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PART 944—FRUITS; IMPORT
REQUIREMENTS
ACTION:
List of Subjects
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3. Amend § 944.503 by redesignating
paragraphs (a)(1)(i) and (a)(1)(ii) as
paragraphs (a)(1)(iii) and (a)(1)(iv),
revising paragraph (a)(1) introductory
text and adding new paragraphs (a)(1)(i)
and (a)(1)(ii) to read as follows:
SUMMARY:
7 CFR Part 925
Grapes, Marketing agreements,
Reporting and recordkeeping
requirements.
Proposed rule; extension of
comment period.
7 CFR Part 944
§ 944.503
4.
Avocados, Food grades and standards,
Grapefruit, Grapes, Imports, Kiwifruit,
Limes, Olives, Oranges.
(a)(1) Pursuant to section 8e of the Act
and Part 944—Fruits, Import
Regulations, and except as provided in
paragraphs (a)(1)(iii) and (a)(1)(iv), the
importation into the United States of
any variety of Vinifera species table
grapes, except Emperor, Calmeria,
Almeria, and Ribier varieties, is
prohibited unless such grapes meet the
minimum grade and size requirements
established in paragraphs (a)(1)(i) or
(a)(2)(ii).
(i) U.S. No. 1 Table, as set forth in the
United States Standards for Grades of
Table Grapes (European or Vinifera
Type 7 CFR 51.880 through 51.914),
with the exception of the tolerance
percentage for bunch size when packed
in individual consumer clamshell
packages weighing 5 pounds or less: not
more than 20 percent of the weight of
such containers may consist of single
clusters weighing less than one-quarter
pound, but with at least five berries
each; or
(ii) U.S. No. 1 Institutional, with the
exception of the tolerance percentage for
bunch size. Such tolerance shall be 33
percent instead of 4 percent as is
required to meet U.S. No. 1 Institutional
grade. Grapes meeting these quality
requirements may be marked ‘‘DGAC
No. 1 Institutional’’ but shall not be
marked ‘‘Institutional Pack.’’
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For the reasons set forth in the
preamble, 7 CFR parts 925 and 944 are
proposed to be amended as follows:
1. The authority citation for 7 CFR
parts 925 and 944 continues to read as
follows:
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Authority: 7 U.S.C. 601–674.
PART 925—GRAPES GROWN IN A
DESIGNATED AREA OF
SOUTHEASTERN CALIFORNIA
2. Amend § 925.304(a) by redesignating paragraphs (a)(1) and (a)(2)
as paragraphs (a)(3) and (a)(4), revising
paragraph (a) introductory text and
adding new paragraphs (a)(1) and (a)(2)
to read as follows:
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§ 925.304 California Desert Grape
Regulation 6.
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(a) Grade, size, and maturity. Except
as provided in paragraphs (a)(3) and
(a)(4) of this section, such grapes shall
meet the minimum grade and size
requirements established in paragraphs
(a)(1) or (a)(2).
(1) U.S. No. 1 Table, as set forth in the
United States Standards for Grades of
Table Grapes (European or Vinifera
Type 7 CFR 51.880 through 51.914),
with the exception of the tolerance
percentage for bunch size when packed
in individual consumer clamshell
packages weighing 5 pounds or less: not
more than 20 percent of the weight of
such containers may consist of single
clusters weighing less than one-quarter
pound, but with at least five berries
each; or
(2) U.S. No. 1 Institutional, with the
exception of the tolerance percentage for
bunch size. Such tolerance shall be 33
percent instead of 4 percent as is
required to meet U.S. No. 1 Institutional
grade. Grapes meeting these quality
requirements may be marked ‘‘DGAC
No. 1 Institutional’’ but shall not be
marked ‘‘Institutional Pack.’’
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Table Grape Import Regulation
Dated: February 23, 2015.
Rex A. Barnes,
Associate Administrator, Agricultural
Marketing Service.
[FR Doc. 2015–04087 Filed 3–2–15; 8:45 am]
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12 CFR Part 217
[Regulation Q; Docket No. R–1505]
RIN 7100–AD–26
Risk-Based Capital Guidelines:
Implementation of Capital
Requirements for Global Systemically
Important Bank Holding Companies
Board of Governors of the
Federal Reserve System (Board).
AGENCY:
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On December 18, 2014, the
Board published in the Federal Register
a proposal to implement risk-based
capital surcharges for U.S.-based global
systemically important banking
organizations.
Due to the range and complexity of
the issues addressed in the proposed
rulemaking, the public comment period
has been extended until April 3, 2015.
This action will allow interested
persons additional time to analyze the
proposal and prepare their comments.
DATES: The comment period for the
proposed rule published on December
18, 2014 (79 FR 75473) to implement
risk-based capital surcharges for U.S.based global systemically important
banking organizations is extended from
March 2, 2015 to April 3, 2015.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
by any of the methods identified in the
proposed rule.1 Please submit your
comments using only one method.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Jordan Bleicher, Senior Supervisory
Financial Analyst, (202) 973–6123, or
Holly Kirkpatrick, Supervisory
Financial Analyst, (202) 452–2796,
Division of Banking Supervision and
Regulation, or Christine Graham, Senior
Attorney, (202) 452–3005, Legal
Division.
On
December 18, 2014, the Board published
in the Federal Register a proposal to
implement risk-based capital surcharges
for U.S.-based global systemically
important banking organizations.2 The
proposed rule stated that the public
comment period would close on March
2, 2015.3
The Board has received a comment
letter requesting that the Board extend
the comment period for the proposal.4
The commenter suggested that an
extension of the comment period would
facilitate more detailed comments about
the implications of the proposal and its
potential consequences.
Due to the range and complexity of
the issues addressed in the proposed
rulemaking, the public comment period
has been extended until April 3, 2015.
This action will allow interested
persons additional time to analyze the
proposal and prepare their comments.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
By order of the Board of Governors of the
Federal Reserve System, acting through the
1 See
2 See
79 FR 75473 (December 18, 2014).
79 FR 75473 (December 18, 2014).
3 Id.
4 See, e.g., Comment letter to the Board from The
Clearing House (February 20, 2015).
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Secretary of the Board under delegated
authority, February 26, 2015.
Robert deV. Frierson,
Secretary of the Board.
[FR Doc. 2015–04438 Filed 3–2–15; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Bureau of Industry and Security
15 CFR Part 702
[Docket No. 140501396–4396–01]
RIN 0694–AG17
U.S. Industrial Base Surveys Pursuant
to the Defense Production Act of 1950
Bureau of Industry and
Security, Commerce.
ACTION: Proposed rule
AGENCY:
This proposed rule would set
forth the policies and procedures of the
Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS)
for conducting surveys to obtain
information in order to perform industry
studies assessing the U.S. industrial
base to support the national defense
pursuant to the Defense Production Act
of 1950, as amended. Specifically, this
proposed rule would provide a
description of: BIS’s authority to issue
surveys; the purpose for the surveys and
the manner in which such surveys are
developed; the confidential treatment of
submitted information; and the
penalties for non-compliance with
surveys. This rule is intended to
facilitate compliance with surveys,
thereby resulting in stronger and more
complete assessments of the U.S.
industrial base.
DATES: Comments must be received no
later than May 4, 2015.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Jason Bolton, Trade and Industry
Analyst, Office of Technology
Evaluation, phone: 202–482–5936
email: jason.bolton@bis.doc.gov or Brad
Botwin, Director, Industrial Base
Studies, Office of Technology
Evaluation, phone: 202–482–4060 email:
brad.botwin@bis.doc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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SUMMARY:
Background
Pursuant to authorities under § 705 of
the Defense Production Act of 1950 as
amended (DPA) (50 U.S.C. app. 2155)
and § 104 of Executive Order 13603 of
March 16, 2012 (National Defense
Resources Preparedness, 77 FR 16651, 3
CFR, 2012 Comp., p. 225), the Bureau of
Industry and Security (BIS) conducts
studies that assess the capabilities of the
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U.S. industrial base to support the
national defense. To produce these
studies, BIS may issue surveys to collect
detailed information related to the
health and competitiveness of the U.S.
industrial base from government sources
and private individuals or
organizations.
This proposed rule sets forth
procedures intended to facilitate the
accurate and timely completion of
surveys issued by BIS to collect data for
these studies. This rule sets forth in a
single part of the Code of Federal
Regulations the information about BIS’s
authority to conduct the studies, the
authority to issue surveys to gather data
in support of the studies, the purpose of
the surveys and the manner in which
such surveys are developed, the
confidential treatment of submitted
information, and the penalties for noncompliance with surveys.
Additionally, this rule explains BIS’s
procedures for verifying that the scope
and purpose of the surveys are well
defined, and assures that the surveys do
not solicit data that duplicates adequate
and authoritative data that is available
to BIS from any federal or other
responsible agency. A survey may
require the submission of information
similar or identical to information
possessed by another federal agency but
that is not available to BIS.
Based on requests it receives from
U.S. Government agencies, BIS
produces studies to develop findings
and policy recommendations for the
purpose of improving the
competitiveness of specific domestic
industries and technologies critical to
meeting national defense and essential
civilian requirements. These studies
may require surveys to collect relevant
data and assessments of that data and
other information available to BIS.
BIS, in cooperation with the
requesting agency, selects the persons to
be surveyed based on the likelihood that
they will have information relevant to a
study. That likelihood is related to the
person’s association with the industry
sector, material, product, service or
technology that is the subject of the
study. That association may be based on
factors such as the person’s role in
directly or indirectly providing,
producing, distributing, utilizing,
procuring, researching, developing,
consulting or advising on, the industry
sector, material, product, service or
technology that is the subject of the
study.
Whether a person’s association with
the industry sector, material, product,
service or technology being assessed is
proximate or remote does not determine
whether that person’s association is
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sufficient for inclusion in the survey.
For example, information about a
supplier of raw materials or components
that is several transactions removed
from the production of the product that
is the subject of a study may be relevant
to assessing the capabilities of the U.S.
industrial base to supply the product to
support the national defense. In such a
situation, the supplier would be
included in the survey. The nature of
the person from whom the information
is sought also does not determine
whether that person’s association with
the industry sector, material, product,
service or technology at issue is
sufficient for inclusion in the survey.
Surveys may require information from
businesses organized for profit, nonprofit organizations, academic
institutions and government agencies.
To be useful, a study must be
comprehensive, accurate and focused on
the relevant industry sector, material,
product, service or technology.
Therefore, surveys may require
information about employment,
research and development, sources of
supply, manufacturing processes,
customers, business strategy, finances
and other factors affecting the industry’s
health and competitiveness. To properly
focus the survey on the industry sector,
material, product, service or technology
being assessed, BIS may request
information about a corporation as a
whole or information about one or more
specified units or individual activities
of that corporation. The DPA provides
both a civil remedy and criminal
penalties that may be used when
recipients of surveys do not supply the
information sought.
BIS deems the information supplied
in response to survey requests to be
confidential and is prohibited by law
from publishing or disclosing such
information unless the Under Secretary
for Industry and Security determines
that withholding the information is
contrary to the interest of the national
defense. The authority to make this
determination, which § 705(d) of the
DPA gives to the President, has been
delegated to relevant agencies,
including the Secretary of Commerce,
by § 802 of Executive Order 13603. The
Secretary of Commerce re-delegated this
authority to the Under Secretary for
Industry and Security. The DPA
provides criminal penalties for any
person who willfully violates its
prohibition on publication or
disclosure.
Section by Section Description of the
Proposed Rule
This proposed rule would create a
new part in Title 15, Chapter VII,
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FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM
12 CFR Part 217
[Regulation Q; Docket No. R-1505]
RIN 7100-AD-26
Risk-Based Capital Guidelines: Implementation of Capital
Requirements for Global Systemically Important Bank Holding Companies
AGENCY: Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Board).
ACTION: Proposed rule; extension of comment period.
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SUMMARY: On December 18, 2014, the Board published in the Federal
Register a proposal to implement risk-based capital surcharges for
U.S.-based global systemically important banking organizations.
Due to the range and complexity of the issues addressed in the
proposed rulemaking, the public comment period has been extended until
April 3, 2015. This action will allow interested persons additional
time to analyze the proposal and prepare their comments.
DATES: The comment period for the proposed rule published on December
18, 2014 (79 FR 75473) to implement risk-based capital surcharges for
U.S.-based global systemically important banking organizations is
extended from March 2, 2015 to April 3, 2015.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments by any of the methods identified in
the proposed rule.\1\ Please submit your comments using only one
method.
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\1\ See 79 FR 75473 (December 18, 2014).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jordan Bleicher, Senior Supervisory
Financial Analyst, (202) 973-6123, or Holly Kirkpatrick, Supervisory
Financial Analyst, (202) 452-2796, Division of Banking Supervision and
Regulation, or Christine Graham, Senior Attorney, (202) 452-3005, Legal
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Division.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On December 18, 2014, the Board published in
the Federal Register a proposal to implement risk-based capital
surcharges for U.S.-based global systemically important banking
organizations.\2\ The proposed rule stated that the public comment
period would close on March 2, 2015.\3\
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\2\ See 79 FR 75473 (December 18, 2014).
\3\ Id.
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The Board has received a comment letter requesting that the Board
extend the comment period for the proposal.\4\ The commenter suggested
that an extension of the comment period would facilitate more detailed
comments about the implications of the proposal and its potential
consequences.
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\4\ See, e.g., Comment letter to the Board from The Clearing
House (February 20, 2015).
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Due to the range and complexity of the issues addressed in the
proposed rulemaking, the public comment period has been extended until
April 3, 2015. This action will allow interested persons additional
time to analyze the proposal and prepare their comments.
By order of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
System, acting through the
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Secretary of the Board under delegated authority, February 26, 2015.
Robert deV. Frierson,
Secretary of the Board.
[FR Doc. 2015-04438 Filed 3-2-15; 8:45 am]
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