Federal Register / Vol. 78, No. 35 / Thursday, February 21, 2013 / Notices 12033 

ARCTIC RESEARCH COMMISSION 

Programs and Research Projects 

Affecting the Arctic 

Notice is hereby given that the U.S. 

Arctic Research Commission will hold 

its 100th meeting in Anchorage and 

Bethel, Alaska, on March 21–22, 2013. 

The business sessions, open to the 

public, will convene at 8:30 a.m. in 

Anchorage and reconvene in the 

afternoon in Bethel on March 21. The 

commission will meet again at 8:30 a.m. 

on March 22 in Bethel. 

The Agenda items include: 

(1) Call to order and approval of the 

agenda 

(2) Approval of the minutes from the 

99th meeting 

(3) Commissioners and staff reports 

(4) Discussion and presentations 

concerning Arctic research 

activities 

The focus of the meeting will be 

Arctic research activities in Bethel, as 

well as reports and updates on other 

programs and research projects affecting 

the Arctic. 

If you plan to attend this meeting, 

please notify us via the contact 

information below. Any person 

planning to attend who requires special 

accessibility features and/or auxiliary 

aids, such as sign language interpreters, 

must inform the Commission of those 

needs in advance of the meeting. 

Contact person for further 

information: John Farrell, Executive 

Director, U.S. Arctic Research 

Commission, 703–525–0111 or TDD 

703–306–0090. 

John Farrell, 

Executive Director. 

[FR Doc. 2013–03849 Filed 2–20–13; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7555–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Bureau of the Census 

Census Advisory Committees 

AGENCY: Bureau of the Census, 

Department of Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice of public meeting. 

SUMMARY: The Bureau of the Census 

(Census Bureau) is giving notice of a 

meeting of the National Advisory 

Committee on Racial, Ethnic and Other 

Populations (NAC). The Committee will 

address census policies, research and 

methodology, tests, operations, 

communications/messaging and other 

activities to ascertain needs and best 

practices to improve censuses, surveys, 

operations, and programs. The NAC will 

meet in a plenary session on March 14– 

15, 2013. Last-minute changes to the 

schedule are possible, which could 

prevent giving advance public notice of 

schedule adjustments. 

DATES: March 14–15, 2013. On March 

14, the meeting will begin at 

approximately 9:00 a.m. and end at 

approximately 5:00 p.m. On March 15, 

the meeting will begin at approximately 

9:00 a.m. and end at approximately 1:00 

p.m. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at 

the U.S. Census Bureau, 4600 Silver Hill 

Road, Suitland, Maryland 20746. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jeri 

Green, Jeri.Green@census.gov, 

Committee Liaison Officer, Department 

of Commerce, U.S. Census Bureau, 

Room 8H182, 4600 Silver Hill Road, 

Washington, DC 20233, telephone 301– 

763–6590. For TTY callers, please use 

the Federal Relay Service 1–800–877– 

8339. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The NAC 

comprises up to thirty-two members. 

The Committee provides an organized 

and continuing channel of 

communication between race, ethnic, 

and other populations and the Census 

Bureau. The committee will advise the 

Director of the Census Bureau on the 

full range of economic, housing, 

demographic, socioeconomic, linguistic, 

technological, methodological, 

geographic, behavioral, and operational 

variables affecting the cost, accuracy, 

and implementation of Census Bureau 

programs and surveys, including the 

decennial census. 

The Committee also assists the Census 

Bureau on ways that census data can 

best be disseminated to diverse race and 

ethnic populations and other users. The 

Committee is established in accordance 

with the Federal Advisory Committee 

Act (Title 5, United States Code, 

Appendix 2, Section 10(a)(b)). 

All meetings are open to the public. 

A brief period will be set aside at the 

meeting for public comment on March 

15. However, individuals with extensive 

questions or statements must submit 

them in writing to Ms. Jeri Green at least 

three days before the meeting. If you 

plan to attend the meeting, please 

register by Monday, March 11, 2013. 

You may access the online registration 

form with the following link: http:// 

www.regonline.com/ 

nac_mar2013_meeting. Seating is 

available to the public on a first-come, 

first-served basis. 

These meetings are physically 

accessible to people with disabilities. 

Requests for sign language 

interpretation or other auxiliary aids 

should be directed to the Committee 

Liaison Officer as soon as possible, 

preferably two weeks prior to the 

meeting. 

Due to increased security and for 

access to the meeting, please call 301– 

763–9906 upon arrival at the Census 

Bureau on the day of the meeting. A 

photo ID must be presented in order to 

receive your visitor’s badge. Visitors are 

not allowed beyond the first floor. 

Dated: February 12, 2013. 

Thomas L. Mesenbourg, Jr., 

Acting Director, Bureau of the Census. 

[FR Doc. 2013–03877 Filed 2–20–13; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–07–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Foreign-Trade Zones Board 

[B–14–2013] 

Foreign-Trade Zone 37—Orange 

County, NY, Application for 

Reorganization (Expansion of Service 

Area) Under Alternative Site 

Framework 

An application has been submitted to 

the Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ) Board 

(the Board) by the County of Orange, 

grantee of Foreign-Trade Zone 37, 

requesting authority to reorganize the 

zone to expand its service area under 

the alternative site framework (ASF) 

adopted by the Board (15 CFR 400.2(c)). 

The ASF is an option for grantees for the 

establishment or reorganization of zones 

and can permit significantly greater 

flexibility in the designation of new 

subzones or ‘‘usage-driven’’ FTZ sites 

for operators/users located within a 

grantee’s ‘‘service area’’ in the context of 

the Board’s standard 2,000-acre 

activation limit for a zone. The 

application was submitted pursuant to 

the Foreign-Trade Zones Act, as 

amended (19 U.S.C. 81a–81u) and the 

regulations of the Board (15 CFR part 

400). It was formally docketed on 

February 11, 2013. 

FTZ 37 was approved by the Board on 

May 4, 1978 (Board Order 130, 43 FR 

20526, 05/12/1978) and expanded on 

July 9, 1999 (Board Order 1044, 64 FR 

38887, 07/20/1999). FTZ 37 was 

reorganized under the ASF on May 13, 

2010 (Board Order 1680, 75 FR 29727, 

5/27/2010) and its ASF service area was 

expanded on October 24, 2011 (Board 

Order 1796, 76 FR 67407, 11/1/2011). 

The zone project currently has a service 

area that includes Orange and Duchess 

Counties, New York. 

The applicant is now requesting 

authority to expand the service area of 

the zone to include Rockland County, as 

described in the application. If 


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