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1 During the time of Act’s lapse, (August 20, 1994

through November 12, 2000) the President, through

Executive Order 12924 (3 CFR, 1994 Comp. 917

(1995)), which had been extended by successive

Presidential Notices, the most recent being that of

August 3, 2000 (65 FR 48347, August 8, 2000),

continued the Regulations in effect under the

International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50

U.S.C.A. 1701–1706 (1991 & Supp. 2000)).

2Pursuant to appropriate delegations of authority

that are reflected in the Regulations, the Director,

Office of Exporter Services, in consultation with the

Director, Office of Export Enforcement, exercises

the authority granted to the Secretary of Section

11(h) of the Act.

SUMMARY: The Department of

Commerce, as part of its continuing

effort to reduce paperwork and

respondent burden, invites the general

public and other Federal agencies to

take this opportunity to comment on

proposed and/or continuing information

collections, as required by the

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995,

Public Law 104–13 (44 U.S.C.

3506(c)(2)(A)).

DATES: Written comments must be

submitted on or before April 17, 2001.

ADDRESSES: Direct all written comments

to Madeleine Clayton, Departmental

Forms Clearance Officer, Department of

Commerce, Room 6086, 14th and

Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington,

DC 20230 (or via the Internet at

mclayton@doc.gov).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Requests for additional information or

copies of the information collection

instrument(s) and instructions should

be directed to: Mary Lee Eldridge, U. S.

Census Bureau, National Processing

Center, Management Services Branch,

Jeffersonville, IN 47132, Phone: 812–

218–3192.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Abstract

The Age Search is a service provided

by the Census Bureau for persons who

need transcripts of personal data as

proof of age for pensions, retirement

plans, medicare, or social security

benefits. Transcripts are also used as

proof of citizenship to obtain passports

or to provide evidence of family

relationship for rights of inheritance.

The Age Search forms gather

information necessary for the Census

Bureau to make a search of its historical

population census records in order to

provide the requested transcript.

II. Method of Collection

BC–600—‘‘Application for Search of

Census Records’

Form BC–600, Application For Search

of Census Records is a public use form

that is submitted by applicants

requesting information from the

decennial census records.

BC–649(L)—‘‘Not Found’’ Form

Form BC–649(L), which is called ‘‘Not

Found’’, advises the applicant that

search for information from the census

records was unsuccessful. The form also

advises the applicant that new or

corrected information must be furnished

if further searches of the records are

desired. A variety of footnotes are used

to specify the nature of the item

required in order to proceed with the

search.

BC–658(L)—‘‘Insufficient Information

Received To Proceed With Search’’

Form BC–658(L) is sent to the

applicant when insufficient information

was received on which to base a search

of the census records. The form requests

that the applicant provide the exact

address of the place of residence

including the street name and house

number, or the names of cross streets

between which the house is situated,

and the name of the head of the

household with whom the person

resided on a particular census date.

III. Data

OMB Number: 0607–0117.

Form Number: BC–600, BC–649(L),

BC–658(L).

Type of Review: Regular.

Affected Public: Individuals.

Estimated Number of Respondents:

BC–600 (6650); BC–649(L) (4123); BC–

658(L) (333); Total=11,106.

Estimated Time Per Response: BC–

600 (12 min.); BC–649(L) (6 min.); BC–

658(L) (6 min.).

Estimated Total Annual Burden

Hours: 1775.

Estimated Total Annual Cost: BC–

600: $266,000 ($40 per applicant).

Respondent’s Obligation: Required to

obtain or retain benefits.

Legal Authority: Title 13, U.S.C.,

Section 8.

IV. Request for Comments

Comments are invited on: (a) Whether

the proposed collection of information

is necessary for the proper performance

of the functions of the agency, including

whether the information shall have

practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the

agency’s estimate of the burden

(including hours and cost) of the

proposed collection of information; (c)

ways to enhance the quality, utility, and

clarity of the information to be

collected; and (d) ways to minimize the

burden of the collection of information

on respondents, including through the

use of automated collection techniques

or other forms of information

technology.

Comments submitted in response to

this notice will be summarized and/or

included in the request for OMB

approval of this information collection;

they also will become a matter of public

record.

Dated: February 13, 2001.

Madeleine Clayton,

Departmental Forms Clearance Officer, Office

of the Chief Information Officer.

[FR Doc. 01–4019 Filed 2–15–01; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 3510–07–P

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Bureau of Export Administration

Action Affecting Export Privileges;

Maria Del Rosario Cases Ames

Order Denying Export Privileges

On October 21, 1994, Maria Del

Rosario Cases Ames (Ames) was

convicted in the United States District

Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

of violating section 793(g) of the

Espionage Act (18 U.S.C.A. 792–799

(1976 & Supp. 2000)). Specifically,

Ames was convicted of unlawfully,

knowingly, and willfully, combining,

conspiring, confederating and agreeing

with other persons, both known and

unknown, including her husband

Aldrich Hazen Ames, who had

authorized possession of classified

documents relating to the national

defense of the United States, to

communicate, deliver, and transmit to a

foreign government, that is the U.S.S.R.

and Russia, and to representatives,

officers, and agents thereof, documents

and writings relating to the national

defense of the United States, knowing

that the persons to whom these

documents and writings were

transmitted were not entitled to receive

them.

Section 11(h) of the Export

Administration Act of 1979, as amended

(currently codified at 50 U.S.C.A. app.

secs. 2401–2420 (1991 & Supp. 2000

and Pub. L. 106–508, November 13,

2000)) (the Act) 1 provides that, at the

discretion of the Secretary of

Commerce,2 no person convicted of

violating the Espionage Act, or certain

other provisions of the United States

Code, shall be eligible to apply for or

use any export license issued pursuant

to, or provided by, the Act or the Export

Administration Regulations (currently

codified at 15 CFR parts 730–774 (2000),

as amended (65 FR 14862, March 20,

2000)) (the Regulations), for a period of

up to 10 years from the date of the

conviction. In addition, any license

issued pursuant to the Act in which

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such a person had any interest at the

time of conviction may be revoked.

Pursuant to §§ 766.25 and 750.8(a) of

the regulations, upon notification that a

person has been convicted of violating

the Espionage Act, the Director, Office

of Exporter Services, in consultation

with the Director, Office of Export

Enforcement, shall determine whether

to deny that person’s export privileges

for a period of up to 10 years from the

date of conviction and shall also

determine whether to revoke any license

previously issued to such a person.

Having received notice of Ames’s

conviction for violating the Espionage

Act, and after providing notice and an

opportunity for Ames to make a written

submission to the Bureau of Export

Administration before issuing an Order

denying her export privileges, as

provided in §766.25 of the regulations,

I, following consultations with the

Director, Office of Export Enforcement,

have decided to deny Ames’s export

privileges for a period of eight years

from the date of her conviction. The

eight-year period ends on October 21,

2002. I have also decided to revoke all

licenses issued pursuant to the Act in

which Ames had an interest at the time

of her conviction.

Accordingly, it is hereby Ordered:

I. Until October 21, 2002, Maria Del

Rosario Cases Ames, Transversal 12

#125–51, Apartment 607, Bogota,

Columbia, may not, directly or

indirectly, participate in any way in any

transaction involving any commodity,

software or technology (hereinafter

collectively referred to as ‘‘item’’)

exported or to be exported from the

United States, that is subject to the

Regulations, or in any other activity

subject to the regulations, including, but

not limited to:

A. Applying for, obtaining, or using

any license, License Exception, or

export control document;

B. Carrying on negotiations

concerning, or ordering, buying,

receiving, using, selling, delivering,

storing, disposing of, forwarding,

transporting, financing, or otherwise

servicing in any way, any transaction

involving any item exported or to be

exported from the United States that is

subject to the Regulations, or in any

other activity subject to the regulations;

or

C. Benefiting in any way from any

transaction involving any item exported

or to be exported from the United States

that is subject to the Regulations, or any

other activity subject to the regulations.

II. No person may, directly or

indirectly, do any of the following:

A. Export or reexport to or on behalf

of the denied person any item subject to

the regulations;

B. Take any action that facilitates the

acquisition or attempted acquisition by

the denied person of the ownership,

possession, or control of any item

subject to the regulations that has been

or will be exported from the United

States, including financing or other

support activities related to a

transaction whereby the denied person

acquires or attempts to acquire such

ownership, possession or control;

C. Take any action to acquire from or

to facilitate the acquisition or attempted

acquisition from the denied person of

any item subject to the regulations that

has been exported from the United

States;

D. Obtain from the denied person in

the United States any item subject to the

Regulations with knowledge or reason

to know that the item will be, or is

intended to be, exported from the

United States; or

E. Engage in any transaction to service

any item subject to the Regulations that

has been or will be exported from the

United States and which is owned,

possessed or controlled by the denied

person, or service any item, of whatever

origin, that is owned, possessed or

controlled by the denied person if such

service involves the use of any item

subject to the Regulations that has been

or will be exported from the United

States. For purposes of this paragraph,

servicing means installation,

maintenance, repair, modification or

testing.

III. After notice and opportunity for

comment as provided in § 766.23 of the

Regulations, any person, firm,

corporation, or business organization

related to Ames by affiliation,

ownership, control, or position of

responsibility in the conduct of trade or

related services may also be subject to

the provisions of this Order.

IV. This Order does not prohibit any

export, reexport, or other transaction

subject to the Regulations where the

only items involved that are subject to

the Regulations are the foreignproduced direct product of U.S.-origin

technology.

V. This Order is effective immediately

and shall remain in effect until October

21, 2002.

VI. In accordance with Part 756 of the

Regulations, Ames may file an appeal

from this Order with the Under

Secretary for Export Administration.

The appeal must be filed within 45 days

from the date of this Order and must

comply with the provisions of Part 756

of the Regulations.

VII. A copy of this Order shall be

delivered to Ames. This Order shall be

published in the Federal Register.

Dated: January 26, 2001.

Eileen M. Albanese,

Director, Office of Exporter Services.

[FR Doc. 01–3915 Filed 2–15–01; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 3510–DT–M

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Docket 9–2001]

Proposed Foreign-Trade Zone—Butte

County, California Application and

Public Hearing

An application has been submitted to

the Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ) Board

(the Board) by the Oroville Economic

Development Corporation (a non-profit

corporation), to establish a generalpurpose foreign-trade zone at sites in

southern Butte County, California,

which appears to be within 90 minutes

driving time from the San Francisco/

Oakland/Sacramento, California,

Customs port of entry limits. The

application was submitted pursuant to

the provisions of the FTZ Act, as

amended (19 U.S.C. 81a–81u), and the

regulations of the Board (15 CFR part

400). It was formally filed on February

6, 2001. The applicant is authorized to

make the proposal under section 6302 of

the California Code.

The proposed zone would be the sixth

general-purpose zone in the San

Francisco/Oakland/Sacramento,

California, Customs port of entry area.

The existing zones are FTZ 3 in San

Francisco (Grantee: San Francisco Port

Commission, Board Order 16, 13 FR

1459, 3/19/48); FTZ 18 in San Jose

(Grantee: City of San Jose, California,

Board Order 103, 39 FR 42031, 12/4/74);

FTZ 56 in Oakland (Grantee: City of

Oakland, California, Board Order 155,

45 FR 27802, 4/24/80); FTZ 143 in the

W. Sacramento area (site also in Chico)

Grantee: Sacramento-Yolo Port District,

Board Order 360, 52 FR 30698, 8/17/87);

and, FTZ 231 in the Stockton (San

Joaquin County) area (Grantee: Stockton

Port District, Board Order 967, 63 FR

23719, 4/30/98).

The proposed new zone would

consist of 4 sites in the southern Butte

County area: Site 1 (1,834 acres)—

central Oroville industrial area located

in Oroville on Highway 70; Site 2 (812

acres)—Oroville Municipal Airport

complex, west of Highway 70 along

Highway 162, Oroville; Site 3 (155

acres)—Gridley industrial area west of

Highway 99 along the Union Pacific