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803(b)(1) and 1007(c). Motion at 1–2. 

The settling parties have not 

represented that they have reached an 

agreement with non-settling claimants. 

Therefore, the Judges conclude that a 

controversy exists with respect to DART 

Musical Works Funds for royalty years 

2009, 2010, and 2011. 

By this notice, the Judges grant the 

settling claimants’ Motion and 

announce the commencement of a 

proceeding to determine the proper 

distribution of DART Musical Works 

Funds (both the Musical Publishers 

Subfund and the Writers Subfund) for 

royalty years 2009, 2010, and 2011. The 

Judges granted the settling claimants’ 

request for partial distribution pursuant 

to Section 801(b)(3)(C) of the Copyright 

Act, which authorizes the Judges to 

order partial distributions 

notwithstanding the existence of 

ongoing controversies. Consequently, all 

DART Musical Works funds for royalty 

years 2009, 2010, and 2011 remain in 

dispute, notwithstanding the 95% 

distribution to the settling claimants. 

All settling claimants agreed, at the time 

of the partial distribution, to repay any 

potential overpayment. 

Commencement of Proceeding 

Consistent with 17 U.S.C. 804(b)(8), 

the Judges determine that, for the 

reasons stated above, a controversy 

exists with respect to the distribution of 

the 2009, 2010, and 2011 DART Musical 

Works Funds royalties for the Music 

Publishers Subfund and the Writers 

Subfund. 

Petitions To Participate 

Petitions to Participate must provide 

all of the information required by 37 

CFR 351.1(b)(2). Participants also must 

identify by year each subfund in the 

Musical Works Fund to which they are 

asserting a claim (i.e., Music Publishers 

or Writers, or both). Petitions to 

Participate submitted by interested 

parties whose claims do not exceed 

$1,000 must contain a statement that the 

party will not seek a distribution of 

more than $1,000. 37 CFR 351.1(b)(4). 

No filing fee is required for such parties. 

Interested parties with claims exceeding 

$1,000, however, must submit a filing 

fee of $150 with their respective 

Petitions to Participate, or the petition 

will be rejected. CASH WILL NOT BE 

ACCEPTED. Parties filing online 

through eCRB must pay by credit card. 

All other parties must pay the filing fee 

with a check or money order made 

payable to the ‘‘Copyright Royalty 

Board’’ and mailed or delivered with a 

paper claim form, as described in the 

ADDRESSES section above. If a check is 

returned for lack of sufficient funds, the 

corresponding Petition to Participate 

will be dismissed. 

Any participant that is an individual 

may represent herself or himself. All 

other participants must be represented 

by counsel. In accordance with 37 CFR 

350.2 (Representation), only attorneys 

who are members of the bar in one or 

more states or the District of Columbia 

and in good standing will be allowed to 

represent parties before the Copyright 

Royalty Judges. The Judges will address 

further procedural matters, including 

scheduling, after Petitions to Participate 

have been filed. 

Intention To Conduct a Paper 

Proceeding 

In accordance with Section 

803(b)(5)(B) of the Copyright Act, the 

Judges find it appropriate to conduct a 

paper proceeding in this matter in light 

of the relatively modest amount of 

royalties in dispute and the anticipated 

small number of non-settling claimants. 

In such proceedings, the Judges 

determine issues solely on the basis of 

the filing of a written direct statement 

by each participant, a response of an 

opposing participant, and one 

additional response from the 

participant. 17 U.S.C. 803(b)(5). Any 

party wishing to comment on the 

Judges’ intention to conduct a paper 

proceeding should include such 

comments in its Petition to Participate. 

Dated: August 29, 2017. 

Jesse M. Feder, 

U.S. Copyright Royalty Judge. 

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BILLING CODE P 

MILLENNIUM CHALLENGE 

CORPORATION 

[MCC FR 17–04] 

Report on Countries That Are 

Candidates for Millennium Challenge 

Account Eligibility in Fiscal Year 2018 

and Countries That Would Be 

Candidates but for Legal Prohibitions 

AGENCY: Millennium Challenge 

Corporation. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: Section 608(a) of the 

Millennium Challenge Act of 2003 

requires the Millennium Challenge 

Corporation to publish a report that 

identifies countries that are ‘‘candidate 

countries’’ for Millennium Challenge 

Account assistance during FY 2018. The 

report is set forth in full below. 

Dated: August 28, 2017. 

Jeanne M. Hauch, 

VP/General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, 

Millennium Challenge Corporation. 

Report on Countries That Are 

Candidates for Millennium Challenge 

Compact Eligibility for Fiscal Year 2018 

and Countries That Would Be 

Candidates but for Legal Prohibitions 

Summary 

This report to Congress is provided in 

accordance with section 608(a) of the 

Millennium Challenge Act of 2003, as 

amended, 22 U.S.C. 7701, 7707(a) (the 

Act). 

The Act authorizes the provision of 

assistance for global development 

through the Millennium Challenge 

Corporation (MCC) for countries that 

enter into a Millennium Challenge 

Compact with the United States to 

support policies and programs that 

advance the progress of such countries 

to achieve lasting economic growth and 

poverty reduction. The Act requires 

MCC to take a number of steps in 

selecting countries with which MCC 

will seek to enter into a compact, 

including determining the countries that 

will be eligible countries for fiscal year 

(FY) 2018 based on (a) a country’s 

demonstrated commitment to (i) just 

and democratic governance, (ii) 

economic freedom, and (iii) investments 

in its people; and (b) the opportunity to 

reduce poverty and generate economic 

growth in the country, and (c) the 

availability of funds to MCC. These 

steps include the submission of reports 

to the congressional committees 

specified in the Act and the publication 

of notices in the Federal Register that 

identify: 

The countries that are ‘‘candidate 

countries’’ for FY 2018 based on their 

per capita income levels and their 

eligibility to receive assistance under 

U.S. law and countries that would be 

candidate countries but for specified 

legal prohibitions on assistance (section 

608(a) of the Act); 

The criteria and methodology that the 

MCC Board of Directors (Board) will use 

to measure and evaluate the relative 

policy performance of the ‘‘candidate 

countries’’ consistent with the 

requirements of subsections (a) and (b) 

of section 607 of the Act in order to 

determine ‘‘eligible countries’’ from 

among the ‘‘candidate countries’’ 

(section 608(b) of the Act); and 

The list of countries determined by 

the Board to be ‘‘eligible countries’’ for 

FY 2018, identification of such 

countries with which the Board will 

seek to enter into compacts, and a 

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1Sections 606(a) and (b) of the Act provide that 

a country will be a candidate country for purposes 

of eligibility if it (1) has a per capita income equal 

to or less than the historical ceiling of the 

International Development Association eligibility 

for the fiscal year involved (the ‘‘low income 

category’’) or (2) is classified as a lower middle 

income country in the then most recent edition of 

the World Development Report for Reconstruction 

and Development published by the International 

Bank for Reconstruction and Development and has 

an income greater than the historical ceiling for 

International Development Association eligibility 

for the fiscal year involved (the ‘‘lower middle 

income category’’); and is not ineligible to receive 

U.S. economic assistance under part I of the Foreign 

Assistance Act of 1961, as amended (the Foreign 

Assistance Act), by reason of the application of the 

Foreign Assistance Act or any other provision of 

law. 

2 If the language relating to the definition of low 

income candidate countries is not enacted or is 

changed for MCC’s FY 2018 appropriations act, 

MCC will revisit the selection process once the FY 

2018 appropriations act is enacted and will conduct 

the selection process in accordance with the Act 

and applicable provisions for FY 2018. 

3 In FY 2018, the World Bank updated its 

estimates of gross national incomes per capita 

resulting in Georgia re-entering the candidate pool. 

However, Georgia was classified as a low income 

country as recently as FY 2015. Due to Georgia’s 

transition to upper middle income status in FY 

2017, the provision for gradual reclassification 

between LIC the LMIC pools does not apply to it. 

Although Georgia has re-entered the candidate pool 

in FY 2018, it does so as a lower middle income 

country and does not retain the gradual 

reclassification treatment it would have received 

this fiscal year if it had not exited the candidate 

pool in FY 2017. As a result, the removal of Georgia 

from the low income category due to its exiting of 

the candidate pool in FY 2017 means that there are 

only 74 low income countries for FY 2018 (8 of 

which are legally prohibited). 

determination and selection for compact 

negotiation (section 608(d) of the Act). 

This report is the first of three 

required reports listed above. 

Candidate Countries for FY 2018 

The Act requires the identification of 

all countries that are candidate 

countries for FY 2018 and the 

identification of all countries that would 

be candidate countries but for specified 

legal prohibitions on assistance. Under 

the terms of the Act, sections 606(a) and 

(b) set forth the two income tests 

countries must satisfy to be candidate 

countries.1 However for FY 2017, those 

categories are defined by MCC’s FY 

2017 appropriations act, the Department 

of State, Foreign Operations, and 

Related Programs Appropriations Act, 

2017 (the FY 2017 SFOAA). 

Specifically, the FY 2017 SFOAA used 

the same definitions that have been 

used since the FY 2012 appropriations 

act and defines low income candidate 

countries as the 75 poorest countries as 

identified by the World Bank and 

provided that a country that changes 

during the fiscal year from low income 

to lower middle income (or vice versa) 

will retain its candidacy status in its 

former income category for the fiscal 

year and two subsequent fiscal years. 

Assuming these definitions will be used 

again in FY 2018, MCC is using them for 

purposes of this report.2

Under the redefined categories, a 

country will be a candidate country for 

FY 2018 if it: 

Meets one of the following tests: 

Has a per capita income that is not 

greater than the World Bank’s lower 

middle income country threshold for 

such fiscal year ($3,955 gross national 

income per capita for FY 2018); and is 

among the 75 lowest per capita income 

countries, as identified by the World 

Bank; or 

Has a per capita income that is not 

greater than the World Bank’s lower 

middle income country threshold for 

such fiscal year ($3,955 gross national 

income per capita for FY 2018); but is 

not among the 75 lowest per capita 

income countries as identified by the 

World Bank; and 

Is not ineligible to receive U.S. 

economic assistance under part I of the 

Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as 

amended (the Foreign Assistance Act), 

by reason of the application of the 

Foreign Assistance Act or any other 

provision of law. 

Due to the provisions requiring 

countries to retain their former income 

classification for three fiscal years, 

changes from the low income to lower 

middle income categories or vice versa 

for FY 2018 will go into effect for FY 

2021. Countries transitioning to the 

upper middle income category do not 

remain in the candidate pool.3

Pursuant to section 606(c) of the Act, 

the Board identified the following 

countries as candidate countries under 

the Act for FY 2018. In so doing, the 

Board referred to the prohibitions on 

assistance to countries for FY 2017 

under the FY 2017 SFOAA. 

Candidate Countries: Low Income 

Category 

1. Afghanistan 

2. Angola 

3. Bangladesh 

4. Benin 

5. Bhutan 

6. Burkina Faso 

7. Burundi 

8. Cambodia 

9. Cameroon 

10. Central African Republic 

11. Chad 

12. Comoros 

13. Congo, Dem. Rep. 

14. Congo, Rep. 

15. Coˆte d’Ivoire 

16. Djibouti 

17. Egypt, Arab Rep. 

18. Ethiopia 

19. Gambia, The 

20. Ghana 

21. Guatemala 

22. Guinea 

23. Guinea-Bissau 

24. Haiti 

25. Honduras 

26. India 

27. Indonesia 

28. Kenya 

29. Kiribati 

30. Kyrgyz Republic 

31. Lao PDR 

32. Lesotho 

33. Liberia 

34. Madagascar 

35. Malawi 

36. Mali 

37. Mauritania 

38. Micronesia, Fed. Sts. 

39. Moldova 

40. Morocco 

41. Mozambique 

42. Nepal 

43. Nicaragua 

44. Niger 

45. Nigeria 

46. Pakistan 

47. Papua New Guinea 

48. Philippines 

49. Rwanda 

50. Sa ̃o Tome ́ and Principe 

51. Senegal 

52. Sierra Leone 

53. Solomon Islands 

54. Somalia 

55. Sri Lanka 

56. Swaziland 

57. Tajikistan 

58. Tanzania 

59. Timor-Leste 

60. Togo 

61. Uganda 

62. Uzbekistan 

63. Vanuatu 

64. Vietnam 

65. Yemen, Rep. 

66. Zambia 

Candidate Countries: Lower Middle 

Income Category 

1. Armenia 

2. Cabo Verde 

3. El Salvador 

4. Georgia 

5. Jordan 

6. Kosovo 

7. Mongolia 

8. Tunisia 

9. Ukraine 

Countries That Would Be Candidate 

Countries but for Legal Provisions That 

Prohibit Assistance 

Countries that would be considered 

candidate countries for FY 2018, but are 

ineligible to receive United States 

economic assistance under part I of the 


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Foreign Assistance Act by reason of the 

application of any provision of the 

Foreign Assistance Act or any other 

provision of law are listed below. This 

list is based on legal prohibitions 

against economic assistance that apply 

as of July 21, 2017. 

Prohibited Countries: Low Income 

Category 

Bolivia is ineligible to receive U.S. 

economic assistance pursuant to section 

706(3) of the Foreign Relations 

Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 2003 

(Pub. L. 107–228), regarding adherence 

to obligations under international 

counternarcotics agreements and other 

counternarcotics measures. 

Burma is ineligible to receive U.S. 

economic assistance, absent special 

authority, because of concerns relative 

to its record on human rights. 

Eritrea is ineligible to receive U.S. 

economic assistance, including due to 

its status as a Tier 3 country under the 

Victims of Trafficking and Violence 

Protection Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 7101 

et seq.). 

North Korea is ineligible to receive 

U.S. economic assistance, including 

pursuant to section 7007 of the FY 2017 

SFOAA, which prohibits direct 

assistance to the government of North 

Korea. 

South Sudan is ineligible to receive 

U.S. economic assistance pursuant to 

section 7042(i)(2) of the FY 2017 

SFOAA, which prohibits, with limited 

exceptions, assistance to the central 

government of South Sudan until the 

Secretary of State certifies and reports to 

Congress that such government is taking 

effective steps to end hostilities and 

pursue good faith negotiations for a 

political settlement of the internal 

conflict; provide access for 

humanitarian organizations; end the 

recruitment and use of child soldiers; 

protect freedoms of expression, 

association, and assembly; reduce 

corruption related to the extraction and 

sale of oil and gas; establish democratic 

institutions; establish accountable 

military and police forces under civilian 

authority; and investigate and prosecute 

individuals credibly alleged to have 

committed gross violations of human 

rights, including at the Terrain 

compound in Juba, South Sudan on July 

11, 2016. 

Sudan is ineligible to receive U.S. 

economic assistance, including 

pursuant to section 7042(j) of the FY 

2017 SFOAA, which prohibits (with 

limited exceptions) assistance to the 

government of Sudan. 

Syria is ineligible to receive U.S. 

economic assistance, including 

pursuant to section 7007 of the FY 2017 

SFOAA, which prohibits direct 

assistance to the government of Syria. 

Zimbabwe is ineligible to receive U.S. 

economic assistance, including 

pursuant to section 7042(k)(2) of the FY 

2017 SFOAA, which prohibits (with 

limited exceptions) assistance for the 

central government of Zimbabwe unless 

the Secretary of State certifies and 

reports to Congress that the rule of law 

has been restored, including respect for 

ownership and title to property, and 

freedoms of expression, association, and 

assembly. 

Countries identified above as 

candidate countries, as well as countries 

that would be considered candidate 

countries but for the applicability of 

legal provisions that prohibit U.S. 

economic assistance, may be the subject 

of future statutory restrictions or 

determinations, or changed country 

circumstances, that affect their legal 

eligibility for assistance under part I of 

the Foreign Assistance Act by reason of 

application of the Foreign Assistance 

Act or any other provision of law for FY 

2018. 

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BILLING CODE 9211–03–P 

NATIONAL FOUNDATION ON THE 

ARTS AND THE HUMANITIES 

National Endowment for the Arts 

Proposed Collection; Comment 

Request; 60-Day Notice for Generic 

Clearance for the Collection of 

Qualitative Feedback on Agency 

Service Delivery 

AGENCY: National Endowment for the 

Arts, National Foundation on the Arts 

and the Humanities. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The National Endowment for 

the Arts (NEA), as part of its continuing 

effort to reduce paperwork and 

respondent burden, invites the general 

public to take this opportunity to 

comment on the ‘‘Generic Clearance for 

the Collection of Qualitative Feedback 

on Agency Service Delivery’’ for 

approval under the Paperwork 

Reduction Act (PRA) (44 U.S.C. 3501 et 

seq.). This collection was developed as 

part of a Federal Government-wide 

effort to streamline the process for 

seeking feedback from the public on 

service delivery. This notice announces 

our intent to submit this collection to 

OMB for approval and solicits 

comments on specific aspects for the 

proposed information collection. 

DATES: Written comments are due by 

October 31, 2017. 

ADDRESSES: Send comments to: Sunil 

Iyengar, National Endowment for the 

Arts, 400 7th Street SW., Washington, 

DC 20506–0001, telephone (202) 682– 

5424 (this is not a toll-free number), fax 

(202) 682–5677, or send via email to 

research@arts.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

specific questions related to collection 

activities, please contact Melissa 

Menzer, 202–682–5548, menzerm@

arts.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Comments 

submitted in response to this notice may 

be made available to the public through 

posting on a government Web site. For 

this reason, please do not include in 

your comments information of a 

confidential nature, such as sensitive 

personal information or proprietary 

information. If you send an email 

comment, your email address will be 

automatically captured and included as 

part of the comment that is placed in the 

public docket and made available on the 

Internet. Please note that responses to 

this public comment request containing 

any routine notice about the 

confidentiality of the communication 

will be treated as public comments that 

may be made available to the public 

notwithstanding the inclusion of the 

routine notice. 

The proposed information collection 

activity provides a means to garner 

qualitative customer and stakeholder 

feedback in an efficient, timely manner, 

in accordance with the Administration’s 

commitment to improving service 

delivery. By qualitative feedback we 

mean information that provides useful 

insights on perceptions and opinions, 

but are not statistical surveys that yield 

quantitative results that can be 

generalized to the population of study. 

This feedback will provide insights into 

customer or stakeholder perceptions, 

experiences and expectations, provide 

an early warning of issues with service, 

or focus attention on areas where 

communication, training or changes in 

operations might improve delivery of 

products or services. These collections 

will allow for ongoing, collaborative and 

actionable communications between the 

Agency and its customers and 

stakeholders. It will also allow feedback 

to contribute directly to the 

improvement of program management. 

The solicitation of feedback will target 

areas such as: Timeliness, 

appropriateness, accuracy of 

information, courtesy, efficiency of 

service delivery, and resolution of 

issues with service delivery. Responses 

will be assessed to plan and inform 

efforts to improve or maintain the 

quality of service offered to the public. 


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