Department of Commerce May 31, 2019 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

NMFS is implementing this final rule to establish the overfishing limit (OFL), acceptable biological catch (ABC) and annual catch limit (ACL), for the central subpopulation of northern anchovy in the U.S. exclusive economic zone (EEZ) off the Pacific coast under the Coastal Pelagic Species Fishery Management Plan. NMFS prepared this rulemaking in response to a January 2018 court decision (Oceana, Inc. v. Ross) that vacated the OFL, ABC, and ACL for the central subpopulation of northern anchovy, followed by subsequent orders requiring NMFS to establish a new OFL, ABC, and ACL through a notice and comment rulemaking. NMFS is implementing an OFL of 94,290 metric tons (mt), an ABC of 23,573 mt, and an ACL of 23,573 mt. If the ACL for this stock is reached or projected to be reached, then fishing will be closed until it reopens at the start of the next fishing season. This rule is intended to conserve and manage the central subpopulation of northern anchovy off the U.S. West Coast.

On May 1, 2019, the Department of Commerce (Commerce) published the notice Antidumping or Countervailing Duty Order, Finding, or Suspended Investigation; Advance Notification of Sunset Reviews, (May 1, 2019) (June 2019 Advance Sunset Reviews Notice), in which Commerce inadvertently listed Carbon And Certain Alloy Steel Wire Rod from Brazil (A-351-832) twice and omitted Carbon And Certain Alloy Steel Wire Rod from Mexico (A-201-830). Commerce has also advanced the initiation date of the antidumping and countervailing duty orders on Oil Country Tubular Goods from India (A-533-857; C-533-858), Turkey (A- 489-816; C-489-817), Vietnam (A-552-817) and Republic of Korea (A-580- 870). This notice serves to correct the June 2019 Advance Sunset Reviews Notice for the aforementioned items.

The Department of Commerce (Commerce) is rescinding, in part, the administrative review of the antidumping duty order on certain frozen warmwater shrimp from the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (Vietnam) for the period February 1, 2018, through January 31, 2019.

The Assistant Regional Administrator for Sustainable Fisheries, Greater Atlantic Region, NMFS, has made a preliminary determination that an Exempted Fishing Permit application from the University of Connecticut contains all of the required information and warrants further consideration. Regulations under the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act and the Atlantic Coastal Fisheries Cooperative Management Act require publication of this notice to provide interested parties the opportunity to comment on applications for proposed Exempted Fishing Permits.