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Northampton County. The site is owned 

by ProLogis. The site will provide 

warehousing and distribution services 

to area businesses. No specific 

manufacturing authority is being 

requested at this time. Such requests 

would be made to the Board on a caseby-case basis. 

In accordance with the Board’s 

regulations, Kathleen Boyce of the FTZ 

Staff is designated examiner to 

investigate the application and report to 

the Board. 

Public comment on the application is 

invited from interested parties. 

Submissions (original and 3 copies) 

shall be addressed to the Board’s 

Executive Secretary at the address listed 

below. The closing period for their 

receipt is October 7, 2008. Rebuttal 

comments in response to material 

submitted during the foregoing period 

may be submitted during the subsequent 

15-day period (to October 22, 2008). 

A copy of the application and 

accompanying exhibits will be available 

for public inspection at at the Lehigh 

Valley Economic Development 

Corporation, 2158 Avenue C, Suite 200, 

Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 18017; and 

Office of the Executive Secretary, 

Foreign-Trade Zones Board, Room 2111, 

U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 

Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, 

DC 20230. 

For further information, contact 

Kathleen Boyce at 

Kathleen_Boyce@ita.doc.gov or (202) 

482–1346. 

Dated: August 4, 2008. 

Andrew McGilvray, 

Executive Secretary . 

[FR Doc. E8–18343 Filed 8–7–08; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Institute of Standards and 

Technology 

Judges Panel of the Malcolm Baldrige 

National Quality Award 

AGENCY: National Institute of Standards 

and Technology, Department of 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice of closed meeting. 

SUMMARY: Pursuant to the Federal 

Advisory Committee Act, 5 U.S.C. app. 

2, notice is hereby given that the Judges 

Panel of the Malcolm Baldrige National 

Quality Award will meet Thursday, 

September 11, 2008. The Judges Panel is 

composed of twelve members 

prominent in the fields of quality, 

innovation, and performance excellence 

and appointed by the Secretary of 

Commerce. The purpose of this meeting 

is to review applicant consensus scores 

and select applicants for site visit 

review. The applications under review 

by Judges contain trade secrets and 

proprietary commercial information 

submitted to the Government in 

confidence. 

DATES: The meeting will convene 

September 11, 2008 at 8 a.m. and 

adjourn at 5 p.m. on September 11, 

2008. The entire meeting will be closed. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at 

the National Institute of Standards and 

Technology, Administration Building, 

Lecture Room A, Gaithersburg, 

Maryland 20899. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. 

Harry Hertz, Director, National Quality 

Program, National Institute of Standards 

and Technology, Gaithersburg, 

Maryland 20899, telephone number 

(301) 975–2361. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Assistant Secretary for Administration, 

with the concurrence of the General 

Counsel, formally determined on March 

4, 2008, that the meeting of the Judges 

Panel will be closed pursuant to Section 

10(d) of the Federal Advisory 

Committee Act, 5 U.S.C. app. 2, as 

amended by Section 5(c) of the 

Government in the Sunshine Act, Public 

Law 94–409. The meeting, which 

involves examination of Award 

applicant data from U.S. companies and 

other organizations and a discussion of 

this data as compared to the Award 

criteria in order to recommend site 

visits for potential Award recipients, 

may be closed to the public in 

accordance with Section 552b(c)(4) of 

Title 5, United States Code, because the 

meetings are likely to disclose trade 

secrets and commercial or financial 

information obtained from a person 

which is privileged or confidential. 

Dated: July 31, 2008. 

James M. Turner, 

Deputy Director. 

[FR Doc. E8–18340 Filed 8–7–08; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–13–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

[Docket No.: 080626787–8961–02] 

RIN 0648–ZB96 

Availability of Grants Funds for Fiscal 

Year 2009 

AGENCY: National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Department of Commerce (DOC). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: NOAA publishes this notice 

to change the full proposal submission 

deadline for the solicitation ‘‘Bay 

Watershed Education and Training (B–

WET) Hawaii Program,’’ to August 29, 

2008 to give the public more time to 

respond. The solicitation, which was 

originally announced in the Federal 

Register on July 11, 2008, gave a 

proposal due date of August 15, 2008. 

DATES: Proposals must be submitted no 

later than 5:59 p.m., Hawaii Time, 

August 29, 2008. 

ADDRESSES: Full proposal application 

packages should be submitted through 

Grants.gov APPLY. The standard NOAA 

funding application package is available 

at www.grants.gov. 

If an applicant does not have Internet 

access, hard copies with original 

signatures may be sent to: NOAA Pacific 

Services Center, 737 Bishop Street, 

Suite 1550, Honolulu, Hawaii 96813, 

ATTN: Stephanie Bennett. Applicants 

submitting hard copy applications must 

submit one (1) hard copy of the entire 

application package, a CD copy of the 

package, including all forms with 

original signatures. Any proposal 

packages received after the August 29, 

2009, submission deadline will not be 

accepted. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

administrative or technical issues, 

contact Stephanie Bennett at 808–522–

7481 (phone) or by e-mail at 

Stephanie.Bennett@noaa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: NOAA 

publishes this notice to change the full 

proposal submission deadline for the 

solicitation ‘‘Bay Watershed Education 

and Training (B–WET) Hawaii Program’’

announced in the Federal Register on 

July 11, 2008 (73 FR 40052). The 

deadline for full submissions is changed 

from August 15, 2008 to August 29, 

2008 to give the public more time to 

respond. All other requirements for this 

solicitation remain the same. 

Limitation of Liability 

In no event will NOAA or the 

Department of Commerce be responsible 

for proposal preparation costs if this 

program is cancelled because of other 

agency priorities. Publication of this 

announcement does not oblige NOAA to 

award any specific project or to obligate 

any available funds. Applicants are 

hereby given notice that funding for the 

Fiscal Year 2009 program is contingent 

upon the availability of Fiscal Year 2009 

appropriations. 


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Universal Identifier 

Applicants should be aware they are 

required to provide a Dun and 

Bradstreet Data Universal Numbering 

System (DUNS) number during the 

application process. See the October 30, 

2002, Federal Register (67, FR 66177) 

for Additional information. 

Organizations can receive a DLJNS 

number at no cost by calling the 

dedicated toll-free DLTNS Number 

request line at 1–866–705–5711 or via 

the Internet at http:// 

www.dunandbradstreet.com. 

National Environmental Policy Act 

(NEPA) 

NOAA must analyze the potential 

environmental impacts, as required by 

the National Environmental Policy Act 

(NEPA), for applicant projects or 

proposals which are seeking NOAA 

federal funding opportunities. Detailed 

information on NOAA compliance with 

NEPA can be found at the following 

NOAA NEPA Web site: http:// 

www.nepa.noaa.gov/, including our 

NOAA Administrative Order 216–6 for 

NEPA, http://www.nepa.noaa.gov/

NAO216_6_TOC.pdf, and the Council 

on Environmental Quality 

implementation regulations,http:// 

ceq.eh.doe.gov/nepa/regs/ceq/ 

toc_ceq.htm. Consequently, as part of an 

applicant’s package, and under their 

description of their program activities, 

applicants are required to provide 

detailed information on the activities to 

be conducted, locations, sites, species 

and habitat to be affected, possible 

construction activities, and any 

environmental concerns that may exist 

(e.g., the use and disposal of hazardous 

or toxic chemicals, introduction of nonindigenous species, impacts to 

endangered and threatened species, 

aquaculture projects, and impacts to 

coral reef systems). In addition to 

providing specific information that will 

serve as the basis for any required 

impact analyses, applicants may also be 

requested to assist NOAA in drafting of 

an environmental assessment, if NOAA 

determines an assessment is required. 

Applicants will also be required to 

cooperate with NOAA in identifying 

feasible measures to reduce or avoid any 

identified adverse environmental 

impacts of their proposal. The failure to 

do so shall be grounds for not selecting 

an application. In some cases if 

additional information is required after 

an application is selected, funds can be 

withheld by the Grants Officer under a 

special award condition requiring the 

recipient to submit additional 

environmental compliance information 

sufficient to enable NOAA to make an 

assessment on any impacts that a project 

may have on the environment. The 

Department of Commerce Pre-award 

Notification Requirements for Grants 

and Cooperative Agreements contained 

in the Federal Register notice of 

October 1, 2001 (66 FR 49917), as 

amended by the Federal Register notice 

published on: October 30, 2002 (67 FR 

66109); December 30, 2004 (69 FR 

78389); and February 11, 2008 (73 FR 

7696) are applicable to this solicitation. 

Paperwork Reduction Act 

This document contains collection-ofinformation requirements subject to the 

Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA). The 

use of Standard Forms 424, 424A, 424B, 

SF–LLL, and CD 346 has been approved 

by the Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB) under the respective 

control numbers 0348–0043, 0348–0044, 

0348–0040, 0348–0046, and 0605–0001. 

Notwithstanding any other provision of 

law, no person is required to respond to, 

nor shall any person be subject to a 

penalty for failure to comply with, a 

collection of information subject to the 

requirements of the PRA unless that 

collection of information displays a 

currently valid OMB control number. 

Executive Order 12866 

This notice has been determined to be 

not significant for purposes of Executive 

Order 12866. 

Executive Order 13132 (Federalism) 

It has been determined that this notice 

does not contain policies with 

Federalism implications as that term is 

defined in Executive Order 13132. 

Administrative Procedure Act/ 

Regulatory Flexibility Act 

Prior notice and an opportunity for 

public comment are not required by the 

Administrative Procedure Act or any 

other law for rules concerning public 

property, loans, grants, benefits, and 

contracts (5 U.S.C. 553(a)(2)). Because 

notice and opportunity for comment are 

not required pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 553 or 

any other law, the analytical 

requirements of the Regulatory 

Flexibility Act (5 U.S.C. 601 et seq.) are 

inapplicable. Therefore, a regulatory 

flexibility analysis has not been 

prepared. 

Dated: July 31, 2008. 

William Corso, 

Deputy Assistant Administrator for Ocean 

Services and Coastal Zone Management. 

[FR Doc. E8–18000 Filed 8–7–08; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–JE–M 

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Office of the Secretary 

Department of Defense Wage 

Committee 

AGENCY: Department of Defense. 

ACTION: Notice of closed meetings. 

SUMMARY: Pursuant to the provisions of 

section 10 of Public Law 92–463, the 

Federal Advisory Committee Act, notice 

is hereby given that closed meetings of 

the Department of Defense Wage 

Committee will be held on Tuesday, 

August 12, 2008; Tuesday, August 26, 

2008; Tuesday, September 9, 2008; 

Tuesday, October 7, 2008; Tuesday, 

October 21, 1008; Tuesday, November 4, 

2008; Tuesday, November 18, 2008; 

Tuesday, December 2, 2008; Tuesday, 

December 16, 2008; and Tuesday, 

December 30, 2008, at 10 a.m. in Room 

A101, 1400 Key Boulevard, Rosslyn, 

Virginia. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Additional information concerning the 

meetings may be obtained by writing to 

the Chairman, Department of Defense 

Wage Committee, 4000 Defense 

Pentagon, Washington, DC 20301–4000. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the 

provisions of section 10(d) of Public 

Law 92–463, the Department of Defense 

has determined that the meetings meet 

the criteria to close meetings to the 

public because the matters to be 

considered are related to internal rules 

and practices of the Department of 

Defense and the detailed wage data to be 

considered were obtained from officials 

of private establishments with a 

guarantee that the data will be held in 

confidence. 

However, members of the public who 

may wish to do so are invited to submit 

material in writing to the chairman 

concerning matters believed to be 

deserving of the Committee’s attention. 

Dated: August 1, 2008. 

Patricia L. Toppings, 

OSD Federal Register Liaison Officer, 

Department of Defense. 

[FR Doc. E8–18241 Filed 8–7–08; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 5001–06–P 

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Office of the Secretary 

Veterans’ Advisory Board on Dose 

Reconstruction 

AGENCY: Department of Defense, Defense 

Threat Reduction Agency. 

ACTION: Notice of Advisory Board 

Meeting. 


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