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calendar days prior to the date of a 

teleconference and/or web conference 

meetings may not receive notice of that 

teleconference and/or web conference 

meeting, but will receive notice of 

future teleconference and/or web 

conference meetings. The Agency 

expects to accommodate each 

participant’s preferred form of 

participation by telephone or via web 

link. However, if it appears that existing 

capabilities may prevent the Agency 

from accommodating all requests for 

one form of participation, each 

participant will be notified and 

encouraged to consider an alternative 

form of participation. Individuals who 

plan to participate and need language 

translation assistance should inform 

Monica Cole within 10 business days in 

advance of the meeting date. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

objectives of this series of 

teleconferences are as follows: 

• Enhance the effectiveness of the 

Section 538 Guaranteed Rural Rental 

Housing Program. 

• Establish a two-way 

communications forum to update 

industry participants and Rural Housing 

Service (RHS) staff. 

• Enhance RHS’ awareness of the 

market and other forces that impact the 

Section 538 Guaranteed Rural Rental 

Housing Program. 

Topics to be discussed could include, 

but will not be limited to, the following: 

• Updates on USDA’s Section 538 

Guaranteed Rural Rental Housing 

Program activities. 

• Perspectives on the current state of 

debt financing and its impact on the 

Section 538 program. 

• Enhancing the use of Section 538 

financing with the transfer and/or 

preservation of Section 515 

developments. 

• The impact of Low Income Housing 

Tax Credits program changes on Section 

538 financing. 

USDA prohibits discrimination in all 

its programs and activities on the basis 

of race, color, national origin, age, 

disability, and where applicable, sex, 

marital status, religion, sexual 

orientation, genetic information, 

political beliefs, reprisal, or because all 

or part of an individual’s income is 

derived from any public assistance 

program. (Not all prohibited bases apply 

to all programs.) Persons with 

disabilities who require alternative 

means for communication of program 

information (Braille, large print, 

audiotape, etc.) should contact USDA’s 

TARGET Center at (202) 720–2600 

(voice and TDD). To file a complaint of 

discrimination, write to USDA, 

Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights, 

Office of the Assistant Secretary for 

Civil Rights, 1400 Independence 

Avenue SW., STOP 9410, Washington, 

DC 20250–9410, or call (800) 795–3272 

(voice), or (202) 720–6382 (TDD). 

‘‘USDA is an equal opportunity 

provider, employer, and lender.’’ 

Dated: March 11, 2012. 

Tammye Trevin ̃ o, 

Administrator, Rural Housing Service. 

[FR Doc. 2012–6607 Filed 3–19–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–XV–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request 

The Department of Commerce has 

submitted to the Office of Management 

and Budget (OMB) for clearance the 

following proposal for collection of 

information under the emergency 

provisions of the Paperwork Reduction 

Act (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35). 

Agency: International Trade 

Administration (ITA). 

Title: Interim Procedures for 

Considering Requests under the 

Commercial Availability Provision of 

the United States-Korea Free Trade 

Agreement. 

OMB Control Number: None. 

Type of Request: Emergency 

submission (new information 

collection). 

Burden Hours: 89. 

Number of Respondents: 16. 

Average Hours per Response: 8 hours 

for Request for Commercial Availability 

Determination; 2 hours for Response to 

a Request; and 1 hour for Rebuttal. 

Needs and Uses: The United States 

and Korea negotiated the U.S.-Korea 

Free Trade Agreement (the 

‘‘Agreement’’), which entered into force 

on March 15, 2012. Subject to the rules 

of origin in Annex 4–A of the 

Agreement, pursuant to the provisions 

of the Agreement, textile and apparel 

articles must contain fiber, yarn, and 

fabric produced in Korea or the United 

States to receive duty-free tariff 

treatment. Appendix 4–B–1 of the 

Agreement will contain a list of specific 

fiber, yarn, or fabric that either 

importing Party determined, based on 

information supplied by interested 

entities, that the fiber, yarn, or fabric is 

not available in commercial quantities 

in a timely manner in its territory, or if 

no interested entity objects to the 

request. Textile and apparel articles 

containing these fibers, yarns, or fabrics 

would also be entitled to duty-free or 

preferential duty treatment despite not 

being produced in Korea or the United 

States. 

The list of commercially unavailable 

fibers, yarns, and fabrics may be 

changed pursuant to the commercial 

availability provision in Chapter 4, 

Annex 4–B, Paragraphs 1–13 of the 

Agreement. Under this provision, 

interested entities from the United 

States or Korea have the right to request 

that a specific fiber, yarn, or fabric be 

added to, or removed from, the list of 

commercially unavailable fibers, yarns, 

and fabrics in Appendix 4–B–1. 

Section 202(o)(3) of the Act provides 

that the President may modify the list of 

fibers, yarns and fabrics in Appendix 4– 

B–1 by determining whether additional 

fibers, yarns, or fabrics are not available 

in commercial quantities in a timely 

manner in the United States, and that 

the President will issue procedures 

governing the submission of requests 

and providing an opportunity for 

interested entities to submit comments. 

The President delegated the 

responsibility for publishing the 

procedures and administering 

commercial availability requests to the 

Committee for the Implementation of 

Textile Agreements (CITA), which 

issues procedures and acts on requests 

through the U.S. Department of 

Commerce, Office of Textiles and 

Apparel (OTEXA). OTEXA was unable 

to publish these procedures earlier and 

is requesting an emergency review of 

the information collection and 

procedures from the Office of 

Management and Budget. 

CITA must collect information about 

fiber, yarn or fabric technical 

specifications and the production 

capabilities of U.S. textile producers to 

determine whether certain fibers, yarns, 

or fabrics are available in commercial 

quantities in a timely manner in the 

United States, subject to Section 

202(o)(3) of the U.S.-Korea Free Trade 

Agreement Implementation Act. 

Affected Public: Business or other forprofit organizations. 

Frequency: On occasion. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary. 

OMB Desk Officer: Wendy Liberante, 

(202) 395–3647. 

Copies of the above information 

collection proposal can be obtained by 

calling or writing Jennifer Jessup, 

Department Paperwork Clearance 

Officer, (202) 482–0336, Department of 

Commerce, Room 6616, 14th and 

Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, 

DC 20230 or via the Internet at 

JJessup@doc.gov. 

Written comments and 

recommendations for the proposed 

information collection should be sent by 

April 16, 2012 to Wendy Liberante, 


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OMB Desk Officer, Fax number (202) 

395–5167 or via the Internet at 

Wendy_L._Liberante@omb.eop.gov. 

Dated: March 14, 2012. 

Gwellnar Banks, 

Management Analyst, Office of the Chief 

Information Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2012–6624 Filed 3–19–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–FP–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request 

The Department of Commerce has 

submitted to the Office of Management 

and Budget (OMB) for clearance the 

following proposal for collection of 

information under the emergency 

provisions of the Paperwork Reduction 

Act (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35). 

Agency: International Trade 

Administration (ITA). 

Title: Interim Procedures for 

Considering Requests from the Public 

under the Textile and Apparel 

Safeguard Provision of the United 

States-Korea Free Trade Agreement. 

OMB Control Number: None. 

Type of Request: Emergency 

submission (new information 

collection). 

Burden Hours: 56. 

Number of Respondents: 14. 

Average Hours per Response: 4 hours 

for a Textile and Apparel Safeguard 

Request; and 4 hours for a Comment. 

Needs and Uses: Title III, Subtitle C, 

Section 331 through Section 338 of the 

United States-Korea Free Trade 

Agreement Implementation Act (the 

‘‘Act’’) implements the textile and 

apparel safeguard provisions, provided 

for in Article 4.1 of the United StatesKorea Free Trade Agreement (the 

‘‘Agreement’’), which entered into force 

on March 15, 2012. This safeguard 

mechanism applies when, as a result of 

the reduction or elimination of a 

customs duty under the Agreement, a 

Korean textile or apparel article is being 

imported into the United States in such 

increased quantities, in absolute terms 

or relative to the domestic market for 

that article, and under such conditions 

as to cause serious damage or actual 

threat thereof to a U.S. industry 

producing a like or directly competitive 

article. In these circumstances, Article 

4.1.1(b) permits the United States to (a) 

suspend any further reduction in the 

rate of duty provided for under Annex 

2–B of the Agreement in the duty 

imposed on the article; or (b) increase 

duties on the imported article from 

Korea to a level that does not exceed the 

lesser of the prevailing U.S. normal 

trade relations (‘‘NTR’’)/most-favorednation (‘‘MFN’’) duty rate for the article 

or the U.S. NTR/MFN duty rate in effect 

on the day before the Agreement enters 

into force. 

The Statement of Administrative 

Action accompanying the Act provides 

that the Committee for the 

Implementation of Textile Agreements 

(CITA) will issue procedures for 

requesting such safeguard measures, for 

making its determinations under 

Section 332(a) of the Act, and for 

providing relief under Section 332(b) of 

the Act. CITA was unable to publish 

these procedures earlier and is 

requesting an emergency review of the 

information collection and procedures 

from the Office of Management and 

Budget. 

CITA must collect information in 

order to determine whether a domestic 

textile or apparel industry is being 

adversely impacted by imports of these 

products from Korean, thereby allowing 

CITA to take corrective action to protect 

the viability of the domestic textile or 

apparel industry, subject to section 

332(b) of the Act. 

Affected Public: Business or other forprofit organizations. 

Frequency: On occasion. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary. 

OMB Desk Officer: Wendy Liberante. 

(202) 395–3647. 

Copies of the above information 

collection proposal can be obtained by 

calling or writing Jennifer Jessup, 

Departmental Paperwork Clearance 

Officer, (202) 482–0336, Department of 

Commerce, Room 6616, 14th and 

Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, 

DC 20230 or via email at 

JJessup@doc.gov. 

Written comments and 

recommendations for the proposed 

information collection should be sent by 

April 16, 2012 to Wendy Liberante, 

OMB Desk Officer, Fax number (202) 

395–5167 or via the Internet at 

Wendy_L._Liberante@omb.gov. 

Dated: March 14, 2012. 

Gwellnar Banks, 

Management Analyst, Office of the Chief 

Information Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2012–6625 Filed 3–19–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–FP–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Bureau of Industry and Security 

[Docket No. 120309175–2178–01] 

National Defense Stockpile Market 

Impact Committee Request for Public 

Comments on the Potential Market 

Impact of Proposed Supplement to the 

Fiscal Year 2012 Annual Materials Plan 

AGENCY: Bureau of Industry and 

Security, Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice of inquiry. 

SUMMARY: The purpose of this notice is 

to advise the public that the National 

Defense Stockpile Market Impact 

Committee, co-chaired by the 

Departments of Commerce and State, is 

seeking public comments on the 

potential market impact of the proposed 

supplement to the Fiscal Year 2012 

Annual Materials Plan related to 

establishing three new material research 

and development projects. The research 

and development projects involve three 

materials—cadmium zinc tellurium 

(CZT) substrates, trichlorobenzene 

(TCB), and rhenium alloy. The role of 

the Market Impact Committee is to 

advise the National Defense Stockpile 

Manager on the projected domestic and 

foreign economic effects of all 

acquisitions and disposals involving the 

stockpile and related material research 

and development projects. Public 

comments are an important element of 

the Committee’s market impact review 

process. 

DATES: To be considered, written 

comments must be received by April 19, 

2012. 

ADDRESSES: Address all comments 

concerning this notice to Michael 

Vaccaro, U.S. Department of Commerce, 

Bureau of Industry and Security, Office 

of Strategic Industries and Economic 

Security, 1401 Constitution Avenue 

NW., Room 3876, Washington, DC 

20230, fax: (202) 482–5650 (Attn: 

Michael Vaccaro), email: 

MIC@bis.doc.gov; and Douglas Kramer, 

U.S. Department of State, Bureau of 

Energy Resources, Office of Europe, 

Middle East, and Africa, 2201 C Street 

NW., Washington, DC 20520, fax: (202) 

647–4037 (Attn: Douglas Kramer), or 

email: KramerDR@state.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Liam McMenamin, Office of Strategic 

Industries and Economic Security, 

Bureau of Industry and Security, U.S. 

Department of Commerce, Telephone: 

(202) 482–2233. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 


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