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regards to the estimated completion
time burden, the Service recognizes that
many of the applicants that fill out form
3–200–88 are large orchestras that may
have multiple instruments that need to
be exported. While the Service believes
that each musician involved in the
orchestra or, if the instruments are
owned by the orchestra itself, should
have all of the relevant information
about their instruments readily
available, it may take longer to compile
all of the information than we initially
estimated to complete the application
form. Therefore, we are increasing our
estimated time burden to 1.5 hours.
Lastly, as with the previous
commenters, the Service supports the
concept of creating an electronic
permitting system and is actively
working on that endeavor at this time.
Comment 4: Email Comment Dated
04/21/2017 from the National
Association of Music Merchants: The
commenter represents over 900
members in the United States and 100
other countries, many of which are
involved in the commercial trade of
products recently regulated by CITES.
Due to the recent listing of the affected
timber species, many members are
unfamiliar with the Service’s permitting
process. The commenter requested that
the Service provide greater clarity of the
need for permits due to the recent
CITES listing and the permitting
process.
The commenter requested more
detailed instructions as to the document
requirements to conduct legal
international business with products
manufactured with listed wood species
and greater recognition on the part of
the Service on how the permitting
process affects the commenter’s
members. Finally, the commenter
requesting that an electronic permitting
system be developed to streamline the
permitting process.
FWS Response to Comment 4: The
Service has been actively working with
the commenter and its members since
the timber species were listed on CITES
and the impact that the permitting
process would have on international
trade carried out by the commenter’s
members. The Service had modified the
proposed applications to provide greater
clarity and to make the applications
more user-friendly. Several of the
commenter’s statements go outside this
specific information collection process,
but will be take the comments into
consideration in other actions taken by
the Service.
Comment 5: Email Comment Dated
04/21/2017 from Taylor Guitars: Taylor
Guitars addressed several factors that
they stated affects their business process
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in order to export finish guitars. Taylor
raised concerns about the permit
application processing by the Service
once an application is submitted to the
Service. They were specifically
concerned that how the Service reviews
submitted applications and the permits
issued creates a burden for Taylor to
carry out the business as they did before
a recent listing of a number of timber
species in January 2017 under CITES.
Taylor also raised issues that when the
Service considers the time and cost
burdens that applicants/permittees face
when carrying out export business,
particularly in regards to the cost of
applying for a permit and the cost of
clearance at the port of export. Taylor
also recommended several ways to
reduce the application burden. As with
other commenters, Taylor suggested that
the Service implement an electronic
application process. Taylor also
recommended that the Service consider
establishing a permitting process for
applicants that they would consider to
be ‘‘low risk exporters’’. This process
would combine both the permit
application process and the clearance
process at the port.
FWS Response to Comment 5: Most of
the comments provided by Taylor
addressed the application process and
the clearance process, not the
application forms themselves or how
those forms could be revised to improve
the information collection. Taylor raised
several aspects that would require
specific rulemakings to address the
Service’s current regulatory structure
and the implementation of CITES. The
Service will take these comments into
consideration as we consider revisions
to our current regulations. The Service
is, as stated previously, currently
developing electronic applications that
would allow applicants to supply
permit applications electronically and
pay the application fee online. This
process, once in place, should allow for
a smoother application process in
regards to submissions and subsequent
communication with the application.
We again invite comments concerning
this information collection on:
• Whether or not the collection of
information is necessary, including
whether or not the information will
have practical utility;
• The accuracy of our estimate of the
burden for this collection of
information;
• Ways to enhance the quality, utility,
and clarity of the information to be
collected; and
• Ways to minimize the burden of the
collection of information on
respondents.
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Comments that you submit in
response to this notice are a matter of
public record. We will include or
summarize each comment in our request
to OMB to approve this IC. Before
including your address, phone number,
email address, or other personal
identifying information in your
comment, you should be aware that
your entire comment, including your
personal identifying information, may
be made publicly available at any time.
While you can ask us in your comment
to withhold your personal identifying
information from public review, we
cannot guarantee that we will be able to
do so.
IV. Authorities
The authorities for this action are the
Endangered Species Act (16 U.S.C. 1531
et seq.), the Migratory Bird Treaty Act
(16 U.S.C. 704), the Marine Mammal
Protection Act of 1972 (16 U.S.C. 1361
et seq.), the Wild Bird Conservation Act
(16 U.S.C. 4901–4916), Lacey Act:
Injurious Wildlife (18 U.S.C. 42), the
Convention on International Trade in
Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and
Flora (TIAS 8249), and the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501
et seq.).
Dated: May 22, 2017.
Madonna L. Baucum,
Information Collection Clearance Officer, U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Office of the Secretary
[Docket No. ONRR–2012–0003; DS63602000
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U.S. Extractive Industries
Transparency Initiative (USEITI)
Advisory Committee; Postponement of
Meeting
Office of the Secretary, Office
of Natural Resources Revenue, Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
The June 2017 United States
Extractive Industries Transparency
Initiative Advisory Committee meeting
has been postponed.
DATES: The meeting was scheduled for
June 7–8, 2017, in Washington, DC, and
will be rescheduled at a later date. We
will publish a future notice with a new
meeting date and location.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Judith Wilson, Program Manager, 1849
C Street NW., MS 4211, Washington, DC
20240. You may also contact the USEITI
SUMMARY:
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Secretariat via email at useiti@
ios.doi.gov, by phone at 202–208–0272,
or by fax at 202–513–0682.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The U.S.
Department of the Interior established
the USEITI Advisory Committee on July
26, 2012, to serve as the USEITI multistakeholder group. Additional
information is available in the meeting
notice published on December 29, 2016
(81 FR 96032).
Authority: 5 U.S.C. Appendix 2.
Gregory J. Gould,
Director—Office of Natural Resources
Revenue.
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INTERNATIONAL TRADE
COMMISSION
Petitions for Duty Suspensions and
Reductions: Notice That the
Commission Will Accept Additional
Comments Through Its Web Site
Relating to Certain Petitions Included
in Its Preliminary Report to the
Congress
United States International
Trade Commission.
ACTION: Notice that the Commission will
accept additional comments from the
public on certain petitions for duty
suspensions and reductions included in
its preliminary report to the House
Committee on Ways and Means and the
Senate Committee on Finance.
AGENCY:
The Commission intends to
provide a limited opportunity for
members of the public to submit
additional comments on certain
petitions for duty suspensions and
reductions. Under the American
Manufacturing Competitiveness Act of
2016 (the Act), the Commission will
submit a preliminary report on the
petitions for duty suspensions and
reductions that have been filed with it
to the House Ways and Means
Committee and the Senate Finance
Committee on June 9, 2017.
In that report, the Commission will
categorize petitions as (a) petitions that
meet the requirements of the Act with
or without modification (Category I, II,
III, or IV petitions), (b) petitions that do
not contain the information required by
the Act or that were not filed by a likely
beneficiary (Category V petitions), and
(c) petitions that the Commission does
not recommend for inclusion in a
miscellaneous tariff bill (Category VI
petitions). The Commission has decided
that it will accept additional comments
from the public on any petitions that are
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listed as Category VI petitions for a ten
day period beginning on June 12, 2017,
at 8:45 a.m. As provided below, all such
comments must be submitted to the
Commission electronically through the
Commission Web site https://
www.usitc.gov/mtbps. The Commission
will not accept comments filed in paper
form or in any other form or format.
DATES: June 12, 2017, 8:45 a.m. EST:
Opening date and time for submission
of additional comments on Category VI
petitions.
June 21, 2017, 5:15 p.m. EST: Closing
date and time for submission of
comments on Category VI petitions.
ADDRESSES: All Commission offices are
located in the United States
International Trade Commission
Building, 500 E Street SW., Washington,
DC. The public file for this proceeding
may be viewed on the Commission’s
MTBPS at https://www.usitc.gov/mtbps.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
general inquiries, contact Jennifer
Rohrbach at mtbinfo@usitc.gov. For
filing inquiries, contact the Office of
Secretary, Docket Services division, U.S.
International Trade Commission,
telephone (202) 205–3238. The media
should contact Peg O’Laughlin, Public
Affairs Officer (202–205–1819 or
margaret.olaughlin@usitc.gov). General
information concerning the Commission
may be obtained by accessing its
internet server (https://www.usitc.gov).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background: The American
Manufacturing Competitiveness Act of
2016 (the Act), Public Law 114–159,
May 20, 2016, 19 U.S.C. 1332 note,
established a new process for the
submission and consideration of
requests for temporary duty suspensions
and reductions. As required by the Act,
the Commission initiated the new
process by publishing a notice in the
Federal Register permitting members of
the public to submit petitions of duty
suspensions and reductions to the
Commission for a 60-day period
beginning October 14, 2017. (See 81 FR
71114 (Oct. 14, 2017)). After the
window for filing petitions closed on
December 12, 2017, the Commission
published, as required by the Act, a
notice in the Federal Register
announcing publication on its Web site
of the petitions for duty suspensions
and reductions that were submitted to
the Commission and not withdrawn. (82
FR 3357 (Jan. 11, 2017)). The notice
invited members of the public to submit
comments on these petitions during a
45-day period, which ended February
24, 2017.
Pursuant to the Act, the Commission
is required to submit preliminary and
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final reports on the petitions to the
House Committee on Ways and Means
and the Senate Committee on Finance
(the Committees). The Commission’s
preliminary report is due to the
Committees on June 9, 2017. In its
preliminary report to the Committees,
the Commission must evaluate whether
petitions meet the requirements of the
Act and should be included in an
omnibus miscellaneous tariff bill.
In preparing its report, the Act
requires that the Commission take into
account the report of the Secretary of
Commerce, issued April 10, 2017. In the
report, the Secretary analyzed, for each
petition, whether there was domestic
production of the article that was the
subject of a petition, and if so, whether
a domestic producer of the article
objected to the petition. In the report,
based on consultations with Customs
and Border Protection, the Secretary
also recommended whether any
technical changes were necessary to
make each petition’s article description
administrable.
In its preliminary report, the
Commission must place these petitions
into one of six categories. Specifically,
the Commission must categorize each
petition as (a) a petition that meets the
requirements of the Act without
modification (Category I petition), (b) a
petition that meets the requirements of
the Act with certain modifications
(Category II, III or IV petitions), (c) a
petition that does not contain the
information required by the Act or was
not filed by a likely beneficiary
(Category V petition), or (d) a petition
that the Commission does not
recommend for inclusion in a
miscellaneous tariff bill (Category VI
petition).
The Commission has decided to reopen its Web site portal for the limited
purpose of allowing members of the
public to submit comments on petitions
that have been categorized as Category
VI petitions in its preliminary report.
The Commission will re-open the portal
for this limited purpose on June 12,
2017 at 8:45 a.m. and will close the
portal on June 21, 2017 at 5:15 p.m. As
discussed below, the Commission will
only accept information from the public
that relates to its decision to place these
petitions into Category VI.
Content of Comments: The public will
be able to comment on the
administrability of the article
descriptions in the petitions, the
existence of domestic producer
objections to the petitions, and other
issues affecting their placement in
Category VI. In particular, the
Commission seeks input that would
clarify or narrow the scope of proposed
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Office of the Secretary
[Docket No. ONRR-2012-0003; DS63602000 DR2000000.PX8000 178D0102R2]
U.S. Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (USEITI)
Advisory Committee; Postponement of Meeting
AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, Office of Natural Resources Revenue,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The June 2017 United States Extractive Industries Transparency
Initiative Advisory Committee meeting has been postponed.
DATES: The meeting was scheduled for June 7-8, 2017, in Washington, DC,
and will be rescheduled at a later date. We will publish a future
notice with a new meeting date and location.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Judith Wilson, Program Manager, 1849 C
Street NW., MS 4211, Washington, DC 20240. You may also contact the
USEITI
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Secretariat via email at useiti@ios.doi.gov, by phone at 202-208-0272,
or by fax at 202-513-0682.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The U.S. Department of the Interior
established the USEITI Advisory Committee on July 26, 2012, to serve as
the USEITI multi-stakeholder group. Additional information is available
in the meeting notice published on December 29, 2016 (81 FR 96032).
Authority: 5 U.S.C. Appendix 2.
Gregory J. Gould,
Director--Office of Natural Resources Revenue.
[FR Doc. 2017-10720 Filed 5-24-17; 8:45 am]
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