Department of Commerce July 12, 2023 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

Notice is hereby given that NMFS has renewed a scientific research and enhancement permit (Permit 14344-3R) issued to the University of California, Davis, under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). The research and enhancement activities are intended to support the recovery of white abalone listed under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) and inform management, conservation, and recovery efforts.

In response to a request from Vulcan Threaded Products Inc. (Vulcan), the U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) is initiating country-wide circumvention inquiries to determine whether steel threaded rod, made from alloy steel, that is produced in the United States from unthreaded pins imported from the People's Republic of China (China) is circumventing the antidumping duty (AD) order on alloy and certain carbon steel threaded rod from China and the countervailing duty (CVD) order on carbon and alloy steel threaded rod from China.

As a result of the determinations by the U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) and the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) that revocation of the antidumping duty (AD) orders on certain tool chests and cabinets (tool chests and cabinets) from the People's Republic of China (China) and from the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (Vietnam), and the countervailing duty (CVD) order on tool chests and cabinets from China would likely lead to the continuation or recurrence of dumping, and countervailable subsidies, and material injury to an industry in the United States, Commerce is publishing a notice of continuation of these AD and CVD orders.

NMFS proposes regulations to implement Amendment 49 to the Fishery Management Plan for the Snapper-Grouper Fishery of the South Atlantic Region (FMP), as prepared and submitted by the South Atlantic Fishery Management Council (Council). For greater amberjack, this proposed rule would revise the sector annual catch limits (ACLs), the commercial minimum size limit, the commercial seasonal trip limits, and the April spawning season closure. In addition, Amendment 49 would revise the overfishing limit (OFL), acceptable biological catch (ABC), annual optimum yield (OY), and sector allocations of the total ACL, as well as remove the recreational annual catch targets (ACTs) for species in the FMP. The purpose of this proposed rule and Amendment 49 is to ensure catch limits are based on the best scientific information available and to ensure overfishing does not occur for the South Atlantic greater amberjack stock, while increasing social and economic benefits.