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Vol. 85, No. 248 

Monday, December 28, 2020 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Agricultural Marketing Service 

[Doc No. AMS–FGIS–20–0077] 

Certification of Alabama, Virginia, 

Washington, and Wisconsin To 

Provide Official Services at Export Port 

Locations Under a Delegation; 

Cancellation of South Carolina’s 

Delegation 

AGENCY: Agricultural Marketing Service, 

USDA. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Agricultural Marketing 

Service (AMS) is announcing the 

certification of the Alabama Department 

of Agriculture and Industries (ADAI); 

Virginia Department of Agriculture and 

Consumer Services (VDACS); 

Washington State Department of 

Agriculture (WSDA); and the Wisconsin 

Department of Agriculture, Trade and 

Consumer Protection (WDATCP) to 

provide official inspection services at 

export port locations, under delegated 

authority of the United States Grain 

Standards Act (USGSA), as amended. 

AMS is also announcing the 

cancellation of the South Carolina 

Department of Agriculture’s (SCDA) 

delegation. 

DATES: Effective January 27, 2021. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Sophie Parker, Deputy Director, Quality 

Assurance and Compliance Division, 

Federal Grain Inspection Service, AMS, 

USDA; phone: (202) 720–9170; or email 

FGISQACD@usda.gov. If you would like 

to view the comments, please contact us 

at FGISQACD@usda.gov (7 CFR 1.27(c)). 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

USGSA, at Section 7(e) (7 U.S.C. 79(e)), 

requires the Secretary of Agriculture 

(Secretary) to certify, every five years, 

that each State agency with a delegation 

of authority is meeting the criteria 

described for carrying out inspections 

on behalf of the Secretary. This 

certification process includes: (1) 

Publishing, in the Federal Register, a 

notice of intent to certify a State agency 

and provide a 30-day period for public 

comment; (2) evaluating the public 

comments received; and (3) conducting 

an investigation to determine whether 

the State agency is qualified. Findings 

must be based on public comments 

received and investigation conducted. 

Once concluded, USDA must publish a 

Federal Register notice announcing 

whether the certification has been 

granted, describing the basis on which 

the Secretary made the decision. 

In the April 17, 2017; April 5, 2018; 

July 3, 2017; August 24, 2016; and April 

17, 2017, editions of the Federal 

Register (82 FR 18101; 83 FR 14622; 82 

FR 30819; 81 FR 57886; and 82 FR 

18099), the Federal Grain Inspection 

Service (FGIS), requested comments 

separately on the quality of services 

provided by the delegated State agencies 

ADAI, VDACS, WSDA, WDATCP, and 

SCDA, respectively. Comments for each 

State agency were due 30 days from the 

respective publication dates. 

FGIS received one comment in 

support of ADAI, VDACS, WDATCP, 

and SCDA maintaining their statuses as 

delegated State agencies under the 

USGSA. FGIS also received one 

comment supporting WSDA 

maintaining its status as a delegated 

State agency under the USGSA with 

certain contingences. This comment’s 

proposed contingencies included: A 

prohibition on political influence over 

inspection decisions, requiring 

expedited service from FGIS when a 

delegated State agency is unable to 

perform services, improving processes 

for substitution of FGIS inspections, and 

improving the delegation documents. 

FGIS has updated the delegations in a 

manner that FGIS believes addresses 

many of the concerns this comment has 

raised, including providing how FGIS 

would assume inspection responsibility 

when a delegated State agency is unable 

to provide service, adopting uniform 

and time-limited delegation documents, 

and clarifying the relative 

responsibilities of FGIS and the 

delegated State agencies. 

In compliance with the USGSA 

section 7, AMS conducted additional 

research to confirm whether ADAI, 

VDACS, WDATCP, or WSDA was under 

any investigation by the Department of 

Justice or Government Accountability 

Office that could disqualify them from 

being delegated authority under the 

USGSA. There were no findings to 

disqualify these agencies from 

consideration. AMS also assessed 

whether any negative legal opinions or 

decisions had been rendered against the 

agencies by the States’ Attorneys 

General; nothing was found to 

disqualify the State agencies from the 

delegation process. 

Compliance reviews were conducted 

to assess the performance of WDATCP, 

VDACS, ADAI and WSDA. For 

WDATCP, the review was a follow-up 

for a review conducted the year prior, 

during which performance concerns 

were uncovered; by the time the second 

review was conducted, these concerns 

had been resolved. The VDACS, ADAI 

and WSDA all performed well during 

their compliance reviews. AMS found 

all four State agencies compliant with 

the requirements. 

AMS did not conduct the same level 

of evaluation for SCDA. In reviewing 

eligibility criteria against the State of 

South Carolina’s current infrastructure, 

AMS acknowledges that the State of 

South Carolina no longer has any 

operable, bulk-grain export port 

facilities. Accordingly, AMS is not 

certifying the extension of SCDA’s 

delegation. By way of this notice, 

SCDA’s delegation is canceled. If any 

grain export port facility were to open 

in the future within the State of South 

Carolina, SCDA would have the 

opportunity to become delegated again. 

With respect to ADAI, VDACS, 

WSDA, and WDATCP, after reviewing 

the comments and delegation criteria in 

section 7(e) of the USGSA (7 U.S.C. 

79(e)), AMS has determined that ADAI, 

VDACS, WSDA, and WDATCP are 

qualified to provide official services in 

the geographic areas specified in the 

Federal Register on April 17, 2017; 

April 5, 2018; July 3, 2017; and August 

24, 2016, respectively. As a result, AMS 

is certifying their delegation to provide 

official services at export port locations. 

Interested persons may obtain official 

services by contacting these State 

agencies at the following telephone 

numbers: 


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84294 Federal Register / Vol. 85, No. 248 / Monday, December 28, 2020 / Notices 

1See Initiation of Antidumping and 

Countervailing Duty Administrative Reviews, 84 FR 

53411 (October 7, 2019). 

2See Memorandum, ‘‘Tolling of Deadlines for 

Antidumping and Countervailing Duty 

Administrative Reviews in Response to Operational 

Adjustments due to COVID–19,’’ dated April 24, 

2020. 

3See Memorandum, ‘‘Ripe Olives from Spain: 

Extension of Deadline for Preliminary Results of 

2017–2018 Countervailing Duty Administrative 

Review,’’ dated May 26, 2020. 

4See Memorandum, ‘‘Tolling of Deadlines for 

Antidumping and Countervailing Duty 

Administrative Reviews,’’ dated July 21, 2020. 

5See Memorandum, ‘‘Decision Memorandum for 

the Preliminary Results of the 2017–2018 

Countervailing Duty Administrative Review of Ripe 

Olives from Spain,’’ dated concurrently with, and 

hereby adopted by, this notice (Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum). 

State agency Headquarters location and 

telephone 

Alabama ............ Montgomery, AL, (334) 240– 

7231. 

Virginia ............... Richmond, VA, (804) 786–3501. 

Washington ........ Olympia, WA, (360) 902–1888. 

Wisconsin .......... Madison, WI, (608) 224–4922. 

Authority: 7 U.S.C. 71–87k. 

Bruce Summers, 

Administrator, Agricultural Marketing 

Service. 

[FR Doc. 2020–28499 Filed 12–23–20; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Economic Development Administration 

Notice of Petitions by Firms for 

Determination of Eligibility To Apply 

for Trade Adjustment Assistance 

AGENCY: Economic Development 

Administration, U.S. Department of 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice and opportunity for 

public comment. 

SUMMARY: The Economic Development 

Administration (EDA) has received 

petitions for certification of eligibility to 

apply for Trade Adjustment Assistance 

from the firms listed below. 

Accordingly, EDA has initiated 

investigations to determine whether 

increased imports into the United States 

of articles like or directly competitive 

with those produced by each of the 

firms contributed importantly to the 

total or partial separation of the firms’ 

workers, or threat thereof, and to a 

decrease in sales or production of each 

petitioning firm. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

LIST OF PETITIONS RECEIVED BY EDA FOR CERTIFICATION OF ELIGIBILITY TO APPLY FOR TRADE ADJUSTMENT

ASSISTANCE

[12/11/2020 through 12/18/2020] 

Firm name Firm address 

Date 

accepted for 

investigation 

Product(s) 

Prime Photonics, LC .......... 1116 South Main Street, Blacksburg, VA 

24060.

12/14/2020 The firm manufactures optical sensors and measuring 

instruments. 

Rand Manufacturing Network, Inc.840 Tanglewood Drive, Wheeling, IL 

60090.

12/17/2020 The firm manufactures plastic washers and miscellaneous plastic parts. 

Any party having a substantial 

interest in these proceedings may 

request a public hearing on the matter. 

A written request for a hearing must be 

submitted to the Trade Adjustment 

Assistance Division, Room 71030, 

Economic Development Administration, 

U.S. Department of Commerce, 

Washington, DC 20230, no later than ten 

(10) calendar days following publication 

of this notice. These petitions are 

received pursuant to section 251 of the 

Trade Act of 1974, as amended. 

Please follow the requirements set 

forth in EDA’s regulations at 13 CFR 

315.9 for procedures to request a public 

hearing. The Catalog of Federal 

Domestic Assistance official number 

and title for the program under which 

these petitions are submitted is 11.313, 

Trade Adjustment Assistance for Firms. 

Bryan Borlik, 

Director. 

[FR Doc. 2020–28574 Filed 12–23–20; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–WH–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[C–469–818] 

Ripe Olives From Spain: Preliminary 

Results of Countervailing Duty 

Administrative Review; 2017–2018 

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce 

(Commerce) is conducting an 

administrative review of the 

countervailing duty (CVD) order on ripe 

olives from Spain. Commerce 

preliminarily determines that exporters/ 

producers of ripe olives from Spain 

received countervailable subsidies 

during the period of review, November 

28, 2017 through December 31, 2018. 

Interested parties are invited to 

comment on these preliminary results. 

DATES: Applicable December 28, 2020. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Mary Kolberg, Dusten Hom, or William 

Langley, AD/CVD Operations, Office I, 

Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 

Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, 

DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482–1785, 

(202) 482–5075, (202) 482–3861, 

respectively. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

On October 7, 2019, Commerce 

published the notice of initiation of an 

administrative review of the CVD order 

on ripe olives from Spain.1 On April 24, 

2020, Commerce tolled all deadlines in 

administrative reviews by 50 days.2 On 

May 26, 2020, Commerce extended the 

deadline for the preliminary results of 

this review by 120 days.3 On July 21, 

2020, Commerce tolled deadlines for 

preliminary and final results in 

administrative reviews by an additional 

60 days.4 Accordingly, the deadline for 

the preliminary results of this review 

was postponed to December 18, 2020. 

For a complete description of the 

events that followed the initiation of 

this review, see the Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum.5 A list of topics 


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