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following appointments to the NRC 

Performance Review Boards. 

The following individuals are 

appointed as members of the NRC 

Performance Review Board (PRB) 

responsible for making 

recommendations to the appointing and 

awarding authorities on performance 

appraisal ratings and performance 

awards for Senior Executives and Senior 

Level employees: 

Darren B. Ash, Deputy Executive 

Director for Corporate Management, 

Office of the Executive Director for 

Operations. 

R.W. Borchardt, Executive Director for 

Operations. 

Elmo E. Collins, Jr., Regional 

Administrator, Region IV. 

Karen D. Cyr, General Counsel. 

Margaret M. Doane, Director, Office of 

International Programs. 

James E. Dyer, Chief Financial Officer. 

Timothy F. Hagan, Director, Office of 

Administration. 

Michael R. Johnson, Director, Office 

of New Reactors. 

Eric J. Leeds, Director, Office of 

Nuclear Reactor Regulation. 

Bruce S. Mallet, Deputy Executive 

Director for Reactor and Preparedness 

Programs, Office of the Executive 

Director for Operations. 

Charles L. Miller, Director, Office of 

Federal and State Materials and 

Environmental Management Programs. 

Martin J. Virgilio, Deputy Executive 

Director for Materials, Waste, Research, 

State, Tribal, and Compliance Programs. 

The following individuals will serve 

as members of the NRC PRB Panel that 

was established to review appraisals 

and make recommendations to the 

appointing and awarding authorities for 

NRC PRB members: 

Stephen G. Burns, Deputy General 

Counsel, Office of the General Counsel. 

Brian W. Sheron, Director, Office of 

Nuclear Regulatory Research. 

Roy P. Zimmerman, Director, Office of 

Nuclear Security and Incident 

Response. 

All appointments are made pursuant 

to Section 4314 of Chapter 43 of Title 

5 of the United States Code. 

DATES: Effective Date: September 5, 

2008. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Secretary, Executive Resources Board, 

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 

Washington, DC 20555, (301) 492–2076. 

Dated at Bethesda, Maryland, this 26th day 

of August 2008. 

For the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 

James F. McDermott, 

Secretary, Executive Resources Board. 

[FR Doc. E8–20563 Filed 9–4–08; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7590–01–P 

OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES 

TRADE REPRESENTATIVE 

Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement 

(ACTA): Notice of Public Meeting 

AGENCY: Office of the United States 

Trade Representative. 

ACTION: Notice of public meeting. 

SUMMARY: The Office of the United 

States Trade Representative (USTR), 

together with key trading partners, is 

negotiating an Anti-Counterfeiting 

Trade Agreement with the objective of 

strengthening international cooperation, 

enforcement practices, and participants’

legal frameworks to address 

counterfeiting and piracy. As part of this 

effort, USTR, together with the U.S. 

Department of Commerce, is organizing 

a public meeting to consult with 

interested parties on the initiative. The 

purposes of the meeting will be to 

inform stakeholders about ACTA and to 

receive comments from stakeholders 

about their views regarding this 

initiative. Interested parties should 

review the section on requirements for 

participation below. 

DATES: The meeting will be held on 

Monday, September 22, 2008, 10 a.m.–

12 noon. 

ADDRESSES: U.S. Department of 

Commerce, Herbert C. Hoover Building, 

1401 Constitution Avenue, NW., 

Washington, DC 20230. The meeting 

will be held in the Main Auditorium. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Rachel S. Bae, Director for Intellectual 

Property and Innovation, Office of the 

United States Trade Representative, at 

(202) 395–4510. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On 

October 23, 2007, USTR announced that 

the United States, along with a group of 

trading partners, would pursue 

negotiation of a new Anti-Counterfeiting 

Trade Agreement (ACTA) to enhance 

international leadership in the fight 

against IPR counterfeiting and piracy. 

The United States and other interested 

parties intend to seek an agreement with 

provisions in three main areas: 

International cooperation, enforcement 

practices, and the legal framework for 

IPR enforcement. 

A principal goal of the ACTA is to 

establish, among governments 

committed to strong IPR protection, a 

common standard for IPR enforcement 

to combat global infringements of IPR 

particularly in the context of 

counterfeiting and piracy that addresses 

today’s challenges, in terms of 

increasing international cooperation, 

strengthening the framework of 

practices that contribute to effective 

enforcement of IPRs, and strengthening 

relevant IPR enforcement measures 

themselves. A fact sheet providing 

further details on the ACTA can be 

found on the USTR Web site at: http:// 

www.ustr.gov/assets/Document_Library/

Fact_Sheets/2008/asset_upload_file760_

15084.pdf 

Requirements for Participation: Prior 

registration is required. To register, 

please send all required information by 

Wednesday, September 17, 2008 to the 

following e-mail address: 

Amanda.Wilson@mail.doc.gov. 

Required information for U.S. Citizens: 

Full Name and Name of Organization (if 

appropriate). Required information for 

Non-U.S. Citizens: Full Name, Gender, 

Title, Name of Organization (if 

appropriate), Date of Birth, Place of 

Birth, Passport Number, Place of 

Residence, Place of Citizenship. All 

attendees must bring a governmentlicensed photo identification upon 

arrival. 

Due to limited space in the room, 

participation will be on a first-come, 

first-serve basis. The participation of 

more than one representative from an 

organization may also be conditioned on 

the total number of participants. Those 

unable to participate in the meeting 

and/or who wish to present their 

positions in writing may send their 

comments electronically no later than 

Wednesday, September 17, 2008, to the 

following e-mail address: 

ACTA@ustr.eop.gov. 

Requirements for Comments: 

Comments must be in English. No 

submissions will be accepted via postal 

service mail or facsimile. Documents 

should be submitted as either 

WordPerfect, MS Word, Adobe, or text 

(.TXT) files. Supporting documentation 

submitted as spreadsheets is acceptable 

as Quattro Pro or Excel files. A 

submitter requesting that information 

contained in a comment be treated as 

confidential business information must 

certify that such information is business 

confidential and would not customarily 

be released to the public by the 

submitter. A non-confidential version of 

the comment must also be provided. For 

any document containing business 

confidential information, the file name 

of the business confidential version 

should begin with the characters ‘‘BC–

’’, and the file name of the public 

version should begin with the character 

‘‘P–’’. The ‘‘P–’’ or ‘‘BC–’’ should be 

followed by the name of the submitter. 

Submissions should not include 

separate cover letters; information that 

might appear in a cover letter should be 

included in the submission itself. To the 

extent possible, any attachments to the 

submission should be included in the 

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same file as the submission itself, and 

not as separate files. 

Public Inspection of Submissions: 

Within one business day of receipt, nonconfidential submissions will be placed 

in a public file, open for inspection at 

the USTR reading room, Office of the 

United States Trade Representative, 

Annex Building, 1724 F Street, NW., 

Room 1, Washington, DC. An 

appointment to review the file must be 

scheduled at least 48 hours in advance 

and may be made by calling Jacqueline 

Caldwell at (202) 395–6186. The USTR 

reading room is open to the public from 

10 a.m. to 12 noon and from 1 p.m. to 

4 p.m., Monday through Friday. 

Rachel S. Bae, 

Director for Intellectual Property and 

Innovation. 

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BILLING CODE 3190–W8–P 

OVERSEAS PRIVATE INVESTMENT 

CORPORATION 

September 15, 2008 Public Hearing 

Time and Date: 2 p.m., Monday, 

September 15, 2008. 

Place: Offices of the Corporation, 

Twelfth Floor Board Room, 1100 New 

York Avenue, NW., Washington, DC. 

Status: Hearing open to the Public at 

2 p.m. 

Purpose: Public Hearing in 

conjunction with each meeting of 

OPIC’s Board of Directors, to afford an 

opportunity for any person to present 

views regarding the activities of the 

Corporation. 

Procedures: Individuals wishing to 

address the hearing orally must provide 

advance notice to OPIC’s Corporate 

Secretary no later than 5 p.m. Thursday, 

September 11, 2008. The notice must 

include the individual’s name, title, 

organization, address, and telephone 

number, and a concise summary of the 

subject matter to be presented. 

Oral presentations may not exceed ten 

(10) minutes. The time for individual 

presentations may be reduced 

proportionately, if necessary, to afford 

all participants who have submitted a 

timely request to participate an 

opportunity to be heard. 

Participants wishing to submit a 

written statement for the record must 

submit a copy of such statement to 

OPIC’s Corporate Secretary no later than 

5 p.m. Thursday, September 11, 2008. 

Such statements must be typewritten, 

double-spaced, and may not exceed 

twenty-five (25) pages. 

Upon receipt of the required notice, 

OPIC will prepare an agenda for the 

hearing identifying speakers, setting 

forth the subject on which each 

participant will speak, and the time 

allotted for each presentation. The 

agenda will be available at the hearing. 

A written summary of the hearing will 

be compiled, and such summary will be 

made available, upon written request to 

OPIC’s Corporate Secretary, at the cost 

of reproduction. 

Contact Person for Information: 

Information on the hearing may be 

obtained from Connie M. Downs at (202) 

336–8438, via facsimile at (202) 218–

0136, or via e-mail at 

Connie.Downs@opic.gov. 

Dated: September 3, 2008. 

Connie M. Downs, 

OPIC Corporate Secretary. 

[FR Doc. E8–20753 Filed 9–3–08; 4:15 pm] 

BILLING CODE 3210–01–P 

OVERSEAS PRIVATE INVESTMENT 

CORPORATION 

September 18, 2008 Board of Directors 

Meeting 

Time and Date: Thursday, September 

18, 2008, 10 a.m. (Open Portion); 10:15 

a.m. (Closed Portion). 

Place: Offices of the Corporation, 

Twelfth Floor Board Room, 1100 New 

York Avenue, NW., Washington, DC. 

Status: Meeting OPEN to the Public 

from 10 a.m. to 10:15 a.m. Closed 

portion will commence at 10:15 a.m. 

(approx.). 

Matters To Be Considered: 

1. President’s Report 

2. Approval of July 17, 2008 Minutes 

(Open Portion) 

Further Matters To Be Considered: 

(Closed to the Public 10:15 a.m.) 

1. Report from Audit Committee 

2. Finance Project—Costa Rica, El 

Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras 

3. Finance Project—Liberia 

4. Finance Project—South Africa 

5. Finance Project—Mexico, 

Nicaragua, El Salvador, Peru, Armenia, 

Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, 

Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Cambodia, 

Bosnia, Kenya 

6. Finance Project—Botswana 

7. Finance Project—Bulgaria and the 

Balkans 

8. Finance Project—Asia 

9. Finance Project—South Asia 

10. Finance Project—Global 

11. Finance Project—Global 

12. Finance Project—Global 

13. Finance Project—Global 

14. Finance Project—Latin America 

15. Finance Project—Latin America 

16. Finance Project—Latin America 

17. Finance Project—Mexico and 

Central America 

18. Finance Project—Central and 

South America 

19. Approval of July 17, 2008 Minutes 

(Closed Portion) 

20. Pending Major Projects 

21. Reports 

Contact Person for Information: 

Information on the meeting may be 

obtained from Connie M. Downs at (202) 

336–8438. 

Dated: September 3, 2008. 

Connie M. Downs, 

Corporate Secretary, Overseas Private 

Investment Corporation. 

[FR Doc. E8–20754 Filed 9–3–08; 4:15 pm] 

BILLING CODE 3210–01–P 

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE 

COMMISSION 

Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request 

Upon Written Request, Copies Available 

From: Securities and Exchange 

Commission, Office of Investor 

Education and Advocacy, 

Washington, DC 20549–0213. 

Extension: 

Form N–17D–1; SEC File No. 270–231; 

OMB Control No. 3235–0229. 

Notice is hereby given that, pursuant 

to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 

(44 U.S.C. 3501–3520), the Securities 

and Exchange Commission 

(‘‘Commission’’) has submitted to the 

Office of Management and Budget a 

request for extension of the previously 

approved collection of information 

discussed below. 

Section 17(d) (15 U.S.C. 80a–17(d)) of 

the Investment Company Act of 1940 

(‘‘Act’’) authorizes the Commission to 

adopt rules that protect funds and their 

security holders from overreaching by 

affiliated persons when the fund and the 

affiliated person participate in any joint 

enterprise or other joint arrangement or 

profit-sharing plan. Rule 17d–1 under 

the Act (17 CFR 270.17d–1) prohibits 

funds and their affiliated persons from 

participating in a joint enterprise, unless 

an application regarding the transaction 

has been filed with and approved by the 

Commission. Paragraph (d)(3) of the rule 

provides an exemption from this 

requirement for any loan or advance of 

credit to, or acquisition of securities or 

other property of, a small business 

concern, or any agreement to do any of 

the foregoing (‘‘investments’’) made by a 

small business investment company 

(‘‘SBIC’’) and an affiliated bank, 

provided that reports about the 

investments are made on forms the 

Commission may prescribe. Rule 17d–2 

(17 CFR 270.17d–2) designates Form N–

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