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LIST OF PETITIONS RECEIVED BY EDA FOR CERTIFICATION OF ELIGIBILITY TO APPLY FOR TRADE ADJUSTMENT 5/27/2009 

THROUGH 7/6/2009—Continued 

Firm Address Date accepted 

for filing Products 

Max Machinery, Inc. ................ 33A Healdsburg Avenue, 

Healdsburg, CA 95448.

6/25/2009 Precision flow measurement equipment. 

Double E Parent, LLC ............. 319 Manley Street, West, MA 

02379.

6/25/2009 Core chuck and core shaft products as well as other related 

mechanical tools and accessories. 

Worthen Industries, Inc ........... 3 East Spit Brook Road, 

Nashua, NH 03060.

6/29/2009 Industrial adhesives, coated fabric and paper and extruded 

film for various end uses. 

Eldorado Artesian Springs, Inc 1783 Dogwood Street, Louisville, CA 80027.6/19/2009 Natural spring water and enhanced vitamin water. 

Hartford House, Inc ................. 126 Anderson Circle, Alto, GA 

30510.

6/16/2009 Handcrafted furniture for both home and office. 

Highland Craftsmen Inc ........... 534 Oak Avenue, Spruce 

Pine, NC 28777.

6/25/2009 Wood shingles. 

Newmark Furniture Co., Inc. ... 300 Dewitt Avenue, Brooklyn, 

NY 11236.

6/25/2009 Custom wood interiors for residential homes including kitchen 

cabinets, vanities, libraries and paneling. 

RAE Corporation ..................... P.O. Box 1206, Pryor, OK 

74362.

6/29/2009 Air conditioning and refrigeration. 

Norris International Group, 

LLC.

42156 N. 10th St., West Unit 

R, Lancaster, CA 93534.

7/6/2009 Optical anti-identity theft and counterfeit protection devices. 

Performance Fibers, Inc .......... 338 Pea Ridge Road, New 

Hill, NC 27562.

7/1/2009 Industrial polyester yarns and tire yarns. 

Penz Products, Inc. ................. 1320 S. Merrifield Avenue, 

Mishawaka, IN 46544.

6/25/2009 Plastic and metal components. 

QMI, Inc. .................................. 4258 Zarrow, Pryor, OK 

74362.

6/25/2009 Custom converting, perforation machines. 

Segue Manufacturing Services, LLC.70 Industrial Avenue, Lowell, 

MA 01852.

6/29/2009 Full turnkey contract manufacturing solutions, utilizing low 

cost engineering, electro-mechanical design expertise, 

global sourcing, cable and harness manufacturing and inhouse machining capabilities. 

Tote Along Inc. ........................ P.O. Box 1222, Miami, OK 

74355.

6/24/2009 Soft luggage, garment bags, bags to store items. 

J&M Plating, Inc. ..................... 4500 Kishwaukee St., Rockford, IL 61109.5/27/2009 Heat treating, plating, sorting, specialty finishes and quality 

machine inspection services. 

McNally Industries, LLC .......... 5445 DTC Parkway, Greenwood, CO 80111.6/29/2009 Defense related equipment and aircraft components and 

parts for commercial aircraft. 

Any party having a substantial 

interest in these proceedings may 

request a public hearing on the matter. 

A written request for a hearing must be 

submitted to the Office of Performance 

Evaluation, Room 7009, Economic 

Development Administration, U.S. 

Department of Commerce, Washington, 

DC 20230, no later than ten (10) 

calendar days following publication of 

this notice. Please follow the procedures 

set forth in Section 315.9 of EDA’s final 

rule (71 FR 56704) for procedures for 

requesting a public hearing. The Catalog 

of Federal Domestic Assistance official 

program number and title of the 

program under which these petitions are 

submitted is 11.313, Trade Adjustment 

Assistance. 

Dated: July 8, 2009. 

William P. Kittredge, 

Program Officer for TAA. 

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CORPORATION FOR NATIONAL AND 

COMMUNITY SERVICE 

Protocol for Categorical Exclusions 

Under the National Environmental 

Policy Act for Programs Funded by the 

American Recovery and Reinvestment 

Act 

AGENCY: Corporation for National and 

Community Service. 

ACTION: Notice of interim final action 

and request for comments. 

SUMMARY: The Corporation for National 

and Community Service (the 

Corporation) has adopted an interim 

final protocol that categorically 

excludes national and community 

service programs funded under the 

American Recovery and Reinvestment 

Act of 2009 (Recovery Act) from the 

requirement of preparing environmental 

assessments or environmental impact 

statements under the National 

Environmental Policy Act, 42 U.S.C. 432 

et seq. (NEPA), because the programs do 

not individually or cumulatively have a 

significant effect on the human 

environment. Notice of the 

Corporation’s protocol satisfies the 

requirements of the Council for 

Environmental Quality’s (CEQ) NEPA 

regulations and facilitates reporting 

requirements under the Recovery Act. 

By adopting this protocol, the 

Corporation can better assure that 

urgently needed Recovery Act financial 

assistance is disbursed to eligible 

entities in a timely manner and that 

such funds are used and reported upon 

in accordance with the Recovery Act’s 

NEPA compliance provision. While this 

protocol is immediately effective upon 

publication, all comments will be 

reviewed and given full consideration in 

determining whether amendments to it 

are appropriate. 

DATES: Submit comments on or before 

August 14, 2009. 

ADDRESSES: Irshad Abdal-Haqq, 

Associate General Counsel, Corporation 

for National and Community Service, 

1201 New York Avenue, NW., Room 

10906, Washington, DC 20525; telefax at 

(202) 606–3467; TDD at (202) 682–5496; 

or by electronic mail at iabdalhaqq@cns.gov. 


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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Irshad Abdal-Haqq at (202) 606–6675. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 

1609 of the Recovery Act requires the 

President to report to Congress every 90 

days on the compliance with NEPA for 

projects and activities funded by the 

Recovery Act. To support this reporting 

requirement, agencies must, in turn, 

report to the CEQ on NEPA compliance 

for projects and activities funded by the 

Recovery Act. NEPA requires Federal 

agencies to prepare environmental 

assessments and environmental impact 

statements for major Federal actions that 

may ‘‘significantly affect the quality of 

the human environment.’’ NEPA 

requirements apply to Federal projects, 

decisions, or actions, including grants, 

that might have an impact on the quality 

of the human environment. NEPA also 

established the CEQ, which issued 

regulations implementing NEPA’s 

procedural provisions. Among other 

things, the CEQ NEPA regulations 

require Federal agencies to adopt 

implementing procedures to 

supplement the regulations, and to 

establish and use ‘‘categorical 

exclusions’’ to define categories of 

actions that do not individually or 

cumulatively have a significant effect on 

the human environment. A categorically 

excluded action does not require the 

preparation of an environmental 

assessment or environmental impact 

statement before it is carried out. The 

Corporation plans to develop and 

publish proposed NEPA procedures 

covering all of its programs in the near 

future. After considering comments 

submitted in response to this notice, 

this protocol for categorical exclusions 

will be included in the forthcoming 

proposed procedures. 

Environmental Impact of Corporation 

Programs 

Title VIII, Division A, of the Recovery 

Act provided additional funding to the 

Corporation’s preexisting AmeriCorps 

grantees and to support VISTA 

programs. Among other things, the 

Corporation funds grants and activities 

to support national and community 

service activities that meet the nation’s 

unmet human, educational, 

environmental, and public safety needs. 

The Corporation does not fund 

construction grants or other actions that 

would potentially have significant 

environmental effects. Therefore, 

Corporation-funded activities and 

programs that were in existence when 

the Recovery Act was enacted were not 

required to prepare environmental 

assessments or environmental impact 

statements as set out in the NEPA 

regulations (40 CFR part 1500). 

Consequently, the interim final protocol 

adopted by the Corporation identifies 

activities carried out under programs 

authorized under the national service as 

being categorically excluded from 

having to prepare environmental 

assessments and environmental impact 

statements. Note, however, that the 

interim final protocol also includes a 

procedure for reviewing extraordinary 

circumstances involving a specific 

grantee’s proposed service activities to 

ensure they do not have the potential for 

a significant impact on the environment 

and are therefore appropriately 

categorically excluded from further 

environmental review for NEPA 

purposes. 

For the reasons set out above, the 

Corporation for National and 

Community Service adopts the 

following interim final protocol: 

Protocol for the Categorical Exclusion 

of Activities Funded by the Corporation 

for National and Community Service 

Purpose: Establishment of National 

Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) 

categorical exclusions for national and 

community service activities and 

programs supported by the Corporation 

for National and Community Service 

(Corporation) and a process for 

addressing extraordinary circumstances. 

Categorical Exclusions 

The Corporation follows the 

regulations of the Council on 

Environmental Quality (CEQ) in 

complying with the requirements of 

NEPA. Pursuant to those regulations, 

the Corporation determines the 

following classes of activities as being 

categorically excluded: 

• Providing administrative and other 

support duties or planning or 

performing community service activities 

in any approved national and 

community service program authorized 

under the national services laws or the 

American Recovery and Reinvestment 

Act of 2009 (Recovery Act). These 

activities include: Tutoring and 

mentoring children and youth; working 

in afterschool programs; assisting out of 

work adults to find jobs; assisting with 

community development projects; 

managing community volunteer 

programs; providing health care support 

services; repairing or renovating 

housing; helping to erect homes for lowincome families; and assisting with 

wildlife and land conservation 

programs. 

Extraordinary Circumstances 

The following types of activity require 

the review and approval of the 

Corporation and may result in the 

requirement for an environmental 

assessment or environmental impact 

statement: 

1. Any activity for which there is a 

reasonable likelihood of significant 

effects on public health, safety or the 

environment (direct, indirect or 

cumulative). 

2. The imposition of uncertain or 

unique environmental risks that have 

not been pre-approved and reviewed 

under NEPA. 

3. Greater scope or size than is normal 

for this category of action. 

Process for Resolving Extraordinary 

Circumstances 

An appropriate Corporation 

representative (usually a program officer 

or grant officer) will contact the 

prospective grantee to clarify the full 

scope and nature of a proposed activity 

in order to determine whether it could 

in fact have a significant impact on the 

environment. If the Corporation 

determines that a proposed activity 

could have a significant impact on the 

environment, the Corporation will work 

with the prospective grantee to prepare 

for the Corporation the necessary 

analyses in accordance with the CEQ 

NEPA regulations regarding 

environmental assessments and 

environment impact statements and 

include any appropriate mitigation 

conditions for inclusion in the grant or 

other agreement prior to making a 

decision to provide the funding. 

Responsibilities 

The Corporation’s Chief Financial 

Officer or his or her authorized 

representative has the responsibility for 

assuring that all Corporation activities 

and programs, including those 

supported by the Recovery Act, are 

NEPA compliant. This includes 

coordinating the multidisciplinary 

review of a possible extraordinary 

circumstance, which involves 

individuals with legal, scientific, and 

other appropriate expertise, and 

working with prospective grantees in 

preparing appropriate NEPA analyses. 

Dated: July 10, 2009. 

William Anderson, 

Acting Chief Financial Officer, Corporation 

for National and Community Service. 

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