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Comment 3 - Income Offsets to General 

and Administrative Expenses 

Comment 4 - Financial–Expense Ratio 

[FR Doc. E9–16655 Filed 7–13–09; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

RIN 0648–XF22 

Marine Mammals; File No. 775–1875 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice; issuance of permit 

amendment. 

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that 

NMFS Northeast Fisheries Science 

Center (NEFSC), Woods Hole, MA, has 

been issued a major amendment to 

Permit No. 775–1875 for research on 

marine mammals. 

ADDRESSES: The permit amendment and 

related documents are available for 

review upon written request or by 

appointment in the following office(s): 

Permits, Conservation and Education 

Division, Office of Protected Resources, 

NMFS, 1315 East-West Highway, Room 

13705, Silver Spring, MD 20910; phone 

(301)713–2289; fax (301)713–0376; and 

Northeast Region, NMFS, 55 Great 

Republic Drive, Gloucester, MA 01930; 

phone (978)281–9300; fax (978)281– 

9333. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Carrie Hubard or Tammy Adams, 

(301)713–2289. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On April 

14, 2009, notice was published in the 

Federal Register (74 FR 17165) that a 

request for an amendment to Permit No. 

775–1875 to conduct research on harbor 

seals (Phoca vitulina) and gray seals 

(Halichoerus grypus) on rookeries and 

haulouts in the northeastern U.S. had 

been submitted by the above-named 

applicant. The requested permit 

amendment has been issued under the 

authority of the Marine Mammal 

Protection Act of 1972, as amended (16 

U.S.C. 1361 et seq.) and the regulations 

governing the taking and importing of 

marine mammals (50 CFR part 216). 

The amended permit authorizes an 

increase in the number of harbor seals 

and gray seals that may be harassed 

incidental to scat collection from 5,000 

and 2,000 respectively, to 20,000 per 

species annually. It also authorizes 

collection of an additional 30 harbor 

seal pup carcasses per year found 

during research activities. 

In compliance with the National 

Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 

U.S.C. 4321 et seq.), an environmental 

assessment (EA) was prepared analyzing 

the effects of the permitted activities on 

the human environment. Based on the 

analyses in the EA, NMFS determined 

that issuance of the permit would not 

significantly impact the quality of the 

human environment and that 

preparation of an environmental impact 

statement was not required. That 

determination is documented in a 

Finding of No Significant Impact, signed 

on July 7, 2009. 

Dated: July 8, 2009. 

Tammy C. Adams, 

Acting Chief, Permits, Conservation and 

Education Division, Office of Protected 

Resources, National Marine Fisheries Service. 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Institute of Standards and 

Technology 

Partially Closed Meeting of the 

Information Security and Privacy 

Advisory Board 

AGENCY: National Institute of Standards 

and Technology, Department of 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice of partially closed 

meeting. 

SUMMARY: The Director of the National 

Institute of Standards and Technology 

announces that the Information Security 

and Privacy Advisory Board will meet 

Wednesday, July 29, 2009 from 8:30 

a.m.. until 5 p.m., Thursday, July 30, 

2009, from 8:30 a.m. until 5 p.m., and 

Friday, July 31, 2009 from 8 a.m. until 

4 p.m. The portion of the meeting held 

from 1 p.m. until 4 p.m. on Friday July 

31, 2009 will be closed to the public. 

DATES: The meeting will be held on July 

29, 2009, from 8:30 a.m. until 5 p.m., 

July 30, 2009, from 8:30 a.m. until 5 

p.m. and July 31, 2009, from 8 a.m. until 

4 p.m. The portion of the meeting held 

from 1 p.m. until 4 p.m. on Friday July 

31, 2009 will be closed to the public. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will take place 

at the George Washington University 

Cafritz Conference Center, 800 21st 

Street, NW., Room 403, Washington, DC 

on July 29, 30, & 31, 2009. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. 

Pauline Bowen, ISPAB Secretariat, 

Information Technology Laboratory, 

National Institute of Standards and 

Technology, 100 Bureau Drive, Stop 

8930, Gaithersburg, MD 20899–8930, 

telephone: (301) 975–2938. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant 

to the Federal Advisory Committee Act, 

5 U.S.C. App., notice is hereby given 

that the Information Security and 

Privacy Advisory Board (ISPAB) will 

meet Wednesday, July 29, 2009 from 

8:30 a.m. until 5 p.m., Thursday, July 

30, 2009, from 8:30 a.m. until 5 p.m., 

and Friday, July 31, 2009 from 8 a.m. 

until 4 p.m. The portion of the meeting 

held from 1 p.m. until 4 p.m. on Friday 

July 31, 2009 will be closed to the 

public. 

The Assistant Secretary for 

Administration, with the concurrence of 

the Assistant General Counsel for 

Administration, formally determined on 

July 9, 2009, that a portion of the 

meeting of the Information Security and 

Privacy Advisory Board that involves 

discussions regarding classified 

information about the 60 Day 

Cybersecurity Report may be closed in 

accordance with 5 U.S.C. 552b(c)(1). All 

individuals attending the closed portion 

of the meeting must provide proof of 

clearance status before attending the 

meeting. All other portions of this 

meeting will be open to the public. The 

closed portion of the meeting is 

scheduled to begin at 1 p.m. and to end 

at 4 p.m. on Friday, July 31, 2009. All 

other portions of the meeting will be 

open to the public. The agenda may 

change to accommodate Board business. 

The final agenda will be posted on the 

Web site http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/ 

SMA/ispab/index.html/. 

The ISPAB was established by the 

Computer Security Act of 1987 (Pub. L. 

100–235) and amended by the Federal 

Information Security Management Act 

of 2002 (Pub. L. 107–347) to advise the 

Secretary of Commerce and the Director 

of NIST on security and privacy issues 

pertaining to Federal computer systems. 

Details regarding the ISPAB’s activities 

are available at http://csrc.nist.gov/ 

groups/SMA/ispab/index.html/. 

Agenda: 

—Data.Gov Panel. 

—Cloud/Social Media Panel. 

—CNSS/DOD/NIST Collaborative work 

(SP 800–53 v3). 

—TIC External Connections. 

—Metrics. 

—Software Assurance and Supply 

Chain. 

—Privacy Report. 

—National Protection and Programs 

Directorate Briefing. 

—Information Assurance. 

—Board Discussion and Work Plans. 

—Discussion of 60 Day Report (closed 

session). 

Note that agenda items may change 

without notice because of possible 

unexpected schedule conflicts of 

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presenters. The final agenda will be 

posted on the Web site indicated above. 

Public Participation: The ISPAB 

agenda will include a period of time, 

not to exceed thirty minutes, for oral 

comments from the public (Thursday, 

July 30, 2009, at 3 p.m.—3:30 p.m.). 

Each speaker will be limited to five 

minutes. Members of the public who are 

interested in speaking are asked to 

contact the ISPAB Secretariat at the 

telephone number indicated above. In 

addition, written statements are invited 

and may be submitted to the ISPAB at 

any time. Written statements should be 

directed to the ISPAB Secretariat, 

Information Technology Laboratory, 100 

Bureau Drive, Stop 8930, National 

Institute of Standards and Technology, 

Gaithersburg, MD 20899–8930. 

Approximately 15 seats will be available 

for the public and media on July 29— 

31, 2009. 

Dated: July 9, 2009. 

Patrick Gallagher, 

Deputy Director. 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

Sponsoring ‘‘Sustainability and U.S. 

Competitiveness Summit’’ for U.S. 

Stakeholders; Request for Comments 

and Interest in Attendance 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments and interest in attendance. 

SUMMARY: The International Trade 

Administration’s Manufacturing and 

Services unit will sponsor a 

‘‘Sustainability and U.S. 

Competitiveness Summit’’ on October 8, 

2009 at the U.S. Department of 

Commerce. The Summit will be aimed 

at enhancing public-private interaction 

in the field of sustainable manufacturing 

and other related business practices. 

This notice (1) seeks input from 

individual U.S. stakeholders on areas of 

interest for discussion at the proposed 

‘‘Summit’’ and (2) solicits requests to 

participate in the Summit from U.S. 

stakeholders. 

DATES: Submit comments and requests 

to participate no later than 30 days after 

the date of this notice. 

ADDRESSES: Address all comments 

concerning this notice and requests to 

participate to Bill McElnea, U.S. 

Department of Commerce, Room 2213, 

1401 Constitution Ave., NW., 

Washington, DC 20230 (or via the 

Internet at susmanuf@mail.doc.gov). 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Bill 

McElnea, 202–482–2831. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

‘‘Sustainability and U.S. 

Competitiveness Summit’’ is sponsored 

by the Department of Commerce’s 

Sustainable Manufacturing Initiative 

(SMI). Commerce’s SMI is dedicated to 

supporting and promoting sustainable 

manufacturing practices, across all 

industry sectors, in the United States. 

The groundwork for the SMI was 

developed at an initial stakeholders’ 

event in September 2007 on sustainable 

manufacturing sponsored by 

Commerce’s Manufacturing and 

Services (MAS) unit. That event focused 

on two primary questions which remain 

central to the SMI mission: (1) What are 

U.S. industry’s most pressing 

sustainable manufacturing-related 

challenges? and (2) how can the public 

and private sectors best work together to 

address these challenges? MAS 

considered the individual stakeholder 

input received at that event in the 

formulation of the SMI’s four major 

project areas: (1) Creating a Subgroup on 

Sustainable Manufacturing as part of the 

Interagency Working Group on 

Manufacturing Competitiveness; (2) 

developing a comprehensive 

clearinghouse of USG programs and 

resources that support sustainable 

business practices; (3) conducting a 

series of regional facility tours of 

sustainable manufacturing leaders 

across the U.S. (formerly referred to as 

Sustainable Manufacturing American 

Regional Tours or SMARTs) and; (4) 

leading an effort with the Organization 

for Economic Cooperation and 

Development to establish sector-specific 

sustainable manufacturing metrics. For 

more information about the SMI and its 

projects, please see: 

www.manufacturing.gov/sustainability. 

The ‘‘Sustainability and U.S. 

Competitiveness Summit’’ is being 

designed with two main objectives in 

mind: (1) Reporting back to stakeholders 

on SMI projects completed since the 

September 2007 event, and (2) obtaining 

a second round of feedback from 

individual U.S. stakeholders regarding 

the present utility of the SMI and how 

it might evolve to meet the current and 

future needs of the U.S. manufacturing 

sector and broader business community. 

Regarding the second objective of the 

Summit, topic areas that could be 

discussed include, but are not limited 

to: ‘‘Green supply chain’’ challenges, 

regulatory compliance, the future nexus 

between U.S. competitiveness and 

environmental stewardship, how the 

SMI can support U.S. service providers 

in their sustainability efforts or 

incorporate their challenges and needs 

under the SMI mandate, and identifying 

U.S. regions where Commerce could 

conduct future regional facility tours 

similar to those held in 2008 and the 

Sustainability 360 event to be held July 

13, 2009 in Seattle, Washington. 

In preparation for the proposed event, 

MAS is requesting feedback from 

individual U.S. stakeholders on the 

following: 

• SMI policies and projects that have 

worked well and that should be 

continued; 

• Topic areas of interest to U.S. 

businesses with regard to sustainable 

manufacturing or other sustainable 

business issues which the SMI has not 

yet addressed. 

Due to logistical constraints, the 

Summit will be limited to 

approximately eighty to eighty-five nongovernment participants. MAS’s goal is 

that the Summit will present a diverse 

group of attendees in terms of 

affiliation, size, geographical base, and 

particular manufacturing sector. MAS 

encourages the participation of 

representatives of trade associations, 

U.S. businesses, academia, and other 

relevant U.S. entities that have a 

strategic interest in sustainable 

manufacturing as it relates to U.S. 

industry competitiveness. MAS will 

consider whether or not the requesting 

individual is from an association, 

organization or institution that 

maintains a substantial U.S. 

manufacturer member base and is well 

positioned to represent the views of 

small, medium and large size U.S. 

manufacturers in specific industry 

sectors. Finally, MAS invites the 

participation of members of the 

Secretary of Commerce’s Manufacturing 

Council and individuals who 

participated in or attended a regional 

facility tour in 2008 or a Sustainability 

360 event in 2009. 

Persons who express an interest in 

attending the Summit may, if they wish, 

provide information on their business or 

organization and why they believe they 

could make a useful contribution to this 

event. MAS’s decisions may also be 

based, in part, on publicly available 

information about the applicants. 

Dated: July 8, 2009. 

Bill McElnea, 

International Economist, Office of Trade 

Policy Analysis, Certifying Officer, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

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