Sunshine Act Meeting Notice, 4317 [2017-00799]

Download as PDF Federal Register / Vol. 82, No. 9 / Friday, January 13, 2017 / Notices Service Service Type: Document Destruction Service Mandatory for: Internal Revenue Service Office at the following location: 2725 N. Westwood Blvd., Poplar Bluff, MO Mandatory Source(s) of Supply: Cape Girardeau Community Sheltered Workshop, Inc., Cape Girardeau, MO Contracting Activity: Department of the Treasury Barry S. Lineback, Director, Business Operations. [FR Doc. 2017–00688 Filed 1–12–17; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 6353–01–P CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY COMMISSION Sunshine Act Meeting Notice TIME AND DATE: Wednesday, January 18, 2017; 10:00 a.m.–11:30 a.m. PLACE: Hearing Room 420, Bethesda Towers, 4330 East West Highway, Bethesda, Maryland. STATUS: Closed to the Public. Matter To Be Considered: Compliance Matters: The Commission staff will brief the Commission on the status of various compliance matters. CONTACT PERSON FOR MORE INFORMATION: Todd A. Stevenson, Office of the Secretary, U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, 4330 East West Highway, Bethesda, MD 20814, (301) 504–7923. Dated: January 10, 2017. Todd A Stevenson, Secretary. [FR Doc. 2017–00799 Filed 1–11–17; 11:15 am] BILLING CODE 6355–01–P DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION Applications for New Awards; Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship Program Office of Postsecondary Education, Department of Education. ACTION: Notice. asabaliauskas on DSK3SPTVN1PROD with NOTICES AGENCY: Overview Information: Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad (DDRA) Fellowship Program Notice inviting applications for new awards for fiscal year (FY) 2017. Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) Number: 84.022A. DATES: Applications Available: January 13, 2017. Deadline for Transmittal of Applications: March 14, 2017. VerDate Sep<11>2014 19:06 Jan 12, 2017 Jkt 241001 Full Text of Announcement I. 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Under 34 CFR 75.105(c)(2)(i), for FY 2017, we award an additional three points to an application that meets Competitive Preference Priority 1 and two points for an application that meets Competitive Preference Priority 2 (up to 5 additional points possible). These priorities are: Competitive Preference Priority 1: Focus on Priority Languages (3 points). A research project that makes use of any of the 78 priority languages selected from the U.S. Department of Education’s list of Less Commonly Taught Languages, as follows: Akan (Twi-Fante), Albanian, Amharic, Arabic (all dialects), Armenian, Azeri (Azerbaijani), Balochi, PO 00000 Frm 00039 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 4317 Bamanakan (Bamana, Bambara, Mandikan, Mandingo, Maninka, Dyula), Belarusian, Bengali (Bangla), Berber (all languages), Bosnian, Bulgarian, Burmese, Cebuano (Visayan), Chechen, Chinese (Cantonese), Chinese (Gan), Chinese (Mandarin), Chinese (Min), Chinese (Wu), Croatian, Dari, Dinka, Georgian, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew (Modern), Hindi, Igbo, Indonesian, Japanese, Javanese, Kannada, Kashmiri, Kazakh, Khmer (Cambodian), Kirghiz, Korean, Kurdish (Kurmanji), Kurdish (Sorani), Lao, Malay (Bahasa Melayu or Malaysian), Malayalam, Marathi, Mongolian, Nepali, Oromo, Panjabi, Pashto, Persian (Farsi), Polish, Portuguese (all varieties), Quechua, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Sinhala (Sinhalese), Somali, Swahili, Tagalog, Tajik, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Tibetan, Tigrigna, Turkish, Turkmen, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uyghur/Uigur, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Wolof, Xhosa, Yoruba, and Zulu. Competitive Preference Priority 2: Thematic Focus on Academic Fields (2 points). A research project conducted in the field of economics, engineering, international development, mathematics, political science, public health, science, comparative or international education, or technology. Invitational Priority: For FY 2017, this priority is an invitational priority. Under 34 CFR 75.105(c)(1), we do not give an application that meets this invitational priority a competitive or absolute preference over other applications. This priority is: Applications from Minority-Serving Institutions. For purposes of this invitational priority, Minority-Serving Institution means an institution that is eligible to receive assistance under part A of title III, under part B of title III, or under title V of the Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended. Program Authority: 22 U.S.C. 2452(b)(6). 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[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 9 (Friday, January 13, 2017)]
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[FR Doc No: 2017-00799]


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CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY COMMISSION


Sunshine Act Meeting Notice

    TIME AND DATE: Wednesday, January 18, 2017; 10:00 a.m.-11:30 a.m.
    PLACE: Hearing Room 420, Bethesda Towers, 4330 East West Highway, 
Bethesda, Maryland.
    STATUS: Closed to the Public.
    Matter To Be Considered: Compliance Matters: The Commission staff 
will brief the Commission on the status of various compliance matters.

CONTACT PERSON FOR MORE INFORMATION:  Todd A. Stevenson, Office of the 
Secretary, U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, 4330 East West 
Highway, Bethesda, MD 20814, (301) 504-7923.

    Dated: January 10, 2017.
Todd A Stevenson,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2017-00799 Filed 1-11-17; 11:15 am]
 BILLING CODE 6355-01-P
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