Department of Commerce August 14, 2009 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

NMFS issues regulations implementing Amendment 28 to the Fishery Management Plan for Bering Sea/Aleutian Islands King and Tanner Crabs (FMP). These regulations amend the Bering Sea/Aleutian Islands Crab Rationalization Program to allow post-delivery transfers of all types of individual fishing quota and individual processing quota to cover overages. This action is necessary to improve flexibility of the fleet, reduce the number of violations for overages, reduce enforcement costs, and allow more complete harvest of crab allocations. This action is intended to promote the goals and objectives of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act, the FMP, and other applicable laws.

On April 8, 2009, the Department of Commerce (``Department'') published the preliminary results of the 2007-2008 administrative review of the antidumping duty order on glycine from the People's Republic of China (``PRC''). See Glycine from the People's Republic of China: Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review, 74 FR 15930 (April 8, 2009) (``Preliminary Results''). We gave interested parties an opportunity to comment on the Preliminary Results. Based upon our analysis of the comments and information received, we made changes to the margin calculation for the final results. We find that certain manufacturers/exporters sold subject merchandise at less than normal value during the period of review (``POR''), i.e., March 1, 2007, through February 29, 2008.

In response to a request from Fujian Yu Xing Fruit and Vegetable Foodstuff Development Co., Ltd. (Yu Xing), the U.S. Department of Commerce (the Department) initiated an administrative review of the antidumping duty order on certain preserved mushrooms from the People's Republic of China for the period February 1, 2008, through January 31, 2009. See Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Administrative Reviews and Request for Revocation in Part, 74 19042 (April 27, 2009) (Initiation Notice). No other interested party requested an administrative review for this period. On July 24, 2009, Yu Xing withdrew its request for an administrative review. The withdrawal request was filed in a timely manner. Therefore, as discussed below, the Department is rescinding this administrative review.

Photographers whose photographs and videos were provided to NIST for use in its investigation into the failures of World Trade Center (WTC) Buildings 1, 2 and 7 must provide NIST with a written response explaining how disclosure of their images would likely cause substantial competitive harm to their competitive position and/or impair the Government's ability to obtain similar information in the future if you believe that some or all of the images you submitted to NIST should be withheld in response to requests received by NIST under the Freedom of Information Act.

NOAA is making a change to the certification standards for the transmitters that participate in the GOES Data Collection System (DCS). The primary purpose of this change is to enhance the flexibility of the system, to provide better messaging capabilities, additional system capacity, improve timing and frequency stability, and conform to the regulations for out-of-band emissions specified by the National Telecommunication and Information Administration (NTIA). The GOES DCS will operate under new certification procedures that will allow new data collection platforms to use a frequency channel with half the current bandwidth (.75 Hz), though existing platforms will continue to use frequency channels with 1.5 Hz bandwidth until suitable replacements are ascertained. The owners of the existing platforms are invited to upgrade their units as soon as possible. New data collection platforms will be assigned a narrow band channel in the restructured GOES DCS. These new certification standards may be reviewed on the NOAA Web site: https://noaasis.noaa.gov/DCS/docs/DCPR_CS2final.doc.