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for additional Form I–9 documentation through January 5, 2012. This Notice Applicants seeking information about if presented with an EAD that has been also sets forth procedures necessary for the status of their individual cases can automatically extended or a new valid nationals of Nicaragua (or aliens having check Case Status Online available at EAD pursuant to this Federal Register no nationality who last habitually the USCIS Web site at http:// notice, and the EAD reasonably appears resided in Nicaragua) with TPS to re- www.uscis.gov, or call the USCIS on its face to be genuine and to relate register and to apply for an extension of National Customer Service Center at 1– to the employee. Employees also may their employment authorization 800–375–5283 (TTY 1–800–767–1833). present any other legally acceptable documents (EADs) with U.S. • Further information will also be document or combination of documents Citizenship and Immigration Services available at local USCIS offices upon listed on the Form I–9 as proof of (USCIS). Re-registration is limited to publication of this Notice. identity and employment eligibility. persons who previously registered for SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: TPS under the designation of Nicaragua Note to Employers Abbreviations and Terms Used in This and whose applications have been Document Employers are reminded that the laws granted or remain pending. Certain requiring employment eligibility nationals of Nicaragua (or aliens having Act—Immigration and Nationality Act verification and prohibiting unfair no nationality who last habitually DHS—Department of Homeland immigration-related employment resided in Nicaragua) who have not Security practices remain in full force. This previously applied for TPS may be DOS—Department of State Notice does not supersede or in any way eligible to apply under the late initial EAD—Employment Authorization limit applicable employment registration provisions. Document verification rules and policy guidance, New EADs with a January 5, 2012, OSC—U.S. Department of Justice, Office including those rules setting forth re- expiration date will be issued to eligible of Special Counsel for Immigration verification requirements. For questions, TPS beneficiaries who timely re-register Related Unfair Employment Practices PRRAC—European Union’s Regional employers may call the USCIS Customer and apply for EADs. Given the Program for the Reconstruction of Assistance Office at 1–800–357–2099. timeframes involved with processing Central America Employers may also call the U.S. TPS re-registration applications, the Secretary—Secretary of Homeland Department of Justice Office of Special Department of Homeland Security Security Counsel for Immigration Related Unfair recognizes the possibility that all re- Employment Practices (OSC) Employer TPS—Temporary Protected Status registrants may not receive new EADs USCIS—U.S. Citizenship and Hotline at 1–800–255–8155. until after their current EADs expire on Immigration Services Note to Employees July 5, 2010. Accordingly, this Notice automatically extends the validity of What is Temporary Protected Status? Employees or applicants may call the EADs issued under the TPS designation • TPS is an immigration status OSC Employee Hotline at 1–800–255– of Nicaragua for 6 months, through 7688 for information regarding the granted to eligible nationals of a country January 5, 2011, and explains how TPS designated for TPS under the Act (or to automatic extension. Additional beneficiaries and their employers may information is available on the OSC persons without nationality who last determine which EADs are habitually resided in the designated Web site at http://www.justice.gov/crt/ automatically extended. osc/. country). DATES: The extension of the TPS • During the period for which the [FR Doc. 2010–10620 Filed 5–4–10; 8:45 am] designation of Nicaragua is effective Secretary has designated a country for BILLING CODE 9111–97–P July 6, 2010, and will remain in effect TPS, TPS beneficiaries are eligible to through January 5, 2012. The 60-day re- remain in the United States and may registration period begins May 5, 2010, obtain work authorization, so long as DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND and will remain in effect until July 6, they continue to meet the terms and SECURITY 2010. conditions of their TPS status. • The granting of TPS does not lead Citizenship and Immigration Services FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: • For further information on TPS, to permanent resident status. [CIS No. 2488–09; DHS Docket No. USCIS • When the Secretary terminates a 2010–0031] including guidance on the application process and additional information on country’s TPS designation, beneficiaries RIN 1615–ZA94 eligibility, please visit the USCIS Web return to the same immigration status site at http://www.uscis.gov. Select they maintained before TPS (unless that Extension of the Designation of ‘‘Temporary Protected Status’’ from the status has since expired or been Nicaragua for Temporary Protected homepage. You can find detailed terminated) or to any other status they Status and Automatic Extension of information about this TPS extension on may have obtained while registered for Employment Authorization our Web site at the Nicaraguan TPS. Documentation for Nicaraguan TPS Questions & Answers Section. What authority does the Secretary of Beneficiaries • You can also contact the TPS Homeland Security have to extend the AGENCY: U.S. Citizenship and Operations Program Manager, Status designation of Nicaragua for TPS? and Family Branch, Service Center Immigration Services, Department of Section 244(b)(1) of the Immigration Operations Directorate, U.S. Citizenship Homeland Security (DHS). and Nationality Act (the Act), 8 U.S.C. and Immigration Services, Department ACTION: Notice. 1254a(b)(1), authorizes the Secretary, of Homeland Security, 20 Massachusetts after consultation with appropriate SUMMARY: This Notice announces that Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20529– agencies of the government, to designate the Secretary of Homeland Security 2060, telephone (202) 272–1533. This is a foreign State (or part thereof) for TPS.1 (Secretary) has extended the designation not a toll-free call. Note: The phone of Nicaragua for temporary protected number provided here is solely for 1 As of March 1, 2003, in accordance with section status (TPS) for 18 months from its questions regarding this TPS notice. It is 1517 of title XV of the Homeland Security Act of current expiration date of July 5, 2010, not for individual case status inquiries. Continued

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The Secretary may then grant TPS to Hurricane Mitch resulted in the loss other immigration status. Their return eligible nationals of that foreign State of thousands of lives, displacement of would aggravate Nicaragua’s (or aliens having no nationality who last thousands more, collapse of physical deteriorating economy by increasing habitually resided in that State). Section infrastructure, and severe damage to the unemployment already exacerbated by 244(a)(1)(A) of the Act, 8 U.S.C. country’s economic system. See 64 FR the recent global economic crisis. 1254a(a)(1)(A). 526 (Jan. 5, 1999) (discussing Economic development has also been At least 60 days before the expiration devastation caused by Hurricane Mitch). hindered and disrupted by electoral of a TPS designation, the Secretary, after The government and people of fraud and weak and poorly constructed consultation with appropriate agencies Nicaragua continue to rely heavily on infrastructure, such as the poor of the government, must review the international assistance, and recovery condition of rural roads. Nicaragua from Hurricane Mitch is still conditions in a foreign State designated remains ill-equipped to handle incomplete. for TPS to determine whether the adequately the return of Nicaraguans Nicaragua has not fully recovered conditions for the TPS designation currently in the United States who are continue to be met and, if so, must from Hurricane Mitch. The regions most TPS beneficiaries. determine the length of an extension of devastated by Hurricane Mitch, the the TPS designation. Section mountainous north and the isolated Based on this review and after 244(b)(3)(A), (C) of the Act, 8 U.S.C. Atlantic coast, continue to be the consultation with the appropriate 1254a(b)(3)(A), (C). If the Secretary poorest and least developed in the Government agencies, the Secretary determines that the foreign State no country. Most rural roads in these finds that: regions have not been properly longer meets the conditions for the TPS • The conditions that prompted the designation, the Secretary must rehabilitated since Hurricane Mitch. Despite Millennium Challenge January 5, 1999, designation of terminate the designation. Section Nicaragua for TPS continue to be met. 244(b)(3)(B) of the Act, 8 U.S.C. Corporation-sponsored road projects in See section 244(b)(3)(A) of the Act, 8 1254a(b)(3)(B). some of the more populous areas of eastern Chinandega Department along U.S.C. 1254a(b)(3)(A). When was Nicaragua designated for the Honduran border, rural feeder roads • There continues to be a substantial, TPS? remain in poor condition. They remain but temporary, disruption in living On January 5, 1999, the Attorney impassible during the rainy season. A conditions in Nicaragua as the result of General designated Nicaragua for TPS significant number of the 90 health an environmental disaster. See section based on an environmental disaster centers and 400 health posts in isolated 244(b)(1)(B) of the Act, 8 U.S.C. rural areas destroyed by Mitch have not within that country, specifically the 1254a(b)(1)(B). devastation resulting from Hurricane been rebuilt. Some of the over 500 • Nicaragua continues to be unable, Mitch. 64 FR 526. See section primary schools that suffered structural 244(a)(b)(1)(B) of the Act, 8 U.S.C. damage due to Mitch are still unusable. temporarily, to adequately handle the 1254a(b)(1)(B). The last extension of In addition, more recent natural return of its nationals (or aliens having TPS for Nicaragua was announced on disasters have slowed the recovery from no nationality who last habitually October 1, 2008, based on the Hurricane Mitch. In September 2007, resided in Nicaragua). See section Secretary’s determination that the Hurricane Felix, a category 5 storm, 244(b)(1)(B) of the Act, 8 U.S.C. conditions warranting the designation struck the area affected by Hurricane 1254a(b)(1)(B). Mitch and was followed by heavy rains continued to be met. 73 FR 57138. This • The designation of Nicaragua for and flooding. More than 20,450 homes, announcement is the ninth extension of TPS should be extended for an TPS for Nicaragua. along with 100 schools, clinics, community centers, and churches were additional 18-month period. See section Why is the Secretary extending the TPS destroyed, and 130 people died. 244(b)(3)(C) of the Act, 8 U.S.C. designation for Nicaragua through Tropical depression Alma followed in 1254a(b)(3)(C). January 5, 2012? May 2008 and further exacerbated the • There are approximately 3,000 Over the past year, DHS and the damage caused by the earlier storms. nationals of Nicaragua (or aliens having Department of State (DOS) have Nicaragua continues to suffer from no nationality who last habitually continued to review conditions in chronic poverty and food resided in Nicaragua) who are eligible Nicaragua. Based on this review, and insufficiencies, which have for TPS under this extended after consulting with the Department of compounded recovery challenges. designation. State, the Secretary has determined that Environmental disasters have destroyed Notice of Extension of the TPS an 18-month extension is warranted over 100,000 acres of crops. In addition, Designation of Nicaragua because there continues to be a continued environmental disasters have damaged water supplies, leaving whole substantial, but temporary, disruption of By the authority vested in me as living conditions in Nicaragua resulting communities lacking potable water. According to the United Nations World Secretary of Homeland Security under from Hurricane Mitch, and Nicaragua section 244 of the Act, 8 U.S.C. 1254a, remains unable, temporarily, to Food Programme (WFP), these recurring environmental disasters destroyed the I have determined after consultation adequately handle the return of its with the appropriate government nationals. country’s economic base. Approximately 48% of the population agencies that the conditions that prompted designation of Nicaragua for 2002 (HSA), Public Law 107–296, 116 Stat. 2135, lives below the poverty line, and any reference to the Attorney General in a provision approximately 17% live in extreme temporary protected status (TPS) on of the Immigration and Nationality Act describing poverty. January 5, 1999, continue to be met. See functions transferred under the HSA from the Nicaragua is also currently unable to section 244(b)(3)(A) of the Act, 8 U.S.C. Department of Justice to the Department of 1254a(b)(3)(A). On the basis of this Homeland Security ‘‘shall be deemed to refer to the handle adequately the return of Secretary’’ of Homeland Security. See 6 U.S.C. 557 thousands of its nationals who now determination, I am extending the TPS (2003) (codifying HSA, tit. XV, sec. 1517). have TPS in the United States, but no designation of Nicaragua for 18 months

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from July 6, 2010, through January 5, • If you are filing for re-registration, satisfactory supporting documentation. 2012. you must pay the Form I–765 For more information on the application application fee if you want an Janet Napolitano, forms and application fees for TPS, employment authorization document please visit the USCIS Web site at Secretary. (EAD). http://www.uscis.gov. Required Application Forms and • If you are filing for late initial Application Fees to Register or Re- registration and want an EAD, you must Biometric Services Fee register for TPS pay the Form I–765 fee only if you are Biometrics (such as fingerprints) are age 14 through 65. No EAD fee is To register or re-register for TPS, an required for all applicants 14 years of required if you are under the age of 14 applicant must submit: age or older. Those applicants must 1. Form I–821, Application for or over the age of 65 and filing for late initial TPS registration. submit a biometric services fee. For Temporary Protected Status, more information on the biometric • You only need to pay the Form • You do not pay the Form I–765 fee services fee, please visit the USCIS Web I–821 application fee if you are filing an if you are not requesting an EAD. site at http://www.uscis.gov. application for late initial registration. You must submit both completed • You do not need to pay the Form application forms together. You may Mailing Information I–821 fee for a re-registration; and apply for application and/or biometrics 2. Form I–765, Application for fee waivers if you are unable to pay and Mail your application for TPS to the Employment Authorization. you can provide proof through proper address in Table 1:

TABLE 1—MAILING ADDRESSES

If ... Mail to ...

You are applying for re-registration through U.S. Postal Service ...... USCIS, Attn: TPS Nicaragua, P.O. Box 6943, Chicago, IL 60680–6943. You are applying for the first time as a late initial registrant through USCIS, Attn: TPS Nicaragua, P.O. Box 6943, Chicago, IL 60680–6943. U.S. Postal Service. You are using a Non-U.S. Postal Service delivery service for both re- U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, Attn: TPS Nicaragua, 131 registration and first time late initial registration. S. Dearborn—3rd Floor, Chicago, IL 60603–5517. You were granted TPS by an Immigration Judge (IJ) or the Board of USCIS, Attn: TPS Nicaragua, P.O. Box 7332, Chicago, IL 60680–7332. Immigration Appeals (BIA), and you wish to request an EAD or are re-registering for the first time.

E-Filing bearing an expiration date of July 5, Employers should not request proof of If you are re-registering for TPS 2010. These EADs must also bear the Nicaraguan citizenship. Employers during the re-registration period and notation ‘‘A–12’’ or ‘‘C–19’’ on the face of should accept the EADs as valid ‘‘List A’’ you do not need to submit any the card under ‘‘Category.’’ documents. Employers should not ask supporting documents or evidence, you What documents may a qualified for additional Form I–9 documentation are eligible to file your applications individual show to his or her employer if presented with an EAD that has been electronically. For more information on as proof of employment authorization automatically extended or a new valid e-filing, please visit the USCIS E-Filing and identity when completing Form I–9? EAD pursuant to this Federal Register Reference Guide at the USCIS Web site notice, and the EAD reasonably appears at http://www.uscis.gov. During the first six months of this on its face to be genuine and to relate extension, qualified individuals who to the employee. Employees also may Employment Authorization Document have received a 6-month automatic present any other legally acceptable (EAD) extension of their EADs by virtue of this document or combination of documents May I request an interim EAD at my Federal Register notice may present listed on the Form I–9 as proof of local USCIS office? their extended TPS-based EADs, as identity and employment eligibility. described above, to their employers as No. USCIS will not issue interim proof of identity and employment Note to Employers EADs to TPS applicants and re- authorization through January 5, 2011. registrants at local offices. To minimize confusion over this Employers are reminded that the laws Am I eligible to receive an automatic extension at the time of hire or re- requiring employment eligibility 6-month EAD extension from July 6, verification, qualified individuals may verification and prohibiting unfair 2010, through January 5, 2011? also present a copy of this Federal immigration-related employment practices remain in full force. This To receive an automatic 6-month Register notice regarding the automatic Notice does not supersede or in any way extension of your EAD: extension of employment authorization • You must be a national of Nicaragua documentation through January 5, 2011. limit applicable employment (or an alien having no nationality who After January 5, 2011, TPS verification rules and policy guidance, last habitually resided in Nicaragua) beneficiaries may present their EADs on including those rules setting forth re- who has applied for and received an Form I–766 with an extension date of verification requirements. For questions, EAD under the designation of Nicaragua January 5, 2012, to their employers as employers may call the USCIS Customer for TPS, and proof of employment authorization and Assistance Office at 1–800–357–2099. • You have not had TPS withdrawn identity. The EAD will bear the notation Employers may also call the U.S. or denied. ‘‘A–12’’ or ‘‘C–19’’ on the face of the card Department of Justice Office (DOJ) of This automatic extension is limited to under ‘‘Category.’’ After January 5, 2011, Special Counsel for Immigration Related EADs issued on Form I–766, employers may not accept EADs that no Unfair Employment Practices (OSC) Employment Authorization Document, longer have a valid date. Employer Hotline at 1–800–255–8155.

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Note to Employees DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND and responsibilities of FEMA, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), and Employees or applicants may call the SECURITY the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) in OSC Employee Hotline at 1–800–255– Federal Emergency Management removing debris, wreckage, and sunken 7688 for information regarding the Agency vessels from waterways. This policy automatic extension. Additional draws upon recent disaster experience information is available on the OSC [Docket ID FEMA–2010–0025] in delineating eligibility for debris Web site at http://www.justice.gov/crt/ removal from waterways under the osc/. Recovery Policy RP9523.5, Debris Removal From Waterways Public Assistance Program. The USACE [FR Doc. 2010–10619 Filed 5–4–10; 8:45 am] and USCG reviewed and provided input BILLING CODE 9111–97–P AGENCY: Federal Emergency on this policy. Management Agency, DHS. Authority: 42 U.S.C. 5170b, 5173, and ACTION: Notice of availability. DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND 5192. SECURITY SUMMARY: This document provides David J. Kaufman, notice of the availability of the final Director, Office of Policy and Program Federal Emergency Management Recovery Policy RP9523.5, Debris Analysis, Federal Emergency Management Agency Removal from Waterways. Agency. DATES: This policy is effective March 29, [FR Doc. 2010–10461 Filed 5–4–10; 8:45 am] [Docket ID FEMA–2010–0028] 2010. BILLING CODE 9111–23–P ADDRESSES: This final policy is available Recovery Fact Sheet RP9580.102, online at http://www.regulations.gov Permanent Relocation under docket ID FEMA–2010–0025 and DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY AGENCY: Federal Emergency on FEMA’s Web site at http:// Management Agency, DHS. www.fema.gov. You may also view a hard copy of the final policy at the Federal Emergency Management ACTION: Notice of availability. Office of Chief Counsel, Federal Agency SUMMARY: This document provides Emergency Management Agency, Room 835, 500 C Street, SW., Washington, DC [Internal Agency Docket No. FEMA–1895– notice of the availability of the final DR; Docket ID FEMA–2010–0002] Recovery Fact Sheet RP9580.102, 20472. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Permanent Relocation, which is being Mr. Massachusetts; Amendment No. 2 to issued by the Federal Emergency Byron Mason, Federal Emergency Notice of a Major Disaster Declaration Management Agency (FEMA). Management Agency, 500 C Street SW., Washington, DC 20472; 202–646–4368 AGENCY: Federal Emergency DATES: This fact sheet is effective April phone; 202–646–3304 facsimile; 14, 2010. Management Agency, DHS. [email protected]. ACTION: Notice. ADDRESSES: This final fact sheet is SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The available online at http:// SUMMARY: This notice amends the notice www.regulations.gov under docket ID Public Assistance Program provides, following a Presidentially-declared of a major disaster declaration for the FEMA–2010–0028 and on FEMA’s Web Commonwealth of Massachusetts site at http://www.fema.gov. You may major disaster or emergency, supplemental Federal disaster grant (FEMA–1895–DR), dated March 29, also view a hard copy of the final fact 2010, and related determinations. sheet at the Office of Chief Counsel, assistance for the repair, replacement, or DATES: Effective Date: April 26, 2010. Federal Emergency Management restoration of disaster damaged, Agency, Room 835, 500 C Street, SW., publicly-owned facilities and the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Washington, DC 20472–3100. facilities of certain Private Non-Profit Peggy Miller, Recovery Directorate, (PNP) organizations. To be eligible Federal Emergency Management FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: under the Public Assistance Program, Agency, 500 C Street, SW., Washington, Deborah Atkinson, Federal Emergency work must be required as the result of DC 20472, (202) 646–3886. Management Agency, 500 C Street SW., the emergency or major disaster, be Washington, DC 20472, 202–646–8146, SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is located within the designated area, and hereby given that the incident period for or via e-mail at be the legal responsibility of an eligible [email protected]. this disaster is closed effective April 26, applicant. Emergency work that must be 2010. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: performed to reduce or eliminate an immediate threat to life, to protect The following Catalog of Federal Domestic The purpose of this fact sheet is to Assistance Numbers (CFDA) are to be used provide guidance on eligibility under public health and safety, and to protect for reporting and drawing funds: 97.030, the Public Assistance Program for the improved property that is threatened in Community Disaster Loans; 97.031, Cora permanent relocation of a disaster a significant way as a result of the major Brown Fund; 97.032, Crisis Counseling; damaged facility pursuant to 44 CFR disaster or emergency includes debris 97.033, Disaster Legal Services; 97.034, 206.226. removal. Disaster Unemployment Assistance (DUA); This policy was developed to provide 97.046, Fire Management Assistance Grant; Authority: 42 U.S.C. 5121–5207; 44 CFR 97.048, Disaster Housing Assistance to part 206. guidance for determining the eligibility of debris removal from navigable Individuals and Households in Presidentially Robert Farmer, waterways, the coastal and inland Declared Disaster Areas; 97.049, Presidentially Declared Disaster Assistance— Deputy Director, Office of Policy and Program zones, and wetlands under the Public Disaster Housing Operations for Individuals Analysis, Federal Emergency Management Assistance Program. Recent disaster and Households; 97.050, Presidentially Agency. activity, including Hurricanes Katrina Declared Disaster Assistance to Individuals [FR Doc. 2010–10455 Filed 5–4–10; 8:45 am] and Ike, demonstrated the need for and Households—Other Needs; 97.036, BILLING CODE 9111–23–P additional guidance to clarify the roles Disaster Grants—Public Assistance

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