Department of Commerce April 13, 2017 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

NMFS has received a request from the San Francisco Bay Area Water Emergency Transportation Authority (WETA) for authorization to take marine mammals incidental to construction activities as part of a ferry terminal expansion and improvements project. Pursuant to the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA), NMFS is requesting public comment on its proposal to issue an incidental harassment authorization (IHA) to WETA to incidentally take marine mammals, by Level B harassment only, during the specified activity.

NMFS is adjusting the commercial aggregated large coastal shark (LCS) and hammerhead shark management group retention limit for directed shark limited access permit holders in the Atlantic region from 25 LCS other than sandbar sharks per vessel per trip to 3 LCS other than sandbar sharks per vessel per trip. This action is based on consideration of the regulatory determination criteria regarding inseason adjustments. The retention limit will remain at 3 LCS other than sandbar sharks per vessel per trip in the Atlantic region through the rest of the 2017 fishing season or until NMFS announces via a notification in the Federal Register another adjustment to the retention limit or a fishery closure is warranted. This retention limit adjustment will affect anyone with a directed shark limited access permit fishing for LCS in the Atlantic region.

On March 6, 2017, the Department of Commerce (the ``Department'') published its notice of initiation and preliminary results of changed circumstances reviews (``CCRs'') of the antidumping duty (``AD'') orders on crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells, whether or not assembled into modules, (``solar cells'') from the People's Republic of China (``PRC'') and certain crystalline silicon photovoltaic products (``solar products'') from the PRC (Preliminary Results). The Department preliminarily determined that Hanwha Q CELLS (Qidong) Co. Ltd. (``Q CELLS Qidong'') is the successor-in-interest to Hanwha SolarOne (Qidong) Co., Ltd. (``SolarOne Qidong'') for purposes of the AD orders on solar cells and solar products from the PRC and that Hanwha Q CELLS Hong Kong Limited (``Q CELLS Hong Kong'') is the successor-in-interest to Hanwha SolarOne Hong Kong Limited (``SolarOne Hong Kong'') for purposes of the AD order on solar products from the PRC. As such, the Department preliminarily determined that Q CELLS Qidong is entitled to SolarOne Qidong's AD cash deposit rates for purposes of the AD orders on solar cells and solar products from the PRC and Q CELLS Hong Kong is entitled to SolarOne Hong Kong's AD cash deposit rate for purposes of the AD order on solar products from the PRC. We provided interested parties 14 days from the date of publication of the Preliminary Results to submit case briefs or request a hearing. No interested parties submitted case briefs or requested a hearing. For these final results, the Department finds that Q CELLS Qidong is the successor-in-interest to SolarOne Qidong for purposes of the AD orders on solar cells and solar products from the PRC and Q CELLS Hong Kong is the successor-in-interest to SolarOne Hong Kong for purposes of the AD order on solar products from the PRC.