[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 150 (Thursday, August 4, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Page 47143]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-19783]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Docket Number 110726425-1426-01
RIN 0625-XA13


Opportunity for U.S. Businessmen and Women To Train in the 
Russian Federation

AGENCY: International Trade Administration (ITA), U.S. Department of 
Commerce (DOC).

ACTION: Notice of training opportunity.

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    Authority:  22 U.S.C. 2395(b).

SUMMARY: In November 2010, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke and 
Russian Minister of Economic Development Elvira Nabiullina signed a 
Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) outlining plans for the two countries 
to cooperate on a management training exchange program that will enable 
private sector managers from each country to gain practical experience 
working in the other country. Under the U.S.-Russia Management Training 
Exchange Program, early-career U.S. managers will travel to Russia for 
two weeks to learn about business issues in Russia. The Program is 
arranged by ITA's Special American Business Internship Training Program 
(SABIT) which has been assisting U.S. companies active in or entering 
emerging markets. The program in Russia will be implemented through the 
Federal Resource Center, an agency of the Ministry of Economic 
Development of the Russian Federation. The training program is 
scheduled to take place in the Sverdlovsk region.

DATES: The program will take place in late September 2011. The 
application is due by Friday, August 12, 2011.

ADDRESSES: Interested U.S. applicants should contact the U.S. 
Department of Commerce's SABIT Program for an application or download 
an application from SABIT's Web site at www.trade.gov/sabit.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Tracy M. Rollins, Director, SABIT 
Program, U.S. Department of Commerce, (202) 482-0073. This is not a 
toll-free number.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Since FY 1992, SABIT has provided management 
training in the United States to over 5,000 business executives from 
various regions of the world. To date, over 4,000 U.S. companies have 
hosted executives through the SABIT Program in sectors including 
agribusiness; defense conversion; product standards and quality 
control; energy; financial services; telecommunications; 
transportation; housing; environmental equipment and services; medical 
equipment and supplies; pharmaceuticals; and health care management.
    Trainees for this program in Russia will be selected by the SABIT 
Program based on their fit with Russian host organizations, ability to 
utilize the knowledge gained during the program to further U.S.-Russian 
business development, and overall quality of the application submitted. 
Participants will be selected by SABIT program staff. Participants must 
be United States citizens and employed at the time of the program. The 
SABIT program will pay for the trainees' round-trip international and 
domestic airfare to the internship site in the Russian Federation, 
housing while the trainees are in the Russian Federation, and provide 
per diem and emergency medical insurance. Trainees will be responsible 
for Russian visa costs. Trainees will not need to speak Russian.
    The application (OMB Number 0625-0225) is free-of-charge and 
voluntary. This collection of information contains Paperwork Reduction 
Act (PRA) requirements approved by the Office of Management and Budget 
(OMB). Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no person is 
required to respond to, nor shall a person be subject to a penalty for 
failure to comply with, a collection of information subject to the 
requirements of the PRA unless that collection of information displays 
a currently valid OMB Control Number. Public reporting burden for this 
collection of information is estimated to be 3 hours per response, 
including the time for reviewing instructions, searching existing data 
sources, gathering and maintaining the data needed, and completing and 
reviewing the collection of information. Persons wishing to comment on 
the burden estimate or any aspect of this collection of information, or 
offer suggestions for reducing this burden, should send their COMMENTS 
to the ITA Reports Clearance Officer, International Trade 
Administration, U.S., 1401 Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 
20230.

    Statutory Authority:  This program is funded under Section 
632(a) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended (the 
``FAA''), and the Department of State, Foreign Operations, and 
Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2010 (Pub. L. 111-117) to carry 
out the provisions of the FAA and the FREEDOM Support Act, as 
amended.

    Dated July 29, 2011.
Tracy M. Rollins,
Director, SABIT Program, U.S. Department of Commerce.
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