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and regulations before the loan/grant 

award will be approved. Provided the 

application requirements have not 

changed, an application not selected 

will be reconsidered in three subsequent 

funding competitions for a total of four 

competitions. If an application is 

withdrawn, it can be resubmitted and 

will be evaluated as a new application. 

B. Administrative and National Policy 

Requirements 

Additional requirements that apply to 

Intermediary’s selected for this program 

can be found in the 7 CFR 4280, subpart 

A. 

VII. Agency Contacts 

For general questions about this 

announcement, please contact your 

Rural Development State Office 

identified in this NOFA. 

Nondiscrimination Statement: 

‘‘The U.S. Department of Agriculture 

(USDA) prohibits discrimination in all 

its programs and activities on the basis 

of race, color, national origin, age, 

disability, and where applicable, sex, 

marital status, familial status, parental 

status, religion, sexual orientation, 

genetic information, political beliefs, 

reprisal, or because all or part of an 

individual’s income is derived from any 

public assistance program. (Not all 

prohibited bases apply to all programs.) 

Persons with disabilities who require 

alternative means for communication of 

program information (Braille, large 

print, audiotape, etc.) should contact 

USDA’s TARGET Center at (202) 720–

2600 (voice and TDD). 

To file a complaint of discrimination, 

write to USDA, Director, Office of Civil 

Rights, 1400 Independence Avenue, 

SW., Washington, DC 20250–9410, or 

call (800) 795–3272 (voice), or (202) 

720–6382 (TDD). USDA is an equal 

opportunity provider, employer, and 

lender.’’

Dated: January 29, 2008. 

Ben Anderson, 

Administrator, Rural Business-Cooperative 

Service. 

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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Rural Telephone Bank 

Rural Telephone Bank Board Meeting 

Time and Date: 4 p.m., Monday, 

February 11, 2008. 

Place: Sheraton New Orleans Hotel, 

Gallier AB Room, 500 Canal St., New 

Orleans, LA 70130. 

Status: Open. 

Matters To Be Considered: The 

following matters have been placed on 

the agenda for the Board of Directors 

meeting: 

1. Call to Order 

2. Report on the Rural Telephone 

Bank Dissolution: 

• Secretary’s Report. 

• Treasurer’s Report. 

• Report on the Dissolution. 

3. Reflections on the Rural Telephone 

Bank. 

4. Adjournment and Closing Remarks 

by Under Secretary Thomas C. Dorr. 

Contact Person for More Information: 

Jonathan Claffey, Deputy Assistant 

Governor and Assistant Secretary, Rural 

Telephone Bank, (202) 720–9554. 

Dated: January 29, 2008. 

James M. Andrew, 

Governor, Rural Telephone Bank. 

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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Rural Utilities Service 

Information Collection Activity; 

Comment Request 

AGENCY: Rural Utilities Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 

U.S.C. chapter 35, as amended), the 

Rural Utilities Service, an agency 

delivering the United States Department 

of Agriculture’s Rural Development 

Utilities Programs, hereinafter referred 

to as Rural Development and/or Agency, 

invites comments on this information 

collection for which Rural Development 

intends to request approval from the 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB). 

DATES: Comments on this notice must be 

received by April 7, 2008. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Michele L. Brooks, Acting Director, 

Program Development and Regulatory 

Analysis, Rural Utilities Service, 1400 

Independence Ave., SW., STOP 1522, 

Room 5168 South Building, 

Washington, DC 20250–1522. 

Telephone: (202) 690–1078. Fax: (202) 

720–8435. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Office 

of Management and Budget’s (OMB) 

regulation (5 CFR part 1320) 

implementing provisions of the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. 

L. 104–13) requires that interested 

members of the public and affected 

agencies have an opportunity to 

comment on information collection and 

recordkeeping activities (see 5 CFR 

1320.8(d)). This notice identifies an 

information collection that the Agency 

is submitting to OMB as a revision to an 

existing collection. Comments are 

invited on: (a) Whether the proposed 

collection of information is necessary 

for the proper performance of the 

functions of the Agency, including 

whether the information will have 

practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the 

Agency’s estimate of the burden of the 

proposed collection of information 

including the validity of the 

methodology and assumptions used; (c) 

ways to enhance the quality, utility and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and (d) ways to minimize the 

burden of the collection of information 

on those who are to respond, including 

through the use of appropriate 

automated, electronic, mechanical, or 

other technological collection 

techniques or other forms of information 

technology. Comments may be sent to: 

Michele L. Brooks, Acting Director, 

Program Development and Regulatory 

Analysis, Rural Development Utilities 

Programs, U.S. Department of 

Agriculture, STOP 1522, Room 5168, 

1400 Independence Ave., SW., 

Washington, DC 20250–1522. Fax: (202) 

720–8435. 

Title: Accounting Requirements for 

Electric and Telecommunications 

Borrowers. 

OMB Control Number: 0572–0003. 

Type of Request: Extension of a 

currently approved collection. 

Abstract: The Agency believes that 

this is the minimum record retention 

requirements needed to carry out its due 

diligence responsibilities in loan 

underwriting and maintaining loan 

security. Agency borrowers should 

understand that they may be subject to 

additional record retention 

requirements imposed by other 

regulatory authorities such as FERC, 

FCC, state commissions and IRS. 

Estimate of Burden: Public reporting 

burden for this collection of information 

is estimated to average 2 hours per 

response. 

Respondents: Business or other forprofit, Not-for-profit institutions. 

Estimated Number of Respondents 

and Recordkeepers: 1,422. 

Estimated Number of Responses per 

Respondent: 1. 

Estimated Number of Hours per 

Recordkeeper: 50 hours. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden on 

Respondents: 2,844 hours. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden on 

Recordkeepers: 35,550 hours. 

Copies of this information collection 

can be obtained from MaryPat Daskal, 


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1See the Department’s memorandum entitled, 

‘‘2006–2007 New Shipper Review of Brake Rotors 

from the People’s Republic of China,’’ entitled, 

‘‘Results of Request for Assistance from U.S. 

Customs and Border Protection on U.S. Entry 

Documents,’’ dated June 4, 2007. 

2See the Department’s memorandum entitled, 

‘‘Surrogate-Country Selection: 2006–2007 New 

Shipper Review of the Antidumping Duty Order on 

Brake Rotors from the People’s Republic of China,’’

dated May 31, 2007. 

3See the Department’s memorandum entitled, 

‘‘New Shipper Review of Brake Rotors from the 

People’s Republic of China (PRC): Request for a List 

of Surrogate Countries,’’ dated June 1, 2007 (‘‘NSR 

Policy Memorandum’’). 

4See the Department’s letter regarding, ‘‘New 

Shipper Review of Brake Rotors from the People’s 

Republic of China,’’ requesting parties to provide 

comments on surrogate-country selection and 

provide surrogate factors-of-production (‘‘FOP’’) 

values from the potential surrogate countries (i.e., 

India, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, the Philippines and 

Egypt), dated June 6, 2007. 

5See The Department’s memorandum entitled, 

‘‘2006–2007 New Shipper Review of the 

Antidumping Duty Order on Brake Rotors from the 

People’s Republic of China: Selection of a Surrogate 

Country,’’ dated August 17, 2007 (‘‘NSR Surrogate 

Country Memorandum’’). 

6See the Department’s memorandum, entitled 

‘‘2006–2007 Administrative and New Shipper 

Reviews of the Antidumping Duty Order on Brake 

Rotors from the People’s Republic of China: 

Alignment of 2006–2007 Administrative and New 

Shipper Reviews,’’ dated August 24, 2007. 

Program Development and Regulatory 

Analysis, at (202) 720–7853, Fax: (202) 

720–4120. 

All responses to this notice will be 

summarized and included in the request 

for OMB approval. All comments will 

also become a matter of public record. 

Dated: January 30, 2008. 

James M. Andrew, 

Administrator, Rural Utilities Service. 

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BILLING CODE 3410–15–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[A–570–846] 

Brake Rotors From the People’s 

Republic of China: Preliminary Results 

of the 2006–2007 Administrative and 

New Shipper Reviews and Partial 

Rescission of the 2006–2007 

Administrative Review 

AGENCY: Import Administration, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce 

(‘‘the Department’’) is currently 

conducting the 2006–2007 

administrative and new shipper reviews 

of the antidumping duty order on brake 

rotors from the People’s Republic of 

China (‘‘PRC’’). We preliminarily 

determine that sales have not been made 

below normal value (‘‘NV’’) with respect 

to certain exporters who participated 

fully and are entitled to a separate rate 

in the administrative or new shipper 

reviews. If these preliminary results are 

adopted in our final results of these 

reviews, we will instruct U.S. Customs 

and Border Protection (‘‘CBP’’) to assess 

antidumping duties on entries of subject 

merchandise during the period of 

review (‘‘POR’’) for which the importerspecific assessment rates are above de 

minimis. 

Interested parties are invited to 

comment on these preliminary results. 

We will issue the final results no later 

than 120 days from the date of 

publication of this notice. 

EFFECTIVE DATE: February 5, 2008. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Frances Veith or Blanche Ziv, AD/CVD 

Operations, Office 8, Import 

Administration, International Trade 

Administration, U.S. Department of 

Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution 

Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230; 

telephone: (202) 482–4295 or (202) 482–

4207, respectively. 

Background 

On April 17, 1997, the Department 

published in the Federal Register the 

antidumping duty order on brake rotors 

from the PRC. See Notice of 

Antidumping Duty Order: Brake Rotors 

from the People’s Republic of China, 62 

FR 18740 (April 17, 1997) (‘‘the Order’’). 

New Shipper Review 

On April 18, 2007, Shanghai Tylon 

Company Ltd. (‘‘Tylon’’) requested a 

new shipper review of the antidumping 

duty order on brake rotors from the PRC, 

which has an April anniversary month, 

in accordance with 19 CFR 351.214(c). 

In response to the Department’s April 

24, 2007, request for information, Tylon 

provided supplemental information on 

April 27, 2007. On May 25, 2007, the 

Department initiated a new shipper 

review of Tylon covering the period 

April 1, 2006, through March 31, 2007. 

See Brake Rotors From the People’s 

Republic of China: Initiation of 

Antidumping Duty New Shipper Review, 

72 FR 29299 (May 25, 2007). On May 

23, 2007, the Department issued a new 

shipper antidumping duty questionnaire 

to Tylon. 

On July 5, 2007, the Department 

received Tylon’s Sections A, C, and D 

response. On July 19, 2007, the 

Department received Tylon’s ImporterSpecific Questionnaire response. On 

August 24, 2007, the Department issued 

a supplemental questionnaire to Tylon, 

to which we received a response on 

September 17, 2007. On June 4, 2007, 

the Department placed on the record of 

the new shipper review copies of CBP 

documents pertaining to the shipment 

of brake rotors from the PRC exported 

by Tylon to the United States during the 

POR.1

On May 31, 2007, we requested that 

the Office of Policy issue a surrogatecountry memorandum for the selection 

of the appropriate surrogate countries 

for this new shipper review.2 On June 1, 

2007, the Office of Policy provided a list 

of five countries at a level of economic 

development comparable to that of the 

PRC for the POR.3 On June 6, 2007, the 

Department invited all interested parties 

to submit comments on surrogatecountry selection and to submit publicly 

available information as surrogate 

values (‘‘SVs’’) for purposes of 

calculating NV.4 See ‘‘Surrogate 

Country’’ section below. On August 1, 

2007, the Coalition for the Preservation 

of American Brake Drum and Rotor 

Aftermarket Manufacturers 

(‘‘petitioner’’) submitted publicly 

available information for use as SVs in 

the calculation of NV in the 2006–2007 

new shipper review. On August 17, 

2007, the Department selected India as 

the most appropriate surrogate country 

for the purpose of this new shipper 

review.5

On August 23, 2007, Tylon agreed to 

waive the new shipper review time 

limits in accordance with 19 CFR 

351.214(j)(3), to align the new shipper 

review with the concurrent 2006–2007 

administrative review of the 

antidumping duty order on brake rotors 

from the PRC. On August 24, 2007, the 

Department aligned the new shipper 

review with the 2006–2007 

administrative review of the 

antidumping duty order on brake rotors 

from the PRC.6

Administrative Review 

On April 2, 2007, the Department 

published a notice of opportunity to 

request an administrative review of the 

antidumping duty order on brake rotors 

from the PRC. See Antidumping or 

Countervailing Duty Order, Finding, or 

Suspended Investigation; Opportunity 

To Request Administrative Review, 72 

FR 15650 (April 2, 2006). 

On April 30, 2007, the Department 

received timely requests for an 

administrative review of this 

antidumping duty order in accordance 

with 19 CFR 351.213 from the following 

individual companies: LABEC, 

Winhere, Haimeng, Hongda, Meita, 

Wally, and Longkou Dixion Brake 

System Ltd. (‘‘Dixion’’). On April 30, 


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