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Notices Federal Register

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Vol. 74, No. 16 

Tuesday, January 27, 2009 

AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT 

FOUNDATION 

Board of Directors Meeting 

Meeting: African Development 

Foundation, Board of Directors Meeting. 

Time: Tuesday, February 3, 2009, 9 

a.m. to 1 p.m. 

Place: African Development 

Foundation, Conference Room, 1400 I 

Street, NW., Suite 1000, Washington, 

DC 20005. 

Dates: Tuesday, February 3, 2009. 

Status: 

1. Open session, Tuesday, February 3, 

2009, 9 a.m. to 12:05 p.m.; and 

2. Executive session, Tuesday, 

February 3, 2009, 12:10 p.m. to 1 p.m. 

Due to security requirements and 

limited seating, all individuals wishing 

to attend the open session of the 

meeting must notify Doris Martin, 

General Counsel, at (202) 673–3916 or 

Michele M. Rivard at 

mrivard@usadf.gov of your request to 

attend by 4 p.m. on Friday, January 30, 

2009. 

Lloyd O. Pierson, 

President. 

[FR Doc. E9–1752 Filed 1–26–09; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Food Safety and Inspection Service 

[Docket No. FSIS–2008–0042] 

Codex Alimentarius Commission: 

Meeting of the Codex Committee on 

Food Additives 

AGENCY: Office of the Under Secretary 

for Food Safety, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice of public meeting and 

request for comments. 

SUMMARY: The Office of the Under 

Secretary for Food Safety, U.S. 

Department of Agriculture (USDA), and 

the Food and Drug Administration 

(FDA), U.S. Department of Health and 

Human Services, are sponsoring a 

public meeting on February 10, 2009. 

The objective of the public meeting is to 

provide information and receive public 

comments on agenda items and draft 

United States positions that will be 

discussed at the 41st Session of the 

Codex Committee on Food Additives 

(CCFA) of the Codex Alimentarius 

Commission (Codex), which will be 

held in Shanghai, China, on March 16– 

20, 2009. The Under Secretary for Food 

Safety and FDA recognize the 

importance of providing interested 

parties the opportunity to obtain 

background information on the 41st 

Session of the CCFA and to address 

items on the agenda. 

DATES: The public meeting is scheduled 

for Tuesday, February 10, 2009, from 1 

p.m. to 4 p.m. 

ADDRESSES: The public meeting will be 

held in the auditorium (Room 1A003), 

Harvey W. Wiley Federal Building, 

FDA, Center for Food Safety and 

Applied Nutrition (CFSAN), 5100 Paint 

Branch Highway, College Park MD 

20740. Documents related to the 41st 

Session of the CCFA are accessible via 

the World Wide Web at the following 

address: http://www. 

codexalimentarius.net/current.asp. 

The U.S. Delegate to the CCFA, Dr. 

Dennis Keefe, invites interested U.S. 

parties to submit their comments 

electronically to the following e-mail 

address: ccfa@fda.hhs.gov. Registration: 

Attendees may register electronically 

to the same e-mail address above by 

February 6, 2009. Early registration is 

encouraged because it will expedite 

entry into the building and its parking 

area. If you require parking, please 

include the vehicle make and tag 

number when you register. Because the 

meeting will be held in a Federal 

building, you should also bring photo 

identification and plan for adequate 

time to pass through security screening 

systems. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ABOUT THE

41ST SESSION OF THE CCFA CONTACT: 

Dennis Keefe, Office of Food Additive 

Safety (HFS–205), CFSAN, FDA, 5100 

Paint Branch Parkway, College Park, MD 

20740. Phone: (301) 436–1284, 

Fax: (301) 436–2972, e-mail: 

dennis.keefe@fda.hhs.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ABOUT THE

PUBLIC MEETING CONTACT: Doreen ChenMoulec, International Issues Analyst, 

U.S. Codex Office, Food Safety and 

Inspection Service (FSIS), Room 4865, 

South Building, 1400 Independence Ave 

SW., Washington, DC 20250. Phone: 

(202) 250–7760, Fax: (202) 720–3157, 

e-mail: doreen.chen-moulec@fsis. 

usda.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

The Codex Alimentarius (Codex) was 

established in 1963 by two United 

Nations organizations, the Food and 

Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the 

World Health Organization (WHO). 

Through adoption of food standards, 

codes of practice, and other guidelines 

developed by its committees, and by 

promoting their adoption and 

implementation by governments, Codex 

seeks to protect the health of consumers 

and ensure that fair practices are used 

in trade. 

The CCFA was established to set or 

endorse maximum levels for individual 

food additives; prepare priority lists of 

food additives for risk assessment by the 

Joint FAO and WHO Expert Committee 

on Food Additives (JECFA); assign 

functional classes to individual food 

additives; recommend specifications of 

identity and purity for food additives for 

adoption by the Commission; consider 

methods of analysis for the 

determination of additives in food; and 

consider and elaborate standards or 

codes for related subjects such as the 

labeling of food additives when sold as 

such. The Committee is hosted by the 

People’s Republic of China. 

Issues To Be Discussed at the Public 

Meeting 

The following items on the agenda for 

the 41st Session of the CCFA will be 

discussed during the public meeting: 

• Matters Referred to the Committee 

from the Codex Alimentarius 

Commission and other Codex Bodies; 

• Matters of Interest Arising from the 

FAO, WHO, and JECFA; 

• Endorsement or Revision of 

Maximum Levels for Food Additives 

and Processing Aids in Codex 

Standards; 

• Consideration of the Codex General 

Standard for Food Additives (GSFA); 

• Discussion Paper on the Scope of 

Certain Food Categories of the GSFA; 

• Discussion Paper on the 

Identification of Problems and 

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Recommendations Related to 

Inconsistent Presentation of Food 

Additive Provisions in Codex 

Commodity Standards; 

• Discussion Paper on Inconsistencies 

in the Names of Compounds in the 

Codex Specifications for Identity and 

Purity of Food Additives and in the 

International Numbering System for 

Food Additives; 

• Proposed Draft Guidelines and 

Principles for Substances Used as 

Processing Aids; 

• International Numbering System 

(INS) for Food Additives; 

• Specifications for the Identity and 

Purity of Food Additives; and 

• Priority List of Food Additives 

Proposed for Evaluation by the JECFA 

Each item listed above will be fully 

described in documents distributed, or 

to be distributed, by the Codex 

Secretariat prior to the March 16–20, 

2009, meeting in Shanghai, China. 

Members of the public may access 

copies of these documents from http:// 

www.codexalimentarius.net/ 

current.asp. 

Public Meeting 

At the February 10, 2009, public 

meeting, draft U.S. positions on the 

agenda items will be described and 

discussed, and attendees will have the 

opportunity to pose questions and offer 

comments. Written comments may be 

offered at the meeting or sent to the U.S. 

Delegate for the CCFA, Dr. Dennis Keefe 

at dennis.keefe@fda.hhs.gov. Written 

comments should state that they relate 

to activities of the 41st Session of the 

CCFA. 

Additional Public Notification 

Public awareness of all segments of 

rulemaking and policy development is 

important. Consequently, in an effort to 

ensure that minorities, women, and 

persons with disabilities are aware of 

this notice, FSIS will announce it online 

through the FSIS Web page located at 

http://www.fsis.usda.gov/regulations/ 

2009_Notices_Index/. FSIS will also 

make copies of this Federal Register 

publication available through the FSIS 

Constituent Update, which is used to 

provide information regarding FSIS 

policies, procedures, regulations, 

Federal Register notices, FSIS public 

meetings, and other types of information 

that could affect or would be of interest 

to constituents and stakeholders. The 

Update is communicated via Listserv, a 

free electronic mail subscription service 

for industry, trade groups, consumer 

interest groups, health professionals, 

and other individuals who have asked 

to be included. The Update is also 

available on the FSIS Web page. 

Through the Listserv and Web page, 

FSIS is able to provide information to a 

much broader and more diverse 

audience. In addition, FSIS offers an 

electronic mail subscription service 

which provides automatic and 

customized access to selected food 

safety news and information. This 

service is available at http:// 

www.fsis.usda.gov/news_and_events/ 

email_subscription/. Options range from 

recalls to export information to 

regulations, directives and notices. 

Customers can add or delete 

subscriptions themselves, and have the 

option to password protect their 

accounts. 

Done at Washington, DC, on: January 22, 

2009. 

Paulo Almeida, 

U.S. Associate Manager for Codex 

Alimentarius. 

[FR Doc. E9–1726 Filed 1–26–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–DM–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Office of the Secretary 

Estimates of the Voting Age 

Population for 2008 

AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, 

Commerce. 

ACTION: General Notice Announcing 

Population Estimates. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces the 

voting age population estimates, as of 

July 1, 2008, for each state and the 

District of Columbia. We are providing 

this notice in accordance with the 1976 

amendment to the Federal Election 

Campaign Act, Title 2, United States 

Code, Section 441a(e). 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Enrique Lamas, Chief, Population 

Division, U.S. Census Bureau, Room 

HQ–5H174, Washington, DC 20233, at 

(301) 763–2071. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the 

requirements of the 1976 amendment to 

the Federal Election Campaign Act, 

Title 2, United States Code, Section 

441a(e), I hereby give notice that the 

estimates of the voting age population 

for July 1, 2008, for each state and the 

District of Columbia are as shown in the 

following table. 

ESTIMATES OF THE POPULATION OF VOTING AGE FOR EACH STATE AND THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: JULY 1, 2008 

Area Population 18 

and over Area Population 18 and over 

United States ............................................................ 230,117,876 

Alabama .................................................................... 3,540,023 Missouri .................................................................... 4,490,136 

Alaska ....................................................................... 506,417 Montana ................................................................... 747,082 

Arizona ...................................................................... 4,792,959 Nebraska .................................................................. 1,336,437 

Arkansas ................................................................... 2,152,909 Nevada ..................................................................... 1,932,366 

California ................................................................... 27,392,136 New Hampshire ....................................................... 1,022,451 

Colorado .................................................................... 3,732,321 New Jersey .............................................................. 6,635,079 

Connecticut ............................................................... 2,689,039 New Mexico ............................................................. 1,481,906 

Delaware ................................................................... 666,863 New York ................................................................. 15,082,281 

District of Columbia ................................................... 479,817 North Carolina .......................................................... 6,978,737 

Florida ....................................................................... 14,324,069 North Dakota ............................................................ 498,433 

Georgia ..................................................................... 7,136,903 Ohio .......................................................................... 8,755,533 

Hawaii ....................................................................... 1,002,955 Oklahoma ................................................................. 2,736,326 

Idaho ......................................................................... 1,111,176 Oregon ..................................................................... 2,922,485 

Illinois ........................................................................ 9,722,303 Pennsylvania ............................................................ 9,686,275 

Indiana ...................................................................... 4,792,111 Rhode Island ............................................................ 822,248 

Iowa ........................................................................... 2,289,942 South Carolina ......................................................... 3,413,573 

Kansas ...................................................................... 2,101,649 South Dakota ........................................................... 605,885 

Kentucky ................................................................... 3,261,181 Tennessee ............................................................... 4,736,294 

Louisiana ................................................................... 3,302,823 Texas ....................................................................... 17,601,203 

Maine ........................................................................ 1,041,589 Utah .......................................................................... 1,886,789 

Maryland ................................................................... 4,293,014 Vermont .................................................................... 492,340 

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