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to extend and expand the project: 64 FR
52810 (September 30, 1999); 68 FR
47948 (August 12, 2003); 68 FR 54505
(September 17, 2003); 70 FR 38732 (July
5, 2005); 71 FR 25615 (May 1, 2006); 71
FR 50950 (August 28, 2006); 74 FR
22728 (May 14, 2009); 80 FR 25 (January
2, 2015). With the passage of the
Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2008,
Public Law 110–161, on December 26,
2007, the project was made permanent
(extended indefinitely) and renamed the
Commerce Alternative Personnel
System (CAPS).
CAPS provides for modifications to be
made as experience is gained, results are
analyzed, and conclusions are reached
on how the system is working. This
notice announces that the DoC expands
CAPS to include non-bargaining unit
employees in NOAA, OCIO, in all duty
locations, as a participating
organization. OCIO will convert
employees to career paths and
occupational series already established
under CAPS, requiring no additional
series to be added to accommodate the
expansion.
The DoC will follow the CAPS plan as
published in the Federal Register on
December 24, 1997, and subsequent
modifications as listed in the
Background Section of this notice.
Kevin E. Mahoney,
Director for Human Resources Management
and Chief Human Capital Officer.
Table of Contents
I. Executive Summary
II. Basis for CAPS Expansion
III. Changes to the Project Plan
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I. Executive Summary
CAPS is designed to (1) improve
hiring and allow DoC to compete more
effectively for high-quality candidates
through direct hiring, selective use of
higher entry salaries, and selective use
of recruitment incentives; (2) motivate
and retain staff through higher pay
potential, pay-for-performance, more
responsive personnel systems, and
selective use of retention incentives; (3)
strengthen the manager’s role in
personnel management through
delegation of personnel authorities; and
(4) increase the efficiency of personnel
systems through the installation of a
simpler and more flexible classification
system based on pay banding through
reduction of guidelines, steps, and
paperwork in classification, hiring, and
other personnel systems, and through
automation.
The current participating
organizations include 7 offices of the
Chief Financial Officer/Assistant
Secretary for Administration in the
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Office of the Secretary; the Bureau of
Economic Analysis; 2 units of the
National Telecommunications and
Information Administration (NTIA): the
Institute for Telecommunications
Science and the First Responder
Network Authority (an independent
authority within NTIA); and 11 units of
the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration: Office of Oceanic and
Atmospheric Research, National Marine
Fisheries Service, the National
Environmental Satellite, Data, and
Information Service, National Weather
Service — Space Environment Center,
National Ocean Service, Program
Planning and Integration Office, Office
of the Under Secretary, Marine and
Aviation Operations, Office of the Chief
Administrative Officer, Office of the
Chief Financial Officer, and the
Workforce Management Office.
This amendment modifies the
December 24, 1997, Federal Register
notice. Specifically, it expands DoC
CAPS to include NOAA, OCIO.
II. Basis for CAPS Expansion
A. Purpose
CAPS is designed to provide
managers at the lowest organizational
level the authority, control, and
flexibility to recruit, retain, develop,
recognize, and motivate its workforce,
while ensuring adequate accountability
and oversight.
The expansion of coverage to include
NOAA, OCIO, should improve OCIO’s
ability to recruit and retain a
high-quality workforce.
DoC’s CAPS allows for modifications
of procedures if no new waiver from law
or regulation is added. Given that this
expansion and modification is in
accordance with existing law and
regulation and CAPS is a permanent
alternative personnel system, the DoC is
authorized to make the changes
described in this notice.
B. Participating Employees
Employee notification of this
expansion will be accomplished by
providing a full set of briefings to
employees and managers and providing
them electronic access to all CAPS
policies and procedures, including the
nine previous Federal Register Notices.
Employees will also be provided a copy
of this Federal Register notice upon
approval. Subsequent supervisor
training and informational briefings for
all employees will be accomplished
prior to the implementation date of the
expansion.
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III. Changes to the Project Plan
The CAPS at DoC, published in the
Federal Register on December 24, 1997
(62 FR 67434), is amended as follows:
1. The following organization will be
added to the project plan, Section II
D—Participating Organizations
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA), Office of
the Chief Information Officer
(OCIO)
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The Department of Commerce will
submit to the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) for clearance the
following proposal for collection of
information under the provisions of the
Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C.
Chapter 35).
Agency: Baldrige Performance
Excellence Program (BPEP)/National
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Quality Award (MBNQA) Application.
OMB Control Number: 0693–0006.
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Type of Request: Revision of a current
information collection.
Number of Respondents: 30
organizations apply for the MBNQA;
550 individuals apply for a spot on the
MBNQA Board of Examiners, the
assessors who review the applications
for the MBNQA.
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Department within 30 days of
publication of this notice in the Federal
Register. All submissions must be filed
electronically at https://access.trade.gov
in accordance with 19 CFR 351.303.1
Such submissions are subject to
verification in accordance with section
782(i) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as
amended (‘‘the Act’’). Further, in
accordance with 19 CFR 351.303(f)(1)(i),
a copy must be served on every party on
the Department’s service list.
within 30 days of publication of this
notice to OIRA_Submission@omb.
eop.gov or fax to (202) 395–5806.
Dated: April 4, 2016.
Glenna Mickelson,
Management Analyst, Office of the Chief
Information Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Respondent Selection
International Trade Administration
Notice of No Sales
In the event the Department limits the
number of respondents for individual
examination for administrative reviews
initiated pursuant to requests made for
the orders identified below, except for
the reviews of the antidumping duty
orders on certain crystalline silicon
photovoltaic products from Taiwan and
the People’s Republic of China (‘‘PRC’’),
the Department intends to select
respondents based on U.S. Customs and
Border Protection (‘‘CBP’’) data for U.S.
imports during the period of review. We
intend to place the CBP data on the
record within five days of publication of
the initiation notice and to make our
decision regarding respondent selection
within 30 days of publication of the
initiation Federal Register notice.
Comments regarding the CBP data and
respondent selection should be
submitted seven days after the
placement of the CBP data on the record
of this review. Parties wishing to submit
rebuttal comments should submit those
comments five days after the deadline
for the initial comments.
In the event the Department decides
it is necessary to limit individual
examination of respondents and
conduct respondent selection under
section 777A(c)(2) of the Act:
In general, the Department has found
that determinations concerning whether
particular companies should be
‘‘collapsed’’ (i.e., treated as a single
entity for purposes of calculating
antidumping duty rates) require a
substantial amount of detailed
information and analysis, which often
require follow-up questions and
analysis. Accordingly, the Department
will not conduct collapsing analyses at
the respondent selection phase of this
review and will not collapse companies
at the respondent selection phase unless
there has been a determination to
collapse certain companies in a
previous segment of this antidumping
proceeding (i.e., investigation,
If a producer or exporter named in
this notice of initiation had no exports,
sales, or entries during the period of
review (‘‘POR’’), it must notify the
1 See Antidumping and Countervailing Duty
Proceedings: Electronic Filing Procedures;
Administrative Protective Order Procedures, 76 FR
39263 (July 6, 2011).
Initiation of Antidumping and
Countervailing Duty Administrative
Reviews
Enforcement and Compliance,
International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce
(‘‘the Department’’) has received
requests to conduct administrative
reviews of various antidumping and
countervailing duty orders and findings
with February anniversary dates. In
accordance with the Department’s
regulations, we are initiating those
administrative reviews.
DATES: Effective Date: April 7, 2016.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Brenda E. Waters, Office of AD/CVD
Operations, Customs Liaison Unit,
Enforcement and Compliance,
International Trade Administration,
U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th
Street and Constitution Avenue NW.,
Washington, DC 20230, telephone: (202)
482–4735.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
AGENCY:
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Background
The Department has received timely
requests, in accordance with 19 CFR
351.213(b), for administrative reviews of
various antidumping and countervailing
duty orders and findings with February
anniversary dates. With respect to the
antidumping duty orders of Certain
Frozen Warmwater Shrimp from India
and Thailand, the initiation of the
antidumping duty administrative review
for these cases will be published in a
separate initiation notice.
All deadlines for the submission of
various types of information,
certifications, or comments or actions by
the Department discussed below refer to
the number of calendar days from the
applicable starting time.
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administrative review, new shipper
review or changed circumstances
review). For any company subject to this
review, if the Department determined,
or continued to treat, that company as
collapsed with others, the Department
will assume that such companies
continue to operate in the same manner
and will collapse them for respondent
selection purposes. Otherwise, the
Department will not collapse companies
for purposes of respondent selection.
Parties are requested to (a) identify
which companies subject to review
previously were collapsed, and (b)
provide a citation to the proceeding in
which they were collapsed. Further, if
companies are requested to complete
the Quantity and Value (‘‘Q&V’’)
Questionnaire for purposes of
respondent selection, in general each
company must report volume and value
data separately for itself. Parties should
not include data for any other party,
even if they believe they should be
treated as a single entity with that other
party. If a company was collapsed with
another company or companies in the
most recently completed segment of this
proceeding where the Department
considered collapsing that entity,
complete Q&V data for that collapsed
entity must be submitted.
Respondent Selection—Certain
Crystalline Silicon Photovoltaic
Products From Taiwan and the PRC
In the event the Department limits the
number of respondents for individual
examination in the administrative
reviews of the antidumping duty orders
on certain crystalline silicon
photovoltaic products from Taiwan and
the PRC, the Department intends to
select respondents, for the instant
reviews, based on volume data
contained in responses to Q&V
questionnaires. We note that the units
used to measure U.S. import quantities
of solar cells and solar modules in CBP
data are ‘‘number’’; however, it would
not be meaningful to sum the number of
imported solar cells and the number of
imported solar modules in attempting to
determine the volume of subject
merchandise exported by Taiwanese
exporters. Moreover, we also have
concerns regarding inconsistencies in
the unit of measure used to report CBP
data for solar modules exported from
the PRC. Therefore, all parties for which
we have initiated administrative
reviews of the antidumping duty orders
on certain crystalline silicon
photovoltaic products from Taiwan and
the PRC are hereby notified that they
must timely respond to the Q&V
questionnaire issued by the Department.
Please be advised that due to the time
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request
The Department of Commerce will submit to the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) for clearance the following proposal for collection of
information under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act (44
U.S.C. Chapter 35).
Agency: Baldrige Performance Excellence Program (BPEP)/National
Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
Title: Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award (MBNQA) Application.
OMB Control Number: 0693-0006.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Request: Revision of a current information collection.
Number of Respondents: 30 organizations apply for the MBNQA; 550
individuals apply for a spot on the MBNQA Board of Examiners, the
assessors who review the applications for the MBNQA.
Average Hours per Response: 30 minutes for organizational
applications for MBNQA, and 30 minutes for applications for the Board
of Examiners.
Burden Hours: MBNQA = 15 hours, Board of Examiners = 275 hours.
Needs and Uses: Collection needed to obtain information to conduct
the MBNQA (Public Law 100-107, Malcolm Baldrige National Quality
Improvement Act of 1987).
Affected Public: Business, health care, education, or other for-
profit organizations; health care, education, and other nonprofit
organizations; and individuals or households.
Frequency: Annual.
Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
This information collection request may be viewed at reginfo.gov.
Follow the instructions to view Department of Commerce collections
currently under review by OMB.
Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information
collection should be sent
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within 30 days of publication of this notice to
OIRA_Submission@omb.eop.gov or fax to (202) 395-5806.
Dated: April 4, 2016.
Glenna Mickelson,
Management Analyst, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
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