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inspection in the USTR Reading Room. 

The USTR Reading Room is open to the 

public, by appointment only, from 10 

a.m. to 12 noon and 1 p.m. to 4 p.m., 

Monday through Friday. An 

appointment to review the file may be 

made by calling (202) 395–6186. 

Appointments must be scheduled at 

least 48 hours in advance. 

General information concerning USTR 

may be obtained by accessing its 

Internet Web site (http://www.ustr.gov). 

Carmen Suro-Bredie, 

Chairman, Trade Policy Staff Committee. 

[FR Doc. E8–17574 Filed 7–30–08; 8:45 am] 

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OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES 

TRADE REPRESENTATIVE 

Request for Public Comment With 

Respect to the Annual National Trade 

Estimate Report on Foreign Trade 

Barriers 

AGENCY: Office of the United States 

Trade Representative. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: Pursuant to section 303 of the 

Trade and Tariff Act of 1984, as 

amended, USTR is required to publish 

annually the National Trade Estimate 

Report on Foreign Trade Barriers (NTE). 

With this notice, the Trade Policy Staff 

Committee (TPSC) is requesting 

interested parties to assist it in 

identifying significant barriers to U.S. 

exports of goods, services and overseas 

direct investment for inclusion in the 

NTE. Particularly important are 

impediments materially affecting the 

actual and potential financial 

performance of an industry sector. The 

TPSC invites written comments that 

provide views relevant to the issues to 

be examined in preparing the NTE. 

DATES: Public comments are due not 

later than Thursday, November 6, 2008. 

ADDRESSES: Submissions by electronic 

mail: FR0717@USTR.EOP.GOV. 

Submissions by facsimile: Gloria Blue, 

Executive Secretary, Trade Policy Staff 

Committee, Office of the United States 

Trade Representative (202–395–6143). 

The public is strongly encouraged to 

submit documents electronically rather 

than by facsimile. (See requirements for 

submissions below.) 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Questions regarding the report, its 

subject matter or procedural questions 

concerning submissions should be 

directed to Ms. Gloria Blue, Office of 

Policy Coordination, Office of the 

United States Trade Representative 

(202–395–3475). 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Last year’s 

report may be found on USTR’s Internet 

Home Page (http://www.ustr.gov) in the 

Document Library under the section on 

Reports. In order to ensure compliance 

with the statutory mandate for reporting 

foreign trade barriers that are 

significant, we will focus particularly on 

those restrictions where there has been 

active private sector interest. 

The information submitted should 

relate to one or more of the following 

ten categories of foreign trade barriers: 

(1) Import policies (e.g., tariffs and 

other import charges, quantitative 

restrictions, import licensing, and 

customs barriers); 

(2) Standards, testing, labeling, and 

certification (including unnecessarily 

restrictive application of phytosanitary 

standards, refusal to accept U.S. 

manufacturers’ self-certification of 

conformance to foreign product 

standards, and environmental 

restrictions); 

(3) Government procurement (e.g., 

‘‘buy national’’ policies and closed 

bidding); 

(4) Export subsidies (e.g., export 

financing on preferential terms and 

agricultural export subsidies that 

displace U.S. exports in third country 

markets); 

(5) Lack of intellectual property 

protection (e.g., inadequate patent, 

copyright, and trademark regimes); 

(6) Services barriers (e.g., limits on the 

range of financial services offered by 

foreign financial institutions, regulation 

of international data flows, restrictions 

on the use of data processing, quotas on 

imports of foreign films, and barriers to 

the provision of services by 

professionals (e.g., lawyers, doctors, 

accountants, engineers, nurses, etc.); 

(7) Investment barriers (e.g., 

limitations on foreign equity 

participation and on access to foreign 

government-funded R&D consortia, local 

content, technology transfer and export 

performance requirements, and 

restrictions on repatriation of earnings, 

capital, fees and royalties); 

(8) Anticompetitive practices with 

trade effects tolerated by foreign 

governments (including anticompetitive 

activities of both state-owned and 

private firms that apply to services or to 

goods and that restrict the sale of U.S. 

products to any firm, not just to foreign 

firms); 

(9) Trade restrictions affecting 

electronic commerce (e.g., tariff and 

non-tariff measures, burdensome and 

discriminatory regulations and 

standards, and discriminatory taxation); 

and 

(10) Other barriers (i.e., barriers that 

encompass more than one category, e.g., 

bribery and corruption, or that affect a 

single sector). 

As in the case of last year’s NTE, we 

are asking that particular emphasis be 

placed on any practices that may violate 

U.S. trade agreements. We are also 

interested in receiving any new or 

updated information pertinent to the 

barriers covered in last year’s report as 

well as new information. Please note 

that the information not used in the 

NTE will be maintained for use in future 

negotiations. 

It is most important that your 

submission contain estimates of the 

potential increase in exports that would 

result from the removal of the barrier, as 

well as a clear discussion of the 

method(s) by which the estimates were 

computed. Estimates should fall within 

the following value ranges: Less than $5 

million; $5 to $25 million; $25 million 

to $50 million; $50 million to $100 

million; $100 million to $500 million; or 

over $500 million. Such assessments 

enhance USTR’s ability to conduct 

meaningful comparative analyses of a 

barrier’s effect over a range of 

industries. 

Please note that interested parties 

discussing barriers in more than one 

country should, whenever possible, 

provide a separate submission (i.e., one 

that is self-contained) for each country 

with the country indicated in the 

subject line of each submission. If 

separate, country-specific submissions 

are not feasible, please identify all 

countries covered by a submission in 

the subject line of that submission. 

Requirements for Submissions: In 

order to facilitate prompt processing of 

submissions, USTR strongly urges and 

prefers electronic (e-mail) submissions 

in response to this notice. In the event 

an e-mail submission is impossible, 

submissions should be made by 

facsimile. Facsimile submissions should 

not exceed a maximum of 20 pages. 

E-mail submissions should be single 

copy transmissions in English. 

Submissions should use the following 

subject line: ‘‘2009 National Trade 

Estimate Report—Submission by (sector, 

company, association). Documents must 

be submitted as either WordPerfect 

(‘‘WPD’’), MSWord (‘‘DOC’’), or text 

(‘‘TXT’’) file. Documents should not be 

submitted as electronic image files or 

contain imbedded images (for example, 

‘‘JPG’’, ‘‘BMP’’, or ‘‘GIF’’), as these types 

of files are generally excessively large. 

Supporting Documentation submitted as 

spreadsheets is acceptable as Quattro 

Pro or Excel, pre-formatted for printing 

on 81⁄2 x 11 inch paper. To the extent 

possible, any data attachments to the 

submission should be included in the 


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same file as the submission itself, and 

not as separate files. 

Petitions will be available for public 

inspection by appointment with the 

staff of the USTR Public Reading Room, 

except for information granted 

‘‘business confidential’’ status pursuant 

to 15 CFR 2003.6. If the submission 

contains business confidential 

information, a non-confidential version 

of the submission must also be 

submitted that indicates where 

confidential information was redacted 

by inserting asterisks where material 

was deleted. In addition, the 

confidential submission must be clearly 

marked ‘‘BUSINESS CONFIDENTIAL’’

in large, bold letters at the top and 

bottom of every page of the documents. 

The public version that does not contain 

business confidential information must 

be clearly marked either ‘‘PUBLIC 

VERSION’’ or ‘‘NON-CONFIDENTIAL’’

in large, bold letters at the top and 

bottom of every page. The file name of 

any documents containing business 

confidential information attached to an 

e-mail transmission should begin with 

the characters ‘‘BC-’’, and the file name 

of the public version should begin with 

the characters ‘‘P-’’. The ‘‘P-’’ or ‘‘BC-’’

should be followed by the name of the 

person or party submitting the petition. 

Submissions by e-mail should not 

include separate cover letters or 

messages in the message area of the email; information that might appear in 

any cover letter should be included 

directly in the submission. The e-mail 

address for submissions is 

FR0717@ustr.eop.gov. Public versions of 

all documents relating to this review 

will be available for review shortly after 

the due date by appointment in the 

USTR Public Reading Room, 1724 F 

Street, NW., Washington, DC. 

Availability of documents may be 

ascertained and appointments may be 

made from 9:30 a.m. to noon and 1 p.m. 

to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday, by 

calling (202–395–6186). 

Carmen Suro-Bredie, 

Chair, Trade Policy Staff Committee. 

[FR Doc. E8–17573 Filed 7–30–08; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3190–W8–P 

OFFICE OF PERSONNEL 

MANAGEMENT 

Personnel Demonstration Project; Pay 

Banding and Performance-Based Pay 

Adjustments in the National Nuclear 

Security Administration; Correction 

AGENCY: U.S. Office of Personnel 

Management. 

ACTION: Notice of approval of a 

demonstration project final plan; 

correction. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Office of Personnel 

Management published a document in 

the Federal Register on December 21, 

2007, announcing the final approval of 

a demonstration project plan for the 

U.S. Department of Energy’s National 

Nuclear Security Administration. The 

document contained three errors. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: U.S. 

Office of Personnel Management: Patsy 

Stevens, Systems Innovation Group 

Manager, U.S. Office of Personnel 

Management, (202) 606–1574. 

Correction 

In FR Doc. 07–6144 published on 

December 21, 2007 (72 FR 72776), make 

the following corrections. On page 

72792, in the second column, in the 

second paragraph under the heading 

‘‘Other Pay Administration Provisions,’’

the parenthetical clause in the sixth and 

seventh line should read, ‘‘(except as 

otherwise provided in this plan).’’

On page 72800, in the third column, 

the second paragraph under the section 

‘‘X. Waiver of Laws and Regulations’’

should read as follows: 

Chapter 51: Classification (except that 

(1) section 5103 is retained and 

modified after ‘‘finally’’ to read ‘‘the 

coverage of positions and employees 

under this modified classification 

system,’’ (2) sections 5111 and 5112 are 

retained with ‘‘grade’’ replaced by ‘‘pay 

bands,’’ and (3) for the purpose of 

applying any other laws, regulations, or 

policies that refer to GS employees or to 

chapter 51 of title 5, United States Code, 

the modified classification system 

established under this plan must be 

considered to be a GS classification 

system under chapter 51; this includes, 

but is not limited to, the reference to the 

General Schedule in section 5545(d) 

(relating to hazard pay)). 

On page 72801, in the second column, 

the third paragraph should read as 

follows: 

Chapter 75, section 7512(3): Adverse 

actions (only to the extent necessary to 

replace ‘‘grade’’ with ‘‘band’’). 

Linda M. Springer, 

Director. 

[FR Doc. E8–17581 Filed 7–30–08; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6325–43–P 

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE 

COMMISSION 

[Release No. IC–28343] 

Notice of Applications for 

Deregistration Under Section 8(f) of the 

Investment Company Act of 1940 

July 25, 2008. 

The following is a notice of 

applications for deregistration under 

section 8(f) of the Investment Company 

Act of 1940 for the month of July, 2008. 

A copy of each application may be 

obtained for a fee at the SEC’s Public 

Reference Branch (tel. 202–551–5850). 

An order granting each application will 

be issued unless the SEC orders a 

hearing. Interested persons may request 

a hearing on any application by writing 

to the SEC’s Secretary at the address 

below and serving the relevant 

applicant with a copy of the request, 

personally or by mail. Hearing requests 

should be received by the SEC by 5:30 

p.m. on August 19, 2008, and should be 

accompanied by proof of service on the 

applicant, in the form of an affidavit or, 

for lawyers, a certificate of service. 

Hearing requests should state the nature 

of the writer’s interest, the reason for the 

request, and the issues contested. 

Persons who wish to be notified of a 

hearing may request notification by 

writing to the Secretary, U.S. Securities 

and Exchange Commission, 100 F 

Street, NE., Washington, DC 20549–

1090. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Diane L. Titus at (202) 551–6810, SEC, 

Division of Investment Management, 

Office of Investment Company 

Regulation, 100 F Street, NE., 

Washington, DC 20549–4041. 

Legg Mason Partners Investment Funds, 

Inc. [File No. 811–3275] 

Summary: Applicant seeks an order 

declaring that it has ceased to be an 

investment company. On April 16, 

2007, each series of applicant 

transferred its assets to a corresponding 

series of either Legg Mason Partners 

Equity Trust or Legg Mason Partners 

Income Trust, based on net asset value. 

Expenses of approximately $1,016,235 

incurred in connection with the 

reorganization were paid by applicant 

and Legg Mason, Inc., the parent of 

applicant’s investment adviser. 

Filing Date: The application was filed 

on July 16, 2008. 

Applicant’s Address: 55 Water St., 

New York, NY 10041. 

Delaware Investments Municipal Trust 

[File No. 811–6411] 

Summary: Applicant seeks an order 

declaring that it has ceased to be an 


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