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1The Board of Directors welcomes public 

comment on Management’s proposal, which will be 

available to for public inspection at http:// 

www.lsc.gov/foia2/pdfs/eprr/Board_Memorandum_

with_background_on_reprogramming_request.pdf 

as of 10 a.m. (EDT) on Wednesday, August 13, 2008. 

and hearing impairments. Individuals 

who have a disability and need an 

accommodation to attend the meeting 

may notify Patricia Batie at (202) 295–

1500. 

Dated: August 11, 2008. 

Victor M. Fortuno, 

Vice President & General Counsel. 

[FR Doc. E8–18866 Filed 8–12–08; 11:15 am] 

BILLING CODE 7050–01–P 

LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION 

Sunshine Act Meeting of the Board of 

Directors; Amended Notice 

The Internet link reflected in footnote 

one has been amended. No other 

changes have been made to the original 

notice issued on August 11, 2008. 

TIME AND DATE: The Legal Services 

Corporation Board of Directors will 

meet on August 18, 2008 via conference 

call. The meeting will begin at 3:30 p.m. 

EDT and continue until conclusion of 

the Board’s agenda. 

LOCATION: 3333 K Street, NW., 

Washington, DC 20007, 3rd Floor 

Conference Center. 

STATUS OF MEETING: Open. Directors will 

participate by telephone conference in 

such a manner as to enable interested 

members of the public to hear and 

identify all persons participating in the 

meeting. Members of the public wishing 

to observe the meeting may do so by 

joining participating staff at the location 

indicated above. Members of the public 

wishing to listen to the meeting by 

telephone should call 1–888–390–3110 

and enter 10850 on the key pad when 

prompted. To enhance the quality of 

your listening experience, as well as 

that of others, and to eliminate 

background noises that interfere with 

the audio recording of the proceeding, 

please mute your telephone during the 

meeting. 

MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED: 

1. Consider and act on adoption of 

agenda 

2. Consider and act on whether to 

authorize the transfer or 

reprogramming of LSC’s FY 2008 

Loan Repayment Assistance 

Program (LRAP) funds to LSC’s FY 

2009 Management and 

Administration budget 1

a. Staff Report 

b. Public Comment 

3. Consider and act on other business 

4. Consider and act on motion to 

adjourn the meeting 

Contact Person for Information: 

Patricia Batie, Manager of Board 

Operations, at (202) 295–1500. 

SPECIAL NEEDS: Upon request, meeting 

notices will be made available in 

alternate formats to accommodate visual 

and hearing impairments. Individuals 

who have a disability and need an 

accommodation to attend the meeting 

may notify Patricia Batie at (202) 295–

1500. 

Dated: August 11, 2008. 

Victor M. Fortuno, 

Vice President & General Counsel. 

[FR Doc. E8–18883 Filed 8–12–08; 11:15 am] 

BILLING CODE 7050–01–P 

OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES 

TRADE REPRESENTATIVE 

Andean Trade Preference Act (ATPA); 

Notice Regarding the 2008 Annual 

Review 

AGENCY: Office of the United States 

Trade Representative. 

ACTION: Notice and request for petitions. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces the 

2008 Annual Review of the Andean 

Trade Preference Act (ATPA). Under 

this process petitions may be filed 

calling for the limitation, withdrawal or 

suspension of ATPA or ATPDEA 

benefits by presenting evidence that the 

eligibility criteria of the program are not 

being met. USTR will publish a list of 

petitions filed in response to this 

announcement in the Federal Register. 

DATES: The deadline for the submission 

of petitions for the 2008 Annual ATPA 

Review is September 15, 2008. 

ADDRESSES: Submit petitions by 

electronic mail (e-mail) to 

FR0716@ustr.eop.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Bennett M. Harman, Deputy Assistant 

U.S. Trade Representative for Latin 

America, Office of the Americas, Office 

of the United States Trade 

Representative, 600 17th St., NW., 

Washington, DC 20508. The telephone 

number is (202) 395–9446 and the 

facsimile number is (202) 395–9675. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The ATPA 

(19 U.S.C. 3201–06), as renewed and 

amended by the Andean Trade 

Promotion and Drug Eradication Act 

(ATPDEA) in the Trade Act of 2002 

(Pub. L. 107–210) and extended until 

December 31, 2008 by the Andean Trade 

Preference Act, (Pub L. 110–42), 

provides for trade benefits for eligible 

Andean countries. Consistent with 

Section 3103(d) of the ATPDEA, USTR 

promulgated regulations (15 CFR part 

2016) (68 FR 43922) regarding the 

review of eligibility of articles and 

countries for the benefits of the ATPA, 

as amended. The 2008 Annual ATPA 

Review is the fifth such review to be 

conducted pursuant to the ATPA review 

regulations. To qualify for the benefits 

of the ATPA and ATPDEA, each country 

must meet several eligibility criteria, as 

set forth in sections 203(c) and (d), and 

section 204(b)(6)(B) of the ATPA, as 

amended (19 U.S.C. 3202(c), (d); 19 

U.S.C. 3203(b)(6)(B)), and as outlined in 

the Federal Register notice USTR 

published to request public comments 

regarding the designation of eligible 

countries as ATPDEA beneficiary 

countries (67 FR 53379). Under section 

203(e) of the ATPA, as amended (19 

U.S.C. 3202(e)), the President may 

withdraw or suspend the designation of 

any country as an ATPA or ATPDEA 

beneficiary country, and may also 

withdraw, suspend, or limit preferential 

treatment for any product of any such 

beneficiary country, if the President 

determines that, as a result of changed 

circumstances, the country is not 

meeting the eligibility criteria. 

The ATPA regulations provide the 

schedule of dates for conducting an 

annual review, unless otherwise 

specified by Federal Register notice. 

Notice is hereby given that, in order to 

be considered in the 2008 Annual ATPA 

Review, all petitions to withdraw or 

suspend the designation of a country as 

an ATPA or ATPDEA beneficiary 

country, or to withdraw, suspend, or 

limit application of preferential 

treatment to any article of any ATPA 

beneficiary country under the ATPA, or 

to any article of any ATPDEA 

beneficiary country under section 

204(b)(1), (3), or (4) (19 U.S.C. 

3202(b)(1), (3), (4)) of the ATPA, must 

be received by the Andean 

Subcommittee of the Trade Policy Staff 

Committee no later than 5 p.m. EDT on 

September 15, 2008. Petitioners should 

consult 15 CFR 2016.0 regarding the 

content of such petitions. 

E-mail submissions should be single 

copy transmissions in English, and the 

total submission including attachments 

should not exceed 50 pages. 

Submissions should use the following 

subject line: ‘‘2008 Annual ATPA 

Review—Petition.’’ Documents must be 

submitted as either WordPerfect 

(‘‘.WPD’’), MSWord (‘‘.DOC’’), Adobe 

(‘‘PDF’’), or text (‘‘.TXT’’) files. 

Supporting documentation submitted as 

spreadsheets are acceptable as Quattro 

Pro or Excel, pre-formatted for printing 

on 8 1⁄2 x 11-inch paper. Submissions by 

e-mail should not include separate 


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cover letters or messages in the message 

area of the e-mail; information that 

might appear in any cover letter should 

be included directly in the submission. 

To the extent possible, any data 

attachments to the submission should 

be included in the 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 that the submitter wishes to 

protect from public disclosure, the 

confidential submission must be marked 

‘‘BUSINESS CONFIDENTIAL’’ at the top 

and bottom of every page of the 

document. In addition, the submission 

must be accompanied by a nonconfidential version that indicates, with 

asterisks, where confidential 

information was redacted or deleted. 

The top and bottom of each page of the 

non-confidential version must be 

marked either ‘‘PUBLIC VERSION’’ or 

‘‘NON-CONFIDENTIAL’’. Business 

confidential comments that are 

submitted without the required 

markings or that are not accompanied 

by a properly marked non-confidential 

version as set forth above may not be 

accepted or may be treated as public 

documents. 

The file name of any document 

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. 

The e-mail address for submissions is 

FR0716@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, 

Chairman, Trade Policy Staff Committee. 

[FR Doc. E8–18861 Filed 8–13–08; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3190–W8–P 

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE 

COMMISSION 

[Investment Company Act Release No. 

28355; 812–13537] 

Advanced Series Trust, et al.; Notice of 

Application 

August 8, 2008. 

AGENCY: Securities and Exchange 

Commission (‘‘Commission’’). 

ACTION: Notice of an application under 

section 6(c) of the Investment Company 

Act of 1940 (the ‘‘Act’’) for an 

exemption from rule 12d1–2(a) under 

the Act. 

SUMMARY OF APPLICATION: Applicants 

request an order to permit registered 

open-end management investment 

companies relying on rule 12d1–2 under 

the Act to invest in certain financial 

instruments. 

APPLICANTS: Advanced Series Trust (the 

‘‘AST Trust’’), The Prudential Series 

Fund (the ‘‘PSF Trust’’ and, together 

with the AST Trust, the ‘‘Trusts’’), AST 

Investment Services, Inc. (‘‘AST’’), 

Prudential Investments LLC (‘‘PI’’), 

Prudential Annuities Distributors, Inc. 

(‘‘PAD’’), and Prudential Investment 

Management Services LLC (‘‘PIMS’’). 

FILING DATES: The application was filed 

on June 2, 2008. Applicants have agreed 

to file an amendment during the notice 

period, the substance of which is 

reflected in this notice. 

HEARING OR NOTIFICATION OF HEARING: An 

order granting the application will be 

issued unless the Commission orders a 

hearing. Interested persons may request 

a hearing by writing to the 

Commission’s Secretary and serving 

applicants with a copy of the request, 

personally or by mail. Hearing requests 

should be received by the Commission 

by 5:30 p.m. on September 2, 2008 and 

should be accompanied by proof of 

service on applicants, 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 may request 

notification of a hearing by writing to 

the Commission’s Secretary. 

ADDRESSES: Secretary, U.S. Securities 

and Exchange Commission, 100 F 

Street, NE., Washington, DC 20549–

1090; Applicants, c/o John P. Schwartz, 

Prudential Investments LLC, Gateway 

Center Three, 100 Mulberry Street, 

Fourth Floor, Newark, New Jersey 

07102–4061. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Stephen P. Smith, Research Specialist, 

at (202) 551–6819 or Julia Kim Gilmer, 

Branch Chief, at (202) 551–6871 

(Division of Investment Management, 

Office of Investment Company 

Regulation). 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

following is a summary of the 

application. The complete application 

may be obtained for a fee at the 

Commission’s Public Reference Room, 

100 F Street, NE., Washington, DC 

20549–1520 (telephone (202) 551–5850). 

Applicants’ Representations 

1. The AST Trust is organized as a 

Massachusetts business trust and the 

PSF Trust is organized as a Delaware 

statutory trust. The Trusts are registered 

under the Act as open-end management 

investment companies. Applicants 

request the exemption to the extent 

necessary to permit any existing or 

future registered open-end management 

investment company or series thereof 

advised by AST or PI or an entity 

controlling, controlled by, or under 

common control with AST or PI and 

which invests in other registered openend management investment companies 

in reliance on section 12(d)(1)(G) of the 

Act, and which is also eligible to invest 

in securities (as defined in section 

2(a)(36) of the Act) in reliance on rule 

12d1–2 under the Act (together with the 

Trusts and their series, the ‘‘Applicant 

Funds’’), to also invest, to the extent 

consistent with its investment objective, 

policies, strategies and limitations, in 

financial instruments that may not be 

securities within the meaning of section 

2(a)(36) of the Act (‘‘Other 

Investments’’). 

2. AST and PI serve as the investment 

advisers for the Applicant Funds that 

are organized as series of the AST Trust, 

while PI serves as the sole investment 

adviser for the Applicant Funds that are 

organized as series of the PSF Trust. 

AST is organized as a Connecticut 

corporation while PI is organized as a 

New York limited liability company. 

Each of AST and PI is a wholly owned, 

indirect subsidiary of Prudential 

Financial Inc. and a registered 

investment adviser under the 

Investment Advisers Act of 1940, as 

amended. PAD, a Delaware corporation, 

and PIMS, a Delaware limited liability 

company, each a registered brokerdealer under the Securities Exchange 

Act of 1934, as amended (the ‘‘Exchange 

Act’’), serve as co-distributors for the 

AST Trust. PIMS serves as the sole 

distributor for the PSF Trust. 

3. Consistent with its fiduciary 

obligations under the Act, each 

Applicant Fund’s board of trustees will 

review the advisory fees charged by the 

Applicant Fund’s investment adviser to 

ensure that they are based on services 


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