Federal Register / Vol. 74, No. 120 / Wednesday, June 24, 2009 / Notices 30205 

published on April 11, 2000 (Volume 

65, Number 70; Pages 19477–78). 

Issued in Washington, DC on June 17, 

2009. 

Grady C. Cothen, Jr., 

Deputy Associate Administrator for Safety 

Standards and Program Development. 

[FR Doc. E9–14832 Filed 6–23–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–06–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY 

Office of Thrift Supervision 

[Docket ID: OTS–2009–0013] 

Open Meeting of the OTS Minority 

Depository Institutions Advisory 

Committee 

AGENCY: Department of the Treasury, 

Office of Thrift Supervision. 

ACTION: Notice of meeting. 

SUMMARY: The OTS Minority Depository 

Institutions Advisory Committee 

(MDIAC) will convene a meeting on 

Tuesday, July 7, 2009, at the Office of 

Thrift Supervision at 10 a.m. Central 

Time. The meeting will be open to the 

public. 

DATES: The meeting will be held on 

Tuesday, July 7, 2009, at 10 a.m. Central 

Time. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at 

the Office of Thrift Supervision, 1 South 

Wacker Drive, Suite 2000, Chicago, IL. 

The public is invited to make a three 

minute oral statement at the MDIAC 

meeting, or submit written statements to 

the MDIAC by any one of the following 

methods: 

• E-mail address: 

Commaffairs@ots.treas.gov; or 

• Mail: To Cassandra McConnell, 

Designated Federal Official, Office of 

Thrift Supervision, 1700 G Street, NW., 

Washington, DC 20552, in triplicate. 

The agency must receive written 

statements no later than June 30, 2009. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Cassandra McConnell, Designated 

Federal Official, (202) 906–5750, Office 

of Thrift Supervision, 1700 G Street, 

NW., Washington, DC 20552. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: By this 

notice, the Office of Thrift Supervision 

is announcing that the OTS Minority 

Depository Institutions Advisory 

Committee will convene a meeting on 

Tuesday, July 7, 2009, at the Office of 

Thrift Supervision, 1 South Wacker 

Drive, Suite 2000, Chicago, IL, 

beginning at 10 a.m. Central Time. The 

meeting will be open to the public. 

Because the meeting will be held in a 

secured facility with limited space, 

members of the public who plan to 

attend the meeting, and members of the 

public who require auxiliary aid, must 

contact the Office of Community Affairs 

at 202–906–7891 by 5 p.m. Eastern Time 

on Tuesday, June 30, 2009, to inform 

OTS of their desire to attend the 

meeting and to provide the information 

that will be required to facilitate entry 

into the building. To enter the building, 

attendees should provide a government 

issued ID (e.g., driver’s license, voter 

registration card, etc.) with their full 

name, date of birth, and address. The 

purpose of the meeting is to advise OTS 

on ways to meet the goals established by 

section 308 of the Financial Institutions 

Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act 

of 1989 (FIRREA), Public Law 101–73, 

Title III, 103 Stat. 353, 12 U.S.C.A. 1463 

note. The goals of section 308 are to 

preserve the present number of minority 

institutions, preserve the minority 

character of minority-owned institutions 

in cases involving mergers or 

acquisitions, provide technical 

assistance, and encourage the creation 

of new minority institutions. The 

meeting agenda will be posted to the 

Office of Thrift Supervision Web site at 

http://www.ots.gov. 

Dated: June 17, 2009. 

By the Office of Thrift Supervision. 

Cassandra E. McConnell, 

Designated Federal Official, OTS Minority 

Depository Institutions Advisory Committee. 

[FR Doc. E9–14767 Filed 6–23–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6720–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY 

Office of Foreign Assets Control 

Unblocking of Specially Designated 

Nationals and Blocked Persons 

Pursuant to Executive Order 12978 

AGENCY: Office of Foreign Assets 

Control, Treasury. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Treasury Department’s 

Office of Foreign Assets Control 

(‘‘OFAC’’) is publishing the names of 

four individuals whose property and 

interests in property have been 

unblocked pursuant to Executive Order 

12978 of October 21, 1995, Blocking 

Assets and Prohibiting Transactions 

With Significant Narcotics Traffickers. 

DATES: The unblocking and removal 

from the list of Specially Designated 

Nationals and Blocked Persons (‘‘SDN 

List’’) of the individuals identified in 

this notice whose property and interests 

in property were blocked pursuant to 

Executive Order 12978 of October 21, 

1995, is effective on June 10, 2009. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Assistant Director, Compliance 

Outreach & Implementation, Office of 

Foreign Assets Control, Department of 

the Treasury, Washington, DC 20220, 

tel.: 202/622–2420. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Electronic and Facsimile Availability 

This document and additional 

information concerning OFAC are 

available from OFAC’s Web site 

(http://www.treas.gov/ofac) via 

facsimile through a 24-hour fax-on 

demand service, tel.: (202) 622–0077. 

Background 

On October 21, 1995, the President, 

invoking the authority, inter alia, of the 

International Emergency Economic 

Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701–1706) 

(‘‘IEEPA’’), issued Executive Order 

12978 (60 FR 54579, October 24, 1995) 

(the ‘‘Order’’). In the Order, the 

President declared a national emergency 

to deal with the threat posed by 

significant foreign narcotics traffickers 

centered in Colombia and the harm that 

they cause in the United States and 

abroad. 

Section 1 of the Order blocks, with 

certain exceptions, all property and 

interests in property that are in the 

United States, or that hereafter come 

within the United States or that are or 

hereafter come within the possession or 

control of United States persons, of: (1) 

The persons listed in an Annex to the 

Order; (2) any foreign person 

determined by the Secretary of 

Treasury, in consultation with the 

Attorney General and Secretary of State: 

(a) To play a significant role in 

international narcotics trafficking 

centered in Colombia; or (b) to 

materially assist in, or provide financial 

or technological support for or goods or 

services in support of, the narcotics 

trafficking activities of persons 

designated in or pursuant to the Order; 

and (3) persons determined by the 

Secretary of the Treasury, in 

consultation with the Attorney General 

and the Secretary of State, to be owned 

or controlled by, or to act for or on 

behalf of, persons designated pursuant 

to the Order. 

On June 10, 2009, the Director of 

OFAC removed from the SDN List the 

four individuals listed below, whose 

property and interests in property were 

blocked pursuant to the Order. 

The listing of the unblocked 

individuals follows: 

RAMIREZ DE RAMOS, Amparo, c/o 

INVERSIETE S.A., Cali, Colombia; c/o 

INVERSIONES Y CONSTRUCCIONES 

ATLAS LTDA., Cali, Colombia; DOB 1