Atlantic Coastal Fisheries Cooperative Management Act Provisions; General Provisions for Domestic Fisheries; Application for Exempted Fishing Permits, 22875-22876 [2011-9944]

Download as PDF Federal Register / Vol. 76, No. 79 / Monday, April 25, 2011 / Notices jdjones on DSKHWCL6B1PROD with NOTICES Assessment Rates Pursuant to section 751(a)(2)(A) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.212(b), the Department will determine, and CBP shall assess, antidumping duties on all appropriate entries of subject merchandise in accordance with the final results of this review. For assessment purposes, we calculated importer (or customer)-specific assessment rates for merchandise subject to this review. Where appropriate, we calculated an ad valorem rate for each importer (or customer) by dividing the total dumping margins for reviewed sales to that party by the total entered values associated with those transactions. For dutyassessment rates calculated on this basis, we will direct CBP to assess the resulting ad valorem rate against the entered customs values for the subject merchandise. Where appropriate, we calculated a per-unit rate for each importer (or customer) by dividing the total dumping margins for reviewed sales to that party by the total sales quantity associated with those transactions. For duty-assessment rates calculated on this basis, we will direct CBP to assess the resulting per-unit rate against the entered quantity of the subject merchandise. Where an importer (or customer)-specific assessment rate is de minimis (i.e., less than 0.50 percent), the Department will instruct CBP to assess that importer (or customer’s) entries of subject merchandise without regard to antidumping duties, in accordance with 19 CFR 351.106(c)(2). We intend to instruct CBP to liquidate entries containing subject merchandise exported by the PRC-wide entity at the PRC-wide rate of 210.48 percent. The Department intends to issue assessment instructions to CBP 15 days after the date of publication of these final results of review. Cash Deposit Requirements The following cash deposit requirements will be effective upon publication of the final results of this administrative review for all shipments of the subject merchandise entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after the publication date, as provided for by section 751(a)(2)(C) of the Act: (1) For Starbright,18 Hangzhou Zhongce, KS Ltd., Laizhou Xiongying, Qingdao Taifa, and Weihai Zhongwei, the cash deposit 18 While the instant review covered Starbright as the exporter, the draft cash deposit instructions released with the Preliminary Results inadvertently identified ‘‘Hebei Starbright Co., Ltd./GPX International Co., Ltd.’’ as the exporter. We have corrected the cash deposit instructions to identify only Starbright as the exporter. VerDate Mar<15>2010 15:21 Apr 22, 2011 Jkt 223001 rate will be the margins listed above; (2) for previously investigated or reviewed PRC and non-PRC exporters not listed above that have separate rates, the cash deposit rate will continue to be the exporter-specific rate published for the most recent period; (3) for all PRC exporters of subject merchandise which have not been found to be entitled to a separate rate, the cash deposit rate will be the PRC-wide rate of 210.48 percent determined in the less-than-fair-value investigation; and (4) for all non-PRC exporters of subject merchandise which have not received their own rate, the cash deposit rate will be the rate applicable to the PRC exporter that supplied that non-PRC exporter. These deposit requirements shall remain in effect until further notice. Notification to Importers This notice also serves as a final reminder to importers of their responsibility under 19 CFR 351.402(f)(2) to file a certificate regarding the reimbursement of antidumping duties prior to liquidation of the relevant entries during this review period. Failure to comply with this requirement could result in the Secretary’s presumption that reimbursement of the antidumping duties occurred and the subsequent assessment of double antidumping duties. Notification to Interested Parties This notice also serves as a reminder to parties subject to administrative protective order (‘‘APO’’) of their responsibility concerning the return or destruction of proprietary information disclosed under the APO in accordance with 19 CFR 351.305(a)(3), which continues to govern business proprietary information in this segment of the proceeding. Timely written notification of the return/destruction of APO materials or conversion to judicial protective order is hereby requested. Failure to comply with the regulations and terms of an APO is a violation which is subject to sanction. Disclosure We will disclose the calculations performed within five days of the date of publication of this notice to parties in this proceeding in accordance with 19 CFR 351.224(b). We are issuing and publishing the final results and notice in accordance with sections 751(a)(1) and 777(i)(1) of the Act. PO 00000 Frm 00014 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 22875 Dated: April 18, 2011. Ronald K. Lorentzen, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration. Appendix I Comment 1: Whether to Treat Certain Inputs as Manufacturing Overhead or FOPs Comment 2: Treatment of WarehousingRelated Expenses Comment 3: Calculation of ISE Ratio Comment 4: Whether to Make Certain Changes Based on Verification Findings Comment 5: Treatment of Supervisory and Quality Control Labor Comment 6: Calculation of Starbright’s Electricity Consumption Comment 7: Correction of Alleged Ministerial Errors Comment 8: Valuation of Wage Rate Comment 9: Valuation of Brokerage and Handling Comment 10: Valuation of RSOFT Comment 11: Selection and Calculation of Financial Ratios Comment 12: Whether to Grant MOE Treatment Comment 13: Double Remedies Comment 14: Zeroing [FR Doc. 2011–9964 Filed 4–22–11; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 3510–P DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration RIN 0648–XA355 Atlantic Coastal Fisheries Cooperative Management Act Provisions; General Provisions for Domestic Fisheries; Application for Exempted Fishing Permits National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Commerce. ACTION: Notice; request for comments. AGENCY: The Assistant Regional Administrator for Sustainable Fisheries, Northeast Region, NMFS (Assistant Regional Administrator), has made a preliminary determination that an Exempted Fishing Permit (EFP) application contains all of the required information and warrants further consideration. This EFP application would exempt commercial fishing vessels from the following Federal American lobster regulations: Trap escape vent requirements to allow 12 federally permitted commercial fishing vessels to utilize a maximum of 500 ventless traps to collect scientific information on American lobsters, including juveniles, in Lobster Conservation Management Areas (LCMAs) 3, 4, and 5 from June through SUMMARY: E:\FR\FM\25APN1.SGM 25APN1 jdjones on DSKHWCL6B1PROD with NOTICES 22876 Federal Register / Vol. 76, No. 79 / Monday, April 25, 2011 / Notices November 2011. This proposed project would be conducted by the New Jersey Division of Fish and Wildlife (NJ DFW) in conjunction with the already present New Jersey At-Sea Lobster Observer Program and New Jersey commercial fishermen. Regulations under the MagnusonStevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act require publication of this notification to provide interested parties the opportunity to comment on applications for proposed EFPs. DATES: Comments must be received on or before May 10, 2011. ADDRESSES: Comments on this notice may be submitted by e-mail. The mailbox address for providing e-mail comments is NERO.EFP@noaa.gov. Include in the subject line ‘‘Comments on NJ DFW Lobster EFP.’’ Written comments should be sent to Patricia A. Kurkul, Regional Administrator, NMFS, NE Regional Office, 55 Great Republic Drive, Gloucester, MA 01930. Mark the outside of the envelop ‘‘Comments on NJ DFW Lobster EFP.’’ • Fax: (978) 281–9135. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: ´ Carol She, Fishery Policy Analyst, 978– 282–8464, Carol.She@noaa.gov. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: NJ DFW submitted a complete application for an EFP on March 21, 2011, to conduct commercial fishing activities that the regulations would otherwise restrict. This EFP application would exempt commercial fishing vessels from the following Federal regulations: Lobster trap escape vent requirements specified under 50 CFR 697.21(c)(2) and (c)(4). The EFP would authorize 12 federally permitted vessels to be exempted from parts of the Federal lobster regulations to allow the participating vessels to fish modified lobster traps to attain an accurate characterization of abundance for juvenile and adult lobsters in waters off the coast of New Jersey and to determine several variables in the stock dynamics, e.g., whether there has been a significant decline in juvenile and adult abundance, and/or whether this decline is occurring throughout the range of the Southern New England (SNE) stock. NJ DFW would work in conjunction with the already present New Jersey AtSea Lobster Observer Program to record: Number of lobsters caught; number of traps hauled; set-over-days; trap and bait type; carapace length (to the nearest millimeter); sex; shell hardness; culls and shell damage; external gross pathology (including shell disease symptoms); mortality; and presence of extruded ova on females through its Ventless Trap Survey. The Ventless VerDate Mar<15>2010 15:21 Apr 22, 2011 Jkt 223001 Trap Survey project is designed to generate robust estimates of lobster abundance off the coast of New Jersey, from 0–60 nautical miles (0–97 kilometers), offshore, in the northern range of the SNE stock area and would be funded largely by the participating fishers through supply of gear, crew, and vessel time. The scientific personnel would be funded through the New Jersey Atlantic Coastal Cooperative Statistics Program (NJ ACCSP), particularly the NJ ACCSP At-Sea Lobster Observer Program for Fishing Year 2011. The resulting data would be utilized by NJ DFW staff, Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission Technical Committees, and Stock Assessment SubCommittees. Also, comparisons would be made of results from data collected in LCMAs 1, 2, and 6 with data collected in LCMAs 3, 4, and 5. Finally, an index of lobster stock biomass in waters off New Jersey, in relation to overall commercial landings of lobster in New Jersey, would be made through the use of catch per unit effort of sublegal and legal size lobsters taken during observer trips in New Jersey. Each vessel would fish approximately 20–50 ventless traps within their strings of existing lobster traps. With exception of the waiver of the trap escape vent requirement, trap gear would be compliant with all Federal lobster regulations, including the Large Whale Take Reduction Plan gear configuration requirements. This EFP would not authorize the deployment of additional lobster traps in the waters off New Jersey. All traps, including ventless traps, would be included under each vessel’s existing maximum LCMA-specific trap allocation as determined by NMFS. Each ventless trap would be placed randomly on already existing strings of vented pots of the same dimensions and be randomly selected throughout the range of the survey area. All scientific ventless sampling gear would be identified with a state issued scientific trap tag provided by NJ DFW, and be affixed with both the proper state scientific tags and Federal trap tags. Records of latitude and longitude of trap/string location would be provided to the NJ DFW Bureau of Law Enforcement upon request. Trap deployment, maintenance, and hauling would be completed by participating commercial lobstermen. The NJ ACCSP staff would record environmental data when present on at-sea observer trips including: Depth; dissolved oxygen; conductivity; salinity; and temperature profile from the surface to bottom. PO 00000 Frm 00015 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 9990 Sampling would be conducted over five different depth zones from a minimum of 60 ft (18 ms) to a maximum of 220 ft (67 ms) running the length of the New Jersey Mudhole, Glory Hole, and Chicken Canyon, and other historic lobster fishing areas located within LCMAs 3 and 4 and over various lobster grounds such as the 17 Fathom Bank in LCMA 5. This project would not authorize the deployment of any additional trap gear; therefore, minimal environmental impacts would be anticipated by this EFP above those already occurring as part of a commercial lobster trap trawl deployed under usual industry conditions. Impacts to the lobster resource would be negligible. Any sublegal lobsters caught would briefly be retained on-board only for the purposes of recording their size, sex, and presence of shell disease, before being promptly released back into the ocean, as would those lobsters that do not fall within the minimum and maximum legal gauge sizes. There would be minimal to no impacts to bycatch species, as all bycatch species hauled from modified gear would be returned promptly to the ocean. Additionally, minimal to no impacts would occur on benthic habitat over that which occurs under existing lobster trap fishing activities. Finally, the gear would be compliant with the Atlantic Large Whale Take Reduction Plan, and would be deployed under usual industry conditions; therefore, impacts to protected resources would fall within those impacts already analyzed as part of the October 29, 2010, Biological Opinion for the American lobster fishery. If approved, the applicant may request minor modifications and extensions to the EFP throughout the year. EFP modifications and extensions may be granted without further notice if they are deemed essential to facilitate completion of the proposed research and have minimal impacts that do not change the scope or impact of the initially approved EFP request. Any fishing activity conducted outside the scope of the exempted fishing activity would be prohibited. Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq. Dated: April 20, 2011. Margo Schulze-Haugen, Acting Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service. [FR Doc. 2011–9944 Filed 4–22–11; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 3510–22–P E:\FR\FM\25APN1.SGM 25APN1

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[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 79 (Monday, April 25, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 22875-22876]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-9944]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

RIN 0648-XA355


Atlantic Coastal Fisheries Cooperative Management Act Provisions; 
General Provisions for Domestic Fisheries; Application for Exempted 
Fishing Permits

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Commerce.

ACTION: Notice; request for comments.

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SUMMARY: The Assistant Regional Administrator for Sustainable 
Fisheries, Northeast Region, NMFS (Assistant Regional Administrator), 
has made a preliminary determination that an Exempted Fishing Permit 
(EFP) application contains all of the required information and warrants 
further consideration. This EFP application would exempt commercial 
fishing vessels from the following Federal American lobster 
regulations: Trap escape vent requirements to allow 12 federally 
permitted commercial fishing vessels to utilize a maximum of 500 
ventless traps to collect scientific information on American lobsters, 
including juveniles, in Lobster Conservation Management Areas (LCMAs) 
3, 4, and 5 from June through

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November 2011. This proposed project would be conducted by the New 
Jersey Division of Fish and Wildlife (NJ DFW) in conjunction with the 
already present New Jersey At-Sea Lobster Observer Program and New 
Jersey commercial fishermen.
    Regulations under the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and 
Management Act require publication of this notification to provide 
interested parties the opportunity to comment on applications for 
proposed EFPs.

DATES: Comments must be received on or before May 10, 2011.

ADDRESSES: Comments on this notice may be submitted by e-mail. The 
mailbox address for providing e-mail comments is NERO.EFP@noaa.gov. 
Include in the subject line ``Comments on NJ DFW Lobster EFP.'' Written 
comments should be sent to Patricia A. Kurkul, Regional Administrator, 
NMFS, NE Regional Office, 55 Great Republic Drive, Gloucester, MA 
01930. Mark the outside of the envelop ``Comments on NJ DFW Lobster 
EFP.''
     Fax: (978) 281-9135.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Carol Sh[eacute], Fishery Policy 
Analyst, 978-282-8464, Carol.She@noaa.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: NJ DFW submitted a complete application for 
an EFP on March 21, 2011, to conduct commercial fishing activities that 
the regulations would otherwise restrict. This EFP application would 
exempt commercial fishing vessels from the following Federal 
regulations: Lobster trap escape vent requirements specified under 50 
CFR 697.21(c)(2) and (c)(4). The EFP would authorize 12 federally 
permitted vessels to be exempted from parts of the Federal lobster 
regulations to allow the participating vessels to fish modified lobster 
traps to attain an accurate characterization of abundance for juvenile 
and adult lobsters in waters off the coast of New Jersey and to 
determine several variables in the stock dynamics, e.g., whether there 
has been a significant decline in juvenile and adult abundance, and/or 
whether this decline is occurring throughout the range of the Southern 
New England (SNE) stock.
    NJ DFW would work in conjunction with the already present New 
Jersey At-Sea Lobster Observer Program to record: Number of lobsters 
caught; number of traps hauled; set-over-days; trap and bait type; 
carapace length (to the nearest millimeter); sex; shell hardness; culls 
and shell damage; external gross pathology (including shell disease 
symptoms); mortality; and presence of extruded ova on females through 
its Ventless Trap Survey. The Ventless Trap Survey project is designed 
to generate robust estimates of lobster abundance off the coast of New 
Jersey, from 0-60 nautical miles (0-97 kilometers), offshore, in the 
northern range of the SNE stock area and would be funded largely by the 
participating fishers through supply of gear, crew, and vessel time. 
The scientific personnel would be funded through the New Jersey 
Atlantic Coastal Cooperative Statistics Program (NJ ACCSP), 
particularly the NJ ACCSP At-Sea Lobster Observer Program for Fishing 
Year 2011.
    The resulting data would be utilized by NJ DFW staff, Atlantic 
States Marine Fisheries Commission Technical Committees, and Stock 
Assessment Sub-Committees. Also, comparisons would be made of results 
from data collected in LCMAs 1, 2, and 6 with data collected in LCMAs 
3, 4, and 5. Finally, an index of lobster stock biomass in waters off 
New Jersey, in relation to overall commercial landings of lobster in 
New Jersey, would be made through the use of catch per unit effort of 
sublegal and legal size lobsters taken during observer trips in New 
Jersey.
    Each vessel would fish approximately 20-50 ventless traps within 
their strings of existing lobster traps. With exception of the waiver 
of the trap escape vent requirement, trap gear would be compliant with 
all Federal lobster regulations, including the Large Whale Take 
Reduction Plan gear configuration requirements.
    This EFP would not authorize the deployment of additional lobster 
traps in the waters off New Jersey. All traps, including ventless 
traps, would be included under each vessel's existing maximum LCMA-
specific trap allocation as determined by NMFS. Each ventless trap 
would be placed randomly on already existing strings of vented pots of 
the same dimensions and be randomly selected throughout the range of 
the survey area. All scientific ventless sampling gear would be 
identified with a state issued scientific trap tag provided by NJ DFW, 
and be affixed with both the proper state scientific tags and Federal 
trap tags. Records of latitude and longitude of trap/string location 
would be provided to the NJ DFW Bureau of Law Enforcement upon request. 
Trap deployment, maintenance, and hauling would be completed by 
participating commercial lobstermen. The NJ ACCSP staff would record 
environmental data when present on at-sea observer trips including: 
Depth; dissolved oxygen; conductivity; salinity; and temperature 
profile from the surface to bottom.
    Sampling would be conducted over five different depth zones from a 
minimum of 60 ft (18 ms) to a maximum of 220 ft (67 ms) running the 
length of the New Jersey Mudhole, Glory Hole, and Chicken Canyon, and 
other historic lobster fishing areas located within LCMAs 3 and 4 and 
over various lobster grounds such as the 17 Fathom Bank in LCMA 5.
    This project would not authorize the deployment of any additional 
trap gear; therefore, minimal environmental impacts would be 
anticipated by this EFP above those already occurring as part of a 
commercial lobster trap trawl deployed under usual industry conditions. 
Impacts to the lobster resource would be negligible. Any sublegal 
lobsters caught would briefly be retained on-board only for the 
purposes of recording their size, sex, and presence of shell disease, 
before being promptly released back into the ocean, as would those 
lobsters that do not fall within the minimum and maximum legal gauge 
sizes. There would be minimal to no impacts to bycatch species, as all 
bycatch species hauled from modified gear would be returned promptly to 
the ocean. Additionally, minimal to no impacts would occur on benthic 
habitat over that which occurs under existing lobster trap fishing 
activities. Finally, the gear would be compliant with the Atlantic 
Large Whale Take Reduction Plan, and would be deployed under usual 
industry conditions; therefore, impacts to protected resources would 
fall within those impacts already analyzed as part of the October 29, 
2010, Biological Opinion for the American lobster fishery.
    If approved, the applicant may request minor modifications and 
extensions to the EFP throughout the year. EFP modifications and 
extensions may be granted without further notice if they are deemed 
essential to facilitate completion of the proposed research and have 
minimal impacts that do not change the scope or impact of the initially 
approved EFP request. Any fishing activity conducted outside the scope 
of the exempted fishing activity would be prohibited.

    Authority:  16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.

    Dated: April 20, 2011.
Margo Schulze-Haugen,
Acting Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National Marine 
Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 2011-9944 Filed 4-22-11; 8:45 am]
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