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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[Order No. 1745]
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Grant of Authority for Subzone Status
Klaussner Home Furnishings
(Upholstered Furniture) Asheboro and
Candor, NC
Pursuant to its authority under the
Foreign-Trade Zones Act of June 18,
1934, as amended (19 U.S.C. 81a-81u),
the Foreign-Trade Zones Board (the
Board) adopts the following Order:
Whereas, the Foreign-Trade Zones Act
provides for ‘‘* * *the establishment
* * * of foreign-trade zones in ports of
entry of the United States, to expedite
and encourage foreign commerce, and
for other purposes,’’ and authorizes the
Foreign-Trade Zones Board to grant to
qualified corporations the privilege of
establishing foreign-trade zones in or
adjacent to U.S. Customs and Border
Protection ports of entry;
Whereas, the Board’s regulations (15
CFR Part 400) provide for the
establishment of special-purpose
subzones when existing zone facilities
cannot serve the specific use involved,
and when the activity results in a
significant public benefit and is in the
public interest;
Whereas, the Piedmont Triad
Partnership, grantee of Foreign-Trade
Zone 230, has made application to the
Board for authority to establish a
special-purpose subzone at the
upholstered furniture manufacturing
facilities of Klaussner Home
Furnishings located in Asheboro and
Candor, North Carolina (FTZ Docket 59–
2009, filed 12–16–2009);
Whereas, notice inviting public
comment has been given in the Federal
Register (74 FR 69329, 12–31–2009) and
the application has been processed
pursuant to the FTZ Act and the Board’s
regulations; and,
Whereas, the Board adopts the
findings and recommendations of the
examiner’s report, and finds that the
requirements of the FTZ Act and
Board’s regulations would be satisfied,
and that the proposal would be in the
public interest if subject to the
restrictions listed below;
Now, Therefore, the Board hereby
grants authority for subzone status for
activity related to the manufacture of
upholstered furniture at the Klaussner
Home Furnishings facilities located in
Asheboro and Candor, North Carolina
(Subzone 230D), as described in the
application and Federal Register notice,
subject to the FTZ Act and the Board’s
regulations, including Section 400.28,
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and further subject to the following
conditions:
1. The annual quantitative volume of
foreign micro-denier suede upholstery
fabric finished with a hot caustic soda
solution that Klaussner Home
Furnishings may admit to the proposed
subzone under nonprivileged foreign
status (19 CFR 146.42) is limited to 5.79
million square yards.
2. Klaussner Home Furnishings must
admit all foreign-origin upholstery
fabrics other than micro-denier suede
fabric finished with a hot caustic soda
solution to the proposed subzone under
domestic (duty-paid) status (19 CFR
146.43).
3. For the purpose of monitoring by
the FTZ Staff, Klaussner Home
Furnishings shall submit additional
operating information to supplement its
annual report data.
4. The subzone authority for the
Klaussner Home Furnishings facilities
shall remain in effect for a period of five
years from the date of approval by the
FTZ Board.
Signed at Washington, DC, this 18 day of
February 2011.
Ronald K. Lorentzen,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import
Administration, Alternate Chairman, ForeignTrade Zones Board.
ATTEST:
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
RIN 0648–XA222
Gulf Spill Restoration Planning; Public
Scoping Meetings for the
Programmatic Environmental Impact
Statement for the Deepwater Horizon
Oil Spill
National Marine Fisheries
Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
U.S. Department of Commerce.
ACTION: Notice; public scoping meetings.
AGENCY:
In a February 17, 2011,
Federal Register notice, the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA), National
Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS)
announced in a notice of intent that it,
on behalf of the Trustee Council, will
begin restoration scoping and
preparation of a Programmatic
Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS)
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for the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill that
began on April 20, 2010, Mississippi
Canyon Block 252 (‘‘the Oil Spill’’). The
notice announced NOAA’s intent to
hold public scoping meetings in eleven
(11) locations in the five Gulf of Mexico
States and in Washington, DC, but it did
not include meeting details. The
meeting details for these locations are
available now.
The purpose of the Gulf Spill
Restoration Planning PEIS is to identify
restoration types and establish a
programmatic framework and
procedures that will enable the Trustees
to expedite the selection and
implementation of restoration projects
to compensate the public and the
environment for loss of natural
resources and services from the Oil
Spill.
DATES: All public scoping meetings will
begin at 7:30 p.m. (local time) and doors
will open at 6:30 p.m., except in Grand
Isle, Houma, and Morgan City,
Louisiana, which will start at 6:30 p.m.
and open doors at 5:30 p.m. For scoping
meetings dates and locations see
Scoping Meetings under the
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section.
ADDRESSES: Written scoping comments
on suggested restoration types should be
sent to: NOAA Restoration Center, Attn:
DWH PEIS Comments, 263 13th Avenue
South, Suite 166, St. Petersburg, FL
33701. Electronic comments are strongly
encouraged, and can be submitted to
https://
www.gulfspillrestoration.noaa.gov. All
written comments must be received by
the close of the scoping process to be
considered. Scoping will close 90 days
after the February 17, 2011 NOI, on
Tuesday, May 18, 2011. A public
announcement will be provided in a
future Federal Register document to
remind the public at the end of the
scoping period.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
NOAA—Brian Hostetter at 888.547.0174
or by e-mail at
gulfspillcomments@noaa.gov;
DOI—Robin Renn by e-mail at
Robin_Renn@fws.gov;
AL— Will Gunter by e-mail at
William.Gunter@dcnr.alabama.gov;
FL—Lee Edminston or Gil McRae by email at Lee.Edminston@dep.state.fl.us
or Gil.McRae@myfwc.com;
LA—Karolien Debusschere by e-mail at
karolien.debusschere@la.gov;
MS—Richard Harrell by e-mail at
Richard_Harrell@deq.state.ms.us;
TX—Don Pitts by e-mail at
Don.Pitts@tpwd.state.tx.us.
To be added to the Oil Spill PEIS
mailing list, please visit:
www.gulfspillrestoration.noaa.gov.
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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Scoping Meetings
The meetings have been scheduled
for:
1. Wednesday, March 16, 2011:
Escambia County Central Office
Complex, 3363 West Park Place,
Pensacola, FL. This is across the street
from the Escambia County Health
Department at 1295 West Fairfield Drive
in Pensacola, FL.
2. Thursday, March 17, 2011: Bay
County Government Center, County
Commissioner Chambers, 840 W. 11th
Street, Panama City, FL.
3. Monday, March 21, 2011: The
Donald Snyder Community Center,
Main Floor, 2520 Pass Rd., Biloxi, MS.
4. Tuesday, March 22, 2011: Belle
Chasse Public Library, 8442 Highway
23, Belle Chasse, LA.
5. Wednesday, March 23, 2011: Five
Rivers—Alabama’s Delta Resource
Center, 30945 Five Rivers Blvd.,
Spanish Fort, AL.
6. Thursday, March 24, 2011: HoumaTerrebonne Civic Center, 346 Civic
Center Blvd., Houma, LA.
7. Monday, March 28, 2011: The
Grand Isle Community Center, 3811
Highway 1, Grand Isle, LA.
8. Tuesday, March 29, 2011: Holiday
Inn, 520 Roderick St., Morgan City, LA.
9. Wednesday, March 30, 2011: Port
Arthur Civic Center, 3401 Cultural
Center Drive, Port Arthur, TX.
10. Thursday, March 31, 2011: Texas
A & M at Galveston Ocean and Coastal
Studies Building, Seawolf Parkway,
Bldg. 3029, Galveston, TX.
11. Monday, April 4, 2011: U.S.
Department of Commerce, Herbert
Hoover Bldg. Auditorium, 1401
Constitution Ave., NW., Washington,
DC.
National Marine Fisheries Service
(NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
U.S. Department of Commerce is the
lead agency for the preparation of the
PEIS on behalf of United States
Department of the Interior (on behalf of
the Fish and Wildlife Service, the
National Park Service, the Bureau of
Land Management and the Bureau of
Indian Affairs) (‘‘DOI’’); the Louisiana
Coastal Protection and Restoration
Authority, the Louisiana Oil Spill
Coordinator’s Office, the Louisiana
Department of Environmental Quality,
the Louisiana Department of Wildlife
and Fisheries, and the Louisiana
Department of Natural Resources, for
the State of Louisiana; the Mississippi
Department of Environmental Quality,
for the State of Mississippi; the Alabama
Department of Conservation and Natural
Resources and the Geological Survey of
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Alabama, for the State of Alabama; the
Florida Department of Environmental
Protection and the Florida Fish and
Wildlife Conservation Commission for
the State of Florida; and the Texas Parks
and Wildlife Department, Texas General
Land Office, and the Texas Commission
on Environmental Quality, for the State
of Texas. The notice of intent to begin
restoration scoping and prepare a
Programmatic Environmental Impact
Statement published at 76 FR 9327,
February 17, 2011.
The National Environmental Policy
Act (NEPA), 42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq., and
the Council on Environmental Quality
regulations implementing NEPA under
40 CFR Chapter V applies to restoration
actions by Federal trustees. The Federal
and state Trustees will be developing a
PEIS to help guide restoration actions
associated with the Natural Resource
Damage Assessment (NRDA) for the Oil
Spill. The PEIS will assess the
environmental, social, and economic
attributes of the affected environment
and the potential consequences of
alternative actions to restore,
rehabilitate, replace, or acquire the
equivalent of natural resources and
services potentially injured by the spill.
A PEIS may generally be prepared to
evaluate actions that encompass a large
geographic scale. Tiered analyses
considering particular restoration
actions may be required in the future as
specific plans for implementing
particular alternatives are established.
The purpose of the scoping process is
to identify the concerns of the affected
public and for the Federal agencies,
states, and Indian tribes to involve the
public early in the decision making
process, facilitate an efficient PEIS
preparation process, define the issues
and alternatives that will be examined
in detail, and save time by ensuring that
draft documents adequately address
relevant issues. The scoping process
reduces paperwork and delay by
ensuring that important issues are
addressed early. Following the scoping
process, the Trustees will prepare a
draft PEIS, at which time the public will
be encouraged to comment on the
document. Similar to the scoping
process, public comment meetings will
be held at that time to gather oral and
written public input on the draft PEIS.
In compliance with 15 CFR 990.45,
the Trustees will prepare an
Administrative Record (AR). The AR
will include documents that the
Trustees relied on during the
development of the PEIS. After
preparation, the Record will be on file
at the NOAA Restoration Center in
Silver Spring, MD, and duplicate copies
will be maintained at the following Web
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site: https://www.darrp.noaa.gov/. The
specific web page will be provided in
the next public notice.
The draft PEIS document is intended
to be released for public comment by
Fall/Winter, 2011. Specific dates and
times for future events will be
publicized when scheduled.
Dated: February 23, 2011.
Patricia A. Montanio,
Director, Office of Habitat Conservation,
National Marine Fisheries Service.
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Administration
National Climate Assessment
Development and Advisory Committee;
Request for Nominations and Notice of
Meeting
National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration;
Department of Commerce.
ACTION: Request for nominations to the
National Climate Assessment
Development and Advisory Committee;
Notice of Public Meeting.
AGENCY:
This notice requests
nominations of qualified individuals for
the National Climate Assessment
Development and Advisory Committee
(NCADAC) and advises the public of an
upcoming meeting of the NCADAC,
pending final approval of its members.
Individuals may self-nominate.
Nominations received will be evaluated
and, if appropriate to the overall
composition of the committee, accepted.
The NCADAC will meet on April 4,
2011, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.; April 5,
2011, from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.; and April
6, 2011, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.
DATES: Nominations Deadline:
Nominations must be received by March
16, 2011.
Public Comment Deadline: Public
comments must be received by the
NCADAC Designated Federal Official
(DFO) by 12 p.m. on March 31, 2011, to
provide sufficient time for distribution
to the members prior to the meeting.
Written comments received after 12
p.m. on March 31, 2011, will be
distributed to the NCADAC, but may not
be reviewed prior to the meeting date.
NCADAC Meeting Date, Time and
Location: The NCADAC will meet April
4–6, 2011, at the following times: April
4, 2011, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.; April 5,
2011, from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.; and April
6, 2011, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.. The
location will be in the metro
SUMMARY:
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
RIN 0648-XA222
Gulf Spill Restoration Planning; Public Scoping Meetings for the
Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement for the Deepwater Horizon
Oil Spill
AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), U.S. Department of Commerce.
ACTION: Notice; public scoping meetings.
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SUMMARY: In a February 17, 2011, Federal Register notice, the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Marine
Fisheries Service (NMFS) announced in a notice of intent that it, on
behalf of the Trustee Council, will begin restoration scoping and
preparation of a Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) for
the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill that began on April 20, 2010,
Mississippi Canyon Block 252 (``the Oil Spill''). The notice announced
NOAA's intent to hold public scoping meetings in eleven (11) locations
in the five Gulf of Mexico States and in Washington, DC, but it did not
include meeting details. The meeting details for these locations are
available now.
The purpose of the Gulf Spill Restoration Planning PEIS is to
identify restoration types and establish a programmatic framework and
procedures that will enable the Trustees to expedite the selection and
implementation of restoration projects to compensate the public and the
environment for loss of natural resources and services from the Oil
Spill.
DATES: All public scoping meetings will begin at 7:30 p.m. (local time)
and doors will open at 6:30 p.m., except in Grand Isle, Houma, and
Morgan City, Louisiana, which will start at 6:30 p.m. and open doors at
5:30 p.m. For scoping meetings dates and locations see Scoping Meetings
under the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section.
ADDRESSES: Written scoping comments on suggested restoration types
should be sent to: NOAA Restoration Center, Attn: DWH PEIS Comments,
263 13th Avenue South, Suite 166, St. Petersburg, FL 33701. Electronic
comments are strongly encouraged, and can be submitted to https://www.gulfspillrestoration.noaa.gov. All written comments must be
received by the close of the scoping process to be considered. Scoping
will close 90 days after the February 17, 2011 NOI, on Tuesday, May 18,
2011. A public announcement will be provided in a future Federal
Register document to remind the public at the end of the scoping
period.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
NOAA--Brian Hostetter at 888.547.0174 or by e-mail at
gulfspillcomments@noaa.gov;
DOI--Robin Renn by e-mail at Robin_Renn@fws.gov;
AL-- Will Gunter by e-mail at William.Gunter@dcnr.alabama.gov;
FL--Lee Edminston or Gil McRae by e-mail at
Lee.Edminston@dep.state.fl.us or Gil.McRae@myfwc.com;
LA--Karolien Debusschere by e-mail at karolien.debusschere@la.gov;
MS--Richard Harrell by e-mail at Richard_Harrell@deq.state.ms.us;
TX--Don Pitts by e-mail at Don.Pitts@tpwd.state.tx.us.
To be added to the Oil Spill PEIS mailing list, please visit:
www.gulfspillrestoration.noaa.gov.
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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Scoping Meetings
The meetings have been scheduled for:
1. Wednesday, March 16, 2011: Escambia County Central Office
Complex, 3363 West Park Place, Pensacola, FL. This is across the street
from the Escambia County Health Department at 1295 West Fairfield Drive
in Pensacola, FL.
2. Thursday, March 17, 2011: Bay County Government Center, County
Commissioner Chambers, 840 W. 11th Street, Panama City, FL.
3. Monday, March 21, 2011: The Donald Snyder Community Center, Main
Floor, 2520 Pass Rd., Biloxi, MS.
4. Tuesday, March 22, 2011: Belle Chasse Public Library, 8442
Highway 23, Belle Chasse, LA.
5. Wednesday, March 23, 2011: Five Rivers--Alabama's Delta Resource
Center, 30945 Five Rivers Blvd., Spanish Fort, AL.
6. Thursday, March 24, 2011: Houma-Terrebonne Civic Center, 346
Civic Center Blvd., Houma, LA.
7. Monday, March 28, 2011: The Grand Isle Community Center, 3811
Highway 1, Grand Isle, LA.
8. Tuesday, March 29, 2011: Holiday Inn, 520 Roderick St., Morgan
City, LA.
9. Wednesday, March 30, 2011: Port Arthur Civic Center, 3401
Cultural Center Drive, Port Arthur, TX.
10. Thursday, March 31, 2011: Texas A & M at Galveston Ocean and
Coastal Studies Building, Seawolf Parkway, Bldg. 3029, Galveston, TX.
11. Monday, April 4, 2011: U.S. Department of Commerce, Herbert
Hoover Bldg. Auditorium, 1401 Constitution Ave., NW., Washington, DC.
National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), U.S. Department of Commerce is the
lead agency for the preparation of the PEIS on behalf of United States
Department of the Interior (on behalf of the Fish and Wildlife Service,
the National Park Service, the Bureau of Land Management and the Bureau
of Indian Affairs) (``DOI''); the Louisiana Coastal Protection and
Restoration Authority, the Louisiana Oil Spill Coordinator's Office,
the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality, the Louisiana
Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, and the Louisiana Department of
Natural Resources, for the State of Louisiana; the Mississippi
Department of Environmental Quality, for the State of Mississippi; the
Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources and the
Geological Survey of Alabama, for the State of Alabama; the Florida
Department of Environmental Protection and the Florida Fish and
Wildlife Conservation Commission for the State of Florida; and the
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, Texas General Land Office, and the
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, for the State of Texas. The
notice of intent to begin restoration scoping and prepare a
Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement published at 76 FR 9327,
February 17, 2011.
The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), 42 U.S.C. 4321 et
seq., and the Council on Environmental Quality regulations implementing
NEPA under 40 CFR Chapter V applies to restoration actions by Federal
trustees. The Federal and state Trustees will be developing a PEIS to
help guide restoration actions associated with the Natural Resource
Damage Assessment (NRDA) for the Oil Spill. The PEIS will assess the
environmental, social, and economic attributes of the affected
environment and the potential consequences of alternative actions to
restore, rehabilitate, replace, or acquire the equivalent of natural
resources and services potentially injured by the spill. A PEIS may
generally be prepared to evaluate actions that encompass a large
geographic scale. Tiered analyses considering particular restoration
actions may be required in the future as specific plans for
implementing particular alternatives are established.
The purpose of the scoping process is to identify the concerns of
the affected public and for the Federal agencies, states, and Indian
tribes to involve the public early in the decision making process,
facilitate an efficient PEIS preparation process, define the issues and
alternatives that will be examined in detail, and save time by ensuring
that draft documents adequately address relevant issues. The scoping
process reduces paperwork and delay by ensuring that important issues
are addressed early. Following the scoping process, the Trustees will
prepare a draft PEIS, at which time the public will be encouraged to
comment on the document. Similar to the scoping process, public comment
meetings will be held at that time to gather oral and written public
input on the draft PEIS.
In compliance with 15 CFR 990.45, the Trustees will prepare an
Administrative Record (AR). The AR will include documents that the
Trustees relied on during the development of the PEIS. After
preparation, the Record will be on file at the NOAA Restoration Center
in Silver Spring, MD, and duplicate copies will be maintained at the
following Web site: https://www.darrp.noaa.gov/. The specific web page
will be provided in the next public notice.
The draft PEIS document is intended to be released for public
comment by Fall/Winter, 2011. Specific dates and times for future
events will be publicized when scheduled.
Dated: February 23, 2011.
Patricia A. Montanio,
Director, Office of Habitat Conservation, National Marine Fisheries
Service.
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