Department of Commerce November 22, 2024 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

In accordance with the regulations implementing the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA) as amended, notification is hereby given that NMFS has issued an incidental harassment authorization (IHA) to City and Borough of Sitka (CBS) to incidentally harass marine mammals during construction activities associated with Gary Paxton Industrial Park Vessel Haulout Project in Sawmill Cove in Sitka, Alaska.

The Pacific Fishery Management Council (Pacific Council) will convene a series of three online meetings of its Advisory Bodies to discuss Pacific Council projects funded under the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA); all three meetings are open to the public.

In accordance with the regulations implementing the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA), as amended, notification is hereby given that NMFS has issued a renewal incidental harassment authorization (IHA) to Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) to incidentally harass marine mammals incidental to construction associated with a sediment remediation project in San Francisco Bay, CA.

The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) determines that certain Malaysian exporters of certain quartz surface products (quartz surface products) continue to be ineligible to participate in the scope certification process established for the antidumping duty (AD) and countervailing duty (CVD) orders on quartz surface products from the People's Republic of China (China) for all imports of quartz surface products from Malaysia. Specifically, we found that these Malaysian exporters did not demonstrate that the quartz slab used to produce their exports to the United States was sourced from a country other than China.

The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) determines that citric acid and certain citrate salts (citric acid) from Colombia was not sold in the United States at less than normal value during the period of review (POR), July 1, 2022, through June 30, 2023.