by any person under 

the age of 18 pursuant to a contract the 

enforcement of which can be 

accomplished by process or penalties. 

Signed at Washington, DC, this 14th day of 

November 2014. 

Carol Pier, 

Deputy Undersecretary for International 

Affairs. 

[FR Doc. 2014–27624 Filed 12–1–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4510–28–P 

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Employment and Training 

Administration 

Notice of Decisions on States’ 

Applications for Relief From Tax Credit 

Eductions Provided Under Section 

3302 of the Federal Unemployment Tax 

Act (FUTA) Applicable in 2014 

AGENCY: Employment and Training 

Administration, Labor. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: Sections 3302(c)(2)(A) and 

3302(d)(3) of the FUTA provide that 

employers in a State that has an 

outstanding balance of advances under 

Title XII of the Social Security Act at the 

beginning of January 1 of two or more 

consecutive years are subject to a 

reduction in credits otherwise available 

against the FUTA tax for the calendar 

year in which the most recent such 

January 1 occurs, if a balance of 

advances remains at the beginning of 

November 10 of that year. Further, 

section 3302(c)(2)(C) of FUTA provides 

for an additional credit reduction for a 

year if a State has outstanding advances 

on five or more consecutive January 

firsts and has a balance at the beginning 

of November 10 for such years. Section 

3302(c)(2)(C) also provides for waiver of 

this additional credit reduction and 

substitution of the credit reduction 

provided in section 3302(c)(2)(B) if a 

state meets certain conditions. 

The States of California, Indiana, 

Kentucky, Missouri, New York, North 

Carolina, Ohio, Rhode Island, South 

Carolina, Virgin Islands, and Wisconsin 

applied for a waiver of the 2014 

additional credit reduction under 

section 3302(c)(2)(C) of FUTA and it has 

been determined that each of these 


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