# Application for Final Commitment for a Long-Term Loan or Financial Guarantee in Excess of $100 Million; 25 Day Comment Period
**AGENCY:**
Export-Import Bank of the United States.
**ACTION:**
Notice of 25 day comment period regarding an application for final commitment for a long-term loan or financial guarantee in excess of $100 million.
*Reason for Notice:* This Notice is to inform the public, in accordance with Section 3(c)(10) of the Charter of the Export-Import Bank of the United States (“Ex-Im Bank”), that Ex-Im Bank has received an application for final commitment for a long-term loan or financial guarantee in excess of $100 million (as calculated in accordance with Section 3(c)(10) of the Charter). Comments received within the comment period specified below will be presented to the Ex-Im Bank Board of Directors prior to final action on this Transaction.
*Reference:* AP086754XX, AP087318XX, and AP087407XX.
*Purpose and Use:*
Brief description of the purpose of the transaction:
To support the export of mining trucks and bulldozers to Ukraine.
Brief non-proprietary description of the anticipated use of the items being exported:
To mine iron ore in Ukraine
To the extent that Ex-Im Bank is reasonably aware, the item(s) being exported are not expected to produce exports or provide services in competition with the exportation of goods or provision of services by a United States industry.
*Parties:*
*Principal Supplier:* Caterpillar Inc.
*Obligors:* OJSC Ferrexpo Poltava Mining, Ukraine; OJSC Ferrexpo Yeristovo Mining, Ukraine; OJSC Ferrexpo Belanovo Mining, Ukraine.
*Guarantor(s):* Ferrexpo AG, Switzerland.
*Description of Items Being Exported:*
Caterpillar mining trucks and bulldozers.
*Information on Decision:* Information on the final decision for this transaction will be available in the “Summary Minutes of Meetings of Board of Directors” on *http://www.exim.gov/articles.cfm/board%20minute.*
*Confidential Information:* Please note that this notice does not include confidential or proprietary business information; information which, if disclosed, would violate the Trade Secrets Act; or information which would jeopardize jobs in the United States by supplying information that competitors could use to compete with companies in the United States.
**DATES:**
Comments must be received on or before *December 4, 2012* to be assured of consideration before final consideration of the transaction by the Board of Directors of Ex-Im Bank.
**ADDRESSES:**
Comments may be submitted through *WWW.REGULATIONS.GOV.*
Sharon A. Whitt,
Agency Clearance Officer.