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7816 Federal Register / Vol. 85, No. 28 / Tuesday, February 11, 2020 / Notices requested by the Commission is All comments received will be posted Partnership Option received, if the Commission notifies the without change. Persons submitting CONTACT PERSON FOR MORE INFORMATION: clearing agency in writing that it does comments are cautioned that we do not For more information: Please call Jim not object to the proposed change and redact or edit personal identifying Hopson, TVA Media Relations at (865) authorizes the clearing agency to information from comment submissions. 632–6000, Knoxville, Tennessee. People implement the proposed change on an You should submit only information who plan to attend the meeting and earlier date, subject to any conditions that you wish to make available have special needs should call (865) imposed by the Commission. publicly. 632–6000. Anyone who wishes to OCC shall post notice on its website All submissions should refer to File comment on any of the agenda in of proposed changes that are Number SR–OCC–2020–801 and should writing may send their comments to: implemented. be submitted on or before February 26, TVA Board of Directors, Board Agenda The proposal shall not take effect 2020. Comments, 400 West Summit Hill until all regulatory actions required By the Commission. Drive, Knoxville, Tennessee 37902. with respect to the proposal are J. Matthew DeLesDernier, Dated: February 6, 2020. completed. Assistant Secretary. Sherry A. Quirk, IV. Solicitation of Comments [FR Doc. 2020–02622 Filed 2–10–20; 8:45 am] General Counsel. Interested persons are invited to BILLING CODE 8011–01–P [FR Doc. 2020–02791 Filed 2–7–20; 4:15 pm] submit written data, views, and BILLING CODE 8120–08–P arguments concerning the foregoing, including whether the advance notice is TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY consistent with the Clearing OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES Sunshine Act Meetings Supervision Act. Comments may be TRADE REPRESENTATIVE submitted by any of the following TIME AND DATE: 9 a.m. on February 13, methods: Notice of Product Exclusions and 2020. Amendments: China’s Acts, Policies, Electronic Comments PLACE: The Lyric Theatre, 1006 Van and Practices Related to Technology Buren Avenue, Oxford, Mississippi. • Use the Commission’s internet Transfer, Intellectual Property, and comment form (http://www.sec.gov/ STATUS: Open. Innovation MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED: rules/sro.shtml); or AGENCY: Office of the United States • Send an email to rule-comments@ Meeting No. 20–01 Trade Representative. sec.gov. Please include File Number SR– ACTION: Notice of product exclusions OCC–2020–801 on the subject line. The TVA Board of Directors will hold a public meeting on February 13, 2020, and amendments. Paper Comments at the Lyric Theatre, 1006 Van Buren SUMMARY: Effective July 6, 2018, the U.S. • Send paper comments in triplicate Avenue, Oxford, Mississippi. The Trade Representative imposed to Secretary, Securities and Exchange meeting will be called to order at 9 a.m. additional duties on goods of China Commission, 100 F Street NE, CT to consider the agenda items listed with an annual trade value of Washington, DC 20549. below. TVA management will answer approximately $34 billion as part of the questions from the news media All submissions should refer to File action in the Section 301 investigation following the Board meeting. Number SR–OCC–2020–801. This file of China’s acts, policies, and practices On February 12, at the Powerhouse, number should be included on the related to technology transfer, 413 South 14th Street, the public may subject line if email is used. To help the intellectual property, and innovation. comment on any agenda item or subject Commission process and review your The U.S. Trade Representative’s at a board-hosted public listening comments more efficiently, please use determination included a decision to session which begins at 3:30 p.m. CT only one method. The Commission will establish a product exclusion process. and will last until 5:30 p.m. post all comments on the Commission’s The U.S. Trade Representative initiated Preregistration is required to address the internet website (http://www.sec.gov/ the exclusion process in July 2018, and Board. rules/sro.shtml). Copies of the stakeholders have submitted requests submission, all subsequent Agenda for the exclusion of specific products. In December 2018, and March, April, May, amendments, all written statements 1. Approval of Minutes of the November June, July, September, October, and with respect to the advance notice that 14, 2019, Board Meeting are filed with the Commission, and all 2. Report from President and CEO December 2019, the U.S. Trade written communications relating to the 3. Report of the External Relations Representative granted exclusion advance notice between the Committee requests. This notice announces the U.S. Commission and any person, other than A. FACA Charter Renewals Trade Representative’s determination to those that may be withheld from the 4. Report of the Finance, Rates, and grant additional exclusions, as specified public in accordance with the Portfolio Committee in the Annex to this notice, and makes provisions of 5 U.S.C. 552, will be A. Spent Fuel Settlement Agreement amendments to certain notes in the available for website viewing and B. Flexibility Option Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the printing in the Commission’s Public 5. Report of the People and Performance United States (HTSUS). The U.S. Trade Reference Room, 100 F Street NE, Committee Representative will continue to issue Washington, DC 20549 on official 6. Report of the Nuclear Oversight decisions as necessary. business days between the hours of Committee DATES: The product exclusions will 10:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. Copies of the 7. Report of the Audit, Risk, and apply as of the July 6, 2018 effective filing also will be available for Regulation Committee date of the $34 billion action, and will inspection and copying at the principal 8. Information Item extend to October 1, 2020 at 11:59 p.m. office of the self-regulatory organization. A. Amendments to the Long-Term EDT. The amendments announced in VerDate Sep<11>2014 18:19 Feb 10, 2020 Jkt 250001 PO 00000 Frm 00104 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\11FEN1.SGM 11FEN1 khammond on DSKJM1Z7X2PROD with NOTICES Federal Register / Vol. 85, No. 28 / Tuesday, February 11, 2020 / Notices 7817 this notice are retroactive to the date the Customs and Border Protection to in specially prepared product original exclusions were published and administer the requested exclusion. descriptions. The exclusions announced do not further extend the period for the Requestors were asked to provide the in this notice take the form of four original exclusions. U.S. Customs and quantity and value of the Chinese-origin specially prepared product descriptions. Border Protection will issue instructions product that the requestor purchased in In accordance with the July 11 notice, on entry guidance and implementation. the last three years. With regard to the the exclusions are available for any FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For rationale for the requested exclusion, products that meet the descriptions in general questions about this notice, requests had to address the following the Annex, regardless of whether the factors: importer filed an exclusion request. contact Assistant General Counsel • Philip Butler or Director of Industrial Whether the particular product is Furthermore, the scope of the Goods Justin Hoffmann at (202) 395– available only from China and exclusions are governed by the scope of 5725. For specific questions on customs specifically whether the particular the 10-digit HTSUS subheadings and classification or implementation of the product and/or a comparable product is product descriptions in the Annex, and product exclusions identified in the available from sources in the United not by the product descriptions set out Annex to this notice, contact States and/or third countries. in any particular request for exclusion. • Whether the imposition of [email protected]. additional duties on the particular C. Amendments to Certain Exclusions SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: product would cause severe economic The Annex also makes technical A. Background harm to the requestor or other U.S. amendments to certain notes in the interests. HTSUS. Subparagraphs B(1–26) clarify For background on the proceedings in • Whether the particular product is periodic revisions in U.S. notes 20(i)(6– this investigation, please see the prior strategically important or related to 7), 20(m)(16–18), 20(m)(27), 20(n)(13– notices issued in the investigation, ‘‘Made in China 2025’’ or other Chinese 27), 20(n)(30), 20(q)(19–21), and including 82 FR 40213 (August 23, industrial programs. 20(x)(20) to subchapter III of chapter 99 2017), 83 FR 14906 (April 6, 2018), 83 The July 11 notice stated that the U.S. of the HTSUS, as set out in the Annexes FR 28710 (June 20, 2018), 83 FR 33608 Trade Representative would take into of the notices published at 84 FR 11153 (July 17, 2018), 83 FR 38760 (August 7, account whether an exclusion would (March 25, 2019), 84 FR 25895 (June 4, 2018), 83 FR 40823 (August 16, 2018), undermine the objective of the Section 2019), 84 FR 32821 (July 9, 2019), 84 FR 83 FR 47974 (September 21, 2018), 83 301 investigation. 49564 (September 20, 2019), and 84 FR FR 65198 (December 19, 2018), 83 FR The July 11 notice required 52567 (October 2, 2019). 67463 (December 28, 2018), 84 FR 7966 submission of requests for exclusion In order to correct typographical or (March 5, 2019), 84 FR 11152 (March from the $34 billion action no later than other ministerial errors, subparagraphs 25, 2019), 84 FR 16310 (April 18, 2019), October 9, 2018, and noted that the U.S.