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Notices Federal Register

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Vol. 86, No. 40 

Wednesday, March 3, 2021 

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

[2/13/2021 through 2/23/2021] 

Firm name Firm address 

Date 

accepted for 

investigation 

Product(s) 

B T M Industries, Inc ............................... 604 Washington Street, Woodstock, IL 

60098.

2/16/2021 The firm manufactures miscellaneous 

metal parts. 

Byan Systems, Inc ................................... 413 South Linden Street, Lusk, WY 

82225.

2/22/2021 The firm manufactures automatic gates. 

J D Machine Corporation d/b/a J D Machine.2744 North Parkland Boulevard, Ogden, 

UT 84404.

2/22/2021 The firm manufactures aerospace 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. 2021–04405 Filed 3–2–21; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

[RTID 0648–XA812] 

Recommendations for More Resilient 

Fisheries and Protected Resources 

Due to Climate Change 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Ocean Service 

(NOS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Department of Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice; request for information. 

SUMMARY: On January 27, 2021, the 

White House issued an Executive Order 

on Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home 

and Abroad. As part of this effort, 

NOAA is collecting recommendations 

on how to make fisheries and protected 

resources more resilient to climate 

change, including changes in 

management and conservation 

measures, and improvements in science, 

monitoring, and cooperative research. 

NOAA requests written input from 

interested parties on how best to 

achieve these objectives described in the 

Executive Order. 

DATES: Responses must be received by 

April 2, 2021. 

ADDRESSES: Responses should be 

submitted via email to 

OceanResources.Climate@noaa.gov. 

Include ‘‘Climate: Recommendations for 


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Fisheries and Protected Resources’’ in 

the subject line of the message. 

Instructions: Response to this request 

for information (RFI) is voluntary. 

Respondents may comment on fisheries, 

protected resources or both. For all 

submissions, clearly indicate which 

issue(s) are being addressed. Email 

attachments will be accepted in plain 

text, Microsoft Word, or Adobe PDF 

formats only. Each individual or 

institution is requested to submit only 

one response. The Department of 

Commerce may post responses to this 

RFI, without change, on a Federal 

website. NOAA, therefore, requests that 

no business proprietary information, 

copyrighted information, or personally 

identifiable information be submitted in 

response to this RFI. Please note that the 

U.S. Government will not pay for 

response preparation, or for the use of 

any information contained in the 

response. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Heather Sagar, heather.sagar@noaa.gov, 

301–427–8019. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On 

January 27, 2021, the President signed a 

new Executive Order on Tackling the 

Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad. 

Section 216(c) of the Executive Order 

requires the Secretary of Commerce, 

through the Administrator of the 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration, to collect input from 

fishermen, regional ocean councils, 

fishery management councils, scientists, 

and other stakeholders on how to make 

fisheries and protected resources more 

resilient to climate change, including 

changes in management and 

conservation measures, and 

improvements in science, monitoring, 

and cooperative research. 

Dated: February 24, 2021. 

Benjamin Friedman, 

Deputy Under Secretary for Operations, 

Performing the Duties of Under Secretary of 

Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere and 

NOAA Administrator. 

[FR Doc. 2021–04137 Filed 3–2–21; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

[RTID 0648–XA810] 

Takes of Marine Mammals Incidental to 

Specified Activities; Taking Marine 

Mammals Incidental to the Berth III 

New Mooring Dolphins Project in 

Ketchikan, Alaska 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice; issuance of an incidental 

harassment authorization. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

regulations implementing the Marine 

Mammal Protection Act (MMPA) as 

amended, notification is hereby given 

that NMFS has issued an incidental 

harassment authorization (IHA) to the 

City of Ketchikan, Alaska (COK) to 

incidentally harass, by Level A and B 

harassment, marine mammals during 

construction activities associated with 

the Berth III New Mooring Dolphins 

Project in Ketchikan, AK. 

DATES: This Authorization is effective 

for a period of one year, from October 

1, 2021 through September 30, 2022. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Robert Pauline, Office of Protected 

Resources, NMFS, (301) 427–8401. 

Electronic copies of the application and 

supporting documents, as well as a list 

of the references cited in this document, 

may be obtained online at: https://

www.fisheries.noaa.gov/permit/ 

incidental-take-authorizations-undermarine-mammal-protection-act. In case 

of problems accessing these documents, 

please call the contact listed above. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

The MMPA prohibits the ‘‘take’’ of 

marine mammals, with certain 

exceptions, sections 101(a)(5)(A) and (D) 

of the MMPA (16 U.S.C. 1361 et seq.) 

direct the Secretary of Commerce (as 

delegated to NMFS) to allow, upon 

request, the incidental, but not 

intentional, taking of small numbers of 

marine mammals by U.S. citizens who 

engage in a specified activity (other than 

commercial fishing) within a specified 

geographical region if certain findings 

are made and either regulations are 

issued or, if the taking is limited to 

harassment, a notice of a proposed 

incidental take authorization may be 

provided to the public for review. 

Authorization for incidental takings 

shall be granted if NMFS finds that the 

taking will have a negligible impact on 

the species or stock(s) and will not have 

an unmitigable adverse impact on the 

availability of the species or stock(s) for 

taking for subsistence uses (where 

relevant). Further, NMFS must prescribe 

the permissible methods of taking and 

other ‘‘means of effecting the least 

practicable adverse impact’’ on the 

affected species or stocks and their 

habitat, paying particular attention to 

rookeries, mating grounds, and areas of 

similar significance, and on the 

availability of the species or stocks for 

taking for certain subsistence uses 

(referred to in shorthand as 

‘‘mitigation’’); and requirements 

pertaining to the mitigation, monitoring 

and reporting of the takings are set forth. 

The definitions of all applicable 

MMPA statutory terms cited above are 

included in the relevant sections below. 

Summary of Request 

On May 14, 2020, NMFS received a 

request from COK for an IHA to take 

marine mammals incidental to 

construction activities associated with 

the Berth III Mooring Dolphin Project in 

Ketchikan, Alaska. After several 

revisions, the application was deemed 

adequate and complete on September 

22, 2021. COK’s request is for take of 

nine species of marine mammals by 

harassment, including Level A 

harassment of three of these species. 

Neither COK nor NMFS expects serious 

injury or mortality to result from this 

activity and, therefore, an IHA is 

appropriate. 

Description of the Specified Activity 

COK plans to make improvements to 

Berth III, in order to accommodate a 

new fleet of large cruise ships (i.e. Bliss 

class) and to meet the needs of the 

growing cruise ship industry and its 

vessels in Southeast Alaska. Expansion 

activities include vibratory pile 

removal, vibratory pile driving, impact 

pile driving and down-the-hole (DTH) 

pile installation. Underwater sound 

generated by these in-water activities 

may result in harassment including 

Level B harassment and Level A 

harassment of marine mammal species. 

In-water work is scheduled to occur 

over approximately 120 days between 

October 1, 2021 and March 13, 2022 

although the IHA would be effective 

until September 30, 2022. 

The proposed project would install 

three new mooring dolphins (MD) with 

one at the north end of Berth III (MD#2) 

and two at the south end (MD#3 & 

MD#4) as shown in Figure 2 in COK’s 

IHA application (available online at: 

https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/ 

national/marine-mammal-protection/ 


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