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

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announces that the National Artificial Intelligence Advisory Committee (NAIAC or Committee) will hold a virtual briefing session. This session will be held on Friday, September 29, 2023 from 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time. The purpose of this session is for invited experts to brief the Committee on topics of interest related to the Committee's year two efforts. Additional information, including the final agenda and link to register, will be available online at: ai.gov/naiac/.

The fall 2023 meetings of the regional weights and measures associations will be held in September and October 2023. The Central Weights and Measures Association (CWMA) Interim meeting will be held September 11-14, 2023, in Dubuque, Iowa; the Western Weights and Measures Association (WWMA) Annual meeting will be held September 17- 21, 2023, in Sparks, Nevada; the Southern Weights and Measures Association (SWMA) Annual meeting will be held October 8-11, 2023 in Annapolis, Maryland; and the Northeastern Weights and Measures Association (NEWMA) Interim meeting will be held October 16-19, 2023, in Norwich, Connecticut. This notice contains information about significant items on the committee agendas of the four regional weights and measures associations but does not include all agenda items. As a result, the items are not consecutively numbered.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announces that the CHIPS Research and Development Office (CHIPS R&D Office) will hold a Standards Summit on Tuesday, September 26, 2023 and Wednesday, September 27, 2023, from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Eastern Time each day. The CHIPS R&D Standards Summit will be held as an in-person and virtual event. This event will bring together CHIPS R&D leaders, standards setting organizations, and industry alliances, domestic and abroad, in the semiconductor domain to identify community priorities for semiconductor and microelectronics standards activities. The summit will be a place to foster collaboration, coordination, and innovation within the semiconductor industry's standards community. This event will facilitate discussions on standards needs, opportunities for standards innovation, and enabling a diverse standards-capable workforce. Registration information, summit updates, and the agenda can be found at https://www.nist.gov/news-events/events/2023/09/chips-rd- standards-summit.

The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) determines that Yinfeng Imp & Exp Trading Co., Ltd./Fujian Province Youxi City Mangrove Wood Machining Co., Ltd. (Yinfeng/Mangrove), Fujian Jinquan Trade Co., Ltd./Fujian Province Youxi County Baiyuan Wood Machining Co., Ltd. (Jinquan/Baiyuan) and 29 non-individually examined exporters of wood mouldings and millworks products (WMMP) from the People's Republic of China (China) did not sell subject merchandise to the United States at prices below normal value (NV) during the period of review (POR), August 12, 2020, through January 31, 2022. Commerce further determines that Fujian Shunchang Shengsheng Wood Industry Limited Company (Shunchang Shengsheng), Xiamen Jinxi Building Material Co., Ltd. (Xiamen Jinxi), and Zhangzhou Green Wood Industry and Trade Co., Ltd. (Greenwood) made no shipments of subject merchandise during the POR and that Gaomi Hongtai Home Furniture Co., Ltd. has not established eligibility for a separate rate and, therefore, is part of the China- wide entity. Additionally, we are rescinding this administrative review with respect to three companies that are not eligible for review because they either had no reviewable entries during the POR or are U.S. resellers.

The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) preliminarily determines that sales of silicon metal from Malaysia were not sold in the United States at less than normal value (NV) during the period of review (POR), February 1, 2021, through July 31, 2022. Interested parties are invited to comment on these preliminary results.

Notice is hereby given that NMFS issued an Incidental Take Permit (ITP) to Port Blakely, pursuant to the Endangered Species Act (ESA) of 1973, as amended, for the incidental take of ESA-listed species on the John Franklin Eddy Forestlands located in the Clackamas River and Molalla River basins of Oregon. The ITP is issued for a duration of 50 years. The ITP application and Port Blakely Habitat Conservation Plan (HCP) were submitted to NMFS pursuant to the ESA. NMFS also prepared a Final Environmental Assessment (EA) and a Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) associated with NMFS' issuance of the ITP for the HCP.

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 countervailing duty (CVD) order on carbon and alloy steel wire rod (wire rod) from Italy would likely lead to the continuation or recurrence of countervailable subsidies, and material injury to an industry in the United States, Commerce is publishing a notice of continuation of this CVD order.

On November 17, 2021, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) published in the Federal Register a final rule amending its regulations to implement provisions of the Trademark Modernization Act of 2020 (TMA) concerning new response periods and extensions in the examination of post-registration filings. Those provisions had an effective date of December 1, 2022. On October 13, 2022, the provisions regarding responses and extensions in the examination of post- registration filings were subsequently delayed until October 7, 2023. This notice further delays the provisions that address the post- registration provisions until the spring or early summer of 2024.