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Lease Sale EIS or the submission of 

comments, please contact Sharon 

Randall, Chief of Environmental 

Analysis Section, BOEM, Alaska OCS 

Region, 3801 Centerpoint Drive, Suite 

500, Anchorage, AK 99503, (907) 334– 

5200. 

Authority: This notice of intent is 

published pursuant to the regulations at 40 

CFR 1501.7 implementing the provisions of 

NEPA. 

Dated: December 11, 2018. 

Walter D. Cruickshank, 

Acting Director, Bureau of Ocean Energy 

Management. 

[FR Doc. 2018–27176 Filed 12–13–18; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–MR–P 

INTERNATIONAL TRADE 

COMMISSION 

[Investigation No. 337–TA–1140] 

Certain Multi-Stage Fuel Vapor 

Canister Systems and Activated 

Carbon Components Thereof; 

Institution of Investigation 

AGENCY: U.S. International Trade 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that a 

complaint was filed with the U.S. 

International Trade Commission on 

November 8, 2018, under section 337 of 

the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, on 

behalf of Ingevity Corp. of North 

Charleston, South Carolina and Ingevity 

South Carolina, LLC of North 

Charleston, South Carolina. The 

complaint alleges violations of section 

337 based upon the importation into the 

United States, the sale for importation, 

and the sale within the United States 

after importation of certain multi-stage 

fuel vapor canister systems and 

activated carbon components thereof by 

reason of infringement of certain claims 

of U.S. Patent No. RE38,844 (‘‘the ’844 

patent’’). The complaint further alleges 

that an industry in the United States 

exists as required by the applicable 

Federal Statute. 

The complainants request that the 

Commission institute an investigation 

and, after the investigation, issue a 

limited exclusion order and cease and 

desist orders. 

ADDRESSES: The complaint, except for 

any confidential information contained 

therein, is available for inspection 

during official business hours (8:45 a.m. 

to 5:15 p.m.) in the Office of the 

Secretary, U.S. International Trade 

Commission, 500 E Street SW, Room 

112, Washington, DC 20436, telephone 

(202) 205–2000. Hearing impaired 

individuals are advised that information 

on this matter can be obtained by 

contacting the Commission’s TDD 

terminal on (202) 205–1810. Persons 

with mobility impairments who will 

need special assistance in gaining access 

to the Commission should contact the 

Office of the Secretary at (202) 205– 

2000. General information concerning 

the Commission may also be obtained 

by accessing its internet server at 

https://www.usitc.gov. The public 

record for this investigation may be 

viewed on the Commission’s electronic 

docket (EDIS) at https://edis.usitc.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Katherine Hiner, Office of the Secretary, 

Docket Services Division, U.S. 

International Trade Commission, 

telephone (202) 205–1802. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Authority: The authority for 

institution of this investigation is 

contained in section 337 of the Tariff 

Act of 1930, as amended, 19 U.S.C. 

1337, and in section 210.10 of the 

Commission’s Rules of Practice and 

Procedure, 19 CFR 210.10 (2018). 

Scope of Investigation: Having 

considered the complaint, the U.S. 

International Trade Commission, on 

December 7, 2018, Ordered that— 

(1) Pursuant to subsection (b) of 

section 337 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as 

amended, an investigation be instituted 

to determine whether there is a 

violation of subsection (a)(1)(B) of 

section 337 in the importation into the 

United States, the sale for importation, 

or the sale within the United States after 

importation of certain products 

identified in paragraph (2) by reason of 

infringement of one or more of claims 

1–5, 8, 11, 13, 15, 18, 19, 21, 24, 28, 31, 

33, 36, 38, 40, 43, 45, 48, 50, and 52 of 

the ’844 patent; and whether an 

industry in the United States exists as 

required by subsection (a)(2) of section 

337; 

(2) Pursuant to section 210.10(b)(1) of 

the Commission’s Rules of Practice and 

Procedure, 19 CFR 210.10(b)(1), the 

plain language description of the 

accused products or category of accused 

products, which defines the scope of the 

investigation, is ‘‘multi-stage fuel vapor 

canister systems manufactured by the 

MAHLE Respondents that include lowincremental adsorption capacity (‘IAC’) 

activated carbon components and the 

low-IAC activated carbon components 

thereof, such as MPAC–1.’’; 

(3) For the purpose of the 

investigation so instituted, the following 

are hereby named as parties upon which 

this notice of investigation shall be 

served: 

(a) The complainants are: Ingevity 

Corp., 5255 Virginia Avenue, North 

Charleston, SC 29406. 

Ingevity South Carolina, LLC, 5255 

Virginia Avenue, North Charleston, SC 

29406. 

(b) The respondents are the following 

entities alleged to be in violation of 

section 337, and are the parties upon 

which the complaint is to be served: 

MAHLE Filter Systems North 

America, Inc., 906 Butler Drive, 

Murfreesboro, TN 37127. 

MAHLE Filter Systems Japan Corp., 

591 Shimo-akasaka, Kawagoe, Saitama 

350–1155, Japan. 

MAHLE Sistemas de Filtracio ́n de 

Me ́xico S.A. de C.V., Libramiento Arco 

Vial Poniente km. 4,2, 66350 Monterrey, 

Nuevo Leon, Mexico. 

MAHLE Filter Systems Canada, ULC, 

16 Industrial Park Road, Tilbury, ON 

N0P 2L0, Canada. 

Kuraray Co., Ltd., Ote Center 

Building, 1–1–3, Otemachi, Chiyoda-ku, 

Tokyo 100–8115, Japan. 

Kuraray America, Inc., 2625 Bay Area 

Boulevard, Suite 600, Houston, TX 

77058. 

Nagamine Manufacturing Co., Ltd., 

1725–26, Kishinoue, Manno-town, 

Nakatado-Gun, Kagawa-pref., 766–0026, 

Japan. 

The Office of Unfair Import 

Investigations will not be named as a 

party to this investigation. 

(4) For the investigation so instituted, 

the Chief Administrative Law Judge, 

U.S. International Trade Commission, 

shall designate the presiding 

Administrative Law Judge. 

Responses to the complaint and the 

notice of investigation must be 

submitted by the named respondents in 

accordance with section 210.13 of the 

Commission’s Rules of Practice and 

Procedure, 19 CFR 210.13. Pursuant to 

19 CFR 201.16(e) and 210.13(a), such 

responses will be considered by the 

Commission if received not later than 20 

days after the date of service by the 

Commission of the complaint and the 

notice of investigation. Extensions of 

time for submitting responses to the 

complaint and the notice of 

investigation will not be granted unless 

good cause therefor is shown. 

Failure of a respondent to file a timely 

response to each allegation in the 

complaint and in this notice may be 

deemed to constitute a waiver of the 

right to appear and contest the 

allegations of the complaint and this 

notice, and to authorize the 

administrative law judge and the 

Commission, without further notice to 

the respondent, to find the facts to be as 

alleged in the complaint and this notice 

and to enter an initial determination 


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and a final determination containing 

such findings, and may result in the 

issuance of an exclusion order or a cease 

and desist order or both directed against 

the respondent. 

By order of the Commission. 

Issued: December 10, 2018. 

Lisa Barton, 

Secretary to the Commission. 

[FR Doc. 2018–27071 Filed 12–13–18; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7020–02–P 

INTERNATIONAL TRADE 

COMMISSION 

[Investigation No. 731–TA–1279 (Final) 

(Second Remand)] 

Hydrofluorocarbon Blends and 

Components From China 

AGENCY: United States International 

Trade Commission. 

ACTION: Notice of remand proceedings. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. International Trade 

Commission (‘‘Commission’’) hereby 

gives notice of the court-ordered remand 

of its final determination in the 

antidumping duty investigation of 

hydrofluorocarbon blends and 

components (‘‘HFC’’) from China. For 

further information concerning the 

conduct of these remand proceedings 

and rules of general application, consult 

the Commission’s Rules of Practice and 

Procedure. 

DATES: December 6, 2018. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Joanna Lo (202–205–1888), Office of 

Investigations, or P.V. Gallagher (202– 

205–3152), Office of the General 

Counsel, U.S. International Trade 

Commission, 500 E Street SW, 

Washington, DC 20436. Hearingimpaired persons can obtain 

information on this matter by contacting 

the Commission’s TDD terminal on 202– 

205–1810. Persons with mobility 

impairments who will need special 

assistance in gaining access to the 

Commission should contact the Office 

of the Secretary at 202–205–2000. 

General information concerning the 

Commission may also be obtained by 

accessing its internet server (http://

www.usitc.gov). The public record of 

Investigation No. 731–TA–1279 (Final) 

may be viewed on the Commission’s 

electronic docket (EDIS) at http://

edis.usitc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background.—On November 5, 2018, 

the U.S. Court of International Trade, 

per Judge Leo M. Gordon, issued a 

second opinion in Arkema, Inc. v. 

United States, Court No. 16–00179. In 

this second opinion, the CIT remanded 

to the agency two issues concerning the 

Commission’s like product 

determination in Hydrofluorocarbon 

(‘‘HFC’’) Blends and Components from 

China, Inv. No. 731–TA–1279 (Final), 

USITC Pub. 4629 (Aug. 2016). In the 

investigation, the Commission applied 

its five-factor finished/semi-finished 

product analysis and determined that 

there were two domestic like products, 

one comprised of HFC components and 

one comprised of HFC blends. The 

Commission then determined that the 

domestic industry producing HFC 

blends was materially injured by reason 

of subject imports of HFC blends, 

whereas the domestic industry 

producing HFC components was not 

materially injured or threatened with 

material injury by reason of subject 

imports of HFC components. Petitioners 

appealed the decisions to the CIT, 

challenging the Commission’s 

determination that there were two 

domestic like products consisting of 

HFC blends and HFC components. In its 

first opinion, the CIT remanded two 

issues to the Commission and affirmed 

all other aspects of the Commission’s 

domestic like product determination. 

See Arkema, Inc. v. United States, Court 

No. 16–00179, 42 CIT ll, 290 

F.Supp.3d 1363 (2018). The 

Commission filed its remand with the 

Court on May 5, 2018. In its second 

opinion, the CIT held that the 

Commission’s domestic like product 

determination remained deficient 

regarding the same two issues and again 

remanded these two issues to the 

Commission for reconsideration and 

explanation. Arkema, Inc. v. United 

States, Court No. 16–00179, Slip. Op. 

18–153 (Ct. Int’l Trade November 5, 

2018). 

Participation in the proceeding.— 

Only those persons who were interested 

parties that participated in the 

investigations (i.e., persons listed on the 

Commission Secretary’s service list) and 

also parties to the appeal may 

participate in the remand proceedings. 

Such persons need not make any 

additional notice of appearances or 

applications with the Commission to 

participate in the remand proceedings, 

unless they are adding new individuals 

to the list of persons entitled to receive 

business proprietary information 

(‘‘BPI’’) under administrative protective 

order. BPI referred to during the remand 

proceedings will be governed, as 

appropriate, by the administrative 

protective order issued in the 

investigation. The Secretary will 

maintain a service list containing the 

names and addresses of all persons or 

their representatives who are parties to 

the remand proceedings, and the 

Secretary will maintain a separate list of 

those authorized to receive BPI under 

the administrative protective order 

during the remand proceedings. 

Written Submissions.—The 

Commission is reopening the record in 

these proceedings for the limited 

purpose of issuing a short supplemental 

questionnaire to U.S. producers and 

blenders. The Commission is not 

otherwise reopening the record for the 

collection of new factual information. 

The Commission will make available 

any new factual information obtained 

during the remand proceedings not 

already served to parties in the 

investigations (as identified by the 

public or BPI service list). The 

Commission will permit the parties to 

file written comments on any new 

factual information obtained during the 

remand proceedings and on how the 

Commission could best comply with the 

CIT’s remand instructions. 

The comments must be based only on 

the information in the Commission’s 

record, including any new information 

collected in these remand proceedings. 

The Commission will reject submissions 

containing additional factual 

information or arguments pertaining to 

issues other than those on which the 

CIT has remanded this matter. The 

deadline for filing comments is January 

7, 2019. Comments shall be limited to 

no more than ten (10) double-spaced 

and single-sided pages of textual 

material. 

Parties are advised to consult with the 

Commission’s Rules of Practice and 

Procedure, part 201, subparts A through 

E (19 CFR part 201), and part 207, 

subpart A (19 CFR part 207) for 

provisions of general applicability 

concerning written submissions to the 

Commission. All written submissions 

must conform to the provisions of 

section 201.8 of the Commission’s rules; 

any submissions that contain BPI must 

also conform to the requirements of 

sections 201.6, 207.3, and 207.7 of the 

Commission’s rules. The Commission’s 

Handbook on E-Filing, available on the 

Commission’s website at http://

edis.usitc.gov, elaborates upon the 

Commission’s rules with respect to 

electronic filing. 

Additional written submissions to the 

Commission, including requests 

pursuant to section 201.12 of the 

Commission’s rules, will not be 

accepted unless good cause is shown for 

accepting such submissions or unless 

the submission is pursuant to a specific 

request by a Commissioner or 

Commission staff. 


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