December 7, 2012 (Volume 77)

Federal Register December 7, 2012

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Agencies Publishing on December 7, 2012

Agriculture Department logo Agriculture Department

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Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals
Notice Dec 07, 2012
Notice is hereby given that the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, intends to grant to Schillinger Genetics, Inc. of West Des Moines, Iowa, an exclusive license to U.S. Patent No. 7,951,537, "Development of Low Allergen So...
Notice Dec 07, 2012
Notice is hereby given that the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, intends to grant to City Center Farms, LLC of Phoenix, Arizona, an exclusive license to U.S. Patent No. 6,613,378, "SUGAR-BASED EDIBLE ADHESIVES", issued o...
Notice Dec 07, 2012

Commerce Department logo Commerce Department

Title Type Published
Rule Dec 07, 2012
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals
Notice Dec 07, 2012
This final rule is being issued to adjust each civil monetary penalty provided by law within the jurisdiction of the Department of Commerce (the Department). The Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act of 1990, as amended by the Debt Collect...
Rule Dec 07, 2012
This final rule corrects reference and typographical errors in the Commerce Control List (CCL) in the Export Administration Regulations (EAR). The corrections are primarily editorial in nature and do not affect license requirements. A technical stand...
Rule Dec 07, 2012
This notice sets forth a request for input from U.S. businesses capable of exporting their goods or services relevant to emissions control from non-road diesel engines. These engines are utilized by machines that perform a wide range of functions, in...
Notice Dec 07, 2012
This notice sets forth a request for input from U.S. businesses capable of exporting their goods or services relevant to nitrogen oxide (NO<INF>X</INF>) emissions control from power plants. The Department of Commerce continues to develop the web-base...
Notice Dec 07, 2012
This notice sets forth a request for input from U.S. businesses capable of exporting their goods or services relevant to reducing air pollution from oil and natural gas production and processing. The Department of Commerce continues to develop the we...
Notice Dec 07, 2012

Antidumping Duty Administrative Reviews; Results, Extensions, Amendments, etc.:

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The Department of Commerce (the Department) is conducting an administrative review of the antidumping duty order on circular welded non-alloy steel pipe (CWP) from the Republic of Korea (Korea). The period of review (POR) is November 1, 2010, through...
Notice Dec 07, 2012
The Department of Commerce (the Department) is conducting an administrative review of the antidumping duty order on polyethylene terephthalate film, sheet, and strip (PET Film) from the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The period of review (POR) is Novemb...
Notice Dec 07, 2012
In response to requests from interested parties, the Department of Commerce (the "Department") is conducting the third administrative review of the antidumping duty order on sodium hexametaphosphate ("sodium hex") from the People's Republic of China...
Notice Dec 07, 2012
On June 1, 2012, the Department of Commerce (the Department) published the preliminary results of the antidumping duty order on stainless steel plate in coils (steel plate) from Belgium.\1\ This review covers one manufacturer/exporter of the subject...
Notice Dec 07, 2012

Atlantic Highly Migratory Species:

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This action is a technical amendment to a rule not yet in effect. It contains a correction to the final regulations regarding electronic dealer reporting, which published August 8, 2012, with an effective date of January 1, 2013.
Rule Dec 07, 2012

Countervailing Duty Orders; Results, Extensions, Amendments, etc.:

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Based on an affirmative final determination by the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC), the Department of Commerce (the Department) is issuing a countervailing duty order on crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells, whether or not assembled into...
Notice Dec 07, 2012

Determinations of Sales at Less Than Fair Value, and Antidumping Duty Orders; Results, Extensions, Amendments, etc.:

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Based on affirmative final determinations by the Department of Commerce (the "Department") and the International Trade Commission ("ITC"), the Department is issuing an antidumping duty order on crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells, whether or not a...
Notice Dec 07, 2012

Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants:

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We, NMFS, have completed comprehensive status reviews under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) of 82 reef-building coral species in response to a petition submitted by the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) to list the species as either threatened o...
Proposed Rule Dec 07, 2012

Fisheries Off West Coast States:

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NMFS proposes to implement the annual catch limit (ACL), harvest guideline (HG), annual catch target (ACT) and associated annual reference points for Pacific mackerel in the U.S. exclusive economic zone (EEZ) off the Pacific coast for the fishing sea...
Proposed Rule Dec 07, 2012

Fisheries of the Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico, and South Atlantic:

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NMFS issues this final rule to implement a revision of a disapproved action from Amendment 18A (the Resubmittal) to the Fishery Management Plan (FMP) for the Snapper-Grouper Fishery of the South Atlantic Region (Amendment 18A), as prepared and submit...
Rule Dec 07, 2012

Fisheries of the Exclusive Economic Zone Off Alaska:

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NMFS apportions amounts of the non-specified reserve to the initial total allowable catch of Bering Sea Pacific ocean perch, Aleutian Islands other rockfish, Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands (BSAI) other flatfish, BSAI sculpin, and BSAI squid in the B...
Rule Dec 07, 2012

Fisheries of the Northeastern United States:

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This temporary rule extends a closure of Federal waters. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has determined that oceanographic conditions and alga sampling data suggest that the northern section of the Temporary Paralytic Shellfish Poison Closure A...
Rule Dec 07, 2012

Permits:

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Notice is hereby given that the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, 11110 Kimages Road; Charles City, Virginia 23030 [Albert Spells: Responsible Party], has requested a modification to scientific research Permit No. 16547 authorizing scientific...
Notice Dec 07, 2012

Reorganizations under Alternative Site Framework:

Title Type Published
Foreign-Trade Zone 43, Battle Creek, MI
Notice Dec 07, 2012

Sunset Reviews; Results, Extensions, Amendments, etc.:

Title Type Published
On August 1, 2012, the Department of Commerce ("Department") published in the Federal Register the notice of initiation of the sunset review of the suspended antidumping duty investigation on lemon juice from Argentina. The Department has conducted a...
Notice Dec 07, 2012

Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled logo Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled

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The Committee is proposing to add products and services to the Procurement List that will be furnished by nonprofit agencies employing persons who are blind or have other severe disabilities and deletes products previously furnished by such agencies.
Notice Dec 07, 2012

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau logo Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Title Type Published
The Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection published in the Federal Register of October 31, 2012 a final rule amending the regulation defining larger participants of certain consumer financial product and service markets by adding a new section to d...
Rule Dec 07, 2012

Consumer Product Safety Commission logo Consumer Product Safety Commission

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Dec 07, 2012

Defense Department logo Defense Department

Title Type Published
In this final rule, the Department of Defense (DoD) implements policy, assigns responsibilities, and prescribes procedures for the operation of voluntary education programs within DoD. Several of the subject areas in this final rule include: procedur...
Rule Dec 07, 2012

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Under the provisions of the Federal Advisory Committee Act of 1972 (5 U.S.C., Appendix, as amended), the Government in the Sunshine Act of 1976 (5 U.S.C. 552b, as amended), and 41 CFR 102-3.150, the Department of Defense announces that a United State...
Notice Dec 07, 2012

Education Department logo Education Department

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The U.S. Department of Education (Department) issues this document to establish the date for the early implementation of William D. Ford Federal Direct Loan (Direct Loan) program regulations that establish a new income-contingent repayment plan based...
Rule Dec 07, 2012

Energy Department logo Energy Department

Title Type Published
Combined Filings
Notice Dec 07, 2012
Combined Filings
Notice Dec 07, 2012
Combined Filings
Notice Dec 07, 2012
Combined Filings
Notice Dec 07, 2012

Petitions for Declaratory Orders:

Title Type Published
Western Power and Steam, Inc.
Notice Dec 07, 2012

Environmental Protection Agency logo Environmental Protection Agency

Title Type Published
Environmental Impact Statements; Availability, etc.
Notice Dec 07, 2012
In accordance with section 113(g) of the Clean Air Act, as amended ("CAA" or the "Act"), notice is hereby given of a proposed consent decree to address a lawsuit filed by Sierra Club in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia: S...
Notice Dec 07, 2012

Approvals and Promulgations of Air Quality Implementation Plans:

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EPA is approving the fine particulate matter (PM<INF>2.5</INF>) 2002 base year emissions inventory portion of the Maryland State Implementation Plan (SIP) revision submitted by the State of Maryland, through the Maryland Department of the Environment...
Rule Dec 07, 2012

Pesticide Tolerances:

Title Type Published
EPA issued a final rule in the Federal Register of Wednesday, October 17, 2012, concerning buprofezin pesticide tolerances. This document corrects a typographical error.
Rule Dec 07, 2012
This regulation establishes tolerances for residues of zeta- cypermethrin in or on multiple commodities which are identified and discussed later in this document. Interregional Research Project Number 4 (IR-4) requested these tolerances under the Fed...
Rule Dec 07, 2012

Revisions to the California State Implementation Plan:

Title Type Published
EPA is taking direct final action to approve revisions to the Imperial County Air Pollution Control District (ICAPCD), Placer County Air Pollution Control District (PCAPCD) and Ventura County Air Pollution Control District (PCAPCD) portions of the Ca...
Rule Dec 07, 2012
EPA is proposing to approve revisions to the Imperial County Air Pollution Control District (ICAPCD), Placer County Air Pollution Control District (PCAPCD) and Ventura County Air Pollution Control District (PCAPCD) portions of the California State Im...
Proposed Rule Dec 07, 2012

Stormwater Regulations:

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The EPA is revising its Phase I stormwater regulations to clarify that stormwater discharges from logging roads do not constitute stormwater discharges associated with industrial activity and that a National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NP...
Rule Dec 07, 2012

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation logo Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

Title Type Published
The FDIC has determined that insufficient assets exist in the receivership of Darby Bank and Trust Co., Vidalia, Georgia, to make any distribution on general unsecured claims, and therefore such claims will recover nothing and have no value.
Notice Dec 07, 2012

Federal Maritime Commission logo Federal Maritime Commission

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Dec 07, 2012

Federal Reserve System logo Federal Reserve System

Changes in Bank Control:

Title Type Published
Acquisitions of Shares of Bank or Bank Holding Company
Notice Dec 07, 2012

Health and Human Services Department logo Health and Human Services Department

Title Type Published
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals
Notice Dec 07, 2012
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals
Notice Dec 07, 2012

Health Information Technology; and Medicare and Medicaid Programs:

Title Type Published
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is issuing this interim final rule with comment period to replace the Data Element Catalog (DEC) standard and the Quality Reporting Document Architecture (QRDA) Category III standard adopted in the fi...
Rule Dec 07, 2012

Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act:

Title Type Published
This proposed rule provides further detail and parameters related to: the risk adjustment, reinsurance, and risk corridors programs; cost-sharing reductions; user fees for a Federally- facilitated Exchange; advance payments of the premium tax credit;...
Proposed Rule Dec 07, 2012

Requests for Nominations:

Title Type Published
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is requesting that any industry organization interested in participating in the selection of nonvoting industry representatives to serve on the Medical Devices Advisory Committee (MDAC) in the Center for Devices...
Notice Dec 07, 2012

Homeland Security Department logo Homeland Security Department

Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals:

Title Type Published
As part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, CBP invites the general public and other Federal agencies to comment on an information collection requirement concerning the Application for Allowance in Duties (CBP Form 431...
Notice Dec 07, 2012
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) of the Department of Homeland Security will be submitting the following information collection request to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in accordance with the Paperwork Redu...
Notice Dec 07, 2012

Final Determinations:

Title Type Published
This document provides notice that U.S. Customs and Border Protection ("CBP") has issued a final determination concerning the country of origin of Vantage Vehicle electric trucks and vans. Based upon the facts presented, CBP has concluded in the fina...
Notice Dec 07, 2012

Safety Zones:

Title Type Published
The Coast Guard is establishing a temporary safety zone on the Indiana Harbor Canal in East Chicago, Indiana. This safety zone is intended to restrict vessels from a portion of the Indiana Harbor Canal due to the demolition Project on the Cline Avenu...
Rule Dec 07, 2012

Special Local Regulations:

Title Type Published
The Coast Guard will enforce the special local regulations during the Mission Bay Parade of Lights, on the waters of Mission Bay, San Diego, California from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. on 08 December 2012. These special local regulations are necessary to provid...
Rule Dec 07, 2012
The Coast Guard will enforce special local regulations during the San Diego Parade of Lights, held on December 09 and December 16, 2012 from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. on the San Diego Bay. These special local regulations are necessary to provide for the...
Rule Dec 07, 2012

Housing and Urban Development Department logo Housing and Urban Development Department

Title Type Published
This Notice identifies unutilized, underutilized, excess, and surplus Federal property reviewed by HUD for suitability for use to assist the homeless.
Notice Dec 07, 2012

Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals:

Title Type Published
The proposed information collection requirement described below will be submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review, as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act. The Department is soliciting public comments on the subject proposa...
Notice Dec 07, 2012

Section 232 Healthcare Mortgage Insurance Program:

Title Type Published
This rule amends the regulations governing FHA's Section 232 Healthcare Mortgage Insurance program (Section 232 program) by establishing the criteria and process by which FHA will accept and pay a partial payment of a claim under the FHA mortgage ins...
Rule Dec 07, 2012

Interior Department logo Interior Department

Environmental Impact Statements; Availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
In accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA), as amended, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has prepared a Draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the proposed Continental Divide-Creston Natural Gas Development Pro...
Notice Dec 07, 2012
We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), have received an application from Pima County and the Pima County Regional Flood Control District (applicants) for an incidental take permit (ITP) under the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended...
Notice Dec 07, 2012

Justice Department logo Justice Department

Labor Department logo Labor Department

Title Type Published
The Department of Labor (Department), as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, conducts a preclearance consultation program to provide the public and Federal agencies with an opportunity to comment on proposed and/o...
Notice Dec 07, 2012

Petitions for Modifications:

Title Type Published
This notice amends a petition for modification published in the Federal Register on May 23, 2012, for the Mountain Coal Company, LLC, P.O. Box 591, 5174 Highway 133, Somerset, Colorado 81434.
Notice Dec 07, 2012

Nuclear Regulatory Commission logo Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Title Type Published
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is proposing to amend its regulations that govern low-level radioactive waste (LLRW) disposal facilities to require new and revised site-specific analyses and to permit the development of criteria for wast...
Proposed Rule Dec 07, 2012
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is planning to revise NUREG-1520, Revision 1, "Standard Review Plan (SRP) for the Review of a License Application for a Fuel Cycle Facility." The staff proposes to revise NUREG-1520 to provide guidance and...
Notice Dec 07, 2012

Applications:

Title Type Published
License to Export High-Enriched Uranium
Notice Dec 07, 2012
License to Export High-Enriched Uranium
Notice Dec 07, 2012
License to Export Radioactive Waste
Notice Dec 07, 2012

Draft Regulatory Guides:

Title Type Published
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing for public comment draft regulatory guide (DG), DG-1259, "Initial Test Programs for Water-Cooled Nuclear Power Plants." This guide describes the general scope and depth that the staff of the NRC...
Notice Dec 07, 2012

Japan Lessons-Learned Project Directorate Interim Staff Guidance:

Title Type Published
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing the Final Japan Lessons-Learned Project Directorate Interim Staff Guidance (JLD-ISG), JLD-ISG-2012-05, "Performance of an Integrated Assessment" (Agencywide Documents Access and Management Syste...
Notice Dec 07, 2012

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards Subcommittee on Reliability and PRA
Notice Dec 07, 2012

Personnel Management Office logo Personnel Management Office

Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals:

Title Type Published
The Retirement Services, Office of Personnel Management (OPM) offers the general public and other federal agencies the opportunity to comment on a revised information collection request (ICR) 3206-0134, Application to Make Deposit or Redeposit (CSRS)...
Notice Dec 07, 2012

P
Postal Regulatory Commission

Title Type Published
The Commission is noticing a recent Postal Service filing concerning an additional inbound competitive Multi-Service Agreements with Foreign Postal Operators 1 negotiated service agreement with China Post. This notice informs the public of the filing...
Notice Dec 07, 2012

Postal Service logo Postal Service

International Mail:

Title Type Published
On October 11, 2012, the Postal Service filed a notice of international mailing services price adjustments with the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC), effective on January 27, 2013. On October 23, 2012, the USPS<SUP>TM</SUP> published a proposed rul...
Rule Dec 07, 2012

Securities and Exchange Commission logo Securities and Exchange Commission

Title Type Published
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals
Notice Dec 07, 2012
Each applicant seeks an order declaring that it has ceased to be an investment company. Applicants have never made a public offering of their securities and do not propose to make a public offering. EM Capital Management, LLC represents that it filed...
Notice Dec 07, 2012
Applicant, a closed-end investment company, seeks an order declaring that it has ceased to be an investment company. On August 31, 2012, applicant made a liquidating distribution to its shareholders, based on net asset value. Expenses of approximatel...
Notice Dec 07, 2012

Applications for Registration as National Securities Exchange:

Applications:

Title Type Published
Summary of Application: Applicants request an order that permits: (a) Actively-managed series of certain open-end management investment companies to issue shares ("Shares") redeemable in large aggregations only ("Creation Units"); (b) secondary marke...
Notice Dec 07, 2012

Self-Regulatory Organizations; Proposed Rule Changes:

Title Type Published
Chicago Board Options Exchange, Inc.
Notice Dec 07, 2012
ICE Clear Credit LLC
Notice Dec 07, 2012
ICE Clear Credit LLC
Notice Dec 07, 2012
NASDAQ Stock Market LLC
Notice Dec 07, 2012
NASDAQ Stock Market LLC
Notice Dec 07, 2012
NYSE Arca, Inc.
Notice Dec 07, 2012
NYSE MKT LLC
Notice Dec 07, 2012

Social Security Administration logo Social Security Administration

Title Type Published
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals
Notice Dec 07, 2012

Surface Transportation Board logo Surface Transportation Board

Temporary Trackage Rights Exemptions:

Title Type Published
DOT, STB
This document corrects a notice appearing in the Federal Register on December 3, 2012 (77 FR 71,680).
Notice Dec 07, 2012

Transportation Department logo Transportation Department

Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals:

Title Type Published
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, FAA invites public comments about our intention to request the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approval to renew an information collection. To determine regulatory compliance, there is a n...
Notice Dec 07, 2012
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, FAA invites public comments about our intention to request the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approval to renew an information collection. Airworthiness Directives are regulations issued...
Notice Dec 07, 2012

Airworthiness Directives:

Title Type Published
We are adopting a new airworthiness directive (AD) for all Eurocopter Deutschland GmbH (ECD) Model EC135 helicopters, except the EC 135 P2+ and T2+. This AD requires inspecting each upper and lower plain journal bearing (bearing) and replacing the sw...
Rule Dec 07, 2012

Environmental Impact Statements; Availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The FAA is issuing this notice to advise the public that a Draft Written Re-Evaluation for an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) has been prepared for Theodore Francis Green Airport in Warwick, Rhode Island.
Notice Dec 07, 2012

Policy Statements:

Title Type Published
This notice announces the availability of a proposed policy statement regarding the regulation of some occupational safety and health conditions affecting cabin crewmembers on aircraft by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). This...
Proposed Rule Dec 07, 2012

Temporary Trackage Rights Exemptions:

No documents available.

Treasury Department logo Treasury Department

Title Type Published
The Department of the Treasury, as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, invites the general public and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment on proposed and/or continuing information collection...
Notice Dec 07, 2012
This document contains final regulations relating to deductions for the cost of producing qualified film and television productions. These final regulations reflect changes to the law made by the Tax Extenders and Alternative Minimum Tax Relief Act o...
Rule Dec 07, 2012
Elsewhere in this issue of the Federal Register, the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) is publishing a temporary rule that for a period of three years modifies the penal sum for a brewer's bond where the excise tax liability of the brewe...
Proposed Rule Dec 07, 2012
The Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) amends its regulation that sets forth the penal sum for a brewer's bond where the excise tax liability of the brewer is reasonably expected to be not more than $50,000 in the current calendar year an...
Rule Dec 07, 2012
This document contains final regulations that provide guidance on the excise tax imposed on the sale of certain medical devices, enacted by the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 in conjunction with the Patient Protection and Afford...
Rule Dec 07, 2012

Charter Renewals:

Title Type Published
The OCC has determined that the renewal of the charter of the OCC Mutual Savings Association Advisory Committee (MSAAC) is necessary and in the public interest. The OCC hereby gives notice of the renewal of the charter.
Notice Dec 07, 2012

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