61802 Federal Register / Vol. 69, No. 203 / Thursday, October 21, 2004 / Notices 

7220.20.60.15, 7220.20.60.60, 

7220.20.60.80, 7220.90.00.10, 

7220.90.00.15, 7220.90.00.60, and 

7220.90.00.80. Although the HTSUS 

subheadings are provided for 

convenience and customs purposes, the 

written description of the scope of the 

orders is dispositive. 

Analysis of Comments Received 

All issues raised in the substantive 

responses and rebuttals by parties to 

this sunset review are addressed in the 

‘‘Issues and Decision Memorandum’’

(‘‘Decision Memo’’) from Ronald K. 

Lorentzen, Acting Director, Office of 

Policy, Import Administration, to Jeffrey 

A. May, Acting Assistant Secretary for 

Import Administration, dated October 

15, 2004, which is hereby adopted by 

this notice. The issues discussed in the 

accompanying Decision Memo include 

the likelihood of continuation or 

recurrence of countervailable subsidies 

and the net subsidy likely to prevail 

were the order revoked. Parties can find 

a complete discussion of all issues 

raised in this review and the 

corresponding recommendations in this 

public memorandum which is on file in 

the Central Records Unit, room B–099, 

of the main Commerce building. 

In addition, a complete version of the 

Decision Memo can be accessed directly 

on the Web at http://www.ia.ita.doc.gov/

frn, under the heading ‘‘Italy.’’ The 

paper copy and electronic version of the 

Decision Memo are identical in content. 

Preliminary Results of Review 

The Department notes that on 

November 7, 2003, the U.S. Trade 

Representative requested the 

Department, pursuant to section 

129(b)(4) of the Uruguay Round 

Agreements Act, to implement the 

determination in the Section 129 Memo. 

See Notice of Implementation Under 

Section 129 of the Uruguay Round 

Agreements Act: Countervailing 

Measures Concerning Certain Steel 

Products From the European 

Communities, 68 FR 64858, (November 

17, 2003). Accordingly, the Department 

revised the cash deposit rates for 

TKAST and ‘‘all others’’ to reflect the 

impact that privatization had on nonrecurring, allocable subsidies for the 

countervailing duty order on SSPC from 

Italy. Id. We, therefore, revised the net 

subsidy rates for TKAST to 1.62 percent 

and all others to 1.61 percent. 

We preliminarily determine that 

revocation of the countervailing duty 

order on SSPC from Italy would be 

likely to lead to continuation or 

recurrence of countervailable subsidies 

at the rate listed below:

Producers/Exporters 

Net

countervailable

subsidy

(percent) 

TKAST ............................ 0.80 

All Others ........................ 1.61 

Any interested party may request a 

hearing within 30 days of publication of 

this notice in accordance with 19 CFR 

351.310(d)(i). Any hearing, if requested, 

will be held on December 22, 2004. 

Interested parties may submit case briefs 

no later than December 13, 2004, in 

accordance with 19 CFR 

351.309(c)(1)(i). Rebuttal briefs, which 

must be limited to issues raised in the 

case briefs, may be filed not later than 

December 20, 2004, in accordance with 

19 CFR 351.309(d)(I). The Department 

will issue a notice of final results of this 

sunset review, which will include the 

results of its analysis of issues raised in 

any such briefs, not later than February 

25, 2005. 

This five-year (‘‘sunset’’) review and 

notice are in accordance with sections 

751(c), 752, and 777(i)(1) of the Act.

Dated: October 15, 2004. 

Jeffrey A. May, 

Acting Assistant Secretary for Import 

Administration.

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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration 

Export Trade Certificate of Review

ACTION: Notice of issuance of an 

amended Export Trade Certificate of 

Review, Application No. 84–15A12. 

SUMMARY: On October 14, 2004, the U.S. 

Department of Commerce issued an 

amended Export Trade Certificate of 

Review to Northwest Fruit Exporters 

(‘‘NFE’’).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Jeffrey C. Anspacher, Director, Export 

Trading Company Affairs, International 

Trade Administration, (202) 482–5131 

(this is not a toll-free number) or e-mail 

at oetca@ita.doc.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Title III of 

the Export Trading Company Act of 

1982 (15 U.S.C. 4001–21) authorizes the 

Secretary of Commerce to issue Export 

Trade Certificates of Review. The 

regulations implementing Title III are 

found at 15 CFR part 325 (2003). 

Export Trading Company Affairs 

(‘‘ETCA’’) is issuing this notice pursuant 

to 15 CFR 325.6(b), which requires the 

U.S. Department of Commerce to 

publish a summary of the certification 

in the Federal Register. Under section 

305(a) of the Act and 15 CFR 325.11(a), 

any person aggrieved by the Secretary’s 

determination may, within 30 days of 

the date of this notice, bring an action 

in any appropriate district court of the 

United States to set aside the 

determination on the ground that the 

determination is erroneous. 

Description of Amended Certificate 

Export Trade Certificate of Review 

No. 84–00012, was issued to NFE on 

June 11, 1984 (49 FR 24581, June 14, 

1984) and previously amended on May 

2, 1988 (53 FR 16306, May 6, 1988); 

September 21, 1988 (53 FR 37628, 

September 27, 1988); September 20, 

1989 (54 FR 39454, September 26, 

1989); November 19, 1992 (57 FR 55510, 

November 25, 1992); August 16, 1994 

(59 FR 43093, August 22, 1994); 

November 4, 1996 (61 FR 57850, 

November 8, 1996); October 22, 1997 

(62 FR 55783, October 28, 1997); 

November 2, 1998 (63 FR 60304, 

November 9, 1998); October 20, 1999 

(64 FR 57438, October 25, 1999); 

October 16, 2000 (65 FR 63567, October 

24, 2000); October 5, 2001 (66 FR 52111, 

October 12, 2001); October 3, 2002 (67 

FR 62957, October 9, 2002); and 

September 16, 2003 (68 FR 54893, 

September 19, 2003). 

NFE’s Export Trade Certificate of 

Review has been amended to: 

1. Add each of the following 

companies as a new ‘‘Member’’ of the 

Certificate within the meaning of 

section 325.2(1) of the Regulations (15 

CFR 325.2(1)): John’s Farm LLC, 

Brewster, Washington; Pride Packing 

Company, Wapato, Washington; and 

Sage Processing LLC, Wapato & Zillah, 

Washington; 

2. Delete the following companies as 

‘‘Members’’ of the Certificate: Apple 

Country, Inc., Wapato, Washington; 

Carlson Orchards, Inc., Yakima, 

Washington; Jenks Bros. Cold Storage & 

Packing, Royal City, Washington; J.C. 

Watson Co., Parma, Idaho; and Roy 

Farms, Moxee, Washington; and 

3. Change the listing of the following 

Members: ‘‘Brewster Heights Packing, 

Brewster, Washington’’ to the new 

listing ‘‘Brewster Heights Packing & 

Orchards, LP, Brewster, Washington’’; 

and ‘‘Chelan Fruit Company, Chelan, 

Washington’’ to the new listing ‘‘Chelan 

Fruit Cooperative, Chelan, 

Washington’’. 

The effective date of the amended 

certificate is July 14, 2004. A copy of the 

amended certificate will be kept in the 

International Trade Administration’s 

Freedom of Information Records 

Inspection Facility, Room 4100, U.S. 

Federal Register / Vol. 69, No. 203 / Thursday, October 21, 2004 / Notices 61803

Department of Commerce, 14th Street 

and Constitution Avenue, NW., 

Washington, DC 20230.

Dated: October 15, 2004. 

Jeffrey C. Anspacher, 

Director, Export Trading Company Affairs.

[FR Doc. 04–23579 Filed 10–20–04; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration

[I.D. 101504D]

New England Fishery Management 

Council; Public Meetings

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of a public meeting.

SUMMARY: The New England Fishery 

Management Council (Council) is 

scheduling a public meeting of its 

Scallop Oversight Committee in 

November 2004. Recommendations 

from the committee will be brought to 

the full Council for formal consideration 

and action, if appropriate.

DATES: The meeting will held on 

Thursday, November 4, 2004, at 9:30 

a.m.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at 

the Comfort Inn, 1940 Post Road, 

Warwick, RI 02886; telephone: (401) 

732–0470.

Council address: New England 

Fishery Management Council, 50 Water 

Street, Newburyport, MA 01950.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Paul 

J. Howard, Executive Director, New 

England Fishery Management Council; 

telephone: (978) 465–0492.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Scallop Oversight Committee will 

consider options and recommend 

alternatives for Framework Adjustment 

(FW) 17 that would require some or all 

vessels with general category scallop 

permits to operate vessel monitoring 

system (VMS) equipment. The 

recommendations would be approved 

by the Council at its November 16–18, 

2004 meeting, followed by a final 

framework meeting on February 1–3, 

2005.

In addition, the Plan Development 

Team and Advisory Panel will brief the 

committee about preliminary work on 

the 2005 Stock Assessment and Fishery 

Evaluation Report. The final report is 

scheduled for presentation to the 

Council in September 2005. Planning 

issues related to FW 17 (general 

category VMS) or FW 18 (biennial 

specifications and adjustments) may 

also be discussed. The committee 

meeting will conclude with a closeddoor session to review Advisory Panel 

applications and discuss appointment 

recommendations. These 

recommendations will be presented to 

the Council’s Executive Committee at its 

next meeting.

Although non-emergency issues not 

contained in this agenda may come 

before this group for discussion, those 

issues may not be the subject of formal 

action during this meeting. Action will 

be restricted to those issues specifically 

listed in this notice and any issues 

arising after publication of this notice 

that require emergency action under 

section 305(c) of the Magnuson-Stevens 

Act, provided the public has been 

notified of the Council’s intent to take 

final action to address the emergency.

Special Accommodations

This meeting is physically accessible 

to people with disabilities. Requests for 

sign language interpretation or other 

auxiliary aids should be directed to Paul 

J. Howard (see ADDRESSES) at least 5 

days prior to the meeting date.

Dated: October 18, 2004.

Alan D. Risenhoover,

Acting Director, Office of Sustainable 

Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service.

[FR Doc. E4–2782 Filed 10–20–04; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration

[I.D. 101804B]

Atlantic Coastal Fisheries Cooperative 

Management Act Provisions; 

Application for Exempted Fishing 

Permits (EFPs)

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce.

ACTION: Notification of a request for 

EFPs to conduct experimental fishing; 

request for comments.

SUMMARY: The Director, State, Federal 

and Constituent Programs Office, 

Northeast Region, NMFS (Office 

Director) has made a preliminary 

determination that the subject EFP 

application contains all the required 

information and warrants further 

consideration. The Office Director has 

also made a preliminary determination 

that the activities authorized under the 

EFPs would be consistent with the goals 

and objectives of Federal management 

of the American lobster resource. 

However, further review and 

consultation may be necessary before a 

final determination is made to issue 

EFPs. Therefore, NMFS announces that 

the Office Director proposes to issue 

EFPs that would allow a maximum of 

six Federally permitted commercial 

fishing vessels to participate in a project 

designed to monitor the movement of 

berried female American lobsters 

(berried lobsters) in two inshore 

locations in the vicinity of Portsmouth, 

New Hampshire, and Friendship, 

Maine, and in two offshore locations 

along the northern edge of Georges Bank 

and in Corsair and Lydonia Canyons to 

the southeast of Georges Bank.

This EFP is a collaborative project 

involving the University of New 

Hampshire (UNH), Durham, New 

Hampshire (NH); the Lobster 

Conservancy, Friendship, Maine; the 

New England Aquarium, Boston, 

Massachusetts; and the Atlantic 

Offshore Lobstermen’s Association, 

Candia, NH. The EFP proposes to 

monitor a total of 120 legal sized berried 

lobsters carrying early-stage eggs until 

the eggs mature and are released. Each 

berried lobster will be tagged and fitted 

with a small ambient temperature 

recording device (Tidbit temperatureloggers) and then the movement and 

egg-development stages of these tagged 

berried lobsters will be documented. 

The objective of the project will be to 

test the hypothesis that berried lobsters 

speed up or slow down egg growth and 

development by moving to warmer or 

colder water in order to expose their 

eggs to water temperatures that result in 

hatching at an optimal time for larval 

growth and survival. To test this 

hypothesis, when a tagged berried 

lobster is recaptured in commercial 

lobster gear, participating lobstermen 

will download thermal data from the 

attached Tidbit temperature-logger, and 

also preserve a maximum of 6 eggs from 

each tagged berried lobster to allow 

researchers to estimate the egg 

developmental stage and time to 

maturity. The tagged berried lobsters 

will then be released unharmed. The 

EFP would waive the prohibition on 

removal of eggs specified at 50 CFR 

697.7(c)(iv) for the six participating 

vessels and is limited to the 120 pretagged berried lobsters in this project.

This project would not involve the 

authorization of any additional trap 

gear, and all trap gear would conform to 

existing Federal lobster regulations. 

There would be no anticipated adverse 

effects on protected resources or habitat 

as a result of this research. Therefore,