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12 17 CFR 200.30–3(a)(12). 

For the Commission, by the Division of 

Market Regulation, pursuant to delegated 

authority.12

Jonathan G. Katz, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 05–18621 Filed 9–19–05; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 8010–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF STATE 

[Public Notice 5190] 

Meeting of the U.S.-Chile Environment 

Affairs Council 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: The Department of State and 

the Office of the United States Trade 

Representative (USTR) are providing 

notice that, as set forth in Chapter 19 

(Environment) of the U.S.-Chile Free 

Trade Agreement (FTA), the tow 

governments intend to hold the second 

meeting of the Environment Affairs 

Council (the ‘‘Council’’) in Washington, 

DC on October 24, 2005. U.S. Deputy 

Assistant Secretary Claudia McMurray 

and Chilean Under Secretary Rodrigo 

Egana will jointly chair the Council 

meeting. The purpose of this meeting is 

detailed below under SUPPLEMENTARY

INFORMATION. 

In this notice, the Department of state 

and USTR are requesting: (1) Written 

comments from the public regarding 

agenda items for the Council meeting; 

(2) written comments regarding the 

implementation of the eight cooperative 

projects listed in Annex 19.3 of Chapter 

19 (Environment) of the FTA, 

particularly Reducing Mining Pollution 

and Sharing Private Sector Expertise (in 

the initial implementation stages); (3) 

written comments regarding 

implementation of Chapter 19’s 

framework for public participation; and 

(4) written suggestions for future 

bilateral environmental cooperation 

between the United States and the 

Republic of Chile. A joint public session 

will be held immediately following the 

Council meeting. The purpose of this 

public session is detailed below under 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION. In 

preparing comments, the public is 

encouraged to refer to: 

• The environment chapter of the 

U.S.-Chile Free Trade Agreement and 

Annex 19.3, available at:http://www.

ustr.gov/assets/Trade_Agreements/

Bilateral/Chile_FTA/Final_Texts/asset_

upload_file482_401.3.pdf; 

• The U.S.-Chile Environmental 

Cooperation Agreement, available 

at:http://www.state.gov/goes/rls/or/ 

22185.html and 

• The Final Environment Review of 

the U.S.-Chile Free Trade Agreement, 

available at: http://www.ustr.gov/assets/ 

Trade_Agreements/Bilateral/Chile_FTA/ 

asset_upload_file 411_5109.pdf. 

DATES: To guarantee receipt in proper 

time for consideration prior to the 

meeting, comments are requested no 

later than October 20, 2005. 

ADDRESSES: Comments may be sent by 

fax to (202) 647–5947 or (202) 647–

1052. by e-mail to OES–ENV–

Mail@state.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Lawrence Sperling, Department of State, 

Bureau of Oceans and International 

Environmental and Scientific Affairs, 

Office of Policy Coordination and 

Initiatives, Telephone (202) 647–2061. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The U.S.- 

Chile Free Trade Agreement (FTA) 

entered into force on January 1, 2004. 

Article 3 of Chapter 19 (Environment) of 

the FTA establishes an Environment 

Affairs Council (the ‘‘Council’’), which 

is required to meet once a year, or more 

often if agreed by the two governments, 

to discuss the implementation of, and 

progress under, Chapter 19. Chapter 19 

requires that meetings of the Council 

include a public session, unless 

otherwise agreed by the two 

governments. The first meeting of the 

Council was held on July 22, 2004, in 

Santiago, Chile, to discuss issues of 

mutual concern related to Chapter 19 of 

the FTA, including matters related to 

the eight cooperation projects listed in 

Annex 19.3 of the FTA. The Council 

Agenda for this second meeting will 

include discussion of the progress in 

implementing the eight cooperation 

projects under Chapter 19 of the FTA. 

This meeting will also consider how to 

further implement the provisions of 

Chapter 19, including public 

participation, and recommendations for 

future bilateral cooperation. Written 

comments from the public regarding 

agenda items for the Council meeting, as 

well as written comments regarding the 

eight cooperative projects and future 

bilateral cooperation, may be submitted 

to the contact addresses listed above. 

The public session will take place in 

Washington, DC after the Council 

meeting, on October 24, 2005 starting 

time and place to be announced, in 

order to explain the provision in 

Chapter 19 of the FTA and the role of 

the Council, as well as discuss the 

cooperative projects identified in the 

annex of Chapter 19. The public is 

advised to refer to the State Department 

Web site at http://www.state.gov/g/oes/ 

env/ for further information related to 

this meeting. 

Dated: September 15, 2005. 

David E. Brown, 

Director, Office of Environmental Policy 

Department of State. 

[FR Doc. 05–18723 Filed 9–19–05; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4710–09–M 

TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, as 

amended by Pub. L. 104–13; 

Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request 

AGENCY: Tennessee Valley Authority. 

ACTION: Submission for OMB review; 

comment request. 

SUMMARY: The proposed information 

collection described below will be 

submitted to the Office of Management 

and Budget (OMB) for review, as 

required by the Paperwork Reduction 

Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35, as 

amended). The Tennessee Valley 

Authority is soliciting public comments 

on this proposed collection as provided 

by 5 CFR 1320.8(d)(1). Requests for 

information, including copies of the 

information collection proposed and 

supporting documentation, should be 

directed to the Agency Clearance 

Officer: Alice D. Witt, Tennessee Valley 

Authority, 1101 Market Street (EB 5B), 

Chattanooga, Tennessee 37402–2801; 

(423) 751–6832. (SC: 0001JTJ) 

Comments should be sent to the OMB 

Office of Information and Regulatory 

Affairs, Attention: Desk Officer for the 

Tennessee Valley Authority by October 

20, 2005. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Type of Request: Regular submission; 

proposal for a new collection. 

Title of Information Collection: 

Confirmation of TVA-Owned Cash. 

Frequency of Use: One time. 

Type of Affected Public: Business. 

Small Businesses or Organizations 

Affected: No. 

Estimated Number of Annual 

Responses: 629. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 345.50. 

Estimated Average Burden Hours Per 

Response: 0.55 hours. 

Need For and Use of Information: We 

are requesting the information from the 

financial institutions located near TVA 

operating plants and offices to 

determine whether those financial 

institutions have TVA-owned cash on 

deposit. We will use the information 

obtained to confirm the amount of cash 

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included in TVA’s financial statement 

report. 

Jacklyn J. Stephenson, 

Senior Manager, Enterprise Operations, 

Information Services. 

[FR Doc. 05–18684 Filed 9–19–05; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 8120–08–P 

OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES 

TRADE REPRESENTATIVE 

Request for Public Comment With 

Respect to the Annual National Trade 

Estimate Report on Foreign Trade 

Barriers 

AGENCY: Office of the United States 

Trade Representative. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: Pursuant to section 303 of the 

Trade and Tariff Act of 1984, as 

amended, USTR is required to publish 

annually the National Trade Estimate 

Report on Foreign Trade Barriers (NTE). 

With this notice, the Trade Policy Staff 

Committee (TPSC) is requesting 

interested parties to assist it in 

identifying significant barriers to U.S. 

exports of goods, services and overseas 

direct investment for inclusion in the 

NTE. Particularly important are 

impediments materially affecting the 

actual and potential financial 

performance of an industry sector. The 

TPSC invites written comments that 

provide views relevant to the issues to 

be examined in preparing the NTE. 

DATES: Public comments are due not 

later than Wednesday, November 16, 

2005. 

ADDRESSES: Submissions by electronic 

mail: FR0508@USTR.EOP.GOV. 

Submissions by facsimile: Gloria Blue, 

Executive Secretary, Trade Policy Staff 

Committee, Office of the United States 

Trade Representative, (202) 395–6143. 

The public is strongly encouraged to 

submit documents electronically rather 

than by facsimile. (See requirements for 

submissions below.) 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Questions regarding the report, its 

subject matter or procedural questions 

concerning submissions should be 

directed to Ms. Gloria Blue, Office of 

Policy Coordination, Office of the 

United States Trade Representative 

(202) 395–3475. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Last year’s 

report may be found on USTR’s Internet 

Home Page (http://www.ustr.gov) in the 

Document Library under the section on 

Reports/Publications. In order to ensure 

compliance with the statutory mandate 

for reporting foreign trade barriers that 

are significant, we will focus 

particularly on those restrictions where 

there has been active private sector 

interest. 

The information submitted should 

relate to one or more of the following 

ten categories of foreign trade barriers: 

(1) Import policies (e.g., tariffs and 

other import charges, quantitative 

restrictions, import licensing, and 

customs barriers); 

(2) Standards, testing, labeling, and 

certification (including unnecessarily 

restrictive application of phytosanitary 

standards, refusal to accept U.S. 

manufacturers’ self-certification of 

conformance to foreign product 

standards, and environmental 

restrictions); 

(3) Government procurement (e.g., 

‘‘buy national’’ policies and closed 

bidding); 

(4) Export subsidies (e.g., export 

financing on preferential terms and 

agricultural export subsidies that 

displace U.S. exports in third country 

markets); 

(5) Lack of intellectual property 

protection (e.g., inadequate patent, 

copyright, and trademark regimes); 

(6) Services barriers (e.g., limits on the 

range of financial services offered by 

foreign financial institutions, regulation 

of international data flows, restrictions 

on the use of data processing, quotas on 

imports of foreign films, and barriers to 

the provision of services by 

professionals (e.g., lawyers, doctors, 

accountants, engineers, nurses, etc.); 

(7) Investment barriers (e.g., 

limitations on foreign equity 

participation and on access to foreign 

government-funded R&D consortia, local 

content, technology transfer and export 

performance requirements, and 

restrictions on repatriation of earnings, 

capital, fees and royalties); 

(8) Anticompetitive practices with 

trade effects tolerated by foreign 

governments (including anticompetitive 

activities of both state-owned and 

private firms that apply to services or to 

goods and that restrict the sale of U.S. 

products to any firm, not just to foreign 

firms that perpetuate the practices); 

(9) Trade restrictions affecting 

electronic commerce (e.g., tariff and 

non-tariff measures, burdensome and 

discriminatory regulations and 

standards, and discriminatory taxation); 

and 

(10) Other barriers (i.e., barriers that 

encompass more than one category, e.g., 

bribery and corruption, or that affect a 

single sector). 

As in the case of last year’s NTE, we 

are asking that particular emphasis be 

placed on any practices that may violate 

U.S. trade agreements. We are also 

interested in receiving any new or 

updated information pertinent to the 

barriers covered in last year’s report as 

well as new information. Please note 

that the information not used in the 

NTE will be maintained for use in future 

negotiations. 

It is most important that your 

submission contain estimates of the 

potential increase in exports that would 

result from the removal of the barrier, as 

well as a clear discussion of the 

method(s) by which the estimates were 

computed. Estimates should fall within 

the following value ranges: Less than $5 

million; $5 to $25 million; $25 million 

to $50 million; $50 million to $100 

million; $100 million to $500 million; or 

over $500 million. Such assessments 

enhance USTR’s ability to conduct 

meaningful comparative analyses of a 

barrier’s effect over a range of 

industries. 

Please note that interested parties 

discussing barriers in more than one 

country should provide a separate 

submission (i.e., one that is selfcontained) for each country. 

Requirements for Submissions: In 

order to facilitate prompt processing of 

submissions, USTR strongly urge and 

prefers electronic (e-mail) submissions 

in response to this notice. In the event 

an e-mail submission is impossible, 

submissions should be made by 

facsimile. Facsimile submissions should 

not exceed a maximum of 20 pages. 

E-mail submissions should be single 

copy transmissions in English. 

Submissions should use the following 

subject line: ‘‘2006 National Trade 

Estimate Report—Submission by (sector, 

company, association). Documents must 

be submitted as either WordPerfect 

(‘‘WPD’’), MSWord (‘‘DOC’’), or text 

(‘‘TXT’’) file. Documents should not be 

submitted as electronic image files or 

contain imbedded images (for example, 

‘‘JPG’’, ‘‘PDF’’ ‘‘BMP’’, or ‘‘GIF’’), as 

these type of files are generally 

excessively large. Supporting 

Documentation submitted as 

spreadsheets are acceptable as Quattro 

Pro or Excel, pre-formatted for printing 

on 81⁄2 x 11 inch paper. To the extent 

possible, any data attachments to the 

submission should be included in the 

same file as the submission itself, and 

not as separate files. 

Petitions will be available for public 

inspection by appointment with the 

staff of the USTR Public Reading Room, 

except for information granted 

‘‘business confidential’’ status pursuant 

to 15 CFR 2003.6. If the submission 

contains business confidential 

information, a non-confidential version 

of the submission must also be 

submitted that indicates where