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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Joseph E. Flynn, Director, Office of 

Trade and Economic Analysis, 

International Trade Administration, by 

telephone at (202) 482–5131 (this is not 

a toll-free number) or email at etca@

trade.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Title III of 

the Export Trading Company Act of 

1982 (15 U.S.C. Sections 4001–21) 

authorizes the Secretary of Commerce to 

issue Export Trade Certificates of 

Review. An Export Trade Certificate of 

Review protects the holder and the 

members identified in the Certificate 

from State and Federal government 

antitrust actions and from private treble 

damage antitrust actions for the export 

conduct specified in the Certificate and 

carried out in compliance with its terms 

and conditions. The regulations 

implementing Title III are found at 15 

CFR part 325 (2016). Section 302(b)(1) 

of the Export Trading Company Act of 

1982 and 15 CFR 325.6(a) require the 

Secretary to publish a notice in the 

Federal Register identifying the 

applicant and summarizing its 

application. Under 15 CFR 325.6 (a), 

interested parties may, within twenty 

days after the date of this notice, submit 

written comments to the Secretary 

through OTEA on the application. 

Request for Public Comments: 

Interested parties may submit written 

comments relevant to the determination 

whether an amended Certificate should 

be issued. If the comments include any 

privileged or confidential business 

information, it must be clearly marked 

and a nonconfidential version of the 

comments (identified as such) should be 

included. Any comments not marked as 

privileged or confidential business 

information will be deemed to be 

nonconfidential. 

An original and five (5) copies, plus 

two (2) copies of the nonconfidential 

version, should be submitted no later 

than 20 days after the date of this notice 

to: Office of Trade and Economic 

Analysis, International Trade 

Administration, U.S. Department of 

Commerce, Room 21028, Washington, 

DC 20230. 

Information submitted by any person 

is exempt from disclosure under the 

Freedom of Information Act (5 U.S.C. 

552). However, nonconfidential versions 

of the comments will be made available 

to the applicant if necessary for 

determining whether or not to issue the 

amended Certificate. Comments should 

refer to this application as ‘‘Export 

Trade Certificate of Review, application 

number 14–2A004.’’ 

Summary of the Application 

Applicant: The Great Lakes Fruit 

Exporters Association, LLC. 

Contact: c/o Shirlee M. Bobryk, White 

Schneider PC, 2300 Jolly Oak Road, 

Okemos MI 48864. 

Application No.: 03–2A007. 

Date Deemed Submitted: January 28, 

2016. 

Proposed Amendments: 

1. Add as new Member: 

a. All Fresh GPS, LLC. 

2. Delete the following members: 

a. Greg Orchards and Produce, Inc.; 

Applewood Orchards, Inc.; Heeren 

Brothers Inc.; AJ’s Produce Inc.; 

Appletree Marketing LLC; and Michigan 

Fresh Marketing LLC. 

The Great Lakes Fruit Exporters 

Association, LLC’s proposed 

amendment of its Export Trade 

Certificate of Review would result in the 

following entities as Members under the 

Certificate: 

1. Riveridge Produce Marketing, Inc. 

2. North Bay Produce, Inc. 

3. Greenridge Fruit, Inc. 

4. Jack Brown Produce, Inc. 

5. BelleHarvest Sales, Inc. 

6. All Fresh GPS, LLC. 

Dated: February 8, 2016. 

Joseph Flynn, 

Director, Office of Trade and Economic 

Analysis, International Trade Administration. 

[FR Doc. 2016–02806 Filed 2–10–16; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–DR–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Institute of Standards and 

Technology 

Manufacturing Extension Partnership 

Advisory Board 

AGENCY: National Institute of Standards 

and Technology, Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice of open meeting. 

SUMMARY: The National Institute of 

Standards and Technology (NIST) 

announces that the Manufacturing 

Extension Partnership (MEP) Advisory 

Board will hold an open meeting on 

Tuesday March 1, 2016, from 8:30 a.m. 

to 3:45p.m. Eastern Standard Time. 

DATES: The meeting will be held 

Tuesday, March 1, 2016, from 8:30 a.m. 

to 3:45 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at 

the Ronald Reagan and International 

Trade Center, 1300 Pennsylvania Ave 

NW., Washington, DC 20004. Please 

note admittance instructions in the 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section 

below. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Zara 

Brunner, Manufacturing Extension 

Partnership, National Institute of 

Standards and Technology, 100 Bureau 

Drive, Mail Stop 4800, Gaithersburg, 

Maryland 20899–4800, telephone 

number (301) 975–2001, email: 

zara.brunner@nist.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The MEP 

Advisory Board (Board) is authorized 

under Section 3003(d) of the America 

COMPETES Act (Pub. L. 110–69); 

codified at 15 U.S.C. 278k(e), as 

amended, in accordance with the 

provisions of the Federal Advisory 

Committee Act, as amended, 5 U.S.C. 

App. The Board is composed of 10 

members, appointed by the Director of 

NIST. Hollings MEP is a unique 

program, consisting of centers across the 

United States and Puerto Rico with 

partnerships at the state, federal, and 

local levels. The Board provides a forum 

for input and guidance from Hollings 

MEP program stakeholders in the 

formulation and implementation of 

tools and services focused on 

supporting and growing the U.S. 

manufacturing industry, provides 

advice on MEP programs, plans, and 

policies, assesses the soundness of MEP 

plans and strategies, and assesses 

current performance against MEP 

program plans. 

Background information on the Board 

is available at http://www.nist.gov/mep/ 

about/advisory-board.cfm. 

Pursuant to the Federal Advisory 

Committee Act, as amended, 5 U.S.C. 

App., notice is hereby given that the 

MEP Advisory Board will hold an open 

meeting on Tuesday, March 1, 2016, 

from 8:30 a.m. to 3:45 p.m. Eastern 

Standard Time. This meeting will focus 

on an update from the Advisory Board 

Sub-committee on Technology 

Acceleration, an update on MEP’s 

Strategic Planning activities, and the 

2017 National Summit. The final agenda 

will be posted on the MEP Advisory 

Board Web site at http://www.nist.gov/

mep/about/advisory-board.cfm. This 

meeting is being held in conjunction 

with the MEP Center Board Member 

Distinctive Practice Meeting that will be 

held March 1, 2016 also at the Ronald 

Reagan and International Trade Center. 

Admittance Instructions: Anyone 

wishing to attend the MEP Advisory 

Board meeting should submit their 

name, email address, and phone number 

to Monica Claussen (monica.claussen@

nist.gov or 301–975–4852) no later than 

Monday, February 22, 2016, 5:00 p.m. 

Eastern Standard Time. 

Individuals and representatives of 

organizations who would like to offer 

comments and suggestions related to the 

MEP Advisory Board’s business are 

invited to request a place on the agenda. 

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Approximately 15 minutes will be 

reserved for public comments at the end 

of the meeting. Speaking times will be 

assigned on a first-come, first-served 

basis. The amount of time per speaker 

will be determined by the number of 

requests received but is likely to be no 

more than three to five minutes each. 

The exact time for public comments will 

be included in the final agenda that will 

be posted on the MEP Advisory Board 

Web site at http://www.nist.gov/mep/

about/advisory-board.cfm. Questions 

from the public will not be considered 

during this period. Speakers who wish 

to expand upon their oral statements, 

those who had wished to speak but 

could not be accommodated on the 

agenda, and those who were unable to 

attend in person are invited to submit 

written statements to the MEP Advisory 

Board, National Institute of Standards 

and Technology, 100 Bureau Drive, Mail 

Stop 4800, Gaithersburg, Maryland 

20899–4800, via fax at (301) 963–6556, 

or electronically by email to 

zara.brunner@nist.gov. 

Kevin Kimball, 

Chief of Staff. 

[FR Doc. 2016–02768 Filed 2–10–16; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–13–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

RIN 0648–XE343 

Takes of Marine Mammals Incidental to 

Specified Activities; Taking Marine 

Mammals Incidental to the U.S. Air 

Force Conducting Maritime Weapon 

Systems Evaluation Program 

Operational Testing Within the Eglin 

Gulf Test and Training Range 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice; issuance of an incidental 

harassment authorization. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Marine Mammal Protection Act 

(MMPA) implementing regulations, 

NMFS, we, hereby give notice that we 

have issued an Incidental Harassment 

Authorization (Authorization) to the 

U.S. Air Force, Eglin Air Force Base 

(Eglin AFB), to take two species of 

marine mammals, the Atlantic 

bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) 

and Atlantic spotted dolphin (Stenella 

frontalis), by harassment, incidental to a 

Maritime Weapon Systems Evaluation 

Program (Maritime WSEP) within the 

Eglin Gulf Test and Training Range in 

the Gulf of Mexico from February 4, 

2016 through February 3, 2017. Eglin 

AFB’s activities are military readiness 

activities per the MMPA, as amended by 

the National Defense Authorization Act 

(NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2004. 

DATES: Effective February 4, 2016, 

through February 3, 2017. 

ADDRESSES: An electronic copy of the 

final Authorization, Eglin AFB’s 

application and their final 

Environmental Assessment (EA) titled, 

‘‘Maritime Weapons System Evaluation 

Program are available by writing to Jolie 

Harrison, Chief, Permits and 

Conservation Division, Office of 

Protected Resources, National Marine 

Fisheries Service, 1315 East-West 

Highway, Silver Spring, MD 20910; by 

telephoning the contacts listed here, or 

by visiting the internet at: http://

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

incidental/military.htm. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Jeannine Cody, Office of Protected 

Resources, NMFS, (301) 427–8401. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

Sections 101(a)(5)(A) and (D) of the 

Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972, 

as amended (MMPA; 16 U.S.C. 1361 et 

seq.) direct the Secretary of Commerce 

to allow, upon request, the incidental, 

but not intentional, taking of small 

numbers of marine mammals of a 

species or population stock, by U.S. 

citizens who engage in a specified 

activity (other than commercial fishing) 

within a specified geographical region 

if, after NMFS provides a notice of a 

proposed authorization to the public for 

review and comment: (1) NMFS makes 

certain findings; and (2) the taking is 

limited to harassment. 

An Authorization for incidental 

takings for marine mammals shall be 

granted if NMFS finds that the taking 

will have a negligible impact on the 

species or stock(s), will not have an 

unmitigable adverse impact on the 

availability of the species or stock(s) for 

subsistence uses (where relevant), and if 

the permissible methods of taking and 

requirements pertaining to the 

mitigation, monitoring, and reporting of 

such taking are set forth. NMFS has 

defined ‘‘negligible impact’’ in 50 CFR 

216.103 as ‘‘an impact resulting from 

the specified activity that cannot be 

reasonably expected to, and is not 

reasonably likely to, adversely affect the 

species or stock through effects on 

annual rates of recruitment or survival.’’ 

The National Defense Authorization 

Act of 2004 (NDAA; Pub. L. 108–136) 

removed the ‘‘small numbers’’ and 

‘‘specified geographical region’’ 

limitations indicated earlier and 

amended the definition of harassment as 

it applies to a ‘‘military readiness 

activity’’ to read as follows (Section 

3(18)(B) of the MMPA): (i) Any act that 

injures or has the significant potential to 

injure a marine mammal or marine 

mammal stock in the wild [Level A 

Harassment]; or (ii) any act that disturbs 

or is likely to disturb a marine mammal 

or marine mammal stock in the wild by 

causing disruption of natural behavioral 

patterns, including, but not limited to, 

migration, surfacing, nursing, breeding, 

feeding, or sheltering, to a point where 

such behavioral patterns are abandoned 

or significantly altered [Level B 

Harassment]. 

Summary of Request 

On February 5, 2015, we issued an 

Authorization to Eglin AFB to take 

marine mammals, by harassment, 

incidental to a Maritime Weapon 

Systems Evaluation Program (Maritime 

WSEP) within the Eglin Gulf Test and 

Training Range (EGTTR) in the Gulf of 

Mexico from February through April 

2015 (see 80 FR 17394, April 1, 2015). 

Eglin AFB conducted the Maritime 

WSEP training activities between 

February 9–12, and March 16–19, 2015. 

However, due to unavailability of some 

of the live munitions, Eglin AFB 

released only 1.05 percent of the 

munitions proposed for the 2015 

military readiness activities. On May 28, 

2015, we received a renewal request for 

an Authorization from Eglin AFB to 

complete the missions authorized in 

2015. Following the initial application 

submission, Eglin AFB submitted a 

revised version of the renewal request 

on December 3, 2015. We considered 

the revised renewal request as adequate 

and complete on December 10, 2015 and 

published a notice of proposed 

Authorization on December 23, 2015 (80 

FR 79843). The notice afforded the 

public a 30-day comment period on the 

proposed MMPA Authorization. 

Eglin AFB proposes to conduct 

Maritime WESP missions within the 

EGTTR airspace over the Gulf of 

Mexico, specifically within Warning 

Area 151 (W–151). The proposed 

Maritime WSEP training activities 

would occur February through April 

(spring) in the daytime; however, the 

activities could occur between February 

2016 and February 2017. 

Eglin AFB proposes to use multiple 

types of live munitions (e.g., gunnery 

rounds, rockets, missiles, and bombs) 

against small boat targets in the EGTTR. 

These activities qualify as a military 

readiness activities under the MMPA 

and NDAA. 

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