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the Fund administrator for payment. 

Instead, the costs of such calls are 

business expenses that can and should 

be included in the providers’ cost data 

submitted to the Fund administrator for 

purposes of setting VRS compensation 

rates. The Relay Services Data Request 

form, which is submitted to the Fund 

Administrator annually by each 

provider for purposes of determining 

the compensation rate, expressly 

identifies such expenses (e.g., for 

telecommunications expenses, 

operations support, human resources, 

and marketing and advertising) as 

business expenses. In this manner, the 

cost associated with providing 

telephone service for use by employees 

is properly reflected in the VRS 

compensation rate. Providers have had 

ample notice that such costs should be 

treated as business expenses. Because 

providers already are able to include the 

costs of providing telephone and 

telecommunications services for use by 

employees in their annual submissions 

to the Fund Administrator, to permit 

providers also to be compensated from 

the Fund for such calls on a per-minute 

basis would result in double recovery 

from the Fund. 

VRS Calls Placed for the Purpose of 

Generating Compensable Minutes 

2. The Bureau also emphasizes that 

individuals who place or arrange for 

VRS calls for the purpose of generating 

compensable minutes of use are not 

using the service as intended; that is, 

Congress intended TRS to provide the 

ability for individuals with hearing or 

speech disabilities to communicate over 

the telephone system with hearing 

individuals in a functionally equivalent 

manner. Using VRS as a means to 

generate compensation from the TRS 

Fund is antithetical to that statutory 

purpose. This includes, but is not 

limited to, calls to podcasts or other prerecorded material and calls ostensibly 

for marketing or outreach purposes, 

when initiated by or on behalf of VRS 

providers. This also includes paying 

independent marketing firms to have 

deaf employees place marketing calls 

through the providers’ VRS. Likewise, 

for example, when a provider directly or 

indirectly sponsors events (e.g., lectures, 

courses, story times) that deaf callers 

can listen to by placing VRS calls to a 

bridge number, that is encouraging users 

to place VRS calls that they would not 

ordinarily make. In these instances, but 

for the provider establishing the event 

for the deaf caller to call via VRS, no 

such call would occur. 

VRS Voice Carry Over (VCO) Calls 

3. Some providers offer VCO service 

to deaf or hard of hearing consumers 

who use VRS. VRS VCO permits the 

deaf or hard of hearing user to speak to 

the other party to the call rather than 

communicate via ASL; in return, the CA 

signs in ASL to the consumer what the 

other party to the call (the voice 

telephone user) has said. Such calls are 

generally set up by having the VRS CA, 

after the VRS user has initiated the 

video call to the CA, call back the VRS 

user on a voice telephone line. As a 

result, the VRS user has both the video 

link to the CA (to see, in ASL, what the 

called party has said) and a voice 

telephone link to the called party so that 

the VRS user can speak directly to that 

party. 

4. To the extent that some users have 

abused VRS by using VRS VCO to make 

voice-to-voice calls for the purpose of 

making a free long distance call, the 

Bureau takes this opportunity to remind 

VRS providers of Congress’s explicit 

limitation that VRS calls ‘‘provide the 

ability for an individual who has a 

hearing impairment or speech 

impairment to engage in communication 

* * * with a hearing individual.’’ 47 

U.S.C. 225(a)(3). Therefore, VRS VCO 

may be used only when a person who 

is deaf or hard of hearing wants to use 

his or her own voice to speak to the 

hearing party during the VRS call. If it 

becomes clear that what was initially set 

up as a VRS VCO call is in fact a call 

between two voice telephone users, the 

call is no longer a TRS call compensable 

from the Fund. 

VRS Calls That Originate and 

Terminate Outside of the United States 

5. The Bureau also reminds providers 

that VRS calls that both originate and 

terminate outside of the United States 

are not compensable from the Fund 

under section 225 of the Act. Section 

225 of the Act provides that ‘‘the 

Commission shall ensure that interstate 

and intrastate telecommunications relay 

services are available, to the extent 

possible and in the most efficient 

manner, to hearing-impaired and 

speech-impaired individuals in the 

United States.’’ 47 U.S.C. 225(b)(1). 

Because section 225 of the Act expressly 

states that TRS is for individuals ‘‘in the 

United States,’’ the statute does not 

authorize compensation from the Fund 

for VRS or other TRS calls that do not 

either originate or terminate in the 

United States. Similarly, as part of the 

registration and verification 

requirements applicable to the provision 

of ten-digit, North American Numbering 

Plan (NANP), telephone numbers to 

Internet-based TRS users, providers 

must verify that only persons with 

hearing or speech disabilities residing in 

the United States may obtain from them, 

and be registered with, a ten-digit NANP 

number. 

Congressional Review Act 

The Commission will not send a copy 

of this [Report & Order, etc.] pursuant to 

the Congressional Review Act, see 5 

U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A), because the adopted 

rules are: Rules of particular 

applicability; 

Ordering Clauses 

Pursuant Sections 1, 2, 4(i), and 225 

of the Communications Act of 1934, as 

amended, 47 U.S.C. 151, 152, 154(i), 

and 225, and §§ 0.141, 0.361 and 1.2 of 

the Commission’s rules, 47 CFR 0.141, 

0.361 and 1.2, document DA 10–314 IS 

adopted. 

Mark Stone, 

Deputy Bureau Chief, Consumer and 

Governmental Affairs Bureau, Federal 

Communications Commission. 

[FR Doc. 2010–10859 Filed 5–6–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6712–01–P 

FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE 

CORPORATION 

Sunshine Act Meeting 

Pursuant to the provisions of the 

‘‘Government in the Sunshine Act’’ (5 

U.S.C. 552b), notice is hereby given that 

the Federal Deposit Insurance 

Corporation’s Board of Directors will 

meet in open session at 10 a.m. on 

Tuesday, May 11, 2010, to consider the 

following matters: 

Summary Agenda: No substantive 

discussion of the following items is 

anticipated. These matters will be 

resolved with a single vote unless a 

member of the Board of Directors 

requests that an item be moved to the 

discussion agenda. 

Disposition of minutes of previous 

Board of Directors’ Meetings. 

Summary reports, status reports, 

reports of the Office of Inspector 

General, and reports of actions taken 

pursuant to authority delegated by the 

Board of Directors. 

Memorandum and resolutions re: 

Honoring Employees with 35-Years of 

Federal Service. 

Memorandum and resolution re: 

Retiring Executive Manager. 

Discussion Agenda: 

Memorandum and resolution re: 

Rulemaking on Treatment by the FDIC 

as Conservator or Receiver of Financial 

Assets Transferred by an Insured 


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Depository Institution in Connection 

with a Securitization or Participation. 

Memorandum and resolution re: 

Notice of Proposed Rulemaking—Large 

Insured Depository Institutions 

Reporting and Planning. 

The meeting will be held in the Board 

Room on the sixth floor of the FDIC 

Building located at 550 17th Street, 

NW., Washington, DC. 

This Board meeting will be Webcast 

live via the Internet and subsequently 

made available on-demand 

approximately one week after the event. 

Visit http://www.vodium.com/goto/fdic/ 

boardmeetings.asp to view the event. If 

you need any technical assistance, 

please visit our Video Help page at: 

http://www.fdic.gov/video.html. 

The FDIC will provide attendees with 

auxiliary aids (e.g., sign language 

interpretation) required for this meeting. 

Those attendees needing such assistance 

should call (703) 562–6067 (Voice or 

TTY), to make necessary arrangements. 

Requests for further information 

concerning the meeting may be directed 

to Mr. Robert E. Feldman, Executive 

Secretary of the Corporation, at (202) 

898–7043. 

Dated: May 4, 2010. 

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. 

Robert E. Feldman, 

Executive Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2010–10960 Filed 5–5–10; 11:15 am] 

BILLING CODE P 

FEDERAL MARITIME COMMISSION 

Ocean Transportation Intermediary 

License Applicants 

Notice is hereby given that the 

following applicants have filed with the 

Federal Maritime Commission an 

application for a license as a NonVessel-Operating Common Carrier 

(NVO) and/or Ocean Freight Forwarder 

(OFF)—Ocean Transportation 

Intermediary (OTI) pursuant to section 

19 of the Shipping Act of 1984 as 

amended (46 U.S.C. Chapter 409 and 46 

CFR part 515). Notice is also hereby 

given of the filing of applications to 

amend an existing OTI license or the 

Qualifying Individual (QI) for a license. 

Interested persons may contact the 

Office of Transportation Intermediaries, 

Federal Maritime Commission, 

Washington, DC 20573. 

Atlantic Integrated Freight Inc. (NVO), 

19 Princeton Drive, Dix Hills, NY 

11746, Officer: Danny Dusop Choi, 

President/Treasurer/Secretary 

(Qualifying Individual), Application 

Type: New NVO License. 

Direct Service Inc. dba Tiger Freight 

International Corporation (NVO), 

1209 John Reed Court, City of 

Industry, CA 91745, Officer: Chi Hao 

(Steve) Hung, President (Qualifying 

Individual), Application Type: Trade 

Name Change. 

GTS Cargo Inc. (OFF & NVO), 8235 NW. 

64th Street, Suite 3, Miami, FL 33166, 

Officers: Paula Vitielli, Vice President 

(Qualifying Individual), Erick S. 

Cicala, President, Application Type: 

New Off & NVO License. 

Lopa Co., Ltd. (NVO), 5532 Fir Circle, 

La Palma, CA 90623, Officers: Tony 

Lee, Vice President (Qualifying 

Individual), Haidong Zhang, 

President, Application Type: New 

NVOCC License. 

Olutayo A. Oyewo dba Marchon (OFF), 

308 Sherman Bouyer Lane, Pasadena, 

MD 21122, Officer: Olutayo A. 

Oyewo, Sole Proprietor, Application 

Type: New OFF License. 

Summit Forwarding, LLC (OFF), 3332 

Fieldwoode Drive SE., Smyrna, GA 

30080, Officers: Sara P. Liao, Manager 

(Qualifying Individual), Dean 

Kalinowski, Member, Application 

Type: New OFF License. 

Transoceanic Projects Development 

Company, Inc. dba AKL Shipping 

Company (OFF & NVO), 1801 

Kingwood Drive, Suite 270, 

Kingwood, TX 77339, Officers: 

Howard K. Headrick, Secretary 

(Qualifying Individual), Arval D. 

Headrick, Sr., President, Application 

Type: New OFF & NVO License. 

WLI (USA) Inc. (OFF & NVO), 175–01 

Rockaway Blvd., Suite 228, Jamaica, 

NY 11434, Officers: Shao H. Cheng, 

Vice President (Qualifying 

Individual), Wai M. Tang, President, 

Application Type: New OFF & NVO 

License. 

Yoko Aimi dba Y and Y Export Services 

(OFF), 16931 S. New Hampshire 

Avenue, #B, Gardena, CA 90247, 

Officer: Yoko Aimi, Sole Proprietor 

(Qualifying Individual). 

RDD Freight International, (LA) Inc. 

(OFF), 9690 Telstar Avenue, Suite 

#207, El Monte, CA 91731, Officers: 

Lang aka Anthony Zhang, Secretary 

(Qualifying Individual), Yiwen Hu, 

President, Application Type: New 

OFF License. 

Dated: May 3, 2010. 

Karen V. Gregory, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2010–10752 Filed 5–6–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6730–01–P 

FEDERAL MARITIME COMMISSION 

Ocean Transportation Intermediary 

License Reissuance 

Notice is hereby given that the 

following Ocean Transportation 

Intermediary licenses have been 

reissued by the Federal Maritime 

Commission pursuant to section 19 of 

the Shipping Act of 1984 (46 U.S.C. 

Chapter 409) and the regulations of the 

Commission pertaining to the licensing 

of Ocean Transportation Intermediaries, 

46 CFR Part 515. 

License No. Name/address Date reissued 

011296N ............ Master Air Cargo, Inc., 3900 NW. 79th Avenue, Suite 236, Doral, FL 33166 ................................... March 26, 2010. 

017843NF .......... Washington Movers, Inc., 7913 Cryden Way, Forestville, MD 20747 ............................................... March 28, 2010. 

021331N ............ Deseret Forwarding International, Inc., 4105 Rio Bravo, Suite 100, El Paso, TX 79902 .................. February 25, 2010. 

021896N ............ Logistic Freight Forwarders, Group, Inc., 7232 NW. 56th Street, Miami, FL 33166 ......................... March 25, 2010. 

Sandra L. Kusumoto, 

Director, Bureau of Certification and 

Licensing 

[FR Doc. 2010–10751 Filed 5–6–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6730–01–P 

FEDERAL MARITIME COMMISSION 

Ocean Transportation Intermediary 

License Revocation 

The Federal Maritime Commission 

hereby gives notice that the following 

Ocean Transportation Intermediary 

licenses have been revoked pursuant to 

section 19 of the Shipping Act of 1984 

(46 U.S.C. Chapter 409) and the 

regulations of the Commission 

pertaining to the licensing of Ocean 

Transportation Intermediaries, 46 CFR 

part 515, effective on the corresponding 

date shown below: 

License Number: 477NF. 

Name: Oceano Shipping Co., Inc. 

Address: 75 Maiden Lane, New York, 

NY 10038. 

Date Revoked: April 14, 2010. 


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