Department of Commerce December 18, 2024 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Administrative Reviews
Document Number: 2024-30029
Type: Notice
Date: 2024-12-18
Agency: Department of Commerce, International Trade Administration
The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) has received requests to conduct administrative reviews of various antidumping duty (AD) and countervailing duty (CVD) orders with November anniversary dates. In accordance with Commerce's regulations, we are initiating those administrative reviews.
Request for Information; Data for Marine Spatial Studies Related to Transmission Planning in Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama
Document Number: 2024-30026
Type: Notice
Date: 2024-12-18
Agency: Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NOAA's National Ocean Service (NOS) National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS), hereafter NOAA, in partnership with the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) and the Department of Energy (DOE) Grid Deployment Office (GDO) and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), is working to build on existing spatial planning capacity in the United States (U.S.) Gulf of Mexico region. Through this Request for Information, NOAA is seeking public input to identify coastal and marine spatial data or other critical information to inform spatial analyses for transmission planning in state and Federal waters off Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. The input we receive from the data development workshop meeting, as well as the responses to the items listed in the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of this document, will be used to inform potential coastal and ocean development activities in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico region, such as renewable energy development.
Promoting the Rule of Law Through Improved Agency Guidance Documents Rescission
Document Number: 2024-29890
Type: Rule
Date: 2024-12-18
Agency: Department of Commerce
This final rule rescinds the Department's regulations on guidance document procedures in accordance with a 2021 Executive order to revoke previous Executive orders concerning Federal regulation.
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Applications and Reports for Scientific Research and Enhancement Permits Under the Endangered Species Act
Document Number: 2024-29864
Type: Notice
Date: 2024-12-18
Agency: Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
The Department of Commerce, in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA), invites the general public and other Federal agencies to comment on proposed, and continuing information collections, which helps us assess the impact of our information collection requirements and minimize the public's reporting burden. The purpose of this notice is to allow for 60 days of public comment preceding submission of the collection to OMB.
Fisheries of the Northeastern United States; Framework Adjustment 15 to the Monkfish Fishery Management Plan; Framework Adjustment 6 to the Spiny Dogfish Fishery Management Plan
Document Number: 2024-29861
Type: Rule
Date: 2024-12-18
Agency: Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NMFS is implementing regulations for Framework Adjustment 15 to the Monkfish Fishery Management Plan/Framework Adjustment 6 to the Spiny Dogfish Fishery Management Plan, which the New England and Mid- Atlantic Fishery Management Councils jointly recommended and NMFS approved. This action establishes area-based gear requirements for vessels fishing with gillnets in the monkfish fishery, starting on January 1, 2026, and for vessels fishing with gillnets in the spiny dogfish fishery starting on May 1, 2025. This action is necessary to minimize bycatch of Atlantic sturgeon in the monkfish and spiny dogfish fisheries to the extent practicable and fulfill requirements of the Biological Opinion on Ten Fishery Management Plans in the Greater Atlantic Region and the New England Fishery Management Council's Omnibus Habitat Amendment 2.
Implementation of HAVANA Act of 2021
Document Number: 2024-29993
Type: Rule
Date: 2024-12-18
Agency: Department of Commerce, Office of the Secretary
This rule implements the HAVANA Act of 2021 (the Act) for the Department of Commerce (Department). The Act provides the authority for the Secretary of Commerce and other agency heads to provide payments to certain individuals who have incurred qualifying injuries to the brain. The rule covers current and former Department employees and dependents of current or former employees.
Oil Country Tubular Goods From the People's Republic of China: Initiation of Circumvention Inquiry on the Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Orders
Document Number: 2024-29911
Type: Notice
Date: 2024-12-18
Agency: Department of Commerce, International Trade Administration
In response to a request from the Committee on Pipe and Tube Imports Subcommittee for OCTG (the CPTI OCTG Subcommittee) and the United Steel, Paper and Forestry, Rubber, Manufacturing, Energy, Allied Industrial and Service Workers International Union, AFL-CIO, CLC (USW) (collectively, the requestors), the U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) is initiating a country-wide circumvention inquiry to determine whether imports of seamless oil country tubular goods (OCTG) from the People's Republic of China (China) which are completed in Thailand from steel billets produced in China are circumventing the antidumping (AD) and countervailing duty (CVD) orders on OCTG from China.
Foreign-Trade Zone 240; Application for Subzone; Premium Guard, Inc.; Weirton, West Virginia
Document Number: 2024-29909
Type: Notice
Date: 2024-12-18
Agency: Department of Commerce, Foreign-Trade Zones Board
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Business Trends and Outlook Survey (BTOS)
Document Number: 2024-29834
Type: Notice
Date: 2024-12-18
Agency: Census Bureau, Department of Commerce
The Department of Commerce, in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995, invites the general public and other Federal agencies to comment on proposed, and continuing information collections, which helps us assess the impact of our information collection requirements and minimize the public's reporting burden. The purpose of this notice is to allow for 60 days of public comment on the proposed revisions to the BTOS prior to the submission of the information collection request (ICR) to OMB for approval.
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