Department of Commerce March 2, 2012 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

Notice is hereby given that an application for a scientific research permit (File No. 16998) submitted by Mr. Gregory Walker, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, has been denied.

In accordance with Section 743 of Division C of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2010 (Pub. L. 111-117), the Department of Commerce is publishing this notice to advise the public of the availability of the Fiscal Year (FY) 2011 Service Contract Inventory and a report that analyzes the Department's FY 2010 Service Contract Inventory. The service contract inventory provides information on service contract actions over $25,000 made in FY 2011. The information is organized by function to show how contracted resources are distributed throughout the agency. The inventory has been developed in accordance with guidance memo on service contract inventories issued on November 5, 2010 by the Office of Management and Budget's Office of Federal Procurement Policy (OFPP).

The Bureau of the Census (U.S. Census Bureau) is giving notice of a meeting of the Census Scientific Advisory Committee (C-SAC). The Committee will address policy, research, and technical issues relating to a full range of Census Bureau programs and activities, including communications, decennial, demographic, economic, field operations, geographic, information technology, and statistics. Last minute changes to the agenda are possible, which could prevent giving advance public notice of schedule adjustments.

The North Pacific Fishery Management Council Joint Protocol Committee of the AK BOF and Council will meet in March in Anchorage, AK.

A key mission of both the Department of Commerce (DOC) is to help U.S. businesses grow and create jobs. Recently, the White House launched the BusinessUSA Initiative (www.Business.USA.gov) to help further these goals. This notice announces the Commerce Business Apps Challenge (https://docbusinessapps.challenge.gov) which DOC is launching to encourage members of the public to develop, using at least one DOC data set, an application (Web, mobile, PC, etc.) that assists businesses and/or improves the service delivery of Business.USA.gov to the business community. Specifically, we're looking for innovative ways to use DOC and other federal data and program information to help businesses: Learn about and evaluate opportunities, both here in the U.S. and internationally; Access useful government services, data, and market information; Fund business activities; Support education and training, and Facilitate or accelerate the pursuit of operating and growing their business.

As a result of the determinations by the International Trade Commission (the ``ITC'') that revocation of the antidumping duty (``AD'') and countervailing duty (``CVD'') orders on fresh and chilled Atlantic salmon (``salmon'') from Norway would not be likely to lead to the continuation or recurrence of material injury to an industry in the United States, the Department of Commerce (the ``Department'') is revoking these AD and CVD orders.