17884 Federal Register / Vol. 74, No. 73 / Friday, April 17, 2009 / Notices 

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 

Copyright Office 

Notice of Inquiry and Request for 

Comments on the Topic of Facilitating 

Access to Copyrighted Works for the 

Blind or Other Persons With 

Disabilities; Notice of Public Meeting 

AGENCY: Copyright Office, Library of 

Congress. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The United States Copyright 

Office (Copyright Office) and the United 

States Patent and Trademark Office 

(USPTO) announce that interested 

parties may submit electronic comments 

and reply comments on facilitating 

access to copyrighted works for the 

blind or other persons with disabilities. 

DATES: Initial comments are due by 5 

p.m. on April 21, 2009. Reply comments 

are due by 5 p.m. on May 4, 2009. 

ADDRESSES: Electronic submissions may 

be made through the Copyright Office 

Web site: http://www.copyright.gov/ 

docs/sccr/comments. See the 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section for 

acceptable electronic file formats and 

filing requirements. See Notice of 

Inquiry and Request for Comments; 

Notice of Public Meeting, 74 FR 13268 

(March 26, 2009), for information on 

other methods of filing comments. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Paula Pinha, Attorney-Advisor, Office of 

Policy and International Affairs. 

Telephone: (202) 707–7845. E-mail: 

ppin@loc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Copyright Office and the USPTO are 

adding the option of submitting initial 

and reply comments electronically to 

the options for submitting comments 

that were specified in their previous 

Notice of March 26, 2009 (74 FR 13268). 

A comment page will be posted on the 

Copyright Office Web site at http:// 

www.copyright.gov/docs/sccr/ 

comments. Approximately one week 

prior to each comment deadline the 

comment form will be activated, 

allowing information to be entered into 

the required fields and any additional 

non-required fields. All comments 

submitted electronically must be 

submitted as an attachment, and must 

be in a single file in either Adobe 

Portable Document File (PDF) format 

that contains searchable, accessible text 

(not an image); Microsoft Word; 

WordPerfect; Rich Text Format (RTF); or 

ASCII text file format. The maximum 

file size is 6 megabytes (MB). The 

attached comment must include the 

name of the commenter. There will be 

a browse button on the form that will 

allow commenters to attach the 

comment file to the form and then to 

submit the completed form to the 

Copyright Office. 

The Copyright Office and the USPTO 

intend to post all comments from this 

proceeding on the Copyright Office Web 

site. For comments submitted 

electronically, the name and 

organization of the commenter from the 

comment form will be posted together 

with the entire attached comment 

document. Other information from the 

comment form will not be posted, but 

note that if the same information is 

included in the attached document it 

will be available on the Copyright Office 

Web site as part of the attachment. 

Dated: April 14, 2009. 

Marybeth Peters, 

Register of Copyrights. 

[FR Doc. E9–8865 Filed 4–16–09; 8:45 am] 

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NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION 

Proposal Review Panel for Materials 

Research; Notice of Meeting 

In accordance with the Federal 

Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92– 

463 as amended), the National Science 

Foundation announces the following 

meeting: 

Name: Site visit review of the Materials 

Research Science and Engineering Center 

(MRSEC) at the University of Maryland by 

NSF Division of Materials Research (DMR) 

#1203. 

Dates & Times: Monday, May 18, 2009; 

7:45 a.m.–8:30 p.m., Tuesday, May 19, 2009; 

8 a.m.–3:30 p.m. 

Place: University of Maryland, College 

Park, MD. 

Type of Meeting: Part-open. 

Contact Person: Dr. Charles Ying, Program 

Director, Materials Research Science and 

Engineering Centers Program, Division of 

Materials Research, Room 1065, National 

Science Foundation, 4201 Wilson Boulevard, 

Arlington, VA 22230, Telephone (703) 292– 

8428. 

Purpose of Meeting: To provide advice and 

recommendations concerning further support 

of the MRSEC at the University of Maryland. 

Agenda 

Monday, May 18, 2009 

7:45 a.m.–9 a.m. Closed—Executive Session 

9 a.m.–4:30 p.m. Open—Review of the 

Maryland MRSEC 

4:30 p.m.–6 p.m. Closed—Executive 

Session 

6 p.m.–8:30 p.m. Open—Poster Session and 

Dinner 

Tuesday, May 19, 2009 

8 a.m.–9 a.m. Closed—Executive session 

9 a.m.–10:30 a.m. Open—Review of the 

Maryland MRSEC 

10:30 a.m.–3:30 p.m. Closed—Executive 

Session, Draft and Review Report 

Reason for Closing: The work being 

reviewed may include information of a 

proprietary or confidential nature, including 

technical information; financial data, such as 

salaries and personal information concerning 

individuals associated with the proposals. 

These matters are exempt under 5 U.S.C. 552 

b(c), (4) and (6) of the Government in the 

Sunshine Act. 

Dated: April 14, 2009. 

Susanne Bolton, 

Committee Management Officer. 

[FR Doc. E9–8812 Filed 4–16–09; 8:45 am] 

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NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION 

Proposal Review Panel for Human 

Development; Notice of Meeting 

In accordance with the Federal 

Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92– 

463, as amended), the National Science 

Foundation announces the following 

meeting. 

Name: Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority 

Participation Program, Proposal Review 

Panel for Human Development (1199). 

Date/Time: April 22, 2009; 8 a.m.–6:15 

p.m., April 23, 2009; 8 a.m.–4 p.m. 

Place: Howard University, 2400 Sixth 

Street, NW., WDC 20059. 

Type of Meeting: Partially Closed. 

Contact Persons: A. James Hicks, Senior 

Program Director, Harry Bass, Program 

Director or Martha James, Assistant Program 

Director, Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority 

Participation Program, National Science 

Foundation, Arlington, Virginia, 703–292– 

8640. 

Purpose of Meeting: NSF pre-award site 

visit to conduct an in-depth evaluation of 

past performance and to evaluate proposed 

plans to support continued funding. 

Agenda 

Wednesday, April 22, 2009 

8 a.m.–12 Introductions & Overview, 

Vision, Strategy & Alliance Program 

Overview (Open) 

12:15 p.m.–1:15 p.m. Lunch 

1:15 p.m.–6:15 p.m. Strengths, Weaknesses, 

Opportunities, Threats (SWOT) Evaluation 

and Assessment, Issue Generation 

Executive Session, Report Preparation 

(Closed) 

Thursday, April 23, 2009 

8 a.m.–12 Visit to Selected Partner 

Institution(s) or Meetings with faculty, 

students, advisory/governing board (Open) 

12–1 p.m. Lunch 

1:15 p.m.–3 p.m. Discussions with Alliance 

Leadership/Management Team (Closed) 

3:15–4 Debriefing, Wrap-Up and Departure 

(Closed) 

Reason for Late Notice: Due to scheduling 

complications and the necessity to proceed 

with the site visit. 

Reason for Closing: Topics to be discussed 

and evaluated during the site review will 

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