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

**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/

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_ 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