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Notices Federal Register

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Vol. 80, No. 83 

Thursday, April 30, 2015 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Commodity Credit Corporation 

Tobacco Transition Program; Final 

Date To Request Payments; No 

Change to Final Assessment 

Procedures 

AGENCY: Commodity Credit Corporation, 

USDA. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Farm Service Agency 

(FSA), on behalf of the Commodity 

Credit Corporation (CCC), is announcing 

that the final date for holders of Tobacco 

Transition Payment Program (TTPP) 

contracts to request payments on their 

existing contracts is July 1, 2015. 

Through TTPP, eligible former tobacco 

quota holders and producers of quota 

tobacco received annual payments from 

funds that CCC collected through 

quarterly assessments on domestic 

manufacturers and importers of tobacco 

products under the Tobacco Transition 

Assessment Program (TTAP), as 

required by the Fair and Equitable 

Tobacco Reform Act of 2004 (FETRA). 

The authority to issue TTAP 

assessments ended with fiscal year 

2014. 

DATES: Submit claims for payment by 

July 1, 2015; no claims will be accepted 

after this date. 

ADDRESSES: Any USDA FSA county 

office. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Kelly Dawson; telephone: (202) 720– 

0448. Persons with disabilities who 

require alternative means for 

communications (Braille, large print, 

audio tape, etc.) should contact the 

USDA Target Center at (202) 720–2600 

(voice). 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

On behalf of CCC, FSA administers 

the Tobacco Transition Program (TTP), 

which includes TTPP and TTAP. The 

TTP regulations are located in 7 CFR 

part 1463, subpart B; TTAP regulations 

are located in subpart A. This notice 

does not change the regulations. TTPP 

was authorized by Title VI of the 

American Jobs Creation Act of 2004 

(Pub. L. 108–357). Title VI is also 

known as FETRA (7 U.S.C. 518–519a). 

FETRA repealed the tobacco marketing 

quota and related price support 

programs authorized by Title III of the 

Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 

and by the Agricultural Act of 1949, and 

provided for payments to persons who 

were owners of farms with tobacco 

quotas, or who were producers of quota 

tobacco. As specified in FETRA, TTPP 

used funds from assessments collected 

quarterly from domestic tobacco 

manufacturers and importers to make 

TTPP contract payments; those 

payments ended with fiscal year 2014. 

There will be no new TTPP contracts 

issued; the July 1, 2015 deadline is only 

for claims for payment under existing 

contracts. 

Final TTPP Contract Payments 

Procedures 

FSA is clarifying a few final 

procedures and dates for both the 

orderly close-out of TTPP, and the effect 

of the former on the close-out of the 

TTAP. Accordingly, this notice clarifies 

how final payments will be handled 

after fiscal year 2014. Specifically, all 

claims for payments on existing 

contracts must be received in an FSA 

county office by July 1, 2015. This 

notice will also discuss the final ‘‘trueup’’ for TTAP. 

FSA has already made every effort to 

pay in full existing TTPP contract 

holders. We believe that the only 

remaining pending payments are those 

that may be due to the surviving 

spouses, beneficiaries of an estate, or 

successors in interest of now-deceased 

contract holders. 

In accordance with 7 CFR 1463.113, 

the TTPP payment can be transferred to 

the surviving spouse of a deceased 

TTPP contract holder upon presentation 

of a death certificate, without regard to 

any will or other document created on 

behalf of or by the deceased contract 

holder. If there is no surviving spouse 

of a deceased contract holder, the TTPP 

payment can be transferred to the estate 

of the deceased by any person 

authorized under State law to distribute 

assets of the deceased TTPP contract 

holder. The regulations for successor-ininterest contracts are found in 7 CFR 

1463.112. This notice does not change 

those regulations. Evidence of authority 

to distribute assets of a deceased TTPP 

contract holder must be submitted to 

FSA by July 1, 2015. 

Persons who are surviving spouses, 

beneficiaries of an estate, or successors 

in interest may not have received 

payment if contact information was not 

provided to FSA in a timely fashion, or 

if the right to receive such payments 

was not documented as required. Any 

such persons who wish to receive 

payments must provide contact 

information, present evidence of 

authority to distribute assets (if 

applicable), and submit a claim for 

payment, using form CCC–971, 

‘‘Transfer of Tobacco Transition 

Payment Program Contracts Exempt 

From Maximum Discount Rate,’’ to a 

local FSA county office. The CCC–971 

form must have an original signature. 

All of the above information and form 

CCC–971 must be submitted to any local 

FSA office either in person, or received 

by mail, no later than July 1, 2015. Form 

CCC–971 is available online at http://

forms.sc.egov.usda.gov/efcommon/

eFileServices/eForms/CCC971-971- 

A.PDF. 

Final Assessment Procedures Will Not 

Change 

This notice does not change the final 

dates or procedures for assessments that 

were specified in the most recent final 

rule for TTAP, published on April 9, 

2014 (79 FR 19462–19464). As specified 

in the preamble of that final rule, FSA 

will make any necessary final ‘‘trued 

up’’ revisions to the assessments for all 

10 fiscal years of the Tobacco Transition 

Program and issue revised assessments 

on or before December 1, 2015. The final 

‘‘trued up’’ assessment will include any 

adjustments needed to cover payments 

made for final claims for payments on 

existing TTPP contracts received by July 

1, 2015. After December 1, 2015, there 

will be no revised assessments issued 

for any fiscal years. The final date for 

appeals of assessments is January 16, 

2016, as specified in 7 CFR 1463.11; that 

date is not changing with this notice. 

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Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 83 / Thursday, April 30, 2015 / Notices 24231 

Signed on April 27, 2015. 

Val Dolcini, 

Administrator, Farm Service Agency, and 

Executive Vice President, Commodity Credit 

Corporation. 

[FR Doc. 2015–10056 Filed 4–29–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–05–P 

COMMISSION ON CIVIL RIGHTS 

Notice of Public Meeting of the Alaska 

Advisory Committee for Members of 

the Committee To Receive Member 

Orientation and Discuss Civil Rights 

Issues in the State 

AGENCY: U.S. Commission on Civil 

Rights. 

ACTION: Announcement of meeting. 

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given, 

pursuant to the provisions of the rules 

and regulations of the U.S. Commission 

on Civil Rights (Commission) and the 

Federal Advisory Committee Act 

(FACA) that a meeting of the Alaska 

Advisory Committee (Committee) to the 

Commission will be held on Thursday, 

May 21, 2015, for the purpose of 

receiving an orientation on committee 

procedures and member responsibilities 

and to discuss possible civil rights 

issues in the state for examination by 

the Committee. The meeting will be 

held by teleconference. 

This meeting is available to the public 

through the following toll-free call-in 

number: 888–430–8709 conference ID: 

1833093. Any interested member of the 

public may call this number and listen 

to the meeting. An open comment 

period will be provided to allow 

members of the public to make a 

statement as time allows. The 

conference call operator will ask callers 

to identify themselves, the organization 

they are affiliated with (if any), and an 

email address prior to placing callers 

into the conference room. Callers can 

expect to incur charges for calls they 

initiate over wireless lines, and the 

Commission will not refund any 

incurred charges. Callers will incur no 

charge for calls they initiate over landline connections to the toll-free 

telephone number. Persons with hearing 

impairments may also follow the 

proceedings by first calling the Federal 

Relay Service at 1–800–977–8339 and 

providing the Service with the 

conference call number and conference 

ID number. 

Members of the public are also 

entitled to submit written comments. 

The comments must be received in the 

Western Regional Office of the 

Commission by June 21, 2015. The 

address is Western Regional Office, U.S. 

Commission on Civil Rights, 300 N. Los 

Angeles Street, Suite 2010, Los Angeles, 

CA 90012. Persons wishing to email 

their comments may do so by sending 

them to Angelica Trevino, Civil Rights 

Analyst, Western Regional Office, at 

atrevino@usccr.gov. Persons who desire 

additional information should contact 

the Western Regional Office, at (213) 

894–3437, (or for hearing impaired TDD 

913–551–1414), or by email to atrevino@

usccr.gov. Hearing-impaired persons 

who will attend the meeting and require 

the services of a sign language 

interpreter should contact the Regional 

Office at least ten (10) working days 

before the scheduled date of the 

meeting. 

Records and documents discussed 

during the meeting will be available for 

public viewing prior to and after the 

meeting at http://facadatabase.gov/

committee/meetings.aspx?cid=234 and 

clicking on the ‘‘Meeting Details’’ and 

‘‘Documents’’ links. Records generated 

from this meeting may also be inspected 

and reproduced at the Western Regional 

Office, as they become available, both 

before and after the meeting. Persons 

interested in the work of this Committee 

are directed to the Commission’s Web 

site, http://www.usccr.gov, or may 

contact the Western Regional Office at 

the above email or street address. 

Agenda: 

Introductions 

Member orientation 

Discussion of civil rights issues in the 

state 

Adjournment 

DATES: Thursday, May 21, 2015 from 2 

p.m. to 3:00 p.m. AST 

Public Call Information: 

Dial: 888–430–8709 

Conference ID: 1833093 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Peter Minarik, DFO, at (213) 894–3437 

or pminarik@usccr.gov. 

Dated: April 27, 2015. 

David Mussatt, 

Chief, Regional Programs Coordination Unit. 

[FR Doc. 2015–10099 Filed 4–29–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6335–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Foreign-Trade Zones Board 

[B–25–2015] 

Foreign-Trade Zone (FTZ) 122—Corpus 

Christi, Texas; Notification of 

Proposed Production Activity; M & G 

Resins, LLC, (Polyethylene 

Terephthalate and Terephthalic Acid); 

Corpus Christi, Texas 

The Port of Corpus Christi Authority, 

grantee of FTZ 122, submitted a 

notification of proposed production 

activity to the FTZ Board on behalf of 

M & G Resins, LLC (M & G), located in 

Corpus Christi, Texas. The notification 

conforming to the requirements of the 

regulations of the FTZ Board (15 CFR 

400.22) was received on April 17, 2015. 

The M & G facility is located within 

Subzone 122S. The facility will be used 

for the manufacturing of polyethylene 

terephthalate and terephthalic acid. 

Pursuant to 15 CFR 400.14(b), FTZ 

activity would be limited to the specific 

foreign-status materials and components 

and specific finished products described 

in the submitted notification (as 

described below) and subsequently 

authorized by the FTZ Board. 

Production under FTZ procedures 

could exempt M & G from customs duty 

payments on the foreign status 

components used in export production. 

On its domestic sales, M & G would be 

able to choose the duty rates during 

customs entry procedures that apply to 

polyethylene terephthalate (PET) and 

terephthalic acid (PTA) (duty rate 6.5%) 

for the foreign status inputs noted 

below. Customs duties also could 

possibly be deferred or reduced on 

foreign status production equipment. 

The components and materials 

sourced from abroad include: Ethylene 

glycol, para-xylene and acetic acid (duty 

rate ranges from duty-free to 5.5%). 

Public comment is invited from 

interested parties. Submissions shall be 

addressed to the Board’s Executive 

Secretary at the address below. The 

closing period for their receipt is June 

9, 2015. 

A copy of the notification will be 

available for public inspection at the 

Office of the Executive Secretary, 

Foreign-Trade Zones Board, Room 

21013, U.S. Department of Commerce, 

1401 Constitution Avenue NW., 

Washington, DC 20230–0002, and in the 

‘‘Reading Room’’ section of the Board’s 

Web site, which is accessible via 

www.trade.gov/ftz. 

For further information, contact 

Elizabeth Whiteman at 

Elizabeth.Whiteman@trade.gov or (202) 

482–0473. 

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