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of Commerce, 14th Street and 

Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, 

DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482–0747 

and (202) 482–3414, respectively. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

Pursuant to sections 703(c)(2), 

733(c)(3), 751(a)(1), 751(b)(1), 751(c)(2), 

and 777(i)(1) of the Tariff Act of 1930 

as amended (‘‘the Act’’), Import 

Administration (IA) is required to 

publish certain notices in the Federal 

Register (FR). Following review of the 

requirements of the Act and our 

regulations, we have identified ways to 

shorten the length of many of our FR 

publications while also making 

available to the public and interested 

parties all pertinent information 

regarding our decisions. In addition, as 

neither the Act nor the Department of 

Commerce (‘‘Department’’) regulations 

require publication of extension notices 

for the preliminary and final results of 

reviews conducted under section 751 of 

the Act, we will no longer publish such 

notices. Further, IA will cease 

publishing a list of pending scope 

decisions in its quarterly scope ruling 

publication and will cease publishing 

an Advance Notification of Sunset 

Reviews when no such review is 

scheduled for initiation the following 

month. 

These modifications are in line with 

the modification IA adopted in 2000, 

when it reduced the size of FR notices 

for final determinations and results of 

review by developing Issues and 

Decision Memoranda that now regularly 

accompany FR notices. See Notice of 

Reduction in the Size of Antidumping/ 

Countervailing Duty Federal Register 

Notices, 65 FR 3654 (January 24, 2000). 

The proven success of that modification, 

and the fact that interested parties now 

accept that as the standard for the final 

determinations and results of review, 

inform the decision to adopt these 

changes. 

Outside parties and the public at large 

will continue to have access to all 

significant information that historically 

has been included in our FR notices. 

With the exception of the Advance 

Notification of Sunset Reviews, when 

no such review is scheduled for 

initiation the following month, and 

pending scope determinations, the 

information that we are henceforth 

omitting from the FR notices will be 

transferred to other memoranda, 

included in disclosure packages, and 

published on IA’s Web site. 

Modifications 

IA has determined that it will no 

longer publish extension notices for 

preliminary and final results of reviews, 

as there are no statutory or regulatory 

requirements for doing so and the 

financial burden outweighs the benefits 

associated with their publication. 

Rather, the Department will place a 

memorandum extending the deadline 

on the official case file which, when the 

service becomes available, will be 

accessible to parties on IA ACCESS, at 

http://iaaccess.trade.gov. In addition, 

parties and the public will be informed 

of upcoming deadlines and any 

extensions associated with these 

deadlines in a calendar published on 

IA’s Web site. 

IA will cease publishing our notices 

of Advance Notification of Sunset 

Review when no such reviews are 

scheduled for initiation in the following 

month. IA has also determined to cease 

publishing a list of pending scope 

inquiries in its quarterly publication of 

scope decisions. 

All other notices will continue to be 

published in the FR, in a modified and 

condensed format. IA will continue to 

include in its published notices 

fundamental case information (e.g., 

segment of proceeding, an abbreviated 

scope description, period of review, 

summary of findings, summary of 

methodology, names of exporters/ 

producers subject to the proceeding, 

margins calculated, notification of 

disclosure and public comment, 

notifications of assessment and cash 

deposit instructions, and a reminder of 

any deadlines associated with the 

notice’s publication) in accordance with 

the requirements of the Act. For 

preliminary and final determinations of 

investigations, and antidumping and 

countervailing duty orders, IA will 

include the entire scope discussion in 

the FR, and not an abbreviated format. 

Abbreviated scope descriptions in other 

notices will provide a reference to the 

location of the full scope description. 

All other information will be transferred 

to separate memoranda. For example, 

for preliminary results of an 

administrative review, IA will issue a 

memorandum to accompany the FR 

notice, which will include the complete, 

detailed discussion of our margin 

calculation methodology, significant 

case issues, and background/history of 

the order. The memorandum will be a 

public document released to interested 

parties and published on IA’s Web site. 

External services, such as Lexis and 

Westlaw, may also make the 

memorandum available to their clients 

in an electronically searchable format. 

In the coming months, IA will create 

such memoranda for most notices that 

will continue to be published in the FR 

and identify the content that will 

remain in the FR notices and the 

content that will be included in the 

separate memorandum. 

Implementation 

The modifications described in this 

notice will be incrementally 

implemented. Beginning May 15, 2012, 

IA will no longer publish extension 

notices in the FR. Rather, these 

extensions will be published in calendar 

form on the IA Web site, available at 

http://ia.ita.doc.gov/frn/. On that date, 

IA will stop publishing Advance 

Notification of Sunset Reviews when no 

such review is scheduled for initiation 

the following month. The next quarterly 

scope decision will no longer contain a 

list of pending scope decisions. 

Beginning September 1, 2012, 

abbreviated notices for all preliminary 

determinations and preliminary results 

of review will be published in the FR, 

while the memorandum accompanying 

each notice that includes the 

background, methodology, and 

additional content will be adopted 

through the notice’s publication and 

posted on the IA Web site, available at 

http://ia.ita.doc.gov/frn/ext/. 

Finally, we anticipate that other IA 

notices will be published in abbreviated 

format in the near future, following 

implementation of the changes 

discussed in this notice. 

Dated: April 23, 2012. 

Paul Piquado, 

Assistant Secretary for Import 

Administration. 

[FR Doc. 2012–10354 Filed 4–27–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Institute of Standards and 

Technology 

Consortium on ‘‘Concrete Rheology: 

Enabling Metrology (CREME)’’: 

Membership Fee Update 

AGENCY: National Institute of Standards 

and Technology, Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: On October 25, 2011, the 

National Institute of Standards and 

Technology (NIST) published a notice of 

a public meeting, which was held on 

November 8, 2011, to explore the 

feasibility of establishing a NIST/ 

Industry Consortium on Concrete 

Rheology: Enabling Metrology 

(CREME)’’. The notice stated that 

membership fees for participation in the 

CREME consortium would be Twentyfive Thousand ($25,000) per year. As a 

result of the November 8, 2011, public 

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meeting, revisions have been made to 

the membership fee structure. 

DATES: This notice is effective on April 

30, 2012. 

ADDRESSES: Questions about joining the 

consortium should be sent to Chiara 

Ferraris at the National Institute of 

Standards and Technology; 100 Bureau 

Drive; MS 8615; Gaithersburg, MD 

20899–8615. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Chiara Ferraris or Nicos Martys via 

email at chiara.ferraris@nist.gov; nicos.

martys@nist.gov or telephone at (301) 

975–6711 or (301) 975–5915. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

CREME Consortium Description 

The goal of the CREME consortium is 

to predict the pumpability of a grout/ 

mortar or a concrete from the 

rheological properties of the materials 

and the geometry/material of the pipe. 

This goal will be achieved by 

developing test methods and models to 

measure and predict the performance 

parameters of grout. It is expected that 

the conclusions obtained for grout could 

be extrapolated for concrete. To move 

these ideas into practice and to engage 

industry, test bed facilities and quality 

control test methods for the field will be 

developed at NIST. The consortium will 

be administered by NIST. Consortium 

planning, research and development 

will be conducted by NIST staff along 

with at least one technical 

representative from each participating 

member company. Each member of the 

consortium will be required to sign a 

Cooperative Research and Development 

Agreement (‘‘CRADA’’) with NIST. 

At the November 8, 2011 public 

meeting, organizations interested in 

participating in the CREME Consortium 

discussed membership fees and agreed 

to the following revisions to the 

membership fee structure. Initial 

membership fees will be Twenty Five 

Thousand Dollars ($25,000) per year 

payable by Member to NIST at the time 

of CRADA execution and annually 

thereafter, or an in-kind contribution, 

equitable in value and mutually 

acceptable to NIST and Member. In 

recognition of the contributions made 

and risks taken by the initial 

Consortium Members, the membership 

fee for Consortium Members who join 

after the first year will be Fifty 

Thousand Dollars ($50,000) or mutually 

acceptable to NIST and Member in-kind 

contribution the first year and Twenty 

Five Thousand Dollars ($25,000) or 

mutually acceptable to NIST and 

Member in-kind contribution each year 

thereafter. 

Dated: April 23, 2012. 

Willie E. May, 

Associate Director for Laboratory Programs. 

[FR Doc. 2012–10265 Filed 4–27–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–13–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

RIN 0648–XA935 

Fisheries of the Caribbean, Gulf of 

Mexico, and South Atlantic; Coral and 

Coral Reefs Off the Southern Atlantic 

States; Exempted Fishing Permit 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice of receipt of an 

application for an exempted fishing 

permit; request for comments. 

SUMMARY: NMFS announces the receipt 

of an application for an exempted 

fishing permit (EFP) from the South 

Carolina Aquarium. If granted, the EFP 

would authorize the South Carolina 

Aquarium to collect, with certain 

conditions, various species of reef fish, 

crabs, and lobsters in Federal waters off 

South Carolina and North Carolina. The 

specimens would be used in 

educational exhibits displaying South 

Carolina native species at the South 

Carolina Aquarium located in 

Charleston, SC. 

DATES: Comments must be received no 

later than 5 p.m., e.t., on May 30, 2012. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

on the application by either of the 

following methods: 

• Email: Kate.Michie@noaa.gov; 

include in the subject line of the email 

comment the following document 

identifier: South Carolina Aquarium 

EFP. 

• Mail: Kate Michie, Southeast 

Regional Office, NMFS, 263 13th 

Avenue South, St. Petersburg, FL 33701. 

The application and related 

documents are available for review 

upon written request to any of the above 

addresses. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kate 

Michie, 727–824–5305; email: 

Kate.Michie@noaa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The EFP is 

requested under the authority of the 

Magnuson-Stevens Fishery 

Conservation and Management Act (16 

U.S.C. 1801 et seq.), and regulations at 

50 CFR 600.745(b) concerning exempted 

fishing. 

The proposed specimen collection 

involves activities otherwise prohibited 

by regulations at 50 CFR part 622, as 

they pertain to species managed by the 

South Atlantic Fishery Management 

Council (Council) including snappergrouper, golden crab, wreckfish, coastal 

migratory pelagics, dolphin and wahoo, 

spiny lobster, and shrimp. The 

applicant requires authorization to 

collect 1,615 live fish, crabs, lobsters, 

and shrimp in Federal waters off South 

Carolina, and sporadically in Federal 

waters off North Carolina. The federallymanaged species to be collected over a 

5-year period, listed by common name 

with the collection total, include: Black 

snapper (10); cero (12); cobia (6); coney 

(10); dolphin (50); golden crab (5); 

graysby (10); groupers Epinephelus spp. 

including, misty, red hind, rock hind, 

snowy, yellowedge (40); groupers 

Myctoperca spp. including black 

grouper, gag, yellowmouth, yellowfin, 

and scamp (50); grunts Haemulon spp. 

including cottonwick, margate, sailors 

choice, Spanish, tomtate, and white 

grunt (250); hogfish (8); jacks (200); king 

mackerel (15); little tunny (25); 

longspine porgy (50); triggerfish (22); 

porgies (65); queen snapper (2); red 

porgy (25); scup (50); sea bass (100); 

white shrimp (200); pink and brown 

shrimp (200); gray snapper (75); Spanish 

mackerel (15); spiny lobster (25); 

vermilion snapper (75); wahoo (5); and 

yellowtail snapper (15). 

The project proposes to use vertical 

hook-and-line gear with artificial and 

natural baits, black sea bass pots, spiny 

lobster traps, golden crab traps, habitat 

traps, octopus traps, dip nets, and bait 

traps (bait traps would be used and 

tended while SCUBA diving). This EFP 

would authorize sampling operations to 

be conducted on four vessels designated 

by the South Carolina Aquarium 

including: F/V ON THE CLOCK SC– 

5264–BW; F/V CUB SCOUT SC–9288– 

BF; F/V MISTRESS SC–5326–BS; and a 

25 ft (7.62 m) Parker NC5836P. The 

specimens would be opportunistically 

collected year-round for a period of 5 

years, commencing on July 2, 2012. This 

EFP would not authorize the collection 

of species with an annual catch limit of 

zero (red snapper, warsaw grouper, 

speckled hind, goliath grouper, and 

Nassau grouper). 

The overall intent of the project is to 

incorporate South Carolina native 

species into educational exhibits at the 

South Carolina Aquarium. The 

aquarium uses these displays of native 

South Carolina species to teach the 

public about stewardship and habitat 

preservation. 

NMFS finds this application warrants 

further consideration. Based on a 

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