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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: To qualify 

under the program, Subtitle C of Title I 

of the Trade Act of 2002 (Pub. L. 107– 

210) states that petitions must 

demonstrate, using data for the most 

recent, full marketing year or full 

official marketing season, a greater than 

15-percent decline in at least one of the 

following factors: national average price, 

quantity of production, value of 

production, or cash receipts. 

According to the statute, it is also 

necessary for the petitions to 

demonstrate that an increase in imports 

of like or directly competitive articles, 

during the same marketing period, 

contributed importantly to the decrease 

in one of the above factors for the 

agricultural commodity. 

All petitions were analyzed by 

USDA’s Economic Research Service and 

reviewed by the TAA for Farmers 

Program Review Committee, comprised 

of representatives from USDA’s Office of 

the Chief Economist, Farm Service 

Agency, Agricultural Marketing Service, 

and FAS. After a review, the 

Administrator determined that the 

petition was unable to demonstrate the 

‘‘greater than 15-percent decline’’ 

criterion, because it showed a 4.2- 

percent increase in the average annual 

price for 2009, when compared to the 

previous 3-year period. Additionally, 

the import data provided for the same 

time period showed a 15.7-percent 

decrease, instead of the required 

increase, under the program. 

Because the petition was unable to 

meet the ‘‘greater than 15-percent 

decline’’ criterion and the ‘‘increase in 

imports’’ criterion, the Administrator 

was not able to certify the petition, 

making Tilapia producers in Arkansas 

ineligible for trade adjustment 

assistance in FY 2011. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Trade Adjustment Assistance for 

Farmers Program Staff, Office of Trade 

Programs, FAS, USDA, at (202) 720– 

0638, or (202) 690–0633, or by e-mail at: 

tradeadjustment@fas.usda.gov, or visit 

the TAA for Farmers’ Web site at: http:// 

www.fas.usda.gov/itp/taa. 

Dated: October 5, 2010. 

Suzanne Hale, 

Administrator, Foreign Agricultural Service. 

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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Foreign Agricultural Service 

Trade Adjustment Assistance for 

Farmers 

AGENCY: Foreign Agricultural Service, 

USDA. 

ACTION: Notice. 

The Administrator, Foreign 

Agricultural Service (FAS), certified a 

petition (No. 2011015) for trade 

adjustment assistance (TAA) for 

blueberries filed under the fiscal year 

(FY) 2011 program by the Wild 

Blueberry Commission of Maine, on 

behalf of blueberry producers in Maine. 

The petition was accepted for review by 

USDA on August 13, 2010. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: All 

petitions were analyzed by USDA’s 

Economic Research Service and 

reviewed by the TAA for Farmers 

Program Review Committee, comprised 

of representatives from USDA’s Office of 

the Chief Economist, Farm Service 

Agency, Agricultural Marketing Service, 

and FAS. After a review, the 

Administrator determined that 

increased imports of blueberries during 

January-December 2009 contributed 

importantly to a greater than 15-percent 

decline in the average annual price in 

2009, compared to the previous 3-year 

average. This conforms to the eligibility 

requirements stipulated in Subtitle C of 

Title I of the Trade Act of 2002 (Pub. L. 

107–210). 

Because the petition met the 

program’s eligibility criteria, the 

Administrator was able to certify it, 

making blueberry producers in Maine 

eligible for trade adjustment assistance 

in FY 2011. 

Eligible individual blueberry 

producers in Maine may apply for 

technical training and cash benefits by 

completing and submitting a written 

application to their local Farm Service 

Agency county office by the application 

deadline of December 29, 2010. After 

submitting a completed application, 

producers may receive technical 

assistance at no cost and cash benefits, 

if the applicable program eligibility 

requirements are satisfied. Applicants 

must complete the technical assistance 

training under the program in order to 

be eligible for cash benefits. 

PRODUCERS CERTIFIED AS ELIGIBLE FOR

TAA FOR FARMERS CONTACT: Your local 

USDA Farm Service Agency county 

office. 

FOR FURTHER GENERAL INFORMATION

CONTACT: Trade Adjustment Assistance 

for Farmers Program Staff, Office of 

Trade Programs, FAS, USDA, at (202) 

720–0638 or (202) 690–0633, or by email at: tradeadjustment@fas.usda.gov, 

or visit the TAA for Farmers’ Web site 

at: http://www.taaforfarmers.org or the 

FAS Web site at: http:// 

www.fas.usda.gov/itp/taa. 

Dated: October 5, 2010. 

Suzanne Hale, 

Administrator, Foreign Agricultural Service. 

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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: International Trade 

Administration; Committee for the 

Implementation of Textile Agreements. 

Title: Procedures for Considering 

Requests from the Public for Textile and 

Apparel Safeguard Actions on Imports 

from Peru. 

OMB Control Number: None. 

Form Number(s): None. 

Type of Request: Regular submission 

(new information collection). 

Number of Respondents: 6 (1 for 

Request; 5 for Comments). 

Average Hours per Response: 4 hours 

for a Request; and 4 hours for each 

Comment. 

Burden Hours: 24. 

Needs and Uses: Title III, Subtitle B, 

Section 321 through Section 328 of the 

United States-Peru Free Trade 

Agreement Implementation Act (the 

‘‘Act’’) implements the textile and 

apparel safeguard provisions, provided 

for in Article 3.1 of the United StatesPeru Free Trade Agreement (the 

‘‘Agreement’’). This safeguard 

mechanism applies when, as a result of 

the elimination of a customs duty under 

the Agreement, a Peruvian textile or 

apparel article is being imported into 

the United States in such increased 

quantities, in absolute terms or relative 

to the domestic market for that article, 

and under such conditions as to cause 

serious damage or actual threat thereof 

to a U.S. industry producing a like or 

directly competitive article. In these 

circumstances, Article 3.1 permits the 

United States to increase duties on the 

imported article from Peru to a level 

that does not exceed the lesser of the 

prevailing U.S. normal trade relations 

(NTR)/most-favored-nation (MFN) duty 

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rate for the article or the U.S. NTR/MFN 

duty rate in effect on the day before the 

Agreement entered into force. 

The Statement of Administrative 

Action accompanying the Act provides 

that the Committee for the 

Implementation of Textile Agreements 

(CITA) will issue procedures for 

requesting such safeguard measures, for 

making its determinations under section 

322(a) of the Act, and for providing 

relief under section 322(b) of the Act. 

In Proclamation No. 8332 (73 FR 

80289, December 31, 2008), the 

President delegated to CITA his 

authority under Subtitle B of Title III of 

the Act with respect to textile and 

apparel safeguard measures. 

CITA must collect information in 

order to determine whether a domestic 

textile or apparel industry is being 

adversely impacted by imports of these 

products from Peru, thereby allowing 

CITA to take corrective action to protect 

the viability of the domestic textile or 

apparel industry, subject to section 

322(b) of the Act. 

Affected Public: Individuals or 

households; business or other for-profit 

organizations. 

Frequency: On occasion. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary. 

OMB Desk Officer: Wendy Liberante, 

(202) 395–3647. 

Copies of the above information 

collection proposal can be obtained by 

calling or writing Diana Hynek, 

Departmental Paperwork Clearance 

Officer, (202) 482–0266, Department of 

Commerce, Room 6616, 14th and 

Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, 

DC 20230 (or via the Internet at 

dHynek@doc.gov. 

Written comments and 

recommendations for the proposed 

information collection should be sent 

within 30 days of publication of this 

notice to Wendy Liberante, OMB Desk 

Officer, Fax number (202) 395–5167 or 

via the Internet at 

Wendy_L._Liberante@omb.eop.gov. 

Dated: October 6, 2010. 

Gwellnar Banks, 

Management Analyst, Office of the Chief 

Information Officer. 

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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–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: U.S. Census Bureau. 

Title: Generic Clearance for Data User 

Evaluation Surveys. 

Form Number(s): Various. 

OMB Control Number: 0607–0760. 

Type of Request: Extension of a 

currently approved collection. 

Burden Hours: 30,000. 

Number of Respondents: 360,000. 

Average Hours per Response: Varies 

by survey. 

Needs and Uses: The U.S. Census 

Bureau plans to extend for an additional 

three years its generic clearance to 

conduct customer/product-based 

research. This extension will allow us to 

continue to use customer satisfaction 

surveys, personal interviews, or focus 

group research to effectively improve 

and make more customer-oriented 

programs, products, and services. 

Extended clearance for data 

collections would continue to cover 

customer/program-based research for 

any Census Bureau program area that 

needs to measure customer needs, uses, 

and preferences for statistical 

information and services. The customer 

base includes, but is not limited to 

previous, existing, and potential 

businesses and organizations, alternate 

Census Bureau data disseminators like 

State Data Centers, Business and 

Industry Data Centers, Census 

Information Centers, Federal or Census 

Depository Libraries, educational 

institutions, and not-for-profit or other 

organizations. 

Information collected from customer 

research helps the Census Bureau to 

measure its customer base—their use, 

satisfaction, and preferences for existing 

and future programs, products and 

services. 

Proposals for specific collections 

under this generic clearance are 

submitted to the Office of Management 

and Budget (OMB) for review a 

minimum of two weeks prior to their 

planned start date. A year-end report is 

submitted annually to OMB 

summarizing activity under the 

clearance for the preceding year. 

Affected Public: Various. 

Frequency: On occasion. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary. 

Legal Authority: Data Executive Order 

12862. 

OMB Desk Officer: Brian HarrisKojetin, (202) 395–7314. 

Copies of the above information 

collection proposal can be obtained by 

calling or writing Diana Hynek, 

Departmental Paperwork Clearance 

Officer, (202) 482–0266, Department of 

Commerce, Room 6616, 14th and 

Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, 

DC 20230 (or via the Internet at 

dhynek@doc.gov). 

Written comments and 

recommendations for the proposed 

information collection should be sent 

within 30 days of publication of this 

notice to Brian Harris-Kojetin, OMB 

Desk Officer either by fax (202–395– 

7245) or e-mail (bharrisk@omb.eop.gov). 

Dated: October 7, 2010. 

Glenna Mickelson, 

Management Analyst, Office of the Chief 

Information Officer. 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Patent and Trademark Office 

Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request 

The United States Patent and 

Trademark Office (USPTO) 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: United States Patent and 

Trademark Office (USPTO). 

Title: United States Patent Applicant 

Survey. 

Form Number(s): None. 

Agency Approval Number: 0651– 

0052. 

Type of Request: Extension of a 

currently approved collection. 

Burden: 140 hours annually. 

Number of Respondents: 400 

responses per year, with an estimated 

267 responses filed electronically. 

Avg. Hours per Response: The USPTO 

estimates that it will take the public 30 

minutes (0.50 hours) to complete the 

surveys, with the exception of the 

surveys for the independent inventors, 

which are estimated to take 15 minutes 

(0.25 hours) to complete. This includes 

the time to gather the necessary 

information, respond to the surveys, and 

submit them to the USPTO. The USPTO 

estimates that it will take the same 

amount of time to respond to the 

surveys, whether they are completed 

online or mailed to the USPTO. 

Needs and Uses: The USPTO 

developed the United States Patent 

Applicant Survey as part of a continuing 

effort to better predict the future growth 

of patent application filings by 

understanding applicant intentions. The 

main purpose of this survey is to 

determine the number of application 

filings that the USPTO can expect to 

receive over the next three years from 

patent-generating entities, ranging from 

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