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candidate may not be a registered 

foreign agent under the Foreign Agents 

Registration Act of 1938, as amended. 

Evaluation of applications for 

membership in the U.S. Section by 

eligible individuals will be based on the 

following criteria: 

—A demonstrated commitment by the 

individual’s company to the Brazilian 

market either through exports or 

investment. 

—A demonstrated strong interest in 

Brazil and its economic development. 

—The ability to offer a broad 

perspective and business experience 

to the discussions. 

—The ability to address cross-cutting 

issues that affect the entire business 

community. 

—The ability to initiate and be 

responsible for activities in which the 

Forum will be active. 

Members will be selected on the basis 

of who will best carry out the objectives 

of the Forum as stated in the Terms of 

Reference establishing the U.S.-Brazil 

CEO Forum. The U.S. Section of the 

Forum should also include members 

that represent a diversity of business 

sectors and geographic locations. To the 

extent possible, Section members also 

should represent a cross-section of 

small, medium, and large firms. 

U.S. members will receive no 

compensation for their participation in 

Forum related activities. Individual 

members will be responsible for all 

travel and related expenses associated 

with their participation in the Forum, 

including attendance at Committee and 

Section meetings. Only appointed 

members may participate in official 

Forum meetings; substitutes and 

alternates will not be designated. U.S. 

members will normally serve for twoyear terms, but may be reappointed. 

To be considered for membership, 

please submit the following information 

as instructed in the ADDRESSES and 

DATES captions above: Name(s) and 

title(s) of the individual(s) requesting 

consideration; name and address of 

company’s headquarters; location for 

incorporation; size of the company; size 

of company’s export trade, investment, 

and nature of operations or interest in 

Brazil; and a brief statement of why the 

candidate should be considered, 

including information about the 

candidate’s ability to initiate and be 

responsible for activities in which the 

Forum will be active. Applications will 

be considered as they are received. All 

candidates will be notified of whether 

they have been selected. 

Dated: April 15, 2009. 

Anne Driscoll, 

Director for the Office of South America. 

[FR Doc. E9–9292 Filed 4–21–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Patent and Trademark Office 

[Docket No. PTO–P–2009–0016] 

Grant of Interim Extension of the Term 

of U.S. Patent No. 4,650,787; Sanvar®

AGENCY: United States Patent and 

Trademark Office. 

ACTION: Notice of interim patent term 

extension. 

SUMMARY: The United States Patent and 

Trademark Office has issued an order 

granting interim extension under 35 

U.S.C. 156(d)(5) for a fifth one-year 

interim extension of the term of U.S. 

Patent No. 4,650,787. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Mary C. Till by telephone at (571) 272– 

7755; by mail marked to her attention 

and addressed to the Commissioner for 

Patents, Mail Stop Hatch-Waxman PTE, 

P.O. Box 1450, Alexandria, VA 22313– 

1450; by fax marked to her attention at 

(571) 273–7755, or by e-mail to 

Mary.Till@uspto.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 

156 of Title 35, United States Code, 

generally provides that the term of a 

patent may be extended for a period of 

up to five years if the patent claims a 

product, or a method of making or using 

a product, that has been subject to 

certain defined regulatory review, and 

that the patent may be extended for 

interim periods of up to a year if the 

regulatory review is anticipated to 

extend beyond the expiration date of the 

patent. 

On March 19, 2009, Debiovision Inc., 

the exclusive agent of Debiopharm S.A. 

and Debio Recherche Pharmaceutique 

S.A., who is the exclusive licensee of 

the Administrators of the Tulane 

Educational Fund of New Orleans, 

Louisiana, the patent owner, timely 

filed an application under 35 U.S.C. 

156(d)(5) for a fifth interim extension of 

the term of U.S. Patent No. 4,650,787. 

The patent claims the human drug 

product Sanvar® (vapreotide acetate). 

The application indicates that a New 

Drug Application for the human drug 

product Sanvar® (vapreotide acetate) 

has been filed and is currently 

undergoing regulatory review before the 

Food and Drug Administration for 

permission to market or use the product 

commercially. 

Review of the application indicates 

that except for permission to market or 

use the product commercially, the 

subject patent would be eligible for an 

extension of the patent term under 35 

U.S.C. 156, and that the patent should 

be extended for an additional one year 

as required by 35 U.S.C. 156(d)(5)(B) 

and 35 U.S.C. 156(d)(5)(C). Because it is 

apparent that the regulatory review 

period will continue beyond the 

extended expiration date of the patent 

(April 25, 2009), a fifth interim 

extension of the patent term under 35 

U.S.C. 156(d)(5) is appropriate. 

A fifth interim extension under 35 

U.S.C. 156(d)(5) of the term of U.S. 

Patent No. 4,650,787 is granted for a 

period of one year from the extended 

expiration date of the patent, i.e., until 

April 25, 2010. 

April 15, 2009. 

John J. Doll, 

Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for 

Intellectual Property and Director of the 

United States Patent and Trademark Office. 

[FR Doc. E9–9145 Filed 4–21–09; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

RIN 0648–XO70 

Incidental Taking of Marine Mammals; 

Taking of Marine Mammals Incidental 

to the Explosive Removal of Offshore 

Structures in the Gulf of Mexico 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice; issuance of letters of 

authorization. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Marine Mammal Protection Act 

(MMPA) and implementing regulations, 

notification is hereby given that NMFS 

has issued one-year Letters of 

Authorization (LOA) to take marine 

mammals incidental to the explosive 

removal of offshore oil and gas 

structures (EROS) in the Gulf of Mexico. 

DATES: These authorizations are 

effective from May 15, 2009 through 

May 14, 2010. 

ADDRESSES: The application and LOAs 

are available for review by writing to P. 

Michael Payne, Chief, Permits, 

Conservation, and Education Division, 

Office of Protected Resources, National 

Marine Fisheries Service, 1315 EastWest Highway, Silver Spring, MD 

20910–3235 or by telephoning the 


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contact listed here (see FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT), or online at: 

http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/permits/ 

incidental.htm. Documents cited in this 

notice may be viewed, by appointment, 

during regular business hours, at the 

aforementioned address. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Howard Goldstein or Ken Hollingshead, 

Office of Protected Resources, NMFS, 

301–713–2289. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Sections 

101(a)(5)(A) of the MMPA (16 U.S.C. 

1361 et seq.) direct the NMFS to allow, 

upon request, the incidental, but not 

intentional, taking of small numbers of 

marine mammals by United States 

citizens who engage in a specified 

activity (other than commercial fishing) 

within a specified geographical region, 

if certain findings are made by NMFS 

and regulations are issued. Under the 

MMPA, the term ‘‘taking’’ means to 

harass, hunt, capture, or kill or to 

attempt to harass, hunt capture, or kill 

marine mammals. 

Authorization for incidental taking, in 

the form of annual LOAs, may be 

granted by NMFS for periods up to five 

years if NMFS finds, after notification 

and opportunity for public comment, 

that the taking will have a negligible 

impact on the species or stock(s) of 

marine mammals, and will not have an 

unmitigable adverse impact on the 

availability of the species or stock(s) for 

subsistence uses (where relevant). In 

addition, NMFS must prescribe 

regulations that include permissible 

methods of taking and other means 

effecting the least practicable adverse 

impact on the species and its habitat 

(i.e., mitigation), and on the availability 

of the species for subsistence uses, 

paying particular attention to rookeries, 

mating rounds, and areas of similar 

significance. The regulations also must 

include requirements pertaining to the 

monitoring and reporting of such taking. 

Regulations governing the taking 

incidental to EROS were published on 

June 19, 2008 (73 FR 34889), and remain 

in effect through July 19, 2013. For 

detailed information on this action, 

please refer to that Federal Register 

notice. The species that applicants may 

take in small numbers during EROS 

activities are bottlenose dolphins 

(Tursiops truncatus), Atlantic spotted 

dolphins (Stenella frontalis), 

pantropical spotted dolphins (Stenella 

attenuata), Clymene dolphins (Stenella 

clymene), striped dolphins (Stenella 

coeruleoalba), spinner dolphins 

(Stenella longirostris), rough-toothed 

dolphins (Steno bredanensis), Risso’s 

dolphins (Grampus griseus), melonheaded whales (Peponocephala electra), 

pilot whales (Globicephala 

macrorhynchus), and sperm whales 

(Physeter macrocephalus). 

Pursuant to these regulations, NMFS 

has issued an LOA to Kerr McGee Oil 

and Gas Corporation, Noble Energy, 

Inc., and Nippon Oil Exploration U.S.A. 

Limited. Issuance of the LOAs is based 

on a finding made in the preamble to 

the final rule that the total taking by 

these activities (with monitoring, 

mitigation, and reporting measures) will 

result in no more than a negligible 

impact on the affected species or 

stock(s) of marine mammals and will 

not have an unmitigable adverse impact 

on subsistence uses. NMFS also finds 

that the applicant will meet the 

requirements contained in the 

implementing regulations and LOA, 

including monitoring, mitigation, and 

reporting requirements. 

Dated: April 14, 2009. 

James H. Lecky, 

Director, Office of Protected Resources, 

National Marine Fisheries Service. 

[FR Doc. E9–9000 Filed 4–21–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–22–S 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

RIN 0648–XO80 

Incidental Taking of Marine Mammals; 

Taking of Marine Mammals Incidental 

to the Explosive Removal of Offshore 

Structures in the Gulf of Mexico 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice; issuance of letter of 

authorization. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Marine Mammal Protection Act 

(MMPA) and implementing regulations, 

notification is hereby given that NMFS 

has issued a one-year Letters of 

Authorization (LOA) to ExxonMobil 

Production Company to take marine 

mammals incidental to the explosive 

removal of offshore oil and gas 

structures (EROS) in the Gulf of Mexico. 

DATES: This authorization is effective 

from May 1, 2009 through April 30, 

2010. 

ADDRESSES: The application and LOAs 

are available for review by writing to P. 

Michael Payne, Chief, Permits, 

Conservation, and Education Division, 

Office of Protected Resources, National 

Marine Fisheries Service, 1315 EastWest Highway, Silver Spring, MD 

20910–3235 or by telephoning the 

contact listed here (see FOR FURTHER 

INFORMATION CONTACT), or online 

at: http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/ 

permits/incidental.htm. Documents 

cited in this notice may be viewed, by 

appointment, during regular business 

hours, at the aforementioned address. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Howard Goldstein or Ken Hollingshead, 

Office of Protected Resources, NMFS, 

301–713–2289. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Sections 

101(a)(5)(A) of the MMPA (16 U.S.C. 

1361 et seq.) direct the NMFS to allow, 

upon request, the incidental, but not 

intentional, taking of small numbers of 

marine mammals by United States 

citizens who engage in a specified 

activity (other than commercial fishing) 

within a specified geographical region, 

if certain findings are made by NMFS 

and regulations are issued. Under the 

MMPA, the term ‘‘taking’’ means to 

harass, hunt, capture, or kill or to 

attempt to harass, hunt capture, or kill 

marine mammals. 

Authorization for incidental taking, in 

the form of annual LOAs, may be 

granted by NMFS for periods up to five 

years if NMFS finds, after notification 

and opportunity for public comment, 

that the taking will have a negligible 

impact on the species or stock(s) of 

marine mammals, and will not have an 

unmitigable adverse impact on the 

availability of the species or stock(s) for 

subsistence uses (where relevant). In 

addition, NMFS must prescribe 

regulations that include permissible 

methods of taking and other means 

effecting the least practicable adverse 

impact on the species and its habitat 

(i.e., mitigation), and on the availability 

of the species for subsistence uses, 

paying particular attention to rookeries, 

mating rounds, and areas of similar 

significance. The regulations also must 

include requirements pertaining to the 

monitoring and reporting of such taking. 

Regulations governing the taking 

incidental to EROS were published on 

June 19, 2008 (73 FR 34889), and remain 

in effect through July 19, 2013. For 

detailed information on this action, 

please refer to that Federal Register 

notice. The species that applicants may 

take in small numbers during EROS 

activities are bottlenose dolphins 

(Tursiops truncatus), Atlantic spotted 

dolphins (Stenella frontalis), 

pantropical spotted dolphins (Stenella 

attenuata), Clymene dolphins (Stenella 

clymene), striped dolphins (Stenella 

coeruleoalba), spinner dolphins 

(Stenella longirostris), rough-toothed 

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