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17001 

Vol. 77, No. 57 

Friday, March 23, 2012 

Agency for International Development 

Notice of Meeting: Board for 

International Food and Agricultural 

Development 

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 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. on 

April 13, 2012 at the National Press 

Club located at 529 14th St. NW., 

Washington, DC. The central theme of 

this year’s meeting will center on the 

breadth of university partnerships in 

agricultural research and development 

with USAID and the future of those 

relationships. 

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 8:30 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 on the implementation of 

the agricultural research strategy. Two 

board members will discuss outcomes of 

recent research inception workshops on 

sustainable intensification, hosted by 

USAID in Ethiopia and Tanzania. Two 

other board members will then offer 

comments on their travel to and 

participation in events and planning 

meetings related to the USAID 

Collaborative Research Support Program 

(CRSP). Time will then be allowed for 

public comment. The board will then 

break for closed lunch. 

In the afternoon, the board will hear 

from Dr. Alex Dehgan, USAID Chief 

Scientist, on the Grand Challenges for 

Development initiative and the Higher 

Education Solutions Network Request 

for Assistance, in which academic 

institutions were invited to participate. 

Another opportunity will be allowed for 

public comment. The Board members 

greatly benefit in hearing from the 

stakeholder community and others. To 

ensure that as many participants as 

possible have the opportunity to 

contribute to the morning’s discussion, 

comments will be restricted to 3 

minutes each for each commenter. 

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. 

Susan Owens, 

USAID Designated Federal Officer, BIFAD. 

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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

USDA Public Stakeholder Meeting: 

Match Making in the Biofuels Value 

Chain 

AGENCY: Office of the Chief Economist, 

USDA. 

ACTION: Notice of meeting. 

SUMMARY: The United States Department 

of Agriculture (USDA) is hosting a 

match making day at the USDA, to 

promote the necessary connections 

between agricultural producers of 

energy feedstocks (and their related 

businesses) with biorefiners seeking to 

produce biofuels for commercial sale 

and consumption. Officials from the 

U.S. Department of Navy, U.S. 

Department of Energy, and the U.S. 

Department of Transportation will also 

be attending, making presentations and 

answering questions. The objectives of 

this match making session will be to 

improve awareness and increase 

understanding of the biofuels supply 

chain links between all those involved 

in feedstock production and the 

processors of that feedstock into 

biofuels. This includes logistical 

challenges, potential roles of ancillary 

service providers, and potential pitfalls 

and blindspots. At this meeting, federal 

officials will provide a short profile of 

each section of the supply chain and 

representatives from the participating 

stakeholders will respond with short 

formal presentations that outline their 

experiences in that respective supply 

chain sector, barriers and lessons 

learned, and potential growth and 

opportunities. Short presentations will 

be made at the top of each hour 

followed by table discussions, at which 

a representative from each of the sectors 

of the biofuels supply chain should be 

seated, as well as one or more 

government officials. 

DATES: The meeting will be held on 

March 30, 2012, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. 

Attendees are requested to arrive by 

9:30 a.m. in order to pass through 

USDA’s security clearance. 

ADDRESSES: Patio, United States 

Department of Agriculture Whitten 

Building, 1400 Independence Avenue 

SW, Washington, DC 20250. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Harry S. Baumes, Director, Office of 

Energy Policy and New Uses, Office of 

the Chief Economist; telephone (202) 

401–0461; or email: 

hbaumes@oce.usda.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In order to 

assure sufficient space and seating, 

prospective attendees are asked to 

register by sending an email to OSEC– 

RESupplyChain@osec.usda.gov: identify 

as the Subject ‘‘MARCH 30 

REGISTRATION’’; and include the 

following information: 

Name of the Company: 

Name and Title of Attendees: 

Address: 

Phone number: 

Email: 

Web site: 

Please Describe Your Position on the 

Biofuels Production Value Chain: 

(feedstock seed developer or provider, 

feedstock grower or harvester, feedstock 

processor, feedstock transporter, 

feedstock storage provider, bio-refiner, 

feedstock machinery manufacturer/ 

provider, other). 

Signed in Washington, DC on March 19, 

2012. 

Joseph W. Glauber, 

Chief Economist, Office of the Chief 

Economist, Department of Agriculture. 

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