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contains documents other than rules or

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Notices Federal Register

62096 

Vol. 75, No. 194 

Thursday, October 7, 2010 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request 

October 4, 2010. 

The Department of Agriculture has 

submitted the following information 

collection requirement(s) to OMB for 

review and clearance under the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 

Public Law 104–13. Comments 

regarding (a) whether the 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 burden including the validity of the 

methodology and assumptions used; (c) 

ways to enhance the quality, utility and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; (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 should be addressed to: Desk 

Officer for Agriculture, Office of 

Information and Regulatory Affairs, 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB), 

OIRA_Submission@OMB.EOP.GOV or 

fax (202) 395–5806 and to Departmental 

Clearance Office, USDA, OCIO, Mail 

Stop 7602, Washington, DC 20250– 

7602. Comments regarding these 

information collections are best assured 

of having their full effect if received 

within 30 days of this notification. 

Copies of the submission(s) may be 

obtained by calling (202) 720–8681. 

An agency may not conduct or 

sponsor a collection of information 

unless the collection of information 

displays a currently valid OMB control 

number and the agency informs 

potential persons who are to respond to 

the collection of information that such 

persons are not required to respond to 

the collection of information unless it 

displays a currently valid OMB control 

number. 

Rural Utilities Service 

Title: Broadband Initiatives 

Program—Rural Libraries, Technical 

Assistance and Satellite Grants. 

OMB Control Number: 0572–0145. 

Summary of Collection: The American 

Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 

appropriated $2.5 billion of budget 

authority for establishing the Broadband 

Initiatives Program (BIP) which may 

extend loans, grants, and loan/grant 

combinations to facilitate broadband 

deployment in rural areas. In its second 

and final Notice of Funds Availability, 

Rural Utilities Service (RUS) created 

three new categories for funding, Rural 

Libraries, Technical Assistance and 

Satellite grants. This information 

collection consists of the required 

reporting requirements for the BIP for 

Rural Libraries, Technical Assistance 

and Satellite Grants. 

Need and Use of the Information: 

Each applicant for a grant will complete 

one application form. RUS will use the 

information collected from the 

application form to evaluate whether an 

applicant is eligible for funding. RUS 

also intends to use information 

collected from the application form to 

evaluate the applicant’s progress toward 

completion of the objectives for which 

the funding was obtained. 

Recipients of grants will need to 

submit a detailed list of all projects or 

activities for which Recovery Act funds 

were expended or obligated, including 

(a) the name of the project or activity; 

(b) a description of the project or 

activity; (c) an evaluation of the 

completion status of the project or 

activity; (d) an estimate of the number 

of jobs created and the number of jobs 

retained by the project or activity; and 

(e) for infrastructure investments made 

by State and local governments, the 

purpose, total cost, and rationale of the 

agency for funding the infrastructure 

investment with Recovery Act funds. In 

addition, detailed information on any 

subcontracts or sub-grants awarded by 

the Awardee to include the data 

elements required to comply with the 

Federal Funding Accountability and 

Transparency Act of 2006. 

Description of Respondents: Business 

or other for-profit. 

Number of Respondents: 22. 

Frequency of Responses: 

Recordkeeping; Reporting: On occasion; 

Quarterly. 

Total Burden Hours: 246. 

Charlene Parker, 

Departmental Information Collection 

Clearance Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2010–25311 Filed 10–6–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–15–P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Foreign Agricultural Service 

Agricultural Technical Advisory 

Committees for Trade in Tobacco, 

Cotton, Peanuts and Planting Seeds, 

and Grains, Feed and Oilseeds; Restructure and Realignment 

AGENCY: Foreign Agricultural Service, 

USDA. 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments 

SUMMARY: Pursuant to the Federal 

Advisory Committee Act, notice is 

hereby given that the Secretary of 

Agriculture (Secretary), in coordination 

with the United States Trade 

Representative (USTR), is considering 

modifying the existing structure of both 

the Agricultural Technical Advisory 

Committees (ATAC) for Trade in 

Tobacco, Cotton, Peanuts and Planting 

Seeds (TCPPS) and in Grains, Feed and 

Oilseeds (GFO). The Secretary is also 

soliciting comments as to whether or 

not there are current interests not 

adequately represented in the 

Agricultural Trade Advisory Committee 

System. 

DATES: Comments are due on or before 

November 8, 2010. The proposed 

changes will become effective upon the 

renewal of charters for the Agricultural 

Technical Advisory Committees for 

Trade scheduled to occur in mid-2011. 

At that time new members will also be 

added to the committees. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Inquiries or comments regarding: (a) 

The changes to the GFO and TCPPS 

committee structures or (b) whether or 

not there are currently interests not 

adequately represented in the 

Agricultural Trade Advisory Committee 

System, may be sent by electronic mail 

to Lorie.Fitzsimmons@fas.usda.gov and 

Steffon.Brown@fas.usda.gov. Comments 

submitted via U.S. mail should be 


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Federal Register / Vol. 75, No. 194 / Thursday, October 7, 2010 / Notices 62097 

addressed to: The Office of Negotiations 

and Agreements, Foreign Agricultural 

Service (FAS), USDA, Stop 1040, 1400 

Independence Ave., SW., Washington, 

DC 20250, or by fax to (202) 720–0340. 

The Office of Negotiations and 

Agreements may be reached by 

telephone at (202) 720–6219, with 

inquiries directed to Lorie Fitzsimmons 

and Steffon Brown. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Introduction 

The ATACs are authorized by sections 

135(c)(1) and (2) of the Trade Act of 

1974, as amended (Pub. L. 93–618, 19 

U.S.C. 2155). The purpose of these 

committees is to advise the Secretary 

and the USTR concerning agricultural 

trade policy. The committees are 

intended to ensure that representative 

elements of the private sector have an 

opportunity to express their views to the 

U.S. government. 

Proposed Committee Changes 

Pursuant to the Federal Advisory 

Committee Act (5 U.S.C. App. II), FAS 

gives notice that the Secretary and 

USTR are considering removing 

representation of the planting seeds 

industry from the Tobacco, Cotton, 

Peanuts and Planting Seeds (TCPPS) 

ATAC and adding representation of the 

planting seeds sector to the Grains, Feed 

and Oilseeds (GFO) ATAC. The 

justification for this structural change is 

that many of the issues that the GFO 

committee addresses, such as 

genetically modified organisms, new 

technologies and international 

negotiations, are common within the 

U.S. planting seeds industry. The 

proposed changes will result in the 

Tobacco, Cotton and Peanuts (TCP) 

ATAC and the Grains, Feed, Oilseeds, 

and Planting Seeds (GFOPS) ATAC. 

Background 

In 1974, Congress established a 

private sector advisory committee 

system to ensure that U.S. trade policy 

and negotiating objectives adequately 

reflect U.S. commercial and economic 

interests. The private sector advisory 

committee system currently consists of 

three tiers: 

• The President’s Advisory 

Committee on Trade and Policy 

Negotiations; 

• Five general policy advisory 

committees, including the Agricultural 

Policy Advisory Committee; and, 

• Twenty-eight technical advisory 

committees, including the ATACs. 

As to the technical advisory 

committees, Section 135(c)(2) of the 

Trade Act (19 U.S.C. 215) provides that: 

The President shall establish such 

sectoral or functional advisory 

committees as may be appropriate. Such 

committees shall, insofar as is 

practicable, be representative of all 

industry, labor, agricultural, or service 

interests (including small business 

interests) in the sector or functional 

areas concerned. In organizing such 

committees, USTR and the Secretaries 

of Commerce, Labor, Agriculture, the 

Treasury, or other executive 

departments, as appropriate, shall— 

(A) Consult with interested private 

organizations; and 

(B) take into account such factors as— 

(i) patterns of actual and potential 

competition between United States 

industry and agriculture and foreign 

enterprise in international trade, 

(ii) the character of the nontariff 

barriers and other distortions affecting 

such competition, 

(iii) the necessity for reasonable limits 

on the number of such advisory 

committees, 

(iv) the necessity that each committee 

be reasonably limited in size, and 

(v) in the case of each sectoral 

committee, that the product lines 

covered by each committee be 

reasonably related. 

USTR and USDA are seeking 

comments regarding whether all 

appropriate interest in the sectors 

represented by the ATACs are being 

represented by the current membership 

of the ATACs, and if not, what 

additional interest should be 

represented. 

Requirements for Submission: Public 

comments via e-mail should be 

addressed to 

Lorie.Fitsimmons@fas.usda.gov and 

Steffon.Brown@fas.usda.gov. Comments 

submitted via U.S. mail should be 

addressed to: The Office of Negotiations 

and Agreements, FAS, USDA, Stop 

1040, 1400 Independence Ave., SW., 

Washington, DC 20250. 

Dated: September 28, 2010. 

Suzanne Hale, 

Administrator, Foreign Agricultural Service. 

[FR Doc. 2010–25240 Filed 10–6–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–10–P 

BROADCASTING BOARD OF 

GOVERNORS 

Sunshine Act Meeting 

DATE AND TIME: Wednesday, October 13, 

2010, 9:30 a.m. (local time), 3:30 a.m. 

(EDT). 

PLACE: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty 

Headquarters, Editorial Room 4–34, 

Vinohradska 159A, 100 00 Prague 10, 

Czech Republic. 

SUBJECT: Notice of Meeting of the 

Broadcasting Board of Governors. 

SUMMARY: The Broadcasting Board of 

Governors (BBG) will be meeting at the 

time and location listed above. The BBG 

will be considering Board By-Laws, a 

Calendar Year 2011 meeting schedule, 

Strategy and Budget Committee 

recommendations, and a Governor’s trip 

report. The meeting is open to the 

public—but due to space limitations via 

Webcast only—and will be streamed on 

the BBG’s Web site at http:// 

www.bbg.gov. The meeting will also be 

made available on the BBG’s Web site 

for on-demand viewing by 9:30 a.m. 

EDT. 

CONTACT PERSON FOR MORE INFORMATION: 

Persons interested in obtaining more 

information should contact Paul 

Kollmer-Dorsey at (202) 203–4545. 

Paul Kollmer-Dorsey, 

Deputy General Counsel. 

[FR Doc. 2010–25473 Filed 10–5–10; 4:15 pm] 

BILLING CODE 8610–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request 

The Department of Commerce will 

submit to the Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB) for clearance the 

following proposal for collection of 

information under the provisions of the 

Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 

chapter 35). 

Agency: National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). 

Title: Drivers’ Awareness of and 

Response to Significant Weather Events 

and the Correlation of Weather to Road 

Impacts. 

OMB Control Number: None. 

Form Number(s): N/A. 

Type of Request: Regular submission 

(request for approval of a new 

information collection). 

Number of Respondents: 1,200. 

Average Hours per Response: 6 

minutes. 

Burden Hours: 120. 

Needs and Uses: This project is a joint 

effort of the University of Utah (U of U), 

NOAA’s National Weather Service 

(NWS), the Utah Department of 

Transportation (UDOT), and NorthWest 

Weathernet (NWN) to investigate and 

understand the relationship between 

meteorological phenomena and road 

conditions, as well as public 

understanding and response to available 

forecast information. The events which 

impact the Salt Lake City metro area 

during the winter of 2010– 2011 will be 

examined. Through the administration 


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