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regulatory and informational impacts of
this action on small businesses.
A small business guide on complying
with fruit, vegetable, and specialty crop
marketing agreements and orders may
be viewed at: https://www.ams.usda.gov/
AMSv1.0/ams.fetchTemplateData.
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MarketingOrdersSmallBusinessGuide.
Any questions about the compliance
guide should be sent to Antoinette
Carter at the previously mentioned
address in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
CONTACT section.
This rule invites comments on a
relaxation of the size requirement
prescribed under the Colorado potato
marketing order. Any comments
received will be considered prior to
finalization of this rule.
After consideration of all relevant
material presented, including the
Committee’s recommendation, and
other information, it is found that this
interim rule, as hereinafter set forth,
will tend to effectuate the declared
policy of the Act.
Pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 553, it is also
found and determined upon good cause
that it is impracticable, unnecessary,
and contrary to the public interest to
give preliminary notice prior to putting
this rule into effect and that good cause
exists for not postponing the effective
date of this rule until 30 days after
publication in the Federal Register
because: (1) Any changes resulting from
this rule should be effective as soon as
practicable because the Colorado Area
No. 3 potato shipping season began in
July; (2) the Committee discussed and
unanimously recommended these
changes at public meetings and all
interested parties had an opportunity to
provide input; (3) handlers are aware of
this action and want to take advantage
of this relaxation as soon as possible;
and (4) this rule provides a 60-day
comment period and any comments
received will be considered prior to
finalization of this rule.
List of Subjects in 7 CFR Part 948
Marketing agreements, Potatoes,
Reporting and recordkeeping
requirements.
■ For the reasons set forth in the
preamble, 7 CFR part 948 is amended as
follows:
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PART 948—IRISH POTATOES GROWN
IN COLORADO
1. The authority citation for 7 CFR
part 948 continues to read as follows:
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Authority: 7 U.S.C. 601–674.
2. In § 948.387, paragraph (a) is
revised to read as follows:
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Handling regulation.
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(a) Grade and size requirements—All
varieties.
U.S. No. 2 or better grade, 17⁄8 inches
minimum diameter or 4 ounces
minimum weight: Provided That the
minimum size may be 3⁄4 inch in
diameter, if the potatoes otherwise meet
U.S. No. 1 grade.
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Dated: March 26, 2010.
David R. Shipman,
Acting Administrator, Agricultural Marketing
Service.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
10 CFR Part 431
[Docket Number EERE–2007–BT–STD–
0007]
RIN 1904–AB70
Energy Conservation Program: Energy
Conservation Standards for Small
Electric Motors; Correction
AGENCY: Office of Energy Efficiency and
Renewable Energy, Department of
Energy.
ACTION: Final rule; technical correction.
SUMMARY: This document contains a
technical correction to the final rule
regarding the energy conservation
standards for small electric motors,
which was published on March 9, 2010.
In that final rule, the U.S. Department
of Energy (DOE) adopted regulations to
establish energy conservation standards
for small electric motors. Due to a
drafting error, an incorrect compliance
date for this equipment was
inadvertently inserted into the
regulation. This correction notice
addresses the error.
DATES: This technical correction is
effective April 8, 2010.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
James Raba, U.S. Department of Energy,
Office of Energy Efficiency and
Renewable Energy, Building
Technologies Program, EE–2J, 1000
Independence Avenue, SW.,
Washington, DC 20585–0121, (202)
586–8654. E-mail:
Jim.Raba@ee.doe.gov.
Michael Kido, U.S. Department of
Energy, Office of the General Counsel,
GC–72, 1000 Independence Avenue,
SW., Washington, DC 20585–0121,
(202) 586–9507. E-mail:
Michael.Kido@hq.doe.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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I. Background
On March 9, 2010, the DOE’s Office
of Energy Efficiency and Renewable
Energy published a final rule titled
‘‘Energy Conservation Standards for
Small Electric Motors.’’ 75 FR 10874.
Since the publication of that rule, it has
come to DOE’s attention that, due to a
technical oversight, a certain part of the
final regulations inadvertently applied
an incorrect date by which
manufacturers would need to comply
with the standards established by that
rule. That section of the regulations,
section 431.446(a) of Title 10 of the
Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR),
Part 431, provides a date of February 28,
2015. 75 FR 10947. Instead, that date
should be March 9, 2015, which is 60
months from the date of the final rule’s
publication in the Federal Register, and
in the case of a small electric motor that
requires listing or certification by a
nationally recognized safety testing
laboratory, March 9, 2017, 84 months
after such date. Both of these dates are
specified compliance dates for small
electric motor standards under the
Energy Policy and Conservation Act of
1975, as amended (EPCA). See 42 U.S.C.
6317(b)(3).
II. Need for Correction
As published, the final regulation
contains an erroneous date that this
document corrects. In light of the
statutory requirement, the considerable
amount of time before the compliance
date and, in the case of the 2015 date,
the small difference in the number of
days at issue, the change addressed by
today’s document is technical in nature.
Because these dates are specified by
EPCA, DOE does not have the discretion
to deviate from these statutorilyprescribed requirements. As such, DOE
finds that there is good cause under 5
U.S.C. 553(b)(B) and that the issuance of
a separate notice to solicit public
comment on the changes contained in
this notice is unnecessary. In FR Doc.
2010–4358, appearing in the document
beginning on page 10947 in the Federal
Register of Tuesday, March 9, 2010, the
following correction is made:
§ 431.446
[Corrected]
1. On page 10947, in the third column,
under § 431.446, introductory paragraph
(a) is corrected to read as follows:
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§ 431.446 Small electric motors energy
conservation standards and their effective
dates.
(a) Each small electric motor
manufactured (alone or as a component
of another piece of non-covered
equipment) after March 9, 2015, or in
the case of a small electric motor which
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requires listing or certification by a
nationally recognized safety testing
laboratory, after March 9, 2017, shall
have an average full load efficiency of
not less than the following:
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Issued in Washington, DC, on March 29,
2010.
Cathy Zoi,
Assistant Secretary, Energy Efficiency and
Renewable Energy.
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FEDERAL HOUSING FINANCE BOARD
12 CFR Part 918
FEDERAL HOUSING FINANCE
AGENCY
12 CFR Part 1261
RIN 2590–AA03, 2590–AA31 and 2590–AA34
Federal Home Loan Bank Directors’
Eligibility, Elections, Compensation
and Expenses
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AGENCY: Federal Housing Finance
Agency, Federal Housing Finance
Board.
ACTION: Final rule.
SUMMARY: In this rulemaking, the
Federal Housing Finance Agency
(FHFA) is adopting a final rule that
implements two separate proposed
rules, which relate to Federal Home
Loan Bank (Bank) director elections and
director compensation, respectively. As
to director elections, FHFA is amending
its regulations relating to the process by
which successor Bank directors are
chosen after a directorship is
redesignated to a new state prior to the
end of the term as a result of the annual
designation of Bank directorships.
Under the final rule, the redesignation
causes the original directorship to
terminate and creates a new
directorship that will be filled by an
election of the members.
As to director compensation, FHFA is
implementing section 1202 of the
Housing and Economic Recovery Act of
2008 (HERA), which amended section
7(i) of the Federal Home Loan Bank Act
(Bank Act) by repealing the statutory
caps on the annual compensation that
can be paid to Bank directors. This
aspect of the final rule allows each Bank
to pay its directors reasonable
compensation and expenses, subject to
the authority of the FHFA Director to
object to, and to prohibit prospectively,
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compensation and/or expenses that the
Director determines are not reasonable.
DATES: This rule is effective May 5,
2010.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Daniel Coates, Associate Director,
Division of FHLBank Regulation, 202–
408–2959, daniel.coates@fhfa.gov or
Neil R. Crowley, Deputy General
Counsel, 202–343–1316,
neil.crowley@fhfa.gov, Federal Housing
Finance Agency, Fourth Floor, 1700 G
Street, NW., Washington, DC 20552. The
telephone number for the
Telecommunications Device for the Deaf
is (800) 877–8339.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. In General
On July 30, 2008, HERA, Public Law
110–289, 122 Stat. 2654 (2008), became
law and created FHFA as an
independent agency of the Federal
government. Among other things, HERA
transferred to FHFA the supervisory and
oversight responsibilities over the Banks
that formerly had been vested in the
now abolished Federal Housing Finance
Board (Finance Board). The Banks
continue to operate under regulations
promulgated by the Finance Board until
such time as the existing regulations are
supplanted by regulations promulgated
by FHFA.
Section 1202 of HERA amended
section 7 of the Bank Act, which
governs the eligibility, election,
compensation and expenses of Bank
directors. See 12 U.S.C. 1427. FHFA has
implemented section 7 in part 1261 of
its rules. 12 CFR part 1261.
Section 1201 of HERA (codified at 12
U.S.C. 4513(f)) requires the Director of
FHFA to consider the differences
between the Banks and the Enterprises
with respect to the Banks’ cooperative
ownership structure, mission of
providing liquidity to members,
affordable housing and community
development mission, capital structure,
and joint and several liability, whenever
promulgating regulations that affect the
Banks. The Director may also consider
any other differences that are deemed
appropriate. In preparing this final rule,
the Director considered the differences
between the Banks and the Enterprises
as they relate to the above factors and
determined that the rule is appropriate,
particularly because this final rule
applies only to the Banks.
II. Bank Director Eligibility and
Elections
In December 2009, FHFA published a
proposed rule that would deem
terminated a directorship that is
redesignated to a new state prior to the
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end of its term as a result of the annual
designation of Bank directorships, with
a new directorship created for the new
state. See 74 FR 62708 (Dec. 1, 2009).
The new directorship would be filled by
an election of the members. The
proposal constituted a change from the
current Finance Board rule, which
deems the redesignation to create a
vacancy on the board. Under the Bank
Act, vacancies on the board are filled by
the remaining directors. See 12 U.S.C.
1427(f)(2); 12 CFR 1261.3 and 1261.4.
FHFA received one comment on the
proposed rule, which was from a Bank
and related to an aspect of the term limit
provisions. Section 1261.4(d)(2)
implements the term limit provision of
section 7(d) of the Bank Act. See 12 CFR
1261.4(d)(2); 12 U.S.C. 1427(d). The rule
provides that a term adjusted after July
30, 2008 (the effective date of HERA) to
a period of fewer than four years is not
considered a full term for purposes of
calculating term limits. See 12 CFR
1261.4(d)(2)(i). The Bank suggested that
FHFA use the term ‘‘adjusted’’ in new
paragraph 1261.3(e) to make clear that a
newly created directorship with a term
of less than four years as a result of a
redesignation of directorships would
not be a full term for purposes of the
statutory term limit. FHFA agrees that
this will clarify application of the rule
and has made the change in the final
rule. FHFA is adopting the remainder of
the changes as proposed.
FHFA also is making a technical
change to part 1261. It is creating a new
subpart A, which contains definitions
common to all subparts. These
definitions include the terms Act, Bank,
FHFA, and Director. These terms no
longer will appear in other subparts of
part 1261. The succeeding subparts will
be redesignated subparts B (eligibility
and elections), C (compensation and
expenses), and D (reserved). In the
newly redesignated subpart B, FHFA is
renumbering §§ 1261.1 through 1261.7
as §§ 1261.2 through 1261.8,
respectively. It is removing § 1261.8,
which was reserved. FHFA is correcting
the cross-references within subpart B to
take into account the new numbering.
III. Bank Director Compensation and
Expenses
In October 2009, FHFA published a
proposed rule to address changes HERA
section 1202 made to section 7(i) of the
Bank Act. See 74 FR 54758 (Oct. 23,
2009). Among other things, section 1202
repealed the statutory caps on the
annual compensation a Bank can pay to
its directors, the effect of which was to
authorize the Banks to pay reasonable
compensation and expenses to their
directors subject to FHFA approval. See
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[FR Doc No: 2010-7642]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
10 CFR Part 431
[Docket Number EERE-2007-BT-STD-0007]
RIN 1904-AB70
Energy Conservation Program: Energy Conservation Standards for
Small Electric Motors; Correction
AGENCY: Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Department of
Energy.
ACTION: Final rule; technical correction.
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SUMMARY: This document contains a technical correction to the final
rule regarding the energy conservation standards for small electric
motors, which was published on March 9, 2010. In that final rule, the
U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) adopted regulations to establish energy
conservation standards for small electric motors. Due to a drafting
error, an incorrect compliance date for this equipment was
inadvertently inserted into the regulation. This correction notice
addresses the error.
DATES: This technical correction is effective April 8, 2010.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
James Raba, U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Energy Efficiency and
Renewable Energy, Building Technologies Program, EE-2J, 1000
Independence Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20585-0121, (202) 586-8654. E-
mail: Jim.Raba@ee.doe.gov.
Michael Kido, U.S. Department of Energy, Office of the General Counsel,
GC-72, 1000 Independence Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20585-0121, (202)
586-9507. E-mail: Michael.Kido@hq.doe.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
On March 9, 2010, the DOE's Office of Energy Efficiency and
Renewable Energy published a final rule titled ``Energy Conservation
Standards for Small Electric Motors.'' 75 FR 10874. Since the
publication of that rule, it has come to DOE's attention that, due to a
technical oversight, a certain part of the final regulations
inadvertently applied an incorrect date by which manufacturers would
need to comply with the standards established by that rule. That
section of the regulations, section 431.446(a) of Title 10 of the Code
of Federal Regulations (10 CFR), Part 431, provides a date of February
28, 2015. 75 FR 10947. Instead, that date should be March 9, 2015,
which is 60 months from the date of the final rule's publication in the
Federal Register, and in the case of a small electric motor that
requires listing or certification by a nationally recognized safety
testing laboratory, March 9, 2017, 84 months after such date. Both of
these dates are specified compliance dates for small electric motor
standards under the Energy Policy and Conservation Act of 1975, as
amended (EPCA). See 42 U.S.C. 6317(b)(3).
II. Need for Correction
As published, the final regulation contains an erroneous date that
this document corrects. In light of the statutory requirement, the
considerable amount of time before the compliance date and, in the case
of the 2015 date, the small difference in the number of days at issue,
the change addressed by today's document is technical in nature.
Because these dates are specified by EPCA, DOE does not have the
discretion to deviate from these statutorily-prescribed requirements.
As such, DOE finds that there is good cause under 5 U.S.C. 553(b)(B)
and that the issuance of a separate notice to solicit public comment on
the changes contained in this notice is unnecessary. In FR Doc. 2010-
4358, appearing in the document beginning on page 10947 in the Federal
Register of Tuesday, March 9, 2010, the following correction is made:
Sec. 431.446 [Corrected]
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1. On page 10947, in the third column, under Sec. 431.446,
introductory paragraph (a) is corrected to read as follows:
Sec. 431.446 Small electric motors energy conservation standards and
their effective dates.
(a) Each small electric motor manufactured (alone or as a component
of another piece of non-covered equipment) after March 9, 2015, or in
the case of a small electric motor which
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requires listing or certification by a nationally recognized safety
testing laboratory, after March 9, 2017, shall have an average full
load efficiency of not less than the following:
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Issued in Washington, DC, on March 29, 2010.
Cathy Zoi,
Assistant Secretary, Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.
[FR Doc. 2010-7642 Filed 4-2-10; 8:45 am]
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