Department of Commerce March 2007 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

NMFS announces that the Administrator, Northeast (NE) Region, NMFS (Regional Administrator), is eliminating the haddock separator trawl requirement, which was temporarily implemented on June 19, 2006, for all limited access NE multispecies vessels fishing with trawl gear on a NE multispecies day-at-sea (DAS), and is reducing from 10,000 lb (4,536 kg) to 5,000 lb (2,268 kg) the trip limit for Georges Bank (GB) yellowtail flounder for all NE multispecies vessels fishing without a haddock separator trawl on a NE multispecies DAS in the Eastern U.S./ Canada Area. This temporary reduction in the GB yellowtail flounder trip limit is effective through April 30, 2007. A projection based on available catch and discard information indicates that removal of the haddock separator trawl requirement and establishment of a 5,000-lb (2,268 kg) trip limit for GB yellowtail flounder in the Eastern U.S./ Canada Area will help vessels achieve the total allowable catch (TAC) limits established for the shared U.S./Canada stocks of cod, haddock, and yellowtail flounder while preventing the GB yellowtail flounder TAC from being exceeded before the end of the 2006 fishing year on April 30, 2007. This action is therefore intended to provide increased opportunities to harvest the healthy Eastern GB haddock TAC and maximize the harvest of the GB yellowtail flounder. This action is authorized by the regulations implementing Framework 42 to the NE Multispecies Fishery Management Plan (FMP) under the authority of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (Magnuson- Stevens Act).

The Department of Commerce (the Department) is conducting an administrative review of the countervailing duty (CVD) order on certain cut-to-length carbon-quality steel plate (CTL plate) from the Republic of Korea (Korea) for the period January 1, 2005, through December 31, 2005, the period of review (POR). For information on the net subsidy rate for the reviewed company, see the ``Preliminary Results of Review'' section of this notice. Interested parties are invited to comment on these preliminary results. See the ``Public Comment'' section of this notice.

The Department of Commerce is conducting an administrative review of the antidumping duty order on stainless steel bar from India. The period of review is February 1, 2005, through January 31, 2006. This review covers imports of stainless steel bar from eight producers/ exporters. We preliminarily find that sales of the subject merchandise have been made below normal value. In addition, based on the preliminary results for the respondents selected for individual review, we have preliminarily determined a weighted-average margin for those companies for which a review was requested, but that were not selected for individual review. If these preliminary results are adopted in our final results, we will instruct U.S. Customs and Border Protection to assess antidumping duties on appropriate entries. Interested parties are invited to comment on these preliminary results. We will issue the final results no later than 120 days from the date of publication of this notice.

The Department of Commerce (``Department'') received timely requests to conduct an administrative review of the antidumping duty order on wooden bedroom furniture from the People's Republic of China (``PRC''). The anniversary month of this order is January. In accordance with the Department's regulations, we are initiating this administrative review.

The Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council (Council) will convene public meetings.

This document contains corrections to the final regulations that were published in the Federal Register on February 26, 2007, and are effective March 28, 2007. The published rule amended CFR text that is effective only through March 19, 2007. This correction changes the amendatory instructions in the final rule to accurately reflect effective CFR parts as of March 28, 2007. These changes ensure that the 7-day delay in effectiveness is permanently removed when closing the Hawaii-based shallow-set longline fishery as a result of reaching interaction limits for sea turtles.

Notice is hereby given that The National Marine Mammal Laboratory (NMML), Alaska Fisheries Science Center, (Dr. John L. Bengston, Principal Investigator), 7600 Sand Point Way, NE, Seattle, Washington 98115-6349, has requested an amendment to scientific research Permit No. 782-1719-04.

NMFS reduces the trip limit in the commercial hook-and-line fishery for king mackerel in the southern Florida west coast subzone to 500 lb (227 kg) of king mackerel per day in or from the exclusive economic zone (EEZ). This trip limit reduction is necessary to protect the Gulf king mackerel resource.

On January 25, 2007, the Department of Commerce received a request to conduct a new-shipper review of the antidumping duty order on solid urea from Russia. In accordance with section 751(a)(2)(B) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, and 19 CFR 351.214(d) (2005), we are initiating an antidumping duty new-shipper review.

On August 31, 2006, the Department of Commerce (``the Department'') published the preliminary results of the administrative review of the antidumping duty order on oil country tubular goods (``OCTG''), other than drill pipe, from Korea for the period (``POR'') August 1, 2004 through July 31, 2005. See Oil Country Tubular Goods, Other Than Drill Pipe, from Korea: Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review, 71 FR 51797 (August 31, 2006) (Preliminary Results). This review covers the following manufacturers/exporters: Husteel Co., Ltd. (``Husteel'') and SeAH Steel Corporation (``SeAH''). Based on our analysis of the comments received, we have made changes to the Preliminary Results. For the final dumping margins see the ``Final Results of Review'' section below.

On October 27, 2006, the Department of Commerce (``the Department'') published a notice of preliminary results of the full sunset review of the antidumping duty order on canned pineapple fruit (``CPF'') from Thailand (71 FR62994 ) pursuant to section 751 (c) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (``the Act''). We provided interested parties an opportunity to comment on our preliminary results. We received a case brief from respondent interested parties, Pineapple Processors' Group, Thai Food Processors' Association, Thai Pineapple Canning Industry Corp., Ltd., Malee Sampran Public Co., Ltd. (``Malee''), The Siam Agro Industry Pineapples and Others Public Co., Ltd. (``SAICO''), Great Oriental Food Products Co., Ltd., Thai Pineapple Products and Other Fruits Co. Ltd., The Tipco Foods (Thailand) PCL, Pranburi Hotei Co. Ltd., and Siam Fruit Canning (1988) Co., Ltd. (collectively, ``Respondents''). We received a rebuttal brief from the domestic interested party, Maui Pineapple Company (``Maui''). As a result of this sunset review, the Department finds that revocation of this order would be likely to lead to continuation or recurrence of dumping at the levels indicated in the ``Final Results of Review'' section of this notice.

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (``USPTO'') hereby provides sixty (60) days notice of the microfilming and removal of the paper search collection of registered marks consisting only of words from the USPTO's Trademark Search Facility in Arlington, VA. This Notice does not concern the paper search collection of registered marks that consist of or include design elements.

Import Administration (IA) issues this final rule to add new regulations implementing the Mexican Cement Import Licensing System in accordance with the Agreement between the Office of the United States Trade Representative and the Department of Commerce of the United States of America and the Ministry of Economy of the United Mexican States (Secretar[iacute]a de Econom[iacute]a) on Trade in Cement (Agreement), signed March 6, 2006. This final rule requires all importers of cement from Mexico covered by the scope of the Agreement to obtain an import license from the Department of Commerce (Commerce) prior to completing their U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) entry summary documentation. To obtain the import license, the importer, or the importer's broker or agent, must complete a form supplying certain information to Commerce about the Mexican Cement importation. The import license number will be generated immediately upon submitting the information and will be needed to complete the CBP entry documentation. IA will use the information recorded on the import license form as the basis for monitoring compliance with the Agreement. In addition, IA informs the public of the approval by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) of the collection-of-information requirements contained in this final rule and publishes the OMB control numbers for those collections.

The Department of Commerce (``the Department'') has conducted a full sunset review of the antidumping duty order on furfuryl alcohol from Thailand pursuant to section 751(c) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (``the Act''). As a result of this review, the Department finds that revocation of the antidumping duty order would not likely lead to the continuation or recurrence of dumping. Therefore, pursuant to section 751(d)(2) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.222(i)(1)(ii), the Department is revoking the antidumping duty order on furfuryl alcohol from Thailand.

The New England Fishery Management Council (Council) is scheduling a public meeting of its Scallop Advisory Panels and its Scallop Committee in March, 2007, to consider actions affecting New England fisheries in the exclusive economic zone (EEZ). Recommendations from these groups will be brought to the full Council for formal consideration and action, if appropriate

NMFS, Southeast Region, in collaboration with the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council (Council) intends to prepare a DEIS to describe and analyze management alternatives to be included in an amendment to the Fishery Management Plan (FMP) for the Reef Fish Resources of the Gulf of Mexico. These alternatives will consider measures to reduce gag, red grouper, greater amberjack, and gray triggerfish fishing mortality in the reef fish fishery, and to set status determination criteria for gag, greater amberjack, gray triggerfish, and other species in the fishery management unit. The purpose of this notice of intent is to solicit public comments on the scope of issues to be addressed in the DEIS.

NMFS announces 2007 and 2008 final harvest specifications, reserves and apportionments thereof, Pacific halibut prohibited species catch (PSC) limits, and associated management measures for the groundfish fishery of the Gulf of Alaska (GOA). This action is necessary to establish harvest limits and associated management measures for groundfish during the 2007 and 2008 fishing years and to accomplish the goals and objectives of the Fishery Management Plan for Groundfish of the Gulf of Alaska (FMP). The intended effect of this action is to conserve and manage the groundfish resources in the GOA in accordance with the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (MSA).