Federal Register / Vol. 70, No. 203 / Friday, October 21, 2005 / Notices 61247 

of No Significant Impact would be 

published in the Federal Register and in 

newspapers with a circulation in the 

project area. 

Any final action by RUS related to the 

proposed project will be subject to, and 

contingent upon, compliance with all 

relevant Federal, State and local 

environmental laws and regulations and 

completion of the environmental review 

requirements as prescribed in the RUS 

Environmental Policies and Procedures 

(7 CFR part 1794). 

Dated: October 17, 2005. 

Glendon D. Deal, 

Director, Engineering and Environmental 

Staff, USDA/Rural Development/Utilities 

Programs. 

[FR Doc. 05–21083 Filed 10–20–05; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–15–P 

ANTITRUST MODERNIZATION 

COMMISSION 

Notice of Public Hearings 

AGENCY: Antitrust Modernization 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice of public hearings. 

SUMMARY: The Antitrust Modernization 

Commission will hold public hearings 

on November 8 and November 17, 2005. 

The topics of the hearings are Antitrust 

and the New Economy, and Merger 

Enforcement. 

DATES: November 8, 2005, 9:30 to 11:30 

a.m. and 12:45 to 2:45 p.m. November 

17, 2005, 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. and 12:45 

p.m. to 5 p.m. Interested members of the 

public may attend. Registration is not 

required. 

ADDRESSES: Federal Trade Commission, 

Conference Center, 601 New Jersey 

Avenue, NW., Washington, DC. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Andrew J. Heimert, Executive Director & 

General Counsel, Antitrust 

Modernization Commission: telephone: 

(202) 233–0701; e-mail: info@amc.gov. 

Mr. Heimert is also the Designated 

Federal Officer (DFO) for the Antitrust 

Modernization Commission. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

purpose of these hearings is for the 

Antitrust Modernization Commission to 

take testimony and receive evidence 

regarding Antitrust and the New 

Economy, and Merger Enforcement. The 

hearing on Antitrust and the New 

Economy will consist of two panels, and 

will be held on November 8, 2005. The 

first panel will begin at 9:30 a.m. and 

conclude at 11:30 a.m. The second 

panel will begin at 12:45 p.m. and 

conclude at 2:45 p.m. The hearing on 

Merger Enforcement will consist of 

three panels, and will be held on 

November 17, 2005. The first panel will 

begin at 9:30 a.m. and conclude at 11:30 

a.m. The second panel will begin at 

12:45 p.m. and conclude at 2:45 p.m. 

The third panel will begin at 3 p.m. and 

conclude at 5 p.m. Materials relating to 

the hearings, including lists of witnesses 

and the prepared statements of the 

witnesses, will be made available on the 

Commission’s Web site (www.amc.gov) 

in advance of the hearings. 

Interested members of the public may 

submit written testimony on the subject 

of the hearing in the form of comments, 

pursuant to the Commission’s request 

for comments. See 70 FR 28902 (May 

19, 2005). Members of the public will 

not be provided with an opportunity to 

make oral remarks at the hearings. 

The AMC is holding this hearing 

pursuant to its authorizing statute. 

Antitrust Modernization Commission 

Act of 2002, Pub. L. 107–273, 

§ 11057(a), 116 Stat. 1758, 1858. 

Dated: October 17, 2005. 

By direction of the Antitrust 

Modernization Commission. 

Andrew J. Heimert, 

Executive Director & General Counsel, 

Antitrust Modernization Commission. 

[FR Doc. 05–21058 Filed 10–20–05; 8:45am] 

BILLING CODE 6820–YH–P 

COMMITTEE FOR PURCHASE FROM 

PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR 

SEVERELY DISABLED 

Procurement List; Additions and 

Deletion 

AGENCY: Committee for Purchase From 

People Who are Blind or Severely 

Disabled. 

ACTION: Additions to and deletions from 

Procurement List. 

SUMMARY: This action adds to the 

Procurement List products to be 

furnished by nonprofit agencies 

employing persons who are blind or 

have other severe disabilities, and 

deletes from the Procurement List a 

product previously furnished by such 

agencies. 

EFFECTIVE DATE: November 20, 2005. 

ADDRESSES: Committee for Purchase 

From People Who are Blind or Severely 

Disabled, Jefferson Plaza 2, Suite 10800, 

1421 Jefferson Davis Highway, 

Arlington, Virginia 22202–3259. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Sheryl D. Kennerly, Telephone: (703) 

603–7740, Fax: (703) 603–0655, or email 

SKennerly@jwod.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Additions 

On August 19, and August 26, 2005, 

the Committee for Purchase From 

People Who are Blind or Severely 

Disabled published notice (70 FR 48667, 

and 50299) of proposed additions to the 

Procurement List. 

The following comments pertain to 

Stamp 2000 Plus and Accustamp 7520–

00–419–5949 & 7529–01–324–6955: 

Comments were received from 21 

persons in support of the nonprofit 

agency, urging addition of these 

products to the Procurement List, as 

they consider the addition to be critical 

to the nonprofit agency’s plan to expand 

services for people with disabilities. The 

Committee agrees with these 

commenters that this addition will 

create jobs for such people. 

Comments were also received from 

one of the current contractors for these 

stamps. The commenter claimed that 

the stamps the nonprofit agency will be 

providing under the Committee’s 

program are made in China, as opposed 

to the stamps the commenter assembles 

in the U.S. from components made in 

Japan and China, and that the 

Committee should not permit its 

program to displace U.S. products with 

Chinese products. The commenter 

claimed that it has been a Government 

supplier of the stamps for over 30 years, 

and has become reliant on these sales, 

which constitute a small minority of its 

total sales. The same contractor claimed 

the nonprofit agency’s stamps are 

inferior to its own. The commenter 

asked the Committee to consider 

whether it could create more jobs by 

having workers with disabilities 

package the commenter’s stamps rather 

than those it intends to produce. 

Contrary to the commenter’s claims, 

the nonprofit agency will be using its 

employees with severe disabilities to 

assemble and package the stamps in the 

U.S. from components made in Austria, 

which is a designated country under the 

Trade Agreements Act, 19 U.S.C. 2501 

et seq. Like the workers they may 

displace, the persons with severe 

disabilities who will produce the 

stamps are U.S. workers, but with an 

unemployment rate which is well above 

other groups, so the Committee believes 

that creating jobs for them, which is the 

mission of the Committee’s program, is 

justified in this situation. 

The commenter, which claimed a 

long-term reliance on Government sales 

of these stamps, failed to provide the 

Committee with total sales data which 

would enable the Committee to assess 

the severity of impact of this 

Procurement List addition, despite 

being cautioned that the Committee