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1Notice of United States Postal Service Filing of 

Functionally Equivalent Global Direct Contracts 

Negotiated Service Agreement, May 1, 2009 

(Notice). 

2Notice at 1–2. See Docket No. MC2008–7, 

Request of the United States Postal Service To Add 

Global Plus 2 Negotiated Service Agreements to the 

Competitive Product List, and Notice of Filing 

(Under Seal) the Enabling Governors’ Decision and 

Two Functionally Equivalent Agreements, August 

8, 2008; Attachment A is a redacted version of 

Decision of the Governors of the United States 

Postal Service on the Establishment of Prices and 

Classifications for Global Direct, Global Bulk 

Economy, and Global Plus Contracts (Governors’ 

Decision No. 08–10), July 16, 2008. The Postal 

Service also filed under seal an unredacted version 

of the Governors’ Decision in that docket. 

3PRC Order No. 153, Order Concerning Global 

Direct Contracts Negotiated Service Agreements, 

December 19, 2008. 

4The Postal Service notes this agreement has the 

same one-year duration as the previously approved 

Global Direct Contract agreements. Notice at 5. 

Wednesday, May 27, 2009 

1:30 p.m. Briefing on Internal Safety 

Culture (Public Meeting) (Contact: 

June Cai, 301–415–5192). 

This meeting will be webcast live at 

the Web address—http://www.nrc.gov. 

Thursday, May 28, 2009 

9:30 a.m. Briefing on Fire Protection 

Closure Plan (Public Meeting) 

(Contact: Alex Klein, 301–415– 

2822). 

This meeting will be webcast live at 

the Web address—http://www.nrc.gov. 

Week of June 1, 2009—Tentative 

Wednesday, June 3, 2009 

9:30 a.m. Briefing on New Reactor 

Issues—Component Fabrication and 

Oversight—Part 1 (Public Meeting). 

1:30 p.m. Briefing on New Reactor 

Issues—Component Fabrication and 

Oversight—Part 2 (Public Meeting) 

(Contact for both parts: Roger Rihm, 

301–415–7807). 

Both parts of this meeting will be 

webcast live at the Web address— 

http://www.nrc.gov. 

Thursday, June 4, 2009 

9:30 a.m. Briefing on Digital 

Instrumentation and Control (Public 

Meeting) (Contact: Steve Arndt, 

301–415–6502). 

This meeting will be webcast live at 

the Web address—http://www.nrc.gov. 

1:30 p.m. Meeting with the Advisory 

Committee on Reactor Safeguards 

(Public Meeting) (Contact: Tanny 

Santos, 301–415–7270). 

This meeting will be webcast live at 

the Web address—http://www.nrc.gov. 

Week of June 8, 2009—Tentative 

There are no meetings scheduled for 

the week of June 8, 2009. 

Week of June 15, 2009—Tentative 

There are no meetings scheduled for 

the week of June 15, 2009. 

*The schedule for Commission 

meetings is subject to change on short 

notice. To verify the status of meetings, 

call (recording)—(301) 415–1292. 

Contact person for more information: 

Rochelle Bavol, (301) 415–1651. 

The NRC Commission Meeting 

Schedule can be found on the Internet 

at: http://www.nrc.gov/about-nrc/policymaking/schedule.html. 

The NRC provides reasonable 

accommodation to individuals with 

disabilities where appropriate. If you 

need a reasonable accommodation to 

participate in these public meetings, or 

need this meeting notice or the 

transcript or other information from the 

public meetings in another format (e.g. 

braille, large print), please notify the 

NRC’s Disability Program Coordinator, 

Rohn Brown, at 301–492–2279, TDD: 

301–415–2100, or by e-mail at 

rohn.brown@nrc.gov. Determinations on 

requests for reasonable accommodation 

will be made on a case-by-case basis. 

This notice is distributed 

electronically to subscribers. If you no 

longer wish to receive it, or would like 

to be added to the distribution, please 

contact the Office of the Secretary, 

Washington, DC 20555 (301–415–1969), 

or send an e-mail to 

darlene.wright@nrc.gov. 

Dated: May 7, 2009. 

Rochelle C. Bavol, 

Office of the Secretary. 

[FR Doc. E9–11129 Filed 5–8–09; 11:15 am] 

BILLING CODE 7590–01–P 

POSTAL REGULATORY COMMISSION 

[Docket No. CP2009–29; Order No. 210] 

Global Direct Contracts (MC2009–9) 

Agreement 

AGENCY: Postal Regulatory Commission. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Commission is noticing a 

recently filed Postal Service request to 

add an additional Global Direct 

Contracts agreement to the Competitive 

Product List. This notice addresses 

procedural steps associated with this 

filing. 

DATES: Comments are due May 13, 2009. 

ADDRESSES: Submit comments 

electronically via the Commission’s 

Filing Online system at http:// 

www.prc.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Stephen L. Sharfman, General Counsel, 

202–789–6820 and 

stephen.sharfman@prc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

On May 1, 2009, the Postal Service 

filed a notice announcing that it has 

entered into an additional Global Direct 

Contracts agreement.1 Global Direct 

Contracts provide a rate for mail 

acceptance within the United States, 

transportation to a receiving country of 

mail that bears the destination country’s 

indicia and payment by the Postal 

Service of the appropriate settlement 

charges to the receiving country. The 

Postal Service believes the instant 

agreement is functionally equivalent to 

previously submitted Global Direct 

agreements, and supported by the 

Governors’ Decision filed in Docket No. 

MC2008–7.2 The Postal Service 

contends that the instant agreement 

should be included within the Global 

Direct Contracts product. 

The instant agreement. The Postal 

Service filed the instant agreement 

pursuant to 39 CFR 3015.5. In addition, 

the Postal Service contends that the 

agreement is in accordance with PRC 

Order No. 153.3 It submitted the 

agreement and supporting material 

under seal, and attached a redacted 

copy of the certified statement required 

by 39 CFR 3015.5(c)(2) to the Notice. 

The Notice provides the Postal 

Service’s rationale for concluding that 

the instant agreement is functionally 

equivalent to the agreements filed in 

Docket Nos. CP2009–10, CP2009–11 and 

CP2009–18. Id. at 2–6. 

The Postal Service states that the 

instant agreement fits within the Mail 

Classification Schedule language for 

Global Direct Contracts, and indicates 

that this agreement is set to expire 1 

year after its effective date which the 

Postal Service states will be within 30 

days of completion of all regulatory 

approvals.4

The Postal Service asserts that ‘‘[i]n 

almost all substantive respects’’ the 

instant agreement ‘‘resembles the 

contract in Docket No. CP2009–11[.]’’ 

Id. at 4. It notes that the agreement 

contains a volume commitment, 

whereas the agreement in Docket No. 

CP2009–11 has a postage commitment. 

Notwithstanding any differences in 

prices, foreign services offered, foreign 

destinations, or volume or postage 

commitments, the Postal Service 

contends that the instant agreement is 

functionally equivalent to Global Direct 

agreements filed previously. Id. at 4–5. 

It characterizes other differences from 

previous Global Direct agreements as 

cosmetic or minor, having no effect on 


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the agreement’s ‘‘essential cost or 

market characteristics.’’ Id. at 6. 

Lastly, the Postal Service notes that 

the agreement contains provisions that 

provide certain automatic price changes 

triggered by objective, external factors. It 

argues that ‘‘[t]he formulaic, preestablished nature of such changes 

essentially removes them from the area 

of Postal Service discretion.’’ Id. at 5, 

n.8. Consequently, the Postal Service 

asserts that such changes do not 

represent price changes under 39 CFR 

3015.5. Thus, in lieu of filing under rule 

3015.5, it ‘‘proposes to file such changes 

with the Commission on a notice-type 

basis, without the expectation that the 

filings should lead to further 

proceedings or review.’’ Id. 

II. Notice of Filing 

The Commission establishes Docket 

No. CP2009–29 for consideration of 

matters related to the agreement 

identified in the Postal Service’s Notice. 

Interested persons may submit 

comments on whether the Postal 

Service’s agreement is consistent with 

the policies of 39 U.S.C. 3632, 3633, or 

3642. Comments are due no later than 

May 13, 2009. The public portions of 

these filings can be accessed via the 

Commission’s Web site (http:// 

www.prc.gov). 

The Commission appoints Michael J. 

Ravnitzky to serve as Public 

Representative in the captioned filings. 

It Is Ordered: 

1. The Commission establishes Docket 

No. CP2009–29 for consideration of the 

matters raised in this docket. 

2. Pursuant to 39 U.S.C. 505, Michael 

J. Ravnitzky is appointed to serve as 

officer of the Commission (Public 

Representative) to represent the 

interests of the general public in these 

proceedings. 

3. Comments by interested persons in 

these proceedings are due no later than 

May 13, 2009. 

4. The Secretary shall arrange for 

publication of this order in the Federal 

Register. 

By the Commission. 

Steven W. Williams, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. E9–11060 Filed 5–11–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7710–FW–P 

POSTAL SERVICE 

Privacy Act of 1974, System of 

Records 

AGENCY: Postal ServiceTM. 

ACTION: Notice of modification to 

existing systems of records. 

SUMMARY: The United States Postal 

Service® is proposing to modify three of 

its Privacy Act Systems of Records: 

USPS 810.200, http://www.usps.gov 

Ordering, Payment, and Fulfillment; 

USPS 880.000, Post Office and Retail 

Services; and USPS 900.000, 

International Services. The proposed 

modifications reflect changes regarding 

how Customs declaration forms are 

collected, analyzed, and reported to 

appropriate Federal authorities. The 

proposed modifications to USPS 

880.000, Post Office and Retail Services, 

reflect administrative updates as well as 

the sharing of certain claims data with 

foreign posts as a result of changes to 

title 39 of the United States Code. 

DATES: Any interested party may submit 

written comments on the proposed 

modifications. The proposed 

modifications will become effective 

without further notice on June 22, 2009 

unless comments received on or before 

that date result in a contrary 

determination. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments on this 

proposal should be mailed or delivered 

to the Records Office, U.S. Postal 

Service, 475 L’Enfant Plaza SW., Room 

5801, Washington, DC 20260. Copies of 

all written comments will be available 

for public inspection and photocopying 

at the above address between 8 a.m. and 

4 p.m. Monday through Friday. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jane 

Eyre at 202–268–2608. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In this 

notice, USPS® is modifying three 

existing systems of records pursuant to 

the Privacy Act of 1974, 5 U.S.C. 552a: 

USPS 810.200, http://www.usps.com 

Ordering, Payment, and Fulfillment; 

USPS 880.000, Post Office and Retail 

Services; and USPS 900.000, 

International Services. These changes 

add a routine use to allow disclosure of 

certain Customs declaration information 

to the Office of Foreign Assets Control 

(OFAC) and other entities charged with 

enforcing foreign asset control policies, 

and to the U.S. Census Bureau (Census) 

for trade reporting purposes. The 

changes also add a routine use to permit 

disclosure of claims payment 

information to foreign posts. These 

changes are proposed for the reasons 

discussed below. 

I. Background 

Currently, USPS® provides Customs 

declaration information to U.S. Customs 

and Border Protection (Customs) 

pursuant to Federal law. The OFAC and 

the Census have advised the Postal 

ServiceTM of requirements to provide 

certain information collected on the 

Customs declaration forms and other 

records to their agencies. Consequently, 

we have revised the notices for Systems 

of Records that relate to Customs 

declarations. We have added 39 U.S.C. 

407 as an additional authority for 

collection of this information. Changes 

to USPS 880.000 include revisions to 

retention periods for records and reflect 

changes within the organization. 

II. Rationale for Changes to USPS 

Privacy Act Systems of Records 

The OFAC is a regulatory office 

within the Department of the Treasury 

responsible for, among other things, 

promulgating, developing, and 

administering economic and trade 

sanctions against certain foreign 

countries. Some OFAC regulations 

apply to the Postal Service’s handling of 

mail destined to these foreign countries. 

The International Emergency 

Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), 50 

U.S.C. 1701–1706, authorizes the 

President to identify and respond to 

unusual or extraordinary threats 

originating outside the United States. 

Under this authority, President William 

Clinton issued Executive Orders 12957, 

12959, and 13059, each of which 

prohibits specific transactions 

(including shipments of certain goods) 

with respect to the designated countries. 

In response to these orders, OFAC 

issued comprehensive regulations 

governing such shipments and 

transactions (31 CFR Chapter V). The 

Postal ServiceTM is subject to these 

regulations and must implement 

procedures to ensure compliance. 

Procedures include the capture of 

Customs information for certain 

mailpieces, the transmission of 

information to the OFAC (31 CFR 

501.602), and the retention of related 

records for at least 5 years (31 CFR 

501.601). 

A prior Federal Register notice, dated 

May 6, 2005 (70 FR 24128–24129), 

established that Customs information 

may be disclosed to appropriate U.S. 

Customs officials under Privacy Act 

System of Records USPS 900.000, 

International Services, and, to the extent 

necessary, USPS 810.200, http:// 

www.usps.com Ordering, Payment, and 

Fulfillment. These systems of records 

have been modified to add a routine use 

allowing disclosure to the OFAC. 

Pursuant to 13 U.S.C. 301–309, the 

Census is responsible for collecting 

statistical data on foreign trade. While 

the mail has historically been exempt 

from this program, the Foreign Relations 

Authorization Act of 2002 (Pub. L. 107– 

228) amended 13 U.S.C. 303 to end the 

exemption. As a result, the Postal 

ServiceTM and its customers are now 

subject to the filing requirements in 


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