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Dated: March 22, 2010. 

William D. Chappell, 

Acting Director, Office of Sustainable 

Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service. 

[FR Doc. 2010–6625 Filed 3ndash;24–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–22–S 

COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING 

COMMISSION 

Sunshine Act Meeting 

TIME AND DATE: 11 a.m., Friday April 30, 

2010. 

PLACE: 1155 21st St., NW., Washington, 

DC, 9th Floor Commission Conference 

Room. 

STATUS: Closed. 

MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED: 

Surveillance Matters. 

CONTACT PERSON FOR MORE INFORMATION: 

Sauntia S. Warfield, 202–418–5084. 

Sauntia S. Warfield, 

Assistant Secretary of the Commission. 

[FR Doc. 2010–6710 Filed 3–23–10; 11:15 am] 

BILLING CODE 6351–01–P 

COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING 

COMMISSION 

Sunshine Act Meeting 

TIME AND DATE: 11 a.m., Friday, April 9, 

2010. 

PLACE: 1155 21st St., NW., Washington, 

DC, 9th Floor Commission Conference 

Room. 

STATUS: Closed. 

MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED: 

Surveillance Matters. 

CONTACT PERSON FOR MORE INFORMATION: 

Sauntia S. Warfield, 202–418–5084. 

Sauntia S. Warfield, 

Assistant Secretary of the Commission. 

[FR Doc. 2010–6714 Filed 3–23–10; 11:15 am] 

BILLING CODE 6351–01–P 

COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING 

COMMISSION 

Sunshine Act Meeting 

TIME AND DATE: 11 a.m., Friday, April 2, 

2010. 

PLACE: 1155 21st St., NW., Washington, 

DC, 9th Floor Commission Conference 

Room. 

STATUS: Closed. 

MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED: 

Surveillance Matters. 

CONTACT PERSON FOR MORE INFORMATION: 

Sauntia S. Warfield, 202–418–5084. 

Sauntia S. Warfield, 

Assistant Secretary of the Commission. 

[FR Doc. 2010–6716 Filed 3–23–10; 4:15 pm] 

BILLING CODE 6351–01–P 

COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING 

COMMISSION 

Sunshine Act Meeting 

TIME AND DATE: 2 p.m., Wednesday, 

April 21, 2010. 

PLACE: 1155 21st St., NW., Washington, 

DC, 9th Floor Commission Conference 

Room. 

STATUS: Closed. 

MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED: 

Enforcement Matters. 

CONTACT PERSON FOR MORE INFORMATION: 

Sauntia S. Warfield, 202–418–5084. 

Sauntia S. Warfield, 

Assistant Secretary of the Commission. 

[FR Doc. 2010–6715 Filed 3–23–10; 11:15 am] 

BILLING CODE 6351–01–P 

COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING 

COMMISSION 

Sunshine Act Meeting 

TIME AND DATE: 11 a.m., March 19, 2010. 

PLACE: 1155 21st St., NW., Washington, 

DC, 9th Floor Commission Conference 

Room. 

STATUS: Closed. 

MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED: 

Surveillance Matters. 

CONTACT PERSON FOR MORE INFORMATION: 

Sauntia S. Warfield, 202–418–5084. 

Sauntia S. Warfield, 

Assistant Secretary of the Commission. 

[FR Doc. 2010–6712 Filed 3–23–10; 11:15 am] 

BILLING CODE 6351–01–P 

COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING 

COMMISSION 

Sunshine Act Meeting 

TIME AND DATE: 11 a.m., Friday April 23, 

2010. 

PLACE: 1155 21st St., NW., Washington, 

DC, 9th Floor Commission Conference 

Room. 

STATUS: Closed. 

MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED: 

Surveillance matters. 

CONTACT PERSON FOR MORE INFORMATION: 

Sauntia S. Warfield, 202–418–5084. 

Sauntia S. Warfield, 

Assistant Secretary of the Commission. 

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BILLING CODE 6351–01–P 

CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY 

COMMISSION 

[Docket No. CPSC–2009–0088] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission for Office of 

Management and Budget Review; 

Comment Request; Consumer Product 

Safety Improvement Act; Consumer 

Product Conformity Assessment Body 

Registration Form 

AGENCY: Consumer Product Safety 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Consumer Product Safety 

Commission (CPSC) is announcing that 

a proposed new collection of 

information has been submitted to the 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) for review and clearance under 

the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. 

DATES: Fax written comments on the 

collection of information by April 26, 

2010. 

ADDRESSES: To ensure that comments on 

the information collection are received, 

OMB recommends that written 

comments be faxed to the Office of 

Information and Regulatory Affairs, 

OMB, Attn: CPSC Desk Officer, FAX: 

202–395–6974, or e-mailed to 

oira_submission@omb.eop.gov. All 

comments should be identified with the 

title ‘‘Consumer Product Safety 

Improvement Act; Consumer Product 

Conformity Assessment Body 

Registration Form.’’ Also include the 

CPSC docket number found in brackets 

in the heading of this document. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Linda Glatz, Division of Policy and 

Planning, Office of Information 

Technology and Technology Services, 

Consumer Product Safety Commission, 

4330 East West Highway, Bethesda, MD 

20814, (301) 504–7671, lglatz@cpsc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In 

compliance with 44 U.S.C. 3507, the 

CPSC has submitted the following 

proposed collection of information to 

OMB for review and clearance: 

Consumer Product Safety Improvement 

Act; Consumer Product Conformity 

Assessment Body Registration Form— 

New Proposed Collection 

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A. Background 

The Consumer Product Safety 

Improvement Act of 2008 (‘‘CPSIA’’ or 

‘‘Act’’) was signed into law on August 

14, 2008 (Pub. L. 110–314). Section 102 

of the CPSIA requires third party testing 

for any children’s product that is subject 

to a children’s product safety rule. Such 

third party testing of children’s products 

must be completed before importing for 

consumption or warehousing or 

distributing the children’s product in 

commerce. Every manufacturer of such 

children’s products (and the private 

labeler of such children’s product if the 

product bears a private label) must 

submit samples for testing to a third 

party conformity assessment body 

which is accredited under requirements 

established by the Commission. The 

third party conformity assessment body 

will test such samples for compliance 

with applicable children’s product 

safety rules. Based on this testing, the 

manufacturer or private labeler must 

issue a certificate that certifies that the 

children’s product complies with all 

applicable children’s product safety 

rules. 

Section 14(f)(2)(A) of the Consumer 

Product Safety Act (as amended by 

section 102(b) of the CPSIA) defines a 

third party conformity assessment body 

as one that is not owned, managed, or 

controlled by the manufacturer or 

private labeler of a product to be 

assessed by such conformity assessment 

body. A conformity assessment body 

that is owned, managed, or controlled 

by a manufacturer or a private labeler 

may, in certain specified circumstances, 

be accredited as a third party conformity 

assessment body. The CPSIA also refers 

to such entities as ‘‘firewalled 

conformity assessment bodies.’’ 

Additionally, the CPSIA specifies that, 

under certain conditions, a third party 

conformity assessment body may 

include a government-owned or 

government-controlled entity. 

The CPSIA provides that accreditation 

of third party conformity assessment 

bodies may be conducted either by the 

Commission or by an independent 

accreditation organization designated by 

the Commission. The Commission must 

maintain an up-to-date list of entities 

that have been accredited to assess 

compliance with children’s product 

safety rules on its Web site. 

The CPSC uses an online collection 

form, CPSC Form 223, to gather 

information from third party conformity 

assessment bodies voluntarily seeking 

recognition by CPSC. The information 

collected relates to location, 

accreditation, and ownership. The 

Commission staff will use this 

information to assess: 

• A third party conformity 

assessment body’s status as either an 

independent third party conformity 

assessment body, a government-owned 

or government-controlled conformity 

assessment body, or a firewalled 

conformity assessment body; 

• Qualifications for recognition by 

CPSC to test for compliance to specified 

children’s product safety rules; and 

• Eligibility for recognition on the 

CPSC Web site. 

The collection of this information on 

CPSC Form 223 is required: (1) Upon 

initial application by the third party 

conformity assessment body for 

recognition by CPSC (‘‘initial 

registrations’’); (2) at least every 2 years 

as part of a regular audit process (‘‘reregistrations’’); and (3) whenever a 

change to accreditation or ownership 

information occurs (‘‘information 

changes’’). 

In the Federal Register of October 29, 

2009 (74 FR 55817) the CPSC published 

a 60-day notice requesting public 

comment on the proposed collection of 

information. One comment was received 

which addresses several issues. A 

summary of each issue identified in the 

comment (identified by ‘‘Comment’’) and 

a response (identified by ‘‘Response’’) to 

each appears below. 

Comment 1: Form 223 needs better 

explanation to help companies, 

manufacturers, or laboratories complete 

the form. 

Response: The current instructions for 

the form provide sufficient clarity for 

the relatively narrow group of intended 

users of the form, which is third party 

conformity assessment bodies (also 

known commonly as testing laboratories 

or third party laboratories). In general, 

neither manufacturers nor companies 

complete the form (other than for 

firewalled conformity assessment 

bodies). Based on CPSC staff experience 

with the laboratory applications 

submitted through Form 223, the vast 

majority of applicants appear to have a 

good understanding of the form’s 

purpose and how to complete the form. 

An applicant who has questions 

regarding the form can submit them to 

a CPSC email address, and CPSC staff 

monitors and responds to these emails. 

If applicants raise issues for which 

changes to the form’s instructions 

would increase clarity, the CPSC will 

make these adjustments. 

Comment 2: Information on total time 

in business and formal complaints 

against the company or manufacturer 

and laboratory would be beneficial. 

Response: The information sought by 

the comment is beyond the scope and 

purpose of Form 223. The form’s 

primary purpose is to receive 

applications from testing laboratories for 

staff evaluation with the CPSCestablished criteria for acceptance of 

third party testing laboratories for 

purposes of testing children’s products 

to certain safety rules enforced by the 

Commission. Section 14(a)(3)(E) of the 

Consumer Product Safety Act, as 

amended, requires the Commission to 

‘‘maintain on its Internet Web site an upto-date list of entities that have been 

accredited to assess conformity with 

children’s product safety rules.’’ The 

CPSC has other mechanisms for 

collecting product safety-related 

complaints through the agency’s Web 

site, hotline, or by mail. 

Comment 3: Form 223 should 

incorporate filter and blocking software, 

and the CPSC should install safeguards 

to prevent identity theft or corporate 

espionage from occurring. 

Response: CPSC computer systems 

receive regular security audits and have 

been certified for operation. The CPSC 

observes all industry and Federal 

government best practices for network 

security. CPSC staff regularly analyzes 

its systems for vulnerabilities and 

malware, and monitor the network for 

real-time intrusion attempts. 

B. Estimated Burden 

The CPSC staff estimates a total 

reporting burden of approximately 451 

hours. This reporting burden is broken 

down into the categories of submissions 

as follows: (1) Initial registrations—300 

hours, (2) re-registrations—150 hours, 

and (3) information changes—.75 hours, 

for a total of 450.75 hours, which the 

Commission will round up to 451 hours. 

Initial Registrations—The 

Commission tentatively estimates that 

300 third party conformity assessment 

bodies will register initially, with each 

response taking 1 hour for a total of 300 

reporting hours (300 third party 

conformity assessment bodies × 1 hour 

= 300 hours). The 300 entity estimate is 

based on the fact that, by June 5, 2009, 

153 third party conformity assessment 

bodies had already registered with the 

CPSC. The Commission expects to 

receive additional registrations, which 

will be further increased by a notice of 

requirement for ‘‘all other children’s 

product safety rules’’ pursuant to section 

14(a)(3)(B)(vi) of the CPSA. 

Re-Registrations—Under a separate 

proposed rule issued by the 

Commission on August 13, 2009 (74 FR 

40784), third party conformity 

assessment bodies would be required to 

re-register using CPSC Form 223 every 

two years as part of the audit process 

required by section 14(d)(1) of the 

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CPSA. Because not all third party 

conformity assessment bodies will first 

submit CPSC Form 223 at the same 

time, only some entities will re-register 

using CPSC Form 223 in any given year. 

Because the Commission does not know 

how many entities will re-register in any 

given year, for the purposes of this 

analysis, the Commission estimates that 

half of the third party conformity 

assessment bodies will re-register using 

CPSC Form 223 in any given year, for 

a total of 150 Re-Registrations per year 

(300 total third party conformity 

assessment bodies × 0.5 = 150 reregistrations per year). The reporting 

burden for each re-registration is 

estimated to be one hour, making the 

total reporting burden for all reregistrations per year 150 hours (150 reregistrations × 1 hour per re-registration 

= 150 hours). 

Information Changes—Finally, under 

the same separate proposed rule noted 

above, third party conformity 

assessment bodies would be required to 

ensure that the information submitted 

on CPSC Form 223 remains current. 

Any changes in information must be 

submitted on a new CPSC Form 223. 

Based on current experience, the 

Commission estimates that only one 

percent of third party conformity 

assessment bodies will revise or update 

their information yearly, so the 

estimated number of respondents is 3 

(300 third party conformity assessment 

bodies × 0.01 = 3 information changes 

per year). Because information changes 

in most cases will likely only involve 

updating a phone number or contact 

person, the estimated reporting burden 

is 15 minutes per update, for a total 

reporting burden of 45 minutes per year 

(3 information changes × 0.25 hours = 

0.75 hours per year). 

Estimated Total Cost Burden on 

Respondents—Assuming that CPSC 

Form 223 will be submitted by someone 

at the level of a general or operations 

manager at each third party conformity 

assessment body, at a median 

compensation (wages and benefits) of 

$68 per hour, the total cost burden to 

the respondents is estimated to be 

$30,668 ($68 × 451 hours). 

Estimated Annualized Cost Burden to 

the Federal Government—The 

Commission estimates 150 reregistrations per year. Re-registrations 

will require review by a CPSC staff 

member with an average rate of pay of 

$67/hour (the approximate hourly 

compensation (wages and benefits) of a 

GS–13 step 5 employee). Re-registration 

review involves a thorough review of 

the accreditation certificate and scope 

documents provided by the third party 

conformity assessment body to ensure, 

among other things, that the 

accreditations are current, are to the ISO 

Standard ISO/IEC 17025:2005, ‘‘General 

Requirements for the Competence of 

Testing and Calibration Laboratories,’’ 

and include the appropriate test 

methods. The review is estimated to 

take an average of 1.75 hours per 

submission. Thus, the annualized cost 

to the Federal government is estimated 

to be approximately $17,588 (150 reregistrations × 1.75 hours × $67 = 

$17,587.50 per year). 

Additional costs to the Federal 

government associated with information 

changes submitted on CPSC Form 223 

will be negligible. The Commission 

estimates that 15 minutes will be spent 

reviewing each update. The annualized 

cost to the Federal government is 

estimated to be approximately $50 (3 

information changes × 0.25 hours × $67 

= $50.25 per year). 

Dated: March 18, 2010. 

Todd A. Stevenson, 

Secretary, Consumer Product Safety 

Commission. 

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BILLING CODE 6355–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

Office of Postsecondary Education 

Overview Information; Fund for the 

Improvement of Postsecondary 

Education (FIPSE)—Special Focus 

Competition: The U.S.-Russia 

Program: Improving Research and 

Educational Activities in Higher 

Education; Notice Inviting Applications 

for New Awards for Fiscal Year (FY) 

2010. 

Catalog of Federal Domestic 

Assistance (CFDA) Number: 84.116S. 

Dates: Applications Available: March 

25, 2010. 

Deadline for Transmittal of 

Applications: May 18, 2010. 

Deadline for Intergovernmental 

Review: July 19, 2010. 

Full Text of Announcement 

I. Funding Opportunity Description 

Purpose of Program: The U.S.-Russia 

Program encourages cooperative 

education programs between 

institutions of higher education (IHEs) 

in the Russian Federation and the 

United States of America. The objective 

of this program is to provide grants that 

demonstrate partnerships between 

Russian and American IHEs that 

contribute to the development and 

promotion of educational opportunities 

between the two nations. The aim is to 

use the educational content as the 

vehicle for learning languages, cultural 

appreciation, sharing knowledge, and 

forming long-term relationships 

between the two countries. In the 

context of the modern international 

society and a global economy, an 

understanding of the cultural context 

plays a vital role in education and 

training. 

Applications are invited from IHEs 

with the capacity to contribute to a 

collaborative project with Russian IHEs. 

This program is designed to support the 

formation of educational consortia of 

American and Russian IHEs to 

encourage mutual socio-culturallinguistic cooperation; the joint 

development of curricula, educational 

materials, and other types of 

educational and methodological 

activities; and related educational 

student and staff mobility (exchanges). 

Priorities: This competition includes 

one absolute priority and one 

invitational priority. 

Absolute Priority: This priority is from 

the notice of final priorities for this 

program, published in the Federal 

Register on December 11, 2009 (74 FR 

65764). For FY 2010 this priority is an 

absolute priority. Under 34 CFR 

75.105(c)(3) we consider only 

applications that meet this priority. 

This priority is: 

This priority supports the formation 

of educational consortia of U.S. and 

Russian institutions to encourage 

mutual socio-cultural-linguistic 

cooperation; the coordination of joint 

development of curricular, educational 

materials; and the exchange of students. 

In order to be eligible for an award 

under this priority, the applicant in the 

U.S. must be a U.S. institution and the 

applicant in Russia must be a Russian 

institution. Russian institutions will 

receive separate but parallel funding 

from the Russian Ministry of Education 

and Science. 

An interested American IHE must 

form a consortium with one or more of 

the following Russian IHEs: 

(1) Moscow State Technical 

University; 105005, Moscow, 2 

Baumanskaia str,5; POC: Irina 

Chubukova, Head, Office of 

International Projects; Ph. +7–499– 

2636218, E-mail: ichubukova@bmstu.ru. 

(2) Tomsk Politechnical University, 

634050, Tomsk, Lenin av., 30; POC: 

Gromov Alexander, Deputy Vice Rector; 

Ph. +7–3822–701776, E-mail: 

gromov@tpu.ru. 

(3) Kazan State Technical University; 

420111, Karl Marks str., 10, Kazan; POC: 

Lanbaev Fatih, Ph. +7–843–2389159, Email: aurum_fr@mail.ru. 

(4) Saint-Petersburg State University 

of Information Technologies, 

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