21398 Federal Register / Vol. 65, No. 78 / Friday, April 21, 2000 / Notices

formally initiating the process to revoke

its certificate for failure to file an annual

report. In addition, a summary of this

letter allowing FEXCORP thirty days to

respond was published in the Federal

Register on January 19, 2000 at 63 FR

42614. Pursuant to 325.10(c) (2) of the

Regulations (15 CFR 325.10(c) (2)), the

Department considers the failure of

FEXCORP to respond to be an

admission of the statements contained

in the notification letter.

The Department has determined to

revoke the certificate issued to

FEXCORP for its failure to file an annual

report. The Department has sent a letter,

dated April 13, 2000, to notify

FEXCORP International Inc. of its

determination. The revocation is

effective thirty (30) days from the date

of publication of this notice. Any person

aggrieved by this decision may appeal to

an appropriate U.S. district court within

30 days from the date on which this

notice is published in the Federal

Register (325.10(c) (4) and 325.11 of the

Regulations, 15 CFR 324.10(c) (4) and

325.11 of the Regulations, 15 CFR

325.10(c) (4) and 325.11).

Dated: April 18, 2000.

Morton Schnabel,

Director, Office of Export Trading Company

Affairs.

[FR Doc. 00–9993 Filed 4–20–00; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 3510–DR–P

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

Export Trade Certificate of Review

ACTION: Notice of Application.

SUMMARY: The Office of Export Trading

Company Affairs (‘‘OETCA’’),

International Trade Administration,

Department of Commerce, has received

an application for an Export Trade

Certificate of Review. This notice

summarizes the conduct for which

certification is sought and requests

comments relevant to whether the

Certificate should be issued.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Morton Schnabel, Director, Office of

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. A

Certificate of Review protects the holder

and the members identified in the

Certificate from state and federal

government antitrust actions and from

private, treble damage antitrust actions

for the export conduct specified in the

Certificate and carried out in

compliance with its terms and

conditions. Section 302(b)(1) of the Act

and 15 CFR 325.6(a) require the

Secretary to publish a notice in the

Federal Register identifying the

applicant and summarizing its proposed

export conduct.

Request for Public Comments

Interested parties may submit written

comments relevant to the determination

whether a Certificate should be issued.

If the comments include any privileged

or confidential business information, it

must be clearly marked and a

nonconfidential version of the

comments (identified as such) should be

included. Any comments not marked

privileged or confidential business

information will be deemed to be

nonconfidential. An original and five

copies, plus two copies of the

nonconfidential version, should be

submitted no later than 20 days after the

date of this notice to: Office of Export

Trading Company Affairs, International

Trade Administration, Department of

Commerce, Room 1104H, Washington,

DC 20230, or transmitted by E-mail to

oetca@ita.doc.gov. Information

submitted by any person is exempt from

disclosure under the Freedom of

Information Act (5 U.S.C. 552).

However, nonconfidential versions of

the comments will be made available to

the applicant if necessary for

determining whether or not to issue the

Certificate. Comments should refer to

this application as ‘‘Export Trade

Certificate of Review, application

number 00–00002.’’ A summary of the

application follows.

Summary of the Application

Applicant: CONSOL Energy Inc.

(‘‘CEI’’), 1800 Washington Road,

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15241.

Contact: William G. Rieland, Vice

President, Sales, Telephone: (412) 831–

4032.

Application No.: 00–00002.

Date Deemed Submitted: April 7,

2000.

Member (in addition to applicant):

AMCI Export Corporation, Latrobe, PA.

CEI seeks a Certificate to cover the

following specific Export Trade, Export

Markets, and Export Trade Activities

and Methods of Operations.

Export Trade

Product

Bituminous coal.

Export Markets

The Export Markets include all parts

of the world except the United States,

(the fifty states of the United States, the

District of Columbia, the

Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the

Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam,

the Commonwealth of the Northern

Mariana Islands, and the Trust Territory

of the Pacific Islands).

The proposed Export Trade Certificate

of Review would extend antitrust

protection to CEI to conduct the

following export trade activities:

1. Gathering and sharing market

intelligence about CEI’s and member’s

mutual international competition and

the outcome of purchasing decisions in

foreign bituminous coal markets;

2. Allocating market opportunities

between CEI and member. As sales

opportunities arise in foreign countries

CEI and member would jointly

determine which company is best

served to bid for the business. CEI and

member would not compete against

each other as foreign opportunities

develop;

3. Jointly determining the appropriate

price that the bidding member would

apply to each foreign business

opportunity;

4. Predetermine which of CEI’s or

member’s coal production sources

would be offered for sale on each

foreign business opportunity;

5. Jointly developing logistical

arrangements in order to move the

bituminous coal to predetermined

markets. These activities would include

jointly arranging shipment schedules

with railroads, barge carriers, vessel

loading terminals, unloading terminals

and ocean vessel owners; and

6. CEI and member would jointly

negotiate vessel rates in order to

improve the transportation economics of

export bituminous coal shipments to

their foreign customers.

Dated: April 14, 2000.

Morton Schnabel,

Director, Office of Export Trading Company

Affairs.

[FR Doc. 00–9994 Filed 4–20–00; 8:45 am]

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Institute of Standards and

Technology

AGENCY: National Institute of Standards

and Technology Commerce, Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of government owned

inventions available for licensing.

Federal Register / Vol. 65, No. 78 / Friday, April 21, 2000 / Notices 21399

SUMMARY: The invention listed below is

owned in whole or in part by the U.S.

Government, as represented by the

Department of Commerce. The

Department of Commerce’s ownership

interest in the invention is available for

licensing in accordance with 35 U.S.C.

207 and 37 CFR Part 404 to achieve

expeditious commercialization of

results of Federally funded research and

development.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Technical and licensing information on

this invention may be obtained by

writing to: National Institute of

Standards and Technology, Office of

Technology Partnerships, Building 820,

Room 213, Gaithersburg, MD 20899; Fax

301–869–2751. Any request for

information should include the NIST

Docket No. and Title for the relevant

invention as indicated below.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: NIST may

enter into a Cooperative Research and

Development Agreement (‘‘CRADA’’)

with the licensee to perform further

research on the inventions for purposes

of commercialization. The invention

available for licensing is:

NIST Docket Number: 99–016/025US.

Title: Device for Stable Speed

Determination in Machining.

Abstract: The device utilizes a noncontact force actuator to drive a

machine-tool with a train of impulsive

forces having a known, time-varying

frequency to identify the speeds least

likely to produce chatter (regenerative

vibrations). This can be done in real

time without the need for exhaustive

cutting tests. The machine-tool spindle

and a non-contact magnetic force

actuator are used to produce the timevarying impulse train. This impulse

train has significant energy at the

spindle speed and its harmonics. As the

spindle speed is ramped up from zero

to the maximum speed, those speeds

that maximize the dynamic response of

the tool are the speeds that minimize

regenerative chatter. The device is

suitable for integration with the

machine-tool controller, and could

potentially allow the optimal speeds for

each tool to be downloaded and stored

for later use in NC programming.

Dated: April 17, 2000.

Karen H. Brown,

Deputy Director.

[FR Doc. 00–10007 Filed 4–20–00; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 3510–13–M

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Institution of Standards and

Technology

Announcing a Meeting of the National

Conference on Weights and Measures

AGENCY: National Institute of Standards

and Technology, Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of Meeting.

SUMMARY: The 85th Annual Meeting of

the National Conference on Weights and

Measures will be held July 16 through

July 20, 2000, at the Omni Richmond

Hotel, 100 South Street, Richmond, VA.

The meeting is open to the public. The

National Conference on Weights and

Measures is an organization of weights

and measures enforcement officials of

the states, counties, and cities of the

United States, other government

officials and representatives of business,

industry, trade associations, and

consumer organizations. Conference

members meet twice a year to develop

weights and measures laws and to

discuss subjects that relate to the field

of weights and measures technology and

administration. Pursuant to (15 U.S.C.

272(B)(6)), the National Institute of

Standards and Technology acts as a

sponsor of the National Conference on

Weights and Measures in order to

promote uniformity among the states in

the complex of laws, regulations,

methods, and testing equipment that

comprises regulatory control by the

states of commercial weighing and

measuring devices and practices.

DATES: The meeting will be held July

16–July 20, 2000, 8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.

ADDRESSES: Omni Richmond Hotel

located at 100 South Street, Richmond,

VA 23219.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Henry V. Oppermann, Chief, NIST,

Office of Weights and Measures, 100

Bureau Drive, Stop 2350, Gaithersburg,

MD 20899–2350. Telephone (301) 975–

4005, or E-mail owm@nist.gov.

Dated: March 17, 2000.

Karen H. Brown,

Deputy Director, NIST.

[FR Doc. 00–10006 Filed 4–20–00; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 3510–13–M

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric

Administration

[I.D. 041700C]

Bluefin Tuna Statistical Documents

ACTION: Proposed collection; comment

request.

SUMMARY: The Department of

Commerce, as part of its continuing

effort to reduce paperwork and

respondent burden, invites the general

public and other Federal agencies to

take this opportunity to comment on

proposed and/or continuing information

collections, as required by the

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995,

Public Law 104–13 (44 U.S.C.

3506(c)(2)(A)).

DATES: Written comments must be

submitted on or before June 20, 2000.

ADDRESSES: Direct all written comments

to Linda Engelmeier, Departmental

Forms Clearance Officer, Department of

Commerce, Room 5027, 14th and

Constitution Avenue NW, Washington

DC 20230 (or via Internet at

lengelme@doc.gov).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Requests for additional information or

copies of the information collection

instrument(s) and instructions should

be directed to Christopher Rogers,

Highly Migratory Species Management

Division (F/SF1), Office of Sustainable

Fisheries, NMFS, 1315 East-West

Highway, Silver Spring, MD 20910

(301–713–2347).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Abstract

Under the provisions of the

Magnuson-Stevens Fishery

Conservation and Management Act (16

U.S.C. 1801 et seq.), NOAA is

responsible for management of the

nation’s marine fisheries. In addition,

NOAA must comply with the United

States’ obligations under the Atlantic

Tunas Convention Act of 1975 (16

U.S.C. 971 et seq.) to implement

recommendations by the International

Commission for the Conservation of

Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT). In order to

monitor landings and trade in bluefin

tuna, the National Marine Fisheries

Service (NMFS) collects information

through the bluefin tuna statistical

document (BSD) program recommended

by ICCAT. BSDs are required for lawful

import of bluefin tuna products into

countries that are contracting parties to

ICCAT. By exchanging information

collected through the BSD program,

ICCAT members can monitor catch of