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Ozette Sockeye Steering Committee.
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Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.
Dated: May 22, 2009.
Therese Conant,
Acting Chief, Endangered Species Division,
Office of Protected Resources, National
Marine Fisheries Service.
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Fisheries in the Western Pacific;
Amended Marine Conservation Plan
for Pacific Insular Areas; Northern
Mariana Islands
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AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries
Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of agency decision.
SUMMARY: NMFS announces the
approval of an amended marine
conservation plan (MCP) for the
Northern Mariana Islands.
DATES: This agency decision is effective
October 6, 2008, through October 6,
2011.
ADDRESSES: Copies of the MCP are
available from the Western Pacific
Fishery Management Council (Council),
1164 Bishop St., Suite 1400, Honolulu,
HI 96813, tel 808–522–8220, fax 808–
522–8226.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Jarad Makaiau, Sustainable Fisheries,
NMFS Pacific Islands Regional Office, at
808–944–2108.
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Under
Section 204(e)(1)(A)of the MagnusonStevens Fishery Conservation and
Management Act (Magnuson-Stevens
Act), the Secretary of State, with the
concurrence of the Secretary of
Commerce (Secretary) and in
consultation with the Council, may
negotiate and enter into a Pacific Insular
Area fishery agreement (PIAFA) to allow
foreign fishing within waters of the U.S.
Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ)
adjacent to American Samoa, Guam, or
the Northern Mariana Islands, and at the
request and with the concurrence of,
and in consultation with, the Governor
of the Pacific Insular Area to which the
PIAFA applies. Section 204(e)(4) of the
Magnuson-Stevens Act requires that
prior to entering into a PIAFA, the
appropriate Governor and the Council
shall develop a three-year MCP
containing detailing the uses for funds
to be collected by the Secretary under
the PIAFA.
Any payments received under a
PIAFA shall be deposited into the
United States Treasury and then
covered over to the Treasury of the
Pacific Insular Area for which funds
were collected. In the case of violations
by foreign fishing vessels occurring
within the EEZ off any Pacific Insular
Area, any amount received by the
Secretary which is attributable to fines
and penalties imposed under the
Magnuson-Stevens Act, including such
sums collected from the forfeiture and
disposition or sale of property seized
subject to its authority, after payment of
direct costs of the enforcement action to
all entities involved in such action,
shall be deposited into the Treasury of
the Pacific Insular Area adjacent to the
EEZ in which the violation occurred, to
be used for fisheries enforcement and
for implementation of a MCP. The MCP
to be approved by the Secretary must be
consistent with the Council’s fishery
management plans, identify
conservation and management
objectives (including criteria for
determining when such objectives have
been met), and prioritize planned
marine conservation projects.
In June 2007, the Council approved an
MCP for the Commonwealth of the
Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) and
recommended its submission to the
Secretary for approval. NMFS, designee
of the Secretary, received the MCP on
March 10, 2008. Following review and
revision of the MCP, the Department of
Lands and Natural Resources, CNMI,
submitted the completed MCP on behalf
of the Governor to NMFS on September
23, 2008. That MCP, dated June 2007,
satisfied the requirements of MSA
Section 204(e), and was approved for
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the three-year period October 6, 2008,
through October 6, 2011 (73 FR 61020,
October 15, 2008).
At its 144th meeting in March 2009,
the Council approved an amended MCP
for the CNMI. On April 9, 2009, the
Governor of the CNMI submitted the
amended MCP, dated March 2009. The
March 2009 document revises the
objective related to domestic fisheries
development, and the prioritization of
projects. The amendments are aimed at
further promoting the development and
enhancing the economic viability of
CNMI fisheries.
The amended MCP contains 12
objectives, listed below, which are
consistent with the Council’s five
existing fishery management plans:
1. Data collection and reporting;
2. Resource assessment and
monitoring;
3. Incidental catch, bycatch, and
protected species interaction;
4. Habitat assessment and monitoring;
5. Management procedures;
6. Surveillance and enforcement;
7. Promote responsible domestic
fisheries development to provide long
term economic growth and stability and
local food production;
8. Marine conservation education;
9. Public participation;
10. Regional cooperation;
11. Western Pacific demonstration
projects; and
12. Performance evaluation.
The MCP identifies 22 programs or
projects associated with the MCP
objectives for potential funding under a
PIAFA, as listed below in order of
priority:
1. EEZ enforcement program;
2. Analysis of data on pelagic fishery
resources;
3. Commercial harvest monitoring
system;
4. Fisheries technology and education
program;
5. Longline permit, reporting and
quota utilization program;
6. Development of fish marketing plan
that includes topics on market
identification, transportation, fish
products, branding and eco-labeling,
and other marketing issues;
7. CNMI commercial fisheries
baseline assessment;
8. Regional fisheries meeting and
conferences funding assistance;
9. Enhance fishing opportunities by
deploying community fish aggregation
devices;
10. Vessel monitoring program;
11. Construction of cold storage, fish
processing, and fish market facilities;
12. Foreign fishery observer program;
13. Establish fishery management
units for the EEZ;
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14. Northern islands remote fishing
station project;
15. Village based aquaculture project;
16. Charter fishing economic impact
study;
17. Bycatch interaction report;
18. Subsistence and recreational
harvest monitoring system;
19. Recreational and subsistence
fishing economic impact and use study;
20. Foreign fishery management
measures;
21. Vessel pollution prevention
education program; and
22. Foreign fishing revenue for the
Puerto Rico dump cleanup.
This notice announces that NMFS has
determined that the amended MCP for
the Northern Mariana Islands satisfies
the requirements of the MagnusonStevens Act and has approved the
amended MCP for the three-year period
October 6, 2008, through October 6,
2011.
Dated: May 22, 2009.
Kristen C. Koch,
Acting Director, Office of Sustainable
Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service.
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AGENCY: Import Administration,
International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce
has received requests to conduct
administrative reviews of various
antidumping and countervailing duty
orders and findings with April
anniversary dates. In accordance with
the Department’s regulations, we are
initiating those administrative reviews.
DATES: Effective Date: May 29, 2009.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Sheila E. Forbes, Office of AD/CVD
Operations, Customs Unit, Import
Administration, International Trade
Administration, U.S. Department of
Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution
Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230,
telephone: (202) 482–4697.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
The Department has received timely
requests, in accordance with 19 CFR
351.213(b)(2002), for administrative
reviews of various antidumping and
countervailing duty orders and findings
with April anniversary dates.
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Under 19 CFR 351.213(d)(3), the
Department may rescind a review where
there are no exports, sales, or entries of
subject merchandise during the
respective period of review (POR) listed
below. If a producer or exporter named
in this initiation notice had no exports,
sales, or entries during the POR, it
should notify the Department within 30
days of publication of this notice in the
Federal Register. The Department will
consider rescinding the review only if
the producer or exporter, as appropriate,
submits a properly filed and timely
statement certifying that it had no
exports, sales, or entries of subject
merchandise during the POR. All
submissions must be made in
accordance with 19 CFR 351.303 and
are subject to verification in accordance
with section 782(i) of the Tariff Act of
1930, as amended (the Act). Six copies
of the submission should be submitted
to the Assistant Secretary for Import
Administration, International Trade
Administration, Room 1870, U.S.
Department of Commerce, 14th Street
and Constitution Avenue, NW.,
Washington, DC 20230. Further, in
accordance with 19 CFR 351.303(f)(1)(i),
a copy of each request must be served
on every party on the Department’s
service list.
Respondent Selection
Initiation of Antidumping and
Countervailing Duty Administrative
Reviews
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In the event the Department limits the
number of respondents for individual
examination for administrative reviews,
the Department intends to select
respondents based on U.S. Customs and
Border Protection (CBP) data for U.S.
imports during the POR. We intend to
release the CBP data under
Administrative Protective Order (APO)
to all parties having an APO within five
days of publication of this initiation
notice and to make our decision
regarding respondent selection within
20 days of publication of this Federal
Register notice. The Department invites
comments regarding the CBP data and
respondent selection within 10 calendar
days of publication of this Federal
Register notice.
Separate Rates
In proceedings involving non-market
economy (NME) countries, the
Department begins with a rebuttable
presumption that all companies within
the country are subject to government
control and, thus, should be assigned a
single antidumping duty deposit rate. It
is the Department’s policy to assign all
exporters of merchandise subject to an
administrative review in an NME
country this single rate unless an
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exporter can demonstrate that it is
sufficiently independent so as to be
entitled to a separate rate.
To establish whether a firm is
sufficiently independent from
government control of its export
activities to be entitled to a separate
rate, the Department analyzes each
entity exporting the subject
merchandise under a test arising from
the Final Determination of Sales at Less
Than Fair Value: Sparklers from the
People’s Republic of China, 56 FR 20588
(May 6, 1991), as amplified by Final
Determination of Sales at Less Than
Fair Value: Silicon Carbide from the
People’s Republic of China, 59 FR 22585
(May 2, 1994). In accordance with the
separate-rates criteria, the Department
assigns separate rates to companies in
NME cases only if respondents can
demonstrate the absence of both de jure
and de facto government control over
export activities.
All firms listed below that wish to
qualify for separate-rate status in the
administrative reviews involving NME
countries must complete, as
appropriate, either a separate-rate
application or certification, as described
below. For these administrative reviews,
in order to demonstrate separate-rate
eligibility, the Department requires
entities for whom a review was
requested, that were assigned a separate
rate in the most recent segment of this
proceeding in which they participated,
to certify that they continue to meet the
criteria for obtaining a separate rate. The
Separate Rate Certification form will be
available on the Department’s Web site
at https://ia.ita.doc.gov/nme/nme-seprate.html on the date of publication of
this Federal Register notice. In
responding to the certification, please
follow the ‘‘Instructions for Filing the
Certification’’ in the Separate Rate
Certification. Separate Rate
Certifications are due to the Department
no later than 30 calendar days after
publication of this Federal Register
notice. The deadline and requirement
for submitting a Certification apply
equally to NME-owned firms, wholly
foreign-owned firms, and foreign sellers
who purchase and export subject
merchandise to the United States.
Entities that currently do not have a
separate rate from a completed segment
of the proceeding 1 should timely file a
1 Such entities include entities that have not
participated in the proceeding, entities that were
preliminarily granted a separate rate in any
currently incomplete segment of the proceeding
(e.g., an ongoing administrative review, new
shipper review, etc.) and entities that lost their
separate rate in the most recently complete segment
of the proceeding in which they participated.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
RIN 0648-XP34
Fisheries in the Western Pacific; Amended Marine Conservation
Plan for Pacific Insular Areas; Northern Mariana Islands
AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of agency decision.
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SUMMARY: NMFS announces the approval of an amended marine conservation
plan (MCP) for the Northern Mariana Islands.
DATES: This agency decision is effective October 6, 2008, through
October 6, 2011.
ADDRESSES: Copies of the MCP are available from the Western Pacific
Fishery Management Council (Council), 1164 Bishop St., Suite 1400,
Honolulu, HI 96813, tel 808-522-8220, fax 808-522-8226.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jarad Makaiau, Sustainable Fisheries,
NMFS Pacific Islands Regional Office, at 808-944-2108.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under Section 204(e)(1)(A)of the Magnuson-
Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (Magnuson-Stevens Act),
the Secretary of State, with the concurrence of the Secretary of
Commerce (Secretary) and in consultation with the Council, may
negotiate and enter into a Pacific Insular Area fishery agreement
(PIAFA) to allow foreign fishing within waters of the U.S. Exclusive
Economic Zone (EEZ) adjacent to American Samoa, Guam, or the Northern
Mariana Islands, and at the request and with the concurrence of, and in
consultation with, the Governor of the Pacific Insular Area to which
the PIAFA applies. Section 204(e)(4) of the Magnuson-Stevens Act
requires that prior to entering into a PIAFA, the appropriate Governor
and the Council shall develop a three-year MCP containing detailing the
uses for funds to be collected by the Secretary under the PIAFA.
Any payments received under a PIAFA shall be deposited into the
United States Treasury and then covered over to the Treasury of the
Pacific Insular Area for which funds were collected. In the case of
violations by foreign fishing vessels occurring within the EEZ off any
Pacific Insular Area, any amount received by the Secretary which is
attributable to fines and penalties imposed under the Magnuson-Stevens
Act, including such sums collected from the forfeiture and disposition
or sale of property seized subject to its authority, after payment of
direct costs of the enforcement action to all entities involved in such
action, shall be deposited into the Treasury of the Pacific Insular
Area adjacent to the EEZ in which the violation occurred, to be used
for fisheries enforcement and for implementation of a MCP. The MCP to
be approved by the Secretary must be consistent with the Council's
fishery management plans, identify conservation and management
objectives (including criteria for determining when such objectives
have been met), and prioritize planned marine conservation projects.
In June 2007, the Council approved an MCP for the Commonwealth of
the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) and recommended its submission to
the Secretary for approval. NMFS, designee of the Secretary, received
the MCP on March 10, 2008. Following review and revision of the MCP,
the Department of Lands and Natural Resources, CNMI, submitted the
completed MCP on behalf of the Governor to NMFS on September 23, 2008.
That MCP, dated June 2007, satisfied the requirements of MSA Section
204(e), and was approved for the three-year period October 6, 2008,
through October 6, 2011 (73 FR 61020, October 15, 2008).
At its 144th meeting in March 2009, the Council approved an amended
MCP for the CNMI. On April 9, 2009, the Governor of the CNMI submitted
the amended MCP, dated March 2009. The March 2009 document revises the
objective related to domestic fisheries development, and the
prioritization of projects. The amendments are aimed at further
promoting the development and enhancing the economic viability of CNMI
fisheries.
The amended MCP contains 12 objectives, listed below, which are
consistent with the Council's five existing fishery management plans:
1. Data collection and reporting;
2. Resource assessment and monitoring;
3. Incidental catch, bycatch, and protected species interaction;
4. Habitat assessment and monitoring;
5. Management procedures;
6. Surveillance and enforcement;
7. Promote responsible domestic fisheries development to provide
long term economic growth and stability and local food production;
8. Marine conservation education;
9. Public participation;
10. Regional cooperation;
11. Western Pacific demonstration projects; and
12. Performance evaluation.
The MCP identifies 22 programs or projects associated with the MCP
objectives for potential funding under a PIAFA, as listed below in
order of priority:
1. EEZ enforcement program;
2. Analysis of data on pelagic fishery resources;
3. Commercial harvest monitoring system;
4. Fisheries technology and education program;
5. Longline permit, reporting and quota utilization program;
6. Development of fish marketing plan that includes topics on
market identification, transportation, fish products, branding and eco-
labeling, and other marketing issues;
7. CNMI commercial fisheries baseline assessment;
8. Regional fisheries meeting and conferences funding assistance;
9. Enhance fishing opportunities by deploying community fish
aggregation devices;
10. Vessel monitoring program;
11. Construction of cold storage, fish processing, and fish market
facilities;
12. Foreign fishery observer program;
13. Establish fishery management units for the EEZ;
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14. Northern islands remote fishing station project;
15. Village based aquaculture project;
16. Charter fishing economic impact study;
17. Bycatch interaction report;
18. Subsistence and recreational harvest monitoring system;
19. Recreational and subsistence fishing economic impact and use
study;
20. Foreign fishery management measures;
21. Vessel pollution prevention education program; and
22. Foreign fishing revenue for the Puerto Rico dump cleanup.
This notice announces that NMFS has determined that the amended MCP
for the Northern Mariana Islands satisfies the requirements of the
Magnuson-Stevens Act and has approved the amended MCP for the three-
year period October 6, 2008, through October 6, 2011.
Dated: May 22, 2009.
Kristen C. Koch,
Acting Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National Marine
Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. E9-12553 Filed 5-28-09; 8:45 am]
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