Department of Commerce January 28, 2014 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

The Office of Planning, Hawaii Coastal Zone Management Program and the University of Hawaii with the support of the Estuarine Reserves Division of the Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management (OCRM), National Ocean Service (NOS), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), U.S. Department of Commerce, will hold a public meeting for the purpose of receiving comments on the preliminary recommendation that the Heeia estuary be proposed for designation as a National Estuarine Research Reserve in Hawaii.

On December 18, 2013, the United States Court of International Trade (the Court or CIT) sustained the Department of Commerce's (the Department) final results of the remand redetermination relating to the less than fair value investigation of polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) from Taiwan, in Chang Chun Petrochemical Co. Ltd. v. United States, Court No. 11-00095, Slip. Op. 13-151 (CIT 2013). Consistent with the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) in Timken Co. v. United States, 893 F.2d 337 (Fed. Cir. 1990) (Timken), as clarified by Diamond Sawblades Mfrs. Coalition v. United States, 626 F.3d 1374 (Fed. Cir. 2010) (Diamond Sawblades), the Department is notifying the public that the final CIT judgment in this case is not in harmony with the Department's Final Determination and is amending its Final Determination in the investigation of PVA from Taiwan covering the period of investigation (POI) of July 1, 2003, through June 30, 2004, with respect to the weighted-average dumping margin assigned to Chang Chun Petrochemical Co. Ltd. (CCPC).\1\

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.