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Commerce building, for copies of an 

updated list of antidumping duty orders 

currently in effect. 

This order is published in accordance 

with section 736(a) of the Act and 19 

CFR 351.211. 

Dated: May 19, 2010. 

Ronald K. Lorentzen, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import 

Administration. 

[FR Doc. 2010–12370 Filed 5–20–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Foreign–Trade Zones Board 

[Docket 35–2010] 

Foreign–Trade Zone 50 Long Beach, 

California, Application for Subzone, 

Louisville Bedding Company 

(Household Bedding Products), 

Ontario, California 

An application has been submitted to 

the Foreign–Trade Zones Board (the 

Board) by the Board of Harbor 

Commissioners of the Port of Long 

Beach, grantee of FTZ 50, requesting 

special–purpose subzone status for the 

bedding products manufacturing facility 

of Louisville Bedding Company (LBC) 

located in Ontario, California. The 

application was submitted pursuant to 

the provisions of the Foreign–Trade 

Zones Act, as amended (19 U.S.C. 81a– 

81u), and the regulations of the Board 

(15 CFR part 400). It was formally filed 

on May 14, 2010. 

The LBC plant (105 employees/9.7 

acres) is located at 1200 South Etiwanda 

Avenue in Ontario, California. The 

facility is used to manufacture 

household bedding products, including 

mattress pads and pillows (up to 10 

million pillows and 2 million mattress 

pads annually) for the U.S. market and 

export. LBC is requesting authority to 

utilize foreign–origin wide roll (80 

inches and wider), high thread count 

(180 threads per inch and higher) 

cotton, polyester, and synthetic woven 

fabric and pillow shells (classified 

under HTSUS Headings 5208, 5210, 

5512, 5513, and 6307; duty rate range: 

7 14.9%) to be cut, sewn, quilted and 

assembled into the bedding products 

noted above under FTZ procedures. The 

company has also submitted an 

application to the Board for subzone 

status for its Louisville, Kentucky, 

facilities (Docket 28–2010, 75 FR 24572, 

5–5–2010). 

FTZ procedures could exempt LBC 

from customs duty payments on the 

foreign–origin fabrics and pillow shells 

used in export production. On its 

shipments for the domestic market, the 

finished household bedding products 

would be entered for consumption from 

the proposed subzone classified under 

HTSUS 9404.90, and LBC is seeking 

authority to elect the various finished 

bedding product duty rates (4.4 - 7.3%, 

ad valorem) for the foreign–origin fabric 

and pillow shell material inputs. 

Domestic–status fibers would be used to 

fill the foreign pillow shells. The 

application indicates that the savings 

from FTZ procedures would help 

improve the facility’s international 

competitiveness. 

In accordance with the Board’s 

regulations, Pierre Duy of the FTZ Staff 

is designated examiner to evaluate and 

analyze the facts and information 

presented in the application and case 

record and to report findings and 

recommendations to the Board. 

Public comment is invited from 

interested parties. Submissions (original 

and 3 copies) shall be addressed to the 

Board’s Executive Secretary at the 

following address: Office of the 

Executive Secretary, Room 2111, U.S. 

Department of Commerce, 1401 

Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, 

DC 20230–0002. The closing period for 

receipt of comments is July 20, 2010. 

Rebuttal comments in response to 

material submitted during the foregoing 

period may be submitted during the 

subsequent 15-day period to August 4, 

2010. 

A copy of the application will be 

available for public inspection at the 

Office of the Foreign–Trade Zones 

Board’s Executive Secretary at the 

address listed above and in the ‘‘Reading 

Room’’ section of the Board’s website, 

which is accessible via www.trade.gov/ 

ftz. For further information, contact 

Pierre Duy at Pierre.Duy@trade.gov or 

(202) 482–1378. 

Dated: May 17, 2010. 

Andrew McGilvray, 

Executive Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2010–12287 Filed 5–20–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–DS–S 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

United States Patent and Trademark 

Office 

[Docket No.: PTO–P–2010–0042] 

Elimination of Classification 

Requirement in the Green Technology 

Pilot Program 

AGENCY: United States Patent and 

Trademark Office, Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The United States Patent and 

Trademark Office (USPTO) 

implemented the Green Technology 

Pilot Program on December 8, 2009, 

which permits patent applications 

pertaining to environmental quality, 

energy conservation, development of 

renewable energy resources, and 

greenhouse gas emission reduction to be 

advanced out of turn for examination 

and reviewed earlier (accorded special 

status). The program is designed to 

promote the development of green 

technologies. However, the pilot 

program was limited to only 

applications classified in a number of 

U.S. classifications to assist the USPTO 

to balance the workload and gauge 

resources needed for the program. The 

USPTO has determined that the 

classification requirement is 

unnecessary because the workload has 

been balanced with other mechanism, 

and this requirement was causing the 

denial of petitions for applications that 

are drawn to green technologies. The 

USPTO is hereby eliminating the 

classification requirement for any 

petitions that are decided on or after the 

publication date of this notice. This will 

permit more applications to qualify for 

the program, thereby allowing more 

inventions related to green technologies 

to be advanced out of turn for 

examination and reviewed earlier. 

DATES: Effective Date: This change to the 

Green Technology Pilot Program is 

effective May 21, 2010. 

Duration: The Green Technology Pilot 

Program will run for twelve months 

from December 8, 2009, and the USPTO 

will only accept the first 3,000 grantable 

petitions to make special under the 

Green Technology Pilot Program in new 

applications filed before December 8, 

2009. Accordingly, if less than 3,000 

grantable petitions are received, the 

pilot program will end on December 8, 

2010. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Pinchus M. Laufer and Joni Y. Chang, 

Senior Legal Advisors, Office of Patent 

Legal Administration, Office of the 

Associate Commissioner for Patent 

Examination Policy, by telephone at 

571–272–7726 or 571–272–7720; by 

facsimile transmission to 571–273– 

7726, marked to the attention of Pinchus 

M. Laufer; or by mail addressed to: Mail 

Stop Comments Patents, Commissioner 

for Patents, P.O. Box 1450, Alexandria, 

VA 22313–1450. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

USPTO published a notice for the 

implementation of the Green 

Technology Pilot Program on December 

8, 2009. See Pilot Program for Green 

Technologies Including Greenhouse Gas 


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