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Federal Register
Vol. 76, No. 93
Friday, May 13, 2011

This section of the FEDERAL REGISTER
contains documents other than rules or
proposed rules that are applicable to the
public. Notices of hearings and investigations,
committee meetings, agency decisions and
rulings, delegations of authority, filing of
petitions and applications and agency
statements of organization and functions are
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section.

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Farm Service Agency
Funding for the Conservation Loan
Program; Farm Loan Programs
Farm Service Agency, USDA.
Notice.

AGENCY:
ACTION:

This notice announces that
the Farm Service Agency (FSA) is no
longer accepting direct or guaranteed
loan applications for the Conservation
Loan (CL) Program because of lack of
program funding.
DATES: Effective May 13, 2011.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Connie Holman, (202) 690–0756.
Persons with disabilities who require
alternative means for communication
(Braille, large print, audio tape, etc.)
should contact the USDA Target Center
at (202) 720–2600 (voice and TDD).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
The Food, Conservation, and Energy
Act of 2008 (2008 Farm Bill) (Pub. L
110–246) authorized the new CL
Program. The CL Program was
implemented on September 3, 2010,
when FSA added the CL Program
provisions to the existing direct and
guaranteed loan regulations found in 7
CFR parts 761, 762, 764, 765, and 766
through the publication of the CL
Program interim rule (75 FR 54005—
54016). CL funds, when available, can
be used to implement conservation
practices approved by the Natural
Resources Conservation Service, such as
the installation of conservation
structures; establishment of forest cover;
installation of water conservation
measures; establishment or
improvement of permanent pastures;
implementation of manure management;
and the adaption of other emerging or
existing conservation practices,
techniques, or technologies.
This notice announces that FSA is no
longer accepting direct or guaranteed
loan applications for the CL Program

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due to lack of funding. However,
conservation projects for authorized
loan purposes may be funded through
FSA’s direct and guaranteed Farm
Ownership and Farm Operating Loan
Programs for eligible applicants.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Potential direct loan applicants should
contact their FSA State or county office;
potential guaranteed loan applicants
should contact their lender. Office
locations can be found at http://
www.fsa.usda.gov. A notice will be
published in the Federal Register
announcing the date FSA will resume
accepting direct and guaranteed loan
applications for the CL Program if
funding becomes available.
Signed on: May 9, 2011.
Bruce Nelson,
Acting Administrator, Farm Service Agency.
[FR Doc. 2011–11783 Filed 5–12–11; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Submission for OMB Review;
Comment Request
The Department of Commerce will
submit to the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) for clearance the
following proposal for collection of
information under the emergency
provisions of the Paperwork Reduction
Act (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35).
Agency: National
Telecommunications and Information
Administration (NTIA).
Title: Broadband Subscription and
Usage Survey (Supplement to Census
Bureau’s Current Population Survey).
OMB Control Number: 0660–0021.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Request: Emergency
submission (revision of a currently
approved information collection).
Number of Respondents: 54,000.
Average Time per Response: 10
minutes.
Burden Hours: 9,000.
Needs and Uses: NTIA proposes to
add 52 questions to the U.S. Census
Bureau’s July 2011 Current Population
Survey (CPS) in order to gather reliable
data on broadband (also known as highspeed Internet) use by U.S. households.
President Obama has established a
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broadband access for all Americans.1 To
that end, the Administration is working
with Congress, the Federal
Communications Commission (FCC),
and other stakeholders to develop and
advance economic and regulatory
policies that foster broadband
deployment and adoption. Current,
systematic, and comprehensive data on
broadband access and non-use by U.S.
households is critical to allow
policymakers not only to gauge progress
made to date, but also to identify
problem areas with a specificity that
permits carefully targeted and cost
effective responses.
The need for comprehensive
broadband data has become more
crucial. On February 10, 2011, during a
speech in Marquette, Michigan, the
President announced his ‘‘national
wireless initiative,’’ calling for extending
the next (4G) generation of wireless
service to 98 percent of the country over
the next five years. The Government
Accountability Office (GAO), NTIA, and
the FCC recently issued reports noting
the lack of useful broadband data for
policymakers, and Congress passed
legislation—the Broadband Data
Improvement Act in 2008 and the
American Recovery and Reinvestment
Act in 2009—wholly or partly in
response to such criticisms. The
Organization for Economic Cooperation
and Development (OECD) has ranked
the United States low in the number of
households with broadband access over
the past several years despite a period
of rapid growth in the technology’s
penetration. The OECD looks to Census
data as an important input into their
inter-country benchmark analyses.
Modifying the July 2011 CPS to include
NTIA’s requested broadband data
questions will allow the Commerce
Department and NTIA to inform the
President’s new wireless initiative,
respond to Congressional concerns and
directives, and work with the OECD in
analyzing more recent data.
Affected Public: Individuals and
households.
Frequency: Once.
Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary.
OMB Desk Officer: Nicholas Fraser,
(202) 395–5887.
Copies of the above information
collection proposal can be obtained by
1 See http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/
files/20091217-recovery-act-investmentsbroadband.pdf (last viewed May 11, 2010).

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Federal Register / Vol. 76, No. 93 / Friday, May 13, 2011 / Notices
calling or writing Diana Hynek,
Departmental Paperwork Clearance
Officer, (202) 482–0266, Department of
Commerce, Room 6616, 14th and
Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington,
DC 20230 (or via the Internet at
[email protected]).
Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent
within 30 days of publication of this
notice to Nicholas Fraser, OMB Desk
Officer, Fax number (202) 395–7285, or
via the Internet at
Dated: May 10, 2011.
Gwellnar Banks,
Management Analyst, Office of the Chief
Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2011–11751 Filed 5–12–11; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[Docket 31–2011]

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Foreign-Trade Zone 216—Olympia,
Washington; Application for
Reorganization Under Alternative Site
Framework
An application has been submitted to
the Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ) Board
(the Board) by the Port of Olympia,
grantee of FTZ 216, requesting authority
to reorganize the zone under the
alternative site framework (ASF)
adopted by the Board (74 FR 1170, 1/12/
09 (correction 74 FR 3987, 1/22/09); 75
FR 71069–71070, 11/22/10). The ASF is
an option for grantees for the
establishment or reorganization of
general-purpose zones and can permit
significantly greater flexibility in the
designation of new ‘‘usage-driven’’ FTZ
sites for operators/users located within
a grantee’s ‘‘service area’’ in the context
of the Board’s standard 2,000-acre
activation limit for a general-purpose
zone project. The application was
submitted pursuant to the Foreign-Trade
Zones Act, as amended (19 U.S.C. 81a–
81u), and the regulations of the Board
(15 CFR part 400). It was formally filed
on May 9, 2011.
FTZ 216 was approved by the Board
on August 16, 1996 (Board Order 836,
61 FR 45408, 08/29/1996) and expanded
on May 8, 2000 (Board Order 1092, 65
FR 33295, 05/23/2000).
The current zone project includes the
following sites: Site 1 (283 acres)—
within the Port of Olympia terminal at
Budd Bay Inlet of Puget Sound, adjacent
to Interstate 5, Olympia; Site 2 (800
acres)—Olympia Airport and adjacent
industrial park, Olympia; Site 3 (573

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acres)—Marvin Road Industrial area,
Interstate 5 and Highway 510, Lacy; Site
4 (109 acres)—Yelm Industrial area,
Highway 507 and Highway 510, Yelm;
Site 5 (165 acres)—Port of Centralia
Industrial Park, within the Port of
Centralia, Lewis County; Site 6 (87
acres)—Chehalis Industrial area,
adjacent to Interstate 5, Chehalis; Site 7
(269 acres)—within the Port of Chehalis,
321 Maurin Road, Chehalis; Site 8 (39
acres)—Klein/South Prairie Industrial
Park, 118 Klein Road, Chehalis; Site 9
(420 acres)—within the Port of Shelton,
21 West Sanderson Way, Shelton; Site
10 (130 acres)—John’s Prairie Industrial
Park, 1970 East John’s Prairie Road,
Shelton; Site 11 (217 acres)—Bremerton
Airport South, within Port of Bremerton
complex, 8850 SW State Road 3,
Bremerton; Site 12 (312 acres)—
Olympia View Industrial Park, Highway
3, Bremerton; and, Site 13 (24 acres)—
67 SW Chehalis Avenue, Chehalis.
The grantee’s proposed service area
under the ASF would be all of Thurston
County and portions of Lewis, Mason
and Kitsap Counties, Washington, as
described in the application. If
approved, the grantee would be able to
serve sites throughout the service area
based on companies’ needs for FTZ
designation. The proposed service area
is within and adjacent to the Olympia
U.S. Customs and Border Protection
port of entry.
The applicant is requesting authority
to reorganize its existing zone project to
include all of the existing sites except
Site 8 as ‘‘magnet’’ sites. No usage-driven
sites are being requested at this time.
The applicant is also requesting
authority to delete Site 8 and remove
acreage from Sites 1, 3, 4 and 13, as
described in the application.
In accordance with the Board’s
regulations, Christopher Kemp of the
FTZ Staff is designated examiner to
evaluate and analyze the facts and
information presented in the application
and case record and to report findings
and recommendations to the Board.
Public comment is invited from
interested parties. Submissions (original
and 3 copies) shall be addressed to the
Board’s Executive Secretary at the
address below. The closing period for
their receipt is July 12, 2011. Rebuttal
comments in response to material
submitted during the foregoing period
may be submitted during the subsequent
15-day period to July 27, 2011.
A copy of the application will be
available for public inspection at the
Office of the Executive Secretary,
Foreign-Trade Zones Board, Room 2111,
U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401
Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington,
DC 20230–0002, and in the ‘‘Reading

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Room’’ section of the Board’s Web site,
which is accessible via http://
www.trade.gov/ftz. For further
information, contact Christopher Kemp
at [email protected] or (202)
482–0862.
Dated: May 9, 2011.
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2011–11844 Filed 5–12–11; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[A–549–502]

Circular Welded Carbon Steel Pipes
and Tubes From Thailand: Amended
Final Results of Antidumping Duty
Administrative Review Pursuant to
Final Court Decision
Import Administration,
International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: On February 14, 2011, the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal
Circuit (CAFC) sustained the U.S. Court
of International Trade’s (CIT) decision
in Saha Thai Steel Pipe (Public) Co.,
Ltd. v. United States, Consol Ct. 08–
00380, Slip Op. 10–1 (Ct. Int’l Trade
January 4, 2010) (Saha Thai CIT
Decision). See Saha Thai Steel Pipe
(Public) Co., Ltd. v. United States, No.
2010–1220, –1224, 2011 U.S. App. Lexis
2811 (Fed. Cir. Feb. 14, 2011) (Saha
Thai CAFC Decision). Because all
litigation in this matter has now
concluded, the Department of
Commerce (Department) is amending
the final results of the administrative
review of the antidumping order on
circular welded carbon steel pipes and
tubes from Thailand, which covered
Saha Thai Steel Pipe (Public) Co., Ltd.
(Saha Thai) and the period March 1,
2006, through February 28, 2007. See
Circular Welded Carbon Steel Pipes and
Tubes from Thailand: Final Results of
Antidumping Duty Administrative
Review, 73 FR 61019 (October 15, 2008)
(Final Results).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Jacqueline Arrowsmith or Dana
Mermelstein, AD/CVD Operations,
Office 6, Import Administration,
International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce, 14th Street
and Constitution Avenue, NW.,
Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202)
482–5255 or (202) 482–1391,
respectively.
AGENCY:

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

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