Department of Commerce November 20, 2015 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

The Department of Commerce (Commerce) announces, in coordination with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), a test of the International Trade Data System (ITDS) involving the electronic submission to CBP of forms and certifications related to importation of uranium products from the Russian Federation (Russia), using the Document Image System (DIS) of the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE). CBP and Commerce have developed this program to test and assess the electronic transmission to CBP of certain import documentation for incoming shipments subject to the applicable provisions of the Agreement Suspending the Antidumping Investigation on Uranium from the Russian Federation (Suspension Agreement).\1\ The test will involve forms and certifications required by the Suspension Agreement for shipments of uranium products from Russia that must be filed with CBP at the time of entry when an entry has been filed in ACE. Under this test, such documents must be submitted using DIS. This test applies to all entry types filed in ACE at any port. The electronic submission to CBP of such documentation through DIS is in addition to, and does not replace, the timely filing of the documentation required by the Suspension Agreement with Commerce through Enforcement and Compliance's (E&C) electronic filing system, Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Centralized Electronic Service System (ACCESS), available at access.trade.gov.\2\

NMFS proposes to implement annual catch limits (ACL) and, where necessary, other annual reference points (overfishing limits (OFL) and acceptable biological catches (ABC)) for certain stocks in the monitored and prohibited harvest species categories under the Coastal Pelagic Species (CPS) Fishery Management Plan (FMP). The proposed ACLs are: Jack mackerel, 31,000 metric tons (mt); northern subpopulation of northern anchovy, 9,750 mt; central subpopulation of northern anchovy, 25,000 mt; and krill, zero. Additionally, an OFL of 39,000 mt, an ABC of 9,750 mt and an annual catch target (ACT) of 1,500 mt is being proposed for the northern subpopulation of northern anchovy. This rule is intended to conserve and manage these stocks off the U.S. West Coast. If the ACL for any one of these stocks is reached, then fishing for that stock will be closed until it reopens at the start of the next fishing season.