Department of Commerce September 12, 2006 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

5 CFR 430.310 requires agencies to publish notice of Performance Review Board appointees in the Federal Register before their service begins. This notice announces the names of new and existing members of the International Trade Administrations Performance Review Board.

In response to a request from the Seaman Paper Company of Massachusetts, Inc. (petitioner), the Department of Commerce (the Department) is initiating an anti-circumvention inquiry to determine whether certain imports of tissue paper from Vietnam are circumventing the antidumping duty order on certain tissue paper products (tissue paper) from the People's Republic of China (PRC). See Notice of Amended Final Determination of Sales at Less than Fair Value and Antidumping Duty Order: Certain Tissue Paper Products from the People's Republic of China, 70 FR 16223 (March 30, 2005) (Tissue Paper Order).

In accordance with section 751(b) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (``the Act''), and section 351.216(b) of the U.S. Department of Commerce's (``the Department'') regulations, ThyssenKrupp Steel North America, Inc. (``ThyssenKrupp''), a U.S. importer, filed a request for the Department to initiate a changed circumstances review of the antidumping duty (``AD'') orders on certain corrosion-resistant carbon steel flat products (``CORE'') from Germany. The purpose of such review would be to partially revoke the order with respect to a certain product because of lack of interest by the domestic industry.\1\ Mittal Steel USA (``Mittal Steel''), a domestic CORE producer, submitted a letter to the Department expressing a lack of interest in continuing to have the product in question subject to the antidumping duty order. Mittal Steel also stated that it is a major domestic producer of CORE. In response to the request made by the ``interested party'' within the meaning of section 771(9) of the Act, ThyssenKrupp, and the lack of interest from Mittal Steel, the Department is initiating a changed circumstances review on CORE from Germany with respect to a specific corrosion resistant steel product as described below.

NMFS issues this final rule to amend three fishery management plans (FMPs) to include fisheries and waters around the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) and Pacific Remote Island Areas (PRIA). These amendments affect United States domestic fisheries that offload or operate in Federal waters around the CNMI and the PRIA. These amendments establish new permitting and reporting requirements for vessel operators targeting bottomfish species around the PRIA to improve understanding of the ecology of these species and the activities and harvests of the vessel operators that target them. They also establish new permitting and reporting requirements for vessel operators targeting crustacean species and precious corals around the CNMI and PRIA.

The Department of Commerce, as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, invites the general public and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment on proposed and/or continuing information collections, as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, Public Law 104-13 (44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A)).

The Department of Commerce, as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, invites the general public and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment on proposed and/or continuing information collections, as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.

The Department of Commerce, as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, invites the general public and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment on proposed and/or continuing information collections, as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.